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Hey, Bub!
Two brothers and a chromosome to spare
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
“Hey, Bub!” was the familiar greeting Tom Prater used throughout his life. He was born with Down syndrome in 1949, and in spite of his disabilities, became a beloved and integral part of his family and community. While his speech was limited to phrases of just a few syllables, he found other ways...
Elgin House, Lake Joseph
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Elgin House, Lake Joseph Past and Present is a history of an important and successful summer resort in the Muskoka Region of Ontario from 1885 to the present. It details the efforts of four generations of the Love family to create a world class summer resort from modest beginnings.The resort was unique...
Truly Global
The Theory and Practice of Bringing Your Company to International Markets
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
TODAY’S ECONOMY IS INCREASINGLY BORDERLESS. Every company that seeks to grow beyond its national boundaries needs a globalization team to help develop, translate, adapt, and promote products to international markets. This team is vital to ensuring that customers receive product information and support...
The Soul of Place
Re-imagining Leadership Through Nature, Art and Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
In The Soul of Place Michael Jones explores how our relationship with place aligns us with the underlying patterns of life. He does so through stories that ask: what is our experience of homecoming and how do we find our way there? What is our pattern of belonging — including our relationship with...
Muriel's Memories
Adventures of a Tennessee Farm Girl
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
As anyone who has spent time living on a working farm can attest to, it’s a world you can’t understand unless you live it. Imagine a rural farm in Tennessee at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century — no tractors, running water or plumbing. Farming was done with mules and horses; transportation...
by Gary Tzu, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In Awakening in the Paradox of Darkness, Gary Tzu illuminates a path from within the dark realms to awakening into non-dual being. By allowing dreaded experiences such as fear, trauma, exhaustion, abandonment, nothingness, death and non-existence—to serve as a portal into non-dual transformation, we...
by Bernice Crown Teifeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
HONEYMOON HOTELS is a collection of vignettes detailing many coincidences, adventures, humor and surprises. One, meeting Daniel Day-Lewis’ grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, producer of the Alec Guinness movies. The costume designer who worked with Sir Michael was Roy’s sister-in-law’s stepmother....
The Road
A Collection of Poetry about Love, Loss, Faith and the World We Need to Repair
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This collection of poems is about love, faith, loss, the need to save the world and the poet’s remembrance of growing up on the mean streets of New York which shaped his values about poverty, homelessness and prejudice. It has also been shaped by his experiences as a psychotherapist and international; consultant to NGO’s.
Grief is...
Thoughts on loss, struggle and new beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Once upon a time, Heike was one of those capable and organized people who envisioned her own happily ever after. But when her brother and husband died eighteen months apart, both far too young, it hit her hard. On good days, she would find herself staring blankly into an abyss, and on bad days, being...
A Conflict of Self Interest
Living For Ever
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Self or Soul is an essential energy centred in every living body and is about instinct, species survival and coexistence with all other Life. It is not a belief nor any part of Brain. Brain is the natural manager of the body in which Soul exists. The natural function of Brain is to facilitate Soul-purpose...
Defining Pearl
...a precious difference
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Written with uncommon candor ‘Defining Pearl’ ignites emotions making this a compelling, deeply moving memoir. More than a decade in the making this powerful publication presents how since childhood Pearl Matibe lived a prosperous lifestyle. Her previously unpublished personal journal shows her unique...
by Tony May
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From the oilfields of the Alaskan high Arctic to the sultry hostile jungles of Indonesia, from the war-torn desert of Kuwait to tumultuous Thailand, West Texas oilfield engineer Bubba Cottonmill is thrown into a kind of turmoil he’s never experienced before. It’s the early 90s, and he’s been immersed...
A Turn for the Worst
A Curling Widow's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Curling Widow: the spouse or significant other of a professional curler who is alone for long periods of time during the competitive curling season. A Turn for the Worst is the story of one such woman. This book follows her and her family through the ups and downs of the curling world, including experiences...
by Lilly White
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
“Sometimes a grave is not for bodies. It can be for the soul. The tomb of our fate. That forbidding fateful soul contract. For most of my life I have had weighty concerns & fears of living in madness, addiction & love. I either had too much or not enough of all three. I’d hear, ‘I love...