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Wake Me Up Inside
Paige Maddison Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Wake Me Up Inside is a ghost story centered around Paige Maddison, a strong teen-age heroine. Paige is disturbed by nightmares of places she has never seen, and visions of a girl haunting her dreams. She is angry because she must move with her parents to an estate called O'Brien Manor, to help her...
by Ron Sokol
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Do not ask what is it. Let us go and make our visit. This is an invitation to Kindred Stories. From moonlight surfing to images in a window, from the lamppost that beckons to ivy that insists it has great understanding, from the piano player singing in the middle of the world to the lighthouse that helps...
Choosing
1940-1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Choosing, book three of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula series, concludes the
heart-wrenching story of five generations of the controversial and secretive Warner family.
Become reunited with Amelia and Gustav, meet their many descendants, and follow them
across the Canadian prairies from...
by Michael Joseph Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This is the story of Michael Kennedy's life. Born in 1960 with significant disabilities, he describes his early experiences living in three different institutions for the mentally retarded and how he had to become his own advocate if he was going to survive. He soon realized that, unlike most of the...
by Andrew Brottvick
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
When the needs of a struggling and drug-addicted community are pitted against the economic interests of a city, the outcome is rarely in question. Money wins. In The Transparent Temple, a determined group of recovering addicts are hoping to be the exception to that rule, bringing focus, understanding,...
My Life
Not Mine to Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Colette Keefe brings us an emotional, poignant account of her turbulent childhood in which she was physically, emotionally, and sexually abused. Into her adulthood, these traumatic experiences manifested themselves in an array of mental illnesses, including depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder....
Who is Talking Out of My Head?
Grief as an Out of Body Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The author received the phone call that no parent wants, informing her of the tragic accident involving her children; and in an instant life was forever changed. She opens up her heart and her journals to share the journey of grief and the foundation of her ongoing hope. This book speaks to a twofold...
Shanghai Cuts
A Hollywood Film Editor's Misadventures in China
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Shanghai Cuts (A Hollywood Film Editor’s Misadventures in China) is a first-person account of a film editor working on a television production in Shanghai. Divided from his family in the midst of a crisis, Rick connects with an eclectic cast of characters working on “Flatland,” starring Dennis...
Sidetracked by Schizophrenia
A Mother and Son’s Struggles and Victories
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
In Sidetracked by Schizophrenia, Charlotte documents her son’s encounters with the many medications and difficult life situations that come as part of living with this disease. It covers the trials and errors, the failures, the partial successes, the side effects, the exciting movement toward more...
Get Up and Keep Going
How to overcome your greatest pain and become who you were born to be.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Suffering and loss are a part of life. Whether it’s a divorce, a layoff, a death, a physical illness, financial loss, or other significant life change, as human beings we all go through events that create emotional pain and turmoil. Feelings of depression, anxiety, anger, helplessness, failure, shame,...
by Orunmila's Servant
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
As an English-language manual for IFA priests that provides important translations for the Odus, Orunmila’s Words Don’t Touch the Floor: IFA Odu Synthesis stands as a rarity in the IFA religion. Religious workers have few English resources, and the creative approach taken in this book will heighten...
The Real Jesus Myth
The Real Jesus Myth, A (fairly) Orthodox Introduction to the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
The Real Jesus Myth is what happens when a retired (but still cynical) journalist, who is also a retired (but still cynical) Anglican priest, decides to answer some of the questions tossed at him about the Christian Faith. Many people don’t know enough about the nuts and bolts of Christian belief –...
The Streetcars of Winnipeg - Our Forgotten Heritage
Out of Sight - Out of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
On the 19th of September, 2015 it will be 60 years since the last streetcar made it’s final run through Winnipeg’s well known Portage and Main. Even our oldest daughter in her mid fifties never had a chance to see a Winnipeg streetcar operating, and naturally her children and grandchildren haven’t...
Being 2.0
On Culture, Belonging, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
What is culture? To which degree does said culture define oneself and one’s choices? Can one shed the layers of cultural conditioning past the thickness education creates?
Being 2.0 aims to reflect on such questions and offer the reader a transpersonal experience fed by an in-depth work...