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Going Crazy in the Green Machine
The Story of Trauma and PTSD among Canada's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Many Canadians are vaguely aware of the military’s steady involvement in overseas operations over the past 20 years. For many soldiers, however, memories of these places torment them daily. They are haunted; they are changed from who they were as proud men and women. How do we support these soldiers...
PTSD Self Help
Transforming Survival into a Life Worth Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder doesn’t have to be a lifetime sentence . . . mere survival is optional. Have you: • Lost someone you know to suicide, war, or natural disaster? • Experienced something you just can’t ‘get over’? • Tried counseling, talk therapy or support groups without success?...
When Johnny Doesn't Come Marching Home
A Compelling Human Interest Story About a 20 Year Old Boy's Search for Adventure in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
In 2017, the United States of America will be celebrating the Centennial of World War I. 1st Sergeant JOHN RUSSELL SMALL was a Veteran of that War. This is a true account of his experiences before, during and after the War, as written by his daughter, MARIAN SMALL, who set out at the age of 89 years...
by Clayton N. Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Despite all the books that have been written on the Celts there is still new material to learn about these mysterious people who lived in Europe 2,000 years ago. In this book you will see for yourself just how much there is to discover. It is written in an easy, light manner that anyone can enjoy...
by Gregory John Saxby
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
It is an axiom that the greater the love shared, the greater the sorrow on parting this life.
Sipping Tea is a collection of poems written over the swirling of many years, at the centre of which lies the death of the poet’s beloved wife, which occurred in 2015. It is a love story—written...
Zarathustra
Myth - Message - History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
ZARATHUSTRA WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST historical personalities known to us, and he forever shifted the course of civilization. Nevertheless, publications about him are fragmented and written for specialized academics only, making them incomprehensible to the general public. This book, for the first time,...
We Dont Talk About That
An Amazing Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Millions of women were abused and raped during the final stages of WW II, and while the attitude among many survivors is “We don’t talk about that”, this woman has found the courage to place her memories on record. Growing up in a rural village in Pomerania, Gila’s tranquil life turned tragic...
by Jerry Hale
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
I Never Walked Alone is the autobiography of my father, Jerry Hale. I feel very privileged to introduce you to his story. It is the story of some of his boyhood events in Texas during the days of corn and cotton. It tells of his move with his family to the Peace River country of Northern Alberta. As...
by Yoshie Okamoto - 岡本 佳恵
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“Let us offer simple words from the heart ...” I am here is a poetic journey through time and memory. It tells an emotional story of a childhood filled with pain, physical restriction and a “tangle of feelings” through the voices of a child, a youth and an adult. Shining throughout is a belief...
Ariadne's Thread
The women in my family
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Ariadne’s Thread came from the need to tell stories of the amazing women in my family. All of them, born in Russia before the 1917 Revolution, settled in France where they had to adapt to a life radically different from what they had known. When their world collapsed, they could either collapse with...
Gagging on Profundity
A Collection of Philosophical Humor
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
“Humour of the philosophical pedigree can ‘bring us up short’, break us out of our commonplace acceptance, our slumber dogmatic, and require us to reassess what we thought we knew, or ask questions about that which had previously lain fallow in our thinking. Humour may awaken the ‘sleeping metaphors’...
A Garrulous Tramp
Harri's on Tour
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
After a career in Canadian banking Carl decided to retire early from gainful employment. He wanted to travel down the roads he had day-dreamed of during his working years. So off he went to achieve fulfilment of those travelling desires. A Garrulous Tramp is the third light-hearted Harri’s on Tour...
Murder City
The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real.
In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just...
by Tershia Lambrechts
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
The Grass is Greener Till You Get To The Other Side is a factual account of one couple’s experience of retiring to Belize in 2003. Over the next decade they met many unforeseen trials and challenges of living in the developing world, as well as coping with other cultural idiosyncrasies. Her memoir is an adventure and provides guidance for anyone choosing to do the same.