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  • Beyond the Woven Curtain

    The Story of Andrina Mitchell/Muir
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    Andrina Muir (née Mitchell) lived a life shaped by faith, devotion, love, and resilience in a world of hardship and change. Born in a sod house in the North West Territory, her childhood was defined by carefree days, farm animals and her father’s...


  • Letting Go of My Ocean View

    a memoir
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    How many times can a life be rewritten? Deborah A.M. Phillips has lived with four names, two mothers, three families, and twenty-eight moves. Adopted as an infant and raised across Canada and France, she spent years searching for the missing...


  • Adventures in My Trusty Boots

    Women Geoscientists in Canada and Beyond
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    There has never been a better time for women in Canada to enter the geosciences. As climate change inspires greater emphasis on green power, environmental stewardship, and Indigenous worldviews, support groups for women and other minorities in...


  • Cultivating Freedom

    My Journey with a Narcissist
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    What happens when the life you built slowly becomes a prison—and leaving feels like an impossible dream? In this raw, courageous memoir of surviving decades inside a psychologically abusive marriage to a partner with narcissistic personality...


  • Prema

    A Search for Love
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    Prema (प्रेमा) is the Sanskrit word for love. Written over fifteen years, Prema is a memoir told through a series of letters that reflect on love, loss, and personal growth — this author's story is shaped by her lived experience, but one many of...


  • Trauma-Informed Me

    A Memoir of Healing, Resilience, and Choosing Wholeness
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    Chantel Morin grew up shaped by her own preterm birth, maternal illness and loss, silence, and caregiving. Through a life of nursing, advocacy, and burnout, she discovered the quiet ways survival can disguise itself as competence. Her memoir is...


  • Life after Trauma

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    Friday rolled around, and it was such a beautiful day until later in the evening when the storm clouds rolled in. That evening became my family’s worst nightmare. . . Life After Trauma is a heartbreaking but inspiring account of suicide,...


  • Gift of Strength

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    “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” Micheal Jordan It was Feb 20th 2000. A boy named Josh Hamilton was born. Born in Canada, and...


  • Loving, Living and Forgiving

    From Personal Story to Professional Insights
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    In this unique fusion of memoir and case reports, psychologist Ruth Badanes Reiner integrates hard-earned lessons from her personal life with insights gained from decades of professional practice as an individual, couple and family therapist....


  • Route 66

    A Personal Journey
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    What happens when you pack up a sixty-year-old Corvette, squeeze in just enough luggage (but somehow still bring the most important things), and set off on a bucket-list adventure down Route 66? Let’s find out! Join Nancy and Paul Garvey on the...