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A Life without a Map
A Memoir of Life, Loss and Adventure
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When Ute Reusch-Wilson was three years old, she and her family returned to their home in Essen, Germany, after an eleven-week trek as refugees in shattered, war-torn Germany. Stunned to see the house still standing, they began to rebuild their...
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My Heart in My Hands
Becoming the Person I Was Meant to Be
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In 1953, the Greek island of Zakynthos suffered a series of earthquakes, later known as the Great Ionian Earthquake. Villages were decimated, many people lost their homes, their loved ones, and their ways of life. Seven years old at the time,...
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This Is Us
Our Life, Our Story, Our Home
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In This Is Us, Nabil Fathalla writes the histories of his own and his wife’s family in twentieth-century Egypt and their lives after immigrating to Canada. Through personal stories and family memories, he shows us life in Egypt, exploring...
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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...
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Recovery Doesn't Happen Overnight
A Candid Diary of a Young Woman Navigating Addiction, Depression and Recovery
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After years of suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and shame surrounding my sexual identity, I make a desperate move to Western Canada to work with my sister and start a new life. I didn’t know what recovery would look like for me, but...
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Why Men Also Cry
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Larry’s story begins in 1938 in a small cabin without running water or electricity in the Nova Scotia wilderness. Born to an irresponsible mother and an absent father, he and his sisters suffer neglect until they are eventually separated and...
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An Ocean to Resilience
Charting a Course through Trials, Illness and Endurance Across the Pacific Ocean
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Get ready to experience an epic adventure replete with challenges, trials, battles with unseen ailments, and the determined drive to complete an ocean crossing under sail. Rob and Lisa are what one might consider a normal, professional,...
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A Sikh Soldier's Service
A Photographic Journey Through Three Allied Armies
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A rare photographic and narrative archive, A Sikh Soldier’s Service: A Photographic Journey Through Three Allied Armies brings to light the extraordinary life and service of Lachhman Singh Mehat, a Sikh soldier whose military career spanned the...
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This Friendship Requires Dogs
Stories of Women and Their Dogs and Connections Made
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“So much of what has connected me to people is my dog.” Women with difficult dogs are a special breed—and in a world rife with judgment, they have to stick together. In This Friendship Requires Dogs, Daenna Van Mulligen pays tribute to the many...
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Empowering Ourselves to Uplift Humanity
How My Journey Becomes Our Journey to Create a More Humane and Sustainable World
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What if every trial were a doorway to deeper compassion? From a tumultuous childhood marked by an early near-death experience, constant tension and fighting at home, to his wild and reckless days as a teen alcoholic, in-and-out student, and...
