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Mental Illness from the Sidelines
Navigating The Cave
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A love story in the storm of mental illness and a guide for those who live it. Through candid letters and journal entries, Pamela offers an unflinching look at the everyday reality of loving someone with mental illness. Her raw reflections both...
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An Odyssey
My Seven Years as a First Nations Chief
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Bill Tooshkenig became Chief of Walpole Island First Nation at a young age, beginning a journey that would shape his life and community. In An Odyssey: My Seven Years as a First Nations Chief, he shares the stories that led him to leadership and...
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Brave Cuts
A Heart Surgeon’s Journey through Purpose, Pain, Conviction, and Healing
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Dr. Sanjiv K. Gandhi spent decades working inside operating rooms where children’s lives literally hung in the balance. In this brave, unflinching memoir, he opens up about the scalpel-edge decisions that defined his career as a pediatric cardiac...
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Salty Dips Volume 12
"Who would have thought … I'd end up here."
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“To spin a dip” is a popular sailor’s term meaning “to tell a story”—“salty” because they are of the very essence of the sea. "Who would have thought . . . I’d end up here" is the twelfth volume in the Salty Dips series that began in 1983. It...
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Echoes from the Pit
Ottawa's Heavy Metal Underground, 1980-1995
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Before the convenience of the internet, accessing music wasn’t for the faint of heart: fans waited for their favourite songs to come on the radio so they could record them on cassette tapes, made sure they were home to watch genre-specific video...
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Resilience Required
Surviving an Alcoholic Snake-pit to Building a Life of Purpose, Triumph, and Achievement
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At a young age, Jim Shepard saw his family wealth and luxurious bayside home squandered away on alcohol abuse. After several desperate downsizing moves with his family, young Jim found himself living in a run-down rooming house that became known...
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Confessions of an Amnesiac
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READ THIS BOOK AT YOUR OWN RISK! This book contains discrimination, emotional blackmail, self-sabotage, emotional pain, impulsivity, coarse language, scenes with substance use, sexual depravity, drug and human trafficking, childhood sexual abuse,...
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Intelligence Operator 230
In the Service of Canada
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Forget the tuxedos and shaken martinis. This isn’t fiction—it’s colder, quieter, and much more real. As an intelligence operator during the tense Cold War period, Mike served as a Peacekeeper and operated covertly behind the Iron Curtain, where...
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The Bowling Tour
Sparky & Boo's Badass Nordic Adventure
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The Bowling Tour is a personal travel memoir that takes place over two weeks from November 20, 2024 to December 4, 2024. It follows the journey of a grandmother (her first time leaving North America at 73) and her granddaughter (a seasoned world...
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Lyssa's Story
A Dog's Legacy
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Lyssa's story might have ended before it even began. Facing certain death in a high-kill shelter in the Mojave Desert, against all odds she found her people in the world under the wide-open prairie skies of Saskatchewan and in the scenic river...
