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Reflections
Poems and stories from a lifetime of observation
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The book is a collection of poetry, verse and five short stories. It is a reflection on the author's observations of people, cultures, and commentary on the idosyncracies of humankind. Its content also draws attention to the disagreeable...
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Figuring Out Life
A Memoir of my Early Years
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After the tragic death of his father, Smook, his older brother, Roger, and their mother must find their way forward against the backdrop of the Great Depression and WWII. Smook relates his school years, laced with memorable classmates and...
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Simple Healing
A Year of Learning
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When your body won’t give you answers, how do you keep living with hope? Simple Healing is a warm, reflective year-long memoir that invites readers to walk alongside Tanus Tosh McNeill as she searches for the cause of her debilitating headaches....
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Resilient
Unlearning the Pain, Rebuilding a Life
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How do you move forward when some of your earliest memories are coloured by abuse? How do you survive trauma that is, for many, unimaginable? Is it your responsibility to forgive those who hurt you, even if they won’t admit they did wrong?...
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Circle Round
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My memoir is organized around Medicine Wheel teachings: Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, and Elderhood. It traces my life from White Anglo-Saxon Christian upbringing through marriage to a Black Mohawk man, exposure to Indigenous teachings, and...
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Love You Like a Bus: Letters to Will
Finding Joy and Purpose in Life After Child Loss
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Love You Like a Bus: Letters to Will is a mother’s raw, tender, and ultimately life-affirming memoir of love after loss. When Joni Bouchard’s twelve-year-old son, Will, dies suddenly and tragically, her world fractures. She continues their daily...
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I Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest
A Memoir
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Elaine Ross grew up knowing she was adopted. Brought into a loving family on the Canadian prairies at eleven months old, she felt secure in the life she was given and the parents who chose her. For many years, that story felt complete. Gradually...
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My Father's Father's Family
James Wilfred Estey & His Ancestors
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This book traces the remarkable journey of the Estey family across five centuries, from its earliest recorded origins in England in the sixteenth century to the diverse paths that eventually converged in New Brunswick and beyond. It follows the...
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Retired Ground
A Climber's Odyssey
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He went looking for adventure. The mountains gave him so much more. In Retired Ground, Michael J. Collins documents his fifty-year pilgrimage into wild places, braiding his lifelong travel journal together with poetry, history, philosophical...
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After All...
Cherished Memories
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After All…traces the first 40 years of a small-town Ohio girl’s life. Coming from a family of 10 children, at 18 she leaves behind the certainty of the 1950’s and steps boldly into a bigger world. Through education, hard knocks, and an...
