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  • Happiness with Scars

    A Jouney Toward Healing and Transformation
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    "Scars are the evidence of a life fully lived." Happiness with Scars is an intimate and sincere work that explores emotional resilience and the idea that happiness can exist alongside pain rather than in denial of it. Drawing inspiration from the...


  • 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...


  • Buckle Up!

    Life with a Spinal Cord Injury
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    In Buckle Up!, I share the story of my life before a collision, the challenges of adapting to life afterwards with a spinal cord injury, and the years that followed as I learned to navigate my wheelchair in a world that suddenly looked very...


  • 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...


  • Living in Two Worlds

    A True Account of Alien Encounters
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    At three years old, Lisa witnesses something extraordinary in the field bordering the rowhouse where she lives in Cambridge, Ontario: a strange, glowing light, something like a “second sun,” that descends before her eyes before taking off at warp...


  • 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...


  • 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...


  • Rainy Days at the Cottage

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    If you’re a Cottager you’ll understand. Seasoned cottagers will declare, “There’s no such thing as a bad day at the cottage”. Don’t believe them. I’ve had plenty of cold, rainy, wind-spitting days when sky and water were a spirit crushing grey...


  • Losing George

    Stories of Grief and Coming Together
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    When Anne Majic’s husband dies suddenly, her world changes in an instant. Overwhelmed by grief, she wonders how she’ll navigate life alone. Yet in the midst of the darkness, Anne is visited by “earthly angels” who bring many gifts—acts of...


  • 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,...