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  • Side Lake City

    A Memoir of a Mennonite Boy Coming of Age in a Sawmill Bush Camp in the 1950’s and 60’s
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    Side Lake City tells the true story of a Mennonite family’s sawmill camp in northern Alberta. Set in the 1950s and ’60s, it is the memoir of Cameron Esau’s early life. As a young boy, Cameron’s father and uncles form a lumber business. But...


  • Chase for Cocaine’s High at All Time Low

    (Battle against cocaine being won?)
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    Law enforcement around the world have put a strangle-hold on the cocaine industry. As a result, drastic changes in the potency and physical properties of the cocaine available in the eastern Canadian market have occurred over the past 25+ years....


  • 'Happy' Norman, Volume IV (1989-1998)

    Retail Treachery; U-Boats; Capers in Russia, China and the Caucasus; India Revisited; Two Beautiful Ladies; and Nyumbani
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    Volume IV of Keith Norman’s expansive and absorbing life story takes readers through the period 1989 –1998. Keith is already in his sixties, an age when most of us are thinking about slowing down, but Keith, if anything, is speeding up! This...


  • Those were the days of my life

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    "Those were the days of my life" is a book that relates stories to the reader, in a thoughtful, humorous and conversational way. The author colorfully communicates his life's adventures from a boy to a pilot, firefighter, father, entrepreneur and...


  • Mastership

    The Journey From Bankruptcy to a New Life
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    In 1996 at the age of 48, Lorne Davidson declared bankruptcy and was forced to take a hard look at his life as a touring musician. With debts racking up and no answers in sight, he felt he had hit rock bottom. After a suggestion from his wife to...


  • Off the Beaten Path

    Autobiography of an Urban Planner's Sojourn Through Fourteen World Cities
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    Dr. John Taylor’s compelling memoir illustrates the life most people only dream of: traveling and living abroad while working in a profession that creates real change in the world. Off the Beaten Path tells the story of Taylor’s evolution from...


  • 'Happy' Norman, Volume III (1979-1989)

    Volume III - Chasing Gold, African Adventures, and a Love Fest
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    The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man in Letters to my Grandchildren and Other Friends Anyone who studies contemporary history, business and management or aspires to succeed in life without selling out on their values and dreams should read...


  • 'Happy' Norman, Volume II (1958-1979)

    Nuclear Assignments, Caribbean Mishaps and Mid-Life Crises
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    The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man in Letters to my Grandchildren and Other Friends In Volume II the 30 year old Keith returns to the UK and begins a career as Commercial Director in the UK Atomic Energy Authority. When, after 13 years,...


  • Kaleidoscope

    Patterns in a life
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    After a challenging childhood in England in the war and post war years, Pat Hayles went on to live an exciting, international life. She emigrated to Canada where she created new agencies helping depressed and suicidal individuals, and working...


  • Goodness is Contagious

    From Profit to Purpose
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    At the age of eighteen David Ash attended a seminar that would change the direction of his troubled young life forever. His heart and mind were filled with hopes and dreams of a life he could never have imagined before. That day he set his first...