A would-be artist accepts a mysterious man’s lavish patronage in exchange for a very ordinary used car and gets a far stranger bargain than he expected. An embittered young woman wakes in a weird liminal world, watched over by a “guardian” who knows her every thought. A man gets ready for a wedding to the love of his life but can’t quite remember how he knows his soon-to-be husband. A cynical teen with a disturbing secret who resents sharing a seat on his first plane trip with a peculiar old gentleman gets schooled on much more than good manners. A disillusioned teacher struggles to control her classroom of prepubescent deities with contrasting views of the kind of world they intend, one day, to create. In the aftermath of his mother’s death, a serial killer remembers his murderous infancy. Frogs exact grisly vengeance on their oblivious human oppressors.

The richly layered, unsettling, thought-provoking stories and poems in The Beings That Haunt tackle themes of mortality, destiny, the nature of time, and the far-reaching or uncanny consequences of even the smallest of our actions with insight, honesty, and vivid, dark humour. Adults and mature teens who enjoy dark fantasy, literary sci-fi, and speculative fiction will be spellbound by this stylish, fascinating collection.

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"The Everlasting Destiny of Kid Power" is a book for young children ages 0-12. Little Kenny Power felt like the world was coming to an end after finding a blank birth certificate, but he soon finds out the reason behind the blank birth certificate. Kenny keeps the faith to keep on going through life and soon finds out just who and what he was destined to be, Kid Power, a kid with superhuman powers- here in time to save the world. He may have felt sadness for several days, but he keeps the faith and just holds on, and soon becomes so full of joy. The hook of the story is the first line, " It felt like the whole world was tumbling down on this early Sunday morning in Charamatic City. Young readers will read this first line and want to read further on why things were so bad for Kenny and how the problem gets solved. The story takes place in Charamatic city in the summertime. It will inspire young children to keep on going through the roughest times and to never give up. As Kid Power, he discovers his real birth mother on a mountain and has to prepare for some of the biggest fights of his life with three of the most dangerous creatures: Squrrelin, Rhino Ruler, and Megadalia. Barrabus Cunningham is a student in the same school as Kid Power, and Barrabus is being bullied and wants to get his revenge on the students and the world by sending these creaures after them. This story will lift a child's spirits up when they are feeling down. Sadness maybe for today but joy does come in the morning.

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When Shellie the turtle falls out of the backyard fountain, she’s thrilled by the chance to go on an adventure, but her family is worried that she’s lost and has no idea where to start looking for her!

Shellie Goes on an Adventure is the first book in the Side by Side Books series. These unique books are formatted to tell the same story from two points of view: in this case from that of the adventurous turtle and of her very worried family.

Side by Side Books are formatted to help children understand the perspectives of others, develop empathy, and grow their own emotional connection with others. These books are powerful tools for parents and educators to introduce young children to situations that change based on different perspectives. They provide an opportunity to discuss emotions, points of view, and differences in a fun way

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She’s one of the

Pomegranates

On the tree

She falls

Cracks open

Starts to bleed

Now you wash the hands

That have ripped its skin

They’re remaining red

You are never clean!

Inspired by personal experiences and the stories of others, A Pomegranate Story is a poignant collection of poems and artwork about love, abuse, heartbreak, womanhood, immigration, and ultimately transformation. Through her poetry, Hanie Afshar offers a reflective account of her journey as a woman, as an immigrant, and as someone shaped by life in a so-called “Third World country.”

Serving as the book’s central symbol, the pomegranate is both deeply powerful and deeply personal for Hanie. Long celebrated in her homeland; as an emblem of femininity, fertility, and resilience, it embodies the many layers of meaning running through her work. This connection reaches back to Hanie’s own beginnings: while pregnant with her, Hanie’s mother was gifted the first pomegranates from the tree that grew in her late grandfather’s backyard. In A Pomegranate Story, this fruit becomes a vessel for hidden histories and voices often unheard.

At its core, A Pomegranate Story is a story of renewal. With simple yet emotionally relatable lyricism, Hanie beautifully navigates the complexities of identity and cultural displacement, empowering readers to discover the resilience required to begin anew.

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It was the call no one wants to receive. When Brant Thompson’s phone rang early that morning, he thought he knew what to expect, but knowing didn’t make it any easier. His mother, with whom he had always had a close relationship, had passed away. Putting down his phone, the time 7:47 a.m. flashes and, while not the time of her death, it would serve as the marker of this memory. Both his father and his only sibling, his sister, Margo, had died some years before, and with no other relatives—both his parents had been only children—he was the last of the loving, close-knit Thompson family still standing. While putting the rest of his life on hold, he had been making the three-hour journey to stay in the family home during his mother’s illness and hospitalization and navigating the many difficult decisions about her end-of-life care.

Now, deep in the throes of grief, as the executor of her estate, it was his job—and his alone—to take care of the myriad things a loved one’s death entails. Contact his mother’s friends and colleagues. Arrange the funeral. Deal with the bank. The insurance company. The lawyers. And the most painful and complicated task of all: empty out and say goodbye to the three-storey house his parents had built and lived in for some fifty years.

With wit, insight, and compassion, Thompson explores the nature of his grief and documents some of the challenges and pitfalls he experienced as a first-time executor, which he hopes will be helpful to others in similar situations. Accepting 7:47: Trying to Say Goodbye While Executing the Estate was written to honour his mother’s legacy of helping others.

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Who am I? How did I get here? Have I arrived? After a lifetime of struggle, perseverance, and faith, these are the questions Norman Nhamu Musewe finds himself asking and the reason he wrote this memoir.

Norman knew from a young age he wanted to be a doctor. Growing up in Highfield, Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia), long waits at the doctor’s office with his pregnant mother left Norman feeling frustrated by the state of things. Thus the seed was planted, and Norman’s journey began: from medical school in Rhodesia to the United Kingdom in order to escape army conscription by the Rhodesian government, and then finally to Ontario, Canada, where family life and a career as a pediatric cardiologist brought trials and successes all their own. All the while, Norman faced obstacle after obstacle. Racism—in Rhodesia, where segregation was the norm; in university, where Black students were not offered the same supports as their white peers; and in the job market in Canada, where discrimination ran rampant. Mental illness and addiction hung over Norman’s head like a cloud, and at times he felt lost in his pursuit of something better. Yet with the support of his loving wife and his God, Norman found healing, gratitude, and new ways of seeing the world.

Through this story of intertwined narratives, dislocations and pain, and being lost and then found again, Norman honours and remembers those who, at different times and in different ways, knowingly and unknowingly influenced his life and helped him learn to replant himself after being uprooted.

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'It is coming to the time when you will have unmistakable proof that you are not alone!'

If you are curious about the mysteries of the universe, this is the book for you.

Find out more about . . .

• What occurred at the Big Bang

• The other dimensions

• Why we each have a Soul

• The Astral and Causal Planes

• Why time doesn't exist

• Astral travelling and remote viewing

• Reincarnation and alternate lives

• The aliens that are known as the Greys

• The other 126 alien races

• Why and when aliens visit us

This first of three volumes of 'Information from the Isness' lays the foundation of how our universe functions with the multitude of beings that live within it. Take time to ponder on each concept presented. It will help you be prepared for the exciting time when we will meet our alien neighbours.

Watch for the next two volumes of ‘Information from the Isness’

Volume Two – The Great Experiment

Volume Three – Living an Impeccable Life

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Canadian government advertised homesteading in the Canadian West as a means to a prosperous future. Free land? Who could resist? Never mind the land wasn’t the government’s to give away, homesteaders had strict and financially cumbersome terms to meet, the “free” land wasn’t free, and the landscape lacked even the most basic infrastructure. Without knowing the hardships they’d experience, immigrants from Europe and the United States flooded Western Canada, often leaving their extended families and cultures behind.

Author Brad Kuich often wondered why his own family endeavoured such a risky undertaking. Based on research and family stories, The Homesteaders answers this curiosity. It follows his paternal great-grandparents and grandparents from the 1860s in the Central Unites States to the 1960s in Western Canada. This biographical and historical novel reimagines their lives and the hardships they would’ve faced while homesteading. At a young age, Brad’s grandfather Joe learned that while the lifestyle had its challenges, it also had many joys. It’s this resilient spirit, passed down from his own ancestors, that helped Joe persevere against incredible adversity.

Raw and candid, The Homesteaders is a glimpse into pivotal events in Canadian history, with some real characters along for the ride. It’s a story of one man finding his purpose and connection in a challenging landscape.

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Hedi the Hedgehog is the heart of the Critter Crew, but poor Hedi is having a bad hair day. No matter what she tries, from spray to mousse to straightener, three of her spikes just won’t be tamed. Hedi goes out to see her friends in search of a solution. Each of the other animals in the pond is wearing a hat more unique and wonderful than the last, but will any of them be the right fit for Hedi?

Or will she be stuck with a bad hair day forever?

Hedi the Hedgehog and the Sparkle in the Pond is the first book in a series about Hedi and the Critter Crew. Hedi's bad hair day teaches children that our quirks are part of the beauty of who we are, and highlights what makes each of us special. It reminds us that true beauty and joy come from kindness, friendship, and embracing who you are—not from great hair days.

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The broad, global perspectives of environmental management, sustainability, and stewardship provide the context for this book. Within this broad framework, a location in the Township of Centre Wellington, southern Ontario, serves as a case study to illustrate the evolution of its landscape, as well as the significance of landscape to various aspects of land planning and management. It is at this local government level that policy initiatives from regional and governmental bodies are actually implemented. The term ‘landscape’ is used to reflect the interrelationships between the physical, natural, and human characteristics of a location; this interaction produces the evolving land features and properties of an area. Increasingly, this recognition forms the basis of many local land management procedures and strategies.

The book derives information and data from a wide range of sources. Throughout, each source is examined for its local availability, relevance, and veracity, with critical gaps and omissions noted. Through the various stages of the landscape’s development, the related management initiatives are discussed as they are reflected in the changing features of the local environment. The book demonstrates the application of landscape ecology principles and provides a case to illustrate emerging ideas in integrated landscape management.

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Lorsque Cara la tortue tombe de la fontaine du jardin, elle est ravie d’avoir l’occasion de partir à l’aventure. Mais sa famille s’inquiète, pensant qu’elle est perdue et ne sait pas par où commencer pour la retrouver !

La grande aventure de Cara est le premier livre de la série Les livres Side by Side Books. Ces livres uniques sont conçus pour raconter la même histoire selon deux points de vue : dans ce cas, celui de la tortue aventurière et celui de sa famille très inquiète.

Les livres Side by Side Books sont conçus pour aider les enfants à comprendre les points de vue des autres, à développer leur empathie et à renforcer leur lien émotionnel avec autrui. Ces livres sont des outils puissants pour les parents et les éducateurs afin d’introduire les jeunes enfants à des situations qui varient selon les perspectives. Ils offrent une occasion de discuter des émotions, des points de vue et des différences de manière ludique.

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The Last Letter is an epic tale of the rise and fall of the fictional Carmichael dynasty through three generations, during a period of explosive growth of the Pacific Northwest.

During a punishing drought in the Midwest in 1898, a young homesteader is swept up in the hope and hype of the Klondike Gold Rush, and joins the great stampede to the Yukon. Readers experience the Gold Rush through the wide eyes of the nineteen-year-old farm kid. Through hardship and setbacks, liars and thieves, Seamus returns with a fortune, but the gold carries a curse.

When the present-day brother and sister discover the shocking truth about the curse, sibling ties are ripped apart. Jack is compelled to expose the truth, while cunning and powerful Olivia, will do anything to keep the families’ secret buried with the past.

The Last Letter takes readers on a great adventure, from the rough and tumble boomtowns of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, to the opulent boardrooms of the powerbrokers of today.

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In Shadows Across the Line: Voices of the Displaced, author Senol Tasdelen examines the causes, the history, and the consequences of migration patterns around the globe and relates the personal stories of some of those who risked everything in a desperate attempt to reach safe haven. Some of them succeeded. Some did not.

According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the end of 2024 there were 123.2 million people worldwide who had been forcibly displaced from their homes, struggling to find a safe place to live.

Among those you’ll learn about in Shadows Across the Line are sixteen-year-old Samir and his ten-year-old sister Lina, who made their way alone through no less than ten countries to escape the war in Syria before reaching safety in the UK. You’ll meet Iancu, who, with his friend Codrin, sought freedom from the repressive regime of Romania’s Nicolae Ceaușescu by hiding among 14,000 sheep aboard a ship bound for Canada, where they have now lived for many years. And Lucia, who fled with her children from the violence in her native Mexico and struggled to make a new life in the U.S., only to be arrested by President Trump’s ICE agents and sent back to Mexico while waiting for her application for asylum to be approved. And you will read the heart-wrenching story of Hava and her two-year-old daughter Eslem who both drowned in the Mediterranean while trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos in a small, overloaded boat.

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Ready to unlock your potential and create your breakthrough year?

Unstoppable YOU is your weekly companion, packed with 52 timeless secrets designed to elevate your mindset, strengthen your habits, and supercharge your personal and professional growth.

Each chapter is a short, high-impact dose of motivation, clarity, and action - built to help you unlock lasting change, one week at a time. Whether you're launching your next big goal, navigating a life transition, or simply hungry for more - this book will help you:

• Build unstoppable confidence and resilience

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Small steps. Big breakthroughs. One week at a time.

Ready to become Unstoppable? Your breakthrough year starts now.

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Tim Scott, funeral director of the sunny (if slightly off-kilter) community of Swinging Palms, Florida, is used to the ebb and flow of local mortality. So when the death rate suddenly plummets, Tim notices. And when it suddenly surges, he really notices, especially since his phone won’t stop buzzing with urgent texts for pick-ups.

With his recently separated son, Frank, moving back in and his wife, Dolores, launching a campaign for local office, Tim’s life is already chaotic. But the sudden uptick in decedents—most of them already terminally ill—has him and his quirky band of friends sniffing something suspicious in the salty coastal air.

Doctors might not blink at a few extra “natural” deaths, but Tim knows better. The deeper he digs, the more tangled the truth becomes. And when it comes to death, dignity, and doing what’s right, Tim is about to find out just how far he’s willing to go.

Remember, You Must Die is a witty cozy mystery that blends small-town charm, a cast of lovable eccentrics, and a surprisingly sharp look at the fine line between mercy and murder.

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In a world that increasingly defines success according to measures of wealth, power, and status, it can be hard to keep our grasp on God’s vision for us. But considered in light of what the Bible teaches us, what does success truly mean?

Well, the Sermon on the Mount described in Matthew 5:1–13 is a good place to start. In it, we learn of eight spiritual attitudes or “beautiful attitudes”—Beatitudes—that can lead us to success in God’s eyes.

Thoughtfully broken down into eight chapters, Blessed takes up each of the Beatitudes, illustrating them in action with stories from the Bible and providing helpful reflection questions for readers to consider.

From the purity of heart shown by the Virgin Mary to Joseph’s persecution for the sake of righteousness, stories demonstrating the Beatitudes abound both in the Bible and in modern times. Likewise, the rewards available to us for living by these principles are made clear throughout the holy Scriptures, from inheriting the Earth to having claim to the kingdom of Heaven.

While it is exceedingly easy to fall prey to worldly definitions of success in the present day, Blessed reminds us that it is only through following the word of God that we can gain success that is everlasting, deep, and pure. Better yet, we already have everything we need for it right here.

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Recognizing Grace is the moving life story of one woman’s unconditional love and sacrifice, and it’s a powerful testimony to the provision of God. As a pediatric nurse, mother, wife, and foster parent to two special-needs children, Ellie Enns is often brought to her knees and into the pages of her Bible to encounter the living God through Jesus Christ. Through her many challenges, she learns to depend on her Saviour and draw on her faith on a day-to-day basis.

Through her job, Ellie comes into contact with two long-term pediatric hospital patients, Jenna and then Shawna, whose parents lived in Northern Canada and can’t care for their daughters’ highly complex medical needs. Moved by love and the Holy Spirit, Ellie and her family bring these girls into their home and provide them with a family, socialization, and as “normal” a life as possible. But ongoing medical crises threaten the lives of the girls and the stability of the family, forcing everyone to turn to the miraculous power of God. Even in their deepest grief, the family finds comfort in Him.

A beautiful, authentic tribute to the joy, challenges, grief, and healing involved in fostering high-needs children, Recognizing Grace will inspire and give hope to readers who are searching for miracles and grace in their lives. Through the heartwarming story of Jenna and Shawna, Recognizing Grace witnesses to the reality that Jesus is real and miracles do happen!

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No doubt the verdant mountain ranges, the mist and the cold are majestic backdrop providing much of the mystic for Hamada’s Collected Short Stories. But it is the hardy women and men, their refusal to be mere victims of nature or supposed ‘progress’, their stoic, down-to-earth decency in the face of all adversity that is the beating heart of Hamada’s fiction.

Sinai’s stories are a window to a place and time long gone. The highlanders he speaks of survive but through his tales. Hamada transforms tribal myth and personal memory into lasting art.

Many of Sinai’s stories were written when he was a young man and betray the longings and passions of the young: unrequited love, the desire for intimacy that unfulfilled may result in solitude, loneliness, and the abiding melancholy underlying some of his best work.

Still, Hamada does not romanticize the native. His highlanders are neither innocent nor naïve to the ways of the world. They are the children, after all, of warriors who took heads and slaves and survived by their peculiar code.

In the later stories we can hear the grievances and aspirations of locals whose livelihoods have been upturned by lowlanders as well as by the larger colonial and global forces at play. We see their own pretenses and machinations as they navigate the new realities. The melancholy of the earlier stories replaced it seems by a knowing, satirical tone.

The contemporary reader may question certain word choices of the author, no doubt influenced by the literature and orthodoxies of his day, that sound inappropriate in our age of cultural sensitivity and ‘political correctness,’ but these too are part of the journey of Hamada’s tales from past to present, from mountain fastness to city street and academe.

In the end he sings of the nobility of forebears, the triumph of family and of a love as old as the mountains.

- Charlson Ong, Award winning writer, fictionist, scriptwriter

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This collection combines several poems written since 2020 with five poems of older origin. An earlier version of “A Pretty Good Planet” appeared in Alberta Views in March 2022. An earlier version of “Guernica, Then and Now,” appeared in Canadian Dimension in November 8, 2023.

Together, the poems deal with the growing dystopian elements of our age. War, threats of war, our collective apathy, and its consequences take centre stage. But war also shares the stage with other threats—climate change, pestilence, oligarchic power, and right-wing authoritarianism. The poems bend towards the dark but in the author's words, he would rather walk in the truthful dark than in a false light.

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Unlock the secrets to building meaningful connections with Tools for Better Relationships (TBR). This essential teaching manual offers practical, proven tools to help individuals build stronger, more fulfilling relationships at home, at work, and in life. Drawing from years of teaching experience and real-world use, this guide is designed for adults of all ages, and with guidance, for middle and high school students. Whether you're navigating challenges with family members, colleagues, or friends, this book empowers you to make better decisions, manage your emotions, and understand others in a deeper, more compassionate way.

Centered on the principles of emotional intelligence, the manual covers a wide range of skills, from self-awareness and -management to empathy and conflict resolution. These tools aren't just for fixing problems—they are for preventing them by helping individuals develop positive communication habits and address emotional reactivity. Those who apply these skills and insights will find greater success in their personal and professional lives, creating lasting connections and enduring setbacks with grace.

This guide blends theory with applicable tools to equip individuals with the skills necessary to foster healthier relationships. Whether used in group settings or for individual study, Tools for Better Relationships serves as a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their intra- and interpersonal dynamics and build stronger, more resilient relationships. Learn how to communicate, understand, and connect better with others—because the most enriching relationships begin with emotional intelligence.

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