Four seasoned campers annually escape their good jobs and alternative lifestyles for a trip they all look forward to – their beloved back-country camping excursion. But this time, they find their lives capsized like an overturned canoe when one friend invites a co-worker along – a younger, affluent guy who loves K-Pop, online shopping, and life’s creature comforts – and who’s never been camping before. While the trip starts off hesitant and somewhat rocky, the new friend slowly endears himself to at least some of the group, which causes them all to re-evaluate their friendships and allegiances.

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Borneo, 1943: The Japanese occupation has ravaged the island and its indigenous tribes. When an Australian bombing mission goes disastrously wrong, plane tactician John and his fellow soldiers crash deep in the jungle – straight into the territory of the Dayak headhunters.

Torak, a respected Dayak warrior, discovers the wreckage. While some tribesmen want to kill the surviving foreigners to protect their people, Torak recalls another outsider who once lived among them with honour. Guided by Dayak tradition, he spares the soldiers’ lives – setting in motion a fragile alliance between cultures.

Back in Australia, the Army enlists anthropologist Tom Evans, who once lived with the Dayak, to assist in a rescue mission. Restless and eager to return to the people he admires, Tom plunges headfirst into the heart of the conflict – facing the unforgiving jungle, the Japanese army, and his own shifting loyalties.

As John, Torak, and Tom’s worlds collide, survival becomes a test of courage, trust, and the boundaries of duty and friendship. The storyline focuses on the numerous obstacles and competing cultural ideals the men face as Torak and other Dayak warriors guide John, Tom and the surviving soldiers through the jungle to a predetermined extraction site.

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Millions of people across North America have been impacted by the ongoing opioid crisis, but why has it taken so long for us to make a serious dent in this crisis? And why is it still plaguing us today?

Here, author Reggie Caverson, an addictions expert with over thirty years in the field, tries to answer these unwieldy questions, tracing the crisis back to its roots and offering solutions that could possibly mitigate some of the unimaginable harm caused since. In Opioids: Burying the Truth One Person at a Time, she outlines . . .

• A chronology of the crisis since OxyContin was first marketed as a “miracle drug” in 1996 and the egregious mistakes that have been made by health regulators since that time

• How police, as the initial whistleblower, witnessed a surge in opioid-related crimes which persist to this day

• The impact on people with acute or chronic pain who continue to be prescribed highly potent and addictive opioids

• The many other interwoven issues including the lack of data, the disproportionate impact on Indigenous peoples, on families, on those who have been incarcerated, on emergency responders, such as police, paramedics, and hospitals, and many others

• The spill over into a new wave of addiction-related harm and crimes caused by manmade opioids such as fentanyl and other drugs found on the street

To give hope, Caverson offers the need for an integrated four-pillar strategy aimed at addressing this crisis, focused on health promotion and prevention, addiction treatment, harm reduction, and enforcement.

Powerful, compassionate, and incredibly thorough, Opioids: Burying the Truth One Person at a Time is a call for all hands on deck and the need to work together to face this crisis head-on.

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Outrageous Synchronicity is a captivating memoir that will challenge conventional paradigms and inspire the reader to a deeper knowledge of life and relationships. Offering a unique blend of the mystical and the everyday, it traces one woman’s life-changing journey as she seeks truth and knowledge in the face of personal upheaval and grief.

Judith Crichton seemed to have it all — success as a senior executive in a major international financial firm, a young family, and a sharp, analytical mind. But a single extraordinary event in her early forties shattered her sense of reality and launched her into a world of psychic insight, spiritual awakenings, and synchronicities too precise to ignore. In an engaging narrative, she chronicles incidents from telepathy and precognition to near-death and shared-death experiences and explores leading science behind them. Emerging from the heart of this true story are several key relationships including two with independent, respected clairvoyants whose “superabilities” the rest of us don’t have, and two more, one with a historic 17th C nun and mystic, and another with an ephemeral WWII German soldier.

Outrageous Synchronicity: Journey to the Sacred provides legitimacy to those who experience the anomalous in their lives. It offers, as well, an invitation to explore what lies just beyond the veil of reality as we know it.

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Often referred to as the Forgotten War, the Battle for Burma was fought in a geographically challenging and isolated region far from the major population centers of the time. But for the people who took part in it, the battle was a personal struggle to defend their homes from imminent Japanese invasion. Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Reginald Maddox was one such soldier.

Born in Burma to a single mother, Patrick Maddox and his twin sister were adopted by the very doctor who oversaw their birth, Dr. Maddox. In 1941, Patrick enlisted in the Burma Rifles and was seconded to the Office of Strategic Services—Detachment 101. He spent the majority of the war behind enemy lines, using guerrilla warfare tactics to take down enemies in the hot, humid jungles.

Part memoir and part autobiography, Shadows in the Burmese Jungle combines Patrick Maddox’s personal diaries with military records and first-person accounts from fellow soldiers to convey the challenges, sacrifices, and dangerous environment faced during the famous Battle of Burma. A perfect book for World War II history enthusiasts, it chronicles the physical and psychological toll of war, the heroism and sacrifice demanded from both soldiers and civilians, and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

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To every woman who has endured what should have broken her.

Time,

that strange and tender animal,

softened the sharpest edges.

And I, weary of holding

only the wound,

began to turn the blade into a mirror.

In What Remains After the Fire, Maki Motapanyane gently explores themes of rupture, survival, and the quiet work of reassembling the self, drawing on her personal experience to peel back the layers of time, memory, and healing for readers.

Motapanyane's poems are not memoir, but they are true, gathered into four arcs: Wound, Return, Kin, and Sanctum. Each poem is shaped by Motapanyane’s life as a daughter, mother, survivor, and scholar, as she makes sense of the world from within its deep contradictions.

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This enchanting tale celebrates the extraordinary friendship between Kaylee, a strong and graceful Canada goose, and Koru, a curious and flightless brown kiwi bird. Kaylee hails from the Arctic tundra of Northern Canada, while Koru explores the lush kauri forests of New Zealand. Despite living in different parts of the world, the two birds embark on a remarkable journey of understanding, while sharing the wonders of their worlds.

Paralleling their bond is the friendship of Mikki, an Inuit conservationist, and Maia, a Māori forest zoologist, who join forces to care for the animals they love. Together, these friendships highlight themes of diversity, connection, and the beauty of our natural world.

This heartwarming journey blends adventure, culture, and nature, reminding readers that friendships have no boundaries, and the world is richer when we embrace its differences.

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Pharmaceuticals have transformed modern medicine. Penicillin, chemotherapy, and mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives, yet the industry is often misunderstood, seen as a mix of scientific brilliance and corporate complexity.

In Bench to Bedside: The Business of Drug Development, Fraser Gibson takes readers inside this world, tracing the journey of a new therapy from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside. Along the way, he explains why developing a single drug can take over a decade, cost billions, and still end in failure, and why so many promising discoveries never make it to market.

Readers will discover:

• Why drug development is so costly, lengthy, and uncertain

• The roles of scientists, regulators, pharmaceutical companies, and patients in bringing therapies to life

• How digital health tools and artificial intelligence are changing the research landscape

• What the future of innovation might mean for medicine and society

Bench to Bedside offers a grounded and accessible look at one of the world’s most vital and often misunderstood industries. It reminds readers that behind every therapy lies not just data and dollars, but people, innovation, and the ongoing pursuit of better health for all.

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“She always felt her mother was in some ways ‘borrowed’ from another country and culture, that she had an early life she never shared with her family.”

When Anna travels to Berlin to scatter her mother’s ashes on the grave of her Jewish fiancé who was murdered during Kristallnacht, on November 9, 1938, she finally comes to understand her mother’s tragic past, and how it damaged her ability to truly love. As she learns more about that fateful night, her mother’s subsequent breakdown, and her escape to Canada to avoid punishment for destroying a Nazi banner, Anna arrives at a deeper understanding of her mother’s life. She also learns more about the hardships of her extended family members who remained in Germany, and how the Berlin Wall, which fell on November 9, 1989, had divided them both physically and ideologically.

In a cosmic twist of fate, as Anna scatters her mother’s ashes 51 years to the very night that her fiancé was killed—and the same night that the Berlin Wall fell—she is caught up in the jubilation of this euphoric moment of hope. Yet, as she returns to her life in North America where she and her partner experience prejudice as a multiracial couple, and her gay brother has also felt the pain of discrimination, she realizes both how easy it is to let hatred win, and the need to be ever vigilant in the fight against it.

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What does it take to build an unwavering resilience that can meet any of life’s challenge head on? Alan Fraser knows.

At five, Alan walked seven kilometers every day to attend school—snow, rain, or shine.

At thirteen, he got his first job—working the night shift at a local motel while continuing with school.

At eighteen, he moved away from his hometown to pursue his dreams of a career in hospitality.

Born the youngest of seven children into acute poverty and a home with an abusive, alcoholic parent, Alan’s life had a more than challenging start. Follow along with his journey as he details the survival of his childhood, growth into adulthood, and his search for identity and stability.

From cultivating a career to finding love and friendship to home ownership to retirement, and beyond, Alan charts the inspirational story of his life, showing how, through his lived experiences, determination and gratitude are the bedrock of a life well lived.

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Samuel Knight has lived his whole life in the shadow of his father—a powerful, world-renowned businessman whose influence touches every corner of the globe. But when Sam is summoned to a secluded, opulent retreat alongside nine other sons of the global elite, he realizes this isn’t just another networking weekend.

It’s an initiation.

Thrust into the hidden world of an ancient secret society, Sam must navigate a gauntlet of rituals, rivalries, and cryptic traditions. As he digs deeper, long-buried truths about his family come to the surface, revelations that challenge everything he thought he knew about power, purpose, and the people pulling the strings.

In a world where loyalty can be deadly and legacy is written in the shadows, Sam must decide if he has what it takes to earn his place. . . before someone else decides for him.

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A grandmother looks back at the story of the house where she grew up, remembering what it was like to live there over the years. She imagines that the house felt what she felt when she was small. Happy and sad moments, pleasures and fears, joys and sorrows, are all part of family life. Tying all those memories to the house where she lives now, the author finds many parallels between her growing up years and her life as a grandmother.

How My House Felt offers readers new vocabulary to name their feelings. Children (and their grown-ups!) will enjoy playful repetition as the main character declares "I'm sure my house felt just like me ...". The colourful art of this young illustrator evokes wide-ranging emotions and invites readers to imagine how they might express feelings about their own homes.

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The most groundbreaking discoveries in science don’t come from following the rules, but from breaking them with purpose. In Rebel Researcher: The Unconventional Path to Discovery, Kirk Hillier introduces the concept of the rebel researcher—an innovator who sees the power of rule-breaking, dares to ask disruptive questions, and challenges consensus—and guides them through reframing failure as a strength, transitioning from solitary thinker to collaborative leader, and navigating institutional politics and power to develop a bold, creative, and ethical leadership style.

Through case studies exploring recognizable figures in innovations both past and present, as well as thoughtful questions that encourage introspection and self-evaluation at the end of each chapter, Hillier guides current and aspiring research leaders to value curiosity over compliance and embrace failure as a stepping stone to innovation. At a time when science faces complex global challenges, it is the unconventional thinkers who will lead humanity forward.

A tribute to the researchers who refused to play by the rules, and a roadmap for those who feel discontent with the way things are, Rebel Researcher: The Unconventional Path to Discovery is a bold exploration of how groundbreaking science often emerges not from conformity, but from rebellion.

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When Patricia Carlson walked through the doors of a men’s homeless shelter in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1995, she had no idea how profoundly her life—and the lives of countless others—would be changed. As the first female director of a shelter that catered to men, she entered a world of loss, laughter, faith, and survival, where the boundaries between helper and helped began to blur.

Over twelve transformative years, Patricia bore witness to the human spirit in all its rawness and resilience, from moments of chaos and heartbreak to acts of astonishing tenderness and grace. Alongside men whom society had cast aside, she discovered the deeper meaning of service, that to truly help others is to be remade by them in return.

Told with unflinching honesty, humour, and compassion, In the Company of Men pulls back the curtain on non-profit work—its bureaucratic battles, its moral contradictions, and its small, hard-won triumphs. Through vivid stories of friendship, grief, and redemption, Patricia illuminates what it means to be fully human in a world too often blind to its own brokenness.

For anyone who has ever worked in the trenches of social service, volunteered in a shelter, or simply wondered what happens to those our systems forget, this book offers a searing exposé and a hymn to hope.

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Kids love to ask why things are the way they are. But a lot of adults don’t have an answer to one of their most common questions: why is the sky blue?

It turns out, there’s some pretty complicated science that goes into making our sky the color it is! Everything from wave lengths and dipoles to the Rayleigh and Mie light-scattering principles come into play. Is the Sky Always Blue? simplifies that complex science for young minds. Using clear, easy to understand language and bright, engaging pictures, the book gives every child the answers they’ve been waiting for.

A little Glow-of-Light, the narrator, walks kids through the science at play in our atmosphere, explaining why the sky can be so many different colors from the time we wake up until the end of the day. The beautiful artwork and charming story will have even the least scientific kid rattling off the secrets of the sky. Meanwhile, a glossary digs into the scientific terms behind the phenomenon, providing age-appropriate insight for every child and their parents.

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21 Smthfield Drive is part family history, part memoir. Author M. Gail Stelter shares these stories across three sections: her parents' lives, leading up to and including World War II, her own childhood in the post-war years, and finally her young adult years when she met the love of her life, Peter. These stories are filled with vulnerability, humour and insights and illuminate the joys and challenges of the times, of family, and of love.

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Spinning like a top—that’s sometimes how I feel.

And then what do you do with these feelings? How do you slow down—or, better yet, stop? With stress only compounding in our modern age, we need innovative coping techniques, ones we can return to again and again. Author Jessica McLeod understands this need more than most. She’s been there. But after incorporating dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) into her own life, Jessica found herself on a new path, one towards personal transformation. Now she’s written Regulating the Inner You: A Photographic and Poetic Twist on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Skills to help readers do the same.

This self-help guide is a creative exploration of the four principles of DBT: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance. From practical strategies to affirmations and coping kits, this guide offers techniques to improve mental health and quality of life. Learn how to shift from a negative, judgmental mindset to a positive, accepting perspective.

Inventive and individual, Regulating the Inner You isn’t the average DBT textbook or self-help manual. It blends cognitive restructuring skills with poetry and photography to show a more creative way to self-manage. And once we learn how to spin with control and intention, don’t all other transformations feel possible?

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Ten companions of Deida set out on a quest to the kingdom of Kalhart in search of one man. Instead, amid danger and destruction, they find love and a greater understanding of themselves. Leonardo and Link are brothers who have forgotten their past. Joining them are Willow and Buddy, often the mature presence in this strong-headed company; Alec and Darren, two young brothers wrestling with their powers and their strength; Ryan and Vance, a strong fighter and a medic; and Amy and Zoey, the moral compass and the heart of the group.

When the companions dash into a burning village to save it, they learn that this settlement and the kingdom have been conquered by the demonic usurper, Caddomai, and his army of demons. When Caddomai proves too much for the companions to handle, the undaunted party travels by land and sea, battling the elements and their own conflicting emotions in hopes of a second chance.

If they can learn to harness their powers-and if they can learn to trust each other-they might be able to rid the land of Caddomai, the demon army and restore the kingdom to its rightful owners.

Three Swords: The Quest for Redemption is part of a duology with its prequel, Three Swords: The Rise of Evil, forthcoming.

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In a quiet town in Ontario, a grisly murder rocks the community to its core. And sitting at the centre of the violence is the killer—Jacob Dorrit.

Dorrit willingly turns himself in. But why? When Detectives Steve Warner and his partner, Mark Bonisteel, confront him, Dorrit laughs ominously. He knows much more than he lets on—he’s holding the strings, and some of them lead directly to Steve. Is Steve hiding something from his past—something that, if exposed, could destroy his career?

Meanwhile, reporters Leanne Walsh and Spencer Haines team up to break the story. With police keeping details under wraps, the pair plan a major exposé on the murder and the victim. At the same time, Mark follows a lead of his own—one that could shatter more than just the community.

Before he’s swept up in the madness, Steve must uncover Dorrit’s motive—all the while competing against a pair of relentless journalists and his own partner. Who will uncover the truth first? And what will happen to Steve—or the community, or beyond—when they do?

A gripping, high-stakes thriller, Maniac takes the reader on a twisted journey through good and evil, love and duty, and the fickleness of fate.

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How to Build a Seatbelt of Joy for Climate Collapse and Faith Collapse

For anyone who secretly believes we are too late to save the planet, but hates saying so because it sounds so discouraging, this book is very good news. It’s neither a dystopia nor a road map to fix the climate crisis, but invites the reader into a transformed personal, relational and planetary life far more powerful than the fear, despair, and denial which have become so pervasive.

Drawing courageously on very personal experiences of joy and fulfillment in times of his own despair, the author suggests such gifts of deep hope aren’t rare. He describes how, against all odds, a near-death experience at birth, deep childhood loss, and challenges in intimate relationships, became rich seed beds for joy and fulfillment. Additionally, the atheist and believer who fell in love in the first book of this series now live together, are deeply committed to fighting the climate crisis, but fail in that commitment and in their relationship. Yet mysteriously they find themselves immersed in joy and fulfillment through both failures. In the final climactic scenes of the book we experience joy and meaning being returned to humanity through the very disaster that now threatens our hope and purpose.

The author uses the image of constructing a climate collapse seat belt woven from failure, grief, despair, and strangely, humility, to describe how, if climate collapse does happen, we can be protected from all kinds of chaos, and find ourselves buckled into deep joy and full life.

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