In A Philosophy of Health and Happiness, James G. Curtis candidly shares his transformative journey through chronic illness and long-term depression. These experiences motivated him to explore various paths to wellness. However, his story extends beyond a memoir of sickness and recovery; it offers a deep examination of the purpose of human life.

In sharing his journey, James weaves personal stories with intriguing insights, some of which have emerged from unexpected and delightful sources. Through reflective discussion, he vividly illustrates the advantages of combining holistic ideology with many core elements of traditional philosophy. He explains the dynamic nature of well-being and teaches readers how to apply timeless wisdom and expansive knowledge to all aspects of their lives. His powerful message thoughtfully communicates the benefits of embracing multiple layers of purpose and staying resilient in the face of adversity.

Along the way, James challenges societal stigmas and emphasizes the importance of projecting positivity and holding on to hope. He encourages individuals to uncover the roots of their suffering, not as a place to dwell, but as a necessary step toward proper healing. This process is a testament to the enduring human spirit, urging everyone to embark on an exhilarating quest for self-discovery. Above all, James invites readers to explore the meaning of life through the pursuit of health and happiness.

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Nothing is impossible when you learn to embrace your full potential. No one knows that better than John Quee.

After a violent and abusive childhood, John started his adult life with nothing. He slept in the street and turned to the "work halls" on Skid Row to earn enough money to eat. Sleeping in a doorway one cold night, John had a vision that there could be more to his story. He was determined to turn his life around. Today, he is a multimillionaire CEO.

In From Skid Row to CEO, John Quee outlines the strategies he used to transform his life. These tools will help you break through barriers, overcome career setbacks, and rise above personal failures to realize your greatest dreams. Whether you are feeling stuck and need direction, have seemingly impossible goals, or are just feeling defeated by the life you’re currently living, this book has something for you.

Failure is the beginning of your journey, but it’s not the end. With the concrete strategies presented in this book, you can create a new path that leads to a more productive and fulfilling life.

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How do you tell someone you’re half angel, the guy you like is a full angel, and you are learning to fight so you can defeat your dad, who is a fallen angel?

Shayla Hart has always felt different. On paper, her life is like anyone else’s: quality time with her mom, Kyra, in their picturesque home of Campbell River, and high school with her zany best friend, Karina. But when a mysterious new student enters the picture, her darkest suspicions are confirmed.

Tory is Shayla’s guardian, sent to protect her from her father, Ryder, a malevolent being whose fall from grace has put her whole world in danger. Under Tory’s guidance—with help from a ragtag group of archangels—Shayla must learn to harness the light within to resist Ryder’s magnetic darkness. Easier said than done when volleyball practice, bff drama, and a certain sexy angel are living rent-free in her subconscious.

A tribute to the power of mothers, daughters, female friends, and the importance of staying true to yourself, Celestial Bonds is the first in a series of heavenly reads with just enough teen drama to keep things down to earth.

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An invitation to embrace your True Colours and begin your journey of healing and enlightenment.

Designed as both a tool for yoga teachers and a daily guided mindfulness practice, True Colours offers readers the opportunity to set an Intention, engage with a Reflection, and journal about their experience, celebrating the beauty of their True Colours. Drawn from the author’s own experiences of growth and transformation, each offering is both personal and universal, highlighting our connectedness with all living beings.

By creating and holding sacred space for internal work, these intentions and reflections encourage you to look at the parts of yourself that need healing and care, showing up without shame or judgement. Celebrate every day with a grateful heart. Cultivate your connection to social justice. Re-discover the value of stillness and self-love, and the power of each individual’s energy to change the world.

A passionate offering of love, light, and reflection, Your True Colours: Intentions and Reflections to Deepen Self-Awareness offers a pathway to heightened spirituality, a greater sense of self-worth, and a joyful life.

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Embark on a transformative journey with Laozi’s Dao De Jing, newly rendered in a modern voice that combines poetic grace and fidelity to both its cultural and linguistic nuances. Rooted in the author’s in-depth bilingual, bicultural background and informed by her diverse life experiences and broad intellectual curiosity, this accessible translation bridges gaps left by past mistranslations and brings fresh insight and empathy to Laozi’s timeless teachings. With clarity and authenticity, it invites readers everywhere to discover the universal wisdom of the Dao and apply it for greater harmony, peace, and personal growth.

Open these pages and experience the illuminating wisdom of the Dao — a nature-born philosophy.

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Seth can’t help but notice something creepy about the Ferris wheel. Bats swarm it every night, and a shadowy figure appears to be controlling them. It could be an eerie coincidence, or maybe the rumor is true: A vampire is haunting the Ferris wheel.

Seth and his friends aren’t buying it…until one of them wakes up with bite marks. They race to solve the mystery before their friend turns into something dreadful. Will the detectives uncover the truth behind the vampire at Waldameer? Or will they become its latest victims?

Get ready for a spine-tingling mystery packed with courage and unexpected twists!

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After falling through the waterfall portal at the north end of the Marra River, Calista and Phoenix find themselves transported to ancient LaMarra, a unified kingdom before the schism that made them enemies.

With their burgeoning romance and questions about the nature of their relationship looming large, the pair must navigate a foreign world to uncover the truth of their countries’—and companions’—histories. With magic flowing freely, Calista and Phoenix find themselves blooming with new power, and the fates of their kingdoms may rest on them harnessing it for themselves.

The answers may lurk in Blackstone, a notorious prison for dangerous criminals, and the birthplace of some of their closest confidants. Calista and Phoenix must set their enduring differences aside and confront their ancestors. Why did the continent split? Can they live in harmony with magic? How can the rulers of East and West Marra return to their time and bring hard-earned lessons with them?

Most of all, what awaits when they return to the time they left behind?

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Tooth the Teeny Tiny Time Travelling T-rex is a story about friendship. When Valerie meets Tooth she is hoping her new friend will help her feel exciting. With Tooth's help Val discovers that the real excitement starts with being herself.

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Are you working in the right place for you? Is the business model of the company you are working for going to be able to provide you with the selection of career opportunities you deserve?

Or, are you looking to invest your hard-earned dollars saved in companies positioned for success?

Or, are you a CEO curious in finding out how great businesses out there work in order to help you attract top talent and enjoy more prosperity?

FIND OUT!

So much Noise in the world…

So much change and disruption in the world…

Yet, some businesses just seem to flourish and continue to succeed. Look at their SECRETS BELOW THE SURFACE to find these gems.

That is where you want to work!

That is where you want invest!

In this book, I will describe the top 10 business models that I uncovered over my career in the financial world. They uncover the secret inner workings of companies in ways that management may not even realize. Arming you with this knowledge will help you distinguish between one company that is simply limping along with no long-term business plan, and another that is seemingly similar on the surface but is very different and very powerful underneath. You should seek out these powerful companies to work for and to invest in. They provide their employees with countless more opportunities for career growth, and they provide their investors with superior long-term returns.

The book is organized by chapters.

• Each business model is described in a separate chapter with examples and clues to help you find them operating in the world around you.

• At the end of every business model chapter, you will find a HOT BOX which will act as a handy reference to help you identify them using practical cues.

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Ever looked at someone and wondered, How did they survive that? Want to know what it really takes to rebuild a life from the inside out?

Resilience in Residence isn’t just Ness Mickey’s story of survival—it’s a guide for reclaiming your life and building something stronger, braver, and more aligned with who you’re meant to be. Through raw reflection, hard-won lessons, and unrelenting hope, this book offers a roadmap for anyone who has ever felt knocked down, counted out, or lost in the rubble of life’s hardships. More than a memoir, it’s a blueprint for rebuilding—not just a home, but a sense of belonging within yourself.

Giving voice to the pain, strength, and quiet courage so many carry in silence, Resilience in Residence holds space for those who feel like they’re falling apart behind the scenes. Healing isn’t always polished or linear, but it is possible.

And maybe that’s where the real work begins. Because change doesn’t start with the system, it starts with us. We don’t return to balance until we return to our humanity. Every shift we want to see—compassion, justice, integrity, empathy—begins with the courage to evolve ourselves. We often believe that isn’t enough, but that belief is what keeps us stuck. When we change, everything around us does too.

Resilience in Residence invites you on a deeply personal, fiercely honest journey from brokenness to boldness, proof that the courage to rebuild your life is the same courage the world needs to heal.

The power to rebuild has always been yours. It’s time to live what you love, and become who you were meant to be, because the world needs it.

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Dear reader,

Reflections of Ink unfolds as a work steeped in quiet bitterness, yet brushed by delicate traces of sweetness. It evokes sorrow, though never without the faint shimmer of hope, and reveals a fragile vulnerability beneath its harsh, disciplined language.

The first section contemplates the many facets of human experience, touching upon love, beauty, hope, triumph and defeat, dream and imagination. The second part ventures into the depths of existential complexity, exploring the poet’s inner life—his struggle with language and the creative act itself and it turns toward the darker contours of being, confronting themes of survival, victimization, suicide, and death.

Guiding the reader through an emotional and meditative journey, the work unveils profound truths with both restraint and intensity. Vivid imagery and visionary language draw us into intimate and unsettling inner landscapes. Its apocalyptic tones and intense invocations generate a charged tension where unease, solitude, and the yearning for freedom intertwine.

Inspired by the poem Creativity, which forms its thematic and stylistic nucleus, Reflections of Ink is born of an intense, troubled interior experience. Within the seclusion of writing, the poet wrestles with the ceaseless current of thought. In the silence of creative solitude, disorder becomes art: moments of lucidity alternate with confusion as emotions and reflections take shape in words, and words become fragments of a restless search for meaning.

Life itself may be seen as an inner pilgrimage, and poetry as its privileged vessel of revelation. The reader is invited to journey alongside the author through nineteen compositions, each charged with raw emotion: sighs and tremors, layers of shadow, muffled cries, tears, and nostalgia. Through this encounter, reading becomes a life-changing experience—an exploration of the depths of existence, and a space of reflection, catharsis, and possible deliverance for those willing to listen.

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Have you ever wished you could secure higher pay, land a better deal, or resolve conflicts with ease? Maybe you want to turn everyday disagreements into successful agreements and make timely, collaborative decisions.

If any of these sound familiar, Negotiating with Confidence by Dr. Haniyeh Yousofpour is your essential guide. Packed with practical strategies and real-world examples, this book helps you build the confidence and skills to negotiate effectively at work, home, and everywhere in between.

With actionable tools and evidence-based insights, you’ll learn to manage difficult conversations, achieve your goals, and unlock your full potential as a confident negotiator.

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A middle-class Roman Catholic Italian, hockey player, avid drummer, and popular kid, Monica Miatello (formerly Chris) knew she was different from the age of five. But it was the late 1960s—a time when information about gender dysphoria was practically non-existent. As a result, although she had many friends, her childhood and teenage years felt lonely and isolating. That is, until she met Sandy.

Falling in love and getting married weren’t things Miatello ever thought would happen to someone like her. Both pharmacists, the couple moved to a small Ontario town of 900 people, purchased a pharmacy, and had two daughters. With Sandy’s support, Miatello navigated the hills and valleys of her secret cross-dressing life, which ultimately led to her transition in the late 1990s.

Her courageous journey from life as a man to embracing life as a woman couldn’t have happened without transparency, honesty, and a patient willingness to educate those around her. It also required the support of people who accepted her authentic self, an openness to discovery, and the ability to trust others. And it would not have happened without humour, positivity, and the ability to laugh at—and love—herself.

Heartwarming, emotional, and empowering, Erasing The Five O’Clock Shadow is a remarkable and inspiring personal story about transitioning and being transgender in an ever-changing world.

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This booklet describes many years of struggling to make flying in a helicopter over water much safer. It analyses why, still in 2026, if you ditch, the awful statistic is that around 20% of crew and passengers will not survive, principally due to drowning. It is hoped that aircrew, passengers, scientists, engineers, clothing designers, regulators, and anyone interested in flight safety will find value in its contents and be able to read it without difficulty.

Dr. Christopher Brooks, physician, scientist, inventor and historian, enjoyed an extensive and highly satisfying medical career in the navy, industry and private practice. From one extreme to another—service in a Polaris nuclear submarine to dangling from the hoist of the revered old Sea King to service at the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada—after 57 years, he has tied up alongside and finished with main engines and steering.

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In this exciting and suspenseful real-life thriller, corporate security and safety expert Rui Amaral describes the hectic and dangerous, but ultimately successful, evacuation of an international team of oil and gas workers from a far-flung Canadian energy project in southern Chad as rebels descend on the region from the north and east and the collapse of an already corrupt, chaotic state seems imminent. The perilous, sometimes comical, adventures and misadventures of Rui

and his team will be of particular interest to other security professionals, workers in the oil and gas business, and anyone who has worked internationally in a stressful environment, but it also

makes for an entertaining and fascinating glimpse into international security issues for anyone interested in conflict narratives and adventure travel.

Target audience - oil and gas workers worldwide, adventurers, any individual and company working in high risk areas of the world, military personnel, security personnel, safety personnel, CEO and Operations Personnel.

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At Granny's house, the magic of the natural world comes to life! Follow along as a young child encounters ten different animals in their playful, vibrant surroundings. From a shy mule deer and cheeky chipmunks to zipping hummingbirds and darting dragonflies, each page introduces a new creature in vivid detail, blending whimsical illustrations with real-life backgrounds. As the visit winds down, these animal friends become cherished memories, leaving readers eager for the next trip to Granny's enchanting cottage. When I Go to Granny’s House is a delightful counting journey for nature lovers of all ages!

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Young Teo and his stuffed animal friends, Lily and Paleto, are tired of seeing the same hospital walls day in and day out. They’re ready to go on an adventure! With a little magic, the trio leaves behind the hospital room and sets out on an enchanting undersea journey.

They meet George, a lost octopus, help sea creatures in need, and face a menacing barracuda, all while swimming through stunning underwater landscapes. Along the way, Teo and his friends learn the power of teamwork, courage, and kindness, while discovering the beauty of the unknown.

This heartwarming graphic novel invites readers to dive into a world of friendship and bravery. Whether you’re a curious little adventurer spending time in the hospital, a fan of the ocean and all its creatures, or just interested in a fun adventure, Sea Escape has something for everyone.

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From the creator of

The Dragon Mage Trilogy

Comes Book II of

The Mech and Magic trilogy

That pits technology against magic

Getting the dwarves, humans and elves to unite was the easy part. Now the challenge lies in getting the creatures on the mainland to join in. Finding allies is the primary objective of the heroes, because without them, there will be no way to challenge the mechs on the wizards’ home planet.

But war is already raging on the main continent, where creatures of all kinds reside, including orcs, ogres, goblins, harpies, and even dragons. Some creatures are in favour of mech technology, while others are against it. The only way to ascertain whether the creatures are in favour of the mechs is if they wield the increasing supply of mech lasers that are finding their way across the continent. But to fight against that often requires the use of those very weapons, meaning that friend cannot be distinguished from foe when the fighting begins.

Yet even with these allies, will it be enough? The heroes will need to find unique and clever ways to fight the mechs to keep ahead of them. It is a daunting task, and, as usual, time is of the essence.

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When Claudio Pettinaro collapsed onto the bathroom floor one winter morning, he had no idea his life was about to split in two—before the stroke, and after. What followed was a year defined by confusion, fear, emotional upheaval, and the slow, often painful work of rebuilding a life that had changed without warning.

Time and Patience is Claudio’s honest, unfiltered account of his first year of stroke recovery, told not by a doctor or medical expert, but by an ordinary man suddenly thrust into an extraordinary fight. From the chaos of the Emergency Department to the long, disorienting days on a neurology floor, from relearning how to move and speak to navigating the collapse of his marriage and the weight of loneliness, Claudio illuminates the realities most stroke survivors face but rarely voice. Yet throughout, there is hope. It flickers, disappears, returns, and ultimately leads him forward.

More than a memoir, Time and Patience is a companion for anyone overwhelmed by the aftermath of a major health crisis. It offers reassurance that recovery is not linear, that frustration and fear are normal, and that a meaningful life after stroke is possible. Claudio’s message is simple but vital: You don’t have to walk this road alone.

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Growing up on her family's wildlife ranch in rural Northern California, sixteen-year-old Persephone Foss felt a strong connection to animals from a very early age. Lately, however, that connection has been showing itself in strange, even scary, ways; most days she would rather just ignore it. But when her botanist mother brings her along on a research trip to the uncharted Amazon rainforest, Seph astonishes herself with what she is capable of- until a horrific accident leaves her mother clinging to life. Forced to confront her gift with animals head on, the spark inside Seph grows in power and complexity, and strange thoughts and visions begin to find their way into her mind. When those visions point her back toward the Amazon, and an ancient, secret society hidden therein, Seph discovers she may be the only one who can save her mother's life.

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