You Are Loved, You Are Enough is an emotional memoir of one woman’s journey towards self-love and self-acceptance. Sheryl Oleksak grew up as an only child in New York, with a narcissistic mother and a kind but mostly passive father. From a less-than-perfect childhood—foster siblings coming in and out of the house and attending a harsh diet camp—to an adolescence and young adulthood marked by issues with food, body image, and self-esteem, Sheryl lays out her struggles in a clear, conversational style. As she circles her memories and emotions, the reader is invited to not only see themselves, but see how they can overcome their own past.

A story of how negative parenting can warp someone’s perception of themselves so that they constantly seek external validation, and how young women are pressured to meet unrealistic expectations, Sheryl faces bulimia, a long legal saga, disappointing relationships, and the ongoing, relentless negativity of her mother. Gradually though, a core of strength emerges, and she comes to terms with her parents, body, and dietary issues. Exuberantly, she describes her love for travel, dancing, nature, and how being a yoga instructor and Reiki Master became her calling. More than anything, embracing life and helping others live in the present is the purpose of Sheryl’s story.

For those wondering if they can overcome the challenges of their early life, or if they’re loved for who they are, Sheryl answers in the affirmative: You Can. You Are. But more importantly, her example encourages us to find our own happiness. You Are Loved, You Are Enough is both a title and a reminder that the greatest love is self-love.

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At some point in life, everyone will be forced to face their traumas and make the decision to either heal or keep repeating the same patterns. This book is for anyone shown a way of life that they never knew they could escape. Sometimes we get so comfortable in life that we accept what was handed to us and don’t realize there is another way of living. That we can unlearn all the toxic, unhealthy behaviors and patterns engraved in us from an early age. This book is for anyone who yearned for more and were brave enough to step outside their comfort zone. Anyone raised by single mothers, raised around addictions and dysfunction, abandoned by their fathers, became a mother, survived abusive relationships, lost their mother at a young age, experienced more loss, battled their own addictions and mental health, got sober, made a better life for themselves and more. Readers will find something to relate to.

This book is for anyone who is ready to heal and do the work. For anyone who has had enough of their own crap. There is no sugar coating in this book. I write exactly how I felt going through every memory in my past. When I have read anything that I have related to and felt understood, that is what I want people to feel when they read this book. I want people to know that they are not alone. That you can dream about a better future and fight for it. I want people to know that it is possible to turn your life into a beautiful one after many years of darkness. Healing is so beautiful. There are so many valuable resources out there now for healing, which can be tailored to your needs depending on what you went through. If something does not work, can try many other things until you find the right fit. Healing and growing is a lifelong journey and I look forward to seeing what else I can learn from others and hope that I can help others too by sharing my story.

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Caring for aging parents, supporting older loved ones, or planning for your own future can be one of life’s greatest responsibilities. Care Starts Now offers a proactive approach to caregiving and aging in place—so every decision supports safety, well-being, independence, and peace of mind.

Written by Joanne De Rubeis, RN, BScN—a passionate nurse educator, caregiving expert, senior’s advocate, and family caregiver—this reassuring guide draws on many years of hands-on experience helping families navigate care with confidence and compassion. Known for her high standards and genuine dedication to helping others, Joanne provides practical insight to help families communicate effectively, make informed decisions, and create safe, supportive environments. Her lifelong work in caregiver education and support has empowered individuals, families, and professionals worldwide to deliver safer, more empathetic, and proactive care.

Inside, you’ll find guides, checklists, and practical tips to:

• Recognize and better understand changes in health, memory, and mobility

• Build personalized care plans and strengthen caregiving skills

• Support nutrition, hygiene, safety, comfort, and dignity

• Improve communication and teamwork among family and care providers

• Manage records, finances, and legal documents

• Access community resources and plan for end-of-life needs

• Maintain your own health and well-being while caring for others

Practical, compassionate, and experience-driven, Care Starts Now turns uncertainty into readiness and helps families approach caregiving with calm, strength, and confidence. The time to learn, prepare, and act is now—before a crisis begins.

Disclaimer

This book is intended for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, legal, or financial advice. Every caregiving situation is unique. Readers should seek guidance from qualified healthcare providers, legal advisors, and financial professionals regarding individual needs, treatment, and planning decisions.

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In her second collection, Just Glow With It: Poems, Art, and Possibilities, poet and visual artist Chantal Wolf explores the roles creativity plays in her life as she navigates living with Parkinson’s. Creativity visits this collection in many forms, as medicine, as a teacher, a means of self-expression, a coping strategy, the beginning of a conversation. But at its heart, this collection seeks to answer:

what difference could these make

in a world that’s on the brink?

and why do I feel ever more compelled

to create and carry on?

As much as these poems look forward, they turn inward. Using metaphor and imagery, they reflect on themes of aging and healing, loss and grief, creativity and nature. But they don’t linger in any negative space for long. They keep moving, with hope and with joy.

Meditative and inspiring, Just Glow With It searches for balance between the dark and the light, inspiration and stagnation, thriving and succumbing. It shows that once we embrace our creativity, we can forge new paths, ones full of promise and wonder.

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Sylvie Linden has endured a lifetime of family and intimate partner violence both in her young life in Montreal and her marriage relationship in Waterloo. Her six-year-old daughter Dana, a witness to the violence in their household, is Sylvie’s greatest concern. When a series of crises—including a natural disaster and ensuing homelessness—brings them to an Old Order Mennonite farming family in rural Ontario, new challenges unfold.

Members of the Thomas Martin family try to maintain their usual home and faith life while striving to help these outsiders suddenly in their midst. Distraught and vulnerable, Sylvie grapples with fear as she struggles to recover from trauma. Sylvie fights ghosts of chaos, mistrust, and secrecy in this unfamiliar setting of orderly household tasks, farm chores, livestock, and farm equipment—feeling beckoned at times by family warmth and affection, patience, generosity, and gentle teasing—while watching Dana find her own way.

Henry Martin develops a strong friendship with both mother and daughter, which brings him face to face with anguish of his own. Feeling called to help Sylvie and Dana, Henry must deal at the same time with mistaken assumptions, scorn, and misunderstanding within both his family and his wider Mennonite brotherhood.

The Black Walnut Tree will touch the minds and hearts of adult and young adult readers of any background—including those who have survived trauma and those who are trying to support others healing from it. Many readers will relate to the struggles of living a life of faith while trying to deal with others' judgment of, or assumptions about their choices.

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Alex Gordon left his home in Caslan, Alberta in 1958 for a summer job in Wood Buffalo National Park to earn money for university in the fall. Little did he know this would lead to a 20-year adventure working and living in Canada’s high Arctic. From Inuvik to Iqaluit, and communities and camps in between, Alex shares his stories of friendship and his efforts to be a catalyst for change. This is more than a memoir; it is a love story of Canada’s North and its remarkable and resilient people.

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Marlee the mallard duck is sitting on her eggs when she hears a strange noise: humans are cutting down the nearby trees. It’s only a matter of time before they reach her nest. Crane suggests she fight back, but Marlee is afraid. Peggy, her best friend, doesn’t know

what to do either.

Marlee is just a little duck. How can she possibly stand up to the humans? But if she doesn’t… What will become of her ducklings and her forest home?

With the effects of climate change growing around the world, and both urban and housing development constantly on the rise, it’s more important than ever to teach children about the need to protect nature. Marlee Mallard Keeps Her Home calls the next generation to be good stewards of the Earth by showing them that even the smallest voices can help save our planet.

This touching story underscores the importance of loyalty, determination, and the power of collective action.

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The crows’ intelligence, sagacity, and penchant to interact with humans has captivated human imaginations for decades. Yet only a few people have had the opportunity or motivation to devote much of their life to trying to understand them.

A lifelong sojourn for Robert Butler all began with a pet crow he fostered as a teenager. From that auspicious moment, Butler watched and listened to crows in remote coastal locations of British Columbia and Alaska, and the suburbs near Vancouver to reveal a story like no other. With humour and scientific insight the Society of Crows will charm and surprise you.

Illustrated by original artwork by the author, the book is partly a biographical adventure to uncover new discoveries of the coastal dwelling crow in British Columbia.

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Every family has a story, and this is the story of the last four generations of my family . . .

So begins The Dorchesters—a remarkable story about a remarkable family. Told from the perspective of Frank, part of the third generation, it chronicles the arrival of his grandparents in Canada, their early lives in Vancouver, and the lives of his own parents, concluding with an account of his life and the lives of his two children.

Part memoir, part non-fiction narrative—and interwoven with humorous anecdotes and a dash of mystery—the book uses the story of the Dorchesters to illustrate more broadly the immigrant experience in Canada, the history of Vancouver and its environs, and the complexity of love and family over four generations.

Steeped in research and richly complemented with historical photographs, The Dorchesters takes readers on a journey through time and across continents—and into the legacy of family, history, and a very special part of Canada.

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After inheriting her grandmother's rural Pennsylvania home, Jesse Lehman thinks she's finally found safety—until a charming stranger shatters that illusion.

When her partner Josh dies suddenly, Jesse is left grief-stricken and alone with Legend, the headstrong dog he left behind. Isolated and vulnerable, she turns to Rick Sabin, a charismatic dog trainer who promises to transform Legend into the guardian that stands between her and danger.

But Rick has his own plans. And Jesse is exactly where he wants her—alone, dependent, and miles from help.

When your protector becomes your predator, who can you trust?

Unlikely Hero is the perfect book for readers who like to be entertained and emotionally engaged—a “thinking person's thriller,” full of heart. It explores themes of vulnerability, resilience, and the surprising places we find strength when our survival depends on it.

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Since Eric Arthur’s 1964 publication of Toronto, No Mean City, no book has provided such deep insight into a community as Flemingdon Park, No Mean Neighbourhood. From prehistory to the arrival of Indigenous peoples, European settlers, the simple ribbon-cutting ceremony in 1961 marking the neighbourhood’s official opening, and up to the present day, Edward Brown explores various topics, including history, architecture, politics, and most importantly, the people who continue to shape this unique and diverse community. Tireless research, combined with masterful storytelling, vividly brings the history of a Toronto neighbourhood to life in Flemingdon Park, No Mean Neighbourhood.

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The future arrived quietly. The consequences did not.

As global systems turn to artificial intelligence for control, security, and survival, from an impending threat a single breakthrough triggers a chain reaction that no one can contain. Governments scramble, corporations hide the truth, and a handful of unlikely allies race to stop an intelligence that doesn’t need permission to evolve.

Skyblue: Inception is a gripping journey into the next frontier—where every choice carries a price, and every secret has a mind of its own.

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In a peaceful kingdom by the sea, a gentle young princess is given the gift of healing. Princess Rὸs uses her magic only to help her people—until the day the King of the North dispatches a crew of pirates to kidnap her for his bride. Realizing that she must not only escape him, but defeat him, Rὸs turns her captors to her cause and seeks out the King’s greatest enemies: the dragons. Together with the handsome Captain Karl, she befriends Drácor, the mighty red dragon whose mate is enslaved in the King’s dungeons, and he joins them in their fight.

As the pirates draw closer to the Kingdom of the North, Rὸs must marshal strengths she never knew she possessed to save herself, her allies, and her home from a cruel tyrant.

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It’s “game on” in uncovering the many sports-inspired terms, expressions and sayings that populate our everyday language! That’s the challenge that this book takes on, using a “playbook” for each sport.

After “going for the fences” and “covering all the bases” in the sport of baseball, the “ball is kept rolling,” despite many a “sticky wicket,” through the long-running game of cricket.

In due course, football “kicks off” with continuing commentary from the author as "armchair quarterback,” after which it’s “out of the gate” with “wire-to-wire” coverage of horse racing.

Finally, a “blow-by-blow account” of the sweet science of boxing is followed by “play-by-play accounts” of more than 35 other sports that have been added to the game-day lineup.

The discussion is enlivened by lots of sports humour and anecdotes along with quotations from sports personalities. Many of the words from those who are sportingly wise may sound quite familiar, much like “déjà vu all over again.”.

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How an ordinary family survived extraordinary circumstances, while also helping others through a perilous period of modern Dutch history. With arrest and starvation, frequent hazards under the Nazi regime, lives could unexpectedly be changed or lost. Wars are not only fought on the battlefield. Everyone trapped within its boundaries, could become involved or a casualty. There are no bystanders in war, it affects everyone.

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Though he might look at his shoes when he talks and has a bit of a stutter, Sander is one of the biggest characters you’ll ever meet.

Sander’s Parachute, Unimog, Combine, Spy Plane, and Guest is a collection of delightful stories centered on Sander, short for Aleksander, the narrator’s northerly neighbor. Whether he’s establishing a quasi-greenhouse for the locals, or building a bi-plane spy plane by hand using auction and thrift store finds, Sander has no shortage of agricultural and mechanical knowledge, like any hardworking Northern farmer worth his salt, and it always comes in handy.

As the landscape of the Canadian North—literally and metaphorically—changes before him, Sander finds himself faced with a sense of loss as farms grow larger and families move away, and the hard-won homesteads of the past become homes to wild animal tenants. But the spirit of the rough-and-tumble North lives on in Sander, he remains a pilgrim from another time, baffling and charming and devoted to the betterment of anyone in his orbit.

Though he might not, strictly speaking, have a way with women, he will brush shoulders with romance more than once. And though he is not, strictly speaking, the most forthcoming, he is one of the most cherished and best-loved neighbors any of the locals could have asked for.

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One bag. Five rolls of film filled with grief. One chance to develop what’s left of love.

For Liz Ferguson, grief arrived on a Tuesday, disguised as a camera bag. Shattered by the sudden death of Leo—her best friend and almost something more—Liz tries to outrun her sorrow at every turn. Until Leo’s camera bag unexpectedly arrives at her door.

Inside Leo’s bag lies a note, his journal, his camera, and a handful of undeveloped film, each filled with fragments of his humour, philosophy, and love. Once a documentary-style photographer, Liz now finds herself developing the last rolls of film Leo left behind, unsure of where it will lead her.

With each photograph serving as a bread crumb, Liz faithfully follows Leo’s trail to trust the blur and let the light back into her world. A poignant novella about grief and memories, The Missing Frame captures how to live again through the lens of a camera.

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In the wild frontier of the 1890s, young Maggie leaves home, chasing freedom and the cowboy life she’s always admired. But her dream turns dark when she marries a violent drunk and is left for dead on the prairie. Rescued and taken to the saloon at Crosskeys Creek, Maggie finds herself surrounded by women working in the town’s brothel. While they entertain clients, she takes up sewing—quietly mending what she can with a silver thimble and trying to stitch her life back together.

But honest work won’t save her late husband’s debt-ridden ranch, and Maggie isn’t the only woman facing limited choices. With the other women at the saloon, she hatches a daring plan. Disguised as men, they form an all-female gang and take justice into their own hands—robbing banks and reclaiming their futures.

As danger closes in, Maggie must decide how far she’ll go to protect what matters most. The Silver Thimble Gang is a story of survival, found family, and hard-earned freedom in a world that rarely gives women a second chance.

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Christine Nyirahbimana lived through the horrors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, losing most of her family and narrowly escaping with her life. In her powerful memoir, Rwandan Massacre: God’s Divine Intervention, she takes readers back to that horrific experience and shows them how God carried her through unimaginable suffering and led her to the freedom that comes through forgiveness.

Drawing on both Scripture and personal experience, Ms. Nyirahbimana reflects on trusting God in hardship and opening our hearts to His healing. Her unshakeable faith in God’s power to comfort, restore, and perform miracles will inspire readers throughout the journey to let go of anger and surrender their burdens to God.

This testimony of transformation, told with honesty and grace, demonstrates how forgiving those who have caused pain not only restores peace with God but also brings emotional and physical healing. No matter how violent or evil the offense, God can intervene and do the unimaginable, offering life-changing forgiveness and eternal joy.

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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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