“So much of what has connected me to people is my dog.”

Women with difficult dogs are a special breed—and in a world rife with judgment, they have to stick together. In This Friendship Requires Dogs, Daenna Van Mulligen pays tribute to the many women she’s befriended through her dog, Jace, an anxious Xoloitzcuintli who has won many hearts on Instagram. While all the friendships profiled began online, the women in these pages live near and far from Daenna, some walking their dogs with her on a regular basis, others finding kinship over texts and video calls. What draws most of them together is their willingness to offer a home to the troubled dogs many would write off as too challenging, learning life-changing lessons along the way. Others in the book share Daenna’s love of the rare Xoloitzcuintli breed. Read their stories and open your heart to the special sisterhood that arises from canine companionship.

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Alex Halliday, a Crown prosecutor, is having coffee with her father on a beautiful autumn day in Cork Bay, Ontario. When he is gunned down in front of her, the killer says only two words, “For Maria.”

Already devastated by her father’s murder, Alex faces another shock – he may not have been the person she thought he was. Reeling from confusion, grief and anger, Alex is forced to question everything. She puts herself, and her friends, in danger as they try to find answers, delving into government corruption, gang wars and a decades-old secret that Cork Bay has never fully buried.

For Maria is a sharp, funny, deeply felt debut about the lies small towns tell to survive — and a daughter brave enough to find out the truth about her father.

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When you understand who you are, then you are able to discover what you are capable of.

Studies have shown that over seventy percent of the population is challenged with depression at one point in their lives. Depression is a clear and simple expression of what occurs within a person when they experience a lack of truth.

The information within the pages of Believe has been strategically designed to alleviate clinical depression in vast numbers of people throughout society. Offering universal truth and clarity to those who know the experience they are having is not a reflection of who they are or what they are capable of.

FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SEARCHING for something to believe in. Something that allows them to understand the meaning of life and the reason they have endured the challenges and experiences that have consistently showed up. They are looking for truth but in ways that defy every instinct and natural tendency within them.

For the first time in the current history of the universe Believe offers clear and concise explanations of who we are as a human race. Why humanity was created and most importantly what we are capable of.

This knowledge has the ability to release the burden of confusion to allow for the experience of abundance and joy to not only enter your life but to lead it.

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In a world saved by women, the future is finally secure.

It is the year 2080, climate collapse has stabilized, pandemics are controlled, and a global matriarchy has reshaped society around one guiding principle: people over profit. But that stability rests on one quiet truth—most males are now born with straynes, a neurological condition that shifts the balance of power.

When Gillian uncovers a buried link between straynes and a decision once made to save humanity, she faces an impossible choice: reveal the truth and risk unraveling their fragile utopia, or protect the world her family depends on.

Meanwhile, her daughter Fiona is drawn to Elijah, a young man from the last remaining patriarchal society. As her feelings deepen, Fiona begins to question everything she has been taught about social structures, gender roles, and even love.

In a world built on balance, what is worth protecting—the truth, or the future it threatens?

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When magic stirs, dreams take flight.

Eleven-year-old Imelda Beacon and her mother, Astara, live in a cozy cottage at the edge of a primeval forest—a haven their family has cherished for generations. Astara is a gifted shoemaker, but work is scarce, and their beloved home hangs in the balance. When there is just enough material to make one last pair of shoes, Astara quietly hopes for a miracle.

Wanting to help, Imelda discovers a mysterious grimoire filled with ancestral secrets and joins forces with her best friend, Nadia Bertel. Together, they craft charms, weaving spells of protection and transformation as they learn to trust the magic within and around them. In the process, the girls seek to rescue a frightened dog escaping a cruel hand.

With hope and determination, Imelda and Astara must face the shadows that threaten everything they hold dear. Will ancient knowledge—and the courage to trust its power—be enough to save their home, keep the pup safe, and carry them into brighter days?

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Are you an elementary school leader, teacher, or support worker who would like to learn successful ways to help children when the rubber hits the road?

In his last few years as an elementary school principal, Jon Wheatley saw a growing number of children with challenging behaviors entering his school, and many well-intentioned educators who were unsure of how to best support them. This led him to write The Kid Calming Toolkit, a practical guide to help educators more skillfully talk and work with children.

This clear and comprehensive resource explains how to better calm children’s challenging behaviors, build skills, and create solutions. The book’s approaches are effective, teacher tested, and research based.

Find out why a relationship-first teaching philosophy is critical for elementary school students. Discover what attachment, brain, and behavioral research say about how to best support children. Learn a range of teaching and support strategies to more effectively calm kids, reduce conflict, and improve learning.

The Kid Calming Toolkit will help educators better understand:

• why relationships matter more than discipline

• how behavior is more about skills than choices

• the myth of escalating consequences

• why kids become what they believe

• the biology behind behavior

• how to use a range of HELP intervention and support strategies, and more

Addressing challenging student behavior is a stressful and difficult task. Educators can better help children, and make their school a happier place, by including more relational approaches to build trust, rapport, and skills.

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The future shines on the horizon, glittering with technological promises and coming closer every day. But what does it look like to live in that future? Can humans adapt to life in space, on other worlds, or even on Earth when new ideas sweep away tradition? In this collection of three science fiction novellas, new author Steven Hennessey explores these questions.

“Where the Two Moons Converge”: A peaceful community welcomes a band of newcomers in need, but expects compliance with their way of life.

“Alone”: The tight quarters of a starship on a mission prove challenging, and the crew struggles to keep themselves and each other on track.

“To Age with Grace”: An innovative new program is sold on the promise of helping provide care for the elderly, but cheap labour comes at a steep cost.

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Follow the exploits of Sammy the Sparrow, a baby bird who takes a big tumble from the family nest and finds himself alone in the night on a rain-swept concrete driveway. With the help of some friendly, caring humans, he survives to lead a band of orphan birds as they are released into the wild. But the big question remains: Can this tiny flock survive in a world full of predators, facing perhaps the biggest threat of all – a harsh and unforgiving Canadian winter?

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Many careers, whether in business, architecture, engineering, or law, demand the ability to write clear, accurate English. Before we’re even hired, our job applications and cover letters must be well-written and organized. But how do we write clearly and accurately? How can we improve our writing skills?

By understanding that written English follows fixed patterns and structures. Write Better English: Making the Right Connections explains these structures and how to use the building blocks of English to write clearly and cohesively. This writing manual builds from words and clauses to sentences, paragraphs, and essays, while giving examples of traps to avoid and techniques to use. It introduces how to:

• recognize the basic elements of sentences,

• distinguish between main and supporting ideas,

• learn how to connect ideas into logical sequences, and

• express one’s thoughts in writing without losing clarity or meaning.

More than anything, this guide shows how good writing starts with clear thinking. Clarity doesn’t have to mean linear. It’s about understanding relationships, whether that’s between words and clauses or between ideas. The more we comprehend these connections, the better we will write.

Informative and practical, Write Better English presents writing as a craft we can learn, rather than an art form requiring talent. It is a must read for anyone looking to improve their English writing skills.

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When Ute Reusch-Wilson was three years old, she and her family returned to their home in Essen, Germany, after an eleven-week trek as refugees in shattered, war-torn Germany. Stunned to see the house still standing, they began to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of war. Young Ute discovered a talent for dancing, and she was pulled into the world of ballet in England and Germany, with a sideline into television. An unexpected romance with a Canadian Air Force pilot and a

debilitating injury pulled her out of her artistic world and into a new life shaped by her husband’s military commitments, and their shared love of sailing and adventure. When he died at a tragically young age due to cancer, Ute rewrote the rules of her life, turning it into a globe-spanning mosaic of love, friendship, and freedom, a way of life that has continued well past the age when most people stop rewriting their story. Equal parts lyrical, candid, and funny, A Life Without a Map is a memoir about resilience, adventure, and the stubborn courage required to keep moving when the road one expected to take keeps changing.

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Thinking about sex? Beware.

Starting or continuing to raise a family?

Here is a ‘road map’ to raising a great family. Some ideas to guide children, young people and/or parents are suggested.

Time is finite for our lives.

Time is more finite when raising a family.

Barring early death, we only have a short time to influence and teach our children correct principles and show them love.

Let us do our best to raise strong, resilient, successful adults.

This book is about love in action.

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The world isn’t just changing for Luna—it’s finally learning her language.

In a Grove where trees hum with memory and ticklish moss glows with possibility, a girl named Empress Luna is about to embark on an incredible adventure. Blind but never lost, Luna faces the world with a white cane in one hand and curiosity in the other. When she meets Skye, a shimmering orb unlike any other, and Starr, a brilliant inventor who unlocks potential in others, her world opens in unexpected ways. Together, they unlock puzzles hidden in sound, touch, and starlight.

A story of fierce independence, magic made tangible, and the bond between a girl and her magi-tech guides, Empress Luna and the Light of Skye is a heart-warming tale of claiming space, rewriting limits, and listening to the world in ways others overlook.

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Every day I look for something special from God—a shining moment in time when my spirit recognizes Him in the world around me, causing it to soar with love and gratitude.

Shining moments occur even amid the most ordinary of days. These moments of beauty, joy, and connection that lift us from the mundane to the memorable do not happen by chance. They are gifts from God.

In Each Shining Moment, author Valerie Ronald reflects on these precious signs of God’s love. From frost flowers on an icy windowpane to the way a glove takes on the shape of a loved one’s hand, Ronald’s devotional meditations show how even the most seemingly unremarkable things are extraordinary when we take the time to notice them. Considering the light pouring into her garden when a favourite old tree collapses after a storm, or the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, she also reminds us of one of the Bible’s most vital messages: how loss and hardship often provide greater space for our relationship with God to grow.

Beautifully written, thoughtfully distilled, and replete with wisdom from Scripture, Each Shining Moment reminds us that everything scintillates with God’s love, if only we remember to hold it up to the light.

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In 1953, the Greek island of Zakynthos suffered a series of earthquakes, later known as the Great Ionian Earthquake. Villages were decimated, many people lost their homes, their loved ones, and their ways of life. Seven years old at the time, Eleni Marinos grew up in the rubble. And then at sixteen, she was swept halfway around the world as a child bride, marrying a cold-hearted man thirteen years older and whom she had just met. Eleni didn’t know the language or the people around her, let alone herself.

My Heart in My Hands: Becoming the Person I Was Meant to Be shares how Eleni overcame her circumstances to build one of the most successful haute couture businesses in Montreal, Canada. For years, Eleni lived her life for others until she’d finally had enough. Redrawing her life and following her dreams wouldn’t be easy, not with an unsupportive husband and three young children. But Eleni knew that she couldn’t keep living a lie. She had to find herself.

Heartfelt and candid, My Heart in My Hands is a memoir of resilience, perseverance, and hope. Eleni’s story reminds us that life is about choices, and if we choose to not learn from our mistakes, we’ll never grow into our true selves.

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A university campus empties of students for Thanksgiving weekend, but two dorm apartments remain full. In one, six friends gather to celebrate the holiday and their senior year. In the other, their seventh friend, Ali, reels from a recent heartbreak. Rather than mope, however, she concocts a plan—pretend to be busy with family so her friends don’t disturb her, and secretly invite a man from a dating app to her place. After all, the best way to get over someone is to get back out there, so what could be the harm?

But Ali’s plans quickly go awry when her “date” ties her to a chair and traps her in her apartment. Bound and watched over by a perverted madman, Ali must somehow plot her own escape, all while her friends remain oblivious to what is happening to her. Unbeknownst to Ali, another web of lies is woven throughout the seemingly peaceful Thanksgiving dinner, and her friends’ fates are intertwined with her own.

Rife with love, deception, and suspense, I Thought I Knew You is a twist-filled thrill ride that asks the terrifying questions that haunt the backs of our minds: What happens when you can’t trust the people around you? What is left when you’ve lost everything?

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The Community leaders of one band-operated school, this study's focus, did not consider the external evaluations mandated by the federal Department of Indian Affairs to be helpful in resolving student high dropout rates and low academic achievement. In cooperation with the community, the purpose of my study was to develop a school evaluative process that was more empowering to the people, more relevant to the community and reflective of its values. The study focuses on the methodology that was developed (the process) and not the specific findings.

Overall, participants saw the process as effective. The 'gathering circle' methodology has the potential to be a viable model for any community-based examination that seeks cross-community consensus. A number of limitations and recommendations are identified for others who might choose to use this methodology.

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The Witch and the Gnome is a magical children's book series unlike any other. What happens to books when we close them? The characters inside books come to life whenever a book is shut or the library closes for the night. The inhabitants of the books (including heroes, villains, dragons, pirates, fairy tale friends, and myriads of other fictional characters) courageously and freely step outside the confines of their respective books to visit one another, share adventures, and enjoy the magical world hidden within every story.

But not everyone uses this freedom for good.

The Witch and the Gnome are clever, selfish, and determined to mess up every story and manipulate it to satisfy their own selfish and capricious desires. They sneak and slither from book to book, changing plots, stealing magical treasures, deceiving the heroes, helping the villains succeed, and even stealing the thunder from the villains themselves. Every change creates confusion for the characters and chaos for the story.

The magical world of books is built on one foundational rule that must never be broken, namely: every story must remain exactly as it was written. If a single page, sentence, or word is changed, the story begins to unravel. Characters forget who they are, adventures lose their meaning, and the magic connecting all books starts to disappear.

Together, heroes from many different stories must set aside their differences and work as one to restore each tale to its original plot before the damage spreads and destroys the book’s timeline. Their courage, friendship, honesty, and selflessness stand as a stark contrast against the greed, deception and power hunger of the Witch and the Gnome.

At its heart, “The Witch and the Gnome” series is a collection of adventures that typifies the timeless and quintessential battle between good and evil. It celebrates the importance of courage, teamwork, integrity, and protecting the stories that inspire generations of readers. Every book has a purpose, every character has a role to play, and every story deserves to be told exactly as it was intended to be told by its author.

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For more than 15 years, artist Laura Harris has created retreats that invite people to slow down, lift their brushes, and rediscover the joy of making. This book is a collection of stories, recipes and images shaped over years of gathering, in sunlit studios and around long tables in places near and far. It’s also a return on a promise: “I’ll get you the recipes!”

Retreat is for anyone who longs for time to savour, to gather, and to remember what truly feeds the body, the heart, and the imagination.

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Le soleil se lève, le soleil descend.

Tombent les flocons, le ciel est tout blanc.

Nous sommes en hiver, je ne te vois pas,

mais je sais que je t'aime et que tu es là!

Jean-Guy aime beaucoup sa famille. Quand ses parents lui annoncent que, dans quelques mois, il tiendra dans ses bras une petite fille ou un petit garçon, il est ravi de devenir grand frère.

Alors que le bébé se développe, de la taille d'une graine à un melon d'eau, Jean-Guy tisse un lien précieux avec le petit trésor caché dans le ventre de sa maman.

Accompagnez Jean-Guy dans ce conte chaleureux rempli de rimes, de couleurs et d'émotions, alors qu'il attend avec joie et anticipation l'arrivée du nouveau-né.

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In This Is Us, Nabil Fathalla writes the histories of his own and his wife’s family in twentieth-century Egypt and their lives after immigrating to Canada. Through personal stories and family memories, he shows us life in Egypt, exploring culture, education, faith, traditions, and relationships within Coptic Orthodox Christian and Coptic Catholic Christian communities.

Fathalla recounts political change, war, and social transformation, showing how ordinary people navigated the challenges and rewards of immigration while building a new life and maintaining connections to the past.

Part family history, part immigration story, and part reflection on identity and belonging, This Is Us preserves the memories of two families while exploring the experiences that connect generations across countries, cultures, and time.

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