The Chair by the Window takes its title from the position it is written from: a chair set beside a window, present to what lies outside but conducting its inquiry from inside the room. From that seat, this fourth collection asks what our oldest words actually hold.

It opens in refusal — a turning away from the frame that would supply ready answers — and settles into the quiet interior that refusal returns to. In the seminar poems at its center, a professor writes a single word on the board — War, Poverty, Success, Hope, Eternity — and the room produces what the word truly contains for the people gathered in it. The parables that follow move to a smaller table, where a question is asked and the answer arrives not in speech but through a body, a gesture, a hand that does not reach for what is offered. The collection closes at a dark window, where a man rises from the chair and walks toward what no prior framework can explain.

Written first in Persian and carried into English, these poems stand in the tradition of witness — compression over elaboration, image over statement, trust in the reader and in silence. Companion essays set each poem in conversation with poets, philosophers, theologians, and scientists across the Persian and Western inheritances. What the chair gives — by the light from the window, by the room around it, by what it holds when empty — is the substance of this book's report.

The reader is not told a verdict. The reader is offered a place to sit.

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Hannibal Barca, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Ernest Shackleton: three men who dreamed of glory and would stop at nothing to achieve it. Their ambition drove them huge distances through hostile territory.

In the end, their reach exceeded their grasp, and all three men ultimately failed in their quests. Yet their names are still remembered, whether with admiration, respect, or bafflement.

What kind of person decides to spend months stuck in polar ice, or cross the Alps with elephants, or invade Russia in the dead of winter? For revenge, for conquest, for fame?

And…was it worth it?

This collection of essays documents each man’s campaign and speculates on what motivated them all. A thoroughly researched and approachable take, by turns knowledgeable and humourous, author Dan White takes the reader on a journey through history and around the globe in search of understanding the difference—if there is one—between genius and madness.

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Sheep River Adventures finds 2 young brothers experiencing all the wonder of Mother Nature on the banks of the Sheep River in Okotoks, Alberta. The boys learn about nature, animals, adventures, and even make a special friend along the way! Included is a glossary of words and an activity page for readers to explore.

Visit www.sheepriveradventures.com for pictures, activities, colouring sheets, merchandise and to order your book today!

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Healing from sexual assault or child sexual abuse can feel overwhelming and lonely, especially for Indigenous youth living in communities where support and resources may be difficult to access. In this guide, counsellor and survivor Corrine McArthur offers practical tools, encouragement, and understanding for young people navigating the impacts of trauma.

Corrine McArthur uses clear, supportive language, helping young readers better understand topics such as consent, grooming, trauma responses, triggers, flashbacks, and disclosure. Along the way, readers are introduced to grounding exercises, coping strategies, reflective prompts, and safety planning tools designed to support healing at a pace that feels safe and manageable for them. Corrine also draws on Indigenous teachings and encourages connection with trusted supports, community, culture, and Elders, reminding readers that they are not alone and that the abuse was never their fault.

Above all, this guide offers hope: healing is possible, and no survivor has to walk the journey alone.

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"My body jerks with an electric shock, pins and needles surge through my hands and feet. I am exhausted. Pressure in my head intensifies with thoughts racing in all directions. Time is frozen. As everything spins around me, I lay in silence, trapped inside my body. All I want is relief. I lay still, and I wait." Leah O

This is fibromyalgia.

In 2016, the people of Fibromyalgia Well Spring Foundation walked from Langley, B.C. to Banff, Alberta to raise awareness about the realities of their invisible illness. Just One More Step 2016 shares the details of that journey, a period marked by friendship and hardship. From the harrowing accident that left the Author gravely injured to the generosity of strangers along the way, their story illustrates the power of teamwork to spark hope in the dark. With contributions from multiple walkers, as well as details from the return trip to thank the people and businesses who supported them, this unforgettable chronicle will inspire readers to accomplish something—even if it's just one more step.

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A – “history” – of – Canadian hockey -- in the – “original” – information format – of – the newspaper game summary!

Hockey “game summaries” have been a feature of North American newspaper sports pages almost since the beginning of organized hockey – and the basic newspaper format is still the format used most often by statisticians and historians of the game and by online media today

This is a collection of historically significant Canadian hockey “game summaries”

At the reader's fingertips – faster than the Internet – and -- perhaps not available on the Internet – the Canadian Hockey Games in which Canada or a team based in Canada – won it all! – including: Stanley Cups / Olympic Gold / World Championships / International Tournaments!

The first – and – only – collection of Canadian hockey game summaries – ever published!

Not available on the Internet – some of this information has recently been posted online – but most of this data is either not available or very difficult to find

The data has been vetted to perfection – this is the authoritative statement!

High information content – for the hockey fan – with limited text

SUMMARELIQUARY

PORTMANTEAU:

SUMMARY

An Abridgement Of A Topic And/Or An Event

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RELIQUARY

A Container For – Relics

RELICS

An Object Of Significance From The Past

NEOLOGISM:

A Collection Of – Significant -- Summaries

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When ten-year-old Adam gets roped into his older brother Tarek’s latest scheme, he can’t help but think it’s a bad idea. Hockey? What do the sons of a Hungarian mother and Egyptian father know about Canada’s national pastime? What if he humiliates himself on the ice? Life at school is hard enough with mean kids like Zack to contend with, but wobbly knees and a huge red helmet seem to scream: BULLY ME! Despite his mom’s urging to put his trust in Allah, Adam isn’t sure he can ever be more than a target on skates. Only when he meets a new coach does he learn that hockey, like life, isn’t just about scoring goals. As he navigates new (frozen) waters, Adam realizes that teamwork, perseverance, and self-belief will take him farther than he ever imagined.

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In 1956, a young Canadian family left behind the comfort and certainty of home to answer a call that would change their lives forever. What began as a mission of service in Egypt and Ethiopia became an extraordinary journey marked by courage, sacrifice, humour, heartbreak, and wonder. Told through the eyes of the oldest son, this deeply personal memoir captures the beauty and hardship of growing up in a rapidly changing Africa, where childhood was shaped by separation, resilience, and unforgettable adventure. At once tender and inspiring, this is a story of family, faith, and the enduring truth that the places we set out to change often change us most of all. For anyone who has ever wrestled with belonging, loss, purpose, or the hope of a new ending, this remarkable memoir is an invitation to remember that even the hardest journeys can leave behind a legacy of grace.

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Marsha Mallow is excited for summer camp, but she’s nervous, too. Will she make friends? What if she has to do things she’s never done before?

The first day at camp she meets Graham Cracker and Milky Chocolate. The boys are nice and invite her to hang out with them. It’s going well until they decide to go for a canoe ride. Marsha is feeling nervous. What if she falls in the water? What if the whole boat tips? Things only get worse when Graham makes a joke and she feels like they’re laughing at her, not with her. How will she ever get in the canoe now?

A story about unlocking the power of friendship through empathy and understanding, Marsha Goes to Summer Camp shows us that each of us is great, but together we're so much s’more. It’s a reminder for kids of what understanding and supporting each other can achieve.

Marsha Goes to Summer Camp is the second book in the Side by Side Books series, created as a teaching tool for parents and educators. The side by side format shows two different perspectives of the same story on the open book page, providing opportunity to engage children in discussions around empathy and understanding other perspectives. Side by Side Books are aligned with the Ontario Ministry of Education’s emphasis on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) as outlined in the Cross-Curricular and Integrated Learning framework.

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Liberia has changed leaders, governments, and political promises—but why have the lives of ordinary citizens changed so little?

In 1966, the landmark study Growth Without Development by Robert W. Clower, George Dalton, Mitchell Harwitz, and A. A. Walters exposed the contradiction of rapid economic growth alongside widespread underdevelopment, a contradiction that Liberia, sixty years later, has yet to overcome. Too often, thoughtful Liberians evaluate identical government actions differently depending on which party or president is responsible, but such selective judgment prevents the country from confronting its urgent challenges.

Out of a deep love for Liberia and its future, Augustus Jonathan Flomo writes The Liberia We Must Build to compare the Weah and Boakai administrations while examining what each inherited, placing their performance within Liberia’s broader history of economic growth without development, abundant natural resources without sufficient benefits for citizens, and democratic aspirations without sustained institutional implementation. He updates that national reckoning through rigorous, evidence-based analysis of recent governance and calls on Liberians to judge every administration by the same standards, verify claims before assigning praise or blame, and measure national progress by the lived realities of ordinary citizens across all fifteen counties.

This book challenges Liberians to move beyond partisan propaganda, confront the evidence, and build a nation where leadership, institutions, accountability, and economic growth deliver measurable improvements for every citizen.

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Have you ever heard the term rescue dog? Are you one of many that believe your dog has a special purpose to be in your life?

This book features a Newfoundland breed dog (IZZY) who “Pawsitively” teaches us a healthy way to deal with loss. As a United States Customs and Border Protection agent, IZZY and her Pal Fitzroy, also a Newfoundland, agent remind others that they are never alone and the comebacks are always better than the setbacks. This is the 4th book in the “Pawsitively”, kids’ book series of Service Dogs adventures. Appealing to dog lovers everywhere and those that have had to deal with loss, the chance to represent those who have been called home before us. IZZY will warm the hearts of the readers and remind them it’s okay to grieve, heal with the added bonus of a behind-the-scenes look at the diligence and dedication of the United States Customs and Border Protection.

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A young girl vanishes, swallowed by darkness, her story lost to time. Decades later, a compassionate nurse inherits a quiet country home from a woman she barely knew, stepping into a mystery that refuses to stay buried.

Joanna Waters has built her life around caring for others, keeping her own painful past carefully contained. But when her elderly client Charlotte dies suddenly and leaves her everything, Joanna is drawn into a world that feels both strangely intimate and unfamiliar. As she and her husband settle into the late Charlotte’s rural property, disturbing dreams begin to haunt her. The land itself seems alive with memory, and the deeper Joanna digs, the more she senses that Charlotte’s past remains to be finished in the present.

As fragments of history surface, Joanna must confront the possibility that her connection to Charlotte runs far deeper than chance. Themes of loss, belonging, generational trauma, and redemption intertwine as past and present begin to blur. But some secrets resist exposure, and some truths demand a reckoning: what really happened to the girl with delphinium eyes and how is Joanna a part of her story?

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Sunlight filters beautifully through enormous stained-glass windows depicting stories of biblical classics, including a dominant centerpiece of the Last Supper flanked by lesser images of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Grail, crucifixes, and fantastic angels. One image in particular catches Adam’s attention as he staggers through debris-filled aisles, stumbling over felled hardwood benches with drunken clumsiness, the echoes of which resonate through the nave. He steps up onto the chancel and schleps towards an image of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden… “Where’s my Eve?” he shouts at the top of his lungs…

Through a strange twist of fate, eleven-year-old Adam escapes a predator’s lair, only to discover he may be the sole human survivor of a zombie apocalypse. Twenty-six years later, Adam is living large, with fine art, great music, great booze, handy-long-life batteries, and plenty of gardening expertise to keep him healthy. And what he doesn’t have, he invents, using the raw materials he has at hand…which is mostly zombies.

A Robinson Crusoe for the zombie age, Adam discovers ways to employ snapping zombie-heads and flailing zombie arms that make life pretty posh on his secluded estate, but there’s one thing missing—love. And so Adam has to invent that for himself too.

Wildly irreverent, slyly erotic, and infused with unexpectedly moving perspectives on man’s yearning for connection, A Life to Die For marries dark humor, a delicious yuck factor, and reams of inventiveness to answer the question: What would you do if you were the last man on earth?

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Madeline and Dalton were once inseparable—childhood sweethearts bound by soft kisses and sweet dreams. Until their different worlds tore them apart.

Years later, fate brings them together again. But is their love strong enough to survive the test of time and the sacrifices they will need to make?

Madeline Thomas has everything she’s ever dreamed of—a brilliant legal career, gorgeous condo, loving family—everything, that is, except the man she still dreams about.

Dalton Murray has left his tragic past behind. A visionary architect now, he’s claimed his self-worth and built a life on his own terms, caring for his young son and thriving in his new life. There’s only one part of his past he can’t forget: the girl who he pushed away.

When Madeline and Dalton meet again, sparks fly and passion erupts; but that passion comes with dark memories and unresolved pain. Caught between the lives they’ve built for themselves and the future they both want; they must decide what they’re willing to sacrifice.

Is love worth a second chance? Only time will tell.

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This novel follows Maha's journey through loss, resilience, and self-discovery as she navigates the emotional complexities of migration and human change. It is a story about the invisible distances that grow between people, the transformations that shape who we become, and the enduring hope that connection can survive even when life leads us in different directions. Through Maha's emotional homecoming, the novel examines the enduring connection between identity, family, friendship, and homeland, showing that although people and places evolve, the values and memories that define us remain a lasting source of strength.

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A prolific British illustrator, CH Chapman (1878–1972) is best known for drawing characters such as Ally Sloper, Billy Bunter, and the rest of the Greyfriars School cohort. In this biography, John C. Chapman explores his grandfather’s long and satisfying career, including the Chapman genealogy and his birth to a father who had struck out on his own, disowned the family name of Richardson, and adopted the name Chapman. Chapman’s father recognized his son’s talent early on and encouraged him to pursue an education as an architectural artist. Through talent, pluck, and sheer determination, young Chapman went on to sell his drawings and prove himself in the exploding market for boys' storybooks and comics that thrived up until WWII. Chapman’s career reignited after the war as an illustrator for the Greyfriars stories, now in book form. Over almost sixty years, Chapman continued to rise to the challenges of workloads, deadlines, and keeping the illustrations fresh over several generations of boys who were enthralled by the ongoing episodes of life at Greyfriars.

Charles Henry Chapman: The Life of a Comic Book Artist is illustrated throughout with family and archival photographs along with Chapman’s artwork. It will be of particular interest to students engaged in university-level studies of boys’ literature and aspects of social science of the early twentieth century, as well as the fellowship of Old Boys Cubs worldwide who grew up with the characters Chapman drew so faithfully.

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A Twist of Fate continues the adventures of Freya and her sisters, Scara, Fina, Tauna, Pohla, and their new companions, Fordoc, Aidelle and Brunela. Having successfully escorted a group of troublesome halflings to and back from Edradour, they now set off on the final leg of their journey—getting the halflings home to Cornerbrook. The road is rugged and dangerous, particularly since the sisters thwarted a plan from the exiled Wolfric to ransom Lady Jassmyn of Alhambra. The sisters will need to be on guard from a retaliatory attack.

On the road, Aidelle and Fina spy a ruined tower in the distance. Upon investigation, they discover that the tower is part of a larger settlement and castle that once belonged to Wolfric, until a dragon chased him out. With the help of an elvish ranger, Reyn, the group clears out an infestation of goblins that had taken up residence.

Finally reaching Cornerbrook, Freya finds it to be a small, defenseless town that had recently been pillaged by Wolfric’s men. She and her party take up residence in the once-flourishing Black Swan Inn and strategize for an attack they know is coming. Meanwhile, Fordoc leads the task of constructing a way station—A Twist of Fate—that will serve as a commercial hub for the area.

As they prepare their defenses and assist with the restoration of Cornerbrook and its mysteriously dried-up lake, the sisters face old demons and make new friends. Their party grows and so does Freya’s ambitions. The abandoned castle looms large in her mind. Perhaps it could use a new ruler?

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Why do strong products and companies fail in promising foreign markets? The most commonly overlooked variable may surprise you.

Culture.

As Canadian companies expand into unfamiliar regions, they need more than sound products and competitive pricing. They need cultural intelligence to understand how customers make decisions, how partners build relationships, how employees communicate, and how local expectations influence everything from packaging and advertising to regulation, after-sales service, and digital trade.

Drawing on thirty years of experience helping Canadian firms enter global markets, Marvin Hough turns these often-invisible forces into practical business guidance. Culture-Smart Global Business combines clear strategies, cautionary tales, and detailed cases involving McCain Foods, Lululemon, Canada Goose, IMAX, Tim Hortons, and other Canadian companies. Each example shows how businesses have adapted—and what happened when they didn’t.

Written for executives, exporters, entrepreneurs, and anyone else working across borders, this book will help you ask better questions, avoid costly mistakes due to faulty assumptions, choose and manage local partners, preserve your firm’s core identity while adapting to local expectations, and build the trust required for lasting international success.

As Mr. Hough argues in this book, in a volatile global economy, cultural competence is no longer simply an advantage. It’s an essential business capability.

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Andreas is a curious boy who loves all types of animals, so when he goes for a walk with his family one day and comes across a salamander he wants to befriend it. He tries to catch it, but salamanders are fast creatures. Salamanders are small lizards that stick out their tongues to catch insects, but in this story Andreas will discover something else that is very special about salamanders.

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When the greatest conqueror Europe had ever seen was banished to live out his days on a remote island, the British commissioner charged with supervising him—and who ultimately let him slip through his fingers—learned more about him than any foreigner ever had.

When Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to Elba, Colonel Neil Campbell spent several months in his company, dining, walking, and riding around the island. Napoleon loved to talk, and Campbell loved to write. Thus Campbell wrote prolifically about Napoleon’s exploits as they were relayed to him, much as he had written of his own illustrious military career throughout his life.

After I Met Napoleon is a tale of the Napoleonic era from two very different points of view—Campbell’s and Bonaparte’s own—from the early days of the French Revolution through to Napoleon’s death after having escaped Elba. Sandwiched between these perspectives, author James J Sebastian offers a wider picture of the geopolitical goings-on of the time: the contest for colonial power in the West Indies, the history of the slave trade, and the Enlightenment thinking that would change the machinations of power in Europe forever. Along the way, the key political and military moves of the Napoleonic era are detailed, from the siege of Toulon through to his downfall at Waterloo.

Neither a classical piece of historical fiction nor a straightforward textbook, After I Met Napoleon is a history book alive with imagination, animating perhaps the most influential leader the West has ever known.

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