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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It’s 2027, and the world is coming apart at the seams. AI-driven automation has made millions of people obsolete. Tech addiction has been officially labeled a disorder, and tent cities are overflowing while politicians scramble to contain the chaos with “enviro-manual” farms, which are part social experiment, part prison without walls.

At the center of it all is Bill Cody, a retired Marine sniper and US senator’s son with legendary aim—and a drinking problem. Dragged back into the shadows for a mission that could alter history, he realizes history itself is being manipulated by a top-secret sentient AI program known as Dutch Amber that’s obsessed with doing one thing—preventing World War III.

Before Bill can determine whether he’s a pawn or a savior in Dutch Amber’s plan, he and two other highly skilled operatives embark on a covert assignment that will forever change the way they view themselves, the world, and the future of humanity. History is on a hinge, and one event could determine which direction it—and Bill’s life—swings.

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Jamie Brock is trying to put his life back together. After being horrifically burned in a welding accident and enduring months of rehab, nightmares, and sleepwalking, he returns to Ron’s Auto, his longtime employer, and the site of his disfigurement. A skilled mechanic and the garage’s resident “good guy,” Jamie is welcomed back by its owners, Ron and Rosemary, their daughter Lena—who has long nursed a crush on Jamie—and wise-cracking mechanic, Mike. The garage resumes its old rhythms and Jamie’s connection with Lena blossoms. But all is not as it seems.

Before long, people begin to disappear in the small town of Pincher Creek, Alberta. People connected to Ron’s Auto. Suspicion falls on Jamie, whose sleepwalking becomes increasingly disorienting. Disturbed by his inability to account for what he does during the night, Jamie, with the help of Lena, starts to investigate himself. What he discovers is darker—and more tragic—than he could have imagined.

In Sleep Walk, Charles Johnston gives us a story reminiscent of early Stephen King: an ordinary man in a working-class milieu confronted by the unimaginable. Blending elements of mystery, Gothic horror, and psychological realism, and written with urgency and suspense, Johnston asks how well we can ever know each other—and ourselves.

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And they’re off on another adventure! Agents 314 and 999 return in the sixth instalment of the Agents Amiss series! For this journey they’ve been summoned to Tangier, Morocco to solve a string of murders and jewellery thefts.

Wandering through the mazy streets, they encounter a baffling number of potential suspects, leading them to even greater levels of confusion. As the murder counts rise, the agents are forced to travel by ferry to the small country of Gibraltar in a quest to catch the Tangier Transgressor.

With no Charles this time to support them, the agents are left only with Inventor 13’s useful creation and their own wits. In this penultimate mystery, will Agents 314 and 999 continue their lucky streak, or will time run out for them as the agency’s greatest detective pair?

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Nineteen-year-old Elsa enjoys a privileged life with her aristocratic family, living in an Italian villa and dreaming of romance and sweeping love. When she witnesses her mother engaging in a passionate affair, Elsa is caught completely off guard. She realizes that her world is far more shocking—and more scandalous—than she ever could have imagined.

Meanwhile, charming but poor Rosario is traumatized by his parents’ abusive relationship, and young Aria has recently been abandoned by her father. They each turn to different coping mechanisms to get through, and when the demons that haunt them become too overwhelming . . . they may not survive.

With a riot of forbidden love, deep undercurrents of generational trauma, and the soaring highs of self-discovery, Beneath the Roman Sky takes readers on an adventure of passion and transgression set against a vividly atmospheric background. Bold, scandalous, and unforgettable, readers will devour this tumultuous novel about what happens when we are pushed to our limits . . . and just how far people are willing to go in the name of love.

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Oh no! Ruby the cow is missing! Dane would do anything to find his missing sister, but try as he might, she’s nowhere to be seen.

Luckily, he has some friends who can help him out. But no matter how hard they search, Ruby remains missing. Desperate, Dane turns to Uncle Splint. Will he know what to do to find Ruby?

Join a whole host of barnyard friends on this romp along the riverbank and through the pasture to find Ruby the cow!

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Parfois, il peut être un peu difficile de comprendre ce que nos parents font lorsqu’ils vont travailler. Ma maman est infirmière praticienne… mais qu’est-ce que cela veut dire exactement? Est-elle infirmière? Est-elle docteure? Quelle est la différence, au juste?

Cette histoire est racontée du point de vue d’un garçon de 4 ans qui partage fièrement sa compréhension de ce que sa maman fait lorsqu’elle travaille comme infirmière praticienne. Dans ce récit, vous découvrirez ses activités quotidiennes, les personnes intéressantes avec lesquelles elle travaille et ce qui fait d’elle une bonne infirmière praticienne! Ensemble, enfants et adultes peuvent en apprendre davantage sur ce métier passionnant et envisager une carrière dans le domaine de la santé – même comme infirmière praticienne!

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Join the Waddlewerths, a lovable family of penguins, on a magical adventure through Antarctica. When Bella and Henry set out with their curious children, Pipa and Milo, to find the legendary Secret Snowflake Garden, they discover more than just icy landscapes. Along the way, they meet new friends, face natural wonders, and are reminded of just what it means to stick together as a family.

The Waddlewerth Family's Big Adventure is the first book in The Waddlewerth Family series. With beautiful, calming illustrations, this sweet story encourages empathy, teamwork, and exploration. Ideal for bedtime—or anytime!—the book is a cozy, heartwarming choice for families who value connection and gentle storytelling.

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Once a playful and friendly neighbour, Jethro Jacks comes back to school one year with a scrappy attitude and a taste for bullying. His loud voice and biting words push away his classmates, leaving him friendless and misunderstood. But one brave student, an old friend of Jethro’s, isn’t ready to give up. Can our hero help Jethro find the kindness at his core? Or will Jethro always be known as the schoolyard bully?

With a unique combination of humour, heart, and a magical twist, Jethro Jacks addresses the power of words in a fun, relatable way. Using poetry to craft its narrative, the story encourages children to reflect on the importance of kindness while showing that growth and change are always possible. It reminds us that we can all make a big difference with a few small words.

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In the land of Same, everyone thinks the same, dresses the same, and acts the same. Until Raegan Blu is born. This brave, smart, and strong child loves to play games, invent stories, and make a beautiful mess. Her family loves her, but the other people in the land of Same don’t know how to be around her. None of them are happy in the way she is and that makes them uncomfortable.

Raegan is faced with a hard decision: to continue to be who she is but have no friends… or to do something radically different. Will Raegan have the courage to face the Council of Wizards and advocate for real change in her land? Or will she stay silent and let the status quo win again?

Raegan Blu is a charming book for first-time readers that teaches the importance of self-confidence, self-acceptance, individuality, and bravery. This early chapter book shows children what they can learn from each other, and reminds us all that the world is a brighter, more colorful place when we’re true to our inner selves.

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“So,” I would ask, again and again, “you actually believe this is acceptable? That it’s normal for a caregiver to become this embedded, this involved?”

The worst part was hearing it from the people closest to me. “But your dad seems happy,” they’d say. “Why not just let it be?”

If only it were that simple.

It wasn’t just about happiness. It was about safety. Boundaries. Long-term trust.

When Piper and her siblings hire a live-in caregiver for their aging father, they believe they are making the best decision. Macie arrives with glowing references and a composed demeanour, but beneath her poised exterior lies something dangerous. The youngest sibling sees her as a blessing. The older two begin to question her past, but no one wants to believe what they uncover. Their efforts to sound the alarm are met with silence, disbelief, and increasing alienation. But as their father’s health declines, Macie’s grip tightens.

Told through eldest daughter Piper’s eyes, Family Shattered is a raw and intimate account of misplaced trust, emotional estrangement, and the unraveling of a family. It’s a story of standing firm in the face of dismissal—and the quiet devastation that follows when the truth is left unheard.

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River loves watching the sunset. From her home in California, she watches it set at Joshua Tree National Park and Del Mar beach, but she is always left wondering where it goes when it disappears each night.

River’s parents as well as her great grandpa (GG) in Kenya help her understand the earth’s rotation and the sun’s journey across the globe, bringing sunset to one side of the world at the same time as sunrise to the other. Although River’s family is separated by distance, these shared moments under the sun bring her a sense of connection and unity, and she is able to then bid farewell to the sun at night knowing that it marks a new beginning for others on the opposite side of the world.

Designed to spark curiosity, Where is the Sun’s Bedroom? is the first installment of the Mr. Sun, Ray Me a Story series. Exploring the natural world with topics covering everything under the sun, the series encourages young minds to delve deeper and helps them understand the world around them.

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The Old Mango Tree stands tall and strong, It has witnessed the changing seasons and the lives that have passed beneath its branches. Along the way, it gathered a diverse and cherished group of friends. Among them is Kairi, a precocious and playful young girl whose boundless curiosity and love for nature brought the tree unexpected joy. Through her laughter and wonder, she taught the Old Mango Tree the beauty of self-acceptance and we witness the magic found in their shared connection with the natural world.

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Pharaoh Hatshepsut is the story of a young Egyptian princess who found a Hebrew baby in a basket on the Nile. She claims Moses as her own and hides him in the palace harem. Only her maids and her faithful architect Senenmut know of their true bond.

While raising Moses in secret, Hatshepsut struggles to fit into a world ruled by the gods and their priests. Her greatest hope is to bring Moses into the line of succession. When her husband dies, she becomes a powerful female pharaoh and Senenmut her advisor and protector. Senenmut loves and admires Hatshepsut, but she must focus on her reign above all else, and prepare a pathway to leadership for Moses.

Will she succeed in establishing a legacy for her adopted son, despite their enemies?

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