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Tiny Toad Goes Home
by Lawrence Litzgus
When Benjamin finds a tiny toad in the forest near his house, he falls in love with it right away. It would make the perfect pet! Benjamin takes the toad home and sets it up in an old fish tank, with all the fresh water and bugs it needs. But no matter what Benjamin does, the tiny toad won’t eat. How can Benjamin make his tiny friend happy? Will it ever feel comfortable in its new home? Tiny Toad Goes Home is a beautiful story that tugs on your heartstrings but ultimately leaves you feeling...
Time in Africa
Flying and Fun from 1963 to 1983 by David Price
Time in Africa: Flying and Fun from 1963 to 1983 covers 20 amazing years of David Price’s life as a pilot, working primarily in Africa. Although filled with personal adventures and humorous anecdotes, Time in Africa is much more than an autobiography. It is also an amazing glimpse of a time in aviation before computerized flight controls and when some older planes were still made of plywood and canvas. Having flown planes such as a DC3, Dove, Comet 4, Viscount, B737 and B707, the author...
After Charlie
by Kimberly de Witte
Even though ten-year-old Dorrie often felt invisible as the baby among her siblings, one brother always made her feel seen … made her feel special. Charlie was her world. And then he was gone. Dorrie saw more than most people, including the boy who took away her big brother. But why would anyone listen to her testimony? After all, she was just a ten-year-old girl and fully invisible now … after Charlie. Set in small-town Virginia during the Great Depression and inspired by real-life events,...
Whitewater Performance
Fundamentals of Training Theory in Canoe Slalom by Jan Busta
The book "Za úspěchem ve vlnách" was first published in the Czech Republic in 2020. Since then, it has provided Czech coaches, athletes, parents, and enthusiasts with a comprehensive introduction to the theory of rationally designed training in canoe slalom. The book attracted the attention of many international coaches and athletes for whom the Czech language was entirely inaccessible. The demand for a publication offering a comprehensive approach to training—one that could also serve as an...
Little Big Boss
A Métis Man's Stories of Life in Canada's Arctic by Alex Gordon and Michel Lupien
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.
What the Aurora Remembers
by Loretta Colton
Nicky Ryan has been a police officer in Canada’s Northwest Territories for six months when she’s faced with her first homicide investigation. A teenage girl has been maimed, her mother murdered, and her father is the prime suspect. Nicky’s naïve dream of heroic crime-fighting is now up against the reality of life and death in a small Indigenous community. In Fort Gabriel, the wounds of the past still bleed, and white cops from down south are neither trusted nor welcomed. Alison’s mother is...
Dry
A Holistic Guide to Sjogren’s Disease by Wendy Presant
If you’ve been diagnosed with—or suspect you may have—Sjögren's disease, you might feel helpless or overwhelmed, and you almost certainly feel dry and sore and too exhausted to sort out all the information coming at you. The mental load of managing a chronic illness can be intense, especially since you’ll often need to be your own expert and your own advocate. This book is about to become your new best friend. Wendy Presant—who lives with Sjögren's disease—breaks down what Sjögren's is, how...
If They'd Only Known
by Susan Leon
A missing child. A fractured family. A truth buried in time. TJ “Jack” Kelly was just a teenager when eight-year-old Marla Ferguson—the sister of his high school sweetheart Shannon—was kidnapped, leaving her twin brother injured and her family shattered. When the case went cold, guilt, anger, and unanswered questions drove everyone apart—including Jack, whose dream of becoming a police officer was forged in the aftermath of Marla’s disappearance. Nineteen years later Jack, now a homicide...
I came to be free
Poems on grief, love, and renewal by PJ Starling
Motherless baby Fatherless son A spark in the void Where once there was none … Using original metaphor and lyrical language, PJ Starling examines the deepest sorrows and the greatest triumphs of the human experience. His work touches on the struggle to forgive oneself for past wrongs, the search for hope amidst the chaos of the modern world, and the desire for true intimacy. Each poem is a reflection of personal healing and transformation, providing unique insight into universal struggles....
The Secessionist's Wife
by Wolf Bahren
For journalist Anna Jones of the New York Daily Journal, nothing is more important than finding the truth. So when Fort Riley, Kansas, suffers a terrorist attack, Anna jumps at the chance to see what’s happening at the base. She and her partner Viktor Simonson rush to the heartland to cover the events as they unfold. Once on the ground, they agree to divide and conquer—one will check out the damage at the military installation, the other will attend a press conference with Kansas Governor...