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Extraction From Chad
by Rui Amaral
In this exciting and suspenseful real-life thriller, corporate security and safety expert Rui Amaral describes the hectic and dangerous, but ultimately successful, evacuation of an international team of oil and gas workers from a far-flung Canadian energy project in southern Chad as rebels descend on the region from the north and east and the collapse of an already corrupt, chaotic state seems imminent. The perilous, sometimes comical, adventures and misadventures of Rui and his team will be...
Finding What Always Was
by Deadly Poets Society
Born in the silence of lockdowns and the noise of systemic change, the Deadly Poets Society began as a circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous health researchers who met fortnightly to write, reflect, and hold space for one another. What started as a response to the isolation of COVID-19 became something far deeper: a creative practice rooted in trust, Country, and connection. Finding What Always Was is the anthology born of that practice, speaking both to the soul of research and to a...
The Girl Who Couldn't Read
Until She Discovered Her Super Powers by DPA Weston
Once there was a girl who couldn’t read...until she discovered her superpowers. Based on a true story, this book highlights the author’s struggle with learning how to read, write, and deal with the anxiety of having a learning disability. This book shows how all people can overcome a learning disability through persistence, resilience, and a growth mindset.
Time and Patience
My Journey Through Stroke Recovery by Claudio Pettinaro
When Claudio Pettinaro collapsed onto the bathroom floor one winter morning, he had no idea his life was about to split in two—before the stroke, and after. What followed was a year defined by confusion, fear, emotional upheaval, and the slow, often painful work of rebuilding a life that had changed without warning. Time and Patience is Claudio’s honest, unfiltered account of his first year of stroke recovery, told not by a doctor or medical expert, but by an ordinary man suddenly thrust...
Resilience in Residence
A Story of Survival, Strength, and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living. by Ness Mickey
Ever looked at someone and wondered, How did they survive that? Want to know what it really takes to rebuild a life from the inside out? Resilience in Residence isn’t just Ness Mickey’s story of survival—it’s a guide for reclaiming your life and building something stronger, braver, and more aligned with who you’re meant to be. Through raw reflection, hard-won lessons, and unrelenting hope, this book offers a roadmap for anyone who has ever felt knocked down, counted out, or lost in the...
Tooth the Teeny Tiny Time Travelling T-Rex
by Erik Rayman
Tooth the Teeny Tiny Time Travelling T-rex is a story about friendship. When Valerie meets Tooth she is hoping her new friend will help her feel exciting. With Tooth's help Val discovers that the real excitement starts with being herself.
My Drive Through Hell
A Divine Intervention, A True Story by Judy Isiah Foran
My Drive Through Hell: A Divine Intervention is the personal story of Judy Foran’s journey through pain, betrayal, and faith. After a devastating accident leaves her with severe injuries and a diagnosis of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Judy’s world turns upside down. She endures a long period of recovery marked by numerous doctor visits, unhelpful lawyers, and the cold bureaucracy of insurance companies. But her physical pain is only part of the story. Trust is tested as friends proved...
The Far End
by Johnny Gnall
Growing up on her family's wildlife ranch in rural Northern California, sixteen-year-old Persephone Foss felt a strong connection to animals from a very early age. Lately, however, that connection has been showing itself in strange, even scary, ways; most days she would rather just ignore it. But when her botanist mother brings her along on a research trip to the uncharted Amazon rainforest, Seph astonishes herself with what she is capable of- until a horrific accident leaves her mother...
The Origin of Machines
by Doug Jackson
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...
The Book on Ending Homelessness
by Iain De Jong
The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award winning industry leader to lay out how and why homelessness can be ended in very practical ways. This book will...