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An Ocean to Resilience
Charting a Course through Trials, Illness and Endurance Across the Pacific Ocean
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Get ready to experience an epic adventure replete with challenges, trials, battles with unseen ailments, and the determined drive to complete an ocean crossing under sail. Rob and Lisa are what one might consider a normal, professional,...
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Reclaiming the Clay
Stories of Change
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What happens when the faith culture that shaped your life begins to fracture? In Reclaiming the Clay, a young girl grows up in a Dutch Calvinist immigrant community in mid-twentieth-century Canada, surrounded by family, tradition, and a deep...
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From the Danube to the Californias, from World War 2 to the American Dream
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Ildiko Bartnicki had a simple but secure childhood in her native Hungary. But soon there were whisperings of war—first came the arrival of refugees from Transylvania, then the isolation and segregation of her Jewish friends and neighbors. It was...
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The Anderson Family and 80 Years of Horseracing
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This memoir outlines the 80-year continuous involvement of the Anderson family in horse racing primarily in Winnipeg, Canada. The family raced its first horse on September 11, 1945 at Polo Park Racetrack and went on to breed, race, buy and sell a...
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"I'm a Magnet to Stuff"
The Life and Times of MB2 - A Life Well Lived
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Some people stumble into trouble. Marybeth “MB2” Buffington seems to attract it. However, when calamity comes knocking, she always manages to meet it with a grin, a quick comeback, or a linebacker-style tackle, depending on what the situation...
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Our Global Health Care Journey Within God's Greater Reality
Memoirs and Reflections
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Most individuals who embark on a health care career discover quite early that their working journey is one of responding to others’ needs. No matter what the circumstance or where the location, health care is a global need requiring a response...
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Why Men Also Cry
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Larry’s story begins in 1938 in a small cabin without running water or electricity in the Nova Scotia wilderness. Born to an irresponsible mother and an absent father, he and his sisters suffer neglect until they are eventually separated and...
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7 Days to Death?
One Woman's Battle Against GBS*
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What would you do if you were suddenly stricken with some sort of disease that left you a paraplegic? How would you cope if your condition could even kill you? This is what happened to me. But I am still here. This story details my struggles as I...
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A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga
An Immigrant's Story
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Growing up ‘European’ in 1930s and ‘40s South Africa, Joan leads a privileged life … though marred by family tragedy. After she escapes her Victorian grandmother’s repressive upbringing to study midwifery, she comes face to face with the racial...
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My Two Years in Colombia
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John has loved traveling his whole life, and in the early 2000s it was the country of Colombia that captured his heart. Always ready for something new, he recounts his adventures to beautiful beaches, history-filled cities and everything the...
