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  • Life after Trauma

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    Friday rolled around, and it was such a beautiful day until later in the evening when the storm clouds rolled in. That evening became my family’s worst nightmare. . . Life After Trauma is a heartbreaking but inspiring account of suicide,...


  • Gift of Strength

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    “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” Micheal Jordan It was Feb 20th 2000. A boy named Josh Hamilton was born. Born in Canada, and...


  • Loving, Living and Forgiving

    From Personal Story to Professional Insights
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    In this unique fusion of memoir and case reports, psychologist Ruth Badanes Reiner integrates hard-earned lessons from her personal life with insights gained from decades of professional practice as an individual, couple and family therapist....


  • Cultivating Freedom

    My Journey with a Narcissist
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    What happens when the life you built slowly becomes a prison—and leaving feels like an impossible dream? In this raw, courageous memoir of surviving decades inside a psychologically abusive marriage to a partner with narcissistic personality...


  • Route 66

    A Personal Journey
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    What happens when you pack up a sixty-year-old Corvette, squeeze in just enough luggage (but somehow still bring the most important things), and set off on a bucket-list adventure down Route 66? Let’s find out! Join Nancy and Paul Garvey on the...


  • Happiness with Scars

    A Jouney Toward Healing and Transformation
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    "Scars are the evidence of a life fully lived." Happiness with Scars is an intimate and sincere work that explores emotional resilience and the idea that happiness can exist alongside pain rather than in denial of it. Drawing inspiration from the...


  • Prema

    A Search for Love
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    Prema (प्रेमा) is the Sanskrit word for love. Written over fifteen years, Prema is a memoir told through a series of letters that reflect on love, loss, and personal growth — this author's story is shaped by her lived experience, but one many of...


  • Buckle Up!

    Life with a Spinal Cord Injury
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    In Buckle Up!, I share the story of my life before a collision, the challenges of adapting to life afterwards with a spinal cord injury, and the years that followed as I learned to navigate my wheelchair in a world that suddenly looked very...


  • Beyond the Woven Curtain

    The Story of Andrina Mitchell/Muir
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    Andrina Muir (née Mitchell) lived a life shaped by faith, devotion, love, and resilience in a world of hardship and change. Born in a sod house in the North West Territory, her childhood was defined by carefree days, farm animals and her father’s...


  • Living in Two Worlds

    A True Account of Alien Encounters
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    At three years old, Lisa witnesses something extraordinary in the field bordering the rowhouse where she lives in Cambridge, Ontario: a strange, glowing light, something like a “second sun,” that descends before her eyes before taking off at warp...