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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...
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On Acting ... and Life
A New Look at an Old Craft
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Dozens of books on acting exist, but none of them are quite like this. On Acting and Life provides both insightful acting advice and the memoir of an acclaimed actor of both stage and screen. Modelled after Stephen King’s bestseller, On Writing,...
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Songbirds Keep Singing
A Memoir of Healing from Autoimmune Brain Inflammation
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In 2017, forty-five-year-old Lisa Lauter experienced mysterious neurological symptoms. For months, she didn’t feel like herself and doctors had no answers. A mother of three preteen boys, Lisa had many reasons to explain away her odd symptoms. In...
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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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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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Rainy Days at the Cottage
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If you’re a Cottager you’ll understand. Seasoned cottagers will declare, “There’s no such thing as a bad day at the cottage”. Don’t believe them. I’ve had plenty of cold, rainy, wind-spitting days when sky and water were a spirit crushing grey...
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This Friendship Requires Dogs
Stories of Women and Their Dogs and Connections Made
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“So much of what has connected me to people is my dog.” Women with difficult dogs are a special breed—and in a world rife with judgment, they have to stick together. In This Friendship Requires Dogs, Daenna Van Mulligen pays tribute to the many...
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A Life without a Map
A Memoir of Life, Loss and Adventure
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When Ute Reusch-Wilson was three years old, she and her family returned to their home in Essen, Germany, after an eleven-week trek as refugees in shattered, war-torn Germany. Stunned to see the house still standing, they began to rebuild their...
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My Heart in My Hands
Becoming the Person I Was Meant to Be
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In 1953, the Greek island of Zakynthos suffered a series of earthquakes, later known as the Great Ionian Earthquake. Villages were decimated, many people lost their homes, their loved ones, and their ways of life. Seven years old at the time,...
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This Is Us
Our Life, Our Story, Our Home
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In This Is Us, Nabil Fathalla writes the histories of his own and his wife’s family in twentieth-century Egypt and their lives after immigrating to Canada. Through personal stories and family memories, he shows us life in Egypt, exploring...
