Family & Relationships
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Dare to Dream, Joe Shore
A Memoir by Jo-Anne Shaw
Born into a dysfunctional family in Oakville, Ontario, in the 1950s, Jo-Anne Shaw was forced to leave home at sixteen to escape her abusive father. A high-school dropout, she would go on to endure two abusive marriages and years of serious...
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The Missing Puzzle Pieces
Finding My Birth Family by Joan Zaretsky
Joan Zaretsky was adopted as an infant, and grew up in a loving, happy home with adoptive parents who supported her to experience many opportunities. Following her retirement, and her adoptive parents passing away, Joan courageously endeavors to...
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The Detroit Shoemaker
a novel by Barbara Reaume Sandre
At the age of eleven, shoemaker apprentice Hyacinthe Reaume dreamed of working in the vibrant fur trade like his father and uncles. He longed to join his voyageur father on one of his trips, despite its grueling labour and the dangers of...
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Motherhood Diaries
11 Moms on Self Love, Illuminating Moms, Our Children and The Planet at Large by Soraiya Bodhi
Becoming a mother is one of the biggest transitions a woman will face in her lifetime. As she births new life, she also births a whole new identity. In rediscovering who she is, she often loses herself completely in the service of others. This...
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A Separate Branch
An Untold True Story of the Writer's Life by Lillian Driessens-Fleming
What people say about you is a reflection on them and not on you. Sometimes broken roads lead to the best destinations. Having no verbal support from the family I was born into left me alone and lost for many years. There may be many obstacles,...
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For the Love of a Mother, Grandmother, Friend
by Venrah Ali
After retiring, two months into the first COVID-19 lockdown, Venrah Ali saw how our world was immersed in negativity. Doomscrolling, isolation, and increased mental stress had become parts of everyday living. With these ongoing daily adversities,...
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The Greatest Trick
by Madeline Speer
The Greatest Trick by Madeline Speer is a hauntingly beautiful collection of poetry and prose revealing episodes of pain, endurance, and survival in the aftermath of abuse and divorce. In this deeply raw and painful collection, Speer’s genuine...
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My Truth
by Lafleur Barker
What do you do when your world is a living hell? Do you accept the hand you’ve been dealt, or do you fight for a better life? At every turn, Lafleur Barker chose the latter option. This is her story. Lafleur was born in Saint Vincent in the...
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Re-Designing Your Life
A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life by Sheila Macdonald Macgregor
Re-Designing Your Life: A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life is a timely and engaging book for living out the second half of your life with spiritual integrity. In this study you are invited to think about your life as a house...
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Not a Fairy Tale
by Jacalyn Lewicki
For millennia, selected juvenile dragons from the Seven Kingdoms of Saridon have been commissioned to cross the dimensional boundaries to Earth on missions to accompany gifted or unique humans through their lives to their destinies. Over the...
