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Cookies Everywhere!
by Monterey Coates
It is Macy’s birthday and all she wants is cookies. Cookies for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. Her mother warns her that she should have some vegetables too but agrees to order Macy cookies for her birthday. Macy is thrilled, and she’s...
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The Floating $5
Women's Words of Wisdom by Bonnie Brightlee and Christine Horgan
Before ATMs and e-transfers, if you needed money, you either had to rush to the bank before close or borrow from someone. As colleagues, authors Bonnie Brightlee and Christine Horgan frequently borrowed lunch money from one another. Five dollars...
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The Conduit
by Suzy Webb
Freya was returning home to the beautiful wilderness of western Canada after finishing her second medical degree away at University in Belfast. When she returned to Everglenn, the home built into a business by her matriarch of a...
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The Truth Is Negotiable
The Hidden Cost Of Saying Yes by Nicole Musgrave
There’s Always a Price for Saying Yes What begins as an exhilarating journey from Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands to Sri Lanka aboard the sailing vessel Hanuman quickly transforms into a harrowing adventure. The crew faces a relentless series of...
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Madness, All Over Again
by Fabian Garcia
Milo is an inpatient at the Bellevue Psychiatric Institute & Hospital. He is clever, verbose, and wants absolutely nothing to do with the world outside—but doesn’t seem to want much to do with anything inside, either. He and his chatty roommate...
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The Last Tree in Galanthus
by Shelley Blignaut
Violet has always known that her sister, Arina, is different. Not only does she have strangely elongated ears, close-to-translucent skin, and an abnormally skinny, long body—but animals are drawn to her; grass turns green under her feet. And then...
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Two Times as Much Love
A Separation and Divorce Story for Parents and Children by Eileen Beltzner
A parent-child read-together story, Two Times as Much Love also includes a mindful self-compassion tool box with simple practices to grow mindfulness, self-kindness and inner strength. One day, out of the blue, Alexander’s parents announce they...
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The Prodigal Son
by Oslo Meko
Warren Wilcox, as a child, develops antipathy toward everything Nigerian when he learns about the rejection of his Canadian family by his Nigerian grandfather. As a physician, he works tirelessly in his pursuit of bettering the world. While...
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Examining Room
within the walls of the opioid crisis by Lorinda Spooner M.D.
During 30 years in primary care and addiction medicine, the Vancouver-based Dr. Lorinda Spooner has found her examining room a place of suffering, of adversity, but also of hope. Yet, since 2016, when the opioid crisis was declared a public...
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Ruta's Closet
by Keith Morgan and Ruth Kron Sigal
Ruta’s Closet tells the compelling Holocaust story of a Jewish family, imprisoned in the tiny Shavl ghetto in Lithuania. The Kron family survived the horror of the Nazi regime, thanks to the resourcefulness of Meyer and Gita Kron and the bravery...
