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  • That One Night

    A Brain Injury Survival Story by Kelly Kotzer

    What started out as an innocent, fun-filled night suddenly turns into a parent’s worst nightmare—their child dying in a heap of twisted metal on a moonlit street. Though she survives the car crash, Kelly’s life is forever altered that one dreadful night. Once a young, carefree teenager competing in sports and laughing with friends, she wakes to a different reality full of dire predictions about what she will never be able to achieve. Even when the scars fade, she will be left with the impacts of an invisible disability. Kelly just wants to play sports and graduate from high school. To lead the life she envisions, she must believe in herself, use the resources available and never give up. That One Night is based on the author’s own journey of trauma, survival and recovery. Ultimately a story of optimism and resilience, Kelly’s struggles remind us to never let others define our capabilities. With hard work and dedication, you can achieve anything you put your mind to.

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  • Where Time Stands Still

    by Andrew Retchless

    Jamie should have known something was up when he stumbled in out of the snow and they’d saved him a cup of coffee. For the city-worn Montrealer, the village of Sneaky Hollow is a badly needed breath of fresh air, but it’s also, he begins to discover, a place that shouldn’t exist. Nestled somewhere between the backroads of the Eastern Townships and a wrinkle in time, Sneaky Hollow gives Jamie exactly what he needs; a home, a community, and a madcap touch of magic that never fails to delight him. But as outside forces threaten to iron out that wrinkle and erase Sneaky Hollow for good, Jamie teams up with a determined young woman and a crowd of eccentric café regulars with a shared goal. That goal is simple (in theory): to uncover the mysteries of this wonderful place, to understand why it called them to it, and pull together enough maple syrup–fuelled resistance to save it. A cozy, magical-realist village novel that imagines memories with a gravity of their own, Where Time Stands Still is a charm-and-nostalgia pie topped with a pinch of quantum physics (just for spice). Whether you're longing for a place that feels like home, or wondering if such places still exist, this book answers with a warm yes, and then invites you to stay awhile.

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  • He Goes by A.J.

    A Novel Burt Jude Lancon by Burt Jude Lancon

    He Goes by A.J. is a powerful story of resilience, redemption, and the relentless pursuit of hope. Addicus Cecile Ellis Lee Boudreaux Junior is a man the world has given up on and overlooked—A.J. becomes shaped by heartbreak and loss, yet he is unwilling to surrender to despair. When life slams every door shut, he refuses to be locked out, finding his way forward quietly and with an abundance of defiance. Each painful setback arrives with an unexpected second chance, leading him to rediscover what hope looks like, tastes like, and feels like.

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  • Loopalooza

    by Tatie Punkinhead

    Skip, skip, skip to the loo as you take a journey, full of curiosity and imagination, through the vast array of ways in which you may never have thought to use a toilet! You may find that almost anything is possible (except surfing)! Warning: you will never look at a toilet the same way again!

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  • God and Babies

    Glimpses of the Divine by Dr. David J. Dixon

    God and Babies: Glimpses of the Divine draws on our experiences with the very young to explore the nature of divine love. Using Christianity as an explanatory model, Dr. David J. Dixon takes seriously the idea that babies and toddlers have profound lessons to teach us—about grace, love, and forgiveness; tolerance and dignity; suffering, death, and eternity; and, above all, living with both doubt and hope. By delving into the beautiful truths babies teach us through their innocence, God and Babies: Glimpses of the Divine is a plea for compassion and acceptance, and a reproach to religious radicalism and intolerance. With insights developed as a physician, a religious studies professor, and a parent, Dr. Dixon demonstrates how a baby's way of being in creation can be revelatory and inspiring. Through their welcoming, tolerant, and inclusive love, babies and toddlers can teach us how to love as God loves, even in times of trauma, heartache, and illness. And when this lesson is learned, we can begin to heal the wounds of bigotry and hate. God and Babies: Glimpses of the Divine offers a vision that will challenge, encourage, and console, while giving a refreshing and deeply human perspective on the world and its Creator.

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  • Knowledge, Consent, and Liberty

    A Blueprint for a Twenty-First Century "Enlightenment" by Steve G. Sweetman

    The angst of modernity is that of powerlessness, disenfranchisement, and alienation. People everywhere are experiencing helplessness in a world where the few rule, and leaders and legislators run roughshod over the masses with a deluge of laws, and where technology encroaches upon their daily lives and privacy, and an economic inequality never before seen in history. The concepts of self-determination; destroying superstition; government by the people; questioning all authority; and the power of knowledge, reason, and the authority of the individual is on the verge of dying. However, as Thomas Paine said, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Today’s world cries out for a new breed of thinker—rational, brave, bold, innovative, intuitive, and artistic. We all need to re-evaluate—to become questioners, explorers, and seekers. Knowledge, Consent, and Liberty is about the power of knowledge; the supremacy of the consent of the governed; the legal and Constitutional right of the people of the globe to form their definitions of liberty, freedom, and government; and their obligation to create their collective destiny. Its lofty goal is to challenge, empower, and enlighten the reader. In a logical progression from premises to conclusions, it lays out a philosophical, historical, and scientific argument that humans create their world for good or bad. It expounds on current social, political, and cultural issues that deserve consideration for reform or change. And it maps out a constitutional strategy and method for “the people” to create America, and the world, in their own image rather than that of a few oligarchs.

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