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  • The Brave Gardener

    by Winn Rietema

    Jamie is a kind-hearted and imaginative child who feels overwhelmed when he is told “no” by his dad. As Jamie turns inward to explore his big emotions, he discovers a magical inner garden—one that needs care, patience, and understanding. With gentle curiosity, Jamie learns that he can become his own gardener: a calm, compassionate presence who listens to and tends every feeling with kindness. Through this journey, Jamie realizes that he is the steady, caring Self who can guide all parts of his inner world with empathy and respect. "The Brave Gardener" invites children to explore their emotions with curiosity and courage, reinforcing the powerful message that there are no “bad” feelings—only feelings that are trying to help. Every emotion has a purpose, and when children learn to listen to themselves with kindness, they grow stronger, more balanced, and more confident. Designed to support children as they navigate family relationships, school stress, peer challenges, and feelings of being unheard, this story helps normalize emotional experiences while reducing shame. By gently encouraging children to externalize, understand, and care for their emotions rather than suppress them, *The Brave Gardener" fosters self-compassion, emotional awareness, and lifelong resilience.

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  • The Witness

    A Personal Journey Through Fear, Trauma and Healing by Sharon Berk

    Can we live from a place of love instead of fear? How much does fear shape our beliefs, behaviours, and identities? What if the fear we carry isn’t ours alone, but the echo of generational trauma? These are the central questions author and retired psychotherapist Sharon Berk seeks to answer in this holistic guide on self-healing. In The Witness: A Personal Journey Through Fear, Trauma, and Healing, Sharon shares her personal story as a child who grew up immersed in domestic violence and carried this trauma into adulthood. For years, fear ruled her life, even after accomplishing significant milestones like motherhood and a prospering career. When her unresolved trauma manifested as illnesses, an autoimmune disorder, and even a tumour, Sharon launched her healing journey earnestly, drawing on her education and professional experiences in early childhood education and psychology. Blending narrative and research, this guide offers a path for readers to begin their own self-healing, no matter what the cause. It includes practical tools, techniques, and prompts grounded in key psychological frameworks, such as Jungian principles, attachment theory, and the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, to help readers understand how conditioning and early experiences shape the psyche. Readers of Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score and Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle will enjoy how Sharon Berk bridges the psychology of trauma and validates personal experience. Accessible and informative, The Witness is a must read for anyone who has ever wondered why fear still rules their life and how they can finally break free.

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  • A Snake At My Shoulder

    by Joan Kenny

    Audrey a young professional woman returns to rural Canada from England after the unexpected death of her brother James. Audrey re-visits the town full of ghosts from her fraught past… her distant father, two unsatisfactory stepmothers, her dark and dangerous cousin Struan and her childhood mate, Frank. During a terrible storm Audrey crashes through the old town bridge. Audrey is pulled from the wreck and is transported to the local hospital where she weaves the threads of her tortured childhood with the trials and triumphs of her new life. Audrey presents this blended fabric in a fitful and imagined conversation. She tells him of the successful documentary film company that James and she created in London, and their home away from home in exotic and bustling Cairo. Audrey also confronts her troubled home life, where after the mysterious death of their mother, James and Audrey endure an emotionally void home. She also remembers happier moments of lazy summers by the river, or snuggling in the hayloft with Frank who becomes an invisible vessel for her ravings, to find peace in her tumultuous life. Yet Audrey must remember her unspeakably horrific relationship with Struan.

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  • Hidden Within the Human Husk

    Beyond Self - Service, Philosophy, and Personal Development by Dustin R. C. McClellan

    What if the life you dream of is already within reach, hidden beneath the surface of who you think you are? Hidden Within the Human Husk offers a path to uncover that hidden potential, blending life lessons, personal insights, and wisdom from visionaries like Chief Golden Light Eagle, Bruce Lipton, Napoleon Hill, Maya Angelou, Jordan Peterson, Nikola Tesla, Marcus Aurelius, and many others. But this isn’t their story—it’s yours. This book is a journey of personal transformation designed to help you: • Break free from the habits and patterns that no longer serve you. • Recognize the limitless power within yourself to create change. • Overcome fear and uncertainty with clarity and purpose. • Align your life with the deeper truths that bring lasting joy and fulfillment. Drawing on the interconnectedness of all life and the timeless pursuit of inner peace, Hidden Within the Human Husk is not just a collection of ideas—it’s a blueprint for action. Through practical tools and personal reflections, it will guide you to master your mind, embrace your emotions, and take ownership of your journey. The world is more profound than we see. You are more powerful than you know. Are you ready to uncover what’s hidden within the human husk?

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  • Uh-Oh Dino!

    by Sabeela Gokal

    Beela is a cheerful dinosaur who sets out to paint a special gift for her family, and everything seems to be going perfectly—until it’s not! One slip, one splash, and uh-oh! Her masterpiece tumbles into a colourful mess. With a little imagination and a lot of heart, Beela soon discovers that mistakes aren’t the end of the story. In fact, they can be the beginning of something even more beautiful. Filled with playful rhymes, vibrant illustrations, and a heartwarming message, Uh-Oh Dino! celebrates the beauty of resilience, creativity and the magic of perseverance. Young readers will giggle, cheer, and discover that even messy moments can become something magical.

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  • Koramarian Ways

    by W. Wayne Lautt

    Koraramian Ways is the second book in the Grimes Trilogy. Grimes and Elsay, both members of a secret race called Ancients, travel with Willyum the Bushman, to Willyum's home, the United Princedoms of the Kingdom of Koramar. Willyum, soon revealed to be Prince Haglund, and his two companions arrive to discover that Sarcigens, the centuries old enemies of Ancients, have taken over the Koramarian throne. Many battles are fought to re-take Haglund’s throne, revealing Grimes’ and Elsay’s increasingly special powers. But Gorputh is able to hold the castle secure and unassailable until Grimes invents the parachute and a winged flyer to attack and infiltrate it. The hundred Koramarian warriors that had been held in humiliating and degrading capture inside the castle, are released, and help to destroy the evil forces from within the castle walls. Seventeen years pass peacefully. Grimes and Elsay have two children, Raven and Marn, also Ancients with special powers, each in their own right. Then Gorpurth, the Sarcigen believed to have been killed, is discovered to still be alive and seeking revenge. He will stop short of nothing but the subjugation of all humans and the death of all Ancients. Gorpurth uses the cochina seed, a strong addictive drug, to enslave and control his Fuchian armies and their ravenous canine hunters, the Goron. The power of the seed also allows Gorpurth to transform himself into a massive and vicious eagle who can attack without warning. As evil is set to prevail, the Sorceress, another Ancient from Grimes' distant past, arrives, herself transformed into the form of a raven. A bloody and brutal battle occurs on the ground; and in the air, the raven and the eagle, good and evil, Ancient and Sarcigen, fight for supremacy. Themes of science, politics, personal growth, magical powers, philosophy, brutal warfare, and above all a continuing love story, will draw readers to this unique world.

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