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42 genres of 1,764 42-word stories. A massive book at almost 600 pages.
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Filled with one-liners and imaginative fun, this sweet little book is sure to delight dog and cat lovers. These dog and cat antics show the comical side of life. Black and white illustrations.
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The Latin phrase ‘Tabula Rasa’ or ‘blank slate’ in English is used in regard to the infantile mind being much like a clear, pristine sheet of paper, waiting to be filled as an individual matures, ideas taking root after gaining many an experience the environment has to offer.
This book is a collection of ekphrastic poetry; however, each piece of work acts as a self-contained verse, despite being inspired by art from all over the world. Composing poems is rather similar to painting a picture, the pen being the calligraphic counterpart to a brush and language; the corresponding analogue to the colours on a palette. Both these approaches serve to produce the same effect; the unplumbed impulses of the architect, tucked away in the deepest recesses of the psyche.
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A collection of poetry by Anik Samanta.
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Daddy’s Remains is the story of Abram Zajdman, who once lived and was buried twice. Born at the dawn of communist terror, Abram grew to manhood in pre-war Poland. Fleeing invading German forces, Abram’s escape into Stalin’s Soviet Union saved his life but cost him his innocence. A sojourn in postwar Paris began to restore his equilibrium. Along with thousands of stateless refugees, Abram immigrated to Canada in 1948 and found fulfilment in marriage to a loving and courageous woman.
Abram’s story is one of resilience, transcendence, joie de vivre, and legacy; the lives he touched, the children he left behind, and what happened to them. It is also a tale of love.
You can’t keep a good man down. In Daddy’s Remains, Abram once more lives.
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What if the world – and everyone in it – were more magical than we thought? That is the premise of this chapbook of micropoems by award-winning poet and prolific writer Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt. Inspired by Gotthardt’s adult son who has autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other disabilities, this collection features vivid imagery, intentional line breaks, and word economy expressing the mysteries and mysticism of the natural and human worlds. Each expertly crafted poem is accompanied by a visual image enticing the reader to think more deeply about nature, the circle of life, and things we take for granted. We All Might Be Witches will have you reconsidering assumptions and celebrating the magic that is all around us.
Proceeds from this book benefit nonprofit programs serving individuals with ASD, cognitive and/or emotional disabilities.
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The Terrorist’s Journal consists of nineteen memoranda with alternating points of view between a butterfly and a terrorist, penned as though chronicling the swiftly passing life of a revolutionary or terrorist. Nandy has chosen to enmesh the motifs of dreams and identity with substantiality, as though there lies no border between the two concepts constantly encroaching upon one another.
A butterfly denotes “transition.” Terrorism, despite being a great evil, still aims to drastically shift a notion. It is to be noted that these poems in no way justify the infliction of fear in ordinary folk, but try to display that some people revel in the idea of a glorious death within the depths of their subconscious, so much so that the looming guillotine before their eyes gives them a feeling of inebriation.
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Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from 75 authors around the world writing to the theme of “love gone wrong.”
A frog never turns into a prince (no words can mince that fact), and odds are highly stacked that frogs don’t turn into princesses wearing fancy dresses…
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A Comedy of Terror is a chilling book of fiction based on real events. Author Scully uses grim humour to cover the lunacy of some of the endeavours and concocts nightmares to peer into hell-holes he could not reach.
The book covers two frantic decades from the 1970s to the end of the 1980s. It involves the trafficking of nuclear weapons by terrorists and power-crazed countries including Libya, Pakistan, North Korea, and Britain.
While the Vietnam War ended in humiliating defeat for the United States and its oleaginous keeper of the lies Richard Nixon, that endless catastrophe known as the Middle East also spewed an infamous peace treaty. But during these seemingly triumphant fallacies, terrorists’ eyes and money were elsewhere as they massacred and assassinated their way to secretly build A-bombs for the highest bidder. Few suspected Libya, the IRA, and British spies. Scully witnessed much of this horrific, heinous plot.
Scully was deeply involved in these events but is keeping his journalistic-based investigations secret. He has covered stories in all the countries named in this book with the exception of Afghanistan and North Korea.
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Demons, trolls, ghosts, werewolves, a mysterious cassette tape, birthdays, camping, hiking, caves, cemeteries, poutine… QUESTION: What do the above have in common? ANSWER: All these themes (and more!) are contained in this book of 21 stories by 21 authors suitable for teens and adults.
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Sixteen tall tales by sixteen amazing authors: intriguing incidents, gory grisliness, haunting horrors, mysterious mayhem, and terrifying thrillers. Stories to enjoy during the day, even at night. But keep your eyes wide open . . . both of them.
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A memoir about recovering from childhood trauma…
What does the loss of identity look like? The seeds of shame, abuse, and neglect – from family and childhood – can grow and flourish, darkening and stunting your life, leaving you terrified and helpless. Maybe it doesn’t matter when you break through – as long as you do. For Ray Bartodziej, it was many years before a new beginning and the inner voices helped him. As he found, it’s our birthright and responsibility to take our place in the world, rising above trauma, hopelessness, and addiction. This book is also a vivid adventure through the soundtrack of TV, film, and the “coming-of-age” rock music of the ’60s and ’70s! The journey with community, relationships, school, and profession, is a reminder of how much the past dictates who we are today and how we can begin to free ourselves.
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Running with Priscilla is a great love story written in the classical tradition. Lessons are learned and shared with the reader.
Love at first sight is not some fairy tale. There comes a time when the right person enters the heart and changes one forever. This relationship is supernatural. Love and courtship change our experience of life forever. We are not masters of the art of love. Love seeks us out, bringing a new message to our lives, marked by habit and getting too much of a good thing year after year without effort.
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REMEMBERING NURSES WHO SERVED covers the lives of 200 graduates of the Victoria General Hospital School of Nursing and describes their lives before, during and after serving in WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam. Four nurses made the supreme sacrifice in WW1 and one nurse in WW2. The ships they were transported or served in, their hospital units, and the battles and conflicts in which they were connected are also described in detail. At the beginning of the book, the evolution of the VG Hospital, the Nursing School, the VG Alumni and the VG Archives are described, as well as why these four conflicts occurred. The book is 8.5 x 11 and contains numerous photos, including nurses and their graduation pictures, in its 276 pages.
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Within these pages are copies of pictures, hand-written minutes of original meetings, and various writings that provide glimpses of the period of the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1891 to 1995. These snippets of history reveal responses to various world events and give a snapshot of an outstanding local institution that has been instrumental in providing health care and health care providers for countless numbers. This book is a must-read for anyone with connections to the Victoria General Hospital and/or the Victoria General Hospital School of Nursing, past or present. Compiled by Madeleine McCully McNeil.
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In DIVINE ENLIGHTENMENT, the author describes occurrences she experienced that defy explanation. These incidents include angels, visions, and much more. Even the author cannot explain the unexplainable. Included in this book are images of angels that magically appeared from paint applied to paper, none of which had been sketched beforehand. A photograph of an everyday lightbulb shows what appears to be the Holy Cross embedded inside. The author believes angels inspired her to write this story so others might understand that angels truly exist.
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Brad and Kate meet at Richardson’s Bar and soon escape from a venue not geared to their forty-plus years. He doesn’t know why he turned into that particular bar in the city he was visiting. She wishes she hadn’t let her girlfriends drag her into that bar after dinner on the town. Such a happenstance meeting should be over quickly and casually. What prolongs this togetherness? Neither stops to think of the implications, not just for them but for their families. As the momentum of the weekend propels them into a romance that neither searched for, their lives and those of the people who surround them have to be evaluated. What needs to change? Is it fair Brad and Kate initiate change? As much as a quick resolution would simplify matters, it can’t happen. Given time and change, it may be resolved. Brad and Kate and those connected to them, like you, the reader will have to wait and see.
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David Du was born in Qingdao, China, a city close to the Yellow Sea, and lived in China for 45 years before moving to Canada. He’s lived in Canada for 10 years. He wanted to record his life’s journey, and the best way for him to do that was through his poetry. The game of David’s life is poetry. “Poetry is like a teaspoon of sugar placed into a cup of black coffee. Poetry is a quilt warming my cool life; poetry is fireworks burning my lonely sky; poetry is playing cards with others. Life is a game where everyone plays their part.” Read David’s words in quiet moments and listen with care to the voice that speaks them. As we make our way through the swirl of modern life, David’s is a voice that deserves to be heard—and one we deserve to hear. This book contains 100 of David Du’s poems.
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Tom Robson began to write creatively in his forties after he moved to Nova Scotia. Originally, his work was either with or for his elementary school students, or purely for the satisfaction that results from creating. Though his students were primarily the target audience for much of his fiction, poetry and plays, he also compiled reminiscences of his ancestry, his early life in England and, later, his life after becoming an immigrant in Canada.
“Written While I Still Remember” is a history of the times, as well as a personal portrait composed during the last thirty years. The collection of sometimes true stories and poems coincided with a distancing from his children and grandchildren, most of whom had little perception of the people, places and situations that had shaped him. This book is meant to right that wrong—to give life to their shadowy predecessor. Too often, individuals wait until it is too late to discover the facts behind the elders in their lives. Of course, facts can be embellished by the elderly’s tale-telling.
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DOCTOR ON THE ROCK recounts the experiences of Christian Belcourt, a doctor in Ferryland, Newfoundland, from 1959 to 1962, during the early days of outreach medicine. The book also covers the period of his childhood when he was inspired to do medicine as a career, future visits to the island as a radiologist, and his last visit as a tourist.
Christian grew up in a sub-tropical climate in Mauritius, surrounded by beautiful beaches, abundant fauna, and lush flora. French being his mother tongue, not only did he have to overcome the difficulties of language when he landed in Ferryland, he also had to apply his British training to the life of a doctor in an outport without a hospital and adapt to challenges of isolation and rigorous winters.
After further training in Radiology in Ottawa and Boston, he worked at the IWK Children’s Hospital. He later returned to Newfoundland for locums. After retirement, he visited again, when he met previous patients and documented fascinating changes that had occurred over the previous 50 years.
The book delivers many anecdotes unique to the Southern Shore of the Avalon Peninsula, where the Irish first settled two centuries ago.
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Remy, just out of a relationship gone wrong, meets handsome Jeremy, the boy next door. Jeremy exudes an air of mystery, and he seems to be everything she’s looking for. While Remy allows herself to indulge in the idea of love at first site, she realizes she’s the girl next door according to her boss, Dr. Samuel Kendrick. For the first time in her life, Remy has the luxury of choosing between the handsome young neighbor and her upstanding-and-sometimes-uptight boss. The situation intensifies when Barbara arrives, claiming to be an ex-beau of Jeremy and pregnant with his child. Is Jeremy who he claims to be? Is Sam on the level? What does Remy do? Does she pick the right man?
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This collection has comedic poems. It has poems about language. It has poems about time. It has three sections.The first contains poems of varying freedom and form.The second is made up of Rectangles. These are the author’s own invention. They have the same number of characters on every line.The third is made up entirely of haiku (Poems of three lines: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables.)
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This book is filled with lovely stories of modeling, mentoring, and othermothering,as told by accomplished women. Their stories are authentic, yet inspiring. As the reader, you will find yourself yearning to share your own story!
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Though many people have been touched by Wang Wei’s pulse and have left their impressions, David Du still wished to translate his poetry, especially after arriving at Wang River and seeing only one lonely statue in his honour. David says, “Reader, read my work in quiet moments, and you will hear the sound of three voices: the translator’s (mine), the English editor’s (Scot), and Wang Wei’s. Turn the pages as if you are opening your eyes to take a look into another world of culture.” He hopes you, the reader, will enjoy this journey as much as he did.Wang Wei was born in the Tang Dynasty (701-761) and, mainly through his mother’s influence, was a lifelong Buddhist. He even took as his other name “Mo Jie (Vimalakirti),” the name of a well-known lay Buddhist who lived in the early Buddhist era. Wang Wei had great skills as an artist, whose paintings others copied (the cover painting, “Snow on the Yangtze,”is his), and also as a famous musician. As a result, the best of his poetry combines the three elements of his artistic nature: poetry, music, and painting. There are also Zen or Buddhist perceptions in his poetry, for which he was given the name “The Poetry Buddha.”
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Written in an important era of Chinese culture, the Tang Dynasty, the poems of Du Fu bring his times to life across the wide span of centuries. Graced with philosophical wisdom, exquisite poetry, penetrating psychology, his writing is as wide-ranging as his wandering, fugitive life, on horseback, and by foot and boat.
These tales of love and war, privilege and suffering, family and friends, political allies and enemies, enrich his many readers. Poems of history, romance, fantasy, nature, and the imperial service were all part of his scope. A born poet, he did not fit easily into the culture around him, except through his poetry, which he wrote steadily throughout his lifetime no matter what challenges he faced. He became the one critics say is the Shakespeare of the East, and he is known as the Sage of Poetry.
His first poem to survive is from 735 CE and his last was written in 770. In his brief 6-week stay in Quinzhou, he wrote over 60 poems, and he wrote over 400 poems during the 2 years he spent near the Three Gorges as his 59-year life began to draw to its close. His style was very dense and virtuosic and not typical of his era, but he spoke up for the common people with new sentiments of compassion, reminding the powerful of the moral obligations of the nobility.
This book includes his most remarkable works, divided into 5 types of ancient poetic style to guide the reader to easily embark in The Boat of Du Fu.
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Hair. All women can relate. We wear it, buy it, grow it, or chop it off. We shave it and style it. It can make us cringe have “bad hair days” when everything seems to be going wrong—even if our hair is not to blame.Joanna McGee Bradford shares how God wants you to live and love regardless of what’s happening on top of your head. HAIR STORIES will fill your mind and heart with humor, encouragement, and insight. It will remind you that your crown is rooted in embracing your identity as women of God. Empower yourself through meditation and self-reflection. Your hair doesn’t have to be perfect; neither do you.
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After Brindy lost both of her parents by the age of ten, she was separated from her siblings and family members and sent to an orphanage on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. She soon found herself blending in with the orphans and gaining an education that could open doors for her future. It wasn’t until she left the orphanage that she recognized her deep pain from losing her family and her need to begin healing so she could receive love again. On the other side of the world in Magee, Mississippi, Natalie had everything going for her: job potential in New York City, a thriving ministry position in Dallas, and a family who loves and supports her as she pursued her dreams. In 2013, at the age of 23, Natalie found herself in the mountains of Mindanao, Philippines. Her unexpected friendship with Brindy caused her to discover a way to bring freedom to orphans and neglected kids through healing the deep-rooted wounds of trauma. In THE FORGOTTEN ONES, Natalie weaves together our human need to own our stories, with the hope that she’s found in Jesus. Through Brindy’s story of courage and healing and Natalie’s story of pursuing God, both women discover the truth that He is not just enough for them, but for the forgotten children of the world.
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Sisterhood among women is vital when sister girls are in the midst of their wilderness season. As women, we can cover other women through prayer, love, and support, or we can gossip and wish for their demise. Which sister girl are you?REMOVING THE MASK is a raw and transparent glimpse of the author’s journey through her own wilderness season and how forgiveness, love, and grace met her at the end. She gives credit to women who have already removed their masks, which enables other sisters to see the blessings in the wilderness.Stephanie removed her mask! Have you removed your mask yet?
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Explore the alphabet with the help of silly animals. Beautifully illustrated and entertaining, this book is sure to make you and your little one smile.
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There is no better place than the bathtub to wind down after baby’s day. Follow baby as she splishes, splashes, pours and laughs and even gets washed in the process. BABY LOVES BATH TIME is a simple, sweet short book created with babies and young children in mind.
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