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13 Ways to Kill Your Community 2nd Edition
by Doug Griffiths and Kelly Clemmer
13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, and fun. One can imagine readers seeking out information on boosting their local community sighing dutifully as they seek out material and then being relieved and delighted when what they find turns out to be as entertaining as it is informative. The information provided is sometimes startling and often positively revelatory. The anecdotes and examples are delivered with wit and a little bit of a...
Houndsfire
Embers of Home by Ryelee Arishenkoff
Baelhast once flourished with magic. Now it withers in the wake of the Cull, when it was hunted to extinction. Arland is one of many cities that rots beneath its new rulers—the Houndsguard—who have put wolves in every alley and blood in every home. Wulf has survived this far in gutters and on rooftops. Stubborn and reckless, he has always learned the hard way—one day, it won’t give him back. With his adoptive brother and a crew of thieves to pick up the slack, it’s just enough to survive a...
Managing Conflict
A Pastor's Account of Shepherding Congregations to Health and Renewal by Pastor Melle Pool
This book is written primarily for leaders, especially church leaders. But its message is relevant for anyone who leads groups or organizations. Pastor Pool’s thesis is that diverse viewpoints, or clashing of opinions, which is often seen as unacceptable, must, instead, be accepted as a normal part of life. Rather than rejecting or avoiding conflict, it must be managed so that it may become a force for good in our personal and corporate life. Managing conflict is like driving down a...
Searching for Meaning through Reflections on Life
by Jessie Bissoon
As we get older, it seems like there is no shortage of challenges we must face. Increasing stress at work, caring for aging parents, or supporting loved ones—the list can feel endless. At times we are so focused on others, we sometimes neglect ourselves. We forget to appreciate the world around us, nature, the people who support us and the meaningful impact we have on our world. In Searching for Meaning through Reflections on Life, poet Jessie Bissoon turns to the mysteries of the universe,...
Beyond the Gate
Poetry and Photography by Doug Jordan and Sidney Shapira
When the world amazes and words fail the rest of us, true poets step up to capture such moments forever, and then hold them up for the consideration, edification, and enjoyment of others … like precious gems best viewed from multiple angles. The poems (and photography) in this collection do just that, with the poignant and thought-provoking work of Doug Jordan and Sidney Shapira inviting readers to stop awhile and ponder what truly might lie Beyond the Gate. Supported once again by the...
Failing Health
The Rise and Fall of Canada's Health Care System by Stephen R. Barron
Do you believe Canada’s health care system is working as well as it should be? Despite having a publicly funded health care system, Canadians have suffered for years from a shortage of family doctors, excessively long wait times for specialists and investigations, overcrowded emergency departments, and “hallway medicine” in our hospitals. It wasn’t always like this. After over 40 years as a front-line traditional family doctor, Dr. Steve Barron outlines the vital signs warning us that...
Eddie's Adventures at Rainbow Bridge
by Averil Robinson
Eddie the Pug is ready to cross the Rainbow Bridge and enter Furever Land. He’s met at the Rainbow Bus by Tetley, a kind and friendly poodle who shows Eddie around his new home. There’s baseball, and a pet salon, and even a bank! But Furever Land is just a stop on the road. Here, pets wait for their humans to come and take them to Heaven. What a beautiful place Furever Land is!
I Want to Break Free
An Abacus Story by Koorosh Eslami
In 1984, fourteen-year-old Koorosh Eslami left Tehran with his father to escape being drafted into the Iran-Iraq War. After living and studying in Türkiye, his unique adventure begins and he flees to Canada alone, illegally where he was detained in January 1986. Eventually, a loving foster home took him into their arms, where the daily fun and chaos plunged him headlong into his first lessons about North American life. Told through the running metaphor of an abacus—each bead representing a...
Schumann, Vienna and the Cat
by Robert Silverman
Robert Schumann—one of the most imaginative figures of the Romantic era—and concert pianist Robert Silverman: in both lives, brief but psychologically complex sojourns in Vienna became decisive crucibles, testing ambition against reality and shaping the emergence of fully formed artistic identities. Their two stories unfold in counterpoint in Schumann, Vienna, and the Cat, illuminating one another across time. In the first half of the book, Silverman traces his own artistic formation in...
Camille the Hero
by Sandra Marquis
Camille is bored and wants to do something, so her mom suggests she try being a hero. Heroes are always having adventures! Camille agrees this is a great idea, and she sets off to explore her street. But it turns out being a hero is hard when no one needs saving. As Camille looks for ways to help people in her own neighbourhood, she discovers there’s more to being a hero than putting on a cape, fighting bad guys, or even saving lives. Camille the Hero is the first book in the Tales of...