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Treasures of the CNE
Memorabilia and Tales from the Canadian National Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
One of the leading collectors of memorabilia from the Canadian National Exhibition tells the stories of “The Ex”. Celebrating a joyful feature of our country’s heritage, the full-colour photos of the author’s extensive collection of cherished memorabilia from the CNE bring to life a bygone era....
My Will to Live
My Story of Surviving the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
A boy is caught up in the German invasion of Poland in 1939. His life is rapidly changed. His family is destroyed. An unbelievable story about escape, intrigue, survival and the miraculous ability of one young man to outwit and outlive his gestapo torturers.
by Andy Nieman
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
The horror of loneliness. Over 10 years in prison. Hooked on heroin, cocaine and drugs for 23 years. A chronic alcoholic for 27. Homeless. Eating out of garbage bins. Born into a violent alcoholic home. Molested by a pedophile in a residential school for three years. Surviving on skid row for 10 years....
by Landen Wakil
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
It’s early summer, and in a small community on the central Jersey Shore, a black car screeches to a halt outside the Wright Bros grocery. Danny looks up from where he’s working at the carwash to see the driver rifle out of the car and chase a girl rushing into the store.For some reason—fate...
My Life in Service
Memoir of a U.S. Navy Corpsman
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This is the story of a not so good, bullied, student who joins the Navy and finds a home and a new life, during a troubled time in American History. It begins in grade school where the boy is forced to fight and run for his survival, from bigger, older students and class mates. The boys troubles continues...
The New Arcadia
Tahiti's Cursed Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
SINCE BEING “DISCOVERED ” IN 1767, Tahiti has faced a profound cultural upheaval. From the start, she has been branded with the irresistible dual myth of the Noble Savage’s harmonious Arcadian life and of the vahine’s amorous favours freely granted. People (navigators, missionaries, whalers,...
Love's Illusions
Poetry & Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
All too often, life happens to us without us pausing to reflect on what we have and how it makes us feel. That’s where a work like Love's Illusions: Poetry & Thoughts comes in. Poet Margaret Dent’s delightful and thought-provoking poetry explores how our connections with nature and others shape our...
Flight Lines
Assorted lies, recollections and war stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Almost forty years of professional flying in more than a dozen aircraft types—from supersonic RCAF jet fighters to helicopters to B747s—along with summer flying training while attending The Royal Military College of Canada, a solid career on the flight decks of a fleet of Air Canada aircraft, RCAF/Government...
The Dance Gods
A New York Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
When Kenny Pearl arrived in New York City, determined to succeed as a dancer, he was penniless, friendless and jobless. His memories shine against the backdrop of the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, including Vietnam War protests, the military draft and the rampant crime that once plagued the city. From...
The Life and Times of Lorne W P Vanderwoude
The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Life can be hard at the best of times, and throw obstacles in our paths that seem like more than we can bear. Lorne W.P. Vanderwoude has had to overcome more than his fair share of obstacles. Given up for adoption by a schizophrenic mother who had no choice in the matter, he was lucky enough to be...
by Jean Price Claridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Do you have questions about Death and Dying? Why Are We Here? What is Time? Are there Angels? If so, I feel this book may help you find some of those answers.After an amazing healing when I was young, I began my quest to answer these and all of the ‘Big’ questions, in simpler non-scientific terms....
Angels Are Active In Puerto Vallarta
My Life With A Broken Wing
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This book is inspired by my experiences in Puerto Vallarta Mexico in the years I lived there. Most of these stories are about my friends. Some of the names of the places and people have been changed. I am not a writer in the true sense, I am a story teller. My friends kept hounding me to put these stories...
Mile Post 104 and Beyond
We Have Walked Together in the Shadow of the Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this heartwarming memoir, Bob Wells recreates his youth during a bygone era in a remote area of Northwestern Ontario. It’s a youth without electricity or central heating; with water carried up from the lake; with outhouses and chamber pots; with storks delivering babies and hard‑working immigrants...
Pioneer Muskoka
Tales of Courage, Grit and Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The history of Ontario's premier cottage destination, Muskoka, was not commonplace or uneventful. Beginning in the 1860's, emigrants from the British Isles and Europe were lured to this desolate region with the promise of free land grants for farming. What they found were mature forests, swamp, and never...