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"I understand the nightmares. I still have them. They haven't gone away. But you know what helps? Knowing that you love me so much, despite all my problems, and maybe because of them..."Joseph Sciuto's ninth novel, MIRACLE OF THE RISING SUN, is a riveting portrayal of a diverse group of individuals who have experienced life-changing trauma. Nick, a wartime reporter who, after ten years of covering wars, only sleeps forty-five minutes a night to avoid the nightmares of reliving his horrifying experiences. Alicia, a twenty-three-year-old supermodel, is the victim of a brutal rape and beating that destroys her beauty and her life. She retreats from the world, hiding in her apartment, ashamed. Bee, a ten-year-old child, lives with the fear of being placed with yet another foster family that abuses her. Christine, a fifty-year-old mother, who lives with the guilt of neglecting her son when he was growing up and with the fear of the subsequent choices he makes as an adult.From Hollywood, to New York, Paris, Ukraine and Washington D.C., Nick, Alicia, Bee, Christine, and a circle of strangers come together to form a family. Their support, compassion, and love offer relief from the horrors of the past and the promise and hope of a better tomorrow.

This Senior Sillysaurus and Arya is a memoir disguised as a series of interconnected young persons' books, translated into English from Sillysaurese by Poppa Jeff. The Sillysaurus is much more than a personified pooch who wants to share her superb adventures, sometimes stretching the truth. The Sillysaurus is a philosopher from whose stories we can learn and from whose love and devotion can lead us to become more joyous persons.This second book consists of four separate books with multiple chapters, written by the Sillysuarus and conveniently bound together in one volume. In this volume, the Sillysaurus experiences a pandemic, grows very old, and sadly moves on to Saurus-Nirvana. From there, she suggests Poppa Jeff adopt Arya, a Pup-of-a-Saurus who is full of youthful energy and mischief!

Newly arrived in London, bereft Janice is looking to fill the void left by her first lover, Ariel, and cautiously makes friends with Kobus. When he ruins their friendship, she escapes the tragic consequences by running away to Amsterdam. There she finds a lovable ally in Colin, who is making the most of the city's exciting gay scene. When Janice falls deliriously in lust with the glamorous Hannah, she is unprepared for the inevitable heartbreak. But kind-hearted Kate is there to pick up the pieces and at long last Janice seems to have found her perfect match-and a reason to stop running and accept responsibility for herself.

Dans leur village à la campagne, un jeune garçon et ses amis acceptent leur vie sans souci comme une donnée de l'existence. En plus de leur monde s'articulant autour des bicyclettes, des baignades, de la pêche, l'exploration et les âneries d'usage, le garçon développe un intérêt pour le potager familial.Des années plus tard, se rappelant plusieurs événements de sa jeunesse, l'un d'eux ressort en particulier sa visite interdite au verger de monsieur Drumlin, un des excentriques du village, au cours de laquelle il est invité, à emporter autant de fruits et légumes qu'il le désire.Celui qui un jour fut le jeune garçon, maintenant âgé de 70 ans et retraité, reçoit une invitation pour visiter à nouveau le verger de M. Drumlin. Il hésite un moment avant de se décider: Laisser intact le presque parfait souvenir d'enfance ou revivre l'expérience? Si oui, pour y faire quoi?Après mure réflexion, il tranche et sa décision entraîne une chaîne d'événements qui lui révéleront un aspect inattendu de son monde.Ou est-ce bien le cas ?

The Women Coach Internship Programme, launched at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, was a resounding success and created enduring bonds of friendship and support.When the women crowded into a small room in the Athletes Village for their first meeting, no one knew what to expect and there was no hint that something extraordinary was about to happen. But almost immediately, a powerful connection was established.Their diverse backgrounds range from growing up in farming communities to small towns to sophisticated urban centres. All were athletes, all are committed to improving opportunities for girls to succeed in sport and in life, and all have a strong desire to give back to sport, which has given them so much.This book is testimony to these remarkable women and demonstrates that much is possible when talent, determination, discipline, and courage come together.

Gordon Cressy is a walking, talking civics lesson. His work over the years has been a driving force in making Toronto what it is today - a city that takes top spots globally in livability rankings for diversity, inclusivity, and tolerance. Few know just how many lives he has had or the immense behind-the-scenes contributions he has made to the fabric of Canadian society.Through his stories, Gordon's life unfolds as a fish-out-of-water tale of a kid from North Toronto ending up in the Caribbean and transforming lives, including his own. It is also a story about youth and growing up. It is a story about giving. But it is ultimately the story of the people who made Toronto the community it is today.-Tony Wong

In the late 1970s, deep in the heart of Southwestern Ontario's Tobacco Belt, a madcap crew of summer students learns what it means to work on a tobacco farm. Each finds their own way to cope with the physical and mental challenges to get through the season.Johnny Sandleaves is a Canadian coming-of-age novel showcasing a mix of dark humour and gritty reality while providing a colourful social snapshot of the Old World circumstances shaping the families who moved to this burgeoning corner of Canada. Relatable in its banter and abounding with eccentric characters, Johnny Sandleaves peels back the dramatic layers of how an eclectic crew of tobacco harvesters on Peter DeVreker's farm found themselves where they are - and why, with all of life's possibilities, they ended up working in tobacco.

It all began when a tree demolished a doghouse during a windstorm, revealing something momentous. Initially, Steven and John thought it was a relic from a distant past, to be examined carefully, then filed away and forgotten. But that didn't happen, and chains from the past soon begin to rattle. There's truth in the statement that the past is never dead. The veil concealing the greed and excesses of logging in the nineteenth century begins to lift. One death is soon followed by others, and it quickly becomes evident that family secrets, thought to be long dead and buried, are alive and displaying robust and malicious health. Through it all, a lifelong friendship and an almost mystical connection to an old forest help lay to rest a tumultuous past and find a new way forward.

Uncle Sam leaned back in his chair to light a new Cignals, the dead one smoldering in the ashtray, smoke settling over his shoulder before squiggling in ribbons to join the coiled clouds hanging from the ceiling. After another drink and another suck, he leaned his head back and rounded his mouth into an O and blew a smoke ring to hang like a giant Cheerio above his head in a yellow-fogged halo, like the one in that picture of the upside-down Jesus. Leonard, a live-off-the-grid guy, decides to move his partner, Ruth, and children, Bobby and Rebecca, five and eight, to a remote, live-off-the-land farm on Manitoulin Island. The farm idea soon begins to unravel. Ruth, who suffers from bipolar disorder, retreats to her bed, too depressed to be a farmer's wife. To pay off the mortgage, Leonard works double shifts at the hog plant up the road. Rebecca and Bobby are left to fend for themselves. Enter Leonard's brother Uncle Sam, whose Vietnam War experiences have left him deranged.

Convictions of a Chef is a prison memoir, a travel memoir and a chef's memoir all rolled into one. Filled with fascinating and fun anecdotes about overcoming adversity, culinary challenges and health issues, it's the story of how one boy grew into a man in the trenches of a cruel and senseless drug war, and embraced food, music and travel with all that he had. Gritty, vulnerable and humorous, Chef Evan delves into the ethics of the drug war with the same sense of adventure he uses to embrace culinary, cultural and psychedelic exploration.

When a careless and headstrong teenager manages to drop a suitcase into a small central-Ontario lake, her obsessive need to recover it is the initial element that unleashes a chain of stressful and ominous events. But worse, much worse, is to come.The lake holds a secret, and when that secret emerges, a past that is grim and violent rises up with it. Private Investigator Mark Whelan is called in early to assist in dealing with what is thought to be a short-term and manageable problem. But the nature and scope of the unfolding situation is soon revealed to be vast, lethal, complex, and seemingly impossible to comprehend. Ultimately, Whelan and his colleague Mike Jefferson are drawn into a web that involves multiple murders, drugs, a bounty hunter, and an airplane that seems to be in two places at the same time, all linked in a way that suggests a mastermind at work.Behind all the complexity is a story whose ultimate driver surprises everyone. Learn more about Keith Weaver on his website: keithrobertweaver.com.

The Legends of Lainjin series concludes in the pre-contact city of Nahn Madol. The aging hero Lainjin sails there from his home on Lae Atoll, pursuing his daughter and Ijokelekel, a young man with bold plans to lead a revolt in Pohnpei. When Lainjin arrives, he discovers that the city, now ruled by a tyrannical leader, has changed.Although multiple oral versions of Ijokelekel's story exist, all conclude that he ended the reign of the Saudeleurs, the hereditary rulers of Pohnpei.Pohnpeians settled this area around 2,000 years ago, and Nahn Madol -"the ancient Venice of the Pacific"- was built between AD 800 and 1500. For centuries, Saudeleurs ruled over the city, once a thriving crossroads with 129 structures built with gigantic basaltic crystals cleaved from the cliffs of Pohnpei island. The islanders transported these multi-ton crystals by raft to a reef flat off the island's east coast, where the canals between these mammoth structures could flood with the tides. This ancient city, now a National Historic Landmark, still exists and can be visited.

In a small college town in northern Alberta, there can be burdens to bury. What are the chances: two missing persons in a single day. And evidence of foul play - at least in one case...Corporal Freta Osprey of the RCMP finds herself assigned to Roberta LeBlanc, a senior detective in the Major Crimes Division, brought in from Edmonton to oversee the investigations. Freta and her colleague Corporal Rob Rainy form the LeBlanc Team.A question arises: Does the sudden disappearance of a local real estate mogul have anything to do with a vanished college student who presumably wandered off during a bush party? Improbable, but the two cases keep intersecting...Meanwhile, Freta unofficially enlists the sleuthing skills of Myron Tarasyn, history professor and her significant other. Myron was instrumental in solving a previous case, albeit within the confines of academia.Happy to help, Myron encounters more than he bargained for, from a decidedly anti-police religious leader and his odd son to an unnerving female student who inexplicably shows up wherever he goes!There's more than one game afoot, and the trick is not only to unearth who did what to whom, but to discover where the bodies are buried.

Ashiq Amlani is a hopeless romantic teenager who decides to move from Pakistan to Canada to achieve the biggest mission of his young life: to lose his virginity. Soon after he arrives, he decides that he must hide his heritage in order to fit in by changing his name, his look, and the way he talks. This coming-of-age story is an exploration of the immigrant experience, ethnic humor, and, most poignantly, self-discovery. Brown Boy Barely Blossoms takes you on a journey where Ashiq strives to be Ash, and Ash struggles to replace Ashiq. A world where two identities clash, and a boy becomes a man.

As 14-year-old-Katria watches her father, Ivan, step-by-step sweep his spray of poison brew back to front over the lawn, she imagines the little creatures beneath the fall of his steel- toed boots curling up dead the minute he passes. She imagines his poison percolating through the soil and travelling underground to his patch of rhubarb stalks that he stewed in pots and forced Moms to eat in large quantities to make her lose weight. Then, Katria can hardly believe the voice she hears coming from her mother's grave: "HE POISONED ME. GET EVEN."

You open your door and find business-sized envelopes on the front porch. Your phone rings just as you toss them on the kitchen table.When you answer, an automated messaging system causes your heart to rapidly beat in your chest. Your hands shake.Flustered, the phone slips from your grasp.This collection of very short stories will delight readers interested in any genre.Some may make you sad. Some may make you smile and laugh. Blush? Perhaps. But they promise to entertain. So please sit down, get comfortable and enjoy!

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