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by Wayne Carman Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Born to an Ontario farm family in the post-war baby boom, Wayne Baker was an original from the get-go. Already a fluent reader of Treasure Island and many other books by the time he started school, he was soon bored in his one-room classroom, excelling each year despite increasingly erratic attendance....
Grab The Wheel & Go!
Planning Your Journey Through Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In Grab the Wheel and Go Herb Singer, who launched Discount Car & Truck Rentals and built it into the country’s largest independent car and truck rental operation, shares his life story, business smarts, and wisdom. Herb’s innovative business ideas, such as offering pick-up and drop-off service for...
Heads or Tails
23 Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Readers with a taste for sophisticated literature will find a great deal to interest them in this collection of beautifully crafted short stories. They bring a variety of creative, illuminating, often amusing, and sometimes very affecting perspectives to a range of life experiences. Deeply observed,...
by Richard Philp
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
By the author of the acclaimed Loyalist Rifleman, Acceptable Casualties is the story of two Canadian soldiers, friends who fought in the First World War; "The Great War". It is the story of their war and of their lives, their tragedies and their triumphs. One of the men is fictional. The other is not....
by J.P. Willson
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Depression, self-loathing, unemployment, and destroyed relationships: the effects of drug and alcohol addiction run so much deeper than the morning-after hangover. However, awareness alone will not save the struggling addict, as J.P. Willson reveals in his fearless examination of substance dependency;...
Merchants Exchange
Ignatius Cockshutt, 1812 - 1901 Canadian Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The MERCHANTS EXCHANGE is a lively history, primarily about Ignatius Cockshutt, his entrepreneurial skills, and his contributions to the development of the City of Brantford, Canada, from 1832 to 1962. Following a brief ancestral history of the Cockshutt family in England, it then tells of their emigration...
by Ella Prvi
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
How did religions appear? How are they entwined with politics at the local and national levels? Who truly holds the balance of power in society?
This insightful and persuasive essay covers a wide range of topics that the author seamlessly ties together in a biting critique of politics, religion,...
The Speaker's Tool Box
Perfecting the Craft of Speaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Perfecting the craft of public speaking is like perfecting other crafts. You have to know what tools are available to you, how to use them and use them as often as possible. A carpenter, an electrician and a plumber all have a unique set of tools that they use to deliver their craft. Most of them have...
The Interpreter
A Social Science Perspective on the American Led War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
This book presents contemporary and historical facts about Afghanistan and the American led war in that country. The information presented here is based on field observations and analysis, supported by my decades of worldwide professional experience. While American contribution in education and development...
by Kanwal Sethi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Major Kanwal Sethi was a prominent character in the early days of independent Kenya’s military story—but his personal story is more fascinating still. Here he regales readers with tales of his life, from its beginnings as an ambitious young man who learned early on about the importance of honour,...
Re-Designing Your Life
A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Re-Designing Your Life: A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life is a timely and engaging book for living out the second half of your life with spiritual integrity. In this study you are invited to think about your life as a house undergoing renovations where, with God’s grace, you get...
The Big Cookie Proposition
Insights and Inspiration for a Generous New You
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Studies show that American Christians give only 3% of after-tax income to church, charity, and humanitarian causes. Why so little? In most cases, it’s not for lack of means or desire—they simply have yet to learn how people become givers. The Big Cookie Proposition is unlike any other book you’ve...
On Second Thought
A Collection - Faith Hope Charity
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Experience is the essence of life. Cotton fields, angels, rivers and trees, deserted Orphans; the author finds them all in the human heart. Our omnipresent God, liberty, freedom and love expressed by the never-ending ways of a child. A collection that slows the reader down, softens the rough edges, and...
by Wendy Comeau
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
A Heart of Kindness is the courageous and insightful story of one woman’s quest to heal her broken heart. Wendy Comeau suffered the biggest tragedy a mother can face when she lost her son Christopher to a rare disease when he was only twenty-five. When her brothers and parents all died within a...