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It's spring of 1867, and Lucy Cavanagh-NYC heiress, literary lover, and dreamer-is taking the biggest risk of her life. She's left everything behind to journey west, in the hopes of reconnecting with the only person who can answer question...

As unchecked industrial growth threatens to destroy the planet, only a pair of unlikely heroes stand in the way of the relentless corporation known as SMRZ Industries. Alongside a band of fearless rebels, Mr. P'choka and Earl strike back at their ...

Thought-provoking and enlightening, God: The Active Principle of Love examines the "dual componency" of the metaphysical and the physical that encompasses human existence. Addressing the traditional teachings of a variety of world religions, M...

In this engaging read, Nico Human, a trusted business advisor, shares what he has learnt from following the journeys of five of his clients. These inspirational CEOs are successful to cultivate joy for themselves, their teams and their families ev...

The Cottage Woman is a human story, a daring, and true story. This ancient, wise woman became a spiritual guide, a telescope, a therapist, and a friend. She helped those who visited her to navigate relationships, health crises, and daily challenge...

In an age when religion and spirituality have moved to the periphery of Western culture, The Burden of Light reveals characters who find themselves confronted by grace and a transcendent, eternal presence that is the backdrop to their lives.

It's show-and-tell day and would you not want to be able to bring the most super-de-duper show-and-tell surprise EVER? That is what Makayla wants too! This is her very most favourite day and you never know what will happen, because sometimes cha...

Cheyenne is a pampered show kitty living with a loving family. Peek-A-Boo is a feral cat who was left at the humane society. When Peek-A-Boo is adopted by Cheyenne's family, Cheyenne's jealousy causes her to lie to the new cat. She tells Peek-...

Earth has always cared for the beings living on her, giving them everything she has. But now she is being abused and feels she has lost her purpose. With people constantly arguing, wars being waged, and pollution threatening to destroy every livin...

Though modern science and technology have given us comfort and security, for many people, something deeper is also needed; something that takes us closer to our evolutionary roots in nature. This book will allow the reader to experience, from the ...

It is the summer of 1972: the Vietnam War is still raging, the Cold War is still hot and WWII is still a lurking memory.This legal thriller travels from the Canadian bush to the Australian outback; from courtroom battles to barroom brawls.Old Bill has died.He lived alone in a one room shack along the Blue River in Saskatchewan. His was a simple life; he needed little. But in death, he leaves an estate potentially worth millions of dollars.In his handwritten will, he gives all to the wife and daughter of an Australian airman, who was killed in a prisoner of war camp at Niigata, Japan in 1945. To his surviving brother, he leaves 'absolutely nothing'.Josef Manne, a young criminal lawyer, is charged with carrying out the old man's wishes.The brother challenges the will. If it is overturned, he inherits all. Josef's biggest problem is the will itself. Why would Old Bill leave everything to the wife and daughter of this deceased Australian airman? Makes no sense. Josef needs to find out the why. What happened at Niigata in 1945?First, Josef needs to find the wife and daughter. If both are dead, the will lapses, and the estate goes to the brother. The wife has died leaving the daughter, Rebecca, the sole beneficiary. Josef travels to Goondiwindi, Queensland in search of her. Little does he know that others are searching for Rebecca as well - to kill her.Josef has to keep Rebecca alive.

Hank Neufeld has published an intriguing memoir which covers his early life as well as his retirement years. His boyhood, a time of confusion and surprising pleasures, hardly prepares him for his future, although Nature plays a wonderfully-intuitive role during this time. Woven throughout Part 1's multiple vignettes are poignant descriptions of his boyish reverence for wild creatures, trees, creeks, and the prairie, all phenomena he loves and is drawn to. He finds a spiritual refuge in the natural world outside his church, an accessible God independent of rituals and formal prayers.His large family is totally committed to their overly-coercive evangelical Mennonite Brethren church, and this creates a growing ambivalence about life's bigger questions. Both his home and his church believe they have a spiritual truth which is absolute. His struggle with his mix of certainty and doubt governs a big part of his life.The author skips his working years to paint the pain-filled events of his retirement. He pays loving tribute to his wife, the person nearest to his heart, and tells how their desperate and repetitive attempts to help their son and grandson find their way past the unrelieved grip of addiction proves beyond them. Together they confront the horrid tragedies of two futile and pointless events even while dealing with the idea of an unconditionally-loving God they grew up with. The couple's relationship grows ever closer as they join hands to walk the precipitous trail of their calamitous experience. Life is hard, but, like the Nature of the author's early life, it is also strangely beautiful.There is a disarming frankness in Hank Neufeld's memoir. His candid writing unbolts the reserve found in less open writing and makes his true story believable. This tale of profound love and loss, spiritual quest, and human courage will resonate in the heart of the reader.