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  Let That Sh*t Go: Find Peace & Happiness in the Everyday

  It’s no wonder you can’t calm down: your to-do list is as long as your arm, your bank balance keeps dropping, you feel guilty for not calling your parents more often and there always seems to be a big deadline to meet at work. You need a serious breather—but you can barely find time to shower, let alone to exercise or meditate. In Let That Sh*t Go, Kate Petriw and Nina Purewal share the wisdom they’ve gained though decades of practising and teaching others to find peace of mind no matter how busy they are.
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  Hard Road to Victory: The Chatham All-Stars Story

  This historical nonfiction children's book tells the story of the 1934 Chatham All-Stars. This team of all-Black athletes competed for and won the Ontario baseball championships 13 years before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier.
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  Shadow Boxing and Other Bizarre Adventures of a Blind Girl

  When I was thirteen years old, I found out that I was slowly going blind. In 1999, I was diagnosed with a degenerative, genetic eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa. This condition will leave me mostly, if not completely, blind. As a teenager who felt I could see fine, going blind felt far away. Now, at age thirty-two, I have lost the majority of my peripheral vision and going blind feels anything but far away. If you are going blind and wonder how in the hell you are supposed to cope with this, my story is for you. If you love someone who is going blind and wish that you knew how to help in some way, my story is for you.
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  Hope Rekindled: A Heart Empowered

  The book is a compilation of poems, prose, quotes, and reflections on hope, healing, empowerment, and faith as we journey through life's trials and triumphs, and as we fall and rise. It invites us to listen to our heart's truth, to find the peace our soul longs for, and to be resilient in our pursuit of purpose and finding fulfillment. It allows us to consider how challenges can provide us with an opportunity to rekindle our spirit, renew our courage, and inspire our hearts to heal. And it encourages us to remember our common humanity and embrace kindness and compassion so we can make a positive difference and live in a more peaceful world, which I believe starts with hope and empowerment in the heart. The book also includes nine pages of full-colour photography, including inspiring natural landscapes, to complement the themes of the book.
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  Amidst this Storm

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  The Demonhuntress (graphic novel) Volume 2: Who Knows When Death Arrives?

  Who Knows When Death Arrives? is a graphic novel in the classical gothic mystery tradition about a young woman at a 1950s English boarding school who must contend with a hostile establishment to track a serial killer.
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  Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related

  Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned to Seoul where she spent four months getting to know other adoptees, as well as her Korean mother, father, siblings, and extended family. Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
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  Ghost Geographies: Fictions

  Fleeing communist Budapest by air balloon, a wrestler tries to reinvent himself in Canada. On a formal invitation from the Party's General Secretary, a Belgian bureaucrat “defects” to communist Hungary, chasing the dream of a better world. Meanwhile, a provocateur filmmaker drinks and blasts his way to a final, celluloid confrontation with fascism, while an enfant terrible philosopher works on his prophetic, posthumously panned masterpiece, Dyschrony. These are among the decadent and absurd characters who hover around the promise and failure of utopia across the pages of Ghost Geographies.