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  Musings Woolgathering & Ghosts -...

  CK Sobey

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  I have wondered at the many ways life turns me inside and out every day of my life.  
  I do my best to see life with depth and breath. A broader lens of what I see day to day. 
  That with practice and intent, I will find the uncommon in everyday life. 
  That simply living my daily experiences can in itself become a form of art. 
  Uncovering the extraordinary in each day stimulates me to step out of same old, same old. 
  It stirs me and how I interact with everything I come in contact with. 
  For the most part, this book has come together aroused by thoughts and feelings from my everyday life. 
  Some are deeper, more insightful. Others are lighter and more playful. Some are haunting with vivid memories that follow me through my life. 
  I hope that everyone who is drawn to this book will resonate in some way with the stories and my photographs on the pages. 
  I feel the photographs tell a story in themselves. 
  An Excerpt from Musings, Woolgathering, and Ghosts: 
  “Life is many things and all the in-between. 
  How big and wide will you live your life? 
  Or will the fear of this day cause your experience to be narrowed, smaller? 
  Starvation is not always about the stomach.  
  It is all about the view.”  
  CK continues to live a life of curiosity. She considers herself to be seeker. An explorer. 
  Her many ventures in life attest to this. 
  In her earlier years she was in the entertainment field. 
  She has been a trained mediator. She was in the corporate world for almost 30 years.  
  She trained as a Spiritual practitioner, and later became a certified hypnotherapist bringing a deeper understanding of the inner mind. 
  She has facilitated many groups in a variety of subjects and collage art for years. 
  CK has since “retired” from her businesses to spend more time reimagining her life.

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  Do You Remember Being Born? - A...

  Sean Michaels

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  Marian Ffarmer is a world-renowned poet and a legend in the making—but only now, at seventy-five years old, is she beginning to believe in the security of her successes. Unfortunately, a poet's accomplishments don't necessarily translate to capital, and as her adult son struggles to buy his first home, her confidence in her choices begins to fray. Marian's pristine life of mind—for which she's sacrificed nearly all personal relationships, from romance to friendship to motherhood—has come at a cost. 
   
   
    
  Then comes a cryptic invitation from the Tech Company. Come to California, the invitation beckons, and write with a machine. The Company's lucrative offer—for Marian to coauthor a poem in a 'historic partnership' with their cutting-edge poetry bot, named Charlotte—chafes at everything she believes about artmaking as an individual pursuit . . . yet, it's a second chance she can't resist. And so to California she goes, a sell-out and a skeptic, for an encounter that will unsettle her life, her work, and even her understanding of kinship. 
   
   
    
  Both a love letter to and interrogation of the nature of language, art, labor, capital, family, and community, Do You Remember Being Born? is Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's empathetic response to some of the most disquieting questions of our time.

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  From Dragonfly With Love

  Michael Anderle, TR Cameron,...

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  Two magical killing weapons were left in the hands of the British government. Dragonfly is coming for them. 
   
   
   
  Can Aisling and her dragon, Shimmer, steal them away before their enemies get there first? 
   
   
   
  Jameson Hart and his leader, Kali, are also on the trail of the DragonEye weapons. Aisling might resist hurting her federal sometime-allies, but Hart feels no such love. 
   
   
   
  Fifty-fifty shot, but Dragonfly has to try. Leaving the weapons out in the world is unacceptable. 
   
   
   
  Mia will have to use her skills as an infomancer to help out her team. The weapons are well hidden, and she will need to conjure the necessary information out of very thin air. 
   
   
   
  But wait, there's more and it's not good news. The governments they've stolen from have banded together against Dragonfly. For now, it's just surveillance, but no one thinks it will stop there. 
   
   
   
  It's the final round. Dragonfly vs. everyone else, and Aisling's team will come out swinging. Aisling has a particular bone to pick with Jameson Hart. Magic and bullets will fly as it comes down to the end.

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  Murray Leinster: PARIAH PLANET -...

  Murray Leinster

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  When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. But the Med Service ship Aesculapius 20 with Calhoun and Murgatroyd the Tormal aboard are on the job and have stumbled into the horrible mess caused by unreasoning hatred, quarantine, mass starvation and serious bureaucratic screw ups. Calhoun must use all his medical knowledge and significant skills to even understand the situation here in neglected Sector 12. Can he and Murgatroyd untangle this Gordian's knot and live to tell the tale? Maybe and maybe not. Listen and find out.

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  Manners and Monsters

  Tilly Wallace

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  A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay... 
  Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation. 
  Except Hannah discovers her role is to apologise in the wake of the rude and disgraced man tasked with finding the murderer. The obnoxious Viscount Wycliff thinks to employ Hannah purely as a front to satisfy Whitehall, but she'll have none of that. 
  The two must work together to find the murderer before the season is ruined. But the viscount is about to meet his greatest challenge, and it's not a member of the ton with a hankering for brains.

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  Anton's Last Dream - In the...

  Edwin Baird

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  Anton's Last Dream by Edwin Baird - A brief tale of the dismal success of a scientist's experiment. 
  Anything that man can dream, man can do. So believed Anton Slezak, the chemist. 
  Man had dreamed of flying, Anton would argue, and now he flies across the seven seas. He had dreamed of annihilating distance, and today he sends his voice round the world with the speed of light. He had dreamed of penetrating the mysteries of the universe, and now he sees trillions of miles into space. 
  So argued Anton, the chemist. 
  Anton had dreamed many dreams, and some had vanished mistily and some had become reality. But none was too fantastic for Anton's laboratory tests. 
  Upon the chemist in his laboratory, Anton often said, rested the future development of mankind. And the future, Anton promised, would outshine the present as the present outshines the past. 
  No poor dreamer was Anton. His dreams had brought him great riches. For he had turned his genius to practical matters, and, working miracles in his laboratory, had discovered ways of converting waste into things of commercial value—cornstalks into cloth, weeds into paper, coal soot into lacquer—and from these and other such discoveries Anton had derived much wealth. 
  He had bought a magnificent home. He had married a young and lovely woman. He had a nephew who idolized him; and he had many friends and admirers and loyal assistants, and a truly beautiful wife, who, as anybody could plainly see, loved him devotedly. He had, indeed, one might have said, everything worth living for. 
  And now, at the age of fifty-two, he seemed on the threshold of still greater achievements. 
  At the moment, however, Anton was employed in developing a dream, the fulfilment of which could have no practical value whatever.

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