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  Just Jack - The Life and Career...

  Suzanne Woolridge

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  Just Jack is an unbelievable story of a boy who played truant for almost one year and a girl who left school when she was 14 yrs old. Strangely it began as a love letter to my family, and a legacy for future family generations. However, somewhere along the way it became a compelling story of our shared life together, of our challenges during the pioneering edge of cardiac medicine and Echocardiography in Australia, and of our dramas and struggles while we concurrently developed a very successful thoroughbred horse stud with many successful racehorses. This book is a celebration of a remarkable and extraordinary man who lived a thousand lives in one.

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  Perseverance - Life and Death in...

  Stephan Kesting

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  An adventurer, firefighter, and jiu-jitsu practitioner embarks on a journey of a lifetime—a thousand–mile voyage through the Canadian subarctic—after recovering from a life-threatening illness. 
  The Canadian North is a vast and lonely land where bears roam free, fires rage unchecked, and storms blast every living thing on the tundra. When Stephan Kesting, already no stranger to pushing his own physical limits, was faced with a rare illness, he knew the only way for him to recover in both body and mind was to dig even deeper. 
  Despite the dangers inherent in the subarctic, Kesting sets out on an unimaginably difficult journey. Completely alone for six weeks in the wilderness, where a single mistake could cost his life, Kesting followed in the footsteps of the native peoples and earliest explorers. In this deepest solitude and wracked with self-doubt, he found the strength to endure. 
  Perseverance is the moving and nail-biting account of his journey from near-death to a raw embrace of adventure and life. Inspirational, vulnerable, and honest, Kesting shares the lessons he learned in the wilderness that will help us hold onto hope in our darkest moments and show how we can find the strength to overcome any obstacle.

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  Tom Longboat

  Will Cardinal

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  One of the greatest marathon runners of all time, Tom Longboat was one of the best-known athletes of the western world in the early 20th century.
  		 
  Longboat was an astonishing long-distance runner who grew up on the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, Ontario.
  		 
  He won the Boston Marathon in record time, 2:24.24, almost five minutes faster than the 10 previous winners.
  		 
  Longboat then raced in the Olympic Marathon in 1908, but he collapsed on the course amid rumours that his manager had drugged him with strychnine.
  		 
  At a rematch the following year in New York City, Longboat won the race handily, beating his nearest competitor.
  		 
  In 1916, Longboat enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces and worked as a dispatch carrier for the 107th Pioneer Battalion in France.
  		 
  He was left for dead on the battlefield, but somehow survived and returned to Canada only to discover that his wife, Lauretta, thinking he was dead, had remarried.
  		 
  Longboat’s independent spirit and passion for running carried him through the many difficulties he faced as an Aboriginal person.
  		 
  His enduring legacy has been honoured with the Tom Longboat Awards, established in 1951 to celebrate outstanding First Nations athletes in Canada.
  		 
  He is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the Indian Hall of Fame.

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  Show and Tell - Healing From...

  Linda Litteral

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  Linda Litteral is a survivor of incest and rape who used art to heal from the destruction to the body and spirit which comes from physical and sexual abuse. In this courageous memoir, Litteral shares the story of her abuse, spanning eight years of incest perpetrated by her grandfather, a rape she experienced in high school, and physical and verbal violence she suffered at the hands of her first husband. She offers an in-depth psychological profile of the effects of abuse, including silence, shame, invisibility, powerlessness, guilt, and difficulties with trust and identity. She also illustrates how the body remembers abuse through symptomatology like dissociation, anxiety, chronic illness, and other post-traumatic stress responses. 
  Yet Litteral has done more than survive her past—she’s found a way to thrive in the present. She generously catalogs all the healing modalities she has experienced in her decades of undoing the destruction of her past, including talk therapy, meditation, yoga, breathwork, Tai Chi, and somatic-based therapies like acupuncture, EMDR, sacral cranial therapy, and Thought Field Therapy. But it’s when Litteral discovers the power of creating and sharing her art that her healing journey begins in earnest. Accompanied by rich full-color images of her art in every chapter, Litteral shares stories about the creation of her pieces, their stunning symbology, and how they aided in her healing journey. Litteral is both an artist and an activist, a fierce champion for survivors, and an unabashed advocate for the healing power of art.

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  A Boy Who Grew Old But Never...

  Pepper Halph

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  Pepper had four older brothers and an older sister but was raised as an only child. The youngest of his siblings was twelve years his senior. Pepper always regarded himself as an afterthought.
  
  Pepper's father, whom he loved but barely knew, died when he was only nine – Pepper, that is, not his father.
  
  Pepper's father was eleven years older than his mother – Pepper's, that is, not his father's. Pepper inherited his life from his mother. Although she survived two World Wars and the Great Depression, Pepper never wanted for anything. Love you, Mum.
  
  Pepper aged his way through two marriages, a family and a reasonable career. He regrets that some of that time could not have been spent growing up.

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  CS Lewis: The Life and Legacy of...

  Charles River Editors

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  C.S. Lewis had an interesting and turbulent life, during which he maintained a prominent academic career and wrote fictional books that, to this day, captivate readers all over the world, regardless of their age and nationality. To understand his life, it must be kept in mind that he was a communicator at heart. He lectured at Oxford, wrote essays for wartime radio, and crafted fairy tales imbued with moral and theological symbolism. No matter which of these tasks he had at hand, his goal was always the same: convey complex ideas in an accessible manner, defend the rationality of his faith, and, most importantly, tell stories. As a result, the stories Lewis told would attempt to reveal many of the deeper truths about the human condition and experience, some of them referencing his own.  
  Though Lewis wrote his fantasy stories and theological books nearly a century ago, he is still lauded as one of the most celebrated British authors of the 20th century, and it would be an understatement merely to say that he has left a lasting impact on generations of readers. The Chronicles of Narnia have sold over 100 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages, while his apologetic books are still widely read by believers and skeptics alike. Many popular writers in the 21st century, such as Philip Pullman (despite strong disagreements), Neil Gaiman, and J.K. Rowling have all acknowledged Lewis’ role in shaping modern fantasy. At the same time, pastors, professors, and public thinkers still quote him as being one of the clearest voices bridging intellect and faith, referring to his theological works in a variety of ways.

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