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"Marty Ohlhaut loved the great outdoors, and he loved his family, but this time, the combination proved disastrous. Cooped up inside due to long work hours, Marty was excited about taking off with his wife and five children for the beautiful Canadian Rockies. Aware that this could be their last camping trip together, he wanted to make it extra memorable. Little did he know how memorable it would be. From a massive heat wave and tainted water to encounters...

Book synopsis: Full Moon Survivor is the follow up book to We Came In Like the Wind. A collection of poetry expressing the strength of the human spirit. This book highlights the perseverance dealing with the pandemic, the loss of life, and starting over. Each poem represents a raw organic message capturing the world in the previous few years. Autobiography: Andrea Fahselt is a make-up artist, sales and education executive and part time professor....

Au milieu des eaux, une île, un phare. Là habitent, seuls avec les oiseaux, une fille, son père et sa mère. Un marin survient. Il a fait naufrage la veille. Entre lui et la fille débute une étrange histoire d'amour, expression du besoin profond qu'a la jeune femme de s'émanciper de sa famille, de cette île isolée. Au cœur de la rose est une fable mystérieuse sur les rapports des hommes et des femmes à la construction du pays, sur l'impatience...

Souvent, le matin, une personne s'arme, se rend dans un lieu public et ouvre le feu sur ses semblables. « Doit-on imaginer Narcisse enragé? » Pendant ce temps, les écosystèmes s'effondrent, la Terre devient chaque jour plus inhospitalière. Les tueries de masse et la catastrophe écologique sont l'angoissant terreau dans lequel poussent les poèmes de ce livre. Devant cet horizon bloqué, qu'allons-nous devenir? Qui ou quoi interroger pour le...

In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the 'edge of the woods'-a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, they engaged in a survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land as a method of restor(y)ing treaty relationships. Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their artistic...

"Would you help a tiny fragile snake? Fifteen poems explore close encounters with animals ... and choosing to respond tenderly. Whether it's helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear's habitat, admiring a heron's beauty, or giving way to ants at a picnic, the human response in these poems is to do no harm, and to help whenever possible. The poems follow a seasonal progression, ending with a final poem that imagines where each animal might be...

An elegant debut collection that illuminates the contours of un/belonging. Dayo: a Tagalog word referring to someone who exists in a place not their own. A wanderer, migrant worker, exile or simply a stranger. At its core, the poems in Dayo interrogate whether belonging can exist in a society suffused with violence. Here, the poet, as a stranger, confronts the politics of recognition by offering his vision. Reflexive and lyrical, this collection...

G is a sound. Phonetically, it is represented as [χ]-and corresponds to خ in the Arabic alphabet-a guttural resonance shared between Afrikaans and Persian. Hinging on this mutual fricative sonically prominent in their respective languages, and a playful inclusion of homonyms across English, Afrikaans, and Persian, Klara du Plessis and Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi composed G collaboratively in a shared Google document, an act of hospitality into their...

With razor-sharp acuity and snappy language, Dayboil centres on a community in crisis––a kitchen-table comedy that quickly takes a dark turn. Four middle-aged women meet at Kathy's house in rural Newfoundland for their weekly cup of tea and gossip when tragic news disrupts their usual banter: Kathy's husband has killed himself. Abruptly, the threads that hold their comfortable community life together begin to snap, and they find themselves exposed...

Redemption: Poetry crafted by John Samurai; this book will take you places. Read it, enjoy it, make sure others read it too. This book was written to entertain and educate. It can be read by big and small. Make sure you find a quiet place to read this masterpiece of art for your joy and education. You will find it entertaining and informative; you can skip pages from it, or read them one by one, or figure out your own order. Either way you will find...