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This history recounts the remarkable story of the St. John Ambulance, its contribution to our country, and those who made it possible.

This concise manual identifies, describes, and explains the concepts, components, and ideas that relate to military leadership.

The current conflict in Afghanistan is not about Western intervention, but part of a hundred-year war over the issues of modernity, secularism, and the centralization of power.

For Eve Gold, almost dying isn't the real shock - it's what comes after. Brain damage leaves her tortured by repressed memories of a childhood where her innocence was stolen one lie - and one suspicious death - at a time. In order to survive, she must unearth old secrets.

Twenty-five years after humanity's narrow escape from climate collapse, Jesse Vanderchuck meets a talking dog named Doggo. Together, they leave the Underground to find Jesse's sister and a new life. Throughout, Jesse weaves a series of fantastic fairy tales from threads of memory.

Frankie's past is a mystery. Her recurring dreams of a hundred-year-old circus side show just may hold the key, but when she sees the performers in real life, she has no idea what to believe. Are the dreams Frankie's way of working through trauma, or something more sinister at play?

A history of work in Canada in its different forms over time and how it was shaped by an important range of influences.

After five weeks of officer training, Dr. John Reid was sent to Hong Kong in 1941. After the Japanese victory, he spent a year in Hong Kong prison camps before being sent to Japan as a slave labourer. His efforts to save his men were heroic, but he would never be the same.

Evangeline Gibb and her heroic horse, Kazzam, team up to solve a horrific crime where treachery, deception, intrigue, and suspense weave together in a hoof-pounding race to save the missing girls before it's too late.

Superstar female impersonator Craig Russell and Lori Russell Eadie, his wife, were unusual misfits who thrived on stage and screen through waves of change in Canada. They were talented and successful, yet they struggled with mental illness, abuse, and trauma.

Impossible Parenting outlines how cultural systems, messages, and pressures are negatively impacting the mental health of parents of infants and young children, and provides practical solutions for parents who are struggling to meet these impossible standards.

A boy falls from a tree and his best friend feels responsible. Loss and guilt bind them as they grow to adulthood. When the two boys meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, their destinies intertwine.

Based on progressive nineteenth-century penal reform principles, Toronto's Don Jail never lived up to its potential, deteriorating into a place of brutal violence and death. Along with the architecture of this Toronto landmark, The Don covers the politics that swirled around it for over 150 years and the crimes that took place inside.

The Toronto Book of Love brings the city's history to life with tales of romance, marriage and lust. From adulterous movie stars to faithful rebels and heartbroken spies, it explores Toronto's evolution through those who have fallen in love among the city's ravines, church spires and skyscrapers.

Searching for an uncle missing for thirty years, Amanda Doucette traces unsettling connections to the recent discovery of human remains in the remote Alberta badlands.

Age of Unreason tells the shocking story of how hatred can become a cause and how we must stand together against it no matter the cost.

In 1870, Colonel Garnet Wolseley set off for Red River with 1,100 soldiers to end the rebellion started by Louis Riel. Two reporters accompanied the military expedition, the Daily Telegraph's Robert Cunningham and the Globe's Molyneux St. John, as well as St. John's wife, international burlesque star Kate Ranoe.

June watches and worries as her husband, Tony, gradually changes his interests, goals, and behaviour. The signs of dementia are all around, but a diagnosis of Alzheimer's takes seven years. Four Umbrellas provides a fresh perspective, bending the usual caretaker narrative by enfolding the voice of the person with the disease.

Boy's final year of high school is unraveling. Fast. He had it all worked out, from crushing his final exams to military school to a career in the air force. But his family's tragic past and its complicated present have caught up to him, and his marks are slipping, jeopardizing all of his plans.

In a very different 1933, self-styled detective Elias Roche and his robot partner, Allen, immerse themselves in the criminal underworld to find the killer and hopefully prevent war on New York's streets when a murder occurs that not only threatens both the police and the mafia but appears connected to Roche's past.

When an oil baron and his son go missing in the foothills of Alberta, ex-cop Lacey McCrae joins the search-and-rescue operation, sending her on a risky chase across dangerous terrain in pursuit of a killer.

The Book of Sam is the story of the unchosen one, a kid with no prophecy to fulfill who ventures to Hell, a fantastical world of falling cities and strange creatures, in search of his best friend.

When the airplane Elias is flying crashes into the sea one week before their wedding day, Coen is left with nothing but a cryptic message. As fragments of the past come to the surface in the aftermath, Coen is forced to question everything he thought he knew about Elias and their life together.

In this deliciously entertaining memoir, Hayley Gene Penner digs into her sexual history to unearth stories that delicately straddle ethical and unethical behaviour, self-protection and self-destruction.

The lines in the sand become blurred as Sesha comes to know and respect the Hyksos, and she wonders what she can do to prevent them from going to war with her people.

Maggie, Gillian, and Cole figure nothing could possibly go wrong when they test out the old Ouija board they find in the attic, but are shocked to discover themselves on a whirlwind journey they may never return from.

Going to the cottage is like going to school, only better. You learn interesting and important stuff every day. As well as fun and relaxation, cottage living throughout the seasons is a reminder that all of us, even the most urbanized individual, are part of the natural world.

Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many hard lives, his escape from each wrapped in deep secrecy. In 1869 he reached Toronto and started his new life with his new wife and his new name. His great-grandson follows that journey, revealing Jelfs' well-hidden tracks and the reasons for his double life.

Desperate, Hermann Beier of Alliston, Ontario, turned to bank robbery in the early 1990s to pay his mounting bills and ended up being pursued in what became at the time the longest police chase in Canadian history. Gunned down in a hail of bullets, Beier lived to tell the tale and gain a chance to restart his life.

Award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for anyone interested in depression and mental illness. John Scully is getting better.