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At fifteen, a reckless decision behind the wheel robs a man of his life and sets Sola on a path of guilt and silence. He spends the next fourteen years running from a past that won’t let him go.

Rebecca, the victim’s daughter, grows up longing for love and acceptance. Abandoned by her father’s family and haunted by unanswered questions, she fights to build a future as a brilliant young analyst and fashion entrepreneur. But when a familiar face flickers across her television screen, her carefully controlled world begins to unravel.

When their paths cross, neither knows what connects them. As secrets rise to the surface, both must face what happened when the light turned red and decide what comes next.

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On the planet Yari, eighteen-year-old Princess Zathar lives a life of royal duty under a lilac, crimson-ringed sky. Her only true escape is the telepathic bond she shares with her best friend, Xan. This connection is legendary: it marks them as soulmates. But Zathar sees Xan as a partner-in-crime, not a partner-in-life, and she’s desperate to choose her own path.
When a catastrophic meteor shower threatens to tear Yari’s fragile peace apart, Zathar is thrust into the orbit of the enigmatic Kaz, and the lines of destiny are blurred. She must choose between the safe love of a soulmate and the terrifying pull of freedom. But on Yari, love isn’t just destiny—it’s a weapon. And some love stories can bring a kingdom crashing down.

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The Leadership Book By the Guinness World Records Holder for the Longest Leadership Lesson.
Born to Lead. Called to Serve by Peter Adeleke answers the questions today’s leaders are asking:
How do I lead through silence and storms? What is the secret to building a legacy that outlives me?
How do I begin leading in a way that truly makes a difference? How do I discover my leadership style and sharpen my skills?
How do leaders make better decisions and avoid burnout? How can I lead while maintaining strong mental health?
Born to Lead. Called to Serve by Peter Adeleke brings clarity to the principles of leadership and challenges common assumptions about who leadership is really for.

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A selection of summarized true crime involving insurance.

Psychologically, people’s relationship with insurance is a complex, emotional journey. In reality, the simplistic, uncomplicated manner of insurance is a beautiful thing. It is designed like a lottery that always pays when a specific future risk element is incurred. And yet, time and again, there are an abundance of illustrations showing abuse and gratitude working in kind, usually fueled by an entitlement attitude that they’re somehow going to scheme to take more. These are their stories.

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Experienced financial professionals Tami Romanchuk, CFP®, CLU®, and Lori Power, GBA, CEPA wrote this book with the goal of providing a comprehensive guide for insurance professionals looking to navigate the complexities of succession planning. Succession planning is not just about a future corporate sale, but about building a well-run, valuable, and sustainable business from the start.

Key topics covered include:

• The "Why" of Succession Planning: The importance of starting the process early to avoid pitfalls and ensure a smooth transition. Cover the risks of unexpected events like death or disability and the need for a solid plan to protect your business, staff, and family.
• Building a Valuable Business: Focus on how to build a busines

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In this dystopian collection of short stories fact feels closer to fiction—and you’ll wish truths were lies. Desperate debtors pay back what they owe in a life-or-death game of checkers against a pigeon. A robot lives for her handler, who needs more support than any being can supply. Pirates sail the majestic prairies, plundering products from small businesses by poking their pain points. With cynical satire uplifted by surreal silliness, Why’d You Stop? concludes Stefanie Barnfather’s anthology trilogy.

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People, animals, plants, all face extreme conditions, unpredictable weather, unpredictable politics, unpredictable migration of people and animals.
We all live on the fringe of the known and unknown.

Mary Vlooswyk and Irene Naested explore, through poetry and art, the relationship to places we believe we know and the seasons we believe we know, Fish Creek Park specifically, but not exclusively.

Through finely tuned poetry and unique, elegant narrative art, Vlooswyk and Naested give readers a rich opportunity to be inspired and reflect on the words and the art. Their interpretation of what it means to live on a fringe is as provocative and fluid as the word itself.

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Damaged, broken, unlovable - these are the lies the hopeless tell themselves because those who promised us a happy ending stole our choice, our voice and sometimes our will to live. But we are more than our trauma. We are truth seekers, cycle breakers, and warriors taking back what was stolen from us: a life worth living.

Fairy Tales for Hopeless Girls is a poetry collection about becoming yourself, loving yourself, and rewriting the false stories that have kept you small. Broken into five parts, this book is a path to where hope can thrive.

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The characters in the short stories of Earthen are all in need of guidance: mothers, widows and wives, grandmas and grandpas, teachers, lovers, and the young. They find messages in the earth and rock beneath their feet, the mountains and atmosphere above, or the creatures surrounding them: birds and animals, plants and trees. The natural world insists on a relationship with both characters and readers of Earthen, in stories ranging from realism to fable to speculative fiction.

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What if your leadership journey felt like a road trip rather than a rulebook? Longest Leadership Lessons: The Essential Foundations Every Leader Must Know for Success by Peter Adeleke is a powerful memoir of endurance, growth, and discovery. Born out of a Guinness World Record-breaking 28-hour teaching experience, this book draws on the insights of Harvard alumnus Peter Adeleke and takes you behind the scenes of a leader who pushed beyond limits and returned with lessons that matter.

Longest Leadership Lesson by Peter Adeleke is a groundbreaking leadership framework and structured curriculum that redefines how leadership is taught, learned, and practiced. It is designed to raise a new generation of leaders in a rapidly changing world.

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Alina has grown up on the stories her family tells of Nairobi, Kenya, and now she’s going to see it all for herself! The street markets, the yummy food, and best of all, she gets to visit her cousin Safi. This summer, instead of the bulls at the Calgary Stampede, Alina is going to get up close and personal with a giraffe!

When Alina arrives in Nairobi, she finds it busy and loud. It’s not how she imagined, and she feels out of place. Will her adventures with Safi help her connect to her Kenyan roots? One thing is certain—Alina and Safi will make their own stories along the way!

'Alina in Her Roots' is about self-discovery and a reminder that our roots don't divide us, they help us grow.

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Set in rural Alberta, Beth Clark returns home for her estranged mother's funeral, only to confront the conflict between what she remembers of the woman and what the community does. When her brother is critically injured and the present begins to unravel, memories of abuse and neglect from the summer of 1984 return, forcing Beth to face not only the horrors of the past but also the remaining question: What remains after survival? With the support of her chosen family, her training in psychology, and a wounded faith in God, she decides whether forgiveness, a path to healing, is even possible.

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It will soon be available at Indigo.ca. Currently available in the U.S. on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble online.

In a world marked by conflict, disparity, and disconnection, Whole and Human invites us to reclaim what makes us fully alive—by slowing down, paying attention, and embracing the truth that each of us deserves to flourish.

Through forty meditations engaging the five senses, journey into deeper relationship with land, body, spirit, and justice. These decolonial reflections offer life-giving practices that nourish rather than deplete, helping us meet life’s heaviness with restorative possibilities.

Author Rohadi Nagassar names the systems and beliefs that diminish our humanity and moves us toward imagining what frees us: collective liberation, shared thriving, and the rediscovery of our whole and true selves.

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Emily used to be a genetics researcher. She used to play competitive chess and captain a soccer team. Then a distracted driver shattered her world.

She can no longer work. The opioid she has been prescribed is highly addictive and causes hallucinations, and her insurance company’s psychologist has labelled her paranoid. Life as she knew it and loved it is over.

But when Emily learns that the health professionals she trusted to help her have betrayed her instead, she struggles to throw off self pity and take what’s left of her life and her good name to launch a counterplay.

With elements of mystery and a bit of romance, Emily’s story – her humour, frustration and fear - are captured in entertaining and engaging prose.

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The Green Book is the first volume in his next body of work— A Whole Life Trilogy. Set inside a twelve-by-eight room in Calgary, it documents the slow, unglamorous labor of psychological integration through the lens of Jungian shadow work.

No wisdom earned in advance. No clean resolution. Just a man, a radiator, a brick that refuses to become a metaphor, and a committee of interior voices that have finally learned to sit down.

Part memoir, part philosophical field notebook, part psychological excavation — The Green Book is not a guide to transformation. It is something rarer: a record of it, written from the inside, in real time.

Green means beginner.

Roland A. James is still walking.

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When a thirty-one-year marriage collapses, a sixty-year-old writer retreats into a small rented room and begins documenting what remains.

What starts as a journal becomes an experiment. Stripped of the identities that once defined him—husband, businessman, provider, performer—he turns inward and begins recording the difficult process of confronting addiction, family history, inherited trauma, fatherhood, failure, and the stories he has spent a lifetime telling himself.

Guided by the voice of the Scribe—a witness committed to truth over comfort—The Grey Book follows one man's attempt to dismantle illusion and uncover what survives when every convenient narrative is removed.

This is the record of a life under examination.

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Living in Calgary at sixty years old, surviving on welfare while rebuilding stability through work as a casino dealer, James turns his attention toward a more difficult problem: the difference between understanding oneself and actually living differently.

Part memoir, part psychological inquiry, and part real-time philosophical journal, The White Book follows a year of ordinary experiences—a new rooming house, poker tournaments, strained relationships with adult children, physical pain, financial uncertainty, daily spiritual practice, and the ongoing challenge of remaining present with reality as it is.

The final question is not whether healing is possible.

It is what comes next.

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When Sue Kowalski, the lone female superintendent of the largest school district in Western Canada, dies in a car collision, rumours circulate school hallways and classrooms. Was Sue’s death an accident?

As whispers fade and routine within Suncrest continues, a bequest in her trust intertwines the lives of six women. Working together to shed light on the corruption within the District and uncover the truth behind Sue's death, the women must decide: When is it time to play by the rules? And when is it time to burn the rule book?

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My parents have left me $3M in their will — along with the family home I’ve always loved.

But there’s just one catch.

To get my inheritance, I must divorce my new husband.
Refuse, and the house, and all the millions, will go to charity instead.
I knew Mom and Dad didn’t trust Kyle, but they refused to explain why. What would you do if you were me?

This atmospheric, dark, gothic and unbelievably twisty psychological thriller is perfect for fans of Riley Sager, Jeneva Rose, Alex Michaelides, John Marrs and Lisa Unger.

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Mariners Miners and Misfits begins as a sweeping journey across centuries–from a genetically revealed Ice Age mariner to the tin mines of Cornwall, and onward to the frontier of Western Canada. The Martin story is one of survival and reinvention: entrepreneurs undone by the harsh laws of British monarchs, pioneers who carved livelihoods from unforgiving lands, Depression era men who rode boxcars in search of work. Along the way, the records reveal the lives of women whose resilience shaped generations–women who left behind everything familiar to begin anew.
Built on careful research, DNA insights, and vivid historical detail, this account brings to life real people, and events drawn from muster rolls, civic records, and frontier life.

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Fire. Blood. His brother's hand smashing his face to the ground. These are Jiangxi's final memories of Beijing from 1751. A bloody coup sends Jiangxi, the emperor's youngest son, to a much different America than we've read about in history books. When he arrives in the distant city of Wacharon, a trading hub for a powerful tribal confederacy, Jiangxi is sold upon his arrival. As he begins to learn about the influential man who bought him, he's caught between the two worlds of his past and present, forced to choose between following the law of the land or finding a new and bold path to freedom. The choices he makes will change not only the course of his own life, but also the future of the two most powerful nations in the world.

https://www.amazon.com/New-Empire-Alison-McBain/dp/1954907427

Having already lost her daughter once, has Isla lost the most important piece of her identity as well? Even though several years have passed, Isla’s never gotten over the death of her eleven-year-old daughter, Rory. The resulting grief killed her marriage and her career at the same time, and for a while she thought the pain would kill her also. But when Rory unexpectedly returns as a ghost, Isla hopes for a fresh start by leaving New York City and traveling back home to Harmony Lake, Alberta, with her daughter’s spirit beside her. Between North & Prior uses its ghostly premise to explore grief, identity, and the difficulty of moving forward when the dead remain present.

https://www.amazon.com/Between-North-Prior-Alison-McBain/dp/194912228X/

Take a deep dive into the realms of imaginative science fiction, including eight brand-new stories by award-winning author Alison McBain. Diving into Nebulae brings you over two dozen of McBain’s most popular SF stories, including her award-winning and nominated shorts “Pillar of Salt,” “What Are Friends For?” and “Asylum.” So, grab your mitt to play some baseball in space, punch your ticket for the first traveling circus at the Milky Way station, and prepare to delve into a future that’s sometimes dark, sometimes hopeful, but always full of adventure!

https://www.amazon.com/Diving-into-Nebulae-Alison-McBain/dp/1949122271/

Ecce Machina is a philosophical exploration of how technological modernity transforms the very ontology of the human. Drawing on Nietzsche’s genealogical method, the book critiques inherited humanist assumptions that once grounded meaning, agency, and value, revealing them as contingent constructs now strained by machinic life.

Through an existential lens, it examines how individuals confront becoming in a world where technology increasingly mediates perception, desire, and social possibility. Engaging Foucault’s analyses of power-knowledge, Ecce Machina shows how technological systems discipline subjects, reorganize social relations, and generate new regimes of truth.

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On her way across the desert, fleeing the soldiers who have destroyed all she knows, one refugee meets another. And another and another. As they travel together, on a journey in search of safety, they take turns telling one another stories—stories woven in the imagination; tales with echoes of the reality they face now. With a frame story written by Nafiza Azad and Intisar Khanani interwoven with stories from fifteen additional authors of various backgrounds, drawing on the mythologies and legends of their cultures, this extraordinary collection will appeal to lovers of fantasy and to those looking for books that center refugees and diverse narratives.

https://a.co/d/0dN72uUv (Amazon preorder link)
https://www.audreys.ca/item/fDcyhWd7_ai7h5ZVhX51PQ (Audrey's Books preorder link)

How to Deal with Jealous People by Peter Adeleke is an engaging work that helps readers understand why people become jealous, how jealousy shows up, and how to respond without losing yourself in the process. Success can attract admiration, but it can also bring resentment, gossip, unhealthy competition, destructive criticism, and attempts to minimize your achievements. This book teaches readers how to recognize jealousy, distinguish genuine criticism from hidden resentment, respond wisely to difficult people, protect their peace, and know when to speak, remain silent, or walk away.
Peter Adeleke writes with a direct, conversational, and reflective style, drawing on his experience as a Harvard alumnus and Guinness World Records holder.

https://www.amazon.ca/HOW-DEAL-JEALOUS-PEOPLE-Opposition/dp/1069655465/

Fleeing creditors in Venice, John Cabot, his wife, and three sons travel to Milan, Valencia, and Seville in an effort to resurrect their former lifestyle. In Spain, John ends up working for the king and becomes involved in the frenzied activity surrounding the discovery of new lands across the Atlantic Ocean. He meets men who want to enter the race to find a route to the Orient, which takes the family to Lisbon, and then to London where King Henry VII grants John a patent to stage a voyage. Having discovered new found land, John's ambition to further please the king and to build his own fortune compel him to risk his life, and that of his youngest son, in an encounter with the Spanish marauder, Alonso de Ojeda.

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Immediately upon his release from a 25-year prison sentence, former veterinarian Trevor Westmore gets his first surprise as a free man: A guard gives him a German shepherd puppy. While Trevor anxiously tries to build a new life, his dog, Libby, provides the routine and responsibility he needs to navigate his re-entry into society.

All Trevor wants is to earn a living, to stay out of trouble, and to be left alone — until he meets and falls for local veterinarian Laura Fenway.

Weaving together major environmental and political issues of the mid- to late-20th century that remain urgent today, Dog Days of Planet Earth asks what we’re willing to risk for our personal convictions in a world where powerful and unjust forces often oppose them.

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