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At 49, Beatrice Billings is rudderless. Her marriage is stale, her relationship with her son Thomas is limited to text messages?hostile haikus that he sends from university?and she is the primary caregiver for her mother, who is in the early stages of dementia. She has a complicated relationship with her older sister Ariel, with whom she carries on ongoing arguments in her head. Bea laments the loss of momentum she remembers feeling in her thi...

Podcasts with expressed interest and confirmed interviews Welcome to The Inquisitor Podcast with Marcus Cauchi Marcus might send link to interviewthe Exceptional Sales Leader PodcastFinancial Advisor Success podcastSales POP (Still waiting on Don Gilmor's response)Women's Wealth Podcast (Still waiting on Don Gilmor's response)The High-Performance Logistics Sales Show (Scheduled live interview Thursday, October 13th at 9a)Bulletproof SellingSal...

The Governor General's Literary award-winning exploration of suicide in which one of Canada's most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate than the Silent Generation before them or the generations that have followed?In the spring of 2006, Don Gillmor travelled to Whitehorse to reconstruct the last days of his ...

At the age of eighty, Don Gillmor's grandmother let slip the defining secret of her life: her twin sister Jean was not her twin, but her aunt, and her family had emigrated from Scotland to Winnipeg to escape the stigma of her illegitimacy. That revelation set Gillmor off on what seemed at first like the most personal of quests: to track down his ancestors. The Desire of Every Living Thing is also the story of the New World, the story of Winnip...

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Long Change examines the high-stakes world of oil through the life and loves of one man.Fleeing his violent, Pentecostal father, as well as a crime of his own, fifteen-year-old Ritt Devlin leaves Texas in the early 1950s, heads north, and soon finds work on an oil rig on the outskirts of Medicine Hat. By his early twenties, he's the head of his own oil company. Spanning almost seventy years, Long Change examines the high-stakes world of oil th...

Finalist for the Governor General's Award for Children's Text Mr. Christie Book Award Winner Honor Title, Storytelling World Awards When Sarah Pipkin's brother was born, everyone decided he would be musical. They even named him Frederic, as in Frederic Chopin. As Frederic grew, he tried, without success, to play every instrument. Then, on his seventh birthday, with the Pipkins gathered around, the fabulous song finally happened.

Shortlisted for Governor General's Award for Children's Literature Now an animated holiday special on Teletoon! Santa didn't make many mistakes. But he made a big one when he asked what Anton Stingley wanted for Christmas. . . . . . Anton's list was sixteen pages long. On Christmas morning, there was one thing under the Stingley's tree. It was an orange. Anton was not pleased. He and his lawyer decided to sue Santa Claus. Everyone came. It was...

Austin Grouper had a brown dog named Fresco, a best friend named Sternberg, and a red bicycle. His life was full. And then a girl named Amy moves in next door. Austin decides that she, like all girls, is yucky. But when the invitation to her birthday party arrives, it seems the only suitable present for Amy is the moon itself, and Austin is prepared to go to the ends of the earth to get it. "Yuck, a Love Story" will strike a familiar chord wit...