In Tales from a Snowbank, you will read about the challenges of surviving in a sub-arctic community, such as walking home from school with the fear of turning a corner and coming face-to-face with a big white bear. This is an autobiographical collection documenting the author’s growth to adulthood in a small but significant Canadian community: Churchill, Manitoba. The work details his unique life and times, with humour and tenderness, and examines how the community and the author’s life ex...

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen artistic lin...

This book will take you back to the single most apocalyptic human event ever recorded… and recently documented by authorities in Turkey. Since we are creations with the capacity for an extreme range of emotions, this is only an attempt to capture the emotion of – arguably—the most important family that ever lived, as they lived through this apocalyptic event, by the kind grace of God. Written in a somewhat parabolic form, but the author gives as strict allegiance to the Holy Bible’s accoun...

Selected from 15 years of radio-show archives and re-edited by the author, this onderfully eclectic essay collection gives a glimpse into the thoughtful mind at work behind The Vinyl Cafe. From meditations on peacekeeping to praise for the toothpick, The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks runs the gamut from considered argument to light-hearted opinion. Whether McLean is visiting a forgotten corner of the Canadian Shield, a big-city doughnut factory, or Sir John A. Macdonald's gravesite, his ob...

A Thousand Farewells is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted her career to covering one of the world’s most volatile regions.In 1976, Nahlah Ayed’s family gave up a comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring but it was during this unsettling period that Ayed first closely observed the people whose heritage she shared. She had to become accustomed to...

The 7-Day Prayer Warrior Experience is a free eBook from bestselling author Stormie Omartian, developed using excerpts from Prayer Warrior and Prayer Warrior Prayer and Study Guide.Are you equipped for spiritual battle? Take the next seven days to "put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil" (Ephesians 6:11). Join Stormie as she explains the pieces of armor, what they mean, and how they can help you be a pr...

Prophecy is history in advance. It is foretelling or prediction. There are good and evil prophecies. There are harmless prophecies and there are harmful prophecies. In this book, we shall be looking at the topic titled, "Destroying Destructive Prophecy." When somebody pronounces a vindictive prophecy against you, what you need to do is to utter a counter prophecy. When two prophecies confront each other, the one that is backed by the power of God will defeat the one t...

For ten years, listeners of The Vinyl Cafe have shared their personal stories with Stuart McLean on The Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the segment, Stuart and his long-time radio producer, Jess Milton, have collected their favourites. The result is a wise, wonderful anthology of stories about rituals and romance, road trips and guitar licks, Saturday-night hockey games and Sunday morning pancakes. A story about an exploding outhouse sits right beside one a...

Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Through reported conversations she creates a vivid picture of life in this coastal fragment of self-governing Palestine. Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enj...

Have You Ever Thought About Establishing A Personal Prayer Room? Discover these life-changing facts...30 Important Facts You Should Know About Places / 15 Keys To Entering The Secret Place / What Is Not Included In The Secret Place. This teaching on The Secret Place is possibly the most life-changing, revolutionizing teaching you may experience during your lifetime.

The author who brought you the inspirational 101 Things God Can't Do now shows you 101 Things the Devil Can't Do. Filled with instant encouragement, this little treasure shows you thatThe Devil can't win.The Discourager can't keep you depressed.The Bad Habit can't ruin your life anymore.Satan can't get God's glory or God's children.101 Things the Devil Can't Do turns discouragement into encouragement, tra...

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, a...