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Ruby Takes Chicago, is the sequel to Rise! A Girl's Struggle for More. It's now the 1920s, and a young Ruby Dinsmore leaves her hometown of Oilton, Oklahoma, and heads for Chicago to make her dreams come true. In the first book, Ruby, born in 1904, grows up wanting to be a businesswoman and does everything she can to make it happen. At the end of Rise!, Ruby's family realizes her dreams can only come true in a larger town where a young woman with a college education would be accepted in the workforce. Once in Chicago, Ruby is surprised to learn that, even in a big city, society as a whole is still reluctant to accept women working outside the home. Determined to stay true to herself, she takes on the challenges of life in tumultuous times of Prohibition, protests, and women's rights marches. Ruby meets like-minded women, and together they break through the barriers until Ruby lands the perfect job, all amidst discovering the joys of life and love, and heartbreak...and love again.

Based on the picture book, Orange Kitty and the Mouse Parade, this companion colouring book pulls from the original playful, artwork from the story of a sleepy cat that snoozes through a lively parade with fifty-five marching, cheering, trumpeting, baton-twirling mice, who tumble out from a "little blue door just an inch from the floor." Each page allows little artists to bring their own colour interpretation to the little furry performers, who tumble onto the page in a joyful splash of fun and frolics.

The Rogue Scorpion is the story of Isabella Ricci, an artist with an adventurous spirit and a deep desire to uncover her purpose. Her resilience is challenged after a traumatic event in Thailand. Later, she finds out her father is unwell, and returns home to Winnipeg, but it isn't long before her searching takes her to Vancouver Island. There, a dysfunctional relationship stifles her dreams and Isabella takes flight once again. In Panama, Isabella learns to trust her intuition. Her life begins to shift, from a constant series of battles, into flow. She discovers the spiritual depth she yearns for and finds love where she never expected it.

Fourteen-year-old Shanti's home is in a village in eastern India, where her parents work in the rice fields. She attends school in a town forty kilometres away and hopes to become a teacher. But while she is home on vacation, her mother gives birth to another girl. Shanti's father declares she must leave school to care for her baby sister. He also makes plans for Shanti to be married as soon as possible, despite the law against girls under eighteen being forced into marriage. Will Shanti defy her father and village traditions, and find a way to stay in school and postpone marriage? Can she and her friends convince him, and their community, that educating girls will benefit the village? Follow Shanti and her friends as they fight for their right to determine their own future.

Lily the Donkey's Adventures with the Holy Family continue as they depart Bethlehem in the dark of night to escape King Herod's clutches. After crossing the desert, they arrive in Egypt and Lily's Egypt Adventure unfolds as new and old animal friends join the entourage and learn and share lessons of love, kindness, and forgiveness. Young readers will enjoy this bible 'fan fiction' told from the perspective of Lily, a carrot-munching, feisty donkey, Professor Rakim Rabbit, Red Dog, Yoyo the monkey, lions Kufu and Aziza, camel siblings Daisy and Deca, and more!

The summer of 1959 promises to stretch slowly forward, with one exception. The looming deadline of entering the Saint John General Hospital school of nursing as a probationer student, interrupts the worry-free days with a nagging doubt. Is nursing the right choice? Self-doubt is mingled with preparation in advance of the date of entry while Francene gets more jittery as the day approaches. She was born to nurse but did not know it yet. This is a coming-of-age story of a young woman preparing for the challenges of a very disciplined profession. Written with humour and compassion, the memoir explores what it takes to learn the art and science of nursing, while juggling the demands of work, a private life, and study.

The Holding (prequel to The Healing) starts with Cate's pre-mature birth and chronicles her life's early challenges from sexual abuse to teen pregnancy, and highlights the importance of family support and a father's love.

Dando voz a mi silencio - Mi lucha por el respeto entre Venezuela y Siria en una autobiografia desgarradora que describe vividamente como en su ninez Montaha Hidefi fue expuesta al abuso fisico y la manipulacion mental a manos de su propia madre, y tuvo que luchar contra el prejuicio social y el sentido de pertenencia en su pais de nacimiento, Venezuela. Tambien narra como en su juventud, la autora tuvo que enfrentar la intimidacion, el rechazo social, la violencia, e incluso intentos de asesinato mientras atravesaba un choque cultural en el pais de sus padres, Siria. Esta es una conmovedora historia de autodeterminacion, resiliencia y crecimiento personal de una joven que se nego a identificarse con el abuso y transformo su vida para lograr exito en mas de un nivel. A fuerza de pura intrepidez, ella completo una educacion superior y ascendio al nivel de ejecutiva con cargos a nivel mundial. El dolor de la autora es profundamente palpable al recordar las emociones de una infancia destrozada por la desigualdad, y de decadas de manoseos y agresiones, e incluso intentos de asesinato. Al compartir su lucha para normalizar su salud mental y los demonios internos que resultaron en fobias y rebeldias para romper patrones sociales, la autora proporciona inspiracion y motivacion para ayudar al lector a superar sus propios obstaculos y construir la vida que desea. Dando voz a mi silencio - Mi lucha por el respeto entre Venezuela y Siria es la version original en espanol de Giving Voice to My Silence - My Struggle for Respect from Venezuela to Syria.

Rise! A Girl's Struggle for More is an old-fashioned, historical family drama-a sweet, yet edgy, coming of age story. Set in the 1920s, it is based on the life of the author's grandmother.The main character, Ruby Pearl, is mature beyond her years, born at least a decade too soon. Growing up in a family of nine children in Oilton, Oklahoma, with her nose constantly in a book, she's the girl who would rather read than can tomatoes.Ruby studies hard to make good grades, while her parents humor her. They encourage the courtship with her beau, Arthur, who they expect will be their son-in-law when the two graduate from high school. Ruby has loftier goals than that. She admires her momma and big sister, Rilla, the "CEOs of the household," and hopes to have children and a home of her own to manage someday, but first things first!Ruby's story unfolds amidst the backdrop of a horse and buggy town welcoming its first motor cars. She becomes a pioneer for girls her age, following the inspiration of the suffrage movement, breaking all norms, defying tradition-and her parents-to become a truly independent woman.

Rise! A Girl's Struggle for More is an old-fashioned, historical family drama-a sweet, yet edgy, coming of age story. Set in the 1920s, it is based on the life of the author's grandmother.The main character, Ruby Pearl, is mature beyond her years, born at least a decade too soon. Growing up in a family of nine children in Oilton, Oklahoma, with her nose constantly in a book, she's the girl who would rather read than can tomatoes.Ruby studies hard to make good grades, while her parents humor her. They encourage the courtship with her beau, Arthur, who they expect will be their son-in-law when the two graduate from high school. Ruby has loftier goals than that. She admires her momma and big sister, Rilla, the "e;CEOs of the household,"e; and hopes to have children and a home of her own to manage someday, but first things first!Ruby's story unfolds amidst the backdrop of a horse and buggy town welcoming its first motor cars. She becomes a pioneer for girls her age, following the inspiration of the suffrage movement, breaking all norms, defying tradition-and her parents-to become a truly independent woman.

When Ailsa Keppie puts on the hijab for the first time, it solidifies her commitment to her new, chosen religion. She gives up the lights and action of the circus for the position of wife and mother, learns Arabic, and moves to Morocco. A new mother living in a strange country, under foreign rules, Ailsa experiences isolation and racism, as well as romance and sisterhood, in her quest to fit in with her new community. She welcomes another wife into her marriage hoping to experience the peace and joy of a pious life. As the story progresses, cracks appear in her relationships. Things are not as blissful as Ailsa would have others believe. We are drawn into her inner struggle, often seeing the folly of her choices, but championing her to prevail. Torn between her inner voices of duty, shame, longing, and hope, she is determined to find the light that will get her through darkening times. Ailsa's story is easily recognizable by women who have dimmed their light in order to survive. For any woman who has faced similar constraints of marriage, religion, or culture, Ailsa's story will help bring clarity and a sense of knowing she is not alone.This is the story of a woman struggling to reclaim her own power and identity after making life-altering decisions at the age of twenty-five. By the Light of the Crescent Moon is Keppie's eighteen-year odyssey that begins when she dons a burka for the first time and truly commits to embracing her husband's culture. The more she tries to find herself in her new role, the more she loses who she is and becomes enveloped by the all-consuming nature of her new life. Keppie wrote her memoir after returning to Canada as a way to process what was a difficult period in her life after she talked to friends and family about her experience and they wanted to know more about it-- why she became a Muslim. Why she wore a burka. How did it feel? How could she move to Morocco, so far away from family and friends? What was it like for her husband to have another wife? She realized that it was an unusual experience and people wanted to know more about it. She also felt a need to go back and find meaning from the struggle she'd had over those years. Uncertain of why she converted in the first place but remembering the draw to Islam as part of finding a sense of belonging. Putting on hijab meant that suddenly she was a member of a community. She remembers it being a spiritual connection entwined in a love story, which made it all the more difficult for her to get out.

Transfer traces the lives of those on Anna's Fancy, the Clausen estate on Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, handed down through three generations. An historical novel and the sequel to Fireburn (OC Publishing 2017), Transfer sees Niels Clausen, the illegitimate child of a Danish landowner and his black mistress who both died as a result of the 1878 worker revolt, leave his adoptive mother's sugar plantation and sail to England to continue his education. With the help of Toby, a British aristocrat, Ivy, a lady's maid turned lady and her botanist husband, Timothy, Niels challenges the perceptions on the streets of London of a black man at the turn of the 20th century. His development as a writer and political protagonist continues as he travels to Denmark and France where he meets up with childhood friends, Javier and Fabiana Gomez, before returning to Saint Croix.The Danish West Indies face an uncertain future as the declining sugar industry lessens Denmark's interest in their colonial outpost. Niels becomes increasingly involved in the future of the islands as war looms and concerns grow that Germany might covet a presence in the Caribbean. Will the islands' security be guaranteed by the transfer of power to America?The highs and lows of Niels' life are punctuated by the crossing of oceans and cultures as well as the political manoeuvrings of a turbulent time in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean.

Lily's Desert Adventure is the second book in a first reader's bible series that tells the story of the life of Jesus through the eyes of a little donkey named Lily. In the first book, Lily's Secret, the carrot-munching, care-free Lily overcomes her initial fear and self-doubt of her ability to fulfill a huge responsibility, to safely carry Mary and Jesus, the unborn child, to Bethlehem. Once Lily successfully completes her task and Baby Jesus had been born, she thinks they can all go home. But when the Wisemen visit the Holy Family, she senses that something has changed.In the darkest hour of the night, Joseph wakes her and says they have to hurry to a strange new land to keep Jesus safe. She is off to the desert, her journey still far from over, and another adventure begins.

Author, editor, partner publisher and world traveller, Anne Louise O'Connell was born to travel. On the last day of one trip she loves to begin planning the next. Like many adventure lovers, she works to travel, avoiding packaged tours because the beaten path just doesn't beckon to her. She is always enticed by the overgrown trail or the donkey track that mysteriously juts at an angle off to the left. Here is a collection of stories from just a few of her travels throughout Asia, the Middle East, South America, the Greek and Caribbean Islands along with a smattering of insights into the expat life she lived for 22 years.If you're a fellow traveller, hopefully this will pique your interest in some new places, or bring back some fond memories of paths you've taken before. If you're an armchair traveller, sit back, put your feet up and enjoy the ride.