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Hot Apple Cider: Words to Stir the Heart and Warm the Soul is a 296-page collection of personal experience articles, short stories and poems. While there are similarities to the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Hot Apple Cider conveys a uniquely Canadian character and content, with a variety of stories from the lighthearted and humorous to those dealing with serious real-life issues such as the death of a child, cancer, infertility, loneliness and family conflicts.

ISBN-13: 9780978496302 

inspirational anthology  

trade paperback, 296 pages, 5.5” x 8.5"

$15.99 US / $15.99 Cdn

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With matchmaking on her mind, Ellen Brodie looks forward to a quiet weekend with her husband, her son, and her favorite cousin’s attractive daughter, Lorry Preston, who is visiting from Alberta. But the weekend is doomed when Ellen’s husband invites his two legal partners and their quarreling wives; one of the legal partners includes his wife’s wallflower sister; Ellen’s son brings his devastatingly handsome best friend; a black sheep nephew shows up; and a new neighbor descends on them because of renovations. If that wasn’t enough, Lorry discovers a body in the Japanese garden. The law arrives in the persons of series characters Detective-Inspector Paul Manziuk and Detective Constable Jacqueline Ryan.

ISBN-13: 9780968549568

mystery

trade paperback, 384 pages, 5.25” x 8.25"

$12.95 US / $15.95 Cdn

After Stasey Simon, an outspoken sports talk-show host, asks on-air for a volunteer to knock some sense into the home team’s temperamental new pitcher, Manziuk and Ryan hustle to catch a murderer swinging a lethal bat before the case escalates into an international incident.

As the crime threatens to escalate into an international incident, Paul Manziuk draws on his own knowledge of baseball while his partner, Jacqueline Ryan, tries to understand a game she’s never watched.

ISBN-13: 9780968549582 

mystery 

trade paperback, 384 pages, 5.25” x 8.25"

$13.95 US / $16.95 Cdn

Seventeen-year-old Glen Sauten is a small-town boy who has led a low-key life until the day Charlie Thornton moves in across the street. Charlie takes everyone in the small town by storm, except for two people—Glen’s former best friend, Phil Trent, and the local pastor’s daughter, Nicole Grant.

As Glen gets caught in the middle of Phil and Charlie’s rivalry and Charlie’s obsession to date Nicole, he opens himself up to major problems—some life-threatening, some life-changing.

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Glen thought being Charlie Thornton’s friend was difficult. Now he discovers how it feels to be Charlie’s enemy.

As for the people in his life—especially Phil, Nicole, and Marta—Glen sometimes wonders if he really has a friend in the world. Things are changing at home, too. His parents assume he will be going to college next year and are preparing for life without him.

As everything goes topsy-turvy again, Glen has to work hard to understand his friends, his parents, and most of all himself. But in the process, he grows in self-awareness and learns that a real friend is someone who sticks around and helps out even when it hurts.

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Glen has found his life getting increasingly difficult. Now it spins out of control.

While trying to complete his senior year at school, he also has to figure out how to treat his ex-girlfriend, who is now dating a former friend; encourage his best friend, who has become paralyzed from the waist down; find a way to avoid an annoying girl who just won’t go away; survive an unexpected relationship with his ex-girlfriend’s best friend; and protect himself from a series of disturbing events, including a form of hate-mail.

In the midst of this tangle of relationships and frustrations, Glen learns that a hero is just an ordinary person who does what has to be done to help a friend in need.

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Glen finds himself juggling various relationships: he does his best to help Phil cope with his new way of life; encourages Marta to deal with her past; struggles to maintain a viable relationship with Charlie; and takes the next steps in his friendship with Nicole.

As Glen clings to God and his cell group for help, he finds himself taking a bold public stand in defense of his beliefs.

He also discovers, to his surprise, that he knows what he wants to do in the future.

Winner of The Word Guild 2005 Awards for Best Young Adult Novel and Best Independently Published Fiction.

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Eighteen-year-old Shane Donahue can’t relate to his twin brother or his parents, doesn’t trust the guys he hangs out with or his girlfriend, and is failing his classes at school.

The whole situation makes Shane feel so helpless he’s considering life on the streets or suicide.

He decides he has nothing to lose by asking God to help him try to get his life back on track, but his difficulties only increase. His father becomes angry when Shane goes to church, his friends attack him because they think he’s turned on them, and his brother dates his ex-girlfriend! But that’s nothing compared to Shane’s being arrested for robbery and assault.

However, in the midst of his troubles, Shane finds out who he is and discovers hope for the future.

"Deeds Speak" certificate from the York Region Police

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