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  • Falling together

    a family’s story of mental illness and grief

    by Donna McCart Sharkey ...
    The author anticipated building an ordinary family. And that’s what happened. But mental illness and grief also happened, undermining the security of home and changing the familial experience from ordinary to extraordinary. A hard story to live, a hard story to read, this book describes the day to day life in a family navigating their increasingly fraught lives. A must read for any family who has ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Always With Me

    Parents Talk about the Death of a Child

    Edited by Donna McCart Sharkey ...
    How does a parent cope after the death of a child? Each essay in Always With Me: Parents Talk about the Death of a Child reveals the experiences of parents who have lived through the devastation and upheaval of their child’s death. Parents describe the maelstrom they face in their inner landscapes, coping strategies, and realigned place in the world. The writers in this collection of stories take ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Death in the Family

    Stories Obituaries Tell

    Edited by Donna McCart Sharkey ...
    When her daughter died in November, 2013, she was a parent in search of consolation and looking for similarities to her situation. She began to read the obituary column of her local newspaper and although the author of A Death in the Family: Stories Obits Tell read extensively about death of an adult child, she found obituaries the most comforting and kept returning to them. Day after day, she ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Don’t Tell: Family Secrets

    Edited by Donna McCart Sharkey, Arleen Paré ...
    Donna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Paré, sisters and writers, have co-edited an anthology Don’t Tell: Family Secrets, about what may be hidden in families. For each individual, even in the same family, what is secret and what is not, may be different. In Don’t Tell: Family Secrets, fifty-nine writers tell their stories in either prose or poetry, of their own family secrets. So often, mothers bear the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies

    International Agendas and African Contexts

    Edited by Doris Buss, Joanne Lebert, Blair Rutherford, Donna Sharkey, Obijiofor Aginam ...
    Series series Routledge African Studies
    This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social and political climate within which some patterns of sexual violence unfold, and the increased policy and institutional responses shaping post ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Bitter Medicine

    by Clem Martini ...
    In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness, frustrated by a health care system lacking in resources and empathy, the imperfect science of medication, and the strain of mental illness on familial relationships. ... Read more

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  • Book of Lives

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    by Margaret Atwood ...
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    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks

    by Stuart McLean ...
    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 ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Coming Ashore

    A Memoir

    by Catherine Gildiner ...
    Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London’s swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate.After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from the Hough Ghetto ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What to Do When You're Scared & Worried

    A Guide for Kids

    by James J. Crist ...
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  • The Beguiling

    by Zsuzsi Gartner ...
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