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 NEW! A Life Spent Listening |
A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili. In … | Hassan Khalili | 224 | 2022 | View |
 A Lucky Life |
As a longtime pediatrician, Richard Goldbloom placed a high value on connecting with and communicating with his patients and their parents. His ability to reach an audience is evident in this … | 304 | View | ||
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From  NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsLimits From: On Opium |
The author describes her writing life in relation to the chronic pain and stiffness of her disease and how, no longer depressed, she has stretched her own limits with opiods, and asks if she can … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsVertigo From: On Opium |
Through the metaphor and the physical condition of vertigo, the author describes a benign temporary condition of incapacitiating vertigo, an artist’s residency in Venice, and the experience … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsQuake From: On Opium |
As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsMonsters From: On Opium |
The author describes what suffering does to her body and mind and how the effort required to transcend it makes her feel like a monster. While her condition allows her to walk and run but not … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsDross From: On Opium |
In this chapter, dross, the undesirable scum that rises to the top of molten metal and also the residue from previously smoked opium is applied as metaphor to junkies: the unwanted product of … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsSaturnalia From: On Opium |
Through the description of a trip to Spain, the author explores facism and the relationship between governments and drug users, and other disposable groups of people. The author states that we … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From Admitto Vos ad GradumFrom: A Lucky Life |
Talks about becoming chancellor of the university (Dalhousie) | Richard B. Goldbloom | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Agnes Pascal, Fort McPhersonFrom: Book of Hope |
In this chapter, author Agnes Pascal recounts her breast cancer journey, Indigenous family tradition, faith, and medical treatment. | Agnes R. Pascal | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Alice Vittrekwa, Fort McPhersonFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter presents Alice Vittrekwa’s account of her husband Ernest’s cancer diagnosis and their treatment in Edmonton, from Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories. | Agnes R. Pascal | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Allice Legat, YellowknifeFrom: Book of Hope |
In this chapter, Allice Legat recounts her 2018 stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis and the immunotherapy years that followed in Yellowknife and Edmonton. | Agnes R. Pascal | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From An Ounce of Prevention:What Is It Really Worth? From: A Lucky Life |
His work with the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination and Walter Spitzer | Richard B. Goldbloom | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Annie Firth-Jones, Hay RiverFrom: Book of Hope |
In this chapter, Gwich’in woman Annie Firth-Jones recounts her life in Hay River, weaving together the legacy of residential schools, her discovery of repressed memories after the 2021 … | Agnes R. Pascal | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Anonymous, The LandFrom: Book of Hope |
In this chapter, Pascal recounts her lifelong struggle with cancer in the Canadian North. | Agnes R. Pascal | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Ashley Wendland, InuvikFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter follows Ashley Wendland, who was diagnosed with choroidal melanoma in Inuvik, NWT, in 2017. | Agnes R. Pascal | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
