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As a passionate advocate for mental health, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau believes that in order to know and accept ourselves fully, we need to understand why we think and feel the way we do, and recognize the experiences, attitudes, and patterns that may be holding us back. And yet, all of us are capable of growth and positive change, if we''re willing to stay open and curious throughout our lives. In Closer Together, Sophie shares moments from her own journey: from her childhood, through her struggles with an eating disorder in her teens and early adulthood; from a career as a speaker and television host to de facto ''first lady'' and mother of three. Above all, Sophie is a warm and empathetic connector, and her book is enriched by exclusive interviews with experts such as Gabor Mate, Liz Plank, Terrence Real, Catherine Price, Harville Hendrix, and Helen LaKelly Hunt - to name just a few - as she delves into the science behind brain health and our unique emotional signatures. She explores

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How far will you go to protect the only family you have? When Amy Gibson''s mother is brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Amy''s world is completely undone. Overcome with grief and heartache, she withdraws from everything around her - college, her friends, her entire life. Until her estranged half-brother, Oliver, saves her, pulling her back into her life and giving her family. Giving her a home. Eight years later, she''s picked herself up and has worked hard to move forward. She''s the host of a popular true crime podcast that focuses on crimes against women committed by their partners and is finding purpose and healing through helping women in ways she couldn''t help her mother. And then Oliver is accused of the unthinkable - something that is so unlike him. Something that horrifies Amy. But desperate to save the only family she has, she sets out to prove her brother''s innocence. But as the days pass and more information about Oliver and his past slowly comes to light, Amy begins re

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One of our dead writers liked to say, ''Peru is a beggar sleeping on a bench made of gold.'' It''s a cute phrase, but it''s not really true. There''s hardly any gold left, and none of us get much sleep. Based on real events in 1970s-2000s Peru, This Country Is No Longer Yours tells the story of people living through the terrorist campaign of the Maoist Shining Path, while struggling to survive amid economic crisis and state collapse. A student of the revolution''s leader is dispatched to Cambodia to learn from the Khmer Rouge, sending him spiralling into a world of unfathomable political violence that both inspires him and will be his undoing. Then, as the terror spreads across Peru, a ruthless security agent of the newly-elected neoconservative government works to squash the growing insurgency now threatening the halls of power, while applying his surveillance training to romantic pursuits-with chilling results. When the war is over, a journalist committed to exposing a brewing nation

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Before it made global headlines as the small town that burned down during a record-breaking heat wave in June 2021, while briefly the hottest place on Earth, Lytton, British Columbia, had a curious past. Named for the author of the infamous line, ''It was a dark and stormy night,'' Lytton was also where Peter Edwards, organised-crime journalist and author of over a dozen books, spent his childhood. Although only about 500 people lived in Lytton, Peter liked to joke that he was only the second-best writer to come from his tiny hometown. His grade-school classmate''s nephew Kevin Loring, a member of the Nlaka''pamux Nation at Lytton First Nation, had grown up to be a Governor General''s Award-winning playwright. The Nlaka''pamux called Lytton ''The Centre of the World,'' a view Buddhists would share in the late twentieth century, as they set up a temple just outside town. In modern times, many outsiders would seek shelter there, often people who just didn''t fit anywhere else and were ho

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