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Last Boy, The

A harrowing Journey of Survival and Unity in a City Ravaged by Chaos

by Deena Thomson ...

Narrated by Dorian Scott ...

Unabridged

18 hours 2 min

The year is 1993The power goes out in a small city in Northern Ontario, unbeknownst to the rest of the world. Darkness engulfs the entire district of Lex, trapping its inhabitants within invisible boundaries.Cult leader Malcolm Gabbo grasps the District of Lex in his hands.He takes what he wants, and what he wants is Leah's son.No Greater Love than a mother for her child.Leah Hollen always thought ... Read more

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The year is 1993The power goes out in a small city in Northern Ontario, unbeknownst to the rest of the world. Darkness engulfs the entire district of Lex, trapping its inhabitants within invisible boundaries.Cult leader Malcolm Gabbo grasps the District of Lex in his hands.He takes what he wants, and what he wants is Leah's son.No Greater Love than a mother for her child.Leah Hollen always thought
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Fallen Poppies

A NOVEL: A Dark Coming of Age Family Saga

by Deena Thomson ...

Narrated by Sally Barron ...

Unabridged

18 hours 32 min

A forsaken farmhouse, a heartbroken girl, and a blood-red flower with a tale to tell.After fate cruelly takes her parents in a chilling train accident, 14-year-old Jobeth is whisked away to a sinister foster home overshadowed by a nefarious couple with darkness of their own.Thrust into a world where secrets whisper through the walls, an ominous flower marks Jobeth, birthed from violence. Forever ... Read more

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A forsaken farmhouse, a heartbroken girl, and a blood-red flower with a tale to tell.After fate cruelly takes her parents in a chilling train accident, 14-year-old Jobeth is whisked away to a sinister foster home overshadowed by a nefarious couple with darkness of their own.Thrust into a world where secrets whisper through the walls, an ominous flower marks Jobeth, birthed from violence. Forever
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MARY ELLEN

A Short Story

by Deena Thomson ...

Narrated by Savannah Moffat ...

Unabridged

1 hour 30 min

A Psychological Thriller Short StoryAfter almost twenty years, Mary Ellen’s return to her hometown is like entering a surreal and haunting nightmare. She had thought she left this all behind for good. The reason for her return? Her father’s funeral. But this trip back is more than just grieving and receiving condolences - it’s a reckoning with the ghosts of a past she worked hard to forget. ... Read more

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A Psychological Thriller Short StoryAfter almost twenty years, Mary Ellen’s return to her hometown is like entering a surreal and haunting nightmare. She had thought she left this all behind for good. The reason for her return? Her father’s funeral. But this trip back is more than just grieving and receiving condolences - it’s a reckoning with the ghosts of a past she worked hard to forget.
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The Last Boy

A chilling, addictive survival thriller with a cult‑classic edge

by Deena Thomson ...

Narrated by Dorian Scott ...

Unabridged

18 hours 2 min

Northern Ontario, 1993.When the power goes out in the isolated city of Lex, its people are trapped in a nightmare of darkness and fear. Cut off from the outside world, the district falls under the iron grip of cult leader Malcolm Gobbo, a man who takes whatever he wants—and now he wants Leah Hollen’s son.Leah thought she would do anything to protect Adam. She never imagined she would have to save ... Read more

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Northern Ontario, 1993.When the power goes out in the isolated city of Lex, its people are trapped in a nightmare of darkness and fear. Cut off from the outside world, the district falls under the iron grip of cult leader Malcolm Gobbo, a man who takes whatever he wants—and now he wants Leah Hollen’s son.Leah thought she would do anything to protect Adam. She never imagined she would have to save
... Read more
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Fallen Poppies

A NOVEL: A Dark Coming of Age Family Saga

by Deena Thomson ...

Narrated by Sally Barron ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Poppies
Unabridged

18 hours 31 min

A forsaken farmhouse, a heartbroken girl, and a blood-red flower with a tale to tell.After fate cruelly takes her parents in a chilling train accident, 14-year-old Jobeth is whisked away to a sinister foster home overshadowed by a nefarious couple with darkness of their own.Thrust into a world where secrets whisper through the walls, an ominous flower marks Jobeth, birthed from violence. Forever ... Read more

$14.65 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A forsaken farmhouse, a heartbroken girl, and a blood-red flower with a tale to tell.After fate cruelly takes her parents in a chilling train accident, 14-year-old Jobeth is whisked away to a sinister foster home overshadowed by a nefarious couple with darkness of their own.Thrust into a world where secrets whisper through the walls, an ominous flower marks Jobeth, birthed from violence. Forever
... Read more
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MARY ELLEN: A Short Story

A chilling return‑home thriller where memory, madness, and truth collide

by Deena Thomson ...

Narrated by Savannah Moffat ...

Unabridged

1 hour 28 min

When Mary Ellen returns home for her father’s funeral, the house she fled decades ago feels alive with old secrets. Her sister Merrily’s strange, spiraling behavior only deepens the sense that something in those walls has been waiting for her. In this tense, atmospheric short story, memory, madness, and buried truth twist together in a home that refuses to let the past stay dead.Welcome home, Mary ... Read more

$4.71 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

When Mary Ellen returns home for her father’s funeral, the house she fled decades ago feels alive with old secrets. Her sister Merrily’s strange, spiraling behavior only deepens the sense that something in those walls has been waiting for her. In this tense, atmospheric short story, memory, madness, and buried truth twist together in a home that refuses to let the past stay dead.Welcome home, Mary
... Read more
Vulnerable Children and the Law

International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights

by Nicky Stanley, Terri Libesman, Greg Kelly, Lisa Young, Patrick O'Leary, Helen Richardon Foster, Linda Moore, Una Convery0, Christine Beddoe1, Jackie Turton2, Suzanne Oliver3, Goos Cardol4, Chaitali Das5, Gladis Molina6, Shelly Whitman7, James Reid8, Meredith Kiraly9, Cathy Humphreys0, Jason Squire1, Pam Miller2, Robert H. George3, Deena Haydon4, Gill Thomson5, Rawiri Taonui6 ...

Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.This book takes an international perspective on child welfare, examining how global and national frameworks can be adapted to address the rights and best ... Read more

$132.99 CAD

Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.This book takes an international perspective on child welfare, examining how global and national frameworks can be adapted to address the rights and best
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Wednesday's Child

One year in the life of an Irish child protection worker

by Shane Dunphy ...

Shane Dunphy was involved in social care for fifteen years. This book is a distillation of some of the cases he encountered in that time into a single, year-long narrative. In spite of the narrative's compression, and allowing for the necessary change of identifying details, everything in this book is true. And what the truth reveals! Here are the cases of three dysfunctional families, struggling ... Read more

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Shane Dunphy was involved in social care for fifteen years. This book is a distillation of some of the cases he encountered in that time into a single, year-long narrative. In spite of the narrative's compression, and allowing for the necessary change of identifying details, everything in this book is true. And what the truth reveals! Here are the cases of three dysfunctional families, struggling
... Read more
The High-Conflict Custody Battle

Protect Yourself and Your Kids from a Toxic Divorce, False Accusations, and Parental Alienation

by Amy J. L. Baker, PhD, J. Michael Bone, PhD, Brian Ludmer, BComm, LLB ...

Is your ex-spouse trying to gain custody of your kids? Has he or she launched a campaign to make you look like a bad parent, both in the eyes of your children and the law? You aren’t alone. Unfortunately, high-conflict custody battles are all-too-common in today’s world. So how can you arm yourself with the mental and legal resources needed to survive this difficult time and keep your kids safe?In ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

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Is your ex-spouse trying to gain custody of your kids? Has he or she launched a campaign to make you look like a bad parent, both in the eyes of your children and the law? You aren’t alone. Unfortunately, high-conflict custody battles are all-too-common in today’s world. So how can you arm yourself with the mental and legal resources needed to survive this difficult time and keep your kids safe?In
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Taken

The Inspirational True Story Of One Mother's Epic Win Against Social Services

by Sue O'Callaghan ...

SHE FOUGHT THE LAW, AND THE LAW LOSTSue O’Callaghan was one of us. Just an ordinary mum, living an ordinary life, in a nice house with her husband and family. Ordinary, that is, until the day her husband took the children for a walk and never came home.Like any mother, she was worried: Had her family been in a terrible accident? Had they been the victims of a crime? Little did Sue know that her ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

SHE FOUGHT THE LAW, AND THE LAW LOSTSue O’Callaghan was one of us. Just an ordinary mum, living an ordinary life, in a nice house with her husband and family. Ordinary, that is, until the day her husband took the children for a walk and never came home.Like any mother, she was worried: Had her family been in a terrible accident? Had they been the victims of a crime? Little did Sue know that her
... Read more
Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in School

A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties in Children Aged 5-11

by Helen Worrall, Sian Templeton, Netty Roberts, Ann Frost, Eleanor Durrant, Jane Fain, Cathy Mills, Kim S. Golding ...

Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.This easy-to-use tool provides an observation checklist which enables staff to identify behavioural patterns in children with social and emotional difficulties, analyse the ... Read more

$39.59 CAD

Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.This easy-to-use tool provides an observation checklist which enables staff to identify behavioural patterns in children with social and emotional difficulties, analyse the
... Read more
Creating Person-Centred Organisations

Strategies and Tools for Managing Change in Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector

by Stephen Stirk, Helen Sanderson ...

Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the ... Read more

$67.09 CAD

Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the
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