Kirjahaku

Ever wondered why other's seem to be luckier than you? Want to understand how to channel your life choices more effectively? Sharon Johnston wondered the same thing as she wandered from South Africa to find the elusive answers to those questions. What she discovered is that nature is the answer. That we are disconnected from our naturally wild selves. And she learned as life threw her curve balls of death, divorce, infertility, chronic illness and job loss that riding the wave of change is the secret to success. Sharon realized that change is nature's growth engine and that realization caused her life to shift and soar into the life she had always imagined. She wrote this book to connect the dots of standalone philosophies and research to help define the stepping stones of a conscious change journey to guide others to a happier and more fulfilling life. Her strategies tease out the innate knowledge everyone carries within-knowledge of how to live in harmony with nature, your body, and others. It's a new model that is soul-centered, challenges commonplace and conventional thinking, and dilutes the theory down into bite-sized nuggets that are easily digested, when taken moment by moment. Start questioning societal norms like materialism and egotism. Challenge yourself by asking the tough questions, and let these steps and strategies direct you out of the darkness and into light and love, where life is healthier, full of joy, and mutually beneficial to everyone and everything around you

A Globe and Mail Bestseller!Clara Durling, a British widow of the First World War, arrives in Canada as the new superintendent of the Lethbridge Hospital just as wounded soldiers stream home. Lily Parsons is a young, widowed schoolteacher from Nova Scotia who ends up in the same city, managing a brothel called The Last Post. Set against the backdrop of love, union organizers, amorous bachelors, gamblers, drinkers, and prostitutes, the lives of these two women unexpectedly intertwine when Clara, in the heat of local politics and responding to the highest incidence of venereal disease in the province, establishes the first venereal disease clinic in the province, with Lily’s help. In this sprawling saga, Lily and Clara must confront the city’s conservative thinkers to bring help and compassion to wounded veterans.

A sweeping tale of life in Sault Ste. Marie from the 1930s through the Second World War. Clara Durling and her teenage daughter, Ivy, move to Sault Ste. Marie in 1932, where Clara is starting a job as head nurse at the local residential school. As Clara adjusts to life in the Soo, she discovers the town is a many-layered society. Clara works with Indigenous children who have been ripped from their communities and now live frightening, lonely lives in a crumbling building. While Clara struggles to deal with the despair at the school, Ivy makes a friend from the working-class Italian community and has a brush with the bootlegging underworld. After high school, Ivy heads to nursing school in Montreal but finds society’s expectations for young women do not foster their self-reliance. As Ivy struggles with sexism and societal norms, she and Clara seek to bring humanity to those living at the margins of society.