epilogue Audrey A. Thomas, Esq., has created a masterpiece. This powerful story about personal transformation, intellectual development, and maintaining a positive outlook on life is absolutely riveting. It is obvious that the author's role as an attorney and counselor at law mandated her position as radio host, mother of nine, and a motivational speaker. After reading this book, I can say without equivocation that the author has successfully proven that we must not judge a person on appea...

Who knows what it takes to make a successful marriage?  Someone who has spent fifty years living in a happy one!  This is not the story of our marriage, it is the story of the elements that we believe helped to make it work so well. Based on lifelong learning and experience, each chapter is filled with suggestions that are practical and apparently simple but so important that they can dare to be called Rules.  It would be difficult to imagine a successful marriage th...

Account of how faith trumps fear. This book is an interesting look at how belief and understanding are always mutually exclusive. This book reinforces the Biblical premise that the word alone is not enough for human beings to prosper. Instead, the word must be partnered with thoughts and deeds to create a proverbial tripartite being in the reader.Basically, the Author stresses, through her teachings, the importance of recognizing that before the body can act, the mind must conceive...

This book was written in three parts, which is symbolic of the tripartite spirit. I did this because I wanted to make certain that I accomplish the mission of empowering you in your ability to forgive yourself by choosing not to dwell in, on, or around shame. Yes, I wrote this book to discourage shame. I believe unwaveringly that shame is not of God. Shame, is however, the source of all of the pain, frustration and anxiety we experience. Shame is the source of suicide. Shame is the culprit...

Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, these individuals fought discrimination as members of a larger movement of black women who uplifted future generations through ...

We live in a time of ‘hurry sickness’. ‘Busy’ has become a competitive sport — and it’s a sport with no winners. But somewhere, underneath all of this hard slog, there are the things we really want to do. The things that bring us joy and give our lives meaning. More often than not, the only thing standing between us and getting on with those things is ourselves. Our lives don’t have to be as complicated as we make them. Through stories, theories and practical exercises, I Don’t Have Ti...

Nominated for the 2016 Forest of Reading Evergreen AwardNominated for the 2014 Victoria Book PrizeAn Englishwoman’s mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind.Letitia Landon, "Letty" to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer, much sought after for dinner parties and soirées in the London of the 1830s. But, still single at thirty-six, she fears ending up as a wizened crone in a dilapidated...

Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her career, Audrey Thomas has repeatedly challenged her readers to follow her into new territory. In Tattycoram, she does it again, taking readers into the distant fictional world of Charles Dickens’s England, where, in an unusual twist, Dickens interacts with his ow...

A daughter’s search for her mother reveals her family’s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced the police are taking the case seriously, Rita begins to carry out her ...

An undertaker follows a mystery from Windsor Castle to Egyptian tombs: “Violet remains an engaging guide with an unusual perspective on Victorian society.” —Publishers WeeklyAfter establishing her reputation as one of London's most highly regarded undertakers, Violet Harper decided to take her practice to the wilds of the American West. But when her mother falls ill, Violet and her husband, Samuel, are summoned back to England, where her skills are as soug...

2017 Evergreen Award, Forest of Reading — NominatedA sister. A baby. A man who watches from the trees.Fara and her husband buy a house with a disturbing history that reawakens memories of her own family tragedy. Maddy still lives in the house, once a hippie commune, where her daughter was kidnapped twenty-seven years ago. Rose grew up isolated with her mother in the backwoods north of Montreal. Now in the city, she questions the silence and decepti...

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...