Explores the causes of the Burma War, tells the story of its course, and reveals for the first time the surprisingly significant role Canada and Canadians played in it.

The Year of Magical Thinking meets Fifteen Days in this literary exploration of one Canadian's decision to enlist and go to war. What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Jeff Francis was a thirty-year-old doctoral candidate and student of Buddhism when he decided that joining the armed forces was the best way to make a difference in the world. In elegant, spare prose that captures both the hardness of war and the nuances of a grieving family, Melanie Murray - Captain Francis's aunt - uses the lens of his life and death to give Canada's war in Afghanistan the perceptive, literary treatment its soldiers, families and citizens deserve.

Most of us look at our days in the wrong way: We exaggerate yesterday. We overestimate tomorrow. We underestimate today. The truth is that the most important day you will ever experience is today. Today is the key to your success. Maxwell offers 12 decisions and disciplines-he calls it his daily dozen-that can be learned and mastered by any person to achieve success.

A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world and shows them that a lot of environmental solutions are relatively easy to put in place.

In this book you will discover: 1. Your Actions Determine Your Future 2. Nothing Changes until You Act 3. The Impact of Education on the future of a Nation 4. Why Many Die In Poverty 5. Without Vision, Your Future Is Uncertain 6. What You Do With Your Time Now Determines Your Future 7. You Must Work More Than You Pray 8. Your Tomorrow is Not Dependent on Prophecies 9. Prayer Doesn't Determine Your Destiny 10. Hard Work Beats Faith When Faith is dead

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before. "Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

Drs. R.L. and Ruby Yates were college sweethearts who attended undergraduate school and seminary together. They have earned dual doctorates in Ministry and Religious Studies. This dynamic couple serve as Senior Pastor and First Lady of Embrace Ministries Outreach Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia. They have four wonderful sons who are all ministers and are blessed with a daughter-in-law who is active in ministry and pursuing her doctorate in pharmacy. They have partnered in ministry in bringing this word of revelation to you. God has anointed this family and equipped them with a message to the nations. Together they have poured out of their spirit to encourage the strong, strengthen the weak and bring the lost to Jesus. You can embrace your tomorrow today. Before you see any evidence of completion, you can be confident that what God has begun in you, He will complete. This inspirational material can be used for your personal encouragement, Bible study, short speeches and sermons.

“A sweet, life-affirming tale . . . with a liberal sprinkling of magic.” —Marie Claire (UK) “Filled with family secrets, intrigue, and magic aplenty.” —Booklist Bestselling author Cecelia Ahern follows The Gift and P.S. I Love You with the mesmerizing story of a teenaged girl coming face-to-face with grief, growth, and magic in the Irish countryside, after a mysterious book begins to reveal her own memories from one day in the future. Perfect for long-time fans of Ahern, as well as for younger readers coming to her for the first time, The Book of Tomorrow’s strong voice and sophisticated storytelling mark an instant new classic from this already beloved author.

God created man to live a successful life. This was made very clear in His Word when He stated clearly His wish for man. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (3 John 1:2). You Can Have Your Tomorrow, Today is a book written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to help the people walk in their dreams and aspirations today and attain their full potentials as ordained by God. Life comes in seasons, and when you make Jesus Christ the foundation of your life, you will be able to position yourself today, to take hold of the greatness that God ordained for your life at every season. What are your dreams and aspirations? What is that miracle that would safeguard your success tomorrow? You need to take action! It is when you take action that the Lord will be able to order your steps and the Holy Spirit will be able to guide you. Being stationary provides no reason for guidance. So you have to move. Using the Word of God, this book will encourage you and challenge you to take action today for a better tomorrow.

In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.