I Will Not Pretend: A Terrifying Family Secret
The Taylors have been hiding something for years, but Sophie Taylor is ready to tell the truth. She has barricaded herself in her bathroom to avoid being a punching bag, once again. She’s confided in others before but was only ever met with skepticism. No one wants to believe her. Her situation is worsening, and Sophie can’t see a way out. She’s desperate for things to change. Her life depends on it. In a last-stitch effort, Sophie meets with therapist, Emma Davidson, an expert on domestic abuse. After years of struggles, Sophie is willing to risk it all. She decides to share her deepest secret one last time. But will Emma believe her? She may be Sophie’s only hope.
Best Seat In The House
An Inspirational Novella About A Chair
Best Seat In The House is enchanting, inspiring, and dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom. The story describes the journey of a used chair, passed on to new owners after its original owner moves to a retirement facility. Living in the new house comes with benefits and challenges and the chair is about to learn many of them. The owners' busy lifestyle leaves the chair's mind spinning but it quickly finds its place within the family, learning how to survive among them.
Along the way, the chair succumbs to age, decay, and isolation when it gets relocated to a dark room with no other visitors but the family cat. A young girl visits sporadically and her presence is enough to offer hope until everything changes again. Ready to be tossed at the curb like all its predecessors, the chair accepts its fate. However, the owners have other plans in mind.
This is a story about love, grief, loneliness, friendship, happiness, acceptance, and finding your place in the world. Beautiful, evocative, and deeply touching, this story will carve a special place in your heart with its timeless messages and heartfelt truths.
Notebook
A Notebook with 100 lined pages is the perfect place to write down lists, class notes, plot a new novel, or keep track of your favorite recipes. Both beautiful and practical, this notebook is perfectly sized at 6x9 to fill with anything you need to keep track of.
See You Sunday
A book of family favorite recipes to share for generations to come. With a focus on traditional French Canadian and Dutch Canadian recipes that our family love, along with new tried and true dishes we've added to our table over time. Explore over 90 different recipes in this easy-to-follow recipe book!
Included:
Helpful Tips: Measurements, Cleaning tips, Stain Removal guide, Herb and spice pairing, Substitutions, Interesting Facts, Food and wine pairing, Steaming time guidelines, and more.
Appetizers: Dips, rubs, sauces, fries, sides, holiday staples, dishes to share at gatherings, and yummy snacks.
Breads and Muffins: No-Knead bread, muffins, scones, sandwich bread, and more.
Salads: Vinaigrette, varieties of salads; pasta, bean, ramen, quinoa, potato, tomato, lentil, chickpea, corn, and cauliflower.
Soups: A mix of meat soups and vegetarian soups.
Main Dishes: Colourful dishes with meatless or meat options to choose from. In this section, you'll find quick and easy recipes, savory and filling meals, one-pan meals, quiches, kid-friendly dishes, casseroles, whole chicken, pasta, salmon, slow-cooker favorites, etc.
Sweets: Pies, cookies, bars, cakes, doughnuts, squares, and a delicious tart recipe.
When You Say Nothing At All
Tim is learning that people can show love and kindness with their actions as well as with the words they speak. This story is about navigating the unspoken ways people show they care, the confusion that can arise when trying to interpret their meaning, and the comfort of understanding the message, even when nothing is being said.
Mama Elephant’s Baby Tiger
Mama and Baby Elephant find Baby Tiger alone in the jungle. Baby Tiger is alone and has no parents. Mama and Baby Elephant decide to grow their family and welcome Baby Tiger with the love of adoption.
One More Chapter
A reading tracker for all bookish things. Similar to its sister notebook 'Bookish Notebook', this gorgeous notebook gives you the perfect space to jot down any bookish notes or track all your book-related lists, ideas, books read, rating systems, and much more. Suitable for everyone, this notebook also includes coloring pages and blank note pages for mindfulness or thoughts. With enough content to fill 100 book titles, you can use this notebook all year or for several years depending on your reading goal.
Bookish Notebook
A notebook for all bookish things. This beautiful notebook gives you the perfect space to record any bookish notes or track all your book-related lists, ideas, books read, reviews, rating systems, and much more. Suitable for everyone, this notebook also includes coloring pages and blank note pages for mindfulness or thoughts. With enough space to fill 100 records of books, you can use this notebook all year or for several years depending on your reading goal. Record your reading goals and favorite accounts using this notebook.
What's Inside:
• Pages for notes
• Book tracker by the month
- Mindfulness drawings
- Bookish quotes
- Mood tracker for the year
- Book series tracker
- Reading log and ratings for 100 books
- 100 pages to fill in book reviews, author, title, rating, genre, length, paperback, audio, or e-reader, favorite characters, tropes, series, spice level, summary
- A to Z Reading Challenge
- Reading Bingo
- Colouring and tracking of book spines
- List of highlights for the year
- Wishlist of wants and needs
- Pages to fill out favorite book quotes
- Reading goal tracker
- Yearly reading stats by number of books, number of pages read, average length of books, longest book, shorted book, average rating
- Top five books of the year
- Social Accounts to follow
- Favorite author notes
- To Be Read list
- Little Free Library location tracker
The Bookish Notebook is the perfect gift for any book lover, reader, or book club member who wishes to track and record their reading habits and keep notes of their favorite reads offline.
Cages
She saw something and it might just change everything.
The Richardson family thought they had it all figured out. Maintaining a perfect facade, they had mastered the art of pretending. But when their vacation to Lake Clear is threatened by a single, shocking discovery, their entire world is thrown into turmoil.
As the secrets of the Richardson family come to light, the stakes are raised higher and higher. Can they keep up the perfect charade, or will they be forced to confront the truth?
Fans of Jodi Picoult's The Pact will be enthralled by the suspense and intrigue of Cages. With a captivating story of family and identity, this heart-pounding read will keep you in its grasp until the very last page.
“‘’I couldn’t put this book down!’’”
“‘’Michelle Young brings us heart-wrenching suspense in Cages.’’”
The Sleep Clinic
Laurel Gervais wakes up to her roommate knocking frantically on her bedroom door, insisting she be allowed inside. Standing in the middle of her bed, Laurel takes in a scene of destruction; shredded sheets, unhinged curtains and feathers floating aimlessly all around her. She had done this and yet, she had no memory of it.
Discovering she’d suffered from night terrors as a child Laurel quickly books a sleep study in the hopes of coming up with strategies to cope with her sudden and violent reactions. The Salter Square sleep clinic comes highly recommended to help people suffering from sleep disorders, but instead of helping, Laurel can’t help but feel trapped. With ancient architecture and strange design, this place frightens more than it soothes. A group of patients booked for a sleep study that very night are about to discover just how terrifying this place truly is. When a threat appears, Laurel must let down her guard and is forced to trust strangers with her life.
Published November 14, 2021
“Every second of the story was so captivating!”
There She Lies
We all have secrets—little white lies we tell ourselves. Everyone has them, but no matter how hard we try to keep them hidden, even our deepest secrets can come up to the surface.
When the Millers move across the province to pursue William’s lifelong dream of becoming a helicopter pilot, Quinn, a new mother, feels isolated from everything she’s ever known, only, Quinn has been there before. Struggling with severe postpartum depression, Quinn turns to her elderly neighbour for help, but how much does she really know about Mrs. Westover? Only what she chooses to reveal. Mrs. Westover never lies, in fact, she despises liars. What will she do when she finds out Quinn’s been dishonest with her? This story started long before Quinn ever met Mrs. Westover.
An old secret, a story of revenge, and a friendship gone wrong. How do we decide who to trust? This twisted story will makes us think twice about who we choose as friends.
“‘’The story pulled me in straight off the bat and just consumed me. I was so invested in it and its characters, I lost time and could not bring myself to put it down.’’”
“‘Un-PutDownable Keep You Up All Night Read!’’”
“‘’A nail-biting story, full of suspense and horror.’’”
Your Move
Claire Martel learned long ago that even people close to you can’t be trusted. She’s built a comfortable life for herself while keeping everyone at a distance. When she comes home one day and realizes that someone has been in her apartment, she knows that she is no longer safe and that her deepest secret has been discovered. Nothing is missing, but the message is clear. Who would believe her? Who can she trust?
Feeling the walls closing in, Claire finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation as a person of interest. Her home is no longer safe. Her best option is to disappear—again. She leaves her life behind, only to wind up running into danger, not away from it. Claire must push through her fears and find strength within herself as she ends up in a battle for her life.
“Incredibly well written. What a thriller!”
“5 out of 5 stars. A psychological thriller at its best!”
Without Fear
Without Fear is a book of prose and poetry about the up and down journey of healing. It’s about transforming your pain into something beautiful. Without Fear helps readers see that their struggles can make them stronger, like a well-tended garden, they can blossom. It’s about owning your past, instead of letting it control you.
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“amazing, beautiful, touching poetry”
Salt & Light
Salt & Light is a book of prose and poetry, shedding light onto invisible struggles and journeys through mental illness, abuse and infertility. The book is divided in two parts, Salt; representing darkness of the past and Light; representing the hopefulness of the future. Salt & Light takes readers through a journey of pain and ends with emotional healing and self-worth.
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“Beautiful, heart breaking, and healing.”
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About
Michelle Young is a Canadian author of multiple books. She has been featured in The Globe and Mail, appeared on television and podcasts, and is passionately seeking new ways to bring invisible battles into the light through her stories. Young lives in the country on the outskirts of Ottawa with her family.
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