The Women Coach Internship Programme, launched at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, was a resounding success and created enduring bonds of friendship and support.

When the women crowded into a small room in the Athletes Village for their first meeting, no one knew what to expect and there was no hint that something extraordinary was about to happen. But almost immediately, a powerful connection was established.

Their diverse backgrounds range from growing up in farming communities to small towns to sophisticated urban centres. All were athletes, all are committed to improving opportunities for girls to succeed in sport and in life, and all have a strong desire to give back to sport, which has given them so much.

This book is testimony to these remarkable women and demonstrates that much is possible when talent, determination, discipline, and courage come together.

Trade professionals describe this book as unique, lyrical, funny, and wonderfully absurd--with a memorable lead character. Mr. Mouthful is a windbag whose highfalutin talk causes trouble and confusion for kids. But he learns his lesson when a little girl wanders off a dock, falls into the water, and needs to be rescued--fast. Kids will laugh at the antics of Mr. Mouthful and his monkey, Dupree. They will learn some new words. And they will love the jaunty illustrations of Kerry Bell.

Joseph Kimble is a distinguished professor emeritus at Western Michigan University-Cooley Law School. He taught legal writing for 35 years and has won several national and international awards for his work in promoting plain language in public communication.

Special offer The author will inscribe and mail a colorful bookplate, designed by the illustrator, to complement the book, to buyers who contact him through the book's website -- mrmouthful.com. (Or just Google the book's title.) It's 4 by 5, has a peel-off backing, and fits nicely inside the front cover. You can find the bookplate under The Book tab of the website.

Mommy Says I Have a Brother is designed to open up a conversation with your children about a sibling they may or may not have met, making it easier for them to ask questions and learn about a special person that is no longer here with them.

Sheila Craig Waengler is the daughter of James H. Craig, architect, and Grace Morris Craig, artist and author, and widow of Ernst G. Waengler, writer and foreign correspondent for the Neue Zurcher Zeitung. Sheila grew up in Toronto's Lawrence Park neighbourhood during the Depression. Life wasn't always easy, but she still managed to have many childhood adventures in and out of the city. After following in her mother's footsteps by attending Branksome Hall, an all-girls school in Toronto, Sheila enrolled at University College at the University of Toronto, where she studied Fine Arts and Archeology and started acting in productions at Hart House Theatre. This led her to spending a summer acting at the well-known Red Barn Theatre in Jackson's Point, Ontario. After university Sheila attended Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music, where she spent two years in the Opera School as a mezzo-soprano, where she was taught by French-Italian coloratura soprano Gina Cigna.

Now in her 96th year, Sheila has written her memoir covering the period from her birth in 1930 to just before her marriage in 1953. This is her first book.

Convictions of a Chef is a prison memoir, a travel memoir and a chef's memoir all rolled into one. Filled with fascinating and fun anecdotes about overcoming adversity, culinary challenges and health issues, it's the story of how one boy grew into a man in the trenches of a cruel and senseless drug war, and embraced food, music and travel with all that he had.

Gritty, vulnerable and humorous, Chef Evan delves into the ethics of the drug war with the same sense of adventure he uses to embrace culinary, cultural and psychedelic exploration.

Jack's story has all of life displayed in one ordinary family's experience of war. Based on actual letters and news articles penned by Jack Calder, his niece Patricia has crafted an epistolary novel that takes the reader into the thick of WWII. Jack is an intriguing, intrepid, winsome character whose letters are redolent of both his own temperament and the temper of the times.

-Mike Mason, best-selling author of The Mystery of Marriage, The Blue Umbrella (MikeMasonBooks.com)

I Flew into Trouble, an epistolary story, offers an insightful glimpse into the WWII lives of Jack Calder, RAF Navigator, his family in Canada, and his love in Ireland. This heartfelt, well researched testimony takes readers through the personal hopes and price of war.

-Kathryn MacDonald's most recent book is Far Side of the Shadow Moon (https: //kathrynmacdonald.com)

Patricia Calder has crafted a lively, engrossing narrative of her Uncle Jack's WWII RCAF service. Calder's fiction is buttressed by careful research, but the real power of this story lies in its emotional beats, as Jack and his loved ones navigate the war years from an ocean apart.

-Sarah Glassford, co-ed. Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War

Using her grandmother's scrapbook as her inspiration and narrative foundation, Patricia Calder has recreated the experiences of having a son in active combat for modern readers. I Flew into Trouble is a compelling read and a reminder of the deeply personal tolls that fell on many Canadian families during World War II.

-Heidi LM Jacobs, author of 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars Barrier Breaking Year

Mommy Says I Have a Sister is designed to open up a conversation with your children about a sibling they may or may not have met, making it easier for them to ask questions and learn about a special person that is no longer here with them.

Gripped by past grief, divorced literature professor Dr. Tobias Pi falls into an online relationship with Katerina Kotova, a beautiful and talented young Russian woman who quickly becomes his muse. Colleagues warn him the much-younger woman may not be who she seems, but Pi ignores them, plunging deeply into the friendship as his creativity explodes. When he meets Janet Brayden, a divorced Cooperstown painter with strong appetites and a turbulent past, Pi seems poised to return from the world of distant fantasy to in-person connections. But as Janet's story unfolds, Pi is drawn into a baffling mystery that throws into question everything he thought he knew. A literary mystery that will challenge your assumptions, Cooperstown Picasso explores the fractured state of desire in a technological age and affirms the healing power of art.

ENGLAND, SUMMER 1940. Following a brush with death on the Irish Sea, ten-year-old K fer Avigdor unexpectedly finds himself back in London. There, he stumbles upon a sinister Nazi plot, which targets hundreds of people in Britain -- including the most powerful man in the country. The one person who might be able to defeat Adolf Hitler.

With the Germans threatening to invade England at any moment, K fer musters all his courage and ingenuity in a valiant effort to thwart the Nazis. But will he succeed in time to save the day?

One Boy's War, the sequel to Boy from Berlin, is inspired by real people and historical events.

In fifty informative and inspiring steps, Beth Kaplan shows you how to write your story in essay or book form by putting on your writer's hat, then your editor's hat, then digging down to bring out the passionate details of the story, and finally living the writing life. Steps include:

Read Like a Writer

Unleash the I Word

Claim Your Truth

Write from Scars, Not Wounds

Enter the Marketplace

Layla is a 4-year-old South Asian girl who was born with Achondroplasia (ay-kaan-druh-play-zhuh), a type of Dwarfism. Sometimes people think that, because of her height, there is a lot that she can't do.

But...

She can do EVERYTHING!

This fun and engaging book will show young readers that Layla and other kids like her can do everything they can, it just might be in a different way.

Gordon Cressy is a walking, talking civics lesson. His work over the years has been a driving force in making Toronto what it is today - a city that takes top spots globally in livability rankings for diversity, inclusivity, and tolerance. Few know just how many lives he has had or the immense behind-the-scenes contributions he has made to the fabric of Canadian society.

Through his stories, Gordon's life unfolds as a fish-out-of-water tale of a kid from North Toronto ending up in the Caribbean and transforming lives, including his own. It is also a story about youth and growing up. It is a story about giving. But it is ultimately the story of the people who made Toronto the community it is today.

-Tony Wong

It's 1933 in Berlin. The Nazis have seized power, and for thirteen-year-old Amelie Mayer life is changing in ways she never could have imagined.

Her new teacher is picking on Jewish students, her friends are starting to shun her for not joining their Aryan youth group and her father is getting remarried. As tensions mount at home and school, Amelie embarks on a perilous journey-with nothing less than her whole future at stake.

We ALL need that friend. Enter Captain Grief, Kelly's superhero alter ego, flying, crying, and eating cake. After Kelly's spouse dies November 11, 2012, the Captain explodes onto the scene with her similar but fictional story of loss to self, alongside of Kelly's. Captain Grief is a foulmouthed miracle and blog-writing partner when Kelly needs a space away from her nineteen-month-old son, the Ginger Menace, to be enraged, distraught, ridiculous, indulgent, indignant, or just downright in the shit.

People tend to grieve politely, but after the accidental death of her thirty-five-year-old wife, the last thing Kelly wants to do is be quiet. Kelly comes to learn that when life kicks you in the ass, it pays to have a big, protective, insensitive jerk come to your rescue ... wearing a cape.

Having saved ROCK MUSIC from its impending extinction and being the first band to perform on MARS, AXE OF GOD has returned to take on and devour rock music's first AI band, THE DREAM MACHINE... Surrender to the AXE!

After proving REAL PEOPLE make REAL MUSIC, the band sets out to UNITE THE WORLD by creating an international dance craze. THE FIREBALL knows no borders or agendas as it brings life to the lifeless and joy to the sullen... Feel the groove and let the feet move!

In the late 1970s, deep in the heart of Southwestern Ontario's Tobacco Belt, a madcap crew of summer students learns what it means to work on a tobacco farm. Each finds their own way to cope with the physical and mental challenges to get through the season.

Johnny Sandleaves is a Canadian coming-of-age novel showcasing a mix of dark humour and gritty reality while providing a colourful social snapshot of the Old World circumstances shaping the families who moved to this burgeoning corner of Canada. Relatable in its banter and abounding with eccentric characters, Johnny Sandleaves peels back the dramatic layers of how an eclectic crew of tobacco harvesters on Peter DeVreker's farm found themselves where they are - and why, with all of life's possibilities, they ended up working in tobacco.

Berlin, April 1938. One night, eight-year-old K fer Avigdor uses his specialty toilet-paper roll binoculars to spy on his Mama and Aunt Charlotte. The whispered conversation he overhears alerts him to a danger he didn't know existed and starts him rethinking who he really is and where he belongs.

Within hours, K fer and his family flee their comfortable life. In a desperate race to stay one step ahead of the Nazis, K fer is called on to be braver and more resourceful than he ever imagined possible. But will it be enough?

Boy from Berlin is based on real people and actual events.

Ashiq Amlani is a hopeless romantic teenager who decides to move from Pakistan to Canada to achieve the biggest mission of his young life: to lose his virginity.

Soon after he arrives, he decides that he must hide his heritage in order to fit in by changing his name, his look, and the way he talks. This coming-of-age story is an exploration of the immigrant experience, ethnic humor, and, most poignantly, self-discovery.

Brown Boy Barely Blossoms takes you on a journey where Ashiq strives to be Ash, and Ash struggles to replace Ashiq. A world where two identities clash, and a boy becomes a man.