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On a bitter winter evening in Sioux Lookout a woman is shot dead. Across the street, in the shadows, Chris Allard stands watching. At first Sergeant Miles of the OPP treats Chris as an annoying but innocent bystander. But when the identity of the victim is revealed Chris suddenly becomes the chief suspect. Desperate to prove his innocence, Chris sets out to discover the truth. It is a search that moves from the back streets of Toronto to a small cabin...
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When disgraced Toronto Social Worker, Chris Allard, is joined by his wife in the ranks of the unemployed, he reluctantly accepts a consulting job in a remote Northwestern Ontario community. What he finds in Sioux Lookout is - murder. Before he's done Chris will discover that he has made a journey in time as well as space. He'll find that he is uniquely qualified to observe both the best and worst of the suspects - provided he has the courage to look...
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A farmer is murdered in 1809. A secret plasma weapon is accidentally discharged in 1999. And, in the summer of 2017, post-doctoral researcher Courtney Snow is hired into the ichthyology lab of Dr. Fredriche Messi. Located at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Messi – brilliant scientist and dedicated stoner - is the leading authority on control of Petromyzon marinus – the sea lamprey. When a Queens student is savagely killed by an unknown...
4) Emotional Recovery from Congenital Heart Disease: A Guide for Children, Youth, Adults and Parents
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Winner of the Outstanding book (self-help) and Book of the Year Award (3rd) in the 2016 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards. More than forty thousand babies are born every year in the United States with the most common birth defect – congenital heart disease (CHD). The number of babies born annually worldwide with CHD approaches one million. While medical interventions for CHD have radically improved, less attention has been paid...
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People can be plunged into a world where they no longer feel safe. There are great books on anxiety but if your life has been turned upside down consider reading Emotional Recovery from Situational Anxiety first. Written by a working therapist with more than thirty years' experience, this book will help you find practical ways to manage the anxiety that could result from assault and abuse (sexual, physical, psychological), violence associated with...
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Melanie Moon in love during a lost summer in Wasaga beach... Miranda Crane through the eyes of those who lose her... A young Bay Street trader who finds his soul with the help of a boy, a dog and a ghost on the winter streets of Sioux Lookout, and Joshua McKay who stands up against an abusive Residential School priest in 1966... Finally, one hundred years in the life of a divided family and ... a teacup. These atmospheric stories of love and loss...
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It's November 1987 in Scarborough, Ontario, and someone – or something – is killing off Tony Price's clients in the Silver Birch housing project. The community, already dysfunctional and violent, is terrified. Tony, a chain smoking, vodka soaked burnout, sets out to find the killer. Badgered by a skeptical Children's Aid worker and two relentless police detectives, he is running out of time. In a search that takes him from the darkest corners...
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In the seventh book in his Emotional Recovery from… series Richard Schwindt M.S.W., R.S.W. turns a therapist's eye towards the source of our greatest joys and challenges – the family. Basing his thoughts and observations on more than thirty years of clinical experience, Richard explores family life and the most common struggles that afflict family members. He addresses: The family life cycle When and how things go wrong How are we effected by...
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The breakdown of a marriage can be overwhelming; involving a complex array of emotional and instrumental tasks. Emotional Recovery from Marital Separation gets you started, with an overview of the issues associated with separation and divorce. Richard Schwindt is a working therapist with more than thirty years of experience. He gives direct advice for helping your children, becoming a stepparent, managing your emotions, seeking help, reengaging in...
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Confidential Scarborough: Confidential It's November 1986 in Scarborough, Ontario, at the Silver Birch Housing Project. Someone - or something - is eating social worker, Tony Price's clients. Burnt out and vodka soaked, Tony has to acknowledge his innate ability to fight evil. When sexy colleague Brenda Martin is kidnapped, Tony is forced to act. Sioux Lookout: Confidential Brenda suggests Tony take a vacation in Sioux Lookout in September, 1994 –...
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The disclosure of adultery ignites a genuine emotional crisis which can tear couples and families apart. While there are excellent books on infidelity consider reading Emotional Recovery from an Affair first. Written by a working marital therapist it provides the immediate First Aid you need for the days and weeks after the disclosure, whether it has been voluntary or discovered. In addition to telling you what to expect, Emotional Recovery from an...
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Thirty years of social work at the Silver Birch housing project in Scarborough come to an abrupt end for Tony Price after he rescues a woman and child from an armed dope fiend. Burnt out and vodka-soaked, he is forced into retirement. During the hot summer of 2016 he moves with his wife, Brenda, to historic Kingston, Ontario. Though closer to their twins who attend Queens University, Tony is bored and at loose ends. Then a homicidal madman appears...
13) The Love Duology
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Previously short listed in the International Three Day Novel Contest Love Stacey is a triumph of the imagination. Stacey is an amnesic professor of mathematics at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. She is unaware of either her history or remarkable gifts until she meets an aging alcoholic named Jonathon Shaw. That's when the fireworks start and this remarkable novel takes off. Comedy/tragedy/mystery/fantasy/family history; Love Stacey is the...
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From the writer who brought you a social worker who solves murders (Death in Sioux Lookout) and a psychiatrist who turns into a gorilla to solve a case (The Love Duology) comes another completely original work. In the early eighties a young social worker named Richard Schwindt decided to do something never done before (or since) and satirize his profession. For ten years, writing in OAPSW Newsmagazine Schwindt regaled and horrified colleagues with...
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New for 2017: Richard Schwindt's two most successful books combined, to provide more practical help to targets of workplace abuse intent on rebuilding their lives. Workplace mobbing exacts a terrible emotional and physical toll on targets and those who love them. While most books on workplace bullying and mobbing focus on the dynamics of the abuse and advocacy, this book is dedicated to emotional healing. The author has been a working therapist for...
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It's late spring - the opening of fishing season - and a man is found dead, strangled by a riverside. Soon after, Chris Allard arrives to spend the summer in Sioux Lookout, swearing that he will stay away from any and all murders. No such luck. Locked in bitter conflict with a venal consultant, and his wife, Kate, Chris finds himself fielding two confessions to the crime. It's hot and the bugs are biting. If Chris doesn't find a solution things are...
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It's 1994 and eight years have passed since the horrific events at the Silver Birch Housing Project, recorded in Scarborough: Confidential. At the urging of his girlfriend Brenda, vodka soaked social worker Tony Price has decided to take a vacation in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Far from home, Tony stays with local hunter and social worker, Colin Kowlchuk. All he wants to do is drink, smoke, fish and forget everything else. No such luck. Something evil...
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The Death in Sioux Lookout Trilogy, now complete in digital format. Chris Allard, disgraced Toronto social worker finds work far afield in a remote community in Northwestern Ontario. He is quickly embroiled in a series of murders that tax his marriage, challenge his sanity and put him in grave peril. Unique in style, locale and characterization (and surprisingly funny) the Death in Sioux Lookout Trilogy will thrill mystery readers or anyone familiar...
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There are few more difficult tasks than raising a troubled child: toddler, teen or young adult. For parents it can mean sleepless nights, endless fear, conflict with school staff, and exposure to human service workers and the legal system. It pressures your relationships and work life, often leaving you overwhelmed, in a continuing crisis. Whether due to behavioral, emotional or developmental issues, mental illness or addiction, their pain puts you...