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Weighted blankets, vests, & scarves by Susan White SullivanA weighted blanket is a powerful tool that can sooth those with sensory processing or autism spectrum disorders by providing the deep pressure they covet. Like a firm hug, they also provide a safe, non-drug therapy for anyone who is anxious. As beneficial as they are, weighted blankets can be expensive and don't always reflect your -- or your child's -- design style. With the help of this handy guide, anyone can learn to make a weighted blanket for their child, teen, or their own use.
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Quicksand : what it means to be a human being by Henning MankellThe late activist and best-selling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries explores in a sequence of intimate vignettes the myriad experiences of a life richly lived through his relationships and writings as evaluated after his 2014 lung cancer diagnosis.
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Bonus Reads: Canadian Military Memoir
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Refuge in the black beck : the story of Ordinary Seaman Nicola Peffers by Nicola PeffersWhen Nicola Peffers boarded the HMCS Winnipeg in 2009, she was embarking on her first deployment with the Canadian Navy. At twenty-six years old, one of the few women on the boat, and of the top students in her training class, Nicola began her career with a sense of optimism. This optimism was short lived. In her memoir she exposes ongoing harassment she experienced from her male colleagues and chronicles PTSD survival experience.
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The dependent by Danielle DanielThe Dependent is a true story written by a military wife married to a paratrooper who served in the Canadian Armed Forces for fourteen years before his army career came to a crashing halt—a freak accident near Armed Forces Base Trenton left him paraplegic and their future in shards.
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One soldier : a Canadian soldier's fight against the Islamic State by Dillon HillierDillon Hillier, a corporal with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, returned home from a tour in Afghanistan and started up a normal life. But when ISIS insurgents began attacking local populations in Iraq and elsewhere, Hillier felt he had to join in the action, so he became the first Canadian to volunteer to fight ISIS in Iraq. One Soldier is about Hillier’s three months fighting with the Kurds in Iraq, on the front lines.
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Unflinching : the making of a Canadian sniper by Jody MiticA twenty-year veteran of the Canadian Forces details the trajectory of his military career and his experience in the Afghan War, during which he lost both legs below the knees after stepping on a landmine.
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