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Book Club

Join us this Summer as we kick off our Book Club. A place where military families can keep connected with friends and family, give their thoughts about the book of choice and of course enjoy a great book.

 

Author captures the love story behind Highway of Heroes

In April of 2002, this stretch of the 401 became something different. One day that month, a small group of community members transformed this strip of black-top from a simple roadway to a highway of heroes. It is the story of this journey that is so powerfully told in a new book by photo journalist Pete Fisher, titled Highway of Heroes: True Patriot Love. more...

 
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

For 2011, join us for a year of small me moments, exploring our lives and developing our authentic selves as we work through Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy. We’ll learn to cultivate gratitude, simplicity, order, harmony, beauty and joy in our lives. more...

 
Two Generals by Scott Chantler

Two Generals is a graphic novel about the Second World War written and illustrated by accomplished graphic novelist and commercial illustrator Scott Chantler. For many years comics have been tarred as adolescent distractions but have lately come of age as they have matured into the form of the graphic novel.  more...

 

Nichola Goddard – Woman. Canadian. Soldier.
I am not quite certain that Nichola Goddard would agree with the priority of these three words. One thing is certain; Valerie Fortney has done a heart-warming job at introducing us to Nichola Goddard; to the soldier behind the name, and to the woman behind the soldier. more...

 
Love in the Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage                         
The last thing Berkeley-dwelling peace activist Sophia Raday expected was to fall in love with a straightlaced Oakland police officer. As someone who had run away from cops dressed in riot gear at protests, Sophia was ambivalent, to say the least, at the prospect of dating Barrett... more...