Christmas in the Village is the highlight of the year for the town of Charlee Falls, but this year Alexis Crossman is anything but inspired. Devastated by her father' s death, she can barely summon the energy to decorate the window of the furniture store she' s inherited, let alone officiate the store' s annual Christmas contest. Jessie Wainright is struggling to navigate parenthood alone. Especially when it comes to his daughter' s first date. He attends the annual festival hoping to lighten his mood, and inadvertently wins a key to the contest. But can he find the key that will unlock lovely Alexis' s heart?After a disastrous date Alexis has written Jessie off as cold. But when he invites her to join him for lattes, she discovers his pain goes as deep as hers. And his faith in God goes deeper. Can the wonder of Christmas help them discover the key to living and loving again?

Get ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore! From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade of Grey's best writing on film, from Saturday-matinee schlock to award-winning classics, as he explores the silver screen through insightful reviews and enlightening essays. Titles considered under Grey's lens include The Andromeda Strain, The Dunwich Horror, The Mad Magician, Pacific Rim, Suspiria, Tremors, and many more. As the house lights begin to dim, sit back and get ready to clutch your popcorn. The show is about to begin...

At just ten years old, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was forcibly removed – stolen – from her family, community and kinship systems. After eight years in various out-of-home care placements, Vanessa fled the system, reconnected with kin and returned to country for the very first time. Only then did she begin to heal.In this book, Vanessa embarks on an extraordinary work of truth-telling, exposing the ongoing violence visited on Black children, their families and their communities by the systems that claim to protect them. As a survivor of out-of-home care, a practising lawyer fighting for the freedom of others and now also a mother herself, she takes an unflinching look at the heartache and trauma caused by racist family policing, the shameful rates of child removals and the steady pipeline of First Nations children into the criminal justice system.Long Yarn Short is a story of struggle, grief and love, a call to action from one of the most powerful voices of her...