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Hosted by Lisa Tucker · EN
Interviews with writers and authors from around the Algoma region, delving into their books and ideas. Lisa Tucker is the host.
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MARIANNE PERRY - The Chase
6d ago00:31:45Tap to summarizeWhat if Anna was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease? Or, were the nightmares simply the result of emotional and physical fatigue from juggling a demanding career, long-distance relationship with her adult children, and helping the family care for her increasingly frail mother?But what if an ominous element was encircling Anna? How else had a startling holograph will from a beloved uncle who died twenty-five years ago suddenly surfaced? What explanation accounted for Anna receiving a 1900 land deed for an unidentified tract of land somewhere in Europe? And who had mailed Anna a letter revealing alarming family truths?The Chase is a thrilling tale of deceit and treachery that unfolds in North America, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, and South America. It confronts our deepest fears and raises the possibility of beginning anew.Marianne Perry’s first novel, The Inheritance, is a historical fiction set in Calabria, southern Italy, during the early 1900s. Her second novel, The Chase, is a thrilling tale of deceit and treachery that unfolds in North America, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, and South America. It confronts our deepest fears and raises the possibility of beginning anew. Marianne’s genealogical research articles have been published by North American magazines and the Ontario Genealogical Society. She blogs about genealogy, writing, and travel at www.marianneperry.ca.
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CONNIE LAFLEUR BAILEY - You Are Worthy
1w ago00:28:29Tap to summarizeConnie Lafleur Bailey is a speaker, writer, teacher and entrepreneur.She has been married to her best friend, Trevor for over 35 years. They live on 66 acres in a rural community of Ontario, Canada. She is mom to two adult children with two amazing daughter-in-laws. She was blessed with her first grandson in 2024.After pursuing a career as an accountant, she left the corporate world in 2019. She founded Worth Believing. She has been on the journey of healing, the journey of questioning her self-worth, as many of you are. She is committed to sharing her experiences with other women in as many ways as possible – speaking engagements; blogging; podcasts; bible studies; and written works such as You Are Worthy!Do you ever find yourself trapped in the belief that you're "less than" you should be? In “You Are Worthy,” Connie dismantles 20 Myths and Lies that might be keeping you tethered to this mindset. This transformative journey guides you to:• Understand why you may be feeling as you do.• See that you are NOT alone.• Declare I Am Worthy!• Debunk these myths or lies.• Make changes today to improve your feeling of worth.• Find God’s love again.• See yourself as God does.By the end of “You Are Worthy,” these once-powerful myths lose their grip on you. Liberated, you’ll step into the life you deserve, trusting that you were made for more. Your best life awaits – discover the power of your own worth.
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DOUGLAS THOMSON - The Complete New Way Forward
1w ago00:32:45Tap to summarizeA New Way Forward now has 6 books – the series is complete, some thick and some thin, depending on subject.Book 1. A Spiritual Approach to Old IdeasBook 2. Understanding Spiritual ConceptsBook 3. Manifestation – How to Change Your LifeBook 4. Reincarnation – Your Spiritual GiftBook 5. From Darkness into LightBook 6. Your Energy Systems – Auras, Chakras, and MeridiansThese books present new ideas on many spiritual concepts, and perhaps the most startling, for some readers, is most of these subjects are physical functions of the body and not spiritual events. However, how they are used can be spiritual.“I am a new writer who stepped out and went well beyond my comfort zone when writing my first published book. I kept hearing a voice saying it was something I had to do.”I am an older man and have led a life, that I now look back on, as quite an adventure. I had to struggle in my early days, but when I met the love of my life I never looked back. Now we have been married to for 55 years. We have been enriched with two exceptional children and three grandsons. I served for 29 years as a Military Officer living all over Canada and the world. On retirement we opened the Family Wellness Centre and the British Columbia Institute of Holistic Studies, an accredited holistic school, and we had many other life-altering experiences that have influenced my writing. I was blessed to have a guide who helped me and a wife who supported and loved me. Everything included in these books reflect our experiences.
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JOHN DE LORENZI - The Search For Ezekiel
2w ago00:32:58Tap to summarizeWhat happens when a stolen credit card becomes a reason to risk everything?When Matt Rosso, a cautious Canadian academic, discovers a mysterious international flight charged to his credit card, he expects a routine fraud investigation and a quick resolution. Instead, a name emerges — Ezekiel Azuta — and with it, a strange, unsettling pull that refuses to let him go.What begins as a clerical error spirals into an obsession. Haunted by a quiet dissatisfaction he can’t quite name, Matt makes an impulsive decision that defies logic and comfort: he will travel to West Africa, to the Republic of Benin, to search for the man who never boarded the flight.Along the way, Matt’s journey becomes far more than a pursuit of a faceless fraudster. It forces him to confront stalled ambition, fractured relationships, cultural misunderstanding, and the uneasy line between curiosity and recklessness. Told through sharp dialogue, dry humour, and deeply introspective prose, The Search for Ezekiel explores modern disconnection, moral responsibility, and the universal urge to break free from a life lived too safely.Blending literary fiction with elements of travel narrative and psychological drama, this novel asks a simple but dangerous question:What if the thing you’re running from is yourself — and the only way forward is straight into the unknown?Perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven stories, global settings, and thoughtful examinations of risk, purpose, and identity.
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JOANNE ROBERTSON & SHIRLEY FLETCHER HORN - Shirley: An Indian Residential School Story
2w ago00:32:33Tap to summarizeShirley is only five years old when she is taken away by the Indian agent to live at a residential school.She loves learning, but she is not there by choice. From the first day walking up the long, lonely stone steps of the school building, life is hard and full of rules. Separated from her brothers and sisters, she is truly on her own. Shirley is very brave, but there is no one she loves to hold her at night when she is afraid. No one to tuck her in and comfort her. Shirley keeps going despite the sadness. She makes friends and has adventures. And most of all, she looks ahead to summertime, when she will be able to return to her family and the happiness of home.The true story of Shirley Horn, a Cree elder and residential school survivor from Northern Ontario. Co-authored and illustrated by Joanne Robertson, it details Shirley’s experience being taken from her family at age five and her life at the Shingwauk Indian Residential School. The inspiring story of a young girl’s resilience and survival at residential school.
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SACHIA TASZ - The Path
2w ago00:34:12Tap to summarizeSachia first gained exposure sharing her experiences with suicide loss and healing on TikTok as Juststay4anotherday, although she is no newcomer to writing and divulging her adventures on paper. Sachia created her first piece of literature at the young age of 13, so it is no surprise that she launched her first official novel THE PATH. With a sequel already in the works, this astonishing author has a bright future ahead. Her hope is to gain momentum in the topic of mental health and plant her footprint in making a difference and bringing awareness.Inspired by true events, newly single Sanja was a young and vibrant blonde haired beauty with the world in her hands. The only thing missing was her prince charming and it would not be long until Kayden strutted into a pub one fateful night, transforming her life into a fairytale.... for now. Soon, Sanja would begin to unveil the secrets of Kayden's past and her happy ever after would come crumbling down. From lust and love, heartbreak, unexpected grief to mind-blowing discoveries, Sanja would have to search for the strength to place all the pieces back together if it was even fathomable.
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TREVOR A. BAILEY - Queen of the Lycans and Vampires
2w ago00:31:30Tap to summarizeCan the creatures of the night finally learn to share the day?The cost of the endless fighting between lycan, vampire, and human has been in blood. The death and suffering spread by predator going up against prey has been enough to sate even the thirstiest vampire—until one vampire queen asked, “What if we didn’t have to fight?”Isabella Castellanos is heir to that legacy; a fragile peace, the first of its kind. The rules of the night have changed, and Queen Isabella hopes to raise her son in a kinder world. But centuries of hatred are hard to shed in a handful of decades, especially for the immortals among us.When discontent rises and a faction of anarchistic supernaturals longs for a return to the fighting, Isabella must strengthen her alliances, test her body and mind, and learn new ways of living to keep all her people safe. With determined allies, new friends, and one deeply unusual vampire at her side, Isabella will see her delicate alliance, along with the strength and ingenuity of its members, pushed to its limit.A new dawn is coming, and Isabella intends to be around to see it—vampire or not.Trevor A. Bailey thinks it might be about time to put aside old grudges and learn to work together. In the world today, vampires and lycanthropes might be an easier pill to swallow than that one, but that’s why stories are so important. Isabella Castellanos is the beginning of a planned series exploring every little ripple outward from this strange truce and imagining a world where everyone can belong.When he’s not stretching his imagination with books, comics, and all kinds of stories, Bailey likes puzzles and spending time with his grandson.Bailey lives in Laird, Ontario with his wife of 36 years.
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GRAHAM ELDER & LAURA CODY - Call Game
Apr 300:32:04Tap to summarizeChief orthopedic resident, Dr. Rylan Fraser, knows she’s in for a bad on-call night when she arrives in the trauma bay to find a young father barely holding on after a major motorcycle accident. It’s the eve of Thanksgiving, so staffing is thin, but things slide further downhill when she learns her junior resident is AWOL and the blizzard raging outside has stranded her supervising attending in a roadside ditch. This means she must fly solo, breaking the established chain-of-command to perform a series of emergency operations she is almost-but-not-entirely qualified to do on her own. Just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, they do. In between surgeries, Rylan is summoned to the ward to check on her post-op patients—only to find one after the other dead in their beds.With stress levels skyrocketing, Rylan teams up with the friendly (and handsome) on-call psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Bennet, to puzzle out what’s happening. Nothing is quite what it seems, though. As the night unfolds, Rylan and Paul are pulled deeper and deeper into a sick cat and mouse game in which their very own lives hang in the balance.
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PATRICIA F. BAKER - Stone Journey
Apr 300:31:17Tap to summarizeSTONE JOURNEY is my decade’s old reflection in print about my diagnosis of stage 3 rectal cancer, the devastation, uncertainty, fear, guilt, hopelessness that came along with it. I grieved for my health as well as the profound sadness my family endured. To make matters worse, four months after diagnosis and during chemotherapy and radiation, I found a lump in my right breast which was another primary not a spread. This began a whole new approach which was terrifying. None of this was in my family’s medical history.My medical team were instrumental in keeping my feet to the ground, my purpose in life front and centre and my focus on life not death. My family and friends fed my spirit with wholesome emotional support so I could thrive even at the lowest devastating times.” – Patricia Baker
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MARCY D'ETTORRE - Live The List
Apr 300:32:21Tap to summarizeHey there — I’m Marcy.I’m a northern Ontario girl with mud on my boots, stardust in my planner, and a habit of turning “one day” into “how about now?”Bucket & Go wasn’t born in a boardroom with a coffee in hand. It was born somewhere between palliative care night shifts, roadside pit stops, and kitchen table travel plans that started with, “What if we just said screw it and went?”After 26 years in health care — most of them spent walking alongside people in their final days — I learned the kind of things no textbook or TED Talk can teach you.Like how time is both a thief and a gift.How regrets feel heavier than backpacks.And how nobody ever says they wish they’d scrolled more.That’s why Bucket & Go isn’t about chasing more-it’s about choosing what actually matters, while you still can.My husband and I? We’re those people. We sold everything. Bought a cabin in the woods. Planted trees. Made fires. Laughed a lot. Cried sometimes. Wandered dirt roads with a camera in one hand and a half-baked dream in the other.People tell us all the time:“I live through your adventures.”And while I totally get the sentiment — it always hits me the same way: You don’t have to live through me. You can live like you mean it, too.So I built Bucket & Go. First for us — to track, dream, and plan a life that felt true. Then I realized… this isn’t just ours.This is for you.The road trip rebel. The stargazing soul. The Sunday planner and the Monday dreamer. The person who’s tired of saying “Maybe next year.”This site is my love letter to the magic of choosing now over never — and the belief that you don’t have to be rich, perfect, or fearless to live a damn good story.You just have to start.So here it is: part guide, part gut-check, part hell yes.Welcome to Bucket & Go.Let’s trade burnout for bucket lists.Let’s live the life we swore we’d never settle for.Let’s pack light, dream big, and cuss a little when the GPS reroutes.And if you ever need proof that it’s okay to start over in the middle of nowhere with a wild heart and Wi-Fi, well… you’re lookin’ at her.
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