New Release Books by Julie Johnston

Pathways of Spiritual Awakening: Uplifting Stories of Personal Transformation features stories which will uplift and inspire you to navigate life''s challenges. These are true personal accounts about each author''s journey through a difficult life experience and how that experience has transformed their lives and brought peace to those who were suffering the emotions of fear, despair, anxiety, guilt?. These stories creatively explore how to use universal spiritual principles of empowering and life-affirming practical spirituality for richer living.The authors come from various backgrounds and experiences. Some experienced grief at the loss of a loved one, others turned away from God and relied on drugs and alcohol for solace and comfort. Many of the writers reflect on confusion, exhaustion, and despair brought on by life-changing experiences, which ultimately became opportunities for awakening.Some authors chose to use newfound wisdom to guide their life, while another learned that love only comes when you learn to love yourself. Often what is most personal is also most universal. Our hope is that these personal stories resonate with you, and you find insights that are helpful for your own life''s journey. If you desire to grow and experience new levels of spiritual awakening and personal growth, and you hunger for greater understanding of the Spirit within, then these stories may provide you with the inspiration to nourish your soul. We are sure these stories will support you on your spiritual journey in a closer relationship with the God of your understandingAnd together we say, Thank God Within and All Around Us.

The war is over, but for thirteen-year-old Rachel, the battle has just begun. Putting childhood behind her, she knows what she wants - to prove she has acting talent worthy of the school drama club, and what she doesn''t want - to romantically fall for someone completely inappropriate. Worries about her veteran brother''s failing health and repugnance at her mother''s unexpected and unwanted pregnancy drive her to seek solace from a seemingly sympathetic, but self-serving teacher. The lies she tells herself hoping to reach solutions to the problems complicating her life merely function to make matters worse. Ultimately, she finds a way to come to terms with life as it reaches an end and life as it begins.

Shortlisted for the 2005 Young Adult Canadian Book Award Susanna''s Quill is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Susanna Moodie, writer and pioneer, by award-winning author Julie Johnston. The story takes us into Susanna’s genteel English childhood, through her humorous teenage attempts at writing, growing to her burgeoning independence, marriage to Dunbar Moodie, and their decision to emigrate from England. To the Moodies, Canada was the answer to their prayers. They would have the life they could no longer afford in Britain and they could raise their children to become wealthy landowners in their own right. The adventures that thwart this dream become a story of lost illusions and a found sense of self-reliance and inner strength.

for years, all of my poetry and prose could be found scattered around Instagram and Tumblr with the hashtag "#anexcerptfromabookillneverwrite," I''ll need to go around editing most of these posts now as they are part of this book. and I am so proud of these excerpts, and myself, we have came so far from hashtags on social media.

A moving story set in the twilight of childhood. In the year 1904, Fred Dickinson teeters on the brink of manhood. He is spending the last summer of his childhood at his grandfather’s family cottage on Rideau Lake, the only place he feels truly alive. Shy and stuttering, Fred’s ambition is to make his living on the water, mapping the lake for hidden shoals. His father however, has other plans. Believing Fred to lack character, his father is arranging for him to work in the city to toughen him up. Fred’s summer is one of love, adventure, and mystery. He falls in love and suffers heartache, discovers a long-buried secret about a rumoured murderer, and defies his father for the first time. Although he started the summer as an outcast, Fred eventually succeeds in finding his own place among his family and friends. Using as a backdrop the actual 1904 diary of a young man, Julie Johnston invents a captivating tale of discovery, youthful passion, and intrigue, recapturing the atmosphere of a time less hectic, less sophisticated.

In Spite of Killer Bees is a novel about not giving in and not giving up. Aggie and her two sisters have had to move to the small village that had been their father’s childhood home. Their mother is long gone, and their father – who’d been in and out of prison – has died. Although the village holds little charm for the girls, they have hopes. It seems that their late grandfather has made them heiresses. In the small, judgmental village, Aggie must fight to keep her diminishing family together. By refusing to abandon those she loves and comes to love, she risks more than her happiness.

The Alice Munro of Canadian childrens publishing makes her stunning debut in adult fiction with As If by Accident, a story about two people whose lives become intertwined by a series of unexpected circumstances. When Val Hudson discovers her husband of 11 years is killed in a car accident, the life she once knew comes to an end. Struggling with guilt and grief, she searches her past for meaning. Enter Gus, a screenwriter turned novelist, who bases his second book on Vals story after reading about it in a local newspaper. Through a series of coincidences, their lives intersect and chance encounters turn into fortuitous twists of fate.Governor Generals Award-winning author Julie Johnston skillfully weaves together the lives of two people touched by tragedy. As If by Accident is an impressive debut novel written with gentle wit and grace from a masterful storyteller.

Rosalind Kemp is the youngest in a family of sisters. She lives a comfortable life in a small town in Ontario. Ros is active, loving, and artistic. And, she has second sight. It is a part of her nature with which she has trouble coming to terms: sometimes it is nothing more than a pleasant parlor trick, like knowing that King Edward will abdicate; sometimes it is a curse that makes her feel freakish; and sometimes it is just plain terrifying. Ros tries everything she can to suppress the gift, and subsequently herself, but nothing works. If she is going to live her life fully, she will have to come to terms with every part of her being, just as everyone must. This brilliant novel is Julie Johnston at her very best: it is funny, frightening, and painfully insightful.

In wanting children to have fun while learning, "God''s Love and Lessons" rhyming Bible stories were written to teach such things as God''s faithfulness, Love and never ending presence. It starts with the beginning of creation, then Adam & Eve''s mistake with a snake, Noah, his family and animals are saved, and Joseph has one trial after another, but God never leaves him. God''s word was sent from up above, It''s full of life and truth and love. Have fun!

Keely and her elder brother are inseparable until Patrick becomes paralysed by polio. She knows she must overcome her despair and self-pity if Patrick is to regain his will to live. Readership level: 12+ years.

Transient and stable transfections are frequently used in biotechnology to study gene and protein function and regulation, as well as protein production. ... This study aimed to improve upon current standard practices of recombinant protein expression in insect cells that would theoretically require less time than the traditional baculovirus method. Here, we utilized Maxcyte electroporation in conjunction with the piggyBac system to generate a stable cell line in SF9 insect cells.