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Newfoundland. 1942. Hitler’s U-boats ravage the Atlantic, sinking warships and merchant vessels alike. The world’s fate hinges on the fight for this ocean, and Germany has launched a daring operation that promises to tip the scales in its favour. The Allies's best chance is Frank Carousel, a Canadian military policeman, and Jack, a two-fisted, Newfoundland cop. Their adventure will take them from Newfoundland’s rocky coast to the alleys of its rapidly changing capital city, St. John’s. If these two don’t kill each other first, the free world may have a hope. 

A jaded young priest of a dwindling parish faces a man with a terrible secret. A lonely pensioner spends a Thanksgiving she'll never forget at a local diner, served by an acerbic waitress who has finally found her ticket out of there. A recent university graduate from small-town Ontario leaves home with nothing to his name but the hope of a new life in the city and places all his trust in a charismatic yet dubious life coach.Lyrical language, at times haunting, and moments of dry humour weave through the three novellas in this collection. Set in and around Ottawa, Ontario, these stories examine the peripheries of society. In the characters' journey toward the centre, they navigate flawed human relationships, seek to encounter a divine presence that is at once implicitly present yet dreadfully distant, and struggle to negotiate the conditions of redemption.

It's a decade since the world died. Humanity has retreated inside walled territories to protect those who are left. Every day is like the one before it: simple, mundane, dreadful.Erin Bishop lives in the territory Eden, where she enforces the rule of Mr. Bellemark, its leader and keeper - a self-proclaimed saviour of the world. All is well inside her concrete cage until the day she learns of a terrorist threatening the lives inside the walls and her partner falls victim to a vicious attack.All at once, Erin is swept up into a centuries-old battle between dark and light. She must fight to finally expose the secrets plaguing her life inside Eden and face the hideous truths of her existence.

Hollywood. Las Vegas. Beverly Hills. A world of corrupt movie moguls, heartless kidnappers, and innocent girls sold into slavery by their own families.When wounded Kentucky-born beauty Nicole Tyler ditches her handlers in Las Vegas and sets out to avenge the death of her best friend, her bloody rampage threatens a powerful network of kidnappers and shady businessmen who will stop at nothing to protect their own interests. Bent on toppling their illegal enterprise and determined to save her sister from becoming its latest victim, Nicole has no time for a handsome movie producer and returning soldier, Nick Righetti, whose attentions threaten to distract her from her mission.A gripping tale about love, family, and the poetics of revenge, Per Verse Vengeance moves briskly between Las Vegas, Kentucky, Beverly Hills and Hollywood on the trail of a young woman who must decide between getting even and opening her heart.

Joe Rossetti is a marketing guru, the very best in the business, and he has made a lot of money.But one night, standing at the bar at the Smokehouse Restaurant in Burbank, California, he meets Nancy and everything changes. A brilliant scientist and mathematician, with the face of a goddess, Nancy challenges everything Joe thinks he believes in. When Nancy takes it upon herself to right some of society's wrongs, she takes Joe along on the ride of his life and makes him realize what he's been missing in his life. Targeted Demographics is Joseph Sciuto's second novel, following the success of Hollywood Riptide.

It was February 29 again, and I was wondering which member of my family would try to kill me this time: From this intriguing premise, the stories in this collection of short fiction by new Canadian writers map out fifteen wildly different approaches to the same terrain. From comedies about vampire conversions and French-Canadian werewolves to tense family dramas about humanoid robots and fairy-zombie hybrids, these stories chart a new set of possibilities for short fiction in Canada today.

Author of Encore, nominated for both the 2016 Bony Blithe Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First NovelIdeas of religion, sexuality, and vengeance are challenged when murder comes to a small town known for wine, theatre, rich cultural history, and deep-rooted family trees.Celebrated actress Bella James returns to the acclaimed Shaw Festival where she's not only starring in a musical but is also part of an Artist-in-the-Classroom initiative at the local high school. When the popular teacher she's assigned to work with is found hanged in his office, Bella and Detective Sergeant Andre Jeffers set out to investigate his death. They soon find themselves entwined in a series of webs that not only test their understanding of grief and what it means to love, but also threaten to destroy even more lives.Niagara-on-the-Lake again provides the beautiful backdrop for this latest Bella James mystery. Full of humour, heart, surprising twists, and "hold on to your seat" turns, Bella and Jeffers return at full force, joined by many returning characters from Encore (including Dr. Gorgeous and, yes, Moustache!!) as well as some new faces who will make you laugh, cry, and keep you guessing until the very end!Connect with the author at www.alexiskoetting.com

The stories and poetry in this book came to the writer between the years 2013 and 2017. She believes that stories have the power to disclose, heal, lead, and, for many, to transform.Her stories have been described as sometimes loving, sometimes gripping, and often unsettling. Like the writer, this book is inclusive as well as diverse.

A seismic shift in Hollywood’s power structure occurred during the 1980s.Gone were the moguls and founding fathers of the motion picture industry — Jack L. Warner, Louis B. Mayer, Carl Laemmle, Samuel Goldwyn, and Darryl Zanuck.The studios were being taken over by technological giants such as Sony and Panasonic, and the new owners turned to lawyers and talent agents to run their newly obtained properties.In 1982, an aspiring young screenwriter, Nick Caggiano, moves from the Bronx to Los Angeles, hoping to find work in the industry.At a famous bar and restaurant on the Sunset Strip one night, he encounters a wealthy young woman named Nicole. What transpires between them creates a riptide of greed, corruption, and perversion that drags Nick through the underbelly of the Hollywood establishment, upending his life and challenging his moral fabric and his sense of self. 

Harry Lindstrom is a Toronto-based investigator. Hired by a woman to prove her son is a killer, he is drawn into the saga of a murderously dysfunctional family. His harrowing odyssey takes him to Stockholm in the dead of winter and eventually to an ancient burial mound on the windswept island of Fårö.Lindstrom Alone is the first in a mystery trilogy, to be followed by Lindstrom's Progress and Lindstrom Unbound.John Moss is the critically acclaimed author of the Quin and Morgan mysteries, two YA thrillers, and more than twenty other books on Canadian culture, Arctic exploration, and experimental literature. www.johnmoss.ca

Richard Gould anticipait avec plaisir sa retraite à passer au moins une partie de son temps dans la maison ancestrale qu'il avait rénovée dans un village tranquille de l'Ontario et plus particulièrement à son projet principal : rendre ses lettres de noblesse aux ruines d'un moulin situé au bord d'une rivière.La découverte de deux vieux livres cachés dans les décombres allait donner du piquant à ce projet jusqu'à ce qu'il se produise une série d'événements d'abord bizarres, puis lugubres et bientôt mortels. Inexorablement, Richard est entraîné plus profondément dans une histoire dangereuse culminant en une rencontre meurtrière près de la ville historique de Heidelberg.

Sick of covering weddings, birthdays, and protests, photographer Madelyn Hathaway grabs her camera and heads out in the forests of Nova Scotia, looking for inspiration. She finds it and more when her foray into nature photography leads her to discover something thought lost to history. As her husband and friends step in to manage the repercussions, Madelyn delves into an exploration of freedom, history, and responsibility to the natural world that culminates in a decision to fight for what she believes is right. Though it might be too late.

The Yukon, 1907. North America’s last untamed frontier. Dawson City has reached its tipping point. The citizens, and the people they count on to protect them, now live under the brutal control of Eric Morgan, a violent gang leader. Morgan’s power has only grown since the days of the Klondike Gold Rush, and he now prepares for his greatest score yet. Dawson’s salvation rests with Inspector Richard Carol, who will lead a team of Mounties to liberate the city. But can he trust his own people? And with so many of his own battles to fight, can Richard trust himself? 

If you read the papers and listen to the "experts," you''ve heard the usual pitches about retirement: you''ll need a million dollars so you better start an RRSP early and maximize your contributions, trust the stock market and mutual funds for the best returns and put your faith in a financial advisor. But what if this advice is wrong? By reading this book, you will learn the truth about these myths. You will also be given six free spreadsheets to figure out where you really stand, including the latest "Retirement Optimizer" that allows you to compute your retirement income year-by-year and the "Personal Rate of Return Calculator" so you can determine just how well your investments have done. Find out if you are saving enough ... or too little. Smoke and Mirrors dispels the five main retirement myths:1. If I had $1,000,000 I could retire. Find out why you might be fine with much less.2. RRSPs are the holy grail of retirement. Discover what is more important than the size of your RRSP.3. Don''t worry about your investments; you''ll be fine in the long run. You''ll learn how to figure out the truth about how well your investments are really doing.4. We have met the enemy, and he is the tax collector. You may be interested in reducing your taxes, but find out why tax shelters may be dangerous to your financial health.5. Secure your financial future - buy life insurance. Find out who needs it, who doesn''t and how to get it cheap.

Two men are pulled from their places in time and discarded in a strange future, where sand abounds and sorrow is universal, and here they exercise supernatural talents to shape a dying world. One gives birth to empire, exploiting the remnants of the human race as brick and mortar to realize ambitions from centuries past. The other corrals what life remains in an attempt to drive back the sand and build a kingdom of green, repurposing the desperation of his fellow human beings to recreate the Earth he once knew. These visions, lofty and indomitable both, prove incompatible. Bring Clouds to the Kingdom is the author's most unorthodox work to date, sharing his love of the natural world in a narrative both bizarre and disquieting. Zack Metcalfe is an environmental journalist and author working out of Halifax, Nova Scotia.