Books published by Iguana Books

In February 2004 the first of many U.S. soldiers came to Canada, seeking sanctuary after saying "no" to the war on Iraq. Unlike the Vietnam War when over 40,000 draft dodgers and military deserters successfully struggled to make Canada their home, this new generation of war resisters has been denied refuge by the Canadian government. Now they fight a battle they could not have predicted: to make their home in a country that publicly refused to join the Iraq War and that continues to deport them. Let Them Stay is a book of oral histories, public statements and personal narratives by these soldiers of conscience and their supporters. Collected together for the first time are the declarations of a dozen war resisters, alongside important documents in the legal and political campaigns to prevent their deportation to military prison in the U.S. The anthology includes essays and updates by Rachel Brett, Lawrence Hill, Staughton Lynd, Alyssa Manning, Patricia Molloy, Noah Richler, Michelle Robidoux and Michael Valpy.

William has been a part of the Stick family since the first day of school when Wrickety Stick became his best friend. He knows the secret about their unusual bones but he would never tell anyone. The Sticks'' can make their bendable bones go soft and flat which means they can do amazing things like slide under doors, squeeze between cracks and float into the air. Wrickety invites William to go with him, his sister Cinnamon and his cousin, Licorice, to stay with their eccentric aunts, Aunt Ruby, Aunt Emerald and Aunt Sapphire, in the country. When the Sticks'' dog, Smudge, goes missing, William is eager to join in the search. Things become urgent when the children discover that Smudge isn''t just missing, he has been kidnapped and could be in danger of being mistreated at the hands of a cruel master. This is a sequel to William Meets the Stick Family.

A child of Mars, Najib is born with a wanderer''s heart that eventually leads him to Psyche for work. But he finds factory life on the asteroid intolerable, and escapes to Callisto. When the arrivals officer misspells his name, Najib takes the opportunity to reinvent himself. Najib finds love on Callisto, but also stumbles across the planet''s seedy underbelly, where he finds a crooked governor and an honorable crook who, when Najib tells him of his dream to get to Earth, advises him that "in order to go east, you should head west." There is no direct route to Earth for an off-worlder with a questionable past, so Najib again reinvents himself and becomes a respected bio-archeologist despite the interference of his manipulative boss. A chance meeting with a street philosopher ultimately changes Najib''s life and pushes him towards his chosen path. Along his circuitous trek to Earth, Najib meets several more people who ultimately have a profound effect on him. But his wayward past starts to catch up with him. Will Najib be punished for his deceptions? Or will the experience and wisdom he''s gathered in his travels lead him in a new direction entirely?

For over 40 years, Fran Diana Mason has travelled the world as an administrative assistant/bookkeeper for small businesses. Now retired, she considers herself a "professional people watcher." "People," she says, "are much more interesting than birds."Her love of haunting courtrooms began when she overheard two lawyers on the subway recounting a tale of heartbreak they had experienced that day in Bail Court. Ms. Mason attended court the next day, notebook in hand, and was instantly addicted to the drama.When the courts slow down in the summer, Ms. Mason vacations in Spain with her 6-year-old Pomeranian, Hoochie. She is currently working on a non-fiction book about oranges and how to grow them.

Self-Sacrifice to Save the Planet. The year is 2065. Following a freak encounter with a mysterious woman, Brian, a bored and frustrated dentist in the midst of a personal crisis, finds himself in the position to expose a conspiracy to control world population. Fifty-five years earlier, the manipulators - a mysterious group with aims to influence the course of the world - set in motion an irreversible chain of events by creating genetically engineered prophets with God-like powers who healed the sick and preached self-sacrifice as the ultimate good, redefining humanity''s course. Now, betrayed by their ruthless creators, the prophets are being hunted. Standing in the way of their annihilation and a resulting cover-up are Brian and his unlikely allies - a radiologist and a woman with a dangerous secret - who must all overcome their personal baggage to give the world its only chance to finally learn the truth.

"Deathbed Dimes exposes the reality that if you can outlive your relatives, friends, and sometimes even strangers, your odds of hitting the inheritance jackpot are better than playing the lottery. Joely Zeller is a beautiful and ambitious 32-year-old attorney who is the only daughter of a Hollywood film royal. She''s determined to build a successful career, find love, and get married, all without her family''s help. To emerge from under her parents'' cloud of notoriety, Joely fled to New York upon graduation from Stanford Law School to practice Estates and Trust law at a blue-chip Wall Street law firm. Enduring 90-hour workweeks for the next eight years, she sacrificed her love life (jilted by her fiancé for his best man) only to have her career efforts foiled by her incredibly incompetent male counterpart. Joely then sees her golden ticket to self-actualization. A serendipitous encounter with a former professor reminds her that with the impending, inevitable demise of aging baby boomers, an unprecedented wealth transfer is beginning to take place. With her experience and her Hollywood connections, she could start her own law firm back in Los Angeles. With her two best friends and former law classmates as partners, Joely sets about helping the recently disowned, dispossessed, and penniless sharpen their claws as they stake their claims to the fortunes of their dearly departed."

Set in Crete, Cally's Way explores the relationships between sex and love and the historical horrors that shape our identities. Cally is a twenty-five year old business graduate. Her mother, who was born in Crete but has always refused to talk about it, has died, leaving one instruction: before starting her first job, Cally should visit Crete. There she meets Oliver, a reticent, very attractive US Army deserter. A night of love awakens in Cally feelings she has never known. On leaving, she learns from a television in the Athens airport that the petroleum company she is to work for is killing people with water pollution in India. These two events demolish Cally's fragile equilibrium, setting her on a new, uncharted path back in Crete, which strips her of even her clothes before leading to deep love, a horrific family discovery, and a future she never would have imagined.