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Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart
A provocative, beautiful and visionary novel of first contact by New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson.
Imagine a First Contact without contact, and an alien arrival where no aliens show up. Imagine the sudden appearance of exclusion zones all over the planet, into which no humans are allowed. Imagine an end to all violence, from the sc …
Tinsmith 1865
When her tinsmith father and brothers head West, Polish immigrant Marie Kotlarczyk has no choice but to go along. Family, after all, is family. The Dakota Territories are anything but welcoming to the Kotlarczyks, and as the months trip by, Marie must pick up the hammers she’s secretly desired but also feared. When she faces the skeptical people …
Widow 1881
Proper Boston widow Jane Weber moves to the Dakota Territories under layers of lies to save her reputation. Stirring up controversy, Jane rooms with the last Blackfoot Sioux in town while navigating a mercurial friendship with the fiercely independent town grocer. In Flats Junction, though, everyone has an untold story. Battling her shortcomings, f …
This is a Job for Mommy!
A delightful ABC adventure which shows that moms can do any job - and so can you! Join a mother-daughter duo (and their kitty!) as they travel through the alphabet, exploring twenty-six different careers. With a fun, rhyming text and vibrant illustrations, this book is ideal for reading to children and teaching them not only the basics of the alpha …
Beyond Control
The explosive conclusion to the award-winning Dark Seed trilogy. The mysterious cabal has been thwarted, their laboratory destroyed and their leadership in chaos. But for Nick Barnes the situation is only getting worse. Jail time is a certainty, his powerful foes are still free, and there are now indications that their evil scheme is getting beyond …
Threaten to Undo Us
As Hitler's Third Reich crumbles and Stalin's army advances, German civilians in the Eastern territories are forced to flee for their lives. Leaving her dying mother, Liesel and her four young children hope they can make it from their home in Poland across the Oder River to safety. But all that awaits them is terror and uncertainty in a brutal new …
Enstasy
Enstasy is neither religious nor spiritual, nor metaphysical or mystical and yet, it is all of these... a glimpse, into Higher Truths while tasting their supreme nectarine bliss... Deep, profound meditations, which occurred upon the author's return from her entry into death and Eternal life... where she had been graced to bathe within Consciousness …
Calm is Greater than Joy
"Calm Is Greater Than Joy" describes how the man of understanding lives his life without the sense of separation (without seeing the manifestation as the face of an enemy). The Sage is in perfect harmony with whatever happens in the manifestation. He is able to use his working mind because the 'me' mind, the thinking mind, has merged into the Heart …
When the Eye is Unobstructed
"When the Eye is Unobstructed" is a radical call to wake up from the sleep of unawareness. It is an invitation to open our eyes to all that is. The wise ones call this 'seeing with attention'... seeing that is untrammeled by our judgements. Great teachers and mystics love using stories and parables to point to the Truth since stories speak to you a …
The Long Road to Nowhere
If you knew you were going nowhere as opposed to somewhere, would you start your journey? At a young age, Bharat Savur intuitively felt 'going somewhere, becoming someone' as dictated by society was not It. The rebel in him struck out in the opposite direction - the inward journey. And suddenly he found himself sitting like a buddha, watching his b …
Not a Serpent, Not a Rope
Enlightenment. What is it? Much has been written about it. Many have tried to describe it or show how to attain it. Does one get enlightenment from reading about how to get it? Or listening to a guru who is enlightened? Or spending years in solitude? Or contemplation? Or does it just come one day all by itself to the true seeker? Apparently in any …
The Lies About Truth
Drawing from the idea of Tao that truth is seldom beautiful and beauty is seldom true, Karl Renz explains how truth has always been dwindled and exaggerated. He asserts, with an unaffected ease and sincerity, that it is up to the seeker himself, to find the meaning of truth through his own journey. Although the author's messages seem to be outspoke …
Nachiketas
The question of 'what happens after death' is what Shakuntala Hawoldar explores in this breathtaking piece of work. The author invites you to experience and live another mystical and spiritual dimension, and to submerge yourself in the deep and revealing story of 'Nachiketas'. Shakuntala Hawoldar has undertaken the terrifying and yet liberating tas …
Walking With Turtles
The usual concept of 'spiritual growth' presupposes a forward movement - from where you are to a more desirable state or goal called enlightenment, God or whatever. The sage in the book will turn your ideas of the spiritual life upside down. He insists that on the spiritual path there is nothing to practice, only something to understand. Indeed, he …
Kundalini
"Kundalini: Your Sex Energy Transformed" is the roadmap of the inner journey that Swami Paramananda has sketched out for humanity. Discover the hidden power within each human being and learn how to transform it to attain cosmic consciousness! Many will question the relationship between sex and spirituality, especially those who regard everything re …
Seeing Your Face Without a Mirror
What is enlightenment? What does it do for me? How do I get there? Who or what is God? And who am I really? These are all questions most of us ask from time to time, and some of us insistently. In this book the sage invites the reader to come to the truth of who you are, to see your original face, your face before you were born. Discursive communic …
Play the Ball Where the Monkey Leaves It
"Playing the Ball Where the Monkey Leaves It" is a necessary rule for anyone who wishes to find peace in life. For peace can come only with the acceptance of life, of the way things are in life. The suchness of life is the starting point in daily living and the beginning of the discovery of happiness and peace. The sage in the stories takes the rea …
The Body Book
With simple, fun, colourful illustrations and a delightful series of simple rhymes, Roz MacLean introduces the concept to young children that bodies come in all shapes and sizes. Designed to celebrate diversity and to make children feel comfortable with how they look, The Body Book is a visual delight for pre-schoolers and an excellent resource for …
Miles to Millions
When he became a commercial pilot at age nineteen, Bill Grenier never imagined that one day he'd be captain of the largest commercial plane the world had seen, flying the highest profile routes of a proud national carrier. Even less could he have imagined, at age nineteen and with barely a penny to his name, that he'd one day be a wealthy man. But …
A Bit of Candy in Hard Times
Set in the late 1920s, at the height of prohibition, this is the story of Emmett Dougal, fisherman and rumrunner who, after having his boat shot out from under him by the Coast Guard off the coast of Maine, decides to return to his Puget Sound roots. Emmett's journey to rediscover a sense of home puts him on a dangerous path when he is forced back …
Butterpup in Landslides of Gravy
After Butterpup gorges himself on his favourite foods, the results he faces are disastrous! His beloved gravy comes back for revenge and wreaks havoc on bedtime! Will Butterpup survive the night? Come along for the ride and get swept up in a thrilling adventure about healthy eating.
Butterpup's Hidden Talent
The Backyard Buddies are preparing for the upcoming talent show! Amidst magic tricks and super speedy kung fu, Butterpup scrambles to discover what makes him special. With opening night looming the next day, will Butterpup find his talent before it's too late?
Butterpup Meets Allie
Welcome to Grandma's Backyard and the wonderful world of Butterpup & Friends! In this colourful tale, Butterpup learns about forgiveness and friendship with his new friend, Allie. Join in the adventure as the Backyard Buddies discover they have a new neighbour. Playtime will never be the same!
The Great Garden Race
Butterpup dreams of winning the Great Garden Race, but the odds are totally stacked against him. He trains hard, practices his fluttering, and believes in himself. Will all of his hard work pay off? Follow along as the Backyard Buddies learn the value of working hard, being humble, and having faith in themselves.
Guilty Deeds
Robert Grayson is an ex-soldier haunted by the demons of his past. Gruesome memories of combat and now of the brutal serial slayings of more than a dozen women are destroying him. Overcome with guilt, he turns himself into the police, confessing to details only the killer could know. But Detective Stephanie Monroe quickly begins to suspect this is …
Lead Like a Heretic
In his 2016 ground-breaking leadership book, The Compassionate Conspiracy, Dr. Phil Johnson redefined "conspirators" as "radical global servant-leaders" who work together to tackle the biggest problems we face today. Now, in Lead Like a Heretic, he revolutionises the meaning of "heretic" and confronts today's global leadership crisis: the failure o …
Robby the R-Word
Robby Turner has been completely paralyzed for forty years. He's a vegetable in a wheelchair - at least, that's what everyone thinks. Then he receives a special computer that allows him to communicate with the world. Robby's father has been assaulted, with similar beatings and now murders happening across town. The clumsy culprit is leaving clues, …
The Moral Work of Nursing
Reviewing and integrating lived experiences in nursing with theory and research, The Moral Work of Nursing is a blend of life story and overview of factors affecting ethical nursing practice during the past 50 years. Reflecting on her 35-year nursing career, studies in health care ethics in the 1980s and recent developments in Canadian health care, …
Angel in Blue Jeans
Dana and Tony have found romance and they couldn't be happier with one another. Strolling home one icy evening, the young couple sees a police car pulling up in front of Tony's family home. Tony's brother along with Dana's brother had been drinking and driving that evening. And they're both dead.Elsewhere in the neighbourhood, Dave suddenly finds h …
Seed of Control
Nick Barnes is back, setting off a chain of events that uncovers a conspiracy beyond moral comprehension against Earth’s entire population. The scheme has taken generations to develop and it’s on the cusp of being fully implemented. Agrochemical and pharmaceutical industrialist Dr. Hendrick Schmidt and media baron Davis Lovemark lead the scheme …
The Treasure of Jean LaFitte
Jean Lafitte was a pirate and a privateer, unafraid to exploit anyone or anything. But Lafitte also defended New Orleans against the British during the War of 1812 and died a national hero, leaving behind a legendary treasure hidden somewhere in the bayou of Louisiana.Two centuries later, the Cali family arrive in New Orleans to rescue locals stran …
Don't Forget the Parsley
Marie Claire Lim Moore builds on her first memoir, Don't Forget the Soap, offering more entertaining stories about her family in this follow up. Like her first book, Don't Forget the Parsley is a collection of anecdotes from different points in Claire's life: stories from her second-generation immigrant childhood in Vancouver and New York City mix …
Invasion of the Bastard Cannibals
What would cause a man to leave his sheltered and conservative home in the rural South to move to the hippie-infested left coast of Canada? A woman, obviously. In his second comic memoir, Nathan realizes that although he could make a homemade grenade as a ten-year-old, he is ill-equipped to handle a personal hygiene debate with cannibals, nude stri …
Ogopogo Odyssey
This enchanting story will delight any child who loves to believe. While visiting his grandparents’ vineyard in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada, Colin has a chance meeting with the famous lake creature known as the Ogopogo. This is a summer adventure he will never forget!
Portia Bench
Work on a new highway through British Columbia’s Rocky Mountains is interrupted by a series of mishaps. Construction coordinator Clint Matheson soon learns that there is truth behind the local legends of a haunting, and he must battle in both the natural and supernatural worlds.
Chasing Nathan
Jeanette Hubbard’s humorous style of suspense writing has been compared to Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovitch. In this quirky follow-up novel, a chance encounter in a remote forest campground plunges plucky pensioner Claudie O’Brien into a vortex of crime, kidnapping, and a marijuana hijacking. A pleasant dinner with Nathan, the gentleman at the …
