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The most common phrase in print is «cover before striking,» a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers.<br> <br> Uppal's characters in <i>Cover Before Striking</i> are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. The pyromaniac at the heart of the title story – winner of the Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Prize – desperately uses fire to reconnect with lost lovers and family members. In «Vertigo,» an injured Olympic athlete becomes a research guinea pig in a surreal scientific experiment. In «The Boy Next Door,» a teenager recounts how her mother took her and fled Canada for Brazil, along with the local Catholic priest.<br> <br> Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of <i>Cover Before Striking</i> each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire.
Circle of Stones
Nik is an eccentric art student obsessed with painting his dancer girlfriend, Jennifer. When one day she inexplicably disappears, Nik’s world is shattered. Determined to find her, he embarks on a cross-country journey following a scant trail of clues. He doesn’t anticipate how far he’ll have to travel, what he’ll do when he runs out of money, or the fact that an intimidating stranger is looking for Jennifer, too. <br/> <br/> Nik and Jennifer fade into the background of their own tale, surfacing now and again like ghosts as the rest of their mysterious story unfolds through a series of chance encounters with intricately linked strangers. An English professor coping with a dying mother, a rebellious teenage girl, a debt-ridden civil servant, a disillusioned ex-anarchist documentary filmmaker, and other disparate characters who encounter the separate couple as they circle one another in a tentative dance. <br/> <br/> <i>Circle of Stones</i> reveals as much about the grief and the grinding frustrations of contemporary life as it does about the pursuit of love at all costs.
Meg Harris Mysteries 6-Book Bundle
"Skillfully weaves murder, greed, traditional customs, bonding, and betrayal into a gripping read." – Chronicle-Journal In one volume for the first time, this bundle presents the first five novels of the Meg Harris Mystery series by R.J. Harlick. Meg Harris, an amateur sleuth who drinks a little too much and is afraid of the dark, finds herself confronting an underside of life she would rather not know existed. Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel ( Arctic Blue Death ). A Green Place for Dying – A Meg Harris Mystery #5 A friend of Harris’s has been missing for over two months, but she’s not the only one … Arctic Blue Death – A Meg Harris Mystery #4 In search of the truth behind her father’s disappearance when she was a child, Meg travels to Iqaluit to investigate and is sucked into the world of Inuit art forgery. The River Runs Orange – A Meg Harris Mystery #3 Meg Harris discovers the skull and bones of a woman whose very existence takes the archaeological world by storm. But when her neighbours, the Migiskan Algonquin, declare their rights to the ancient remains, Meg becomes embroiled in a fight that pits ancient beliefs against modern ones and leads eventually to murder. Red Ice for a Shroud – A Meg Harris Mystery #2 A young Quebecoise sneaks off to meet her Algonquin lover in an isolated hunting camp on the Migiskan Reserve. Five days later, Meg Harris discovers her frozen and brutalized body. Death’s Golden Whisper – A Meg Harris Mystery #1 Meg Harris believes there are fishermen on the isolated northern lake she lives on. Within hours, she discovers that these men have come to develop a gold mine. She combines forces with Eric Odjik, chief of the neighbouring Migiskan Reserve, to fight the mining company. Watch for the next book in the Meg Harris Mystery series, Silver Totem of Shame , coming in May 2014.
Quin and Morgan Mysteries 4-Book Bundle
David Morgan and Miranda Quin are two maverick, culturally sophisticated Toronto detectives. When a man is found dead in a koi pond, or two colonial corpses are arranged in a grisly diorama, the pair leap into action – and harm’s way. This four-ebook bundle gathers together the complete Quin and Morgan mystery series by acclaimed author John Moss. Includes Still Waters Grave Doubts Reluctant Dead Blood Wine
Saltwater Cowboys
After generations of prosperity in the mining town of Brighton, Newfoundland, Jack and Angela McCarthy find themselves jobless. In order to keep his family together, Jack accepts a job in a gold mine in the wilds of northern Alberta. <br/> <br/> <b>2015 DEWEY DIVA PICK</b> <br/> <br> Arriving in Foxville, the McCarthys find themselves resented, bullied, and cast as outsiders. When Jack’s best friend, Peter, is swindled out of his savings and resorts to stealing from the mine, his attempts at reversing their fortunes thrust both families into even deeper torment. <br/> <br/> A powerful, poetic novel dealing with the effects of poverty, the harshness and beauty of Canada’s north, the perils of theft, and the timeless value of community and family among displaced Newfoundlanders, <i>Saltwater Cowboys</i> is a classic cautionary tale that presents a stark glimpse into the lives of families struggling to survive in unfamiliar terrain.
Children of the Tide
London: the early 1840s. The birth of the young Queen Victoria's first child is taken as an auspicious sign for all. But on a cold March night, a spree of dark crimes in shadowy workhouses shocks the city.<br> <br> When Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police, learns that the string of identical murders and abductions have all taken place under similar circumstances, he fears a monster is prowling the city. How long until the murderer strikes again? Is this the work of a diabolical killer, or a madman with confused motives? Facts are scarce. Endersby and his sergeant, Thomas Caldwell, must start an investigation based on the fitful testimonies of terrified girls and one peculiar clue: a piece of curtain lace found in the throats of the victims.
Touch
In today’s technology-led pursuit of efficiency, we’ve removed the humanity from business. Here’s how to correct that. For better or worse, digital business has fundamentally changed how organizations hire staff, market their services, and connect with stakeholders. The problem is, in an effort to use technology to connect with people more effectively, we have lost the humanity – that critical person-to-person connection – that is the engine of commerce: Hiring is done by automated keyword searches. Offices have regressed to sterile, highly controlled environments. Staff rely exclusively on template responses. Websites are designed for search engines, not people. Leaders are focusing on arbitrary and antiquated «best practices.» In a world filled with complicated web forms and digital marketing services, we have lost the «human» element in how we run our organizations. TOUCH identifies these problems in stark terms, then provide business leaders in all types of organizations – private to public sector, small to enterprise business – with real-world, tested solutions.
Stalled
For the fifty years following the Second World War, Canada enjoyed a period of spectacular economic growth – the economy quadruple in size and the living standard of most Canadians steadily improved. <br/> <br/>
However, in the years since, Canada has suffered from economic stagnation. Businesses keep closing, and Canadians find it harder to get and keep a good job. Increasingly, Canadians have relied on consumer debt to help mask the underlying problems, but for many even that temporary form of relief is no longer an option. <br/> <br/>
In <i>Stalled,</i> Michael Hlinka explains what drove Canada's five-decade expansion <i>and</i> what has put us in the rut we're currently in. He also shows that there are solutions for Canada as a country and for individual Canadians, and that we can get out of the rut we're in if we start doing the things that once made us great. <i>Stalled</i> shows how.
Meeting Place of the Dead
Paranormal investigator Richard Palmisano tells of a haunting rooted in century-old crime, and the most terrifying malicious spirits he has ever encountered. Come with us as we investigate a place that has so many spirits it is impossible to even hazard a count. A place that seems warm and inviting, but this is only an illusion – a ghostly trap to lure you in. On this journey we discover hidden secrets, violent ghosts who find enjoyment in attacking the living, and entities that disguise themselves as children. Discover why a paranormal investigation group with more than thirty years of experience had to shut down its investigations and walk away from an incredibly haunted property. Paranormal investigator Richard Palmisano recounts the most sinister case he has ever faced. Join him in discovering the hidden secrets of malicious ghosts who lash out against the living, beings who mask themselves in false innocence, and a house so haunted Palmisano was forced to walk away forever.
The Jade Butterfly
A seemingly casual encounter in a downtown bar sends missing persons investigator Dan Sharp in search of a woman presumed dead in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Twenty years after her disappearance, her brother believes that a woman he glimpsed on the Internet is his sister, now living in Toronto. The closer Dan gets to finding her, however, the less sense things make. Just when he thinks he knows what’s driving his client, an unexpected revelation forces him to choose between what he’s been told and his gut instinct, which says things are not all they seem.