Winner of the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature!In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. With only one elderly Grey-Eye left in the village of the Nehiyawak, the birth of a new Grey-Eyed boy promises a renewed line of defence against their only foe: the menacing...

Vivian Kingsley has earned her reputation the hard way—through blood, loss, and survival on the front lines of a galaxy at war with the Advent. When she's unexpectedly pulled from active deployment on the war-torn world of Mimdune and reassigned to a classified military installation on the desert planet Jeptarr, she arrives expecting answers—only to find something far more complicated.Kept under the watchful eyes of the Union military lies an ancient relic: a mysterious weapon that...

Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, in the distant war-torn galaxy known as Kaveeria, John Archer was created to be the Galactic Union's perfect soldier. Meticulously crafted to safeguard thousands of worlds from the wrath of a sinister alien race known as the Advent, John emerged from the secret laboratories and rose above the battlefields as a beacon of hope to a galaxy rapidly falling into darkness. But after the tragic and unanticipated outcome of his final mission against th...

Jova is a deserter, a fugitive, and a man with nowhere left to run. When the corporate magnate Vorshue offers him a way out—one dangerous mission in exchange for erasing his name from every database in the galaxy—the promise of freedom becomes impossible for Jova to refuse. His task is to travel to an unmapped world and collect biological samples from a rare and menacing creature with genetic properties that defy everything known about galactic science.The mission collapses the mom...

Captain Jorm Velemn has made a career out of keeping his head down, hauling cargo across the galaxy, and staying far away from the Galactic Union he turned his back on so many years ago. But when he accepts what seems like another routine transport contract with a payout too large for him to refuse, Jorm unwittingly becomes the centerpiece of a covert prisoner transfer that the Union has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep secret.The mission unravels when hostile forces attack, a...

Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing, advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were a significant number of working families in Britain who were not fully free to consume as they chose.These employees were paid in truck, or in goods rather than currency. This book will explore and analyse the changing ways that truck and workplace deducti...

In recent years, social and legal historians have called into question the degree to which the labour that fuelled and sustained industrialization in England was actually ’free’. The corpus of statutes known as master and servant law has been a focal point of interest: throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, at the behest of employers, mine owners, and manufacturers, Parliament regularly supplemented and updated the provisions of these statutes with new legislation which contai...

Agile decision making is imperative as you lead in a data-driven world. Amid streams of data and countless meetings, we make hasty decisions, slow decisions, and often no decisions. Uniquely bridging theory and practice, Decision over Decimals breaks this pattern by uniting data intelligence with human judgment to get to action—a sharp approach the authors refer to as Quantitative Intuition (QI). QI raises the power of thinking beyond big data without neglecting it and chasing the...

Lesley Choyce's novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It's the fateful summer between high school and university, early 1970s version. Equipped with two barely mobile cars and a seized-up MG motor, around which Richard wants to build an entire sports car, they plan to rent a suave apartment, get cool jobs, meet girls, and l...

Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne Paquet delves into the social history of travel. Now a multi-billion dollar industry, travel is also one of the world's oldest. Paquet follows hypochondriac Greeks to the Oracle of Delphi, checks out the bedbugs in medieval coaching inns, enjoys a Finnish sauna with a group of well-bred Victorian ladi...

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging WritersNot every story has a happy ending.Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has curled up inside a bottle, and Papa has exiled himself to the barn with the birds. Big sister Kathy tells stories to Egg so that the world might not seem so awful.T...

In Jack Hodgins’ new novel, Cadillac Cathedral, he is at his humorous best in describing the eccentric but lovable characters in the little town of Portuguese Creek on Vancouver Island. Arvo is the main figure, a Finn who has worked in logging camps all his life and who now spends his retirement fixing old cars, often ones that he finds discarded in the bush. Along with Arvo there is a collection of friends who meet at Arvo’s garage to discuss the world as it passes by on the highway. When...