Journalists embedded with troops during military conflicts are commissioned to report on the ebb and flow of battle from an eyes-on perspective, not to influence outcomes. Rusty Shephard risked his life to do both, volunteering for assignment as a World War I correspondent for United Press International in 1918 and traveling with the first wave of troops to France. With his marriage to fellow journalist Katie Keenan floundering back home, Rusty literally threw himself into the bloody trenc...

In the early 1950's, the old mining town of Park City, Utah was dying. Silver mines closed, miners fled, saloons, shops, and houses of pleasure shuttered, but one constant remained -- evil prowled in the darkness of back alleys, brutally ripping apart its unsuspecting victims with razor sharp teeth and claws. While authorities searched for a rabid canine predator, newspaper reporters Jamie Lamb and Beverly Aaron connected the slayings to something far more sinister and widespread. A sociop...

Photographing Eden presents the first full-length collection of poems by a major new talent. The work meditates on several ideas, the crux of which is Eden: spirituality, environmentalism, and the relationships between men and women. Observing, often through the lens of a camera, our state in the world, the poems try to focus sharply on what often seems a blur. The poems are always attentive to artistic mediums and the craft behind them because our struggle is to make something pe...

At 2:30 on an unseasonably cool, partly cloudy afternoon in late September 1911, the cement dam located a mile above the mill town of Austin, Pennsylvania, gave way, unleashing a wall of water cascading down the narrow valley toward the town and sweeping away everything in its path with the explosive power of a nuclear bomb. Lulled by the assurance of engineering experts that the dam would forever withstand the pressure of the pent-up waters above the town, three thousand unsuspecting resi...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-FictionAn adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his fatherAfter a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death. John Harvey was a neurosurgeon, violinist, and photographer who answered his door a decade into retirement to find a ...

Do you have control over your emotions? Would like to enhance your self-awareness and improve your relationships?Emotional Intelligence affects us every day. Some are more susceptible to it, it's true, but each and every one of us is affected in some way by it, and it is something that is becoming more and more valued by employers as time goes on.Ask yourself if you can afford not to know more about emotional intelligence and how it could help you find the job of your dream...

Do you dream of becoming an influencer of millions around the world?Are you looking for new ways for your business to reach its customers?Social media marketing is something that more and more businesses are turning to, in the sure knowledge that they have a reach unlike any other medium available. Any business can benefit from this explosion of opportunity and all that is required is a little knowledge of how it can work for you.In...

Do you love learning about space? Do you know how important the solar system is? This is the audio book for you. All your questions will be answered.Uranus is an ice planet. Most of its mass is a hot, dense fluid of icy materials such as water, methane and ammonia its above a small rocky core. Neptune is more than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the normal human eye.

Ghost stories from Canada's most haunted city, including tales from iconic sites such as the Empress hotel, Hatley Castle, and Ross Bay Cemetery.Beautiful, charming Victoria is world renowned for its seaside attractions, flourishing gardens, and breathtaking ocean views. But looming behind its picture-perfect façade is a city shrouded in mystery, with restless, disembodied beings that whisper ghastly tales of mystery, violence, and horror.Known as ...

An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense.Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of On Wings of Eagles and Lie Down With Lions. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story. A suicidal junior minister, an avaricious tycoon, and a se...

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it’s all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger’s near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the tri...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surprising memoir about one year spent driving a bus full of children with special needs.**One morning in 2008, desperate, broke and living alone while trying unsuccessfully to write, Craig Davidson plucked a flyer out of his mailbox that read “Bus Drivers Wanted.” And so began his new career: driving a school bus for k...