Corinne Morgan has always gone out of her way to stay out of trouble. All she wants is to graduate from the notoriously brutal Anna Dale Academy in one piece. Unfortunately, her headmistress seems out to get her – and a vicious trio of students known as The I.C. are too! All this would be enough for anyone to handle, but things get a million times crazier when Corinne acquires a crystal ball that revives her ancestor, an Irish war goddess with her own plans for revenge and...

Corinne Morgan has always gone out of her way to stay out of trouble. All she wants is to graduate from the notoriously brutal Anna Dale Academy in one piece. Unfortunately, her headmistress seems out to get her – and a vicious trio of students known as The I.C. are too! All this would be enough for anyone to handle, but things get a million times crazier when Corinne acquires a crystal ball that revives her ancestor, an Irish war goddess with her own plans for revenge and...

John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada’s class structure and one of the foundational texts in Canadian sociology. Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz described it as “the sociological study of present-day Canada.”Fifty years later, the book retains vast signi...

Drug dealing can be dangerous. Other dealer... police investigations... self indulgence. Those are just the more glamorous hazards. But the insidious threats of greed and arrogance can do far more harm in the end, as one grower/dealer discovers. One in a series of stories from a compilation entitled A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.

The world in which we live is permanently poised between a series of extremes; up and down, dark and light, yin and yang... life and death.In fact the very fabric of what we experience teeters constantly on the knife edge that separates reality from fantasy.Sometimes it's very difficult to know where the division between the two truly lies, and often physical experiences and imagination share a hazy common ground where each one is as valid as the other. That's when matters ca...

The large district of western Lancashire, denominated from time immemorial the Fylde, embraces one third at least of the Hundred of Amounderness, and a line drawn from Ashton, on the Ribble, to Churchtown, on the Wyre, forms the nearest approach to an eastern boundary attainable, for although the section cut off by its means includes more land and villages than properly appertain to the Fylde, a more westerly division would exclude others which form part of it. The whole of the parishes of...

Dogs Are Silly, Dogs Are Fun! is a joyful celebration of everything we love about dogs. Through playful rhymes and real-life photos, this book highlights wiggly tails, happy toes, cuddly moments, zoomies, goofy expressions, and all the little things that make dogs our best friends. Each page pairs a simple, fun verse with adorable dog photos that capture their personality and charm. Perfect for kids, families, and dog lovers of all ages, this book reminds us that life is brighter,...

The origin story of L.A. County's battling bird gal continues! Corinne Morgan has found herself face-to-face with her ancestor, Celtic war goddess the Morrigan, returning after a thousand-year banishment. Both are hungry for revenge against their respective enemies - and for Corinne, that means taking down the I.C., Anna Dale Academy's terrifying trio of bullies! To do so, she forges an alliance with Morrigan, whose spirit now resides with...

For centuries, Presque Isle served as a way station for Native Americans and explorers. Lumbering and shipping led to the development of wooding stations along the Lake Huron shore, where settlements emerged. The roads created by loggers eventually led to the building of resorts and hotels for tourists. Postcard History Series: Grand Lake and Presque Isle explores Burnham's Landing, the abandoned community of Bell, Presque Isle's two renowned lighthouses, two youth camps, the new limestone...

A sometimes humorous, sometimes thought-provoking look at how animals think and act, how people treat animals, and what happens to dogs in the afterlife. Tales from ancient Egypt and even further back in the primordial past, right through to the story of a futuristic world set centuries in the future, where most pets are holograms, and even the humans are few and far between. These easy-to-digest tales are inspired by the work of Roald Dahl, although there's a touch of Stephen King in some...

No erotica in this collection, despite the title! Just tales of people getting filthy mad at each other, commiting dirty deeds out of greed, lust or jealousy, and generally a whole swag of grubby goings-on. Some are filled with wry humour, others will make you laugh out loud, and some are filled with pathos. Adventure, mystery, smiles and history, there's something for everyone in this collection, so get down and dirty with Old Mrs Wilberforce, crazy Tapper the keyboard king, and a host of...

The date is 2280, and the world is very different. Virtual reality has replaced much of the actual world, and many of the planet's inhebitants are no longer even made of flesh and blood. But children are still children... they still crave new toys and games... they still deceive their parents... and they can still be very cruel. In a future where not everything is as it seems, the wish of parents to see their child do well in the world is still real enough. But pain and torture continue to...