Summary:Meet Vinita! She's a shy girl who learns how to spend, save, budget, and invest money at school. Why do these activities interest her so much? Because every student in her class has a mortgage!Readers will enjoy following Vinita and her classmates' funny antics and financial ventures. They'll also find out how Vinita discovers and embraces who she is-flaws and all!Introducing kids to financial literacy is known to be important for their succ...

In Invasion of the Super-Ants a new strain of super-intelligent, venomous ants invade Fleet Street, devouring all in their path including a bus-load of passengers.Watching horrified, Henry Mayence, Mr. Vidal douse themselves in gasoline as a deterrent—but how long can they hold out against an army of billions?With Central London ablaze and ringed in a cordon of poison, it transpires that the attacks have spread countrywide."It's a conquest, an arranged busi...

Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious...

Set in London, England in the early twentieth century, the normal day-to-day life of everyday citizens suddenly changes as there is an increase in missing persons, and before long a London officer is found dead on the street, stripped to the bone.This short story was first published by Australian author Robert Coutts Armour in 'The Red Magazine' in November 1914.

An avid researcher, Porter embarks on a journey to study birds on the remote isle of Eiarn. As his expedition continues, something about the island seems to be a bit unsettling. Is Porter being tracked by a new species of creature on the island, or have old fisherman tales and weeks of isolation been playing tricks on his mind?

Meet Vinita! She's a shy girl who learns how to spend, save, budget, and invest money at school. Why do these activities interest her so much? Because every student in her class has a mortgage!Readers will enjoy following Vinita and her classmates' funny antics and financial ventures. They'll also find out how Vinita discovers and embraces who she is—flaws and all!Introducing kids to financial literacy is known to be important for their success in life. This book presents a...

In Voices from Hudson Bay Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived and worked at the Hudson’s Bay Company post at York Factory in Manitoba. Their stories, their memories of family, community, and daily life, define their past and provide insights into a way of life that has largely disappeared in northern Canada. The era the elders describe, from the end of World War I to the closing of York Factory in 1957, saw dramatic changes – both posi...

THE classic thriller of the 20th century - 'Simply the best escape and pursuit story yet written' [THE TIMES] - with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane'[A] masterpiece: a bestseller that redefined its genre' GUARDIAN' Rogue Male is probably the most famous chase thriller ever, influencing an entire generation from Frederick Forsyth to Lee Child' CATHOLIC HERALD

It is 1788 and Lieutenant Watkin Tench of His Majesty's Royal Marines is an officer in charge of transporting over a thousand ne'er-do-well convicts to the great south land. But a mysterious white squall engulfs the Fleet and then it's not 1788 anymore. Not as Tench knew it. A great and ghostly city of the dead appears out of the storm and the men and women of the First Fleet must fight not just for their lives, but for their immortal souls and the very future of the world.

1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s private compound. He does. He has the potential target in his sites and is wondering whether to pull the trigger when security catches up with him. Imprisoned, tortured, doomed to a painful death, the hunter makes an extraordinary and harrowing escape, fleeing through enemy territ...

Meet Edogawa Rampo, the undisputed master of Japanese suspense, psychological terror, and the grotesque widely known as "The Edgar Allan Poe of Japan." This essential collection gathers some of his most brilliant and unsettling short stories, alongside a tale that reflects the dark, uncanny folklore that inspired him.Rampo's tales are a disturbing look into obsession, identity, and the limits of the human body and mind:The Human Chair: A clau...

Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories—among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story—that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction.This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brill...