A riveting memoir of one marine rifleman's journey from Parris Island through the hell of Vietnam and the Tet Offensive with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines.In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened Marines—and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. It was the first stop on a journey that would forever change him—and by its end, he would be awarded the Purple Heart Medal, Comba...

**Shortlisted for the 2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeGlobe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016"This breakout novel from Giller Prize finalist Michael Helm is a genre-bending work of astonishing vision and a dazzling story of our times.**A neuroscientist retreats to a secluded cabin in the woods, intending to blow the whistle on a pharmaceutical company and its creativity drug gone wrong. A failed poet is lured to Rome as a "literary detective" to...

For fans of Joshua Cohen and Ben Lerner, After James captures the dystopian strangeness of our current world.A neuroscientist walks out of her life and isolates herself in the woods, intending to blow the whistle on a pharmaceutical company and its creativity drug gone wrong. A recently orphaned graduate school dropout is hired as a “literary detective” to decode the work of a mysterious Internet poet who writes about disappearances and murders with an inexplicably precise...

A man of failing reputation, Toss Raymond lives alone by the South Saskatchewan River, near the drought-ruined farm town of Mayford. It’s the summer of 1988, a year since Toss’s marriage went south, and he made a public spectacle of himself by thrashing the neighbour who he wrongly thought had cuckolded him. Now, as he finishes what might be his last year as a high school teacher and the school board gathers grounds for his dismissal, Toss has taken up with two newcomers in town, and neith...

In Cities of Refuge, Michael Helm’s keenly anticipated new novel, a single act of violence resonates through several lives, connecting closeby fears to distant political terrors. At the story’s centre is the complex, intensely charged relationship between a 28-year-old woman and the father who abandoned her when she was young.One summer night on a side street in downtown Toronto, Kim Lystrander is attacked by a stranger. Thrown deep into turmoil, in the weeks and m...

About the BookThis book is a day by day journey through the Gospels, a journey where you can discover the life of Jesus as if you were actually there; seeing, hearing, and experiencing the miraculous Love of God as told by those who were closest to Him. Feel the faith of Mary even as she ponders what it will mean to bear God’s Son, and her husband Joseph as he first struggles with the news of her pregnancy, but then demonstrates the meaning of obedience to God. See the Disciples as...

FOPO, je druk maken over wat anderen van je vinden, is irrationeel en contraproductief. Dit boek leert je de verwachtingen van anderen los te laten om je ware potentieel te ontketenen.Voor de lezers van Sander Aarts, Thijs Launspach en Mark MansonAls je mensen aan het eind van hun leven vraagt waar ze spijt van hebben, hoor je vaak dat ze zich minder hadden moeten aantrekken van de mening van anderen. En terecht: FOPO (Fear of People's Opinions) is een van de grootste belem...

The March/April 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Nghi Vo, Lavie Tidhar, Katherine Ewell, Annalee Newitz, Valerie Valdes, Parlei Rivière, and Amanda Helms. Essays by John Scalzi, G. Willow Wilson, Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, and Brandon O'Brien, poetry by Jennifer Mace, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Tiffany Morris, and Eva Papasoulioti, interviews with Nghi Vo and Valerie Valdes by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Antonio Javier Caparo, and ...

The definitive photographic guide to the astounding avifauna of Costa Rica.Birdwatching in Costa Rica is one of the world's great nature experiences, with 850 species on its national list. A place of transition between South and Central American avifaunas, spectacular birds such as toucans, hummingbirds, trogons, macaws and tanagers are abundant throughout its extensive montane forests, with further riches to be found in the coastal lowlands and wetlands.Th...

FOPO, je druk maken over wat anderen van je vinden, is irrationeel en contraproductief. Dit boek leert je de verwachtingen van anderen los te laten om je ware potentieel te ontketenen.Voor de lezers van Sander Aarts, Thijs Launspach en Mark MansonAls je mensen aan het eind van hun leven vraagt waar ze spijt van hebben, hoor je vaak dat ze zich minder hadden moeten aantrekken van de mening van anderen. En terecht: FOPO (Fear of People’s Opinions) is een van de grootste belem...

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary tank at a science fiction convention, a questionable academic paper published at a university of magic, living fossils awakened when the coal formed of them burns. The stories vary from humo...

A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds.Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are).Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gi...