Jack Powers left Iowa January 1st, 1990. In the 1990's you didn't talk about your feelings, desires, or emotions with anyone unless they involved marriage, kids and a dog. It was a time when Mathew Sheppard was tied to a fence post and left to die simply because he was different. Jack would leave the familiarity of home and family, and be forever changed by "Florida man" culture. For Jack, the shock would be equivalent to being jolted back to life with a defibrillator. His journey could le...

"In prose that sears, he gives us the wild coast and the wounded soul—both stripped of pretense, both tremblingly alive."Author Tom Stewart—following a national fiction award for Immortal North—returns with his most intimate novel yet: an emotionally charged story of heartbreak and healing in the town he calls home. Lyrical and sexy, at once comedic and profound, the story unfolds over three days, seamlessly weaving sensational Tofino history with ...

“Immortal North is one of the finest examples of true literary fiction I have ever read. ★★★★★”—Marcus Lynn Dean, author, Thermals of TimeThe “achingly beautiful” story of Immortal North concludes in this stunning sequel, an unflinching meditation on the triumph of human resolve.He’s known as the trapper and his family has a long history in these remote woods. Now it’s just him and the boy, and he’ll raise him in the world he knows, the fore...

Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you’ll recognize, helping you appreciate why these ideas matter and how they can inform your day-to-day programming.Rather than use mathematical notation or an unfamiliar academic programming language like Haskell or Lisp, this book uses Ruby in a reductionist manner to present formal semantics, automat...

Saint.Virtuous. Kind. Patient.These were words never associated with Gabriel Saint. He was a monster. The devil that haunted the city of Redhill. And he had found me.I managed to hide for a while from my past, present, and future. But I should have known they'd come looking. After all, I had the heir of the city in my arms, and if I know anything about the ruling crime family of this city, it's that family comes before all else.When Gabriel ...

The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, Third Edition, has been thoroughly updated to keep pace with the developments that have taken place in old age psychiatry since publication of the Second Edition in 2013, including the publication of the DSM-5/ICD-11 classification criteria. The Third Edition also includes new chapters on the ageing brain; the experience of dementia; carers' issues; biomarkers; and old age psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries. This new edition i...

For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway comes a debut novel that Book Sirens calls "Heartbreakingly beautiful, raw and enchanting. ★★★★★"A father raises his boy in the isolated north. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber.***** 2023 Whistler Independent Book Awards Fiction Winner ********** 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards Literary & Cont...

For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway comes a debut novel that Book Sirens calls "Heartbreakingly beautiful, raw and enchanting. ★★★★★"A father raises his boy in the isolated north. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber.***** A Readers’ Favorite Five Star Author ********** Shelf Unbound 2022 Best Indie Book Nota...

***** A Readers’ Favorite Five Star Author ********** Shelf Unbound 2022 Best Indie Book Notable Author ********** 2020 Canada Book Awards Winning Author *****Tom at seventeen years old, naïve and optimistic, took a bush-plane flight north to remote wilderness and work at an isolated fishing lodge. Only days into the season, confrontations with coworkers escalates into threats on his life. So a young man makes a stand.In a later year ...

'I think it's queer.And it's about to get queerer…'Edward II wanders on to the empty stage, bloodied and confused. He has no idea where he is, or how he got here, but he does have an ominous feeling that something is wrong. As that feeling grows, so too does the threat on the other side of the auditorium doors.Edward finds himself locked inside the theatre with some rather anarchic fellow inmates: Gertrude Stein, Harvey Milk and Quentin Crisp. As they set ab...

Between August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon’s BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition.Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study of the factors contributing to the union’s successes and setbacks. It provides a practi...

A bad boy fixer and a bombshell FBI agent can work together on opposite sides of the law… or so I hear.I’m an overworked fixer who needs a break. When I’m asked to cat-sit in Coal Springs, I’m all for a few boring days.Except there is no break, and there’s no chance to be bored. Not when I walk into a convenience store and meet a kick-ass woman with an obsession for coffee who single-handedly takes down an armed robber.I now have my own obsession. H...