Mariano Giovanelli is a twenty-year-old NHL goaltender playing for the Vancouver Canucks. He is a rookie sensation at the peak of his season when his wife and the love of his life, Angie, tragically and unexpectedly dies giving birth to their first child, Michael. While grieving the death of his wife, Mariano realizes he cannot be both a great father and a great hockey goalie. Forced to decide between playing the sport he loves and raising his son, Mariano, with little hesitation, chooses ...

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Evil pervades the people and land of 650BCE Judah, not only in worshiping foreign gods but by alienating the one, true God. Thus, Jeremiah is called upon to become one of the Lord’s prophets, but the sixteen-year-old has other, worldlier, plans; a fiancée, a career that leads to happiness, security and comfort. The boy’s life is turned upside down as God’s Spirit grows within him. Friends, family and his community turn against him, though not merely human hatred wants him eliminated but de...

Democracy for Sale explores how corporate influence, dark money, and neoliberal ideology have eroded democratic institutions. The book examines the ways in which businesses, wealthy elites, and lobbying groups manipulate public policy, elections, and media narratives to serve their interests, often at the expense of ordinary citizens.One of the book's central arguments is that corporations and billionaires have gained an outsized role in shaping legislation. Through lobbyi...

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National BestsellerBill Morneau’s experience as Canada’s finance minister crystalized his vision for the country’s potential for growth and prosperity. Where To from Here looks backward with coolness and candor and forward with a fresh vision of all that Canada can — and must — become.Much of the world reacted with surprise and admiration to the results of the 2015 Canadian federal election and the makeup of the government it produ...

John Garrett is a cop aching to redeem himself for the mistake he made that destroyed two innocent lives and his own. He works alone to pursue the murderer he was escorting to trial, after their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. This 5,800-word story by Rick Mofina is one of three gripping tales in his crime anthology, THREE TO THE HEART.Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several notable thrillers....

The perfect gift for baseball fans, now with a new epilogue by author R.A. Dickey, winner of the 2012 Cy Young award."An astounding memoir—haunting and touching, courageous and wise."—Jeremy Schaap, bestselling author, Emmy award-winning journalist, ESPNIn 1996, R.A. Dickey was the Texas Rangers’ much-heralded No. 1 draft choice. Then, a routine physical revealed that his right elbow was missing its ulnar collateral ligament, and his lifelo...

"America's foremost opponent of inequality brilliantly shows how the 1 percent rigged the rules, looted the country, and got the ninety-nine percent to pay for it."—Juliet Schor, author of Born to BuyOver recent decades, we've seen a radical redistribution of wealth upward to a tiny fraction of the population. In this book, activist Chuck Collins explains how it happened and marshals wide-ranging data to show exactly what the ninety-nine to one percent div...

A curious 10-year old school boy visits the house of a reclusive neighbor to play his piano. What he discovers is the ultimate reason why this neighbor does not like visitors.

The enduring story of a slashing in Penn Station that draws a Manhattan detective back into a case from the past that haunts him, by the bestselling and critically acclaimed master of the gritty crime drama.“A masterpiece, to stand with such earlier Price classics as Clockers and Lush Life . . . [The Whites has] a compelling plot, yet the real joy of the book lies page by page, line by line, in its brilliant chara...

With one side of the political aisle proposing increasingly more socialistic and anti-capitalistic ideas, the other side has been quick to defend our country’s great economic model, with good reason. Capitalism--spanning a spectrum from laissez faire to authoritarian--shapes the market economies of all the wealthiest and fastest-growing nations. But does that mean it is perfect as is, and that we would not all benefit from an honest evaluation and reconstruction of the free market system t...