In a scorched, post-pandemic world where ash-laden skies and haunting ruins testify to mankind's hubris, two souls find solace and strength in an unlikely alliance. Orius Ferlin, a former medic scarred by loss and regret, and Leira Monden, a fierce scavenger shaped by betrayal and survival, embark on an arduous journey across desolate, toxic landscapes. Their quest: an ancient vault hidden beneath a ruined biotech campus rumored to hold the key to humanity's redemption.As toxic sto...

You have watched skilled communicators move rooms, close deals, and change minds, and you have wondered whether you could learn the same craft without becoming someone nobody trusts twice. The techniques in these pages have been whispered about in sales training, abused by manipulators, and kept from the public. They are called forbidden because they are usually taught with the conscience and the context stripped away. This book puts 38 of the most effective psychological levers on a table...

Published to rave reviews, this is the never-before-told story of two brilliant young Canadians who became unlikely soldiers. Ken Macalister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Frank Pickersgill was a doctoral student in classics at l’Université de Paris. Together, they volunteered for the British SOE and soon found themselves being trained to kill. On June 15, 1943, with false identities, they parachuted into the Rhone Valley, but there were double agents within the Resistance; too soon Macal...

If you walk to the back of a major warehouse club, you will find a massive, perfectly roasted rotisserie chicken selling for roughly five dollars. Mathematically, accounting for inflation, labor, and transport, the store loses money on every single bird they sell. Yet, they refuse to raise the price, intentionally absorbing millions in annual losses. This roasted chicken is the most perfect, edible example of the "Loss Leader" strategy. Why would a billion-dollar corporation intentionally ...

December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine guns lie in ambush. Snipers slip from one rooftop to another. The Canadians seem to have walked...

"After the twists and turns in Goering's many missions, Frater finishes with a stunning revelation . . . an exciting read . . . A WWII thrill ride." — Kirkus ReviewsThe US air battle over Nazi Germany in WWII was hell above earth. For bomber crews, every day they flew was like D-Day, exacting a terrible physical and emotional toll. Twenty-year-old US Captain Werner Goering, accepted this, even thrived on and welcomed the adrenaline rush. He...

A Jewish police detective in Weimar Berlin investigates a woman's murder as his own life becomes endangered in this hard-boiled mystery series debut.Kirkus Best Debut FictionNPR Top Five Mysteries of the Year"Remarkable. . . . Grossman has re-created Germany on the eve of the Third Reich with extraordinary skill, sensitivity, and narrative flair." —David Liss,

The gripping story of the twentieth century’s greatest struggle in the modest voice of a Canadian teenager in the RAF.In 1940, nineteen-year-old Howard Hewer dreamed of being the next Billy Bishop, of piloting Spitfires or Hurricanes over Europe. His dream was shattered when he was selected instead for a career as a wireless operator in Bomber Command.But he got all the adventure he signed on for. Hewer and his crews of 218 and 148 Squadrons flew important night operations ...

In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians.In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British and Indian troops prevailed in almost all of the battles, in which the Americans were unable to hold any of the land they fought for, in which a young woman nam...

At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so that bombing runs could be accurately targeted. They were to go where no troops had gone, to bec...

The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from late autumn 1916 onwards when the Canadian Corps was preparing for the April 1917 assault on the ridge, is given detailed treatment, with special emphasis (based on original German intelligence an...

As the twentieth century closed, the veterans of its defining war passed away at a rate of a thousand per day. Fortunately, D-Day paratrooper Joseph Beyrle met author Thomas H. Taylor in time to record Behind Hitler's Lines, the true story of the first American paratrooper to land in Normandy and the only soldier to fight for both the United States and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. It is a story of battle, followed by a succession of captures, escapes, recaptures, and re-escapes, ...