The book stories of happily ever after is a short collection of fairy tales for children of all ages : eight simple tales just enough for the readers to get transported to a whole new magical world. From evil socerer of boldur to the witches of the dark, from the fairies of the woods to the evil queen with a vengeance, from slaying of dragon to the magical ring that grants everlasting wish. If you are fan of Grimm's fairy tales, this book offers a ultimate passage to the unknown lands wher...

When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – he saw something deeper. It was a story about his own life, but mostly about a place and its people. The story was about life and death in New Zealand. Combining reportage and memoir, The Commercial Hotel is a sharp-eyed, poignant yet often hilarious tour of Aotearoa: a place in which Arcoroc ...

The Canadian legal system is broken, and perhaps no other lawyer epitomizes that more than Ottawa lawyer John Summers.What can be said of a lawyer who takes money from an undisclosed source that exploits a disoriented elderly man with diabetes and chronic high blood pressure to embolden his abuse of his wife? This is a man so disoriented that he has run through stop signs when driving, drifted between lanes on an urban expressway, and become confused as to his location in both driv...

Winner of the 2018 Ontario Museum Association Award of ExcellenceWinner of the 2019 Canadian Museum Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in the Research - Cultural Heritage CategoryCreating Exhibits that Engage: A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations is a concise, useful guide to developing effective and memorable museum exhibits. The book is full of information, guidelines, tips, and concrete examples drawn from the author’s years of experience as a cura...

For most people, the premature death of George Floyd in the United States was yet another example of a racist police force gone wild. But the premature death of a Canadian black Jewish woman provides a revealing new perspective on police brutality and corresponding oppression in the Canadian legal system. John Summers and Sylvia Corthorn: The Shocking Truth of an Ottawa Lawyer and an Ontario Superior Judge exposes a cabal that includes the police, and which operates without basic ...

She's the only human counselor at a summer camp for shifters.Paige isn't looking forward to spending her summer trying to wrangle kids who can turn into animals. But no matter her own feelings, family comes first. This job is the only way she can afford to send her little brother Archie back to camp this year—and now, more than ever, he has to get better control of his bear.All she has to do is keep her head down, work hard, and make sure Archie do...

Buck has been a lot of things in his life—a Marine, a firefighter, human. And now, after an unwanted bite, he's a motherloving werewolf. With wings.All he wants is to ignore the feral furball sharing his skin, but that's hard when he keeps waking up naked on a cabin roof. The cursed mutt has a mind of its own, and it insists on dragging him to one place: Camp Thunderbird. A secret summer camp for shifter kids… which is in desperate need of a camp counselor....

A bratty middle meets his match in his strict step-uncle when he pushes all the wrong buttons.SamsonThere were other ways I could've spent my summer, but my sister's stepson needed a swift kick in the rear, and she thought I was the perfect man for the job. I'm no brat tamer, so being saddled with one wasn't my idea of a good time, but I can see the appeal when my… less-than-conventional methods prove fruitful.Matteo

From the photographer who brought Thoreau's Walden and Cape Cod to life comes a new work combining classic literature with brand-new photography. This time, Scot Miller takes on the seminal work of John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra. The book details Muir's first extended trip to the Sierra Nevada in what is now Yosemite National Park, a landscape that entranced him immediately and had a profound effect on his life. The towering waterfalls, natural rock for...

According to Wikipedia: "John Muir (21 April 1838 24 December 1914[1]) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of th...

Scorching summer nights and tropical beaches, steel drums, and a luxurious mini yacht… it's the perfect setting for an indecent proposal… to claim his ex's son's first time.NicholasIt was only supposed to be one night… and I meant it when I made the deal with my dad's ex-boyfriend. If I went to college, he would let me tag along Caribbean island hopping on his charter boat for the summer. Cass stuck to his end of the bargain, but not me—I a...

In this nature classic, the celebrated conservationist chronicles his summer shepherding in the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountains.In the summer of 1869, John Muir made his first long trip to Yosemite. When a friend offered him the chance to accompany his flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra, it was an opportunity Muir could not resist. My First Summer in the Sierra is the journal he kept of those summer days, of the wild...