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Worried you won't have enough money in retirement? Concerned about losing your work identity? Envisioning where you will live after you leave work? Wondering how your relationships will change with your family, friends, and partner? Whether you are considering retirement planning or are already retired, Strategies for Retiring Right! will help you build a personal retirement plan to enhance your life after work. With its profound insights, les...

Have you ever been in a van full of girls? All the girls are alive and they're happy. You're all heading off to do something whimsical and flirty and you're maybe a little bit drunk. You're going to see a Beach Boys tribute band. You're going to the casino to bet it all on red. You're going to a séance that you just know is going to end in skinny-dipping. Something like that. A Van Full of Girls is a collection of short, dizzy, funny things. I...

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The story of a suburban teenage girl who finds spiritual fulfillment when she goes to live among women on a Navajo reserve.

In 1996, Sheldon Kennedy rocked the insular world of Canadian hockey by announcing that his former minor-league coach, Graham James-the Hockey News 1989 Man of the Year-had sexually abused him more than 300 times. The media portrayed Kennedy as a hero for breaking the code of silence in professional hockey and bringing James to justice. The heroic myth intensified in 1998 when Kennedy announced that he was going to in-line skate from Newfoun...

In this, highly anticipated debut collection of poems, Nick Thran fuses a whimsical pop sensibility with an urgent poetic gravitas that refuses to sell the human heart short. The resultant poems are emblematic of the clash between our private enthusiasms and the cool diffidence of the world around us. Here, a private school student stashes a stolen sheep's brain inside the bookcase of a girl he thinks is beautiful, a mother bakes banana bread ...

Disordered eating. Tear gas. Coked-out sex. This is life during a student strike. Girth is an uncomfortably honest poetic account of a woman's body, suspended between reflection, action, and self-destruction. As the speaker attempts to engage in an meaningful political process, she grapples with her self-image and chronic eating disorder. She is impeded by identity, violence, and politics, and the way they manifest in the body: as memory, as h...

After decades of debate, sweeping changes have transformed the financial services industry. At the same time, more and more Canadians are turning to professionals to invest their money and arrange their financial affairs. John J. De Goey argues that financial advisors are changing the way they do business. Instead of earning commissions for placing products, they are increasingly charging fees for rendering more professional services. In the...

Queer Returns returns us to the scene of multiculturalism, diaspora, and queer through the lens of Black expression, identity, and the political. The essays question what it means to live in a multicultural society, how diaspora impacts identity and culture, and how the categories of queer and Black and Black queer complicate the political claims of multiculturalism, diaspora, and queer politics. These essays return us to foundational assumpti...

Talking Music 2 is the second collection of Holger Petersen's in-depth radio interviews with artists-the pioneering men and women who created the blues and roots sounds that have influenced the course of popular culture and music worldwide. Many of his interview subjects are no longer with us-their stories need to be told. The book includes 25 interviews with a broad range of unique artists and songwriters representing regional styles, includ...

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The outrageously funny autobiography of Mark Breslin, Founder of Yuk Yuk's comedy clubs.

Dexter Cooke was supposed to be a star. A child of privilege, loved and encouraged by his parents, adored by his peers. He could have been anything he wanted. Instead, by his mid-thirties he is mired in mediocrity -- a lacklustre husband, guilt-ridden son and uninspired teacher at the small-town high school he himself attended. He is jolted out of his torpor by a student who experiences a sequence of paranormal visitations from a man named Gab...

In these funny and twisted stories of American culture, David MdGimpsey answers questions which have long demanded answers: What does a teacher of Elvisology teach? What kind of animal is McDonald's Grimace? The sadness of life's adult rewards leads to comic relief in these short, topical, American asides.

Set in a medival past that has overtones of the present day, the novel is about Julian, a young man who belives he is Christ.

A collection of poetry, prose and short fiction by authors both famous and up and coming who performed at during the first three years of the famed Toronto literary festival.

Lyric and elegiac poetry that maps the way through grief and recovery from well-known poet Jill Battson.

Through sleepless ramblings and observations from Newfoundland singer-songwriter Damhnait Doyle, these journals cover her travels from Afghanistan to Japan.

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