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Whatever Happens" is a collection of stories for people who feel that reality is not the best deal going. Tim Conley explores the fragility of our perceptions as well as the illusions that we so badly need. Sometimes spare, these sixteen stories move between the obsessive and the disinterested. Influenced by the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Queneau, and the European avant-garde, Conley's work combines realism with metaphysical concerns t...

Ladies of the Night is set in Toronto and Antigua. With women's loves and lives as their focus, the stories contain dramatic twists and turns: some humorous, others shocking and disturbing, all leaving a haunting melody behind. The Toronto stories capture the issues women face as they walk the ground of intimate and family relationships in that city. The Antiguan setting of some of the stories are reflective of Prince's insight into relationsh...

I might like you better if we slept together.

A glimpse of lives lived between evictions.

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Russell Quant, private detective is perplexed. From the middle of the Pacific to the middle of Canada, he's missing clues and proposing answers that only beg questions. The parking lot murder of an almost client draws Quant to a poem that just might be a treasure map. But is it treasure or extortion he is trailing?

Has it been a while since you laughed? Are you shaking your head that another year is rolling along and you still haven't done what you really want to do with your life? Does the word "spontaneous" in your life only apply to the latest hot flash or hair loss?

With straight talk and real life stories, this book shows you how to protect your investments so that neither you nor your money are trampled by the myths and herd mentality of the marketplace. Investing can be challenging. Compounding the problem are the pressures that stem from the profit-seeking investment sales industry and the business media. In Juggling Dynamite, portfolio manager Danielle Park reveals the insider wisdom you need to buil...

Tax Tips and Tax Shelters for Canadians provides individuals and business owners with effective tax-planning strategies designed to reduce taxable income, generate tax deductions, increase tax refunds, increase potential investment returns, defer tax, increase wealth, and minimize probate and estate taxes. When implemented properly the strategies discussed in this book are legitimate tax-planning strategies recognized by many financial planner...

Neil Gupta went to the Middle East looking for antique carpets. He found something equally timeless: murder. When Neil is found stabbed to death in Dubai's spice souk, his distraught father wants revenge. He hires private investigator Russell Quant to catch the killer. In his greatest case to date, Quant goes undercover to match wits with a wily museum curator, shifty souk merchants, corrupt carpet experts, and the denizens of an underground c...

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Dr. Althea Prince follows up her earlier collection of essays (Being Black) on Black cultural life with this important new collection. This book sensitively charts Black women's journeys with their hair: how it is perceived, judged, and graded on the yardstick of mainstream society's standards of beauty. Relying on the tradition of the personal essay, and conversations with several Black women, Prince delves into "the politics of Black women's...

Bird Eat Bird, Katrina Best's first book of short stories, is a funny, smart, offbeat and insightful collection that explores themes that are equally poignant and hilarious. A thirty-year-old woman who still lives at home anticipates the experience of a third date, a teenaged vegetarian supermarket cashier struggles to scan a package of offal, an inscrutable pelican in a crowded London park decides to try something different for dinner. These ...

A companion volume to Why Are You So Sad? - David W. McFadden's book of selected poems shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize - this book finally brings together, in one place, all of McFadden's masterful long poems. For some poets, the long poem is an occasion to stretch one's lyrical legs, try on different stylistic hats, or work out ideas too complex for shorter poems. For David McFadden, the long poem is much more, here is McFadden's pro...

Your first years of work are critical. You need to quickly build your skills and navigate your career path. Inspire Your Career: Strategies for Success in Your First Years at Work helps readers fast track their way to a successful career. This down-to-earth, insightful book will provide readers with: -Advice on a wide range of topics, such as: how to find mentors, how to build a network and how to deal with conflict, -Opportunities to reflect ...

Money Assassins gives readers a comprehensive examination and explanation of why we are set up to fail financially. Learn who the Money Assassins are, how to reduce financial stress, and how to unlock the secret to the investor-saver confusion in order to live a life of financial courage. Money Assassins gives readers a new and refreshing analysis on how to beat debt and increase wealth. It ultimately attempts to answer the question: Why are s...

The autobiographical story of one man's journey through Toronto's underworld of hard-core sado-masochism.

In linked short stories imbued with wry humor, brutally frank honesty and caustically banal dialogue, women and men argue, make love and taunt each other mercilessly.

Performative prose and poetry inspired by the absurdity of everyday life from Ken Cormier, recipient of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Award.