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We dream to work through issues, fears, sins, debts-anything that holds us back from reaching full enlightenment. This book gives readers the tools to begin decoding dreams to analyze their meaning.

A new edition of Russell Quant's sixth case from the calm Pacific to the storm-tossed prairie, a teasing puzzle turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse for gay PI Russell Quant. Russell can't be sure whether a dead man's surprising last gift will take him on a treasure hunt or a treacherous game of life or death. With a series of clues spanning decades -- from a shocking modern-day murder to Saskatoon's dark, hidden past -- he revisits ...

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Long before the emergence of the printed word, human beings gathered to hear stories. These tales, carried in the head of the storyteller, ensured that a community remembered its history and its beliefs. Now our stories come from a range of sources, but there is still something magical about the spoken word. In this collection of stories and thoughts, Dan Yashinsky shares gems from his treasure trove of material. We travel from the neonatal IC...

This book features the voices of women who have experienced the challenge of living in Canada's immigrant communities. Some women were brought to Canada as children, while others immigrated as adults, yet others were born in Canada to immigrant parents. The women chronicle their journey of settlement in Canada through life-writing, poetry, and essays. In all instances, they focused on reaching for a sense of belonging in Canada as they engaged...

A woman poisons her husband, who sputters and keels over but will not die. A man has his restaurant burned down, then retraces the steps, certain he has made a mistake. A tightrope walker slips off the cable and dangles over the crowd by her fingers. Despite their best efforts, people always screw up. Riedel writes about fools and low-lifes who cannot help but make mistakes. His stories are taut and perversely funny, open punctuated with momen...

Our world runs on fossil fuels. It is estimated that oil production will drop to half of the peak amount around 2030. What will happen as we reach the point where there is no practical way to get whatever is still in the ground? Fossil fuels are in decline, but recoverable reserves of metals are also becoming less plentiful. Electricity will be in decline world-wide because it is produced mainly with fossil fuels. Without mechanisation, irriga...

Part meditation, part confession, part comedy bit, "The Loneliness Machine" -- Aaron Giovannone's first full-length collection of poetry -- is a strikingly new rendition of the trope of the suffering artist that takes dramatic risks and rarely fails to charm.

The sci-fi shelves are bursting with obnoxious alternate realities, but what if our own world was revealed to be among the worst of them? If you shared shiftless film critic Douglass Infantino's caustic view of late capitalism, you would probably take heart from the discovery -- until you realised that you would have to erase yourself from the continuity in order to put things right again. Is Douglass noble enough to make the ultimate sacrific...

How did a former bank executive and a kid from a car wash cross paths to discover a shared passion for crafting memorable customer experiences? From Mindless to Mindful answers this question while weaving together their lessons learned over two vastly different careers. Their stories are real and compelling-they transcend boundaries between industries, the nature of businesses, and generational gaps. In today's global marketplace, products and...

Young Dominican single mother Selena Cruz is trying to make a new life for herself in Antigua, dealing with prejudice, poverty, and her interfering sister. When she meets handsome cricket coach Michael Lindo, her world is turned upside down. The course of true love is never smooth, and Michael and Selena's story is no exception as they try to bridge the gap between their two cultures and their personal expectations of love. Romantic and deligh...

Corey Bonspiel is having a bad day. There is a mysterious lump on his neck, he broke up with his girlfriend, lost his job at a call centre, and worst of all he can't find a TV to watch the Habs' game. This is a fast-paced, funny, and insightful examination of the notion of "two solitudes", of Anglos lost in the hazy dream of Franco Canada. On a night of poetry slams, hockey riots, and a lack of pants, and set against the backdrop of Bruins-Can...

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On the day her dad is buried, the woman who calls herself Winnie celebrates by setting out on the strangest road trip of her life. Her traveling companion is an enormous man-child whom she calls Tongue. Their vehicle: the beat-up limousine left to her by a dying man seeking forgiveness. Too little, too late. Searching for her lost mother and the son whom she believes was taken from her at birth, Winnie must confront her buried past, while batt...

Donna Lypchuk is a pop-culture kamikaze, a middle-brow crazy, a fast food conceptualist, a fun fur-frenzied, lipstick-smudged, chain-smoking, junk-cult, fun-loving humorist. And she's baaaacckk... Lypchuk's column, 'The Necrofiles' is the primary reason most people in Toronto pick up the alternative 'Weekly eye' every Thursday morning (and we have the surveys to prove it). In fact, we would go so far as to say her pop culture critiques, femini...

In the past three years, Canada has witnessed landmark court rulings in Ontario, BC and Quebec making it legal for gay men and lesbian women to marry. Legislation in the Netherlands and Belgium have also extended marriage to same-sex couples. Legal challenges before the US courts in Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon and California have had the same goal in mind. The same-sex marriage phenomenon is characterised on the one hand by intense ...

This collection marks the dazzling debut of a new voice in Canadian fiction. With a surgeon's skill, Natalee Caple reveals the workings of the human heart and the eternal search for love. In the title story, Lana, nursing her infant son, tells her friend Karen: "Men are a kind of blade. Even though you can see how sharp and quick they are against another woman's skin it still surprises you when you embrace them and they cut, cut through you, e...

Blame it on Cinderella! We get married because we want to believe that true love and lasting happiness are possible, but all too often, our choice of a mate is based on flawed assumptions and unrealistic expectations. We have an idealistic view of how our love relationship should be, but we ignore the work it takes to create and sustain that healthy lasting love. We expect a loving relationship to make us happy, without knowing what happiness ...

According to a study released by the CIBC, 500, 000 Canadian small business owners are planning to retire over the next five years. Another 750, 000 are expected to retire by 2020. This guide addresses the unique transition needs of small business owners and independent professionals. This group cannot simply attend a retirement dinner and leave work, there is a business to manage and a business to sell, and there are no systems in place for d...

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