Petra Taylor feels responsible when her friend, Ben, goes missing. After all, she was the one who reported the disturbed grave to the groundskeeper. She was the last person to see him that night. And she did neglect to mention the missing soul that should have been there. Not that he’d have believed her if she had.But Petra isn’t your average pensioner. Ever since her powers awoke ten years ago, she’s been able to see the souls of the living and the dead. Now, as she searches for B...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to mainta...

Winner of the 2006 Scotiabank Giller PrizeAn astonishing literary debut centred around four students as they apply to medical school, qualify as doctors and face the realities of working in medicine, from a powerful voice in fiction.Following the interlinked stories of a group of medical students and the unique challenges they face, from the med school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evac missions, and terrifying new viruses. Riveting, convincing a...

It was supposed to be a fun day, shopping at the mall with her best friend. Then the panic attack started and Kaylee Cavanaugh finds herself screaming, unable to stop. Her secret fears are exposed and it's the worst day of her life.Until she wakes up in the psychiatric unit.She tries to convince everyone she's fine--despite the shadows she sees forming around another patient and the urge to scream which comes burbling up again and again. Everyone thinks she's crazy. Everyon...

"[A] social document of rare importance."—The New RepublicProsecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Here is the gripping...

**From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction.CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of the Year.**In his downtown Toronto condo, Dr. Chen awakens to the sound of streetcars below, but it is not the early morning traffic that keeps him from sleep. News banners run across his phone: Fentanyl Crisis;...

Don't Close Your Eyes.Sophie Cavanaugh is not going to let her freak of a cousin's strange psychiatric condition ruin high school for them both. Not after all the work she's put into cultivating the right look, and friends, and reputation. But then, Sophie sees something so frightening she lets out a blood-curdling scream-and finds herself stuck in a bizarre parallel world where nothing is safe and deadly creatures lurk just out of sight, waiting for her to close her eyes ...

It starts with a scream….New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent's compelling Soul Screamers series keeps getting better-here, for the first time, the original stories are compiled into one special volume….My Soul to Lose-The prequel: never before in print!-Kaylee is just your average girl shopping at the mall with friends-until a terrified scream bursts from her that cannot be stopped. Taken to a hospital ...

I may be the bride—but this isn’t my wedding.You see, I’m pretending to be someone else and marrying the stranger that she was promised to.My future husband is a ruthless man, and if he discovers my secret, I’m dead.I have no choice but to succeed in my task.Earn his love, his trust, and when he least expects it… kill him.It was supposed to be easy.I’d spent a year planning for every scenario. Every possible issue.B...

Vincent weaves Christian wisdom and godly counsel into these heartfelt letters to his son. These letters serve as powerful devotionals, offering fathers helpful tools to inspire and guide their own sons toward the godly life God envisions for every young man.2

In Efficacy of Devotion to God, Vincent Dlamini explores the profound relationship between faith and the human experience, arguing that devotion to God is the foundational bond that connects all people. Faith, he posits, not only awakens the conscience but also binds our souls to the spiritual world, shaping our moral compass and the way we serve others.While science brings knowledge of the physical world, Dlamini contends that it cannot fully reveal the divine mysteries o...