New 4th Edition, revised and updated! This substantially revised and expanded edition benefits from an additional decade of observation of puppy behavior by its authors and includes effective, up-to-date methods for educating puppies to become good canine citizens. Covers planning for the new puppy, selecting a breeder, house training, where to sleep at night, bonding with your new puppy, socialization, discipline, simple commands and leash training. Learn the stages of development and wha...

In the gritty steel town of Hamilton, Nate Silva has grown up with the familiar racket of football games from nearby Ivor Wynne Stadium. But now strange noises and music are coming from the stadium late at night, and the air throbs with the chanting of excited crowds. When Nate sneaks into one of these midnight games, he comes face to face with the fanatical followers of the Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods, who are using mind control and human sacrifice in an attempt to summon the ...

** Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award 2016 **When Nate sneaks into Ivor Wynne Stadium to check out the midnight games that are keeping his neighbourhood up at night, he knew something wasn't right, but he had no idea how strange, and deadly, things would be. In this thrilling young adult novel, set in gritty, post-industrial Hamilton, David Neil Lee blends the rich horror of H. P. Lovecraft with the pace of a modern mystery. Nate Silva has snuck into one of the rituals of the Resur...

She ain't gorgeous, she just looks that way.When Zebedee hooks up a with girl from Frankfurt on a beach on the Sea of Galilee, he assumes it's going to be just another holiday romance. But as the nights grow longer, and the time left before her flight home gets shorter, you begin to wonder if he might be in for the ride of his life.This collection of fourteen stories starts off looking a lot like fiction. But slowly it dawns on you, they might actually be about fiction. The...

Mania is tough on the way up, and tougher when the euphoria wears off. Especially when you’ve no idea who’s talking sense anymore.Nineteen-year-old Zebedee is determined to stay sober, but can’t tolerate his meds. In a desperate bid for something to kill the pain, he makes a deal with the Devil that puts his life at risk.Searching for a way to save his soul, Zebedee seeks advice from his unruly friends at AA. But he’s coming to realize the only spirit he can trust is the on...

The baseball player on the subway train can hit like Joltin’ Joe. But only a small boy’s dreams can bring back the innocence and wonder of the nation’s unsurpassed hero.Seventeen new poems and prose fragments from what was once greatest city on earth. But where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Canadian icon Leonard Cohen has taken up residence in the Jewish Museum. Manhattan has come unmoored and is drifting away down the Hudson River. And these days even a Jersey boy can win the heart...

A bipolar poet and his teenage son set off on a journey to locate the beating heart of America in the vast empty spaces of the Great Basin. A border crossing that pits our duo against federal officialdom; a freeway choked with cars that have a mind of their own; an image of freedom erased to make way for a shopping mall. But us the skies get wider, the dreams grow taller: angels drop feathers as they fly overhead, and a wizard blows a harmonica tune into the endless desert...

Florence and Achilles may have met at a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, but the steps they take through life could hardly be more different. As they drive up to Squampton they follow the spiritual practices established by a mutual friend, and arrive at a hesitant mutual accommodation. But was it thanks to their own efforts, or is there some protective force out there in the forest ensuring that they arrive safe from harm?

Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female children, the separation of conjo...

"Look to the west – something is coming!"Nate Silva has enough to deal with at home, with a house full of unwanted relatives and the scars from his last encounters with the Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods keeping him up at night, so there is no way he is looking west, no matter who warns him. But before he knows it, Nate finds himself press-ganged into service on Sorcerer, the airship that's haunted his dreams since the last midnight games, and quickly discovers it...

“Look to the west – something is coming!”Nate Silva has enough to deal with at home, with a house full of unwanted relatives and the scars from his last encounters with the Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods keeping him up at night, so there is no way he is looking west, no matter who warns him. But before he knows it, Nate finds himself press-ganged into service on Sorcerer, the airship that’s haunted his dreams since the last midnight game, and quic...

The electrifying conclusion to the Midnight Games trilogy.Aboard the airship Sorcerer, Nate Silva rides a galaxy-spanning continuum threshold on a dangerous rescue mission to the home planet of the hideous Great Old Ones. But returning to Earth, Nate finds Hamilton in the grip of a newer, stronger Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods and a mind-controlling monster called Oracle. Caught in the middle are Nate's friends and a mysterious double agent, the enigmatic Dr. Eldritch. To...