Checking You OutBy: Peter Chaput Checking You Out is a unique series of humorous vignettes about running a small hotel. The many incidents are all true coming from twenty-three years of experience by the author. It’s a must-read for anyone who has romanticized the idea of running a seaside hotel. You will not believe anyone could go through so many experiences and not be confined to a mental institution. It’s an easy read in a fast-paced world! About the Author...

In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland cuts through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our lives—uncovering a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward: a culture seemingly beyond God.We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of shopping and TV, Kraft dinners, and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anx...

Urban Fantasy meets Future NoirOnce people have messed with a man's DNA, what can he do but become a private eye? And when a gorgeous thing like Elizabeth Savoy comes gliding into his office and blinks her big baby blues, what can PI Mike Heller do but say sure—even though he sees just what she is, and knows what a bad idea it could be? Not that Heller has a clue just how bad. But by the time he suspects that Lizzie's troubles might bring the end of life as he knows it, he's already...

“Part portrait of a place, part rescue manual, part rumination of life and death, Population: 485 is a beautiful meditation on the things that matter.” — Seattle TimesWelcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station...

Married to an uncaring, workaholic husband, Shylia Allred walks to alleviate stress and to consider her divorce. Typical of many abused spouses, she dreams of escape but always comes up with a reason to thwart her own plans. Then, as she's walking past the local parish hall just as an AA meeting is letting out, she literally bumps into Randall Sly. As they get to know each other, she comes to trust him completely. He's the one man who can bring a huge change to her life. But change isn't a...

The lease is meaningless: a square paced first by seismic workers, and then your father, and then by every other man you know. Distilled from his time in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease plumbs the prairie depths to find human technology and physical labour realigning our landscape. With acute discipline, Henderson illuminates the stubborn and often unflattering realities of industrial culture and its cast of hard-living men.

While playing golf Tom King slices his tee shot into an ancient Indian burial ground located on the course he is playing. Strange things begin happening to him after he disrespects the sacred burial grounds to retrieve his ball, and he finds out that he is not the only one to experience strange and sometimes deadly consequences for entering the forbidden site.

Do you want to be a truck driver?Would you like to be profitable?Do you drive and just love what you do?Are you training others to become truck drivers?The Art of Truck Driving will give you all you need to know but did not get at truck-driving school, provided by one who has 2.5 million miles under his belt, who always drove with safety in mind and was presented with the Driver of ...

"The Night Cyclist" by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose nightly bicycle ride home is interrupted by an unexpected encounter.There must be no compulsion to hide the bodies. Otherwise I’d have never found them.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Jimmy was a feral cat in the neighborhood for years looking out from the shadows and bushes. My wife insisted on first setting out food and then against all advice; try to befriend him. This is the story how he entered our lives until I fell in love as well. RIP Jimmy as he was taken from us by a bobcat. He was outside, doing what he loved, roaming the bushes and backyards.

This is the third of eight trail journals that I kept while backpacking on the Appalachian Trail. This particular journal is from my hike through central Virginia during the summer of 2003.

A father is threatened when his oldest son gets stronger and stronger lifting weights.He orders his son to quit lifting.The son retaliates in a way his father never imagined.