The gods are dying. Someone is killing them.Zara Ashborne has spent twenty-two years as the Temple's most lethal weapon — a shadow assassin who moves through darkness and answers to no one. When Vessels from three rival bloodlines are found dead in the eastern provinces, she's assigned to investigate. The assignment comes with a condition she didn't ask for: a Legion escort she doesn't want.Commander Caelen Soldaryn has built his life on one truth — the empire is worth serv...

Futurewords A Brick Cave Anthology is a compilation of stories from five authors from Brick Cave Books. Sharon Skinner, J.A. Giunta, Scott Woods, Colette Black and Bob Nelson each add a story to this strong collection of science fiction.If you have yet to introduce yourself to Brick Cave, or are curious about what's next from our talented group of creators, you definitely want to pre-order Futurewords A Brick Cave Anthology.Included Authors & Stories

This collection of essays, what-ifs and tidbits contains everything writer and critic Scott Woods has publicly written and published about Prince, as well as a stack of new material written specifically for this edition. A fun, sometimes biting history with Prince from a super-fan’s perspective, Prince and Little Weird Black Boy Gods is not so much a reference as a unique look at his career, the meaning of his music, and an official weighing in on numerous long-standing Prince debates, suc...

Most people move through their lives without ever stopping to ask the one question that changes everything.Not what. Not how. Why.WHY: The Examined Life Starts Here is a book about the most powerful and most neglected practice available to a human being: honest self-inquiry. The kind that does not look for comfortable answers. The kind that follows the question wherever it actually leads, even when the destination is inconvenient, uncomfortable, or completely different from...

A kid born on Friday the 13th in Burlington who moved to Hamilton at ten, got bullied, stole from his parents, slept outside for two weeks with a garbage bag for a pillow, was told by a vice principal that he would never amount to anything, lost hockey to a bounced cheque, burned through jobs, and somehow built a company, sold it, built another one, married the woman he spotted on a sidewalk the night the Tiger-Cats won the Grey Cup, and is now about to publish a book about all of it.

The boardroom has its AI strategy. The C-suite has its governance framework. The technology team has its implementation roadmap. Meanwhile, the managers and operators who are actually running the work have been handed a chatbot subscription and told to figure it out.The Operator's Edge is a correction.Written specifically for mid-level managers in Canadian enterprise, this book takes your position in the organization seriously — not as a passive recipient of strategy from a...

In the summer of 1877, a man who had never wanted war led his people on one of the most extraordinary journeys in American history. Outnumbered, outgunned, and relentlessly pursued by the full force of the United States Army, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce guided over seven hundred men, women, and children across nearly fifteen hundred miles of brutal wilderness -- through the Rocky Mountains, across the scorching lava fields of Idaho, and into the vast reaches of Montana -- fighting, fleei...

The bond is active. The covenant is unchosen. The gods are dying.Zara Ashborne and Caelen Soldaryn are fugitives running from a High Consul who has turned their bond into a public story — the empire's infrastructure is failing, harvests are collapsing, and the official record blames their corruption for all of it. The actual cause is twenty years of systematic murder of the gods, and the resistance that could prove it is three people and a carrying pack.It will not stay tha...

The covenant was chosen. The program was broken. The world is not yet what it needs to be.Zara Ashborne and Caelen Soldaryn carry the integrated aspects of death and war — the gods they chose and who chose them, permanent and theirs. The Hollowed Vessel program is over. The oversight council's proceeding is moving. And three suppressed god-aspects, not dead but below the threshold of the material world, are waiting to be woken by the counter-pressure that only the covenant's expand...

How long has a corpse been staring out at passengers on the tube? Was London Bridge really shipped abroad by an American thinking he'd bought Tower Bridge? Did the Queen really mix with the crowds as a princess on VE Day? And did Hitler actually want to live in Balham? Where are there razor blades hidden and where did all these parakeets come from? Did they really belong to Jimi Hendrix? Urban legends are the funny, frightening and fierce folklore people share. Just like t...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture documents a series of conversations with some of contemporary architecture's most accomplished thinkers and practitioners. The conversations took place in 2018 and 2019 at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), The University of Melbourne, with the hope of complementing lectures by visitors to the school. Where lectures gave insight into projects, these conversations dive deeper into the ideas and processes behind the buildings - t...

I can distinctly remember the first time I got angry.In fact, it's one of my earliest memories. The years were 1978-79. I was five years old. We were staying with some friends of the family for about two weeks after having to prematurely move out of a house my parents just sold. I just remember riding in the back seat of the car, hearing Dad and Mom talk about going to a party that some friends from our church were having. Of course, I wanted to go, and I said so.When Dad s...