This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It’s 1975, and Ray Hayward is stuck…A successful Safeway manager in Southern California, Ray has spent decades doing everything right. He’s built a career, raised a family, bought a house on the hill, and settled into the comfortable routines of middle-class American life. But after a frightening bout of pneumonia leaves him confronting his own mortality, Ray finds himself awake night after night, filled with anxiety.The...

This volume contains three short stories of speculative fiction - "Press The Record Button," "In The Heavens As On Earth" and "Real Life Fiction." Each story explores possibilities at the end of our known world. Time travel, manipulation of reality, nuclear war, reincarnation, chance, and a host of other ideas are woven through these various stories.

From haunted Civil War battlefields to a severed ear discovered on a nightly run; from lab-grown dinosaurs to forest creatures that steal away children under the cover of night; from deadly bio-engineered fleas to a burning teenage desire for cybernetic amputations: Deaf and hard of hearing authors from around the world bring you this fun, though oftentimes disturbing, collection of short fiction."So often the future we imagine is homogenous: everyone has the same baseline abilitie...

Good financial habits are best learnt at an early age. This ebook is all about money and is written for children aged seven to 12 to read with their parents. It includes brief histories of coins, notes, banking and credit cards and encourages children to adopt good habits concerning personal finance. Through the use of anecdotes, videos, games and interesting money facts, it promotes keeping accurate financial records as a way of preventing money problems or serious debt later in life. The...

Kids. They think they got it so rough these days. But nobody has it worse than Papa Red did when he was a kid. And you better listen up when he talks. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.

The Canadian Federal Election of 2006 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election that ended the 12-year Liberal reign in Canadian politics and saw the House of Commons shift from one minority government to another. The chapters, composed by leading political writers, commentators, and pollsters, examine the strategies, successes, and blunders of the major players — the Conservatives, Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc Québécois, and Greens — and also explor...

Anxiety Hacks for an Uncertain World is a highly accessible guide to anxiety disorders. It helps anxiety sufferers regain control by suggesting an array of useful tactics which when applied can be life altering.Chapters explore key topics such as phobias, panic disorders, social anxiety, general anxiety, pandemics, and more. Additional resources are included in the appendix, such as support groups, services, and helplines. Using light humor and examples from their lived ex...

The Canadian General Election of 2004 is the definitive study of the campaign and the election. The 2004 edition includes analyses of:The campaigns of the 4 major parties and smaller partiesThe role of newspapers, television and the internet in the campaignsThe pre-election pollsVoting patterns across the countryThe rise in non-votingArticles are contributed from leading Canadian political writers, commentators a...

A writer may have a story to tell, a sense of plot, and strong characters, but for all of these to come together some key questions must be answered. What form should the narrator take? An omniscient, invisible force, or one—or more—of the characters? But in what voice, and from what vantage point? How to decide? Avoiding prescriptive instructions or arbitrary rules, Christopher Castellani brilliantly examines the various ways writers have solved the crucial point-of-view problem. By unpac...

Media pundits and students of Canadian politics alike have strived to interpret the relevance of the 2021 federal election, held in the midst of a global pandemic and reinforcing the existing parliamentary balance of power.This timely volume explains the election's import, offering an insightful account of Canadian democracy in an age of increasing rancour and polarization and explaining why the Liberals did not win a majority government. In a unique collaboration, some of the coun...

Many saw it as a gamble for Jean Chretien: against the advice of party members, he called an early election. But the gamble paid off, and the Liberal Party cruised to their third straight majority government.The Canadian General Election of 2000 is the authoritative study of the campaign and election. As with previous volumes in the Canadian General Election series, the 2000 edition includes analyses of:the campaigns of all five major partiesthe rol...

Frank and Sunny’s humans are bringing home their nibling for a visit. But what exactly is a “nibling”? Frank says it’s a small bite of something, and Sunny thinks that sounds delicious.But then there is a knock on their door, and this nibling is a far cry from what they expected! Nelly has strong ideas about how to play and what constitutes fun, including a nauseating basket ride around the house and a mandatory play wedding—with costumes!—between Frank and Captain Keith, the parro...