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...

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?

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 ...

“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...

After his voyage across the galaxy, Nate Silva arrives home to find Hamilton in the grip of a monstrous triumvirate. The Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods has returned, with the human form of the shape-changing nightmare from the Medusa Deep as its leader. And closely guarded in a downtown tower a mind-devouring entity called Oracle lurks. The city is infested with invasive species that have slithered into our world during the Church’s occult ceremonies – many-legged dritches, bat-li...

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...

The successes of the standard models of particle physics and cosmology are many, but have proven incapable of explaining all the phenomena that we observe. This book investigates the potentially important role of quantum physics, particularly quantum anomalies, in various aspects of modern cosmology, such as inflation, the dynamical generation of the visible and dark matter in the universe, and gravitational waves. By doing so, the authors demonstrate that exploring the links between cosmo...

** 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...

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...

By recounting actual court cases, this book examines the multi-billion-dollar elder fraud industry, the special vulnerabilities of those it targets, and the ease and frequency with which it obtains hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim. It also reveals successful strategies for combating that industry and the important contributions to that effort by concerned bankers, doctors, reporters and others in the private sector.The cases reveal an increasingly sophisticated global in...