Slogging through the miles of a city marathon, an 11-year-old boy encounters small miracles; about to marry one of her patients in a home for the elderly, a nurse asks her estranged son to come to the wedding and give her away; home from university, a young man has Christmas dinner with his hard-up dad in a bistro behind a rural gas bar. Men and boys and maleness, money and its lack, the long haunt of childhood, marriage and divorce — these lie at the heart of The Ambassador of What

They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of the Allied forces, now bolstered by the fresh, enthusiastic Americans, who were now determined to be involved in the conflict that had engulfed the world.The US effort in 1918, in what became known as the Hundred Days Offensive, was focused on the Argonne Forest. It was there that 1,200,000 men were deployed in what was to be the la...

'Sunlight Beyond The Grave' is a classic true story of five brothers all born in Liverpool during the 1850s.Their parents arrived on the banks of the River Mersey during the Great Hunger (Irish famine) in 1847. They lived in the slums of the town close to the north docks. The boys were left to fend for themselves because of the ill health and early death of both parents, they joined twenty-seven-thousand other children living and begging on the streets of the town.The Carli...

A raw and riveting memoir of collapse, recovery, and reinventionFor most of his adult life, Adrian Michael Kelly specialized in failure — serial, sometimes comic, but also epic failure. Born to a gambling-addicted, compulsively spending mother who left when he was five, and raised by his dad, a haunted and often violent hard-drinking Scot, Kelly learned failure early and learned it remarkably well: how to be small, how to be safe, how to be self-defeating. By the a...

A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2025, volume two of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year is your guide to the state of contemporary weird fiction.PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR"Momentous...an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in the twenty-first century." -Zachary Gillan, Strange Horizons"When an anthology contains "Best" in its title, you expect a certain level of quality, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 a...

This book is for a wide audience who have an interest in outstanding people.It will appeal to those with a love of heroic people who tried to make the world a better place. To those with an interest the sociological conditions of the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth century.My first encounter with the name Kitty Wilkinson was in a book the A History of the Corporation of Liverpool, 1833-1914 by Brian D. White. Twenty years later in 1976 whilst I was engaged in restorati...

"A Light Rising in the East" is an under- told missionary story sure to inspire faith and even surprise you!Rev Paul HudsonSenior Pastor, Community Presbyterians Church Vacaville, CA, Former Missionary to Asia"I believe you're going to love this book-and once you've read it, you'll be asking Dr. Hilderbrand to write more often!"Pastor Mike KaiLead Pastor, Inspire Church Foun...

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie, the author of the non-fiction ...

An account from a Special Operations Executive of the British military of his capture and escape from the Germans during the Second World War.With his special forces training completed, Sergeant Roland Barker was allocated to Operation Arundel as its radio operator. Led by Major Bill Smallwood, he was parachuted into the Dolomites in 1944. The team's brief was to cause havoc in the area around the Italian border and to infiltrate into Austria.During the mis...

A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds upon, the critical success of its sibling predecessor, The Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vols. 1 - 5 (2014 - 2018).Fiction from Joanne Anderton, Jason Baltazar, Seán Padraic Birnie, Chris Campbell, F.E. Choe, Kay Chronister, Dominique Dickey, Diana Dima, Hiron Ennes, Richard Gavin, Elliott Gish, Thomas Ha, Rachael K. Jones, J...

18 Spine Tingling Tales Best Served Chilled...Edited by the maestro of macabre, Michael Kelly, CHILLING TALES: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd I Did Live will distress you, delight you, and disturb you with stories that slowly creep under your skin and linger in your mind long after the pages have been read.This tome includes selections by iconic Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers Nancy Kilpatrick, Claude Lalumière, Brett Alexander Savory, Rob...

Turn the doom and gloom into a better, more enjoyable way of living.Want to eat better, save money, work those muscles without the treadmill, know where your food comes from? This could be the new, recession-proof you! Five years ago Michael Kelly chucked in the corporate life to try his hand at 'the good life'. It's been the most rewarding thing he has ever done – and you could do it too. Make your back (or front) garden work for you; or maybe an allotment?Based on his own, ...