In the heart of Scarborough sits the Nap-Away Motel, a hunched building providing hidden worlds for its occupants. Within its derelict walls, Suleiman longs to rebuild his broken family, Tiffany creates a fantasy world to escape from her mother’s neglect and Ori plans a search for their run-away twin brother. While they grapple with the challenges of mental health, addiction, and grief, the three dwellers manage to forge a friendship over a litter of stray kittens. Together, they find joy ...

Why do diets fail? Is it because of genetic disposition? A sluggish metabolism? An underactive thyroid?A behavioural psychologist reveals the truth about dieting, including how she lost over 100lb in one year.After years of failed diets Dr Nadja Hermann weighed over 23 stone at the age of 30. All her life, she had heard and read about hundreds of reasons why diets wouldn't work for her. But when her weight started to seriously affect her he...

A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surrealism of everyday life.In Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, "in Russian it's the beginning of the word for hope, and because it's only the beginning." Their love affair was brief,...

"The book mixes appealing cartooning with informational 'Wikki's Fun Facts' about animals."—Publishers Weekly"The cartoon-panel artwork makes clever use of photos with factual captions that appear on Wikki’s screen to help inform both the heroes and the book’s beginning readers."—Kirkus ReviewsZig and Wikki land on a planet full of strange creatures like flies, frogs, and raccoons, just when it seems to be lunchtime! Young...

A first-hand account by one of the participants in the epoch shaping battle of Austerlitz, in December 1805. Accounted by many to be Napoleon's finest victory, this account is alleged to contain his own commentaries in the text by Major-General von Stutterheim. Von Stutterheim's text is balanced and free from bias despite being written by a serving member of the Austrian military. Added to the text are the notes of a "French officer", most likely to have been Napoleon himself, who dissects...

Play comes in many forms, such as solitary play, imaginary play, social play, construction play, and many more. To understand the evolution of play, Can We Play Now? introduces five forms of play: sensory play, attachment play, construction play, fantasy play, and competitive play. It then links these five forms of play with Maslow's well-known hierarchy of needs. This allows the use of a common language to gain evidence-based insight into the physical and emotional development of a human ...

When a college girl's world is shattered by her mother's tragic demise, her newly developed insomnia unleashes a nightmare beyond comprehension. Haunted by hallucinations and plagued by sleepwalking, she stumbles upon the sinister secrets lurking within the shadows of Michigan State University's campus.With an increasingly loosening grip on reality, she seeks solace in the arms of a mysterious stranger, only to discover a darkness lurking within herself that mirrors her mother's de...

Experience the story of Easter in a way you haven’t before—through the eyes of a little dove—in the air, atop a tree, and swooping through the sky. This sweet board book is a unique and captivating way to introduce little ones to the very first Easter and the true meaning of this holy and joyful day.From Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem through the crucifixion and glorious resurrection, Little Dove and the Story of Easter is an uplifting book with simple but po...

Intimate Histories focuses on intimate relations as sites of shared pasts connecting African American and German history in the years between 1933 and 1990. By tracing topics that include anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilization, casual sexual encounters, marriage, and friendships, Intimate Histories broadens our understanding of African American–German relations during the so-called “century of extremes.”

The sights . . . the sounds . . . the SMELLS! New York's crowded subway system is known for many things, but being easy on a lost kid isn't one of them. When Pablo gets separated from his new schoolmates during his first field trip in New York City, he doesn't know how he'll be able to find them again. Luckily, he has a little knowledge, a new friend, and the surprisingly approachable city itself to guide his way. This story features official subway maps, archival photos, and fascinating f...

An astonishing debut story collection about the interconnection between humans and animals navigating love, loss, and healingCreatures swim, slither, and soar their way through this stunning short story collection about the inextricable nature of humans and animals that celebrates and bears witness to our fellow creatures and to the complex emotional terrain of our own lives.A woman's personal trauma and anxiety are intertwined with the lives of the feral d...

Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers' Federation). Shortlisted for the 2007 Pat Lowther Award and the 2007 ReLit Awards. Poems that reach towards the lost or the might have been. In her debut collection, Susan Elmslie delves into the life and mental illness of the real person behind Andre Breton's surrealist romance, Nadja, recovering the story of a flesh and blood woman who became a symbol for the unknowability of...