“Charles Pearson Brandt," Nina said, "was an independent financial advisor who ran a Ponzi scheme in Hudson and the West Island for fifteen years or so. About three years ago, though, he disappeared with his assistant-cum-accomplice-cum-girlfriend and fifty million or more of his clients’ money, although he’d probably scammed half again that amount. Small potatoes, I suppose, compared to the hundreds of millions Bernie Madoff stole, but a whack of money none the less. Brandt’s victims were...

Just when Vancouver commercial photographer Tom McCall thought he'd got his life back on track, a complete stranger shows up dead on the roof deck of his floating home. No one seems to know who he is, he has no ID, and there's not a mark on him. If that isn't bad enough, a prospective new client seems to have had one Botox injection too many, his ex-wife wants to take his daughter off to Australia for a year; and someone's leaving mutilated dolls on his front step.And, of course, h...

For Joe Shoe, the return to his family home in north Toronto is more than just a trip down memory lane; it's also a visit to a crime scene. No sooner has Shoe arrived in his old neighbourhood than he discovers that police are investigating a murder in the ravine near his home. And the murder victim is a man who lived in the neighbourhood 35 years earlier -- and who moved away while still a suspect in a series of rapes that occurred in the very ravine in which he was ultimately murdered.

Someone walked up to Joe "Shoe" Schumacher's best friend, Patrick O'Neill, in a Vancouver restaurant and shot him dead. It looks like a professional hit, but who wanted O'Neill dead? Was it, as police believe, a "settling of accounts"? Was it Victoria, O'Neill's beautiful but damaged wife? Or was it O'Neill's boss, industrialist William Hammond, with whom O'Neill had a falling-out and with whom Victoria had once had a short-lived affair? Former cop, chauffeur, and bodyguard Joe Shoe sets o...

Nub was my dad. His name was Lawrence. He is on the right. His brother Theodore is on the left. This picture was taken about 1948. Most of this book was put together to make fiction. This book is about two boys that were brothers growing up about 1910. It has a lot of history, religion and a cook book at the end. Dad gave people nick names, mine was Bow, You pronounce it like Bow in (Bow and Arrows). Lots of names in which were used have been changed, like Bow for my uncle. The picture on ...

Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n' roll history-relegated to cult status among post-punk and indie rock fans. Their lasting appeal owes itself to the band's singular approach and response to punk rock. Instead of employing overt politic...

Learn the deep truths of the life of Jesus Christ in this easy-to-understand approach to Bible study. In-depth biblical scholarship is presented in an easy-to-use format that makes adult Sunday school classes or small-group Bible studies come alive. The research and preparation has been done. The latest biblical scholarship is combined with thirty years of classroom and small group experience. The result is a series of lessons that generate interesting, exciting, and transforming class dis...

"A rich, intriguing and nuanced novel — intense, insightful and authentic." A body floating in the Harlem River. A phone call asking for help. A call that leads government lawyer Devlin Wolfe into the murky world of dark money and Wall Street, and behind the scenes of the glittering Metropolitan Opera where everything is seemingly linked together — the murder of a top financial figure, the laundering of illegal funds into a political campaign and two otherworldly divas battling it out for ...

Success has come easily to Randall DesVergers, a wealthy Los Angeles lawyer. He is riding high on a free-running global economy that has reordered the world, and cares little for the changes that are sweeping away the old social order, where nations are losing control over their own destinies. He is preoccupied with expensive cars, other men’s women, and mingling with the wealthy and successful. At the same time, another man grew up on the streets of Rio, one of the 40 million homeless chi...

Princess Makena takes a journey through her imagination to find out if a princess has to wear a dress and just what kind of princess she could be.Makena is a young girl who dreams of being a princess one day. She is curious as to whether or not a princess has to wear a dress. Does a Princess Have to Wear a Dress? takes a journey through the imagination of princess Makena in an effort to allow all girls know that God created them a unique masterpiece. Too m...

Bloomsbury presents It's a Wonderful Life by Michael Newton, read by David Blair.Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America’s understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own anxieties and yearnings, to all the contradictions of ordinary life, while also enacting for us the ...

Local economies are the building blocks for national ones. An updated and expansive core text, the Second Edition of Local Economic Development: Analysis, Practices, and Globalization provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of local economic development. Delving into cutting-edge topics such as cluster analysis, creative class orientation, competitive advantage, social capital, business expansion and retention, and learning regions, this cle...