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At a sanatorium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman suffering from tuberculosis who survived the Lusitania disaster.Recently jilted by his fiancée, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanatorium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom, Paul encourages her to write a memoir.As Paul reads her words, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah's memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can't begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves her worried that she has little time left, Sarah begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her.

McGuinty holds up a torch, lighting the way for politicians struggling to be a "good one."Politics can seem like a rough, seagoing voyage. Storm-tossed politicians may lose sight of their guiding stars. They can lose their way. They can lose themselves. They can end up doing things and saying things that betray their fundamental responsibility to give their very best to those they represent. This book is a compass for politicians and any others seeking to lead with integrity. Dalton McGuinty's purpose is to help leaders in a challenging environment stay true to themselves and those they are privileged to serve. An experienced political leader with over two decades spent in the political arena, McGuinty has masterfully assembled a collection of quotations dating back centuries and accompanied these with his own measured advice.

Embrace the chaos and transform career challenges into opportunities. In a world where the only certainty is change, The Uncertainty Advantage offers young professionals the tools to turn chaos into a career superpower. This indispensable guide illuminates the path to thriving in unpredictable times, equipping readers with the skills to cultivate antifragility, adaptability, and an entrepreneurial mindset. Discover how to embrace challenges, foster broad and deep professional relationships, and nurture self-compassion in an era of rapid technological advances and global upheaval. Whether launching a new venture or navigating your first job, this book provides practical strategies and insights to help you harness uncertainty and build a resilient, dynamic career. Prepare to transform fear into freedom and insecurity into inspiration, setting the foundation for lifelong success and fulfillment in our thrilling yet daunting modern world.

How brain injuries can result in highly specific, surprising, and revealing changes in behaviour that teach us how the mind works.The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. After spending millennia trying to understand our ever-changing world, the brain is now turning its capacities for reasoning, remembering, and understanding inward, as it tries to understand itself.The biggest breakthroughs in neuroscience have come mostly by accident. These accidents didn't happen in research labs, but they resulted in infections from uncommon diseases or happened on railway jobs sites, in showers, on bicycles, or in cars and buses.When an individual suffers brain damage as the result of an accident, the negative effects can be profound, life-altering, and life-long, but the insights offered by the effects of these injuries have been revolutionary for neuroscientists. We have learned a tremendous amount about the brain from individuals with acquired brain injuries. These are some of their stories.

A teenage boy's tough ride across an unforgiving country.In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin Wallenco steals an antique pick-up truck and heads west from south Saskatchewan, driving on farmland and obscure roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus trying to return to his home, he encounters one mysterious situation after another: men on the run from police and their pasts, hippies trying to create a utopia, farmers switching their crop to marijuana, a raging fire in the Rockies. What he passes through is a microcosm of a massively changing society -- a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must act far older than his years.When Robin's purpose is revealed, this story becomes at once heartbreaking and heartwarming, an indirect look at childhood trauma through the eyes of a wildly brave yet non-comprehending victim, a man-boy who is both heroic and vulnerable.A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Small-time crook Hamid's search for his missing girlfriend pulls him into the orbit of a charismatic social-media imam.Tax fraud, telemarketing tricks, government scams. If you're tired of receiving these phone calls, imagine the guys making them.Hamid Shaikh is a small-time crook in the big city, hoping that one of his cons will lead to riches. When he's not working the phones hustling bogus duct-cleaning services, he dreams of a move that will finally announce his arrival.When his girlfriend Natalie Mendoza vanishes, he finds himself pulled into the world of former Guantanamo Bay detainee turned social-media imam Abdul Mohammed. As Hamid dives deeper into Abdul's nebulous and luxurious world, he finds a confusing mix of religious fervour and cynical self-advancement, and must decide just how far into darkness he wants to go to get Natalie back.A book of scams religious, political and economic, The Hypebeast is an utterly contemporary look at North American urban striving amid international geopolitical upheaval.

A lyrical meditation on the enduring obstacles women artists and writers face in a world still unaccustomed to recognizing female genius.Voted the "Next Picasso" in her rural high school's yearbook, South-African Canadian author Kasia Van Schaik considers what it means for a young woman to take up a mantle usually reserved for white heterosexual male genius. Drawing on a diverse web of literary and cultural sources and artistic icons, from Michelangelo to Ana Mendieta, Gauguin to Gertrude Stein, and Alice Walker to Alice Munro, Women Among Monuments asks what, beyond a room of one's own, are the necessary conditions for female genius? Where does the inner flint of artistic permission come from? What is the oxygen that keeps it burning? Through her lyrical biographies of female solitude, constraint, and perseverance, Kasia Van Schaik blazes a path for more inclusive artmaking practices, communities, and monuments.A RARE MACHINES BOOK

An anthology of speculative short fiction imagining the possibilities of our food insecure future.Our lives, our culture, our community all start with and revolve around what we eat, and how we eat it. Sharing meals with family and friends has been a hallmark of human society from our earliest beginnings. But we are entering an era of unprecedented change. Climate, technology, the global spread of crop diseases, droughts, and the loss of pollinators threaten to change not only how much food we eat, but what we eat and how we eat it.Devouring Tomorrow explores this strange new menu through the eyes and palates of some of Canada's most exciting authors. See a world with no bees left to pollinate our crops. Encounter lab-grown meat so advanced that it becomes alive. Visit a land where diseases wipe out a common fruit and the society of a nation changes around its loss. This is not the world of the distant future, this is tomorrow.Featuring stories from: Sifton Tracey Anipare - Carleigh Baker - Gary Barwin - Eddy Boudel Tan - Dina Del Bucchia - Catherine Bush - Jowita Bydlowska - Terri Favro - Ji Hong Sayo - Elan Mastai - Lisa de Nikolits - Mark Sampson - Jacqueline Valencia - Anuja Varghese - AGA Wilmot

The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart.It begins with an act of betrayal.What follows is a wave of malas that destroys the tenuous bonds of Celestina Errantes's family. For years, she longs to escape her unhappy home, until an unexpected gift from her wealthy Lolo offers a chance at escape. A long-forsaken and haunted property in Manila's bohemian district, close to where the "low-flying doves" ply their trade. It is no place for a proper young lady, but the house makes Celestina feel at home.Celestina tears into life as a wild child and loses herself in the pleasures of the night. Many life lessons later, she grows up. She captivates an aristocratic restaurateur who promises a new life, in a home without ghosts. Then a voice from the past brings sinister whispers, threatening to drive them apart forever. Can Celestina confront the evil in her house and pull love out of the fire?A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Marc Dauphin, an experienced ER physician, and 54 at the time of his deployment, introduces us to some of the injured and their caretakers: the nurses, physicians, and medics who leave behind home, family, and country, to put their lives on the line for their fellow men.

Celebrated as the saviour of Upper Canada, Major General Sir Isaac Brocks charisma won him respect and propelled him into the significant role he would play in the War of 1812.

A collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars analyzing and celebrating the novel's legacy in popular culture.

This path-breaking book offers some no-nonsense truth about northern development.

All one hundred branches of the Toronto Public Library appear in this whimsical colouring book for adults.

A moving tale about a young woman experiencing the best days of her life, all the while aware that the time she has left is rapidly disappearing.

The creator of an immersive eco-game discovers his teen son has joined a terrorist group on a mission to destroy all digital culture and entertainment. And both the creator and his son are on the digital hit list of an elusive assassin.

The Mosaic Myth shows how Canada's 1971 adoption of the cultural mosaic model was doomed by false assumptions. Author Domenic Diamante explains Canada's immigration history and analyzes key questions that informed the country's multiculturalism policy.

A memoir of creative non-fiction comprised of twenty-six letters written in poetic prose, Alphabet Soup dives deeply into the scalding heat of memory through a thematic approach that recalls and reframes love, death, joy, sorrow, victory, and devastation, then serves it piping hot in tantalizing doses to sate voracious literary appetites.

Through his thirty years in politics, Jason Kenney successfully shifted Canada's political discourse to the right. To do so, he cultivated a burgeoning right-wing populist movement, of which he ultimately lost control, leading to his downfall.

Gonzalo and Erica have one child and another on the way when they discover Erica has terminal cancer. Gonzalo's memoir explores reconciling hope with tragedy and doing your best when you're a widowed single father of two sons under two.

Shorter work hours are likely to lead to a happier, healthier, and more productive work force, as well as to reduced stress on the health-care system, since overwork is a key cause of mental and physical illness. Work Less proposes various ways for organizations to achieve shorter hours and offers policy options for use by governments.

An anthology of erotica by Canadian writers. The writers' names are listed on the cover, but the pieces are not individually attributed. The pieces vary from graphic to surreal. A snapshot of Canadian literary sex in 2024.

Losing both eyes to retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, Jeff Healey created music out of darkness, becoming one of the most influential blues-rock and jazz performers of our time. An up-close and personal account loaded with never-before-seen photographs and intimate recollections about this unique music icon's dynamic career.

Eavesdroppings recounts life in the small towns of Ontario before sin arrived on the Internet - a time when churches were never locked and parents, not wishing to be disturbed while they listened to the radio, shooed their children out to play in the dark, unguarded streets without fear. Here you'll find comedy, outrage, and tragedy but no disguise. Included are actual events and the names of all persons involved.The author tracks the quaint immorality of smalltown sin in the 1930s and its evolution from full-frontal bingo in the churches to the current degeneracy of nude women wrestling men in vats of Jell-O in licensed nightclubs, but he never moralizes. Indeed, he provides no uplifting messages at all - just gossip, which, as Oscar Wilde said, "is what history is all about and more fun."

While the Second World War raged in Europe, demanding most of Canada's military effort, an equally fierce war with Japan was going on in the Far East. Army, navy, and air force signals units in Canada kept watch on the enemy's vital radio communications. To be more effective, Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group of the Royal Canadian Signals Corps was formed to go to the Southwest Pacific war theatre for close-in radio eavesdropping. Murray describes the often zany career of the only complete signals unit Canada sent to the War in the Pacific, and the significant part it played in the Allied signals intelligence operation known as "Magic."