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The Yukon, 1907. North America’s last untamed frontier. Dawson City has reached its tipping point. The citizens, and the people they count on to protect them, now live under the brutal control of Eric Morgan, a violent gang leader. Morgan’s power has only grown since the days of the Klondike Gold Rush, and he now prepares for his greatest score yet. Dawson’s salvation rests with Inspector Richard Carol, who will lead a team of Mounties to liberate the city. But can he trust his own people? And with so many of his own battles to fight, can Richard trust himself? 

If you read the papers and listen to the "experts," you''ve heard the usual pitches about retirement: you''ll need a million dollars so you better start an RRSP early and maximize your contributions, trust the stock market and mutual funds for the best returns and put your faith in a financial advisor. But what if this advice is wrong? By reading this book, you will learn the truth about these myths. You will also be given six free spreadsheets to figure out where you really stand, including the latest "Retirement Optimizer" that allows you to compute your retirement income year-by-year and the "Personal Rate of Return Calculator" so you can determine just how well your investments have done. Find out if you are saving enough ... or too little. Smoke and Mirrors dispels the five main retirement myths:1. If I had $1,000,000 I could retire. Find out why you might be fine with much less.2. RRSPs are the holy grail of retirement. Discover what is more important than the size of your RRSP.3. Don''t worry about your investments; you''ll be fine in the long run. You''ll learn how to figure out the truth about how well your investments are really doing.4. We have met the enemy, and he is the tax collector. You may be interested in reducing your taxes, but find out why tax shelters may be dangerous to your financial health.5. Secure your financial future - buy life insurance. Find out who needs it, who doesn''t and how to get it cheap.

“Stephen has a rare ability to see the humour in the heart of the human spirit, and he describes his adventures in decluttering with a huge amount of compassion and a keen sense of the ridiculous. This is a delightful read, and it is guaranteed to please. Brilliant book!” — Susan Crossman, writer, editor, Crossman Communications“Stephen is the Wayne Gretzky of declutterers.” — Gary MacLean, real estate agent“In your hands right now you are holding a most unusual, intriguing, and powerful book about organizing and decluttering. And it’s a hoot.” — Rick Green, writer, satirist, actor, and television producerOpen the door to the unique world of professional organizer and declutterer Stephen Ilott. A self-professed domestic archaeologist, Stephen loves digging into others’ lives and helping them look inwards and organize outwards past their clutter. In this candid and often hilarious account of his career, he describes the roadblocks and challenges, the accomplishments and delights, the lives changed and how he’s been changed as he tells stories that resonate with wry humour, passion, and familiarity. Stephen details his unorthodox career from its rocky beginnings to its mid-point, where he finally carves out a rare niche for himself, leveraging his creative energies and ideas to the fullest, and finds himself loving every new door he opens — almost.

Two men are pulled from their places in time and discarded in a strange future, where sand abounds and sorrow is universal, and here they exercise supernatural talents to shape a dying world. One gives birth to empire, exploiting the remnants of the human race as brick and mortar to realize ambitions from centuries past. The other corrals what life remains in an attempt to drive back the sand and build a kingdom of green, repurposing the desperation of his fellow human beings to recreate the Earth he once knew. These visions, lofty and indomitable both, prove incompatible. Bring Clouds to the Kingdom is the author's most unorthodox work to date, sharing his love of the natural world in a narrative both bizarre and disquieting. Zack Metcalfe is an environmental journalist and author working out of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In February 2004 the first of many U.S. soldiers came to Canada, seeking sanctuary after saying "no" to the war on Iraq. Unlike the Vietnam War when over 40,000 draft dodgers and military deserters successfully struggled to make Canada their home, this new generation of war resisters has been denied refuge by the Canadian government. Now they fight a battle they could not have predicted: to make their home in a country that publicly refused to join the Iraq War and that continues to deport them. Let Them Stay is a book of oral histories, public statements and personal narratives by these soldiers of conscience and their supporters. Collected together for the first time are the declarations of a dozen war resisters, alongside important documents in the legal and political campaigns to prevent their deportation to military prison in the U.S. The anthology includes essays and updates by Rachel Brett, Lawrence Hill, Staughton Lynd, Alyssa Manning, Patricia Molloy, Noah Richler, Michelle Robidoux and Michael Valpy.

William has been a part of the Stick family since the first day of school when Wrickety Stick became his best friend. He knows the secret about their unusual bones but he would never tell anyone. The Sticks'' can make their bendable bones go soft and flat which means they can do amazing things like slide under doors, squeeze between cracks and float into the air. Wrickety invites William to go with him, his sister Cinnamon and his cousin, Licorice, to stay with their eccentric aunts, Aunt Ruby, Aunt Emerald and Aunt Sapphire, in the country. When the Sticks'' dog, Smudge, goes missing, William is eager to join in the search. Things become urgent when the children discover that Smudge isn''t just missing, he has been kidnapped and could be in danger of being mistreated at the hands of a cruel master. This is a sequel to William Meets the Stick Family.

A child of Mars, Najib is born with a wanderer''s heart that eventually leads him to Psyche for work. But he finds factory life on the asteroid intolerable, and escapes to Callisto. When the arrivals officer misspells his name, Najib takes the opportunity to reinvent himself. Najib finds love on Callisto, but also stumbles across the planet''s seedy underbelly, where he finds a crooked governor and an honorable crook who, when Najib tells him of his dream to get to Earth, advises him that "in order to go east, you should head west." There is no direct route to Earth for an off-worlder with a questionable past, so Najib again reinvents himself and becomes a respected bio-archeologist despite the interference of his manipulative boss. A chance meeting with a street philosopher ultimately changes Najib''s life and pushes him towards his chosen path. Along his circuitous trek to Earth, Najib meets several more people who ultimately have a profound effect on him. But his wayward past starts to catch up with him. Will Najib be punished for his deceptions? Or will the experience and wisdom he''s gathered in his travels lead him in a new direction entirely?

For over 40 years, Fran Diana Mason has travelled the world as an administrative assistant/bookkeeper for small businesses. Now retired, she considers herself a "professional people watcher." "People," she says, "are much more interesting than birds."Her love of haunting courtrooms began when she overheard two lawyers on the subway recounting a tale of heartbreak they had experienced that day in Bail Court. Ms. Mason attended court the next day, notebook in hand, and was instantly addicted to the drama.When the courts slow down in the summer, Ms. Mason vacations in Spain with her 6-year-old Pomeranian, Hoochie. She is currently working on a non-fiction book about oranges and how to grow them.

Self-Sacrifice to Save the Planet. The year is 2065. Following a freak encounter with a mysterious woman, Brian, a bored and frustrated dentist in the midst of a personal crisis, finds himself in the position to expose a conspiracy to control world population. Fifty-five years earlier, the manipulators - a mysterious group with aims to influence the course of the world - set in motion an irreversible chain of events by creating genetically engineered prophets with God-like powers who healed the sick and preached self-sacrifice as the ultimate good, redefining humanity''s course. Now, betrayed by their ruthless creators, the prophets are being hunted. Standing in the way of their annihilation and a resulting cover-up are Brian and his unlikely allies - a radiologist and a woman with a dangerous secret - who must all overcome their personal baggage to give the world its only chance to finally learn the truth.

"Deathbed Dimes exposes the reality that if you can outlive your relatives, friends, and sometimes even strangers, your odds of hitting the inheritance jackpot are better than playing the lottery. Joely Zeller is a beautiful and ambitious 32-year-old attorney who is the only daughter of a Hollywood film royal. She''s determined to build a successful career, find love, and get married, all without her family''s help. To emerge from under her parents'' cloud of notoriety, Joely fled to New York upon graduation from Stanford Law School to practice Estates and Trust law at a blue-chip Wall Street law firm. Enduring 90-hour workweeks for the next eight years, she sacrificed her love life (jilted by her fiancé for his best man) only to have her career efforts foiled by her incredibly incompetent male counterpart. Joely then sees her golden ticket to self-actualization. A serendipitous encounter with a former professor reminds her that with the impending, inevitable demise of aging baby boomers, an unprecedented wealth transfer is beginning to take place. With her experience and her Hollywood connections, she could start her own law firm back in Los Angeles. With her two best friends and former law classmates as partners, Joely sets about helping the recently disowned, dispossessed, and penniless sharpen their claws as they stake their claims to the fortunes of their dearly departed."