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A guide for Canadians on how to use real estate as an investment and retirement solution. Leveraging equity in a principal residence and using it wisely to purchase rental property is the solution to a safe, secure retirement for millions of Canadians. Many Canadians who own their home have never considered buying a second property. And nearly one-third of retirees are worried about running out of money. The Real Estate Retirement Plan shows how homeowners can use the tools...

A National Bestseller! Why be house poor when you can rent rich? “Why rent when you can buy?” More than any other, this phrase captures the overwhelmingly unanimous promotion of home ownership to Canadians. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, family, friends, and even the government promote ownership as a safe, attractive, and sure-fire path to personal wealth. This one-size-fits-all advice ignores the reality of Canada’s housing market. Canadians deserve better advice. ...

Seventeenth century Russia, New Jerusalem Monastery. The recently deposed Patriarch Nikon, whose reforms lead to a schism in the Orthodox church, employs a French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming of Christ. Jacques de Sertan’s troupe consists of untrained and illiterate peasants. The actors are divided into roles, whole families play different social or ethnic groups that lived in Jerusalem around the time of Christ. No one, however, is allowe...

Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow. The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow — an extraordinary achievement of Canadian military aviation — continues to fire debate today. When the program was scrapped in 1959, all completed aircraft and those awaiting assembly were destroyed, along with tooling and technical information. Was abandoning the program the right decision? Did Canada lose ...

It's the late 1800s. A Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang foal and brings her back to his family's camp. Naming her Paint for her black-and-white markings, boy and horse soon become inseparable. Together they learn to hunt buffalo, their fear of the massive beasts tempered by a growing trust in each other. When the U.S. Cavalry attacks the camp, the pair is forced onto separate paths. Paint's fate becomes entwined with that of settlers, who bring irreversible change to the...

The second book in Kilpatrick's Power of the Blood World, NEAR DEATH is the story of the vampire David Lyle Hardwick - a poet who for over a century has lived in the unholy world of the undead, resisting his thirst for blood. Zero, a beautiful, wounded mortal, is sent to destroy him but falls for his seductive power and together they set out in search of his enemies. As their torrid love affair grows, so too does David's unspeakable tormented desire. He is becoming Nosferatu,...

Ryszard Kapuściński’s life, work, reception, and legacy, through his literary reportage. An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapuściński gained an extraordinary knowledge of the major global events of the second half of the twentieth century and shared it with his diverse audience. The first posthum...

Rebecca Eckler is a popular newspaper columnist who lives the fabulous life and gets paid to write about it. So when a tipsy romp with her fiancé on the night of their lavish engagement party leaves her unexpectedly expecting, she is utterly at a loss. How will a woman who loves nothing more than a night out on the town sipping cocktails with her fellow party girls survive the pregnant life? Knocked Up is the witty, engaging and refreshingly frank chronicle of a modern woman...

A bold step toward a new cultural narrative around sex. Sex was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be fun, liberating, and empowering for a girl who’d been brought up thinking the battle for sexual equality had been won. But for Nellwyn Lampert, losing her virginity would turn out to be anything but simple. Whether she was being confronted with porn-induced erectile dysfunction or other crises of masculinity, nothing went according to plan in the bedroom. Instead, Nellw...

At the Mercy of Strangers is an important addition to Holocaust literature for a number of reasons. It is a document about the survival of one individual and her two children. As a first hand account about survival during the Holocaust, it offers unique insight. It also documents how Polish friends, acquaintances and even strangers helped to ensure the survival of one Jewish family during the bleak days of the Holocaust. These acts of bravery are fully documented, and the ‘me...

True stories from the Women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Red Coat Diaries brings tales from the RCMP, but with a new and unique perspective. Editor Aaron Sheedy has compiled over 30 stories from the women of the RCMP. These stories include stories from officers, civilians and retired members of the Force. These true stories offer a unique insider's perspective of the "Mounties" and reveal the joy, anguish, reward and humour of working on the Force.

In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him―and his pension―alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life―and the means and meaning of their own lives―by creating a world that doesn’t change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled. After her stepfather’s stroke, Ma...

Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation. Who was the first Canadian to Win an Olympic Gold Medal? When Mark Hebscher was asked this simple trivia question, he had no idea that it would lead him on a two year odyssey, researching a man he had never heard of. Paralyzed as a child and told he would never walk again, George Washington Orton persevered, eventually becoming the greatest distance runner o...

A harrowing memoir about a woman’s struggle with postpartum depression. Nine days after the birth of her daughter, Amanda was involuntarily admitted to a Toronto psychiatric ward for postpartum depression (PPD). The typical hold-and-release process in Ontario is seventy-two hours. She stayed eighteen days. New parent sleep deprivation is familiar, but Munday’s tumultuous experience with depression is one rarely discussed within parent communities. Any mental illness comes w...

The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the horrors of conscription and the dreamlike, timeless mode of his writing. Matiushin's ...

In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers and prisoners, hoboes and refugees and mice that steal medicines. Their surreal i...

Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men . . . This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling consequences of thinking for yourself under the Soviet system. Oleg P...

„Przygody Sherlocka Holmesa” to zbiór dwunastu opowiadań sir Arthura Conana Doyle’a, po raz pierwszy wydany w 1892 roku, w których ponownie detektyw z Baker Street rozwiązuje skomplikowane zagadki kryminalne. W ich rozszyfrowaniu Holmesowi pomaga doktor Watson, a także znajomość metody dedukcji, psychologii, chemii, prawa oraz nieodłączna fajka. Wspólnie muszą się zmierzyć z nagłymi zniknięciami, kradzieżami wartościowych przedmiotów oraz wyjaśnić tajemnicze zgony. W opowiada...

Służba oznacza posłuszeństwo. Lepiej dowiedz się zawczasu, jakiej sprawie służysz. Haasgard to planeta na końcu Drogi Mlecznej. Trudno pomylić ją z jakimkolwiek innym miejscem - zamiatana przez porywisty wiatr lub spowita mgłą gęstą jak mleko. Całość przenika złowroga cisza, w której słychać jedynie odgłosy ryjących w ziemi tarczaków. Tych jednak trzeba się wystrzegać - mają mordercze skłonności i nie przepuszczą okazji, aby przybyszom z innych światów odciąć kończynę lub ch...

Ukochana pisarka Brytyjczyków, autorka serii Agatha Raisin oraz Hamish Macbeth Świat wyższych sfer – zachwycające połączenie dystynkcji, snobizmu i morderczych intryg. Rodzice lady Rose nie są zachwyceni zaręczynami jedynaczki z kapitanem Harrym Cathcartem. Ich zdaniem detektyw zajmuje się po prostu handlem, nie jest więc pożądaną partią dla damy. Pochodzi jednak z dobrej rodziny, więc godzą się z wyborem córki, licząc, że małżeństwo uchroni ją przed kolejnymi kłopo...

„Aga, upewniwszy się, że żadna z nich nie jest w centrum zainteresowania pozostałych gości baru, wsunęła Majce rękę pod spódnicę i zaczęła pieścić wnętrze jej ud. Dziewczyny były tak blisko siebie, że mogły wyczuć swoje wzajemne oddechy. Gorące, szybkie, spłycone. Studentka, rozochocona, przesunęła palcem wzdłuż nagiego brzucha ciemnowłosej, kościstego mostka, rowka, długiej szyi... W końcu, ująwszy Agę za potylicę, pociągnęła ją ku sobie, aby oddać długi, namiętny pocałunek ...

Bestsellerowa autorka „Wall Street Journal” powraca z nową serią fantasy, w której magia jest źródłem niesprawiedliwości i zwykli ludzie potrzebują kogoś, kto to zmieni. W tym świecie jedni władają czarami, inni mają moc, by się im przeciwstawić. Elsie Camden wykorzystuje swoje umiejętności, by ochronić niewinnego człowieka, jednak jako nielegalna czarodziejka działa poza prawem. Kiedy naraża się potężnemu magowi Bacchusowi, pozostaje jej tylko jedno – zawrzeć z nim układ. On...

Seks w miejscach publicznych, seks z nieznajomym, ekshibicjonizm, obserwowanie innych z ukrycia... To częste fantazje erotyczne i pragnienia, które zazwyczaj nie wychodzą poza sferę wyobraźni. Wydają się czystym szaleństwem, czymś zarezerwowanym co najwyżej dla aktorów filmów porno. Ale bohaterowie tego zbioru po raz pierwszy przełamią swój wstyd i sięgną po to, czego pragną. Czy znajdą to, czego szukali? A może nawet coś więcej? W skład zbioru wchodzi 11 opowiadań: Wysokie ...

Brutalna seria morderstw użytkowników magii nie jest już zagadką dla Elsie Camden. Dziewczyna dobrze wie, kto za tym stoi. Jak jednak ma złapać zabójcę bez ujawnienia swojego sekretu? Elsie stara się pokrzyżować szyki najbardziej przebiegłemu przestępcy w Anglii, który ma do dyspozycji setki skradzionych zaklęć. Jego plan jest prosty – przeciągnąć Elsie na ciemną stronę. Gdy dziewczyna jest o krok od pojmania mordercy, otrzymuje od niego ofertę współpracy. Musi uważać, w jaki...