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Koniec wojny nie oznacza końca walki. SOLCOM dowiaduje się, że Ross Ell podjęli ekspedycję przeciw niestowarzyszonemu gatunkowi, który zamieszkuje ziemię niczyją pomiędzy obszarami kontrolowanymi przez Ziemian a tymi, gdzie panuje Sojusz. W poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi i najlepszej metody działania SOLCOM wysyła okręt, który ma po cichu zbadać sytuację. Major Sorilla Aida i jej oddział zostają wyznaczeni do tego zadania. Ich wyprawa ma za wszelką cenę pozostać tajemnicą dla potężn...

Wojna o Haydena się skończyła.
SOLCOM i Sojusz rozpoczynają rozmowy pokojowe, ale żadna ze stron nie ma pojęcia, jak rozstrzygnęła się ostateczna bitwa w wojnie o Haydena. Dyplomatyczne niuanse nie są specjalnością major Sorilli Aidy, która dostaje zadanie: znaleźć jakąś słabość przeciwnika, dać ludziom czas, by dowiedzieli się, co się stało z Walkirią i jednocześnie mogli się upewnić, że Sojusz nie zaryzykuje kolejnego otwartego konfliktu.

Wojna o Świat Haydena dobiega zaskakującego końca. Świeżo upieczona porucznik Sorilla Aida ma nowych sojuszników, nowy sprzęt i wsparcie, i oczywiście nowe zadanie. Jej misja może zagwarantować ludzkości szansę na zdobycie przewagi technologicznej w konflikcie z obcymi. Sojusz jednak nie czeka, aż wojna wymknie się mu spod kontroli, i w odpowiedzi podejmuje błyskawiczną kontrakcję. Czy obcych naprawdę interesują ludzie i ludzkie światy, czy może jednak gra toczy się o coś wię...

Ludzkość przegrała wojnę z demonami. Garstka wraz z Elan uciekła i schroniła się na wyspie, z dala od wrogich hord. Jednak nawet tam nie było ucieczki przed zagrożeniem. Po drugiej stronie świata demony zmieniły bowiem dawną stolicę Ziemi we własne siedlisko. Lemuria, ostatni bastion ludzkości, stał się symbolem triumfu sił piekielnych i potężnej magii. I Elan wie, że istnieje tylko jeden sposób, aby zapewnić ludziom bezpieczne schronienie przed odwiecznym wrogiem. Miasto dem...

Trwa wojna ludzi z Sojuszem obcych. Sorilla i jej zespół podejmują się niezwykle trudnej misji uwolnienia zakładników przetrzymywanych na jednej z wrogich planet. Pomimo że odbudowano orbitalne łącze na Świecie Haydena, w dżungli nadal grasują Strażnicy, prowadząc partyzancką walkę z oddziałami ludzi. Tymczasem w przestrzeni kosmicznej pojawia się nowy gracz, który zachwieje układem sił – ale Ziemianie też mają w zanadrzu niejedną niespodziankę. Jak zakończy się starcie w kos...

Dwa lata po inwazji na Świecie Haydena siły partyzantki i nieprzyjaciela znalazły się w impasie, ale żadna ze stron nie zamierza tak pozostawić stanu rzeczy.
Sojusz obcych rzuca do walki kolejne siły, a Flota Solarna wprowadza do walki Task Force 5, grupę bojową składającą się z najnowocześniejszych okrętów skonstruowanych kiedykolwiek przez człowieka.
Ostatecznie pewne rzeczy rozstrzygną się na niebie, ale o innych można zadecydować tylko na ziemi.

Nieugięte Imperium postawiło nowopowstały Sojusz Ziemski i sprzymierzonych z nim Priminae w sytuacji bez wyjścia. Komandor Stephen Michaels i jego Archanioły kontynuują misję na terytorium wroga, podając się za najemników i piratów, by zebrać jak najwięcej informacji o imperialnym dowództwie. Dzięki swoim staraniom odkrywają ponurą prawdę. Imperialne dążenia do wojny są zakorzenione głębiej, niż ktokolwiek mógłby podejrzewać… Podczas gdy jego młody przyjaciel i protegowany wy...

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...