The third book in The Thorne Quartet is a psychological thriller that takes Matthew Thorne, a former Canadian Army intelligence officer, on a quest to investigate the disappearance of Monsieur Aristide, a shadowy, éminence grise in the French Secret Service, a quest leading Thorne from Paris to Malta, then to Casablanca, and eventually to the prehistoric menhir fields and pig farms of Brittany. As the search evolves, there is an increasing sense of impending confrontation; madness and treachery, and a hint that Aristide may be luring a nemesis of his from the past into a deadly viper’s snare. Throughout, Thorne is psychologically torn between understanding his own nature and his relationship with a cast of bizarre creatures—some of them assassins—that seem to surround and suffocate him. Only in the twisted house will Thorne find some of the answers.

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Why did we trust Alexa King?

Narrator and chronicler Luke has been asking herself this a lot lately. Maybe it’s because the farther River and her companions travel, the more they learn how dangerous the Elect can be. Luke has so many questions, too many. Has Alexa underestimated the Emissary’s powers? Will twelve-year-old River be strong enough to resist him? Is Flo safe or one of the enslaved elderly? How will they win with no armour, no weapons, and dwindling numbers? And how does Luke fit into a revolution that doesn’t seem to want her?

In the final installment of the Taggak Journey trilogy, while rebel grandmother Flo serves the revolution at home, River and her supporters prepare for the Last Battle. In the wilderness, they persevere through the elements, reunite with old friends and loved ones, and fight not only for the good of humanity, but the sake of the earth. River grows into her role in the resistance, even as she grieves all she’s lost. She lives as her father taught her: And when your arms are too tired to paddle, reach again one more time. And one more time. She is a paddler who will always reach one more time in the stormiest waters. But will this be enough in the Last Battle?

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In January 1978, the Russian satellite Kosmos 954 crashed in the Northwest Territories, scattering radioactive debris across the tundra. But what if, in their efforts to retrieve the debris, the Canadian and American militaries discover the presence of a spaceship from the future? Could it have caused the crash of Kosmos?

The Kosmos Incident reimagines this real historical moment as the starting point for an incredible story of space and time travel. In the twenty-fifth century, Earth has received a message from an unknown alien sender. Captained by Jacques Lévesque, a crew of twelve are tasked with travelling to the Kalmar Archipelago to find the source of the message. The voyage goes wrong from the start, sending the Kalmar ship on a voyage stretching further across time and space than anyone anticipated. After spending fifteen years on an uncharted and paradise-like planet, the crew, now with children, decide to return to Earth. But when they get there, they find themselves in the year 1978, deeply and unknowingly implicated in the Kosmos crash and Cold War military intrigue. Their ship is badly damaged and marooned in the arctic, perhaps forever. What do they do and how will they take care of their families amid the chaos and the suspicion that they might be predatory off-world aliens? What’s more, because of the dynamics of time travel, they discover that they’re in a time loop which further complicates matters. Their survival and the wellbeing of their children are their first priorities; but how can they achieve this without violating the sanctity of the timeline? Where and who can they turn to for help? How can they ever hope of getting back to their own century?

This novel will appeal to afficionados of Canadian Cold War history and lovers of science fiction—especially anyone who’s ever longed to know more about the lived experiences and personal relationships of the people in a science-fiction story.

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The key to transforming student success lies not only in textbooks, but also in nurturing the mind, body, heart, and spirit. A Practical Guide to Well-Being offers educators a hands-on, empowering resource for doing just that, drawing on the timeless wisdom of the Mi’kmaw medicine wheel.

With more than 20 years of experience, author Tracey Quinn has seen firsthand the growing mental health and emotional challenges that students face . . . and the lack of resources available to help teachers support their students’ well-being. This guide breaks new ground by blending an Indigenous framework with modern well-being practices, delivering 40 lessons designed to help individuals make authentic strides in developing self-awareness and resilience.

Divided into four sections—The Mind, The Body, The Heart, and The Spirit—each lesson invites educators to lead their students through meaningful activities that build emotional intelligence, physical health, and spiritual connection. But it’s more than just a manual; it’s a call to empower every student to become their best self.

Teachers, counsellors, social workers and agencies who work with children and youth who are looking for an inclusive, easy-to-use resource that bridges culture and emotional wellness will find this manual indispensable. Readers who purchase this book will also gain exclusive access to a companion course designed by the author to deepen this manual’s impact.

Pick up A Practical Guide to Well-Being and discover how you can spark lasting change, not just in your classroom, but in the hearts and lives of your students. Are you ready to take the lead?

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Jingles is a not-so-ordinary elf at the North Pole who’s bursting with energy, imagination, and sparkle. She spins and twirls, giggles and whirls. She’s happy and noisy, but is she too much for the other elves? Does she have too much energy? Too much sparkle? Jingles does not let that stop her from being herself.

One day Jingles decides Santa’s reindeer deserve a sweet reward for training so hard before Christmas. She teams up with her two best friends and they make a plan to sneak something tasty and magical to the reindeer. The three work together to give the reindeer a special treat, but in their enthusiasm, they add too much magic, and the result is a glittery disaster!

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Sixteen years ago, Chicago surgeon Dr. David Carroll lost everything.

When Russian mafia boss Dimitri Barkov tried to seize Carroll’s medical practice, David refused. Barkov’s retaliation was swift and brutal—David’s wife murdered, federal agents gunned down, and David forced into hiding in the remote wilderness of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The world believed the story ended there, with David dead and the Barkov empire untouched.

They were wrong.

Now, in 2021, a far more disturbing criminal enterprise is flourishing—an international network trafficking young girls to wealthy clients who are willing to pay anything to satisfy their darkest desires. At its center stands Amy Arnold, a ruthless mastermind who has built her empire on violence, secrecy, and the belief that no one can stop her.

But buried in the past is a man who has already lost everything—and men like that are the most dangerous of all.

As investigators, criminals, and survivors collide across continents, old crimes resurface and long-hidden truths emerge. In a world where power protects the guilty and innocence is a rare commodity, justice may depend on the least likely champions.

And the least of men may prove to be the most relentless.

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“Love doesn’t leave, Noah.

It finds new ways to stay.” -Grandpa

When a young boy named Noah finds comfort in an unexpected companion, a bright red cardinal, he begins to discover that grief is not the absence of love, but proof of it.

The Little Red Bird is a gentle story about grief, loss, and the enduring presence of love. Written with care and warmth, it creates a quiet space for children and adults alike, to slow down, sit with their feelings, and find comfort in remembrance. A gentle reminder that the light someone leaves behind can guide us long after they are gone, just like a small red bird against the warm summer sky.

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Right-Sizing Strategic Financial Management for Small Business is designed to help small business managers and owners with easy-to-use accounting and financial information for planning and decision making that helps position companies for loans and investment. It is also designed to enhance the tools offered by professionals providing accounting, lending and advisory services for small business operations and performance. With 52 modules, 31 tables, 18 cases, 14 chapters and dozens of suggested readings, this publication provides a comprehensive, convenient, easy-to-use source to manage financial and operational challenges and risks faced by small business around the world.

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On Halloween night, Amelia’s biggest worry is finding the perfect costume. By dawn, she’ll be fighting for her life.

For eighteen-year-old Amelia, the annual Halloween party is a chance to escape reality with her closest friends. But when a night of dressing up takes a shocking turn, she discovers the truth she never saw coming. She is not human. She is an Elven princess, the prophesied ruler of Ostrya, a realm under siege by the dark lord Taldinyon. Thrust through a portal into a war-torn medieval world, Amelia must embrace a power she doesn’t understand, a rare and destructive silver flame magic tied to her destiny. Alongside her friends, the loyal Cameron, charming Wyatt, steadfast Oliver, and protective Elias, she journeys through decimated villages and ancient forests, fighting to save a kingdom that believes she is its only hope.

But survival demands sacrifice. As Amelia grapples with her new identity and her new emerging feelings threatening her relationships and friendships, a bounty is placed on her head. With enemies closing in and betrayal lurking where she least expects it, Amelia will lose people she loves and be forced to make choices that could shatter her world.

The Silver Princess is the first book in the Silver Flame Saga, a captivating fantasy romance where one woman must lose everything to discover who she is truly meant to be.

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The unipolar world order is fracturing. For decades, global finance, trade routes, and international security relied entirely on a single anchor: the United States. But beneath the surface of modern geopolitics, an unprecedented shift is underway. The Western-centric system is no longer the only game in town.

In A World Without America: The Great Decoupling and the Rise of the Global South, author Edwin Lemayian Loki David delivers a sharp, forward-looking analysis of a rapidly reordering planet. As traditional alliances fray and economic weaponization accelerates, the nations of the Global South are no longer just participating in the global economy, they are rewriting its rules. From independent digital financial architectures like mBridge to sovereign control over critical resource supply chains, a parallel, decoupled world is emerging.

This book bridges the gap between complex macroeconomic policy and high-stakes geopolitical reality. Readers will discover:

The Mechanics of Decoupling: How cross-border payment innovations and alternative trade networks are reducing reliance on the US dollar.

The Rise of Sovereignty: Why the Global South is successfully asserting its independence and forging new, non-aligned partnerships.

The Future of Power: What a multipolar, post-American global landscape actually looks like for international trade, technology, and governance.

Authoritative, timely, and deeply analytical, A World Without America is an essential roadmap for investors, policymakers, and anyone looking to understand the new architects of global power. The decoupling has begun. Are you ready for what comes next?

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Eighteen-year-old Yiorgos is desperate to escape the bounds of tradition and his father’s iron fist. As a child, writing poetry and roaming his beloved mountains on the island of Crete provided some reprieve, but now he is slated for mandatory military service. Instead, he stows away on a ship and heads for America. On board, chance encounters with an old sailor and a mysterious young woman set him on a path to Canada that will change his life forever.

But Yiorgos’s journey is only part of a larger story. From his great-grandmother fleeing the 1850 Massacre of Aleppo, to his mother surviving war and a troubled marriage, to the woman he secretly loves and the sister seeking independence while trying to reconcile a modern refugee crisis with her own family history—their lives reflect exile and belonging, love and betrayal, faith and sacrifice. Together, they form a multigenerational tale of resilience and discovery spanning over a century, showing the unbreakable ties that connect families across time and oceans.

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A pigeon, a sparrow, a crossbill and a robin, Each bird needed human attention to survive and the Birdman of Stewart Drive was called into action.

While the four stories I share in this book are done so in a fictitious manner, the events are true accounts. I hope that children of all ages will enjoy them, and they will spark family conversations about real-life situations, and valuable lessons will be learned.

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Author Blaire Hoffos Peterson takes an innovative approach to storytelling in Shifting Light, in which she focuses on themes of fractured family relations and the effect on youth of grief and socio-economic disadvantage. The book comprises two novellas, the first of which, Renewal, tells of best friends Drake and Tish (Patricia), teenagers who come from very different backgrounds, but each of whom suffers from neglect in a dysfunctional family. When they set out on an adventure to explore an abandoned house on Hallowe’en, the story veers into the paranormal with a shocking discovery that just may show them the way to healing, and ultimately, to closure and a better future.

In Residual, the second novella, sisters Danny and Angelica struggle to come to terms with the abuse and neglect they suffered as children at the hands of their alcoholic and drug-addicted mother as she lies dying in hospital. One year later, while in Mexico on vacation, they get a mysterious phone call that will catapult them into a shadowy underworld that offers them a life of wealth and luxury they never could have imagined. Good fortune or bad? They’ll have to decide.

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When the owner of the crumbling local resort suffers a stroke and his family begin circling, the people of St. Mark’s, New Brunswick know some feathers will be ruffled. But they aren’t expecting their tranquillity to be shattered quite so completely, as an unexpected corpse appears. Blaine Stevens, the old man’s grandson, is found dead on the shore of the Bay of Fundy. The millionaire techie whiz kid could have just gotten lost in the woods—except for all the stab wounds.

A former Toronto beat cop turned small-town constable, Laura West is called in alongside the RCMP to investigate. Already facing the problems of being “from away” in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, she must balance the demands of her personal life while navigating the deep pockets and deeper rifts in the Stevens family, which reach across borders and into boardrooms as far away as Silicon Valley. But just like the tides in the Bay, danger always comes back to where it began.

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Join the author and over 160 companions as they journey through 15,000 km of true north landscapes. This book is an account of more than 1,500 days and nights, over 45 winters, travelling through the backcountry of the Yukon and into N.W.T., B.C., and Alaska. These self-supported ski and snowshoe expeditions weave through First Nation Traditional Territories, across pristine rivers and over mountain passes. Routes span the western reaches of Mount Logan to the eastern edges of the Ragged Range Mountains, and forge a continuous path from the shores of the Beaufort Sea to Juneau, Alaska. These are stories of resilience, ingenuity, camaraderie, and an unyielding spirit of exploration.

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A missing child. A fractured family. A truth buried in time.

TJ “Jack” Kelly was just a teenager when eight-year-old Marla Ferguson—the sister of his high school sweetheart Shannon—was kidnapped, leaving her twin brother injured and her family shattered. When the case went cold, guilt, anger, and unanswered questions drove everyone apart—including Jack, whose dream of becoming a police officer was forged in the aftermath of Marla’s disappearance.

Nineteen years later Jack, now a homicide detective, returns to his hometown of Thunder Bay, Ontario, when another young girl—a dead ringer for Marla—is found raped and murdered. As the killer begins to taunt the police and the Ferguson family, he must confront long-buried secrets, resurfacing resentments, and a past that refuses to stay buried. Jack and his partner Tony Caruso race to uncover the truth before more girls are killed—perhaps even the woman Jack has never stopped loving.

If They’d Only Known is a haunting cold case crime novel about trauma, memory, and the devastating ripple effects of violence. For the reader who loves stories that explore what tragedy leaves behind not just who committed the crime.

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When Benjamin finds a tiny toad in the forest near his house, he falls in love with it right away. It would make the perfect pet! Benjamin takes the toad home and sets it up in an old fish tank, with all the fresh water and bugs it needs. But no matter what Benjamin does, the tiny toad won’t eat. How can Benjamin make his tiny friend happy? Will it ever feel comfortable in its new home?

Tiny Toad Goes Home is a beautiful story that tugs on your heartstrings but ultimately leaves you feeling good. It teaches children about environmental responsibility and respect, stewardship of nature, and how to have empathy for creatures that are very different from ourselves. The world needs more kindness, especially directed toward nature's vulnerable creatures, and Benjamin's story reminds us that, at the end of the day, one's love for nature's creatures is sometimes best shared from afar.

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Designed for artists and creative souls who enjoy texture, line, and slow exploration, this colouring book invites you to colour intentionally as part of a mindful, creative practice. These richly detailed illustrations encourage layering, shading, and mark-making, perfect for watercolour pencils, gentle mixed-media techniques, or your preferred colouring tools.

Ideal for:

• Mixed-media artists

• Art journalers

• Creative colourists who love detail and texture

• Artists seeking slow, intentional creative time

There is no right way to colour these pages—only your way.

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What do you do when a cosmetic surgery you chose for yourself is making you sick?

Every year, more and more women find themselves making the brave decision to

remove their breast implants due to ongoing illness—what’s now recognized as breast implant illness (BII). In Explant: A Guidebook to Surgery & Recovery, BII survivor and advocate Lindsey Anne Mayr offers a compassionate, step-by-step roadmap through the emotional

decision to explant and the healing journey that follows—physically, mentally,

and spiritually.

Covering every step from preparation to recovery, this guidebook offers clarity,

support, and confidence for every stage of the journey. Here’s what you’ll find

inside:

• A Global Guide to Trusted Explant Surgeons

• A list of essentials to purchase and pack in preparation for your

surgery

• A five-week nutrition guide for healing your body post-op and beyond

• Healthy, whole-foods-based recipes for supporting your recovery

• Guidance on finding the social, mental, and spiritual support you need

to heal

• Practical advice for recovering physically, from how to do “T-rex

arms” to the best kinds of pillows and bras to purchase

• A manual for detoxing your body as you recover

• Tools for regaining your confidence and finding peace and acceptance

in your new body

• And much, much more!

Compassionate, empowering, and incredibly thorough, Explant is more than just a guide—it’s a call to reclaim your health, rediscover your authentic self, and

embrace the healing you deserve.

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This year, Christmas will be a little different for Olivia.

Olivia and her family won’t be celebrating Christmas at home this year. Instead, they are spending the holiday at a resort. Fortunately, her entire family will be sharing the day with them. But Olivia has one big question: How will Santa find her if she is not at home?

With the help of her family all gathered together and decorations in place, it soon feels like home. Olivia realizes something important about the holiday. She leaves Santa a special note to share what Christmas truly means to her.

When Christmas morning arrives, Olivia discovers Santa has indeed found her … and that the joy of Christmas can be found wherever family and friends gather to celebrate.

A Note for Santa is a heartwarming Christmas story about family, childhood wonder, and discovering the true meaning of the holiday.

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