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Mountains, Lakes and MeadowsNature abounds in the High Sierra, Tahoe, Yosemite,Hiking, Kayaking, BikingLure of the outdoors ring irresistibly through.Hollywood, Silicon Valley, La Jolla shoresLingering California Vibes, the BeatsCalling the Adventurer, Dreamer and PoetsExplore, Set sail, Ignite your soul on fireResiliency, Persistency and BoldnessEncapsulated in this book -'Yosemite of My Heart : Poems of Adventure in California'

These are poems unlike any that you have read before. Simon Constam considers moments, thoughts, insights that other poets, to their and our detriment, commonly ignore. Moments that look deeply at how we grow old together with our lovers."But these things are not what now I treasure.Now it is the way your step makes uncertain contact with the earth, the way your dress catches at the hip before it falls to the floor;it is how your energy gives out in love.It is even the way you no longer care if you have been seenawkward, naked, walking out of the shower,not a bit of your seventy years decorated for the view of others."- from the poem, To a WomanPraise for Simon Constam's poetry:"So I'm familiar with many of the things your poems plangently evoke... Some of the poems remind me, in the best way, of poems by Yehuda Amichai and Nelly Sachs.... From time to time, also, I was reminded of some of the later poems of R. S. Thomas." Kevin Hart is a much-honoured poet. He is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia.

"...moving descriptions of Éire's [Ireland's] wayward sons and daughters yearning for a sense of belonging in the world." - Alexander Hackett, Montreal Review of Books"If they ask, you can say we're wily micks who still refuse to be formed into anything other than what the spirits demand. Like the reshaped shoreline after the storm." -Devin O'Sullivan has returned to his family's home on Grand Island, across from Kingston, Ontario, Canada, during the final days of the life of his great-grandfather, Michael. Struggling with a crisis in his political career, he is drawn to the tales of his family and quickly swept up by their present travails.The Song of O'Sullivan's Chain explores the Irish experience in Canada by presenting a series of linked stories that propel us through generations of the O'Sullivan family. They struggle for freedom in Ireland and acceptance in Canada, tormented by political and personal traumas, which compels them to be leaders, artists and outlaws -- all searching for home.

Upon hearing that her favourite pianist - Andre Gauthier-Lee - is retiring, Gaby decides to travel around the world to Singapore, Auckland, Geneva, and New York to watch his last four concerts. Little does she know that this trip is going to change her life forever.Andre Gauthier-Lee's life as a world-renowned pianist seems to be perfect. However, his recent retirement announcement has shocked his fans, as he is in the prime years of what seemed to be a thriving career. What secret is Andre hiding? Is his life not as perfect as it appears?Through Gaby and Andre's journeys, Romance Concerto explores romance, friendship, and the dedication to music that brings people together.

One magical spring afternoon, when the leaves on the trees were budding and the birds in the air were singing, Walter Kaaden, a mechanical engineer looking for work, found an abandoned motorcycle deep in the forest outside of Zschopau, East Germany.Walter used the principles of V-2 rocketry he learned from Werner von Braun at Peenemünde to coax the genie - trapped inside Dita's piddly 50 cc motor - to life.Under his care and attention, Dita became the fastest motorcycle on the Continental Circuit. An angel, yet still a trickster, she loved men and women indiscriminately. British, Canadian, or German, the only person she couldn't get was the Italian she hadn't met.Greg Randall captures the seduction of motorcycling and the eroticism of the mechanical. Dita is not just about racing, winning, and twisting wrenches, it is about harmony, finding your place in this world, and the art of living well together.What more could you ask for?...perhaps a slightly faster bike.

"Two Senators, a Governor, a Mayor, three police officers, a first responder, an unarmed man, six armed men, a family of four, a baby, a grandfather, a doctor, two nurses and four high school students were all tragically killed in Washington, D.C. on the same day."Our humanity died once news reporters transitioned to listing the day's deaths without names or details due to the growing volume. By 2040, the earth had evolved into an inferno of endless wars, climate catastrophes, and government corruption. Natural resources were hard to source, if not depleted, and the end of mankind felt inevitable.Colonel Amica Harrison refused to believe all hope was lost and was unwilling to patiently wait for death. She created a wild plan meticulous enough that it could work... If only the rest of the world was willing to make an effort. Her first challenge would be convincing those living in utter chaos and constant fear that our planet is still worth saving.

This intimate collection of poetry, spanning over two decades, is meant to evoke strong emotions in the reader and encourage an inner dialogue. It elicits an opportunity to contemplate on multiple themes, more specifically on how personal hardships can impact and shape who we become. Above all, it is meant to reveal the incredible healing power of words on helping reconcile with past wounds and traumas. Discovering the authenticity that comes from art, whatever form it takes, can be truly transformative. It has the power to heal, inspire and provide a beautiful testimony of having lived a life.

The Meaning of Leaving lies in the pain of staying, and the frequent reality of being driven out-by force and violence, or by one's own recognition that a hope has been betrayed. This can be out of a parental home, the dream of affection, a marriage, a city (Toronto, Hong Kong), or the human-insulted loveliness of the earth. Rogers's agile narrow-gauge free verse flashes from song to description, to narrations that always fascinate, whether with exquisitely phrased details of beauty or scenes of pain etched in sharp brief strokes.-A. F. MoritzThese powerful poems grip the heart. The poet writes about intimate partner violence (a late husband whose fist was "a shadow puppet on the wall") with bravery, vulnerability and strength. The poet bears witness, too, to other forms of violence including political oppression in Hong Kong and China and homelessness in Canada. This inspiring collection also sparks hope and joy, as rich in imagery as "a field of white ginger lilies." with the cosmopolitan insight of a Canadian who has spent over two decades living in Asia.-Marsha BarberLeaving in these poems is not only leaving your country of birth but leaving the old self that did not have the confidence to leave. Leaving is power, to be wielded towards wisdom and liberation.In the face of all struggles-personal, cultural, and political- the poet like..."a sparrow, wingtips / meeting in prayer, / drags the dark robe / of twilight / across the pavement."- Bänoo ZanKate Rogers' poetry and critical writing have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies both in Canada and abroad, including The Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology (Véhicule Press), Looking Back at Hong Kong (CUHK Press), subTerrain, ARC, PRISM, and many others. Her most recent poetry collection is Out of Place (Aeolus House/Quattro Books 2017.) She is a co-director of the Art Bar Poetry Reading Series in Toronto.

"These words...If I wrote them, and if you read them, there would be no middle ground for denial, anymore."A collection of intimate poetry written by a youthful girl, a young woman, and a middle-aged person. The Makings of this Woman shows the progression of a life as it was felt and written by a soul that has always felt too much, thought too deeply, and wrote it all out as a means to escape-as a means to be found.This is who I was; this is who I am, still.

Poetry is a form of memory. We involve ourselves in it because we are lost. We look for a place where we can encounter the most essential mysteries of who we are and where we might be going. The Commune of Our Waking suggests an idea of what poetry can do: how its base elements of language, imagery, and rhythm make us better human beings. Come visit, stay awhile...

At first, I wrote from an internal ache that I believe every poet needs in order to create. A longing we cannot name or satiate and what brings us humans together as one: Love.Then I wrote to bring myself to the ground of reality. To the truth of what I know is certain about me. There are many words and actions we cannot control in this world. But our own truth that unfolds in our own lives. That we will always know.So to you, Dear Reader, thank you for allowing me to show you part of my mind and I hope you will find that on this earth you are part of something much larger than you realize. Humanity is complex and phenomenalAnd love... well, love saves us all.

When Shelly's family decides to move to a secluded island off the coast of British Columbia, they have hopes for a fresh start. Unfortunately, the dreams have begun and it's only a matter of time before they break into the realm of the living. Shelly soon learns that a curse of generations can no longer be outrun.

"It's been fifteen years since Brisdon vanished into thin air..." So begins a story that will take you from post-war Scotland to the art-world of London and New York, across the Peruvian countryside during the rise of Shining Path, and to a secluded Ontario summer resort during its darkest hours. The Peruvian Book of the Dead weaves four separate narratives into a single tale of mystery, love, and horror as it examines the effects of guilt and regret, secrets and lies, and shows us how the enigma of the heart will ultimately reveal its mysteries. "...a capable and talented writer..." - New Star Books "The Peruvian Book of the Dead is a very fine novel: a very compelling story..." - Coach House Press

As if it weren't enough that Poppy has to deal with teenage problems like shyness, keeping up with her studies, and the temptations of boys and illicit substances, she also can't seem to shake the cruel and terrifying monsters intent on haunting her in both her waking and dream lives. Set in 1980's Montreal, The Curtain Lady is a heartfelt coming of age story with a haunting twist.

The year is 1993. Christina Perretti, working as an investigator with Interpol's new art crimes unit out of Rome, discovers, through the recovery of a lost Egon Schiele painting in Moscow, a cache of notes from a notorious Berlin art dealer for the Nazis, Harry Maes. The notes are addressed to his son Nikolaus, but they concern the provenance of a number of paintings believed to have been in Maes's possession at the time of his death. As Perretti seeks to recover these works, all presumed to be stolen from Jewish families during the Second World War, she discovers a decades-old plot to save some of the Vatican's greatest treasures from the Nazis and a web of intrigue and murder involving those seeking to profit from the burgeoning grey and black markets in the former Eastern Bloc. Provenance pieces together one family's legacy, what was lost and recovered at the moment once thought to mark the end of history. "Provenance is a novel that reads like the best trade non-fiction. It is thoroughly researched, entirely plausible and feels like it could be a true story. There are treasures stolen by, and hidden from, the Nazis still out there, waiting to be found. Here's an intelligent classic-in-the-making on just that theme."-Dr Noah Charney,Best-selling author of The 12-Hour Art Expert

For Théodore Ostrom, a physicist researching dark matter at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, becoming posthuman both evokes terror and excites pleasure. The terror is easy to understand. The days of the human may be numbered. Following the return to his Beijing apartment during a global speciation event, Théodore Ostrom receives a call from an automated legal service, informing him that his family has died in a motor vehicle accident. What about the pleasure? The exhilarating prospect of getting out of the old limits of human life, its uncertainty, its impermanence, and opening up new ways of being other-than-human. In the hours leading up to his family's virtual funeral, Théodore Ostrom speculates over his complicated relationship with (0), who has already transcended without him. Having no choice but to decide whether to become posthuman or to remain human, he writes Metapatterning for Disconnection, a deracinated monologue that embraces extinction in an attempt to achieve a final, if not total, catharsis from the human condition. BRANDON TEIGLAND is a Canadian speculative fiction writer largely concerned with pioneering the posthuman as a literary phenomenon, inviting the reader to construct significance out of ruptures, juxtapositions, and implied links.

Falling in love with Landry Hayles was easy. Being left by Landry Hayles was soul crushing. Forgetting Landry Hayles, that's impossible.In each other we found a passion that couldn't be contained. Two broken souls became whole, together. But even in love, the darkness of family secrets, illicit escapes, and impossible choices were more than we could bear.It turns out love doesn't conquer all.Five years later, why do I still see his face when I close my eyes at night?

On a bright November day in 1913, a young deckman named Harry Darling joins The James Carruthers, a large cargo carrier leaving Port William and bound for Midland on her last cargo run of the season. Harry's estranged father, Connor Darling, is onshore, unaware of Harry's whereabouts and consumed with staving off the end of his failing mink farm. When a cyclonic weather event descends over the entire region, Harry and Connor reconsider perceptions of past transgressions, and with the help of a telegraph operator named Flo, each navigates the shoals of loss and betrayal, and searches for an idea of home.Told from the perspectives of Harry, Connor, and Flo, The Current Between is a terrifying fictional account of those caught in the Great Storm of 1913, the most devastating marine disaster in the history of the Great Lakes."Mills-Milde brilliantly recreates the early twentieth century in Southern Ontario. The novel's portrayal of the final hours on board a doomed lake freighter is truly one of the most vivid and terrifying accounts of the greatest disaster to befall the inland lakes ever written."David Yates, historian and author of Out of the Woods, and The Time of our Lives."Readers will find themselves pulled under by narrative currents that connect characters and waterways in an ongoing and often stormy cycle of renewal and regeneration. In this strangely charged place,where land and water meet, we witness both the fragility of human endeavor and the strengthand power of relationships-between and among humans, animals, and the places they callhome."Tom Cull, former Poet Laureate of London, Ontario, and author of Bad Animals and Kill YourStarlings.This is historical fiction at its best-alive to the complexities of people and events, and compulsivelyreadable. Aaron Schneider author of What We Think We Know and Grass-Fed

Cate is by all accounts normal--on the precipice of graduating college, she lives with her boyfriend, goes out with friends, works an unfulfilling grocery store job, and dreams of a better life. A better life that she thinks she will deserve once she has an enviably slim waistline. Setting herself on a dangerous path, and propelled forward by careless comments from those closest to her, Cate doesn't realise she needs help until it's almost too late. Told in four parts, Pretty Delicate is the story of a young woman's perseverance through her eating disorder and into something like recovery.

In the turn 2099, the world has become starkly divided between the progress-obsessed Metropolis, and the isolated, exploited outside. In the Metropolis, the Users have become entirely dependent on their ever-expanding grid. Sustained through Poplar Corp.'s updates, the technologically enhanced Users work in unison toward their final end, ALT•4•1- an update that will alter the User in ways unimaginable. However, after a lifetime building Poplar Corp. and the Metropolis from the ground up, Dr. Mulligan has had an epiphany. With Beall's help, Dr. Mulligan has rallied an organized pushback against the Users. The outsiders will not go down without a fight, even if they don't know exactly who, or what they are fighting against… Exploring humankind's relations with technology, ALT•4•1 is an inquisition into what it truly means to be human.

Marcus lives his life as if no future existed. Drugs and casual sex take up a lot of his time, until they lead the twenty three year old to nights spent on unfamiliar couches, and eventually to an improbable encounter with Franz, a fifty-something ex-boxer now living on welfare. The two become friends, and Franz's tales of past triumphs lure Marcus into a whole new high-stakes world. Compelled by the promise of effortless pleasure, Marcus doesn't see that Franz's desolate existence could become his own. Set in the vibrant metropolis of Montréal, Idle Hands is a gripping tale of youthful nihilism made for the 21st century.