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When a nuclear missile is launched from somewhere in the east - North Korea or China - communications from other parts of the earth ceased. Thirty years later, civilization still struggles to become redefined. A new society has formed with new rules. Those that follow the rules can hope for a few years of comfort. Those on the inside of the safety dome have it tough. Those on the outside don’t last long. As far as the eye can see, the earth outside is radioactive, primitive. These are the stories of the survivors, men and women that struggle to eke out a living in a world gone awry.

What We See in the Smoke twists the genres of realism and science fiction to tell the future history of Toronto, a story that stretches from this millennium to the next. The novel leaps across the boundaries of time and space, as present and future Torontonians search for meaning, connection, and love in a city that grows more beautiful and frightening as its familiar characteristics fade away.

Outside the facility, the peace laws must be observed. For a hundred and fifty points, you can spend an hour with a designated scapegoat. No one outside will ever know what you do there. You are encouraged to shout, to complain, to cry, if it will help to calm you. For two hundred points, you may strike them. They will never strike back. Abrasions, heavy bruising, first degree burns, are five hundred. The scapegoats will endure it and they will never name you or your... needs. A few thousand if your rage requires you to break a bone. Scapegoats are not law-abiding like you. They deserve it.

Rivka Ganuke, barely surviving her birth, was thrust into a conflicted world at the onset of the 20th century, a world of want, poverty and danger, a misogynistic world which had forever deprived women of equality. She rebelled at the obligation to fulfill age-old roles steeped in superstition and was denied the right to continue her education despite her brilliant mind.

The Sisters of the Abbey of the Sacred Heart receive a generous but strange bequest. Named specifically, six nuns must spend two weeks at a rustic, off-the-grid lodge in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. Should any one of them at any time during the two weeks leave the property they will forfeit the 200-acre gift.

This a children's book about Bucky the Beaver and Wally the Woodchuck, who become best friends. They play and help each other out. After a long icy and snowy winter, Bucky's family den becomes flooded, and all will soon be lost—when suddenly, along comes Bobby the Big Mouth Bass and his School Mates to save the day.

Most people think Logan is a wonderful and adoring husband. He's charming, witty, and handsome—a man of the world and a master of his destiny. Yet, a more sinister side lies behind his good looks and charismatic demeanor. To his family, Logan is selfish, self-centered, and manipulative. To the many women he's hurt and lied to, Logan is cruel and untrustworthy. But for Bella, the target of Logan's abuse, her husband is an inescapable and recurring nightmare.

Your loved one’s Dementia impairs her ability to think, reason, and remember. Patients no longer recognize reality and often engage in difficult, irrational, and sometimes dangerous behavior.

For “One,” an illegal clone who generates distance-bending wormholes, time is good for measuring how much longer she can survive in her home, Sector 215, an impoverished remnant of North America ruined by multiple nuclear blasts.

This is an autobiography of my last years of high school. It is about young innocent love, fun times, breakups, and betrayal. It does have some throwbacks to younger me....

A generation after a nerve agent decimated the planet, legendary Barbara Hanson's children, Summer and Amon, attempt to discover the dark secrets of the past. Tall tales and gossip have destroyed their mother's credibility and it's up to them to make it right. But, will they be banished for their curiosity? A quote from the Old Testament may hold the key.

Can this family survive the truth? Closure should have come swiftly with the funeral and nailing of the casket, but instead of finding peace, the old man’s death reopened old wounds left to fester for decades. Sahar Abdulaziz’s haunting women’s contemporary fiction novel, As One Door Closes, is a stark and dramatic testament to the devastation that comes with hiding sexual abuse, and protecting the "secret" rather than the victim. Will five very different women finally heal the damage, bring closure, and bury the secrets they have been forced to carry and protect?

Seventeen years ago, Terri Ann Stone began serving a life sentence, charged with the double homicide of her mother and stepfather. Up to now, Terri’s anger, hate, and relentless commitment to hiding the truth have kept her alive behind bars. However, the bitterness that once fueled Terri's center begins to wane. Her pledge to secrecy dissolves. With no prospect of ever being set free, she reveals the entire ugly truth, to the single person left in the world who still matters to her.

It is with great pleasure that we are able to retell the stories, first published as Forty Delicious Years, of 40 varied travelers who have Murni and Murni's Warung in common. We initially compiled these recollections in 2014 on the 40th anniversary of Murni's opening of Murni's Warung in Ubud, Bali, the first international-style restaurant in Ubud. We have renamed this volume So Many Delicious Years and Murni has added a number of recipes. We are pleased to mention that Forty Delicious Years won the prestigious Gourmand Award in 2019.