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Reflections from a rabbi who has explored other faiths and spiritual paths

Jerry Steinberg’s spiritual quest started at a young age. Explorations of Christian and Hindu faiths led Steinberg to a specialization in psychotherapy (past–life regression, dreams, and psychogenic illness). He became a rabbi, while continuing to explore all aspects of faith with an emphasis on Kabbalah.

Robber Baron is an unauthorized biography of Conrad Black, who built the world's third-largest media empire and is now facing criminal charges in Chicago for alleged fraud, money laundering, and racketeering. Robber Baron is based on rigorous research, hard-hitting interviews, original documents, and exclusive access to Black and his close family and friends, key associates, critics, and staunch enemies.

An inspiring book for readers of Sheryl Sandberg and Arlene Dickinson

Lisa Lisson’s life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and risen to become a vice president (and would ultimately become president) of the company. One night, after putting their four children to bed, her husband, Patrick, marvelled that their lives seemed perfectly happy.

Just a few hours later, everything changed.

Daring new verse from one of Canada's most-established poets

In Platinum Blues, Oliver Gulliver is a small-town lawyer in northern California, and he's slowly going broke. He's a plodder and a dreamer, has never tested himself in a big trial, and is immensely protective of his two teenage girls. His very attractive 18-year-old returns home from San Francisco, where she had been seeking a modeling career, dragging home with her a once-famous, now burnt-out and alcoholic rock star, C.C. Gilley. They're in love. Oliver is utterly shocked and dismayed.

A forgotten musical and cultural history of drunks and miscreants, future country stars and political strategists. Perfect Youth is the story of the birth of Canadian punk, a transformative cultural force that reared its head across the country at the end of the 1970s. Bands like D.O.A., the Subhumans, the Viletones, and Teenage Head--alongside lesser-known regional acts from all over Canada--reshaped a dull musical landscape, injecting new energy and new sounds into halls, bars, and record stores from Victoria to St. John's.

What really happens in the operating room of a hospital? Is real life just like ER, Grey’s Anatomy, or House?

Dr. Paul Whang, Anaesthetist, reveals operating room curses and superstitions, the characteristics of a good surgeon, the personalities of the specialists caring for them, and the patients that doctors fear. Operating Room Confidential shares the inner truths about the operating room to the reader: the quirky, strange, hidden rhythms and routines that occur inside and around the O.R.

A search for the moose, the whole moose, and nothing but the moose

A celebration of a beloved Canadian icon, featuring dozens of original interviews and exclusive photos

Lawyer Foster Cobb prosecutes the mysterious Dr. Au, the West Coast’s primary drug trafficker. But Cobb — under pressure of a failing practice and a disintegrating marriage — has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit. With a racing plot and dramatic flip-flops, Deverell’s literary page-turner takes the reader into the seamy undergrowth of crooked cops, Asian drug lords, and a super-charged courtroom scene. Winner of the $50,000 Seal First Novel Prize in 1979, William Deverell’s Needles has gone on to sell 250,000 copies.