Welcome to the Apocolypse! and it has arrived, not with a bang, but with the white noise hum of tabloid news and and the promise of the internet.Richard Scarsbrooks Apocalypse One Hundred strips back the veneer of our screen filled lives to expose every nip and tuck.Each one hundred word poem from the Apocalypse peeks over the event horizon to see the noise and distraction that bind us to this world, hemming in thought and imagination.To learn more . . . just click here!

Apocalypse One Hundred

Literature & Fiction

Scarsbrook, Richard

Poetry

Turnstone Press

Marty and Bill’s joyride in a 1937 Cord 812 Sportsman, and the accidental foiling of a robbery, is caught on video by their friend, aspiring teen reporter Elizabeth Murphy. The video goes viral, and Marty and Bill, or at least their accidental alter egos, Nothing Man and the Purple Zero, become instant celebrities. Is this a fleeting moment of celebrity? Or is the trio living up to a destiny foretold by a dying principal who reminded them that “some have greatness thrust upon them”?

Nothing Man and the Purple Zero

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

DCB Young Readers

The Troupers

Humor & Entertainment

Cormorant Books

We have all been there: those sublime and ordinary moments in growing up that create the evolution of change, or as Cheeseburger Subversive’s Dak Sifter would call it, a &amp;quotshifting of gears&amp;quot. Scarsbrook’s novel captures the weird logic of self discovery that marks the explorations of boy becoming man, and in its noise and thrashing, explodes the maturity myth. Short listed for the 2004 Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Canadian Book Award!

Cheeseburger Subversive

Teen & Young Adult

Thistledown Press

Philip Skyler learned early in his life that his face would get him into trouble and there was nothing he could do about it. Born with an extreme facial deformity, he became the object of attention. Though medical scientists named his condition Van der Woude syndrome, his classmates, especially the bullies, just called him "Monkeyface". Monkeyface Chronicles is his sweet story of revenge. 
Philip's aphorism-toting grandfather used to say, "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect," and Philip Skyler is about to embark on a life journey of payback that has everything to do with cause and effect. Philip's journey ultimately takes him through the most unusual family circumstances, where no one was really who they seemed to be, whether it was his reclusive scientist father, or his Citizen Kane-like grandfather. 
While riding his father's motorcycle to Toronto to escape the dregs of Faireville, Philip has a life-changing experience that transforms him from the dupe he was as a kid into a conquering hero in his twenties. His unforgettable ride brings him to triumph over adversity and redeems him from the world of losers into which he was cast.

The Monkeyface Chronicles

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