Guilty

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Sky Gilbert

Thrillers & Suspense

Insomniac Press

Maverick (mav-er-ik, mav-rik) (plural, mav-er-icks): an independent thinker who refuses to conform to the accepted view on a subject. Originally, the term referred to an animal that strayed from the herd. Our instincts drive us towards the herd, believing there’s safety in numbers. Mal Spooner’s new book exposes the bull dished out by decades of advertisements, the press, and others who profit from perpetuating bad investment dogma. The founder of former mutual fund company Mavrix Fund Management Inc., he is well known across the country for his maverick investment style, enthusiasm for Harley-Davidson motorbikes, and his rock &amp; roll guitar licks in support of numerous charitable causes. How does this relate to investment philosophy, theory, and practice? In order to be successful investing your money, or someone else’s money, or your company’s money, it’s absolutely crucial to strip your mind and spirit of emotions but remain passionate. Investing is like life, and life is like touring on a Harley. There’s an infinite array of places to go and as many routes to choose from that will get you there.

A Maverick Investor’s Guidebook

Biographies & Memoirs

Spooner, Mal

Professionals & Academics

Mortgage Freedom will save the average Canadian homeowner tens of thousands of dollars and help shave years off of their mortgage. In this book Alexander Aitken offers readers a comprehensive method to structure their debt in a way that will provide tax deductions and tax refunds for most Canadians. The book explains • the type of mortgage required, • ways to accelerate the plan, • the investments used, • how to use tax refunds, • recent tax rulings, • and much more. In the simplest terms, Canadian homeowners make regular mortgage payments, which create home equity. That equity can be borrowed back from a line of credit and used for investment purposes. Interest on an investment line of credit is tax-deductible and the tax refunds, along with the net income from these investments, can be used to pay off a mortgage much faster.

Mortgage Freedom: Retire House Rich and Cash Rich

Business & Money

Aitken, Sandy

Real Estate

Canadians are saddled with over 1.4 trillion dollars in consumer debt and less than 75% have three months’ savings in an emergency account. If they want to be financially free, something has to change. It starts with this book! The Money Book for Everyone Else is a guide that will teach you: • How only paying what your credit card company requests might leave you burdened with a balance for decades. • How to protect your financial identity and how failing to do so could result in a life-long nightmare. • How to spot and avoid investment scams. • Why certain credit cards could leave you hungry and thirsty on your next flight. • Navigating the world of Canadian tax shelters, along with the basics of investing and debt. • How to repair and maintain your credit score. • Simple tips for being debt-free sooner. • Questions, criteria, and biases you need to be aware of when choosing your financial team. Written in a simple, straightforward style and loaded with lots of real-world examples and stories for Canadians, this book has everything an individual needs to know to become financially savvy. This is not an advanced guide; specific niche topics such as retirement planning, estate planning, and taxation will only be covered as an overview. There are few interactions that will last throughout your entire life, but your relationship with money is one of them.

The Money Book for Everyone Else: Canada's leading financial expert tells you what you need to know about credit, debt, investing and more.

Keehn, Kelley

Personal Finance

A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant — a cute, gay, rookie private detective with a nose for good wine and bad lies. Quant is off to France on his first big case. From the chic but sinister streets of Paris, he eats, drinks, and sleuths his way south to the pastel-coloured promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer. Back in Saskatoon, Quant comes face-to-face with a client who may be the bad guy, a quarry who turns up in the most unexpected place, and a cast of colourful suspects: the vile sister, the best friend, the colleague, the ex-lover, the lawyer, the priest, and the snoopy neighbour — are they involved? Or is someone else lurking in the shadows? As he works through the case, Quant juggles detecting with the responsibilities of a personal life full of captivating characters. Taking a cue from the style and humour of Robert B. Parker, and evoking Armistead Maupin with his wit and warmth, Anthony Bidulka’s Amuse Bouche is a rich, saucy, and engaging read.

Amuse Bouche: The first Russell Quant mystery in a New Edition with Foreword by the Author

Bidulka, Anthony

Mystery

In 1996, Sheldon Kennedy rocked the insular world of Canadian hockey by announcing that his former minor-league coach, Graham James-the Hockey News 1989 Man of the Year-had sexually abused him more than 300 times. The media portrayed Kennedy as a hero for breaking the code of silence in professional hockey and bringing James to justice. The heroic myth intensified in 1998 when Kennedy announced that he was going to in-line skate from Newfoundland to British Columbia to raise awareness of sexual abuse. The skate raised over $1 million for Canadian Red Cross sexual abuse programs, and Kennedy settled in Calgary with his wife and young daughter. Anyone who has followed hockey is familiar with the story of ex-NHL player Sheldon Kennedy. As one of the most promising hockey talents to emerge from the Canadian minor leagues in the last two decades, Kennedy was destined for hockey greatness. But after he was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in 1988, he attracted more attention for his off-ice antics than for his contributions to the score sheet. Plagued by rumours of drug and alcohol abuse and a string of injuries, Kennedy drifted from team to team. The happy ending promised by the headlines never materialized. Still haunted by the demons of sexual abuse, Kennedy's life spiralled out of control. He has come forward to tell his story, and the story of coach Graham James, who eventually was released from prison and coached hockey in Europe.

Why I Didn't Say Anything

Sports & Outdoors

Kennedy, Sheldon

Grainger, James

Biographies

Following on the heels of the first edition, Breaking Out II expands its coverage by including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (i.e., transsexual and cross-dressing persons), and intersex (LGBTI) individuals. While some societies have become more tolerant and accepting of sexual and gender diversity, LGBTI people continue to suffer psychological damage caused by growing up in largely heterosexist, homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic milieus. How can LGBTI individuals learn to love themselves when many or most of the signals society sends out denigrate their very being? Dr. Kevin Alderson has developed a method of building a positive LGBTI identity based on extensive research and the best of what we know about self-help psychology.

Breaking Out II: The Complete Guide to Building a Positive LGBTI Identity

Politics & Social Sciences

Alderson, Kevin

Social Sciences

DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains is an edgy and erotic investigation of comic book bad boys. These poems employ a language that is highly technical and dense, but it becomes witty, intimate and even tender in its specificity. These poems address the results of abuses of power and taken together present a case study in the pathology of villainy. Praise for Thumbscrews:Natalie Zina Walschots [is] a writer who engages with the aesthetics of sadomasochism in order to generate elegant, sensual poetry that writhes inside the shackles of its own linguistic constraint... [she] treats each poem as a miniature, theatrical tableaua passion play, in which she forces language to submit to her will, beating its grammar into a stupor of ecstatic nonsense.Christian Bk, The Poetry Foundation

DOOM

Literature & Fiction

Walschots, Natalie Zina

Poetry

After a year-long, self-imposed exile, ten whispered words in a cryptic telephone message change everything for Russell Quant: “Quant, you are the only one who can help me.” Returning to his life as a prairie private eye, he comes face to face with the greatest horror of his career. When an old rival is found dead, Quant is thrust into his most personal and dangerous case yet. Up against a cold, calculating villain, Russell risks everything, including the lives of those he loves. Fighting to right a wrong, Russell recruits his entire entourage of family and friends in an unforgettable caper that races from the frigid winterscapes of Saskatchewan to the pristine beaches of Mexico’s Costa Grande, in a tale of love, loss, lies, and coming home.

Dos Equis (Russell Quant Mystery)

Charity Wiser, matriarch of the Wiser clan by virtue of her wealth and power, is an indomitable provocateur...and private detective Russell Quant’s newest employer. There is more than a single rotten apple on the Wiser family tree, and Quant has been hired to discover which one is intent on murdering his client. To help him sleuth out the evil culprit, Charity Wiser arranges a family reunion aboard the opulent Friends of Dorothy cruise liner as it tours the most exotic ports of the Mediterranean. But smooth sailing is short-lived as undercurrents of clashes—local and tourist, gay and straight, trendy and traditional—offer Russell insight into the Wisers and reveal a family simmering with rage and greed. He begins to wonder: who doesn’t want Charity Wiser dead? Shifting from his prairie stomping ground to a sea undulating with death, Quant’s smarts, senses and sea legs are challenged. From tantalizing tapas and sweet sangria in Spain to the bitter taste of death in Sicily, Quant goes head to head with friends and foes in a series of unforgettable locales. Come aboard a sensual journey of sun and sea brine, caviar and champagne on a cruise replete with the luxury of murder.

Tapas on the Ramblas

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