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I can't work, I can't think, I can't connect with anyone anymore . . . I mope through a day's work and haven't had a promotion in years. . . . It's like I'm being sucked dry, eaten away, swallowed up, coming unglued . . . These are voices of a few of the tens of millions who suffer from chronic insomnia. In this revelatory book, Gayle Greene offers a uniquely comprehensive account of this devastating and little-understood condition. She has traveled the world in a quest for answers, interviewing neurologists, sleep researchers, doctors, psychotherapists, and insomniacs of all sorts. What comes of her extraordinary journey is an up-to-date account of what is known about insomnia, providing the information every insomniac needs to know to make intelligent choices among medications and therapies. Insomniac is at once a field guide through the hidden terrain inhabited by insomniacs and a book of consolations for anyone who has struggled with this affliction that has long been trivialized and neglected..
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Everyone has their boogeyman But who-or what-is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private Detective Russell Quant is roused from sleep only to fall into a nightmare case when the family of a suicide victim hires him to uncover the real cause of death. But what is real and what is imaginary? Quant works to narrow his list of suspects only to find the number of victims growing. He is mystified as the trail of fear connects him to a vast landscape of people, including an elegant potash miner, dubious trailer park denizens, reticent farm folk, the Pink Gopher choir, and a gaseous psychiatrist.

Compounding Quant's bewilderment is the complete and perfect disappearance of his once very real friend, Sereena, who has become a ghost he simply can't find. With the boogeyman always a few paces ahead, Quant struggles to keep the hounds of failure from baying. Traveling from Saskatchewan's summer storms to the menacing Lotus Land of Vancouver, he finally touches down in the Canadian Arctic, where tragic hope resides. He returns home to bully attacks, a desperate chase through midnight woods, and a sadistic abduction. As Quant penetrates the truth of the boogeyman, he finds himself on a perilous suspension bridge between idyllic childhood and grown-up violence.

Anthony Bidulka is an avid traveler, party-giver, and sun-worshipper. One of his favorite sayings is: "Life may be short, but it can be wide." He lives in Saskatoon and invites you to visit his website at www.anthonybidulka.com. This is the fourth book in his Russell Quant mystery series.

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Desperate to right old wrongs, a wealthy client hires Russell Quant to locate her son Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse? Tracking Matthew's life from the drug culture of a pleasant prairie city's underbelly to the stunning vistas, vibrant townships, and wild safaris of Africa, Russell finds much more than he was looking for and faces a difficult question: What happens when the prodigal son resists the return?

Anthony Bidulka is an avid traveler, party-giver, and sun worshipper. He lives in Saskatoon. Sundowner Ubuntu is the fifth book in his Russell Quant mystery series.

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Escaping the sectarian carnage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Fiona Kavanagh has found sanctuary in the cool peace of Vancouver Or so she believes until news of the breakout at the Maze prison brings back the destructive passions she thought she'd left behind. When Fiona hears that Davy McCutcheon is out of prison, she is overwhelmed. Now she faces some difficult choices. Can love transcend McCutcheon's commitment to the cause? Will Davy threaten the peace Fiona has found with The Doctor in Canada? And does Fiona want him to? From secret IRA meetings in tense County Tyrone to the easy tranquility of Vancouver, Patrick Taylor describes with delicate precision and painstaking detail the events that set the escape plan in motion. This is a haunting, exaltant prayer to the lives of those bound by the ties of patriotism and the intimate battles we fight to release our hearts from the fetters of love and loyalty. Patrick Taylor once again bleeds for agonies of a country torn apart, and celebrates the simple freedoms we all take for granted..
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Taking the form of an artist's journal, Good's tales grind through dark, often violent places animated by voices warped by hallucination and flesh chafed by reality From the ramblings of an opium-riddled adventurer to treatises on life from a mind rattled by the world; from the tragic end of a teen queen to a day in the life of a rock star; from the execution of the Self by the Other to the pull between rules and freedom, this is a landscape located halfway between imagination and reality, a world that rocks between imagination and reality, a world that rocks between sleep and wakefulness, sanity and insanity, sobriety and inebriation. A must for fans of The Matthew Good Band, this book isn't Disneyland, but it will take you on a ride you will never forget..
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Life is about getting what you want, and sales skills can improve your life. In Life Is Sales, Gary L. Ford and Connie Bird share their unique perspectives on success Most people resist spelling out what they want, but those who know what they want and know how to ask for it are far more successful in all aspects of life. By using concrete day-to-day examples and making suggestions that will change your life, this book highlights the psychology behind getting people to do what you want and to say yes.

Gary L. Ford is a graduate of the University of Waterloo with a degree in psychology. He has held a series of executive positions with a major financial institution and most recently as vice president of sales and marketing of a national insurer. Ford is a frequent speaker to large groups in the financial services business in Canada and on sales skills and influence techniques in the United States. He is the co-author of The Canadian Guide to Identity Theft and Other Fraud. Gary can be contacted at www.lifeissales.ca.

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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 three hundred 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 one million dollars for Canadian Red Cross sexual abuse programs. Kennedy then settled in Calgary with his wife and young daughter.

Anyone who has followed hockey in the last ten years is familiar with the story of ex-NHL player Sheldon Kennedy. As one of the most promising 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 scoresheet. Plagued by rumors of drug and alcohol abuse and by 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 spiraled out of control. Now he has finally come forward to tell his story, and the story of coach Graham James, who is now out of prison and coaching hockey in Europe.

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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 this family tree, and Quant has been hired to discover which one is intent on murdering his client..
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This book shows you how to bulletproof your investments so that neither you nor your money are trampled by the herd mentality of the marketplace. Investing can be challenging, and compounding the problem are the pressures that stem from the profit-oriented investment sales industry and the attention-seeking business media. In Juggling Dynamite, portfolio manager Danielle Park reveals not only how to protect your money but also how to actively make it grow.

Park explains how investors can benefit from understanding market cycles, the cost of mutual funds, and the evaluation of stock prices. This book will equip you with the tools to make your portfolio grow using active investing and an understanding of market timing. Juggling Dynamite will enable you to reach that elusive brass ring: lasting financial success.

Danielle Park is a chartered financial analyst with over sixteen years of professional consulting experience. She helps manage millions of dollars as a portfolio manager and partner at the independent investment counsel firm she co-founded. She is also an avid health and fitness buff. She lives in Barrie, Ontario.

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