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The Garneau Block

Todd Babiak
The Garneau Block Book PDF

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551992501

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A local phenomenon goes national! This sparkling novel has the warmth and wide appeal of Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe and the wit of Will Ferguson. What Alexander McCall Smith did with 44 Scotland Street, Todd Babiak does with The Garneau Block. This addictive and charming, laugh-out-loud funny novel enchanted readers when it was serialized in the Edmonton Journal in the fall of 2005 — and now, The Garneau Block makes its national debut. The Garneau Block follows the knowable citizens of the adored and hated city of Edmonton, capturing what we connect to in local stories and what is universal about modern life. Here, in what can only be described as a storytelling tour-de-force, we meet the warm, endearing, and delightfully flawed residents of a fictional cul-de-sac in the city’s Garneau neighbourhood just after the scandalous death of a neighbour and the sudden news that their land is about to be repossessed by the university. When mysterious signs begin to appear duct-taped to trees saying only LET’S FIX IT, the block — including a sacked university professor, a once-ambitious, knocked-up haiku expert living in her parents’ basement, an aging actor whose dreams are slipping away, and a quiet but polite stranger — is galvanized to band together in a wild attempt to save their homes. And when regular people put their dreams in motion, anything can happen — namely, political machinations, personal revelations, a public uproar, and unforeseen love. From a young author whose name will soon be on everyone’s lips come the most lovable Canadian characters since Dave and Morley, and a page-turning-good story. Readers nationwide won’t be able to get enough of The Garneau Block. For the next while, David talked about the merits of joining the PC party. Why fight it, really? No political organization is perfect, of course, but by giving your support to the Liberals or the New Democrats, what are you doing? Further dooming the City of Edmonton. Further empowering Calgary and the rural caucus. “Nonsense, David,” said Abby. “That’s the sort of talk that leads to tyranny, and we’ve had plenty enough of it in this province.” “Tyranny she says! Tyranny!” David took a few steps in Tammy’s direction, so they formed a political triangle. “No wonder the left is so flabby.” –From The Garneau Block

The Book of Stanley

Todd Babiak
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Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551992327

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A riotous new novel from the #1 bestselling author of the hit sensation The Garneau Block. By all accounts, Stanley Moss is an average man. A retired florist, he lives quietly with his wife, Frieda, in a modest bungalow in Edmonton. Stricken with cancer, Stanley has few wishes for the time he has left, except perhaps for his son to call him back. But on the day of an appointment with the palliative care specialist, Stanley experiences a boom and a flash, and then, a remarkable transformation. He discovers he can read minds. He can fulfill people’s dreams. He has the strength of ten men. And, his illness has vanished. What could this mean? Could it be, as his New Age friend Alok believes, that Stanley’s powers are divine? Is Stanley, a confirmed agnostic, the new Messiah? With Alok and a reluctant Frieda in tow, Stanley heads to Banff (the most sacred place on earth) to look for answers and find a way to use his new powers for good. He encounters there his disciples — a Vancouver TV executive, a pro hockey player from the Prairies and a teenage girl from suburban Montreal — and together they start The Stan, a new religion, and invite the world to join. When the world shows up, along with the international media and an angry long-dead spiritualist, things take an unexpected turn. Satirical, fantastical, filled with humour and pointed observation about organized religion in the modern world, The Book of Stanley is a provocative comedy about life, love, and devotion in all its guises.

The Spirits Up

Todd Babiak
The Spirits Up Book PDF

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771096242

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Warm, witty, and unsettling all at once, here is an unforgettable story of a family desperate for something to believe in. Benedict is an inventor whose life’s work is a clean energy machine. It has just made him an overnight sensation and his family is suddenly wealthy. Benedict’s wife, Karen, and his teenage daughters, Charlotte and Poppy, are proud of him. But there are problems Benedict is too busy to see: Karen is deeply unhappy in the marriage and contemplating an affair, Charlotte, who is dealing with a chronic illness, is growing more and more distant, and Poppy is cracking under the pressures of her social circle. And there’s another problem. Benedict holds a rather terrible secret about his clean energy machine. Then, on Halloween night, an accident threatens to make everything far worse for the family. The accident kicks off a series of hauntings in their beautiful, historic home in affluent Belgravia, and the ghosts make it clear that they want something from them. Karen has to save her daughters — and herself. Meanwhile, Benedict is consumed by the knowledge that he has to achieve the impossible by Christmas. As time ticks ever closer to the revelation of his secret, he spirals further into despair . . . The Spirits Up is the story of a family haunted by the charmlessness of middle age and the cruelties of modern teenage life. Part social satire and part contemporary ghost story (with a hint of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol), it is an exploration of a timeless question: what happens when there’s nothing to believe?

The Empress of Idaho

Todd Babiak
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Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771009853

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The Empress of Idaho by Todd Babiak Pdf

Bestselling and award-winning author Todd Babiak returns with an immersive and affecting story about a teenager's fascination with an enigmatic new woman in town whose past is catching up with her. Monument, Colorado, July 1989. Fourteen-year-old Adam Lisinski is mesmerized the moment Beatrice Cyr steps into his life. Adam has a lot going for him: he's hoping to be a starter on his high school football team, he has a fiercely protective mom, a girlfriend, and a part-time job at Eugene's Gas Stop, where he works with his best friend. But he neglects everything that matters to him after Beatrice, his neighbour's enigmatic new wife, comes to town. Soon he finds himself alone with her--in the change room at Modern You, a clothing store on Second Street; in the back row of the theatre at Chapel Hill Cinema; in the front seat of her truck. He's confused about who she is, what she wants, and where she comes from. Adam is desperate, caught between wanting to spend time with Beatrice--whose past is catching up with her--and lying to everyone he cares about. The guilt overwhelms him. And when Beatrice convinces Adam's mom to quit her job and partner in a risky real estate venture, he has to do something before everything spins further out of control. The plan he comes up with tests his courage and leads him to an unshakable truth about loyalty and love. By turns riveting and tender-hearted, The Empress of Idaho is a story about the vulnerability and confusion of adolescence at the moment when it slams against adulthood. It's an unforgettable portrait of a boy's difficult coming of age.

Toby

Todd Babiak
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Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443400701

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TV presenter and man-about-town Toby Ménard has it all. But in the days after his father has a startling accident, Toby makes a series of terrible, wincing choices. As a result, he is fired from his job as an etiquette commentator and loses his superb condo, his beautiful girlfriend and his beloved BMW. Worse still, he must move back to the grey Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux and live in his parents’ basement. With his silent BlackBerry and a sudden absence of friends or saviours, Toby feels he has reached the limits of misery and humiliation. But his father’s increasingly frightening behaviour is where the real trouble—and risk—lies. Who is this man? What can Toby do? Then, in a moment of misplaced gallantry, Toby encounters an unstable francophone mother who disappears and abandons her two-year-old son, Hugo, to his care. Trapped with a toddler and forced to deal with his father’s tragedies, Toby emerges from the basement bungalow of his life—muddy, broke, bruised, heartbroken—but, finally, a man.

Come, Barbarians

Todd Babiak
Come Barbarians Book PDF

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443415835

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Christopher Kruse has moved to the south of France with his wife and daughter to become a better man—to escape his past as a high-priced security agent and his guilt over old wrongs. But after a harrowing accident, he finds himself drawn into a web of political gamesmanship and murder. When his wife disappears, Kruse must draw on his old instincts to find her, ahead of the police and two sinister members of a Corsican crime family. His desperate search leads him closer to his wife, and deeper into the dangerous machinations of the most powerful leaders in the country. Come Barbarians is a gripping novel of love and loss, murder, revenge and political conspiracy. Todd Babiak has created a complex, magnetic character forced to confront his bleakest hour and his darkest impulses.

Nunt

Mingus Tourette
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Author : Mingus Tourette
Publisher : Zygote Pub.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0973445807

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"Alternating between startling obscenity and tender humanity, Nunt careens through a world of sex, drugs, prostitutes, buggery, fist fighting, murder, God, death, literature, jazz, rock and roll, zen, and madness."--Back cover.

If It Swings, It's Music

Gabe Baltazar,Theo Garneau
If It Swings It s Music Book PDF

Author : Gabe Baltazar,Theo Garneau
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780824865702

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If It Swings, It's Music by Gabe Baltazar,Theo Garneau Pdf

Hawai‘i’s legendary jazz musician Gabe Baltazar Jr. has thrilled audiences since the late 1940s with his powerful and passionate playing. In this, the first book on his life and career, Gabe takes readers through the highs, lows, and in-betweens on the long road to becoming one of the very few Asian Americans who has achieved worldwide acclaim as a jazz artist. At a young age Gabe was encouraged by his father, an accomplished musician, to take up the clarinet and saxophone. As a teenager during World War II, Gabe performed with the Royal Hawaiian Band but spent his weekends playing in swing bands. After establishing himself in the West Coast jazz scene, in 1960 he rose to prominence as lead alto saxophonist of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Following a four-year stint with Kenton, Gabe worked as a valued studio musician, recording with Dizzy Gillespie, Oliver Nelson, and James Moody, among others. In 1969 he returned to Honolulu and went on to become Hawai‘i’s premier jazz artist, a role he admirably fulfilled for over forty years. Even into his eighties, Gabe remained active in jazz education and performed regularly. Gabe’s memorable encounters with some of the greatest names in jazz and popular entertainment will delight music fans, while readers of Hawai‘i and Asian-American life-writing will find in this work a fond record of days past told with humor and heart.

The Way Forward

Wallace Garneau
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Author : Wallace Garneau
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000377484

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This book helps business leaders see how employees, companies, and missions all interact with each other, as well as with society at large, in systems and subsystems at various levels. It helps leaders learn how to connect the dots, becoming customer-centric in everything they do and then spreading the same goals down to their supply chains. The book discusses what is, and what is not, leadership, covering such topics as statistics-based management, process-improvement, and human resources. The author accomplishes this through a blend of Lean culture and managerial theory, as well as his military experience. In addition, the author contrasts many opposing subjects, such as efficiencies of scale versus efficiencies of build, automation versus process improvement, process innovation versus product innovation, technical versus tactical proficiency, and pull versus push production. With most books focused on Lean initiatives, there is a tremendous amount of benefit involved in creating customer value while reducing waste, but this book takes a holistic approach, blending in modern managerial theory, team leadership skills, and economics. The result is a book that changes how the reader approaches business. Essentially, the purpose of this book is to blend modern management theories with the culture of Lean (and perhaps a sprinkling of economics) to show current business leaders how to create organizations that are as customer-oriented and highly efficient in delivering value as possible. If one thinks of each role in an organization as a spot on an assembly line, where everything each person does creates output someone else uses, the question becomes whether or not each person’s activities maximize the effectiveness of others. Do we, as organizations, set ourselves up for success or for failure? Most companies, if they answer honestly, would say, "A little bit of both." This book is about helping those companies improve.

Roost

Ali Bryan
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Author : Ali Bryan
Publisher : Freehand Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554811376

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Claudia, single mom of two, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, new hobbies and—worst of all—new adult friends. But in Claudia’s house she’s still finding bananas in the sock drawer, cigarettes taped to wrestling figures, and colourful doodles on her MasterCard bills. Then Claudia receives the unexpected news that her mother has died. Shared through the hilarious, honest, and often poignant perspective of a single mother, Roost is the story of a woman learning about motherhood while grieving the loss of her own mother. And as she begins to mend, she’s also learning that she might be able to accept her home—even as it is.

Choke Hold

Todd Babiak
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Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106016479781

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After suffering a trauma that would eventually shape his outlook on life, Jeremy Little finishes high school and leaves for Boston. He becomes obsessed with martial arts training, eventually opening his own school. Things seem to be looking up until one of his students kills a gay man. The resulting publicity destroys Jeremy's business and he returns home where he is forced to confront his old demons.

Mosby's Pharmacology Memory NoteCards - E-Book

JoAnn Zerwekh,Jo Carol Claborn
Mosby s Pharmacology Memory NoteCards E Book Book PDF

Author : JoAnn Zerwekh,Jo Carol Claborn
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323549547

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Mosby's Pharmacology Memory NoteCards - E-Book by JoAnn Zerwekh,Jo Carol Claborn Pdf

Bring key pharmacology topics to life in a flash! Mosby’s Pharmacology Memory NoteCards: Visual, Mnemonic, and Memory Aids for Nurses, 5th Edition uses humor, illustrations, and mnemonics, to help you retain challenging pharmacology concepts and drug information. This sturdy, spiral bound kit covers important nursing implications, frequent side effects, serious and life-threatening implications, and patient teaching skills. Whether you use it to prepare for class, clinicals, or the NCLEX® examination, you won’t find another study tool like this! UNIQUE! More than 100 full-color cartoons offer humorous and memorable presentations of key drugs. UNIQUE! Color-highlighted monographs make it easier for you to identify nursing priorities on common medications. Thick pages and a spiral-bound format create a portable tool that is durable enough for the clinical environment. Colored thumb tabs at the bottom of the page allow students to find topics quickly. UNIQUE! Mnemonics and other time-tested memory aids help you grasp and remember even the most complex concepts. What You Need to Know sections on each card cover key information in a quick and easy-to-review format. NEW! Additional cards cover medication safety, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, oral antidiabetic drugs and non-insulin injectable agents, and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs.

The Reluctant Author

Corinne Jeffery
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Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525588341

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As a teen growing up in an impoverished dysfunctional home environment, Laurine Schaffer realizes that she must be pragmatic and pursue a sustainable professional career path. At seventeen, she enrols in a traditional three-year Registered Nurse training program, where she quickly realizes that her perceptions of life and people are dramatically different from many of her classmates. Although Laurine ultimately forges a successful vocation as a college professor, at age fifty-seven she admits she is not being true to herself, or to her lifelong aspiration to write the story of her German Lutheran ancestors who fled Russia in 1892. Following an epiphany in an abandoned family cemetery on the original ancestral homestead in western Canada, Laurine begins to write. As one family history book follows another and another and yet another, her writing becomes a catalyst for a personal healing journey. The Reluctant Author is essentially a prequel to her three previous family memoirs and links the past to the present with poignant clarity.

Blocking Public Participation

Byron Sheldrick
Blocking Public Participation Book PDF

Author : Byron Sheldrick
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781554589319

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Blocking Public Participation by Byron Sheldrick Pdf

Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly large part of the political landscape in Canada, they are often launched against those protesting, boycotting, or participating in some form of political activism. A common feature of SLAPPs is that their intention is rarely to win the case or secure a remedy; rather, the suit is brought to create a chill on political expression. Blocking Public Participation examines the different types of litigation and causes of action that frequently form the basis of SLAPPs, and how these lawsuits transform political disputes into legal cases, thereby blocking political engagement. The resource imbalance between plaintiffs and defendants allows plaintiffs to tie up defendants in complex and costly legal processes. The book also examines the dangers SLAPPs pose to political expression and to the quality and integrity of our democratic political institutions. Finally, the book examines the need to regulate SLAPPs in Canada and assesses various regulatory proposals. In Canada, considerable attention has been paid to the “legalization of politics” and the impact on the Charter in diverting political activism into the judicial arena. SLAPPs, however, are an under-studied element of this process, and in their obstruction of political engagement through recourse to the courts they have profound implications for democratic practice.

Son of France

Todd Babiak
Son of France Book PDF

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443443832

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#1 bestselling author Todd Babiak “reinvents thrillers” in this heart-stopping Christopher Kruse novel (Edmonton Journal) To save his marriage, security agent Christopher Kruse took his family on a sabbatical in the south of Mitterrand-era France. Instead of finding romance, in Come Barbarians Kruse entered a web of political deceit and murder, resulting in the tragic deaths of his wife and young daughter. Haunted by loss and regret, and now bound by a contract with the unscrupulous mayor of Paris, he remains in France. There, he keeps a watchful eye over a Parisian woman and her daughter, so like his own, whose lives have grown entangled with his. When a grenade attack in the Jewish quarter injures the mayor and kills a charismatic politician on the rise, Kruse is catapulted back into the maelstrom of organized crime and dirty politics. Zoé, a young woman working for a shadowy division of the French clandestine services, hires Kruse and his old colleague and mentor, Tzvi, to hunt down the leader of the attack. The mission leads him not to redemption but down a rabbit hole of deception and violence, and into an unlikely affair. As extreme politics, the rise of terror and globalization threaten Europe, Kruse must determine where the danger lies, not only to protect a country that has failed him but to save what’s left of himself.