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The Garneau Block

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551992507
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Garneau Block written by Todd Babiak and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Garneau Block

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0771009909
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Garneau Block written by Todd Babiak and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Book of Stanley

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551992329
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Stanley written by Todd Babiak and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771096240
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Spirits Up written by Todd Babiak and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Nunt

Author : Mingus Tourette
Publisher : Zygote Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780973445800
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Nunt written by Mingus Tourette and published by Zygote Pub.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis

Author : Eva Darias-Beautell
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622734173
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis written by Eva Darias-Beautell and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the centrality of the city in Canadian literary production post-1960, this collection of critical essays presents an interdisciplinary representation of the urban from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. By analysing contemporary Canadian literature (in English), the contributors intend to produce not only an alternative picture of the national literary traditions but also fresh articulations of the relationship between (Canadian) identity, citizenship, and nation. Since the 1960s, metropolitan regions across the world have experienced radical transformation. For critical urban studies scholars, this phenomenon has been described as a ‘restructuring’. This study argues that in Canada this ‘restructuring’ has been accompanied by a literary rearrangement of its canon, consisting of a gradual shift of focus from the wild or rural to the urban. Alluding to the changes within contemporary Canadian cities, the term ‘postmetropolis’ locates the contributors’ shared theoretical framework within a critical postmodern paradigm. Centered on a particular selection of poetic or fictional texts, each essay pushes the theoretical framework further, suggesting the need for new tools of interpretation and analysis. This book presents an urban literary portrait of Canada that is both thematically and conceptually coherent. Using a range of interdisciplinary methodologies, it adeptly navigates a range of urban issues such as surveillance, asylum, diaspora, mobility, the queer, and the post-political. This book will be of interest to those studying or working on Canadian literature, both in Canada and internationally, as well as to those scholars engaged in investigations that intersect literature and urban studies.

Thriving: 1920–1939

Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525530305
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Thriving: 1920–1939 written by Corinne Jeffery and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thriving, book two of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula series, continues the story of the challenges of the intriguing and contentious Werners, a family of German Lutheran homesteaders on the Saskatchewan prairie. Become reacquainted with their dynamic lives as they try to keep pace with the flourishing new decade and later discover innovative ways to endure the hardships of the Great Depression. With the return of prosperity to the Canadian prairies, Gustav Werner resumes his insatiable quest to acquire more prime farmland. Still, no one is more surprised than he when his hand is forced and his future reshaped by increasing drama and secrets. He wonders why he is persistently entangled in compromising family relationships, and then tragedy, until he begins to doubt his faith. When Mother Nature, in which he has always found peace and solace, too becomes his enemy—sending drought, grasshoppers, hail, and fierce winds that lift the rich topsoil off his land—he starts to despair. Steadily, though, his sorrow and despondency give way to a deepening awareness of his inner strengths and a heightening of his resolve to push onward for all those who count on him.

The Standard

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Way Forward

Author : Wallace Garneau
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000377482
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Way Forward written by Wallace Garneau and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Choosing

Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 152552982X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Choosing written by Corinne Jeffery and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing, book three of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula series, concludes the heart-wrenching story of five generations of the controversial and secretive Warner family. Become reunited with Amelia and Gustav, meet their many descendants, and follow them across the Canadian prairies from Saskatchewan to Manitoba and finally to Alberta. In spite of relentless ambition and increasing prosperity, at every turn Gustav Warner is cursed by strife, upheaval, and tragedy. His own children seem determined to disobey him. He is still grappling with his eldest son's defiance that strikes at the very foundation of his beliefs, when his daughter Ursula dumbfounds him. Must he forever endure hardships that might break the spirit of ordinary men? Gustav's inexorable decision and unyielding influence over Ursula ultimately prove so powerful that she becomes her own worst enemy in order to take her secret to her grave. Still, it is not until his children's demands steadily compromise Amelia's peace of mind, and eventually her health, that Gustav is forced to make a choice that astounds them all, and no one more than his beloved wife.

Toby

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
ISBN 13 : 144340070X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Toby written by Todd Babiak and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Arriving

Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525518399
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Arriving written by Corinne Jeffery and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving, book one of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula trilogy, vividly recreates the pioneer world of the Canadian prairies with a multitude of memorable characters. You’ll lose yourself between the pages as you watch them struggle to survive and flourish, always at the mercy of Mother Nature and the ever-changing seasons on the unfettered plains. On July 1, 1909, the day after his eighteenth birthday, Gustav Werner takes the inaugural ride on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway between Melville and Regina, to apply for a homestead grant at the Dominion Lands Office. He is eager to become the most thriving homesteader in the townships of Neudorf and Lemberg, Saskatchewan, set aside for Gustav’s people, the German Lutherans, by Sir Clifford Sifton in Canada’s “Last Best West” land deal. What he doesn’t realize is that beyond becoming a man and a landowner, life as he knows it is about to crumble from his grasp. Family drama and conflict plague Gustav as he learns English—the language that sparks hatred in his staunchly traditional father, Christian—and discovers that his parents have arranged his marriage to sixteen-year-old Amelia Schweitzer.

Choke Hold

Author : Todd Babiak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Choke Hold written by Todd Babiak and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Urban Uncanny

Author : Lucy Huskinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317399374
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Urban Uncanny written by Lucy Huskinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Uncanny explores through ten engaging essays the slippage or mismatch between our expectations of the city—as the organised and familiar environments in which citizens live, work, and go about their lives—and the often surprising and unsettling experiences it evokes. The city is uncanny when it reveals itself in new and unexpected light; when its streets, buildings, and people suddenly appear strange, out of place, and not quite right. Bringing together a variety of approaches, including psychoanalysis, historical and contemporary case study of cities, urban geography, film and literary critique, the essays explore some of the unsettling mismatches between city and citizen in order to make sense of each, and to gauge the wellbeing of city life more generally. Essays examine a number of cities, including Edmonton, London, Paris, Oxford, Las Vegas, Berlin and New York, and address a range of issues, including those of memory, death, anxiety, alienation, and identity. Delving into the complex repercussions of contemporary mass urban development, The Urban Uncanny opens up the pathological side of cities, both real and imaginary. This interdisciplinary collection provides unparalleled insights into the urban uncanny that will be of interest to academics and students of urban studies, urban geography, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, social studies and film studies, and to anyone interested in the darker side of city life.

Who's who and why

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Who's who and why written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Begun and Holden at Providence, Within and for the Said State ...[acts and Resolves]

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Author : Rhode Island
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1802 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Begun and Holden at Providence, Within and for the Said State ...[acts and Resolves] written by Rhode Island and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's who in Canada

Author : Charles Whately Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Canada written by Charles Whately Parker and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: