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A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be, healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental...

Trevor Carolan's eagerness for encountering faraway peoples and places equals Paul Theroux's excitement when he hits the road again in To the Ends of the Earth. Veteran globe-trotter Trevor Carolan conjures 19 evocative road tales for armchair and seasoned travellers alike. A harvest of encounters with intriguing people, remarkable landscapes and cultures, his reportage sings with a love of food, art, literature, music and wine. Ranging from Bali...

Troy Brannon's unusual gifts made him invaluable to the Navy SEALs...until he died in the line of duty. Now, he's a ghost gone rogue, searching through time for the soul of a man lost in the Civil War. He figures a side trip to save a drowning woman won't hurt. But as he pours his energy into her limp body, he realizes he's made a terrible mistake. Carey Magennis knows it's all over as icy seawater claims her, so she's more than a little confused...

In an isolated northern city battling a plague of depression that transforms its victims into zombie-like automatons, a woman discovers the key to immunity lies within her dreams.

All Isaac Barrow wants is to be left alone to pursue his supernatural research and tinker with his inventions. But when you're the only technomancer openly practicing the craft in 1880s Halifax, trouble has a way of finding you. When a routine mechanical service call reveals the grisly handiwork of the Nightshade Cabal, an underground cult of necromancers, Barrow finds himself in a race against time to put a stop to the Cabal's depredations before...

Orienting Italy explores contemporary Italian filmmakers' fascination with China and the Chinese in both documentary and fictional films. Delineating the contours of this fascination, the book begins with the works of Carlo Lizzani (Behind the Great Wall, 1958) and Michelangelo Antonioni (Chung Kuo-China, 1972), both of whom ventured to China with the aim of documenting new, yet physically and culturally distant, realities. Their documentary investigations...

A threat is coming to destroy civilization …In a way nobody had ever imagined in their worst nightmares …And it's human-designed. Joey Hawke's life is turned upside down when a future version of himself drags him into a bathroom stall. Together, they have seventy-two hours to save humanity. And they have to do it against the biggest, most bizarre con the world has ever seen. Failure means the poisonous destruction of every city in the world. But...

When Garrett Walkinshaw pays a visit to his sister, he finds her murdered-throat sliced and nipples missing, his albino niece left emotionally scarred on her bed. Determined on getting revenge, the two set out after the killer, following a bloody trail of skin-lacking bodies. After Garrett's best friend-a recently freed slave-joins the road-trip hunt, they're forced to teach Garret' s niece the dark world of survival and assassination in the gritty,...

Tensions are rising between the carnivores and herbivores on Noah's Ark as they drift without land in sight and food supplies dwindle -- when best friends Finny and Leah are washed overboard with all the remaining food! Waking up in separate places, each faces separate dangers racing against volcanoes and time in order to get back to each other and their families!