Product Description: One of Canadian poetry's best-kept secrets is Maureen McCarthy, whose first book She Reminds Me of Vermeer drew accolades across the country. Nine years later, her second collection drew even higher praises."I have the sense of seeing things with her eyes and mind, of actually being in her situation, and it's this intimacy that gives her poems power...read more

Product Description: Lonely in a Cool, Sweet Way is the latest collection of poems by a writer whom Al Purdy has compared to Emily Dickinson and Margaret Avison. "I have the sense of seeing things with her eyes and mind," Purdy said in his introduction to her first book, She Reminds Me of Vermeer, "of actually being in her situation, and it's this intimacy that gives her poems power...read more

Product Description: Your partner in building an effective compliance program With more than 40 tools to help SNFs either establish or maintain a compliance program! It's just good business sense to have an effective compliance program but if that's not enough motivation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires skilled nursing facilities (SNF) to have one in place by 2013...read more

Product Description: Prelude to Passion: Journey to Love

Three very different girls from the same country town share an inner-city house during their first year out of school, in this Australian young adult modern classic 'Sometimes your life changes and you don't know why. A kind of shift happens. I remember thinking, well, that's over: eighteen years, three months and fifteen days. From now on it will be different . . . 'Carmel, Jude, and Katerina come from the same country town, but they couldn't be more different. Carmel is a talented musician, but awkward and painfully shy. Jude is a passionate idealist still coming to terms with the death of her revolutionary father. And Katerina, well, let's just say she's not called Queen Kat for nothing. So when they all move into the same inner-city house in their first year in college, sparks fly. But this year is a time to reinvent themselves, a time to square up to the world. Time to get a life. This is a story of friendship, family, love, betrayal, and a tumultuous year in the lives of three unforgettable young women.

Product Description: All three girls come from the same small country town. Katrina, privileged, beautiful, and sophisticated, is the daughter of a wealthy medical family; Carmel, from a struggling farming family is overweight and inhibited, but has a gift for music, and Jude, a medical student, is the daughter of a Chilean doctor who was murdered when she was two...read more

Product Description: Don'tcha just hate the way you get caught up in stuff without really wanting to? Then it goes a bit further, and suddenly you're one of those jerks you hate because . . . you can't be trusted.  ROSE WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO GET AWAY...read more

Product Description: Writing in his introduction to McCarthy's book She Reminds Me of Vermeer, Al Purdy says: "I have the sense of seeing things with her eyes and mind, of actually being in her situation, and it's this intimacy that gives her poems power...read more