Product Description: The landlord, the husband, the wife, and the lover. Giulio di Orio, an assistant lecturer in Philosophy, brings one of his students, known as Torp--short for Torpedo--to the Vancouver flat he shares with his wife Nicole. Soon their landlord is convinced that Torp is the devil incarnate, and the police have arrested him for the street bombings that have been plaguing the city...read more

Product Description: Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, friends—they all get into the act in Michael Mirolla’s Lessons in Relationship Dyads. Harsh lessons, sweet lessons, bitter lessons, faux lessons, —these are tales that probe not just the primary relationships all humans “enjoy” but also the relationships involved in the act of storytelling itself...read more

Product Description: Praise for Michael Mirolla:"Intriguing, passionate, sad, hilarious. Mirolla is a master storyteller. . . . Berlin will make you laugh, cry, and cringe."—Toronto Sun"An ambitious novel concerned with the nature of identity, the weight of history, the significance of catastrophe, and the legacies of fascism and communism...read more

Product Description: This book offers a way to insert an irritant into the modern world's complacency and ready acceptance of mind-numbing forms of conduct. By using a series of philosophic ghosts that span the millennia and combining those with some very raw interactions, the idea is to raise a curtain on a world and on a set of ideas that very few people are interested in uncovering, let alone discuss...read more

Product Description: When disaster strikes, it is too late. Quite often, being prepared is the only thing between you and a disaster; Ice storms, blackouts, hurricanes, and more are all more prevalent seeming than they ever have been in the past...read more

Product Description: An island where Abraham actually sacrificed his son. An eternal home in a consumer society. A hospital that keeps out the ill…and only accepts the cured. A family man who wakes up after being frozen. A photographer who wants to capture death in all its glory...read more

Product Description: A mental patient. A logician. A mystery. A murder? A city that keeps changing shape. Punk philosophers. Sado-masochism. A disturbing POW diary. A crazed old Nazi. Welcome to Berlin.

Product Description: What happens when logic is pushed to its limits? Is it possible to impose some kind of order on the confusion of human experience? When the very real chaos of life is revealed to the characters in these stories, whether through love, loss or death, they are forced to seek meaning, to look for order in their universe...read more