Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders,captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manuallabor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as aslave on the notoriou
With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquhart’s dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English
An undertaker's wife lives in the shadow of death at the foot of Niagara Falls in 1889, witnessing her husband's demise--along with those of many reckless adventurers--and finding love in a poet named
This book explores the basic tenets of service excellence, opening to distinguish customer service from service excellence, and explore the driving aspects of strategy and philosophy.The brand promise
After killing her abusive father in an intentionally-set fire, Polly Kimball and her younger brother seek refuge in a Shaker community in 1840s Massachusetts and unexpectedly become involved in a wave
New material about the private life of Lucy Maud Montgomery has prompted a searching look at the beloved author ofAnne of Green Gables. While her fictional characters inhabited a world where love and
This stunning collection of 60 stories—over a century’s worth of the best Canadian literature by an extraordinary array of our finest writers—has been selected and is introduced by award-winning write
