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Second Twin
$16.99Grimblerod has led twins Asher and Ariana Caine back to ancient Rhyme, a time when Calla and Elora were the same age the twins are now. Though the Kingdom of Falmoor is rich with magic, the twins are unable to use their powers. They don’t know whom to trust, where to turn, or how to avoid doing something in the past that may alter the future forever. Meanwhile, young Teagan Rogers must decide if she is ready to leave behind everything and everyone she knows to follow her mysterious destiny beneath the waves.Will Teagan choose to become a mermaid?Will Asher and Ariana get home before changing the course of history forever?And can enemies truly become friends?/
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Seconds Out
$21.95Kicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring.
Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence.
Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a person’s — and particularly a woman’s — relationship to their body and to the world around them, and at the same time considers the ways in which women might change martial arts.
Combining historical research, anecdotal experience, and interviews with coaches and fighters, Seconds Out explores our culture’s relationship with violence, and particularly with violence practiced by women.
“An important addition to women’s martial arts scholarship, Dean provides personal insight into the radical space women occupy in sport fighting. Seconds Out is a must-read for all fighters looking for mentors in the complicated world of martial arts.” —L.A. Jennings, author of Mixed Martial Arts: A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC
“Dean brings a fresh new female voice to the topic of combat sports.” —Trevor Wittman, renowned MMA trainer, UFC analyst, and founder of ONX Sports
“Trained in the discipline and art of both fighting and literature, Dean combines both with style. She honors the fighters, writers, and historians who have come before her and definitively ends the idea of women fighters as a novelty. Seconds Out is a must-read for anyone who feels the call of the bell and reverence for a good fight.” —Sue Jaye Johnson
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Secret Boston
$16.95There is a side of Boston hidden behind the Newbury Street and Harvard Square, the Public Gardens and Chinatown. It is here where you’ll find authentic Venetian gondolas and the best Irish music west of Limerick, perfect croissants and luxurious tearooms. You’ll also encounter out-of-the-way restaurants, small art galleries, secluded historical sites, and gorgeous parks and orchards. In Secret™ Boston — the latest in the renowned secret city guidebooks published by ECW Press — you’ll see the New England capital afresh.
The book reveals Boston’s most fascinating sites, those left untouched by tourists and known to only a few intrepid locals. Discover the art treasures of the Boston Public Library and explore Nabokov’s butterflies. Or take a course in the rich history of Boston folk music at the club that started it all; at MIT you can even learn to juggle in five minutes, guaranteed.
ECW’s Secret™ Boston illuminates the great city for the weekend traveler or seasoned local. Both first-time visitors and long-time residents will be delighted and surprised by this new generation of guidebooks.
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Secret Chicago
$16.95Ah, the thrill of discovery. It’s exhilarating to unearth new favorite haunts. But how do you discover them if you never stray from the pack? There are thousands of tourist guides but it’s no secret that they’ll steer you towards safe, predictable, well-trodden places. Secret™ Chicago is all about leaving the herd behind and making the Windy City your own. It’s a treasure map to the arcane, the cool, and the hushhush hot spots that the locals love.
Beautifully illustrated with original photos, Secret™ Chicago celebrates Chicago’s diverse ethnic population. Sam Weller will take you to a rowdy beer garden, a Persian bakery, and a Vietnamese grocery. And he’ll be your guide to the city’s many traditions and quirky oddities. Go to downtown blues and comedy clubs, participate in Chicago’s annual “smelt season,” and visit the country’s only holograph museum. It’s all here, written by a no-nonsense local from the city renowned for telling it like it is.
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Secret Identity Reader
$25.00Comic-book superheroes have risen from their newsprint beginnings to dominate films, infiltrate the literary establishment, and become an integral part of popular culture. Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death, and the Superhero is a collaboration between two authors who investigate, and often disagree on, key facets of the superhero character and storyline. Masculinity, origin stories and the problem of the side kick are all fair game in this wide-ranging discussion, which also considers the superhero’s place in a post-9/11 world and considers why these characters keep dying and coming back to life.
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Secret Life
$19.95It began as rumours. Whispers at dinner parties. Warnings about bad dates with a Canadian celebrity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, superstar CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi revealed his interest in “rough sex” in a long Facebook post, and a scandal of unprecedented scale descended on the radio host.
What the public did not know was that months before Ghomeshi’s emotional post, Canadaland podcaster Jesse Brown and Toronto Star journalist Kevin Donovan were quietly pursuing serious allegations against him. In Secret Life, Donovan takes us inside the Star‘s investigation. Step by step, he explores the story as only he can: the media frenzy, his own personal and professional doubts, the women who came forward with stories about an alleged dark side of a national idol, and Ghomeshi’s ignominious firing and dramatic criminal trial. Taking us behind the scenes, Donovan sheds light on the journalistic process and the complexity of gathering information about a highly sensitive matter from named and confidential sources, including those women who feared it was their word against a beloved public figure’s.
Secret Life is a thought-provoking account of the landmark Ghomeshi exposé that sparked a nation-wide discussion on sexual assault, the cult of celebrity, and the politics of power and gender in the workplace.
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Secret Life of a Mother
$18.95The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century.
A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood full of her own darkly funny confessions and taboo-breaking truths. One of her real-life friends, an actress, performs the piece, and through it her own experiences of motherhood start to surface. These mothers are not the butts of jokes, the villains, or the perfect angels of a household.
This empowered and relatable play was written collaboratively between award-winning theatre artists Hannah Moscovitch, Maev Beaty, and Ann-Marie Kerr, with co-creator Marinda de Beer. Uplifting and full of love, Secret Life of a Mother is a generous and powerful act of truth-telling for anyone who has thought about, been, loved, known—or come from—a mother.
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Secret Life of Roberta Greaves, The
$22.95Renowned classics professor Roberta Greaves finds her perfect life shattered by her husband’s suicide and the huge gambling debts he has left behind. Grief-stricken and angry, Roberta must find a way to pay those debts. Remembering a particularly racy story from Ovid’s Metamorphosis , she decides to write an erotic novel, using a penname because she is worried that her career will suffer if her real identity is discovered. Drama critic John Schubert suspects the truth. Eager to bring Roberta down in revenge for some comments she once made, he finds an opportunity when he spots her with her publisher, who is well-known for the erotic literature he publishes. Meantime, Roberta hears some dirt about Schubert from the street kids with whom she does poetry workshops at a drop-in centre. Roberta’s life is now a mess of potential blackmail and intrigue. What’s more, she learns an unpleasant truth about her “Daddy,” a doctor whose memory she has always revered. Despite her life having been derailed by sudden catastrophe, Roberta is able to face her bruised world and move forward as a better human being.
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Secret of the Azure Stone
$19.95Although evil terror nearly brought Uthgar to his demise, Owen was able to save his friend from death, reconcile with his long-lost sister Elsa and free the town from the Evil King. With his family reunited, the Dwarf King wishes to share a secret known only by very few humans or dwarves. However, with this knowledge also comes a new quest and new challenges to ensure humans and dwarves can finally live in peace. As Owen and his friends seek ancient pieces of a hidden, mystical artifact for Stephanie, the young hero worries about his mother and her new position of Queen, begins to question his own self-worth and faces internal anger the likes of which he has never felt in his short life. In the final instalment of “The Blue Knight” series, can Owen overcome his personal insecurities and find the true meaning of the Azure stone, or will he be overcome by pressure of saving everyone he loves from a stronger terror than he has ever known?
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Secret Portland, Oregon
$16.95Portland, the secret gem of the West Coast, is almost too good to be true. Imagine a city where a bookstore occupies an entire city block. A city where brewing beer has been elevated to an art form; a city containing both the world’s smallest dedicated park and largest forested city wilderness. No sales tax, old-fashioned gas stations, the only volcano within city limits, and a world-renowned transit system. You would have to be imagining Portland, and you wouldn’t be dreaming. Secret Portland is the only guide that takes the time to explore the city’s scores of lesser-known treasures — the secrets that make it a place worth dreaming about. Leading you to the spots that only locals know, Secret Portland is readable, quirky, and intimate, exposing little-known histories and legends, the best ethnic eateries, chicest cheap hotels, and locally favoured nightspots.
Don’t miss the opportunity to watch the weather machine in Pioneer Courthouse Square, choose a favourite blossom at the International Rose Test Garden, ride the only three-door elevator west of the Mississippi, or embark on an epic pub-crawl to the city’s celebrated microbreweries. Let Secret Portland show you a side of the city you’ll never forget.
Secret Portland is the latest in the acclaimed and award-winning Secret Guides series. To date, we’ve unlocked the secrets to New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Providence and Newport, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Montréal.
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Secret Providence & Newport
$16.95Secret™ Providence & Newport is a new travel book that reveals the best-kept secrets of two cities steeped in American history. Providence’s consuming passion is food. One of the most prestigious training grounds for American chefs — Johnson and Wales — is in Downcity (Providence’s term for downtown). After a succulent dinner at one of the city’s charming little restaurants, visit the garden where Edgar Allan Poe courted and won the heart of Sarah Whitman, or find hidden places to have a picnic and enjoy the flowers.
Newport’s past and present are quite different from those of Providence. A great colonial seaport, it was a major stop on the northern tip of the deadly — but profitable — Triangle Trade. During the Revolution, the city was occupied by the British, who left a set of vaulted brick barracks that most Newporters don’t even know exist. But for all its fascinating colonial history, Newport carved its niche as the summer home of Gilded Age society. Few people have seen the views from the rooftop of a Bellevue Avenue palace but you might be able to with the help of this guide.
Secret™ Providence/Newport is one of a unique series of in-depth guidebooks that take you off the tired track of mainstream tourism. This guide is a gem for anyone eager to discover the unconventional.
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Secret Toronto
$16.95Secret™ Toronto has been completely revised and updated for 2002. Part of ECW Press’s Secret™ series, Secret™ Toronto is a unique alternative to conventional guides for one of North America’s most popular tourist destinations. Secret™ Toronto takes you underground, inside, backstage, and through concealed doorways to find Toronto’s best kept secrets; from little-known museums, to overlooked neighborhood treasures, to tucked-away green places, to exotic ethnic cuisines, to cultural surprises and activities for the adventurous traveler. Secret™ Toronto captures the essence of the city as it has never been captured before. New and exciting features cover such intriguing topics as Secret Salsa (including a Latin dance studio that doubles as a driving school during the day), Secret Planespotting (aviation addicts who loiter near the airport watching planes come and go), Secret After Hours (where dancing continues when the bars are closed), Secret Fantasies (an S&M bed-and-breakfast where you can rent a private dungeon for the night — continental breakfast included!), and lots of new restaurants.
Whether you’ve never stepped foot in Toronto “the Good” or have called T.O. your home for life, you’ll be sure to find something extraordinary to tickle your fancy in ECW’s completely revised and updated Secret™ Toronto.
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Secret Vancouver
$16.95Revised and expanded for the 2010 Olympics.
It’s been said that Vancouver is a little superficial. Observers point to her great bones, pretty face, and fine outerwear of mountains, gardens, trees and water. But there’s more to this Pacific coast city than good looks.
Vancouver has character, warmth, brains and style — even some spunk. Consider funky, former-industrial Yaletown, where restaurants and tasting bars serve locally sourced and seasonal cuisine in an ultra-chic atmosphere, at prices so modest they’ll shock the knowing American. Or visit the dramatic Museum of Anthropology, with its historic aboriginal totem poles still standing tall in the Great Hall.
This revised and expanded edition of Secret Vancouver, just in time for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, includes even more secret sites, restaurants, bars, patios, bookstores, yoga classes, and other off-the-beaten-path finds. Where can you get good wireless internet? Where can you relax with a drink and the best ocean views?
Whether you are a long-time local or casual vacationer, let Secret Vancouver introduce you to the sights, sensations and stories you’d never think to look for.
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Secrets And Lies
$14.95The short stories and artwork included in this collection focus on the distorted and rearranged truths that we tell ourselves and others. What emerges from these pages is that loneliness is often the catalyst for how we reject or construct reality. In these stories, different considerations of loneliness are explored, and we get a sense of the solitude each one of us knows. Compelling and evocative, the insightful writing that comprises this Fiction Annual captures the power that secrets and lies have in both the creation and destruction of the lives we build. By virtue of the mechanisms we rely on to elude, deflect and deny, we can find ourselves very alone in a world of our own design.
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Secrets in the Water
$22.00Emma Galway’s suicide has haunted the Meredith Island for fifty years.
Back on the island to lay her grandmother to rest, Kate can’t avoid reflecting on the death of her aunt. Learning that her late mother had believed Emma was murdered and had conducted her own investigation, she decides to track down her aunt’s killer. With the help of her neighbour, impetuous and hedonistic sculptor Siobhan Fitzgerald, Kate picks up where her mother had left off. When the two women become the subject of threatening notes and violent incidents, it’s clear that one of their fellow islanders is warning them off. As they begin to look into Emma’s connection to the Sutherlands, a prominent Meredith Island family, another islander dies under suspicious circumstances, forcing Kate and Siobhan to confront the likelihood that Emma’s killer is still on the island.
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Secrets Men Keep, The
$19.95The Secrets Men Keep is about the secrets men keep, and the comic possibilities that arise from our shifting sense of what it means to be a man. Taking an off-kilter approach to revealing the intricacies of modern relationships–relationships that can be at times funny, sensual, or tense–it’s about the lies that men tell themselves and others to keep their dreams and identities afloat.