Bob can’t believe his luck. Why a woman like Ellie would be interested in a man like him he doesn’t know and he doesn’t care. Neither does he worry what the deal is between her and Vinny. For sure Vinny scares the hell out of him but Ellie only works for Vinny and Bob just wants a good time, and the thing he has for Ellie, well it’s nothing serious. Bob works hard and there’s no reason why he shouldn’t let off a little steam. His wife and kids will never know and his friends will turn a blind eye. His behaviour may be bad but it's not as if anyone’s going to get hurt. But soon Bob finds that he has more to worry about than just Vinny. There’s also Benny, and Jimmy’s just back from a five stretch inside. Then there’s the cop Murray who seems to take things a little too personally, and there’s his pal Joe who’s taking the moral high ground. Before he knows it Bob’s in so deep he can’t see a way out. At least not until Vinny shows him one. Bob reckons that he owes his boss Dirkze nothing and that maybe Vinny’s plan can solve all of their problems. Maybe. Or maybe it’s just the start of them. With Simple Acts of Kindness Richard Todd delivers a gritty urban noir that’s as twisted as it is addictive and original.
The celebrated literary memoir and chronicle of one man's search for the elusive gift of authenticity. Troubled by the lack of substance in contemporary life, Richard Todd suspects that much of what we experience is false. In this unique pursuit of the "genuine," Todd examines his search for authenticity in places and objects, in politics and ideas, and in ourselves, and recounts his efforts to understand the desire to be a real person in a real world.
Richard Todd Canton knows all too well that when tragedy strikes, you can either triumph or fail. When he was accused of a sexual offense while working as a teachers assistant, he looked right into the lens of a television camera and said hed stood up for every kid in town, and he hoped that someone would stand up for him. Almost everyone did exactly what he asked. A tireless worker, hes also been a waiter, a store clerk, a television host, an author, and a newspaper column writerall at the same time. Long hours have been tough, but hes gotten satisfaction out of the work. In this series of vignettes, he urges readers to: Never give in to labels or opinion; be your own person. Never give up on yourself or others will surely follow. Accept the things you cannot change like death; embrace both good and bad memories, and keep marching. Make something good out of lifes toughest situations. Through a divorce and losing family members and friends, there were times Canton felt lost, but hes always managed to survive. You can, too, with the realizations in Life Doesnt Have to be Perfect to be Wonderful.
Richard Todd Canton describes himself as a working man. Never one to sit around for long periods of time, hes made a habit of keeping busyand paying attention. He entered the working world at twelve, when he stepped through the back door of a restaurant and asked for a job. Since then, hes learned from some masters and has applied that knowledge to every aspect of his life. Along the way, hes also met some interesting charactersand youll meet many of them in this collection of anecdotes from his colorful and unusual life. As one of nine children, he learned early on that the observant person can find inspiration in every person he encounters. His brother, seven sisters, and widowed mother were among the first to inspire him. This memoir invites you to join him on a journey through life, love, and other lessons. He shares some of the experiences and lessons he learned growing up in the food business (and in business in general). Youll meet some intriguing characters who have influenced Canton in one way or the other; you might even recognize yourself or your friends within the tales. Take a journey with him back through time as you meet some of the magnificent people who have made an impact on his life.
A compelling story of an addict's valiant attempt to do the difficult and challenging work to move into sustained recovery. Sitting Still sheds light on one of the country's most successful alcohol and drug treat programs, displaying in gripping detail why it consistently maintains such a high rate of recovery for its participants. Meet some of the typical residents in this long-term treatment program and discover why some of them succeed while others fail.
Christmas means different things to different people. So does family. To Richard Todd Canton, it means his revisiting life as a boy in a house that his father built for his family on Russell Street in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Remembering happy times as well as the sad ones is all a part of life. Christmas also brings with it fond memories of his mother, who filled their home with life, laughter, and love. All Things Family and Christmas offers both a sentimental journey and a reminder to all busy people that its important to take a moment to slow down and enjoy the holidays. All Things Family and Christmas is the second collection of stories based upon Cantons life growing up on Russell Street. It offers a poignant, heartfelt window into the life and memories of a grateful son and husband. From the wonderful memories of Christmases long past to the memorable characters that he encountered along the way, Canton paints a picture of interesting people and wondrous memories that are the foundation of his history.
Cats & Dogs are People Too! Since we have no kids of our own, people often assume that our pets have become our children. Well, I think it runs a little deeper than that. It has to do with how much love is exchanged between man and beast. That love can run pretty deep where certain individuals are concerned. I may very well be one of those. Let me introduce you to our family and you can decide for yourself.
Darren Lightheart and his companions rise to face the oncoming demonic army, risking their souls to preserve the World of Salvation in a distant earthly future. As tragedy riddles the group, they cut a bloody course, closing in on the ancient wizard who might hold the secret to their victory. Through doubt, they pray their hearts will endure the trials of their heroic quest...For it's a Hard Line. From the fantasy lineage of R.A Salvatore spawns the imaginative world of Richard Todd, a native of Toronto, Canada, and devoted member of the fantasy genre. Todd continues on behalf of his reading audience the tale that began with The Madness of Avlon Klynn in this developing adventure series. At the age of 37, Todd expects the tales of his world to continue to flow into story for many years to come.
September 10, 2001. Special Forces Major Kyle Mason is honeymooning at New York’s SoHo Grand Hotel with his bride, Padma Mahajan. The couple’s hotel is only a few hundred yards away from Padma’s place of work on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower. When Padma steps out for coffee and a cigarette, a mysterious visitor enters the honeymoon suite, warning Kyle of an incomprehensible catastrophe that will result in the total destruction of the World Trade Center towers, killing his wife. The stranger enlists Kyle’s help to avert a disaster that will occur the following morning – on 9/11. The first book in the Time Tunnel series, “Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers,” re-imagines 9/11 as a critical inflection point in time, the outcome of which the government determines must be altered in order to reverse the course of the American empire"--Amazon.com.
Giving: A Bible Study Wordbook for Kids is a great introduction for children on money and biblical stewardship. Ideal as an aide to parents, Sunday school teachers, and children's ministry directors, this book teaches children a number of lessons concerning giving, such as: Why we give (reasons like blessing God and helping the church grow) How we should give—and how much What kind of attitude we should have as we give Designed especially for kids in grades 2–5, this wordbook's activities include connecting the dots and coloring pages. Students will be able to design their own offering envelope, read the story of "Alex and the Lemonade Stand," and count a coin pile. Altogether, the lessons and activities help children learn a biblical and cheerful view of giving. * This book is part of The Children’s Wordbook series, by Richard Todd, and is most beneficial when used alongside the wordbooks, which cover salvation, baptism, communion, giving, and church. They are great resources for parents and teachers who want to teach children of these fundamental Christian doctrines.
Church: A Bible Study Wordbook for Kids is a great introduction for children on what church is and why we go. Ideal as an aide to parents, Sunday school teachers, and children's ministry directors, this book teaches children a number of lessons concerning church, such as: What a church is What happens at church What it means to be a part of a church Who can join a church How to join a church Designed especially for kids in grades 2–5, this wordbook's activities include a crossword puzzle, maze, coloring page, and true and false questions. Also illustrated are the activities at church and why they are important. Altogether, the lessons and activities help children see that church is not the building that we meet in, but that it’s a gathering of people who believe in Jesus. They will understand what it means to be a living part of the Church that Jesus built. * This book is part of The Children’s Wordbook series, by Richard Todd, and is most beneficial when used alongside the wordbooks, which cover salvation, baptism, communion, giving, and church. They are great resources for parents and teachers who want to teach children of these fundamental Christian doctrines.
Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published twenty-one novels since 1954 (she went on to write many more). But the course of her fiction-writing career was regarded with unease by some of her readers in that it seemed marked by an increasing conservatism of approach which could not have been foreseen in her earliest published fiction. She was acknowledged as one of Britain’s leading moral philosophers and although this study is careful to respect the distinctive integrity of her fiction-writing and her philosophy, it none the less assumes her active presence in contemporary debate as one of the most powerful and original theorists of fiction writing at the time. In this study, Richard Todd systematically, but discriminatingly, surveys all her fiction to date, and attempts to show how her fundamental theme, the interplay between the roles of artist and saint, is developed and expressed in her fiction.
Scammed by an evil Las Vegas con artist, pianist George Sistern descends into a deep depression; and even after three years, his pain, guilt, self-loathing, rage, and desire for revenge remain. Through an acquaintance, he contacts Mildred Markowitz, a psychologist and philosopher of genius. Dialogues with the Wise Woman is more than a novel. It is a psychological and philosophical treatise that tackles many important issues: What is evil? Can good and bad be determined? Is revenge ever justified? What is the best way to deal with the current violent crime epidemic? Can all criminals be rehabilitated? Is there good in everyone? What is self-esteem, and how does one acquire it? How does one release toxic and distracting thoughts? How should one prioritize time, the universal limited commodity? How can we determine the most ethical course of action? What is happiness? A no-holds-barred search for truth that encourages readers to utilize their own rational judgment, Dialogues with the Wise Woman is the perfect read for intelligent skeptics everywhere.
Baptism: A Bible Study Wordbook for Kids is a great introduction for children on this important, beloved sacrament. Ideal as an aide to parents, Sunday school teachers, and children's ministry directors, this book teaches children a number of lessons concerning baptism, such as: Why we get baptized (to show others we have joined God's family) How someone is baptized, and who may baptize them How to use baptism as an opportunity to share the faith with others But most importantly, this wordbook presents children with the question of whether or not they are in fact ready to be baptized. Designed especially for kids in grades 2-5, activities include a crossword puzzle, word search, coloring page, quiz, and "Certificate of Spiritual Birth." These activities, paired with engaging illustrations and simple explanations, will help your children truly understand the gift of baptism. * This book is part of The Children’s Wordbook series, by Richard Todd, and is most beneficial when used alongside the wordbooks, which cover salvation, baptism, communion, giving, and church. They are great resources for parents and teachers who want to teach children of these fundamental Christian doctrines.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize. It was a heady moment, but for Kidder and Todd it was only the beginning of an education in the art of nonfiction. Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as nonfiction writers, for models and instruction. They talk about narrative strategies (and about how to find a story, sometimes in surprising places), about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer. They offer some tart and emphatic opinions on the current state of language. And they take a clear stand against playing loose with the facts. Their advice is always grounded in the practical world of writing and publishing. Good Prose—like Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style—is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike. This wise and useful book is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one. Praise for Good Prose “Smart, lucid, and entertaining.”—The Boston Globe “You are in such good company—congenial, ironic, a bit old-school—that you’re happy to follow [Kidder and Todd] where they lead you.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] well-structured, to-the-point, genuinely useful, and fun-to-read guide to writing narrative nonfiction, essays, and memoir . . . Crisp, informative, and mind-expanding.”—Booklist “A gem . . . The finer points of creative nonfiction are molded into an inspiring read that will affect the would-be writer as much as Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird or Stephen King’s On Writing. . . . This is a must read for nonfiction writers.”—Library Journal “As approachable and applicable as any writing manual available.”—Associated Press
When the dead and beaten body of Jimmy Raincloud is discovered by a snowplow driver on a rural road, tension heats up between the white population of Scanlon Creek and the Native Americans of Sky Lake. Scanlon Creek and Sky Lake have coexisted uneasily for years, their geographical closeness belying the wide cultural gulf between them. Racial animosity is never far from the surface, and it becomes increasingly volatile as more Native youths are found murdered in the wilderness outside of Scanlon Creek. Primary investigator Hank Gillespie and partner Stephanie Whirlwind delve into the disturbing serial murders. Hank is plagued by vivid nightmares relating to the case, and he believes there may be a link to a mass murder committed by the Reverend Walter Tillman years before. The case proves to be one of police corruption, drug dealing, and depravity. Previous alliances between violent suspects are strained, and new ones are born, as the murders reshape the landscape of the criminal underworld. Hank and Stephanie must try to save their own lives as they uncover the true identity of the killer.
It was upon the rude awakening of my fathers death that I first took notice of my mother. There she stood at 43 years of age, overweight and slovenly. Our father had always been so immaculate about himself but our mother seemed to let herself go. Perhaps it was because she had so many children to take care of, or even that her marriage had soured, who knows? Whatever it was that was going on with her personally at the time was immensely overshadowed by the fact that her husband was dead, and she was left with a pile of children to raise. A financially strapped future faced us all. She, being of sound mind and body took on the task at hand, putting her family and its needs fi rst, quite often doing without for herself. Vivian Gillis Canton, these are her stories........
In The Sufi Doctrine of Man, Richard Todd examines the life and thought of Ibn 'Arabī's chief disciple, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (13th century C.E.). Making use of manuscript sources, he analyzes and contextualizes Qūnawī's esoteric vision of the nature and purpose of human existence, a doctrine which incorporates core elements of Qūnawī's metaphysics, cosmology, psychology, and eschatology. Qūnawī's thought is placed in relation to Ibn 'Arabī's and that of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā', and his interaction with the Avicennian tradition is explored by focusing on his dialogue with the philosopher al-Ṭūsī. Although not as famous as his master, Qūnawī is shown to have been a sophisticated metaphysician in his own right, who had a major impact on Sufi thought.
Centuries have past since the great battle in Heaven. The demons cast out from the ethereal plane have started to awaken on a world not unlike our own. To protect the denizens of this existence, God has dispatched his finest angel to stop the demonic uprising. However, in the fall the seraph has lost his memory. Now it is a race against time for a young man named Cornelius to help this new champion remember his purpose before their world succumbs to darkness.
This paper surveys markets for corporate debt securities in the major industrial countries and the international markets. The discussion includes a comparison of the sizes of the markets for various products, as well as the key operational, institutional, and legal features of primary and secondary markets. Although there are some signs that debt markets may be emphasized in the future by some countries, it remains true that North American debt markets are the most active and liquid in the world. The international debt markets are, however, growing in importance. The paper also investigates some of the reasons for the underdevelopment of domestic bond markets and the consequences of firms shifting their debt financing needs from banks to securities markets.
Perfect for use in Sunday school, Bible clubs, midweek programs, and even at home with a parent, this wordbook study on salvation introduces children to God’s grace. Clarifying some of the difficult questions surrounding salvation, this wordbook helps children see how they have fallen short of God’s glory and are in need of Jesus. Also provided are follow up questions to make kids understand more fully why they should believe in Jesus, and what it will mean for their lives. The wordbook guides children through the doctrine of salvation with activities like cryptograms, word searches, coloring pages, quizzes, and interviews with someone "who is part of God's family." Children also have an opportunity to become a member of God's family and complete a "Certificate of Spiritual Birth." This wordbook, designed especially for kids in grades 2–5, complements the rest of the Children’s Wordbook series. They are great resources for parents and teachers who want to teach children the Christian doctrines of salvation, baptism, communion, giving, and theChurch.
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