"An unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life . . . Poor Super Man explodes on to the stage like a bold comic strip, complete with snappy captions and hard, bright, witty dialogue," writes the Edmonton Journal.

    And helping her out is the mysterious Caleb Stone, a consultant that the city has sent to assist. Allie has never met anyone like Caleb before. He sets her heart beating wildly, but he doesn’t seem to want to talk about his personal life at all… Caleb recognises the beautiful blonde woman immediately. He inadvertently turned into the wolf to save her from a mugger on the street. Fighting his attraction to Allie, Caleb knows that he is flirting with danger. Because if he finds his mate, he will lose his position with the Wild Keepers. And that cannot happen. He has worked too hard to prove himself. Book Two Maya Roberts has always hated the city of Covenester. But when she is offered the position of prima ballerina with the embattled Covenester City Ballet, it seems too good to resist. But then she finds the artistic director dead in a strange room of the old theatre, and encounters something that terrifies her more than anything she could have ever imagined… Evan Watts doesn’t want to take on the case at the city ballet company. Ballet is not really his style. But the leader of his pack of wolf shapeshifters, the Wild Keepers, insists, and so Evan poses as a security guard to find out if demons are behind all that is going wrong with the company. Who killed the artistic director, and why? Book Three Shay has worked the mean streets on case after case with the Wild Keepers, the pack of wolf shapeshifters sworn to protect the city from the Vilgath, a vicious race of demons. And he’s done his job damn well. So damn well he’s now beta, the second in command. But at this time of year, it all starts to get on top of him. Memories of what happened to his best friend, Eric, on a lark that went wrong back when he was a junior at high school, start to haunt him. And with them come memories of Tess Nolan. A sixteen-year-old beauty with wild auburn hair. The one that got away, all those years ago… Book Four Zach Byrnes is surprised when Thad, the alpha leader of the Wild Keepers, wants him to take on a case as a favour for an old friend. A woman is missing, having seemingly vanished into the mean streets of Covenester which she knows so well. A working girl, apparently, who has run away from her powerful and wealthy benefactor. As far as Zach is concerned, the woman probably wants to stay missing. And who is he to force her hand? But the mysterious, vulnerable Sienna Carter is not what she seems. Nor is the life that she has been forced to live. Sienna knows that she is a freak because of what she can do. Something so powerful she is running away from the man who enslaves her because of it. A man of such overwhelming power that his influence is beyond imagining. And now that she knows his secret there is no telling what he will do… Book Five A once proud wolf pack is gone. The streets of Covenester are filled with riots and death. The people know that the wolves have abandoned them. And the man who was once their proud leader, sworn to defend the city from the demons, has fled to the mountains. To hide and lick his wounds. He is haunted by the mistakes that he has made, which have cost him everything. All he wants now is to be left alone. But Keeley Walters has other ideas. She has heard that Thad Morgan, the mysterious man who is living in the cabin by the lake, might be able to translate the book. The book that she found in her father’s bag, after he returned home a changed man. A man who rocks and says a single sentence over and over.

    Inside, you'll find hundreds of jokes that are guaranteed to stir up a room full of smiles, including knock-knocks, witty puns, and one-liners. Complete with hilarious quotes from celebrities like Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, and Jerry Seinfeld, everyone will revel in each gut-busting moment.So whether you're looking to add a few jokes to your repertoire, impress your buds, or improve your banter, this sidesplitting book arms you with the perfect joke for any occasion!

    Warned off investigating a friend’s missing report, Jake rebels and returns home to the Pacific Northwest to find his friend has died in a fiery demolition derby. Jake alone believes it is murder and now he is the next target of someone anticipating his every move. Estranged from his family, Jake turns to a native shaman to unlock cryptic rock art clues to the murder and follow their trail across the high-desert landscape. The stakes rise when Jake uncovers more than a murder. Jake races the clock to expose a band of mercenaries tangled in a conspiracy sixty years in the making, as the land he loves teeters on the brink of an ecological Armageddon.

    Meet Karl (the Joker), Boris (the Gladiator), Miss Winnifred Hardbottle, Buddy (the Little Whittler) and many more.

    Gale has fashioned a spare but powerful tale that thrusts the indignities of slavery and the stupidity of racism out of the murky 18th century and into the here and now.—Martin Morrow, Calgary Herald

    The central figures are the Baums, a wealthy family whose fortune has vanished in the stock market crash, but their story is amplified and illuminated by brief glimpses of other lives; a farmer who has lost all in the dust bowl; a prostitute who exchanges her favors for dental work; a white Southern sheriff in thrall to a black short-order cook; a young man who dreams of success on Tin Pan Alley, etc. Moving deftly from scene to scene, some funny, some movingly poignant, the play becomes a deeply affecting evocation both of a tortured time in American history and of the indomitable spirit of the people who survived and prevailed in the face of unaccustomed adversity.

    It is a guide to advanced improvisation. This sequel to the best-selling improv book "Truth in Comedy" is designed to help improv performers move up to the more advanced levels of improvisation. Accompanying the book is a DVD featuring performers in action demonstrating the instructions and ideas covered in the book. The DVD includes performances by four popular improv groups: Upright Citizens Brigade, Beer Shark Mice, Armando Diaz Theatrical Experience, The Reckoning and assorted short clips with Peter Hulne. Also on the DVD are interviews with many celebrity improv artists including: Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Stephnie Weir, Tim Meadows, Andy Dick, and Adam McKay.

    Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years.This is the definitive edition of Skylight.

    When it collapsed in February 2014, lawyers across Canada and the business community were stunned. What went wrong? Why did so many lawyers run for the exit? How did it implode? What is it that holds professional partnerships together?This is the story of the rise and fall of a great company by the ultimate insider, Norman Bacal, who served as managing partner until a year before the firm's demise. Breakdown takes readers into the boardroom offices during the heady growth of a legal empire built from the ground up over 40 years. We see how after a change of leadership tensions erupted between the Toronto and Montreal offices, and between the hard-driving lawyers themselves. It is a story about the extraordinary fragility of the legal partnership, but it's also a classic business story, a cautionary tale of the perils of ignoring a firm's culture and vision.Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE<!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><!--EndFragment-->

    The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play’s most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.Using Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) Backwards and Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.

    Published in December 1899, Ibsen wrote the play between February and November of that year.

    Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote after shocking vote, citizens of Western democracies have pushed their anger to the top of their governments’ political agendas. The votes have varied in their particulars, but their unifying feature has been rejection of moderation, incrementalism, and the status quo.Amid this roiling international scene, Canada appears placid, at least on the surface. As other societies retrench, the international media have taken notice of Canada’s welcome of Syrian refugees, its half-female federal cabinet, and its acceptance of climate science and mixed efforts to limit its emissions. After a year in power, the centrist federal government continues to enjoy majority approval, suggesting an electorate not as bitterly split as the ones to the south or in Europe.As sceptics point out, however, Brexit and a Trump presidency were unthinkable until they happened. Could it be that Canada is not immune to the same forces of populism, social fracture, and backlash that have afflicted other parts of the world? Our largest and most cosmopolitan city elected Rob Ford. Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch proposes a Canadian values test for immigrants and has called the Trump victory “exciting.” Anti-tax demonstrators in Alberta chanted “lock her up” in reference to Premier Rachel Notley, an elected leader accused of no wrongdoing, only policy positions the protesters disliked.Pollster and social values researcher Michael Adams takes Canadians into the examining room to see whether we are at risk of coming down with the malaise affecting other Western democracies. Drawing on major social values surveys of Canadians and Americans in 2016—as well as decades of tracking data in both countries—Adams examines our economy, institutions, and demographics to answer the question: could it happen here?

    The tavern is owned by a tempestuous Irishman who is a s proud as he is ill-tempered and is determined to show his pride and importance to the Yankee townsmen.

    A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect.