Best Selling Books by David Adams

A Governor General''s Literary Award winner for non-fiction, Lines on the Water is a beautifully rendered portrait of a life spent fishing in the Miramichi River by acclaimed author David Adams Richards. In Lines on the Water, David Adams Richards writes eloquently and movingly about his life on the shores of one of the world''s great fishing rivers. With the same insight and emotion that have won him praise for his fiction, Richards brings to life a community centred on fly-fishing—a sport that has become, for many, a way of life. Weaving together tales of the guides and poachers, the "sports" and the city slickers, Richards pays tribute to all who have shared in the joy of fishing the Miramichi. This is a book about our relationship with nature, about hunters and fishermen, friendship and family, history and memory. Lines on the Water teems with lore and wisdom, humour, and most of all, passion.

"Faith isn''t faith until it''s all you''re holding on to." - Toralii Proverb Hundreds of years before the Toralii attacked Earth, destroying the cities of Beijing, Tehran and Sydney, before they developed the voidwarp technology and destroyed their homeworld, they warred amongst themselves. The hills of the occupied Kaater Mountains were home to thousands of prisoners. Including Tami. A 1900 word story set in the Lacuna universe suitable to read as a stand-alone story. Keywords: free, freebie, free download, sci-fi, concentration camp, dystopia, space, alien, aliens, alien pov, lacuna

Drawn to a desert world by the legacy of a traitor, the crew of the TFR Beijing discover something abandoned, something forgotten... something mysterious. Buddha once said, "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast... ... for a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." The scars of betrayal runs deep... and Captain Melissa Liao will find out just how far the slighted will go for revenge. Book two of the Lacuna series. Lacuna Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity Lacuna: The Prelude to Eternity (coming soon!) Don''t miss these short stories set in the Lacuna universe: Magnet Magnet: Special Mission Magnet: Marauder Magnet: Scarecrow (new release!) Magnet Omnibus I (new release!) Imperfect Faith

My name is Mike “Magnet” Williams. I''ve come a long way. These days I have my own ship, the Rubens. We stole it from the Toralii Alliance. For the last year the Rubens has been tasked with ‘counter-logistical privateering’ against the Toralii Alliance, attacking their military supply network. We hit them hard, we get out, we do it all over again. Modern day buccaneers given total autonomy. We''re alone, without anothr Human within a thousand light years. If only that were true. Somewhere out in the black, around a remote moon covered in ice that''s kilometres thick, we found something. Something that was not supposed to be there. Something we were not supposed to find. Scarecrow. I can take a lot of pressure. Fighter pilots are supposed to be able to do that. Whatever the universe throws at me, I can handle it. So far I''ve faced aliens, friendly and otherwise, and I''ve seen things that so very few Humans have. I''ve dealt with it all. But not this. Not my own conscience. 15,700-word story in the Lacuna universe, set after the events of Magnet: Marauder and Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity, but suitable for reading as a stand-alone story. Parts of the Lacuna universe: - Magnet - Magnet: Special Mission - Magnet: Marauder - Magnet: Scarecrow (new release!) - Imperfect - Faith The Lacuna series: - Lacuna - Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi - Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion - Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity (new release!) - Lacuna: The Prelude to Eternity (coming soon!)

With The Friends of Meager Fortune, award-winning author David Adams Richards continues his exploration of New Brunswick’s Miramichi Valley, and the universal human matters that concern us all. A story of good and evil, fate and hope, set against the background of a logging town on the brink of change. Will Jameson has a temperament of iron, standing up to men twice his age when he takes over the Jameson lumber company after his father''s death. His younger brother Owen is sensitive, literary and fanciful. But when Will dies suddenly and Owen''s beloved Lula rejects him, Owen''s deeper character comes to light: joining the army in the hope of getting himself killed, instead Owen returns home a decorated war hero. Then he falls in love with the beautiful, childlike Camellia—the wife of Will''s old friend Reggie Glidden—and soon Owen and Camellia find themselves watched on all sides, caught in the teeth of an entire town''s gossip and hypocrisy. Inexorably, they are pulled into a chain of events that will end with death, disappearance and a sensational trial. At the same time, realizing his destiny, Owen takes over the family business and begins what will become the greatest cut in New Brunswick history, his men setting up camp on the notoriously dangerous Good Friday Mountain. The teamsters spend months in fierce ice and snow, daily pitting themselves against nature and risking their lives for scant reward, in the last moments before the coming of mechanization that will make them obsolete. This heroic, brutal life is all Meager Fortune, the camp keeper, knows. A good and innocent man, he shows unexpected resolution in the face of the betrayals of the more worldly men around him.

This invaluable book presents an unbiased framework for modelling and using sensors to aid mobile robot navigation. It addresses the problem of accurate and reliable sensing in confined environments and makes a detailed analysis of the design and construction of a low cost optical range finder. This is followed by a quantitative model for determining the sources and propagation of noise within the sensor. The physics behind the causes of erroneous data is also used to derive a model for detecting and labelling such data as false. In addition, the author''s data-processing algorithms are applied to the problem of environmental feature extraction. This forms the basis of a solution to the problem of mobile robot localisation. The book develops a relationship between the kinematics of a mobile robot during the execution of successive manoeuvres, and the sensed features. Results which update a mobile vehicle''s position using features from 2D and 3D scans are presented.

Although often embroiled in controversy and public debate, Spender''s all-consuming passion was literature. This biography of a major 20th century literary figure examines his personal life as well as his writings and beliefs.

Banking and Capital Markets is a practical guide to a field that has seen a rapid rate of change in recent years. The text is divided into three parts: Part I provides a clear and accessible explanation of the fundamentals behind drafting loan facility documentation; Part II provides a thorough examination of secured lending, which is probably the most legally complex area of the banking solicitor''s practice; and Part III provides a straightforward introduction to capital markets financing including the process of issuing a stand-alone bond.

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Literary legend David Adams Richards follows the epic Miramichi Trilogy with a startling standalone novel of concentrated power. The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society--asbestos. But now their mine is under close scientific scrutiny, with reports of serious illness linked to the place. The world is changing, no doubt for the better... But in the shadow of the mine, the values of a whole community are transforming, in more sinister ways. The Raskins'' nephew Byron, a war hero and man of wealth, urges the brothers to look for other, less toxic minerals to extract. But meanwhile his own world is unravelling in ways that are unlikely ever to be fixed. His wife Carmel, whom he vaingloriously believed he was rescuing with his marriage proposal, has become an intellectual and political poseur. She and her son Albert are contemptuous of the values of Byron and his kind, while still finding use for his wealth and property. Carmel and Albert, it seems, are heralds of a new world addicted to mimicry and empty self-promotion, to delusions and temptations. Its victims are growing in number: a college professor in town is falsely accused of sexual harassment; a young woman is slipped an hallucinogen at a party with appalling consequences for her and two boys. And what of poor, naive Eva Mott, the captivating beauty who wished to be like her talented cousin Clara? Her story and the book that bears her name will haunt you. The Tragedy of Eva Mott has all the power and brilliance--and many flashes of wry humour--of David Adams Richards at the very top of his form. It will attract controversy but its fierce authenticity cannot be denied.

Banking and Capital Markets is a practical guide to a field that has seen a rapid rate of change in recent years. The text is divided into three parts: Part I provides a clear and accessible explanation of the fundamentals behind drafting loan facility documentation; Part II provides a thorough examination of secured lending, which is probably the most legally complex area of the banking solicitor�€™s practice; and Part III provides a straightforward introduction to capital markets financing including the process of issuing a stand-alone bond.

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At the pinnacle of his career, Sir James Douglas, fur trader and colonial governor, was knighted by the order of Queen Victoria, and greatly enjoyed the pomp of his position. Considering his modest beginnings as a mixed-race baby in South America, this lofty status was remarkable. The life of Amelia, companion throughout James'' long rise, saw even more surprising changes. Amelia was of mixed blood too, being part-Cree, part-Scot. She never left the northern Canadian forests until she married James, but ended up a respected lady of the Empire. Between them, James and Amelia Douglas knew everybody who was anybody in western North America. Their lives saw astonishing contrasts, from crossing North America by canoe to touring Europe by train, from Native uprisings to frantic gold rushes. They met with grief as well as glory, losing seven of their beloved children. This is an engaging story of courage and companionship - though James Douglas''s role as a public figure is well known, this book offers the first real glimpses of him as a private man, husband and father.

The first definitive overview of the Tonalist movement-the crucial but long-misunderstood missing link in the evolution of American art. Includes over 300 color plates.

Let your imagination take flight! David Adams''s paintings guide you into a realm of wonder and delight. In this book, you''ll discover techniques for using acrylic paints to create realistic interpretations of fairies and their romantic worlds. From the basics of color and composition to ideas for using nature as a starting point, you''ll find everything you need to paint your own enchanting fairy dreamscapes. Instruction on how to paint a variety of fairies, including facial features, delicate wings, poses, flowing hair, clothing and more Lessons on painting natural settings and elements to enhance your fairy scenes, such as butterflies, birds, trees, bumblebees, water reflections, flowers, mushrooms, waterfalls, clouds and rainbows Secrets to achieving otherworldly lighting effects such as magical sparkles, moody fogs and luminous glows 20+ step-by-step painting demonstrations show you how to portray beautiful fairies in various settings

A practical treatment of short-range radar processing for reliable object detection at ground level.

This Crossfit WOD journal is great for logging your workouts and keeping on track for your goals.

This Crossfit WOD journal is great for logging your workouts and keeping on track for your goals.

This illuminating portrait of the life and times of black artist Beauford Delaney evokes the vibrant milieu of Bohemian Greenwich Village in the 1930s and 1940s and Paris in the ''50s and ''60s. As it explores the evolution of Delaney''s art, "Amazing Grace" examines the artist''s relationships with such notables as Henry Miller, James Baldwin, Georgia O''Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz. 24 color plates.

It''s 2037. I''m Mike Williams, but you can call me ''Magnet''. Everyone else does. It''s short for ''Chick Magnet'', which is good old-fashioned military humour at its finest. At age fifteen, my face picked a fight with the propeller of my family''s boat, on a shoal near Broome, off Western Australia. It was an accident, but, needless to say, the propeller won. Twelve years later, I was a not-so-ruggedly-handsome fighter pilot assigned to the TFR Sydney. Not the Captain, or flight leader, or anything similarly exciting. Nobody special, just one mostly-unmemorable pilot among the many nameless, faceless masses. I''m Magnet. This is my story. Contains: Magnet Magnet: Special Mission Magnet: Marauder Magnet: Scarecrow and a bonus story, "Magnet Saves Christmas"! This novel length collection of Magnet stories is interwoven into the Lacuna universe, taking place between Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi and Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity, but is suitable for reading as a standalone collection. Parts of the Lacuna universe: - Magnet - Magnet: Special Mission - Magnet: Marauder - Magnet: Scarecrow - Magnet Omnibus I (new release!) - Imperfect - Faith The Lacuna series: - Lacuna - Lacuna: The Sands of Karathi - Lacuna: The Spectre of Oblivion - Lacuna: The Ashes of Humanity (new release!) - Lacuna: The Prelude to Eternity (coming soon!)

After twenty years, Alex Chapman still blames his great-uncle James for the direction his life has taken. When Alex learns that James has won thirteen million dollars in a lottery, he sees a chance for revenge. A plot to steal the ticket from his uncle turns into a a tale of small-town jealousy and corruption.

Designed for both hairdressing students and experienced technicians, the object of this book is to unveil the visionary world of colour. This book will help you to understand the philosophy, the history, and the power of colour and, perhaps more importantly, it will also show you how, with step-by-step photo sequences, to take the uncertainty and complexity out of colouring hair. David Adams is one of the UKÃ ;''s leading hair colourists and is technical director at the AVEDA Salon in Harvey Nichols, London. His reputation for technical brilliance and innovation in new techniques mean he commands the utmost respect from the industry and trust from his clients. As such, he is the ideal author of a book on hair colouring for his fellow professionals, students training as hairdressers, and those involved in teaching and training.

Cindi and Ivan Basterache have been married only twenty months. There is a disagreement over a loan, and rumours of violence in the ensuing quarrel begin to spread throughout the northern New Brunswick mill town in which they live, setting in motion a series of events and misunderstandings. As Ivan struggles to reconcile with Cindi, the community turns against him, fuelled by his father’s self-deluded lies and misguided attempts to set things right, exposing the other side of good intentions and leading to the novel’s powerful conclusion. Disturbing, tender-hearted, and at times darkly humorous, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace reveals the strange unrecognized power in us all to shape one another’s destinies.

Press baron, entrepreneur, art collector, and wartime minister in Churchill''s cabinet, Max Aitken was a colonial Canadian extraordinaire. Rising from a hardscrabble childhood in New Brunswick, he became a millionaire at age 25, earned the title of Lord Beaverbrook at 38, and by age 40 was the most influential newspaperman in the world. Fiercely loyal to the British Empire, he was nonetheless patronized by London''s upper class, whose country he worked tirelessly to protect during World War II. David Adams Richards, one of Canada''s preeminent novelists, celebrates Beaverbrook''s heroic achievements in this perceptive interpretive biography.

Exchanging Western values for far-off Thailand, Gunnar Ray plans to teach in the countryside and absorb the country''s ancient wisdom. When monsoon rains flood the lands above his adopted village, catastrophe strikes. Gunnar''s innocence is swept downstream along with hundreds of Thai lives. Exchanging Western values for far-off Thailand, Gunnar Ray plans to teach in the countryside and absorb the country''s ancient wisdom. When monsoon rains flood the lands above his adopted village, catastrophe strikes. Gunnar''s innocence is swept downstream along with hundreds of Thai lives.

From the stories suggested by the great cave paintings of the Paleolithic period to the thought experiments of modern scientists, ''From Olympus to Camelot'' provides a sweeping history of the development of the rich and varied European mythological tradition. David Leeming, an authority on world mythology, begins with a general introduction to mythology and mythological terms, and then turns to the stories themselves. Discussing well-known figures such as Zeus, Aphrodite, Thor, and Cuchulainn, and less familiar ones such as Perun, Mari, and the Sorcerer of Lescaux, Leeming illustrates and analyzes the enduring human endeavor to make sense of existence through deities and heroes.