Dena Bain Taylor has spent most of her life in Toronto, Canada, pursuing her joint passions: music and books. She is a classically-trained singer. She is also a writer, critic, tv script advisor, literary award juror, and erstwhile owner of Ben Abraham Books (specializing in the occult). Along the way, she has had a long career at the University of Toronto – first as a Professor of English Literature, then as the Director of the prestigious Health Sciences Writing Centre.
She has published extensively, and eclectically: an English dictionary for Chinese students; a couple of textbooks on writing in the Health Sciences; numerous articles and talks on William Blake, sf/f and the occult; and sf/f short stories. In 2020, she published 100 Years at the Beach: A History of the Beach Hebrew Institute, 1919-2019 (ECW Press). Bones & Keeps is her first novel, a historical fantasy about the great Scandinavian hero Beowulf. Dena holds an ARCT in Voice Performance, as well as an MA and PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto. And somehow, through all of this, she has managed to raise two amazing children. She now lives with her husband in a small palace in the sky overlooking Lake Ontario.
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Bones and keeps
The year is 542 and the great king Beowulf is midway in life between slaying the monster Grendel and his fatal battle with a dragon. He rules his kingdom on the west coast of Sweden wisely and gives rich gifts to his thanes, defends his keep and fills it with treasure. But then his sister Skuld, the most powerful witch-queen of the Gautar people, pronounces his doom, just as a foreign woman arrives from the far south, escaping an Alexandria gripped in the plague that is destroying the Byzantine Empire. Suddenly Beowulf is propelled into a battle for his life and kingdom, and into the wars of the gods where acts of love and betrayal shape the destiny of the worlds.
Meticulously researched, the historical fantasy of Bones and Keeps immerses the reader in a time when gods and monsters walk the living world, when survival depends on the strength of a king’s arm, and the inscrutable forces of weird threaten the fall of gods and humanity alike.
7 x 10 Softcover
Jim Roe
Novelist Jim Roe has always been an enthusiastic observer of zombie and alien movies. Using the intricacy employed in creating offensive football plays across 40 years of coaching, Jim wove together his back-to-back debut novels, Creature and The Scourge, with the helpful insight of his wife Anne.
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The Scourge
After his father’s sudden heart attack, Scott Westfall took over his father’s research facility. He was looking for the one discovery that would make enough money to set him up for life — but he got more than he’d bargained for.
With time and money dwindling before him, Scott injected himself with the dangerous, experimental genetics serum designed to build better soldiers. In so doing, he unwittingly released a terror across the Americas that spread and devoured like wild fire.
The only hope lay in Galveston, Texas, home to two prominent doctors — one an expert in virology, the other in physiology. But, the indomitable power and speed of the Scourge made time extremely short…
Creature
A horrific year of war has passed since they arrived — the most cunning aggressive, blood-thirsty creatures any human has ever encountered.
The only person to have survived a night in their presence, Corporal Vargos, was recruited by Special Forces to take the fight back. When victory was achieved Vargos was tasked with one final assignment — a seemingly innocuous mission that would force him to face his worst nightmare all over again.
Onboard their spacecraft, with little time and equipment at their disposal, Vargos and his crew must find a way to hold the line between survival and a presence, so powerful and intelligent, that it threatens to destroy them all…
Sam Mellace
Dubbed the “King of Pot” by National Geographic’s Lisa Ling, Dr. Sam Mellace has been one of Canada’s leading medical marijuana advocates since he was first prescribed cannabis to treat pain and liver complications from a brutal car accident. Like many of his patients, Sam is also a cancer survivor, and has treated thousands of people living with a variety of pain, disease, and illnesses with his cannabis oils, extracts, and other remedies. He believes in establishing a national framework for Dignified Access, and further advocates for a Royal Commission on Canadian cannabis policy and legality that will enshrine Dignified Access in future legislation. He famously (and legally) smoked a joint in the House of Commons in 2010 to protest the government’s failed medical-marijuana policies.
In less than two years, Sam Mellace experienced a life-threatening car accident, a prescription opioid addiction, diabetes and cancer. He was an ex-convict who was looking to turn around his life, but instead he found himself fighting for it.
Meanwhile, cannabis was a drug that was slowly turning its fortunes around, too, from a history of stigma and prohibition to a new era of curiosity, openness and incredible medical science.
So Sam did a thing that surprised himself: he bought a farm in British Columbia and started growing weed. He was one of the first to be licensed under Canada’s medical marijuana law, and because of his unusual combination of pain and disease, he won the right to grow more cannabis than anyone in North America.
Then he started to discover the flaws in the system—the gaps between bureaucracy and decency, between education and criminalization, between dignity and shame. So he began to learn, build a community, and fight for patients’ rights. And in doing so, he found an enemy even more dangerous than the ones from his criminal past: an ugly conspiracy of power, ignorance and greed that was threatening real lives.
The story of Sam Mellace, like the story of cannabis, is the story of a struggle for redemption, understanding, and justice. Standing in the way of all of that is the Great Cannabis Conspiracy.
Reza Mokhtarian
In 2016, the controversial mentor, entrepreneur, and financial guru founded the fastest growing Forex (foreign exchange) trading company in the world -- "Kaizen Global." His unique approach to trading is designed to help millennials break the 9-to-5 grind and shape their own futures. Reza's forthcoming book, Change Your Bloodline, tells the rags-to-riches story of how this social media megastar rose to become the most influential Forex mentor in the world.
Winter 2020
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Devany Wolfe
Artist, fashion designer, and spiritual writer Devany Wolfe is the creator of Serpentfire Tarot: The Aeon of Horus, a 78 card, gold-trimmed tarot deck that features Frida Kahlo as the Queen of Cups and Elizabeth Taylor as the Empress. Wired Magazine called it "a psychedelic journey to your inner self--or your outer hipster affectation."
Rekindle your love for the divine feminine as you trace her footsteps through the majesty of the desert. Allow these carefully crafted cards to lead you on a vision quest deep into the heart of majestic archetypes.
The artwork lends itself to traditional tarot symbolism - which you can see if you look closely - but it is also a new interpretation of the cards. This makes the deck great for beginners and seasoned collectors alike.
Product info - SIXTH EDITION
▹ Card back and box design feature the Aeon of Horus artwork. The borders of the Major Arcana differ from those of the Minor Arcana as seen above.
▹Full 78 card tarot deck featuring collage artwork by Devany Wolfe. Standard 2.75 x 4.75 card size printed on 12 point 310gsm linen card stock, which provides great colour quality, sheen, and snap back.
▹ Cards are edged in gold.
▹Deck is accompanied by a comprehensive card meanings + readings booklet written by the artist.
▹ Both deck and booklet come inside of a beautiful, durable two piece lift box.
Hilary Apfelstadt
Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Conducting at the University of Toronto where she was named the inaugural Faculty Teaching Excellence Award winner in 2013. She holds the Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting. Artistic Director of Exultate Chamber Singers, a semi-professional ensemble in Toronto.
Author of more than eighty articles, her forthcoming book "I Didn't Want It to Be Boring" chronicles the life and career of Ruth Watson Henderson--a brilliant Canadian composer, whose rise was particularly meteoric. Through a series of interviews conducted over five years, the book provides a glimpse into the personality of a Canadian musical luminary.
Patricia Parr
Patricia Parr is a Juno Award-winning Canadian pianist, well known for her twenty-year collaboration with the AMICI Chamber Ensemble. Before the age of twenty, she had made thirty appearances with major symphony orchestras. In later years, Ms. Parr received the Order of Canada for her landmark contributions to Canadian classical music. She is a retired professor at the University of Toronto.
Helen Anne Bolger and George Hayward
Ten years ago, Helen and George began meditating together. They discovered that the harmony between them produced amazing psychic phenomena.
Actually, in his or her own right, each is a humble yet multi-gifted psychic. During their sittings, Helen began drawing what appeared visually together with descriptions of the Spirit visitors she saw. Within a brief period of time, information trickled through until she was receiving and scribbling vast amounts with little difficulty.
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The Universe: Our Guiding Light
The couple unwarily fell into a system that was somewhat unique. George became a conduit or
receiving station for Helen, who telepathically received the information and wrote it down. This
method of writing is known as "automatic script". It is the technique through which their brilliant
book, The Universe: Our Guiding Light, was born.
7 x 10 Softcover
Harvey Sarles
Dr. Harvey Sarles began teaching linguistics and anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in the early 1960s and became Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota in 1966. He lectured in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature until his retirement in 2011. He is currently the co-founder and a director of the John Dewey Center for Democracy and Education.
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The Foundations Project
In the Foundations Project, Professor Harvey Sarles prepares the ground for an anthropology of the ordinary. In this work, Sarles provides us with a collection of thoughts and aphorisms that challenge the received wisdom and commonplace assumptions regarding human nature and the human condition, mind and body duality, meaning, metaphysics, language, morality, truth, society, religion, democracy, ageing, and the idea.
Elizabeth Chish-Graham
Elizabeth Chish-Graham published her debut children's book, Gracey at the Grange, with Prism Publishers in 2016. Working alongside illustrator Dawn Dougall, Elizabeth entreats readers to follow the character of Gracey -- a British immigrant-turned-scullery maid in 1835, Toronto -- into an imaginary world where history and fantasy converge in unexpected ways.
Elegant and accessible, her book is intended for kids "6-to-60."
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Gracey at the Grange
Stories for Children 6-to-60
Have you ever wondered how an old historical building came about? Through the eyes of Gracey -- a young scullery maid -- we learn of just that.
Put yourself in the character of "the cook" in the 1835 Toronto House and holler at Gracey as you read her antics to your children, who will learn how the Grange became the first Art Gallery of Ontario.
Philip J. Regal
For as long as he can remember, evolutionary biologist Philip J. Regal has been fascinated by nature, adventure, and the paradox of continuity and change. This love has taken him on adventures from tropical rain forests to rare-book libraries.
From Darwinism to Global Human Ecology to a full-length study of the behaviour of bonobos, Dr. Regal's work represents a holistic approach that straddles the disciplinary lines between physiology, ecology, functional anatomy, genetics, and philosophy.
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Renaissance Eroticism at THE Dawn: Donatello's "David"
For the first fourteen-hundred years of Christianity, nudity in religious art had been considered shameful—sinners burning in Hell, Adam and Eve after The Fall. However, in the early Italian Renaissance, the nude human form came to be represented with dignity and beauty, even in religious art. How were centuries of religious beliefs and traditions overcome during the time of Da Vinci, Botticelli, and Crivelli? In his new book, Renaissance Eroticism at the Dawn, Philip J. Regal explores this question in incisive detail.
8 x 11 Softcover
Colour photographs
The Anatomy of Judgment
The Anatomy of Judgment is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature of the social and humanistic contexts for science.