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Loads of people-especially guys-love goofy, cartoonish movies.Loads of people-especially guys-love goofy, cartoonish TV shows.Loads of these same people don't read novels, because they can't find goofy, cartoonish novels to love.Where the hell are the goofy, cartoonish, lovable novels?You've found one. Right here. Right now.Stag is the literary equivalent of binge-watching Ted Lasso, or classic Simpsons-or it would be if those shows were loaded up with sex, blood and death. Like any good novel, it starts off kind of slow, and you'll be thinking, Is this really worth my time and attention, but around page 50 things start to kick in and soon enough you'll be totally hooked, you won't want to put it down until it ultimately explodes in a mind-blowing climax that'll leave you emotionally drained, yet wanting more. When this happens, go have a brownie because the book is over. You've got to get on with your life. Read it again in a year.Here's the story: Stag is about Trevor, a newly-divorced suburban dad in Saanich BC, who in his loneliness starts sleeping among the deer who bed down in his back yard. When a doe is killed by a car, he adopts her fawn, and tries to raise her as wild as he can, which gets complicated when his neighbour hires a (female) bow hunter to rid the suburb of deer. Trevor starts up an odd friendship with Crystal, the bow hunter, even as he plots to thwart her plans to cull the deer.

Brian Preston, Host of The Money Guy Show podcast and Cofounder of Abound Wealth Management, lays out a nine-step system for building wealth with the money you already have. Millionaire Mission helps you account for your financial blind spots, overcome the fear of making wrong decisions, and take the guesswork out of what to do with your next dollar. Remember “PEMDAS” from grade school? The acronym that helps break down complex math problems into simple steps? When it comes to managing your money, following a similar process - the Financial Order of Operations - will demystify your dollars and show you the way to build transformative wealth with the tools you already have available: Keep Your Financial Life Out of the Ditch (Cover Your Highest Deductible) - Love That Free Money (Max-Out Your Employer Match) - The Joneses Are Broke and Miserable (Pay Off High-Interest Debt) - Rainy Day Done Right (Build Emergency Reserves) - Tax-Free Armageddon (Max-Out Tax-Free Growth with Roth and/or HSA Contributions) - Max-Out Retirement Options - Building That More Beautiful Tomorrow (Leverage Hyper-Accumulation) - Funding Abundance Goals (Prepay Future Expenses) - Debt Freedom (Prepay Low-Interest Debt) - Discover what small financial decisions you can make today to move you closer to your more beautiful tomorrow. Millionaire Mission will do more than help you optimise your army of dollar bills - it will motivate you to be the best version of your financial self. You can own your time and own your life. Stop worrying so much about money, and start focusing on what really matters to you.

Meghan is a single mom, besieged by the stresses of work, relationships, and parenting. In sleep, she begins to dream of another life, of a Lady named Sylvanne, trapped in her dying husband's castle, under siege by the army of a powerful Lord. The dreams are vivid, as real as life, and their reason is only revealed when the Lady is delivered into the presence of Lord Thomas...Spanning the centuries, A Lady Under Siege is a fast-paced, complex and quirky story of courtly love, contemporary romance, and affairs of the heart. When lovers collide across time, a twelfth-century Lord can find life lessons in twenty-first-century pop songs, and a modern-day woman can find a champion in the unlikeliest of places. Brian Preston is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Details, and Vogue. He is the author of Pot Planet, which the New Yorker described as "gimlet-eyed and often hilarious.

Martial Arts are big business. Millions are in thrall to the spectacular Kung Fu movies in Hong Kong and Hollywood. But behind the celluloid fantasies, what is the reality of the Kung Fu lifestyle?In this book, self-confessed 'spineless wuss' and martial arts novice Brian Preston sets out to explore Kung Fu. Tracing its history, he travels to China, to the Shaolin Temple where it was born; he visits Seattle, San Francisco and LA, chasing down the ghost of Bruce Lee, whose singular talent and 'no-style' style brought Kung Fu to a worldwide audience; and ends up in Las Vegas, for the kick-ass freak circus of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where the joint-ripping submission locks of Brazilian Jui Jitsu provide the entertainment. On a year-long quest, Preston squares up to his inner wimp in an effort to attain a state of fearlessness for at least one fight. Can Bambi take on Bruce Lee. And survive?