The Bite Of Death

Tondbert recognises the woman at the tracks at once. It’s difficult to mistake a Murder Queen. The deadliest assassins in the world, Murder Queens never fail and she’s come to fulfil a contract on Tondbert’s head. It’s the conditions of the contract that sting the most. King Brandon, the man that killed Tondbert’s father, is holding Tondbert’s mother and sister hostage. And he’s insisted Tondbert die unarmed and on his knees. Murder Queen contracts are stone-clad. Is there any way for Tondbert to survive, let alone save his mother and sister? Find out inside!

Lila Deadwhisper is an assassin. Trained from the age of four, she costs a king's ransom to hire for a reason. She never fails, and she's just gotten a new contract to assassinate Tondbert Payne. Her customer, King Brandon, hasn't forgotten Tondbert's escape from the siege of Latraio. He's set a few conditions. Tondbert is to die unarmed, on his knees, or Tondbert's mother and sister will be thrown from the battlements of Brandon's castle. How can Tondbert survive an unstoppable assassin without risking his mother and sister's lives? Find out inside.

A collection of short stories with vampires.

As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands. Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived. The sweet taste of a mango, her first food after the attack, reaffirmed her desire to live, but the challenge of clutching the fruit in her bloodied arms reinforced the grim new reality that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her and living in a refugee camp, she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown. As told to her by Mariatu, journalist Susan McClelland has written the heartbreaking true story of the brutal attack, its aftermath and Mariatu’s eventual arrival in Toronto where she began to pull together the pieces of her broken life with courage, astonishing resilience and hope.

Its bite is seven times more lethal than a rattler, twenty-five times more deadly than a cobra. It will kill a horse in five minutes. It is nineteen feet long and moves with deadly speed. It is soundless, lashing out at its victim without warning. It is the taipan, the world's deadliest snake. AND NOW IT IS LOOSE. When will it strike again?

Involved in rabies research for much of their working careers, editors David J. Gregory and Rowland R. Tinline explore Canada’s unique contributions to rabies management in Taking the Bite Out of Rabies. By placing the major players in rabies management from provincial and federal agencies, universities, and research institutions in historical context, Gregory and Tinline trace Canada’s largely successful efforts to control rabies. Concerned about the loss of institutional memory that tends to follow success, Gregory and Tinline view this book as a crucial way to collate, verify, and preserve records for future understanding and research. The book maps the history of rabies across Canada and explores the science, organization, research, and development behind Canada’s public health and wildlife vaccination programs. It also discusses how ongoing changes in agency mandates, the environment, and the evolution of the rabies virus affect present and future prevention and control efforts.