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Uppsala, Sweden. A naked man is unearthed from a river with a lacerated neck and the only clue to his…
identity is the remains of a tattoo that has been sliced off his arm. When a local drugs deal goes awry and another man is hospitalised with a similar wound, Inspector Ann Lindell and her team are called in to investigate. Winner of the Swedish Academy Award for Best Crime Novel. 2016. Uniform title: Mannen från bergen.
Based on an actual event, an 1868 murder in a railroad camp during the building of the Union Pacific. The…
killer, a construction contractor, flees the territory only to find himself being pursued by N.K. Boswell of the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency. When Boswell takes the murderer into custody, however, the detective finds that his problems have only just begun. Now he has to transport him back to Laramie. Forty miles of empty Iowa prairie, then the flooded Missouri River, then four hundred more miles of prairie. And all the while the murderer's brother and his gang of thugs are determined to stop Boswell at any cost. 2016.
Professor Ullman is a leading authority on Christian religion and myth but he sees what he teaches as nothing more…
than fiction. It's why when he's offered a trip to Venice to be a consultant on a case study based on his expertise as a 'demonologist' he accepts. But what he witnesses will change what he believes forever. Bestseller. 2013.
1915. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter of the director of the Niagara Power…
Company. After graduation day at her boarding school, she arrives home to find that her father has lost his job, her mother is reduced to taking in sewing from the society ladies she once entertained, and Isabel, her vivacious older sister, is a shadow of her former self. Then Bess meets Tom Cole by chance on a trolley platform. She finds herself inexplicably drawn to him - against her family's strong objections. He is not from their world - rough-hewn and fearless, he lives off what the river provides, and he has an uncanny ability to predict the whims of the falls. His daring river rescues render him a local hero and cast him as a threat to the power companies that seek to harness the power of the falls for themselves. As their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family and her future. 2009.
From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone…
could be. With his Wild West show, he helped invent the image of the West that still exists today - cowboys and Indians, rodeo, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protégée, who could outshoot anybody while entertaining Queen Victoria, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, among others. To each other, they were always "Missie" and "Colonel". To the rest of the world, they were cultural icons, setting the path for all that followed. 2005.
After two decades of helping clients battle addictions, Michael Pond, a successful therapist, succumbs to one himself. He loses his…
practice, his home and his family to alcoholism. Pond’s harrowing two-year journey to sobriety takes stops in abandoned sheds, dumpsters, ditches, emergency wards, intensive care, and finally, prison. His account crackles with raw energy and black humour as he plunges readers into a world few will ever have the misfortune to experience. c2014.
Inspector Luc Vanier is drinking his way through Christmas Eve when he is called out to investigate the murder of…
five homeless people. His investigation takes him into the backrooms of the Catholic Church, the boardrooms of Montreal’s business elite, and the soup kitchens and back alleys of street life in winter. Includes strong language. 2012.
Humorous yarns about cowboys, roping cattle and other facets of modern ranch life as told by a cowboy, a cowboy's…
wife, a couple of cow horses and a cow dog. 1982.
In 1970 a special field-study by the Ministry of Agriculture suggests that the incidence of bovine TB can be blamed…
on badgers. An extermination policy becomes official and the badgers must move on in search of "Elysia" or die. Their journey is long and dangerous and many die on the way - a moving story that is a powerful plea for the survival of one of our last remaining large mammals. 1987.
Reiki is the Japanese word for universal life force energy. The Reiki method of natural healing enables you to channel…
this energy to yourself. This book is an introductory as well as a detailed text book for the Reiki practitioner. It reveals the possibilities and limitations of the method, and explains the procedures and positions. Crystals and scents are also included in the treatment. 1996.
In the early 1900s, an unlikely relationship begins between a prisoner in the Kingston Penitentiary and a young girl who…
lives near the prison. They can never meet, but they hide letters for each other near the quarry where the prisoner works during the day. Winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.
Michael Hopkin is a street-hawker and self-styled intellectual who suffers from cerebral palsy. Struggling with the consequences of his passion…
for a young woman and his involvement in an act of terrorism, he reflects on his desires, the possibility of love, and the nature of violence. Strong language and descriptions of violence. 1995.
In two novellas, "The confusion of stones" and "Intelligence," Hassan explores the life of two different Arab men struggling to…
reconcile the experiences of their Lebanese homeland with the realities of life in Canada. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c1989.
The Boswell, B.C. author tells the story of four generations who try to come to terms with the forces which…
have shaped their history. A saga about the bonds and passions that tie families together and tear them apart. 1998.
The Commonwealth Games celebrates the wins and losses that mark the sixty years since the first "Friendly Games" in 1930.…
Stories of struggle and turmoil include the "Miracle Mile" duel between Landy and Bannister in 1954, and the boycotting of the Edinburgh games in 1986. This is the first comprehensive history of the sporting event that serves to unite the disparate countries that were once part of the British Empire. 1994.
In France, 1918, identical twin sisters arrive to do war work. The journey there profoundly affects their relationship with each…
other. While they are exposed to the horror and confusion of the First World War, older tragic memories interweave themselves with this new reality. 2002.
From a chilly Canadian city to an ancient Icelandic village, these short stories span worlds both mythological and real. In…
one tale, a serpentine demon lover tempts women with his own style of forbidden fruit, while throughout, giants and other strange characters are pitted against a mischievous higher power. 2002.
2002. Author Key enlisted in the U.S. Army to learn a trade and provide for his family, and was assured…
that he would never see combat. Instead, he was sent to Iraq to hunt for terrorists, a mission that involved beating civilians, kidnapping, and destroying homes and families. While on a two-week furlough, Key decided he couldn't go back to Iraq, and took his family to Canada. 2007.