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Critically acclaimed children's author Ann Alma presents two beloved books for young people, gathered together in this special bundle. <br/> <br/>
<i>Shortlisted for the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award</i> <br/> <br/>
<b>Includes: <br/> <i>Under Emily’s Sky</i></b> <br/> During a camping trip, 11-year-old Lee finds herself on a rough trail in a Vancouver Island forest. Halfway to an abandoned homestead, Lee trips and is knocked unconscious. She awakens in a strange world: all the usual landmarks have disappeared and the terrain is unpopulated except for a strange trailer and a herd of dogs. Lee investigates only to find an ornery woman at an easel who says she's named Emily Carr, and a family from the Depression-torn Prairies illegally logging the island's mighty cedars. <br/> <br/>
<b><i>Skateway to Freedom</i></b> <br/> Eleven-year-old Josie Grun escapes from Communist East Germany with her mother and father one dark night in 1989 just months before the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down. Braving border guards, barbed wire, and rifle shots, Josie reluctantly turns her back on her best friend, Greta, and all that was once familiar. She crosses the ocean to join her uncle in Calgary, attempts to learn a foreign language, and overcomes the prejudices of her schoolmates in order to forge a new life. Clinging to the passion that has always been a comfort, her figure skating, she enters a local competition to prove that she is free on the ice and off.
Métis Beach
In America, not believing in God is anti-American, isn’t it? At fifty years of age, Roman Carr, whose real name is Romain Carrier, has made it. His television series In Gad We Trust , a scathing satire of the United States and its relationship with God, is a huge hit. He is carving out an enviable place for himself in Hollywood, the end of a long, tortuous journey for the man who fled his Gaspé Peninsula village in murky circumstances back in 1962. Both a coming-of-age story and a historical epic, Métis Beach is a chronicle of the great American Sixties. It recaptures the extraordinary liberation movements and social unrest that marked that era, and vividly conveys the irrepressible idealism that carried along a whole generation. It is a celebration of the supreme good that the United States hoped to achieve: the coming of everyone’s right to be free.
Escape to Havana
Sleuth is a likeable everyman, thrust into an uncomfortable new role by events beyond his control Sleuth is a diplomat and ideally placed to get caught up with intriguing people and situations With a globe-trotting diplomat main character, each book in the series will be set in a different foreign locale (first three books set in Havana, Moscow, and Tokyo) As well as the usual challenge of trying to unravel a mystery, Charlie is always faced with the burden of doing so in a foreign jurisdiction with unfamiliar laws, bureaucracies and customs. Author's legal training informs his plots, while his expertise regarding consular officers, diplomatic postings, and embassy politics mean he is the perfect author for this series.
Stonechild and Rouleau Mysteries 3-Book Bundle
When damaged, brilliant detective Kala Stonechild and workaholic staff sergeant Jacques Rouleau get paired up, pieces start falling into place. The series has been called “deeply atmospheric and tightly plotted” and praised for its grit. Now, the first three mysteries are available together in an ebook-exclusive bundle at a special price. <br/> <br/>
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<b><i>Cold Mourning – Book #1</i></b> <br/> A week before Christmas, wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air, with more than enough people wanting him dead. Kala Stonechild is a new member of the specialized Ottawa Police unit tasked with bringing him home for the holidays, but a killer has other plans. Who can you trust when love turns to hate and murder stalks a family? <br/> <br/>
<b><i>Butterfly Kills – Book #2</i></b> <br/> Rouleau is in a new job in a new city. He’s in a fight against time to keep his dysfunctional team together long enough to get to sort out the innocent from the evil. <br/> <br/>
<b><i>Tumbled Graves – Book #3, NEW!</i></b> <br/> When Adele Delaney and her daughter go missing, Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund investigate. Adele’s body soon turns up – dead, with no sign of her daughter. Struggling to to keep the case on track and her own life under control, Stonechild learns the dead woman had ties to a Montreal biker gang and heads to Quebec to find the missing piece.
Eldritch Manor 2-Book Bundle
Are those cranky old folks at the retirement home really what they seem? This two-book bundle presents both of Kim Thompson’s acclaimed Eldritch Manor books! Willa Fuller thought there was something more to the old folks over at Eldritch Manor, but she never expected this! Suddenly, her world is buzzing with angry pixies, squawking phoenixes, and a dragon who – wait, where did the dragon go? Includes: Eldritch Manor – Book #1 Where have all the ancient creatures of myth and legend gone? Apparently, they’re disguised as senior citizens, and they live in a boarding house in twelve-year-old Willa Fuller’s neighbourhood. When Willa is left to babysit the cantankerous oldsters while their sinister landlady, Miss Trang, is away, the forces of darkness attack! Shadow Wrack – Book #2 After the events of Eldritch Manor, Willa just wants peace and quiet, but the burned-down old house is only creating more problems. The old folks are restless, the magical groups are fighting with each other, and Willa’s attempts to “fix” her family aren’t going well at all. The forces of darkness were easier to handle!
Wishful Seeing
Deals with sexism and the legal system of nineteenth-century Canada and delves into the duplicity surrounding the railway business of the time A well-researched and accurate portrayal of life in rural Ontario during the Victorian age Previous books in the series were well reviewed in Quill & Quire, National Post, Publishers Weekly, and the Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail wrote (of The Burying Ground), “Love the Murdoch Mysteries? Then you need to discover Janet Kellough’s terrific series set in 1851 and featuring preacher/detective Thaddeus Lewis.” The National Post wrote, “Kellough does a fine job of bringing life to the times and to her ministerial hero on horseback – buy it.”
The Great Gould
A startling new portrait of Gould, including never-before-seen material. Glenn Gould’s astonishing recordings deliver that unmistakable jolt of genius to each generation newly discovering the great Canadian pianist. With the support of the Glenn Gould Estate, Peter Goddard draws on his own interviews with Gould and on new, and in some cases overlooked, sources to present a freshly revealing portrait of Gould’s unsettled life, his radical decision to quit concertizing, his career as a radio innovator, and his deep response to the Canadian environment. Sci-fi and hi-fi, hockey and Petula Clark, Elvis, jazz, chess, the Beatles, and sex – all these inform this exploration of the pianist’s far-reaching imagination. There is even a touching account of the only piano lesson Gould ever gave. This is the perfect gift for anyone new to classical music and those already immersed in it, for those with an interest in Canadian music, in Glenn Gould himself, and in what led to The Goldberg Variations , one of the greatest recordings in music history.
A Delicate Matter
Tenth book in the acclaimed Jack Taggart Mystery series In a nod to the past, A Delicate Matter brings back a longtime Taggart nemesis, Damien Zabat, who has been featured in several of the previous books, but most prominently in the debut title, Loose Ends With the eventual death of Zabat, Don Easton introduces Purvis Eaves, the new gang leader who makes Damien look like Mister Rogers, and sets up a brand-new master villain for Taggart to butt heads with Author is a retired RCMP undercover agent with an insider’s knowledge of how the force works Gritty style and real-world details culled from a career in undercover operations
Salvage
Author is a nationally syndicated columnist printed in major Canadian daily newspapers including the National Post , Ottawa Citizen , Montreal Gazette , Calgary Herald , and Vancouver Sun Author has a strong online presence, with 34.7K tweets sent, 1,090 photos/videos, and 22.1K followers on Twitter Protagonist Phillip Scarnum is a strong, relatable character: morally ambiguous, at home in the harsh North Atlantic, but a misfit on land Dramatic tension in the novel comes from Scarnum’s unknown aims and motivations, which remain veiled until the last chapters Author vividly captures the harshness of a life spent at sea on the East Coast of Canada
Two Freedoms
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 A bold call for a Canadian foreign policy that advances the basic freedoms that enable peace, stability, development, and security. What ends should a democratic country’s foreign policy serve? Avoiding diplomatic disputes? Keeping allies happy? Promoting national and global security? While a qualified yes is the logical answer to all of these secondary questions, Two Freedoms argues for something more, something that reflects Canada’s commitment, at home and abroad, to the two key freedoms: freedom from want and freedom from fear. Two Freedoms examines the costs of allowing these freedoms to die or diminish and at how a country can design a foreign policy that makes the pursuit of these freedoms real and practical. To design a genuine foreign policy of purpose and substance, a country must look at what it would mean for its diplomats, its military, its development aid, and its relations with important multilateral organizations like the U.N. To achieve a goal, a foreign policy needs good strategy, tactics, and design. These key elements are all found in Two Freedoms .