A Hutterite is murdered and two worlds collideWhen a young Hutterite man is found murdered in a luxurious home in the city, Detective Michael Shelter is pulled into a case like none other. To find the killer, Shelter must win the trust of a rural Hutterite colony where the faithful live apart from the outside world, following a devout way of life passed down for 500 years.How could a leader of a strictly pacifist farming community end up murdered in an expe...

"They worked only at night, for the miners' night was the goblins' day. Indeed, the greater number of the miners were afraid of the goblins; for there were strange stories well known amongst them of the treatment some had received whom the goblins had surprised at their work during the night."Wandering around her big empty house, Princess Irene discovers a mysterious staircase that leads to a hidden room. In the nearby mines, young miner Curdie overhears a group of goblins plotting...

Spanning centuries, 'The Greats of Sci-Fi: H.G. Wells Edition' emerges as a seminal anthology that traverses the varied terrains of science fiction. The works selected for this collection not only showcase the inventive richness that characterizes the genre but also illuminate the essential themes of exploration, societal critique, and technological speculation. From the haunting depths of psychological manipulation to the exhilarating realms of interstellar travel, the literary styles var...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

The Search Begins: Tal decides to head to Hillston, driven by the hope that finding the hidden money might give his life some direction. Upon arriving in the small town, he discovers that Timmy’s family is struggling and that others might also be searching for the treasure. The town is filled with secrets, and Tal soon realizes that the search for "Cinderella" will be far more complicated—and dangerous—than he anticipated.The Town and Its Secrets: As Tal digs deeper into the mystery, he en...

The Princess and Curdie is a children's classic fantasy novel by George MacDonald from late 1883.The book is the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin. The adventure continues with Princess Irene and Curdie a year or two older, and must overthrow a set of corrupt ministers who are poisoning Irene's father, the king. Irene's grandmother also reappears and gives Curdie a strange gift and a monster called Lina to help his quest. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best BookFollowing the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall On Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battle fields of World War One, to the emerging jazz scene of New York City and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The mythically charged Piper family—James, a father of intelligence and immense ambition, Materia, his Lebanese child-bride, and their...

“The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let’s get married. Let’s have kids. Let’s be the ones who do it right.”The Way the Crow Flies, the second novel by bestselling, award-winning author Ann-Marie MacDonald,is set on the Royal Canadian Air Force station of Centralia during the early sixties. It is a time of optimism--infused with the excitement of the space race but overshadowed by the menace of the Col...

"Omand’s Creek is the best Canadian crime debut in recent memory." - The Montreal Gazette.A young woman has been brutally murdered, her body left on the banks of Omand’s Creek. Similarities with a murder a month earlier lead Detective Michael Shelter to believe he’s dealing with a killer preying on sex workers in the city’s large Indigenous community. He soon realizes he’s facing a far more cunning adversary than he’d imagined.As he races to find the killer, Shelter uncover...

In "George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection," readers are invited to immerse themselves in a vast tapestry of enchanting worlds crafted by one of the pioneers of modern fantasy literature. This collection includes eight novels and over thirty short stories and fairy tales, showcasing MacDonald's unique ability to blend the mystical with moral undertones. His literary style is characterized by rich imagery and lyrical prose, often drawing inspiration from the Romantic tradition wh...

The groundbreaking Victorian-era fantasy from the Scottish literary master. " Without question one of the cornerstones of the genre."— Black GateGeorge MacDonald's first major fiction work, in MacDonald's words "a sort of fairy tale for grown people," Phantastes was published in 1858. This unusual fantasy, subtitled a "faerie romance," is one of MacDonald's most mysterious and esoteric titles. The book's narrator, Anodos, enters F...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Deep Blue Good-by is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He’s also a knight-errant who’s wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: He’ll help you find whatever ...