There are times on the World stage when you will see bursts of national pride. And there are times when that sense of 'being' is an underlying thread-a part of a national psyche that is unconsciously acknowledged by most if you will-that gives Canadian fiction (in this case, the Crime subgenre) a distinctive flavour and feel to it.So when we put out a call for Canadian short form crime fiction: 'As Canadian as peameal bacon, Buckwud Maple syrup, Roberta Bondar, Timmies, poutine, an...

A striking deluxe edition profiling the visionaries, writers, and thinkers whose ideas shaped the United States. Elegantly bound and thoughtfully curated, this volume offers readers a compelling journey through the intellectual and cultural foundations of the nation.Made in America: Thinkers Who Defined a Country explores the lives and ideas of the key figures who helped shape the political, social, and cultural landscape of the United States. This collection highlights influential...

The house is quiet. Other worlds await. It's Saturday morning and you're alone with the TV.You turn it on, inviting all kinds of weirdness into your home. You feel safe.It's all behind the screen, miles away. Nothing can hurt you.Can it?This is SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION, where terror comes at you in airwaves. Featuring new fiction & poetry from:Die Booth, Monica Carroll, Adrienne Clark, Tom Coombe, Mia Dalia, Jude Deluca, Buzz Dix...

Discover the dark, whimsical wonder of ancient Korea in this spellbinding collection of magical tales, gorgeously jacketed with bespoke cover illustrations from award-winning artist Bekologic.Leave behind drab, dark nights to trek across moonlit snowfields, shiver in horror at wild-cat women, explore the enchanted halls of fairy palaces, and follow the strange cries that beckon from beneath the Mysterious Hoi Tree.Uncanny and entrancing, shadowy and sorcero...

****MULTI MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING SERIES**Dive deeper into the world of Little People, BIG DREAMS with a new edition of this beautifully packaged and highly giftable keepsake treasury, featuring 50 dreamers.**Learn more about your favourite dreamers with new in-depth stories in this beautifully-crafted compendium, including 35 new stories. The stories have been rewritten to be appropriate for re****aders aged 8+. Each of the biographies is...

An officially licensed, richly illustrated inside look at the case files of Mulder and Scully’s encounters with extraterrestrial activity and the SyndicateFollowing the revelations of the cases declassified in The X-Files: The Official Archives: Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena comes this vital second volume of top-secret X-files.The X-Files: The Official Archives: Volume II: Extraterrestrial Activity and the Syndicate

Greatest Love Stories brings together timeless tales that explore love in its many forms—romantic, tender, tragic, passionate and quietly transformative. These stories move beyond simple romance to capture the emotional complexity of love: its hope, its ache, its misunderstandings, its sacrifices and its lasting power.The collection offers readers a rich literary journey through desire, longing, devotion and heartbreak. Some stories celebrate the sweetness of affection, while others...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

The 15 stories contained in this eBook have been selected from the books that make up the series “Fairy Tales, Folklore, Myths and Legends from Around the World”Fifteen stories have been selected from the books in the series. So you will find stories from ancient Celtic England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. As well as Roma and Gypsy stories which have travelled across Europe from the Black Sea region. There are also stories from the Zulus and Bushmen of South Africa, to th...

A gathering of the ghost story at its height: Le Fanu, Bulwer-Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Mrs Oliphant, Dickens's signalman on the line below the tunnel mouth. The Victorians produced these by the hundred for Christmas numbers, and the best of them survive because the machinery is domestic — a bell, a stairs, a letter, a man doing his job.

True animal stories gathered for young readers: a grizzly cub raised by hand, a fight with a catamount, a lynx in Canada, a droll fox-trap in the Maine woods, beavers at home and the ships of the desert. From The Young Reader's Treasury, with a reading guide by William Allan Neilson of Harvard. Complete and unabridged.

Table of ContentsHonore de Balzac: An Historical MysteryJohn Buchan: The Thirty-Nine StepsEgerton Castle: The Baron's QuarryEdmund Clerihew Bentley: Trent's Last CaseGilbert Keith Chesterton:The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Was ThursdayFather Brown:The Innocence of Father BrownThe Wisdom of Father BrownRobert Erskine Childers: Riddle of the SandsAgatha Christie:The Mysterious Af...