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When Bob White finds a birding colleague dead in a pool of coffee at the annual December meeting of the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union, he finds himself targeted by bad luck and an unknown killer. Adding to his winter blues, Bob’s star Hmong student lands in jail for trespassing in an abandoned...

At the end of the riveting HBO series True Detective, cynical former cop Rust Cohle experiences a transformative glimpse of paradise while in a coma. The possibility of an afterlife has always been a human preoccupation, but heaven is popping up everywhere these days -- in TV, books, movies and public...

Bard's Blood #1 The classic tales of William Shakespeare are often as packed with gore and corpses as the scariest slasher flick -- and can spawn equally gruesome sequels.... Football star Cameron Dean is genuine campus royalty at Globe University, but his life is more of a nightmare than a dream....

"As a child, Lizzie grows up with a cold father who was a POW in a Japanese camp. She barely knew her mother. She is often bullied in school. Her life drastically changes thanks to an eccentric sculptor, but her hatred for her father remains. Her therapist devises a tailor-fit plan to dissolve the anger....

Delilah Rose is fictional; inspired by historical events of an old woman. She considers it one of her best manuscript. Like Delilah Rose, She’s a kid at heart and romantic. She shares her childhood stories with a twist. Cartoon is like a good meal to her. Delilah Rose can be anyone who is reading...

When Deidre Johnson fills in for Silver Bay’s only police officer for six weeks, she doesn’t anticipate facing anything of consequence. She is so wrong. She discovers the frozen body of a Cree Indian girl within the city limits, and in the process of her investigation uncovers a sex-trafficking...

We still love our country. But increasingly, ordinary citizens are feeling left out, excommunicated to the margins,; through lack of decent employment and a sense that their voice doesn't count, writes award-winning Canadian journalist Michael Valpy. In his new Star Dispatches ebook, Me, You, Us: How...

Canadians are living the longest, healthiest lives that we have ever known. But the downside of aging finds every family eventually. Increasingly, we are dealing with heart-wrenching decisions around the care of our parents and relatives: When is it time for a nursing home? How will we know they are...

Forest schools have long flourished in Scandinavia, Germany and Britain. They are places where children learn through free play, movement and hands-on experience in nature. Now, Canada is exploring the benefits of outdoor learning. Sangster Elementary in Colwood, B.C., launched its joyous Nature Kindergarten...

Many light-years away from the safety of the Federation, the Starship Enterprise stands guard over an unstable alien world whose unique natural resources could change the balance of power throughout the Star Trek galaxy. Against all odds, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew have preserved the...

"Dr. LTC. Ms. Miss…she is all of these and more. Elaine continues to love the field she chose a bit later in life. She is currently practicing Homebound Dentistry for the Elderly and Special Needs population in Pittsburgh, PA. On a scale of 1 to 10, Elaine says she is an 11 in the realm of happiness...

A novella of unrequited love, human arrogance, and deadly tragedy that predicted the legendary Titanic disaster…fourteen years before it happened. In 1898, Morgan Robertson penned The Wreck of the Titan, a love story set aboard the Titan, the most advanced steamship of the age. When the “unsinkable”...

From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet. It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana...