Books For Pleasure: 39 books

The people of Holland lost lives, homes and property during the Second World War, but never lost their faith in an Allied Liberation they knew was soon to come. Forced out of their home after it was ransacked and burned by occupying German forces, author Lini R. Grol and her family wandered the bombed-out...

An incredibly fascinating and detailed account of the author's own experiences as a Search and Rescue (SAR) volunteer in the state of New Mexico, USA.After retiring from an engineering career, Jim joined the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council (AMRC) in late 1997. That involvement has provided...

Jazz Baker is just itching for an adventure. If she can’t find one she will dream one up and make sure that her little sister, Lizanne and friends Sarah and Badger Marsky are included.A few years ago the kids had discovered a secret cove near their hometown of Luna Beach, California. Every year...

The author escaped from Soviet occupied East Germany in 1947 at fourteen years of age. This left him an unwanted citizen in West Germany. Having to survive, he ended up in North Sea dike construction and a spell of coal mining in the Ruhr District. By 1952 he was able to emigrate to Canada and followed...

Brock and Becca are going to visit New Brunswick and do something they had never done before. They are going to sleep overnight on a train. Brock climbs a giant lobster in Shediac and their van moves slowly backwards up a Magnetic Hill while the engine is in neutral. Brock and Becca visit the Cherry...

Brock and Becca enjoy touring Newfoundland and Labrador with other families. John, the only other boy on the tour, has lots of good ideas when it comes to teasing the girls. Brock does a little showing off and gets hurt, but not badly. Mom is not amused. Every day at least one moose can be seen wandering...

Brock and Becca’s family vacation is to be spent on Prince Edward Island, which is off of Canada’s eastern shore. Brock and Becca are excited. Almost as soon as they get there, they meet some pirates. An island is surrounded by water so there are lighthouses to be climbed, beaches to be explored,...

Laurence: the Champion, is the first in a trilogy following the life of a young boy as he grows to manhood during the Great Depression in rural Ontario. Laurence is 12 years old, lives in a haunted house and is bothered by the resident ghost. At school he faces a crabby teacher and a school bully....

In 1924 MI6 is handed a gift. An expatriate Englishman born of Russian parents is working deep inside the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow. He is angered that the Communists have emerged from the 1917 Revolution as the ruling faction, virtually bringing his career to an end. He must do something...

Brock’s cousins come to visit and that means Brock now has four young girls to bother him. Another older cousin named Stephen joins them for water fun at the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls. After the cousins leave, more company arrives and it is back to the Falls again. This time they visit birds...

A body has been washed up by the Whirlpool in the Niagara River. At first, it is thought to be a suicide. However, further investigation proves otherwise. Anne Morrow was not particularly well-liked by those who knew her, and these include her ex-husband, Ronald Dyson, currently dating Jenny; Lewis...

Two items in Jenny Aldred's morning local paper open a whole new world for her; a world in which murder, and a young boy's terror entirely encompass her. Joggers discover five-year-old Mark wandering along the trail beside the Niagara River. He's wearing pyjamas, and clutching a teddy...

Tissy Matthews is excited about beginning grade 7 and hanging out with her friends. But she does worry what kind of teacher Mrs. Ward will be because she's heard that she loves nature a little too much. A new girl joins her class this year named Lara. Although Tracy and Karen immediately decide...

Almost sixty years after a fatal New Mexico military plane crash, the son of a victim seeks ANSWERS about the event. He hires a historian, Robert Jerzerski, Ph.D., from the State University of Southern Arizona, to find the answers, but another tragedy forces the investigator to engage a lawyer and...