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Details the never-before-told story of Pierre Belliveau, known as Piau Biography of an Acadian hero and iconic early Canadian leader, with no similar books on the market Piau’s story is a border-spanning saga of the formation of Atlantic Canada’s Acadian community, which thrives to this day Author is the brother of singer Anne Murray, who will write the Foreword Author has close connections to the Acadian community in North America, in particular the Institute for Acadian Studies at the...
| Автор | Bruce Monk Murray |
Can anyone be a hero in an age where the lines are so blurred? Sexy, racy, hilarious, and even moving, The Indifference League is a story of what happens when the starry-eyed optimism of the Greatest Generation crashes into the obsessions and fears of the New Lost Generation. Under the faded banner of Superman, Wonder Woman, and other heroes past steps the Indifference League: The Statistician, Time Bomb, Hippie Avenger, SuperKen, SuperBarbie, Miss Demeanour, Mr. Nice Guy, Psycho Superstar,...
| Автор | Richard Scarsbrook |
A story of adventure and romance set in the wilds of Rupert’s Land in the early 19th century. When Orkneywoman Rose is shipwrecked on the shores of Rupert’s Land, she quickly falls in love with Alexander, a Half-caste man who is guiding her people into the dark heart of the continent. But after the death of her father at the hands of another Native, Rose turns against Alexander and all his kind. Heartbroken, Alexander returns to his wild life of running buffalo on the prairie. Although parted...
| Автор | Nathaniel Poole |
In Improbable Fortunes, Jeffrey Price takes us on a wild ride into Vanadium, a dusty, down-on-its-heels mining town in southwest Colorado—where it would be fair to assume that nothing has ever happened. But you’d be wrong. As it turns out, quite a lot has happened starting with a suspicious mudslide that destroys the town’s Main Street and a cowboy, Buster McCaffrey, arrested for the death of one of the richest men in America, Marvin Mallomar.As the soon-to-retire...
| Автор | Jeffrey Price |
Weather to Fly is a collection of adventure stories, tall tales in the great American tradition. Inspired equally by Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, and P. T. Barnum, they are war stories, ghost stories, and love stories. There's a World War II warbird that may or may not have a soul or a conscience; In an Alaska saloon a bush pilot who thinks he's dying reveals a long-hidden secret; And the unlikeliest of pairs falls in love in an airport terminal. By turns whimsical and...
| Автор | Christopher LeGras |
North Korea continues to taunt the United States by detonating nuclear weapons and launching long-range missiles across the Pacific. This threat is suddenly overshadowed by the destruction of the US fleet as it sails through the Straits of Hormuz and into the Persian Gulf. As the crisis escalates, little attention is paid to several blue, bloated, and grossly disfigured Asian sailors who wash ashore in Galveston, Texas. Meanwhile, the North Korean cargo ship, Il-sung, is able to slip into...
| Автор | J. A. Davis |
The film also stars Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, and is directed by Pierre Morel (Taken).About The Gunman: Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game, so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans for him. In a violent tale that shatters as many illusions as bodies, Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style. This tightly plotted, corrosive...
| Автор | Jean-Patrick Manchette |
—Widely considered Manchette’s masterpiece. —Explodes the mystery genre–a crossover author like Sebastien Jasprisot and Jean Echenoz (who was much influenced by Manchette). —Elegantly crafted hardboiled fiction that appeals to readers of mysteries and the reader of non-genre literature. Imagine Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest imbued with a deep critique of contemporary capitalism. Or Raymond Chandler’s self-parody taken to a higher, more...
| Автор | Jean-Patrick Manchette |
Una exposición de las antiguas civilizaciones de la humanidad dará inicio a una de las más intrigantes y trepidantes aventuras por las calles de New York, en donde las persecuciones se sucederán con los más misteriosos encuentros con personajes misteriosos. Una exposición de las antiguas civilizaciones de la humanidad dará inicio a una de las más intrigantes y trepidantes aventuras por las calles de New York, en donde las persecuciones se sucederán con los más misteriosos encuentros con...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
Притягательное изучение глобальной торговли людьми. После спасения ребенка-проститутки в Камбодже Тесс убеждает Джейка, Кармен, Николу и их команду бороться с торговлей людьми по всему миру. Спонсируемая Организацией Объединенных Наций, она создает команду из тех, кого Джейк называет Валькириями, шесть замечательных женщин, которые вместе с мужчинами команды предпринимают титанические усилия по спасению жертв и преследованию торговцев людьми, начиная с дегенеративного финансиста, который...
| Автор | Andrew Manzini |
The silence had already taken hold of each of the rooms in the house, so much that sometimes it was difficult for me to go there, where so many things had happened in the family. The silence had already taken hold of each of the rooms in the house, so much that sometimes it was difficult for me to go there, where so many things had happened in the family. At the beginning I turned on the television or the radio, to listen to a voice wherever I was in the house, and that made me feel better, but...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
Una mostra sulle antiche civiltà dell’umanità darà inizio a una delle più intriganti ed appassionanti avventure tra le strade di New York, in cui agli inseguimenti si susseguiranno i più misteriosi incontri di personaggi enigmatici. Una mostra sulle antiche civiltà dell’umanità darà inizio a una delle più intriganti ed appassionanti avventure tra le strade di New York, in cui agli inseguimenti si susseguiranno i più misteriosi incontri di personaggi enigmatici. Una ricerca incessante di ciò che...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
After the nuclear winter, the taint of humanity worsened in the raw blood-quest for survival. Hunger for jack and power now fuels traders and barons, who relinquish authority only through death, crushing everything in their path.Still, a handful seek a better way of life, where iron fists and ordnance are replaced by harmony, justice and fair trade.Separated by fate and a freak storm in the shifting landscape of the Great Plains, the companions find themselves on a path of strange prophecy....
| Автор | James Axler |
In this classic mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, a powerful politician is murdered in Cairo in the 1900s and the Mamur Zapt is called in to investigateCairo, 1910. The end of the boom and everyone seems to have money troubles. Then one day a civil servant dies at his desk. Was it pressure of work or something nastier? The whiff of corruption is in the air, with even Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, under suspicion…Owen’s investigation takes him to the heart of a sinister organization....
| Автор | Michael Pearce |
There's a brutal new player in the Middle East–a mysterious group of radicalized assassins unleashing havoc. When a U.S. envoy is slaughtered, Mack Bolan picks up the hunt in the Afghan mountains, the first leg of a mission to stem the flow of spilled blood across a shattered region…and the world.In a sophisticated undercover operation that spans the borderlands and urban battlefields of Iraq, Pakistan and India, Bolan and a handful of operatives attempt to do the impossible: find and terminate...
| Автор | Don Pendleton |
Finding the relic is a divine quest. Even if it means committing murder.When a mysterious man orchestrates an attack on archaeologist Annja Creed and then offers her an assignment, Annja is baffled. But the mission is too intriguing for her to refuse. She must find an object that possesses a sacred and powerful secret offering atonement to anyone who uncovers it–or wreaking havoc on the world.Stolen from an ancient order of knights, the relic is now in the clutches of a band of pirates sailing...
| Автор | Alex Archer |
After twenty-first century America exploded in the chaos of a nuclear nightmare, a raw new landscape emerged, a world where death and dreams clash. Still, the best of the human spirit endures: the hope, the will to survive.But so does the worst: the greed, tyranny, the easy death. In his enduring odyssey across the hostile world called Deathlands, Ryan Cawdor is a warrior no enemy wants to cross.An earthquake in the Arkansas dust bowls leaves the companions for dead, until they are all reunited...
| Автор | James Axler |
Espionage takes to the twenty-first-century playing fields, where rules are broken–and remade–outside the reach of governments and the law. Agents recruited for the clandestine organization known as Room 59 play hard, play for keeps…or die trying. But now new Room 59 agent Ajza Manaev, a top MI-6 operative, discovers just how high the stakes really are when she goes undercover inside Chechnya's terrorist training camps, where bitter young widows harness their hate as suicide bombers. Ajza...
| Автор | Cliff Ryder |
A hundred years after the nukecaust, the tortured landscape of post apocalyptic America offers a brutal fight for survival. Yet tech secrets lie hidden, useful to those brave and strong enough to believe that hope can carry them toward ever-elusive peace.Violent gangs, a corrupt mayor and a heavily armed police force are the hallmarks of former Detroit, a mutie-infested, rubble-strewn metropolis. When Ryan and the companions show up, the Desolation Angels are waging a war to rule the streets....
| Автор | James Axler |
In a land of subzero temperatures and snow-covered vistas, survival is a challenge. But for the Araktak–an isolated and mysterious Inuit people–this harsh tundra is their heritage.Until now. A large mining company has purchased the land, and the sacred Araktak burial site with it. But more than diamond deposits await them under the dark, icy earth….Contracted by the mining company, archaeologist Annja Creed is to oversee the proper relocation of the burial site. Her job is to ensure that each...
| Автор | Alex Archer |
In late 1700s Paris, a young but promising illusionist dabbles in the arcane art of phantasmagoria. But at his moment of greatest triumph–unveiling a magical lantern said to open a door to the Chinese spirit world–he is violently struck down by a vengeful phantom….On assignment in London, archaeologist Annja Creed is hunting down a man who claims to have discovered the Jekyll and Hyde potion. On the trail of one curiosity, Annja finds herself pulled toward another mystery…the origin of a...
| Автор | Alex Archer |
An American hacker becomes target number one after she accesses the account of a Russian mob boss, revealing his organization's terror plot against the U.S. by taking out its satellite system. She knows two things: they're coming for her and she's out of her league.Having the intel the hacker stumbled into could prevent millions of deaths, and Mack Bolan is determined to find her before the Russians do. There's only one problem. No one knows what she looks like. And when one of her friends...
| Автор | Don Pendleton |
Tommy & Tuppence are hired to track down wartime spies at a seaside resort…It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from ‘the enemy within’ – Nazis posing as ordinary citizens.With pressure mounting, the Intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colourful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Earth remains the tortured battleground of near-immortal aliens. But these god kings never anticipated unified resistance from a group of humans possessing the tenacity and spirit to reclaim their planet. In the ongoing war for independence, the Cerberus fighters forge an epic showdown, as evil shape-shifts and unfurls its grand design…The madness surrounding entombed secrets of an ancient race puts Kane and his allies on a death chase across the African subcontinent. Facing relentless attack...
| Автор | James Axler |