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INTO THE AMERICAS (A novel based on a true story) is a gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history’s greatest survival stories. It was inspired by the diary entries of young English blacksmith John Jewitt during his time aboard the brigantine The Boston and also during his sojourn at Nootka Sound, on North America's western seaboard, from 1802 to 1805. Written by father-and-son writing team Lance & James Morcan (authors of The World Duology and The Orphan Trilogy), INTO THE AMERICAS is a tale of two vastly different cultures – Indigenous North American and European civilization ...

Discover Canada's Most Chilling True Crime Stories That Shocked the Nation From the frozen Arctic territories to bustling urban centers, Canada harbors dark secrets that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the Great White North. 50 Bizarre True Crime Cases That Shocked Canada unveils the country's most disturbing criminal mysteries, featuring: ✓ The Pig Farm Killer - Robert Pickton's horrific crimes in British Columbia ✓ The Highway of Tears - Decades of unsolved disappearances along Highway 16 ✓ The Colonel's Double Life - Russell Williams' shocking ...

She built the life of a perfect daughter on lies. Then the truth turned deadly. For years, Jennifer Pan convinced her parents that she was an exceptional student headed toward a successful career. She altered report cards, invented a university education, produced false documents, and concealed a relationship her parents had forbidden. Behind the appearance of obedience, nearly every part of her adult life had been carefully constructed. On November 8, 2010, three armed men entered the Pan family home in Markham, Ontario. Jennifer’s mother, Bich Ha Pan, was killed. Her father, Hann Pan, ...

Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away! When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17...

The Autobiographical Story of the Opening of the Far North There was a time not so very long ago when the Hudson’s Bay Company ruled the north. A time of silky furs, Indian skirmishes, canoes, “jawbone”, dog sleds, traps, and sourdoughs. Adventure came easy in this silent land of the far north. Henry John Moberly surely had plenty of it. Nearly 50 years he spent among the native and white trappers as a fur trader, trapper, hunter, and explorer. Moberly opened many of HBC’s most remote Trading Posts. The struggles of the north, the unbearable cold, the humor of the frontiersmen, the ...

Do you have a keen interest in Canadian history? Do you want to learn about the historical figures and events that laid the foundations for modern-day Canada? Are you looking for a guide that appreciates the diversity and complexity of Canadian history? From indigenous beginnings and European explorations through Confederation and modern challenges – Canada has seen its share of diverse cultural, social, and political events – and this audiobook will guide you through it all.

Prologue read by the author. Acclaimed, bestselling author and travel writer Paul Theroux turns his gaze to Canada in a sweeping, personal journey. For more than half a century, Paul Theroux has traveled the globe and chronicled its far corners with curiosity, wit, and an unflinching eye. With...

The Williams family gave into an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance...but shortly after moving in, strange things began to happen. It became abundantly clear that the Williams' new home was haunted.

Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate...

An “absolutely transformative” (People) culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family—sustenance and survival—from a chef, award-winning journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor. “Beautifully written, heartbreaking and hopeful.”—Ruth Reichl, New York Times...

During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were almost nil.

WHEN THE NEAREST NEIGHBOUR IS FIFTY KILOMETRES AWAY, THERE IS NO ONE COMING TO SAVE YOU. Western and Northern Canada are celebrated for endless golden prairies, dense boreal forests, and rugged mountain passes. Yet beneath this frontier mythology lies another reality — a landscape so vast and unforgiving that predators use the geography itself as a weapon. In White Silence, Julian Maddox reconstructs fifteen of the region's most harrowing true crime cases, relying strictly on RCMP archives, trial transcripts, and official public records. Inside you'll discover: Nowhere on the Highway — ...

Dans la nuit du 22 octobre 1980, au 540 de la rue de la Tourelle à Québec, une jeune comédienne est assassinée. Quarante ans plus tard, le mystère subsiste: l’homme qui s’est accusé de ce crime abject était-il le véritable coupable?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, almost all trace of...

Nearly a century and a half of murder, cover-up, and unanswered questions — told through the landscape that made them possible. Ontario and Quebec are sold to the world as cottage country: loon calls, granite shoreline, canoe silhouettes on a postcard. Blood in the Timber reconstructs fifteen of the region's most consequential true crime cases and asks a harder question — what happens when the nearest police cruiser is forty minutes away, the nearest courthouse is over the horizon, and an entire township decides, together, what the official record will say? Drawn from Ontario Provincial...

Experience a time-traveling children's history adventure to uncover the thrilling origins of a vast, diverse nation. Perfect for a family road trip or daily commute, this engaging educational journey turns the past into an immersive playground. Kids will paddle trading canoes, taste campfire...

In July 1981, just days after his release from jail, Clifford Olson Junior unleashed hell on British Columbia. He kidnapped, raped, and killed six children and teenagers in a single month. While the previous missing children had been treated like runaways, the police were now hunting a serial killer. The Beast is a chilling account of Clifford Olson Junior and one of the most disturbing true-crime stories in Canada’s history. Ryan Green’s riveting narrative draws the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims and has all the elements of a classic thriller.

For fans of Jojo Moyes, from the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls, comes another compulsively readable story of love and friendship, following the lives of two women reckoning with their pasts and the choices that will define their futures. Divided by their past, united by love...

CANADA’S DARKEST: CANADIAN TRUE CRIME THROUGH DARK GEOGRAPHY Between Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Highway of Tears, and the Miramichi forest, Canada’s vast geography has shaped some of the nation’s most notorious serial killers and true crime cases. This groundbreaking work of Canadian true crime nonfiction reveals how distance, isolation, infrastructure failure, and landscape itself became accomplices to murder. Unlike traditional true crime books focused solely on psychology, Canada’s Darkest examines how geography shapes crime in Canada—determining who is vulnerable, ...

Andrew Kirsch didn’t grow up watching spy movies, or dreaming about being a real-life James Bond. He was hardly aware that Canada even had its own intelligence service—let alone knew what its officers did. But when a terrorist attack occurred near the office of his financial services job, all of a sudden fighting terrorism meant a lot more to him than the markets. Within 18 months he had landed a job with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)—where he spent the next decade of his life.