Download or read book The Mountie In The House and Other Stories written by Rick Butler and published by Agio Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-04-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From growing up in a Canadian Mountie household to writing Hollywood screenplays, debut short story writer Rick Butler has mined his real-life experiences for THE MOUNTIE IN THE HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES. "Butler makes delightful debut with short stories... great entertainment, with distinctive characters and tales... Butler has created a fine collection of memorable characters and tales. Let’s hope we hear more from this delightful storyteller soon," writes Jodi Delong in The Chronicle Herald (Halifax). "These are lively, insightful and highly entertaining stories from a very fine writer with talent to burn," says Leo Furey, author of The Long Run. "Prime reading for lovers of vivid, fast-paced fiction." Among the 14 quirky, often-humorous tales, a seven-year-old boy watches his Mountie father pursue justice in their small town. A Venice Beach murder victim pursues her killer from the other side. An escaped convict and a young screenwriter light out for old Mexico in pursuit of a hit movie. A disgruntled wedding guest disrupts a million dollar ceremony. A visiting student falls in with a rollicking cast of eccentrics in Brighton, UK. A screenwriter teams with Michael Jackson to pitch a movie plot to the biggest studios... "Rick Butler's short story collection is the ideal travel companion," says Chip Conley, author of Emotional Equations and Peak.

Download or read book House of Difference written by Eva Mackey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the contradictions and ambiguities in the cultural politics of Canadian identity, The House of Difference opens up new understandings of the operations of tolerance and Western liberalism in a supposedly post-colonial era. Combining an analysis of the construction of national identity in both past and present-day public culture, with interviews with white Canadians, The House of Difference explores how ideas of racial and cultural difference are articulated in colonial and national projects, and in the subjectivities of people who consider themselves mainstream, or simply Canadian-Canadians.

Download or read book Susannah of the Mounties written by Muriel Denison and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Susannah Winston is sent to stay with her Uncle Dennis, an officer with the Mounties - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police - in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has many adventures on the prairie

Download or read book A Master of Deception written by Robert Knuckle and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Open Windows written by Kent Thompson and published by Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alaska Cowboys and Mounties Books 8 10 written by Kate Bridges and published by Cabin Lake Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing heroes and passionate romance on the wild frontier of the Klondike Gold Rush! In this special box set from USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Bridges, you’ll find Books 8, 9 and 10 in the award-winning Alaska Cowboys and Mounties series. Wonderfully romantic and sexy western historical romances! Book 8: JAMES (a novella) Meet JAMES, a tough Mountie who’s protecting a little baby during the Christmas season, and Maggie, a onetime love who’s determined to help. On a dangerously snowy December evening, Mountie James Fielder risks his life to bring a lost baby to Maggie Greerson’s doorstep. For James, seeing Maggie again is a heartache and raw reminder of their past. She’s now a captivating woman as the owner of a spice shop and an independent young widow, and likely doesn’t reminisce much about him. Maggie is painfully aware that he walked away from her once and can’t be trusted to stay this time. Book 9: JOHN (a novella) Meet JOHN from Alaska, and his wrong mail-order bride. Rugged John Colburne, owner of the local livery stables, is lonely in Alaska and writes away for a mail-order bride. The last thing he expects is an embarrassing mix-up with a beautiful woman. Sophie Grant, a newly trained midwife, nervously steps onto the docks of Skagway. She doesn’t know how to tell John that his first choice for a bride has changed her mind. Sophie is here to marry him instead. If John will have her. Book 10: WYATT (full length novel) Meet Wyatt, a hardened rancher in Alaska, who gets a second chance with a lost love. When Emma Sinclair steps back into his lonely life in Alaska, horse rancher Wyatt Barlow can’t believe the timid wallflower has blossomed into such a lovely woman. She’s a dedicated doctor, no less, on the new frontier. Ignoring Emma is near impossible, for she’s here to help his pregnant daughter and seems determined to reunite their feuding families. For Emma, seeing Wyatt again has reignited all the agony and bliss of her adolescent fantasies when she had secretly loved, and lost, Wyatt. "Beautiful, compelling, with an ending to make anyone's heart sing. Wow!" -Bell Book & Candle on WYATT Each book is an exciting standalone story. Don’t miss any of these incredible heroes! Box Set 1: Alaska Cowboys and Mounties Books 1-4 Box Set 2: Alaska Cowboys and Mounties Books 5-7 Box Set 3: Alaska Cowboys and Mounties Books 8-10

Download or read book Night We Stole the Mounties Car written by Max Braithwaite and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists. All these qualities are present in his latest bittersweet recollections of life on the Prairies during the early Thirties. It was a time of depression and drought; but for Max, a young schoolteacher, it was also a time for courtship and marriage, for those hilarious episodes in Wannego, Saskatchewan, which did much to belie the grimness of the era. There was Max’s disastrous umpiring of a Ladies’ Softball game; his writing and directing of a play that generated more drama off-stage than on; the awful problem of the wasps at the outhouse, and much, much, more. The Night We Stole the Mountie’s Car follows Never Sleep Three in a Bed and Why Shoot the Teacher? and completes the story of Max’s early years. It is also Braithwaite at his vintage best – lusty, thought-provoking, and consistently amusing.

Download or read book Mountie Brides Books 4 6 written by Kate Bridges and published by Cabin Lake Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover spellbinding, award-winning love stories in this special frontier romance collection from USA TODAY bestselling author, Kate Bridges. Enjoy the daring romantic adventures of rugged Mountie heroes and the smart, brave women they fall in love with! Book 4: PROTECTING VIRGINIA (full length novel) When Virginia is jilted at the altar, her former fiancé’s brother Zack, a rugged Mountie, proposes a marriage of convenience. For Mountie Inspector Zack Bullock, marrying his brother’s cast-off bride would fulfill his family obligations. Zack could marry Dr. Virginia Waters and not get emotionally involved. Their marriage of convenience would have other benefits. He could continue his risky work as a detective, and she could blossom in her role as a new doctor. However, the awkward girl that Zack recalls has grown into a stunning, desirable woman. Book 5: GUARDING JESSICA (full length novel) In this enemies to lovers romance, Jessica and a daunting Mountie are forced to travel together on a perilous secret mission. Jessica Haven desperately needs Mountie Travis Reid to escort her across the Rocky Mountains in secret search for the infant she’s lost. No one else believes her story, and the cold-hearted Mountie who doesn’t think much of her is her last hope. Book 6: LONGING FOR JULIA (full length novel) When Julia advertises for a husband, a bad-boy-turned-Mountie from her past shows up in town. Julia O’Shea could use a rugged man by her side as she’s running her busy newspaper in Calgary and raising her young son alone. The young widow’s unique solution is to advertise for a gentleman husband. She’s dismayed when Ryan Reid arrives. Ryan loved and left her ten years ago. To everyone’s surprise, the black sheep of the Reid family has returned as an upstanding Mountie surgeon and commander. “For a romance that will leave you breathless and believing in the perfect man, be sure not to miss the latest Mountie adventure by Kate Bridges." Romance Reviews Today on PROTECTING VIRGINIA. Each book is an intriguing standalone story. Get MOUNTIE BRIDES BOOKS 4-6 today, and escape into the passionate world of this riveting sexy western historical collection!

Download or read book Everything Sad Is Untrue written by Daniel Nayeri and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Indie Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year A New York Times Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editors' Choice A BookPage Best Book of the Year A NECBA Windows & Mirrors Selection A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year A Today.com Best of the Year PRAISE "A modern masterpiece." —The New York Times Book Review "Supple, sparkling and original." —The Wall Street Journal "Mesmerizing." —TODAY.com "This book could change the world." —BookPage "Like nothing else you've read or ever will read." —Linda Sue Park "It hooks you right from the opening line." —NPR SEVEN STARRED REVIEWS ★ "A modern epic." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "A rare treasure of a book." —Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ "A story that soars." —The Bulletin, starred review ★ "At once beautiful and painful." —School Library Journal, starred review ★ "Raises the literary bar in children's lit." —Booklist, starred review ★ "Poignant and powerful." —Foreword Reviews, starred review ★ "One of the most extraordinary books of the year." —BookPage, starred review A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it? "A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee," Nayeri writes early in the novel. In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family's history, stretching back years, decades, and centuries. At the core is Daniel's story of how they became refugees—starting with his mother's vocal embrace of Christianity in a country that made such a thing a capital offense, and continuing through their midnight flight from the secret police, bribing their way onto a plane-to-anywhere. Anywhere becomes the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and then finally asylum in the U.S. Implementing a distinct literary style and challenging western narrative structures, Nayeri deftly weaves through stories of the long and beautiful history of his family in Iran, adding a richness of ancient tales and Persian folklore. Like Scheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights in a hostile classroom, Daniel spins a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (a true story) is a tale of heartbreak and resilience and urges readers to speak their truth and be heard.

Download or read book Mystery at Lighthouse Rock and Other Stories written by Joan Weir and published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come and match wits once more with the members of Canville Elementary School's Mystery Club as they try to stump one another with a series of new exciting mysteries. How did Hidegarde and Chastity fix it so that no one would pick Chastity's name from a sealed Valentine Box before it was Hidegarde's turn? What did the daughter of one of the judges in the historical value contest whisper to her father to convince him the rock drawing shouldn't win a prize? How did Derrick and Jane know for sure that the illustrious Dr. Maetelbaum was a robot the government was looking for? Where in the lighthouse did Captain Hank hide the list of secret agent names? How do you rate as a sleuth? you can find out by checking your answers against the solutions provided at the end of the book.

Download or read book Adam Sharp 5 Moose Master written by George Edward Stanley and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timber! It’s off with the tuxedo and on with a red jacket when Adam Sharp goes undercover as a Mountie in Canada’s north woods. Ecanem, a mysterious logging company, is hogging Canada’s lumber business, so the Mounties call on superspy Adam Sharp to get to the bottom of things. Will this wanabee Mountie get his man—or, in this case, will he only get a moose?

Download or read book On the Other Side s of 150 written by Linda M. Morra and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed. Like a Cubist painting, this modality offers a critical strategy by which also to approach the volume as dismantling, reassembling, and re-enacting existing commemorative tropes; as offering multiple, conditional, and contingent viewpoints that unfold over time; and as generating a broader (although far from being comprehensive) range of counter-memorial performances. The chapters in this volume are thus provisional, interconnected, and adaptive: they offer critical assemblages by which to approach commemorative narratives or showcase lacunae therein; by which to return to and intervene in ongoing readings of the past from the present moment; and by which not necessarily to resolve, but rather to understand the troubled and troubling narratives of the present moment. Contributors propose that these preoccupations are not a means of turning away from present concerns, but rather a means of grappling with how the past informs or is shaped to inform them; and how such concerns are defined by immediate social contexts and networks.

Download or read book Full Mountie written by Ainsley Booth and published by Booth Haller Books. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mrs Mike written by Benedict Freedman and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman who had been raised in Boston marries a member of the Northwest Mounted Police and goes with him to live in the Canadian wilderness.

Download or read book Spirit Caller Books 1 3 written by Krista D. Ball and published by Krista D. Ball. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel has no trouble believing in spirits. It's the living she has a tough time believing in. This omnibus contains the first three novellas of the SPIRIT CALLER series. Spirits Rising: If Rachel's going to have any hope of sending the spirits to their peace, she'll have to stop drooling over unattainable men and trust her 93-year-old neighbour to help her stand against the spirits before their supernatural war engulfs them all. Dark Whispers: A rash of teen suicides shakes the remote Newfoundland village that Rachel Mills calls home. As Rachel helps the school investigate, painful memories from her past - events she's worked very hard to forget - resurface and won't go back into the grave where they belong. Knight Shift: After a lifetime of running away from spirits, Rachel Mills finds herself chasing them. Plus, Rachel's made a decision about Jeremy, the secret love of her life. It's time to have a chat.

Download or read book Canadian Books in Print Author and Title Index written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Suitable for the Wilds written by Mary Percy Jackson and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plea was advertised in the British Medical Journal in February 1929: seeking "strong energetic Medical Women with post-graduate experience in Midwifery" for "country work" in western Canada. A young Dr. Mary Percy was intrigued. After graduating with degrees in medicine and surgery from the University of Birmingham in 1927, she had been searching for the kind of opportunity which would offer both adventure and practical experience. She answered the advertisement and set off for the Peace River region of Northern Alberta in June of 1929. Little did she know that her "adventure" in the Canadian north was to last more than seventy years. Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931, is a collection of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson's letters written to family and friends in the early years of her practice, from 1929-1931. The letters offer a fascinating glimpse at life in northern Alberta at the beginning of the Depression, when the area was being farmed and settled by new European immigrants. These homesteaders, along with the area's Aboriginal and M tis population, were Dr. Percy's patients, scattered throughout a territory covering nearly 400 square miles. Vigilant about vaccination, nutrition, and preventive medicine, she quickly proved to be a talented physician who was truly ahead of her time, particularly in the area of tuberculosis treatment and prevention. Dr. Percy's dedication, good nature, and unfailing sense of humour shine through in her letters. This delightful and captivating collection is a tribute to her indomitable spirit.