After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto, rooting out petty criminals and rumrunners. The unusual murder of a prominent industrialist gives him the biggest case of his...
World War (1914-1918)
- Author:Bradshaw, MelSummary:
- Author:Jones, NigelSummary:
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions...
- Author:Bradshaw, MelSummary:
This double edition of the Paul Shenstone Mystery series presents Mel Bradshaw's original hit novel and its just-released sequel. Surviving the horrors of the Great War only be plunged into the machinations of rumrunners and plutocrats...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Katherine and Jean-Michel once shared a deep love that was torn apart by forces beyond their control. Reunited in the 1920s at the Curry Hotel in Alaska, have the years changed them too deeply to rediscover what they had' And when Jean-...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Life in 1905 is hard for the illegitimate Mary Ann. It rapidly becomes worse when her new stepfather begins to interfere with her. Sent away at fifteen to bear his child, she meets Gabriel Clough, who helps her escape to Blackpool...
- Author:Kordan, Bohdan SSummary:
An exploration of the "enemy alien" experience in Canada during the Great War.
Approximately 8,000 Canadian civilians were imprisoned during the First World War because of their ethnic ties to Germany, Austria-Hungary, and other...
- Author:Raby Dunne, Susan, Morrison, EdwardSummary:
The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War.The First World War marked a turning point in Canadian history and in Canada’s self-identification as a nation. Yet in...
- Author:Harrison, JimSummary:
Jim Harrison's magnificent trilogy of short novels--Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name--explores the theme of revenge and survival, adding up to an extraordinary vision of the twentieth-century man.
- Author:HALL, James NormanSummary:
“Pvt Ryan”, “Platoon”, “A Soldier’s Home”, “Kitchener’s Mob”. These aren’t happy stories, they are about the...
- Author:Raby-Dunne, SusanSummary:
Most Canadians are familiar with John McCrae through his iconic poem “In Flanders Fields,” which was penned on the battlefields of the First World War and remains a symbol of remembrance to this day. Although he will always be...
- Author:Ennis, Frances, Wakeham, BobSummary:
History has told us in unambiguous terms that the statistics from July 1, 1916, were grim and shocking. Most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can recite the facts on cue: 801 men went “over the top” at Beaumont-Hamel, France; all but...
- Author:Reid, CharlesSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Anders is something of a misfit, with no friends and a poor school record, but all this begins to change when he is awakened one night to find a soldier-ghost in his bedroom. Johnny is taken back to meet a...
- Author:MacLeod, Alan LivingstoneSummary:
A celebration of thirty-two heroes of the First World War enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Praise for Remembered in Bronze and Stone: "A remarkable look at the many ways we honoured our war dead." - Canada's History...
- Author:Hustak, AlanSummary:
If Frederick Scott is remembered at all today, it is as minor Victorian poet or as the father of his illustrious son F.R. Scott. However, Frederick Scott was almost 55 years old and the pastor of St. Matthews Anglican Church in Quebec...
- Author:DESJARDINS, Louis GeorgesSummary:
Mr. Desjardins was driven to write this work to refute statements uttered by the nationalist Henri Bourassa, which the former feared painted all Quebecers with the same unpatriotic brush in respect to their contribution to the Great War...
- Author:BARRIE, James M.Summary:
The Old Lady Shows her Medals; The New Word; Barbara's Wedding; A Well-Remembered Voice
- Author:Parsons, Robert C.Summary:
Courage at Sea: Newfoundland Sailors in the Great War is a collection of more than forty World War I stories involving the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve and the Newfoundland merchant seamen who delivered goods to Europe in...
- Author:Beveridge, CathySummary:
Twelve-year-old Jolene is determined to find independence from her brother, Michael, during a family trip to research the Halifax explosion of 1917 for her father's Museum of Disasters. When her grandfather finds a time crease into the...
- Author:Chevalier, G. N.Summary:
In 1918, Michael McCready returned from the war with one goal: to lose himself in the pursuit of pleasure. Once a promising young medical student, Michael buried his dreams alongside the broken bodies of the men he could not save. After...
- Author:Sapergia, BarbaraSummary:
The time is World War I, and Canadian soldiers are proving their worth in the trenches of Europe. But on the home front, Ukrainian Canadians are being sent to internment camps, "Canada's gulag". Blood and Salt is about this forgotten...