Fiction, Cultural Heritage
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Snapshots of Life
The Story of Pinnie and Bella by Frank Maraj
“As Bella looked back over her shoulder, she saw the outline of a form staggering into the roadway. It was Vindoo. She had not killed him. But, he was still coming after her.” The novel begins with the brief intersection of two young lives: Pinnie ...
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Caleb's Portion
by Lucius Tical
An engaging combination of fiction, history, and biography, Caleb’s Portion provides a unique life story that reaches back through the author’s ancestral lineage and ties together two family lines. Narrated by the author’s alter ego, Lucius, the ...
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Unamakik, Land of Fog
A Viking-Age Woman Ventures into the New World by Afiena Kamminga
On an expedition to Westland in search of timber, Thora Thorvinnsdottir continues to be caught in the web of her estranged husband’s cruel animosity. Thora’s countrymen abandon her in a narrow escape from an ambush by a band of native Westlanders. ...
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There Will Be War
by Robert Kennedy Bell
It is summer, 1884. Most folks in the fledgling community of Blaris in western Manitoba have had two to three years to establish their subsistence farms. All have the long-term view that when there are railroads to carry their grains and livestock ...
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Spoiled Heritage
The Manitobans by Jeannette Lebleu Richter
It is 1882 in a French-Canadian village south of Winnipeg, and Justine Bélanger has had her first taste of love at sixteen. After a stolen kiss in the churchyard with her handsome older cousin, Adrien Larence, she dreams of a future with him. But ...
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What the Living Do
by Maggie Dwyer
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa ...
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Mysterious Places
by Jeffrey Gorney
In this richly told narrative, an American writer travels to Romania in search of long-lost relatives. His quest sheds light on other lives in other times and places, and forgotten yet chilling aspects of World War II. More than memoir, with photos ...
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Surviving The Deadly Upheaval
A historical novel based on true stories of many people having endured the great forgotten expulsion by Ingeborg Maria Albert
This gripping post-World War 2 story takes place in Czechoslovakia after Germany’s surrender in May 1945. One family’s unyielding endurance and determination tells, in uncompromising detail, of the reality and aftermath of government-sanctioned ...
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The Next Land of Opportunity
by John Naidoo
Silvertower, a large US-based real estate investment company, has experienced incredible success over the past ten years. However, to maintain their momentum, expanding into new markets is vital. CEO Patrick Miller thinks he has hit upon the perfect ...
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Fourteen Trumpeting Elephants
by Norma Kroeger
Fourteen Trumpeting Elephants...what has that got to do with Cranbrook or the Kootenays of British Columbia? Why is there a statue of an elephant at the end of Baker Street? What is the best place to pick huckleberries? Grandpa is telling stories ...
