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by Charles Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This is a story of sibling rivalry, poverty and war--of unrequited love and a Canadian dream but much more than that, it is a story that takes today’s reader through the most momentous period of our history--a time when millions, having barely survived the misery and deprivation of the greatest financial...
Sailor Moon Reflections
The inside story of the original recordings of the English version of Sailor Moon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The work of a voice artist isn't necessarily what it may seem to the viewer or listener. It is a craft that is learned through intense study and practice. The cast of Sailor Moon were paragons of this art form and reveal their techniques in accomplishing their roles in this book. This is the inside story...
Skint Knees
Reflections on a Scottish Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
During the Second World War, communities were knit together while enduring scarcity, rationing, and uncertainty—yet they adapted by being resourceful, optimistic, and persistent. And when peace finally returned, there was new hope that a more innocent era would reign. Neighbours and townspeople knew...
God's Love
The Night God Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
While living in his home town working on wind and solar projects, Derek found himself the victim of a horrific and terrifying attack. Knocked unconscious and stabbed over fifty times throughout his body...Derek managed to survive over twelve hours until help arrived. This is a true account of that traumatic night and how God’s Love saved his life.
If I'm Not Back By Wednesday
Trapped in Jamaica's Blue Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
On December 16, 1967, five adventurous boys from one of the Island’s elite high schools, Jamaica College, set out into the majestic Blue Mountains in search of a mythical trail, endeavouring to reach its highest point, the Peak, at elevation 7402 feet. They never made it. A platoon of soldiers dispatched...
I Survived the Holocaust
To Share His Glory
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
What was it like for a 10-year old Jewish girl to experience the Nazi Holocaust in 1945? Or, to face suicide, adjusting to a new life in America, an unhappy marriage, epilepsy, and losing 7 of 8 children? The author has coaxed out all the heart-wrenching stories from Ursula Caffey in explicit detail,...
Notes of a Love Song
Day-to-Day with Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
When Claire Verney agreed to ‘for better or for worse, in sickness and in health’ she never imagined the journey that lay ahead of her. Her husband Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of forty-six. Notes of a Love Song chronicles their lives as Claire becomes her husband’s...
Cop
Forty-Three Years In The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
COP is the true story of Bill Sharp's service in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1968 to 2011. For over forty-three years he served in British Columbia where he upheld the law in Trail, Burnaby, Castlegar, Surrey, North Vancouver, Coquitlam and Langley. These are his stories of basic training,...
It Will Get Tough
Cops & Bikers
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
The motorcycle club life style has been wild and woolly from the beginning. I've written about some wild and sometimes violent times. I have also tried to put a light on some of the corruption and underhanded dealings by some authorities. One such law enforcement officer who had a pocket full of drugs...
The Girl from No. 6
Based on a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In the late 1920s, Stalin was determined to turn Russia into a “Soviet Paradise”. For thousands of Russian Mennonites that meant exorbitant taxes, arrest, forced labour, losing their farms and businesses, and even losing their lives. With their faith in God and little else, Nikolai and Kaethe...
A Viable Suspect
The Story of multiple murders and how a police force's reach proved too short for Canada's most notorious cold case.
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
For more than 30 years, retired Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl has believed that a criminal with whom he had a violent encounter early in his career might be responsible for a string of unsolved murders of young women in Ontario, including the 1959 death of 12-year-old Lynne Harper. The...
Trust and Betrayal
Tales of Cold War Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
It is 1957, West Berlin. US Army Captain Eric Vieler is assigned to oversee the identification, vetting, development and deployment of every-day German citizens --- as spies. While the Berlin Wall is not yet a reality, the Cold War tensions between the western allies and the Soviets in East Germany are...
Good Medicine For the Bow
A History of Medicine Bow, Wyoming
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
It was not easy to establish and maintain a frontier community. Aside from the harassment from the native americans, there were the usual petty jealousies and worse, a total lack of law enforcement. Fortunately there were individuals whose leadership would overcome the desire for personal gain and...
Firefight
Battling fires in Canada, fighting wars overseas and finding humanity amid the chaos
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Firefight is a compilation of Rick Kurelo’s personal accounts as a professional firefighter in Canada and as a Canadian Forces soldier in Afghanistan and Bosnia. Ninety-seven stories and forty-five photos document Rick’s experiences at scenes of chaos and conflict, where he and his teams encounter...