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After a thirty-year exile in Toronto, self-described ?mid-listing?

Set in Sydney in the nineteenth century, when Henry Parkes asked Florence Nightingale for trained nurses to reform the previously turgid and oppressive hospital system in the fledgling colony.

In mid-June 1864, the Province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) was experiencing what contemporaries call ?political deadlock?: no political party could hold a majority in the Assembly.

Inspector Bonaparte realises that a swagman's murder in outback N. S. W. is a complex matter.

Travel back in time to when Christmas was a simple affair: children were content to receive an apple, an orange, or a piece of barley candy in their stockings; clothes, meals, and decorations were

Can anything eat prickly sea urchins? Can dead jellyfish still sting you?

It's late autumn in the city, snow falling at night. The apartmenet building is deserted. The phone doesn't work, the electricity and water are off.

When seventeen-year-old track and field star Jesse Collins's dreams of a full scholarship are shattered after the sudden death of her dad, she leaves home to work as a summer camp counsellor t

When thirteen-year-old Jamie Francis's parents divorced, she and her mother moved from Halifax to the small town of River Bend, Nova Scotia.

On December 6, 1917, harbour pilot Francis Mackey was guiding Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, into Bedford Basin to join a convoy across the Atlantic when it was rammed by Belgian Relief vesse

A first class detective mystery murder. Thrilling to the last page and full of humour.

Coping with the recent death of his father, twelve-year-old Jacob Mosher is sent to spend the summer with his aging, estranged (and strange!) grandparents in rural Newport Landing, Nova Scotia.

Annie Welles is an officer with the Halifax Regional Police?s Robbery and Violent Crimes Unit.

Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest? Grace Willingdon has everything she needs.

Is war the only way of reviving an overpopulated, degenerate world?