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An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish.

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/?11 hija

A series of deftly turned vignettes of what it was like to live in England at the turn of the last millenium.

An elderly lady sleuth solves a series of murders in the West Indies.

Detective and mystery stories. In this Miss Marple novel a group of people gather at her house one Tuesday evening and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes.

Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen.

A picture of life in the year 1000. Set in England, it follows the Julian Calendar month by month, revealing amazing details of a mainly agrarian life.

From the ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion--a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, arti

Christmas Eve, and the Lee family's reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream.

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel is not normally the sort of crime that arouses Hercule Poirot's interest.

On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent accidental brushes with death.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective.

John Moffatt stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The ABC Murders: A chilling letter sets the sleuth on the trail of an enigmatic killer.

THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! "The murderer is with us-on the train now . .