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Presents a selection of Ted Egan's hilarious, very true tales. This is classic, down-to-earth humour.

In 1925, in a London restaurant, J. Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line, has a quiet dinner with his daughter Evelyn.

Every family has its secrets. In 1935, Hannah Parsons left her home in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, at the age of seventeen to work in service for Charles and Virginia Sinclair, a wealthy St.

One of Canada's favourite storytellers is back with a collection of classic ghost stories for young readers.

Emmet Keogh, a young Irish gunman, is saved from the noose only to face death a dozen or so more times at the hand of the most dangerous man in Mexico.

Bestselling author Frank Galgay offers up this collection of his personal favorites from a wide variety of Canadian writers.

Crew of the 'Sea Witch' board a steamer bearing down on them to find a solitary man aboard. A series of events follow, culminating in a struggle for survival.

Humorous Australian short stories.

Author has a personal connection to the WA wreck of the Alkimos, as the stories he recounts make clear.

The author and his wife live on their farm in Provence, southern France.

Aboriginal land rights in Australia.

The true life exploits of a zoo veterinarian called all over the world to attend his exotic animal patients.

Devastated by a love affair that had gone wrong, Sophie was determined to avoid any more heartache. Then one day the brilliant brain surgeon Rijk van Taak appeared in her life.

I wish to marry for the wrong reasons. I am not in love with you. Titus Taverner was a busy and successful medical man who lacked a wife.

A collection of stories from Mormon church history.