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What Pickax, the town "400 miles north of everywhere," needs is a new bookstore.

"Canada's Bridget Jones" Gabrielle Bauer shares her journey of self-recognition in her memoirs of a life as a square peg in a round hole.

Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.

Short-listed for the 2002 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction So you grow up as a member of the baby boom.

Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Awards 1997 By either folly or design, Gabrielle Bauer finds herself on a plane bound for Tokyo, leaving her career, home, and husband behind.

All the world's a stage--and now Jim Qwilleran's apple orchard has become the stage for a real-life murder scene.

Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes.

Qwill's on his way to Scotland--and on his way to solving another purr-plexing mystery. But this time Kokds nowhere near the scene of the crime.

With the approaching Great Food Explo, there's lots of delicious activity in Moose County-restaurant openings, a cheese-tasting, and a bake-off are planned, among other events.

Newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his two cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate a suspicious fire which killed a woman in her nineties.

Journalist Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a backpacker near Lake Superior. By the author of The Cat Who Sang for the Birds.

"The denizens of Pickax are starstruck: Thelma Thackeray, a native of Moose County, has returned to spend her declining years 400 miles north of everywhere, after a nearly six-decade-long care

"Fictional columnist James Qwilleran has finally completed his book showcasing the stories related to him by residents of Moose County, that famous region four hundred miles north of everywher

Pickax's favorite columnist, James Qwilleran, is enjoying a brief vacation with his two Siamese cats at the Nutcracker Inn, in the nearby town of Black Creek.

After a long drought, the citizans of Pickax are worried about wildfires. Their fears are soon realized.