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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?

In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story.

This is a daughter’s poetic homage to her parents, both elegy and celebration, that explores the transformations wrought by history, biology, and the alchemy of love.

Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art.

Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major’s earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject.

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

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.

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 . .