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Flavia de Luce - "part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review) - takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times best-selling author Alan Bradley.

A thrilling novel about two people stranded under mysterious circumstances in the South China Sea, battling the memories of the crimes that haunt them. A U.S. Navy intelligence officer, Jess is serving on an aircraft carrier (the first woman ever to do so) until she gets assigned a top-secret mission. When the mission goes wrong, she's rescued by Philippine Navy sailors who've been strategically moored for far too long. Things get complicated when their unhinged leader declares Jess an angel sent to save them from their disastrous mission.

A woman trapped in a plastic suit sprays poisons onto schoolyards in the deserted small hours of morning. Another aims her rage over the loss of her daughter to cancer at a small group of children on Christmas Eve. A teenage boy sees an apparition that may or may not be his estranged father. When the seemingly stable surfaces of their lives rupture, the characters in Scott's award-winning collection discover in their efforts to cope an intimacy on which they hadn't bargained: a disturbing intimacy with the self.

A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga fairytales, and a moment that changes everything. In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena is forced into marriage with Taras, a man twice her age, who wants her even though she has refused him. Stuck in a hardscrabble life and with a husband she despises, starved for a life of her own choosing, at every turn Olena rebels against her husband and her fate.

A follow-up to Barbara’s other popular books of Alberta’s ghost stories, this volume features more tantalizing tales of paranormal events, from splashing spectres at a city swimming pool to haunted homesteads in central Alberta. Over 80 spooky stories of haunted homes, theatres, restaurants and even ghostly animals will baffle and bemuse.

Explores thirty-five animal ghost stories that are based on eyewitness accounts.

It's hard to believe that a century has passed since the outbreak of the First World War. The tragic, bloody conflict cut short the lives of millions of young men and not all of them rest easy. And it wasn t just the soldiers who suffered. Civilian casualties numbered in the millions as well, and the loved ones left at home while their men went off to fight suffered years of worry and heartbreak, sometimes unable to get over their loss.

Barbara Smith is back with an all-new collection of spine-tingling tales in Haunted Alberta.

Enjoy this collection of Ontario’s paranormal history by best-selling Ghost Stories author Barbara Smith. You’ll find tales from Timmons, Prescott, Gananoque, Mississauga, Gravenhurst, Toronto, Almonte, Kleinburg, Perth, Crosshill, Richmond, Whitby, Haliburton, Smith Falls, Kitchener, Amherstburg, Brockville, Clarendon, Thornhill, Richmond, Peterborough, Ingersoll, Elliot Lake, Windsor, Carleton Place, Dundurn Castle, London’s Grand Theatre, Baldoon, Canada’s Hockey Hall of Fame, Algonquin Park and more.

In the harsh and forbidding landscape of the far north, the path of survival is as slender as a shard of ice. This is the story of the indomitable spirit of a beautiful young woman as she challenges the odds to not only survive but thrive with her spirit intact. Set in the remote Inuit village of Panniqtuuq on Baffin Island, this story recounts a time of transformation when the old ways were confronted by the powerful influences arriving from the outside.