A literary mystery novel set in the small town of Hawthorne, where a mysterious confession reveals that an innocent man was imprisoned for a fire he did not commit. When Ruby receives an anonymous letter, she is drawn into a web of family loyalty, hidden evidence, and ten years of carefully guarded secrets. Themes include truth, justice, guilt, redemption, and the destructive power of silence. Suitable for general adult collections and book clubs focused on psychological mysteries and cont...

Détective privée, Jane ne recule devant rien pour mener à bien un contrat, quitte à parfois se mettre dans des situations délicates.Liam, de son côté, passe son temps entouré de momies et d’artefact...s égyptiens au fin fond du département archéologie du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York.Après un premier rendez-vous imprévu et catastrophique, les choses sont claires : ils ne veulent plus jamais se revoir ! Mais Jane est forcée d’infiltrer le Met en tant qu’assistante d...

Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new!A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Christmas after" their diary ends. Johanna Leary is reunited with her brother after they were separated at Grosse-Île; Mary Kobayashi spends a second Christmas at a Japanese internment camp; Rose Rabinowitz finds...

In the timber camps of North Florida in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston, a famous African-American anthropologist and author, discovered the unwritten segregationist law allowing a white man to force a white woman to have his children. Dr. Ellis coined the term "paramour rights" and attributed it to Hurston's character in this novel. Twenty years later, she received an assignment from the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the murder trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy colored woman accused of slayin...

The holidays can be a difficult and lonely time, especially for those who might be estranged from the family and faith traditions of their youth. Reconstructing Christmas recognizes and holds space for that pain, while also seeking to offer hope, acceptance, encouragement, and love to LGBTQ+ Christians who might be facing similar estrangements this Christmas season.The 160 page collection features poetry, sermons, devotional reflections, and short stories from 15 different...

Tegen het steeds grimmiger decor van een bezet Amsterdam wordt de zestienjarige Elly Blocq verliefd op Wim Vleeschhouwer, de voorzitter van de tafeltennisvereniging. Maar op een koude winteravond begin 1943 staan twee NSB'ers voor de deur: Elly moet meekomen. Wim is radeloos en besluit vrijwillig met haar mee te gaan.De twee komen terecht in Kamp Vught. Omdat Wim Duits spreekt, valt hij in de gratie bij de kampcommandant en weet hij niet alleen zichzelf, maar ook Elly op de lijst t...

Inheriting an old southern homestead in the deep woods of East Texas may not always be a good thing.The House on Camp Ruby Road is the story of three generations of women living in the Big Thicket of deep East Texas. It is a mystical place where Eden Devereaux, a college student in the early 1960s is drawn into a haunting world full of damaged and grotesque people, reminiscent of Southern Gothic literature. After inheriting a crumbling southern homestead in the Big Thicket upon the...

Perfect voor lezers van Meg Waite Clayton, Kristin Harmel en Heather MorrisOoit was Alma Rosé een van de meest gerespecteerde violistes van Europa. Haar optredens lieten geen publiek onberoerd. Maar toen de nazi's Europa bezetten, kon niets haar redden.In Auschwitz wordt elke dag gevochten om te overleven. Alma is niet langer Alma, maar gevangene 50381, het nummer dat in bleke inkt op haar huid is getatoeëerd. Samen met duizenden anderen zit ze opgesloten, en is ze gescheid...

Inheriting an old southern homestead in the deep woods of East Texas may not always be a good thing.The House on Camp Ruby Road is the story of three generations of women living in the Big Thicket of deep East Texas. It is a mystical place where Eden Devereaux, a college student in the early 1960s is drawn into a haunting world full of damaged and grotesque people, reminiscent of Southern Gothic literature. After inheriting a crumbling southern homestead in the Big Thicket upon the...

Inheriting an old southern homestead in the deep woods of East Texas may not always be a good thing.The House on Camp Ruby Road is the story of three generations of women living in the Big Thicket of deep East Texas. It is a mystical place where Eden Devereaux, a college student in the early 1960s is drawn into a haunting world full of damaged and grotesque people, reminiscent of Southern Gothic literature. After inheriting a crumbling southern homestead in the Big Thicket upon the...

On a hot Florida summer day in August, 1952, Ruby McCollum, the wealthy African-American wife of Suwannee County’s Bolita King, murdered Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, a beloved white physician and recently elected state senator. The sensational murder trial was widely covered in newspapers ranging from the New York Times to The Times in London, and was the first of its kind since 1855. Now the story of a forbidden interracial love affair gone wrong is recounted by an author who was a neighbor to the...