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A wedding gone bad. One groom is missing, the other becomes a suspicious client. Enter Russell Quant, the first and only wine-swilling, wise-cracking, world-travelling, ex-cop, ex-farm boy, gay, rookie Canadian prairie private eye. Off to France on his first big case, Quant cajoles and sleuths his way from the smudgy streets of Paris to the pastel-colored promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer and chilly shores of Pike Lake, Saskatchewan. Dealing with a cast of colorful suspects, Quant juggles his de...

Life and death of an underground legendA major and fascinating figure in the New York underground, Alan Vega, died on July 16th, 2016 in New York, marked the history of rock and roll deeply with his band Suicide, as a solo artist, as well as in the plastic arts with his light installations. From sculpture to sound experimentation, engaged political activity and horse racing, from Elvis to Jesus Christ, Spinoza and the topic of Jewishness, Alan Vega, Conversatio...

15 Years Later…The Groundbreaking Russell Quant Mystery Series is BackFrom the 2023 winner of the Crime Writers of Canada award for Best Crime Novel and the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men's Mystery, Anthony Bidulka revisits the world of Russell Quant, everyone’s favourite world-travelling, wine-swilling, wise-cracking, winsomely gay, Canadian prairie PI.Dealing with grave family matters and personal challenges, PI Russell Quant returns ...

Composing Worlds with Elephants is an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the historical, social, and ecological entanglement of humans and elephants, a thousands of years old interspecies connection that is multi-dimensional, ambivalent, and always changing. Focusing largely on elephants and peoples across Asia, the research in this volume addresses key issues in the study of their relationship including: dimensions of co-existence, cultures of elephant husbandry, and animal agency. Chap...

At the dead end of a desolate country road, a late-night rendezvous turns into an ambush. Russell Quant, everyone’s favourite wine-swilling, wise-cracking, world-travelling, gay, Canadian prairie private eye is faced with personal threats he can’t ignore, a friend who may be a foe and a cagey client with a treacherous monkey on his back. Lured to New York City, Quant tests his wit, wisdom and wiles from the Old-World grandeur of Fifth Avenue to the kaleidoscope world of Broadway’s electric...

In the mid-1980s, Auckland university student Beatrice is on her first trip abroad. Noisy, cosmopolitan Sicily is a far cry from the isolated Maori community where Betty grew up.But the biggest surprise is her friend Xabi’s charismatic brother, Giuseppe, fleeing Rome’s troubled queer scene. In smoky discotecas and cramped bedrooms, they fall headlong into a secretive romance.Back home, Betty struggles to maintain her fragile connection to Giuseppe over long...

From the author of the internationally bestselling debut Greta & Valdin**, a heartfelt and hilarious novel that follows the eccentric and entangled Vladisavljevic family, hinging on a complicated love triangle that sets in motion decades of desire.**It’s the 1980s and nineteen-year-old Beatrice has left New Zealand for the very first time, swapping the small, rugged island she grew up on for a heady Italian summer that will change the cour...

Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the categ...

Discover more affordable and more energy-efficient methods for preserving food—without sacrificing nutrients!—in this classic food preservation book featuring 250+ recipes.Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern “kitchen gardeners” will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving food in ways that maximize fl...

This day, January 20, 1909, I have decided to set my story down in writing. Dangerous and terrifying the task! But I must perform it. For day after tomorrow I shall be dead. Day after tomorrow.... Just two days! And death from old age! Of this I am as certain as a man can be of anything. What, then, have I to lose by speaking? Speak I must! That much I owe to the unsuspecting men and women who are to survive me. They are in danger; and I must warn them.... Day after tomorrow I shall be saf...

First published in 1955, A Philosophy of Potentiality by Leone Vivante continues his exploration of creation, aesthetics, and the positive nature of subjective being, contrasting it with inert notions of subjectivity. The book examines D.H. Lawrence’s insights into creative spontaneity and his realization of potentiality as an actual value and ultimate reality. Vivante also addresses art criticism and the ontological foundation of aesthetic values. This work, summarizing his essen...

Fifteen tales of the Victorian era, delightfully recounted for the amusement of a Duchess... and for ourselves.