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In the suffocating heat of a post-war summer, a local murder unearths an international conspiracy-and the truth could ignite a new world war.July 1946. As Winnipeg stews beneath a relentless prairie heatwave, the bloody aftermath of the Dominion Day celebrations takes a chilling turn. When a quiet, hard-working stable hand is executed in the dead of night at the Polo Park Race Track, Winnipeg Police Detective Gabriel O'Malley catches what looks like a senseless local homicide....

Winnipeg, 1940. The river is frozen solid. The truth is buried deeper.In the tradition of James Patterson, Robert Ludlum, and Greg Iles, Young delivers a relentless thriller where the only thing more lethal than the prairie winter is a secret hiding in plain sight.New Year's Eve, 1939. As a wind shrieks down Portage Avenue, the city's elite celebrate the end of a decade inside the warm, gilded mansions of Armstrong Point. But outside, on the frozen ice of t...

Shadows In The Pool Of The Black Star: A Detective Gabriel O'Malley NovelWhere Sacred Geometry Meets Wartime Treason.January in Winnipeg is a sentence, not a season. At thirty-five below zero, a bitter, hunting wind strips the warmth from the limestone walls of the Manitoba Legislative Building. But inside the grand structure, the chill is trapped-along with a horrifying secret.When Detective Gabriel O'Malley is sum...

Five guest rooms. Nine guests. A murder no one heard.At the Oasis Bed and Breakfast, the coffee was brewing, guests were gathering, and breakfast was almost ready. Upstairs, Gabriel was dying.No scream. No cry for help. Downstairs, the morning carried on.When longtime partners Frank Wright and Joe Morris buy the secluded lakeside property, they imagine a fresh start: a home of their own, a business together, and a peaceful escape from city life. The...

Why is it important to learn collocations and idioms?An appreciation of collocations and idioms will help you to use the words you know more accurately. In other words, you’ll make (NOT do) fewer mistakes.Sound more natural when you speak and write.By saying, for example, go blank, rather than forget everything, you won’t just be understood, you will – quite rightly – sound like a fluent user of English.Vary your spe...

You may have asked yourself whether there is some effective method that can make you speak English fluently, efficiently and with confidence.Well, there is such a method!Advanced English Conversations will first and foremost help you gain mastery and command of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. In this book you are going to be acquainted with 100 active dialogues that present the language functionally. ...

You may have asked yourself whether there is some effective method that can make you speak English fluently, efficiently and with confidence.Well, there is such a method!Advanced English Conversations will first and foremost help you gain mastery and command of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. In this book you are going to be acquainted with 90 active dialogues that present the language functionally. I...

Bay State Road is a collection of sermons offered during the twenty years of Robert Allan Hill's deanship at Boston University's Marsh Chapel. Some sermons reflect on milestones, such as the first time Hill preached at Marsh Chapel as its dean, his 2023 university baccalaureate address, and a remembrance of the grief following the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon. But most were preached on "regular" Sundays, whose very ordinariness is the canvas on which the extraordinary is made visibl...

The Complete Works of Robert Burns gathers the poems, songs, and correspondence of Scotland's national bard into a capacious literary archive of vernacular brilliance, radical sympathy, and lyrical invention. Moving from rustic satire and devotional parody to love song, political epigram, dramatic narrative, and intimate letter, the volume situates such enduring pieces as Tam o' Shanter, To a Mouse, and Auld Lang Syne within the full range of Burns's expressive achievement. Burns's backgro...

Ever met someone who has actually been to Timbuktu and back... on a motor bike? Alan Roberts rode a motor bike through Timbuktu and all through Africa, Asia and the Middle East over the course of two years. Experience first-hand the incredible adventures Roberts experienced as he travelled through exotic locations, finding love, friendship and adventure. Riding "The Mothership" a Honda Africa Twin 750cc motorbike some 102,000 kilometres through 50 countries across four continents he finds ...

Fanatikal follows comic book artist Miles Redding, a superstar in the industry, and his devoted wife Luna Longoria, a nanny in New York City. After a career slowdown, Miles lands a mysterious new opportunity with a rising comic company led by Frank Riley, who harbors dark secrets. As Miles becomes entangled with ambitious Goths pushing a violent, vampiric comic series, Luna senses danger and warns him. But the stakes rise as a manipulative fanboy and former ally, Neal Mosher, escalates the...

Digital technology for the production, transmission, and reception of television is expected to replace analogue transmission throughout the world. The timetable for this transition is uncertain and different projections have been made for virtually every country in the world. This book gives the exhaustive details of the issues of this changeover in Europe and elsewhere. The details are placed within the context of the massive changes, which the television industry has been subjected to o...