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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

She knows she shouldn’t go there. But she knows she will. Would you?Meet Kate Hadley, a smart, sexy, hard-working single mom, and Sasha, her college-bound daughter. Kate’s striving to make it in a man’s world, crashing one glass ceiling after another, all while trying to navigate an increasingly salacious love life.Can she manage her dark urges and dominant admirers while trying to protect her daughter from the exciting world of shadows? Is there a Mr. Righ...

Everyone has their own version of the Boogeyman. But who—or what—is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private detective Russell Quant falls into a nightmare case when the family of a suicide victim hires him to uncover the real cause of death. But what is real and what is imaginary? Quant works to narrow his list of suspects only to find the number of fatalities growing. Compounding Quant’s bewilderment is the disappearance of a friend who has become a ghost he simply can’t find. From siz...

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...

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...

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...

Deirdre Macintosh, London's hottest up-and-coming architect/designer, is redesigning an ancient Moorish sex palace hidden in the Tangier Kasbah. She's got designs on Jake Deloitte, a sizzling American merchant banker, too - - while guarding her secret: she's the pet of powerful Abdul, her African bodyguard and sensual Master.One gifted, beautiful, adventurous young woman, playing the harem slave for two men, as unlike as any two in Europe, men who'll overcome any o...

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...