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In Improbable Fortunes, Jeffrey Price takes us on a wild ride into Vanadium, a dusty, down-on-its-heels mining town in southwest Colorado—where it would be fair to assume that nothing has ever happened. But you’d be wrong. As it turns out, quite a lot has happened starting with a suspicious mudslide that destroys the town’s Main Street and a cowboy, Buster McCaffrey, arrested for the death of one of the richest men in America, Marvin Mallomar.As the soon-to-retire Sheriff, Shep Dudival, investigates the circumstances surrounding the murder, it comes to light that Buster and Mallomar’s young wife were having a Cowboy Always Rings Twice affair. From there, Price takes this familiar story plot and turns it on its head—folding a rococo cast of Vanadium’s characters into a timeline that begins with Vanadium’s post WWII labor strife and ends with the Kulturkampf of present day.While it may all seem humorous and surreal at first blush, one gets the feeling by Improbable Fortunes' un-guessable conclusion, that Price has used the fictitious town of Vanadium—a place without a recognizable gas station, a decent restaurant, or a clean bathroom—as the Rosetta Stone for something larger.

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Weather to Fly is a collection of adventure stories, tall tales in the great American tradition. Inspired equally by Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, and P. T. Barnum, they are war stories, ghost stories, and love stories. There's a World War II warbird that may or may not have a soul or a conscience; In an Alaska saloon a bush pilot who thinks he's dying reveals a long-hidden secret; And the unlikeliest of pairs falls in love in an airport terminal. By turns whimsical and heart-wrenching, like the best adventures they never end up where you expect.

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В жизни не существует Суперменов, решающих свои проблемы с помощью силы или полученных неизвестно откуда способностей. В реальной жизни каждому приходится постоянно делать выбор: оставаться Человеком или влачить жалкое существование Потребителя всемирной Жвачки, которую активно и массированно раздают СМИ. Герои рассказов – обычные люди, со своими удачами и проблемами. Они живут, совершают ошибки и расплачиваются за них сполна. Оказавшись в необычной ситуации, они принимают решение, которое может изменить не только привычный уклад жизни, но и будущее. Насколько хорош этот выбор, судить читателю.

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Жизнь Лили вчера – это материализовавшаяся картинка из глянцевого журнала. Заботливый отец-миллионер, элитный особняк с целым штатом вышколенной прислуги и неограниченный доступ к банковским счетам обожаемого папочки. У Лили сегодняшней обстоятельства, увы, не такие радужные: запущенная лачуга, которую нужно делить с опустившейся родительницей, хлипкая палатка на вещевом рынке да связи с преступным миром. Какая из этих полярных реальностей настоящая, а какая – мираж, услужливо подсунутый спутанным сознанием, главной героине только предстоит выяснить. Но прежде придётся поработать над характером, попасть в парочку переплётов и разобраться с тем, кто пользуется добротой и деньгами Лилиного отца, пока его дочь вживается в роль разбитной барышни из народа.

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Молодой преуспевающий бизнесмен, оказавшись в непростой ситуации, попадает в еще более запутанную. Всё перевернулось с ног на голову. Друзья, любимая стали чужими.. Вилен оказывается в совершенно другом мире, хоть и остается в этом. Ему предстоит научиться жить заново.

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Герой пришел и своим приходом зажег в сердцах людей огонек надежды, но это только лишь начало его великого путешествия. Ведь впереди его ждет еще множество сражений и неожиданных встреч, которые перевернут его жизнь еще не один раз… Содержит нецензурную брань.

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Details the never-before-told story of Pierre Belliveau, known as Piau Biography of an Acadian hero and iconic early Canadian leader, with no similar books on the market Piau’s story is a border-spanning saga of the formation of Atlantic Canada’s Acadian community, which thrives to this day Author is the brother of singer Anne Murray, who will write the Foreword Author has close connections to the Acadian community in North America, in particular the Institute for Acadian Studies at the University of Moncton

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A story of adventure and romance set in the wilds of Rupert’s Land in the early 19th century. When Orkneywoman Rose is shipwrecked on the shores of Rupert’s Land, she quickly falls in love with Alexander, a Half-caste man who is guiding her people into the dark heart of the continent. But after the death of her father at the hands of another Native, Rose turns against Alexander and all his kind. Heartbroken, Alexander returns to his wild life of running buffalo on the prairie. Although parted from Rose by endless miles and hard fate, his heart remains bound to hers, and on the eve of war he is compelled to reclaim her love, setting himself against his people amid a conflict that will help form a nation.

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Can anyone be a hero in an age where the lines are so blurred? Sexy, racy, hilarious, and even moving, The Indifference League is a story of what happens when the starry-eyed optimism of the Greatest Generation crashes into the obsessions and fears of the New Lost Generation. Under the faded banner of Superman, Wonder Woman, and other heroes past steps the Indifference League: The Statistician, Time Bomb, Hippie Avenger, SuperKen, SuperBarbie, Miss Demeanour, Mr. Nice Guy, Psycho Superstar, The Drifter, and The Stunner. All archetypes of Generations X and Y, they are here to show us just how much things have changed. Sex and love. Religion and politics. Left and Right. Right and Wrong. Can anyone be a hero in an age where the lines are so blurred? When they meet again at The Hall of Indifference for a long weekend together, The Indifference League will fight to find out. Or not.

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Nominated for the 2016 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Nominated for the 2014 Victoria Book Prize An Englishwoman’s mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind. Letitia Landon, «Letty» to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer, much sought after for dinner parties and soirées in the London of the 1830s. But, still single at thirty-six, she fears ending up as a wizened crone in a dilapidated country cottage, a cat her only companion. Just as she is beginning to believe she will never marry, she meets George Maclean, home on leave from his position as the governor of Cape Coast Castle on the Gold Coast of West Africa. George and Letty marry quietly and set sail for Cape Coast. Eight weeks later she is dead – not from malaria or dysentery or any of the multitude of dangers in her new home, but by her own hand. Or so it would seem. Local Customs examines, in poetic detail, a way of life that has faded into history. It was a time when religious and cultural assimilation in the British colonies gave rise to a new, strange social order. Letty speaks from beyond the grave to let the reader see the world through her eyes and explore the mystery of her death. Was she disturbed enough to kill herself, or was someone – or something – else involved?

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