Bard on the Beach, the long running Shakespeare festival held in tents near the ocean in Vanier Park, has long been a staple event of the Summer in Vancouver. In 1990, Christopher Gaze launched the festival, and since then it's delighted patrons and locals, and employed homegrown talent. This book is the memoir of the …
Forever Day is the memoir of one man's life journey from growing up in Switzerland in the 70's, driving around in a VW bus to see bands play, to heading out into the world on an adventure and meeting the love of his life, before settling in Australia. It's the story of a search for …
Deputy Tom Bailey was a teenager when a massacre happened in 1983 at the local Summer Camp by the lake, which his girlfriend was the only survivor of. It was the event that lead him to become a cop and re-shaped the small texas town forever. Now, in 1992, it's the night before the Summer …
Continue reading The Summer Fun Massacre by Craig DiLouie (Slasher Season Book 1)
1860s New Orleans: Coleman and June are freed slaves, siblings, who still work for their former owners, the Harper family, as though nothing has changed. Wyatt Harper, who is obsessed with June, has taken her and gone to Mexico, and the siblings wonder if they will ever see each other again. When a stranger comes …
Pemberley, 1799, Georgiana Darcy, trying to escape from an unwanted marriage proposal, finds herself catapulted through time to Saltram, 1995, where a film crew is filming a Jane Austen adaptation. When she's the only witness to a crime there, she realises that she's been sent there to investigate! With the help of a handsome, Irish …
Continue reading A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy Investigates) by Amelia Blackwell
When Tanz and her mother start having dark dreams about witch burnings, she returns to her hometown of Newcastle to find out more. She soon uncovers the towns shame: centuries before, a psychopath worked as a Witch Finder to torture women and host a mass hanging, and the town had tried to cover it up. …
Continue reading The Witch Finder by Tracy Whitwell (Accidental Medium #5)
Two years ago, sisters Erin and Lori were meant to go to a remote island of Fiji together, but due to a bitter argument, Erin didn't get on the plane. When the plane disappeared, with her sister on it, Erin's life stopped and she was unable to accept that her sister was gone forever. Now, …
Ada is 46 and depressed when she starts sneaking into the caves and exploring Ruby Falls, a natural wonder turned tourist attraction named after her friend, who is the wife of the man who discovered it. But it's the Great Depression, and the attraction, like everything, is struggling to stay afloat. When a stunt with …
Translated from French by Hildegard Serle. Mona is ten when she first goes blind for one hour. As doctors try to find out the cause of her malady, her beloved grandfather is tasked with taking her to therapy appointments. Instead, fearing that she may lose her sight, he takes her to see one famous artwork …
We all know someone who can read a room, and someone who can't read others at all. We've made friends instantly with someone, or admired someone's social ease, or have read someone's body language from across the room. What is going on when we meet people, when we feel comfortable building a relationship or repulsed …
Continue reading Why We Click: The Emerging Science Of Interpersonal Synchrony by Kate Murphy
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