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  The Decameron

  Giovanni Boccaccio

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  Set against the shadow of the Black Plague, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is a radiant tapestry of love, wit, tragedy, and the triumph of the human spirit. When Florence is ravaged by pestilence, ten young nobles — seven women and three men — flee to a countryside villa to escape the horrors of the city. Over ten days, they pass the time by telling one hundred stories: tales of romance and folly, devotion and deception, virtue and vice. 
  From the poetic tragedy of “Griselda” to the romantic daring of “Cymon and Iphigenia” and the moral allegory of “The Three Rings,” Boccaccio captures the full spectrum of human experience — earthy, wise, and profoundly moving. 
  Narrated with grace and warmth by Mary Ellin Kurtz, this timeless masterpiece invites listeners into a world where storytelling itself becomes an act of survival — and of joy.

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  The Sleeping Car Porter

  Suzette Mayr

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  WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
  		 
  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022
  		 
  OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE
  		 
  THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022
  		 
  CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022
  		 
  When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair
  		 
  The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you’ll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment.
  		 
  Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he’ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with “George.”
  		 
  On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxter’s memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can’t part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor.
  		 
  ”Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter offers a richly detailed account of a particular occupation and time—train porter on a Canadian passenger train in 1929—and unforcedly allows it to illuminate the societal strictures imposed on black men at the time—and today. Baxter is a secretly-queer and sleep-deprived porter saving up for dental school, working a system that periodically assigns unexplained demerits, and once a certain threshold is reached, the porter loses his job. Thus, success is impossible, the best one can do is to fail slowly. As Baxter takes a cross-continental run, the boarding passengers have more secrets than an Agatha Christie cast, creating a powder keg on train tracks. The Sleeping Car Porter is an engaging and illuminating novel about the costs of work, service, and secrets.” – Keith Mosman, Powell's Books
  		 
  ”I thought The Sleeping Car Porter was fantastic! It strikes a balance between being about the struggles of being black and gay at that time while not being too heavy handed with it. I enjoyed his constant mental math on how many demerits he might receive for each infraction. The reader really gets a sense of the conflict that Baxter is going through. I really liked reading a book from the perspective of a porter.” – Hunter Gillum, Beaverdale Books

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  Revenge at Burial Rock

  Peter Brandvold

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  Joe believes the old regulator, "Long-Shot" Hunter Drago, who did twelve years' hard time because of Mannion, has moved to the town of Del Norte, in the Colorado Territory to kill him. But nearly everyone else in town believes that he merely moved there to take over the Three-Legged Dog Saloon and to begin a new, peaceful life. 
   
   
   
  Mannion, who doesn't believe in coincidences but does know the nature of "Long Shot's" black heart, doesn't buy a word of it. 
   
   
   
  The rest of the town, including his lover, Jane Ford, thinks Mannion's just being his old, stubborn, bloody self—especially when he catches Drago palling around with his daughter, Evangeline, and beats the old killer half to death on Del Norte's main street for all to see. 
   
   
   
  Bloody Joe has finally gone too far. The town's powers-that-be believe it's time for Joe to go. 
   
   
   
  As the game of cat and mouse continues and Mannion finds himself dodging a veritable lead storm nearly everywhere he goes, he finally finds himself in a bloody showdown on the stone mountain called Burial Rock, where he finds that not only his own life hangs in the balance but Jane's life, as well. 
   
   
   
  He's going to have to move fast and shoot straight to escape a blood bath . . .

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  The Man in the Pines

  David Nash

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  Legends are somewhat deceitful. Leaving no room for sequels. Books never written. Stories never told. Until now. 
  It is the late 1800s, and Paul Cunningham is about to establish himself as one of the most iconic American folklore figures of all time by logging his way through the northern United States. What he doesn't realize is the ruinous cost of his conquest. 
  From singer songwriter David Nash, a heart felt reimagining tale of the folk legend Paul Bunyan. This is a novel that was meant be heard. Read by the author, The Man in the Pines is Nash's first novel. It is a tale of demi-god strength, love lost, hubris, and destruction. It is a story of conservation and, hopefully, redemption. It is the life of Paul Bunyan you've never heard before. 
  Included is a special rendition of the song that started it all, "Paul Bunyan's Lament," introduced and performed by the author.

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  Tales of Empire - A Short Story...

  Rudyard Kipling, Bithia Mary...

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  Empires have been a fact of life for many thousands of years in all corners of the globe.  Some have lasted a mere generation, others for a millennia.  Some have defenders that cite advancements and security but detractors rail at the imposition of one culture upon defeated societies for no greater reason than conquest. 
   
  In this volume we put together stories from a wide range of classic authors, including Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Talbot Mundy, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, H Rider Haggard and many others to view the British Empire both from the inside as subjects and from the outside as writers through engrossing narratives.  These literary leviathans could observe, sample, question and report as part of an Empire upon which the sun never set and who’s morals were sometimes good, but often bad, as it bestrode the world as Imperial policeman and bully-in-chief grabbing the profits of others as it imposed a Pax Britannica that was in reality only of real benefit to the elite at home. 
   
  Times may have changed yet these stores offer a fascinating insight into the world as it was. 
   
  1 - Tales of Empire - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - Long Odds by H Rider Haggard 
  5 - The Indian Orphan. A Tale by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  6 - The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad 
  7 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell 
  8 - The Metropolitian Emigrant by John Galt 
  9 - His Unconquerable Enemy by W C Morrow 
  10 - The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy 
  11 - An Outcast of the People by Bithia Mary Croker 
  12 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt 
  13 - The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling

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  Return to me

  Sharon Udy Storrs

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  Return to Me' is a historical fiction work which is written to be used as an impactful educational resource for students who are studying World War II. The book covers all 5 fronts of the war, with a clear explanation of the role the key players: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Empire of Japan) played in the escalation and eventual resolution of the war. 
  The story is intertwined with characters living in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains during the Depression and World War II. Nate and Bea Roundy and their family, as well as their community and the rest of the country are impacted by the Depression followed on the heels of the senseless loss of millions of lives and the devastation and destruction of WWII. 
  Nate's Sister, Ruth is serving as a nurse and is captured as a POW in the Philippines. Will they ever see her again? Her fiance is serving as an American spy in Italy on the Italian Front. Will they ever be together again and realize their dream of getting married? The death of Nate's sister, in child- birth leaves 8 motherless children in the care of a dysfunctional stepmother. What will become of them? What will become of Blake and his sweetheart Anna, now that he has enlisted as a medic and is serving in the Normandy invasion? What will become of Bobby, his best friend, who is shot down in German territory. Will he live to tell his story? 
  Members of the community find themselves being drafted into the war on many fronts. The story covers their challenges, love stories, tragedies and atrocities that occur in war as well as at home, and is laced with examples of courage, and valor. The question is will their family ever be united again, and if so, will it ever be the same?

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