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Houdini's Shadow
The reader first meets young Jake O'Sullivan, the protagonist, in 1912 Montreal, where his father is a washed-up boxer in hock to a small-time Jewish mobster. Jake has had a lifelong obsession with the escape artist, Houdini, after seeing the famous magician perform one of his stunts. Flash forward to 1929 when Jake is now a young man performing dangerous stunts himself, one of which includes stealing a mobster's moll. Lulu is gorgeous but fickle and causes Jake no end of problems, requiring other sorts of tricky escapes. The dark underside of Montreal during this period is deftly rendered, with its steamy jazz clubs, zinc bars and "a Negress blowing through an alto saxophone." Eventually, Jake takes on a smuggling job with a nervous little Frenchman that goes horribly wrong, and Jake and Lulu are soon running from the law as well as the lawless. When things settle down, Jake manages to pull off a nifty combination escape stunt and bank job. Here the story goes slightly off the rails, with the appearance of girl named Bobby and a journey to New Orleans, but, altogether this is a well-crafted novel, especially in its period details.
Leaving Wyoming
This is a beautifully written novel which also contains rich information for anyone interested in the "wild west" era. It is the story of a young man who grew up in Idaho, but is given the name "Wyoming" by Butch Cassidy...Wyoming is part of the last years of the Butch/Sundance "Wild Bunch". This story takes place after the Wild Bunch splits up on the their final run for freedom after a train robbery sets the Pinkertons on their trail, big-time. Butch and Sundance head for South America and into legend...they are not really in the story per se, but there is great historical info about them. The title character Wyoming runs with two other gang members...there are conflicts, and he ends up in Alberta, sheltered by a very interesting Norweigan immigrant woman called Veccha, who shares a "Seer's" talent with Two Bears, an Native American elder.
Drift
Paardeberg, South Africa is far from the Canadian prairies. In 1899, best friends from the small town of Portage la Prairie, Will and Mason, sign up with the Winnipeg Rifles’ “A” Company to fight in the Second Boer War. Here they meet Robert, the silent anthropologist from Alberta with a mystery he isn’t revealing; Claire, an Australian nurse, chafing under her parents’ glass ceiling, who captures Will’s heart at first sight; and Campbell Scott, a rebellious veteran with an African wife and a hot air balloon requisitioned by the army for spying.All are fleeing their former lives but to be free they must face the shattered bodies of war. In the dust and desert of South Africa, the...
Quill & Quire
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The Road to Atlantis
Following the coast on their summer vacation, the Henrys stop at the beach to break up the monotony of their road trip. Matty and Nat build castles in the sand as Anne and David take turns minding the children. A moment of distraction, a blink of the eye, and the life they know is swept away forever. Like shipwrecks lost at sea, each member of the family sinks under the weight of their shared tragedy. All seems lost but life is long. There are many ways to heal a wound, there are many ways to form a family, and as the Henrys discover, there are many roads to Atlantis.
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
Index of American Periodical Verse 2000
Packed into this volume are more than 7,000 entries for individual poets and translators and more than 21,000 entries for individual poems. A separate index provides access by title or first line.
