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Bitcoin Widow
She met the man of her dreams and suddenly had it all. Then, in one fateful night, she lost everything, and the nightmare began Jennifer Robertson was working hard to build a life for herself from the ashes of her first marriage. Still only twenty-six, she swiped right on a dating app and met Gerry Cotten, a man she would not normally have considered—too young and not her type—but found she’d met her match. Eccentric but funny and kind, Cotten turned out to be a bitcoin wizard who quickly amassed substantial wealth through his company, Quadriga. The couple travelled the world, first class all the way, while Cotten worked on his multitude of encrypted laptops. Then, while the couple was...
Flight 111
Fifteen years later, the crash of Swissair Flight 111 remains one of the largest aviation accidents ever recorded. The crash claimed over two hundred victims, and changed the course of countless lives, from the victims’s friends and relatives, the dedicated individuals who helped with the search and investigation, and the residents who welcomed the victims' families into their homes. Award-winning writer Steven Kimber has collected their stories, starting with the seemingly innocent events leading up to the fatal day on September 2, 1998, the search for survivors, and failing that, the pursuit for answers. Kimber successfully combines these accounts in a lively, heart-wrenching style to give a human face to one of the worst tragedies in Canadian history. This new edition includes an afterword with updated information from the investigation.
Reparations
They were boyhood best friends. One black, one white. But they’dgrown up and apart. Ray, the son of Africville’s last schoolmaster, had hisbrief, shining moment in the ’70s as a black activist leader and is now ajaded lawyer specializing in real estate deals and plea bargains. Ward, the sonof a blackballed fisherman, who had his own turn in the ’70s spotlight as theprovince’s most promising young politician, has become a judge who worriesmore about the state of his prostate than the justice of the state. Now, morethan 25 years after they fell in love with the same woman, the two men must faceeach other again, this time in a courtroom. The explosive trial will force bothof them to finally confront the demons of their own pasts and reveal secretsthey’ve kept hidden, even from themselves. Stephen Kimber, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, haswritten a page-turning legal thriller, a sophisticated tale fuelled by power,sex, the politics of race and an impassioned quest for justice.
The Sweetness in the Lime
A bittersweet story following fiftysomething Eli Cooper that takes readers from Havana, to Halifax, to Miami, and back again, The Sweetness in the Lime is a charming, clever novel that peels back the rind to discover there really is sweetness in the lime of life.
Phelan Vs. Phelan: The Bitter Struggle for Control of the Family Firm
This book, by award-winning writer Stephen Kimber, takes readers behind the scenes of an epic family feud inside one of Canada's wealthiest families. The Phelans owned Cara Operations and its many popular restaurant chains, including Harvey's and Swiss Chalet. Trouble began when family patriarch Paul James Phelan refused to yield control to the next generation. What followed pitted brother against sisters, against father in boardrooms and courtrooms. You might be surprised to know who won this generational war. Phelan v Phelan is a must-read for anyone interested in the challenges of succession -- and survival -- in a family company. And for anyone intrigued to read a real-life version of Succession.
Loyalists and Layabouts
Marking the 225th anniversary of loyalist landings in Canada, this important and comprehensive history is essential reading on the shaping of our country. The few hundred loyalists who gathered at Roubalet's Tavern in New York on the night of Saturday, November 16, 1782, shared a vision of the future intended to sustain them through the nightmare of the present. Abandoned by the king to whom they had promised their loyalty, unwelcome in the land that had so recently been theirs, they had no choice but to flee. But to where? And for what? Their dream was to build a new and improved New York City. They would do this on the rocky shores of Roseway Bay, on the south coast of Nova Scotia, beside ...
Sailors, Slackers, and Blind Pigs
The untold story of how war transformed the city of Halifax. Stephen Kimber recreates life in Halifax during the Second World War, a city transformed by the influx of military and civilian personnel serving the war effort. Poorly governed and corrupt, the city erupted at the end of the war in Europe in the infamous V-E Day riots of May 1945. Halifax was the only Canadian city directly caught up in the drama, danger, death, and disaster of our last “good” war. Through the eyes and experiences of the people who lived it—sailors, slackers (civilians), prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, and just plain local folk—Stephen Kimber brings this extraordinary period of history to life. From an...
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"Not Guilty"
The public was shocked when reports began to circulate that Gerald Regan, a former premier of Nova Scotia and federal cabinet minister, had committed dozens of sexual assaults on teenage girls and young women over a period of decades. Charges were laid and a major trial took place in 1998. The book is powerful in its contrast of public life and private sordidness. Kimber shows how the authorities hoped through the prosecution of the sexual assault charges to restore their reputation after previous scandals. What happened? How could a man who "everyone knew" should be watched around women workers and acquaintances be let off on such serious charges?
Murder on the Middle Passage
On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year-old African girl to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank print, raced across newspapers in Britain and Ireland and was even reported in America. Soon after, Kimber was indicted for murder - but in a trial lasting just under five hours, he was found not guilty. This book is a micro-history of this important trial, reconstructing it from accounts of what was said in court and setting it in the context of pro- and anti-slavery movements. Rogers considers contemporary questions of culpability, the use and ab...
