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Step into the whimsical and wonderfully absurd world of Stephen Leacock, Canada’s beloved humorist. This carefully curated collection brings together 12 of his most delightful short stories from Frenzied Fiction (1918), Literary Lapses (1910), Nonsense Novels (1911), and Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1915). Whether skewering the pretentiousness of academia, playfully mocking social conventions, or embracing the sheer joy of nonsense, Leacock’s tales remain as fresh and comical today as when they first captivated listeners over a century ago.

For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom. In this warm and candid memoir, filled with loving recollections from the award-winning Happy Days team - from break-out star Henry Winkler to Cunningham "wild child" Erin Moran - Ross shares what it was like to be a starry-eyed young girl with dreams in poor, rural Minnesota, and the resilience, sacrifices, and determination it took to make them come true.

Trying desperately to hold on to power, Syria’s dictator resorts to one last, deadly throw of the dice. Using a recently developed bio-chemical weapon developed in an impregnable medieval fortress he hopes to plunge the entire region into the kind of chaos that will allow him to emerge stronger than ever. The Americans have become aware of this weapon but are desperate to eliminate it without a major assault that would trigger a wider war with unforeseeable and unwanted consequences.

"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" is considered to be the masterpiece of Stephen Leacock. Originally published in 1912, it is a set of tales occurring in the fictional hamlet of Mariposa, on the shores of Lake Wissanotti. Many of the characters in the stories are patterned on locals of Orillia, Ontario. The stories are gems of Canadian small town folklore. Leacock brings the quirks, eccentricities and flaws of these everyday people to life in the most humorous way. Every corner of Mariposa has a story to tell!

Army ranger Jack Grant and his unit mount an operation to rob a train inside Pakistan. They find senior Taliban commanders carrying cases stuffed with documents and money. They also contain a clue to a catastrophic new development: a new ally in their perpetual search for bigger, more powerful weapons. An ally prepared to supply them with nuclear devices and weapons with the power to devastate entire American cities. North Korea.

Still reeling over the death of his daughter and deep in a messy divorce from his wife, journalist, radio talk show host, and grieving father Rob Berns stumbles over the dead body of an elderly gentleman–his next door neighbor, Hans Feigenspan.

The story centers on people, drugs, and weapons smuggling and the ruthlessness of a well-entrenched criminal organization. The smugglers are mainly Native American Indians and motorcycle gang members led by a chieftain with a Navy SEAL background. The FBI steps in when two Border Patrol agents are killed by smugglers. The pursuit of the killers not only uncovers drug and gun distribution rigs in America but also unveils a major plot to supply a secret weapon to the Taliban and Al Qaida and subplots of the State Department, Canadian spy agencies, NATO, and the CIA.

This is one of Arthur Gask’s best known novels. It features Detective Gilbert Larose who also appears in some of Gask’s later works. The Dark Highway is set in the Coorong district of Australia. The outback is the perfect setting for this great crime story. Add in a horse race, a few nefarious characters and you will agree that Arthur Gask was a crime writer ahead of his time! This edition includes a biography of the author.

The next and most exciting adventure yet in this brand new Western series from Malcolm Hotzman! Action, adventure, drama and gunplay from one of the finest authors writing Westerns today! When Dalton Brisco stumbles upon what appears to be an attempted train robbery, he does what a gunfighter does best. He kills two of the three would-be robbers. The third one escapes. Ben Cole, the owner of the train and prominent miner in Castle Rock, Colorado, hires Brisco as a bodyguard for himself and his family.

After a chance meeting on the trail, the unlikely duo of gunfighter Dalton Brisco and Timber: U.S. Marshal decide to team up. This mystery friend is on his way to Silverton, Colorado, because his old mentor, Nate Jenkins, has requested some help, and Briscoe offers to assist. The two combine forces to retrieve Nate’s abducted granddaughter, and solve the mystery of how horses are disappearing from a local ranch. Using their brains, fists, and guns, these two legends deal out justice as they define it.

A renegade outfit of thieves, murderers, and deserters wiped out a unit of Coalition soldiers, and Grant’s fireteam just happened to be in the vicinity to take the blame. Under arrest for mass murder, they have no choice but to break out and look for the real killers to clear their names.

The Syrians have started to annihilate the Kurdish population of Al Rai. The town is under siege from a squadron of T-55 tanks, and the people are dying. They have no means of defending themselves, except for three obsolete Second World War tanks they purchased from a defunct museum. Special Operations: Grant’s Armor is a must-listen epic which tells the story of tough, violent men fighting against a vicious and determined enemy in the Middle East, a harsh, hostile environment and an enemy who is no less harsh or hostile.

On a whim, Briggs Stevens invites a beautiful new acquaintance to travel with him to Iceland. A hiking accident quickly spirals into a lifesaving rescue for his friend and exposes a battalion of Russian soldiers involved in a covert operation to destroy the ozone layer above New England. One soldier agrees to help Briggs rescue his friend in exchange for asylum to America and in the process helps to ignite a love between Briggs and his friend that lasts beyond the waters of Iceland.

Twelve-year-old Wind That Knocks Down Lodges loves his little sister, Cactus Flower, and the wildness of the desert canyonland the Apache call home. But in one night of misunderstanding and mistakes, Knocks Down and Cactus Flower’s innocent world is shaken as they find themselves locked in the nearby fort with the pale face soldiers and their mother’s lifeless body. With no one to lean on but each other, Knocks Down and Cactus Flower must make their way as children of The People in the pale face world - pale faces who have now become the enemy.

Will Cannon rides to Texarkana, Texas in search of the Blackman Gang. He immediately becomes involved in a blood feud between the Monroe clan from Texarkana and the Larson clan from Arkansas. Will meets a beautiful young hillbilly woman named Billy Joe Monroe. Billy Joe is determined to make Will her husband and even though Billy Joe is a handful she does help Will bring the outlaw gang to justice.

Newly minted Army Ranger Lieutenant Jack Grant joins a mission to take down the Taliban’s elite sniper, but things go wrong from the start.

The Hell Riders is a group of young men from the Hell Roaring River Valley in Utah fighting a gang of outlaws who are trying to take over the valley. Will Cannon rides into town and is immediately drawn into the fight. Will meets a beautiful woman and helps the gold miners and the farmers and ranchers fight the Ingersol Gang.

Linda DuPont has a successful career as a fine art auctioneer on cruise ships until she marries the love of her life and settles on the island of Cozumel, Mexico. There she partners with her husband successfully growing a tourist diving operation, boosting local artists and raising three children. Tragedy strikes when her husband, Dan dies. She sells the business and moves to Bellingham, Washington to be close to family.

Hazel Branson replaces her husband, Joseph, as Chief of the Midlake First Nations Indian band. She wins respect for her leadership skills and as a visionary advancing the welfare of the tribe. Meanwhile, Joseph, wanted by the FBI for smuggling and murder, is successfully partnered with a Russian arms dealer trading arms for cash, drugs, and raw diamonds with Jihadists in Africa and Maoists in India. His trading takes him to India, Sri Lanka, Central Africa, and Colombia.

Wanted by the FBI for murder and smuggling, Joseph Branson, chief of the Midlake Indian tribe and a former Navy SEAL, flees with his wife Hazel to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean where he is a business partner with Igor Romanoff, one of the world's biggest arms merchants. All this is carefully watched by the CIA.