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Every day, amateur sleuths take to the internet in droves to solve disappearances and catch killers on the run. Writers and public figures ask whether it's healthy to be so obsessed with all things lurid and obscene. Think this widespread fascination with true crime is merely a symptom of living in the Information Age? Melina Druga will force you to reconsider. In this gripping volume, the journalist and author of A Tale of Two Nations unear...

Teenager Cassandra Economos loves five things: Her awesome friends. Her big fat, dysfunctional, Greek family. Rock music. Her plan to move to Chicago. And Kurt Cobain. Soon, she'll gain another love. Sex. Stifled by her family's rules, how will Cassie explore her sexuality? Everything I know about sex I learned from health class diagrams and from reading erotica books I secretly borrowed. Boys never paid attention to me in middle school. T...

~From the author of Angel of Mercy~ Lucretia, an opinionated school teacher, wants no part of marriage. The new headmaster champions change. Will they ever see eye to eye? 1884. Lucretia Goodwin has no intention of marrying simply because that's what's expected. She's witnesses what disastrous marriages can do to women, and she wants no part of it. First, her beloved sister Rebecca relocates thousands of miles away as a result of a hasty...

When she's asked to care for a young Black woman fleeing bondage, a white Ontarian must confront her privilege and the racism that pervades her community in this striking historical novel from the author of Angel of Mercy and Journey of Hope. Rose Goodwin is proud of her charity work with the Simcoe County Vigilance Committee, where she's responsible for gathering provisions to help formerly enslaved Americans start new lives in Canada. He...

~From the author of Angel of Mercy~ A war nurse returns home. Society expects her to carry on as if the Great War never happened. But how can she? Canadian war nurse Hettie Taylor returns home married to Alfred, a man she barely knows. As she adjusts to civilian life, Hettie must come to terms with her first husband's death during the war and deal with debilitating emotions. Hettie wonders if she will be miserable for the rest of her day...

Melina Druga interviewed nearly 100 female entrepreneurs and asked them several career defining questions including the one people don't talk about: Did you struggle when starting your business? The businesswomen did not disappoint, speaking candidly about failure as well as success, self doubt and what the process of launching a business taught them. Despite coming from various walks of life and different regions of the world, the women exp...

~From the author of Angel of Mercy~ The brewing winds of war will soon rip the family apart. The Steward family eagerly prepares for the wedding of their daughter Hettie to Geoffrey Bartlette. The event forever binds them to the Bartlettes who have been their friends for decades. When the Great War explodes, Hettie and her brother, Freddie, join the Canadian Army Medical Corps. This decision is met with resistance and disapproval, causin...

~From the author of Angel of Mercy~ Hardship defines Claire's life. Her husband, Harold, dreams of greater opportunity. A treacherous journey lies ahead. 1829. Claire Appleton experiences an arduous life filled with hard work, struggle and sacrifice in the rugged British North American wilderness. In her lifetime, she hasn't traveled more than a few miles from her hometown. Harold dreams of adventure and suggests uprooting their lives an...

Melina creates a very fast moving plot which keeps us riveted throughout the book. I enjoyed the tight pace of Melina's book, the conversations of the people in the book and the picturesque descriptions of those bygone times and places." - Orla Connors for Zavesti A nurse reluctantly sacrifices her career for marriage. An impending war will change her, and her husband's, life forever. Feisty, ambitious and stubborn Hettie Steward is thrill...

How did newspapers report the events of World War 1? How much of the story was the media able to tell? Author Melina Druga asked these very questions and weaves together details from key events in the war using contemporary newspapers as her main source. As a consequence, the events in A Tale of Two Nations: Canada, U.S. and WW1 do not have the benefit of hindsight and analysis. The reporting is chaotic, incomplete and often inaccurate, but ...

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