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|  | | Altar and Throne
GOLD MEDALIST- Best Canadian fiction- western region (IPPY Awards)
Abe Williston- the bush pilot
Ted Corrigan and Jack Redsky- childhood friends
Diana Corrigan and Jenny Redsky- mothers spanning two cultures
For twenty years Abe Williston flew all over the world. Now, at the controls of a small airplane owned by Michael Redsky, he was headed back to Kenora, Ontario, returning to close friends he'd left behind as Native culture was being sacrificed on the whiteman's altar of bureaucracy. Would there be something to keep him from leaving a second time? The memories of forgotten friendships held no answers.
Set in simpler times against the background of Northwestern Ontario's Lake of the Woods, i>ALTAR and THRONE /i> explores the friendships between Natives a | |  | | Falklands Deadline
Mrs. Thatcher’s instructions were concise and clear. "Devote whatever resources are necessary to find this document."
div>In 1982 a single page from an old ship's logbook holds the solution for Margaret Thatcher's desire to regain the Falklands without bloodshed. After opening the safety box of his deceased uncle, John Wingate encounters red-haired Vanessa Grieves while searching in the vaults of an Argentinean whaling company for a logbook and the secrets it holds./div>
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div>Vanessa, seeking her own agenda, starts John looking for more that just an old ship when the Falklands Conflict is triggered by the juntas interest in Leith Harbour./div>
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div>From t | |  | | Night Trek
To save their sick baby, Frank and Helen Beaver trek through a bitter winter cold to reach the nearest Hudson's Bay Post.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">span style="font-size: small; "> /span>span class="Apple-style-span">Helen Beaver’s seven month old baby is sick, and she has no idea why. The nearest help is a Hudson’s Bay trading post, but it is a two-day journey away and the January winter has turned bitterly cold./span>/span>
div>span style="font-family: Verdana; ">span style="font-size: small; ">With no other option available, Helen and her husband Frank, leave the warmth and safety of their wilderness cabin to begin the long night | |  | | Ontario Central Airlines - The Kenora Years
"I am indebted to Ed for not only capturing the memories of those who worked for Ontario Central Airlines, but also the creative writing used to record and preserve this era of aviation for future generations." Don Watson- Founding director and member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
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/span>span style="font-family: Verdana; ">One of Canada's teur legends is the Canadian bush pilot. Unlike Grant McConachie and Russ Baker, many were small operators who preferred the rugged life flying vast wilderness country to the comfort of a 747 captain's seat./span>
span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Among them were a few men of vision who wanted a larger piece of the aviation world and expanded their operations while not losing sight of the need for bush flying | |  | | Salvage at Steeple Jason
A short story from the South Atlantic Ocean. [Featured free read]
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; ">In the face of a raging gale, Ross Sterling is called upon to rescue a stricken freighter drifting helpless toward disaster on the rocks of Jason West Cay. Battling fierce rain and unforgiving seas, Ross and his salvage-tug crew use all their resources in an attempt to save the ship and her sailors./span>
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