Last Stop To Saskatoon


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About the Book A protest song. One book. One epic poem. An unadulterated, uncensored, stream-of-consciousness protest against the state of the world. About the Author Tony Nesca was born in Torino, Italy in 1965 and moved to Canada at the age of three. He was raised in Winnipeg but relocated back to Italy several times until finally settling in Winnipeg in 1980. He taught himself how to play guitar and formed an original rock band playing the local bars for several years. At the age of twenty-seven he traded his guitar for a Commodore 64 and started writing seriously. He has published six chapbooks of stories and poems (which he used to sell straight out of his knapsack at local dives and bookstores), six novels, five books of poetry, one short story collection, and has been an active contributor to the underground lit scene for fifteen years, being published in innumerable magazines both online and in print. He currently resides in Winnipeg.




Serve and Protect Box Set


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This box set includes the three full length novels in the Serve and Protect series. Included in this box set are GUARDING SUZANNAH, SAVING GRACE and PROTECTING PAIGE. GUARDING SUZANNAH - Criminal defense attorney Suzannah Phelps is the bane of the Fredericton police department (they call her She-Rex for her habit of shredding cops in the witness box). She is currently being stalked, but is reluctant to report it to the police, whom she half suspects of being the perpetrators. But when Detective John (Quigg) Quigley learns of it, he's determined to protect her, at considerable risk to his career. They've struck sparks off each other in the courtroom, and he's burning to do the same in the bedroom. When the danger escalates, he has the perfect excuse to pose as her boyfriend, but the closer they get, the more the lines between pretense and reality blur. SAVING GRACE - After wrecking her car and waking in hospital with amnesia, fledgling reporter Grace Morgan has no idea why she’d been in the process of leaving the husband she loves so dearly. Her husband, Police Detective Ray (Razor) Morgan tells her she was leaving him for another man, but that just can’t be so. Can it? She’s determined to remember, even if it kills her. And it just might. When bullets start to fly, Ray is forced to take the wife he believes faithless on the lam until they can figure out who is trying to kill them. PROTECTING PAIGE - Single parent Paige Harmer is at her wit's end about her son. Dillon’s a good kid, but he’s fallen in with a bad crowd. She’s determined to enlist the help of her next door neighbor, the extremely handsome and much younger Tommy Godsoe. Tommy is a local cop, and until he got shot recently in a police raid, was a dog handler. His injury is such that he can never go back to field work, and he refuses to be a desk jockey. All he wants is to nurse his wounds in solitude, and he’s done a great job driving his friends and colleagues away. But Paige is an unstoppable force. Before he knows it, he’s drawn into their lives. As it turns out, Paige and Dillon are going to need a cop in their corner. And Tommy needs Paige to drag him out of his self-pity and back to life. The related novella NEEDING NITA is still available independently for free.




A Fall from Yesterday


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Ocean Siliker has come back to Harkness, New Brunswick in defeat, after failing to set New York on fire with her playwriting. The first item on her agenda? Climbing White Crow Cliff, where her best friend Lacey Douglas died six years ago. If she conquers the mountain, perhaps she can rediscover her courage. But the only thing she finds herself is…lost. Family obligations have left Titus Standish stuck in Harkness. While his younger siblings went off into the world, he stayed, working the farm and running the local search and rescue. He was there when Lacey fell to her death and blames himself. He dreads the day another mission takes him up there again. But when Ocean’s mother calls, concerned that her daughter is wandering the mountain, he leaps into action. Ocean is thrilled to be found…until she sees her savior. She’s known Titus Standish all her life, and has loved him almost that long. But at four years his junior, she was just a kid with a crush. When Titus finds her, he’s determined to march her back down the mountain to safety. But Ocean has other plans; she’ll be damned if she’ll give up this trek. Yet all trails seem to lead to one place…straight into Titus’s arms.




James Oliver Curwood


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Now he would become an avid conservationist in the early days of that movement, a change that would lead indirectly to his death 13 years later.




Take a Walk on the Bright Side


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Set against the backdrop of over one hundred years of world history, Take a Walk on the Bright Side begins with the story of Eugene Bright's restless, entrepreneurial grandfather, Tom Bright, who uprooted his young family in 1907 to travel west and build a homestead in Saskatchewan. A few years later, he moved on and started over again in Montana, only to flee the United States when a confrontation with a neighbour turned dangerous. Tom was a colourful character who was married six times - twice to the same woman. Eugene's father, Ray Bright, left home at eighteen to work as a cowboy in Montana before marrying Lottie Sampson and settling down in Ontario to start farming. Although Lottie did not want any children, they had four boys and four girls. The family lived without running water or electricity, but they "ate like kings" according to a hired man. Eugene and his brothers and sisters walked across neighbouring fields to a one-room schoolhouse run by an outstanding teacher. Eugene worked hard on the farm and at school, and he went on to attend bible college and university, beginning a thirty-one-year career as a teacher, a school principal and a "master" at a teachers' college. Told by the decade and extensively illustrated, Take a Walk on the Bright Side is a multi-generational tale brought to life by a keen observer.




People Places


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This book presents a thematic approach to the story behind Saskatchewan place names, including names of cities, towns, villages, post offices, school districts, railway sidings, and Indian reserves. Names of physical features are not included. Names are discussed under the following categories: First Nations; railways; people and places of the world; famous Canadians; playful names; military and war-related names; bizarre names and anomalies; names derived from the classics and the arts; and names of mysterious or unknown origin.




Rocky Mountain Locust


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SURVIVING THE PLAGUE OF HOMO SAPIENS A year has passed since Jim Easom woke up. He is no longer alone. Jenny, Arch, and he have spent a winter together and grown to love and trust one another. Now they are off again in their trusty Prius, on their trek to the promised land in northern Canada, where they have an appointment: Jim wants to meet the one voice that he spoke with for precious seconds over shortwave radio. Soon after leaving Thunder Bay, trying to make their way to north west to Winnipeg, the three were nearly swept away in a terrible flood, but following a more southerly route through the USA, they won through. Now, as spring breaks out over the prairies, their spirits rise. But they cannot escape the existential terror that lurks in the background: are they the only ones? Despite having left hundreds of markers to alert others to their presence, they have found not a single trace of another living soul. Now, suddenly, they hear a motorcycle roaring toward them down the desolate highway. AN ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL




Last Known Whereabouts


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Four-year-old Nellie St. Clair is abducted in the midst of a crowd of thousands at a Canada Day celebration. The child seemingly disappears without a trace, and there is no clue as to her whereabouts. Or is there? Dozens of people see little Nellie St. Clair with her kidnappers. Most of them realize something is wrong. None of them comes to her aid. The waitress Erica recognizes the child from a picture in a newspaper but never gets the chance to tell anyone. A cross-country cyclist holds a piece of evidence that would surely lead to Nellie but tragedy strikes before she has the opportunity to deliver it. Finn Erickson, the womanizing trucker who flaunts every rule in the book, sees the child more than once on his travels but selfishly can’t be bothered to intervene. Small-time criminal-drifter Jervis Strunk notices the little girl and struggles with his conscience. Should he report the sighting or continue to protect his own low profile? Eighty-year-old Dr. Booker Johnson is the only person to have meaningful contact with little Nellie, but his pleas for help are ignored. And finally, Nellie’s mother Janelle St. Clair struggles to reclaim her memory of the events leading up to Nellie’s kidnapping. A year after the abduction, Janelle retraces the steps of her daughter’s disappearance to the child’s last known whereabouts, hunting for the elusive truth that can unite her with her daughter. The search for Nellie St. Clair spans twenty years and leads to a shocking conclusion. emmeeriddell.wordpress.com




Traveling Truths: Highway Memoirs


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Based on two of my trips across Canada and back via the bus. The first trip was for my Christmas Holiday traveling from Ontario to Northern Alberta and back to Ontario in December. 2011.