Good Evening

A very funny show about some unlikely subjects, including a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, an in-depth interview with an unimpressed shepherd who witnessed the Nativity, and a French singer who misunderstands an Anglo-Saxon vulgarity and composes a song around it.

Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.

The open-and-shut case of the Fatal Flapper just won’t stay closed in this thrilling and immersive novel of 1920s Vancouver—another Raincoast Noir mystery. Miss Dora Decker doesn’t look like the sort of young woman capable of stabbing her stockbroker employer twenty-five times with her high-heeled shoe; yet, thanks to a slow news day, she has become internationally famous as the Fatal Flapper, and the police are only too happy to make the arrest. Meanwhile, Ed McCurdy, former muckraking journalist, has traded his typewriter for a career reading radio news as Mr. Good-Evening, Canada’s first “radio personality.” As a celebrity he draws resentment and paranoia from far and near, and he worries that the next murder victim will be himself. Inspector Calvin Hook scours the wet, boozy streets of gritty 1920s Vancouver, piecing together a mystery that somehow connects Al Capone, Winston Churchill and Brother Osiris, the leader of a mystical cult on De Courcy Island.

The dramatic novel Good Evening, Vietnam is a love story interrupted by war.During his tour of duty in Vietnam, a young U.S. chopper co-pilot falls in love with a Vietnamese girl. After his chopper is shot down, he is taken prisoner by the Vietcong. Under a POW exchange in 1973, he returns to America, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend.After the Vietcong take over Saigon, they imprison hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese who worked with the Americans, force others into the jungles, and denounce the children of U.S. soldiers. Most of these abandoned children were left homeless, some became gangsters, and others joined bandit gangs.Many years later, when the American pilot’s mental health finally recovers from his ordeals, he travels back to Vietnam for closure. There he is robbed by a gang leader, who later looks at the wallet of the man he robbed, and finds a surprising photo.Good Evening, Vietnam is the stunning story of a reunion that was too long in coming.

On the next mission, she was attacked by zombies and saved by a Taoist who claimed to be her previous life's husband. Her life has undergone a tremendous change since then ...

As soon as she entered the house, she was immediately declared to be married to a fool. She desperately escaped from the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den. Being coerced, threatened, and pressed. "Woman, once you enter my room, you must give birth to my son!" Mu Huan foolishly asked, "Why not daughter?" He replied with a cold voice, "Then it will be one son and one daughter." In the following days, all kinds of knocking sounds could be heard. She would be reborn many years later. She would be a famous designer, but he said that in this life, she had only designed the most perfect piece of work for him.

As the sun sets from east to west, this book takes children on a magical round-the-world journey to bid good night to the world’s natural wonders, from plants and animals to mountains, oceans, and wide desert plains. Willa Perlman’s soothing, lyrical text combines with Carolyn Fisher’s sweeping illustrations to paint a vivid picture of everything everywhere going to sleep—including an imaginative little boy.