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2023 Canada Reads Longlist Selection National Bestseller Winner of the 2019 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Shortlisted for the 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Shortlisted for the 2019/20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award 2020 Burlington Library Selection; 2020 Hamilton Reads One Book One Community Selection; 2020 Region of Waterloo One Book One Community Selection; 2019 Ontario Library Association Ontario Together We Read Program Selection; 2019 Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads; 2019 Amnesty International Book Club Pick January 2020 Reddit r/bookclub pick of the month “This slow-burning thriller is also a powerful story of survival and will leave readers breathless.” — Publishers Weekly “Rice seamlessly injects Anishinaabe language into the dialogue and creates a beautiful rendering of the natural world … This title will appeal to fans of literary science-fiction akin to Cormac McCarthy as well as to readers looking for a fresh voice in indigenous fiction.” — Booklist A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.

This volume presents the background to the recently developed European standard (CEN standard) on snow loads. Many of the papers on ""structural engineering"" describe results from a European snow project that was completed in 1999.

This is a book about a voyage. Not just any trip across any ocean, but a battle against the Southern Ocean, the Antarctic pack ice and the fury of hurricane force blizzards. When Ben Tucker set off from Tasmania in his small home-built steel yacht, he set himself a tentative goal of reaching mainland East Antarctica. As crew he had his youngest brother and the last minute inclusion of his father as cabin-boy (on a promise of good behaviour). The destination was the remote Cape Denison – statistically the windiest place on the planet. More than a travel tale, this is the introspective journey of a father who has consciously surrendered responsibility to his children. Woven through the passage is an inter-generational theme, humour and a recognition of shared adulthood with a link between past, present and future.

A Lakeside Murder The usually quaint town of Snow Falls, Alaska has recently been wracked with a series of crimes. As each one is solved, another one appears. A Park Ranger has been found dead near Diamond Lake. Biological warfare secrets are found buried with him in the snow and have ominous implications for the world. An Overwhelming Task Sarah Garland, Amanda Funnel, and Detective Conrad Spencer are inundated with the task of solving this crime in their cozy town. Not only are the number of suspects overwhelming, but the fate of the world rests in their hands, as the clock ticks towards the release of a biological virus. An Ominous Implication When Amanda is taken hostage by a suspicious newcomer, Sarah and Detective Spencer must make some hard decisions in order to overcome the looming threats. Can the group work fast to solve this mystery, before more innocent lives are put in danger? Keywords: winter cozy mystery novels box cold, alaska snowman mystery series books woman author, Coffee shop owner mystery books, Woman sleuth amateur cozy mysteries reluctant, Cozy mystery with cat or dog romance books sets, Retired cop writer in a clean mystery series, Divorced mystery writer sleuths join forces, cozy murder mysteries, cozy mystery novels collection, small town mystery, mysteries women sleuths, older sleuth mystery, cozy mystery, amateur sleuth, traditional mystery, mystery, small town mystery, female protagonist mystery, murder mystery, cozy mysteries, female sleuth, humor, series, female protagonist, novel, secret, suspense, mystery detective stories, mystery romance books clean, mystery romance suspense, mystery suspense murder, mystery with women, mystery women books, mystery romance, cosy mystery book

In the final installment of his Bigfoot Trilogy, Phillip A. Elwood follows the Giant in the Snow. Sheriff Jim Aken and rancher Dale Mason join forces to track two crazed killers, one human, one not, in this last action packed episode. One is driven by indescribable pain while the other satisfies his insane hunger while killing anyone that gets in his way. Late one frigid night, an unlikely ally joins the heroes and the hunt takes on a much more serious tone. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Jackie Mason and old friend Beth McConnell busy themselves with Christmas preparations while the savage killer heads their way. Though unsuspecting and alone, the women are far from defenseless. Packed with action, Giant in the Snow also speculates on the unknown lives of these legendary creatures.

Snow and Steel will be a huge reassessment of Hitler's last great throw of the dice: 'The Battle of the Bulge', the battle for the Ardennes 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. This is an utterly fascinating five weeks when for a time it looked like Hitler had outflanked the allied armies pushing toward the Rhine and might just throw them back to the Normandy beaches. It is also the context for the catastrophic events at Bastogne depicted so graphically in Band of Brothers. For military history fans this is one of those touchstone battles of the second world war, written by an author with a fast growing, world-wide reputation. Peter will use primary archival material and personal interviews to write a controversial, commercial, landmark book.