Aloha Candy Hearts

Author : Anthony Bidulka
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554831142

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Aloha, Candy Hearts by Anthony Bidulka Pdf

New Edition of Russell Quant's Sixth Case From the calm Pacific to the storm-tossed prairie, a teasing puzzle turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse for gay PI Russell Quant. Russell can't be sure whether a dead man's surprising last gift will take him on a treasure hunt or a treacherous game of life or death. With a series of clues spanning decades — from a shocking modern-day murder to Saskatoon's dark, hidden past — he revisits the harsh realities of early homesteading, investigates the blackmail of one of the literary world's most esteemed writers, and digs for clues at the site of a never-forgotten scourge. As past reveals future, the hunter becomes the hunted. Racing to keep up with his latest case, Russell must balance his professional life with the demands of a wedding, a memorial, and at least one home-cooked meal at Mom's. With the Hawaiian sand barely shook free from his hair, Russell is confronted, professionally and personally, with the harsh consequences of indecision. Saying aloha is not always easy. Welcome to the world of Russell Quant... .

Author : Anthony Bidulka
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554831043

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Sundowner Ubuntu by Anthony Bidulka Pdf

A mother's pain. A million dollars. A missing son. Desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse? Through good old-fashioned detective work, Russell peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of traumatic childhood violence. Tracking Matthew's life from the schoolyard drug culture of a pleasant prairie city's underbelly to the stunning vistas, vibrant townships, and tinderbox safaris of Africa, Russell finds much more than he was looking for. Ever adept at making both friends and foes, Quant runs a gauntlet of uncharted danger as worlds collide. Thrust into the unfamiliar role of bad guy, stymied by seemingly insurmountable distrust and base fear, Russell cuts a blistering swath through covert threats and overt bullets. But as he searches for his Canadian needle in an African haystack, the brutality escalates. Confronting his own role in the cause and effect of scars and anger, retribution and revenge, Russell Quant faces a difficult question: What happens when the prodigal son resists the return?

Author : David Carpenter,Kelly-Anne Riess
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781550509557

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The Literary History of Saskatchewan by David Carpenter,Kelly-Anne Riess Pdf

Volume 3 shifts its focus to Regina’s literary culture and to the coming generation of younger writers, but it continues to examine the best work from Saskatchewan. The impact, the relevance, the illuminations of our best writers’ work tend to move well beyond the borders of our province. This work transcends the regional sources of its inspiration. Just as Marilynne Robinson has much to say to Canadians about the disruptions and the graces of family life, Dianne Warren has much to say to Americans about the omnipresence of the past, the shadows it casts on people’s lives in the present. Many of our best books are nurtured by the history and the life of this province, but they spring into literature roughly in proportion to their applications and their immemorial responses to the human condition.

Author : Anthony Bidulka
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554830015

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Date with a Sheesha by Anthony Bidulka Pdf

Neil Gupta went to the Middle East looking for antique carpets. He found something equally timeless: murder. When Neil is found stabbed to death in Dubai's spice souk, his distraught father wants revenge. He hires private investigator Russell Quant to catch the killer. In his greatest case to date, Quant goes undercover to match wits with a wily museum curator, shifty souk merchants, corrupt carpet experts, and the denizens of an underground club for fabulous men. From the flamboyant glitz of Dubai to the scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, Quant risks his life as he wades further and further into the shadows cast by the desert sun. As Russell's spicy international adventure heats up, he learns a valuable lesson about love, life, and learning to seize the moment ... before it's gone. On the verge of making the biggest personal decision of his life, Russell discovers that endings sometimes come before beginnings.

Author : Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810885882

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The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film by Drewey Wayne Gunn Pdf

In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.

Author : Anthony Bidulka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988754356

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Going to Beautiful by Anthony Bidulka Pdf

International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange new world--a snow-swept prairie town that time forgot--a place where nothing makes sense. Cold is beautiful. Simple is complex. And doubts begin to surface about whether Jake's tragedy was truly an accident after all. As the sun sets in the Land of Living Skies, Hardy and his glamourous, seventy-eight-year-old transgender neighbour find themselves ensnared in multiple murders separated by decades. In Bidulka's "love letter to life on the prairies" he delivers a story of grief and loss that manages to burst with joy, tenderness and hope. Redolent of his earlier works, Going to Beautiful brings us unexpected, under-represented characters in settings that immediately feel familiar and beloved. Beautiful--a place where what you need may not be what you were looking for.

Author : Anthony Bidulka
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554830558

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Flight of Aquavit by Anthony Bidulka Pdf

"As Quant trails a menacing blackmailer known only as Loverboy, he finds himself immersed in the midnight worlds of online dating and parking lot romance."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Anthony Bidulka
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554830800

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Dos Equis by Anthony Bidulka Pdf

When we left him last, Saskatoon gay PI Russell Quant was a broken man. Dumped by his boyfriend, forced to drive around town in a minivan instead of his beloved sports car, only his dogs still needed him. But, things are looking up. A call for help from an old adversary gives Russell a new purpose in life, and he faces the future with a spring in his step and new highlights in his hair. Set in the beautiful Mexican beach town of Zihuatenengo, the eighth in the Quant mystery series will thrill old and new fans of Anthony Bidulka's smart, sassy detective.

Author : Anthony Bidulka
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554830909

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Tapas on the Ramblas by Anthony Bidulka Pdf

Charity Wiser, matriarch of the Wiser clan by virtue of her wealth and power, is an indomitable provocateur ... and private detective Russell Quant's newest employer. There is more than a single rotten apple on the Wiser family tree, and Quant has been hired to discover which one is intent on murdering his client. To help him sleuth out the evil culprit, Charity Wiser arranges a family reunion aboard the opulent Friends of Dorothy cruise liner as it tours the most exotic ports of the Mediterranean. But smooth sailing is short-lived as undercurrents of clashes - local and tourist, gay and straight, trendy and traditional - offer Russell insight into the Wisers and reveal a family simmering with rage and greed. He begins to wonder: who doesn't want Charity Wiser dead? Shifting from his prairie stomping ground to a sea undulating with death, Quant's smarts, senses and sea legs are challenged. From tantalizing tapas and sweet sangria in Spain to the bitter taste of death in Sicily, Quant goes head to head with friends and foes in a series of unforgettable locales. Come aboard a sensual journey of sun and sea brine, caviar and champagne on a cruise replete with the luxury of murder.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : OSU:32435081766719

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Quill & Quire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jill Brashear
Publisher : Momemtum Press
Page : 1109 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Aloha Series: Hawaiian Romance Books 1-4 by Jill Brashear Pdf

Take a trip back in time to 1968 and fall in love with the Hawaiian islands. The sultry nights and sizzling chemistry of each couple will have you booking your next trip to paradise. Included in this boxed set are four romances featuring a group of friends who are healing from tragedy and find love along the way. Try Easy: Opposites attract, vacation love story Try Me: Fake relationship, celebrity romance Try Right: Friends to Lovers Try Over: Second Chance Romance

Author : Anthony Bidulka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1554831369

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Aloha by Anthony Bidulka Pdf

Russell Quant, private detective is perplexed. From the middle of the Pacific to the middle of Canada, he's missing clues and proposing answers that only beg questions. The parking lot murder of an almost client draws Quant to a poem that just might be a treasure map.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Brand name products
ISBN : 0787609897

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Brands and Their Companies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dee Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000055973618

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Amazingly Easy Puppet Plays by Dee Anderson Pdf

What better way to hold children's attention during storytime than with puppets? Even in an age of technical wizardry, clever dialogue and home-made puppets are all it takes to entertain children. Author Dee Anderson has presented puppet skits for sixteen years in libraries, schools, parks, day-care centers, a mall, and other community locations. Each of these forty-two scripts has been audience tested, some more than one hundred times. You'll find programming material for ages 18 months to 12 years. A former children's librarian herself, Anderson has created scripts that are accessible and practical for busy librarians and others who work with children.

Author : William Andrew Fritz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452091136

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The Hawaiian Revolution by William Andrew Fritz Pdf

In 1893, the reigning Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani, was surreptitiously and unlawfully overthrown by a contingent of wealthy and ambitious Americans who had settled in the islands. Despite the efforts of many of her constituents and the support of President Cleveland, the native people of Hawaii, the Kanaka Maoli, had never regained any control over any of their lost lands until the present day. But, born out of the spirit of hope and what some would call the spiritual will of their ancestors, a great Hawaiian leader emerges from within that people. In the boldest of ways, he and his underground movement of revolutionaries regain control of the Hawaiian Islands and resurrect the Hawaiian nation. How is this done in one of the most heavily fortified military outposts of America away from the mainland USA? And is he and his band of rebels able to maintain this control and convince America and its leaders to acquiesce to the basic morality of his objectives? This novel is about the great, enduring love of one giant figure in a most alluring culture. His deep love of a woman is given up for the love of his people. It is a great sacrifice deemed necessary to achieve his most noble path in life. Will his people follow in his path and make the difficult commitments needed to maintain their unique culture and the precious lands, the aina, they now control in Hawaii?