Muskoka A Novel

Author : Gabriele Wills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0973278056

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The Summer Before the Storm by Gabriele Wills Pdf

It's the Age of Elegance in the summer playground of the affluent and powerful. Amid the pristine, island-dotted lakes and pine-scented forests of the Canadian wilderness, the young and carefree amuse themselves with glittering balls and friendly competitions. The summer of 1914 promises to be different when the ambitious and destitute son of a disowned heir joins his wealthy family at their cottage on Wyndwood Island. Through Jack's introduction into the privileged life of the aristocratic Wyndhams and their social circle, he seeks opportunities and alliances to better himself, including in his schemes, his beautiful and audacious cousin, Victoria. But their charmed lives begin to unravel with the onset of the Great War, in which many are destined to become part of the "lost generation." This richly textured tale takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from romantic moonlight cruises to the horrific sinking of the Lusitania, from regattas on the water to combat in the skies over France, from extravagant mansions to deadly trenches - from innocence to nationhood. The Summer Before The Storm, the first of the epic "Muskoka Novels," evokes a gracious, bygone era that still resonates in this legendary land of lakes.

Author : Gabriele Wills
Publisher : Mindshadows
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775035428

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Lighting the Stars by Gabriele Wills Pdf

Tucked into the rugged Canadian wilderness of Muskoka's majestic lake country, Merilee Sutcliffe's peaceful town seems worlds away from the escalating conflict in Europe. But life is about to change dramatically in the Summer of 1940. As her patriotic friends and relatives leave for battle, her small town is thrust into the war machine. Merilee's formerly tranquil skies soon roar with aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force, stationed nearby to train young men determined to liberate their country from Nazi occupation. When German Prisoners of War march into her shocked community, they become Merilee's closest neighbours - and biggest threat. What unfolds in her remote town and on foreign shores sets Merilee and her growing circle on a collision course with an unimagined destiny. Caught up in the chaos is Luftwaffe pilot Erich Leitner. Shot down during the Battle of Britain and transplanted to a lakeside prison in Muskoka, he discovers he has more to fear from his comrades than his captors. While her cousin-in-spirit, Elyse Thornton, navigates the treacherous skies of Britain as a Spitfire Girl, audaciously ferrying warplanes from factories to airfields, Merilee becomes quietly entangled in her own dangerous liaisons on the home front. Caught between worlds, with conflicted loyalties and a sense of duty, she joins the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division, and soon finds herself in ground-zero London, focusing her photographer's lens on a city under bombardment. Far from carefree summers on the lake, struggling to survive the relentless demands and sacrifices of war, Merilee, Elyse, and their friends wonder if they dare to risk their hearts as well. As unlikely lives intersect, ideologies and social hierarchies are challenged, loves and friendships are forged or broken, and countless heroes are made and lost. But even those who return to the serenity of Muskoka are changed forever.

Author : Kit Pearson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143186298

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Looking At The Moon by Kit Pearson Pdf

Norah, an English "war guest" living with the wealthy Ogilvie family in Toronto, can hardly wait for August. She'll spend it at the Ogilvie's lavish cottage in Muskoka—a whole month of freedom, swimming, adventures with her "cousins"... But this isn't an ordinary summer. It's 1943, and the war is still going on. Sometimes Norah can't even remember what her parents look like—she hasn't seen them in three years. And she has turned thirteen, which means life seems to be getting more complicated. Then a distant Ogilvie cousin, Andrew, arrives. He is nineteen, handsome, intelligent, and Norah thinks she may be falling in love for the first time. But Andrew has his own problems: he doesn't want to fight in the war, and yet he knows it's what his family and friends expect of him. What the two of them learn from each other makes for a gentle, moving story, the second book in a trilogy that began with the award-winning The Sky Is Falling.

Author : James K. Bartleman
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551992068

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Raisin Wine by James K. Bartleman Pdf

A warm, at times hilarious, yet dark childhood memoir from a bestselling author. This memoir recalls the boyhood years of Ontario’s future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. Behind the outrageous stories, larger-than life-characters, and descriptions of the mores of a small village in the heart of Ontario’s cottage country are flashes of insight from the perspective of a child that recall the great classic Who has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell. But why "a different Muskoka?" Because the boy was a half-breed kid. Visits to his mother’s reserve showed him that he was caught between two worlds. His mother’s fight with depression flowed from that dilemma. His father — the book’s main character — was a lovable, white, working class, happy-go-lucky guy who never had any money but who made the best home brew in the village — and his specialty was raisin wine. Like that raisin wine, this unusual book goes down easily and has a kick to it.

Author : Gabriele Wills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 097327803X

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Elusive Dawn by Gabriele Wills Pdf

Thread by thread, the fabric of privilege and complacency enveloping the Wyndham family began to unravel. Now, in the compelling sequel to the acclaimed epic, "The Summer Before The Storm, " Ria and her friends find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control in late summer, 1916.

Author : John Ibbitson
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1554532388

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The Landing by John Ibbitson Pdf

Ben thinks he will always be stuck at Cook's Landing, barely making ends meet like his uncle. But when he meets a wealthy widow from New York City, he sees himself there too. When she hires him to play his violin, he realizes his gift could unokc the possibilities of the world. Then, during a stormy night on Lake Muskoka, everything changes.

Author : Amy Stuart
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982122348

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Still Mine by Amy Stuart Pdf

From internationally bestselling author Amy Stuart comes a “dark and deliciously disturbing” (Publishers Weekly) novel about one woman’s search for answers when another woman goes missing from a desperate, drug-addled mountain town where everyone is implicated in her disappearance. What happens when you vanish from your life and leave no story behind? Someone makes one up for you. Clare is on the run. From her past, from her husband, and from her own secrets. When she turns up alone in the remote mining town of Blackmore asking questions about Shayna Fowles, a young woman who has gone missing, everyone wants to know who Clare really is and what she’s hiding. Because everyone in this place has secrets—Jared, Shayna’s mysterious ex-husband; Charlie, the charming drug pusher; Derek, Shayna’s overly involved family doctor; and Louise and Wilfred, her distraught parents. As Clare unravels the mysteries surrounding Shayna’s disappearance, Clare must confront her own demons, as she moves deeper and deeper into her elaborate web of lies. But what is she really running from? Haunting and electrifying, Still Mine is a thriller that is “impossible to put down” (Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Grave).

Author : Jeanette Lynes
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781550504019

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The Factory Voice by Jeanette Lynes Pdf

Wrapped around the stories of these four women, is a mystery. Something''s gone wrong with the Mosquitos being built for the war effort -- they keep crashing in flight tests, for no apparent reason. Is the problem with their design, or are they being sabotaged? By whom? The traitorous Red Finns? The political subversives who have recently escaped from one of the nearby prison camps? Everyone''s on high alert, and "The Factory Voice" keeps abreast of the details. Or at least the rumours.

Author : Liam D. Dwyer
Publisher : Bracebridge, Ont. : Muskoka Dockside Reader
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality) Fiction
ISBN : 0973620803

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Murder in Muskoka by Liam D. Dwyer Pdf

Author : Adrian Tumber
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781477159064

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Muskoka A Novel by Adrian Tumber Pdf

Morecombe Research is a prestigious high-tech company. Kelly Schumacher, a successful business executive, was thrilled when she was selected by the famous Cyrus Morecombe to be his executive vice-president. Then, during her orientation, she realizes that Cyrus Morecombe does not exist! This shock is soon compounded by the insistence of a powerful business partner who demands to meet Cyrus personally. The once-confident Kelley Schumacher starts having nightmares and for the first time in her life this confident business woman does not know what to do. Then, quite unexpectedly, Kelly receives a call from a mysterious stranger who had anticipated she might be having a problem and offered to help her! After some very careful planning Charles Manning and Kelly Schumacher take the company's executive committee to a luxury resort on the Lake of Bays in the Muskoka Region of Ontario, Canada. Their special meeting was ostensibly to celebrate the company's thirtieth anniversary. Their intention was to solve Kelley's problem by having Charles impersonate Cyrus Morecombe, announce his retirement and promote Kelly to succeed him as the new company president. The ambitious plan, the twists and turns that occur in Muskoka, and an unexpected conclusion await the reader when Kelly and Charles relax several weeks later in Fiji, on the island of Yasawa, in the South Pacific. Bonus! The Appendices tell the stories of the people the Morecombe party meet at the Dorset Lodge and Conference Centre in Muskoka.

Author : Carolyn Miller
Publisher : Carolyn Miller
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922667083

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Muskoka Blue by Carolyn Miller Pdf

An ice princess with a broken heart. A pro hockey player with a secret. For Sarah Maguire, spending the summer at Lake Muskoka was supposed to be about finding the courage to put back the pieces of her shattered life—not falling in love with the charming yet unsophisticated hockey player from next door. Daniel Walton may have been praying for Miss Right to appear, but Sarah’s ice princess act just cries Miss Wrong. Dan’s summer plans hadn’t included befriending a redhead with a sassy tongue and cute accent, but as Muskoka works its magic he soon discovers that underneath the frost and prickles is the funny, feisty, loving woman he’s waited all his life to meet. As their friendship deepens, Sarah comes to appreciate Dan’s patience and kindness yet struggles to let go of the past and embrace the future, while Dan, only too conscious of the personal history he wants to forget, questions the wisdom of pursuing a girl whose heart may never be wholly his – who may soon return to live on the opposite side of the world. Will past regrets lead to further heartbreak? Or can Sarah and Dan learn to leave the past in the past and embrace God’s promises for the future? Muskoka Blue is the sixth book in the Original Six, a sweet and swoony, slightly sporty, Christian hockey romance series from bestselling author Carolyn Miller.

Author : L.M. Montgomery
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728206515

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The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery Pdf

29 and unmarried, gasp! - can you think of anything worse? In 1920s rural Canada, Valancy Stirling is considered "past it" and with a controlling, nagging mother and petty gossips for relatives she feels trapped in the life she has ended up in and when she is diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and given a year to live, it seems she will die without ever experiencing happiness. And so, she rebels. She leaves her family home slamming the door as she does and moves in with her old friend Cissy and starts working as a housekeeper. The independence is intoxicating - as is a growing friendship with local man, Barney Snaith. It looks as though Valancy will have love to warm her heart in her final months. But secrets on both sides threaten to ruin things. The intoxicating story of love and loss is perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gaskell and Jodie Picoult. Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of children's books beginning with 'Anne of Green Gables'. The books were a huge hit in her lifetime and were recently made in the Netflix series 'Anne with an E'. Montgomery published 20 novels, 530 short stories, 500 poems and 30 essays in her lifetime. Most were set in Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island.

Author : Ray Love
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781039105003

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The Georgian Bay Ship Canal by Ray Love Pdf

The Georgian Bay Ship Canal was a river and lake canalization scheme designed to create a commercial waterway along the route of the voyageurs. It was the dream of Canadian businessmen and entrepreneurs for centuries. Originally a trade route for Indigenous peoples, it became Canada's first Trans-Canada Highway during the fur trade, greatly contributing to the economic development of the colonies of France and later Britain. In the early years of Canadian nationhood it was viewed as the shortest route to get prairie grain to world markets. The canal scheme was supported by no fewer than six Canadian Prime Ministers and for a century less two years was surveyed a dozen times. It was also hotly debated in the Canadian Senate and House of Commons. The scheme was supported by lobby groups in Northern and Eastern Ontario as well as the Montreal business elite. It was strongly criticized by citizen's groups in cities along the shores of the rival Welland-St. Lawrence route. The story told is why the scheme, despite its geographical advantages, failed to see the bucket of a steam shovel. It is a story of political intrigue, Northern Ontario versus the South and the role that federal government overspending played in its demise. It was also at the center of the battle between federal and provincial governments over control of the lucrative resource of hydro-electricity. The book contains many historic maps and photos of the route as well as modern images from this famous Canadian waterway.

Author : James Bartleman
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459741140

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A Matter of Conscience by James Bartleman Pdf

A novel of love and betrayal dealing with the biggest issues facing Canada’s Indigenous peoples today. In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog Indian reserve. Their mission is to seize the twin babies of an Indigenous couple as part of an illegal scheme cooked up by the federal government to adopt out tens of thousands of Native children to white families. The baby girl, Brenda, is adopted and raised by a white family in Orillia. Meanwhile, that same summer, a baby boy named Greg is born to a white middle-class family. At the age of eighteen, Greg leaves home for the first time to earn money to help pay for his university expenses. He drinks heavily and becomes embroiled in the murder of a female student from a residential school. The destinies of Brenda and Greg intersect in this novel of passion, confronting the murder and disappearance of Indigenous women and the infamous Sixties Scoop.

Author : Hap Wilson
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 155046339X

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Canoeing and Hiking Wild Muskoka by Hap Wilson Pdf

A guide book to the less-traveled regions of Ontario between Georgian Bay and the Algonquin highlands featuring 80 hand-drawn maps. Both easy day trips and much more adventurous trips are covered.