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  • Outside the Line

    A Peter Ellis Mystery

    Series Book 1 - A Peter Ellis Mystery
    Peter Ellis is a rookie probation officer in interior British Columbia when he gets saddled with a file that goes sideways. He’s not in the best headspace to start with, since his marriage broke down last winter. Now it’s the middle of summer, the rodeo’s coming to town, and the one solid thing left in his life, his job, suddenly bucks him hard.Former NHL player Todd Nolin is Peter’s new "client." ... Read more

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  • All Those Drawn to Me

    Stories

    The junction of Highways 20 and 97 forms a rough right angle around which lies the city of Williams Lake. These are the coordinates by which Christian Petersen’s fiction can be charted. From the building of the Gaol at Soda Creek to ruminations on the origins of the Barkerville fire, All Those Drawn to Me explores the unpredictable, romantic and spiritual qualities of life in rural BC. The ... Read more

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  • Let the Day Perish

    Christian Petersen beautifully reins in the confusion and displacement of a diminishing band of men facing the daily spectre of an unforgiving land, men enslaved to the grind of the sawmill, hunkered on bar stools, high in the saddle of a John Deere, or wild behind the wheel speeding down dirt roads to the Fraser. Here are fathers, brothers, lovers in search of forsaken children, bygone loves, and ... Read more

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  • Bread and the British Economy, 1770–1870

    In this ambitious book Christian Petersen has taken a central topic in economic and social history and given it a new sweep and coherence. As the Lord’s Prayer suggests, securing an adequate supply of bread was a matter of over-riding concern to everyone until very recently. Bread was always by far the largest single item in the budgets of the poor, but bread could be made from many grains - wheat ... Read more

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  • THE LIFEGUARD

    "The Lifeguard" is a heart-wrenching love story that brings together two people from opposite ends of the social spectrum. Sheldon Winters, an affluent and educated man, is a successful cardiothoracic surgeon and a former professional surfer. Melissa, on the other hand, is poor, uneducated, and physically and mentally abused by her uncle Armando Gomez, who has criminal ties to a cartel in Mexico ... Read more

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  • Educational Toys

    "Educational Toys" by Louis Christian Petersen explores the vital role of play in childhood development. The book emphasizes how toys can be more than mere entertainment; they serve as tools for learning and cognitive growth. Petersen discusses various types of educational toys, highlighting their ability to foster creativity, problem-solving skills, and social interaction among children. Through ... Read more

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  • Urbanism in the Preindustrial World

    Cross-Cultural Approaches

    A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, ... Read more

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  • Russian Germans on Four Continents

    Histories of a Global Diaspora

    The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history ... Read more

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  • Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

    The Postmigrant Condition

    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of ‘postmigration’, offering a review of the origin of the concept (in Berlin) and how it has taken on a variety of meanings and works in different ways within different ... Read more

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  • The Lease

    The lease is meaningless: a square paced first by seismic workers, and then your father, and then by every other man you know. Distilled from his time in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease plumbs the prairie depths to find human technology and physical labour realigning our landscape. With acute discipline, Henderson illuminates the stubborn and often ... Read more

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