Dark Water Under The Bridge

From Award-winning and Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman! Parks Pat could be in deep water on this case! Detective “Parks” Pat has made a name for herself in solving the Fish Creek and Glenbow Ranch murders, so she is the one they call when a body turns up in Ralph Klein Park. She would be happy for the confidence placed in her if it weren’t for the fact that the body is in the water. Detective Pat hates the water. She’ll need to get over that if she is going to be able to investigate this case properly. Preferably before the rest of the department figures out her weakness. There is a killer out there to be caught. Somehow she’ll have to get past her block to find him. *****P.D. Workman is an incredibly versatile writer. No matter which of her books I read I am drawn into a great story and honestly, I don’t think I’ve followed another author that could go from cozy mystery to YA to a PI series dealing with mental health issues. Really enjoy her books! Looking for a police procedural set in picturesque Canada? Let Award-winning and Bestselling Author P.D. Workman take you her favourite Calgary parks, as Métis detective Margie Patenaude investigates a murder in this fast-paced new series. These short mysteries are just right for those days when you could use a break from your busy life. Take a walk in a Calgary park with Parks Pat. Dive into in a new mystery today!

The poems have been inspired by Mary's work, travels and experiences and some have won prizes in competitions – “To My Love” won 1st prize in the 2009 Annual Poetry Competition of The Lancashire Authors Association.Her book is split into ten categories, including Places, Nature, War and the Army, Dreams and Fantasy and Time. Together there are over 150 poems, all thought-provoking, that take an in-depth look at everyday subjects. “For then I saw the moon and stars ignite,and all creation burning with love's flame.”To My LoveMary takes inspiration from a range of poets including Sylvia Plath, Carol Ann Duffy and Wilfred Owen. Fans of poetry will find something to suit whatever mood they’re in with the varied range of topics and tone.

*A future true crime classic featuring an introduction by Mary Gaitskill* 'Dreamy, mysterious and ultimately terrifying' Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me 'A swift, harrowing classic' Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation British Columbia, 1997. Under the Bridge traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk by eight of her peers, in an account based on six years of research and interviews with the accused that offers insight into the social tensions that provoked the crime and the minds of teenage killers. By the author of The Torn Skirt. 'A modern day Crime and Punishment that keeps you on the edge of your seat. A stunning book' Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success 'Under the Bridge is brilliant, enthralling, heart breaking and disturbing' Nadine Matheson, author of The Binding Room 'A tour-de-force of true crime reportage' Kirkus Reviews 'Mixes novelistic suspense with a journalist's key eye for detail' Bustle 'Hypnotic, obsessive, wonderfully transformative' John Guare, author of Six Degrees of Separation

David Close’s English mother Isobelle Harwood never knew her mother, who died from TB just after childbirth and his Irish father Jack Close never knew his father, who was jailed for bigamy. To the Irish, ‘close’ means ‘near-enough’ while Jack always was, legally speaking, a bastard. These sociological factors shaped their working-class family struggles before, during and after World War Two in England and reappear as ‘family karma’ down the generations of this now-scattered clan. His mother’s childhood memories of orphanage life in the 1920s were followed by years of domestic servitude in the houses of her rich or unscrupulous ‘betters’ until she trained as a nurse during the war. She calls this story ‘Finding Myself’, which is part 1 of this book. Isobelle saw a photograph of and became pen-pals with an Irish nurses’ brother called Jack, a sailor on Atlantic convoy duties who she married on Victory in Europe Day in May 1945. David was born in June the following year. The second section ‘Knowing Myself’ reveals their married life until Isobelle’s battle with life-threatening TB when she was thirty years old in 1953. On recovery, her doctors claimed that if she lived in a dry climate and had no more children she would have a life-expectancy of ten more years. However, she produced two more offspring and managed to ride for an hour on a camel in China at the age of seventy-six. Part 3 contains David’s childhood memories of England, Ireland and in 1961 the first ten years of family life in Oz. Some of his father Jack’s wartime exploits and then his untimely death in 1982 lead the reader into the last section titled Release Retrospectives containing his mother’s mature reflections on grief, life and the all and everything, as well as her Back to Britain and Silk Road Diaries. Her son David’s lifelong troubled relationship with his father is explored in his other autobiographical works, but his two chapters titled ‘Close encounters of the personal secret kind’ and ‘Conflicts and growth amidst grief’ explore three of the Close family’s personal experiences of communications from beyond the grave – pointing towards reincarnation being cosmic reality central to any ‘Divine Plan’ and the healing answer to why we are here…

Ten years ago, Lin Xiaoqing was determined to sign the divorce agreement and abandon her daughter. Even when Song Beichuan asked her to visit her daughter at least once a month, she would often leave her daughter alone. Ten years later, Song Beichuan's wife and daughter were blissful and harmonious. She was full of remorse, yet she was terminally ill ... Fate gave her a chance to reshuffle her cards. Would she be able to turn the tables on her ex-husband by relying on her culinary skills?

Water under the BridgeRises is a short story about three friends who succumbed to the temptation of hasty decision making. When a pregnant Marilyn accidently discovered that her husband, Dominic, the man she loved very much, had an affair with her best friend, Gwendolyn, she completely severed their friendship and clung to her married life. Marilyn kept her knowledge of the affair from Dominic and worked very hard to achieve the perfect family life, while Gwendolyn not wanting their friendship to end, reluctantly moved on leaving that point in her life behind. A quarter of a century later, time would not allow the separation to continue. They all must face what they had done and come to terms with it. With conflict avoidance as the persevering factor that gave reason for their past decisions, will strength, serenity, and wisdom be the remissive factor that brings them to the other side of the proverbial bridge?

The headline of the Variety extra on October 27, 1926, proclaimed "Vitaphone1 Thrills L.A.!" Vitaphone, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. formed in association with Western Electric, was one of the major producers of talkies, even though its sound-on-disc technology barely lasted four years. The Vitaphone features and shorts that have survived intact, or that have been so carefully restored, preserve much of the show business history that might otherwise have been lost with the industry's fast-paced advances in movie making. This book is a catalogue of Vitaphone features and shorts. The first section lists the features and shorts by release number. The New York productions (1926-1940) are listed first, followed by the West Coast productions (1927-1970). For shorts, the following particulars, if known and if applicable, are given: title, alternate title(s), instrumental and vocal selections performed on screen, composer(s) and performers of instrumental and vocal selections, release date and synopsis of the film, names of major cast members and directors, set information if two or fewer sets were used, and the amount paid to early performers. For features, entries list release dates, genre, and major cast members. The section on performers includes only those who appeared in shorts, listing dates and places of birth when known.