Chapter War

In BILLY RICHMOND AND THE APPLIANCE WARS, Young Billy Richmond and his friends stumble upon another dimension, one populated by walking and talking (and warring!) appliances, power tools, and other household items. It’s up to Billy to save the Toaster Rebellion from the clutches of the fiendish Refrigerator Empire, and then somehow get home before he’s grounded for missing dinner!

À seulement quelques semaines du grand tournoi de Bâton-sur-Glace, les Castors et les Golden Girls sont confrontés à un problème de la plus haute importance. Pour y remédier, Ti-Guy La Puck et Corinne Big-Mac-David ont décidé d’organiser une compétition des plus originales. Mais cette journée d’activités se transforme vite en une chasse au tricheur!

The final installment in The Red Cross Orphans series from the Globe & Mail bestselling author! Return to Kitty's world and discover what happens as the fighting in Europe enters its final stages. Relationships are tested and love and loyalties are questioned by the tragedy of war.

VE Day 1945: as victory bells ring out across the country, war bride Ellie Burgess’ happiness is overshadowed by grief. Her charismatic Newfoundlander husband Thomas is still missing in action. Until a letter arrives explaining Thomas is back at home on the other side of the Atlantic recovering from his injuries.

Itzhak is a young teen in Hungary when the Nazis barge into his home one day and force him and his family to leave everything behind and get on a train to a concentration camp. When Itzhak is separated from his entire family, he is left feeling scared and alone. With no one to talk to and no one to look after him, Itzhak knows that he will have to be strong—and very brave—to survive the war and be reunited with his family. But can he manage to do it on his own?

Society heiress Evelyn Brooke-Edwards is a skilled interrogator—her beauty making her a non-threat in the eyes of the prisoners. Farm girl Betty Connors may not be able to type as she claimed, but her crack analytical skills soon find her unearthing covert connections. German ex-pat Judith Stern never expected to find herself listening in to German POWs' whispered conversations, but the Nazis took her father from her, so she will do whatever it takes to help the Allies end this war.

As war rages across the world, Princess Elizabeth comes face to face with the dashing naval officer she first met in London nine years before. One of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, Philip represents everything she has always been taught to avoid. Instability. Audacity. Adventure. But when the king learns of their relationship, the suitability of the foreign prince is questioned by all at court. He is the risk she has never been allowed to take. The risk not even the shadow of the crown will stop her from taking.

Now, Russia is waging a nuclear war with the United States, and only one thing bears on Will's mind: get his family to safety. Escaping the fallout, they travel to Frenchtown, Wyoming, but land in the middle of conspiracy and a guerrilla war on the US soil. With the world on the brink of nuclear apocalypse, can Will protect his family and lead them to safety?

To stop the Mountain King, the realms across land and sea must unify. But time is not on their side. Mykal and his friends must warn King Nabal of the Mountain King's invasion of Grey Ashland and the rest of the Old Empire. This battle will involve more than knights and swords; magic has become the weapon of choice. New to his craft, Mykal is unsure of his abilities as a wizard. His skill and resolve will soon be put to the test, as the flames of war threaten to engulf them all.

Winds of war sweep across Europe, threatening to engulf the entire globe. After the cloning company Phoenvartis is taken over by a World Council henchman, he launches an inquisition of torture and murder. A revolutionary group opposed to the World Council has gained access to the cloning machine, and they plan to revive a madman from the 20th century. Meanwhile, the previously cloned Founding Father and a group of former Phoenvartis employees flee to the central highlands of Vietnam. From their jungle base, they form a coalition of freedom-loving patriots from around the world.

On the run from trouble in 1824 St. Louis, James Beckwourth joins an expedition out West. As a freed slave, he struggles for respect, but makes a name for himself as a fighter in engagements with hostile tribes. He is captured by the Crow, who mistake him for a lost member of their tribe, kidnapped as a child. Celebrated in his own time but forgotten since, this is the astonishing story of James Beckwourth: A freed slave who became a prominent war chief of the Crow tribe, and later returned to white society on his own terms.

An unknown location, occupied France, 1944. Dropping silently behind enemy lines, Sylvia Crichton, codename Monique, is determined to fight for the country of her birth and tear it from its Nazi stranglehold. As one of the dancers at the nightclub Mirabelle, Sylvie’s mission is to entertain the club’s German clientele and learn their secrets. In a world of deception and lies, she can trust no one.

Rob MacLaine, CEO of Harper MacLaine Security and ex-Special Forces operative, is preparing to take part in a demonstration of a game-changing military weapon. Merging the technologies of laser guidance, smart bullets, and drones, the invention is something never before seen in the field of battle. But after Rob foils an attempt to kidnap a senator, a series of events is set in motion that takes him deep into the dark world of people-trafficking and crime.

Paddington Station, present day. A young woman boards the sleeper train to Cornwall with only a beautiful emerald silk evening dress and an old, well-read diary full of sketches. Ellie Nightingale is a shy violinist who plays like her heart is broken. But when she meets fellow passenger Joe, she feels like she has been given that rarest of gifts...a second chance.

Our Street at War series takes an ordinary street during wartime and peeps inside at the lives of the residents - full nostalgia and compelling storylines, this series is must for fan of Elaine Everest, Nancy Revell and Ellie Dean.

When three covert operatives are killed while investigating the kidnapping of a congressman's daughter, John Drake is called in. Driven by personal demons, he is determined to deliver his own brand of justice. As Drake tracks the most powerful enemy he has ever faced, an already tough mission becomes nearly impossible. His assignment propels him to the fulcrum of a new world war, and a CIA plot to incite conflict between the Muslim oil countries and Israel unfolds. Haunted by trauma from his past, Drake must ultimately confront the most terrifying identity of all - his own.

The wake of war leaves marks that don’t always look dramatic from the outside. Inside, a tempest of trauma rages. Consumed by darkness and depression in the aftermath of war, Ewa Reid-Hammer’s story is the journey of a terrified child’s transformation to adulthood. With reflections on the emotional wounds left not only on herself, but those close to her, Reid-Hammer’s account depicts the complexities of survival and self-recovery in the face of distress. From horror to healing, her story reveals the truth of what it is to be a child of war.

Nineteen-twenties Mexico and the American Southwest hold many dangers, as the last Apache strongholds persist against the foreign invaders. Hard-as-nails Confederate serviceman Jock MacNeil receives an unexpected invitation to guide runaways from a reservation to a stronghold in Sierra Madre. Facing both Mexican and American authorities, and the Apache Wars raging around them, Jock witnesses first-hand the terrors of war, and his own transformation from a man of faith to Apache spirituality.

Lorkdan, mercenary and sell-sword, once overthrew the Count of Valle and defeated thirty warriors at once. His mastery of the sword is legendary throughout the world — but a journey, thrust upon him, will teach him of dangers that steel cannot defeat, that weapons cannot break. A tale of the lost chapters.

June 1940. While her little sister, Rosie, is sent to the UK to keep her safe from the invading German army, Estelle Le Maistre is left behind on Jersey to help her grandmother run the family farm. When the Germans occupy the island, everything changes and Estelle and the islanders must face the reality of life under Nazi rule.