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Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie...

In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in a metal canoe. The city is soon alive with talk of the savage Esquimaux stalking Victorian London and an eyewitness who claims the killer had an accomplice: a tall woman dressed in widow's weeds, with the telltale look of the degenerate Irish.

Protected by the dark of night, Jaimie Piper runs. But is anywhere safe when Evil is hunting you? She’s just a twelve year-old girl, bumped around between foster homes and relegated to school classes for challenged kids, those lagging in their test scores or with behavioral issues. But her...

1916. As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, the munitionettes, or ‘canaries’, are easily recognisable with their chemically-stained yellow faces. Among the raucous group of women is Florrie Duncan, who plans to celebrate her birthday in style at the Golden Goose pub. But the celebrations are cut short when all but one are killed in a brutal explosion.

Savannah was four years old when her twin sister, Georgia, went missing from their small Louisiana town, fracturing their family. Twenty-eight years later, Savannah convinces her estranged older sisters, Rayanne and Sue Ellen, to honor the pact they made as children and retrieve the time capsule they buried in their old backyard. But coming home means confronting old ghosts…and their stubborn grandmother, Meemaw.

Georges Blanchard is revered in the small French town of Mireville both as a master serinette maker and for a miraculous incident in his childhood that earned him the title "The Sun-Bringer". As his firstborn son, Henri Blanchard is expected to follow in his footsteps, but Henri would rather learn to make lace than music boxes. When Henri discovers a stash of American letters in his father's drawer, he learns he's not the firstborn son of Georges Blanchard at all: Henri has an older half-brother born to one of Georges' American customers.

The bodies are piling up in Key West outside a famous drag bar. Is that a clue or a coincidence? Is it a serial killer? The story is seen through the eyes of the main character - and what eyes they are! Lou, the mild-mannered detective by day and a fabulous drag queen (Lola) by night, can get into all kinds of trouble! The head detective, O'Leary, and Lou (Lola) go on a case that has been haunting them since their days in the Big Apple.

"Flieg, kleiner Vogel! Der Adler wird über dich wachen." Ava Canary will in die Fußstapfen ihres verstorbenen Onkels treten und eine erfolgreiche CIA-Agentin werden. Bei ihrer ersten Außenmission kommt es jedoch zu unerwarteten Schwierigkeiten. Ehe sie es sich versieht, gerät sie zwischen die Fronten und findet sich in einer Welt aus bedrohlichen Technologien, Lügen und Doppelagenten wieder.

Erst wenn alles brennt, kann sich der Phönix aus der Asche erheben! Die ehemalige CIA-Agentin Ava Canary versucht gemeinsam mit der Geheimorganisation Eagles die feindlichen Insurgents zu lokalisieren, damit sie deren Plan, die Unterjochung und Versklavung der Menschheit, vereiteln kann. Die Befehle der Abbas sind eindeutig: Alle Bird-Agenten der Welt sollten vereint werden, damit das Flutprotokoll gestoppt werden kann. Ava muss alles riskieren und ihre persönlichen Grenzen überschreiten, damit sie eine Katastrophe ungeahnten Ausmaßes verhindern kann.

Meet R.P. Canary. A run of the mill P.I. trying to make a buck for his next corned beef sandwich. A magnet for the strange, a lure for the macabre. Sometimes the worst kind of monsters are very human. Other times...it's unexplainable.Canary P.I. is a non serialized audio drama in a off kilter noir setting. Short stories with a horror twist. With a rotating cast of characters and voice actors in peculiar situations.

From the author of Psycho, a grim and fascinating tale of a torture-mad Chinese ruler who fed strange food to the feathered songsters in his garden of horror.

R.I.P. Muffy Drake”If a podcast Fails in a Digital Forest...did it ever make a sound in the first place?” BREAKING NEWS! Our new website...IT'S ALIVE: canarycanard.com

Sleepless Creatives is a sleep and well-being podcast for people in the Performing Arts and Creative industry.Hosted and read by Actor & Voice Actor, Florence St Leger, each episode is beautifully tailored towards the minds of Actors, Writers and other creatives in the form of stories, plays, poetry and more - allowing us to take you back to the page, back to the script and back to the words you love to perform.Because creativity is in our blood, but it's not always easy, so sometimes we need a gentle reminder of why we chose it.

Dis 1963, en 'n jong vrou kry werk in 'n boekwinkel in Bloemfontein. En verloor haar hart. Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek is die jongste roman uit die pen van blitsverkoperskrywer Anchien Troskie. Niks is ooit soos dit lyk op die oppervlak nie, besef ’n mens weer met die lees van hierdie aangrypende storie binne 'n storie.