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The Moche Warrior by Lyn Hamilton
Price: $3.99 USD. 86220 words. Published by Bev Editions on June 11, 2013. .
After winning a bidding war for a box of junk, just to spite her ex-husband, Lara McClintoch gets more than she bargained for. Suddenly, Lara’s antiques shop in Toronto is a target for burglary, arson and murder, causing her to realize the junk isn’t as worthless as she thought. Looking for answers, Lara follows the clues to Peru where things get worse before they get better.

The Maltese Goddess by Lyn Hamilton
Price: $3.99 USD. 76910 words. Published by Bev Editions on June 10, 2013. .
Antiques dealer Lara McClintoch expects a working holiday on the Mediterranean island of Malta will be a nice break from the Canadian winter–until she discovers a dead body stuffed inside an antique chest and another impaled on an ancient knight’s sword. Lara races to solve the murders in time to foil an assassination plot in this exciting thriller.

Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj by Marian Fowler
Price: $3.99 USD. 93530 words. Published by Bev Editions on May 21, 2013. .
When the British ruled India, four Victorian women find themselves in a disturbing land, experiencing extremes of decadence amid crushing poverty. Emily Eden, Charlotte Canning, Edith Lytton and Mary Curzon followed husbands or a brother who were appointed Viceroys. In this compelling slice of colonial history we see how India marked them with its heat, mutinies and lascivious secrets.

Penelope's Way by Blanche Howard
Price: $4.99 USD. 80330 words. Published by Bev Editions on April 9, 2013. .
Penelope, age 70, searches for the meaning of life in the accreted layers of love, lust, guilt, family, pot luck suppers, and time and chaos theory. Her efforts may be destined to fail, but the journey is joyous. “This book is a great read: a compact narrative and a wide-ranging story… it ended far too soon,” wrote the Globe and Mail.

No Defense by Rangeley Wallace
Price: $1.99 USD. 89500 words. Published by Bev Editions on February 19, 2013. .
Library Journal describes the romantic mystery No Defense as a “powerful first novel.” At her father’s behest, and over her husband’s objections, LuAnn moves her husband and children home to Alabama. There she inadvertently spurs the investigation that leads to her father’s indictment. Family secrets, a taut story line, and a surprising ending combine to create a riveting courtroom drama.

Lily's Story by Don Gutteridge
Price: $4.99 USD. 287950 words. Published by Bev Editions on February 5, 2013. .
Lily’s Story tells the tale of a remarkable pioneer woman, born in the backwoods of Ontario in 1840. Lily’s struggle to survive and grow and discover her place in the scheme of things is complicated by the travail of frontier living, and the impact of historical events themselves. Lily’s Story is part history and part fable, with historical personages and a bizarre gallery of local characters.

The Xibalba Murders by Lyn Hamilton
Price: $1.99 USD. 71330 words. Published by Bev Editions on January 31, 2013. .
Lara McClintoch, antiquities expert, is summoned to Mexico to help a colleague decode an ancient Mayan mystery. But the theft of Mayan treasure and Lara’s discovery of a corpse on the museum roof make her a suspect of robbery and murder. Desperate to prove her innocence, Lara must unmask the killer and stop a tomb robber in the shadowy world of Xibalba, the Lords of Death.

Sex, Rock & History by Edward Shorter
Price: $1.99 USD. 8650 words. Published by Bev Editions on December 14, 2012. .
Rock’n’roll mirrors society’s changing attitudes about sex. The women who fainted at Little Richard and Elvis Presley concerts, Sid and Nancy’s troubled punk-rock relationship, and the Riot Grrrl movement transformed sexual mores. Renowned historian Edward Shorter explores the connection between sex and the music that defined 20th Century culture in this funny and incisive short account.

Things are Going to Slide by Rangeley Wallace
Price: $4.99 USD. 59790 words. Published by Bev Editions on September 10, 2012. .

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Winston Groom describes Things Are Going to Slide as “a gripping tale” that “beautifully renders the texture of Southern life.” In this compelling page-turner, heroine Marilee’s life quickly begins to spin out of control when her husband leaves her, her first love steals a promotion from under her nose, and her legal clinic must defend a teenager accused of killing her newborn. A must read.

The Whole Megillah: A Benny Cooperman Mystery by Howard Engel
Price: $2.99 USD. 26960 words. Published by Bev Editions on August 8, 2012. .
Benny Cooperman, the most endearing private eye in literature, is sprung from small-town Grantham and working in Toronto. A dealer in rare books asks him to investigate the theft of an ancient Jewish manuscript. While Benny is immersed in the strange world of antique book collectors, his client turns up dead and the robbery isn't all it seems. A short mystery starring Canada’s great detective.

Reds Under the Bed: How Communists Frightened the Canadian Establishment, 1928-32 by Lita-Rose Betcherman
Price: $4.99 USD. 109030 words. Published by Bev Editions on July 25, 2012. .
An engaging account of a formative period in Canada's political history, just as important as Senator McCarthy's Red Scare was in the US. This is an unbiased account of midnight arrests, imprisonment without trial, and forced deportation faced by those whose only crimes were unpopular political opinions. This story is an important lesson in human rights, regardless of ideology.

For the Thinking Executive: 916 Quotations from Nobel Laureates by David Pratt
Price: $2.99 USD. 51340 words. Published by Bev Editions on June 12, 2012. .
David Pratt scoured books, articles and speeches by 826 Nobel prize winners for distilled wisdom from the world’s acknowledged geniuses. Here, he has winnowed 916 quotations from his collection of 7500, for business executives to use in their own presentations.They range from scientists to literary giants: Einstein, Curie, Hemingway, Kissinger, Martin Luther King and more.

Sadomasochism and Ardent Love: A Reader's Guide to Fifty Shades of Grey by Edward Shorter
Price: $2.99 USD. 17460 words. Published by Bev Editions on March 21, 2012. .

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This short book by award-winning historian Edward Shorter explains the popular appeal of E.L. James’s erotic novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey' with its theme of sadomasochism. Shorter, author of 'Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire' (University of Toronto Press) writes the history of SM, a recent addition in the tool kit of sexual pleasure.

Shuttle by David C. Onley
Price: $4.99 USD. 89180 words. Published by Bev Editions on December 22, 2011. .
Edwards Air Force Base: the giant Hypersonic Jet Yorktown with the Shuttle Columbia clasped to her back, climbs to the sky. Their pioneering mission: to launch the Shuttle into space from the edge of the atmosphere. Neither craft will reach its destination. One will never return. This dramatic bestselling novel of a space mission gone perilously wrong, first published in 1981, thrills again.

A Good Place to Come From by Morley Torgov
Price: $4.99 USD. 53410 words. Published by Bev Editions on December 16, 2011. .
Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humor, this memoir captures life in a small northern town of Torgov’s youth in the heady era of the 20th C from the Depression to WWII. Here Jewish merchants, English lawyers, Scots bankers, Ukrainian domestics and a few Chinese struggle to make a living in a remote outpost. And it is here that a young man, yearning for a larger life, turns his comic gaze.

The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick by Morley Torgov
Price: $4.99 USD. 57190 words. Published by Bev Editions on November 14, 2011. .
A classic is back! Max Glick, a small-town teenager with doting grandparents and helicopter parents, dreams of a career as a concert pianist. But his elders favor sensible professions like medicine, law or science. Help comes from his music teacher and a rabbi with ambitions to be a stand-up comic. Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humor, a Torgi Award, adapted for TV and an award winning film.

Stickler and Me by Morley Torgov
Price: $4.99 USD. 56290 words. Published by Bev Editions on September 22, 2011. .
Ben Marshall, 13, faces a summer of unpalatable choices: He can shuffle between his newly divorced parents, too distracted to notice him; or he can visit his grandfather Ira, a cranky, small-town lawyer, who is a stickler for rules. When Ira's wealthy client, Mrs. O'Hearn dies, instructing him in her will to "put down" her beloved dog, Ira rebels. With Ben as his accomplice, they go on the run.

Why Rock the Boat by William Weintraub
Price: $3.99 USD. 57470 words. Published by Bev Editions on March 25, 2011. .
In a tale reminiscent of The Front Page, Harry Barnes, a young reporter joins the Daily Witness where the managing editor, Philip Butcher fires journalists while clamping down on real news. To amuse himself Harry writes hilarious Butcher stories, which inexplicably appear in the Witness. When he falls for Julia, a reporter who is hot for rebellion, Harry is tempted to rock the boat all the way.

The Commissar's Report by Martyn Burke
Price: $4.99 USD. 111220 words. Published by Bev Editions on March 21, 2011. .
In this Cold War satire, Dimitri, a young Kremlin spy is secretly smitten by the sirens of capitalism. When he is assigned to the Soviet Consulate in New York City, he is thrilled. But his talent for making money on Wall Street creates problems with the Kremlin. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, it is lauded as “a wonder of intense, cinematic storytelling” by the Wall Street Journal.

Undercover Agent; How One Honest Man Took on the Drug Mob...And Then the Mounties by Peter Rehak
Price: $4.99 USD. 55190 words. Published by Bev Editions on March 4, 2011. .
It was North America’s biggest drug bust, worth $238 million. The man behind it was a small-town businessman who fooled the Miami drug barons who were setting up a pipeline into Canada. Leonard Mitchell worked undercover for the RCMP for 19 months because “it was the right thing to do.” He was successful but it earned him a lifetime run from the mob and he also had to take on the Mounties.

Ivory Joe by Martyn Burke
Price: $4.99 USD. 113130 words. Published by Bev Editions on January 25, 2011. .
First published by Bantam Books and hailed by critics, this is the rollicking love story of Leo and Tina Klein in 1950s New York. He is a charming rogue with ties to the mob. She is a leftist activist and manager of “Ivory Joe” Coulter, a heart-busting black musician. Burke weaves a deft plot involving the attempted theft of one of Joe's songs, to give us a joyous tale of energy and soul.

The Riviera Set: From Queen Victoria to Princess Grace by Lita-Rose Betcherman
Price: $4.99 USD. 53200 words. Published by Bev Editions on December 15, 2010. .
Picasso to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Churchill to sex kitten Brigitte Bardot. The glorious strip of Mediterranean beach stretching from Marseilles to Monaco still attracts writers, artists, film stars, and scoundrels. Betcherman's rich account will delight tourists and armchair travelers alike.

Dreaming in a Digital World by Blanche Howard
Price: $4.99 USD. 83040 words. Published by Bev Editions on November 5, 2010. .

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Gen Varley, a PhD in computer science has ambitions for career and love. Virginal in the ways of office politics and the human heart, Gen is shocked by her boss's deceit, her boring boyfriend's secret life, and her affair with a married co-worker that reduces her to subtle stalker. Allies include a mentor who turns fairy godmother with surprising consequences. A delightful romp by a major writer.

The Failed Life of a Mormon Missionary by Jaron Summers
Price: $4.99 USD. 91250 words. Published by Bev Editions on September 8, 2010. .

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A young man's hilarious quest for sex and God. In 1962, Jerry Wonder is a 19-year-old Mormon missionary who leaves South Dakota to save souls in New Zealand. But Elder Wonder is flawed. He is a compulsive masturbator, or in Mormon parlance, a "self-pollinator." Within its comic frame, the novel is revealing of the ways older men stifle and control young men.

Buckingham's Man: Balthazar Gerbier by Lita-Rose Betcherman
Price: $6.99 USD. 101480 words. Published by Bev Editions on August 27, 2010. .
Balthazar Gerbier, an artist and architect, connoisseur and curator, secret agent and diplomat, a friend of Rubens and counsellor to kings, his life offers a window into dazzling 17th century England and Europe. Gerbier assembled the famous art collection for the Duke of Buckingham at London's York House. Lita-Rose Betcherman has written the definitive and long-awaited biography of Gerbier.

This Continent Called Love, Quotations from Nobel Prize Winners by David Pratt
Price: $0.99 USD. 23540 words. Published by Bev Editions on August 23, 2010. .
500 quotations on love in all its forms from Nobel Laureates. Combining love with wisdom, it will delight readers of all ages. Perfect for speeches at weddings and anniversaries. Send it to sweethearts, mothers, brides, and even to your favorite cynics.

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