Opening with the Queen Victoria's arrival in Charlottetown harbor, visitors from the Old World emerge with erroneous expectations: they are constantly surprised that the New World is a place of energy, creativity, and imagination, reflected in exuberant architecture, dress, and culture. Elegance flourishes and society blossoms in gala events where long after midnight "the crinolines swayed, multicoloured and seemingly endowed with independent life of their own." In this lively mix of fact and fiction, Creighton is fascinated by the stuff of culture, here depicted as a distinctive weave of style, sophistication, and individuality with a unique Canadian character. Her fascination is also with cultural difference. In Canada there is undoubtedly unqualified elegance, but it is an edgier, harder-earned elegance than that of the pompous, baggage-bound Old World. Published in 1967, exactly one hundred years after Confederation, Creighton's book shows a Canada in the best of all possible worlds. Gone is pioneer poverty and environmental hardship, replaced now by thriving sophistication. At the same time, this is a world that still retains some respect for social hierarchy, decent manners, and old-fashioned inherited wisdom-the unspoken corollary here is that the Canada of 1967 has grown sloppy, noisy, and vulgar. Lovingly researched and assembled with sixty images, this depiction of Canada in the 1860s reveals much about our own history and myth-making.

The Elegant Canadians (Wynford Books)

History

Wright, Don

Creighton, Luella

Americas

Oxford University Press

Gone to Texas

Hardened by the inhumanity of the Civil War, Peyton Lewis and Fletcher Rucker journey through the Texas wilderness in search of a new start, and find two women who join them in their difficult quest

Literature & Fiction

United States

Forge

Peyton Lewis and Fletcher Rucker are two humble Rebel boys whose innocence was destroyed in the bloody wreckage of the Civil War. Young and desperate, they fall in with a scheme to rob a bank but are totally unprepared for the violence that ensues. Sickened by the carnage and wanton cruelty that they have witnessed, Lewis and Rucker take their cut and join the migration of those who see the possibility of a new beginning in the wilderness of the Texas frontier. Along the way they meet rogues, killers...and two exceptional women: the tortured Molly Klinner, a woman who has also suffered dearly by the ravages of the war, and Gabriel Johnson, an Eastern beauty who decided to join the Texas migration on a lark--but will soon learn the true meaning of humanity. Together, the four travelers will weather the travails that the new frontier offers them--but will they manage to carve out a new life?

Tor Books

Frontier hero Morgan Patterson, now a colonel in the American Army, must face British pursuit and Indian vengeance in a heroic attempt to rescue his wife and daughter

The Captives

Having spent 38 years in banking, including 21 as a CEO, the author believes that marketing is the foundation of the banking business and the key to its survival. Profound changes have occurred in the use and influence of marketing in the banking industry. Contains the best marketing ideas for financial institutions in the 1990's, developed by some of the top and most respected marketers in banking.

Bank Marketing for the 90's: New Ideas from 55 of the Best Marketers in Banking

Business & Money

Economics

wiley

Deer were their Lives: Hunters of the South

Don Wright

Business of Banking

Northcote House Pub Ltd

DON WRIGHT's Gone to Texas is the saga of Peyton Lewis and Fletcher Rucker, two rebel boys whose innocence was destroyed in the bloody wreckage that was the Civil War. Young, desperate men, they fall in with a scheme to rob a bank but are unprepared for the violence that ensues. Sickened by the ravages of war and the wanton cruelty that is the legacy of this bloody conflict, they take their cut and join those who look to the wilderness of the Texas frontier for a fresh start. Along the way they will meet rogues, killers, and two exceptional women, and together they will weather the travails of the new frontier and carve out a new life.

Forge Books

Gone to Texas: A Novel

Unforgettable people locked in the passions of love--and war. Clayton: The handsome Northerner who is bound by love and honor to fight for a cause that he does not believe in. Lettie: The lovely heiress who will pay any price, endure any shame, to hold onto the South she loves. Cotton: Born poor, he has never owned a slave, yet fights beside the aristocrats who scorn him--and finds the woman of his dreams. Fanny: The beautiful young slave who loves a white man more than the promise of freedom. Rufus: The young man who loves Fanny and whose devotion to his white owner will be sorely tried. Patrick: The man who hates his own slavery, and will do everything he can to destroy the South. Angela: The stunning Cherokee princess who is shunned by both the North and the South, and by the man whose love she craves. Their lives are irrevocably entwined by a war they neither wanted nor understood, by love that dared to cross the barriers of class and race, and by a way of life that disappeared with... The Last Plantation

The Last Plantation

Genre Fiction

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The Elegant Canadians (Wynford Books)

Gone to Texas

Gone to Texas

The Captives

Bank Marketing for the 90's: New Ideas from 55 of the Best Marketers in Banking

Deer were their Lives: Hunters of the South

Business of Banking

Gone to Texas

Gone to Texas: A Novel

The Last Plantation