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About this Series USA Today bestselling author Jack W...

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.

An important contribution to the history of the Industrial Workers of the World. A superb account by a rank'n'file Wobbly organiser; on the road, on the job, on strike, in jail, on the run, coast to coast...

Image Credit: Submitted/Charlie Hodge May 28, 2021 - 6:30 AM After being a journalist for more than 30 years and a Kelowna city councillor for more than a dozen, the last thing Charlie Hodge ever expected to be doing was write a semi-fictional ghost story. But five years ago, he opened himself up to a whole new way of writing after being approached by Dan McGauley, a former owner of Blaylock’s Mansion near Nelson, asking him to ghostwrite a book about the mansion’s history...

Article content Writing from the Window Seat, I’m grateful to have amazing Sudbury and Manitoulin friends. These days, I get satisfaction from talking to each one by telephone. I long to hear their voices, and mine, allowing them to laugh at my New York accent, which they do. If I can’t reach them by phone, email, photographs and Facebook fill in the gaps. Seeing my online pals, sunsets and now tulips blooming in Little Current helps in my yearning for flying north to Sudbury and driv...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Holly Martin February 24, 2021 - 1:21 PM There wasn’t much that best-selling author Jack Whyte hadn’t done in his career. Whyte, who died earlier this week, explored different terrains and times through his Dream of Eagles series, was an award-winning poet, passionate mentor to many emerging writers and well-loved family man. “He was very generous of his time and talent,” stepdaughter Holly Martin said Wednesday. “He had been sick for a while...