Death strikes a sharp chord in Eerie Falls! A Sasquatch on bass, and a pixie on vocals. What's not to love about the new band at Darcy's pub? When one of the band members bangs out their last solo ever, will the group be flat? Did a band member have an axe to grind? Sammi and her mates have their hands full trying to uncover who wrote that requiem. When Courtney's old college roommate arrives to conduct anything but a friendly investigation into the town of Eerie Falls, jarring notes might be on the page for the constable. If things go off-beat, Sammi could end up solo. The mystery's rhythm changes when a robbery occurs, one that could out-crescendo the 1812 overture's finale. In order to bring the curtain down on this tale, Sammi and her friends need to follow the green glow of faerocks and find the right tempo. Gord's ghostly bites may not be enough to energize the solution, but does he have what it takes to help the band? Sammi and her friends need to hit the right notes to avoid a cacophony! If you like sassy heroines, snarky talking cats, colorful characters, and a side of spells with your cuppa joe, then you’ll love Alyn Troy’s otherworldly adventure. Get your copy of The Case of the Sanft Sasquatch today!

Librarian Sammi Cupertino thought her Klutz Curse was the most perilous thing about living in Eerie Falls, Ontario. At least until the annual gathering of the Puffin Rescue Society comes to their town. Sammi's eccentric grandfather gets to play host to the bird rescuers, so Sammi drafts her cute new girlfriend, Constable Courtney, to help with the awards ceremony. But Sammi and her friends find their small Canadian town suddenly perilous when a rescue society member is pummelled to death. To make matters even more precarious, a mundane author has invaded their magical town. Keeping their fae nature out of the author's next book is challenging every resident. Especially Sammi, who runs the magical bookshop, and has a vampiric cat. All are details too juicy, and too revealing to be put in print by the mundane author. Assisted by her cute new girlfriend, her vampiric cat, and the clueless author, Sammi tries to keep her goose from getting cooked by the murderer. Add in rumours of a ghostly flaming pirate ship, and the mystery takes wing in a new direction. Can Sammi and her friends crack the case, and point the feather of justice before the perp flies the coop? And, can they do so without revealing their magical nature to the clueless author? The Case of The Perilous Puffin is the first book in the delightful Eerie Falls cozy mystery series. If you like sassy heroines, snarky talking cats, colorful characters, and a side of spells with your poutine, then you’ll love Alyn Troy’s otherworldly adventures. Buy The Case of The Perilous Puffin today to investigate some whodunnit fun!

Death strikes a sharp chord in Eerie Falls! A Sasquatch on bass, and a pixie on vocals. What's not to love about the new band at Darcy's pub? When one of the band members bangs out their last solo ever, will the group be flat? Did a band member have an axe to grind? Sammi and her mates have their hands full trying to uncover who wrote that requiem. When Courtney's old college roommate arrives to conduct anything but a friendly investigation into the town of Eerie Falls, jarring notes might be on the page for the constable. If things go off-beat, Sammi could end up solo. The mystery's rhythm changes when a robbery occurs, one that could out-crescendo the 1812 overture's finale. In order to bring the curtain down on this tale, Sammi and her friends need to follow the green glow of faerocks and find the right tempo. Gord's ghostly bites may not be enough to energize the solution, but does he have what it takes to help the band? Sammi and her friends need to hit the right notes to avoid a cacophony! If you like sassy heroines, snarky talking cats, colorful characters, and a side of spells with your cuppa joe, then you'll love Alyn Troy's otherworldly adventure. Get your copy of The Case of the Sanft Sasquatch today!

Updated with an improved formula for complete organic fertilizer, this is the go-to guide for beginning and experienced organic vegetable gardeners west of the Cascades.

Cooperation at the scale of entire mountain ranges, whether through formal agreements or regional institutions, is widely acknowledged to be desirable. The Caucasus, generally better known for conflict than cooperation, is a major centre of biological, landscape, and cultural diversity. Appropriate mechanisms to maintain and foster these various types of diversity - which are intricately linked - are urgently needed and as first step, this report gives an overview of the region and details of existing structures for cooperation at all levels.

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Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.