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ARTA Bookshelf

Books by ARTA members for your reading pleasure .
Dealing With Dymans by Jock Mackenzie . Kindle Direct Publishing , 2023 . Crime . Gun play . Word play . Jack Schmidt , ex-RCMP , attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding Dougie Dymans , the ne ’ er-do-well who ’ s been switching gemstones coming into his store .
The Fenian Season : A Historical Thriller by Jaroslav ( Jerry ) Petryshyn . Friesen Press , 2017 . Crime fiction thriller . It ’ s 1866 and John A . Macdonald has a problem . With the end of the American Civil War , Fenians are planning an invasion of British North America .
The Taste of Hunger : A Novel by Barbara Joan Scott . Freehand Books , 2022 . Historical Fiction . In 1920s Saskatchewan a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant is forced to marry a man twice her age . A 2022 Quill and Quire Book of the Year .
The Bachelors and Widows Christmas Party by Audrey Whitson . Radical Bookshop , 2023 . Chapbook . It ’ s the hundredth anniversary of the annual Bachelors and Widows Christmas Party . Eva and Bessie think they have all matches made . But there ’ s a wildcard .
ARTA Bookshelf : Anyone interested in reading further is welcome to search out these books through the publishers or other book sellers . While we proudly celebrate our authors , displaying them on the Bookshelf is not an endorsement of any of these books .
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