Bøker av Lisa Wojna

Pacific Northwest Trivia is a readable, entertaining potpourri of fascinating facts about a region of ecological diversity, captivating history, a progressive political culture with hints of separatism and colorful characters: - The world's largest strawberry shortcake, weighing 5700 pounds, is served to more than 15,000 people at the Lebanon Strawberry Festival in June - Adam West, of Batman fame, was born in Walla Walla, Washington, and played the lead character in that campy TV series from 1966 to 1968 - Despite being a semi-arid to arid climate, summer in Idaho is known for its wildflower blooms, covering literally thousands of acres - The site of the nation's only fatal nuclear reactor meltdown is just one of the more than 50 nuclear reactors built at the national testing site near Idaho Falls - Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943), the nation's first female mayor, served as Seattle's mayor from 1926 to 1928 - The name for the city of Portland was settled by that most scientific of methods: a coin-toss.-- (6/29/2017 12:00:00 AM)

Some were taking a stroll through their neighbourhoods on a warm summer evening. Others were at home, tackling a few household chores. Still others were on their way to work, but the people in this book have one thing in common...they all vanished, without a trace: - Demolition crews discover a body buried beneath the cement floor of a Toronto business - Nicole Hoar, planning a surprise visit to her sister in Smithers, disappeared hitchhiking along BC's infamous Highway of Tears - Sex trade workers were disappearing from Vancouver's downtown Eastside for 20 years before law enforcement really began to look into the matter - After tucking her brother into bed and bidding her beau good night, Mabel Crumback put hair in curlers before bed and was never seen again - The families of Ontario's Lost Boys still wonder what became of them and the boat after the six borrowed a boat to cruise Lake Ontario in the dead of night - Jessie Foster's family uncovers hints of human trafficking when the young woman vanished after moving to Las Vegas from Kamloops to join her new boyfriend - No problem paddling the Amazon, but 25-year-old Alicia Ross disappeared from the backyard of her Toronto home in 2005 - Psychology student Natel King financed her education with a job in the adult entertainment industry but one day didn't return from a photo-shoot in 2004 - Following the Celebrate in '88 reunion, Lois Hanna made a cup of tea and slipped into her favourite PJs, but the next day her co-workers found her television on, her tea on the kitchen counter but no Lois - Despite national and international publicity no one has stepped forward to claim a young man dubbed Mr. Nobody after a brutal beating lands him in a Toronto hospital - Was she abducted? Or did she stage her own disappearance? The case of alderman Dar Heatherington during a business trip south of the border propelled the small city of Lethbridge into the media spotlightâand not in a good way. And moreâ¦