"At the age of sixteen, Ernest Lamarque travelled from England to North America, to begin a life as a Victorian adventurer. Born in 1879 and orphaned at age twelve, he would go on to become an artist, a writer and a surveyor, creating some of the earliest visual records of the pe...
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A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around, after he is caught deceiving customers and must return their money.
"'Riveting. vibrant and unsparing.' -Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) 'Once I started reading these stories, I couldn't stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with their taut narratives and evocative language-the language of a poet.' -Jay Parini, author of Jesus: The Huma...
"The world is changing rapidly. The Sheriff of Nottingham has forged a pact with the black knights to kill King Richard. But first, the sheriff wants Robin dead more than ever and sets about catching him with the help of his sister and others. Marian and Edward are placed under h...
"Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta/BC boundary survey undertaken between 1913-1924. Surveying the 120th Meridian focuses on the years 1918-1924, when the Alberta crew continued the survey of th...
“Riveting . . . vibrant and unsparing." - Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) “Superb. . . . Startlingly original." - Library Journal (starred review) “Once I started reading these stories, I couldn't stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with the...