Inspired by a fragment of a story written by one budding author, another aspiring author creates the life story of someone named George. From a childhood that originates in an adoption, the story proceeds through his childhood involvement in the sudden loss of his father, the destitution following that loss, a difficult adolescence and then to a curious adult life fated to conclude in a ramshackle shack originally described in the five paragraphs provided by the literary collaborator. The Biography of George is the story of a life inspired by one author and imagined by another.
ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781665500791
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781665500784
What lies behind the Picture Windows?
ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781546268345
ISBN 13 (HARD): 9781546268338
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781546268321
In this book, author Mike Robertson chronicles sixty years of playing various forms of recreational ball.
ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781728305264
ISBN 13 (HARD): 9781728305257
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781728305240
A letter written by a seriously ill middle aged man facing the end of his life is found in a safety deposit box after he passes away. The document, immediately thought to be Jack Quinn’s last will and testament, sends his oldest friend on a quest to find his birth parents, his adoption only revealed to him shortly before he died. The search for the identity of the decedent’s birth parents takes Mark Purchell, a man who has been Quinn’s friend for over forty years, from his hometown of Ottawa to a small town on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Along the way, Purchell encounters and is assisted by a number of intriguing characters, including a seedy but well-meaning neighbour, a stern librarian, a retired police officer, members of the clergy, a newspaper editor, a haughty hotel maitre d’ and a spirited waitress named Elaine. His investigation of The Hidden History of Jack Quinn eventually leads to a newspaper archive and a surprising answer to a departed friend’s last request.
ISBN 13 (Trade Paperback): 9781546200246
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781546200239
Sometime in the late 1950s, on the steps of an unknown church, somebody takes a black and photograph of an assembly of boys making their first communions. Above the heads of eight of the boys, who are all fated to die within the next twenty years, are small carefully ascribed Xs. When the picture is found more than fifty years years later in an abandoned steamer trunk purchased at a neighborhood auction, the pursuit for an answer to the mystery of those marks begins. The First Communion Murders is the story of that search.
ISBN 13 (Trade Paperback): 9781504901994
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781504901628
Experience a series of literary entertainments in The Smart Aleck Chronicles III.
ISBN 13 (Trade Paperback): 9781491849941
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781491849934
Their pursuit of this puzzle would led John and Patricia Delaney through all manner of investigation, from peculiar neighbours, newspaper reporters, policemen, a private detective, magicians, libraries, bookstore owners, and even each other.
ISBN 13 (Trade Paperback): 9781665545440
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781665545433