A father raises his boy in the isolated north. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber. For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway comes a debut novel that Book Sirens calls "Heartbreakingly beautiful, raw and enchanting. ★★★★★" "This contemplative tale of survival is a unique and poetic excursion." — Kirkus Reviews ***** 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist in Literary & Contemporary Fiction ***** ***** 2022 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Notable Author ***** ***** A Readers’ Favorite Five Star Author ***** ***** 2020 Canada Book Awards Winning Author *****
***** A Readers’ Favorite Five Star Author ***** ***** Shelf Unbound 2022 Best Indie Book Notable Author ***** ***** 2020 Canada Book Awards Winning Author ***** Tom at seventeen years old, naïve and optimistic, took a bush-plane flight north to remote wilderness and work at an isolated fishing lodge. Only days into the season, confrontations with coworkers escalates into threats on his life. So a young man makes a stand. In a later year and having gotten his pilot license, Tom’s float plane is screaming down the lake and won’t lift from the surface. He’s run out of liquid runway with no time to power down. The big forest closing in. He crashes... Chapter by chapter, these memoir stories move from laugh-out-loud accounts to flushed romances with hearts both swelled and broken to tales of rapid intensification from imminent threats to Tom’s life—some of them self-imposed. Tom doesn’t invite you to glimpse his world, he straps you into the seat beside him, smiles, and pushes throttle to full. Stories like Twain with scenes set to Krakauer backdrops and words on the page in honest prose like Hemingway--an affectionate yet piercing memoir of northern adventure, wilderness, and love. Thrilling and heart-wrenching, stirring and joyous, Under Big-Hearted Skies is an intimate perspective yet panoramic view of an impassioned life.
“Immortal North is one of the finest examples of true literary fiction I have ever read. ★★★★★” —Marcus Lynn Dean, author, Thermals of Time The “achingly beautiful” story of Immortal North concludes in this stunning sequel, an unflinching meditation on the triumph of human resolve. He’s known as the trapper and his family has a long history in these remote woods. Now it’s just him and the boy, and he’ll raise him in the world he knows, the forest, where threats take recognizable forms: harsh weather, peak predators, the intrusion of civilization at odds with their lifestyle. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber. One fateful day their woodland life is violently broken—shouldn’t those guilty of such injustice be held to account? The aftermath of the first novel becomes too volatile to be contained by the woods, and the town hears of a murder and an abduction—that list of crimes is not getting any shorter. An atmospheric tale both haunting and heartening. A northern tragedy dark enough that even the patch of sky above their old family cabin seems to have lost its stars, but hope and courage have this luminous sequel shining with radiant light.
BY CROM, an illustrated history of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian by Tom Stewart, a 9 x 12 inch all color 208 page art book detailing the history of Robert E. Howard and his Barbarian Conan through all of the various trials and tribulations of the character; through court battles, different publishers, in comic books and in the movies, up to the present. This all color, profusely illustrated pop culture history is a must for fans of the great Pulp Magazines and of the history of 20th adventure/fantasy literature. The book will be offered in a paperback, ISBN 1-932563-02-4, for $29.99 and in a hardcover, ISBN 1-932563-03-2, for $49.99; adult audiences. The book will be available in July of 2008 and will have numerous tie-ins at the San Diego ComicCon in July;
The question to be answered is whether we as humankind, are Guardians of this Planet, or a virus. Hitlers boast of a 1000year Reich was based on the potential weaponry that his science / engineers were developing in locations throughout Germany.If he had slowed down his aggression then he may have established his boast. Europe was on the threshold of World War 2, when Hitler was declaring war on every European Country, with the declaration of war against America and Russia at a later date. His Army Officers assessed this policy to be madness and with great difficulty, their fortitude and courage gave success to their coup. America had their war in the Pacific and Britain had theirs in Europe.Without Americas support Britain had to capitulate and join Europe, in order to reverse the policies of the Nazis. The real question was how to alter the worlds decline and establish Humankind, as the Guardians of 'Planet Earth
BY CROM, an illustrated history of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian by Tom Stewart, a 9 x 12 inch all color 208 page art book detailing the history of Robert E. Howard and his Barbarian Conan through all of the various trials and tribulations of the character; through court battles, different publishers, in comic books and in the movies, up to the present. This all color, profusely illustrated pop culture history is a must for fans of the great Pulp Magazines and of the history of 20th adventure/fantasy literature. The book will be offered in a paperback, ISBN 1-932563-02-4, for $29.99 and in a hardcover, ISBN 1-932563-03-2, for $49.99; adult audiences. The book will be available in July of 2008 and will have numerous tie-ins at the San Diego ComicCon in July;
The third book in this graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases details the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist—the largest, and one of the most famous, art thefts in the world. CASE NO. 003: THE GARDNER MARCH 18, 1990 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 1:24 a.m. Two thieves posing as Boston Police officers gain entry to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Once inside, they steal thirteen pieces of art, including several rare Rembrandts. Eighty-one minutes later, these men walk off with $500 million worth of art. This heist is the single largest private property theft in the United States—and despite decades of investigation and dozens of false leads, the case remains unsolved to this day. Don’t miss the first two gripping installments in this thrilling series, Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet and Unsolved Case Files: Jailbreak at Alcatraz.
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