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Après une vie d’aventures, Nanuktalva, un vieil Inuit, se retire à Timmins, dans le nord de l’Ontario. Il s’y lie d’amitié avec une petite fille de cinq ans, à qui il apprend tout ce qu’il sait sur la vie nordique, ses défis, ses mystères et ses loups. Au passage, il l’initie aux coutumes de son peuple, à sa langue et à ses légendes. Il va même l’entraîner à des formes de combat nordique. Mais ce bonheur ne durera pas. À l’aube de ses 17 ans, la vie de Gaïa connaît un tournant inattendu. Elle est recueillie à Vancouver par une tante qui nourrit des projets crapuleux à son endroit.

Un jeune homme, Cédric Poitras, accumule les mauvais coups depuis son entrée au secondaire : cours séchés, vols à l’étalage, alcool… rien ne semble l’arrêter. À bout de nerfs, ses parents l’expédient chez son grand-père paternel, propriétaire d’un centre de ski en Colombie-Britannique, le mont Renard. Là, son aïeul ne lui épargne aucune tâche, en plus de l’obliger à passer ses soirées sur Internet pour obtenir son diplôme. Bientôt, il s’intéresse, malgré lui, à la bonne marche de la station et aux mystérieux problèmes qui s’y manifestent depuis peu.

Une archéologue de réputation internationale, Frances Laguerre, s'embarque dans une expédition pour la Mongolie à la quête des origines de l'humanité. Mais ce qu'elle trouve là-bas, une pierre aux pouvoirs étranges, l'entraîne soudainement bien au-delà de son savoir scientifique. Cette mystérieuse découverte déclenche toute une série de péripéties et de périlleux épisodes. Pour se sortir de cette aventure sans trop de dégâts, la jeune femme devra faire appel à son entourage, incluant cet acteur troublant, apparu étrangement dans sa vie...

In the spring of 1884, Jack, an adventurous young man, packs his bags in Victoria, BC, and heads for the prairies, looking for a new life and hoping to get involved in an Indian war. Instead, he lucks into an exciting job in the fur trade and meets and befriends many of the great chiefs of the Cree nation, such as Poundmaker and Big Bear, and ends up between a bullet and a target when the North-West Rebellion erupts.

Jane Priddle, a proper young Englishwoman, has lived a sheltered, genteel life. In 1897, she is offered a life-changing opportunity: she will travel to Canada's northwest frontier to search for young Billie Thomm. Surviving in the gutters of London, England, Billie had acquired the cunning of someone twice his 15 years, but a moment of desperation and his connection to a messy death brought him to the Eastwood Mission Society. Before the law could catch up with him, he became a home child, one of thousands of orphans and beggars shipped to Canada to find better lives.

Zachary's Horses picks up where Zachary’s Gold left off and continues the adventures of Zachary Beddoes. It is 1870, and the ex-lawman is hiding out in the capital of colonial British Columbia, using the name Lincoln Zachary. He soon befriends a series of locals: a young woman with a mysterious background; a pair of young English gentlemen, who are travelling through the area; a manic, alcoholic notary from the Washington Territory; and a rich but unscrupulous local business family, who are organizing what they think will be the horse race of the decade.

In 1864, headstrong Pinkerton man Zachary Beddoes is tired of guarding hotels and railway stations, so he decides to quit his life of private law-enforcement and head west for gold. In San Francisco, Zachary hears that the best goldfields are north, in British Columbia. Undeterred by warnings of how harsh and unforgiving the Barkerville goldfields can be, Zachary sets off in search of his fortune. But before he can stake his claim, Zachary unexpectedly becomes an outlaw. Forced to flee into the bush, Zachary must rely on a Chinese prospector named Rosh to keep him alive.

Against the backdrop of Morocco and France, the hero of The Goat In The Tree travels in pursuit of both an audience for his stories and his next meal. Fictional travelogue, love story, and the misadventures of a teller of tales, Lorne Elliott sends his narrator tip-toeing around the uncomfortable edge of things, out to where stories bloom, and brings them back for us to enjoy.

Leonard Edison's wife has a dark and frightening premonition - that her husband will die before his next birthday. Leonard, aware of this forecast, responds with the animal instinct of fight-or-flight - he wings away on an affair with a former student, engages in a series of petty crimes, neglects his dying mother, moves in with his strange, disaffected nephew (who is living off the spoils of a lottery win) and even flirts with the shadowy Toronto Goth world.

This sweeping story chronicles one young man's experience with family and fighting during the Civil War. Drew Rennie is a rebel in more ways than one. Since childhood, he has defied the stern, unforgiving grandfather who reared him and who made no secret of his hatred for Drew's Texan father. And when the Civil War began, Grandfather's sympathies with the North, the smoldering feud erupted into a violent quarrel. Now, eighteen-year-old Drew has returned to Kentucky with Morgan's Raiders, a seasoned veteran with two years of experience fighting for the South.