Fiction, Coming Of Age
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Avala: Spirits of the Mindscapes
Book 1: Hope by Caleb Teal
Four thousand years in the future, the Republic of Earth is at war with the oppressive Yajiran Empire. Meanwhile, on a primitive world, a half-human/half-Yajiran girl named Avala learns that her people’s beliefs are lies created by the Yajirans to ...
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Celtic Knot
A Clara Swift Tale by Ann Shortell
1868 Ottawa D’Arcy McGee is assassinated. As John A. Macdonald cradles his friend’s bloody head, he blames transplanted Irish terrorists: the Fenian Brotherhood. Within a day, Patrick James Whelan is arrested. After a show trial, Whelan is ...
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The Author
A Fairy Tale Based on a True Story by Evelyne Day Rush
An incident transforms Eva's popularity to the next level. Loving the attention, it leads her to engage in unhealthy behaviour to repeat the high. In search of significance, Eva embarks on an adventure in the world of drugs, alcohol and risky ...
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A Bad Guy
by John Charlton
A Bad Guy begins at 1972 with a street fight in the gritty north end of Regina. Half a lifetime later leads to the ball diamonds and hockey rinks of Calgary Alberta. Through it all, this story is about male influences – good and bad. “I prayed ...
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The Gryphon
by Paula Grover
Born to be the next queen of the gryphons, Sunsky of the Mountains sees her whole life ahead of her but conforming to her role is another story. Although she considers taking the mighty Dreamspinner as her official king, she shuns the expectations ...
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The Boys from North Dakota
by Robert Battistuzzi
It was prom night for the class of ‘65 in Wattinger, North Dakota. In just a few days the Road Demons, made up of Gerry, Randy, Art, and Bobby would be heading for the west coast to make big money as lumberjacks and leave a trail of broken hearts. ...
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What He Saw
by Glenn Parker
When Ryan Sinclair is twelve, he sees something at the beach that he thinks might be a murder when he observes a man carrying a woman into the trees, but he isn't certain. He attempts to tell his mom about it, but doesn't want to upset her so he ...
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Golden Ribbons
by Beth McMurchie
In the late 1800s of Scotland, a deadly coal mine explosion leaves seven children orphaned. Adolescents, Rachael and Todd, set out to find their individual paths in middle and upper class environments. Along the way they are met with jealousy, ...
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Denver Aquarius
by Alan W. Lehmann
As America’s psychedelic sixties bled into the self-absorbed seventies, traditional churches, old psychological theories and political dogmas slid into disrepute. Natural cures, self-help books, and Eastern religions vied energetically to replace ...
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The Boys of '63
by Robert Battistuzzi
The silence of the peaceful night is broken. Change is on it's way for Bobby and his friends of Wattinger, North Dakota. It is the summer of 1963 in a typical prairie town where the coming of age for teens presents the same challenges is in any ...
