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Below are some of our most recently released books.
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The Batteau Railway
by Dan Buchanan
During the American War of Independence, a wave of British Loyalists moved to Upper Canada with the promise of land. As they arrived in the Bay of Quinte and travelled west to York or Newark, Asa Weller—a resident of the Carrying Place—saw an opportunity. Batteaux—flat-bottomed boats—were commonly used in the late eighteenth century to carry supplies and goods as well as passengers travelling east and west along the north shore of Lake Ontario. At the Bay of Quinte, however, travellers were forced to unload their cargo and carry everything across the portage to Wellers Bay before continuing on to Lake Ontario. As traffic increased in both volume and intensity, dragging boats across the sand became a painstaking, back-breaking task. Innovative and ambitious, Asa Weller solved this problem by constructing the “batteau railway” across the one-and-a-half-mile portage. For the next three decades, his facility became so integral to the journey along Lake Ontario’s northern shore that travellers rarely noted it in their accounts. So, what did it look like? And how exactly was it used? In The Batteau Railway, Dan Buchanan explores Mr. Weller’s groundbreaking transport system. Through meticulous research, he vividly recreates the bustling Carrying Place of the early 1800s and reveals how Weller’s railway became indispensable—not only to settlers and traders but also to the British war effort during the War of 1812.
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Retired Ground
A Climber's Odyssey by Michael J. Collins
He went looking for adventure. The mountains gave him so much more. In Retired Ground, Michael J. Collins documents his fifty-year pilgrimage into wild places, braiding his lifelong travel journal together with poetry, history, philosophical musings, and hard-earned reflection. The book begins with a twenty-one-year-old hitchhiking through Ireland as The Troubles gather in the distance, then ranges outward to blizzards in Nova Scotia, volcanic slopes in Mexico, backcountry solitude on Isle Royale, cliff paths on Kauai, and, again and again, the knife-edge ridges and misty peaks of Scotland’s Isle of Skye. The climbing is intense, but the story is not only about ascending physical summits. With each trip, Mike’s search shifts from thrill seeking to solitude and from risk to beauty until a night beneath an astonishing sky forces a reckoning with what has been calling him all along. Honest, soulful, and vivid, Retired Ground is a climber’s odyssey about faith, family, and the pursuit of transcendence within the wilds of nature.
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Horde of Legends
by Oliver Fuug
Our heroes return in book 3 of the Veranuxz Experiment. Having finally joined their celestial counterparts on their home planet, three remarkable humans (and one exceptional bear) find themselves thrust into a universe-spanning cataclysm that has been lurking behind the scenes for decades—centuries—perhaps even millennia. In a universe about to be shaken to its core, Rudolph, Hanze, Franz, and Gleven have to question everything they thought they’d understood as friends become enemies and enemies become the universe’s only hope. As the mighty Alpha Voth Quazarth unleashes his massive, nearly undetectable army, the humans have to seek the aid of the terrifying Straunch: giant galactic barbarians infamous for their brutality and inexplicable power. But perhaps the most frightening thing the scourges of the universe have to offer isn’t their blades or their disturbing inability to stay dead—because the Straunch also have a world-shaking truth to tell. About their friends the Veranians, about the order of the universe, and about these ersatz heroes themselves. Can the humans reconcile everything they’re learning with everything they’ve known in time to save the cosmos from annihilation? A mind-bending, swashbuckling adventure through the cosmos in search of the most inexplicable answers to the greatest questions.
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Fantasy Dreams
by Susan Solomon
Born to the king and queen of a mystical land, Princess Leslie should be set for a life of comfort and luxury. But destiny has other plans. Through an innocent fluke, Leslie accidentally sets free the King of Darkness to wreak his evil upon the kingdom. Hoping to keep her safe, Leslie’s parents place her in the care of her aunt, who whisks her away to another time and place. For a while, she lives a peaceful, normal life, attending school and making friends. Until Keven, a vampire and the son of the King of Darkness, shows up to claim his due: her hand in marriage, promised to him by Leslie’s father. Leslie is drawn to him, but she can’t overlook his possessive behaviour toward her. To complicate things, she’s also being pursued by Cem, Keven’s twin brother, and her human friend Jack, who is steadfastly devoted to her. As she trains to defeat the King of Darkness and restore peace to her father’s kingdom, she also wrestles with her emotions. Which of her suitors sparks the flame of her passion — and more importantly, which of them can she really trust?
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Monsieur Aristide
And the Hanged Man's House by Ray Sproule
The third book in The Thorne Quartet is a psychological thriller that takes Matthew Thorne, a former Canadian Army intelligence officer, on a quest to investigate the disappearance of Monsieur Aristide, a shadowy, éminence grise in the French Secret Service, a quest leading Thorne from Paris to Malta, then to Casablanca, and eventually to the prehistoric menhir fields and pig farms of Brittany. As the search evolves, there is an increasing sense of impending confrontation; madness and treachery, and a hint that Aristide may be luring a nemesis of his from the past into a deadly viper’s snare. Throughout, Thorne is psychologically torn between understanding his own nature and his relationship with a cast of bizarre creatures—some of them assassins—that seem to surround and suffocate him. Only in the twisted house will Thorne find some of the answers.
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River Reflects Earth
by Anne M. Smith-Nochasak
Why did we trust Alexa King? Narrator and chronicler Luke has been asking herself this a lot lately. Maybe it’s because the farther River and her companions travel, the more they learn how dangerous the Elect can be. Luke has so many questions, too many. Has Alexa underestimated the Emissary’s powers? Will twelve-year-old River be strong enough to resist him? Is Flo safe or one of the enslaved elderly? How will they win with no armour, no weapons, and dwindling numbers? And how does Luke fit into a revolution that doesn’t seem to want her? In the final installment of the Taggak Journey trilogy, while rebel grandmother Flo serves the revolution at home, River and her supporters prepare for the Last Battle. In the wilderness, they persevere through the elements, reunite with old friends and loved ones, and fight not only for the good of humanity, but the sake of the earth. River grows into her role in the resistance, even as she grieves all she’s lost. She lives as her father taught her: And when your arms are too tired to paddle, reach again one more time. And one more time. She is a paddler who will always reach one more time in the stormiest waters. But will this be enough in the Last Battle?
