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Recent News
February 2010
The Ivory Monkeys, an historical mystery/suspense novel by Stephen Colwell, has been released by Rock Publishing Company. The action-packed historical plotline weaves through seventeenth-century Japan and Patani during the realm of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa (1542-1616). The contemporary plot takes place between Toronto, Boston, and Dallas with antiquities smugglers engaged in a ruthless search for an ivory statue carved in the shape of the Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, and See No Evil monkeys.
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Observations of Heart and Mind by Graham Ducker.
"J. Graham Ducker has an opinion on just about everything … and he's not afraid to share. If you like your poetry to hold a straight line from here to there, this is the collection for you. Often ironic, occasionally irreverent and sometimes irritating, the pragmatic poet takes no prisoners. This is life celebrated through the eyes of an opinonated grump with the heart of a child."
— Ruth. E. Walker, Founding Editor, Lichen Arts & Letters Preview.
Precious Memories of a Unique Northern Ontario School by Graham Ducker.
This book of memoirs is about 15 years of teaching Kindergarten in a unique two-room school on the edge of the bush in Northern Ontario. The external environment was used as an integral part of the curriculum. It is filled with the history, culture, coloured pictures and many anecdotes of that wonderful time. It has received a 9 out of 10 book rating.
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Holiday in Hell by Trisha Smith is a true story — tragedy, drama, and relentless suspense chronicling years of the author’s life. A brutal assault in 1999 on an exotic island and then — an ensuing legal clash: Cuba is reluctant to charge the assailant, he's not Cuban, and ironically, the Canadian police refuses to arrest the Canadian. The legal aftermath becomes the real crime: the Canadian justice system cannot charge a Canadian for a crime committed outside the border of the country. The crime is only charged due to a parole violation — previous violent assault! The actual crime is never punished.
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After the Flood — a dystopian novel of hope, by Shane Joseph
An allegorical tale of love, loss and lust in a fundamentalist society formed in the aftermath of a giant flood that destroys most of the earth in 2012, After the Flood poses the question: "If mankind was granted a new slate to create Utopia, could it?"
This novel has been dubbed, "Noah's Ark meets Samson & Delilah at Camelot in the Brave New World."
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Archived News
March 2009
Michael Robert Dyet is pleased to announce that his debut novel Until the Deep Water Stills—An Internet-Enhanced Novel will be available by mid April. Each chapter in the novel has a corresponding entry in the on-line companion which will include text, photographs and audio recordings.
More here: mdyetmetaphor.com/blog.
Until the Deep Water Stills will be available from all major on-line booksellers. ISBN 978-0-9811995-0-4. $19.95 Cdn. $16.95 U.S.
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October 2007
Gwynneth Heaton has been busy with signings for her book All about me, or is it I? Beware the wild pronoun! which is an amusing comprehensive reference book on pronouns for age 13 and above. The signings have been at the Rail's End Gallery in Haliburton, the Ambleside Bookstore and Canterbury Tales Bookstore in Vancouver, The World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto. In Vancouver she was interviewed on Breakfast TV, and in Haliburton by Canoe FM. The website for her book for more information, or to order, is www.trafford.com/robots/06-2518.html.
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