A dramatic turn of events unites twelve-year-old Billy Gavin and seventeen-year-old John «Bearman» Redell, two boys from seemingly different backgrounds who discover that they in fact have a great deal in common – they are both runaways. Together, alone against nature in the rugged Alberta wilderness, they begin to deal with the demons of their pasts. When the news of a downed plane and a missing rodeo cowboy in the woods and mountains nearby reaches them, Bearman, an expert tracker who knows...
A private investigator and a journalist take on a ruthless gang in Calgary to rescue a runaway and find justice for themselves. In 2005, journalist Adam Cullen’s wife, Donna, is killed by an arsonist. In desperation after police, fire department, and insurance investigators all give up trying to find the culprit, Cullen hires private detective Mike Cobb, but he, too, is stymied. Seven years later, Cobb re-enters Cullen’s life. A search for a crack-addicted teenage runaway is tangled up with...
Book 3 in the Cullen and Cobb series of western crime novels that teams up a former cop with an investigative journalist A look into the music scene in Calgary in the 1960s A crime series set in Calgary, a booming city often overlooked in genre fiction Author has written 25+ books and has a high profile, particularly in western Canada Author is also an actor, and a savvy marketer, speaker, and interviewee Author’s YA novels have won the Sakura Medal in Japan and been shortlisted for the Forest...
Prolific young adult author David A. Poulsen «handles heavy material with sophistication» (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>). The teens in these three novels confront a teacher who denies the Holocaust, the devastation of atomic bombs, and emotional fallout from the Vietnam War. <br/> <br/> <b>Includes:</b> <br/> <br/> <b><i>And Then the Sky Exploded</i></b> <br/> Ninth-grader Christian Deaver learns his...
Book 4 in the Cullen and Cobb series of western crime novels that teams up a former cop with an investigative journalist A crime series set in Calgary, a booming city often overlooked in genre fiction Author has written 25+ books and has a high profile, particularly in western Canada Author is also an actor, and a savvy marketer, speaker, and interviewee Author’s YA novels have won the Sakura Medal in Japan and been shortlisted for the Forest of Reading White Pine and Red Maple Awards
