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Follow Sophie Mallory’s adventures during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1838 as she’s taken prisoner by rebels and must save her imprisoned father.

2006 Word Guild Award — Winner, Young Adult Fiction Sophie Mallory’s American family knows everything about fighting the British. It’s the family tradition.

2007 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice Selection It is 1838, and in the wake of the rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie’s and Luc’s worlds are falling apart.

Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s.

2009 Word Guild Award — Winner, Young Adult Fiction In the aftermath of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie Mallory’s father is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life impriso

In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were ordinary people who had been caught up in the political whirlwind of the 1838 rebellion.

In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Can love conquer all? Kate and Tom are the original star-crossed lovers. Kate is a beautiful model; Tom a successful football star at the peak of his career.

The riches to rags to riches again story of a film star and her family and their coming to terms with a homosexual son and tragedy.

This is the story of a successful business man faced with the death of his wife from cancer, a custody suit for her child, and the adjustment to his life this causes.

Contemporary novel of two people from different worlds whose lives are changed by 'five days in Paris'.

Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York.

The time is the 1950's, life was simple, the family was nearly everything.

After one broken marriage Gillian feels she has found happiness with Chris, however his infidelity sends her into the arms of another man.