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There has never been a con-man trickster in American history as devious, or as likeable, as Randolph "Soapy" Smith. He was a sociopath with a smile that could melt the hardest heart. He was a man without a conscience, a natural criminal quite willing to steal from the hapless poor and the greedy rich with an equally shameless eagerness. Soapy’s only measure of man was the wallet he could empty from the day he learned how to cheat at cards, hide the pea in a shell game, or invent a scam.

Murray “Moe” Norman was always a little different. He took up the game of golf when he was 12, and spent hours hitting balls until his hands bled. He became a phenomenon on the amateur and professional golf circuit in Canada, represented his country at international tournaments and played in The Masters (though he broke all the Masters decorum by walking off before finishing his round).

Cathar Blood offers a taut recount of one of the bloodiest moments in the Earth's religious history. Dirty dealings by a Pope and a King led to the savage annihilation of an entire culture with the 4th Crusade. Cathar Blood offers a victim's view of the rampant subterfuge that had fathers sending sons and daughters to the pyre. This is a love story framed by knightly virtue and lust. Once begun, Cathar Blood is a fast action-filled romp to an unexpected conclusion.

She was ready for a change when her life took an unexpected turn, but she had no way of knowing her sanity escape to the scenic hamlet of Glacier would mean putting her hobby into practice. How did her uncle's pastry baker end up dead in her freezer? And how can she prove her barista uncle had nothing to do with the cold-blooded murder?

After a hiking accident, Sauerwein was in a nearly comatose state for two years. During this time, his wife died and, miraculously, he began to recover. On regaining consciousness, he was overcome with guilt for not being present with her at her death. He resolved to contact her on the other side.

Tesla called it his Death Ray. Before he died he hid the secret to his super weapon in an engraving sent to his illegitimate grand daughter. Now, decades later, a black ops group using HAARP technology to employ their version of his weapon, is close to discovering the secret frequency. So is a competing Russian science cabal that has tested their own system and caused deadly earthquakes. Both realize using the wrong frequency could destroy the Earth but the attractive power of the penultimate death ray is too enticing.

A cunning and formidable lawbreaker, Bill Miner spent half his life behind bars and the other half planning ways to execute his crimes. Billy used his robberies to fuel his love of fancy clothes, expensive restaurants, and wild nights in brothels. Or to fund his version of the high life he enjoyed, when he could play the role of a wealthy mining mogul lavishly entertaining, enticing, and seducing young men.

Purple Daffodils is a book of treasures. Small, short stories that sing to your heart; vignettes that squeeze profound thoughts from a few words.

Margaret Lally Murray came to Canada in a homemade dress with pictures of cowboys she might marry. But instead of a quiet prairie existence, she found a life filled with politics, printer's ink, and possibilities always vergin' on the verge. She was a 100 percent emancipated woman and British Columbia's first and most memorable female publisher.

An adventurer in the truest sense, Joe Whiteside Boyle never turned from a challenge. He blazed the White Pass to the Yukon before gold seekers flooded the hills, boxed with a world heavy weight champion, and made millions selling lumber and dredging creeks in the Klondike. In World War I, he paid is own way to Europe to spy for the British, helped the Russians with their revolution, rescued the Romanian crown jewels on a stolen treasure train, lunched with the King of England, and spanked a prince.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so, too. Listen to Miniatures: A Little Book of Poems and enjoy this short book of poignant poems.

To understand how the macabre death of Francis Mawson Rattenbury could have happened, you have to study his life. He was a murdered genius. A victim of love. He was an architectural virtuoso who designed some of Canada's most memorable structures. Rattenbury dreamed on the grandest of scales and created edifices that remain incredible sonnets in wood and stone a century after his blueprints were penned. His buildings remain landmarks, but he was truly a forgotten Canadian hero.