Burnstown Publishing House: 61 books

If you loved King of Algonquin Park by Paton Lodge Lindsay, get ready for more laughter and tears in The King’s Ransom: More from the King of Algonquin Park. The King’s Ransom is a companion book to King of Algonquin Park featuring more stories and adventures of the exceptional and well-known...

This is a book about transformation. We all yearn to be free, live a joyous life and reach our highest potential, yet something holds us back. We keep searching for answers outside us in the world of form and yet the Heaven we seek is always within us. It is through grace we take a U-turn within...

Is there a Canadian sense of humour? How can we write with more humour? And what can humour writing teach us about ourselves? These are questions explored in What’s So Funny? Lessons from Canada’s Leacock Medal for Humour Writing — Ottawa writer Dick Bourgeois-Doyle's personal review of books that have won our country’s premier award for humour writing.

An exploration of the often-fraught relationship between fathers and sons is at the heart of Bob Levin’s baseball-themed novel Away Game. It’s the story of Hank Bauman who, through the magic of an old baseball board game, is transported from the present to 1955, to Game 7 of the Yankees-Dodgers...

Two veteran guides are fishing on an Algonquin summer morning when they pull Tom Thomson’s waterlogged corpse from Canoe Lake. Taking him to a remote island, they stand vigil over their friend around the clock. The events of the next twenty-four hours have fuelled the speculation and intrigue surrounding Tom’s life and untimely demise for more than a century.

Welcome to Proposal Land:     Where companies move heaven and earth to respond to inconsistent and difficult-to-interpret Requests for Proposals (RFPs) against hard deadlines     Where RFP issuers routinely ask for twice as much information as can reasonably be gathered and presented in...

Reading Glenn Forbes Miller’s poetry shows him to be as versatile a poet as he is a writer of prose, as demonstrated by his two travel books, Dreaming Kathmandu and Dancing at Ghunsa. The proof is here in this collection, of time and moving water. These are poems that took root and shape...

For more than a thousand days, Alice Dempster has visited Ashton Falls’ cemetery every evening to maintain the flame in a rusted lantern she has placed at the base of a tombstone. Regardless of the weather or her health, she performs her duty . . . a duty she believes in with all her heart. One...

Prominent outdoor writer and dog breeder, Gord McIntyre, looks back over a life spent in the outdoors in Remembering Richly: The Rewarding Outdoors. Beautifully illustrated with woodcuts by Julie McIntyre, Gord’s daughter, this book is a contemplative ─ and at times poetic ─ look at...

Ordinary to Extraordinary - 150 stories as unique as the women who lived them relates life from a woman’s point of view. The stories range from a single incident to a full life story; from ordinary life to tragic events; from the horrific to the humorous. There are stories of living as a child in...

Frank pulled open the little door and reached into the small space.  He felt around gingerly, finding nothing at first.  Then he retrieved what appeared to be a little paper-wrapped packet. He slid out of the alcove and held his find up to the light of the dormer window.  It was then that...

Pearls in the Snow is a prequel to Angel on Her Knees and Keys of the Hollow, paralyzing blizzards hit the Algoma and Southern Ontario regions in the winter of 1942-43 and Grace’s parents and sister find their lives and the fortune of their family threatened aboard a snowbound CPR train. Meanwhile, Grace, at home alone, faces different dangers:  thugs bent on finding gems.

Tall trees and tall tales – that’s life in the bush. And Brent Connelly wouldn’t have it any other way. A forester for nearly forty years, Brent was never happier than when in the company of loggers and truck drivers, timber cruisers and cookees – especially when the “office” was...

This fusion of fact and fiction brings authenticity to a little known facet of Canadian history. In September,1939, a modest country with limited resources or military tradition signs up for world war. In The Incrementalist, Frances McFadden finds herself propelled into the top echelon...