Leslie Smith Dow: 10 books

The Billings Kids History Mystery series begins with 12-year-old Elkanah Stowell, who ventures into the wilderness with his uncle, Braddish Billings, to help found what will become the Billings Bridge settlement. He’s an orphan, so he has to grow up quickly. He helps his uncle build a log cabin,...

Stories and poems of unusual lives, strange occurrences and off-beat travel.

This is a brand-new e-edition of the award-winning paperback book originally published by Pottersfield Press. Anna Leonowens was famous for tutoring the children and wives of King Maha Mongkut (Rama IV) of Siam (now Thailand). Yet she disguised her lowly birth in India and pretended to be an English...

Charles Lennox is dying in the barn of the Chapman farm, of rabies contracted from the bite of an infected fox 60 days before. He has spent 13 months in Canada, and has already seen a great deal more of Upper and Lower Canada than any of his predecessors. His stamina, for one who has never shown much...

Bridget is a harried caregiver who, up until now, has lived peacefully in her quiet hippie mountain town. When a coffin is delivered to her front door just a little too early, it unleashes an unbelievable chain of events that results in tragedy. Well, that's not what everyone thinks. The Grateful...

This collection of poems epitomizes the time of innocence before the Great War and after. The setting is bucolic, but underneath, tension bubbles as interlopers of various kinds threaten to change the old ways forever. Will strength bend change to its pleasure?

Percy is a withdrawn, untalented vampire who hates his talented neighbour, Keppler, a wealthy advisor to the king. His perceptions of reality are tainted by his jealousy, and his cravings for raw meat, which he has abandoned at the urging of his therapist, Max. But Percy has made a grave error, and...

Combine sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and throw in a little S & M. Mix with a healthy shot of death--and bingo! Things can get out of hand before you can say "qualudes." Bridget is a harried caregiver who, up until now, has lived peacefully in her hippie mountain town. When a coffin is delivered...

Combine sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and throw in a little S & M. Mix with a healthy shot of death--and bingo! Things can get out of hand before you can say "qualudes." Magic Carpet Ride takes you from your front door to the bad-boy backseat of a 1970s Cadilac Fleetwood--and then...

Happy Birthday! Born in an undisclosed South American mountain village, Felix Crumple was misnamed by the indigenous midwife who, upon presenting the newborn child to his mother, murmured, erroneously, "felix crumple"--instead of "feliz cumpleanos"--Happy Birthday. From that moment on, young Felix...