Nicholas Maes: 12 books
by Nicholas Maes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Comical, insightful, disturbing, self-critical, oh-so-modern, ‘Wow! I thought only I felt that way!” Jarring, exciting, uplifting … is Charles Ingram misguided, unstable, or inspired?
Ten minutes with these beauties and I could free a million souls, even if their preference was to live...
Canadian Scholars Bundle
Lucille Teasdale / Robertson Davies / George Grant / Marshall McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent people in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich academic and philosophical history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential figures. Profiled are: prescient media guru Marshall...
Robertson Davies
Magician of Words
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent...
Fortuna
A Felix Taylor Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
It's been a year since Felix Taylor travelled back to ancient Rome and saved his world from a lethal plague. Again his knowledge of Latin seems useless now that life in the 23rd century has returned to normal. But is it really?
A stranger has discovered the time machine and used it to project...
by Nicholas Maes
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Avi Greenbaum is Jewish and lives in West Jerusalem. Moussa Shakir is Palestinian and lives in East Jerusalem. Both are 15 years old, live without their fathers, adore their older brothers, and belong to the same soccer club. Avi commemorates the Holocaust and celebrates Israeli independence, while...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–30
Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas / William C. Van Horne / George Simpson / Tom Thomson / Simon Girty / Mary Pickford
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early...
Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–25
Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: firebrand Metis leader Louis Riel; landscape painter James Wilson Morrice; Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson; revered novelist...
Canadian Literary Bundle
Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy / Robertson Davies / Mazo de la Roche
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s literary heritage. Canadian letters have a prominent place in world literature, and its renown can be traced to authors such as these. Profiled are: pioneer...
Locksmith
A Felix Taylor Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens, long-listed for the 2009 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
Twelve-year-old Lewis Castorman is a master locksmith: there is no lock on earth that he is unable to open. He is therefore flattered when world-renowned chemist Ernst K....
by Nicholas Maes
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
It is the year 2213. Fifteen-year-old Felix Taylor is the last person on Earth who can speak and read Latin. In a world where technology has defeated war, crime, poverty, and famine, and time travel exists as a distinct possibility, Felix's language skills and knowledge seem out of place and irrelevant.
But...
Felix Taylor Adventures 2-Book Bundle
Laughing Wolf / Fortuna
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
For the first time, the Felix Taylor Adventures are available as together in this two-book bundle.
Short-listed for the Snow Willow Young Reader’s Choice Award and the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award.
"An entertaining and thoughtful read that will please fans of sci-fi...
by Nicholas Maes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
What do you do when you’re being watched at every turn by creatures plotting to take over the world?
Simon Carpenter is a normal 16-year-old living in Vancouver. Or is he normal? Any type of music drives him crazy. When walking by a homeless person, he can see the world through the drunken...