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Half-Mohawk, half-English author Pauline Johnson astounded Canada with her unique poetry, prose, and presentations.

Pauline Johnson was an unusual and unique presence on the literary scene during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Part Mohawk and part European, she was a compelling female voice in the midst of an almost entirely male writing community. Having discovered her talent for public recitation of poetry, Johnson relied on her ancestry and gender to establish an international reputation for her stage performances, during which she appeared in European and native...

Malcolm Devlin is the lonely and superstitious son of a forgotten circus daredevil. After a run-in with some bullying locals in a remote northwoods town, Malcolm makes a desperate, magic wish which brings the legendary movie hero Rex Carson to life right off the silver screen

But real life isn't quite like the movies. When Malcolm and Rex start digging into the mysterious death of the town's favorite son and enter a treacherous mountain motorcycle race, things turn deadly, forcing Malcolm to step out of his father's shadow, and face up to who he really is.

Michael Lee Johnson is a freelance writer and poet, who created over 320 poems published in over 123 journals and online publications to date. He is a member of Poets & Writers, Inc and Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers: pw.org/directory. He has been published in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Nigeria, Fiji, India, and the United Kingdom.

"The Lost American" is about one man's journey into exile over the Vietnam War many years ago, his struggle, his survival, his road to recovery and strength manifesting itself through his prose and poems. Mr. Michael...

This volume examines how to deal with localized social problems for which demographic and social characteristics of affected populations are salient. Examples include defining rules for registered sex offenders in search of homes, or allocating primary-care physicians in a state to ensure access to health care.

The Great Lakes were the main arena for the fur trade in colonial North America, which drew European explorers and trappers deep into the northern USA and Canada from the 17th century onwards. The desire to control the supply of this luxury item sparked wars between Britain and France, as well as conflicts between rival tribes and the newly formed United States of America, which continued until 1840.

The main tribes of the area were the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee. All were drawn into the conflicts throughout the Great Lakes region during the French-Indian War...

Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Now one of the most knowing observers of the Western scene offers a monumental cultural and historical analysis of how ideas of wildness have shaped the ways Euro-Americans have perceived, reacted to, and acted upon the West for nearly five hundred years. Bringing the sensibility of a poet to a sweeping discussion of place, Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in...