I am pleased to announce that Red Tuque Books, a British Columbia book distribution company, based in Duncan, BC., on Vancouver Island, will henceforth handle distribution of books by Dean Unger and Village Lane Press. Red Tuque Books is a Canadian distributor of quality books by independent authors with both Amazon online listings & distribution to Canadian bookstores. From Greg Salisbury, at Red Tuque,
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Media coverage on mystery novel, A Garden of Thieves, and author, Dean Unger. Author discovers rare manuscript, at Kaatza Museum, in Lake Cowichan, British Columbia…
The riders broke into a clearing atop a bluff and, following Heidi’s lead, brought their horses to a halt. Heidi waited for Eve to come to a stop beside her and led her gaze out to the ocean. Eve caught and held her breath at the sight of what lay before her in the bay. There, an armada of Native war canoes surged shore ward, with additional vessels falling in from the west and again to the north. Her eyes trailed to the beach below them, where the shore itself was overflowing with men and women, who stood among the bold family crests from many nations up and down the coast. As they drew near, she could see the Bear of the Cowichan; the Eagle and the Wolf of the Haida. The Penechult, the Comox and the Sishalh, were all represented. At the centre of the beach head, a gathering of leaders – young men from the Sishalh Tribe, stood beside the majestic carved double-headed Thunderbird, adorning a large canoe; beside them were the Klahoose – ancestral brothers and sisters of the Tla’amin.
Though Heidi had brought Eve to demonstrate the point she would make, she too was struck by the power of the scene below. Her heart surged to overflowing at this vast outpouring of support. She was reminded that they might yet win Eli’s freedom.
Heidi snapped her reins and sent her horse onward again to begin the ascent into the bay…
Village Lane Press, is pleased to announce the release of the third edition, revised, of A Garden of Thieves, by BC author, Dean Unger. Researched and written over a period of two decades, A Garden of Thieves is an historical fiction that is based, in part, upon the infamous Texada Land Scandal, perpetrated at the hands of a man who called himself, Amor De Cosmos (lover of the universe), and who later became the second Premier of the newly formed province of British Columbia.