David A. Poulsen
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Dom's life revolves around cars and baseball until a chance connection to a high school audition hands him a major role in a psychological thriller. This would be exciting enough, except that real life begins to shadow the script in a very creepy way as an elusive girl and a local murder draw Dom out of his otherwise quiet shell.
With a nod to Frederick Knott's famous play "Wait Until Dark" and its subsequent film, this book has it all - drama,...
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A dramatic turn of events unites twelve-year-old Billy Gavin and seventeen-year-old John "Bearman" Redell, two boys from seemingly different backgrounds who discover that they in fact have a great deal in common - they are both runaways. Together, alone against nature in the rugged Alberta wilderness, they begin to deal with the demons of their pasts. When the news of a downed plane and a missing rodeo cowboy in the woods and mountains nearby reaches...
3) Old Man
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A trip with his estranged father changes Nate forever. Just as summer vacation is about to arrive, Nate Huffman's plans are unexpectedly shelved for the most unlikely of reasons: the reappearance of his estranged father. Not only is the old man back, he's got this goofy idea about a road trip the two of them will take. Nate finds himself in a pickup with a man he can't stand. His father wants to reconnect, and he wants Nate to really understand him....
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A police investigator's murder has put Cullen and Cobb back on a twenty-five-year-old cold case.
It's a case that has haunted Cullen and Cobb for years - the murder of eleven-year-old Faith Unruh. And now the brutal killing of a police investigator who was similarly obsessed with the little girl's murder has put PI Mike Cobb and former crime-writing journalist Adam Cullen back on the killer's trail - and directly in the line of fire.
As the case...
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A private investigator and a journalist take on a ruthless gang in Calgary to rescue a runaway and find justice for themselves. In 2005, journalist Adam Cullen's wife, Donna, is killed by an arsonist. In desperation after police, fire department, and insurance investigators all give up trying to find the culprit, Cullen hires private detective Mike Cobb, but he, too, is stymied. Seven years later, Cobb re-enters Cullen's life. A search for a crack-addicted...
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A private investigator and a journalist team up in Calgary to fight for justice. Read all four books in the exciting western crime series.
Serpents Rising - book #1
Private investigator Mike Cobb and journalist Adam Cullen take on twin investigations that take them onto Calgary's meanest streets on the trail of a runaway and a killer.
Dead Air - book #2
Someone is killing big name right-wing media personalities. When ex-cop Mike Cobb is hired...
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A private investigator and a journalist team up in Calgary to fight for justice. Read the first two books in the exciting western crime series Cullen and Cobb Mysteries. Serpents Rising: Private investigator Mike Cobb and journalist Adam Cullen take on twin investigations that take them onto Calgary's meanest streets on the trail of a runaway and a killer. Dead Air: Someone is killing big name right-wing media personalities. When ex-cop Mike Cobb...
8) David A. Poulsen's Young Adult Fiction 3-Book Bundle: And Then the Sky Exploded / Numbers / Old Man
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The teens in these three novels confront a teacher who denies the Holocaust, the devastation of atomic bombs, and emotional fallout from the Vietnam War. Includes: And Then the Sky Exploded: Ninth-grader Christian Deaver learns his great-grandfather was part of the team that built the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II. During a school trip to Japan, he meets a Hiroshima survivor and tries to make amends. But what can one teenager do? Numbers:...
9) Dead Air
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There's no such thing as bad press ... Ex-cop turned private detective Mike Cobb is hired as the personal bodyguard of right-wing radio celebrity Buckley-Rand Larmer, who has been receiving a string of vicious, graphic threats. Once again, Cobb recruits crime journalist Adam Cullen, this time to dig into Larmer's past and find out who might have a grudge against him. Soon it becomes evident that Cullen and Cobb have more to contend with than the not-so-veiled...
10) Last Song Sung
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A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat. On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the bill with Joni Anderson, later to become famous as Joni Mitchell. During a cigarette break in the back alley, Ellie was forced into a car and the musicians with her were shot and killed. The investigation that followed turned up no sign of the kidnappers,...
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When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends … somehow. While attending the funeral of his great-grandfather, ninth-grader Christian Larkin learns that the man he loved and respected was a member of the Manhattan Project, the team that designed and created the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War. On a school trip to Japan, Chris meets eighty-one-year-old Yuko,...
12) Numbers
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Just when Andy starts to feel like he finally belongs, can he stand up to the person he trusted the most? Andy Crockett doesn't fit in at his new school - not with the goths, not with the jocks, and certainly not with the brains. Not even, really, with The Six, a group of misfits who hang out with each other mostly because they can't stand hanging out with anyone else. But maybe Andy's luck is changing ... and all because he is in Mr. Reztlaff's grade...
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"Newly reintroduced along with his pack to Yellowstone National Park, Wolf 8 struggles at first. Small and often bullied by his siblings, he must learn to fend for himself in his new home. Soon enough, though, little 8 grows into one of Yellowstone?s greatest leaders"-- Provided by publisher.