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Louise Martin
Avery, I love you, a bushel and a peck! Cozy up and share how much you love Avery with this personalized fill-in-the-blank story.
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Martin Avery
The One Hundred Year Old Man I Met In China: A Long Poem About An Old Taoist Who Lives On A Mountaintop In Dongbei Close To North Korea and Russia…
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What happens when an American man meets a Chinese woman -- in China?
An Intro To Acupuncture And TCM is the story of a man who was told he was going to die, by a specialist in Canada, but was brought back to…
A hockey memoir in poetry from the Cold War to the present in Canada, the USA, the USSR, and China, from Gravenhurst, Muskoka, to Dalian, featuring the big themes --…
Two doctors, a Chinese woman and a man from Canada who has changed his name to Bethune, travel to Harbin for the winter carnival during Spring Festival, he stays at…
The Chinese Dream: China, I Love You is an omnibus edition with three short novels and a short story, all about love, featuring a Canadian doctor who changes his name…
Ace Bailey Versus Roger Crozier: Epic Poetry is a book about two great Canadian hockey legends from Bracebridge, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. This is a book that boys will enjoy! It…
Gretzky Versus Orr (In China): Poetry On Ice, by Martin Avery, describes two Canuck expats in China rehashing that same old argument about who was the greatest hockey player in…
Kaifaqu, I Love You: A Canadian Poet In China, by Martin Avery, is a collection of poems about love and enlightenment set in a city of seven million between the…
The Gretzky, Orr, Bailey, Crosby, Avery Hockey Poetry Omnibus, by Martin Avery, is a hat-trick of poetry books with 1. The Hockey Jersey, 2, Gretzky Versus Orr, and 3. Ace…
The Moon Represents My Heart, by Martin Avery, is a sci fi novel with a romance about a Canadian writer who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature and gets invited…
The Mermaid And The Monk: Zen Poems, by Martin Avery, part of The Great Wall Of China Books Series, is a collection of poems about mermaids and monks and a…
A Writer In Exile In China: Poems About A Writers Lfe, by Martin Avery, is a book of poetry by a Canadian author in China who is happy to be…
The Yin And Yang Of China And Canada: Book 3 In The Longest Canadian Poem In History by Martin Avery is book #69 in The Great Wall Of China Book…
64 hockey poems celebrating Yakupov, the Edmonton Oilers, hockey, and Canada
A novel about a man everybody said would make "a killer Santa Claus"
The selected (early) stories of Canadian author Martin Avery, from magazines, compendiums, anthologies, books, published across Canada, with reviews from Canada and beyond.
A novel collection of stories set in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, over five centuries
"The oil boom and the resulting environmental battle." "An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death" Plus Oil, Money…
Love In The Time Of Global Warming, With Betty And Veronica, and Zombies, lives up to all the promise in its title. It's the story of two romances, a love…
Fifty Shades Of Red is NOT 50 shades of grey or anything like it but was inspired by that book and many other things!
From Bethune's Birthplace to the PR China is book #1 in the 100 book series called The Great Wall Of China Books. It describes the first step in the journey…
Swimming To China is Book #3 in the Great Wall Of China Books Series by Canadian author Martin Avery. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry and…
In 2013, Canadian author and educator Martin Avery, MFA in Writing, travelled from Toronto to Vancouver to Tokyo to Dalian, China, and wrote this travel book while in the air…
A magical realist travel book about a trip around Lake Muskoka which brings Dr. Norman Bethune back to life and he discovers a local cure for cancer, amongst many other…
A magical realist novel, a short novel, set in Muskoka, that brings Norman Bethune back from the dead, along with Renee Caisse, with her cure for cancer. The sequel to…
Chinese Kisses: 101 Poems Made in China, by Marty Avery, is a collection of poems inspired by Chinese and Canadian poets, set in Dalian, China, including JinShiTan and KaiFaQu, in…
This book of poetry about metamorphosis imagines Kafka in Kaifaqu, the famous European writer in China, which he loved, but it's 2014, and it's the New China. And there are…
Imagine going back in time to meet the Canadian doctor and Chinese hero Norman Bethune. Magical realism by the author of the Bethune Trilogy.
What if Dr. Norman Bethune returned to China in 2014? A novel look at Bethune and the New China.
So much of the news about China, reported in the West, is biased, and the good news is rarely shared, but this book of found poetry celebrates some of the…
The Bethune Trilogy: A Trip Around Lake Muskoka With Norman Bethune, Bethune's Tears Cure Cancer, Bethune Returns To China, and Bethune's Time. Four novels, 555 pages, magical realism, set in…
Canadian author Martin Avery, living in China, challenges Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Mo Yan to a novel marathon!
Bethune Buttons celebrates Dr. Henry Norman Bethune in poetry. Canadian author Martin Avery moved to China and took a bag of buttons with him, featuring a photo of Bethune and…
The Way Of The Dragon is an inspirational novel memoir, a spiritual autobiography, about a Westerner in the East who has a moment of profound epiphanic revelation after climbing Big…
The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China To Canada is an imaginative work of poetry inspired by the plans for a real train line and by an old book…
A Canadian poet in China hikes up a mountain and has a vision of a great library where he can see his future books and get hints about his future…
Toronto: A Long Poem includes "I Am A Torontonian", inspired by "I Am Canadian" and Vancouver: A Poem.
In 2014 the Canadian poet Martin Avery moved from Toronto, Canada, to Dalian, China, and he wrote a long poem about each city. Now the two poems are published together…
Oh Canada: A Long Poem On Canada Day, by Canadian poet Martin Avery was written in the air, en plein air, in airplanes, as he flew from China to Japan…
Holocaust Healing, written not long after 9/11, inspired by that horrific event, is not a light read, it's a dark story that encompasses a lot of tragedy, but there is…
"You're going to die," the doctor said. But Canadian author Martin Avery laughed and walked away. Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten tells the story of a man who…
When a Canadian poet moves to China, he is moved to write a lot of poetry about China. This book illustrates a stage in culture shock known as enchantment, which…
Gravenhurst And Bethune And China: A Long Poem Chronicling A Road Trip From Toronto To Muskoka And Back Again is a book with a purpose: the author makes the case…
Crazy For Stratford: A Very Long Poem is a poetic chronicle of a road trip to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2014 to see Crazy For You and…
