Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history in this epic saga of exploration and adventure.While sorting through the possessions of his recently deceased neighbour, Harold Johnson discovers an old, handwritten manuscript containing epic stories composed in an obscure Swedish dialect. Together, they form The Björkan Sagas.The first saga tells of three Björkans, led by Juha the storyteller, who se...

From the bestselling author of Firewater comes a moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Indigenous community for his brother Clifford’s funeral, the first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of...

Ginny Fellows is a theatrical agent with a knack for drama—though she prefers it to stay on-screen. Living in the charming English village of Shepton Rise, she represents a unique group of actors: "The Dead Actors." Each of her quirky clients gained fame for their on-screen deaths, but their careers have proven far from lifeless.When a real murder shocks the picturesque town, Ginny finds herself drawn into the mystery. The Dead Actors, eager for a taste of off-screen intrigue, are ...

In this long-awaited sequel Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll are back on a road trip—driving, flying, and boating their way from Baja, California to northern Alaska in search of the fossil secrets of North America's Pacific coast.They hunt for fossils, visit museums, meet scientists and paleonerds, and sleuth out untold stories of extinct worlds. As one of the oldest coasts on earth, the west coast is a rich ground for fossil discovery. Its wonders include extinct marine ...

A CBC BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 • Longlisted for the First Nations Communities READ AwardAward-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling.Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow members of First Nations, Harold R. Johnson agreed to host a group who wanted to hear him speak about the power of storytelling. This book ...

First published in 1961, Neil R. Johnson's The Chickasaw Rancher tells the story of Montford T. Johnson and the first white settlement of Oklahoma. Abandoned by his father after his mother's death and then left on his own following his grandmother's passing in 1868, Johnson became the owner of a piece of land in the northern part of the Chickasaw Nation in what is now Oklahoma.The Chickasaw Rancher follows Montford T. Johnson's family and friends for the next thirty-two years. Neil ...

Why does the American political system work the way it does?After observing the strains of intense partisanship and divided government, many Americans are wondering what logic, if any, can be found in politics. With both sides of the political spectrum being so different from one another and the scales often tipping in the favor of the opposing party by a fraction of a percentage point, how can anyone work the system to their advantage?With fresh analysis of the 20...

Learn how to wake up in your dreams for creative insights and beautiful spiritual adventuresThe Art of Lucid Dreaming is a quick and easy guide to help you get lucid fast. Dr. Clare Johnson, world-leading expert on lucid dreaming, shares her best practical tips and a unique Lucidity Quiz that identifies your personal sleeper-dreamer type so you can fast-track to the techniques that work best for you. When you are lucid in a dream, you can choose t...

Life is full of choices, decisions, memories, photographs, and—most importantly—love. When life is moving at full title, there's not always time to reflect on those everyday occurrences. Retirement allows us the time and presence of mind to sit down and take stock. That's just what the writers in Memories & Musings did.Written by "vintage" Minnesotans from The Guided Autobiography and poetry classes at Whitney Senior Center, their stories and poems are a collection of life's journe...

Carson Street is a close-knit neighborhood where everybody has each other's back... until a production crew arrives, telling them they must compete against each other on network TV for the chance to save their homes. They must also compete against the residents of Victor's Summit, the gated community on the other side of the freeway. Victor's Summit is shrouded in mystery, and as the residents of Carson Street learn more about them, they soon realize that they have more to worry about than...

In his "Small World" experiment, Stanley Milgram concluded that any two people, chosen at random, are connected by a chain of acquaintances with no more than five or six links.This is a story about one such chain.A journalist and a reclusive professor have ten days to find someone named Basil or the world will be destroyed. They know nothing about him except his first name. With the aid of a strange communication device, they discover the chain of acquaintances that will le...

A Classic in Counterintelligence—Now Back in PrintOriginally published in 1987, Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad is a unique primer that teaches the principles, strategy, and tradecraft of counterintelligence (CI). CI is often misunderstood and narrowly equated with security and catching spies, which are only part of the picture. As William R. Johnson explains, CI is the art of actively protecting secrets but also aggressively thwarting, penetrating, and deceiving hostile intel...