Barbara Burgess’s eBooks and paperbacks
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LE TEMPS NOUS LE DIRA eBook
LE TEMPS NOUS LE DIRA paperback
Une aventure palpitante …
Un voyage dans le temps …
Une histoire qui se déroule à Cacouna, au Québec, Canada.
Nous sommes en 1759 et les Britanniques viennent de remporter la bataille des plaines d'Abraham. Isabelle se souvient des grottes de l’Île de Cacouna où elle se cachait enfant avec sa famille. Elle emmène sa petite-fille et son arrière-petite-fille avec elle dans les grottes. Quelques familles acadiennes se cachent également sur l'île afin d'éviter d’être capturées par les Britanniques. Pierre, un acadien, et Claire, l’arrière-petite-fille d’Isabelle, se nouent d’amitié avec des conséquences inattendues.
Ce roman court de 112 pages a été imaginé et écrit par Barbara Burgess.
L’action se déroule à Cacouna dans le passé en trois temps ou époques. L’histoire commence en 1759 dans la Nouvelle France. À l’automne, en 1759, Isabelle Beaumont et Claire, son arrière-petite-fille de vingt-deux ans, et Anne, la mère de Claire, vont à l’Île de Cacouna pour échapper les ‘tuniques rouges’. Sur l’île, elles rencontrent Pierre, un Acadien de vingt ans.
Pierre et Claire deviennent amis et découvrent le portail magique dans l'une des grottes de l’île. Ils voyagent dans le temps jusqu’en 1898 et rencontrent le poète Émile Nelligan à Cacouna. Après avoir passé la journée avec Émile, ils retournent à la grotte et voyagent dans le futur – jusqu’en 1918. Un vagabond dans la grotte présente à Pierre un livre d’histoire sur les Acadiens qui ont aidé à fonder le village de Cacouna.
Pierre, en lisant ce livre, découvrira-t-il ce qui est arrivé à ses parents, frères et sœurs, dont il a été séparé? Seul le temps nous le dira…
TIME WILL TELL eBook
TIME WILL TELL paperback
Time Will Tell
- a standalone novella in the Cacouna saga -
is the second edition of I Dare Not Describe and features a new cover.
It is 1759 and the British have just won the Battle on the Plains of Abraham. Isabelle remembers the caves on Cacouna Island where she hid out as a child with her family. She takes her granddaughter and great-granddaughter with her to the caves. A few Acadian families are hiding on the island, too, in order to avoid capture by the British. Pierre, an Acadian, and Claire, Isabelle’s great granddaughter, strike up a friendship that has unexpected consequences.
Pierre and Claire become friends and discover the magic portal in one of the caves on the island. They travel to the future—to the year 1898 and meet the poet Émile Nelligan. After they spend the day with Émile, they return to the cave and time travel to 1918. A vagabond in the cave presents Pierre with a history book about the Acadiens who helped found the village of Cacouna.
Will Pierre, by reading the history book, find out what happened to his parents and brothers and sisters, from whom he was separated? Only time will tell …
IDUN’S TALE: A STORY OF A SURVIVOR OF THE MEDIEVAL PLAGUE eBook
IDUN’S TALE: A STORY OF A SURVIVOR OF THE MEDIEVAL PLAGUE paperback
What would you do if you were a young girl and your whole family was destroyed by the plague? Idun, a young Norwegian girl, is smart and has the will to survive. She lives in the barn with a family of animals and rides out the Great Plague which decimated much of the world's population in the Middle Ages. Based on a Norwegian folktale, this novella is the author's version of the tale.
It was written and published in the autumn of 2019.
The plague wiped out much of the population in Medieval Europe and Asia. However, despite all the terrible devastation, a few good things emerged afterwards. Due to the vastly decreased human population, forests sprang up in Europe and animals returned to their abandoned natural habitats. The end of the disease that plagued people during the Middle Ages also marked the beginning of the end of feudalism. Labourers were in short supply; this offered many poor people the opportunity to earn better and achieve more for themselves and their families. Indeed, the end of the Black Death (the plague) in Europe led in part to the dawning emergence of a middle class.
THE CACOUNA SAGA
Historical fantasy set in the Lower Saint Lawrence region of Quebec.
The Cacouna Saga Book 1
THE CACOUNA CAVES AND THE HIDDEN MURAL eBook
THE CACOUNA CAVES AND THE HIDDEN MURAL paperback
Deanna Aynsworth’s older brother, Matthew, finds himself staring at a seventeenth-century painting of a sea captain who looks just like him. Then, before Deanna’s eyes, Matthew vanishes without a trace. A year later, still struggling with the fact that her brother has gone missing, Deanna decides to get away for the summer. She and her boyfriend, Justin, rent a room in a B&B near Cacouna village. They discover a seventeenth-century diary by Wasaweg, a young Mi’gmaq woman, who fell in love with a shipwrecked Frenchman in New France. She and Matthieu lived on Cacouna Island—until the day he, too, mysteriously disappeared. As Deanna reads Wasaweg’s journal, she finds consolation in the young Mi’gmaq woman’s perceptions and expression. Deanna also learns firsthand the uncanny truth of what really happened to her brother.
The Cacouna Saga Book 2
THE CACOUNA CAVES AND THE DOORWAY TO THE GOLDEN PLANET: BOOK TWO IN THE CACOUNA SAGA eBook
THE CACOUNA CAVES AND THE DOORWAY TO THE GOLDEN PLANET: BOOK TWO IN THE CACOUNA SAGA paperback
Catapulted to 2040 CE, Deanna Aynsworth, a seasoned time traveler, finds Earth in a state of chaos—the result of climate change and crippling bad choices made by former US President Trapp. Most countries are decimated by floods and other natural disasters, extreme temperatures, and nuclear fallout. The world is plummeting into a second Ice Age. Will the Cacouna Island caves offer a way out for Deanna, Justin, Sarah, Matt, and their friends? The caves hide an ancient power spot through which few travelers have traveled in time. If they can escape the devastated Earth and reach the utopian Golden Planet, what will they find? And will they ever be able to return home to Canada?
The Cacouna Saga Book Book 3
CROSSOVER: Dialogues About Climate Change, the Near Future, and the Distant Past eBook
CROSSOVER: Dialogues About Climate Change, the Near Future, and the Distant Past paperback
What would do if you stumbled across a futurafact—an artifact that comes from another planet and another time in the distant future? Justin, a young archaeology student from McGill University, discovers a mysterious tablet in the Cacouna Caves in Quebec, Canada. He reaches out to Arthur Pendron, a leading British expert on the Mahan Neeli Civilisation that flourished 4500 years ago and disappeared suddenly. Has Justin found the key to decoding the undeciphered writings left behind by that advanced civilisation?
Crossover is book three in the Cacouna saga. It is a fantasy novella starring several of the main characters (Deanna, Justin, and Matthew) who figured prominently in books one and two of the Cacouna saga. It also features the main protagonists of The Magic Manuscript series--Bronwen, Jennifer, Arthur, and Lance. It can be read after book two or as a standalone novella. It grapples with the issues of climate change all too relevant today.
The Cacouna Saga Book 4
(Second edition is Time Will Tell)
can also be read as a standalone novella.
I DARE NOT DESCRIBE – eBook
I DARE NOT DESCRIBE – edition one, paperback.
It is 1759 and the British have just won the Battle on the Plains of Abraham. Isabelle remembers the caves on Cacouna Island where she hid out as a child with her family. She takes her granddaughter and great granddaughter with her to the caves. A few Acadian families are hiding on the island, too, in order to avoid capture by the British. Pierre, an Acadian, and Claire, Isabelle's great granddaughter, strike up a friendship that has unexpected consequences.
Book One in the Cacouna Saga
A historical fantasy novel
set in the lower Saint Lawrence region of Quebec
set in the lower Saint Lawrence region of Quebec
Listen to the author being interviewed live in studio on CBC in Quebec City in 2017
Burgess speaks about book one in the Cacouna Saga
The Cacouna Caves and the Hidden Mural.
Click here for part 1 of the interview
Click here for part 2 of the interview
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Ce roman court de 112 pages a été imaginé et écrit par Barbara Burgess.
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Book one in the Cacouna Saga is available at Librairie La Maison Anglaise in Quebec City and Librairie Clio in Pointe Claire.
