connect through story
Jake's boring day gets flipped upside down when a beautiful stranger asks him to help play a prank on her friends. But when an angry crime boss turns up at the cottage the next morning, Jake is sure of two things: the night before was a big mistake, and that girl was no prankster. And she is nowhere to be found. (Download chapter one)
Nick returns from his global wanderings determined to discover the truth about why his mother abandoned him as a child.
With over 5 million books in print in multiple languages, Sigmund Brouwer writes for both children and adults, and has published over 150 books in fiction and non-fiction. He has won the American Christy Book of the Year and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Young-Adult Mystery in Canada, as well as being a finalist twice in the prestigious TD Children's Literature Awards.
Over the last three decades, he has delivered the Story Ninja Presentation to more than a million children and youth at schools across North America, with a focus on story to encourage reading and writing.
His Power of Story keynote at corporate events focuses on how to engage and connect in all aspects of your personal and professional lives.
Thief of Glory
With the help of a boy who endures the ultimate horror to keep his brother and sister alive, a widowed Dutch physician and a Japanese soldier face the task of saving hundreds of women and children from death by starvation and disease, while trying to resist the love they dare not admit, not even to each other.
Unleashed
Forced to protect his brother from an abusive father and a neglectful mother, Jace lives a double life on the wrong side of the tracks, learning to box and trying to survive on his own merits while plotting to expose his father as the monster he is. Working reluctantly with two girls who have their own thoughts of vengeance, Jace finds that he is not as alone as he thought and that there are people he can trust.