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“Maleea Acker (at left) joins four other writers shortlisted this year for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Three writers are up for the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize. Read more here.FULL STORY

 

 

A gambler’s promise

October 19th, 2020

Retired high school teacher, C.V. (Cindy) Gauthier self-published Charlee LeBeau & The Gambler’s Promise (FriesenPress $31.49), the first book of her YA historical trilogy. The book takes the reader on a journey from Sonoma and San Francisco in California, to islands in the Salish Sea off the coast of British Columbia. Set in 1858, the story’s heroine is 14-year old Charlie Lebeau who worked as a hired hand at a Sonoma ranch when her rich uncle, a professional gambler offers to take her to San Francisco. It won the Whistler Independent Book Award for fiction in 2020.  978-1525550966

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