Lisa Pasold: 2 books

Millard Lacouvy is a short, stylish, fiercely independent poker prodigy. As a child, her card skills are considerable, but she sharpens them to a knife's edge in the back room of a Depression-era Vancouver saloon. She finds romance, love and tragedy among the con men and petty gamblers of Vancouver’s...

When Marco Polo was captured by the Genoese he whiled away his year in prison by dictating a memoir, the "Livre des Merveilles". Polo's "Book of Wonders" became a raging best seller before printing presses even existed. Christopher Columbus travelled with his own carefully-annotated...