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Get inspired by a heartwarming PERSONALIZED story about wishing on a star and the power of friendship featuring AVERY!
When a wishing star appears in the sky, Avery must figure…
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Avery, I love you, a bushel and a peck! Cozy up and share how much you love Avery with this personalized fill-in-the-blank story.
Your little one is the sunshine of…
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Martin Avery
The erotic story of a dalliance in the Kaifaqu area of Dalian, China, like Fifty Shades Of Grey, told from the female point of view, with a lot of swearing.
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A hockey memoir in poetry from the Cold War to the present in Canada, the USA, the USSR, and China, from Gravenhurst, Muskoka, to Dalian, featuring the big themes --…
A doctor and a nurse -- a cancer doctor and an actress who plays a nurse -- are soul mates. A Canadian doctor changes his name to Bethune and moves…
The Tao Of China And The U.S.A. is a book of poetry inspired by Taoism, China, and the U.S.A.. These poems celebrate the way the big countries can work together…
Love and Peace, Health and Wealth, With Grace and Ease and Perfect Timing: New Age Prayers And Poems, by Martin Avery, DISH, is all about praying, manifesting, opening a coning…
Many of my poems have the same theme, the same punch-line: Wake up before you die! Why are you watching hockey on TV when you should be working on reaching…
Two doctors, a Chinese woman and a man from Canada who has changed his name to Bethune, travel to Harbin for the winter carnival during Spring Festival, he stays at…
Can a doctor from Canada, named Bethune, find love in China? Dalian, I Love You is the second novel in the series called "China, I Love".
A Rose Arose In China is a collection of love poems that tell the romantic story of a woman with a dream for the New China. These poems are set…
The Chinese Dream: China, I Love You is an omnibus edition with three short novels and a short story, all about love, featuring a Canadian doctor who changes his name…
The bald main ridge looks like the head of a monk. It is over 650 metres high. It is shaped like the Chinese symbol for mountain. It is the home…
The Hockey Jersey: How Canadians Learn To Count To 100 is a book of poems about hockey, all about hockey sweaters, or jerseys, and the most famous numbers, from 1…
The Longest Poem In Canada (Made In China): Spring, Again is Book One of a four volume series, a very long poem, part of The Great Wall Of China Book…
You Are Connor McDavid is a short novel dedicated to hockey's great new talent. The story is told in second person so you can identify with the young phenom. You…
Ace Bailey Versus Roger Crozier: Epic Poetry is a book about two great Canadian hockey legends from Bracebridge, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. This is a book that boys will enjoy! It…
Gretzky Versus Orr (In China): Poetry On Ice, by Martin Avery, describes two Canuck expats in China rehashing that same old argument about who was the greatest hockey player in…
Kaifaqu, I Love You: A Canadian Poet In China, by Martin Avery, is a collection of poems about love and enlightenment set in a city of seven million between the…
The Gretzky, Orr, Bailey, Crosby, Avery Hockey Poetry Omnibus, by Martin Avery, is a hat-trick of poetry books with 1. The Hockey Jersey, 2, Gretzky Versus Orr, and 3. Ace…
The Moon Represents My Heart, by Martin Avery, is a sci fi novel with a romance about a Canadian writer who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature and gets invited…
The Mermaid And The Monk: Zen Poems, by Martin Avery, part of The Great Wall Of China Books Series, is a collection of poems about mermaids and monks and a…
Winter, Again: The WorldOs Longest Hockey Poem is Book Two Of The Longest Poem In Canada, by Martin Avery. Winter, Again alludes to Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, And Spring, Again…
A Writer In Exile In China: Poems About A Writers Lfe, by Martin Avery, is a book of poetry by a Canadian author in China who is happy to be…
The Yin And Yang Of China And Canada: Book 3 In The Longest Canadian Poem In History by Martin Avery is book #69 in The Great Wall Of China Book…
BethuneOs War In China: In His Own Words (Poetry Notes For A New Novel) by Martin Avery is the result of the author's attempt to channel Dr. Norman Bethune to…
Canadian author Martin Avery received the Oneness Blessing and the Awakening Blessing in 2010 and then wrote this book describing the Awakening Process and the Oneness Movement in Canada, North…
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Bethune Buttons celebrates Dr. Henry Norman Bethune in poetry. Canadian author Martin Avery moved to China and took a bag of buttons with him, featuring a photo of Bethune and…
The Way Of The Dragon is an inspirational novel memoir, a spiritual autobiography, about a Westerner in the East who has a moment of profound epiphanic revelation after climbing Big…
The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China To Canada is an imaginative work of poetry inspired by the plans for a real train line and by an old book…
A Canadian poet in China hikes up a mountain and has a vision of a great library where he can see his future books and get hints about his future…
Toronto: A Long Poem includes "I Am A Torontonian", inspired by "I Am Canadian" and Vancouver: A Poem.
In 2014 the Canadian poet Martin Avery moved from Toronto, Canada, to Dalian, China, and he wrote a long poem about each city. Now the two poems are published together…
Oh Canada: A Long Poem On Canada Day, by Canadian poet Martin Avery was written in the air, en plein air, in airplanes, as he flew from China to Japan…
Holocaust Healing, written not long after 9/11, inspired by that horrific event, is not a light read, it's a dark story that encompasses a lot of tragedy, but there is…
"You're going to die," the doctor said. But Canadian author Martin Avery laughed and walked away. Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten tells the story of a man who…
When a Canadian poet moves to China, he is moved to write a lot of poetry about China. This book illustrates a stage in culture shock known as enchantment, which…
Gravenhurst And Bethune And China: A Long Poem Chronicling A Road Trip From Toronto To Muskoka And Back Again is a book with a purpose: the author makes the case…
Crazy For Stratford: A Very Long Poem is a poetic chronicle of a road trip to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2014 to see Crazy For You and…
A long poem celebrating Stratford in the summer, written by a Canadian poet who returns to the Stratford Festival after moving to China.
After a year in China, Canadian poet Martin Avery returns to Stratford and re-imagines it.
The One Hundred Year Old Man I Met In China: A Long Poem About An Old Taoist Who Lives On A Mountaintop In Dongbei Close To North Korea and Russia…
Past And Future Lives In China is Love And Death In China: Book Two and The Sequel To The Way Of The Dragon by Martin Avery
Toronto To Beijing By Way Of The North Pole is a poetry sequence like a long poem written aboard an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Beijing by way of…
What Would Jesus Write? looks at the life of Jesus and reports Jesus went to England, India, and Japan, and wonders why Jesus did not write books.
Black Mountains, Yellow Sea: Chinese-Canadian Poetry, by Martin Avery
