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George Mercer

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Award-winning author of Dyed In The Green, the first fiction series about Canada’s iconic national parks, George Mercer worked for more than three decades as a national park warden in Canada, including both east and west coasts, the North and the Rocky Mountains. Fat Cats, Book 4 in the series was a Gold Medal winner in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards while the series won a Silver Medal for overall fiction series. Wood Buffalo, the second book in the series, and Jasper Wild, book 3 in the series, were Gold Medal winners at the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Harking is George's first book outside of the Dyed In The Green series and his first work of Young Adult fiction. It was long-listed for the 2020 Shelf Unbound Indie ...more

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	Dyed In The Green 3.53 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wood Buffalo (Dyed In The Green Book 2) 3.77 avg rating — 91 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jasper Wild 4.02 avg rating — 85 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fat Cats 3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harking 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Leanne

Jul 18, 2015 02:49AM

Hi George
John McLay, Canadian author from Edmonton, just put me onto Goodreads which will hopefully be a great way to promote BLUE CREEK BRIDE. This book promotion is a full-time job, or could be if we had the time.

Hope DYED IN THE GREEN is doing well.

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