Ducks Redux: Fueling Flames in Oil Land (Every River Lit)

Lorene Shyba, CD Evans, Rich Theroux (Illustrator)

$18.34

Publication Date: October 1st, 2019

Publisher:

Uproute

ISBN:

9781988824406

Pages:

208

Description

Ducks Redux is a Y/A RomCom about Maeve Wong, an environmental science graduate who goes to work in Oil Land to pay off her student loans. She gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons who plan to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of Maeve's life lusts for climate activism and justice, the other for oil pipelines at all cost. She needs to decide whose side she is on.

About the Author

In no particular order, Dr. Lorene Shyba (aka LM Shyba) has been an international entertainment impresario, theatre and videogame innovator, magazine and book publisher, advertising art director, TV talent, rancher, university professor, and gogo dancer/DJ, among other things. Her doctoral research, Spies in the Oilsands and The Pipeline Pinball Energy Thrill Ride Game, was awarded the J.B Hyne Research Innovation Award from the University of Calgary. Christopher D. Evans QC practiced criminal law in Canada for years and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1978. He has appeared regularly as counsel at all levels of court in Alberta and NWT as well as occasional appearances in the Supreme Court of Canada. C.D. Evans' previously published titles include Milt Harradence: The Western Flair, A Painful Duty: Forty Years at the Criminal Bar, and Less Painful Duties: Reflections of the Revolution in the Legal Profession.