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July 2010
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Contents
Adventures in Solitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
And To Think I Got In Free!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Beyond The Chilcotin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cold Land, Warm Hearts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Double Or Nothing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Edge Of The Sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Rumble Seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Unbreakable Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Novo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
A Wilderness Dweller’s Cookbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
I Have... Who Has...? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
All Those Drawn To Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The Cube People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Grayling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A Thoroughly Wicked Woman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
O Canada Crosswords Book 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The Vancouver Canucks Quizbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter
2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Quadra Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Tragedy At Second Narrows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Whitewater Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A Chip Off the Old Black. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Everything Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Far West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fishing With Gubby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I Can Dance Too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sooper Yooper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Walk With The Rainy Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Chimney Stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reliquary Fever:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Unfurled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vivisect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Walk Myself Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Witness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
God Without Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hope Lives Here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Go with the Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Campbell River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Glaciers, Bears And Totems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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BEYoND THE CHILCoTIN
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Diana Phillips
Beyond The Chilcotin
On the Home Ranch with Pan Phillips
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is her
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Pioneers Pan Phillips and his partner Rich Hobson carved their
Local Interest / History / Memoir • ISBN 978-1-55017-528-8
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muskrat when she was little more than a toddler, worked with
haying crews before she was into her teens and was renowned
as the only person feisty enough to best her legendary father in
a slanging match.
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2004. She has three sons and ten grandchildren all living in the
area and still works in the cattle industry. Beyond the Chilcotin
is her first published work.
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DOUBLE OR NOTHING
Double Or Nothing
The Flying Fur Buyer of Anahim Lake
Darcy Christensen with Sage Birchwater
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The Flying Fur Buyer of Anahim Lake
ife has always been a bit of a gamble for Darcy Christensen.
Darcy Christensen, Sage Birchwater
Born in Ocean Falls in 1929, he was raised in Bella Coola Valley
and Anahim Lake on the Chilcotin Plateau. The Christensen family
were among the earliest white settlers on the Central Coast and
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Hudson’s Bay Company’s last trading post factor in Bella Coola. For
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Christensen says, “All anyone had to do was wave a mink pelt at me
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hands on the Cless Pocket Ranch, doing stunts with his airplane, or
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flipping double or nothing with customers for a grocery order
in has always been a bit of a gamble for Darcy Christensen.
Born
his store, Darcy has always had a penchant for gambling. He says in Ocean Falls in 1929, he was raised in Bella Coola Valley
and Anahim Lake on the Chilcotin Plateau. The Christensen
his jousts with Lady Luck helped break the boredom and monotony
family were among the earliest white settlers on the Central
of life on the frontier.
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Clayton,
was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s last trading post
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in
Bella
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Darcy Christensen was born in Ocean Falls in 1929. He purchased
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fly andb&w
became
the only flying fur buyer in the region. He now
$24.95in
lives in Williams Lake, BC.
lives
Williams
Lake,
BC.
Sage Birchwater is the author of Chiwid and Williams Lake:
Gateway to the Cariboo Chilcotin. He was a staff writer for the
Williams Lake Tribune until 2009, and is the editor of Gumption &
Grit: Extraordinary Women of the Cariboo Chilcotin (Caitlin Press,
2009). Sage still lives in Williams Lake, BC, and continues to write
about the Chilcotin.
October
21
FALL 2010
Biography
/ Autobiography
New books from C A I T L I N P R E S S
Edge
OfSoUND
The Sound
EDGE oF
THE
Memoirs
ofaaWest
WestCoast
CoastLog
Log
Salvager
Memoirs of
Salvager
Jo Hammond
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Previous Edition:
2005:
Home
Memoir
/ LocalBefore
InterestDark, 9781551433400
ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-49-6
ISBN 10: 1-894759-49-4
6" x 9", 256 pages, paper
$24.95
Marketing Plan:
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Jo Hammond
hen 25-year-old Jo climbed down the ramp of the freighter
Canadian Star to set foot in Vancouver, BC, in the summer
of 1967, she’d never heard of log salvaging. But within two-and-ahalf years, the immigrant from England would quit her teaching
job and join forcesISBN:
with one 9781894759496
of the most enigmatic salvagers of
the Sunshine Coast.Trade
Dick andPaper
Jo Hammond
spent a life together
• $24.95
chasing logs, rescuing boaters
in
distress,
and
256 pages • 6 x 9 raising their two
children in BC’s log salvaging mecca, Howe Sound.
Combining Dick’s guidance and her stubborn nature to masCarton
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ter all challenges, Jo learned
to maneuver
their salvage boat, drive
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Press
dogs and tie knots, sing arias
to the sea
lions and suckle her child
while chasing rogue logs.
Edge of the Sound is both a love story and a tale of adventure
between
a man with an uncommonly high IQ who found his niche
Content:
behind the wheel of a salvaging boat and a young woman searching
When
Jo climbed
down
of of
thethefreighter
for her25-year-old
own place in the
world. Their
bondthe
wasramp
the risk
wild
Canadian
Star
to
set
foot
in
Vancouver,
BC,
in
summer
and unpredictable sea, classical music, the beauty of the the
natural
ofwest
1967,
never
log salvaging.
But
within
coastshe’d
and the
rise heard
and fallof
of tides
that help and
hinder
theirtwoand-ahalf
years,
the
immigrant
from
England
would
quit her
hunt for logs that have escaped between forest and mill. As they
teaching
job
and
join
forces
with
one
of
the
most
enigmatic
work against the forces of nature, Jo Hammond learns to change
salvagers
of thetoSunshine
Dick” and Jo Hammond spent
and she learns
“expect theCoast.
unexpected.
a life together chasing logs, rescuing boaters in distress, and
raising their two children in BC’s log salvaging mecca, Howe
Before immigrating to the Sunshine Coast Jo Hammond was a
dairy farmer, a school teacher and a member of the Royal Liverpool
Author
Bio:
Philharmonic Choir. She is an accomplished singer and performer
Before
to the Sunshine
Coast
Jo Hammond
and hasimmigrating
a University Diploma
in secondary
education.
She began was
a her
dairy
farmer,
a
school
teacher
and
a
member
Royal
writing career as typist and editor for her husband, of
thethe
author
Liverpool
Philharmonic
Choir.
She
is
an
accomplished
singer
Dick Hammond, when he refused to lay his hands on a typewriter.
and
performer
and her
hasattention
a University
Diploma
in secondary
Eventually,
Jo turned
to her own
stories, writing
education.
She
began
her
writing
career
as
typist
and
editor for
articles for the local newspapers and then novels for young readers.
her
husband,
the
author
Dick
Hammond,
when
he
refused
to
Her first book, Home Before Dark, was published by Orca Book
Publishers in 2005. She lives in Gibsons, BC.
Author Hometown:
FALL 2010
Biography
/ Autobiography
RUMBLE SEAT
A Victorian Childhood Remembered
Helen Piddington
R
Rumble Seat
A Victorian Childhood Remembered
umble Seat is an evocative, poetically-written memoir of
Helen Piddington
artist Helen Piddington’s childhood in the Victoria suburb
of Esquimalt—and what a childhood it was! The Piddingtons
arrived from Quebec in 1924, and settled into a life that in many
ways typified well-off Victoria families of the period. Helen’s father,
Major Arthur Grosvenor Piddington, was a bit of an eccentric
ISBN: 9781550175066
whose preferred attire, after his British army blazer, was jodhpurs
and riding coat or drill shorts with knee socks held up by brightly320 pages • 6 x 9
coloured garters. He dabbled in gentlemanly pursuits such as
Publication
Date: 9/15/2010
sheep ranching but his true passion was riding. Helen’s mother
was “expected to make and receive social calls and entertain with
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tea parties, dinners and dances” but she had help—a governess,
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a nanny, a housemaid, a cook and faithful Tim the gardener. The
Piddingtons occupied an imposing home designed by Victoria’s
favourite residential architect, Charles Maclure, with a grand
entrance hall and private garden, tennis court, stables, paddock
and meadows bordered by golf links. Family amusements included
Rumble Seat is an evocative, poetically-written memoir of
hosting garden fetes, playing tennis and polo, summering at Savira,
artist Helen Piddington’s childhood in the Victoria suburb of
their cottage on Shawnigan Lake and motoring in their mother’s
Esquimalt—and what a childhood it was! The Piddingtons
Morris roadster—the one with the coveted rumble seat.
arrived from Quebec in 1924, and settled into a life that in many
During the 1930s the Piddington’s life of privileged comfort
ways typified well-off Victoria families of the period. Helen’s
vanished thanks to the Great Depression and Major Piddington’s
father, Major Arthur Grosvenor Piddington, was a bit of an
bad luck in business. From then on the elder Piddingtons were
eccentric whose preferred attire, after his British army blazer,
forced to look after their vast brood themselves, the Major growing
was jodhpurs and riding coat or drill shorts with knee socks
their food and Mrs. P. belatedly learning to cook, keep house and
care for Helen, her youngest child. Difficult as the adjustment was,
Memoir / History / Local Interest
there was new satisfaction to be found in sharing and making do.
ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-506-6
Helen Piddington
is a renowned printmaker and artist whose
With sharp descriptions of the artifacts, mannerisms and
2001:
The
Inlet,
9781550172379
1-55017-506-8
been10:shown
around the world. In 1975 she and her
characters recalled from her early years, Helen Piddington’s work
RumblehasISBN
x 9", 320
clothLoughborough Inlet on the coastal
husband 6"
moved
to pages,
remote
Seat is a captivating record of a way of life gone by and a valuable
b&w
photographs
mainland of BC, and have lived there ever since. Her first book,
addition to the social history of British Columbia.
The Inlet,$34.95
is about her experiences living on this remote part of
the West.September
Helen Piddington is a renowned printmaker and artist whose
work has been shown around the world. In 1975 she and her
husband moved to remote Loughborough Inlet on the coastal
mainland of BC, and have lived there ever since. Her first book,
The Inlet, is about her experiences living on this remote part of the
West.
978-1-55017-237-9
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The Unbreakable Child
Kim Michele Richardson
ISBN: 9781933016917
5.5 x 8.5
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Behler Publications
Content:
Author Bio:
Kim is a graduate of Sullivan University and
resides in Kentucky with her forever family,
which includes two beloved adopted dogs, a
cantankerous cat, and a ten-year-old fire-bellied
newt, which she rescued after banning her family
from pet store visits.
Kim is an active volunteer for Habitat for
Humanity, and donates her time to help survivors
of abuse. She has also initiated and designed
promotions to help raise money for the homeless.
She has also initiated and designed promotions
to help raise money for the homeless.
Marketing Plan:
1. Local & National Television, Radio, & Print
Publications
. Book Clubs
3. Online News Sites and Blogs
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The Unbreakable Child offers hope, justice, and forgiveness.
Abuse of children is always appalling and unforgivable, whether
perpetrated by a parent, a relative or a stranger. There’s an added
layer of disgrace to the crime when the perpetrators abuse not
only children but their own authority and religious power.
Such was the case with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth at
the St. Thomas/St. Vincent Orphanage, where more than a
dozen nuns, a resident priest, and several other male employees
routinely abused the boys and girls in their care.
Author Kim Richardson survived years of physical and
emotional abuse at their hands in the 1960s, abuse that began
at the tender age of four. Years later, she and forty-four other
survivors, including her sisters, launched a lawsuit against the
nuns. That suit resulted in the first-ever monetary settlement paid
by Roman Catholic nuns in the United States as compensation
for decades of institutional abuse at an orphanage. This is not
a book about hatred or revenge, but an inspiring story of a girl
who would not be broken.
Previous Edition:
2009: The Unbreakable Child, 9781601641632, Kunati
Author Hometown:
Louiville, KY
Comic Books & Graphic Novels
Novo
Volume 4
Michael S. Bracco
ISBN: 9781934985205
96 pages • 6 x 9
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Alterna Comics
Content:
Tour Cities:
Baltimore, New York, Boston, Washington
D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Brooklyn, and
many other cities.
2009: Adam Wreck & The Kalosian Space
Pirates, 9781934985120
2009: Novo Vol 3 Survivors, 9781934985137
Marketing Plan:
1. Extensive online marketing
. Marketing in the author’s local bookstores
and comic shops
3. Mass emails through newsletter which
contains over 500 contacts.
Prettar, the corrupt and corpulent CEO of OXY RECO, has
guarded the secret purpose of his factory from his worker slaves
by supplying them with a lot of beer and a little hope. Now the
ignorance he has fostered is being threatened by a stranger in
the group, Novo.
The hunt is on as Novo knows the secret that will change
everything. He struggles to enlighten the dulled masses of
downtrodden and drunken workers, while Prettar tries to
protect himself from the people he has used for so long. How
long will Prettar’s house of lies stand tall?
Author Bio:
Michael S Bracco is the artist and writer for the Graphic
Novels, Birth, Novo and ADAM WRECK as well as a the
owner of Spaghetti Kiss, a craft company showcasing hand
screened apparel featuring Michael’s original illustrations.
Michael teaches art full time to middle school kids and lives
in Baltimore City with his wife, Shawna and their cats Mexico
Author Hometown:
Baltimore, MD
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FALL 2010
Cookbooks And Cookery
New b ook s from HARBOUR PUBLISH I N G
A WILDErNESS DWELLEr’S
A Wilderness Dweller’s Cookbook
CooKBooK
TheThe
BestBest
Bread
in the
World
and
Bread
in the
World
andother
Otherrecipes
Recipes
Chris Czajkowski
O
Cooking / Local Interest
ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-518-9
ISBN 10: 1-55017-518-1
5½" x 8", 96 pages, paper
b&w photographs and illustrations
$14.95
October
Chris
ne of Chris Czajkowski’s
firstCzajkowski
priorities when she arrived at
Nuk Tessli, a remote location in BC’s Coast Mountains, was to
devise a way to bake bread. At first, she lived in a tent and her oven
was a simple pile of rocks with a hole in the middle. But as she built
her wilderness cabins and started providing for the clients of her
ISBN: 9781550175189
wilderness adventure business, she perfected her stone oven and
Paper
her recipes—and wordTrade
began to
spread •of$14.95
Nuk Tessli and the “Best
96 pages • 5.5 x 8
Bread in the World.”
Publication
Date:
10/15/2010
From tangy
sourdough loaves
of freshly
ground grain, Nuk
Tessli Fruit Bread sweetened
with
hearty
molasses
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spices, to Montreal bagels
with an alpine
touch, here are inspiring,
Harbour
Publishing
adventurous recipes that bypass the bread machine. Also included
are quick breads and desserts, like a hearty trail mix cake—perfect
on a hike—and Nuk Tessli’s enigmatic spotted dick, plus a few
indispensable
Content:recipes for any wilderness dweller (or frugal urbanite), such as fresh yogurt and sprouts.
One of Chris Czajkowski’s first priorities when she arrived at
A Wilderness Dweller’s Cookbook is not just a collection of recNuk Tessli, a remote location in BC’s Coast Mountains, was to
ipes; it’s also a fascinating account of how a wilderness dweller—in
devise a way to bake bread. At first, she lived in a tent and her
a non-growing climate 20 km from a road, 60 km from a store, and
oven was a simple pile of rocks with a hole in the middle. But
250 km from a town large enough to have a supermarket—feeds
as she built her wilderness cabins and started providing for the
herself and her guests. Of particular interest to readers with their
clients of her wilderness adventure business, she perfected her
own wilderness dreams will be Czajkowski’s descriptions of the
stone oven and her recipes—and word began to spread of Nuk
logistics of getting wholesome, fresh food to the table in this remote
Tessli and the “Best Bread in the World.”
and spectacular location.
Author Bio:
978-1-55017-441-0
Page 39
978-1-55017-375-8
Page 39
2007: Wildfire in the Wilderness,
9781550173758
2009: A Mountain Year, 9781550174410
978-1-55017-357-4
Page 39
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978-1-55017-279-9
Page 39
Chris Czajkowski has lived off the grid for more than a quarter of
a century.
She currently
the the
Nukgrid
Tesslifor
Alpine
Experience,
Chris
Czajkowski
hasoperates
lived off
more
than a quarter
an ecotourism
catering tooperates
hikers andthe
naturalists
near theAlpine
of
a century.business
She currently
Nuk Tessli
southern tip of an
Tweedsmuir
Provincial
Park incatering
British Columbia’s
Experience,
ecotourism
business
to hikers and
Coast Mountains.
cabin-building
experiences
naturalists
near Her
the wilderness
southern and
tip of
Tweedsmuir
Provincial Park
haveBritish
been documented
in several
books,
including
in
Columbia’s
Coastbestselling
Mountains.
Her
wilderness and
Cabin at Singing River,
Snowshoeshave
and Spotted
Letters from
cabin-building
experiences
been Dick:
documented
ina several
Wilderness Dweller,
of a Wilderness
Wildfire
in Snowshoes
the
bestselling
books,Diary
including
Cabin atDweller,
Singing
River,
Wilderness,
andDick:
most recently,
Mountain
Year: Nature Diary
of a Diary
and
Spotted
LettersA from
a Wilderness
Dweller,
Wilderness
Dweller.Dweller, Wildfire in the Wilderness, and most
of
a Wilderness
recently, A Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Wilderness
Dweller.
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Education and Teaching
I Have... Who Has...?
Teacher Created Resources
Cards • $16.99
148 Cards • 5.5 x 4
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Teacher Created Resources
Language Arts Games
Grades 1–2
ISBN: 9781420678154
Grades 3–4
9781420678161
Math Games
Grades 1–2
9781420678178
Grades 2–3
9781420678185
Grades 3–4
9781420678192
Content:
The entire class can have fun while practicing skills in language
arts and math. Hand out all 37 cards. (Some players may get
more than one card.) The student whose card reads, “I have
the first card. Who has…?” begins. The student whose card has
the answer to that question responds and then asks a different
question. This continues until the person with the last card gives
the final answer and then reads, “This is the end of the game!”
Each box provides 4 sets of cards for 4 different games.
13
FALL 2010
Fiction
N e w b o o k s f r om CAITLIN PRESS
aLL THoSE DraWN To ME
All Those
Christian
PetersenDrawn To Me
T
Short Fiction
ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-50-2
ISBN 10: 1-894759-50-8
5½"
x 8", 176 pages,
paper by Author:
Previous
Books
$18.95
2009: Outside the Line, 9781550028591
September
14
he junction of Highways 20 and 97 forms a rough right angle
Christian Petersen
around which lies the city of Williams Lake. These are the
coordinates by which Christian Petersen’s fiction can be charted.
From the building of the Gaol at Soda Creek to ruminations on the
origins of the Barkerville fire, All Those Drawn to Me explores the
unpredictable, romantic
and9781894759502
spiritual qualities of life in rural BC.
ISBN:
The harshnessTrade
of the wild
west•permeates
Paper
$18.95 Petersen’s second collection of short
fiction.
In
the
story
176 pages • 5.5 x“Horse
8 from Persia,” a
condemned man contemplates the injustice of life at his hanging
speech: “I wished mightily that I could climb up on that horse and
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my days
hadNA
become. For if it’s true
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Press
time is a gift, mine was not altogether pleasant.” But Petersen is
just as comfortable extrapolating truths from present-day life, as
in “Laketown Breakdown” where a young man struggles to stay on
the right side of the law while coping with the death of his parents.
And in the title story, “All Those Drawn to Me,” Petersen creates a
Content:
masterful blend, shifting from the gold rush to the contemporary
The
junction
of Highways
20and
andthree
97 forms
rough
right
angle
with
three motives,
three lives
battlesawith
death
on the
around
which
lies
the
city
of
Williams
Lake.
These
are
the
treacherous waters of the Upper Quesnel River.
coordinates
by
which
Christian
Petersen’s
fiction
can
be
charted.
Whether in the past or present, Petersen’s characters explore
From
the building
of spiritual
the Gaol
at Soda as
Creek
to ruminations
romance,
poverty and
quandaries
they wander
amid the
onlandscape
the origins
of
the
Barkerville
fire,
All
Those
to Me
and back streets of the dusty little cities ofDrawn
BC’s Central
explores
the
unpredictable,
romantic
and
spiritual
qualities
of
Interior.
life in rural BC.
The harshness of the wild west permeates Petersen’s second
Christian Petersen has lived in Williams Lake, BC, for most of
the past twenty
Author
Bio:years. He grew up in Quesnel, and the CaribooChilcotin is the landscape of his fiction. His first collection of
Christian
Petersen
lived
inpublished
WilliamsinLake,
BC,
for Holme
most of
stories, Let
The Dayhas
Perish,
was
1999 by
Beach
thePublishing
past twenty
years.
He
grew
up
in
Quesnel,
and
the
Caribooand his novel, Outside The Line, was published in 2009
Chilcotin
is the
landscape
hisinfiction.
collectionofof
by Dundurn
Press.
He holds of
a BA
Writing His
fromfirst
the University
stories, Let The Day Perish, was published in 1999 by Beach
Victoria, and a Master’s in Education from the University of New
Holme Publishing and his novel, Outside The Line, was
Brunswick.
published in 2009 by Dundurn Press. He holds a BA in Writing
from the University of Victoria, and a Master’s in Education
from the University of New Brunswick.
FALL 2010
Fiction
N e w books from NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS
THE CUBE pEopLE
C
Christian McPherson
The Cube People
hristian McPherson’s debut novel The Cube People pokes fun
Christian McPherson
at government cubicle culture through the life and times of a
struggling computer programmer/novelist wannabe. McPherson
surrounds his protagonist, Colin MacDonald, with a cast of
screwball characters while he toils away at his government job,
ISBN: 9780889712515
struggles with fertility and dreams of becoming a published writer.
Recycled air, bad lighting and bizarre environmental office policies
by day; scheduled love-making sessions and rejection letters by
200 pages • 5.5 x 8
night, push MacDonald to try to write his way out of his cyclical
life story. Part tragedy, part comedy—with a bit of horror thrown
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in for fun—McPherson cooks up a boiling plot and a memorable
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anti-hero.
Christian Mcpherson’s stories and poems have won several
awards and honourable mentions, including the John Spencer Hill
Award and the Canadian Poetry Association’s Poetry Competition.
His first book, Six Ways to Sunday, was shortlisted for theContent:
Relit
Award for Fiction. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
“Christian McPherson’s debut novel 978-0-88971-227-0
The
Cube People
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paper • fun at government cubicle culture through the life
$21.95 • October
and times of a struggling computer programmer/novelist
wannabe. McPherson surrounds his protagonist, Colin
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toils away at his government job, struggles with fertility and
Gillian Wigmore
dreams of becoming a published writer. Recycled air, bad
rayling, the fiction debut by award-winning poet Gillian
lighting and bizarre environmental office policies by day;
Wigmore, is a novella that follows a couple as they descend the
Dease River in northwestern BC. With acutely spare storytelling,
Author Bio:
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by Author:
Wigmore
teasesBooks
out the nuances
between a man and a woman
as McPherson’s stories and poems have won several
Christian
they meet,
travel to
together,
dodge
rocks in a boulder garden,
and
2007:
Six Ways
Sunday,
9780889712270
awardsfish
and honourable mentions, including the John Spencer
their way down the river. Both characters have recently setHill
themselves
Award and the Canadian Poetry Association’s Poetry
adrift from previous lives—and both desire to know whatCompetition.
or who
His first book, Six Ways to Sunday, was shortlisted
they should anchor themselves to. They struggle for powerforonthe
theRelit Award for Fiction. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
river, negotiating sex and rhetoric on the sandbanks and in the canoe.
Ultimately their five days together culminate with the inevitable
choice to come ashore or stay on course.
Gillian Wigmore grew up in Vanderhoof, BC and currently
lives in Prince George. She has been published in Geist, CV2, filling station, and the Inner Harbour Review, among others. Her first
poetry
collection,
Soft Geography
(Caitlin),
won theGroup
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His first book, Six Ways to Sunday, was shortlisted for the Relit
Award for Fiction. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Fiction • ISBN 978-0-88971-251-5 • 5½” x 8”, 200 pages, paper •
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rayling, the fiction debut by award-winning poet Gillian
Gillian Wigmore
Wigmore, is a novella that follows a couple as they descend the
Wigmore teases out the nuances between a man and a woman as
they meet, travel together, dodge rocks in a boulder garden, and fish
ISBN: 9780889712553
their way down the river. Both characters have recently set themselves
adrift from previous lives—and both desire to know what or who
160 pages • 5.25 x 7.5
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lives in Prince George. She has been published in Geist, CV2, filling station, and the Inner Harbour Review, among others. Her first
poetry collection, Soft Geography (Caitlin), won the ReLit Award for
Content:
Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book
Prize.
Fiction • ISBN 978-0-88971-255-3 • 5¼” x 7½”, 160 pages,Grayling,
paper • the fiction debut by award-winning poet Gillian
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Wigmore, is a novella that follows a couple as
descend the
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as they meet, travel together, dodge rocks in a boulder garden,
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and fish their way down the river. Both characters have recently
set themselves adrift from previous lives—and both desire to
know what or who they should anchor themselves to. They
2007: Soft Geography, 9781894759236
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Author Bio:
lives in Prince George. She has been published in Geist, CV2,
filling station, and the Inner Harbour Review, among others.
Her first poetry collection, Soft Geography (Caitlin), won the
ReLit Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy
Livesay BC Book Prize.
FALL 2010
Fiction
New books from CAITLIN PRESS
a THoroUGHLY WICKED WoMaN
A Thoroughly Wicked Woman
Murder, Perjury and Trial by Newspaper
Betty Keller
O
Murder, Perjury and trail by Newspaper
n a foggy evening in November 1905, 48-year-old Thomas
Betty Keller
Jackson returned to his home on Melville Street in Vancouver
after nine months of prospecting north of the Skeena. Jackson was
happy because he had made an important gold strike. Four days
later he was dead from strychnine poisoning. Any of the other four
people living in the house on Melville Street could have slipped
ISBN: 9781894759489
the poison into the mixture of Epsom salts and beer that Jackson
took on the morning of his death. Reporters from Vancouver’s
224 pages • 5.5 x 8
newspapers chose Jackson’s teary-eyed, fragile, 24-year-old wife,
Theresa, as their first choice for the guilty party. Then as the days
went by, their preference shifted to the dead man’s steely-eyed,
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his mother and sister were arrested—not for murder but for
per-a foggy evening in November 1905, 48-year-old Thomas
Jackson
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after
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people
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editions of this popular best-seller. His insights into the needs
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a History of Quadra Island
Jeanette Taylor
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Now available in paperback!
The Quadra Story
A History of Quadra Island
Jeanette Taylor
uadra Island, the largest and most populated of the Discovery
Islands at the top end of Georgia Strait, has a history loaded
with adventure. The Quadra Story is the product of decades of
research that dates back to Taylor’s years with the BC Archives
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Jeanette Taylor is the current executive director of the
Campbell River Art Gallery. Her passion for history, art and coastal
life are evident in her books, River City: A History of Campbell River
and the Discovery Islands, Exploring Quadra Island: Heritage Content:
Sites and
Hiking Trails and Tidal Passages: A History of the Discovery Islands.
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BEYoND THE CHILCoTIN
and the Museum at Campbell River. The end result is as
on the Home ranch with Pan Phillips engaging as a novel while affording a deep understanding of
the turmoil European settlement brought for the First Nations
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people and the adventure and privation settlers experienced in
theirtheir
search for a better life.
ioneers Pan Phillips and his partner Rich Hobson carved
places in ranching history when they discovered “grass beyond
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and of
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in creation, what did a young girl have to be? This is the story
Pan Phillips’ daughter Diana, who learned to trap muskratSites
whenand Hiking Trails and Tidal Passages: A History of the
Discovery
she was little more than a toddler, worked with haying crews
before Islands.
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History
Now available in paperback!
Tragedy At Second Narrows
TraGEDY aT SECoND NarroWS
The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge
The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge
Eric Jamieson Eric Jamieson
WINNER OF THE 2008 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S MEDAL
FOR HISTORICAL WRITING
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n June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial
accident in its history when the new bridge being built across
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specifically
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Navy, from brideships to W.A.C. Bennett, BC history comes alive in
For over
Eric Jamieson
made his
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highlyyears
illustrated
and vivid account
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writer
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Narrows
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second
book;
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and historian Daniel Francis. Far West recounts firstiscontact
with
author of South Pole—900 Miles on Foot. Jamieson lives in
early explorers such as Captain James Cook and Captain George
North Vancouver.
Vancouver and the changes the fur trade brought to the “New
World” and describes how BC was born, starting with the gold
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rush and Confederation eras, going through to modern times and
BC’s future.
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Tragedy at on
Second
Narrows, 9781550174519
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history and is the editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of
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Whitewater
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Jack Boudreau
n 1967, in celebration of Canada’s 100th birthday, Les Voyageurs
left Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, in ten 26-foot canoes. These
one hundred gallant men, representing eight provinces and two
territories, travelled 5,286 kilometres to Expo ’67 in Montreal. The
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wildlife photographer Leon Lorenz and the tales of Ian Norn, whose
love of kayaking has taken him to roaring rapids and canyons that
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were out of the reach of humans just a few short years ago. Then
“In 1967,in celebration of Canada’s 100th birthday,Les Voyageurs
is diver
Russ Logan,
whose
normal
day26-foot
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House,
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canoes.
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feet
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pipe
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feet
of
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or, on another
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tworiverbed
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and Georgian
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stories
of the
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foolhardy—men
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104
daysbrave,
of travel,
the team from Manitoba
paddled
and women of Northern BC and beyond.
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&
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9781894759397
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and
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andSternwheelers
Trailblazers;and
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and Man’s
Canyon
Trailblazers;
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Creek;Cats;
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Creek; Wilderness
Grizzly Bear
Mountain;
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now he
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where
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time
spends his time writing.
writing.
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New b o o k s f r o m H A R B O U R P U B L I S H I N G
a CHIp OFF
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A Chip
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Arthur Black
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rthur Black’s voice is unmistakable on the radio and on the
Arthur Black
page. His is the voice of reason, with a generous helping of
funny; the voice that scolds us for our universal human quirks, but
who says it with the tone and words that make us laugh out loud at
ourselves and our neighbours.
A Chip Off the ISBN:
Old Black,9781550175103
Black’s latest collection of stories,
will knock a sense of humour into any reader, boasting nearly a
hundred tales featuring everything from yarnbombing to Bambi,
288 pages
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from Black’s love of the Farmer’s
Almanac
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the politically-incorrect “Eskimo” candies. Those inclined to
kvetching—a Yiddish word describing the tendency to complain
persistently about everything—may just reconsider after reading A
Chip Off the Old Black. After all, as Black demonstrates, it’s far more
enjoyable
to take the opportunity to laugh.
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Black’s
voice
is unmistakable
on books
the radio and
arthur Black’s
growing
collection
of award-winning
on
the
page.
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is
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voice
of
reason,
with
a generous
includes Pitch Black, Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle
helping
of
funny;
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voice
that
scolds
us
for
our
universal
Again, all of which won him the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal
human
quirks,
but
who
says
it
with
the
tone
and
words
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make
us 2002,
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and toour
1983 until
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Television Network’s Weird Homes and Weird Wheels. His recent
Abooks
Chip
Off Black
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latest
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is theBlack,
New Green
and the
audio
CD, Planet of
Saltstories,
will
knock
a
sense
of
humour
into
any
reader,
boasting
Spring, which features tales from his adopted home of Salt Spring nearly
Island, BC.
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2009: Black is the New
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Arthur Black’s growing collection of award-winning books
includes Pitch Black, Black Tie and Tales and Black in the
Saddle Again, all of which won him the Stephen Leacock
Memorial Medal for Humour. He hosted CBC Radio One’s
Basic Black program from 1983 until 2002, while also using his
comedic talents to host Life Television Network’s Weird Homes
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EvErYTHING WorKS
Mike McCardell Everything Works
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Humour / Local Interest
ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-512-7
ISBN 10: 1-55017-512-2
$32.95
September
2009:
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Reilly
Method,
978-1-55017-500-4
978-1-55017-443-4
9781550175004
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2008:
Getting
to
the
Bubble,
9781550174434
978-1-55017-431-1
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978-1-55017-480-9
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978-1-55017-248-5
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ike McCardell is an institution in BC television with his antiMikeinspiration
McCardell
news stories of oddball
that close the News Hour
on Global BC. Lately he has become a publishing institution as well
with his series of heartwarming books full of stories about the ways
in which ordinary people cope with extraordinary challenges. Fresh
from 2009’s bestselling The Expanded Reilly Method, he is back
ISBN:
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with another winner
in Everything
Works.
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In his new book,Hardcover
McCardell reveals
how to rekindle the thrill
and pride we once felt as
children
when
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it’s looking for that something good;
that something you can talk
about, share, or even remember and tell someone a week later. A
good story does not grow old.
From the moment he rediscovered the magic of picture books,
television changed for McCardell. He began looking for a pink
Content:
alligator or someone planting daffodils in February. His rules for
“Mike
McCardell
is an institution
in BC television with his
television
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Reilly Method and The Blue Flames That Keep Us Warm, a national
bestseller and BC Book Prize finalist.
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banker. Tragedy at Second Narrows is his second book; he is also the
author of South Pole—900 Miles on Foot. Jamieson lives in North
Vancouver.
History / Local Interest • ISBN 978-1-55017-530-1 • 6" x 9", 272
pages, paper • b&w photos • $22.95 • September
Juvenile
Far WEST
Far West
The Story of British Columbia
The Story of British Columbia
Daniel Francis
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ritish Columbia’s colourful story has been told many times,
Daniel Francis
but until now no one has attempted to relate the chronicle
specifically to young readers. From the gold rush to the Gumboot
Navy, from brideships to W.A.C. Bennett, BC history comes alive in
this highly illustrated and vivid account by award-winning writer
and historian DanielISBN:
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of numerous books on Canadian
British Columbia.
Children’s
/ History / British Columbia • ISBN 978-1-55017-532-5 •
Content:
8½" x 11", 250 pages, paper • 15 colour photos, illustrations & maps •
British
$22.95 •Columbia’s
September colourful story has been told many times, but
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to young
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news,
promotions,
complete
book
information
brideships to W.A.C. Bennett, BC history comes alive in this
highly illustrated and vivid account by award-winning writer and
historian Daniel Francis. Far West recounts first contact with
early explorers such as Captain James Cook and Captain George
Vancouver and the changes the fur trade brought to the “New
rush and Confederation eras, going through to modern times
and speculating on BC’s future.”
Author Bio:
Daniel Francis is the author of numerous books on Canadian
British Columbia.
2006: Far West. 9781550174106
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FALL 2010
Juvenile
FISHING WITH GUBBY
Kim La Fave and Gary Kent
Fishing With Gubby
F
ishing with Gubby is the marvelously illustrated, authentic
Kim La Fave, Gary Kent
account of one season in the life of a salmon fisherman. Based
on actual events, the story is told by award-winning children’s
illustrator Kim La Fave and former fisherman Gary Kent. Together
they make the wharfs, boats, fishermen and villages of the BC coast
come alive with remarkable detail and humour.
ISBN: 9781550174977
Gubby is a salmon fisherman who lives with his wife Millie
and cat Puss in a small seaside village on the west coast of British
48 pages • 9 x 12
Columbia. He keeps his boat, the Flounder—a 36-foot west coast
salmon troller—at a local wharf with many other boats.
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Gubby’s journey first takes him up BC’s west coast, through
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Georgia, Johnstone and Queen Charlotte straits and north past Port
Hardy. He then heads into the open ocean towards treacherous Cape
Scott, through to Winter Harbour and Quatsino Sound to settle in
for a summer of fishing. Gubby and Puss face rolling rapids, rough
and tumble storms and banks of fog, tussle with a basking shark
Content:
and a pod of orcas, all while trolling for spring and coho salmon
with Gubby is the marvelously illustrated, authentic
and visiting other fishermen and homesteaders along the “Fishing
way.
account
of
Part graphic novel and part ocean adventure story in the style one season in the life of a salmon fisherman. Based
onsalty
actual events, the story is told by award-winning children’s
of Raymond Briggs, Fishing with Gubby not only depicts the
illustrator
Kim La Fave and former fisherman Gary Kent.
BC coast, it captures the vanishing “golden age” when fishing was
Together
they
make the wharfs, boats, fishermen and villages
more than just a job—it was a way of life.
of the BC coast come alive with remarkable detail and humour.
Kim La Fave, a Governor General’s Award-winning artist, is the
Gubby is a salmon fisherman who lives with his wife Millie and
illustrator of Amos’s Sweater (by Janet Lunn) which won the Ruth
Schwartz Children’s Book Award and the Amelia Frances HowardAuthor Bio:
Gibbon
Award for
illustration,
That Star (by Kenneth
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Books
by Follow
Author:
“Kimand
La Fave,
a Governor
Children’s
/ Fishing General’s Award-winning artist, is
Oppel), I Am Small (by Sheree Fitch), the bestselling The Bones
2001: Boys, Girls and Body Science,
the
illustrator
of
Amos’s
Sweater (by Janet Lunn) which won
Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa), Boys, Girls and Body Science (by ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-497-7
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Frances Howard-Gibbon
forboard
illustration,
Follow That
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paper on
with dustjacket
Creek, BC.
Star (by Kenneth
Oppel),
I
Am
Small
(by
Sheree
Fitch), the
colour illustrations
Gary Kent grew up in Vancouver and received his BA from
bestselling The Bones and Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa),
the University of British Columbia. He was a commercial fisherman Ages 5 and up
Boys, Girls and Body Science (by Meg Hickling) and many
and salmon troller for nine years and is now a furniture maker and $19.95
instructor at the Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking. He
September
lives in Roberts Creek, BC. Fishing with Gubby is his first book.
27
Juvenile
I Can Dance Too
Victoria Ames, Lynette Toma
Colleen Fisher (illustrator)
ISBN: 9781933916620
24 pages • 9 x 9
Carton Qty: NA
Ferne Press
Content:
Mia would love to dance but cannot hear the music unless she
wears her hearing aids. After the questions by the other children
she proves she can dance and is not different than the others.
Marketing Plan:
1. This book will be marketed to bookstores,
schools, and libraries.
. Marketing will also be done at school and
library conferences
3. Marketing through the Association of
Young Children
4. Marketing through the Speech Therapist
Council.
Author Bio:
Victoria is a Speech and Language Pathologist who has worked
with adults and children and continues to work with school
children. Lynette Toma has worked as a speech therapist for
9 years in the school setting. Lynette and Victoria met and
decided to write a story to empower children with hearing aids
to follow their dreams and achieve whatever they desire.
Author Hometown:
San Diego, CA
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Juvenile
Sooper Yooper
Environmental Defender
Mark Newman (author)
Mark Heckman (concept and illustrator)
ISBN: 9781933272269
48 pages • 11 x 8.5
Carton Qty: NA
Thunder Bay Press
Author Bio:
Writer Mark Newman has collaborated with
Mark Heckman on a number of projects
during the past twenty years. As an editor
and photojournalist, he works with the minor
league affiliates of the Detroit Red Wings
and Detroit Tigers, as well as serving as a
communications specialist for corporations
in a wide variety of industries.
Artist Mark Heckman has attracted attention
to a host of environmental and social issues
through creative billboards that have appeared
across the country. Featured on the pages of
both Time and Newsweek by the age of 27,
he built a career that spanned a wide variety
of projects, from designing the logo for actor
Dustin Hoffman’s production company to
painting the portrait of President Gerald
R. Ford for the Michigan State Capitol
building.
Marketing Plan:
1. Direct marketing to Michigan book and
gifts stores.
. Author signings.
Content:
Our planet is in peril. That’s the belief behind Sooper Yooper,
the story of one man’s efforts to defend the environment against
the negative forces that threaten our natural resources.
Billy Cooper is not your typical crime fighter. The fact that he
displays no apparent superpowers is intentional. The book’s
authors felt it was important to underscore their contention
that the average person—not someone endowed with X-ray
vision or superhuman strength—can make a difference and help
safeguard the planet.
Much of the story takes place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
the northernmost U.S. portion of the Great Lakes, the largest
surface freshwater system on the earth, representing about
21 percent of the world’s supply. It is an area that demands
protection.
With freshwater becoming increasingly important in the
twenty-first century, mankind will have to fight battles against
the villainous issues of toxic and nutrient pollution, invasive
species, and habitat degradation. Billy Cooper and millions of
others like him must remain vigilant or the consequences will
be dire.
Author Hometown:
Grand Rapids, MI
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FALL 2010
Nature
New book s f r o m H A R B O U R P U B L I S H I N G
a WaLK WITH THE raINY SISTErS
A Walk With The Rainy Sisters
Stephen Hume
In Praise of British Columbia’s Places
In Praise of British Columbia’s Places
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his book is a lyrical testament to a great love affair between
Stephen Hume
the writer and his region. In A Walk with the Rainy Sisters, one
of British Columbia’s favourite authors writes with passion about
his favourite topic—the geography of British Columbia. Stephen
Hume guides readers through the natural world, moving from the
thin, cold air of British Columbia’s high country to the fecundity
ISBN: 9781550175059
and silence of the deep rainforest. He writes of the iridescence of
dragonflies dancing out brief lives above summer ponds and the
288 pages • 6 x 9
brittle forests of glass sponges growing in the lightless depths of
Publication
Date: 8/15/2010
the continental shelf, where they have flourished undisturbed since
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the Jurassic. Hume contemplates the meaning of rain; the tawny
islets in the Salish Sea; what the night sky tells us about our place
Harbour Publishing
in time; people who choose to live at the margins and the relentless
passage of lives and seasons, loss and renewal.
“What Hume has forgotten about this province is more than
most journalists will ever know,” wrote Terry Glavin. RobertaContent:
Morris wrote, “He unburies language.” A Walk with the Rainy
Sisters
“This
book is a lyrical testament to a great love affair between
invites readers once again to share the author’s love and awethe
of this
writer and his region. In A Walk with the Rainy Sisters,
province.
one of British Columbia’s favourite authors writes with passion
Interesttopic—the
/ Nature geography of British Columbia.
about his Local
favourite
Stephen Hume was raised in fishing, farming and logging Stephen ISBN
13:
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Hume guides readers through the natural world,
communities across BC and studied at the University of Victoria.
ISBN 10:
moving from
the1-55017-505-X
thin, cold air of British Columbia’s high
Hume has been a columnist at the Vancouver Sun for more country
than
6"
x
9",
288 pages, cloth
to the fecundity
and silence of the deep rainforest. He
20 years. His poetry, essays and journalism have won more than a
writes of $32.95
the iridescence of dragonflies dancing out brief lives
dozen awards. Other books include Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies
and Fireweed, Bush Telegraph, Off the Map and Simon Fraser:Author
In
September
Bio:
Search of Modern
British Columbia,
winner of the Roderick HaigPrevious
Books
by Author:
Stephen
Hume was raised in fishing, farming and logging
Brown prize in 2009. He also teaches writing at the University
of
2004:
Raincoast
Chronicles
20,
communities
across BC and studied at the University of Victoria.
Victoria and Vancouver Island University.
9781550173130
2008: Simon Fraser, 9781550174342
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Hume has been a columnist at the Vancouver Sun for more than
20 years. His poetry, essays and journalism have won more than
a dozen awards. Other books include Raincoast Chronicles 20:
Lilies and Fireweed, Bush Telegraph, Off the Map and Simon
Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia, winner of the
Roderick Haig-Brown prize in 2009. He also teaches writing at
the University of Victoria and Vancouver Island University.
978-1-55017-317-8
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Poetry
FALL 2010
New books from NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS
The Chimney
Stone
THE CHIMNEY
SToNE
Rob Winger
I
Poetry
Previous
Books by Author:
ISBN 13: 978-0-88971-249-2
2007:ISBN
Muybridges
Horse, 9780889712317
10: 0-88971-249-2
5½” x 8”, 80 pages, paper
$17.95
October
Winger
n this eagerly anticipatedRob
follow-up
to his award-winning,
critically lauded debut, Rob Winger’s sophomore collection,
The Chimney Stone, bends the contemporary lyric into startling
new shapes. Concentrating on a splendid mess of headlines, wars,
politics, relationships and artistic influences, Winger’s ghazals ask
9780889712492
us how to negotiateISBN:
the complex
commitments and chaotic tumult
of our daily lives. Trade Paper • $17.95
Making use of the80
ghazal’s
original
address
pages
• 5.5
x 8 to both a secular
lover and a sacred ethics, Winger’s four sections move from examiPublication Date: 10/15/2010
nations of gender in “Iron John” and “Bloody Mary,” to an ironic
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Wind,” to a record of
Nightwood
both human rights abuses
and personalEditions
epiphany in “Blind Date.”
In the process, Winger not only engages in dialogue with other
poets—John Thompson, Phyllis Webb, Adrienne Rich, Ghalib,
and more—but also welcomes other voices, measures, and musical phrases into his couplets. Here, Rimbaud rubs shoulders with
Content:
Joe Strummer and David Byrne; Dylan exchanges one-liners with
Gaston Bachelard; Johnny Cash spars with the Fisk Jubilee Singers;
“In this eagerly anticipated follow-up to his awardand Gretzky makes a pass to a smooth right winger.
winning, critically lauded debut, Rob Winger’s sophomore
Drifting from razor-carved sternums, to Lhasa runways,
collection, The Chimney Stone, bends the contemporary
to Southeast Asian temples and beaches, to eighteenth-century
lyric into startling new shapes. Concentrating on a splendid
shipwrecks, bloody tanks, rusty apartheid, blind genocide and
mess
of headlines, wars, politics, relationships and artistic
burning teddy bears, The Chimney Stone urges us to re-examine
influences,
ask world,
us how
to how
negotiate the
not only howWinger’s
we order theghazals
contemporary
but also
complex
commitments
and
chaotic
tumult
of
our
we become its citizens or revolutionaries, grandparents or kids,daily lives.
protestors or politicians. Ethically charged, tenderly observed, and
masterfully realized, Winger’s poems are a vital addition to the
Author
Bio: evolution.
ghazal’s continued
“Rob Winger grew up in a tiny Ontario town, and has since lived in
Rob Winger
grewand
up in
a tiny
Ontario
and has
since livedininliterary
eastern
Canada
Asia.
His
worktown,
has been
published
eastern Canada
His workand
has been
in literary
journals
acrossand
theAsia.
country,
his published
debut poetry
collection,
journals
across
the
country,
and
his
debut
poetry
collection,
Muybridge’s Horse, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s
Muybridge’s
Horse, was Book
shortlisted
for the
Governor
General’s
Award,
the Trillium
Award
and
the Ottawa
Book Award.
Award,
the
Trillium
Book
Award
and
the
Ottawa
Book
Award. Helives with
He recently completed his doctoral studies. Winger
recently completed his doctoral studies. Winger lives with his
family in Ottawa, Ontario, where he skates to work each winter.
978-0-88971-231-7
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Poetry
Reliquary Fever:
New and Selected Poems
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
ISBN: 9781930974944
215 pages • 7 x 9.75
Carton Qty: 30
New Issues Poetry & Prose
Content:
2005: Lie Awake Lake, 9780932440259
2006:
The
Book
of
Accident,
9781931968355
Marketing Plan:
1. Bound galleys.
. Review copies to national reviewers of
poetry.
3. Ads in American Poet, American Poetry
Review, Poets & Writers, and AWP
Writers Chronicle.
4. Submissions to National Book Award,
Pulitzer Prizes, and various other national
poetry book awards.
Author Hometown:
Carefree, AZ
32
Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems gathers the work
of Beckian Fritz Goldberg, one of her generation’s premiere
voices and its fiercest proponent of a free imagination. From the
beginning of her career and in all of her six acclaimed volumes,
Goldberg’s poetry has rendered labels—narrative, meditative,
lyric, experimental—irrelevant.
Author Bio:
Beckian Fritz Goldberg holds an M.F.A. from Vermont
College and is the author of six volumes of poetry. Her work
has appeared widely in anthologies and journals including,
The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry l995,
Field, The Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, The Iowa Review, New
American Poets of the 90’s and The Massachusetts Review.
She has been awarded the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, The
Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award, The University of
Akron Press Poetry Prize, the Field Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart
Prize. Goldberg is currently Professor of English at Arizona
State University.
LoudSpeaker Festival, a festival of music, theatre and poetry in
celebration of International Women’s Day. Walk Myself Home is her
first anthology.
Anthology / Poetry / Memoirs • ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-51-9 • 6" x
9", paper, 180 pages • $19.95 • September
Poetry
UNFUrLED
Collected Poetry from
Northern BC Women
A
Unfurled
Collected Poetry from Northern BC Women
Edited by Debbie Keahey
edited by Debbie Keahey
mbulance lights flash as a baby is born on a busy city street,
pine beetles paint forests a palette of new colours, a young boy
faces a watery death under the ice of a frozen lake, and a mother
stands in a bathtub at midnight wearing only her gumboots. In
ISBN: 9781894759526
this anthology of new writing, women poets from Northern BC
share their refreshing, intriguing, mystical and sometimes mythical
insights into rural and urban life. Unfurled is a unique blend of
120 pages • 6 x 9
emerging and familiar voices and includes work from Gillian
Wigmore, Jacqueline Baldwin, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Kane, Laisha
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Rosnau, Leanne Boschman and Jamella Hagen—truly a celebration
Caitlin Press
of the women of the North.
Debbie Keahey is an award-winning writer and editor. Her
books include a collection of poetry, waking blood, a book of literary
Content:
criticism, Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature, and
an anthology of women’s writing, The Madwoman in the“Ambulance
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watery
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lake, and a mother stands in a bathtub at midnight wearing
only her gumboots. In this anthology of new writing, women
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poets
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urban life. Unfurled is a unique blend of emerging and
familiar voices and includes work from Gillian Wigmore,
Jacqueline Baldwin, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Kane, Laisha
Rosnau, Leanne Boschman and Jamella Hagen—truly a
celebration of the women of the North.”
Author Bio:
books include a collection of poetry, waking blood, a book
of literary criticism, Making it Home: Place in Canadian
Prairie Literature, and an anthology of women’s writing, The
Madwoman in the Academy.
33
Poetry
Vivisect
Lisa Lewis
ISBN: 9781930974920
79 pages • 6 x 9.75
Carton Qty: 30
New Issues Poetry & Prose
Content:
1994: The Unbeliever, 9780299144005
1998: Silent Treatment, 9780140589023
Marketing Plan:
1. Galleys. Review copies to national journals
and reviewers.
. Submission to poetry book awards.
3. Ads in Poets & Writers, AWP Writers
Chronicle, American Poetry Review,
American Poet.
4. Displays at bookfairs.
Author Hometown:
Stillwater, OK
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“The remarkable dynamism of this book comes partly from the
struggle it enacts between the confessional and postmodern
modes. As the title Vivisect suggests, Lewis often seems to
slice right into the living body, exposing the heart itself still
beating with its dark secrets. But if language is the scalpel, it is
also the flesh, offering at times a tough or slippery resistance,
and revealing, when penetrated, more language that leads in
multiple and unexpected directions, yet, like the mind, keeps
circling back irresistibly to the troubling subjects it most wants
to avoid. The result is rich, powerful, and complex poetry that
gathers more weight with each reading.”
—Jeffrey Harrison
Author Bio:
Lisa Lewis’s previous collections are The Unbeliever
(Brittingham Prize), Silent Treatment (National Poetry Series),
Story Box (Poetry West Chapbook Contest), and Burned
House with Swimming Pool (American Poetry Journal Book
Prize). Her work has appeared in many literary journals and
anthologies, including the American Poetry Review, Kenyon
Review, American Literary Review, Fence, Rattle, Missouri
Review, Washington Square, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and
two editions of Best American Poetry. She directs the creative
writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as
poetry editor for the Cimarron Review.
Poetry
New
WaLK MYSELF HoME
an anthology to End
Violence against Women
Edited by Andrea Routley
T
FALL 2010
books from CAITLIN PRESS
Walk Myself Home
An Anthology to End Violence Against Women
Andrea Routley
here is an epidemic of violence against women in Canada and
the world. For many women physical and sexual assault, or the
threat of such violence, is a daily reality. Walk Myself Home is an
anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and oral interviews on the
ISBN: 9781894759519
subject of violence against women including contributions by Kate
Braid, Yasuko Thahn and Susan Musgrave.
180 pages • 6 x 9
Walk Myself Home began as a small idea: to create a chapbook
Publication
Date: 9/15/2010
and sell it at the next LoudSpeaker Festival. The response was overwhelming. This small idea found a chorus of voices, and its sound
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was too big for a chapbook.
Caitlin Press
andrea routley is the co-founder of Victoria, BC’s
LoudSpeaker Festival, a festival of music, theatre and poetry in
celebration of International Women’s Day. Walk Myself Home
is her
Content:
first anthology.
There•is6"an
Anthology / Poetry / Memoirs • ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-51-9
x epidemic of violence against women in Canada and
the
world.
For many women physical and sexual assault, or the
9", paper, 180 pages • $19.95 • September
threat of such violence, is a daily reality. Walk Myself Home is
an anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and oral interviews on
the subject of violence against women including contributions
Collected Poetry from
by Kate Braid, Yasuko Thahn and Susan Musgrave.
Walk Myself Home began as a small idea: to create a chapbook
Northern BC Women
and sell it at the next LoudSpeaker Festival. The response was
Edited by Debbie Keahey
mbulance lights flash as a baby is born on a busyoverwhelming.
city street,
This small idea found a chorus of voices, and its sound was too
pine beetles paint forests a palette of new colours, a young boy
big for a chapbook.
UNFUrLED
A
faces a watery death under the ice of a frozen lake, and a mother
stands in a bathtub at midnight wearing only her gumboots. In
Author Bio:
this anthology of new writing, women poets from Northern BC
Andrea
Routley is the co-founder of Victoria, BC’s LoudSpeaker
share their refreshing, intriguing, mystical and sometimes
mythical
Festival,
insights into rural and urban life. Unfurled is a unique blend of a festival of music, theatre and poetry in celebration
International Women’s Day. Walk Myself Home is her first
emerging and familiar voices and includes work fromof
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anthology.
Wigmore, Jacqueline Baldwin, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Kane, Laisha
Rosnau, Leanne Boschman and Jamella Hagen—truly a celebration
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criticism, Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature, and
FALL 2010
Poetry
N e w b o o k s f r om HARBOUR PUBLISHING
WITNESS
Witness
Selected Poems 1970–2010
Patrick Lane Selected Poems 1970 - 2010
“Lane is a poet . . . of the Patrick
individual,Lane
hard-hitting poem;
like physical blows, he wields his pieces like small threats of
intense beauty.”
—Globe and Mail
“One of the few poets who can leave you not just shaken, but
shaking.”
—Vancouver Sun
ISBN: 9781550175080
80 pages • 6 x 9
atrick Lane is one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets, winner of
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numerous awards, including the
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and twenty-four volumes of poetry as well as award-winning books
of fiction and non-fiction.
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Witness is the only volume to cover the breadth of Lane’s
career
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the of
finest
of his work—from
earlypoets,
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literary
beginnings
to
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written
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numerous awards, including the Governor General’s
height
of
his
career.
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piercing,
and
unflinchingly
honest,
Lane the
for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award,
explores
the
darker
side
of
human
nature
and
desire
even
as
he
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and
looks toNational
the future with
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eye, for “even
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spans forty-five years and twenty-four volumes of poetry
This striking volume is required reading, not only for fans of
Patrick Lane’s work, but for poetry lovers and Canadian literature
enthusiasts
Authoreverywhere.
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Patrick Lane
in 1939
in Nelson,
BC. He has
worked
at a worked
Patrick
Lanewas
wasborn
born
in 1939
in Nelson,
BC.
He has
variety
of jobs, of
fromjobs,
labourer
to industrial
but much
at
a variety
from
laboureraccountant,
to industrial
accountant,
of hismuch
life hasofbeen
a writer
teacher,
but
hisspent
life as
has
beenand
spent
as aincluding
writer time
and teacher,
as writer-in-residence
at Concordia University,atthe
University of
including
time as writer-in-residence
Concordia
University,
Alberta
and the University
of and
Toronto.
has also taught
creative He has
the
University
of Alberta
theHe
University
of Toronto.
writing
at thecreative
Universitywriting
of Saskatchewan
and the University
also
taught
at the University
of Saskatchewan
of
Victoria.
His
memoir,
There
is
a
Season
was
nominated
for is a Season
and the University of Victoria. His memoir,
There
numerous
national
prizes
and
won
the
BC
Award
for
Canadian
was nominated for numerous national prizes and won the BC
Non-Fiction
2005. His debut
novel, Red Dog,
Red Dog
wasdebut novel,
Award
for inCanadian
Non-Fiction
in 2005.
His
shortlisted
for
the
Rogers
Writers
Trust
Fiction
Prize.
Lane
now
Red Dog, Red Dog was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers
Trust
makes
his
home
near
Victoria,
BC,
with
his
wife,
the
poet
Lorna
Fiction Prize. Lane now makes his home near Victoria, BC,
Crozier.
with
his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier.
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Religion
God Without Religion
Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths
Sankara Saranam
Foreword by Arun Gandhi
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traveler, poet and composer. He is currently running for governor
of New Mexico. He lives in Columbus, NM with his family.
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HopE LIvES HErE
A History of vancouver’s First United Church
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Hope Lives Here
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as minister and
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Self Help
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