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How does a writer, intrigued by all that isn’t said, create a story? $29.99 hc literary 288 pp. 978-1-44-343249-8 (HarperCollins Publishers) Up From Freedom Starlight Wayne Grady Richard Wagamese The story of Virgil Set in the backcountry Moody, a man of the B.C. Interior, Railtracks determined not to the final novel from Anne Michaels & John Berger; be a slaveholder like the beloved author Janice Johnson, photos of Indian Horse is a his father, powerfully A unique collaboration on train stations, and the profound tale about illustrates the dangers tendrils stretching out that invite us to consider the power of love that arise when we the nature of human travel, the compulsive explo- and compassion— stay silent in the face ration of inner and outer worlds. This is a profound and the land’s ability of prejudice or remain meditation on love and loss, separation and to heal us. $29.95 hc complicit in its development. $23.00 pb consolation, reunions and railways. $19.95 pb Nov. 368 pp. 978-0-385-68511-5 256 pp. 978-0-7710-7084-6 16 b&w photos, 104 pp. (Doubleday Canada) (McClelland & Stewart) 978-1-55096-778-4 (Exile Editions) Cover art by Wenting Li Wenting Li is an illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. Books For Everybody is published Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Quill & Quire, by St. Joseph Media for Canada’s The Globe & Mail, Canadian Living and The Walrus. She also independent booksellers. is currently working on projects with Annick Press. www.wentingli.com Books For Everybody provides you with an easy and relaxing way to organize We are proud to have a staff of knowledgeable your holiday shopping. 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See the front cover for our bookstore details. 2 SHOPPING ORGANIZER Tilly and the Crazy Eights Monique fi ction Gray Smith Tilly agrees to drive eight elders to the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in New Mexico on a road trip that proves to be powerful medicine for the heart. $19.95 pb Oct. 230 pp. 978-1-77260-075-9 (Second Story Press) Women Talking The Miriam Toews Eavesdroppers In this powerful novel, Washington Black Rosie Chard a group of Mennonite Esi Edugyan When Londoner Bill women gather—in the A dazzling, original novel of slavery and freedom Harcourt places a absence of the men— by the author of the international bestseller newspaper ad for to make a life-altering Half-Blood Blues. From the blistering cane fields listeners to perform choice for the colony’s of Barbados to the icy plains of the Canadian “social research,” women and children, Arctic, from the mud-drowned streets of London he has no idea what all in response to recent to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black they’ll overhear – or horrific events in their teems with all the strangeness of life. $33.99 hc who they’ll become. community. $29.95 hc 432 pp. 978-1-44-342338-0 (Patrick Crean $20.95 pb 240 pp. 978-0-735-27396-2 Editions/HarperCollins Publishers) 280 pp. 978-1-988732-44-2 (Knopf Canada) (NeWest Press) Trickster Drift Eden Robinson The sequel to the Scotiabank Giller Prize- shortlisted Son of a Trickster. When Jared, now in Vancouver for school, finds himself stalked by his mom’s psycho ex, he can no longer ignore his true nature. $32.00 hc Oct. 384 pp. 978-0-735-27343-6 (Random House Canada) Moon of the Crusted Snow The Death and Life of Strother Purcell Waubgeshig Rice Twin Studies Ian Weir From a powerful rising Keith Maillard The return of the Western—with a Canadian literary voice comes a A set of preteen fraternal twins emphatically twist. A deadpan revisionist Western for fans daring post-apocalyptic and inexplicably insist that they are identical. of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy, The Death novel set in a small From one of our most acclaimed writers and Life of Strother Purcell is about two brothers, northern Anishinaabe comes a masterful novel that explores the a pair of eldritch orphans, the vexed nature of community. As one complicated bonds between twins and siblings, truth and the yearnings of that treacherous society collapses, friends and lovers; the terrifyingly important sonofabitch, the human heart. $22.95 pb another is reborn. role of class and money; and the nature of 380 pp. 978-1-773100-29-6 $17.95 pb Oct. gender and identity. $24.95 pb (Goose Lane Editions) 224 pp. 978-1-7704-1400-6 576 pp. 978-1-988298-31-3 (ECW Press) (Freehand Books) CANADIAN AUTHOR 3 The Honey Farm fi ction Harriet Alida Lye After beekeeper Cynthia offers young artists free room and board in exchange for help on her farm, strange things start happening in mysteries this psychological thriller about art, bees and love. $24.95 pb 320 pp. 978-1-77108-610-3 (Vagrant Press/Nimbus Publishing) The President Kingdom of Is Missing the Blind Bill Clinton Louise Penny Zara’s Dead & James Patterson Even as Chief Inspector Sharon Butala Set over the course of Gamache desperately three days of a national Inspired by the unsolved murder of a girl in tries to track down crisis, this thriller sheds Saskatoon, Zara’s Dead follows Fiona Lychenko opiod shipments that stunning light upon as she attempts to solve the now 40-year-old have disappeared into the inner workings mystery of her high school classmate’s Montreal, he finds of the American gruesome murder. She had given up hope himself puzzlingly government and the of solving it until an envelope arrives that named the co-executor vulnerabilities of the U.S.A.