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GIFT GUIDE 2018 BRITISH COLUMBIA Support Your Local Independent Bookseller Enjoy perusing this selection of books written by B.C. authors and titles published by B.C.’s many fine publishers. Stop by to explore the titles featured here—and discover a vast assortment of B.C. books that will meet your interests and needs. All prices listed are the publishers’ most up-to-date suggested retail prices available at the time of the printing of this gift guide. Publishers make every effort to hold these prices, but some changes may be necessary. The Death and Life of Strother Purcell Ian Weir The return of the Western—with a definite Cover image (Crow Jazz) Canadian twist. A deadpan revisionist from Crow Jazz Western for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac by Linda Rogers. McCarthy, The Death and Life of Strother Published by Mother Purcell is about two brothers, a pair of Tongue Publishing Limited. eldritch orphans, the vexed nature of truth Illustration copyright and the yearnings of that treacherous @ 2018 by Rick Van Krugel sonofabitch, the human heart. $22.95 pb Used by permission. 380 pp. 978-1-773100-29-6 (Goose Lane Editions) bc The Home for Wayward Parrots Washington Black Straight Circles Darusha Wehm Esi Edugyan Jackie Bateman Accustomed to being an only child, adoptee A dazzling, original novel of slavery and freedom Domestic satire meets gripping suspense in Brian “Gumbo” Guillemot’s hobby was searching by the author of the international bestseller the final, explosive chapter of Jackie Bateman’s for his birth parents. But when he finally finds Half-Blood Blues. From the blistering cane fields Lizzy Trilogy. Lizzy returns to the heart of the his birth mother, Kim, he’s not prepared for the of Barbados to the icy plains of the Canadian story, where the stakes are higher than ever. boisterous instant family that comes with her. Arctic, from the muddy streets of London to The original and eccentric cast of characters This is a late-bloomer’s coming-of-age story for the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black return in this genre-bending thriller, but not the modern family. $19.95 pb teems with all the strangeness of life. $33.99 hc everyone’s getting out alive. $20.00 pb 232 pp. 978-1-988732-27-5 432 pp. 978-1-44-342338-0 (Patrick Crean 304 pp. 978-1-77214-114-6 (NeWest Press) bc Editions/HarperCollins Publishers) bc (Anvil Press) bc 2BC BRITISH COLUMBIA EDITION SHOPPING ORGANIZER Mountain Blues In Valhalla’s Shadows Dear Evelyn Sean Arthur Joyce W.D. Valgardson Kathy Page When Roy Breen moves to Eldorado after This timely and compelling Canadian Gothic The story of a 70-year wartime marriage years of big-city journalism, he’s impressed crime novel brings a mythic scale to the tragic between the poetry-loving Harry Miles and by the tough but tender nature of the townsfolk. murder mystery at the heart of the story. the magnetic and demanding Evelyn Hill. As government cutbacks loom for the region, Esteemed author W.D. Valgardson shapes Harrowing and tender, this groundbreaking Roy must balance his journalistic integrity with a portrait of small-town living with frank novel from the Giller-nominated author of the need to help his new neighbours fight to depictions of post-traumatic stress, systemic Alphabet and The Two of Us is an unconventional keep the local hospital. $19.95 pb racism and real-life tragedies that are too often love story that will leave its mark on all who 242 pp. 978-1-988732-30-5 left unsolved. $32.95 hc have ever loved. $19.95 pb (NeWest Press) bc 480 pp. 978-1-77162-196-0 328 pp. 978-1-771962-09-4 (Douglas & McIntyre) bc (Biblioasis) bc Ordinary Strangers Bill Stenson This astonishing novel begins at a fair on a hot August day in 1971 in Hope, B.C. Sage and Della Howard are driving to Fernie to start a job and begin a new life. They stop for a break, lose their dog and find a crying toddler in the nearby woods instead, and are unexpectedly back on the road continuing their journey with her. As the story unfolds and years pass, the Howards keep their dark Tilly and the Crazy Eights secret and raise Stacey as their own. A tragic-comic story, well- Monique Gray Smith paced, with fascinating characters, Tilly impulsively agrees to drive eight elders that takes you to the other side of to the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in New happenstance and fear. Mexico on a road trip that proves to be powerful $23.95 pb Oct. medicine for the heart. The adventure will 282 pp. 978-1-896949-70-3 transform Tilly in ways she could not predict, (Mother Tongue Publishing) bc just as it will for the elders who dub themselves “the Crazy Eights.” $19.95 pb Oct. 230 pp. 978-1-77260-075-9 (Second Story Press) bc | CANADIAN AUTHOR bc BC AUTHOR BRITISH COLUMBIA EDITION 3BC Crow Jazz: Short Stories Beyond Forgetting: God of Shadows Linda Rogers Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy Lorna Crozier Dazzling short fiction from one of Canada’s most Howard White & Emma Skagen, eds.; Crozier brilliantly fuses the ordinary with accomplished poets. Shape-changing characters Steven Heighton, foreword the otherworldly in strange and surprising with clever crow energy, child survivors of adult Featuring poems by Ken Babstock, Patrick Lane, ways. The Governor General’s Literary Award- narcissism and social alienation, eat crow and Bruce Cockburn, Lorna Crozier, Susan Musgrave winning poet’s wryly wise collection offers a reinvent themselves to fit aspirational narratives and many others, this anthology, created in honour polytheistic gallery of the gods we never knew through mirth, rebirth and compassion. They of Al Purdy’s 100th birthday, gathers voices old existed and didn’t know we needed—the god lift off in pairs: sisters, brothers, twins, partners and new in celebration of the life and work of of quirks, the god of vacant houses and the in love. $23.95 pb one of Canada’s greatest poets. $22.95 pb Oct. gods of doubt, guilt and forgetting. $25.00 hc 24 b&w illus. 264 pp. 978-1-896949-65-9 192 pp. 978-1-55017-846-3 96 pp. 978-0-7710-7313-7 (Mother Tongue Publishing) bc (Harbour Publishing) bc (McClelland & Stewart) bc Solace Island Around Her Twin Studies Meg Tilly Sophie Bienvenu; Rhonda Mullins, trans. Keith Maillard Dumped on the eve of her wedding, Maggie Around Her traces 20 years of the lives of A set of preteen fraternal twins emphatically Harris joins her sister on Solace Island in the Florence Gaudreault and her estranged son and inexplicably insist that they are identical. Pacific Northwest to lick her emotional wounds. Adrien through the prism of 20 characters A masterful novel that explores the complicated Resistant to her sister’s matchmaking, Maggie who have crossed their paths and who, each bonds between twins and siblings, friends nevertheless finds herself relying on their in turn and with their own unique voice, and lovers; the terrifyingly important role of mysterious and solicitous neighbour, after an tell their story. $19.95 pb class and money; and the nature of gender apparent attempt on her life. $20.00 pb Nov. 160 pp. 978-1-77201-209-5 and identity. $24.95 pb 304 pp. 978-0-44-000052-5 (Talonbooks) 576 pp. 978-1-988298-31-3 (Berkley) bc (Freehand Books) bc 4BC BRITISH COLUMBIA EDITION SHOPPING ORGANIZER Trickster Drift Atomic Road The Children’s War Eden Robinson Grant Buday C. P. Boyko The sequel to the Scotiabank Giller Prize- 1962, the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Lauded as “unmistakably genius” by Kirkus, shortlisted Son of a Trickster. Jared has moved Clement Greenberg, the influential art critic of C.P. Boyko’s fourth collection of stories to Vancouver for school and finds himself the 20th century, is more interested in silencing turns to the question of power—the hunger stalked by David, his mom’s psycho ex. his rival, Harold Rosenberg, than with the threat to hold it and how we are consumed by it. As the son of a Trickster, Jared is a magnet of nuclear destruction. Atomic Road charts its Clear-eyed but not cynical, satirical without for spirits and magic, and once the David own comic course between historical accuracy being sarcastic, The Children’s War is as situation becomes a crisis, he can no longer and fictional invention. $20.00 pb entertaining as it is insightful. $22.95 pb ignore his true nature. $32.00 hc Oct. 176 pp. 978-1-77214-113-9 424 pp. 978-1-771962-13-1 384 pp. 978-0-735-27343-6 (Anvil Press) bc (Biblioasis) bc (Random House Canada) bc New Generator & Split: Wound That Separates (Lined Journals) dea Kearns & Sean Nattrass Gifts you’ll feel good about giving, Crwth journals are not only beautiful, they are environmentally and socially sustainable. These lined journals feature the work of Canadian visual artists on the covers and are produced in Canada using Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper and sustainable printing practices. Crwth Press supports artists The Fairy Tale Museum with a business model that Susannah M. Smith includes profit sharing. Each journal features a marker The Fairy Tale Museum is an alchemical curiosity- ribbon and a brief biography cabinet-as-a-novel that showcases the original, of the artist. $26.00 hc each spectacular, grotesque, endearing and other- 192 pp. each (Crwth Press) bc worldly. A celebration of hybrids, creativity New Generator and transformation, it is a manifesto against 978-1-7753515-0-4 putting ourselves into boxes that limit who Split we can be and what is possible.