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LOUIS RIEL 39 • YOUR FREE GUIDE TO BOOKS & AUTHORS SPIN DOCTOR Ron Norman’s BC Slouching Towards Innocence, a novel of non-stop BOOKWORLD scandals in VOL. 31 • NO. 3 • AUTUMN 2017 B.C. politics. PAGE 18 Ron Norman TRICKSTER COLUMBIA Eden Robinson kicks off her new trilogy with a novel that combines magic realism with brutal realism, reviewed by David Stouck. See page 13 EDUCATION Andrew Struthers Jordan Abel Nikki Tate PHOTO on the sacred herb wins $65,000 on the anxious versus the Griffin Poetry lives of rock- STUDIO devil’s weed. Prize for Injun. climbing teens. PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT WORDS PAGE 15 PAGE 37 PAGE 31 #40010086 RED THE COASTAL LIVES OF WORKING WOMEN P.22-23 www.greystonebooks.com Naturally Great Books Coming November 2017 from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees THE INNER LIFE OF ANIMALS Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World Foreword by 978-1-77164-301-6 • $29.95 2017 “Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight.” , author of The Soul of an Octopus Rise of the Necrofauna Arthur Birdmania Dirty Kids The Science, Ethics, and Risks The Dog Who Crossed the A Remarkable Passion for Birds Chasing Freedom with of De-Extinction Jungle to Find a Home America’s Nomads Foreword by Foreword by 978-1-77164-337-5 • • $29.95 978-1-77164-277-4 • • $39.95 Photos by 978-1-77164-164-7 • • $32.95 2017 2017 Foreword by 2017 978-1-77164-304-7 • • $21.95 2017 No Refuge for Women Rowing the Northwest Passage Rick Hansen’s Man City on Edge The Tragic Fate of Syrian Refugees Adventure, Fear, In Motion World Tour A Rebellious Century of Vancouver and Awe in a Rising Sea 30 Years Later Protests, Riots, and Strikes 978-1-77164-307-8 • • $24.95 2017 978-1-77164-134-0 • • $24.95 Foreword by Foreword by 2017 978-1-77164-344-3 • • $34.95 978-1-77164-313-9 • • $32.95 2017 2017 2 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2017 PEOPLE TOPSELLERS* Tomson Highway BCFrom Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980 - 2010 (Talonbooks $29.95) Carleigh Baker Bad Endings (Anvil Press $18) Andrew Struthers The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed (New Star Books $19) Lee Cardwell Lee Cardwell Dementia In the Family Academy Award Practical Advice From A Caregiver Best Picture (Self-Counsel Press $19.95) director Terry Milos Barry Jenkins North of Familiar: A Woman’s Story of Homesteading and Adventure in the Canadian Wilderness (Caitlin Press $24.95) David Doyle HOBO, OSCARS Louis Riel: Let Justice Be Done (Ronsdale $24.95) & LASQUETI Monique Gray-Smith Speaking Our Truth: SISUWORLD oonlight, the indie movie that won best picture A Journey of Reconciliation ELSINKI-BASED WRITER KATJA PANTZAR, FORMERLY (Orca Books $29.95) at the Oscars, was directly inspired by a Cana- associate editor of BC BookWorld, credits Eve Lazarus dian magazine from B.C. Hunhappiness in B.C. for her newfound liter- Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Soon after his Oscar win, the director of ary success. Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First Forensic Investigator M Her upcoming book, The Magic of Sisu: In search Moonlight, Barry Jenkins held up a copy of HOBO maga- (Arsenal Pulp Press $24.95) of courage, strength and happiness the Finnish zine—featuring Isabelle Huppert on its cover—saying he way, will be published in the U.K. in April of 2018, Troy and cinematographer James Laxton had been “obsessed” together with Penguin Random House USA’s non- Townsin fiction imprint TarcherPerigee in North America. with HOBO since their college days. Reprint rights have already been sold to China, Czech HOBO is a high fashion-meets-environmentalism maga- Republic, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Kosovo, Poland, Russia, and Spain. zine founded on a chairlift in Whistler in 2000. Although the Pantzar says the book arose from her responses to editorial office is currently in Paris, the family’s address in Canada where “the consumerist and materially ob- Canada for twenty-five years has been on Lasqueti Island. sessed culture left her feeling empty and unhappy.” When she received treatment for depression in her Hobo is owned and published by Christian Dogimont, his mid-20s, medical practitioners simply prescribed wife and his son. medication and sleeping pills, no thought was given to her lifestyle. Although the high-end magazine is distributed in twelve Troy Townsin After moving to Finland, Katja discovered sisu: One Blue Moose countries, mostly in Europe, the content is largely the Finnish approach to well-being defined by a (Sandhill Book Marketing/ special kind of resilience, grit and courage. She Polyglot Publishing $14.95) West Coast Canadian. “The spirit is definitely West embraced sisu and experienced a dramatic turn- Coast,” says Dogimont. Because the contributors Peter Kalmus around in her health and happiness. Exercise Being the Change: Live Well and are worldwide, often HOBO does not meet the (as simple as riding her bike to work), the Nordic Spark a Climate Revolution diet, spending time in nature, swimming, and (New Society $21.99) 65% Canadian content rules required for Ca- having a more courageous outlook on her Matt Price nadian government support or eligibility for world transformed Pantzar’s life. Engagement Organizing: Canadian magazine awards. “Our readers She is previously the author of The Old Art and New Science of three guidebooks: The Hip Guide to Winning Campaigns around the world see HOBO as a Canadian (UBC Press $22.95) Katja Pantzar: Helsinki, Helsinki by Light and 100 magazine—totally,” Dogimont says. discovering sisu Things to Do in Helsinki. Theo Dombrowski Popular Day Hikes 4: Vancouver Island (Rocky Mountain Books $15) Publication Mail Agreement Contributors: John Moore, All BC BookWorld reviews are posted at #40010086 Joan Givner, Mark Forsythe, www.abcbookworld.com Richard Wagamese Return undeliverable Alex Van Tol, David Conn, Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations BC Canadian addresses to: Cherie Thiessen, Jeremy BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., (D&M $18.95) Twigg, James Paley, BOOKWORLD Vancouver, BC, Canada V6R 2S3 Caroline Woodward, Caitlin Woods-Rotering Produced with the sponsorship of Roy Henry Vickers Autumn 2017 Writing not otherwise We gratefully acknowledge the unobtrusive Pacific BookWorld News Society. assistance of Canada Council, a continuous partner since credited is by staff. & Robert Budd Volume 31 • Number 3 Publications Mail 1988, and creativeBC, a provincial partner since 2014. Hello Humpback! Registration No. 7800. Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics Publisher/Writer: BC BookWorld ISSN: 1701-5405 (Harbour $9.95) Consultants: Alan Twigg Advertising & editorial: Christine Rondeau, Sharon Jackson Editor/Production: BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Photographers: * The current topselling titles from major David Lester Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6R 2S3 Barry Peterson, Laura Sawchuk BC publishing companies, in no particular order. 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Alexandra Morton is being sued by Unfazed by this nuisance suit, Morton was back big business again—this time for using in court in June, backed by Ecojustice, for a case Aa spoon to collect a sample of bird poop in which activists are trying to prevent Canada from a buoy belonging to Marine Harvest. from allowing the fish farming industry to continue The company is claiming Morton adversely putting piscine reovirus-infected Atlantic salmon harmed the integrity of the farm’s anchoring system into the Pacific. by touching a yellow, steel buoy when she collected Whereas some DFO and industry scientists have a biological sample during a visit she made to the tried to argue the virus is benign, other DFO scien- fish farm with approximately sixty members of the tists have published results to prove piscine reo- local First Nation. 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Poland, she survived the Holo- caust as a child after she es- The imprint is named for Demers’ late mother Robin. caped from the Warsaw Ghetto “The first book to leave the nest,” as the publicity and lived in Polish villages under a false identity. announces, is What I Think Happened: An Un- She is best-known for young derresearched History of the Western World adult novels that include The Old Brown Suitcase, a fictional (Robin’s Egg Books $17.95) by account of a 14-year old im- migrant girl, Slava, who comes comedian, writer and actor to Canada from Poland after the Evany Rosen.
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