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YOUR FREE GUIDE TO BOOKS & AUTHORS CANNABIS CANN LIT Amanda Siebert on marijuana 13 BC BOOK PRIZES BC Seven winners 7 FOOD CO-OPS BOOKWORLD Jon Steinman deconstructs your VOL. 33 • NO. 2 • Summer 2019 dinner plate 11 TURNING OVER A NEW PAGE Introducing the new publisher of BC BookWorld, Beverly Cramp Page 5 WOLVES Fear & loathing throughout history 20-21 REPLACING THE INDIAN ACT Bob Joseph & his unlikely bestseller 23 TIED IN KNOTS Circumnavigating Vancouver Island 18 YASUKO THANH AROUND B.C. Her harrowing tale of street life 17 • Atlin • Victoria • Squamish • Port Alberni • Downtown Eastside 3-5 Illustration by Emilia Schettino PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT #40010086 TOUCHWOOD EDITIONS | TOUCHWOODEDITIONS.COM • Celebrating 35 Years! 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In Outside In: A Political Memoir (Between the Lines $26,95), she says her biggest challenge as an MP, serving as Jack Layton’s House leader, was always maintaining “At the end of the her stalwart activism within her community, working day, like many of you, with the likes of Downtown Eastside poet/activist Bud Osborn to help establish the Insite safe injection site way love, work, and back in 2003. wanting a better world As a city councillor from 1982 to 1993, and as an NDP is what I strive for.” MP for Vancouver East from 1997 to 2015, Davies rolled LIBBY DAVIES up her sleeves, talked to people face-to-face, and did stuff, with perseverance and integrity and no-bullshit idealism, PHOTO non-stop. BERSON Libby Davies never made herself into the story—not until she retired. 978-1-77113-445-3 JOSHUA Port Squamish Alberni he last major book on Salish uring his fifteen years as a weaving, by Paula Gustafson, reporter for the Alberni Valley Times, Shayne Morrow was in was published in 1980. Since D T Port Alberni in 1966 when the lifeless then, retired Canadian Museum curator body of eleven-year-old Jessica States Leslie H. Tepper and Janice George was found in the woods, beaten, after she had somehow disappeared while chas- (Squamish hereditary chief, Chepximiya ing foul balls at a local fast-pitch game. Siyam) have travelled to many countries Nineteen years earlier, twelve-year-old to visit museums housing Salish blan- Carolyn Lee had been abducted and murdered in Port Alberni while walking kets and together developed resources home from her dance class. Lee’s mur- that have helped revive Salish weaving. derer was not found. Willard (Buddy) Joseph (Skwet- While covering the States case, Mor- row had close access to investigators and simltexw), who is also Squamish, comes scientists who also took a renewed inter- from a long line of Salish weavers, and est in the Lee case, partly due to emerging he has worked for many years with DNA technology. Were the two murders linked? As Mor- Janice George to help revitalize the skills row reveals in of weaving. When they started in 2004, The Bulldog and only one Squamish weaver remained in the Helix: DNA and the Pur- the community of Squamish. Since then, suit of Justice the pair has taught over 2,500 weavers. in a Frontier Now Salish Blankets: Robes of Pro- Town (Heritage $22.95), Gurmit tection and Transformation, Symbols Singh Dillon was of Wealth by Leslie H. Tepper, Janice convicted of the George, and Willard Joseph (University murder of Caro- lyn Lee in 1998; then Roderick Patten of Nebraska Press $40) has accompanied was arrested a year later for the murder a UBC Museum of Anthropology exhibit of Jessica States. featuring ten Salish blankets from the Since 2011, Shayne Morrow has worked as a freelance writer for Ha- 1800s, loaned from museums around Shilth-Sa, the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal the world, with more than two dozen Council news service, and the publication Windspeaker modern Salish weavings. 9780803296923 Ray and Noelle Natraoro wrapped in Salish-weaved wedding blanket. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. 9781772032505 3 BC BOOKWORLD • SUMMER 2019 Make reading an adventureTake your this Orca summer! books outside 9781459820708 • $10.95 BB 9781459814325 • $19.95 HC 9781459819924 • $29.95 HC “A joyful, affi rming, pride-fi lled read.” “Infectiously delightful.” “Immersive.” —Kirkus, starred review —Kirkus —Quill & Quire 9781459822115 • $19.95 HC 9781459820913 • $19.95 HC 9781459817272 • $6.95 PB “A playful marvel.” “A handy resource.” “A beautifully written —Kirkus, starred review —Booklist page-turner about belonging.” —Kirkus, starred review 9781459816794 • $10.95 PB 9781459816916 • $19.95 HC “An engaging novel about “An intriguing book.” family relationships.” —Booklist —CM: Canadian Review of Materials 4 BC BOOKWORLD • SUMMER 2019 PHOTO Victoria BC TOP AROUNDBC KORTSALO Unions matter PIIA SELLERS s we all go digital, society barely Abats an eye as unionization of the J. Duane Sept workplace declines, and more and more Common Wildflowers of workers are hired under contract, with the Pacific Northwest no job security and few benefits. (Sandhill $14.95) Hence judges have selected On the Line: A History of the British Co- Eve Joseph lumbia Labour Movement (Harbour Quarrels (Anvil Press $18) $44.95) by Rod Mickleburgh as this year’s winner of the George Ryga Award Ian McAllister for Social Awareness. It reminds British & Alex Van Tol Columbians how integral trade union- Great Bear Rainforest: ism has been for social progress. A Giant-Screen Having documented the history of Adventure in the Land Canada’s most volatile and progressive of the Spirit Bear provincial labour force, Mickleburgh (Orca $29.95) received the 15th Ryga Award in April e at the new sxweŋxw ŋ t ŋ xee w James Jane Reid Bay Library branch, in Victoria. Freshly Picked: Runners-up were Chelene Knight A Locavore’s Love for Dear Current Occupant and Sarah Affair with BC’s Bounty Cox for Breaching the Peace: The Site (Caitlin $26) C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro.