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WELCOME TO BOOKS OF THE SEASON 2014 Every year we celebrate an author/illustrator in our holiday Books of the Season catalogue. This year we are pleased to feature the delightful and charming work of Andrea Lynn Beck's on the cover and on the "Kids and Babies” title page. Andrea is the creator of the Pierre le Poof book series, and the popular Elliott Moose TV series is based on her books and characters. Her books have received numerous awards and honours including being shortlisted for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award, the OLA Blue Spruce Award and the Shining Willow Award. Her latest books are Goodnight, Canada (2012) and the recently published Good Morning, Canada. ANDREA LYNN BECK (For a full description of Good Morning, Canada, see page 60.) Born in Rosemère, Quebec, Andrea now lives in Unionville, Ontario. Please visit her at www.andreabeck.com. Copyright notice: All Andrea Lynn Beck artwork used to illustrate the 2014 Books of the Season is from Good Morning, Canada, copyright © 2014 by Andrea Lynn Beck. Published by North Winds Press, an imprint of Scholastic Canada Ltd. Used by permission. CONTENTS The West 2 Film 49 GIFTWARE: Canada 3 Books on Music 50 Please look for examples of our unique giftware items throughout First Nations 5 Music CDs 52 the catalogue. Reader Reward Card Canadian Fiction 5 DVDs & Blu–ray 56 applies to all giftware purchases. Poetry 6 Bargain Books 58 Fiction 7 A NOTE ABOUT PRICES: Mystery 13 FOR KIDS & BABIES 59 Prices are announced by publishers and are subject to change. Andrea Lynn Beck 60 Science Fiction & Fantasy 14 Prices on titles listed at 30% off Graphic Novels 15 Christmas 61 are valid to December 31, 2014 Biography 17 Board Books 64 unless otherwise specified. Board Games 18 A Bear Called Paddington 65 History 20 Picture Books 66 Reference 21 Hanukkah 67 Issues & Politics 22 Beginning Readers 69 Art 24 National Geographic For Kids 74 Photography 27 Tales & Myths 75 Nature 29 Intermediate Novels 76 Travel 30 Books Have Birthdays Too 78 Hockey 32 Arts & Crafts 79 Sports 33 Teen Fiction 80 'Tis the Season 33 Humour 34 EVENTS Cooking 44 Winnipeg Events 35 International Cooking 46 Saskatoon Events 37 House & Home 46 Television 48 MCNALLYROBINSON.COM 1 THE WEST Legacy of Worship: Sacred Places in Rural Saskatchewan Margaret Hryniuk & Frank Korvemaker, photographs by Larry Easton. $39.95. Hardcover. Coteau Books. Reader Reward Price $35.96 The companion volume to the best-selling Legacy of Stone combines brilliant colour images of the buildings people worship in with the fascinating stories of those places and people. Legacy of Worship profiles over 60 rural churches in Saskatchewan, representing 15 spiritual Vikings on a Prairie Ocean denominations that illustrate how beauty in any form inspires and nurtures Glenn Sigurdson. the soul. (September) $29.95. Softcover. Great Plains Publications. Reader Reward Price $26.96 Sigurdson blends personal memoir, Haunted Winnipeg family history and Icelandic lore in Matthew Komus. a unique and wide-ranging auto- $19.95. Softcover. Great Plains Publications. biography. Vikings on a Prairie Ocean Reader Reward Price $17.96 focuses on the year-round fishing Unexplained footsteps at Seven Oaks House. A woman enterprises of the Sigurdson family vanishing into thin air at the Hotel Fort Garry. Spirits on the unpredictable and unforgiving reaching out from beyond the grave at the Pantages Lake Winnipeg as a background for Playhouse Theatre. Just what is happening in Winnipeg’s exploring the Icelandic settlement heritage buildings at night? Hear about the people who of Manitoba. (May) may be haunting these historic sites while learning about the buildings’ unique and creepy history. (October) The Patriotic Consensus Jody Perrun. $27.95. Softcover. University of Manitoba Press. Reader Reward Price $25.16 When WWII broke out, Winnipeg was Canada’s fourth largest city: culturally diverse, with strong class divisions and a vibrant tradition of political protest. Perrun explores the wartime experience of ordinary Winnipeggers and argues that unity was enhanced by shared hardships and the effectiveness of both official and unofficial information management. (September) The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause Orest T. Martynowych. $27.95. Softcover. University of Manitoba Press. Reader Reward Price $25.16 A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko “ History will be (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade kind to me, for I to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences as well as to help Ukrainian intend to write it.” immigrants sustain their identity. —Winston Churchill Martynowych has written a fascinating portrait of how culture can become a political tool in a diaspora community. (September) 2 MCNALLYROBINSON.COM CANADA Canadian Geographic: Mike on Crime Biggest and Best Mike McIntyre of Canada $11.95. Softcover. Great Plains Publications. Aaron Kylie. Reader Reward Price $10.76 $24.95. Softcover. Firefly. Justice reporter, national radio show Reader Reward Price $22.46 host, and best-selling author Mike Canada's landscape, its McIntyre reflects on 20 years of mountains, seas and lakes, its Canadian crime coverage by offering people and its achievements up some of his most memorable true mark it as one of the greatest tales from the police blotter and and most beautiful countries in the world. Featuring more court docket. From the lighter side of the law to the worst than 500 photographs and listing a thousand fascinating society has to offer, Mike McIntyre has pretty much seen facts, figures and feats, Canadian Geographic: Biggest and and heard it all. (November) Best of Canada presents "the true north strong and free" as the irreplaceable and special place it is. (October) Vinyl Cafe: The Auto Pack Herstory 2015 Stuart McLean. Sask Collective. $28.99. 4 CD Pack. Outside Music. $15.95. Softcover. Coteau. Reader Reward Price $26.09 Reader reward Price $14.36 Stuart McLean is a best-selling Herstory 2015 carries on the Calendar author, award-winning journalist Collective’s tradition of reflecting the and humourist, and host of the CBC lives and achievements of the women Radio program, The Vinyl Cafe. who help to create and shape our Hear him performing 15 of his country by presenting their stories funniest stories on his latest cd collection. The Auto Pack along with the calendar pages that began with the first offers five hours of stories on four CDs to listen to in the Herstory calendar in 1974. The striking 2015 cover features car or at home. (September) the work of prominent Saskatoon artist Iris Hauser. (June) Saskatchewan 2015 $16.99. Wyman Publishing. Winnipeg 2015 $16.99. Wyman Publishing. Manitoba 2015 $16.99. Wyman Publishing Keep track of the days with these twelve-month 2015 wall calendars featuring the work of renowned Canadian photographers Dave Reede and Mike Grandmaison. 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FIRST NATIONS Atlas of Indian Playing the White Nations Man’s Game Anton Treuer. Don Marks $46.00. Hardcover. National $24.95. Softcover. J. Gordon Shillingford. Geographic. Reader Reward Price $22.46 Reader Reward Price $41.40 Marks tells the tales of Native This comprehensive atlas tells American athletes who overcame the story of North America’s tremendous obstacles to dominate First Nations through maps, the NFL, CFL, PGA, Olympic Games, photos, art and archival NHL and professional wrestling. cartography. Organized by region, this encyclopaedic These colourful characters recall Native American heroes reference details the First Nations peoples in the areas not only for their exploits on the field, but for their efforts of beliefs, sustenance, shelter, alliances, animosities, key to enhance native history, culture and lifestyle with pride historical events and more. (October) and dignity away from the competition. (September) CANADIAN FICTION Wiseman's Wager Mr. Jones Dave Margoshes. Margaret Sweatman $21.95. Softcover. Coteau Books. $32.95. Hardcover. Goose Lane Editions. Reader Reward Price $19.76 Reader Reward Price $29.66 A doctor's efforts to investigate the Adrift and riddled with guilt, mental state of a patient named Emmett Jones is drawn to John Zan are constantly stymied by Zan’s Norfield, a former POW who has misfiring memory, his wry delivery, found his focus in communism. But and his novelist's tendency to as the nuclear arms race heats up, embellish. From the streets of his relationship with Norfield makes Strike-era Winnipeg to Calgary in the 1980s, Zan delivers a him a target of security forces. Set in a time of rampant compelling meditation on aging, family ties, faith and the paranoia, Mr. Jones peels back the veneer of Canadian liquid concept of the truth. (September) politics to reveal a nation willing to sacrifice its own. 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