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The Invention of theWorld Jack Hodgins Strange Bedfellows The Private Lives of Words Howard Richler Richler’s wit and erudition make his fifth book on language a must-have for all those intrigued by the the English language’s reputation for “sleeping around.” 978-1-55380-100-9 6 x 9 160 pp $19.95 Skin Like Mine Garry Gottfriedson A native poet like no other, Gottfriedson reveals what it feels like to live First Nations in the changing landscape of band politics and environmental degradation. 978-1-553380-101-6 6 x 9 100 pp $15.95 A new edition of the novel that defined British Columbia. “In the beginning” a giant bull begets a sky god who brings an entire Irish village to Canada. In the end, the whole of Vancouver Island and perhaps the entire country attend a rural wedding whose extravagance propels everyday life into the extraordinary epic world of modern myth. 978-1-55380-099-6 6 x 9 356 pp $18.95 Ronsdale Press Follow the Elephant Beryl Young In this young adult novel, a boy accompanies his grandmother to India and establishes a mysterious relationship with the elephant god, Ganesh, teaching him how to cope with his father’s recent death. 978-1-55380-098-9 5-1/4 x 7-5/8 248 pp $10.95 Survivor’s Leave Robert Sutherland This young adult novel features two Canadian sailors whose ship is torpedoed at sea during WWII and whose shore leave takes them to a country house where they uncover a dangerous Nazi plot. 978-1-55380-097-2 5-1/4 x 7-5/8 176 pp $10.95 Available from your favourite bookstore or order from LitDistCo Visit our website at www.ronsdalepress.com 19 BC BOOKWORLD SPRING 2010
20 BC BOOKWORLD SPRING 2010 THE WAY WE WERE AS BIG AS CALIFORNIA One hundred years ago, George Eastman began selling the world’s first, widely affordable, easy-to-use camera. Coincidently, amateur photographers were able to record the last great land rush in North America: the white re-settlement of the Peace River region. Consequently, Donald Pettit of Dawson Creek has uncovered literally tens of thousands of black and white unpublished prints during his research, selecting the best for The Peace: A History in Photographs (Sandhill $79.95). “Mostly they documented personal things: births and deaths, first homes of sod and log, first harvests, community and family gatherings. We see faces exhausted by tragedy, glowing with triumph, shining with hope and pride. These are the pictures that fill my book. When you look into their eyes, you can feel them looking back.” Shortlisted for the Roderick Haig- Brown Prize, Pettit’s collection of archival photos tied for a gold award in the IPPY (Indepenent Publisher Book Awards) prize for Best Regional Book, Western Canada, and also received an honourable mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Prizes in the Art category. Some of the 68 competitors in the annual Babyville sports day event, sponsored by the Better Babies Contest Committee, Sunset Prairie, B.C., 1934. As big as California, the Peace contains one of North America’s great rivers, the mighty Peace, 2000 kilometres long. “It’s a sad fact that for many people who have not traveled to the north,” says Pettit, “the concept of the Peace River Region draws a blank in terms of its landscape, climate and history. It’s a region that must be seen to be appreciated.” 978-0-9736678-4-4 WE WERE STARDUST, WE WERE GOLDEN Set in 1969, Tom Wayman’s first novel Woodstock Rising (Dundurn $21.99) is a black comedy in which counter-culture students in Laguna Beach, California—including a Canadian graduate stu- Tom Wayman dent—break into a mothballed missile silo to commandeer a nuclear warhead, hoping to put their own satellite into orbit in homage to the recent Woodstock music festival. 9781550028607 Archaeology, goats and dogs, honor, ethics, lies and betrayals are what can happen when two cultures abrade. From HOPEACE PRESS Janey Bennett’s Award-winning novel $21.95 at your bookseller now ISBN: 978-0-9734007-2-4 Distribution by Steller Press
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