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Fall/Winter 2003
Big stars in the big sky!
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Prairie bios this Fall:
Books about remarkable people: famous, accomplished, and inspirational.
Magnificent, but not obsession: Yanofsky writes about Richler
“Authorized biographers sometimes work for ten years on one person. But I think it’s a horrible fate to spend your life writing about one person. A year and a half was good enough for me.”
Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind
Joel Yanofsky
Red Deer Press
$34.95 hc, 336 pages
ISBN 0-88995-266-3
Bob Dylan sings: Stephen Scobie makes music
“Bob Dylan’s singing voice has been the object of ridicule for decades now, and it has been compared to everything from tubercular patients to trapped animals. All I can say is that I love his voice.”
Alias Bob Dylan Revisited
Stephen Scobie
Red Deer Press
$18.95 pb, 256 pages
ISBN 0-88995-227-2
From Peggy to Margaret, and beyond: Alien Heart takes a personal and professional look at Laurence
“She sympathised increasingly, as she became more comfortable with herself, with the lot of her fellow human beings.”
Alien Heart
The Life and Work of Margaret Laurence
Lyall Powers
University of Manitoba Press
$43.95 pb, 600 pages
ISBN 0-88755-175-0
Along for the ride: Clark reveals her journals in Phases & Stages
“It’s important my fans get to see the ups and downs of being famous.”
Phases & Stages
The Terri Clark Journals
Terri Clark
Insomniac Press
$16.95 pb, 184 pages
ISBN 1-894663-56-X
Excerpt from Guy Maddin’s From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings
Coach House Books
$16.95 pb, 240 pages
ISBN 1-55245-131-3
A life less ordinary: Gary McPherson keeps Rolling On
“I had already written three biographies about extraordinary people, and in a brief talk with Gary, asked if I might have the opportunity to write about him.”
Rolling On
The Story of the Amazing Gary McPherson
Gerald W. Hankins
University of Alberta Press
$24.95 pb, 180 pages
ISBN 0-88864-405-1
A peacekeeper goes to battle: Infantry chaplain remembers WWII
“You don’t forget those things. You remember everything you said, and other people said, because it was literally life and death.”
Through the Hitler Line
Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain
Laurence F. Wilmot, MC
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
$34.95 hc, 148 pages
ISBN 0-88920-426-8
the list
The shopper’s ultimate guide to new Prairie books . . . 18-19
Our bookshelves are overflowing with the plethora of new fall
books that have made their way to us from publishers across
the country. We can’t cover them all, but we’re committed to
giving Prairie writers and publishers their due. See Karen
Green’s written snapshots of some of the Prairie titles
that have crossed our transom this season!
fiction
Stenson’s Lightning strike: Acclaimed novelist tells a cowboy tale
“My intention was never to write a Western exactly, but to represent the 1880s period in a novel about Montana and Alberta.”
Lightning
Fred Stenson
Douglas & McIntyre
$32.95 hc, 431 pages
ISBN 1-55365-010-7
From chapbook to chapter: Novelist carves out literary territory in the Canadian Shield
“Being a first-time novelist in Canada … is not particularly financially lucrative.”
Up in Ontario
James Sherrett
Turnstone Press
$18.95, 232 pages
ISBN 0-88801-286-1
For the love of St. Peter’s: Writers’ colony shares its harvest
“There were some works that we knew we wanted to include from the beginning, such as the well-known stories by Connie Gault and Guy Vanderhaeghe, and there were also individual poems that one or both of us knew of because we were at a colony when they were written.”
Listening with the Ear of the Heart
Edited by Shelley Sopher and Dave Margoshes
St. Peter’s Press
$24.95 pb, 320 pages
ISBN 1-896971-24-5
poetry
All the world’s a poem: Almon makes the right connections
“I see incongruity when things don’t fit. For example, all my e-mails are signed ‘recovering ironist.”
Hesitation Before Birth
Bert Almon
Beach Holme Publishing
$13.95 pb, 120 pages
ISBN 0-88878-445-7
non-fiction
Spicier than you think: Author celebrates Prairie People
“I hope that readers come to know the subtle beauty of a region that so many outsiders regard as bland and monotonous.”
Prairie People
A Celebration of my Homeland
Robert Collins
McClelland & Stewart
$34.99 hc, 320 pages
ISBN 0-7710-2257-3
Shopping unpacked! Spree a fun cultural history
“Everyone loves the Ted Nugent story…The oddities made it fun to write beyond the hardcore history.”
Spree
A Cultural History of Shopping
Pamela Klaffke
Arsenal Pulp Press
$22.95 pb, 256 pages
ISBN 1-55152-143-1
Go north, young man! McGoogan takes a creative non-fiction walk with Samuel Hearne
“If you live in Canada long enough, even huddling in the urban centres, as most of us do, sooner or later the North will reach out and pluck you from your favourite cappuccino bar
Enough navel-gazing, pal! You’re about to face the North!”
Ancient Mariner
The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean
Ken McGoogan
HarperCollins Canada/A Phyllis Bruce Book
$36.95 hc, 333 pages
ISBN 0-00-200098-9
Doin’ the DEW: Welder’s arctic tales are anything but typical
“I don’t know how you can have people up there drilling for oil and still protect the environment.”
Working North
DEW Line to Drill Ship
Rick Ranson
NeWest Press
$19.95 pb, 168 pages
ISBN 1-896300-73-1
In Cold Blood II: True-crime as compelling as fiction
“The police were running from the killers, not vice-versa. The Christmas theme, the Bonnie and Clyde element, I know many members of the public were not only horrified, but captivated by this story.”
Nowhere to Run
The Killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill
Mike McIntyre
Great Plains Publications
$11.95 pb, 240 pages
ISBN 1-894283-44-9
No substitute: Teacher’s book extols virtues of books
“The mind, like any organ, grows more supple and stronger with use. The premiere way to exercise the mind is through sustained and constant engagement with well written language.”
Read This! Why Books Matter
Karen Zoppa
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
$16.95 pb, 144 pages
ISBN 0-92048-653-3
Get tough? Get real! Lawyers promote alternative justice for youth
“Question the deeply held view that ‘getting tough’ on young people will produce less crime and safer communities.”
Tough on Kids
Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice
Ross Gordon Green and Kearney F. Healy
Purich Publishing
$28.00 pb, 271 pages
ISBN 1-895830-22-2
