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Fiction a Steamships a Mining a Textiles Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon (Greystone $39.95)
Grazie: A Novel by Lucia Frangione (Talonbooks $21.95)
Investigative journalist Christopher Pollon takes on the international mining industry in his latest book. Pollon worries that as the industry seeks riches from Mongolia to the Pacific Islands, and new territory on the ocean floor, past methods will remain the same: secure the terrain, plunder the resources and clear out, leaving a terrible mess behind.
doom eager "Read these poems to enter a cascade of language like spring water, like a landslide, like light. Read the poems aloud and fall in love, drink the healing balm of beauty, raise the dead, or allow them to rest, finally, in peace. I'm not exaggerating. This is a dazzling collection." - Karen Connelly, author of The Lizard Cage, and Come Cold River
ISBN: 978-1-7781603-4-9 $22.95 RavenChapbooks.ca RavenPublishers@shaw.ca
Book Launch
Wed., March 20, 2024 Spartacus Books, 7pm 101 - 1983 Commercial Drive, Vancouver • Free
“Shimmers with rage & tenderness”
Graziana (Grazie for short), traumatized by Ivan, takes a pilgrimage to Italy and leaves their dyslexic, ADHD, eight-year-old daughter, Hazel in the care of her stepfather, Herman. Hazel calls Grandpa Herman, “Grumpy,” but he gives her the first stable home she has known. This violent, tender and funny story is told in turn by the four characters.
Christina Shah, author of Rig Veda
Meet long-time former East Ender,
Norman Nawrocki, launching his 17th book. Order: normannawrocki.blogspot.com VANCOUVERED OUT, Les Pages Noires Novella • ISBN 978-2-9822236-0-8 • $20
Fleece and Fibre: Textile Producers of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands by Francine McCabe (Heritage House $34.95)
The Best Loved Boat: The Princess Maquinna by Ian Kennedy (Harbour $34.95)
In the early 20th century, 14 steamships plied BC’s coast, including the beloved SS Princess Maquinna. In a reconstructed summer journey, stop-bystop, of a typical Maquinna voyage in her heyday, circa 1924, Ian Kennedy shows that despite the colonial class divides of the time, the Maquinna whistle was often “the most welcome sound on the West Coast.”
Anyone looking for locally produced wool, linen, or “slow fashion” textiles will be interested in Francine McCabe’s quest to find the small-scale fibre producers within a day’s drive of her Chemainus home (she discovered over 40 plant and animal producers). Her book explores the region’s vibrant fleece and fibre community, and rural life. Includes illustrations and photography.
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