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The
Greatest Show on Earth:
Lenore
Hellum
The
Greatest Show on Earth is a series of poetic peeks into
conversations between creatures, humans and maybe other worldy
friends. Most often we are lovingly reminded that the family
is the greatest show on earth!
Each piece of writing is illustrated by the magical block
prints of Mary Leigh Campbell.
Leonore
Hellum is a storyteller, and while her first book, Nine
Lives was a collection of cat capers in prose, The
Greatest Show on Earth is all in rhyme. The poems are
inspired by the work of Mary Leigh Campbell.
Mary
Leigh Campbell has had her work exhibited up and down
the West Coast and presently lives in the Bay Area of San
Francisco designing on textiles.
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Category:
Children's Fiction/Illustrated.
Price $13.95 Cdn
Pub Date: Nov 06
ISBN: 0-9780056-1-9
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The
Oyster Speaks:
The Chemainus Writers
Each contributor has come to creating with words through other
artistic mediums. Bernice Ramsdin-Firth sees life in
stone. Together with her word portraits she has contributed
the line drawings that enhance the pages of
The Oyster Speaks. Elizabeth Forbes chronicles our
lives and reports our journeys in community newspapers. Tom
Masters writes through the lens of television while bringing
a journalist's sensibility to fiction and creative non fiction.
Constance Kurtenbach hears music in the words that form
her poems and direct her fiction.
The Oyster Speaks is the kind of book you want to pick up,
let linger in your hand, keep on your shelves, revisit and give
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Format: Trade Paperback
Category:Anthology/Fiction
Price $21.95 Cdn
Pub Date: December 2005
ISBN: 0-9736560-5-0
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Chemainus
Writers Events
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The
Chemainus Writers live and create on the west coast
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Lurking
Back - East Sooke No-News - Peg Pyner
Edited by Barbara Warman, Illustrated by Nancy
Anderson
Never
let it be said that small communities lack excitement. Author
Peg Pyner, now in her 90's, with the editorial help
of her daughter Barbara Warman looks back over thirty years
at those events in East Sooke, BC that made the news and have
now become part of the history of the place. Her witty stories
are universal in theme.
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Pub Date: June 2005
ISBN: 0-9736560-0-X
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Nine
Lives
Peripatetic Pookie and His Pals
Lenore
Hellum
Pookie
has been left alone in the house by his family. As he sleeps
fitfully on the carpet by the fireplace it magically rises up
and whisks him away on a trip from the North Pole to Down Under
and out to the Cosmos.
Along the way he meets a wide range of characters from Mrs.
Santa's Whitekitty, Sneakers from the haunted hotel, the cosmic
cats from Judd's Trattoria, Sir Percival Pussyfoot, the armchair
detective cat, the myriad of black cats from Sabu One through
Five, the purrings of Miaou-Sitting of China, and the Down-Unda
Wunda Cat.
Each of these stories provides a sense of adventure and the
warmth of happy endings. Nine Lives closes with a Prayer for
Strays.
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Category: Children's Fiction/Illustrated
Price $11.95 Cdn
Pub Date: November 2005
ISBN: 0-9736560-3-4
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Lenore
Hellum has just started writing about the antics of the
various cats that have lived with her throughout her life [she
is now 76]. She thought that sharing those antics in a book
honouring all of them would appeal to cat lovers of all ages.
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Circle
of Beginning - Elizabeth Gallacher
Elizabeth
Gallacher develops a circle of compelling characters that
travel through the novel but whom you never really trust.
She keeps you on your toes as you try to fit together the
jigsaw puzzle of clues. She has created an old fashioned murder
mystery and mis-directs the reader's attempts to guess the
solution.
Set in the 1950's against the backdrop of McCarthy's America
and post war Europe the author paints a picture of the landscape
in which the characters are operating. It informs their decisions
and plays on their fears.
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Format:
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Category: Literary Fiction/Mystery
Price: $19.95 Cdn/ $16.95 US/£9.95 UK
Pub Date: December 2005
ISBN: 0-9689637-6-5
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Elizabeth
Gallacher lives on the west coast of Canada. She is currently
completing the next novel in the Circle series, Circle of
Attachment. |
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The
Red Flared Skirt - Margaret Takaki
The
Red Flared Skirt is a contemporary romance which follows
the life of Meg Sebastian from 1950's rural Saskatchewan through
the difficult decision of following her heart or acceding
to the demands of her soul. Initially she chooses the Church
and missionary work but after years of an unfulfilled life
she leaves the convent and discovers the challenges of marriage
and children. The memory and the man who was her first love
continue to weave a thread through the tapestry of her life.
Temptation comes in many forms but in the end Meg remains
true to herself and follows her true path.
Throughout
our lives we often return to the magical moments of our first
love when our current relationships are most challenged.
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Margaret
Takaki lives with her husband on the west coast of Canada
where she is currently working on her second novel.
Format:
Trade Paperback
Category: Contemporary Romance
Price: $19.95
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Pub Date: February 2005
ISBN: 0-9689637-7-3
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Margaret
Takaki has created a world of romance that allows us to
escape into her world before we have turned the first page.
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Tales
From the Man in the Black Hat - John Hellum
This acerbic,
edgy, yet warm-hearted collection of stories comes from the
three passions in the author's life. Chef John Hellum
explores his passion for food in a collection of sardonic,
cynical, but always humourous short stories that reflect his
memories of his growing passion for food.The stories trace
his early reflections, through the beginning of his career
to the satisfying years as a restaurant owner and later as
a food reviewer of 'the International Stock Pot'.
He
captures his passion for history with rollicking, tongue in
cheek observations of the quintessential, dysfunctional aristocratic
English family of the Earl of Drivel all in rhyme.
And
finally he shares his passion for things philosophical in
the chronicles and Epistles of the unorthodox, yet vigorous
St. Immense (Himself, of course).
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Format:
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Category: Humour
Price: $19.95
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Pub Date: April 2005
ISBN: 0-9689637-8-1
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Tales
From the Man in the Black Hat is a delightful, eclectic
bed-side read.
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The
Coffin Ship Legacy - Shirley Skidmore
Drawing
on the life of her great-grandfather author Shirley Skidmore
recreates a gripping story of the 'coffin' ships that brought
Irish famine survivors to Canada. Most did not survive the
harrowing voyage but those who did were further challenged
by the harsh life meted out in the New World.
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Format:
Trade Paperback
Category: Historical Fiction
Price:
19.95
Cdn/ $16.95 US/£9.95 UK
Pub Date: May 2005
ISBN: 0-9733469-8-1
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Falconer's
Last Voyage - Mel McIlveen
Falconer's
Last Voyage charts the life of Captain David Mist as he sails
the British Destroyer, H.M.S. Falconer, from Britain to Valparaiso,
Chile for supplies before his onward voyage to Esquimalt,
BC. His mission in the Pacific North West is to enforce the
liquor laws of the time and to encourage attempts by the missionaries
to promote western civilization to the Native population.
The British captain is eventually faced with the dilemma of
career or love. Author Mel McIlveen deftly interweaves the
history of the time with this fictional account.
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Format:
Trade Paperback
Category: Historical Fiction
Price: $19.95
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Pub Date: May 2005
ISBN: 0-9733469-9-X
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the Wings of A Morning: Kathy Wilson
In Take
The Wings of A Morning author Kathy Wilson gives
us a glimpse of the life of an immigrant to Canada in the
1960's.She and her husband, both school teachers, were tested
by the loneliness and barren landscape of the northern prairies.
Her life in the north of England hadn't prepared her for these
challenges but 40 years later she has survived well.Through
Take The Wings of A Morning the author allows us to
translate memory into a moving experience.
Kathy Wilson is a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother
who lives on Vancouver Island where she writes and researches
her family history.
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Format:
Trade Paperback
Category: Memoir
Price $19.95 Cdn
Pub Date: March 2006
ISBN: 0-9736560-6-9
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Gay
101: A Straight Look at Gay Life -
Sandra
Janssen & Steven Coull
That's
right. This is the result of extensive interviews with gay
men and women from all backgrounds. Sandra Janssen and Steven
Coull have made these intriguing and insight-filled surveys
come to life. The authors offer us an opportunity to fully
appreciate the "lifestyle", and find that there
is really not that much which separates all of us.
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Category:
NonFiction
Pub Date:Sept 2006
Price: $19.95 Cdn/$16.95 US/£9.95
UK
ISBN: 0-9736560-9-3
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From
Man to Man - Moishe Nadir
Translated
from the original Yiddish, From Man to Man is a collection
of the prose of Moishe Nadir, originally published
in 1919. This American playwright and poet is enjoying a new
renaissance, and it is no small wonder why. The work is of
tremendous depth and the translation byHarvey Fink
is an example of the same love and quest for the greater truths
of Life which Nadir shared.
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Format:
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Category:
Fiction
Pub Date:Sept 2006
Price: $19.95 Cdn/
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A Place
Where Weeds & Roses Grow
Joan Spencer
A life
of addiction is a hard thing to read about. It is an even
greater ordeal to have lived it. A Place Where Weeds &
Roses Grow is the true story of Joan Spencer's destructive
addiction to gambling. This vividly drawn account is difficult
to put down. The book serves as a warning to all of us, of
the very real damage that can be done by gambling to our modern
social fabric, but does so on such a personal level, that
it reaches all of us - no matter what our circumstances may
be.
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Format:
Trade Paperback
Category:Self help/Autobiography
Price $21.95 Cdn
Pub Date: April 2007
ISBN: 0-97366560-8-5
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Sinclair's
Legacy: Mel McIlveen
Mel McIlveen
is set to intrigue us again with his new historical fiction
Sinclair's Legacy. While Falconer's Last Voyage led us on
adventures with the British Navy along the west coast of North
America, Sinclair's Legacy looks at the history of the Canadian
prairies during the 1850's. Through the eyes of the main character,
a Metis, the author takes us on a very personal journey set
against the historical events of the time in the wider scope
of the British Empire.
Book
Launch in Winnipeg
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Trade Paperback
Category: Historical Fiction
Pub
Date: June 2007
ISBN: 0-9780056-2-7
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Terra
Infirma - Anna
Jean Mallinson
Terra
Infirma - A Life Unbalanced - tells the story of a summer
that became a season of change through a toxic response
to gentamicin and the author’s struggle to reclaim
a life in a body disabled by this modern elixir.
“Jean Mallinson, in her wrenching, compelling account
of her own disability, reminds us that we, all of us --
wherever our station, whatever our circumstances -- live
an uncertain, a wobbly life. A lovely mix of personal thought
and literary quotation, A Life Unbalanced is full of honest
feeling and whirling reflection.“ Robert Hartwell
Fiske, Editor, Vocabula Review.
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Format:
Trade Paperback
Category: Self Help - Autobiography
Pub
Date: Mar 2007
ISBN: 0-9736560-2-6
Price: $17.95
Book
Review
(pdf)
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Murder
in the Sooke Potholes - Shirley Skidmore
Serial
killings at the Sooke Potholes almost gets the better of Zack
Ward's personal life– he heads the RCMP detachment in
Sooke – and his relentless, amorous pursuit of Cass Derby
– a local business women and artist. The plot is complicated
by a local and beautiful young constable stalked by the local
doctor, who becomes a person of interest in this murder investigation.
Yet, the serial killings continue. Murder in the Sooke Potholes
is a tangled web of characters and circumstance and despite
some unexpected twists and turns in this mystery, it is expertly
unravelled by Zack Ward's determined sleuthing.
This is
the second in a series of Sooke mysteries. The first, Murder
on the Galloping Goose was a local best seller and also featured
Zack Ward and Cass Derby.
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Category: Mystery
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Pub Date:Nov 2008
ISBN:978-0-9780056-5-8
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THAT
IS HOW IT IS - Moishe Nadir
This new
collection of Moishe Nadir's short prose contains stories
that enter your consciousness with a gentle knock. They seduce
you with their eloquence and wry observations only to face
you later with a minefield of sardonic humour. That Is How
It Is is an eclectic selection of social observations in the
realm of ethics, religion, hypocrisy, irony and the status
quo. That Is How It Is is an eclectic selection of social
observations in the realm of ethics, religion, hypocrisy,
irony and the status quo.
This book is another impressive translation by Harvey Fink.
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Format:
Trade Paperback
Category: Short Stories
Price $24.95 Cdn
Pub Date:December 2008
ISBN:978-0-9780056-4-1
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Murder on the
Galloping Goose - Shirley
Skidmore
`Murder
on the Galloping Goose' is an investigation of serial murders
with elements of romance for the investigator.
Zack Ward an RCMP sergeant has been absent from work due to
the illness of his wife (cancer) and then death. He has been
sent to Sooke to recover from his grief where he walks right
into a serial murder case. He meets Cass Darby a local bookstore
owner who is also widowed. Cass doesn’t exactly like
Zach at first but is attracted to his good looks. She is also
a long time resident of Sooke and is related to many people
in the town. Zack who needs help finding his way around Sooke
latches onto Cass and they become friends. Annie, Zack’s
deceased wife continually haunts him.
Three ex loggers are murdered one at a time and so Zack must
try to find the connection between these 3 murders and the
history of Sooke. Another character in the story, the weather,
plays a major part in the tension of the story. The insane
voice of the killer also plays a past. When the murders are
solved Zack finds that he cares deeply for Cass and she returns
the feeling. Zack’s emotions run high as Cass almost
becomes the fourth victim. The beauty of Sooke’s ocean
and the surrounding countryside are entwined in the story.
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Format:
Trade Paperback
Category: Mystery
Price $15.95 Cdn
Pub Date:Nov 2008
ISBN:978-0-9780056-6-5
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