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Shadows on a Cave Wall

by Ernest Hekkanen

 

ISBN 978-1-894842-11-2              $20.00

 

     Although we never get to directly meet Sebastian Salo—who, over the course of his life, has been a prizefighter, musician, hunter, translator and fiction writer —we view him through the eyes of those who have known him, and none of them seem to have neutral feelings.

     The discovery of his body two months after his death allows rumors, stories and gossip to flow like water from a burst dam, and his chronicler, Jacques Dupuis, eager collects and collates them.

     Salo is man who rankles or delights. He is an eccentric, independence-loving Finnish-Canadian who isn’t averse to annoying people. But to those who have enjoyed his companionship, he is a loyal friend, benefactor, champion and romantic figure with a penchant for the macabre.

 

Shadows on a Cave Wall is an amusing and fascinating character portrait of a former prize-fighter, musician and fiction writer…. Hekkanen simultaneously provides a sly and revealing study of the town itself through the voices and prejudices and emotions of its citizens.” - Alan Twigg, Author Bank, www.abcbookworld.com

 

“There is a fine sense of detail in [Shadows on a Cave Wall] that makes the Rue St-Sebastien in Paris where Salo spent a year following the death of his lover, the home of Salo’s sister with its plastic Finnish Santa Claus in a grass skirt next to the television, and Salo’s home in the West Kootenay town of Bastion, British Columbia, come alive with the same vibrancy… [It] is a book that makes the readers enjoy their roles as voyeurs, never certain but always hoping that their take on events is the way it was.”  - Beth L. Virtanen, PhD, University of Alberta, Journal of Finnish Studies

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To Break the Wheel of War

by D. B. Wilton

ISBN 978-1-894842-12-9           $19.99

 

To Break the Wheel of War is a radical, global and concise exploration of human consciousness and its propensity for inner and outer conflict. It explores consciousness and culture from the parallel perspectives of Western biology and Buddhist psychology, showing how conflict evolves from primate survival drive to the evolution of language and abstract thinking which enables the dualistic mindset of absolute good versus absolute evil. Between the two, the dualistic mind struggles in a nightmare circus which Buddhists call the wheel of samsara and Western myth calls fate. The author’s faith is that we humans are capable of building a world of enduring peace, but only if we completely understand and deconstruct the wheel of war.

 

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The Charlatans of Paradise

by Arthur Joyce

ISBN 1-894842-07-3           $16.00

 

    “Joyce sees elements of both despair and salvation in contemporary society in this beautifully produced volume… His ability to recapture nature in minute detail is his forte. Moving, original metaphors make for lines that arouse and vivify.” - R.W. Meyer, The New Orphic Review

 

    “Joyce’s poems—unlike the supposed poetry being funded by taxpayers across this country—are fierce, clearly relevant, to be read and heard by this impassively deceived age.” - Chad Norman

 

    “Excellent….” bill bissett

 

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Rotary Sushi

Many Kinds of Stories

by Hillel Wright

ISBN 1-894842-01-4         $20.00

 

    “Wright manages to spin a narrative line taut enough to keep us turning the pages.”                          David Cozy, Kyoto Journal

 

    “Hillel Wright’s ‘A Borges Trilogy’ is a sophisticated homage to the Argentine genius.”  

                        Tom Sandborn, X-Tra West

 

    “One memorable story is ‘Early Retirement,’ in many ways a metaphor for personal responsibility.”

                         Jim Bennett, New Hope International Review On-line