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4S5 Canada Tel: 250-354-0494 To purchase any of the following books, make out a check for the price,
add $7.00 for shipping and handling and send your check to the above address. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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
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