22 - Friday, August 26, 1988 - North Shore News

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uck decoys
on display —

WADDLE YOU do with a col-
lection of notable duck decoys?

Put them on display until Oct.
23 in the North Shore Museum.
and Archives’ latest exhibition,
Decoys: B.C. decoys and the men
who carved them.

Traced beck to 1880 when one
William Gray decided to make
his living supplying locals with
fresh waterfowl, decoys are a
B.C. coastal tradition.

“B.C.’s decoy history was very
brief before the Migratory Bird
Treaty of 1917 shut (widespread
hunting) down,” explained ex-
hibit coordinator Terry Lewis.

Using these ‘‘outstanding carv-
ings,’’ hunters were having so
much success attracting hapless
waterfowl that they were ‘‘just
killing too many birds.’’

Featured in the exhibit are (he
deceptive decoy works of
premiere B.C. carvers Percy
Bicknell, Allan Mills, Harry
Holloway, Tru Oliver and Wilf

With the assistance of contem-
porary carver and decoy collector
Ron Gruber, Lewis was able to
exhibit some of the most attrac-
tive and collectable birds.

In atiempting to take the
Fourth Street museum in a new
direction, Lewis is ‘‘bringing in a
wide variety of shows with broad
appeal,’’ including the recent
shows of soft drink promotional
art and historic coin-operated
machines.

Decoys cans Wednesday to
Saturday frum 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is free.

Call 987-5618 for details.

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the new titles

GET READY for the deluge: the 1988 fall publishing
schedule promises a veritable flood of hardcover and soft-
cover titles.

The four-day, Western Canada
Book Fair held fast week at the
University of British Columbia
featured some 90,000 works from
publishers in the U.S., Canada and
Britain.

Your reviewer staggered home to
the North Shore with no less than
three shopping bags overflowing
with nearly 100 catalogues listing
the book offerings scheduled for
imminent release.

What are some of the titles
BOOKS NOW followers can look
forward to reading about during
the coming months? What are the
likely winners in the print wars
featuring regional, national and
international inkdom?

MIKE
STEELE

book reviewer

hundred new titles, but virtually
every well-known children’s tale is
now available in new editions of
one type or another. BOOKS
NOW will examine over 20
children’s books in the months
ahead.)

Thriiler/Action

Dick Francis strikes again, with
The Edge (Penguin Books), a tale
that features conspiracy, murder
and the highstakes world of
horse-racing with a good part of
the action set in Canada.

In Target of Opportunity, Ban-
tam’s Max Byrd scores a new
mystery with a California flavor —
but the recipe for murder and po-
litical intrigue has international
roots extending back to the days of
the Resistance in Occupied France.

And the good news for fans of
the master of the espionage genre,
Len Deighton, is the return of
secret agent Bernard Samson in
Hook, from Hutchinson. Die-hard
Deighton aficionados can also
flesh-out their collection with a
special edition of three earlier
books forming the Game, Set and
Match trilogy.

Children’s Stories

Without a doubt the biggest
success this year will also be the
biggest surprise for parents and
admirers of the classic children’s
tales from Wilhelm Grimm: a story
lost for over 150 years. Collins
Publishers will have Dear Mili, a
tale told by Grimm in a letter toa
little girl in 1816 (now translated
by Ralph Manheim and illustrated
by Maurice Sendak), in bookstores
well in time for Christmas.

(The children’s market is still
booming; not only are there cata-
logues dedicated exclusively to
‘kiddielit.’ from most major
publishing houses with several

Canadiana
The number of new works with

Canadian subjects is staggering
this year. A brief list of upcoming
books includes:

* The Memoirs Of A Lucky Man
(Collins) — by Robert Fulford,
called ‘‘...the best Canadian jour-
nalist in the country.’’

* A Parent Contradiction (Collins)
— by Martha Harron; a biography
of the author’s father, Don
(Charlie Farquarson) Harron.

* Wrong End Of The Rainbow,
The Collapse of Free Enterprise in
Canada (Collins) — by Eric
Kierans and Walter Stewart.

* Mysterious Canada; Strange
Sights, Extraordinary Events and
Peculiar Places (Doubleday) —- by
John Colombo. Touted as “‘...the
only complete and comprehensive
account of the strange and super-
natural events that have taken
place within this nation’s
borders.’’

* Ed Broadbent — The Pursuit of
Power (Penguin) — by Judy Steed;
the biography of the leader of the
New Democratic Party.

* Gross Misconduct — The Life of
Spinner Spencer (Penguin) — by
Martin O’Malley; the tragic story
of former NHL hockey player,
Brian Spencer.
* Whose Money Is It Anyway?

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* Lords Of The Line (Penguin) —
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* Stones (Penguin) — by Timothy
Findley; a collection of short
stories, the author’s second.
* The Oxford Book of Canadian
See Fall
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BC BEST SELLERS
THIS WEEK

Figures in brackets indicate
Jast week’s position
FICTION
. (2) Alaska Mitchener
. (1) Fearus Agenda .... Ludlum
. (9) Cardinal of the

. (6) The King of
Murgos

. (7) Rockstar

(4) The Enigma of

. (8) Trait of Memories. Lamour
. (-) Till We Meet Again. Krantz

NON-FICTION

. Brief History of

Time
. (2) Duchess of Windsor

(Her Secret Life) .. Higham
. (3) Talking Straight ...lacocca
. 5) The Power of

Campbell
. (44) Rumrunner . Parker/Tyrrell
. (6) Thriving on Chaos . . Peters
- (8) Moonwalk Sackson

. (7) Spilsbury’s Coast
White Spilsbury

. (9) Light Hearted
Cookbook
10. (10) Free Trade Deal

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