Author Reading, Fabulous Fall Reading, Customer Appreciation Day, Cider Monday and more!

October 2015 Newsletter

Fall is officially here and at The Mulberry Bush Bookstore we are excited to share a newsletter chock full of instore events, exciting new fall titles, reviews and more!

Join us in our Parksville store on November 13th for an Author Reading with Miji Campbell. Details below.

We'll be in our community this month taking a large selection of books to Hospice Education Day, Saturday, October 17th, at Tigh Na Mara,

and to School District 69's Early Years Pro-D Day on Friday, October 23rd.

Feel warm and cozy in the kitchen this fall with some wonderful comfort food. We have some fantastic and tasty new cookbooks in our Delicious Fall Books to

Be Thankful For section .

We are delighted to announce that we have a new staff member in our Parksville store. Please say "hi" to Shino next time you're in our store.

Don't forget to read all the way to the bottom of this newsletter to find out if you are our Reader of the Month for October.

Happy reading,

Barb & Tom

Author Reading

Friday, November 13th ~ 7pm

Join us in our Parksville store and hear author Miji Campbell read from her book, Separation Anxiety: A Coming of Middle-Age Story.

Not until middle age did Miji learn she has an anxiety disorder and finds ways to quiet her mind and body. Through acts of courage and grace, she learns to stand tentatively, hopefully on her own.

Beautifully written, insightful and funny,Separation Anxiety chronicles the pivotal moments in a woman's life where she lets go of her childhood beliefs about happily ever after, and discovers her true self.

After the reading,Miji will be available to sign copies of her book.

STAFF PICKS

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The Witches:

Salem, 1692

by Stacy Schiff

*BARB'S PICK*

"This is a monumental writing achievement by historian Stacy Schiff, author of

Cleopatra, a book I absolutely loved because of its historical authenticity, breadth of story, and amazing word craft.

I found this book a harrowing read at times, revealing an historical record that almost defies believability.

And yet, counterbalancing this dark and worrying historical record is the astonishing and breathtakingly beautiful writing of this fabulous author historian. I marvel at passages such as this:

"Rumor was the other nimble traveller, . . . a lightfooted fugitive from lumbering truth."

The Little Paris Bookshop

by Nina George

*JAN'S PICK*

Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.

"My favourite kind of book --- it made me laugh (out loud in public), it made me cry, it made me want to give a copy to all of my closest friends. An eloquent story of grief and a love letter to the written word and how it can save us in our darkest hours."

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

by Katarina Bivald

*TINA'S PICK*

It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life, has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which has just closed its doors for the last time, bravely decides to accept her unknown friend's invitation to visit. But when she arrives, she finds her house empty, the funeral guests just heading home. . .

"This is a gentle read involving a cast of quirky characters, a bookshop, and a small town! If you are looking for some light reading that keeps you engaged, this may be for you."

The Gold Eaters

by Ronald Wright

*TOM'S PICK*

Kidnapped at sea by conquistadors seeking the golden land of Peru, a young Inca boy named Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances.

Forced to become Francisco Pizarro's translator, he finds himself caught up in one of history's great clashes of civilizations, the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in the 1530s.

To survive, he must not only learn political gamesmanship but also discover who he truly is, and in what country and culture he belongs. Only then can he find and be reunited with the love of his life and begin the search for his shattered family, journeying through a land and a time vividly portrayed.

The EcoNest Home
by Paula Baker-Laporte
& Robert Laporte

*LEIGH'S PICK*

An EcoNest is not just a home - it is a breathtakingly beautiful structure that nurtures health and embraces ecology. This unique approach to construction combines light clay straw, timber framing, earthen floors, natural plasters, and other natural techniques with the principles of Building Biology to create a handcrafted living sanctuary.

"I loved the purity and relevance of construction design and materials, which produce beautiful results."

Delicious Fall Cookbooks

to be Thankful For

Vegetarian Comfort Foods: The Happy Healthy Gut Guide to Delicious Plant-Based Cooking

by Jennifer Browne

Vegetarian Comfort Foods couples the healing power of whole, plant-based, mindfully-chosen food with creative recipes to please our palates and diminish our ailments. Starting with the necessary kitchen tools, pantry prerequisites, and cleansing instructions, the foundation is set for more than seventy-five recipes, such as:

Berry-Rhubarb Smoothie

Banana Walnut Pancakes

Roasted Squash with Apple and Eggplant

Warm Steamed Green Salad

175 Essential Slow Cooker Classics

by Judith Finlayson

Included are 60 new recipes, in addition to the favorites from three of her previous slow cooker cookbooks that span a wide range of meals for all occasions. These everyday favorite recipes will satisfy and delight everyone in the family.

With 100 color photographs and extensive tips and techniques, delicious results are guaranteed every time. The make-ahead instructions maximize convenience, and the vegetarian and vegan recipes are clearly identified. This will be the go-to cookbook for the creative home chef.

Make Ahead Meals: Over 100 Easy Time-Saving Recipes

by Michael Smith

Make Ahead Meals is packed with over 100 time-saving recipes, including soups, stews, slow cooker favourites, casseroles, and more that take the stress out of cooking.

You'll quickly discover it's easy to be a super-cook turning out wholesome meals in your own kitchen. You'll impress family and friends with make ahead dishes like Potato Bacon Cheddar Skillet, Beef Barley Kale Stew, Crockpot Chicken, Barley and Leeks, El Paso Shepherd's Pie, Chipotle Chicken Enchiladas, Fruit Muffins, and Orange Vanilla Pound Cake.

Inside you'll find lots of recipes with plenty of ways to cook ahead, from prepping dishes so you can finish them in minutes when needed, to making full meals in advance and freezing them for later.

The Diabetes Comfort Food Diet

by Laura Cipullo

Cheeseburgers, tacos, chocolate brownies, meat loaf. Think you can't indulge in some of your favorite comfort foods just because you're managing your diabetes? Think again! With this Prevention approved plan, you can enjoy all your favorite foods without experiencing a single sugar spike, while also managing your weight.

Based on the latest research and very easy 3-step program, the Diabetes Comfort Food Diet transforms your most-loved dishes into diabetes-friendly meals that will promote weight loss and reverse insulin resistance - a winning program indeed!

SPECIAL ORDERS

Now is the time to start placing your special orders for Christmas .

Let our helpful staff do the work for you.

We can search for and order books for all the special people on your list.

Ordering now will help make sure you have books under the tree this Christmas.

New & Notable
Hardcovers

(Click on titles for full details or to purchase)

A Few of the Girls

by Maeve Binchy

Fiction

From her earliest writing to her most recent, Maeve's work has included wonderfully nostalgic pieces and also sharp, often witty writing that is insightful and topical. But at the heart of all Maeve's fiction are the people and their relationships with each other. A Few of the Girls is a glorious collection of the very best of her writing, full of the warmth, charm, and humor that has always been essentially Maeve.

The Mountain Shadow

by Gregory David Roberts

Fiction

The sequel to Shantaram

It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life. But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him go.

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

by Salman Rushdie

Fiction

Inspired by 2,000 years of storytelling yet rooted in the concerns of our present moment, this is a spectacular achievement, enchanting, both very funny and terrifying. It is narrated by our descendants 1000 years hence, looking back.

Nothing less than the survival of our world is at stake. Only one, a djinn princess who centuries before had learned to love humankind, resolves to help us: in the face of dynastic intrigue, she raises an army composed of her semi-magical great-great grandchildren, a motley crew of endearing characters who come together to save the world in a battle waged for 1,001 nights or, to be precise, two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights.

That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away

by Lori Shenher

Biography

An ex-police detective's searing personal account of sexism, racism, and mishandling in the investigation of missing and murdered women. Police detective Lori Shenher describes her role in Vancouver's infamous Missing and Murdered Women Investigation and her years-long struggle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of her work on the case.

From her first assignment in 1998 to explore an increase in the number of missing women to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, Shenher tells a story of massive police failure-failure of the police to use the information about Pickton available to them, failure to understand the dark world of drug addiction and sex work, and failure to save more women from their killer.

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

by Jenny Lawson

Biography

As Jenny says :

Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos.

The Prison Book Club

by Ann Walmsley

Biography

A daring journalist goes behind bars to explore the redemptive power of books with bikers, bank robbers, and gunmen.

An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked her to participate in a bold new venture in a men's medium security prison, Ann had to weigh her curiosity and desire to be of service against her anxiety and fear.

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Self-Help

From the best-selling author of Eat Pray Love & The Signature of All Things

With profound empathy and radiant generosity, Elizabeth Gilbert offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives.

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: An Alternative History of the 20th Century

by John Higgs

History

Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. The twentieth century, by contrast, gave us quantum entanglement, cubism, relativity, psychedelics, postmodernism, chaos maths, and the Somme.

This is the story of that confusing century as told through the ideas produced at the furthest fringes of our sciences, arts, and culture.

Great Book Giveaway

We all know getting something for free these days is pretty unusual. That's why we love giving away a free book each month to a wonderful customer and recipient of our monthly e-newsletter.

This month our lucky winner will receive Paths of the Dead, by Lin Anderson a $16.99 value.

Congratulations.....

Rachelle Anderson

If you see your name above come into our Parksville store to pick up your new book!

Thanksgiving

Monday,

October 12th

From all of us at The Mulberry Bush Bookstores we wish you and your family a joyful Thanksgiving!

Both of our stores will be closed on Thanksgiving Monday.

Customer

Appreciation

Day

Parksville store

Friday, Nov 27th

9am-6pm

Join us in our

Parksville store for

all day specials, prize draws, refreshments and fun!

It's our way to thank all our wonderful customers for your support and friendship over the year.

You can get something for yourself and tackle your Christmas list at the same time!

Cyber Cider Monday

Monday, Nov 30th

Come in to

The Mulberry Bush Book Stores in Parksville and Qualicum Beach

for a warm cup of apple cider, a cookie and receive a

10% discount

off select titles.

Join us for

the fun of it !

Qualicum Beach

Moonlight

Madness

Save the date

Thursday, November 19th

Watch for details coming soon!

New Release Paperbacks

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Sweet Caress
by William Boyd

Leaving Tomorrow
by David Bergen

The Tears of
Dark Water
by Corban Addison

The Moor's Account
by Laila Lalami

Act Normal: Stories
by Greg Hollingshead

Beautiful Ruins
by Jess Walter

Florence Gordon
by Brian Morton

2015 Books For Everybody

Catalogue

Coming soon!

Don't miss out on our complimentary fall gift guide, coming later this month!

Catalogues include a wonderful selection of new books including fiction, reference, history, children's titles and more.

2016 CALENDARS

Our beautiful 2016 Calendars are in!

We've just got a whole lot more gorgeous 2016 wall calendars in today.

We definitely have the best wall calendar and engagement diaries selection in Oceanside!

Young Adult Novels to

Borrow from your Teen

Trial by Fire: Worldwalker

Trilogy #1

by Josephine Angelini

This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor.

Her life-threatening allergies make it increasingly difficult to live a normal life, and after a completely humiliating incident ruins her first (and perhaps only) real party, she's ready to disappear.

Suddenly, Lily

finds herself in a different Salem. One overrun with horrifying creatures and ruled by powerful women.

The Scorpion Rules

by Erin Bow

In the future, the UN has brought back an ancient way to keep the peace. The children of world leaders are held hostage-if a war begins, they pay with their lives.

Greta is the Crown Princess of the Pan Polar Confederacy, a superpower formed of modern-day Canada. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto ruler of the world, the great Artificial Intelligence, Talis. The hostages are Talis's strategy to keep the peace: if her country enters a war, Greta dies.

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between
by Jennifer E. Smith

On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan only have one thing left to do: figure out whether they should stay together or break up. Over the course of twelve hours, they'll retrace the steps of their relationship, trying to find something in their past that might help them decide what their future should be.