New Spring Reading

APRIL 2019 NEWSLETTER

Greetings!

Spring is finally here and we have a number of exciting book events coming up in the next few months. Please see below for all the details. We hope you can join us!

Lots of fabulous new books are on their way! Stay tuned and pop in to our stores often to see what’s new.

If you are looking for suggestions for new and recommended reading, see below for our Staff Picks and New Releases.

From all of us at The Mulberry Bush Bookstores, we wish you and your family a very Happy Easter!

We hope to see you soon!

Happy reading,

Barb & Tom

AUTHOR EVENT

Sunday, June 2nd

Come and meet author

Dr. Brian Goldman

Host of CBC Radio's White Coat, Black Art, and Best-Selling author of The Secret Language of Doctors, The Night Shift , and his new book The Power of Kindness

in Conversation with

author Dr. Kevin Patterson.

Book Signing 2pm – 4pm,

at the McMillan Arts Centre, Parksville.

Tickets : $15 each

On sale April 15th

at The Mulberry Bush Book Stores in Parksville and Qualicum Beach.

Ph. 250-248-1193 for information.

2019 SPRING WRITES FESTIVAL

Friday, May 3rd & Saturday, May 4th - we’ll be at the Federation of BC Writers’ 2019 Spring Writes Festival, Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo, with our book table stacked with all the authors’ published titles. We'd love to see you there!

For more information Click Here

SPRING INTO NEW NON-FICTION

Mini Meadows: Grow a Little Patch of Colorful Flowers Anywhere Around Your Yard

by Mike Lizotte

The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants

by Leigh Calvez

Vegan Meal Prep: A 5-Week Plan with 125 Ready-To-Go Recipes

by Robin Asbell

Outer Order, Inner Calm:

Declutter & Organize to Make

More Room for Happiness

by Gretchen Rubin

A Tiny Home to Call Your Own: Living Well in Just-Right Houses

by Patricia Foreman

Painting with Wool: 16 Artful Projects to Needle Felt

by Dani Ives

NEW RELEASES

Hardcovers

The Man With No Face

by Peter May

There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale - a professional assassin.

Expecting to find only a difficult, dreary political investigation in Belgium, Bannerman has barely settled in when tragedy strikes.

The River

by Peter Heller

Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing.

When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey.

Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.

Tiamat's Wrath

By James S.A. Corey

Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.

STAFF PICKS

RACHAEL'S PICK

A searing coming-of-age story that is also a portrait of family, love, loss, masculinity and race. Chariandy's work has understandably received rave attention from literary juries. Beautifully written. You cycle through all of Michael's emotions with him. A book that stays with you long after the final page.

TOM'S PICK

Access to technology has created a generation of children who are more plugged in than ever before - often with negative consequences. But there is a solution. Unrestricted outdoor play helps reduce stress, improve health, and enhance creativity, learning, and attention span

Some great ideas for transforming backyards, especially for children. Great ideas that are possible without spending a fortune.

JAN'S PICK

Danio Cerra is an old man looking back on the people and places that shaped his life during the Italian Renaissance. A cast of fascinating characters set in a world of art, beauty, danger, ambition and intrigue.

MARIANNE'S PICK

An extremely helpful and easy to use guide to venturing into the mindset of a zero waste lifestyle. This book provides so many simple yet effective ideas and makes this daunting subject seem very manageable for anyone.

LEIGH'S PICK

Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast’s big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.

BARB'S PICK

How to Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls shows how to build a wall using the traditional method of dry stone masonry in which carefully selected stones are properly stacked and held together without mortar. As well as being beautiful, a dry stone wall is stronger, more stable, and more resistant to climate than a mortared wall.

EASTER HOURS

Qualicum Store

Good Friday - 11:00am - 4pm

Saturday - 9:30am - 5pm

Easter Sunday - CLOSED

Easter Monday - 10am - 4pm

Parksville Store

Good Friday - 10:00 am – 4:30 pm

Saturday - 9:30am – 5:00pm

Easter Sunday - 10:30am - 4:30pm

Easter Monday - 9:30am – 5:00pm

Pete the Cat Event!

Join us....Thursday, April 11th

We’ve been invited back again to the Oceanside Building Learning Together’s Pete the Cat event for families, at Oceanside Place, Parksville, from 5 pm – 7 pm.

We’ll be bringing a great collection of Pete the Cat books for everyone to purchase and enjoy.

We'd love to see your family there!