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Here are the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ending February 10, 2017 by Audreys Books, provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers The Break - Katherena Vermette A Still and Bitter Grave - Ann Marston * Everybody's Fool - Richard Russo The Naturalist - Alissa York Arcadia - Iain Pears The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware The Slow Waltz of Turtles - Katherine Pancol , William Rodarmar I'll Take You There - Wally Lamb Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson Memoirs of a Polar Bear - Yoko Tawada , Susan Bernofsky Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers Facing the Shards - Joy Ruth Mickelson * Your House, Your Choice: Whoever Told You That What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You, Surely Wasn't Talking About Your Older House - Re Peters The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet - Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Case A...

Poet Alida Van Braeden showcases the evolution of her writing in a collection of evocative poetry that stretches all the way back to her youth BY PAULA E. KIRMAN Dancing Into Eternity W HEN poetry is meaningful and effective, the words can sometimes dance on the page. Dancing Into Eternity  is a collection by Edmonton poet Alida Van Braeden , and her writing is as ethereal and evocative as the title suggests. The self-published volume contains poetry inspired by nature, solitude, and love. Stylistically, she alternates between contemporary and classic styles, sometimes within the same piece, playing with line length, rhythm, and rhyme schemes. Her explorations of love are especially poignant, with images of desire, anticipation, and giving of the heart. She pushes boundaries just enough to describe a world where there is balance between 'I' and 'Us.' An overriding theme throughout Dancing Into Eternity is connection. Connections between each other, with ...

If Holden Caulfield was a 30-something Canuck in the 21st century, he may very well be the embodiment of newcomer Laurence Miall's Blind Spot debut BY EMIL TIEDEMANN L UKE has failed to make it as an actor in Vancouver. He's alienated his own family, and seems to be going through the motions of a relationship with his girlfriend. He's lost and only begins to examine just how lost he's become when his parents are suddenly killed in a car accident back home.  Laurence Miall's 'Blind Spot' When he returns to his hometown Edmonton, Luke sees his current state from a whole new perspective, almost like he's outside looking in, at just how distant he's become from the life he had left behind when he up and left for the west coast years ago. But this is his chance to start over, to reunite with a past life he'd all but abandoned.  Edmonton-born, Montreal-based Laurence Miall gets everything right with his premiere novel, Blind Spot , ...