Manitoba wetlands’ history explored

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The history of one of Manitoba’s most important and beleaguered wetlands gets full-colour treatment in Delta: A Prairie Marsh and its People, being launched Monday at McNally Robinson Booksellers.

The book, by Glen Suggett, Gordon Goldsborough and the Delta History Group, tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in and around the marsh at the south end of Lake Manitoba, as well as the challenges of management and flooding.

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A former ambassador, a novelist and a human-rights activist are the literary guests at this year’s Rady JCC Jewish Book Fair, a part of the Tarbut Festival of Jewish Culture.

On Sunday is Dennis Ross, former U.S. ambassador to Israel who was the point man for the peace process during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton presidencies. He’ll discuss his book Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israeli Relationship from Truman to Obama.

American novelist Nomi Eve is the featured author Wednesday, and will discuss her new novel Henna House, set in the Yemenite Jewish community in the 1920s.

On Nov. 22 Winnipeg-based human-rights lawyer David Matas, who has argued 19 cases before the Supreme Court of Canada in his long career, will discuss his book Why Did You Do That? The Autobiography of a Human Rights Lawyer. For information or tickets, see radyjcc.com.

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Planning a trip to the City of Broad Shoulders? If you wait until 2017 you’ll be able to visit the American Writers’ Museum, which will surely note poet Carl Sandburg bestowed that name on Chicago.

The planned museum, to be built near Millennium Park, is the brainchild of investor Malcolm O’Hagan, who has launched a foundation with a goal of raising $10 million to establish the first museum dedicated to American writers.

The museum plans to partner with local independent bookstores on a series of author events.

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Here’s a plan for a peaceful family holiday: if the kids in the backseat don’t stop bickering, make them fight to the death.

Lionsgate Entertainment, producers of the Hunger Games film franchise based on Suzanne Collins’s kids-as-gladiators novels, has announced plans to develop several Hunger Games theme-park attractions. Entertainment Weekly reports the first two are planned for Atlanta and China.

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Don LePan‘s novel Rising Stories is three books in one. It’s a novel about a child’s encounter with an aged relative who lives in a Chicago skyscraper, plus a collection of stories about skycrapers around the world and a portfolio of colour postcards of famous buildings.

LePan, a former publisher and Calgary resident, launches the novel at McNally Robinson Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

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The founding director of the Alberta-based environmental think-tank the Parkland Institute presents a vision of a low-carbon future for the Canadian economy in a new book published by Douglas & McIntyre.

Gordon Laxer, a former professor of political economy at the University of Alberta, launches After the Sands: Energy and Economic Security for Canada Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at McNally Robinson.

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A Winnipeg teen is trying her hand at the teen-fantasy genre with a novel she’s launching Friday at McNally Robinson.

Octavia MacIsaac, a 15-year-old Kelvin High School student, artist and piano player, launches her novel Blightstone at 7:30 p.m.

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