
If you feel like curling up with a good book over the winter, don't forget that Studio Georgeville carries both fiction, like Louise Penny's latest mystery novel, A Trick of the Light, and non-fiction, like Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree, by coop members Louise Abbott and Niels Jensen.
Other recent releases include Even the Owl Is Not Heard: David Thompson's 1834 Journals in the Eastern Townships of Quebec by Townshippers Barbara Verity and Gilles Péloquin and Haiti: A Shattered Nation by Elizabeth Abbott.

The latter book received an outstanding review by Martin Fletcher in The Times of London on December 19. Fletcher wrote: "Ms Abbott’s description of the Duvaliers’ reign is a real-life version of Graham Greene’s The Comedians, full of detail that one suspects only an insider could obtain. Ms Abbott, a former journalist, was married during the 1980s to the brother of Baby Doc’s successor, Lieutenant-General Henri Namphy.
"Ms Abbott also explains how the Duvaliers had a vested interest in keeping millions of Haitians in abject poverty, using them as “visible objects of misery that (they) peddled to the world in return for the gigantic handouts that could then be stolen”. They were helped by absurd US policies such as sending huge quantities of surplus rice to Haiti, thereby destroying its agricultural base. ...