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FRANKFURT 2010
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Rights List
Frankfurt 2010
3. Psychology & Self Help
The Extraordinary Happiness of Ordinary People, Lucie Mandeville
Wisdom in Our Anger, Marc Pistorio
Rebirth!, Guy Corneau
Bouncing Back!, Daniel Dufour
The Universal Language of the Body, Philippe Turchet
Emotions and Our Health, Monique Brillon
Gambling: Luck or Strategy?, Claude Boutin
Psychology and Self Help Backlist
12. Society
Vintage Women, Jocelyne Robert
13. Health
Female Hormones, Dr Sylvie Demers
Take Control of Your Appetite… and Your Weight!, Dr. Angelo Tremblay
Stimulate Your Immune System, Isabelle Huot & Denis Roy
Health Backlist
17. Parenting & Family
Survival Tips for Parents, Suzanne Vallières
On Behalf of the Child, Arnaud Riou
Don’t Be Afraid to Teach Your Teens How to Behave, V. Moraldi & M. Gaubert
Parenting & Family Backlist
21. Spirituality
And the Wind Blew on the Clay, Benoît Séguin (fiction)
The Spirit of Tai Chi, Lew Yung-Chien & Michel P. Dufour
The Amerindian Spiritual Heritage, Jacques Languirand & Jean Proulx
24. Cooking
Marie-Fleur’s Tapas, Marie-Fleur St-Pierre
Cupcakes, Julien Guillegaut
The Flavours of Alep, Dalal Kadé-Badra
The Big Book of Vegetarian Cooking, I. Brotto & O. Guiriec
Cooking & Wine backlist
31. Sport
Pool: Techniques and Tricks, Pierre Morin
32. Coffee Table Books
Fair Trade Around the World, Éric Saint-Pierre
The World of Tea, Tea House Camellia Sinensis
36. Comic Strip
The Shroomies, Fecto
38. Erotic Short stories
Incitements, Cécilia
Psychology
The Extraordinary Happiness
of Ordinary People
Positive psychology for everyone
Lucie Mandeville
288 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: September 2010
An intelligent and accessible book on positive psychology, for rethinking our day-to-day well-being
This is an intelligent book that helps us better understand the positive psychology movement, with a
great deal of humour and in simple language. Positive psychology is a science that arose in the sixties
that is more interested in realizing an individual’s potential than in his hidden wounds and dark side.
Positive psychology is interested in such questions as: Which people are happy and why? How can we
cultivate day-to-day well-being, otherwise known as the “happiness of ordinary people”? This book
presents the most recent discoveries on well-being, offering anecdotes, significant theories and simple
exercises: the happiness formula, identifying personal strengths, words that make a difference, the
miracle question, the gratitude visit, etc. It can help everyone feel better and serve as a tool for personal
growth and psychotherapy. The author encourages us to add “ordinary” magic to our “unremarkable
day” by means of ten disarmingly simple yet powerful acts.
A professor in the psychology department at the Université de Sherbrooke, Lucie Mandeville directs a research
team focussing on humanist and positive psychology. Her career is based on the belief that practical experience
and scientific knowledge are two separate universes and that knowledge alone is therefore not enough.
Currently, she lives with her son and partner in Estrie, in a natural paradise.
The book’s strong points
A personal, funny, touching, accessible, practical and provocative book.
Based on research and written in very readable language.
Helps people better understand and absorb the concept of the “cortical lottery”, that is, How can we
attain lasting happiness?
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Psychology
The Wisdom in Our Anger
From destructive anger to constructive anger
Marc Pistorio
320 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: September 2010
This book invites you to reflect broadly on the conscious and unconscious angers that cause us
to make poor choices in love and in our personal and professional lives. In fields as wide-ranging
as addiction, road rage, domestic violence, eating disorders and self-harm, the author proposes
effective communication and conflict resolution techniques and explains, step by step, how to
use them. He also presents the latest approaches to achieving greater self-awareness.
Marc Pistorio is a psychologist and specialist in conflict resolution. He is a family, civil and business
mediator, and works with couples who are separating, as well as in the world of business. He is a
frequent lecturer and is very active in the print and electronic media.
Truth or Consequences
Daring to be true to yourself, your spouse
and your family
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Psychology
Rebirth!
Guy Corneau
304 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: October 2010
Rebirth! A cry from the heart of a man who found unexpected joy in his fight against cancer. In this
personal, moving, at times very funny book, renown psychoanalyst Guy Corneau shares his experience of
illness.
June 2007: an anonymous hospital patient – Mr. Corneau –has just learned that he has phase 4 terminal
cancer. June 2009: “Mr. Corneau, I don’t know what you did… but it worked!”
The psychoanalyst explains his journey that lasted two years: he underlines the importance of using
traditional medicine in conjunction with new medical practices, including meditation, cell dialogue
practice, and focusing on nature. Corneau does not offer a magic recipe: the struggle against any illness is
a difficult one, the outcome often uncertain. However, he underscores that even at its worst stages, it is
possible to go beyond the feeling of being reduced to an illness, to find psychological and spiritual
meaning in this ambivalent condition, and to use it as a way to celebrate and reaffirm life.
Steering away from preaching and clichés, Guy Corneau humbly conveys his own path, highlighting
encounters with exceptional people who gave him advice and inspired him. This book will guide us – as
patients, friends, or companions that we all are or one day will be – through the obstacles that lie
ahead.
Renown Canadian psychoanalyst Guy Corneau is the author of several books about personal development
including The Best Is Still to Come, L’Amour en Guerre, and Beyond Fear. He regularly offers
international workshops and conferences about psychological issues. Very involved with various types of social
work, Corneau is the founder of the Réseau Hommes Québec and Réseau Femmes Québec. In 1997, he founded
Productions Coeur.com, an organization that brings together therapists and artists to work on personal
development and expression through art. Corneau also hosts his own television show about
psychology. In 2007, he was diagnosed with and survived cancer, which lead him to write
Rebirth.
Absent Fathers, Lost Sons
Rights sold to USA, Spain, Brasil, The Netherlands,
Germany, Sweden, Japan, Bulgaria, Danemark, Indonesia
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Psychology
Bouncing Back!
A creative approach to overcoming obstacles
Dr Daniel Dufour
192 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: January 2010
At some point in their lives, all human beings have to face difficult situations (job loss, separation, grief,
illness, etc.), but we all have within ourselves the resources we need to bounce back in the best possible
way. As human beings, to avoid sinking into depression and repeating the same mistakes or the same life
patterns, we have the following “tools” at our disposal:
our emotions, which must be acknowledged, felt and expressed;
our inner knowledge and the ability to create our own future (creative thinking).
By using these tools as a means of giving ourselves Love, we can all bounce back and then move forward,
better than before and with a sense of well-being.
This book offers practical tools to give us the power to fight for ourselves and avoid being victims of
what others think we should do.
Dr. Dufour practices holistic medicine, which treats the causes of illness, not just the symptoms. Born in
Switzerland in 1951, he has been practicing medicine since 1979. His work for the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has taken him to the Middle East and Asia.
Best-selling author!
100 000 copies sold in French
By the same author
The Pain of Desertion (Spanish rights sold)
Useless Barriers
The Turnmoil Within (Polish rights Sold)
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Psychology
The Universal Language of the Body
Understanding human beings
through body movements
Philippe Turchet
368 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: 2009
Our body says a lot more than we think. Our gestures, our expressions and our tics are all ways of
conveying our emotions—those we want to convey as well as those we would rather keep to ourselves.
This non-verbal language makes up more than 90% of our communication with other people. Words
themselves only count for 10%. It’s also a universal language, no matter which culture we belong to,
since communication reflexes, embedded in our genes, were passed on to us by human primates
millions of years ago. Are the hands of the person you are speaking to reaching toward you? And what
do those restless knees mean?
The author, a specialist in non-verbal communication, shows you how to decode the body’s messages.
For twenty years, Philippe Turchet has been developing synergology, a discipline that figures out how the
human mind works by reading body language. He is the author of the bestsellers La Synergologie
(Synergology) and Les Codes inconscients de la séduction (The Unconscious Codes of Seduction), both
translated in many countries.
The Unspoken Codes
of Seduction
Translated into 7 languages
Synergology
Translated into 7 languages
90 000 copies sold in French
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Psychology
Emotions and Our Health
Better understanding our emotions
and making them work for us
Monique Brillon
Rights sold to: Romania
248 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: 2009
Where do our emotions come from? What are they for? Whether positive or negative, they all have
their purpose.
Dismissing or ignoring the ones that cause us pain is the same as cutting off a part of ourselves that is
essential for survival. An emotion that we smother keeps on eating away at us without our knowing,
making us depressed and fatigued for no apparent reason. Various physical problems appear and linger
on. How can we come to terms with these painful emotions so as to finally find well-being? Thinking
about them can help.
In accessible language, using examples from everyday life, this book summarizes current scientific
knowledge while showing how closely the body, emotions and thought work together.
Monique Brillon has a Ph.D. in psychology and a particular interest in the energetic exchange between
body and spirit.
The Labyrinth of Womanhood
In between a father and a mother,
a woman grows into herself
The Healing Power of the Mind
What Our Emotions Tell Us
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Psychology
Gambling:
Luck or Strategy?
Claude Boutin
172 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: August 2010
Everything a gambler needs to know to decide for himself how much of his life he wants to
dedicate to gambling
Written in collaboration with poker and casino specialists, this book is the first to talk in a simple way
about skill in certain games of chance. It examines the actual degree of control that any gambler can
acquire over his favourite game. This book covers popular games while distinguishing between control
over the game and control over winning. In addition, the workings of Texas Hold’em poker are
discussed in a whole new way (for example, the Peter Principle applied to the game, the Anne Boleyn
effect, etc.). The author reveals the lengths to which casinos go to maintain their theoretical
advantage.
Claude Boutin has been a clinical psychologist and researcher since 1989. From 1997 to 2010, he worked
for the Centre québécois d’excellence pour la prévention et le traitement du jeu (Quebec centre of excellence
for the prevention and treatment of gambling) at Université Laval. He has trained hundreds of counsellors
and dozens of trainers in Quebec’s health network in the field of cognitive treatment for problem gambling.
As a specialist, he has participated in numerous conventions, forums and conferences worldwide.
The book’s strong points
The first book to take a scientific look at Texas Hold’em poker, a very popular game.
Answers concrete questions. For example: How can a good poker player protect his advantage over
other players? Do betting experts win more money than occasional players?
Simple, accessible and clear language.
Precise explanations of the most popular games: lotteries, bingo, Texas Hold’em, etc.
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Backlist Psychology
Who would I hurt
if I were really myself?
Jacques Salomé
Rights sold to Italy and Romania
50 000 copies sold in French
Talk to me…
I have things to tell you
Jacques Salomé
Rights sold in 8 languages
400 000 copies sold in French
Stop being nice, start being real
Thomas D’Ansembourg
Rights sold in 18 languages
400 000 copies sold in French
Being happy is not always
comfortable
Thomas D’Ansembourg
Rights sold in 6 languages
Manipulators Are Among Us
Isabelle Nazare-Aga
Rights sold in 11 languages
Love's Manipulators
Isabelle Nazare-Aga
Rights sold in 10 languages
The inner voice
Jacques Salomé
Rights sold in 9 languages
380 000 copies sold in French
Who Am I Running Away From?
Where Are You Running To?
What Are We Here For?
Thomas D’Ansembourg
I Am the Way I Am
Isabelle Nazare-Aga
Rights sold to Croatia
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Backlist Psychology
Behaving Badly
Michel Fize
Rights sold to China and Taiwan
Lying : Why Be Afraid of the Truth? Father and Son
Michel Fize
Michel Fize
Rights sold to Poland and Romania
Necessary Chances
Jean-François Vézina
Rights sold to USA, Spain, Italy
The Adventure of Love
Jean-François Vézina
Rights sold to Spain, Italy, Croatia
Psychogenealogy
Doris and Lise Langlois
Rights sold to Spain and Italy
In Praise of "Joie de Vivre"
Jocelyne Bélanger
Rights sold to Italy
What We Can Learn
From The Movies
Jean-François Vézina
Rights sold to Italy, Egypt
Harmonious Intimacy
Geneviève Parent
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Sexuality / Society
Jocelyne Robert
A renowned sexologist, Jocelyne Robert is a woman known for her opinions and an
experienced communicator.
She writes about couples in a variety of media and appears regularly in various fora to
comment on current issues, as well as writing newspaper editorials.
Vintage Women
Rights sold: France (Michel Lafon)
208 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: March 2010
This is a very daring essay, a reflection on women getting better as they get older, on their genuineness, their fears,
their splendour and their relationship to life (love, beauty, body, idiosyncrasies, eroticism...). The book presents a
novel and original concept for describing what is hidden behind a totally new reality.
At 60, fairies turn into witches, they say. Nonsense! Just because you are heading into your sixties doesn’t mean you
should let yourself be put into quarantine. The “new older women” are here! And they are nothing like the old
ones. They are hungry and thirsty...for beauty, truth and sensuality!
The author proclaims women’s right to be beautiful. Not with the beauty of a false youth, but beautiful as they are:
with life lines scattered over their bodies, their faces lit up with star-like lines, flesh that wants nothing more than
to be alive...She deconstructs the dictates of beauty and then examines our infatuation with plastic surgery and its
unnatural effects, honestly and without hesitation. She describes faces where plastic surgery has eliminated all traces
of emotion as “autistic faces”.
Since language lags behind reality and change, she suggests “adultescence” as a name for the period after middle
age. Just as we invented adolescence to describe a stage in life, we now need to adapt structures in society and
language to reflect a new kind of aging.
Written in a personal tone and an amusing style, this book is a mirror aimed primarily at female boomers and the
men who love them. With sensitivity and daring and without beating around the bush, the author asks questions
about women’s relationships with their bodies, eroticism and beauty.
Jocelyne Robert’s works are
translated into 11 langages !
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Health
Female Hormones
Rethink your health
Dr Sylvie Demers
40 000 copies sold in Québec
French rights sold to Hachette Marabout
272 pages
Format: 17.8 x 23 cm
Publication: 2008
The author authoritatively sets out the many benefits of female hormones and completely
demystifies breast cancer.
A serious authority on bio-identical female hormone therapy, she casts women’s health in a new
light and shares her secrets for treating and preventing a number of health problems in a way
that is simple, logical, natural and inexpensive.
This extremely credible, reassuring and enlightening book refutes many inaccuracies and finally
gives female hormones their due.
Sylvie Demers has been a professor and has practised medicine for more than ten years. She is also a
biologist and researcher and holds a doctorate in experimental medicine with a specialization in
human molecular genetics from Université Laval in Canada.
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Health
Take Control of Your Appetite…
and Your Weight!
Dr. Angelo Tremblay
208 pages
Format: 22,9 x 15,2 cm
Publication: February 2010
Dr. Tremblay is one of the world’s leading experts in obesity research. Here, he tells us his secrets for better
controlling our appetite.
For more than half the women in the western world, managing weight is a daily concern. Women have a tendency to
make themselves feel guilty when they are overweight or having trouble controlling their appetite. They often throw
themselves into weight-loss diets that prove to be 97% ineffective, when they are not downright harmful to health.
Dr. Tremblay helps us to understand better how our body works and why we get hungry at certain precise moments;
he offers solutions for regaining control over our bodies in a way that will lead to better health and well-being, and
greater enjoyment of life.
So what are the obstacles that make appetite and weight control so complicated? And how do we deal with them? In
this innovative book, Dr. Tremblay tackles new factors: fatigue, intellectual work, stress, a lack of certain minerals,
some categories of food, several hormones, and even our relationship with our mother. Knowing which factors
stimulate the appetite and understanding how they operate is a giant step toward regaining self-control. This book
offers a wide range of simple pieces of advice that have been proven to work, as well as long-term solutions for getting
out of the endless cycle of “yo-yo” dieting.
Angelo Tremblay holds a Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity, Nutrition and Energy Balance. A professor in the
kinesiology division of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Université Laval, he also works with the Chair
on Obesity. In particular, he heads a research group studying factors that predispose individuals to obesity. He contributes
regularly to the media as an expert on obesity control.
The book’s strong points:
A perspective focussed on treating the causes of weight problems, rather than just the effects.
A positive approach to weight loss through appetite control.
A number of unpublished facts on appetite management are presented, such as the link to sleep, intellectual work
and mother-daughter relationships.
Scientific content presented in a friendly way, accessible to the general public.
A number of short texts along the lines of “myths and realities” and “surprising facts” make the book more dynamic.
The author’s considerable credibility as a university researcher.
Many examples and anecdotes drawn from the author’s personal experience.
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Health
Stimulate Your Immune System
Essential foods for developing your natural
defences
Isabelle Huot & Denis Roy
Rights sold to: France, Italy, Romania
224 pages
Format: 17.8 x 23 cm
Publication: 2008
Good eating habits as part of a healthy lifestyle are the best way to counteract the harmful
effects of daily external stresses and strains on the body. In fact, a number of nutrients in our
food can have a positive influence on the immune system’s equilibrium. What’s more, health
ingredients such as probiotics and prebiotics, as well as health supplements like plant extracts,
seem to have the ability to affect it in a positive way.
By choosing a healthy diet, following the advice in this book, we give our body essential tools to
help it better fight against disease.
A dietician frequently in the media, Isabelle Huot has a doctorate in nutrition and has participated
in a number of research projects in Canada and overseas.
Denis Roy is a professor in the Département des sciences des aliments et de nutrition (Department of
food sciences and nutrition) at Université Laval in Canada.
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Backlist Health
Mirror, Mirror,
On the Wall…
Advice and tips
for natural beauty
Catherine Pez
Facial Gymnastics
Catherine Pez
20 000 copies sold in French
Rights sold to Spain,
Catalonia, Finland,
Japan, Poland, Russia,
Netherland, Denmark.
Stress-Free Child birth
with the Bonapace
Method
Julie Bonapace
Rights sold to Brasil
May Contain Traces
of Happiness
Recipes, tricks and advice
for people with food allergies
and the people they live with
Julie LaRochelle
and Jean-Sébastien Lord
Eliminating
Chronic Fatigue
Lucie Montpetit
The Mystery
of Alzheimer
Supportive Care,
The Way of Compassion
Marie Gendron
Rights sold to Italy
and Croatia
Understanding
Psychotherapy
27 Questions and Answers
Marie Jolicoeur
and François Sauvé
Rights sold to Germany
Living Better
with Cancer
Natural ways
to alleviate symptoms
Stéphane Bensoussan
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Parenting
Survival Tips for Parents
Being a parent is not an inborn skill; it’s an ongoing learning experience. These “survival tips” will
help parents give their children a solid and essential foundation and get them off to a good start in
life! This series provides clear answers to many parents’ questions about their child’s early
development, exploding a number of myths, while offering tips and advice to make parents’ lives
easier. Each article contains easy-to-follow child-rearing tips for everyday situations.
Rights sold to: Romania, Italy
Already available: 0 to 3 years, 3 to 6 years, 6 to 9 years olds
To be published in 2011: 9 to 11 years olds
208 pages each - Format: 14 x 18.5 cm - Publication: 2008 and 2009
When does the foetus become aware of us? Should I let my child
cry at night? How can I get him to sleep in his own bed? Is
rocking her spoiling her? By what age should he be toilet trained?
What should I do when she throws a tantrum?
Is it possible to keep bedtime from turning into a
real nightmare? Are fights between brothers and
sisters unavoidable? Why do I have to give the
same instructions over and over? How should I
react to my child’s lying? How can I keep him
from turning into a spoiled brat? How can I
prepare him for school?
Can homework time be made more enjoyable? Why are our children
so stressed? Is my child hyperactive? How can I help him get through
a separation? Why doesn’t my child have any friends? How can I help
and motivate my child in school?
The author:
Psychologist Suzanne Vallières offers the results of her eighteen years of experience with young people as a
specialized trainer, therapist, lecturer and mother of three children. She regularly contributes to television
programs.
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Parenting
On Behalf of the Child
An aware parent equals a self-confident child
Arnaud Riou
400 pages
Format: 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Publication: February 2010
This book doesn’t just give advice to parents – it helps them build a more meaningful relationship with
their children and improve the quality of their communication. Between “letting the child live his own
life” and “making him do what we think is good for him” there exists another kind of communication,
more mature, more aware, more alive.
According to the author, one thing is for sure: lack of self-confidence in adults and difficulties in
communicating, in expressing feelings and emotions, take root in earliest childhood. Without in any
way making parents feel guilty, he encourages them to act as tutors, with the aim of giving their child a
sense of security as his personality develops. He encourages parents not to base their authority on ideas,
but to decode the real needs of their children, while still respecting their own needs as parents.
By becoming more aware, parents will learn to understand what a child is saying when he yells, refuses
to listen or obey, and doesn’t do his schoolwork. Lastly, this book will show parents how to adopt more
consistent behaviours. Leading by example is not merely the best way to teach a child – it’s the only way.
By turns an actor and director of film and theatre, Arnaud Riou has been a coach, human relations trainer
and lecturer for ten years. Trained in a variety of communication techniques, as well as in martial arts and
meditation, he is the founder of the ACTE teaching method (Approche consciente de la totalité de l’être – a
holistic self-awareness approach). He facilitates professional training courses on relationships and
communication year round and is also a private consultant.
The book’s strong points
This is not a recipe book, but an invitation to become more aware of what parenting means.
The book is based on the author’s experience in facilitating groups over many years.
Written by a self-taught parent, this book encourages parents not to rush to a specialist the minute
they have a conflict with their child, but to learn to decode from within the keys to fluent and positive
communication.
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Parenting
Don’t Be Afraid to Teach Your Teens
How to Behave...
They’re the ones who want you to!
Véronique Moraldi and Michèle Gaubert
272 pages
Format: 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Publication: February 2010
One of the main goals of this book is to advise and reassure parents that it’s all right to teach
your children how to behave. Partly because we can no longer deal with children (let alone
teenagers) like we did fifty or even thirty years ago, but especially because we can’t go back in
time where raising children is concerned. We can no longer impose our beliefs nor force children
to do things without any explanation.
The first part of the book explains what adolescence is and describes the well-known “crisis”,
thus giving parents the keys to face this difficult change more calmly. The second part suggests
ways to handle the crisis: very practical hints and advice for raising children, based on actual
situations parents face every day.
How can we learn to give up our control over our children, to let go of our teenagers so they can
experience things for themselves and make their own way into adulthood? How do we give them
a framework while also giving them some degree of autonomy? What non-negotiable essential
messages should we pass on to them? How do we nurture a positive relationship with our
teenagers, while communicating with them and teaching them to communicate? This book has
answers for all these questions. It shows that problems with our teenagers are often interpersonal
in nature and that these can be resolved through communication and understanding.
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Backlist Parenting
His Mother’s Son
Véronique Moraldi
Rights sold to Bulgary
Her Mother’s Daughter
Véronique Moraldi
90 Most Frequently Asked
Parenting Questions
Françcois Dumesnil
Rights sold to Spain, Italy, Poland,
Portugal, Brasil, Romania
Responsible Parent, Balanced Child
François Dumesnil
Rights sold to Italy
20 000 copies sold in French
Help Your Child Lead a Fulfilling Life
Marie Gilbert
Watch Out for Mr. Wrong
Véronique Moraldi
The Impulsive Child
Dr Guy Falardeau
An Anti-Manual on Adolescence
Michel Fize
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Spirituality / Fiction
And the Wind Blew on the Clay
Benoît Séguin
132 pages
Publication: September 2010
A house at some distance from the road. A stream. Clay. A middle-aged woman and her two daughters,
one still a child, the other almost grown up. The village finds out about this mysterious outsider,
nicknamed the Walker, who makes unusual footwear and works small miracles. But death is also
present, very nearby, getting closer and closer.
It was precisely to experience it in silence that the Walker moved away from the city. A silence that
weighs heavily on her daughters, already in mourning.
But this silence is broken by a neighbour, a church caretaker, a teacher, a deacon, one after the other ...
and especially by the wind known as Vayou, given its name by the pioneer families that put down roots
here after their deportation, scattered along the stream that would henceforth bear its name.
A journey of initiation connecting the living with death. Simply put, a novel with body and soul.
“I can’t say that I’m unhappy; on the contrary, I have a very good life with love all around me. But I’m living
my life the wrong way around, not like in the normal world; I’m only 17 and I’m living the life of a fortyyear-old adult with a daughter to raise and a mother to care for, even though it’s too late for her. It’s way too
much. When my mother dies, I’m going to suffer like I’ve never suffered before, there’s no doubt. But what a
release. What a release. I shudder as I write that word. There is something horrible about it and yet it’s the
only one I can come up with. It describes my situation here and now. I can’t run away from it. I have no idea
what my mother would do if she read it. I think she would understand and she might even be relieved. In
church, I heard her silence saying to me, ‘Don’t turn around, Isadora...’. But I know she would shudder too.”
A high-school literature teacher, Benoît Séguin has published novels and essays that have brought him to the
attention of various media. And the Wind Blew on the Clay is his first book published by Éditions du Jour.
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Spirituality
The Spirit of Tai Chi
Feeling that the fish are happy
Lew Yung-Chien
in collaboration with Michel P. Dufour
144 pages
120 color illustrations
Format: 21 x 26.7 cm
Publication: 2009
This inspiring book will be very useful for beginners. For ardent enthusiasts, it will provide the
opportunity to refresh or deepen their fundamental knowledge and perfect their technique. As for
readers whose interest is purely theoretical, it will familiarize them with the basic principles of tai
chi and perhaps encourage them to try it. Lew Yung-Chien has practiced tai chi since he was very
young.
While he was living in Taiwan, he was initiated into the discipline by the great master Cheng ManCh’ing. Lew learned from Cheng what is now called the “Tai Chi Cheng Tsu (form 37)”.
Internal well-being is key to Lew Yung-Chien’s research; he is concerned that people often attribute
an aura of mystery to the practice of tai chi. One of his goals is the demythification of tai chi; the
discipline is not rooted in myths or legends from the past that put it out of step with today’s reality.
His purpose is really to facilitate a meeting between East and West through a practice that should be
within everyone’s reach.
Lew Yung-Chien was born in Shanghai and studied with the great masters of tai chi, notably the
famous Cheng Man-Ch’ing. He settled in Montreal, where he co-founded the Hablutzel & Yung Inc.
studio in 1975. As part of his artistic journey, he devotes himself to tai chi, painting, photography, pottery
and calligraphy.
Michel P. Dufour has been a journalist and editorial writer, director of a public relations service for a
large Canadian manufacturer and an insurance company, as well as a partner in a Montreal public
relations firm. Through his friendship with Lew Yung-Chien, he has become an enthusiastic practitioner
of tai chi.
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Spirituality
The Amerindian Spiritual Heritage
The Great Mystery
Jacques Languirand & Jean Proulx
200 pages
Format: 15.2 x 23 cm
Publication: 2009
This book is an invitation to travel into spiritual territory, home of the Amerindians of North
America: there readers will discover the Great Spirit, the creating god inseparable from cosmic
powers. This book is about the mystical nature of their myths, symbols and ceremonies, as well as
about holistic and energizing medicine. The authors touch on the native people’s ethic, based on
respect for the Earth Mother and the beauty of the world, on hope for a spiritual civilization and
for entry, after death, into the world of the Great Mystery.
Now this reimagined heritage can contribute to our search for meaning and offer elements of
wisdom to a modern society desperate for spiritual, ecological and ethical points of reference.
Jacques Languirand is a communicator who has blazed many trails in his
career. Known to the wider public for the radio program Par Quatre Chemins
that he has hosted on Radio-Canada since 1971, he is above all a seeker after
meaning and an involved citizen.
A philosopher and theologian, Jean Proulx was secretary-general of Quebec’s
Conseil Supérieur de l’Éducation. He contributes to various journals, gives lectures
and teaches philosophy in continuing education at Université Laval.
Also available
The Cosmic God
Looking for Einstein’s God
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Cooking & Wine
Marie-Fleur’s Tapas
Marie-Fleur St-Pierre
192 pages
Format: 21 x 26.7 cm
Publication: October 2010
Cocktail foods originating in Spain, tapas have long since travelled beyond their native country and
seduced epicures worldwide. In Quebec, chef Marie-Fleur St-Pierre suggests especially inspiring and
unusual versions.
Discover her brilliant creations, a straightforward cuisine with flavours that burst in your mouth.
Contents and sample recipes:
Tapeo classics
Octopus salad ; Scallops with bacon ; Pork carpaccio and tomato chutney; With a section on
flavoured garlic mayonnaise
Crazy croutons
Chicken liver mousse crouton, quince jelly; Sardine crouton, onion compote
Stuffings for every taste
Dates stuffed with chorizo sausage, cabbage salad with yoghurt; Royal quail with bread and tomato
stuffing; Duck eggs, truffle and black olive stuffing
Suggested combinations
White asparagus and blood sausage salad; Sardine dip on a potato slice; White bean purée with
smoked paprika
Marie-Fleur’s personal favourites
Scallop ceviche, sangria sauce, orange salad; Mussels in creamy walnut sauce; Clams, bread croutons
with artichokes, truffle oil and preserved lemon
Cooking’s neglected tastes
Chicken liver, squash purée, crunchy shallots
Crispy sweetbreads, apple with cider and cream
Assorted cheeses
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Cooking
Cupcakes
Julien Guillegaut
120 pages
Format: 16,5 x 16,5 cm
Publication: March 2010
Recreate that fifties atmosphere with incomparable cupcakes. With their kitschy and
decadent look, and their colourful and tempting icing, they delight your eyes before
captivating your taste buds. This pastry chef, a virtuoso of these multicoloured marvels,
makes them with only the finest quality all-natural ingredients. He passes on all the
professional advice needed to make these small treats a success every single time.
His originality is on display in the creation of dozens of varieties: classic, seasonal, eccentric,
with or without nuts, not to mention spectacular decorating that adds a touch of atmosphere
to special events.
Pastry chef Julien Guillegaut uses high quality ingredients, maintaining the authenticity of our
grandmothers’ cakes, while adapting them to today’s tastes.
The book’s strong points:
This is a recipe book that favours natural ingredients
Traditional recipes, inspired by grandmothers’ recipes, but also many innovative flavours
(tofu, goat cheese, tea, green pepper, basil).
All of the recipes are nut-free, except those in a special section all about cakes containing
nuts,
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Cooking & Wine
The Flavours of Alep
90 deliciously Syrian recipes
Dalal Kadé-Badra
Élie Badra
144 pages
Format: 21.6 x 24.1 cm
Publication: October 2010
Discover one of the hidden treasures of Mediterranean cuisine
Syrian cuisine has been subject to many influences in the course of its history. Many caravans on the
spice road and the silk road passed through the city of Aleppo, in northern Syria, bringing with
them the sweet and sour flavours of the Far East.
Who better than a Syrian family to introduce you to all its secrets and delights? Assisted by her son
Élie, Dalal Kadé-Badra, originally from Syria and settled in Quebec for forty years, puts all of her
experience and sense of hospitality into preparing dishes that are true to family tradition, but also
adapted to modern western life. Discover an affordable, simple and healthy cuisine that will add a
touch of the exotic to your daily routine.
Stuffed eggplants – Easy falafels – Red lentil and cumin soup – Spinach and chickpea kebbes –
Kabbab with cherries – Chicken with olives – Filet mignon stuffed with rice – Shish taouk –
Baklavas – Pineapple almond cake
Originally from Syria, Dalal Kadé-Badra has lived in Quebec for forty years with her husband and two
sons. She is known for her delicious and simple cuisine, passed on to her by her mother and which she is
now teaching to her son, Élie.
In 2005, the city of Aleppo was awarded a Grand Prix de la culture gastronomique by the
International Academy of Gastronomy.
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Cooking
The Big Book of Vegetarian Cooking
Igor Brotto and Olivier Guiriec
320 pages
120 color ilustrations
Format: 30.3 x 20.3 cm
Publication: February 2010
Here is THE reference book on vegetarian cooking that we’ve all been waiting for.
Written by two chefs with varied backgrounds and many sources of inspiration, this book showcases
the earth’s bounty in simple and original seasonally appropriate recipes.
Their motto? Freshness and flavour! Using their professional techniques, the authors demonstrate
many recipes drawn from various cultures and stress the festive side of vegetarian cooking.
This book is designed for both long-term and recent vegetarians, as well as for people who just want
to try a new style of eating.
Some suggested dishes:
• Cannelloni Florentine • Red tofu curry with shitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots • Sprouted
lentil, cabbage and chanterelle mushroom casserole • Vegetarian cassoulet • Vegetarian chili • Red
cabbage with apples • Ciabatta with grilled vegetables, goat cheese and alfalfa sprouts • Sweet
Moroccan-style couscous • Croque-madame • Cheese fondue • Herb frittata • Ricotta and beet
gnocchi • Squash and Cortland apple gratin • Linguine “Canaletto” • Braised quinoa with fennel
and boletus mushrooms • Navarin of tofu with spring vegetables • Eggs sunny side up with truffleinfused emulsified butter sauce • Cauliflower orzotto • Pad Thai • Sundried tomatoes, arugula and
brie panini • Vegetable shepherd’s pie • Sautéed patty-pan squash with spring vegetables • Polenta
pasticciata • Black bean quesadillas • Braised Treviso radicchio • Vegetable mushroom stew •
Ratatouille • “Sweet Mama” squash risotto • Oriental vegetable sauté • Chestnut flour pappardelle
with pesto • Tagliatelle with dried cèpe mushrooms
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Backlist Cooking & Wine
Wines of the New World
Volume 1: South Africa –
Australia – New Zealand
Jacques Orhon
Tarts & Pies
Josée Fiset
& Dominique Boué
Wines of the New World
Volume 2: South America
Jacques Orhon
Bread
Josée Fiset
& Éric Blais
Rights sold to Spain
The Dessert Menu
Patrice Demers
Natural Sugar Desserts
Angelina & Ari Dayan
Rights sold to US
& Canada
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Sport
Pool: Techniques and Tricks
Pierre Morin
264 pages
250 pictures and sketches
69 000 words
Format: 24 x 18 cm
Publication: August 2010
Over 100 tips for playing like a “pro”!
This book shows us the secrets of pool champions’ amazing shots. Their feats are actually
largely the result of their knowledge of pool table geometry and a few well-guarded “secrets”.
The reader is introduced to vocabulary, rules, equipment, basic techniques and various
strategies to help him master every aspect of this fascinating hobby. Using clear diagrams and
simple explanations, the way to succeed in making more than one hundred of the most popular
trick shots is illustrated in detail.
The volume is lavishly illustrated with
diagrams and colour photos that make it
easy to understand learning techniques and
more complex strategies.
Pierre Morin was a trial lawyer for 35 years.
He began to play pool at a very early age, has
participated in many tournaments and has
won roughly a hundred. The owner of a
collection of more than 300 books and 1000
magazines on pool, he is also the author of
four books on the subject.
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Coffee Table Book
Fair Trade Around the World
Éric St-Pierre
English edition available
60 000 words
240 pages
Format: 24 x 32 cm
Publication: April 2010
This book of photographs and texts is the most complete work yet produced on fair trade. In it are presented
fourteen different fair trade products (coffee, tea, cacao, sugar, rice, cotton, shea butter, bananas, spices, quinoa,
guarana, wine, soccer balls and handicrafts) from seventeen countries in the South (Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Bolivia, Ethiopia, Mexico, Tanzania, Costa Rica, Mali, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Burkina Faso, Chile, Argentina and Brazil). Its primary objective is to give greater credit to the role and
work of grassroots producers in these markets; it also aims to raise awareness of fair trade issues in the South, as
well as in the North. Each chapter includes a story from the field, a meeting with producers, a short text on the
product in question and a thematic insert on a fair trade issue. You will also find information on:
› The lives and daily activities of families involved in fair trade.
› Each product’s processing chain, from seed to consumption.
› The social benefits of fair trade: development projects, democracy, self-sufficiency, sustainable agriculture, etc.
› Fair trade issues in both the North and the South: certification, organic agriculture, the role of consumers, the
certification of plantations, the role of women, child labour, the increasing variety of products, etc.
Maps, graphs, illustrations and other design elements make your reading more enjoyable and help you
understand the various themes (processing cacao into chocolate, for example).
Éric St-Pierre, a Canadian photojournalist, has worked for large daily newspapers (La Presse and Le Devoir) and
magazines. He has specialized in fair trade since 1996. A world traveller, he has presented four major photo
exhibitions on fair trade and published two other books of photographs on the subject (Des peuples et du café, Nazca
éditions, 2002 and Le Commerce équitable : Quand des hommes défient le marché, Aubanel, 2008).
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Illustrated Books
The World of Tea
History Terroir Flavours
Camelia Sinensis
272 pages
530 color illustrations
75 000 words
Format :22.9 X 15.2 cm
Publication: 2009
Known since time immemorial, sung about by poets, adored by emperors, tea is not only the world’s
most consumed beverage, it is also an essential part of the diet of millions of people around the world.
From China, where tea originated, its taste has crossed all borders. It is known for its many fine
qualities and loved for its flavours. Whether it comes from the famous first spring harvests, the
mysterious holy mountains of China or the highest gardens of Darjeeling, every bowl of tea tells a story,
epitomizes expertise, evokes landscapes. Let this book lead you to discover the various “terroirs” of
China, Taiwan, India and Japan, four of the main tea-producing countries.
As you visit each of these producing regions, you will learn about the history of tea cultivation, the
terroir and its typical plants, as well as about tea-processing techniques and how it is prepared locally;
you will discover the different kinds of tea in each region and meet local producers. By better
understanding the industry profile and harvesting techniques, you will learn to distinguish the flavours
of this legendary beverage, to taste it as it should be done and even, thanks to a number of chef ’s
recipes, to offer subtle and delicate dishes to your guests.
Lastly, an analysis of the properties and chemical elements of each tea family will give you more
information on its healthful qualities. In particular and for the first time ever, an exclusive in-depth
study provides details on the antioxidants found and health properties in each tea family!
Inspired by a genuine passion for this legendary plant, the professional tasters from the Maison de thé
Camellia Sinensis (Hugo Americi, Jasmin Desharnais, Kevin Casgoyne and François Marchand) visit teaproducing countries every spring, searching for locally grown teas. The expertise they’ve acquired over the years
and ties forged with growers have given them access to some exceptional teas of superior quality that have never
before been exported outside their province of origin.
Camellia Sinensis is now recognized as being one of the most prestigious tea houses in the world.
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Comic strips
The Shroomies
In and out of the frames!
Fecto
64 pages
Format: 23 x 23 cm
Publication: September 2010
One beautiful morning, author Fecto woke up with a new idea : mushroom-shaped comic book
characters. That day The Shroomies (a.k.a. Les Champis) were born!
Endearing, funny and enthusiastic, the Shroomies are peaceful beings that love to have fun. Naive
and overflowing with imagination, the Shroomies don’t believe in limits. Watch them challenge the
laws of physics, or pass freely between their frames. In short, speechless sketches, they will win you
over before you can even read their three balloons.
So come and meet Myké, the taller of the two Shroomies. He is the clever one, with his long
eyebrows that say much about his feelings. Myké is always there to help, and tends to tap his foot
when things go well.
The smaller Shroomie, Myké’s best friend in the world, is Myko. Myko is very curious and well
intentioned, but not always very succesful... and he sometimes looses his lovely freckles, something he
doesn’t appreciate at all.
On sunny days, the Shroomies are joined by Maggie the flower: Myko’s secret flame.
The Shroomies’ optimism is contagious! It is impossible not to fall in love with their naive charm and
their touching humour. So follow them in and out of their frames, and share their adventures!!
PS: The Shroomies do not talk! No translation needed to dive into their joyful universe!
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Erotic Short Stories
Incitements
Tales of the erotic
Cécilia
Rights sold to France
136 pages
Publication: January 2010
You will thoroughly enjoy these 20 short sexual adventures – spicy, salty and sometimes sweet –
that open the doors to sensuality! In the car, on the stairs, with a neighbour, with a woman, with a
man, or both! A secret and imaginary world, where anything goes! Let go of taboos and give in to a
whirlwind of sensations enlivened by the pleasure of words. These unusual reinvented fantasies will
sometimes make you laugh, sometimes blush and sometimes arouse you!
.Mmm...hands...I love men’s hands. I always look at men’s hands...they make me want say all sorts of
things...
You have the most wonderful hands. They’re so skilful! Especially when they glide down my spine to the
small of my back, then pause briefly and make their way lower...they are so persuasive. And then they
move to the front, higher, over hillier terrain, kneading my proud breasts, taking hold of the nipples
roughly yet so tenderly...
I love to feel them on my belly, especially their warmth. That’s when I feel possessed, conquered. I become
the toy, the slave, and you the torturer, yes...and the game of hands goes on, they dance the Grand Ballet,
I am the stage. On my body, which you know so well, they perform a choreography only you know, and
that I know so well too. They continue, they make their way between my thighs, to the place where you
can feel my pleasure...”
Originally from the Saguenay, the author works in the insurance field and devotes her free time to
literature. At 15, she wrote short romantic stories; at 30, her deepest thoughts; at 40, she decided
to have fun. Thus Cecilia was born...the curious, daring and provocative side of her personality!
With her fertile imagination, she puts into words her own fantasies and those her women friends
would never dare to speak out loud..
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