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BookLand Press
spring
2015
BookLand Press is an innovative and fast-growing Canadian publishing company based
in Ontario. We publish literature portraying issues that are relevant to today’s diverse
and multicultural Canadian society. Our interests range from contemporary poetry to
fiction, creative non-fiction, and translations. We are particularly interested in literature
that is different, exciting, and awakens us to angles of the world that we have not noticed
before. We believe that books can be one of the most effective ways of sharing
life-changing topics for people of all ages and backgrounds.
At BookLand Press, our books and our company are expressions of who we are, the
values we hold, and the choices that we make to reach our goals. We are pleased to have
a wide variety of authors on our publishing list which includes men and women,
culturally diverse individuals of all ages, and Aboriginal, new generation, first-time,
established, and award-winning authors. Our most important goal is to bring the best of
contemporary Canadian writing in English, French, and various Aboriginal languages to
readers in Canada and around the world.
Inspired by the love of books and Canadian literature, we look forward to continue
building a powerful list of high-quality, original titles for many years to come. Whether
publishing poetry, fiction, or literary non-fiction, BookLand Press will continue to
maintain the highest standards in all it undertakes, building on its well-respected
publishing reputation. We are committed to a sustainable trade book publishing
programme consisting of titles by a wide variety of authors and genres.
BookLand Press is a member of the Association of Canadian Publishers, the Literary
Press Group of Canada, and the Ontario Book Publishers Organization.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring
the arts to Canadians throughout the country. We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC),
an agency of the Government of Ontario for our publishing activities. We acknowledge the financial support of
the Ontario Media Development Corporation for our publishing activities.
NEW RELEASE
poetry
Hear and Foretell
Joseph A. Dandurand
Canadian Aboriginal Voices Series
APRIL 2015
9781926956961 - paperback
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POETRY
9781926956978 - ePub
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Hear and Foretell is a compelling
poetry collection with a spotlight on
urban Aboriginal life in Canada. The
poems illustrate deep spiritual
transformations and understandings
of the ever-present feeling of being
haunted by a not so distant past.
Revealing important issues of
Aboriginal discrimination, poverty,
and violence, the author undeniably
illustrates the reality of the
experiences many Aboriginal people
encounter while living on and
off-reserve. The book emphasizes
cultural conflicts, articulates everyday rituals by using decisive
narrative, and appeals to human
compassion.
The poems in Hear and Foretell reveal
strong links to land, to family, and to
the wisdom of elders. The author
exposes struggles many Aboriginal
people encounter in getting an
education, dealing with family issues
and abuse, learning to respect
themselves and demanding respect
from others, finding their place in the
world, and recovering their rich
history and culture. This book
illustrates the resilience and strength
of the Aboriginal people and the
determination that they bring to their
local communities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph A. Dandurand is a member
of the Kwantlen First Nation located
near the Fraser River, east of
Vancouver. He works as the
Heritage and Lands Officer for the
Kwantlen territory and has been
performing his duties for over 15
years. He studied theatre and
direction at Algonquin College and
at the University of Ottawa. He was
a Playwright-in-Residence for the
Museum of Civilization in Hull in
1995 and for Native Earth in Toronto
in 1996. His previously published
books include Looking into the Eyes of
My Forgotten Dreams and Please Do
Not Touch the Indians. His poems
have appeared in numerous journals
and anthologies, including An
Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English. He has also authored
a radio script which was produced
by CBC Radio in 1999.
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NEW RELEASE
poetry
Bi-gishkoziitwin
Biidaanzhed Biidaabang
David Groulx. Translated by Shirley Ida Williams.
Bi-gishkoziitwin Biidaanzhed Biidaabang,
an Ojibwa translation of Rising with a
Distant Dawn, is a powerful and
moving poetry collection which
stretches across the boundaries of
skin colour, language, and religion
to give a voice to the lives and
experiences of ordinary Aboriginal
Canadians. The poems embrace
anguish, pride, and hope. They
come from the woodlands and the
plains, they speak of love, of war,
and of the known and the
mysterious, they strike the reader
with wisdom, joy, and sadness,
bringing us closer than ever before
to the heart of urban Aboriginal life.
This book captures timely personal
and cultural challenges, and
ultimately shares subtle insight and
compassion. This poetry collection is
an
ambitious,
lasting,
and
meaningful work of literature that
will not fade away. It is an
exceptional reading experience to be
enjoyed and savoured. David Groulx
proves, once again, that the
distinctive voice of Aboriginal
Canadians must be heard.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Groulx was raised in the
mining community of Elliot Lake in
northern Ontario. He is proud of his
Native roots – his mother is Ojibwa
Indian and his father is French Canadian. David received his B.A. degree
from Lakehead University, where he
won the Munro Poetry Prize. He has
previously published six poetry
books and his poems have appeared
in over one hundred periodicals in
Canada, UK, Australia, Germany,
Austria, Turkey, and the USA. He
currently lives in Ottawa.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Shirley Ida Williams is a member of
the Bird Clan of the Ojibwa and
Odawa First Nations of Canada. She
received her B.A. degree in Native
Studies from Trent University and
M.A. degree from York University.
She has lectured across Canada
promoting Nishnaabe culture and
has worked on many language
training and translation projects for
Heritage Canada, the Ontario
Ministry
of
Education,
the
Department of Indian Affairs, and
other national organizations.
“Groulx hits as hard as the concrete of his sidewalks with words wise and
heart-breaking, loving and hopeful, moving from the cities to the bush,
from the Prairies to the mountains.”
~ PRAIRIE BOOKS NOW
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada
through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing, an
initiative of the Roadmap for Canada’s Official Languages 2013-2018:
Education, Immigration, Communities, for our translation activities.
Ojibwa
Language
APRIL 2015
9781926956992 - paperback
5.5”x 8.5” | 96 pages
$15.95
POETRY
9781772310009 - ePub
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Marketing and Publicity
Advertising in Arc Poetry
Magazine, First Nations Drum,
and First Nations Voice
Translator’s appearance on
APTN
Marketing at the 2015
Ontario Library Expo
Social media campaign
Video book trailer, posters,
bookmarks
Nationwide reading tour in
Aboriginal communities,
schools, and libraries
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fiction
Free Like Sunshine
Christina Kilbourne
All Katrina really wants is a home, a
forever home where she can live with
her three sisters. She’s even willing to
give up her Disney-princess dream
of living happily ever after for the
chance. But giving up her birth
parents for the possibility of a
predictable life isn’t an easy choice,
no matter what they’ve done.
9781926956879 - paperback
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$19.95
FICTION
9781926956916 - ePub
9781926956923 - PDF
After five years of fending for herself
and her little sisters, six foster homes
and an eighteen-hour car ride to their
new lives, Katrina lives in constant
fear that one of her sisters will blow
it and get them sent back to
Blackwater Creek. It takes years
before she believes her adopted
parents will love her no matter what
happens. Even then it takes her older
sister running away to make Katrina
understand that real parents never
give up on their children, and there is
no time limit on forever.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christina Kilbourne was born in
southwestern Ontario and grew up
in Muskoka, a resort area two hours
north of Toronto. She graduated with
an Honours B.A. degree in English
Literature and Anthropology from
the University of Western Ontario
and completed her M.A. degree in
Creative Writing and English
Literature at the University of
Windsor, Ontario.
Christina has five previously published books of adult, young adult,
and juvenile fiction. Her book Dear Jo
won three young readers’ choice
awards in Canada in the same year –
one in Manitoba, one in Saskatchewan, and one in British
Columbia. It was also nominated for
a New York State young readers’
choice award. She lives near
Bracebridge, Ontario.
“Kilbourne’s deceptively simple prose employs shifts of memory and
point of view, place and time to build a narrative structure that supports
a gentle, sweetly moving climax.”
~ THE GLOBE AND MAIL
“Kilbourne is a talented writer with a facility for language and an
intriguing story.”
~ QUILL & QUIRE
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fiction
Literia: La beauté éclipsée
Isabelle Tremblay-Tanguay
Before her last year of high school,
Rachel spent summer vacation with
her family at the lake when someone
attempted to kill her, but failed.
From that moment on, Rachel felt the
presence of strange black shadows
following and harming her, and
intense headaches hammering her
brain began to appear. Her physical
abilities developed quickly while her
feelings for two boys became
increasingly confusing. She matures
into a woman and something
supernatural grows inside of her.
She is no longer the same person she
was before. By choosing one of the
boys, Rachel could not have
imagined how their relationship
would unfold or which universe
they would discover. The universe
that they found was so surreal, so
extraordinary, just like a dream.
There, in Literia, she was finally able
to master the magical powers
hidden inside of her.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Isabelle Tremblay-Tanguay is an
emerging writer from Quebec. She
started writing at 14 years old when
she wanted to create a movie script
after becoming inspired by an
unusual story. From that moment
on, she has developed a strong
passion for writing fiction. She
enjoyed writing stories, especially in
the fantasy genre. She has begun
working
on
several
fiction
manuscripts, but has decided to
concentrate her ideas on the
imaginary universe, Literia. She
created this universe after being
inspired by the video games she
played when she was a child.
French
Language
9781926956930 - paperback
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$24.95
FICTION
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fiCTION
Relentless Pursuit
Anthony Dalton
9781926956596 - paperback
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FICTION
9781926956602 - ePub
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Canadian zoologist Gray Pendennis
is pushing his limits. Desperate to
find and protect a man-eating Royal
Bengal tiger in a Bangladesh jungle,
he is in a race against time as two
bereaved fathers, whose daughters
were killed by the striped predator,
team up to hunt the menace.
Working far from civilization, the
three men are on a collision course
beyond the boundaries of conscience. The rogue tiger’s kills
escalate and the zoologist’s work is
complicated by his fascination for a
beautiful
woman
and
her
underwater archaeologist husband
as they too join the hunters and the
hunted where the mangrove forest
meets the Bay of Bengal. A poacher
– a high-ranking military officer –
throws himself into the mix, adding
another, deadlier force to the potent
equation. The tiger, top of the food
chain in his environment, uses
stealth and cunning to gain the
advantage, only to lose it as nature
darkens the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A former expedition leader working
in Africa, the Middle East, and the
Arctic, Anthony Dalton is the author
of 13 non-fiction books, co-author of
two others, and has had his articles
published in magazines and newspapers in more than 20 countries in 9
languages. He is a former President
of the Canadian Authors Association, a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society, and a member
of Literature Wales. He has won
many awards and honours in
Canada for his writing and for his
services to other writers. During the
1990s he travelled extensively in
Bangladesh, visiting the country
many times over six years. There, in
the Sundarbans jungle, he came face
to face with a Royal Bengal tiger and
the idea for Relentless Pursuit was
born. Anthony currently lives near
Vancouver, British Columbia.
“Under-celebrated and unassuming, Anthony Dalton rivals the likes of
Wade Davis and Jim Delgado as one of BC’s most-travelled authors.
Dalton writes with a wiry, self-effacing sense of humour in which he notes
that the challenge of getting to one’s destination intact is never guaranteed.”
~ BC BOOKWORLD
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fiCTION
L’Héritier
La Donation de Constantin
Shantale Cyr and Glenn Keays
Keeping with traditions of great
mystery books that combine ancient
history, secret societies, and hidden
documents, L’Heritier has all the
elements of a classic esoteric thriller
but explodes the genre with its
cutting-edge science. The Holy Grail
is neither in Europe nor in Africa but
in North America! Better yet, it is in
Montreal. It is not the blood of
Christ but that of Roman Emperor
Constantine. The quest to find The
Holy Grail is led by an iron-fist lady
supported by her four protégées and
a computer surrogate. The woman
only answers to the name Madam
and her group called the Enterprise.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Genetic
espionage,
neuronal
handling, hacking of the quantum
web, devastating and programmable beauties – Madam uses all
available tools to succeed. But
Madam has a complex past and very
powerful enemies. The Crowned
heads of Europe will not allow their
legitimacy to be questioned. They
will counteract with catastrophic
results. From a simple quest, the
blood of Constantine will force
friends and foes to accept the impossible – that they are to conclude
something that started over 70,000
years ago.
Glenn Keays works as a researcher
for Health Canada. He holds a B.A.
degree in Communications (Concordia University), a M.A. degree in
Ancient Music (McGill University),
and a M.A. degree in Public Health
(University of Montreal). Born and
raised in Quebec City, he currently
lives in Montreal. He has been
working in the movie industry for
many years, has given several solo
concerts as a baroque singer, and
performed with several ancient
music groups. Passionate about
science and arts, he has published
many scientific articles, presented
his research at major international
conferences, and published two
novels.
Shantale Cyr lives in Montreal. She
has a M.A. degree in Art History
(University of Montreal) and a Ph.D.
in History (Université Paul-Valéry
Montpellier). Her academic training
led her to study in numerous
museums and archives of the most
famous collections and libraries
throughout Europe. She is an expert
in scholarly patronage and history
of French and Italian archaeology of
the 17th century as well as Greek and
Roman Antiquity. She has written
several scientific articles and
reports. L’Heritier is her first novel.
French
Language
9781926956534 - paperback
5.5”x 8.5” | 520 pages
$26.95
FICTION
9781926956541 - ePub
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RECENTLY RELEASED
The Flickering Light
Christina Kilbourne
9781926956565 - paperback
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$24.95
FICTION
9781926956572 - ePub
9781926956589 - PDF
Being an only child with eccentric
parents in the 1950s makes life a
challenge for Will Cassidy, but it is
nothing compared to how difficult
life
gets
when
Penny,
his
two-year-old cousin, comes to live
with his family. Then, just when life
returns to normal again, his relatives
appear out of thin air to reclaim
Penny and her father turns up dead
in the trunk of his flashy new car. It
is many years before Will discovers
the truth about the murder and who
had a hand to play in it, but not
before he can make amends and
understand the past for what it was.
The Flickering Light reveals the story
about the strengths and the
weaknesses of families, about how
relationships ride parallel tracks for
years and then one day merge, how
lost time can be recaptured, and
how the truth can make up for what
once was lost.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christina Kilbourne was born in
southwestern Ontario and spent her
elementary and high school years in
Muskoka, a resort area two hours
north of Toronto. She graduated
with an Honours B.A. degree in
English Literature and Anthropology from the University of Western
Ontario and completed her M.A.
degree in Creative Writing and
English Literature at the University
of Windsor, Ontario.
Christina previously published five
books of adult, young adult, and
juvenile fiction, and has had two of
her novels translated into Ukrainian
and Portuguese. Her book, Dear Jo,
won three young reader’s choice
awards in Canada in the same year one in Manitoba, one in Saskatchewan, and one in British
Columbia. It was also nominated for
a New York State young reader’s
choice award. She currently lives
near Bracebridge, Ontario.
“Kilbourne’s deceptively simple prose employs shifts of memory and
point of view, place and time to build a narrative structure that supports
a gentle, sweetly moving climax.”
“Kilbourne is a talented writer with a facility for language and an
intriguing story.”
~ QUILL & QUIRE
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RECENTLY RELEASED
The Man Who Stayed Afloat
Fraser Sutherland
When a Slovenian teenager sneaked
into Austria in 1956, it was the
beginning of an epic journey to
Canada. Landing penniless the next
year in Toronto, he worked his way
up from golf-club dishwasher to
greasy-spoon proprietor. Building
on success, this non-stop worker
bought the Normac, a former Detroit
fire tug, and turned it into a floating
restaurant on the barren Toronto
waterfront. Twelve years later, he
bought a Yugoslav cruise ship, the
Jadran, and led a crew to sail it across
the stormy North Atlantic, launching his second seafood venture at
the foot of Yonge Street in Toronto.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fraser Sutherland is a much
travelled Nova Scotian who now
lives in Toronto, Ontario. His work
has appeared worldwide in books,
magazines, and anthologies in print
and online, and has been translated
into French, Italian, Albanian,
Serbian, Ukrainian, and Farsi.
Before he became a freelance writer
and editor, Sutherland reported for
The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail,
and The Wall Street Journal. He was a
founding editor of Northern Journey,
a columnist for Quill & Quire, and
the managing editor of Books in
Canada.
In 1981 a city excursion ferry,
veering off course, rammed and
sank the Normac. But it didn’t sink
the man who called himself Captain
John. Battling financial reverses, he
kept dishing out clam chowder to
boatloads of tourists when he wasn’t
hosting an annual dinner to feed the
homeless. The Man Who Stayed Afloat
tells his triumphant story.
9781926956169 - paperback
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$19.95
NON-FICTION
9781926956275 - ePub
9781926956435 - PDF
As a poet, Sutherland published his
tenth collection, The Philosophy of As
If, in 2010. The Style of Innocence: A
Study of Hemingway and Callaghan
and Lost Passport: The Life and Words
of Edward Lacey are among his other
non-fiction works. The Man Who
Stayed Afloat is his seventeenth book.
“Sutherland’s strength is this deceptive simplicity, a verbal clarity and
concision that come from his long practice of observation.”
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RECENTLY RELEASED
POETRY
Nocturnes
Paul Savoie. Translated by Jacques Lefebvre.
Winner of the 2013 Trillium Award for French-Language Literature
Award
Winner
9781926956886 - paperback
5.5”x 8.5” | 88 pages
$15.95
POETRY
9781926956893 - ePub
9781926956909 - PDF
Inspired by music, this poetry
collection is composed of assonances,
rhythms, musical phrases, and
improvisations that outline the
beginning and the end of everything
that matters. Paul Savoie delves into
different dimensions of music that
enable him to pierce the gray or go
through crystal, two of the
pathways that give shape to his
imaginary world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Involved in the arts community for
more than 25 years, Savoie also
composes music for piano. He has
worked for the Canada Council for
the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council,
and the Canadian Television Fund.
He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Jacques Lefebvre is a bilingual
French-English writer, editor, and
translator. He was born in Quebec
and grew up in northern Ontario.
He has been translating literature,
technical, and corporate documents
from English to French and from
French to English for many major
Canadian, US, and international
organizations for the last 11 years.
His articles and short stories have
been published in many magazines
and newspapers in English and
French. He is a member of the
Writers’ Union of Canada and the
Literary Translators’ Association of
Canada.
Paul Savoie is one of Canada’s most
prolific authors, writing in both
French and English. Originally from
Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, he has
lived in Ontario since the early
1970s. He has written more than 30
books, including several collections
of poetry, stories, and translations.
His poetry books Crac and Bleu bémol
won the Trillium Book Award.
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poetry
RECENTLY RELEASED
mâmitoneyihtamowina ekwa kotakak
ayisiniwak ot’swepinikewiniwâwa
Reneltta Arluk. Translated by Susan Sinclair.
In this Cree translation of Reneltta
Arluk’s poetry collection Thoughts
and Other Human Tendencies, the
author and the translator draw from
the Aboriginal traditions of praising
the land and the spirit, the realities of
Aboriginal culture, and the concept
of feminine individuality. These poems, both sacred and secular, are
written with the passions of anger,
grief, and love, at once tender and
furious.
Here are the tales of courage, loss,
betrayal, passion, defeat, delight,
courting, coming of age, birth and
death, youth and old age, hunting
and surviving. The poems are united
by the ongoing struggle to define
what it means to be a tribal member,
an Aboriginal, and a woman in the
21st century.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Reneltta Arluk is a writer and actor
of
Inuvialuit,
Gwich’in,
and
Chipewyan-Cree descent originally
from the Northwest Territories.
Being raised in a nomadic environment gave her the skills and imagination to become the writer and
storyteller she is. Reneltta has a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from
the University of Alberta. She is
fortunate to continually work as an
actor and playwright throughout
Canada and internationally keeping
her culture alive. She lives in
Vancouver, BC.
Cree
Language
9781926956770 - paperback
5.5”x 8.5” | 104 pages
$16.95
POETRY
9781926956787 - ePub
9781926956794 - PDF
Susan Sinclar is a Cree educator and
translator from Edmonton, Alberta.
She has been a Cree teacher,
Aboriginal Education consultant,
and Native Studies instructor for
over 20 years. She has a Bachelor of
Arts degree from the University of
Saskatchewan and a Bachelor of
Education degree from the University of Regina.
“Reneltta Arluk once acted a script I had written. She gave breath, blood,
and body to a character I had imagined. Here, in these poems, she does the
same for herself, for her own history. Here is the script for the drama only
she could enact.”
~ STEPHEN SCOBIE
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD WINNER
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RECENTLY RELEASED
POETRY
This Could Be Anywhere
Maude Smith Gagnon. Translated by Howard Scott.
Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Award for French-Language Poetry
Award
Winner
9781926956831 - paperback
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$15.95
POETRY
9781926956848 - ePub
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This Could Be Anywhere describes
experiences of places, landscapes,
and encounters that do not seem to
respond to our natural and
spontaneous interest in them. The
poetry collection visits various
locations – Natashquan, Vietnam,
Montreal – and seeks to bring out
their common nature. We read the
poems with the impression that this
could be anywhere.
Maude Smith Gagnon displays a
lovely grasp of language through
well-crafted narrative touches. In a
spare, minimalist form she pays
homage to the intensity of being.
Word by word, her poems infuse
memory and absence, welcoming
the most seemingly insignificant
events in the world as the beginning
of great things.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maude Smith Gagnon was born in
Basse-Côte-Nord and now lives in
Montreal. She has a Master of Arts
degree in literary studies from the
Université du Québec à Montréal.
Her first poetry collection, Une tonne
d’air, was the winner of the ÉmileNelligan award and her second
book, Un drap. Une place., won the
2012 Governor General’s Award for
French-language poetry.
Howard Scott was born in southwestern Ontario and moved to
Quebec in 1975. His translation of
L’Euguélionne by Louky Bersianik
won the Governor General’s Literary
Award in 1997. He has translated
many poetry, fiction, and non-fiction
titles, often in collaboration with
Phyllis Aronoff. In 2001, they won
the Quebec Writers’ Federation
Translation Award and in 2009 they
were shortlisted for the Governor
General’s Literary Award. He is a
past president of the Literary
Translators’ Association of Canada.
He currently lives in Montreal.
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poetry
The Sandcastle Diary
Louis-Philippe Hébert
The Sandcastle Diary portrays the
author’s journey through life and
everlasting reflections of the heart.
The poems illustrate deep emotions
written in a thoughtfully artistic
way with vibrant interpretations
stemming from the complexity and
simplicity
of
human
being.
Challenging,
thought-provoking,
and moving, these poems were
inspired by the author’s own life
experiences. Each poem was created
to encourage thoughts and understandings of relationship, spirituality, success, love, heartache,
loneliness, happiness, judgment,
and ultimately the concept of living
a well-balanced life overall.
With a fresh take on writing poetry,
Louis-Philippe Hébert successfully
demonstrates his creative talent and
explores a wide range of emotions
and perceptions, persuading us to
examine the world we live in.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Louis-Philippe Hébert is an awardwinning author of several books of
poetry and prose, including two
novels, five poetry books, and two
collections of short stories. His work
has been published widely in
literary magazines and newspapers
in Canada and internationally. He
participated in many literary festivals and poetry readings in Canada
and around the world, including
Brussels, Moscow, Buenos Aires,
Mexico, Morelia, Pereira, Columbia,
St. Petersburg, and La Rochelle. His
poetry collection Le livre des plages
won the Grand prix Quebecor du
Festival de poésie de Trois-Rivières
and Vieillir won Prix du Festival de
poésie de Montréal. He currently
lives near Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.
9781926956749 - paperback
5.5”x 8.5” | 80 pages
$15.95
POETRY
9781926956756 - ePub
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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Curry is Thicker than Water
Jasmine Anita Yvette D’Costa
Foreword by the Giller Prize and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner Austin Clarke
A cobra flies in through an open window. Wives form a pact against their bigamous,
abusive husband. A mother and son battle over eagles’ eggs. A homeless guest with a
secret. An elephant protests on a highway. A woman marries a pumpkin. Diverse
people – one country! This is the teeming, hectic world of India. It’s also the vivid,
startling world that Jasmine D’Costa gives us in Curry is Thicker than Water.
Jasmine D’Costa was born in India and moved to Canada in 2004. She was published
in many academic journals, business magazines, and newspapers on international
relations, trade, investment, corporate finance, and banking. In Canada, Jasmine
D’Costa has pursued a career in writing. She now lives in Toronto and brings to the
Canadian writing landscape an arresting new voice and her unique gift of nonpareil
multicultural storytelling.
9780978379391 - paperback
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FICTION
“Spiced with insight and charm, Jasmine D’Costa’s collection of short tales adds to the
rich library of Indo-Canadian storytelling.”
The Water Buﬀalo That Shed Her Girdle
Reva Leah Stern
In The Water Buffalo That Shed Her Girdle, career woman Rachel Morganstein just
discovered that her youngest child, Aaron, is about to get married and has not invited
her. In the 23 years of living at home with his mother and siblings it was never
apparent that such a volcanic reaction was brewing in Aaron’s mind or heart. On the
contrary, it seemed as if in spite of a soul-wrenching divorce, the gods had eventually
settled the family into a reasonably cohesive and commonly joyful unit.
Reva Leah Stern has been a prominent part of the Toronto arts and theatre circuit for
over 30 years. As the founding Artistic Director of the Jewish Community Centre’s Leah
Posluns Theatre in Toronto for 19 years and Regional Casting Director for the American
Academy of Dramatic Arts for almost two decades, Stern has delicately balanced her
personal and professional life with consummate skill.
9780978379353 - paperback
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FICTION
“Director, writer, and dramaturge Reva Stern is a woman for all seasons. Her
qualifications and experience underline her abilities in the field of theatre and more
recently as an accomplished author of her first novel, The Water Buffalo That Shed Her
Girdle.”
~ WOMEN’S POST
PAGE 14
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fiCTION
Dead Girl Diaries
Marianne Paul
When a young university student is assigned the task of writing her obituary by her
journalism professor, she procrastinates. Who wants to think about their own death? An
obituary is really about life—how one has lived it—and the assignment sends Maxine
down a road of hopes and dreams, what she imagines her life to be. But life doesn’t
unfold in the way Maxine thinks it will. Stopping along a dark highway to help a
stranger with car trouble, Maxine is attacked and left for dead at the side of the road. But
like her life, Maxine’s death is full of unexpected twists of fate.
Marianne Paul has a B.A. degree with a major in religion and her interest in world
beliefs and philosophies flavours much of her fiction. She is the author of three novels
and a poetry collection. Her work has appeared in a variety of regional and national
publications. She has won several literary competitions, including The Record short
story contest and the Canadian Author Okanagan short fiction award.
“Paul is a lovely writer. She uses descriptions that are brief and tightly written, yet full
of importance.”
~ THE RECORD
9780978379384 - paperback
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FICTION
Twice in a Blue Moon
Marianne Paul
When Aley Pierce writes, her words don’t stay on the page but spill into reality. Or so
her neighbours think, who see her words as evil. Tensions escalate into an organized
campaign of book banning and book burning, until Aley herself doubts who she is and
what she does. A century and a half earlier, Elizabeth Barnes’ talent for water dowsing
unearths a body in her neighbour’s field. Under growing accusations that she is a witch,
Elizabeth is blamed for the drought that puts a stranglehold on the small farming
community.
Marianne Paul has a B.A. degree with a major in religion and her interest in world
beliefs and philosophies flavours much of her fiction. She is the author of three novels
and a poetry collection. Her work has appeared in a variety of regional and national
publications. She has won several literary competitions, including The Record short
story contest and the Canadian Author Okanagan short fiction award.
“Marianne knows how to work words, play with words, toss them across oceans. Just
when we think they will land on our outstretched mind, she sends them snapping
fingers as they dance off to the horizon.”
9780978379339 - paperback
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FICTION
~ THE LEAF LITERARY JOURNAL
PAGE 15
fiCTION
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Where Lives Take Root
Christina Kilbourne
Spanning two continents, one war, and several generations, Where Lives Take Root
follows the stories of three unforgettable characters as their lives become forever linked
and grounded in Muskoka. Weaving together several decades and different points of
view, the book examines the meaning of blood and ancestry, and the inevitable
conclusion that what really matters is not about race or religion, but about finding a
place and purpose in the world.
Christina Kilbourne graduated with an Honours B.A. degree in English Literature and
Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario and completed her M.A. degree
in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Windsor, Ontario. She
previously punlished five books of adult, young adult, and juvenile fiction and has had
two of her novels translated into Slovenian, Portuguese, and Ukrainian.
9780978083892 - paperback
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FICTION
“Kilbourne mines memory and voices in ways that are startlingly similar to Margaret
Laurence, that Canadian touchstone of small-town feeling. She is a promising writer
who gives her characters a respectful fragility.”
~ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY
One Way Ticket
David Tucker
Years after a near-miraculous birth imposes impossible life expectations on him, a
lonely and unaccomplished man tries to radically reinvent himself. A prominent
female author is stricken with writer’s block a few hours before she is scheduled to
deliver the keynote speech of her life. On a train, a struggling former advertising
executive becomes paralyzed by the silent presence of a young woman who reminds
him of a lost love who derailed his life and career.
David Tucker is an award-winning television writer, producer, and director. For many
years he has created arts, drama, science, children’s, and current affairs programming for
CBC, Discovery and other networks. Best known for his work on CBC’s The Nature of
Things with David Suzuki, Tucker has garnered dozens of awards, including a Gemini
for Best Director. He currently lives in Oakville, Ontario.
9781926956138 - paperback
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$17.95
FICTION
“As a TV critic I have always expected the highest standards from David Tucker’s
award-winning TV documentaries and I’m not entirely surprised he has transferred
his skills to writing fiction. What is astonishing is the ease of that transition and his
expertly spare prose that entraps readers in stories of delicious irony.”
~ THE TORONTO STAR
PAGE 16
NON-fiCTION
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
On Guard for Thee
Canadian Peacekeeping Missions
Matthew Bin
On Guard for Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of soldiers’ stories from
Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN and NATO missions from
the end of the Cold War to the present day. The stories are collected directly from the
individual veterans. Contributors represent virtually every major Canadian peacekeeping mission from the wars in Rwanda and Bosnia to the ongoing fight in Afghanistan. The full Canadian peacekeeping experience is here, showing, from the ground
level, how Canada’s international reputation was built.
Matthew Bin is a writer from Cambridge, Ontario. He served as a Bombardier in the
11th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery from 1991 to 1994. He graduated from
McMaster University, earning a B.A. in English in 1996 and a M.A. in English in 1997.
Matthew is currently the President of the Canadian Authors Association. His articles
have appeared in various national and international magazines.
“On Guard for Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a thorough, informative, and
impressive documenting of the Canadian peacekeeping experience as told but by the
brave, bold, and dedicated Canadians who actually did the job – so often thanklessly.”
9780978379322 - paperback
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CANADIAN HISTORY
~ CBC RADIO
Adventures with Camera and Pen
Anthony Dalton
Adventures with Camera and Pen is a collection of tales from Anthony Dalton’s nomadic
life as an adventurer and photojournalist. The stories run the gamut from searching for
Polar bears on the shores of Hudson Bay through mountain climbing in Western
Canada to tracking Royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh jungle. They depict Dalton’s
often hilarious encounters with an eclectic variety of wildlife in the Canadian Arctic,
the Falkland Islands, and Namibia.
Anthony Dalton is an adventurer, author, and public speaker. He led regular
expeditions across the deserts of the Middle East and travelled hundreds of nautical
miles along the Arctic coast of northwestern Alaska alone in an inflatable speedboat.
Dalton has written 13 non-fiction books and collaborated on two others. His articles
have been published in magazines and newspapers in 20 countries.
“Be warned! Once you open this book you’ll be transported to a world of escapes and
escapades through the nib of Anthony Dalton’s adventurous pen. Laugh with him.
Escape with him. It’s all here along with more than a few characters, chills and thrills
that you’ll never forget.”
9780978439521 - paperback
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ADVENTURE/TRAVEL
~ CANADIAN TRAVELLER MAGAZINE
PAGE 17
non-fiCTION
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Lost Passport
The Life and Words of Edward Lacey
Fraser Sutherland
Edward Lacey was one of the rare North American writers who intimately knew the
Third World in the latter twentieth century. While he was a college student in the 1950s,
his poems pioneered forthrightly gay themes. A superb speaker and translator of
multiple languages, he was a gifted teacher in Mexico, Trinidad, Brazil, Thailand, and
Indonesia. A remarkable Canadian poet, he is among the few who are known beyond
our borders.
Fraser Sutherland is a much travelled Nova Scotian who now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Before he became a freelance writer and editor, Sutherland reported for The Toronto Star,
The Globe and Mail, and The Wall Street Journal. His work has appeared worldwide in
magazines and anthologies in print and online, and has been translated into French,
Ukrainian, Italian, Albanian, Serbian, and Farsi.
9781926956060 - paperback
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$25.95
BIOGRAPHY
“In Lost Passport, Fraser Sutherland – a poet, editor, lexicographer, and journalist, as
well as Lacey’s longtime correspondent and confidant – discourses on his friend’s
extraordinary vices and tribulations.”
~ QUILL & QUIRE
Taking the Ice
Success Stories from the World of Canadian Figure Skating
Pj Kwong
Canada’s strength as a figure skating nation is a result of not only exceptional talent
but dedicated work by many Canadian skaters and coaches who have been willing to
take risks and to be part of the continuous re-definition of the sport and what was
thought of as possible. From the creation of innovative moves and styles to the
re-vamping of a hundred-year-old judging system, Canada has paved the way. Taking
the Ice tells inspirational life stories and highlights achievements of many Canadian
legendary figure skaters and coaches.
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CANADIAN SPORTS
Pj Kwong is a CBC’s figure skating expert and journalist. A television commentator
and writer since 2001, the veteran figure skating coach has covered six World Figure
Skating Championships, several Olympic Games, Four Continents and Grand Prix
Finals for CBC, CTV, TSN, and TBS networks. Fluent in English, French, German, and
Spanish, Pj has travelled the world as a TV broadcaster and journalist.
“Pj Kwong has turned her passion and understanding of figure skating into a way of
life. She become a clear and credible voice in the sport. One that people seek out when
they want to know what is really happening.”
~ CBC SPORTS
PAGE 18
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NON-fiCTION
Elizabeth Simcoe’s Canadian Journey
Ellen McIntosh-Green
Elizabeth Simcoe was a privileged, upper class, English gentlewoman who married
Upper Canada’s first Lt. Governor John Graves Simcoe. A true product of her time,
Elizabeth developed a passion for the “untamed world” which eventually brought her
to the wilds of Canada in the years between 1791 and 1796 on a journey which today
seems unbelievable. The story of Elizabeth Simcoe’s Canadian journey is a triumph
and a tragedy, an inspiration to all Canadians.
Ellen McIntosh-Green is a visual artist and writer who lives in Simcoe, Ontario. She was
Director and Curator of the Lynnwood Arts Centre [now the Norfolk Arts Centre] in
Simcoe for almost twenty years. In that position she curated an exhibition of Elizabeth
Simcoe’s paintings. In the late 1980’s she received a grant from the Canada Council for
the Arts to research Elizabeth Simcoe’s documents in England and to write this book.
“The story gives a picture of not only the woman behind the man who helped to build
southern Ontario but also of life itself in the province at that time.”
~ SIMCOE REFORMER
9780978439538 - paperback
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CANADIAN HISTORY
Alexandra Orlando: In Pursuit of Victory
Martin Avery and Alexandra Orlando
Alexandra Orlando: In Pursuit of Victory is the story of the rhythmic gymnast who set a
world record by winning six gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia. Coming from Canada, where her sport is relatively new, Alexandra has had to
overcome incredible odds to join the elite of rhythmic gymnastics internationally.
Alexandra Orlando is the reigning Canadian champion, our national champion for the
past six years, and currently the number one rhythmic gymnast in North America.
Martin Avery studied at the University of Victoria, Banff Centre School of Fine Arts,
York University, Vermont College of Norwhich University (USA), the University of
Toronto, Herstmonceux Castle of Queen’s University (England), and the Stratford
Campus of UT/OISE. For two decades he was a teacher at several secondary schools in
Ontario, teaching Writers Craft, English, and Drama.
“It is truly inspiring for our young gymnasts to have Alexandra Orlando as their role
model. Young girls all over the country have not only enjoyed reading about
Alexandra but they now have a book which details both factual and historical
information about their wonderful sport.”
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CANADIAN SPORTS
~ ONTARIO GYMNASTICS FEDERATION
PAGE 19
poetry
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Rising With a Distant Dawn
David Groulx
Rising With a Distant Dawn is a powerful and moving poetry collection which stretches
across the boundaries of skin colour, language, and religion to give voice to the lives
and experiences of ordinary Aboriginal Canadians. The poems embrace anguish, pride,
and hope. They come from the woodlands and the plains, they speak of love, of war,
and of the known and the mysterious, they strike with wisdom, joy, and sadness,
bringing us closer than ever before to the heart of urban Aboriginal life.
David Groulx was raised in the mining community of Elliot Lake in northern Ontario. He
is proud of his Native roots – his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father is French Canadian. David received his B.A. from the Lakehead University, where he won the Munro
Poetry Prize. He also studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, British
Columbia, where he won the Simon J. Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry.
9781926956053 - paperback
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POETRY
“The poetry in Rising With a Distant Dawn gives an Aboriginal perspective on a state of
Canada, modern society, and the injustice to Aboriginal people.”
~ ABORIGINAL PEOPLES TELEVISION NETWORK
Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies
Reneltta Arluk
Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies is a poetry collection where stories of life’s
experiences are distilled into feelings and thoughts that are universal. Reneltta Arluk
weaves the traditional and the contemporary together through the eyes of a young
Aboriginal woman. She draws from the Aboriginal tradition of praising the land and
the spirit, the realities of Aboriginal culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.
Reneltta Arluk is a writer and actor of Inuvialuit, Gwich’in, and Chipewyan-Cree
descent originally from the Northwest Territories. Being raised in a nomadic
environment gave her the skills and imagination to become the writer and storyteller
she is. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta and works
as an actor and playwright throughout Canada and internationally keeping her culture
alive.
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POETRY
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“The poems in Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies comprise the intensely personal
and in many ways autobiographical work about growing up and dealing with the joy
and pain the process entails.”
~ NORTHERN JOURNAL
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
poetry
The Philosophy of As If
Fraser Sutherland
The Philosophy of As If concerns “fictions,” ideas that may not correspond directly with
reality but help us to interact with reality better. Fiction writers often say that they tell
a higher truth but poets like to pretend that what they write is sincere, direct
truth-telling. However poems are also fictions, and deal with what might be. Poets
behave “as if” the world matches their models. Fraser Sutherland’s poems play on this
tension between desire and disillusion, between actuality and fantasy.
Fraser Sutherland is a much travelled Nova Scotian who now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Frequently a reviewer for The Globe and Mail, he’s published seventeen books in Canada
and the United States, including poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction. His work has
appeared worldwide in many magazines and anthologies in print and online, and has
been translated into French, Italian, Croatian, Albanian, Ukrainian, and Farsi.
“In this entertaining, often startling, compilation of prose and poetry, the things that
shall be redeemed are many and varied, described in mock-elevated language. This
is not a bleak collection but a fascinating one.”
~ ARC POETRY MAGAZINE
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POETRY
Eternity Taking Its Time
Michel Pleau. Translated by Howard Scott.
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for French-Language Poetry
With Eternity Taking Its Time, Michel Pleau invites us to a celebration of the marvellous.
He shapes words like a sculptor, with painstaking care, to give us moments of pure
beauty and flashes of luminous landscape. In a collection brushed with nostalgia, he
gently awakens us to the simple gestures of childhood. Attentive to his worlds, he
invites us to go back to the essentials, to natural elements, innocence and light, in order
to magnify the beauty of the universe.
Michel Pleau has devoted his life to literature. The recipient of many awards, he gives
lectures, takes part in public readings, leads creative writing workshops, mentors young
poets in their writing process, and contributes to several literary reviews. Winner of the
2007 Résidence d’écriture Québec-Paris, he won the Governor General’s Literary
Award for La lenteur du monde in 2008.
Howard Scott was born in southwestern Ontario and moved to Quebec in 1975. His
translation of L’Euguélionne by Louky Bersianik won the Governor General’s Literary
Award in 1997. He is a past president of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the
National Translation Program for Book Publishing for our translation activities.
Award
Winner
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POETRY
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