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New Title Information - Partners Publishers Group
National Distribution for Independent Publishers New Title Information Volume 2, Number 5 July 2010 Partners Publishers Group 2325 Jarco Drive, Holt, MI 48842 (phone) 517-694-4744 • (fax) 517-694-0617 • (orders) 800-336-3137 info@partnerspublishers group.com www.partnerspublishersgroup.com Contents Adventures in Solitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 And To Think I Got In Free!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Beyond The Chilcotin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Cold Land, Warm Hearts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Double Or Nothing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Edge Of The Sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Rumble Seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Unbreakable Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Novo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 A Wilderness Dweller’s Cookbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 I Have... Who Has...? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 All Those Drawn To Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The Cube People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Grayling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 A Thoroughly Wicked Woman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 O Canada Crosswords Book 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Vancouver Canucks Quizbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Quadra Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Tragedy At Second Narrows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Whitewater Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 A Chip Off the Old Black. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Everything Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Far West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fishing With Gubby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Can Dance Too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sooper Yooper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Walk With The Rainy Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Chimney Stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reliquary Fever:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unfurled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vivisect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walk Myself Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Witness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . God Without Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hope Lives Here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Go with the Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Campbell River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glaciers, Bears And Totems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Notes: Please visit our web site for more information. www.partnerspublishersgroup.com New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] FALL 2010 Biography / Autobiography New b ooks from HARBOUR PUBLISHING ADvENTUrES IN SoLITUDE Adventures in Solitude What Not to Wear to a Nudist Potluck and What Not to Wear to a Nudist Potluck and Other other Stories from Desolation Sound Stories from Desolation Sound Grant Lawrence Content: “By turnsGeorge hilarious, terrifying, profound and strange, this Grant Lawrence From Captain Vancouver to Muriel is the great lost Canadian adventure story; Swiss Family “Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim “Spilsbury’s Robinson asvisitors if rendered Ken Kesey inSound his youth, a kind of Coast” Spilsbury, to byDesolation Lord of the Flies through a fog of BC Chronic. ” have left behind a trail of books endowing the —Dave Bidini area with a romantic aura that helps to make it ISBN: 9781550175141 British Columbia’s most popular marine park. rom Captain George Vancouver to Muriel “Curve of Time” Trade Paper • $26.95 In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC Blanchet to Jim “Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new 288 pages • 6 x 9 Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the chapterarea to with the asaga of this storied piece of BC romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s Publication Date: 9/15/2010 coastline. most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, Carton Qty: NA Young CBC Grant’s father bought a adds piecea whole of land personality Grant Lawrence new chapter to the Harbour Publishing next tosaga theof park in the 1970s, just in time to this storied piece of BC coastline. encounter the Younggun-toting Grant’s fathercougar bought a lady, piece ofleftover land next to the park in hippies,theoutlaw bikers andtoan assortment of othercougar lady, 1970s, just in time encounter the gun-toting leftAuthor Bio: over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment other characters. In characters. In those years Desolation Soundofwas Grant Lawrence hosts the popular CBC Radio 3 Podcast with yearsgoing Desolation Sound was a place where going to the neigha placethose where to the neighbours’ potluck Grant Lawrence, and Grant Lawrence Live on CBC Radio 3 meant hugs being met withportly hugs from portly naked hippies meant bours’ beingpotluck met with from naked and Sirius 86, and can also be heard on various CBC Radio One and where Russell the Hermit’s school of life (boating, fishing, and hippies and where Russell the Hermit’s school programs such as DNTO, Spark, All Points West and On The rock ’n’ roll) was Grant’s personal Enlightenment—an influence that of life (boating, fishing, and rock ’n’ roll) was Coast. He still spends much of each summer at his cabin in the would take him away from the coast to a life of music and journalism Grant’s personal Enlightenment—an influence and eventually back again. Sound. This is his first book. that would take him away from the coast to a With rock band buddies and a few cases of beer in tow, an life of music and journalism and eventually back older, cooler Grant returns to regale us with tales of “going bush,” again. the tempting dilemma of finding an unguarded grow-op, and his With rock band buddies and a few cases of beer Memoir / Local Interest awkward struggle to convince a couple of visiting kayakers that in tow, an older, cooler Grant returns to regale ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-514-1 he’s a legit CBC radio host while sporting a wild beard and body ISBN 10: 1-55017-514-9 us with tales of “going bush,” the tempting wounds and gesticulating with a machete. 6" x 9", 288 pages, paper with French flaps dilemma ofWith finding an unguarded grow-op, and plenty of laugh-out-loud humour and inspired reverence, b&w photographs his awkward struggle to convince a couple of Adventures in Solitude delights us with the unique history of a place $26.95 visitingand kayakers that he’s a legit CBC radio host the growth of a young man amidst the magic of Desolation while sporting Sound. a wild beard and body wounds September and gesticulating with a machete. With Grant plentyLawrence of laugh-out-loud hosts the popular humour CBC Radio 3and Podcast with Grant inspiredLawrence, reverence, inCBC Solitude and GrantAdventures Lawrence Live on Radio 3 and Sirius 86, also be heard on various CBC Radio programs such as delightsanduscanwith the unique history of a One place DNTO, Spark, All West and On The Coast. He and the growth of Points a young man amidst thestill spends much of each summer atSound. his cabin in the Sound. This is his first book. magic of Desolation F promotions, book & author New Titlenews, Information Sheet •complete Partners Publishers Groupinformation • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] www.harbourpublishing.com 5 Biography FALL 2010 / Autobiography New books f r o m H A R B O U R P U B L I SH I N G To Think In Free! AND ToAnd THINK I GoT IINGot FrEE! Content: Highlights from Fifty Years on on thethe Sports Beat Highlights from Fifty Years Sports Beat Jim Taylor I Jim Taylor n this fascinating collection Canada’s most entertaining In this fascinating collection Canada’s most sportswriter revisits the glories of a career following sporting entertaining sportswriter revisits the glories events and personalities that spanned five decades. Name any of a career following sporting events and memorable event—from Canada-Russia 1972 to Rick Hansen’s personalities that spanned five decades. Name Man in Motion tour—or any famous name from Wayne Gretzky to any memorable event—from Canada-Russia 9781550174991 Muhammad Ali to ISBN: the San Diego Chicken, and Jim Taylor was there 1972 to Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion tour— giving his insightful,Trade witty andPaper often sceptical take on the subject. • $22.95 or any famous name from Wayne Gretzky to As Taylor writes, “when sport makes instant millionaires out 288 pages • 6 x 9 Muhammad Ali to the San Diego Chicken, and of kids who can hit a ball or a puck with a stick or stuff a leather Publication 8/15/2010 Jim Taylor was there giving his insightful, witty balloon through a fishnet, what’s Date: not to laugh?” and often sceptical take on the subject. Here are tales of good guys and jerks, NA journeymen and giants Carton Qty: playing games for a living with the world peering into the fishbowl As Taylor writes, “when sport makes instant Harbour Publishing and bigger, stronger, faster challengers coming at them every year. millionaires out of kids who can hit a ball or Here too are the true originals, such as boxing legend Archie a puck with a stick or stuff a leather balloon “The Mongoose” Moore, who fought his last pro fight at the age of through a fishnet, Sports / Humourwhat’s not to laugh?” 72; Sam Snead, the barefoot hillbilly who learned to play golf by hitAuthor Bio: Here are tales of good guys and jerks, journeymen ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-499-1 ting rocks with a stick and went on to win 135 tournaments; Willie ISBN 10: 1-55017-499-1 and giants playing games for a living with the O’Ree, the black New Brunswicker who 7,500 broke thesports NHL’s colour bar; three Jim Taylor has produced some columns, x 9", 288 pages, world 6"peering into paper the fishbowl and bigger, tragicasPercy Williams, the pint-sized sprinter whoHis won passionate double gold sports times many radio shows and 14 books. b&w photographs stronger, faster challengers coming at them at the Amsterdam Olympics later shot himself; writing has earned himand membership in and the plenty CFLof and BC $22.95 September every year. lesser-known heroes like the local legend Joe Johnson, who Halls of Fame and a lifetime achievementintroaward from Here too are the true originals, such as boxing Sports duced a generation of BC kids to the love of soccer. Sports Media Canada. Some of his recent books include Goin’ legend Archie “The Mongoose” Moore, who Both a retrospective of memorable goings-on in the sports Deep: The Life and Times of a CFL Quarterback with Matt fought his last pro fight at the age of 72; Sam world of the last fifty years and a first-rate read, And to Think I Got Dunigan and “Hello, Sweetheart? Gimmie Rewrite!”: My Life Snead, the barefoot hillbilly who learned to in Free! stands as proof that in the right hands sports writing can in the Wonderful World of Sports. He currently resides in West play golf by hitting rocks with a stick and went be great writing. on to win 135 tournaments; Willie O’Ree, the Vancouver, BC. Jim Taylor has produced some 7,500 sports columns, three times black New Brunswicker who broke the NHL’s as many radio shows and 14by books. His passionate sports writing Previous Books Author: colour bar; tragic Percy Williams, the pint-sized 978-1-55017-492-2 978-1-55017-437-3 has earned him membership in the CFL and BC Sports Halls of sprinter who won double Page 30 gold at the PageAmsterdam 38 2007: Goin’ Deep, 9781550174489 Fame and a lifetime achievement award from Sports Media Canada. Olympics and later shot himself; and plenty of 2008: “Hello, Sweetheart? Gimmie Rewrite!”, 9781550174373 Some of his recent books include Goin’ Deep: The Life and Times lesser-known heroes like the local legend Joe of a CFL Quarterback with Matt Dunigan and “Hello, Sweetheart? Johnson, who introduced a generation of BC Gimmie Rewrite!”: My Life in the Wonderful World of Sports. He kids to the love of soccer. currently resides in West Vancouver, BC. Both a retrospective of memorable goings-on in the sports world of the last fifty years and a firstrate read, And to Think I Got in Free! stands as 978-1-55017-448-9 proof that in the978-1-55017-359-8 right can Page writing 40 Page 42hands sports be great writing. 8 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers news, promotions, complete book & author information Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] www.harbourpublishing.com life are evident in her books, River City: A History of Campbell River and the Discovery Islands, Exploring Quadra Island: Heritage Sites and Hiking Trails and Tidal Passages: A History of the Discovery Islands. History / Local Interest • ISBN 978-1-55017-495-3 • 6" x 9", 272 pages, paper • 100+ photographs, maps • $24.95 • Available Biography / Autobiography BEYoND THE CHILCoTIN on the Home ranch with Pan Phillips Diana Phillips Beyond The Chilcotin On the Home Ranch with Pan Phillips P Diana Phillips ioneers Pan Phillips and his partner Rich Hobson carved their places in ranching history when they discovered “grass beyond the mountains” in the far reaches of the Chilcotin. Thanks to a series of hugely popular books, their exploits became the stuff of legend and Phillips became one of Canada’s enduring folk heroes. ISBN: 9781550175288 But if a man had to be tough to survive some of the roughest living Trade Paper • $19.95 in creation, what did a young girl have to be? This is the story of 304 pages • 6 x 9 Pan Phillips’ daughter Diana, who learned to trap muskrat when Publication Date: 9/15/2010 she was little more than a toddler, worked with haying crews before Carton Qty: NA she was into her teens and was renowned as the only person feisty Harbour Publishing enough to best her legendary father in a slanging match. Diana Phillips sold her ranch and moved to Vanderhoof in 2004. She has three sons and ten grandchildren all living in the area Content: and still works in the cattle industry. Beyond the Chilcotin is her first published work. Pioneers Pan Phillips and his partner Rich Hobson carved their Local Interest / History / Memoir • ISBN 978-1-55017-528-8 • 6" in x 9", places ranching history when they discovered “grass beyond 304 pages, paper • b&w photos • $19.95 • September the mountains” in the far reaches of the Chilcotin. Thanks to a series of hugely popular books, their exploits became the stuff of information legend and Phillips became one of Canada’s enduring folk 15 news, promotions, complete book & author heroes. But if a man had to be tough to survive some of the www.harbourpublishing.com Previous Books by Author: 2008: Beyond 9781550174472 the Chilcotin, roughest living in creation, what did a young girl have to be? This is the story of Pan Phillips’ daughter Diana, who learned to trap muskrat when she was little more than a toddler, worked with haying crews before she was into her teens and was renowned as the only person feisty enough to best her legendary father in a slanging match. Author Bio: Diana Phillips sold her ranch and moved to Vanderhoof in 2004. She has three sons and ten grandchildren all living in the area and still works in the cattle industry. Beyond the Chilcotin is her first published work. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] FALL 2010 Biography / Autobiography New books from HARBOUR PUBLISHING CoLD Cold LaND, WarM HEarTS Land, Warm Hearts More Memories of an arctic Medical outpost Keith MoreBillington Memories of an Artic Medical Outpost I Previous Edition: Memoir / The North Previous Books by Author: ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-534-9 2008: ISBN House Calls By 10: 1-55017-534-3 9781550174236 6" x 9", 352 pages, cloth b&w photos and maps A Lost Moose Book $29.95 Dogsled, Marketing Plan: October 978-1-55017-423-6 Page 40 n 2008 Keith Billington’s surprise bestseller, House Calls by Keith Billington Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost, vividly described Billington and his wife Muriel’s experiences providing medical care to a string of isolated First Nations settlements in the Northwest Territories during the 1960s. In Cold Land, Warm Hearts: More Memories of anISBN: Arctic Medical Outpost Billington dishes up more 9781550175349 of the hair-raising and heartwarming stories about medical Hardcover • $29.95 emergencies and Native traditions that made his first book such 352 • 6escort x 9get more than they a hit. In one story, he andpages his RCMP Publication Date: 10/15/2010 bargain for during a patrol of hunting camps as they find their loaded dogsleds plunging overQty: a massive Carton NAwaterfall, which is only navigable owing Harbour to the fact it isPublishing frozen solid. Time and again the Billingtons are awoken in the wee hours to find a life-threatening emergency unfolding before their sleepy eyes, which frequently ends by lighting a makeshift airstrip with Content: rolls of toilet paper soaked in kerosene so a steel-nerved bush pilot can be summoned on a pitch-dark mercy flight to the hospital in In 2008 Keith Billington’s surprise bestseller, House Calls Inuvik. Through it all Keith and Muriel become ever closer to the by Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost, vividly Gwich’in people of the North who serve as foster grandparents described Billington and his wife Muriel’s experiences providing to their growing family and in whose life dramas the Billingtons medical care to a string of isolated First Nations settlements inevitably become involved. In this book Keith and Muriel return to in the Northwest Territories during the 1960s. In Cold Land, their northern haunts after the passage of more than a quarter cenWarm Hearts: More Memories of an Arctic Medical Outpost tury and learn the endings to many of the stories started in the first Billington dishes up more of the hair-raising and heartwarming book. They are moved beyond tears to discover their old medical stories about medical emergencies and Native traditions that post in Fort McPherson replaced by a modern two-storey facility named for their faithful Gwich’in assistant, William Firth. Author Bio: Grippingly written and infused with great warmth, Cold Land, KeithWarm Billington as a adventure registered nurse in Britain Hearts istrained an absorbing story that rounds out theand later studied public nursing at Dalhousie University Billingtons’ Arctichealth saga with a deepened understanding of the far in Halifax, Nova He and his wife Muriel, also an EnglishNorth and Scotia. its people. trained nurse and midwife, emigrated to Canada to work at the Fort McPherson Nursing in the nurse Mackenzie Delta. They Keith Billington trainedStation as a registered in Britain and later had two children the North and a third was born later in studied publicborn healthinnursing at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He and his wife Muriel, also an English-trained nurse Author Hometown: and midwife, emigrated to Canada to work at the Fort McPherson Nursing Station in the Mackenzie Delta. They had two children born in the North and a third was born later in British Columbia. Keith and Muriel now live in Prince George, BC. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 14 news, promotions, complete book & author information FALL 2010 Biography / Autobiography New books from CAITLIN PRESS DOUBLE OR NOTHING Double Or Nothing The Flying Fur Buyer of Anahim Lake Darcy Christensen with Sage Birchwater L The Flying Fur Buyer of Anahim Lake ife has always been a bit of a gamble for Darcy Christensen. Darcy Christensen, Sage Birchwater Born in Ocean Falls in 1929, he was raised in Bella Coola Valley and Anahim Lake on the Chilcotin Plateau. The Christensen family were among the earliest white settlers on the Central Coast and West Chilcotin and his maternal grandfather, John Clayton, was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s last trading post factor in Bella Coola. For ISBN: 9781894759472 over thirty years Darcy ran the general store in Anahim Lake that Trade Paper • $24.95 had been operated by his family for more than a century. 256 pages • 6 x 9 In the 1970s Christensen bought a plane and took some flying lessons. Using his bush plane equipped with skis he delivered Publication Date: 10/15/2010 groceries to people living in the outlying area and purchased furs Carton Qty: NA from trappers as far north as Babine and Takla Lake. In no time, he Caitlin Press gained acclaim as the “Flying Fur Buyer” of the Cariboo Chilcotin. Christensen says, “All anyone had to do was wave a mink pelt at me and I’d land and buy their fur.” Whether it was playing poker as a youngster with the ranch hands on the Cless Pocket Ranch, doing stunts with his airplane, or Life flipping double or nothing with customers for a grocery order in has always been a bit of a gamble for Darcy Christensen. Born his store, Darcy has always had a penchant for gambling. He says in Ocean Falls in 1929, he was raised in Bella Coola Valley and Anahim Lake on the Chilcotin Plateau. The Christensen his jousts with Lady Luck helped break the boredom and monotony family were among the earliest white settlers on the Central of life on the frontier. Double or Nothing is a journey into the West Chilcotin Coast where and West Chilcotin and his maternal grandfather, John Clayton, was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s last trading post Christensen describes his raw and adventurous life and his friendfactor in Bella Coola. For over thirty years Darcy ran the general ship and encounters with such legends as Pan Phillips, Lester store in Anahim Lake that had been operated by his family for Dorsey, Mickey Dorsey, Domas Squinas, Fred Engebretson and Clayton Mack. Memoir / Aviation / Fur Trade ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-47-2 Darcy Christensen was born in Ocean Falls in 1929. He purchased “Darcy Christensen was born in Ocean Falls in 1929.He purchased ISBN 10: 1-894759-47-8 2009: Gumption & Grit, 9781894759373 the AC Christensen general store from his father in the ’60s and ran Christensen the AC general store from his father in the’60s and ran x 9",decades. 256 pages,Inpaper it for over three decades. In the ’70s he bought a plane, got aitlicense for over6" three the ’70s he bought a plane, got a license photos to fly and became the only flying fur buyer in the region. Hetonow fly andb&w became the only flying fur buyer in the region. He now $24.95in lives in Williams Lake, BC. lives Williams Lake, BC. Sage Birchwater is the author of Chiwid and Williams Lake: Gateway to the Cariboo Chilcotin. He was a staff writer for the Williams Lake Tribune until 2009, and is the editor of Gumption & Grit: Extraordinary Women of the Cariboo Chilcotin (Caitlin Press, 2009). Sage still lives in Williams Lake, BC, and continues to write about the Chilcotin. October New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] news, promotions, complete book & author information 21 FALL 2010 Biography / Autobiography New books from C A I T L I N P R E S S Edge OfSoUND The Sound EDGE oF THE Memoirs ofaaWest WestCoast CoastLog Log Salvager Memoirs of Salvager Jo Hammond W Previous Edition: Previous Books by Author: 2005: Home Memoir / LocalBefore InterestDark, 9781551433400 ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-49-6 ISBN 10: 1-894759-49-4 6" x 9", 256 pages, paper $24.95 Marketing Plan: October Jo Hammond hen 25-year-old Jo climbed down the ramp of the freighter Canadian Star to set foot in Vancouver, BC, in the summer of 1967, she’d never heard of log salvaging. But within two-and-ahalf years, the immigrant from England would quit her teaching job and join forcesISBN: with one 9781894759496 of the most enigmatic salvagers of the Sunshine Coast.Trade Dick andPaper Jo Hammond spent a life together • $24.95 chasing logs, rescuing boaters in distress, and 256 pages • 6 x 9 raising their two children in BC’s log salvaging mecca, Howe Sound. Publication Date: 10/15/2010 Combining Dick’s guidance and her stubborn nature to masCarton Qty: NA ter all challenges, Jo learned to maneuver their salvage boat, drive Caitlin Press dogs and tie knots, sing arias to the sea lions and suckle her child while chasing rogue logs. Edge of the Sound is both a love story and a tale of adventure between a man with an uncommonly high IQ who found his niche Content: behind the wheel of a salvaging boat and a young woman searching When Jo climbed down of of thethefreighter for her25-year-old own place in the world. Their bondthe wasramp the risk wild Canadian Star to set foot in Vancouver, BC, in summer and unpredictable sea, classical music, the beauty of the the natural ofwest 1967, never log salvaging. But within coastshe’d and the rise heard and fallof of tides that help and hinder theirtwoand-ahalf years, the immigrant from England would quit her hunt for logs that have escaped between forest and mill. As they teaching job and join forces with one of the most enigmatic work against the forces of nature, Jo Hammond learns to change salvagers of thetoSunshine Dick” and Jo Hammond spent and she learns “expect theCoast. unexpected. a life together chasing logs, rescuing boaters in distress, and raising their two children in BC’s log salvaging mecca, Howe Before immigrating to the Sunshine Coast Jo Hammond was a dairy farmer, a school teacher and a member of the Royal Liverpool Author Bio: Philharmonic Choir. She is an accomplished singer and performer Before to the Sunshine Coast Jo Hammond and hasimmigrating a University Diploma in secondary education. She began was a her dairy farmer, a school teacher and a member Royal writing career as typist and editor for her husband, of thethe author Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. She is an accomplished singer Dick Hammond, when he refused to lay his hands on a typewriter. and performer and her hasattention a University Diploma in secondary Eventually, Jo turned to her own stories, writing education. She began her writing career as typist and editor for articles for the local newspapers and then novels for young readers. her husband, the author Dick Hammond, when he refused to Her first book, Home Before Dark, was published by Orca Book Publishers in 2005. She lives in Gibsons, BC. Author Hometown: New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] FALL 2010 Biography / Autobiography New books from HARBOUR PUBLISHING RUMBLE SEAT A Victorian Childhood Remembered Helen Piddington R Rumble Seat A Victorian Childhood Remembered umble Seat is an evocative, poetically-written memoir of Helen Piddington artist Helen Piddington’s childhood in the Victoria suburb of Esquimalt—and what a childhood it was! The Piddingtons arrived from Quebec in 1924, and settled into a life that in many ways typified well-off Victoria families of the period. Helen’s father, Major Arthur Grosvenor Piddington, was a bit of an eccentric ISBN: 9781550175066 whose preferred attire, after his British army blazer, was jodhpurs Hardcover • $34.95 and riding coat or drill shorts with knee socks held up by brightly320 pages • 6 x 9 coloured garters. He dabbled in gentlemanly pursuits such as Publication Date: 9/15/2010 sheep ranching but his true passion was riding. Helen’s mother was “expected to make and receive social calls and entertain with Carton Qty: NA tea parties, dinners and dances” but she had help—a governess, Harbour Publishing a nanny, a housemaid, a cook and faithful Tim the gardener. The Piddingtons occupied an imposing home designed by Victoria’s favourite residential architect, Charles Maclure, with a grand entrance hall and private garden, tennis court, stables, paddock and meadows bordered by golf links. Family amusements included Rumble Seat is an evocative, poetically-written memoir of hosting garden fetes, playing tennis and polo, summering at Savira, artist Helen Piddington’s childhood in the Victoria suburb of their cottage on Shawnigan Lake and motoring in their mother’s Esquimalt—and what a childhood it was! The Piddingtons Morris roadster—the one with the coveted rumble seat. arrived from Quebec in 1924, and settled into a life that in many During the 1930s the Piddington’s life of privileged comfort ways typified well-off Victoria families of the period. Helen’s vanished thanks to the Great Depression and Major Piddington’s father, Major Arthur Grosvenor Piddington, was a bit of an bad luck in business. From then on the elder Piddingtons were eccentric whose preferred attire, after his British army blazer, forced to look after their vast brood themselves, the Major growing was jodhpurs and riding coat or drill shorts with knee socks their food and Mrs. P. belatedly learning to cook, keep house and care for Helen, her youngest child. Difficult as the adjustment was, Memoir / History / Local Interest there was new satisfaction to be found in sharing and making do. ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-506-6 Helen Piddington is a renowned printmaker and artist whose With sharp descriptions of the artifacts, mannerisms and 2001: The Inlet, 9781550172379 1-55017-506-8 been10:shown around the world. In 1975 she and her characters recalled from her early years, Helen Piddington’s work RumblehasISBN x 9", 320 clothLoughborough Inlet on the coastal husband 6" moved to pages, remote Seat is a captivating record of a way of life gone by and a valuable b&w photographs mainland of BC, and have lived there ever since. Her first book, addition to the social history of British Columbia. The Inlet,$34.95 is about her experiences living on this remote part of the West.September Helen Piddington is a renowned printmaker and artist whose work has been shown around the world. In 1975 she and her husband moved to remote Loughborough Inlet on the coastal mainland of BC, and have lived there ever since. Her first book, The Inlet, is about her experiences living on this remote part of the West. 978-1-55017-237-9 Page 46 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] news, promotions, complete book & author information 9 Biography / Autobiography The Unbreakable Child Kim Michele Richardson ISBN: 9781933016917 Trade Paper • $15.95 5.5 x 8.5 Publication Date: 10/15/2010 Carton Qty: NA Behler Publications Content: Author Bio: Kim is a graduate of Sullivan University and resides in Kentucky with her forever family, which includes two beloved adopted dogs, a cantankerous cat, and a ten-year-old fire-bellied newt, which she rescued after banning her family from pet store visits. Kim is an active volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, and donates her time to help survivors of abuse. She has also initiated and designed promotions to help raise money for the homeless. She has also initiated and designed promotions to help raise money for the homeless. Marketing Plan: 1. Local & National Television, Radio, & Print Publications . Book Clubs 3. Online News Sites and Blogs 10 The Unbreakable Child offers hope, justice, and forgiveness. Abuse of children is always appalling and unforgivable, whether perpetrated by a parent, a relative or a stranger. There’s an added layer of disgrace to the crime when the perpetrators abuse not only children but their own authority and religious power. Such was the case with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth at the St. Thomas/St. Vincent Orphanage, where more than a dozen nuns, a resident priest, and several other male employees routinely abused the boys and girls in their care. Author Kim Richardson survived years of physical and emotional abuse at their hands in the 1960s, abuse that began at the tender age of four. Years later, she and forty-four other survivors, including her sisters, launched a lawsuit against the nuns. That suit resulted in the first-ever monetary settlement paid by Roman Catholic nuns in the United States as compensation for decades of institutional abuse at an orphanage. This is not a book about hatred or revenge, but an inspiring story of a girl who would not be broken. Previous Edition: 2009: The Unbreakable Child, 9781601641632, Kunati Author Hometown: Louiville, KY New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] Comic Books & Graphic Novels Novo Volume 4 Michael S. Bracco ISBN: 9781934985205 Trade Paper • $9.99 96 pages • 6 x 9 Publication Date: 8/15/2010 Carton Qty: NA Alterna Comics Content: Tour Cities: Baltimore, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Brooklyn, and many other cities. Previous Books by Author: 2009: Adam Wreck & The Kalosian Space Pirates, 9781934985120 2009: Novo Vol 3 Survivors, 9781934985137 Marketing Plan: 1. Extensive online marketing . Marketing in the author’s local bookstores and comic shops 3. Mass emails through newsletter which contains over 500 contacts. Prettar, the corrupt and corpulent CEO of OXY RECO, has guarded the secret purpose of his factory from his worker slaves by supplying them with a lot of beer and a little hope. Now the ignorance he has fostered is being threatened by a stranger in the group, Novo. The hunt is on as Novo knows the secret that will change everything. He struggles to enlighten the dulled masses of downtrodden and drunken workers, while Prettar tries to protect himself from the people he has used for so long. How long will Prettar’s house of lies stand tall? Author Bio: Michael S Bracco is the artist and writer for the Graphic Novels, Birth, Novo and ADAM WRECK as well as a the owner of Spaghetti Kiss, a craft company showcasing hand screened apparel featuring Michael’s original illustrations. Michael teaches art full time to middle school kids and lives in Baltimore City with his wife, Shawna and their cats Mexico Author Hometown: Baltimore, MD New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 11 FALL 2010 Cookbooks And Cookery New b ook s from HARBOUR PUBLISH I N G A WILDErNESS DWELLEr’S A Wilderness Dweller’s Cookbook CooKBooK TheThe BestBest Bread in the World and Bread in the World andother Otherrecipes Recipes Chris Czajkowski O Cooking / Local Interest ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-518-9 ISBN 10: 1-55017-518-1 5½" x 8", 96 pages, paper b&w photographs and illustrations $14.95 October Chris ne of Chris Czajkowski’s firstCzajkowski priorities when she arrived at Nuk Tessli, a remote location in BC’s Coast Mountains, was to devise a way to bake bread. At first, she lived in a tent and her oven was a simple pile of rocks with a hole in the middle. But as she built her wilderness cabins and started providing for the clients of her ISBN: 9781550175189 wilderness adventure business, she perfected her stone oven and Paper her recipes—and wordTrade began to spread •of$14.95 Nuk Tessli and the “Best 96 pages • 5.5 x 8 Bread in the World.” Publication Date: 10/15/2010 From tangy sourdough loaves of freshly ground grain, Nuk Tessli Fruit Bread sweetened with hearty molasses Carton Qty: NA and aromatic spices, to Montreal bagels with an alpine touch, here are inspiring, Harbour Publishing adventurous recipes that bypass the bread machine. Also included are quick breads and desserts, like a hearty trail mix cake—perfect on a hike—and Nuk Tessli’s enigmatic spotted dick, plus a few indispensable Content:recipes for any wilderness dweller (or frugal urbanite), such as fresh yogurt and sprouts. One of Chris Czajkowski’s first priorities when she arrived at A Wilderness Dweller’s Cookbook is not just a collection of recNuk Tessli, a remote location in BC’s Coast Mountains, was to ipes; it’s also a fascinating account of how a wilderness dweller—in devise a way to bake bread. At first, she lived in a tent and her a non-growing climate 20 km from a road, 60 km from a store, and oven was a simple pile of rocks with a hole in the middle. But 250 km from a town large enough to have a supermarket—feeds as she built her wilderness cabins and started providing for the herself and her guests. Of particular interest to readers with their clients of her wilderness adventure business, she perfected her own wilderness dreams will be Czajkowski’s descriptions of the stone oven and her recipes—and word began to spread of Nuk logistics of getting wholesome, fresh food to the table in this remote Tessli and the “Best Bread in the World.” and spectacular location. Author Bio: 978-1-55017-441-0 Page 39 978-1-55017-375-8 Page 39 Previous Books by Author: 2007: Wildfire in the Wilderness, 9781550173758 2009: A Mountain Year, 9781550174410 978-1-55017-357-4 Page 39 12 978-1-55017-279-9 Page 39 Chris Czajkowski has lived off the grid for more than a quarter of a century. She currently the the Nukgrid Tesslifor Alpine Experience, Chris Czajkowski hasoperates lived off more than a quarter an ecotourism catering tooperates hikers andthe naturalists near theAlpine of a century.business She currently Nuk Tessli southern tip of an Tweedsmuir Provincial Park incatering British Columbia’s Experience, ecotourism business to hikers and Coast Mountains. cabin-building experiences naturalists near Her the wilderness southern and tip of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park haveBritish been documented in several books, including in Columbia’s Coastbestselling Mountains. Her wilderness and Cabin at Singing River, Snowshoeshave and Spotted Letters from cabin-building experiences been Dick: documented ina several Wilderness Dweller, of a Wilderness Wildfire in Snowshoes the bestselling books,Diary including Cabin atDweller, Singing River, Wilderness, andDick: most recently, Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Diary and Spotted LettersA from a Wilderness Dweller, Wilderness Dweller.Dweller, Wildfire in the Wilderness, and most of a Wilderness recently, A Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 12 news, promotions, complete book & author information Education and Teaching I Have... Who Has...? Teacher Created Resources Cards • $16.99 148 Cards • 5.5 x 4 Publication Date: 7/15/2010 Carton Qty: NA Teacher Created Resources Language Arts Games Grades 1–2 ISBN: 9781420678154 Grades 3–4 9781420678161 Math Games Grades 1–2 9781420678178 Grades 2–3 9781420678185 Grades 3–4 9781420678192 Content: The entire class can have fun while practicing skills in language arts and math. Hand out all 37 cards. (Some players may get more than one card.) The student whose card reads, “I have the first card. Who has…?” begins. The student whose card has the answer to that question responds and then asks a different question. This continues until the person with the last card gives the final answer and then reads, “This is the end of the game!” Each box provides 4 sets of cards for 4 different games. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 13 FALL 2010 Fiction N e w b o o k s f r om CAITLIN PRESS aLL THoSE DraWN To ME All Those Christian PetersenDrawn To Me T Short Fiction ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-50-2 ISBN 10: 1-894759-50-8 5½" x 8", 176 pages, paper by Author: Previous Books $18.95 2009: Outside the Line, 9781550028591 September 14 he junction of Highways 20 and 97 forms a rough right angle Christian Petersen around which lies the city of Williams Lake. These are the coordinates by which Christian Petersen’s fiction can be charted. From the building of the Gaol at Soda Creek to ruminations on the origins of the Barkerville fire, All Those Drawn to Me explores the unpredictable, romantic and9781894759502 spiritual qualities of life in rural BC. ISBN: The harshnessTrade of the wild west•permeates Paper $18.95 Petersen’s second collection of short fiction. In the story 176 pages • 5.5 x“Horse 8 from Persia,” a condemned man contemplates the injustice of life at his hanging Publication Date: 9/15/2010 speech: “I wished mightily that I could climb up on that horse and Carton Qty: escape the sorrowful puzzle my days hadNA become. For if it’s true Caitlin Press time is a gift, mine was not altogether pleasant.” But Petersen is just as comfortable extrapolating truths from present-day life, as in “Laketown Breakdown” where a young man struggles to stay on the right side of the law while coping with the death of his parents. And in the title story, “All Those Drawn to Me,” Petersen creates a Content: masterful blend, shifting from the gold rush to the contemporary The junction of Highways 20and andthree 97 forms rough right angle with three motives, three lives battlesawith death on the around which lies the city of Williams Lake. These are the treacherous waters of the Upper Quesnel River. coordinates by which Christian Petersen’s fiction can be charted. Whether in the past or present, Petersen’s characters explore From the building of spiritual the Gaol at Soda as Creek to ruminations romance, poverty and quandaries they wander amid the onlandscape the origins of the Barkerville fire, All Those to Me and back streets of the dusty little cities ofDrawn BC’s Central explores the unpredictable, romantic and spiritual qualities of Interior. life in rural BC. The harshness of the wild west permeates Petersen’s second Christian Petersen has lived in Williams Lake, BC, for most of the past twenty Author Bio:years. He grew up in Quesnel, and the CaribooChilcotin is the landscape of his fiction. His first collection of Christian Petersen lived inpublished WilliamsinLake, BC, for Holme most of stories, Let The Dayhas Perish, was 1999 by Beach thePublishing past twenty years. He grew up in Quesnel, and the Caribooand his novel, Outside The Line, was published in 2009 Chilcotin is the landscape hisinfiction. collectionofof by Dundurn Press. He holds of a BA Writing His fromfirst the University stories, Let The Day Perish, was published in 1999 by Beach Victoria, and a Master’s in Education from the University of New Holme Publishing and his novel, Outside The Line, was Brunswick. published in 2009 by Dundurn Press. He holds a BA in Writing from the University of Victoria, and a Master’s in Education from the University of New Brunswick. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] FALL 2010 Fiction N e w books from NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS THE CUBE pEopLE C Christian McPherson The Cube People hristian McPherson’s debut novel The Cube People pokes fun Christian McPherson at government cubicle culture through the life and times of a struggling computer programmer/novelist wannabe. McPherson surrounds his protagonist, Colin MacDonald, with a cast of screwball characters while he toils away at his government job, ISBN: 9780889712515 struggles with fertility and dreams of becoming a published writer. Trade Paper • $21.95 Recycled air, bad lighting and bizarre environmental office policies by day; scheduled love-making sessions and rejection letters by 200 pages • 5.5 x 8 night, push MacDonald to try to write his way out of his cyclical Publication Date: 10/15/2010 life story. Part tragedy, part comedy—with a bit of horror thrown Carton Qty: NA in for fun—McPherson cooks up a boiling plot and a memorable Nightwood Editions anti-hero. Christian Mcpherson’s stories and poems have won several awards and honourable mentions, including the John Spencer Hill Award and the Canadian Poetry Association’s Poetry Competition. His first book, Six Ways to Sunday, was shortlisted for theContent: Relit Award for Fiction. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario. “Christian McPherson’s debut novel 978-0-88971-227-0 The Cube People Page 70 Fiction • ISBN 978-0-88971-251-5 • 5½” x 8”, 200 pages,pokes paper • fun at government cubicle culture through the life $21.95 • October and times of a struggling computer programmer/novelist wannabe. McPherson surrounds his protagonist, Colin GraYLING MacDonald, with a cast of screwball characters while he toils away at his government job, struggles with fertility and Gillian Wigmore dreams of becoming a published writer. Recycled air, bad rayling, the fiction debut by award-winning poet Gillian lighting and bizarre environmental office policies by day; Wigmore, is a novella that follows a couple as they descend the Dease River in northwestern BC. With acutely spare storytelling, Author Bio: Previous by Author: Wigmore teasesBooks out the nuances between a man and a woman as McPherson’s stories and poems have won several Christian they meet, travel to together, dodge rocks in a boulder garden, and 2007: Six Ways Sunday, 9780889712270 awardsfish and honourable mentions, including the John Spencer their way down the river. Both characters have recently setHill themselves Award and the Canadian Poetry Association’s Poetry adrift from previous lives—and both desire to know whatCompetition. or who His first book, Six Ways to Sunday, was shortlisted they should anchor themselves to. They struggle for powerforonthe theRelit Award for Fiction. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario. river, negotiating sex and rhetoric on the sandbanks and in the canoe. Ultimately their five days together culminate with the inevitable choice to come ashore or stay on course. Gillian Wigmore grew up in Vanderhoof, BC and currently lives in Prince George. She has been published in Geist, CV2, filling station, and the Inner Harbour Review, among others. Her first poetry collection, Soft Geography (Caitlin), won theGroup ReLit•Award for New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 15 Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize. G Award and the Canadian Poetry Association’s Poetry Competition. His first book, Six Ways to Sunday, was shortlisted for the Relit Award for Fiction. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Fiction • ISBN 978-0-88971-251-5 • 5½” x 8”, 200 pages, paper • $21.95 • October Fiction Grayling GraYLING G 978-0-88971-227-0 Page 70 Gillian Wigmore rayling, the fiction debut by award-winning poet Gillian Gillian Wigmore Wigmore, is a novella that follows a couple as they descend the Dease River in northwestern BC. With acutely spare storytelling, Wigmore teases out the nuances between a man and a woman as they meet, travel together, dodge rocks in a boulder garden, and fish ISBN: 9780889712553 their way down the river. Both characters have recently set themselves Trade Paper • $18.95 adrift from previous lives—and both desire to know what or who 160 pages • 5.25 x 7.5 they should anchor themselves to. They struggle for power on the river, negotiating sex and rhetoric on the sandbanks and in the canoe. Publication Date: 10/15/2010 Ultimately their five days together culminate with the inevitable Carton Qty: NA choice to come ashore or stay on course. Nightwood Editions Gillian Wigmore grew up in Vanderhoof, BC and currently lives in Prince George. She has been published in Geist, CV2, filling station, and the Inner Harbour Review, among others. Her first poetry collection, Soft Geography (Caitlin), won the ReLit Award for Content: Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize. Fiction • ISBN 978-0-88971-255-3 • 5¼” x 7½”, 160 pages,Grayling, paper • the fiction debut by award-winning poet Gillian 978-1-894759-23-6 $18.95 • October Wigmore, is a novella that follows a couple as descend the Pagethey 77 Dease River in northwestern BC. With acutely spare storytelling, Wigmore teases out the nuances between a man and a woman 19 news, promotions, complete book & author information as they meet, travel together, dodge rocks in a boulder garden, www.nightwoodeditions.com and fish their way down the river. Both characters have recently set themselves adrift from previous lives—and both desire to know what or who they should anchor themselves to. They Previous Books by Author: 2007: Soft Geography, 9781894759236 16 Author Bio: Gillian Wigmore grew up in Vanderhoof, BC and currently lives in Prince George. She has been published in Geist, CV2, filling station, and the Inner Harbour Review, among others. Her first poetry collection, Soft Geography (Caitlin), won the ReLit Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] FALL 2010 Fiction New books from CAITLIN PRESS a THoroUGHLY WICKED WoMaN A Thoroughly Wicked Woman Murder, Perjury and Trial by Newspaper Betty Keller O Murder, Perjury and trail by Newspaper n a foggy evening in November 1905, 48-year-old Thomas Betty Keller Jackson returned to his home on Melville Street in Vancouver after nine months of prospecting north of the Skeena. Jackson was happy because he had made an important gold strike. Four days later he was dead from strychnine poisoning. Any of the other four people living in the house on Melville Street could have slipped ISBN: 9781894759489 the poison into the mixture of Epsom salts and beer that Jackson Trade Paper • $19.95 took on the morning of his death. Reporters from Vancouver’s 224 pages • 5.5 x 8 newspapers chose Jackson’s teary-eyed, fragile, 24-year-old wife, Theresa, as their first choice for the guilty party. Then as the days Publication Date: 9/15/2010 went by, their preference shifted to the dead man’s steely-eyed, Carton Qty: NA light-fingered, American mother-in-law, Esther Jones. Suspicion Caitlin Press also fell on the two boarders—Esther's nephew Harry Fisher and Ernest Exall. All of them had the opportunity to plant the poison. Eventually the police followed up on the newspapers’ revelations, the most important being that Harry Fisher was not Esther’s Content: nephew but her son. Fisher fled to Washington, and in his absence “On his mother and sister were arrested—not for murder but for per-a foggy evening in November 1905, 48-year-old Thomas Jackson returned to his home on Melville Street in Vancouver jured testimony at the coroner’s inquest. after nine What followed was a series of hearings and trials in the city’s months of prospecting north of the Skeena. Jackson was happy courtrooms with fledgling lawyers trying to make their names in because he had made an important gold strike. Four days later combat with the celebrated defence counsel Joseph Martin, KC. Athe was dead from strychnine poisoning. Any of the other four people the same time the newspapers, which were locked in a deadly circu-living in the house on Melville Street could have slipped the into the mixture of Epsom salts and beer that Jackson lation war, tried desperately to trump each other with juicy bits poison of took on the morning of his death. Reporters from Vancouver’s information, all of it splashed on their front pages week after week. In the end the two women served time in the BC Penitentiary, but AuthorCrime Bio:Fiction no one was ever tried for the murder of Thomas Jackson. 5½" x 8", 224 pages, paper Betty Keller was born in Vancouver, BC, and moved to the Acclaimed writer Betty Keller has based her sensational ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-48-9 Coast in 1980. She is a teacher, mentor, editor and story of murder and intrigue on actual events that occurredSunshine in ISBN has 10: 1-894759-48-6 a writer, and authored or co-authored seventeen books, Vancouver’s pre-World War I years. b&w photos including biographies, histories, plays and novels. She is a the Sunshine Coast’s Festival of the Written Arts Betty Keller was born in Vancouver, BC, and moved to the founder of$19.95 Sunshine Coast in 1980. She is a teacher, mentor, editor andand a the Writersin-Residence Program. Betty has won numerous writer, and has authored or co-authored seventeen books, including September biographies, histories, plays and novels. She is a founder of the Sunshine Coast’s Festival of the Written Arts and the Writersin-Residence Program. Betty has won numerous awards for her literary work. She is an avid potter, gardener and fisherperson. 978-0920576-88-8 Page 76 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] news, promotions, complete book & author information 23 17 Games FALL 2010 New books from NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS o CaNaDa CroSSWorDS BooK 11 O Canada Crosswords Book 11 F Dave Macleod & Barbara Olson rom far and wide O Canada Crosswords returns with the Dave MacLeod, Barbara Olson eleventh book in this ever popular series of Canuck-themed puzzles. Crossword enthusiasts will delight in this test of word-wit. 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Author Bio: “Brought to you by The Puzzling Sports Institute, authors of the successful Slapshot Hockey Quizbook (Nightwood,2009) and the bestselling All-Star Sports Puzzles: Hockey (Raincoast, 2007).” Previous Books by Author: 2009: Slapshot Hockey Quizbook, 9780889712348 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 19 Health The CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter 2011 Allan Borushek Regular Edition ISBN: 9781930448339 Trade Paper • $8.99 304 pages • 4.25 x 6 Carton Qty: 60 Large Print Edition ISBN: 9781930448346 Trade Paper • $12.99 304 pages • 5.25 x 7.25 Carton Qty: 40 Publication Date: 9/15/2010 Family Health Publications Previous Edition: Content: 2010: 9781930448278 2010 Large Print Edition: 9781930448292 Previous Books by Author: 2006: Food 9781930448155 & Exercise Journal, Need a quick way to check calories, carbohydrates and fat? 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New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] History New bo o k s f r o m THE QUaDra STorY a History of Quadra Island Jeanette Taylor Q FALL 2010 HARBOUR PUBLISHING Now available in paperback! The Quadra Story A History of Quadra Island Jeanette Taylor uadra Island, the largest and most populated of the Discovery Islands at the top end of Georgia Strait, has a history loaded with adventure. The Quadra Story is the product of decades of research that dates back to Taylor’s years with the BC Archives ISBN: 9781550174953 and the Museum at Campbell River. The end result is as engaging Trade Paper • $24.95 as a novel while affording a deep understanding of the turmoil 272 pages • 6 x 9 European settlement brought for the First Nations people and the Publication Date: 6/15/2010 adventure and privation settlers experienced in their search for a Carton Qty: NA better life. Harbour Publishing Jeanette Taylor is the current executive director of the Campbell River Art Gallery. Her passion for history, art and coastal life are evident in her books, River City: A History of Campbell River and the Discovery Islands, Exploring Quadra Island: Heritage Content: Sites and Hiking Trails and Tidal Passages: A History of the Discovery Islands. Quadra Island, the largest and most populated of the Discovery History / Local Interest • ISBN 978-1-55017-495-3 • 6" x 9",Islands 272 at the top end of Georgia Strait, has a history loaded pages, paper • 100+ photographs, maps • $24.95 • Availablewith adventure. The Quadra Story is the product of decades of research that dates back to Taylor’s years with the BC Archives BEYoND THE CHILCoTIN and the Museum at Campbell River. The end result is as on the Home ranch with Pan Phillips engaging as a novel while affording a deep understanding of the turmoil European settlement brought for the First Nations Diana Phillips people and the adventure and privation settlers experienced in theirtheir search for a better life. ioneers Pan Phillips and his partner Rich Hobson carved places in ranching history when they discovered “grass beyond by Author: Author Bio: thePrevious mountains” inBooks the far reaches of the Chilcotin. Thanks to a series hugely popular books, their exploits became the Jeanette stuff of Taylor is the current executive director of the Campbell 2009:ofQuadra Story, 9781550174885 legend Phillips became one of Canada’s enduring folkRiver heroes. 2009:and Tidal Passages, 9781550174601 Art Gallery. Her passion for history, art and coastal life are But if a man had to be tough to survive some of the roughest livingin her books, River City: A History of Campbell River evident and of the Discovery Islands, Exploring Quadra Island: Heritage in creation, what did a young girl have to be? This is the story Pan Phillips’ daughter Diana, who learned to trap muskratSites whenand Hiking Trails and Tidal Passages: A History of the Discovery she was little more than a toddler, worked with haying crews before Islands. she was into her teens and was renowned as the only person feisty enough to best her legendary father in a slanging match. Diana Phillips sold her ranch and moved to Vanderhoof in 2004. She has three sons and ten grandchildren all living in the area New Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Groupis• her 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 21 and stillTitle works in the cattle industry. Beyond the Chilcotin first published work. P FALL 2010 Ne w b o o k s f rom HARBOUR PUBLISHING History Now available in paperback! Tragedy At Second Narrows TraGEDY aT SECoND NarroWS The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge Eric Jamieson Eric Jamieson WINNER OF THE 2008 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S MEDAL FOR HISTORICAL WRITING O n June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard InletISBN: collapsed9781550175301 into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers. The shocking thing was that the Trade Paper • $22.95 bridge was not an272 old, pages decrepit•structure, 6 x 9 but a new one just in the midst of Publication being erected with all the support and security modern Date: 9/15/2010 engineering could provide. That somebody had made a colossal Carton Qty: NA error seemed obvious, but it would take a Royal Commission to Harbour Publishing discover how and why. For over thirty years Eric Jamieson made his living as a banker. Tragedy at Second Narrows is his second book; he is also the Content: author of South Pole—900 Miles on Foot. Jamieson lives in North Vancouver. On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial History Interest • ISBN 978-1-55017-530-1 6" x 9", 272 accident in its/ Local history when the new bridge being •built across pages, paper • b&w photos • $22.95 • September Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers. The shocking thing was Far WEST that the bridge was not an old, decrepit structure, but a new one just in the midst being erected with all the support and The Story ofofBritish Columbia security modern engineering could provide. That somebody had Daniel Francis made a colossal error seemed obvious, but it would take a Royal ritish colourful story has been told many times, Commission to Columbia’s discover how and why. but until now no one has attempted to relate the chronicle specifically Author Bio:to young readers. From the gold rush to the Gumboot Navy, from brideships to W.A.C. Bennett, BC history comes alive in For over Eric Jamieson made his as a banker. thisthirty highlyyears illustrated and vivid account byliving award-winning writer Tragedy at Second Narrows is his second book; he also the and historian Daniel Francis. Far West recounts firstiscontact with author of South Pole—900 Miles on Foot. Jamieson lives in early explorers such as Captain James Cook and Captain George North Vancouver. Vancouver and the changes the fur trade brought to the “New World” and describes how BC was born, starting with the gold Previous Books by Author: rush and Confederation eras, going through to modern times and BC’s future. 2008: speculating Tragedy at on Second Narrows, 9781550174519 Daniel Francis is the author of numerous books on Canadian history and is the editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of British Columbia. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] Children’s / History / British Columbia • ISBN 978-1-55017-532-5 • B 22 FALL 2010 History New b o o k s f r o m C A I T L I N P R E S S Whitewater Devils WHITEWaTEr DEvILS adventure on Wild Waters Adventure on Wild Waters I Jack Boudreau Jack Boudreau n 1967, in celebration of Canada’s 100th birthday, Les Voyageurs left Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, in ten 26-foot canoes. These one hundred gallant men, representing eight provinces and two territories, travelled 5,286 kilometres to Expo ’67 in Montreal. The ISBN: trip took them across such9781894759465 major lakes as Winnipeg, Lake of the Woods, Superior, Nipissing, Huron and Georgian Bay and through Trade Paper • $22.95 68 grueling portages.256 After pages 104 days• of travel, 6 x 9 the team from Manitoba paddled into the Expo site as the winners and claimed Publication Date: 10/15/2010 first prize. Carton Qty: NA In Whitewater Devils Boudreau includes an unbelievable Caitlin Press collection of adventures that take place on, in and below the raging rivers and mighty lakes of BC. There are the “grizzly” stories of wildlife photographer Leon Lorenz and the tales of Ian Norn, whose love of kayaking has taken him to roaring rapids and canyons that Content: were out of the reach of humans just a few short years ago. Then “In 1967,in celebration of Canada’s 100th birthday,Les Voyageurs is diver Russ Logan, whose normal day26-foot on the job sendsThese him leftthere Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, in ten canoes. swimming through 85 feet of 36-inch pipe beneath four feet of one hundred gallant men, representing eight provinces and or, on another occasion, the darkness the Nechako tworiverbed territories, travelled 5,286into kilometres to ofExpo ’67 in River to remove a drowned moose that was caught in the Montreal. The trip took them across such major trash lakesrack as of a pulp mill. Winnipeg, Lake of the Woods, Superior, Nipissing, Huron In his eighth collection, Boudreau once sharesportages. the and Georgian Bay and through 68 again grueling stories of the adventurous—sometimes foolhardy—men After 104 daysbrave, of travel, the team from Manitoba paddled and women of Northern BC and beyond. Previous Books by Author: 2009: Trappers & Trailblazer, Adventure / Local Interest 9781894759397 ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-46-5 2006: Sternwheelers & Canyon Cats, ISBN 10: 1-894759-46-X 9781894759205 6" x 9", 256 pages, paper b&w photos $22.95 October Author Bio: JackBoudreau Boudreauhas has devoted professional life to life British Jack devotedhishis professional to British Columbia’s forest industry working as a licensed scaler, industrial Columbia’s forest industry working as a licensed scaler, first-aid first-aid attendantattendant and forest fire with the Ministry industrial andfighter forestmostly fire fighter mostly with Forests. From early childhood he haschildhood been an avid of the an theofMinistry of Forests. From early he lover has been avid lover ofHethe is a mountain fisherman outdoors. is aoutdoors. mountainHe climber, fisherman climber, and naturalist. andBoudreau naturalist. Boudreau the author of seven BC bestsellers— is the author ofisseven BC bestsellers—Trappers and Trappers andSternwheelers Trailblazers;and Sternwheelers and Man’s Canyon Trailblazers; Canyon Cats; Crazy Creek;Cats; Crazy Creek; Wilderness Grizzly Bear Mountain; GrizzlyMan’s Bear Mountain; Dreams; Mountains,Wilderness Campfires Dreams; Mountains, Campfires & Memories and Wild &BC, Free. & Memories and Wild & Free. He now lives in Prince George, Hewhere now he lives in Prince George, BC, where he spends his time spends his time writing. writing. See•more books by Jack Boudreau on page 75 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 [email protected] 23 FALL 2010 Humor New b o o k s f r o m H A R B O U R P U B L I S H I N G a CHIp OFF THE Off OLDthe BLaCK A Chip Old Black Arthur Black A rthur Black’s voice is unmistakable on the radio and on the Arthur Black page. His is the voice of reason, with a generous helping of funny; the voice that scolds us for our universal human quirks, but who says it with the tone and words that make us laugh out loud at ourselves and our neighbours. A Chip Off the ISBN: Old Black,9781550175103 Black’s latest collection of stories, will knock a sense of humour into any reader, boasting nearly a Hardcover • $32.95 hundred tales featuring everything from yarnbombing to Bambi, 288 pages • 6to xhis9loathing of from Black’s love of the Farmer’s Almanac Publication 8/15/2010 snowmobiles and his . . . problemDate: . . . with David Suzuki. With a talent for ranting, minus the malice, Black sticks Carton Qty: NA up for the chocolate-covered marshmallow of New Zealand— Harbourconfection Publishing the politically-incorrect “Eskimo” candies. Those inclined to kvetching—a Yiddish word describing the tendency to complain persistently about everything—may just reconsider after reading A Chip Off the Old Black. After all, as Black demonstrates, it’s far more enjoyable to take the opportunity to laugh. Content: “Arthur Black’s voice is unmistakable on books the radio and arthur Black’s growing collection of award-winning on the page. His is the voice of reason, with a generous includes Pitch Black, Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle helping of funny; the voice that scolds us for our universal Again, all of which won him the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal human quirks, but who says it with the tone and words for Humour. He hosted CBC Radio One’s Basic Black program from that make us 2002, laughwhile outalsoloud and toour 1983 until usingathisourselves comedic talents host neighbours. Life Humour ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-510-3 ISBN 10: 1-55017-510-6 6" x 9", 288 pages, cloth $32.95 Television Network’s Weird Homes and Weird Wheels. His recent Abooks Chip Off Black the Old Black’s latest collection include is theBlack, New Green and the audio CD, Planet of Saltstories, will knock a sense of humour into any reader, boasting Spring, which features tales from his adopted home of Salt Spring nearly Island, BC. Previous Books by Author: September 2005: Pitch Black, 9781550173673 2009: Black is the New 9781550174946 24 978-1-55017-494-6 Page 30 978-1-55017-470-0 Page 64 Green, 978-1-55017-442-7 Page 38 Author Bio: Arthur Black’s growing collection of award-winning books includes Pitch Black, Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle Again, all of which won him the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. He hosted CBC Radio One’s Basic Black program from 1983 until 2002, while also using his comedic talents to host Life Television Network’s Weird Homes 978-1-55017-373-4 Page 38 978-1-55017-367-3 Page 38 978-1-55017-336-9 Page 38 978-1-55017-330-7 Page 38 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 6 news, promotions, complete book & author information FALL 2010 N ew books f r o m H A R B O U R Humor P U B L ISHING EvErYTHING WorKS Mike McCardell Everything Works M Humour / Local Interest ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-512-7 ISBN 10: 1-55017-512-2 6" x 9", 288 pages, cloth $32.95 September Previous Books by Author: 2009: Expanded Reilly Method, 978-1-55017-500-4 978-1-55017-443-4 9781550175004 Page 28 Page 37 2008: Getting to the Bubble, 9781550174434 978-1-55017-431-1 Page 37 978-1-55017-480-9 Page 37 978-1-55017-248-5 Page 37 ike McCardell is an institution in BC television with his antiMikeinspiration McCardell news stories of oddball that close the News Hour on Global BC. Lately he has become a publishing institution as well with his series of heartwarming books full of stories about the ways in which ordinary people cope with extraordinary challenges. Fresh from 2009’s bestselling The Expanded Reilly Method, he is back ISBN: 9781550175127 with another winner in Everything Works. • $32.95 In his new book,Hardcover McCardell reveals how to rekindle the thrill and pride we once felt as children when 288 pages • 6carrying, x 9 under one arm, that small treasure of good books from the library. Everything Publication Date: 9/15/2010 Works finds the storybook tales of real life—the simple adventures Carton Qty: NA that bring happiness to those who discover them. For McCardell, Harbour Publishing it’s looking for that something good; that something you can talk about, share, or even remember and tell someone a week later. A good story does not grow old. From the moment he rediscovered the magic of picture books, television changed for McCardell. He began looking for a pink Content: alligator or someone planting daffodils in February. His rules for “Mike McCardell is an institution in BC television with his television became applicable to his daily life: antinews stories of oddball 1) Everything works. inspiration that close the News Hour on Global BC. Lately become aispublishing 2) Continuity (veryhebighas in television) for wimps. institution as well with hiskid series heartwarming about 3) Any who of stands in front of thebooks camerafull getsof onstories television. the ways in which ordinary people cope with extraordinary 4) Good people make good stories. challenges. from 2009’s rule: bestselling The Expanded Reilly 5) AndFresh the most important Repeat number one. Method, he is back with winner in Everything Works. Everything Works seeksanother out the pink alligators and winter daffodils of our everyday lives. It searches for the grimy, mean-looking kid who holds the door open for a man with a walker, or the little Author Bio: girl who puts mittens on the stick arms of a snowman. Everything Works encourages readers tohas find oneearned good, oddball, funny, of “Mike McCardell the sweet, loyalty neat, friendly, positive, pretty or mind-blowing thing each day, and hundreds of thousands of fans for his tongue-into share that story with someone else. What a storybook world we cheek investigative reporting and humaninterest could create! stories. He is the author of the bestselling Chasing the Story God, Back Alley Reporter, Getting to the Bubble, The Expanded Mike McCardell has earned the loyalty of hundreds of thousands Reilly Method and The Blue Flames That Keep Us Warm, a of fans for his tongue-in-cheek investigative reporting and humaninterest stories. He is the author of the bestselling Chasing the Story God, Back Alley Reporter, Getting to the Bubble, The Expanded Reilly Method and The Blue Flames That Keep Us Warm, a national bestseller and BC Book Prize finalist. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 2 news, promotions, complete book & author information 25 banker. Tragedy at Second Narrows is his second book; he is also the author of South Pole—900 Miles on Foot. Jamieson lives in North Vancouver. History / Local Interest • ISBN 978-1-55017-530-1 • 6" x 9", 272 pages, paper • b&w photos • $22.95 • September Juvenile Far WEST Far West The Story of British Columbia The Story of British Columbia Daniel Francis B 16 ritish Columbia’s colourful story has been told many times, Daniel Francis but until now no one has attempted to relate the chronicle specifically to young readers. From the gold rush to the Gumboot Navy, from brideships to W.A.C. Bennett, BC history comes alive in this highly illustrated and vivid account by award-winning writer and historian DanielISBN: Francis.9781550175325 Far West recounts first contact with early explorers such as Captain James •Cook and Captain George Trade Paper $22.95 Vancouver and the changes the fur trade brought 250 pages • 8.5 x 11 to the “New World” and describes how BC was born, starting with the gold Publication Date: 9/15/2010 rush and Confederation eras, going through to modern times and Carton Qty: NA speculating on BC’s future. Daniel FrancisHarbour is the authorPublishing of numerous books on Canadian history and is the editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Children’s / History / British Columbia • ISBN 978-1-55017-532-5 • Content: 8½" x 11", 250 pages, paper • 15 colour photos, illustrations & maps • British $22.95 •Columbia’s September colourful story has been told many times, but until now no one has attempted to relate the chronicle specifically to young readers. From the gold rush&toauthor the Gumboot Navy, from news, promotions, complete book information brideships to W.A.C. Bennett, BC history comes alive in this www.harbourpublishing.com highly illustrated and vivid account by award-winning writer and historian Daniel Francis. Far West recounts first contact with early explorers such as Captain James Cook and Captain George Vancouver and the changes the fur trade brought to the “New World” and describes how BC was born, starting with the gold rush and Confederation eras, going through to modern times and speculating on BC’s future.” Author Bio: Daniel Francis is the author of numerous books on Canadian history and is the editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Previous Books by Author: 2006: Far West. 9781550174106 26 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] FALL 2010 Juvenile New books from HARBOUR PUBLISHING FISHING WITH GUBBY Kim La Fave and Gary Kent Fishing With Gubby F ishing with Gubby is the marvelously illustrated, authentic Kim La Fave, Gary Kent account of one season in the life of a salmon fisherman. Based on actual events, the story is told by award-winning children’s illustrator Kim La Fave and former fisherman Gary Kent. Together they make the wharfs, boats, fishermen and villages of the BC coast come alive with remarkable detail and humour. ISBN: 9781550174977 Gubby is a salmon fisherman who lives with his wife Millie Hardcover • $19.95 and cat Puss in a small seaside village on the west coast of British 48 pages • 9 x 12 Columbia. He keeps his boat, the Flounder—a 36-foot west coast Publication Date: 9/15/2010 salmon troller—at a local wharf with many other boats. Carton Qty: NA Gubby’s journey first takes him up BC’s west coast, through Harbour Publishing Georgia, Johnstone and Queen Charlotte straits and north past Port Hardy. He then heads into the open ocean towards treacherous Cape Scott, through to Winter Harbour and Quatsino Sound to settle in for a summer of fishing. Gubby and Puss face rolling rapids, rough and tumble storms and banks of fog, tussle with a basking shark Content: and a pod of orcas, all while trolling for spring and coho salmon with Gubby is the marvelously illustrated, authentic and visiting other fishermen and homesteaders along the “Fishing way. account of Part graphic novel and part ocean adventure story in the style one season in the life of a salmon fisherman. Based onsalty actual events, the story is told by award-winning children’s of Raymond Briggs, Fishing with Gubby not only depicts the illustrator Kim La Fave and former fisherman Gary Kent. BC coast, it captures the vanishing “golden age” when fishing was Together they make the wharfs, boats, fishermen and villages more than just a job—it was a way of life. of the BC coast come alive with remarkable detail and humour. Kim La Fave, a Governor General’s Award-winning artist, is the Gubby is a salmon fisherman who lives with his wife Millie and illustrator of Amos’s Sweater (by Janet Lunn) which won the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award and the Amelia Frances HowardAuthor Bio: Gibbon Award for illustration, That Star (by Kenneth Previous Books by Follow Author: “Kimand La Fave, a Governor Children’s / Fishing General’s Award-winning artist, is Oppel), I Am Small (by Sheree Fitch), the bestselling The Bones 2001: Boys, Girls and Body Science, the illustrator of Amos’s Sweater (by Janet Lunn) which won Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa), Boys, Girls and Body Science (by ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-497-7 9781550172362 the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Meg Hickling) and many other children’s books. He lives in Roberts ISBN 10: 1-55017-497-5Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon forboard illustration, Follow That 9" x 12", 48 pages,Award paper on with dustjacket Creek, BC. Star (by Kenneth Oppel), I Am Small (by Sheree Fitch), the colour illustrations Gary Kent grew up in Vancouver and received his BA from bestselling The Bones and Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa), the University of British Columbia. He was a commercial fisherman Ages 5 and up Boys, Girls and Body Science (by Meg Hickling) and many and salmon troller for nine years and is now a furniture maker and $19.95 instructor at the Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking. He September lives in Roberts Creek, BC. Fishing with Gubby is his first book. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 27 Juvenile I Can Dance Too Victoria Ames, Lynette Toma Colleen Fisher (illustrator) ISBN: 9781933916620 Trade Paper • $10.95 24 pages • 9 x 9 Publication Date: 8/15/2010 Carton Qty: NA Ferne Press Content: Mia would love to dance but cannot hear the music unless she wears her hearing aids. After the questions by the other children she proves she can dance and is not different than the others. Marketing Plan: 1. This book will be marketed to bookstores, schools, and libraries. . Marketing will also be done at school and library conferences 3. Marketing through the Association of Young Children 4. Marketing through the Speech Therapist Council. Author Bio: Victoria is a Speech and Language Pathologist who has worked with adults and children and continues to work with school children. Lynette Toma has worked as a speech therapist for 9 years in the school setting. Lynette and Victoria met and decided to write a story to empower children with hearing aids to follow their dreams and achieve whatever they desire. Author Hometown: San Diego, CA 28 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] Juvenile Sooper Yooper Environmental Defender Mark Newman (author) Mark Heckman (concept and illustrator) ISBN: 9781933272269 Hardcover • $17.95 48 pages • 11 x 8.5 Publication Date: 8/15/2010 Carton Qty: NA Thunder Bay Press Author Bio: Writer Mark Newman has collaborated with Mark Heckman on a number of projects during the past twenty years. As an editor and photojournalist, he works with the minor league affiliates of the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers, as well as serving as a communications specialist for corporations in a wide variety of industries. Artist Mark Heckman has attracted attention to a host of environmental and social issues through creative billboards that have appeared across the country. Featured on the pages of both Time and Newsweek by the age of 27, he built a career that spanned a wide variety of projects, from designing the logo for actor Dustin Hoffman’s production company to painting the portrait of President Gerald R. Ford for the Michigan State Capitol building. Marketing Plan: 1. Direct marketing to Michigan book and gifts stores. . Author signings. Content: Our planet is in peril. That’s the belief behind Sooper Yooper, the story of one man’s efforts to defend the environment against the negative forces that threaten our natural resources. Billy Cooper is not your typical crime fighter. The fact that he displays no apparent superpowers is intentional. The book’s authors felt it was important to underscore their contention that the average person—not someone endowed with X-ray vision or superhuman strength—can make a difference and help safeguard the planet. Much of the story takes place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the northernmost U.S. portion of the Great Lakes, the largest surface freshwater system on the earth, representing about 21 percent of the world’s supply. It is an area that demands protection. With freshwater becoming increasingly important in the twenty-first century, mankind will have to fight battles against the villainous issues of toxic and nutrient pollution, invasive species, and habitat degradation. Billy Cooper and millions of others like him must remain vigilant or the consequences will be dire. Author Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 29 FALL 2010 Nature New book s f r o m H A R B O U R P U B L I S H I N G a WaLK WITH THE raINY SISTErS A Walk With The Rainy Sisters Stephen Hume In Praise of British Columbia’s Places In Praise of British Columbia’s Places T his book is a lyrical testament to a great love affair between Stephen Hume the writer and his region. In A Walk with the Rainy Sisters, one of British Columbia’s favourite authors writes with passion about his favourite topic—the geography of British Columbia. Stephen Hume guides readers through the natural world, moving from the thin, cold air of British Columbia’s high country to the fecundity ISBN: 9781550175059 and silence of the deep rainforest. He writes of the iridescence of Hardcover • $32.95 dragonflies dancing out brief lives above summer ponds and the 288 pages • 6 x 9 brittle forests of glass sponges growing in the lightless depths of Publication Date: 8/15/2010 the continental shelf, where they have flourished undisturbed since Carton Qty: NA the Jurassic. Hume contemplates the meaning of rain; the tawny islets in the Salish Sea; what the night sky tells us about our place Harbour Publishing in time; people who choose to live at the margins and the relentless passage of lives and seasons, loss and renewal. “What Hume has forgotten about this province is more than most journalists will ever know,” wrote Terry Glavin. RobertaContent: Morris wrote, “He unburies language.” A Walk with the Rainy Sisters “This book is a lyrical testament to a great love affair between invites readers once again to share the author’s love and awethe of this writer and his region. In A Walk with the Rainy Sisters, province. one of British Columbia’s favourite authors writes with passion Interesttopic—the / Nature geography of British Columbia. about his Local favourite Stephen Hume was raised in fishing, farming and logging Stephen ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-505-9 Hume guides readers through the natural world, communities across BC and studied at the University of Victoria. ISBN 10: moving from the1-55017-505-X thin, cold air of British Columbia’s high Hume has been a columnist at the Vancouver Sun for more country than 6" x 9", 288 pages, cloth to the fecundity and silence of the deep rainforest. He 20 years. His poetry, essays and journalism have won more than a writes of $32.95 the iridescence of dragonflies dancing out brief lives dozen awards. Other books include Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed, Bush Telegraph, Off the Map and Simon Fraser:Author In September Bio: Search of Modern British Columbia, winner of the Roderick HaigPrevious Books by Author: Stephen Hume was raised in fishing, farming and logging Brown prize in 2009. He also teaches writing at the University of 2004: Raincoast Chronicles 20, communities across BC and studied at the University of Victoria. Victoria and Vancouver Island University. 9781550173130 2008: Simon Fraser, 9781550174342 30 978-1-55017-434-2 Page 39 Hume has been a columnist at the Vancouver Sun for more than 20 years. His poetry, essays and journalism have won more than a dozen awards. Other books include Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed, Bush Telegraph, Off the Map and Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia, winner of the Roderick Haig-Brown prize in 2009. He also teaches writing at the University of Victoria and Vancouver Island University. 978-1-55017-317-8 Page 47 978-1-55017-239-3 Page 46 978-1-55017-313-0 Page 45 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] news, promotions, complete book & author information 7 Poetry FALL 2010 New books from NIGHTWOOD EDITIONS The Chimney Stone THE CHIMNEY SToNE Rob Winger I Poetry Previous Books by Author: ISBN 13: 978-0-88971-249-2 2007:ISBN Muybridges Horse, 9780889712317 10: 0-88971-249-2 5½” x 8”, 80 pages, paper $17.95 October Winger n this eagerly anticipatedRob follow-up to his award-winning, critically lauded debut, Rob Winger’s sophomore collection, The Chimney Stone, bends the contemporary lyric into startling new shapes. Concentrating on a splendid mess of headlines, wars, politics, relationships and artistic influences, Winger’s ghazals ask 9780889712492 us how to negotiateISBN: the complex commitments and chaotic tumult of our daily lives. Trade Paper • $17.95 Making use of the80 ghazal’s original address pages • 5.5 x 8 to both a secular lover and a sacred ethics, Winger’s four sections move from examiPublication Date: 10/15/2010 nations of gender in “Iron John” and “Bloody Mary,” to an ironic NA investigation of commonCarton experienceQty: in “Idiot Wind,” to a record of Nightwood both human rights abuses and personalEditions epiphany in “Blind Date.” In the process, Winger not only engages in dialogue with other poets—John Thompson, Phyllis Webb, Adrienne Rich, Ghalib, and more—but also welcomes other voices, measures, and musical phrases into his couplets. Here, Rimbaud rubs shoulders with Content: Joe Strummer and David Byrne; Dylan exchanges one-liners with Gaston Bachelard; Johnny Cash spars with the Fisk Jubilee Singers; “In this eagerly anticipated follow-up to his awardand Gretzky makes a pass to a smooth right winger. winning, critically lauded debut, Rob Winger’s sophomore Drifting from razor-carved sternums, to Lhasa runways, collection, The Chimney Stone, bends the contemporary to Southeast Asian temples and beaches, to eighteenth-century lyric into startling new shapes. Concentrating on a splendid shipwrecks, bloody tanks, rusty apartheid, blind genocide and mess of headlines, wars, politics, relationships and artistic burning teddy bears, The Chimney Stone urges us to re-examine influences, ask world, us how to how negotiate the not only howWinger’s we order theghazals contemporary but also complex commitments and chaotic tumult of our we become its citizens or revolutionaries, grandparents or kids,daily lives. protestors or politicians. Ethically charged, tenderly observed, and masterfully realized, Winger’s poems are a vital addition to the Author Bio: evolution. ghazal’s continued “Rob Winger grew up in a tiny Ontario town, and has since lived in Rob Winger grewand up in a tiny Ontario and has since livedininliterary eastern Canada Asia. His worktown, has been published eastern Canada His workand has been in literary journals acrossand theAsia. country, his published debut poetry collection, journals across the country, and his debut poetry collection, Muybridge’s Horse, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Muybridge’s Horse, was Book shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award and the Ottawa Book Award. Award, the Trillium Book Award and the Ottawa Book Award. Helives with He recently completed his doctoral studies. Winger recently completed his doctoral studies. Winger lives with his family in Ottawa, Ontario, where he skates to work each winter. 978-0-88971-231-7 Page 69 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 18 news, promotions, complete book & author information 31 Poetry Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems Beckian Fritz Goldberg ISBN: 9781930974944 Trade Paper • $18.00 215 pages • 7 x 9.75 Publication Date: 10/1/2010 Carton Qty: 30 New Issues Poetry & Prose Content: Previous Books by Author: 2005: Lie Awake Lake, 9780932440259 2006: The Book of Accident, 9781931968355 Marketing Plan: 1. Bound galleys. . Review copies to national reviewers of poetry. 3. Ads in American Poet, American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers, and AWP Writers Chronicle. 4. Submissions to National Book Award, Pulitzer Prizes, and various other national poetry book awards. Author Hometown: Carefree, AZ 32 Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems gathers the work of Beckian Fritz Goldberg, one of her generation’s premiere voices and its fiercest proponent of a free imagination. From the beginning of her career and in all of her six acclaimed volumes, Goldberg’s poetry has rendered labels—narrative, meditative, lyric, experimental—irrelevant. Author Bio: Beckian Fritz Goldberg holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College and is the author of six volumes of poetry. Her work has appeared widely in anthologies and journals including, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry l995, Field, The Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, The Iowa Review, New American Poets of the 90’s and The Massachusetts Review. She has been awarded the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award, The University of Akron Press Poetry Prize, the Field Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. Goldberg is currently Professor of English at Arizona State University. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] LoudSpeaker Festival, a festival of music, theatre and poetry in celebration of International Women’s Day. Walk Myself Home is her first anthology. Anthology / Poetry / Memoirs • ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-51-9 • 6" x 9", paper, 180 pages • $19.95 • September Poetry UNFUrLED Collected Poetry from Northern BC Women A Unfurled Collected Poetry from Northern BC Women Edited by Debbie Keahey edited by Debbie Keahey mbulance lights flash as a baby is born on a busy city street, pine beetles paint forests a palette of new colours, a young boy faces a watery death under the ice of a frozen lake, and a mother stands in a bathtub at midnight wearing only her gumboots. In ISBN: 9781894759526 this anthology of new writing, women poets from Northern BC share their refreshing, intriguing, mystical and sometimes mythical Trade Paper • $17.95 insights into rural and urban life. Unfurled is a unique blend of 120 pages • 6 x 9 emerging and familiar voices and includes work from Gillian Publication Date: 9/15/2010 Wigmore, Jacqueline Baldwin, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Kane, Laisha Carton Qty: NA Rosnau, Leanne Boschman and Jamella Hagen—truly a celebration Caitlin Press of the women of the North. Debbie Keahey is an award-winning writer and editor. Her books include a collection of poetry, waking blood, a book of literary Content: criticism, Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature, and an anthology of women’s writing, The Madwoman in the“Ambulance Academy. lights flash as a of baby is sales bornwill onbeadonated busy city A portion books pine beetles paintto forests a palette of new colours, a Anthology / Poetry • ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-52-6 • 6" xstreet, 9", paper, BC Society of Transition Houses. young boy faces a watery death under the ice of a frozen 120 pages • $17.95 • September lake, and a mother stands in a bathtub at midnight wearing only her gumboots. In this anthology of new writing, women news, promotions, complete book & author information poets from Northern BC share their refreshing, intriguing,25 mystical and sometimes mythical insights into rural and www.caitlin-press.com urban life. Unfurled is a unique blend of emerging and familiar voices and includes work from Gillian Wigmore, Jacqueline Baldwin, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Kane, Laisha Rosnau, Leanne Boschman and Jamella Hagen—truly a celebration of the women of the North.” Author Bio: Debbie Keahey is an award-winning writer and editor. Her books include a collection of poetry, waking blood, a book of literary criticism, Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature, and an anthology of women’s writing, The Madwoman in the Academy. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 33 Poetry Vivisect Lisa Lewis ISBN: 9781930974920 Trade Paper • $18.00 79 pages • 6 x 9.75 Publication Date: 10/1/2010 Carton Qty: 30 New Issues Poetry & Prose Content: Previous Books by Author: 1994: The Unbeliever, 9780299144005 1998: Silent Treatment, 9780140589023 Marketing Plan: 1. Galleys. Review copies to national journals and reviewers. . Submission to poetry book awards. 3. Ads in Poets & Writers, AWP Writers Chronicle, American Poetry Review, American Poet. 4. Displays at bookfairs. Author Hometown: Stillwater, OK 34 “The remarkable dynamism of this book comes partly from the struggle it enacts between the confessional and postmodern modes. As the title Vivisect suggests, Lewis often seems to slice right into the living body, exposing the heart itself still beating with its dark secrets. But if language is the scalpel, it is also the flesh, offering at times a tough or slippery resistance, and revealing, when penetrated, more language that leads in multiple and unexpected directions, yet, like the mind, keeps circling back irresistibly to the troubling subjects it most wants to avoid. The result is rich, powerful, and complex poetry that gathers more weight with each reading.” —Jeffrey Harrison Author Bio: Lisa Lewis’s previous collections are The Unbeliever (Brittingham Prize), Silent Treatment (National Poetry Series), Story Box (Poetry West Chapbook Contest), and Burned House with Swimming Pool (American Poetry Journal Book Prize). Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Fence, Rattle, Missouri Review, Washington Square, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and two editions of Best American Poetry. She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as poetry editor for the Cimarron Review. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] Poetry New WaLK MYSELF HoME an anthology to End Violence against Women Edited by Andrea Routley T FALL 2010 books from CAITLIN PRESS Walk Myself Home An Anthology to End Violence Against Women Andrea Routley here is an epidemic of violence against women in Canada and the world. For many women physical and sexual assault, or the threat of such violence, is a daily reality. Walk Myself Home is an anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and oral interviews on the ISBN: 9781894759519 subject of violence against women including contributions by Kate Trade Paper • $19.95 Braid, Yasuko Thahn and Susan Musgrave. 180 pages • 6 x 9 Walk Myself Home began as a small idea: to create a chapbook Publication Date: 9/15/2010 and sell it at the next LoudSpeaker Festival. The response was overwhelming. This small idea found a chorus of voices, and its sound Carton Qty: NA was too big for a chapbook. Caitlin Press andrea routley is the co-founder of Victoria, BC’s LoudSpeaker Festival, a festival of music, theatre and poetry in celebration of International Women’s Day. Walk Myself Home is her Content: first anthology. There•is6"an Anthology / Poetry / Memoirs • ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-51-9 x epidemic of violence against women in Canada and the world. For many women physical and sexual assault, or the 9", paper, 180 pages • $19.95 • September threat of such violence, is a daily reality. Walk Myself Home is an anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and oral interviews on the subject of violence against women including contributions Collected Poetry from by Kate Braid, Yasuko Thahn and Susan Musgrave. Walk Myself Home began as a small idea: to create a chapbook Northern BC Women and sell it at the next LoudSpeaker Festival. The response was Edited by Debbie Keahey mbulance lights flash as a baby is born on a busyoverwhelming. city street, This small idea found a chorus of voices, and its sound was too pine beetles paint forests a palette of new colours, a young boy big for a chapbook. UNFUrLED A faces a watery death under the ice of a frozen lake, and a mother stands in a bathtub at midnight wearing only her gumboots. In Author Bio: this anthology of new writing, women poets from Northern BC Andrea Routley is the co-founder of Victoria, BC’s LoudSpeaker share their refreshing, intriguing, mystical and sometimes mythical Festival, insights into rural and urban life. Unfurled is a unique blend of a festival of music, theatre and poetry in celebration International Women’s Day. Walk Myself Home is her first emerging and familiar voices and includes work fromof Gillian anthology. Wigmore, Jacqueline Baldwin, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Kane, Laisha Rosnau, Leanne Boschman and Jamella Hagen—truly a celebration of the women of the North. Debbie Keahey is an award-winning writer and editor. Her books include a collection waking blood,Group a book• 517.694.4744 of literary • [email protected] New Title Information Sheetof•poetry, Partners Publishers 35 criticism, Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature, and FALL 2010 Poetry N e w b o o k s f r om HARBOUR PUBLISHING WITNESS Witness Selected Poems 1970–2010 Patrick Lane Selected Poems 1970 - 2010 “Lane is a poet . . . of the Patrick individual,Lane hard-hitting poem; like physical blows, he wields his pieces like small threats of intense beauty.” —Globe and Mail “One of the few poets who can leave you not just shaken, but shaking.” —Vancouver Sun ISBN: 9781550175080 Trade Paper • $16.95 80 pages • 6 x 9 atrick Lane is one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets, winner of Publication Date: 9/15/2010 numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award for Carton Qty:Award, NA the Lieutenant Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and three National Harbour Publishing P Magazine Awards. His distinguished career spans forty-five years and twenty-four volumes of poetry as well as award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction. Content: Witness is the only volume to cover the breadth of Lane’s career andLane gatherisupone the of finest of his work—from earlypoets, poemswinner of “Patrick Canada’s pre-eminent penned during his literary beginnings to new poems written at theAward numerous awards, including the Governor General’s height of his career. Fierce, piercing, and unflinchingly honest, Lane the for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award, explores the darker side of human nature and desire even as he Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and looks toNational the future with a hopefulAwards. eye, for “even words/there career three Magazine Hisamong distinguished are bright seeds hidden . . . ” spans forty-five years and twenty-four volumes of poetry This striking volume is required reading, not only for fans of Patrick Lane’s work, but for poetry lovers and Canadian literature enthusiasts Authoreverywhere. Bio: Poetry ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-508-0 ISBN 10: 1-55017-508-4 6" x 9", 96 pages, paper $16.95 September Previous Books by Author: 2007: Last Water Song, 9781550174502 978-1-55017-328-4 978-1-55017-450-2 2008: Red Dog, Red Dog. 9780771046353 Page 59 Page 59 36 978-1-55017-226-3 Page 59 978-1-55017-174-7 Page 59 978-1-55017-119-8 Page 59 Patrick Lane in 1939 in Nelson, BC. He has worked at a worked Patrick Lanewas wasborn born in 1939 in Nelson, BC. He has variety of jobs, of fromjobs, labourer to industrial but much at a variety from laboureraccountant, to industrial accountant, of hismuch life hasofbeen a writer teacher, but hisspent life as has beenand spent as aincluding writer time and teacher, as writer-in-residence at Concordia University,atthe University of including time as writer-in-residence Concordia University, Alberta and the University of and Toronto. has also taught creative He has the University of Alberta theHe University of Toronto. writing at thecreative Universitywriting of Saskatchewan and the University also taught at the University of Saskatchewan of Victoria. His memoir, There is a Season was nominated for is a Season and the University of Victoria. His memoir, There numerous national prizes and won the BC Award for Canadian was nominated for numerous national prizes and won the BC Non-Fiction 2005. His debut novel, Red Dog, Red Dog wasdebut novel, Award for inCanadian Non-Fiction in 2005. His shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. Lane now Red Dog, Red Dog was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust makes his home near Victoria, BC, with his wife, the poet Lorna Fiction Prize. Lane now makes his home near Victoria, BC, Crozier. with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 10 news, promotions, complete book & author information Religion God Without Religion Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths Sankara Saranam Foreword by Arun Gandhi ISBN: 9780972445016 Hardcover • $25.00 283 pages • 6 x 9 Publication Date: 6/1/2005 Carton Qty: 26 The Pranayama Institute Content: Disillusioned with organized religion, some people escape into New Age movements and others retreat from their spiritual moorings altogether. A more satisfying and transformative option is to embark on a quest to discover God on your own. Using time-tested tools of spiritual investigation, it becomes possible to examine your present beliefs, explore the nature of God and sense of self, and ultimately expand your identity. This book is a classic and introduces readers to an age-old approach to spiritual inquiry. Included are seventeen universal techniques for developing a personal relationship with God and broadening your view of yourself, others, and all of life. Author Bio: Sankara Saranam , the son of self-exiled Iraqi Jews, holds a BA in Religion from Columbia University and an MA in Sanskirt and Classic Eastern Texts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. A former monk and present-day teacher, lecturer, world traveler, poet and composer. He is currently running for governor of New Mexico. He lives in Columbus, NM with his family. Author Hometown: Columbus, NM New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 37 FALL 2010 Religion New books from HARBOUR PUBLISHING HopE LIvES HErE A History of vancouver’s First United Church Bob Burrows N Hope Lives Here A History of Vancouver’s First United Church o church in Canada has generated more news coverage for Bob Burrows more years than Vancouver’s First United. That has everything to do with its location in the heart of the infamous Downtown Eastside and with its role as caregiver and defender of the poor, the needy and the homeless inhabitants of Canada’s poorest postal code. Like Mother Teresa’s mission to the slums of Calcutta, ISBN: 9781550175202 the First United seizes its position among the marginalized as Trade Paper • $24.95 an opportunity to serve and has proven a shining example of 352 pages • 6 x 9 humanitarian activism for 125 years. Famous for its defence of the jobless poor during the Great Publication Date: 10/15/2010 Depression under the leadership of the Rev. Andrew Roddan, it Carton Qty: NA is now equally renowned as a bastion of support for modern-day Harbour Publishing street people with more complicated problems. With its roots in the early Presbyterian and Methodist Church Missions established in Vancouver in 1885 and 1888, the history of the First United Church spans that of the city it resides in. During that time it has seen the Content: area around it and the population it serves undergo tremendous “No church in Canada has generated more news coverage for changes, as initial generations moved out to the suburbs, and the more years than Vancouver’s First United. That has everything congregation assisted with the settling of newcomers from all over to do with its location in the heart of the infamous Downtown the world. Eastside and with its role as caregiver and defender of the In this well-written and lively account, Burrows, himself a poor, the needy and the homeless inhabitants of Canada’s United Church minister for over four decades, brings his lifetime of poorest postal code. Like Mother Teresa’s mission to the commitment and compassion to the remarkable history of the First slums of Calcutta, the First United seizes its position among United Church in Hope Lives Here. the marginalized as an opportunity to serve and has proven Bob Burrows began his work on the British Columbia coast Author History Bio: / Religion / Local Interest as minister and captain ofby a mission boat based at Ocean Falls Previous Books Author: ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-520-2 began his work on the British Columbia coast as in 1960. From 1962 to 1966 he was the missionary-pilot ofBob the Burrows 2004: in based thein Alert Wilderness, ISBN 10: 1-55017-520-3 minister captain of a mission boat based at Ocean Falls in church’sHealing Cessna aircraft Bay. For the next eight years and 9781550173383 x 9", 288 to pages, 1966paper he was the missionary-pilot of the he was minister and superintendent of First United Church1960. in From6"1962 80 b&waircraft photographs church’s based in Alert Bay. For the next eight Vancouver. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Cessna years minister and superintendent of First United Church the University of Toronto in 2001 in recognition of a lifetime of he was$24.95 in Vancouver. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity service to the United Church and his community. Bob Burrows is also the author of Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United October Church Mission Hospitals. He lives in Vancouver, BC. 38 978-1-55017-338-3 Page 49 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] news, promotions, complete book & author information 13 Self Help Go with the Flow Stress & Pain Release Guide Gina Giacomini ISBN: 9780966942712 Trade Paper • $14.95 144 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 Publication Date: 7/15/2010 Carton Qty: 48 Innervisions Publications Content: Marketing Plan: Author will actively promote this book through tours and media in the Northern California area. She is a recognized authority on intuition, and has several radio and newspaper interviews set up. Bookstore and library events are planned as well. Tour Cities: San Francisco, Reno, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Denver, Santa Fe, Albuquerque. Previous Books by Author: 1999: Bringing Intuition to Work, 9780966942705 2003: Intuition: Key to Divination, 9780712629348 This guide offers quick, easy techniques to intuitively respond to stress and pain using an inner approach with powerful outer results. Relieve anxiety and increase awareness with this whole body approach to life. Throughout the body, inner instincts and insights are waiting to be activated. Release the “fight or flight” response, rediscover the instinctual self and re-humanize your life. Includes step-by-step illustrated instructions. Author Bio: Gina Giacomini is a white water rafter, intuitive and motivational speaker. She has been teaching awareness courses for the past twenty years. With a background in education and outdoor adventure training, she shares coping and survival skills for today’s fast-paced world. Author Hometown: Coloma, CA New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] 39 FALL 2010 Travel N e w books fro m H A R B O U R P U B L I S HING CaMpBELL rIvEr Campbell River Gateway to the Inside passage Including Strathcona, Gatewaythe to Discovery the InsideIslands Passage and the Mainland Inlets Ian Douglas, photos byIan Boomer Jerritt Douglas C Local Interest / Travel / Photography Previous Books by Author: ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-501-1 ISBN 10: Exploring 1-55017-501-7 Quadra 2001: 8½" x 11", 144 pages, cloth 9780968889008 200 colour photographs $34.95 September 40 4 Island. photos by Boomer Jerritt ampbell River is a modern city of 30,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island that still retains an aura of the frontier, a result of its status as gateway to the wilder reaches of the upper BC coast. Although the community has roots in mining, fishing and logging, it has long ISBN: been a recreational centre, famous for the size of 9781550175011 its “Tyee” salmon. Hardcover • $34.95 Campbell River is three books in one: it blends the city’s 144 pages 8.5breathtaking x 11 scenery fascinating history, contemporary life•and 9/15/2010 into one volume.Publication The informativeDate: text by local writer Ian Douglas features the area’s rich First Nations culture and Carton Qty: NAkey pioneers along with modern-day artists, business people and community leaders. Harbour Publishing We meet Charles Thulin, the “father of Campbell River,” who came to the area in 1904 and built the town’s first hotel and store; and Content: writer, sport fisher and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown, whose home has become Site and literary landmark.on We the east “Campbell Rivera BC is Heritage a modern city of 30,000 explore areas around the city including Mittlenatch Island, a seabirdof the coast of Vancouver Island that still retains an aura colony and nature reserve nicknamed the “Galapagos of the Gulf frontier, a result of its status as gateway to theofwilder Georgia” of and the majestic Strathcona Park, BC’s oldest provincial park. reaches upper BC coast. Although the community Quadra Island resident and author Ian Douglas interviewed has roots in mining, fishing and logging, it has long been a dozens of locals to bring to life the community of Campbell River recreational centre, famous for the size of its “Tyee” salmon. and the surrounding islands, and award-winning photographer Boomer Jerritt skilfully illustrates the story with breathtaking phoCampbell River is three books in one: it blends the city’s tographs of the people, places and wildlife that make this part of Vancouver Island Author Bio:unique. The result is a beautiful coffee-table book that celebrates the beauty of the region, and the people—past and Ian Douglas have is the Exploring present—that madeco-author the area theof special place it isQuadra today. Island: Heritage Sites and Hiking Trails (with Jeanette Taylor), and has been published Sail, Pacific Yachting, Cottage Ian Douglas is the co-author ofinExploring Quadra Island: Heritage Magazine and West Coast Mariner. He lives in Heriot Bay, BC. Sites and Hiking Trails (with Jeanette Taylor), and has been published in Sail, Pacific Yachting, Cottage Magazine and West Coast Boomer Jerritt a graduate Mariner. He lives inisHeriot Bay, BC. of the Western Academy of Photography recipient of the Boomer and Jerritt is a graduate of Freeman the WesternPatterson Academy ofaward. His photographs are recipient also featured in The Comox Courtenay, Photography and of the Freeman PattersonValley: award. His Comox, Cumberland and in Area. He lives in Courtenay, Comox, BC, and photographs are also featured The Comox Valley: teaches North Island College. Comox, photography Cumberland andatArea. He lives in Comox, BC, and teaches photography at North Island College. New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] news, promotions, complete book & author information FALL 2010 Travel New bo o k s f r o m H A R B O U R P U B L I S H I N G GLaCIErS, BEarS aND ToTEMS Sailing in Search of the real Southeast alaska Glaciers, Bears And Totems Sailing in Search of the Real Southeast Alaska Elsie Hulsizer M arine writer Elsie Hulsizer, whose Voyages to Windward Elsie Hulsizer unlocked the mysteries of cruising Vancouver Island’s west coast, now does the same for that other great unknown of West Coast cruising, Southeastern Alaska. Having avoided the Alaskan challenge for years, Elsie and her husband Steve set out on the trusty Osprey on May 14, 2006, and spent the next three summers ISBN: 9781550175165 sailing, writing and photographing the towering fjords, immaculate Hardcover • $44.95 glaciers, throwback fishing villages and overexposed tourist traps of 320 pages • 8 x 10 America’s largest state. They drifted past calving glaciers, watched Publication Date: 10/15/2010 bears feeding in green marshes, smelled the fresh cedar of newly carved totem poles and followed the path of gold prospectors on the Carton Qty: NA White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad. Sometimes it was difficult Harbour Publishing to discern the real Alaska beneath the façade, but Hulsizer finds it in many places, from the wild beauty of the ocean to the small coastal villages she visits and, sometimes, even where the tourists go. Glaciers, Bears and Totems is a rich book of adventure travel that Content: is as valuable for its reading fun as for its travel information. “Marine writer Elsie Hulsizer, whose Voyages to Windward unlocked the mysteries of cruising Vancouver Island’s west An environmental professional with a degree in oceanography, coast, now does the same for that other great unknown of Elsie Hulsizer lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband Steve. West Coast cruising, Southeastern Alaska. Having avoided She has a certificate in fine art photography from the Photographic the Alaskan challenge for years, Elsie and her husband Steve Center Northwest and has exhibited her art in various galleries. She set out on the trusty Osprey on May 14, 2006, and spent is also the author of Voyages to Windward: Sailing Adventures on the next three summers sailing, writing and photographing Vancouver Island’s West Coast. the towering fjords, immaculate glaciers, throwback fishing Previous Books by Author: 2005: Voyages 9781550173666 to Windward, AuthorTravel Bio:/ Regional Interest ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-516-5 An environmental professional with a degree in oceanography, ISBN 10: 1-55017-516-5 Elsie Hulsizer lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband x 10", pages, cloth Steve. She8"has a 320 certificate in fine art photography from the colourCenter and b&w photographsand has exhibited her art in Photographic Northwest and maps various galleries. She is also the author of Voyages to Windward: $44.95 Sailing Adventures on Vancouver Island’s West Coast. October 978-1-55017-366-6 Page 44 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] news, promotions, complete book & author information 11 41 Travel FALL 2010 N e w b o oks from HARBOUR PUBLISHING Victoria VICTorIa Crown Jewel of British Columbia Crown Jewel of British Columbia Including Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Saanich and the Peninsula Susan Mayse, photos by Chris Cheadle Susan Mayse photos by Chris Cheadle B ritish Columbia’s fabled capital city has never looked better than in this multi-faceted photo essay, history and travel guide by two of the area’s most talented long-time residents. Susan Mayse’s compelling narrative is masterfully illustrated by ISBN: 9781550175035 photographer Chris Cheadle’s vibrant images. With the authors’ Hardcover • $34.95 guidance, the reader explores Victoria’s famous landmarks, from the Butchart Gardens to the possibly haunted Empress Hotel to the 144 pages • 8.5 x 11 undoubtedly haunted Ross Bay Cemetery. Publication Date: 9/15/2010 Victoria: Crown Jewel of British Columbia moves from Carton Qty: NA Victoria’s Inner Harbour—the main point of arrival for visitors for Harbour Publishing 165 years—to the surrounding areas including Port Renfrew on the wild west coast, the forested slopes of Malahat Ridge and the rolling farmlands of the Saanich Peninsula. It also travels backContent: ward through time from the Victoria of today to the area’s diverse and sometimes bizarre history, and explores the future as“British the city Columbia’s fabled capital city has never looked better grapples with environmental sustainability amidst increasing thanpopin this multi-faceted photo essay, history and travel guide ulation pressures. Souvenir book, history and contemporary guide,of the area’s most talented long-time residents. Susan by two Victoria is a volume that will appeal to residents and visitors alike. compelling narrative is masterfully illustrated by Mayse’s photographer Chris Cheadle’s vibrant images. With the authors’ Susan Mayse is a fourth-generation Vancouver Islander. guidance, She has the reader explores Victoria’s famous landmarks, written for many national and international publicationsfrom including the Butchart Gardens to the possibly haunted Empress the Daily Mail and the Toronto Star. She is also the authorHotel of the to the undoubtedly haunted Ross Bay Cemetery. acclaimed novel, Awen and Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin, a BC Bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Author Bio: Local Interest / Travel / Photography Previous byStaebler Author: True Crime Books and the Edna Award for Creative Non-Fiction. ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-503-5 fourth-generation Vancouver Islander. She She is the daughter of the late Vancouver Island journalist“Susan and Mayse ISBNis10:a 1-55017-503-3 1990: Ginger, 9781550170184 author Arthur Mayse. has written8½" forxmany and international publications 11", 144national pages, cloth Chris Cheadle has photographed and written three including books cel- the Daily Mail and the 200 colour photographs Toronto Star. She is also the ebrating the magnificent natural history of British Columbia. He hasof the author acclaimed novel, Awen and Ginger: The Life and $34.95 contributed to Getty Images and worked on assignment forDeath clients of Albert Goodwin, a BC Bestseller and winner of the like Lonely Planet in various far-flung regions of the world.Arthur Chris is EllisSeptember Award for True Crime and the Edna Staebler currently the managing director of All Canada Photos, which repre- for Creative Non-Fiction. She is the daughter of the Award sents many of Canada’s most accomplished photographers.late Vancouver Island journalist and author Arthur Mayse. 42 978-1-55017-018-4 Page 49 New Title Information Sheet • Partners Publishers Group • 517.694.4744 • [email protected] news, promotions, complete book & author information 3