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ALBERTA BOOK AWARDS FOREST OF READING YOUNG Georges Bugnet Award White Pine Award Honour Book READERS’ CHOICE AWARD for Fiction Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat Finalist: Pulse Point Winner: Godless But Loyal to Heaven White Pine Award Selection by Colleen Nelson and by Richard Van Camp The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley Nancy Chappell-Pollack Howard O’Hagen by Jan Andrews Finalist: Coop the Great Short Story Award The Fall by Colleen Nelson by Larry Verstraete Finalist: 7 Ways to Sunday Silver Birch Award Selection Finalist: Morven and the Horse Clan by Lee Kvern Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Luanne Armstrong Robert Kroetsch City by Jake MacDonald Finalist: Withershins by Susan Rocan of Edmonton Book Prize HIGH PLAINS ON THE SAME PAGE Winner: Night Moves BOOK AWARDS Winner: The Lucky Ones by Richard Van Camp Winner: Madder Carmine by Anne Mahon ALBERTA READERS’ by Tyler Enfield Finalist: Stuck in the Middle CHOICE AWARD by Bartley Kives and Bryan Scott IODE VIOLET DOWNEY Finalist: Art Lessons Finalist: The House on Sugarbush Road BOOK AWARD by Katherine Koller by Méira Cook Finalist: Gatekeeper by Natasha Deen Finalist: Forgetting How to Breathe Finalist: Black Bottle Man by Anita Daher by Craig Russell BC READERS’ Winner: Juliana and the Medicine Fish MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS CHOICE AWARD by Jake MacDonald Red Cedar Award Winnipeg Book Award R ELIT AWARD Juliana and the Medicine Fish Winner: Stuck in the Middle Shortlist: Hello, Sweetheart by Jake MacDonald by Bartley Kives and Bryan Scott by Elaine McCluskey CANADIAN CHILDREN’S McNally Robinson Shortlist: Night Moves BOOK CENTRE Book of the Year by Richard Van Camp Our Choice Selection Winner: The House on Sugarbush Road SYRCA AWARDS Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell by Méira Cook Winner: The Fall by Colleen Nelson Withershins by Susan Rocan Winner: More Abandoned Finalist: Pulse Point by Colleen Nelson CLA Young Adult Book Award Manitoba: Rivers, Rails, and Ruins Finalist: Hannah and the Magic Eye Finalist: The Silent Summer of by Gordon Goldsborough by Tyler Enfield Kyle McGinley by Jan Andrews McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award DANUTA GLEED Winner: The Fall by Colleen Nelson LITERARY AWARD Winner: The Green-Eyed Queen of Finalist: The Light That Remains Suicide City by Kevin Marc Fournier by Lyse Champagne Mary Scorer Award for Best Manitoba Book Winner: Butterfly Winter by W.P. Kinsella Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award Finalist: Family of Spies: Paris by Jodi Carmichael

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GREAT PLAINS PUBLICATIONS

GREAT PLAINS PUBLICATIONS IS A NON-FICTION PUBLISHER SPECIALIZING IN PRAIRIE HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

2 greatplains.mb.ca3 Peculiar Lessons How nature and the material world shaped a prairie childhood Lois Braun 978-1-77337-037-8, $24.95 Trade Paper, 6 x 9, 224 pages Marketing Plan: Local review mailing, online and print marketing, author participation in interviews, festivals, and readings art memoir, part social history, this collection of ten essays explores the various physical and natural elements that form the backdrop to Braun’s memories P th of growing up on a farm in southern Manitoba in the mid-20 century. From blackboard chalk to curling rocks in the chapter on stone, from mirages to straight-line winds in the essay on light and air, she reflects on her interactions with the elements as a child and how her responses influenced her evolution into adulthood. Braun includes intriguing tidbits about the science and history behind each element as it pertains to life in her unique location on our planet. The book highlights the value and beauty of the simple components of our surroundings that we take for granted growing up, exposes their true complexity, and reveals how the fascination with a “simple” thing can become a lifelong pursuit that sustains our artistic and spiritual needs. LOIS BRAUN grew up in a Mennonite community in southern Manitoba and taught elementary school in Altona until her retirement. She has written four critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, including A Stone Watermelon, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and The Penance Drummer, which received the Award for Fiction. She is currently a freelance editor and volunteers for local arts- and history-related committees and events. Having lived most of her life on farms, she now resides in Altona with her husband Joe and a cat called Graydi.

4 5 Haunted Manitoba Ghost Stories from the Prairies Matthew Komus 978-1-77337-028-6, $21.95, 232 pages Manitoba may seem like a quiet province, but its prairies teem with paranormal activity. A ghostly groundskeeper still does his rounds at the Delta Marsh Field Station; strange noises and apparitions of children in 19th-century clothing have been reported at Lower Fort Garry; and Mrs.

Kennedy still welcomes guests to Captain Kennedy’s House—just as she RECENT NON-FICTION did when her home was built in 1866. Haunted Manitoba shares eerie stories from all corners of the province and places them in the context of Manitoba’s rich history. Assiniboine Park Designing and Developing a People’s Playground David Spector 978-1-77337-012-5, $29.95, 248 pages “ David Spector has fashioned a compelling, exclusive, highly readable account of Assiniboine Park’s rich, century-plus history. Vintage and contemporary illustrations complement his narrative. Combing through archives, he has uncovered intriguing, amusing, little-known details and scandalous sidebars. From drawing board concept to today’s ongoing makeover, Assiniboine Park hasn’t stopped changing. Herein the untold story.”—Rod Gaskell, retired City of Ottawa administrator, radio broadcaster & Juno Awards Judge More Abandoned Manitoba Rivers, Rails, and Ruins Gordon Goldsborough 978-1-77337-002-6, $35.00, 264 pages Foreword by The Honourable Gary A. Filmon, Premier of Manitoba (1988–1999) Winner of the 2019 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award! Stuck in the Middle 2 Defining Views of Manitoba Bartley Kives and Bryan Scott photographs by Bryan Scott | text by Bartley Kives 978-1-927855-80-5, $35.00, 226 pages “a compelling look at virtually every corner of our vast province.” —Winnipeg Free Press

4 5 General non-fiction: NON-FICTION BACKLIST NON-FICTION Encyclopedia Every Stone a Story2: Golden Boys: of Manitoba More of Manitoba’s The Top 50 Manitoba Edited by Buried History Hockey Players of Ingeborg Boyens Dale Brawn All Time 978-1-894283-71-7 978-1-894283-96-0 Ty Di lel lo $99.95, full colour $29.95, illustrated 978-1-927855-82-9, hardcover, 814 pages softcover, 152 pages $24.95, 336 pages

The New Abandoned The Hot Line: Northwest Passage: Manitoba: How The Legendary A Voyage to the From Residential Trio of Hull, A Voyage to the Front Line of Climate Change Cameron DueCk Front Line of Schools to Bank Vaults Hedberg and Nilsson Climate Change to Grain Elevators Transformed Cameron Dueck Gordon Goldsborough Hockey and Led the 978-1-926531-36-6 978-1-927855-48-5 Winnipeg Jets $24.95, 256 pages $29.95, full colour to Greatness softcover, 264 pages Geoff Kirbyson 978-1-927855-65-2 $29.95, 240 pages

A Daytripper’s Stuck in Haunted Guide to Manitoba: the Middle: Winnipeg: Exploring Canada’s Dissenting Views Ghost Stories from Undiscovered of Winnipeg the Heart of the Province Bryan Scott and Continent Bartley Kives Bartley Kives Matthew Komus 978-1-927855-27-0, 978-1-926531-84-7 978-1-927855-058 $24.95, illustrated $29.95, 200 pages $19.95, illustrated softcover, 272 pages Winner: Carol Shields/ softcover, 160 pages City of Winnipeg Book Award

WISH YOU Redemption: WERE HERE! Wish You On the Air: STAN MILOSEVIC

Stories of Hope, HAND-TINTED The Golden Age POSTCARDS FROM Were Here: Stories of Hope, Resilience WINNIPEG’S and Life after Gangs HALCYON DAYS Anne Mahon Resilience and Life Hand-tinted of Manitoba Radio After Gangs Postcards from Garry Moir Anne Mahon Winnipeg’s 978-1-927855-26-3 978-1-927855-81-2 Halcyon Days $29.95, illustrated $24.95, 232 pages Stan Milosevic softcover, 192 pages $24.95, illustrated softcover, 120 pages

TEXT BY SHELLEY PENZIWOL PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER BLAHUT From Asessippi to Zed Lake:

FROM A Guide to Manitoba’s ASESSIPPI TO ZED LAKE Provincial Parks A GUIDE TO MANITOBA’S PROVINCIAL PARKS Shelley Penziwol 978-1-926531-14-4 $29.95, illustrated softcover, 208 pages

6 7 General non-fiction: Memoir and Biography The Library Tree: In Search of Canada: From the How a Canadian The Early Years of Barren Lands: woman brought the John Wesley Dafoe The Fur Trade, First joy of reading to a Christopher Dafoe Nations, and a Life in generation of 978-1-926531-94-6 Northern Canada African children $24.95, 224 pages Leonard Flett Deborah Cowley 978-1-927855-33-1 978-1-926531-83-0 $29.95, 328 pages $24.95, 232 pages

he battle for Vimy Ridge one hundred years ago has been characterized as a defi ning moment in Canadian Her Darling Boy: T history.  e idea of thousands of Canadian young men dying Dean Gunnarson: Stories Best together in the mud and tangled wire of northern France was, and still is, considered by many as nation-building. Tom Goodman generally accepted this view until he discovered a rich trove of letters between his grandmother and Archie Polson, the uncle he had never met. Reading through the exchanges, Goodman came to realize that war is sometimes about winning, but it is always about loss. He has now collected many of these letters, along with his BOY DARLING HER The letters of own contextual narrative, so that we can see the true cost of The Making of an war to a family and a country. Left Untold: a mother, her Escape Artist Tales from a NON-FICTION BACKLIST

$29.95 Biography/Military History beloved son and the Carolyn Gray Manitoba Legislator Tom Goodman heartbreaking cost 978-1-927855-35-5 Gord Mackintosh of Vimy Ridge $29.95, 264 pages 978-1-927855-74-4 Tom Goodman $29.95, 352 pages 978-1-926531-49-2 $29.95, 240 pages

The Lucky Ones: Vikings on a African Refugees’ Prairie Ocean: Stories of The Saga of a Lake, Extraordinary a People, a Family, Courage and a Man Anne Mahon Glenn Sigurdson 978-1-926531-72-4 978-1-926531-93-9 $24.95, 224 pages $29.95, 320 pages Winner: On the Same Page Manitoba

True Crime Journey for Justice: Mike on Crime: How Project Angel True Tales of Law How “Project Angel” Cracked The Candace Derksen Case Cracked the Candace and Disorder Derksen Case Mike McIntyre Mike McIntyre Mike McIntyre 978-1-927855-06-5 978-1-926531-13-7 $11.95, 320 pages $11.95, mass market, 336 pages

6 7 YELLOW DOG

YELLOW DOG

YELLOW DOG PUBLISHES CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL FICTION FROM CANADIAN AUTHORS FOR MIDDLE YEARS, TEEN AND NEW ADULT READERS.

greatplains.mb.ca8 9 The Automatic Age YELLOW DOG GMB Chomichuk 978-1-77337-040-8, $14.95 Trade Paper, 5 x 7, 112 pages Marketing Plan: International review mailing, online marketing and promotion, national advertising placements, author participation in interviews, festivals and readings. #TheAutomaticAge HE AUTOMATIC AGE is the story of a father and Tson navigating an automated apocalypse. Set in a mid- century computerized utopia of automats, self-driving cars, food pills and happy robo-servants, robot search teams find and remove the troublesome people that clutter it. A perfect future in which humans are forbidden to live. GMB CHOMICHUK is an award-winning writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in film, television, books, comics and heartwarming graphic novels. His work ranges from the heart warming to the bloodcurdling with graphic novels like Cassie and Tonk, Midnight City, Will I See? and the forthcoming Arena City and Good Boys. He is the host of Super Pulp Science, a podcast about how genre gets made. His newest full-length graphic novel, Apocrypha: The Legend of Babymetal, was featured on The Hollywood Reporter, The Nerdist and Billboard magazine.

greatplains.mb.ca8 9 You Don’t Have to Die in the End Anita Daher 978-1-77337-043-9, $14.95 Trade Paper, 5.5 x 8.5, 192 pages Marketing Plan: International review mailing, online marketing and promotion, national advertising placements, author participation in interviews, festivals and readings ugenia Grimm is a tough girl living in a tough town at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. She drinks Eand fights and pushes against expectations. She is also hurting. After her father died by suicide on her eighth birthday, her older brothers drifted away and her mother up and left when she turned 14, Eugenia has not made the best choices. After a last-straw violent incident and faced with the possibility of incarceration, she is sentenced to time at an Intensive Support and Supervision Program located at a remote mountain ranch. There, she begins to make connections, explore difficult truths, and might even turn things around—until a series of events pull her into a dark spiral she may not have the strength to resist. ANITA DAHER has been entrenched in the book publishing industry since 1995 writing middle grade and teen novels, including Wonder Horse, Two Foot Punch and Racing for Diamonds. In 2007 she received the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Author. Her most recent novel, Forgetting How to Breathe, was shortlisted for the 2019 IODE Violet Downey Award. Aside from short stints as grave-plot seller, tour guide, and children’s party clown, she’s worked in aviation, publishing, and broadcasting. When not word wrangling she enjoys inhabiting characters on stage and screen. Anita lives and writes in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

10 11 Feral

A NOVEL Nicole Luiken 978-1-77337-031-6, $14.95, Best for young adults 17-year-old Chloe fears she’s a Dud, a child born to two werewolves who can’t change into a wolf. If she’s still a Dud by the time she reaches

Nicole Luiken adulthood, she’ll be exiled. In the meantime, she’s at the bottom of the pack hierarchy and the other teens in her small town make her life miserable. Then she encounters a feral werewolf with the opposite problem: he’s trapped in wolf form. Chloe suspects the feral is her old classmate, Marcus, who everyone believes died along with the rest of his family in a mysterious plane crash. Chloe vows to help Marcus regain his human self because giving up on him would mean admitting possible failure for herself, too. But she must act quickly. Pack law mandates killing ferals.

“A howling good time.”—Kirkus Reviews PEOPLE RECENT YOUNG FOR BOOKS

The Changeling of Fenlen Forest Katherine Magyarody 978-1-77337-019-4, $14.95, Best for young adults “ Elegantly conceived and richly crafted, Magyarody has given us an enchanting tale of old world magic with relevant themes. A fun, mysterious ride for anyone who has dreamed of wandering into a dark forest, and perhaps never returning…”—Tyler Enfield, author of Hannah and the Magic Eye and the Wrush fantasy series.

Cedar Dance Monica Nawrocki 978-1-77337-016-3, $11.95, Best for ages 8–12 “Told in the first person by Cedar, this engrossing and believable story captures perfectly the angst of a pre-teen trying to find his place in the world. Cedar’s story is told with wry, self-deprecating humor while subtly revealing that, despite his doubts about himself and his dubious athletic abilities, he is very much his own person, stronger and wiser than he is aware. The main characters in this book are pleasingly portrayed as real people doing their best... a fast-paced and intriguing read.” —Highly recommended, CM Magazine.

10 11 YELLOW BACKLIST DOG

The Silent Summer Morven Morven and MAGGIE BOLITHO Lockdown and the Horse Clan of Kyle McGinley the Horse Clan Maggie Bolitho The SilenT Summer of Luanne Kyle Jan Andrews Armstrong Luanne Armstrong 978-1-926531-89-2 LOCKDOWNA NOVEL mcGinley 978-1-926531-68-7 978-1-926531-74-8 $14.95, 232 pages Jan Andrews $14.95, 200 pages $14.95, 176 pages selection: CCBC Best FINALIST: Forest of Reading, A 2014 MYRCA selection Books for Kids and Teens White Pine Award, 2014

Family of Spies Forever Julia Forgetting Jodi Carmichael Jodi Carmichael How to Breathe 978-1-927855-94-2, 978-1-927855-20-1, Anita Daher $14.95, 296 pages $14.95, 240 pages 978-1-927855-91-1, Finalist: Manuela Winner: McNally $11.95, 112 pages Dias Book Design of Robinson Book for Young Finalist: IODE Violet the Year Award People Award, 2015 Downey Book Award Selection: Best Books For Kids & Teens, Fall 2015

fter three years in the Mexican War, color-blind Dannon Lereaux sets out across the mountains in search of “love, red, and a new class of salvation,” expecting to find all Athree in a girl called Madder Carmine. Set in the year 1849, amidst a vividly reconceived Appalachia, young Dannon Hannah and has returned from the war only to discover home was finer when remembered MADDER Madder Carmine Green-Eyed Queen from afar. Disenchanted and confused, he puts all hope of deliverance in a girl he once met and, along with an escaped slave named Virgil, embarks on an epic journey to find her. But hard on their trail is Will Lawson, Virgil’s vengeful owner. TYLER ENFIELD CARMINE MADDER As Dannon is pushed deeper into the world of the hunted, his mind slips into a world of its own. Suddenly the mountains of his youth are transformed into the Nine Circles of Hell, and Virgil becomes his soul-guide through the underworld. With this notion firm in his mind, Dannon commends himself to a surreal journey as he seeks redemption in the heart of the Inferno.

TYLER ENFIELD is a writer and photographer. Other the Magic Eye books include the award-winning children’s novel series, Tyler Enfield of Suicide City Wrush. He’s also the writer/director of the National Film Board’s interactive film, Invisible Worlds. He lives in Edmonton, and you can visit him and his photography at www.TylerEnfield.com.

Tyler Enfield $14.95 Crossover Fiction 978-1-927855-30-0 Kevin Marc Fournier 978-1-927855-68-3 $14.95, 224 pages 978-1-926531-267 a novel by tyler enfield $11.95, 168 pages24368-GP_MadderCarmine_bookcover-full-FIN-JS.indd All Pages 15-09-02 4:29 PM Winner: High Plains $14.95, 200 pages Book Award Winner: McNally Robinson Book for Young People

2010-11 CHOICE Art Lessons onthesamepage.ca Juliana and the The Fall Katherine Koller Medicine Fish Colleen Nelson

JULIANAAND THE 978-1-927855-49-2, MEDICINE Jake MacDonald 978-1-926531-65-6, $19.95, 192 pages 978-0-9697804-4-1 $14.95, 197 pages JAKEFISH MACDONALD $16.95, 152 pages winner: Manitoba On the Same Page 2011

Pulse Point The Break Colleen Nelson Nelsa Roberto and Nancy The 978-1-926531-20-5, a novel Chappell-Pollack $14.95, 208 pages Nelsa Roberto 978-1-927855-97-3, $14.95, 208 pages Finalist: SYRCA Awards Finalist: MYRCA Awards

12 13 Black Bottle Man How to Jamie’s Got A Gun Craig Russell Tend a Grave Gail Sidonie

GAIL SIDONIE SOBAT & 978-1-894283-99-1 Jocelyn Shipley SPYDER YARDLEY-JONES Sobat and Spyder $14.95, 184 pages 978-1-926531-19-9 Yardley-Jones Finalist: Aurora Awards $14.95, 184 pages 978-1-926531-88-5 $14.95, 280 pages Selection: CCBC Best

Books for Kids and Teens Coop CoopCoop Coop The Great Larry Verstraete YELLOW DOG BACKLIST YELLOW 978-1-77337-009-5, $11.95, Best for ages 8–12 Coop is an aging, cynical, down-and-out dachshund who faces the ultimate test when his new owner, Mike, and Mike’s grandchildren, Zach and Emma,

A Novel run into trouble. Mike rescued him, but does Coop have what it takes to do Larry Verstraete the same? Drawing strength from the stories about great dogs that Mike shares with him, Coop charts a dangerous journey to save his new family. “ A quick and enjoyable read filled with endearing characters, moments of humour and heartfelt storytelling, Coop the Great is a wonderful middle-school novel for all readers. Perfect for both young readers who love animals, as well as a classroom or bedtime read-aloud focusing on important themes of empathy, heroism, and the power of a positive mindset, this is a novel worthy of purchase and priority placement on bookshelves.” —Highly Recommended, CM Magazine

The Guardian Trilogy is complete! Guardian

A NOVEL Natasha Deen 978-1-927855-09-6 $14.95, 270 pages Natasha Deen “if you’re a new reader to the Guardian series, you’ve got three books of robust plotting, clever characters and bright banter Gatekeeper ahead of you. Enjoy!”—CanLit for Little Canadians Natasha Deen 978-1-927855-09-6 $14.95, 270 pages “a great hybrid of horror and mystery (think Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Veronica Mars), with oodles of Game’s End potential for humour and terror—and Deen gets the most out of both.”—Quill & Quire A NOVEL Natasha Deen 978-1-927855-85-0 $14.95, 240 pages

Natasha Deen

12 13 LITERARY FICTION

ENFIELD & WIZENTY

ENFIELD & WIZENTY IS A LITERARY IMPRINT PUBLISHING ORIGINAL NOVELS AND SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS.

enfieldandwizenty.ca14 15 Where the LITERARY FICTION Waters Meet Stéphanie Boulay Translated from French by Ghislaine LeFranc 978-1-77337-034-7, $21.95 Trade Paper, 5 x 8, 112 pages Marketing Plans: National review mailing, marketing in target print magazines, paid social ads, festival circuit pitch, author participation in interviews and readings he lives outside the village, in the woods, near the river, with her sister. Or her mother. She doesn’t really know. SHer life is simple, but nothing ever stays the same. Her body is changing; life around her is changing, too. And there aren’t many people around who can explain to her what’s happening. A story with a sombre offbeat mood, guided along by a narrator using unique and colourful language. Originally published by Québec-Amérique as À l’abri des hommes et des choses “Stéphanie Boulay has found a style that suits her, striking the right tone, candid, coloured, clear and very close to the emotions.” —Le Journal de Québec “ Her unique voice, deconstructed phrasing and metaphors as gentle as caresses have taken Stéphanie Boulay’s imagination by storm.”—Le Huffington Post Québec STÉPHANIE BOULAY is often called “the blonde half of ’the Boulay sisters’, but she is an accomplished human being in her own right. She has been writing stories since the age of 8, studied creative writing at the Université du Québec à Montréal and knows her grammar rules better than her guitar chords. Some might call her a singer who writes, but in fact, she is mainly a writer who sings; it’s just the chronology of events that has confused things.

GHISLAINE LEFRANC is a translator and editor from Virginia. She holds an MA in Translation Studies from Concordia University. Currently based in Montréal, she spends her free time on her yoga mat, in the kitchen or curled up reading with her cat, Tolstoï.

14 15 RECENT LITERARY FICTION LITERARY RECENT Privilege Jason Patrick Rothery 978-1-77337-022-4, $21.95, 376 pages A cutting satire concerning the death spiral of the white, male identity. With his divorce nearly finalized, the surprise success of his freshman book on the wane, and his ill-advised affair with grad student Lara Kitts put to bed, Dr. Barker Samuel Stone is on the precipice of a cozy tenure- track existence. All in all, none too shabby for a straight, aware, upper- middle-class white dude, amirite? Then an enigmatic e-mail sends Barker’s life spiralling along an unanticipated trajectory. Summoned to a late-night confab at the campaign office of controversial mayoral candidate Baz Randell–folk hero to some, populist blowhard to everyone else–Barker is looped in on an epic, career-ending scandal. In the midst of mounting chaos, Barker is informed that an anonymous complainant has levied a claim of sexual misconduct against him. Given the university’s embarrassing record of botching cases of misconduct, Barker is advised that the administration is looking to bring the hammer down on someone–anyone–hard. In his whole life, Barker has never before felt so much like a nail.

Winter Willow Deborah-Anne Tunney 978-1-77337-025-5, $21.95, 160 pages During a winter in the mid-1970s, unexpected and dramatic events shape the lives of three people living in Winter Willow. Melanie, a young graduate student, is grieving the loss of her mother and main support system when she discovers that her PhD funding has been cancelled. Then she meets Stone, owner of Winter Willow, an old mansion in her neighbourhood, and is offered a position as his personal assistant. Moving in with him during that snowy and isolating season not only creates a strange sleepiness that makes it difficult for Melanie to concentrate on her studies, but also serves to disrupt the life and routine of Stone and his housekeeper, Celeste. When Melanie begins a relationship with a fellow grad student, she is confronted with the choice between a future with him and her life at Winter Willow. This novel explores the moment when a life can change, the pivot upon which the future depends.

16 17 Winning Chance Katherine Koller 978-1-77337-013-2, $21.95, 144 pages In the stories in Winning Chance, Katherine Koller explores second chances, how we find them, and how we find the courage to take them. Whether they are a contractor running into an ex while on the job, a busy mother pursuing community theatre, or a family building an illegal ice rink after an environmental collapse, Koller’s characters are empathetic portraits of people searching to connect. RECENT LITERARY FICTION Notes

16 17 E&W BACKLIST This Book Will The Shadow Over The Light Not Save Your Life Portage and Main The Light That Lyse Remains Champagne That Remains Michelle Berry Edited by Lyse Champagne an dean photography dean an L a

$19.95 Literary Fiction 978-1-926531-04-5 Keith Cadieux and STORIES 978-1-927855-40-9 LYSE CHAMPAGNE $29.95, 272 pages Dustin Geeraert $19.95, 240 pages 978-1-927855-36-2 SHORTLIST: Danuta Gleed $19.95, 224 pages Literary Award

The House on The Sign For Famous Last Meals Sugarbush Road Migrant Soul Richard Cumyn Méira Cook Richard Cumyn 978-1-927855-17-1 978-1-926531-30-4 978-1-927855-88-1 $19.95, 280 pages $29.95, 296 pages $19.95, 238 pages Winner: McNally Robinson Book of the Year

fter three years in the Mexican War, color-blind Dannon Lereaux sets out across the mountains in search of “love, red, and a new class of salvation,” expecting to find all Athree in a girl called Madder Carmine. Set in the year 1849, amidst a vividly reconceived Appalachia, young Dannon has returned from the war only to discover home was finer when remembered MADDER Madder Carmine Gracelessland The Young infrom afar. Disenchanted and confused, he puts all hope of deliverance in a girl he once met and, along with an escaped slave named Virgil, embarks on an epic journey to find her. But hard on their trail is Will Lawson, Virgil’s vengeful owner. TYLER ENFIELD CARMINE MADDER As Dannon is pushed deeper into the world of the hunted, his mind slips into a world of its own. Suddenly the mountains of his youth are transformed into the Nine Circles of Hell, and Virgil becomes his soul-guide through the underworld. With this notion firm in his mind, Dannon commends himself to a surreal journey as he seeks redemption in the heart of the Inferno.

TYLER ENFIELD is a writer and photographer. Other books include the award-winning children’s novel series, Tyler Enfield Adam Lindsay their Country Wrush. He’s also the writer/director of the National Film Board’s interactive film,Invisible Worlds. He lives in Edmonton, and you can visit him and his photography at www.TylerEnfield.com.

Richard Cumyn $14.95 Crossover Fiction 978-1-927855-30-0 Honsinger $14.95, 224 pages 978-1-927855-14-0, 9781926531021 a novel by tyler enfield $29.95, 208 pages24368-GP_MadderCarmine_bookcover-full-FIN-JS.indd All Pages 15-09-02 4:29 PM Winner: High Plains $19.95, 280 pages Book Award

Somewhere W.P. KINSELLA Butterfly Winter Art Lessons North of Normal W.P. Kinsella Katherine Koller Adam Lindsay 978-1-926531-16-8 978-1-927855-49-2, Honsinger a novel $29.95, 302 pages $19.95, 192 pages 978-1-77337-006-4, SELECTION: Alberta Readers’ $21.95, 238 pages Choice Awards shortlist “Honsinger’s stories FINALIST: Robert Kroetsch crackle with depth Edmonton Book Prize of mood and theme.” —Quill & Quire

I know who you 7 Ways to Sunday remInd me of I Know Who You Hello, Sweetheart stories Lee Kvern Remind Me Of Elaine McCluskey

winner 978-1-926531-85-4 2012 COLOPHON Naomi K. Lewis 978-1-926531-99-1 PRIZE

naomi $19.95, 208 pages k. lewis 978-1-926531-51-9 $19.95, 200 pages $29.95, 232 pages

18 19 Will The Bodice Ripper Parallel Prairies Shane Neil son Byron Rempel Edited by The Bodice Darren Ridgley short stories 978-1-926531-77-9 978-1-927855-71-3, shane neilson Ripper A NOVEL $29.95, 256 pages BYRON REMPEL $19.95, 224 pages and Adam Petrash 978-1-77337-003-3, $21.95, 224 pages “…the province is a harsh, demanding land but not without its beauty and BACKLIST E&W rewards. Amazing what stories the contributors wrested from its soil.” —Amazing Stories

This Is All A Lie Godless but The Moon Thomas Trofimuk Loyal to Heaven of Letting Go 978-1-927855-77-5, Richard Van Camp Richard Van Camp $19.95, Trade paper 978-1-926531-73-1 978-1-926531-00-7 5.5 x 8.5, 320 pages $19.95, 200 pages $19.95, 224 pages “This Is All A Lie is Winner: Georges Bugnet a powerful, dazzling Award for Fiction accomplishment” —Starred Review, Quill & Quire

Night Moves COMing Coming Home:

HO StoriesME from the Northwest Territories Richard Van Camp Stories from the 978-1- 927855-23-2 Northwest Territories $19.95, 208 pages Various foreword by richard van camp 978-1-926531-27-4 $19.95, 192 pages

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