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GREAT PLAINS SELECT AWARDS AND ACCOLADES ALBERTA BOOK AWARDS White Pine Award Selection MYRCA AWARDS Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley Finalist: Morven and the Horse Clan Winner: Godless But Loyal to Heaven by Jan Andrews by Luanne Armstrong by Richard Van Camp The Fall by Colleen Nelson Finalist: Withershins by Susan Rocan Howard O’Hagen Chance to Dance for You MOONBEAM AWARD – Short Story Award by Gail Sidonie Sobat YOUNG ADULT FICTION Finalist: 7 Ways to Sunday Silver Birch Award Selection Gold Medal Winner: The Silent by Lee Kvern Juliana and the Medicine Fish Summer of Kyle McGinley Robert Kroetsch City by Jake MacDonald by Jan Andrews of Edmonton Book Prize HIGH PLAINS BOOK Gold Medal Winner: The Green-Eyed Winner: Night Moves AWARDS Queen of Suicide City by Richard Van Camp Winner: Madder Carmine by Kevin Marc Fournier ALBERTA READERS’ by Tyler Enfield Gold Medal Winner: How to Tend a Grave by Jocelyn Shipley CHOICE AWARD MANITOBA HISTORICAL Gold Medal Winner: Black Bottle Man Finalist: Art Lessons by Katherine SOCIETY MARGARET by Craig Russell Koller MCWILLIAMS AWARD Gold Medal Winner: Gravity Journal Finalist: Gatekeeper by Natasha Deen FOR POPULAR HISTORY by Gail Sidonie Sobat Finalist: Chance to Dance for You Winner: Silver Screens on the Silver Medal Winner: Jamie’s Got a by Gail Sidonie Sobat Prairie by Russ Gourluck Gun by Gail Sidonie Sobat Winner: The Mosaic Village BC READERS’ Silver Medal Winner: Morven and the by Russ Gourluck CHOICE AWARD Horse Clan by Luanne Armstrong Stellar Award MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS Silver Medal Winner: Signs of Martha Finalist: Gravity Journal Carol Shields Winnipeg by Sarah Raymond by Gail Sidonie Sobat Book Award Silver Medal Winner: Madder Red Cedar Award Winner: Stuck in the Middle by Carmine by Tyler Enfield Juliana and the Medicine Fish Bartley Kives and Bryan Scott Silver Medal Winner: Gatekeeper by Jake MacDonald McNally Robinson Book of the Year by Natasha Deen CANADIAN CHILDREN’S Winner: The House on Sugarbush Road ON THE SAME PAGE BOOK CENTRE by Méira Cook Winner: The Lucky Ones Our Choice Selection McNally Robinson Book by Anne Mahon Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell for Young People Award Finalist: Stuck in the Middle Withershins by Susan Rocan Winner: The Fall by Colleen Nelson by Bartley Kives and Bryan Scott Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat Winner: The Green-Eyed Queen of Finalist: The House on Sugarbush Road CLA Young Adult Book Award Suicide City by Kevin Marc Fournier by Méira Cook Winner: Tori by Design Finalist: The Silent Summer of Finalist: Black Bottle Man by Colleen Nelson Kyle McGinley by Jan Andrews by Craig Russell Mary Scorer Award for Winner: Juliana and the Medicine Fish DANUTA GLEED Best Manitoba Book by Jake MacDonald LITERARY AWARD Winner: Butterfly Winter RELIT AWARD Finalist: The Light That Remains by W.P. Kinsella by Lyse Champagne Shortlist: Hello, Sweetheart Best Illustrated Book by Elaine McCluskey FOREST OF READING of the Year Award Shortlist: Night Moves White Pine Award Honour Book Winner: 300 Years of Beer by Bill by Richard Van Camp Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat Wright and Dave Craig SYRCA AWARDS Winner: The Fall by Colleen Nelson Finalist: Hannah and the Magic Eye by Tyler Enfield 2 greatplains.mb.ca3 NON-FICTION
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2 greatplains.mb.ca3 Assiniboine Park Designing and Developing a People’s Playground David Spector 978-1-77337-012-5, $29.95 Trade paper, 8.5x10, 240 pages Marketing Plan: Local review mailing, online marketing and promotion, author participation in interviews, readings, holiday advertising buys. n 1904, Assiniboine Park was conceived as a people’s playground, a place devoid of commercial amusements Iwhere all classes of Winnipeggers could relax and rejuvenate in idyllic and Arcadian surroundings. The book traces the development of the park and its infrastructure – the layout of fields, forests and gardens, the two pavilions, the conservatories and the zoo – and how this corresponded with an ever-evolving Winnipeg. It explains the actions, conflicts and arguments of a colourful cast of politicians and bureaucrats who made the park what it is today. The story of Assiniboine Park is told within the wider context of the evolution of urban parks in Canada and the United States. “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 & June judge DAVID SPECTOR is a retired Winnipeg-based historian and former Parks Canada research manager. He has published numerous articles and reports throughout his career, primarily focusing in the history of Western Canada. Having a life-long interest in the subject, he researched and wrote Assiniboine Park as a retirement pastime. He also leads hikes and historical walks for Nature Manitoba. ISBN 978-1-77337-012-5
9 7 8 1 7 7 3 3 7 0 1 2 5 4 5 More Abandoned Manitoba Rivers, Rails, and Ruins Gordon Goldsborough 978-1-77337-002-6, $35.00, 264 pages Armed with a drone and a deep curiosity about local history, Gordon Goldsborough follows up the runaway success of 2016’s Abandoned Manitoba with even more compelling abandoned sites from across the province. RECENT NON-FICTION
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 Somewhere between North Dakota and Nunavut sits a curious land with a coastline patrolled by polar bears, highways lined with monuments to household produce, and dinner plates drenched in a gluey condiment known as honey dill sauce. This is Manitoba, a province that has captured the imagination of… well, maybe dozens of people around the world.
Redemption Stories of Hope, Resilience and Life After Gangs
Stories of Hope, Resilience Anne Mahon and Life after Gangs Anne Mahon 978-1-927855-81-2, $24.95, 232 pages Foreword by Greg Boyle, S.J., founder of Homeboy Industries This triumphant collection of ten personal life stories from ex-gang members enlightens, surprises and inspires. Readers will be challenged to question their preconceived notions as they are given an illuminating look at the individual lives behind crime statistics.
4 5 General non-fiction: NON-FICTION BACKLIST NON-FICTION Encyclopedia Every Stone a Story2: Golden Boys of Manitoba More of Manitoba’s Ty Di lel lo Edited by Buried History 978-1-927855-82-9, Ingeborg Boyens Dale Brawn $24.95, 336 pages 978-1-894283-71-7 978-1-894283-96-0 $99.95, full colour $29.95, illustrated hardcover, 814 pages softcover, 152 pages
The New Abandoned The Mosaic Village: Northwest Passage: Manitoba An Illustrated A Voyage to the History of Winnipeg’s Gordon Russ Gourluck A Voyage to the Front Line of Climate Change Cameron DueCk Front Line of Goldsborough North End Climate Change 978-1-927855-48-5 Russ Gourluck Cameron Dueck $29.95, full colour 978-1-894283-86-1 978-1-926531-36-6 softcover, 264 pages $29.95, illustrated $24.95, 256 pages Manitoba’s #1 Bestselling Book, softcover, 272 pages 2016 – McNally Robinson Winner: Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History
The Hot Line: A Daytripper’s Stuck in How The Legendary Guide to Manitoba: the Middle: Trio of Hull, Exploring Canada’s Dissenting Views Hedberg and Nilsson Undiscovered of Winnipeg Transformed Province Bryan Scott and Hockey and Led the Bartley Kives Bartley Kives Winnipeg Jets 978-1-927855-27-0, 978-1-926531-84-7 to Greatness $24.95, illustrated $29.95, 200 pages Geoff Kirbyson softcover, 272 pages Winner: Carol Shields/ 978-1-926531-49-2 City of Winnipeg $29.95, 240 pages Book Award
WISH YOU Haunted Winnipeg: The Lake: WERE HERE! Wish You STAN MILOSEVIC
Ghost Stories An Illustrated History HAND-TINTED POSTCARDS FROM Were Here:
WINNIPEG’S
ghost stories from the HALCYON DAYS heart of the continent from the Heart of Manitobans’ Hand-tinted Postcards of the Continent Cottage Country from Winnipeg’s
Matthew Komus Matthew Komus Jake MacDonald Halcyon Days 978-1-927855-05-8 978-1-894283-12-0 Stan Milosevic $19.95, 200 pages $39.95, full colour $24.95, illustrated hardcover, 200 pages softcover, 120 pages
TEXT BY SHELLEY PENZIWOL On the Air: PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER BLAHUT From Asessippi The Golden Age to Zed Lake:
of Manitoba Radio FROM A Guide to Manitoba’s ASESSIPPI Garry Moir TO ZED LAKE Provincial Parks A GUIDE TO MANITOBA’S PROVINCIAL PARKS 978-1-927855-26-3 Shelley Penziwol $29.95, illustrated 978-1-926531-14-4 softcover, 192 pages $29.95, illustrated softcover, 208 pages
6 7 General non-fiction: Memoir and Biography Red River The Library Tree: In Search of Canada: Remembered: How a Canadian The Early Years of A Bicentennial woman brought the John Wesley Dafoe Collection of Stories joy of reading to a Christopher Dafoe and Recipes generation of 978-1-926531-94-6 Noni Campbell-Horner African children $24.95, 224 pages 978-1-926531-28-1 Deborah Cowley $24.95, illustrated 978-1-926531-83-0 softcover, 256 pages $24.95, 232 pages
he battle for Vimy Ridge one hundred years ago has Tales from the been characterized as a defi ning moment in Canadian Her Darling Boy: From the T history. e idea of thousands of Canadian young men dying 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 Back Room: own contextual narrative, so that we can see the true cost of Barren Lands:war to a family and a country. NON-FICTION BACKLIST Memories of a The Fur Trade, First a mother, her
$29.95 Political Insider Nations, and a Life inBiography/Military History beloved son and the Michael Decter Northern Canada Tom Goodman heartbreaking cost 978-1-926531-06-9 Leonard Flett of Vimy Ridge $24.95, 224 pages 978-1-927855-33-1 Tom Goodman $29.95, 328 pages 978-1-926531-49-2 $29.95, 240 pages
Dean Gunnarson: Stories Best The Lucky Ones: The Making of an Left Untold: African Refugees’ Escape Artist Tales from a Stories of Carolyn Gray Manitoba Legislator Extraordinary 978-1-927855-35-5 Gord Mackintosh Courage $29.95, 264 pages 978-1-927855-74-4 Anne Mahon $29.95, 352 pages 978-1-926531-72-4 $24.95, 224 pages Winner: On the Same Page Manitoba
They Shoot Vikings on a Doctors, Prairie Ocean: Don’t They The Saga of a Lake, Dr. Jack Fainman a People, a Family, with Roland Penner and a Man 978-1-926531-17-5 Glenn Sigurdson $24.95, 192 pages 978-1-926531-93-9 $29.95, 320 pages
True Crime
Mike Mci ntyre Devil Among Us: Journey for Justice: Mike on Crime: How Canada Failed How Project Angel True Tales of Law How “Project Angel” Cracked to Stop a Pedophile The Candace Derksen Case Cracked the Candace and Disorder Mike McIntyre Derksen Case Mike McIntyre How Canada failed to stoppedophile peter whitmore 978-1-894283-80-9 Mike McIntyre Mike McIntyre 978-1-927855-06-5 $11.95, mass market, 978-1-926531-13-7 $11.95, 320 pages 320 pages $11.95, mass market, 336 pages
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8 greatplains.mb.ca9 YELLOW DOG
YELLOW DOG
YELLOW DOG PUBLISHES CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL FICTION FROM CANADIAN AUTHORS FOR MIDDLE YEARS, TEEN AND NEW ADULT READERS.
8 greatplains.mb.ca9 Cedar Dance Monica Nawrocki 978-1-77337-016-3, $11.95 Trade paper, 5 x 8, 128 pages Best for ages 8-12 Marketing Plan: National review mailing, online marketing and promotion, national advertising campaign, author participation in interviews, festivals, and conferences harles Cedar Dance has little in common with his hippie mother. At the annual school camp, Charles has Ca chance encounter with the father he has never known and while spying on him at a nearby anti-logging protest camp, Charles finds himself at the centre of a mystery involving a saboteur-turned-kidnapper. When Charles decides he wants to get to know his dad, he learns the truth about his parents and must re-evaluate his view of his family. MONICA NAWROCKI lives with her partner and dog on a remote island off the west coast of British Columbia. She earns her living as a substitute teacher—often reading under-construction manuscripts to captive classroom audiences and happily impersonating someone different every day. She is the author of three books, and her fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in various journals and anthologies in Canada and the U.S. You can visit her at www.monicanawrocki.com.
ISBN 978-1-77337-016-3
9 7 8 1 7 7 3 3 7 0 1 6 3 10 11 The Changeling of Fenlen Forest Katherine Magyarody 978-1-77337-019-4, $14.95 Trade paper, 5.5 x 8.5, 208 pages Best for ages 12-16 Marketing Plan: National review mailing, online marketing and promotion, national advertising campaign, author participation in interviews, festivals, and conferences lizabeth thinks she knows the gloomy Fenlen Forest. But when her treasured unicorn fawn, Sida, goes Emissing, Elizabeth tracks her into a strange land where the people think Elizabeth is a changeling, a malignant being who too closely resembles a missing girl. If Elizabeth can find her fawn and uncover the fate of her lost double, can she stop the fear from turning into hate? To solve the deepening mystery, Elizabeth befriends a handsome, skeptical young shepherd whose stories hint at a dark secret lurking at the forest’s edge, and follows a herd of wild unicorns with the ability to unlock the past. KATHERINE MAGYARODY grew up in Toronto, Ontario. While pursuing a PhD in English literature at the U of T, she researched awkward Victorian teens and wrote fiction on the sly. In 2017, Katherine won the Robert J. Dau PEN Award for Emerging Writers for her short story “Goldhawk.” Katherine enjoys hiking, swordplay, and improvisational cookery. She currently lives in Connecticut with her family.
ISBN 978-1-77337-019-4
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RECENT BOOKS FOR YOUNGRECENT PEOPLE Coop CoopCoop Coop The Great Larry Verstraete 978-1-77337-009-5, $11.95, 160 pages, Best for ages 8-12 Coop is an aging, cynical, down-and-out dachshund who finally finds his forever home with Mike. But when his new family runs into trouble,
A Novel Coop must draw strength from the stories of great dogs Mike has shared Larry Verstraete with him. Does Coop have what it takes to save his new family?
Family of Spies Jodi Carmichael 978-1-927855-94-2, $14.95, 296 pages, Best for ages 8-12 “Family of Spies will grip readers from the first page and will not let go… Chock full of action, suspense, history and intrigue, Family of Spies is a must-read with something for everyone!”—Highly Recommended, CM Magazine
Forgetting How to Breathe Anita Daher 978-1-927855-91-1, $11.95, 112 pages, Best for ages 9-14 “ Forgetting How to Breathe is a strong, engaging story of a young girl and her quest for stability in life. Tia’s journey is real and challenging. She is aware and sensitive to the path she is on, but has no way of foreseeing the series of events that will help her find focus and balance. As I read the story I thought about my own teen years and a part of me somehow felt that I could identify with Tia”—Fred Penner, Juno award-winning children’s entertainer
Pulse Point Colleen Nelson and Nancy Chappell-Pollack 978-1-927855-91-1, $11.95, 112 pages, Best for ages 9-14 Forest of Reading 2018 Teen Committee Summer Reading pick! Books for teens, recommended by teens.
12 13 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 Kyle Jan Andrews Luanne Luanne Armstrong 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
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 Forever Julia Hannah andhas returned from the war only to discover home was finer when remembered MADDER Madder Carmine 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.
the Magic EyeTYLER ENFIELD is a writer and photographer. Other Jodi Carmichael books include the award-winning children’s novel series, Tyler Enfield 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.
978-1-927855-20-1, Tyler Enfield $14.95 Crossover Fiction 978-1-927855-30-0 $14.95, 240 pages 978-1-927855-68-3 $14.95, 224 pages a novel by tyler enfield
Winner: McNally $11.95, 168 pages24368-GP_MadderCarmine_bookcover-full-FIN-JS.indd All Pages 15-09-02 4:29 PM Winner: High Plains Robinson Book for Young Book Award DOG BACKLIST YELLOW People Award, 2015 Selection: Best Books For Kids & Teens, Fall 2015
Green-Eyed Queen Cape Town G REAT P LAINS T EEN F ICTION Wolf Summer of Suicide City Brenda Hammond Rob Keough a novel Kevin Marc Fournier 978-1-926531-18-2, 978-1-894283-87-8, 978-1-926531-267 $14.95, 328 pages $14.95, 192 pages $14.95, 200 pages R K 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 Tori by Design The Break Illegally Blonde Colleen Nelson Nelsa Roberto Nelsa Roberto 978-1-926531-10-6 The 978-1-926531-20-5, 978-1-894283-97-7, a novel $14.95, 208 pages $14.95, 208 pages $14.95, 216 pages Nelsa Roberto winner: McNally Robinson Book for Young People
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 Winner: Gold Medal, Jocelyn Shipley $14.95, 184 pages 978-1-926531-88-5 Moonbeam Awards $14.95, 280 pages Finalist: Aurora Awards Selection: CCBC Best Books for Kids and Teens
12 13 YELLOW BACKLIST DOG 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
The Dreamline Series:
Dream Dreamline Dreamfire a novel Nicole Luiken Nicole Luiken 978-1-894283-88-5 978-1-926531-08-3 $14.95, 192 pages $14.95, 256 pages Gold Medal Winner: Nicole Luiken Moonbeam Award
The Withershins Series:
G REAT P LAINS T EEN F ICTION Withershins G r e a t P l a i n s t e e n F i c t i o n Spirit Quest Susan Rocan Susan Rocan 978-1-894283-75-5 978-1-894283-98-4 $14.95, 225 pages $14.95, 235 pages a novel Susan Rocan Susan Rocan
14 enfieldandwizenty.ca15 LITERARY FICTION
ENFIELD & WIZENTY
ENFIELD & WIZENTY IS A LITERARY IMPRINT PUBLISHING ORIGINAL NOVELS AND SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS.
14 enfieldandwizenty.ca15 Winning Chance Katherine Koller 978-1-77337-013-2, $21.95 Trade paper, 5.5 x 8.5, 192 pages Marketing Plan: National review mailing, online marketing and promotion, national advertising campaign, author participation in interviews, readings n the stories in Winning Chance, Katherine Koller explores second chances, how we find them, and how we find the Icourage to take them. Whether they are contractors 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, Katherine Koller has created empathetic portraits of characters searching to connect. KATHERINE KOLLER writes for stage, screen and page. Last Chance Leduc won the Alberta Playwriting Competition and was recently produced in Edmonton; her documentary series, Sustainable Me, has a new season in development; and her novel, Art Lessons, was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Edmonton Book Prize and for the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award in 2017. Katherine is serving as the 2018-19 Writer in Residence for the Canadian Authors Association in Edmonton, where she lives. www.katherinekoller.ca
Also by Katherine Koller Art Lessons Katherine Koller 978-1-927855-49-2, $19.95, 192 pages SELECTION – Alberta Readers’ Choice Awards Short List FINALIST – Robert Kroetsch Edmonton Book Prize “Koller’s novel explores universal concepts of what it means to exist and grow, to root and transplant—as an artist, a woman, a human, a living thing. Art Lessons has the potential to take root in your heart— let it.”—Room Magazine
ISBN 978-1-77337-013-2
9 7 8 1 7 7 3 3 7 0 1 3 2 16 17 Somewhere North of Normal Adam Lindsay Honsinger 978-1-77337-006-4, $21.95, 238 pages “Adam Lindsay Honsinger’s Somewhere North of Normal shows a writer wonderfully adept at a variety of styles—Jorge Borges meets Kurt Vonnegut meets Raymond Carver—all leavened with Honsinger’s own ironic voice in this collection of vividly imagined fictions."—Antanas Sileika, author of Buying On Time and Underground
Parallel Prairies RECENT LITERARY FICTION Edited by Darren Ridgley and Adam Petrash 978-1-77337-003-3, $21.95, 224 pages “I was born and raised in Thompson—a northern community with mosquitos big as ravens, ravens big as bears, and bears that run for local office—so I know weird when I read it. And this is some choice weird right here. I don’t know what the future holds for Manitoba, but if these stories are any indication, the flatlands are in for a bumpy ride.”—Corey Redekop, author of Husk and Shelf Monkey
The Sign for Migrant Soul Richard Cumyn 978-1-927855-88-1, $19.95, 238 pages “Cumyn does what an artist does best: charting what lies underneath our daily lives and surprising us with what we might find there.”—Winnipeg Free Press
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 Famous Last Meals The Young in their Sugarbush Road Richard Cumyn Country Méira Cook 978-1-927855-17-1 Richard Cumyn 978-1-926531-30-4 $19.95, 280 pages 9781926531021 $29.95, 296 pages $29.95, 208 pages Winner: McNally Robinson Book of the Year
fter three years in the Mexican War, color-blind Dannon W.P. KINSELLA 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 from afar. Disenchanted and confused, he puts all hope of deliverance in a girl Madder Carmine Gracelessland Butterfly Winter 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, Wrush. He’s also the writer/director of the National Tyler Enfield Adam Lindsay W.P. Kinsella Film Board’s interactive film,Invisible Worlds. He lives in Edmonton, and you can visit him and his photography at www.TylerEnfield.com.
$14.95 Crossover Fiction 978-1-927855-30-0 Honsinger 978-1-926531-16-8 $14.95, 224 pages 978-1-927855-14-0, a novel $29.95, 302 pages a novel by tyler enfield 24368-GP_MadderCarmine_bookcover-full-FIN-JS.indd All Pages 15-09-02 4:29 PM Winner: High Plains $19.95, 280 pages Book Award
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 2012 COLOPHON 978-1-926531-85-4 PRIZE Naomi K. Lewis 978-1-926531-99-1 naomi $19.95, 208 pages k. lewis 978-1-926531-51-9 $19.95, 200 pages $29.95, 232 pages
Will Rats of Las Vegas Widows of Shane Neilson Lisa Pasold Hamilton House Christina Penner short stories 978-1-926531-77-9 978-1-894283-92-2, shane neilson $29.95, 256 pages $29.95, 360 pages 978-1-894283-84-7, $29.95, 302 pages
18 19 The Bodice Ripper 10 Things to Ask This Is All A Lie Byron Rempel Yourself in Warsaw Thomas Trofimuk The Bodice Ripper 978-1-927855-71-3, Barbara Romanik 978-1-927855-77-5, A NOVEL BYRON REMPEL $19.95, 224 pages 978-1-894283-83-0 $19.95, Trade paper $29.95, 192 pages 5.5 x 8.5, 320 pages “This Is All A Lie is a powerful, dazzling accomplishment”
– Starred Review, BACKLIST E&W Quill & Quire
The View Godless but The Moon From the Lane Loyal to Heaven of Letting Go Deborah-Anne Tunney Richard Van Camp Richard Van Camp
DEBORAH-ANNE TUNNEY 978-1-927855-02-7 978-1-926531-73-1 978-1-926531-00-7 $19.95, 240 pages $19.95, 200 pages $19.95, 224 pages Winner: Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
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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