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2022 NIGHT SKY ALMANAC A Month-by-Month Guide to North America’s Skies from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Nicole Mortillaro
A portable guidebook for enjoying the night sky in 2022.
2022 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada, with all of the advice, information and data that enthusiasts need to understand and enjoy the wonders of the night sky.
This in-depth guide rst introduces readers to the objects in the sky — from stars, to comets, to globular clusters — and then takes them through the cosmic events to look out for each month in 2022, with sky maps, moon phase charts and info about the planets. The book also features:
• Methods for using your hands to measure angles in the sky • Information about binoculars and telescopes • A glossary of terms • A list of helpful resources • And much, much more!
FIREFLY BOOKS 120 pages 2022 Night Sky Almanac is both a comprehensive introduction to 7 5 ⁄8 × 8¼ astronomy and a quick reference book for more experienced sky 978-0-2281-0326-4 full color photographs, watchers who don’t want to miss a thing. Its compact size means it’s paperback $14.95 sky maps, diagrams, perfect for taking on an “astro-vacation” or simply sky viewing in the Ctn qty: tables, glossary, backyard. resources SEPTEMBER The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) was founded Rights: World ad hoc in 1868 and incorporated in 1890 with a dual membership of professionals and amateurs. It has 29 Canadian chapters and over 5,000 members. The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is entering its 115th year of publication, and the RASC also produces a number of other publications and guidebooks. Also available: 978-0-2281-0356-1 10-copy counterpack Nicole Mortillaro is an avid amateur astronomer, author, editor, Senior $149.50 Ctn qty: 1 Science Reporter for CBC News and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. She is the author of Saturn, and lives in Toronto, Canada.
Previous edition (2021 Night Sky Almanac): 978-0-2281-259-5
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4th EDITION, REVISED AND EXPANDED THE BACKYARD ASTRONOMER’S GUIDE Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer Foreword by Dr. Sara Seager
The touchstone for contemporary stargazers.
This classic, groundbreaking guide has been the go-to eld guide for both beginning and experienced amateur astronomers for nearly 30 years. The fourth edition brings Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer’s invaluable manual completely up-to-date. Setting a new standard for astronomy guides, it will serve as the touchstone for the next generation of stargazers as well as longtime devotees.
Technology and astronomical understanding are evolving at a breathtaking clip, and to re ect the latest information about observing techniques and equipment, this massively revised and expanded edition has been completely rebuilt (an additional 48 pages brings the page count to 416). Illustrated throughout with all-new photographs and star charts, this edition boasts a refreshed design and features FIREFLY BOOKS 416 pages ve brand-new chapters, including three essential essays on binocular, 9 × 11 978-0-2281-0327-1 telescope and Moon tours by renowned astronomy writer Ken Hewitt- plastic-laminated color photographs White. hardcover $49.95 throughout, star charts, resources, index Ctn qty: With new content on naked-eye sky sights, LED lighting technology, WiFi-enabled telescopes and the latest advances in binoculars, Rights: World SEPTEMBER telescopes and other astronomical gear, the fourth edition of The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide is sure to become an indispensable reference for all levels of stargazers. New techniques for observing the Sun, the Moon and solar and lunar eclipses are an especially timely Previous edition (hardcover): 978-1-55407-344-3 addition, given the upcoming solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024.
Rounding out these impressive offerings are new sections on dark sky reserves, astro-tourism, modern astrophotography and cellphone astrophotography, making this book an enduring must-have guide for anyone looking to improve his or her astronomical viewing experience.
The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide also features a foreword by Dr. Sara Seager, a Canadian-American astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an internationally recognized expert in the search for exoplanets.
Terence Dickinson is one of the most respected and popular astronomy writers in North America. He is the author of the bestselling guidebook NightWatch and a long list of other astronomy books, among them Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images, The Universe and Beyond, Splendors of the Universe and Exploring the Night Sky.
Alan Dyer is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost astrophotographers. His images have appeared in Spaceweather.com, Astronomy Picture of the Day, Universe Today, National Geographic, TIME, NBCNews and CBSNews. He is a regular contributor to Sky & Telescope and SkyNews magazines.
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IMPORTANT BOOKS FOR YOUR COLLECTION
2nd Edition 4th Edition, Updated for Use Through 2025 Hubble’s Universe NightWatch by Terence Dickinson by Terence Dickinson 332 pages with gatefold · 10 × 10 192 pages · 11 × 10¾ 978-1-77085-997-5 $35.00 plastic-laminated hardcover 978-1-55407-147-0 $35.00 concealed wirobound hardcover Rights: World Rights: World English
Deep-Sky Wonders 6th Edition by Sue French Fire y Planisphere 320 pages · 8½ × 11 Star maps by Wil Tirion, text by Robin Scagell 978-0-2281-0274-8 $29.95 paperback with aps 12 × 12 Rights: World English 978-0-2281-0127-7 $19.95 laminated plastic planisphere and instruction guide in a protective plastic case Rights: U.S. & Canada
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED FEED THE BIRDS Attract and Identify 196 Common North American Birds Chris Earley
“Informative and practical... This guide, lled with richly colorful photos, is enthusiastically recommended for birders, bird watchers, and anyone else who cares about birds’ role in our precariously fragile environment.” —Booklist
Feeding birds is growing in popularity and is enjoyed by over 50 million North Americans each year.
Feed the Birds is designed as a resource for beginners and experienced birdwatchers alike. Covering 196 bird species that are attracted to backyard bird feeders, this book helps the reader not only attract and identify birds but also understand their behavior and adaptations to the environment. A wide variety of feeders and seed types are presented with helpful tips on how to attract the largest variety of birds.
Each pro le for the 196 featured species includes a variety of photographs, an identi cation guide, a range map, information on bird seed and natural food preferences, and behavior. Other topics include: FIREFLY BOOKS 296 pages 7 × 10 978-0-2281-0201-4 • Why feeding birds is important full color photographs paperback • Building do-it-yourself feeders $24.95 US / $29.95 CDN throughout, bird feeder plans, bird ID guide, index • Foiling squirrels Ctn qty: 12 • Attracting birds with natural foods and water Rights: World • Building shelters and nest boxes AVAILABLE • Involving children • Photographing birds • Hand feeding • Recognizing individual birds and identifying similar-looking species • Growing plant varieties that make a garden attractive to birds.
The book also contains information on how to choose the right seeds; the importance of ensuring all windows are bird-safe (with links to organizations that work to reduce bird-window collision); cat-friendly deterrents; and citizen science activities like the annual Christmas Bird Count and Project Feederwatch. Feed the Birds is a complete guide that should be near every bird enthusiast’s window.
Endorsed by the Canadian Wildlife Federation, a conservation-oriented organization with more than 250,000 members. CWF has a long history of fostering bird habitat, conservation and recognition.
Chris Earley is a zoologist and environmental biologist. He is the Interpretive Biologist and Education Coordinator at The Arboretum, University of Guelph. His previous books include Falcons in the City, Warblers of the Great Lakes Region and Eastern North America, and Waterfowl of Eastern North America. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.
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100 FLYING BIRDS Photographing the Mechanics of Flight Peter Cavanagh
“Flight is the essence of birdness. I strive to illustrate the beauty and complexity of avian ight.”— Peter Cavanagh
100 Flying Birds offers a vivid and varied glimpse into the world of birds. A white-tailed eagle plummeting through a Japanese sky, a brown pelican striking a silhouette against an Ecuadorian sunset, an Atlantic puf n carrying its sh dinner above the Scottish coast, or a keel-billed toucan gliding through a Costa Rican jungle canopy; readers will marvel at the splendor of birds in ight while learning the techniques to capture these gravity-defying moments from a world- class nature photographer.
For each picture, author and photographer Peter Cavanagh shares his most evocative thoughts: the challenges of the shoot, the beauty of the location, and the curiosities of the species. Bird people will enjoy the FIREFLY BOOKS 320 pages bird photographs and facts, travelers will gobble up the tales of distant 10 × 10 parts, and photographers will absorb the technical details. For instance, 978-0-2281-0333-2 120 full-color readers might be surprised to see that a very slow shutter speed can plastic-laminated freeze the motion of hummingbird wings. hardcover with jacket photographs, notes, $49.95 illustrations, index Peter Cavanagh has collected 100 beautiful photos spanning a wide Ctn qty: Rights: World range of species. The subjects of each of the 11 chapters are: • Eagles OCTOBER • Hummingbirds • Gulls & Terns • Small Waterbirds • Large Waterbirds • Ducks, Geese and Swans • Raptors • Condors and Corvids • Cranes • Songbirds • Favorites.
Peter Cavanagh is a wildlife photographer who has been taking pictures since he was a boy in England. Peter’s migration to the photography and study of bird ight evolved from his study of ight aerodynamics for aircraft pilot quali cations; his professional training in anatomy, biomechanics, and high-speed photography; and his love of nature and the outdoors. Peter’s images have been included in the Audubon Society’s Top 100 Bird Photographs of the Year, he is a member of the North American Nature Photographers Association, and he has guest-curated the exhibit “How Birds Fly” at the Seattle Museum of Flight. Peter lives in the San Juan Islands of Washington State with his wife, artist Ann Vandervelde.
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FOSSILS INSIDE OUT A Global Fusion of Science, Art and Culture Text and photography by Thomas Wiewandt Foreword by Mark Norell
Fossils Inside Out brings fossils, paleoecology, and the fossil industry to life in a beautiful and easy-to-understand format suitable for young adults and older, scientists and non-scientists. This large format book is packed with information connecting the past, present, and future of life on Earth. It also reaches beyond the basics by covering historical perspectives on fossil collecting, laws that can confuse anyone, new imaging technologies, the art of fossil preparation, and how to spot a fake. Most of the imagery (90 percent) has been selected from the author’s personal photographic archive, enhanced by some exceptional artwork from outside sources. Paleontologists, collectors, dealers, museums, and artists worldwide have generously helped to make this book possible.
Chapters include: • Dealers to Dinosaurs: Evolution of the World’s Greatest Fossil Show • Fossils: Messengers From the Past • Fossils Lost and Found • Geological Time and Drifting Continents WILD HORIZONS 200 pages • Collecting Fossils PUBLISHING 10 × 12 • Gallery of Life 329 color images 978-1-879728-08-0 • Extinction Events (photographs and plastic-laminated • Seeing the Unseen: Probing the Past With New Imaging Technologies artwork), 14 maps, hardcover with jacket • Art of Fossil Preparation and Display. $49.95 graphs, diagrams, further reading, index Ctn qty: Stemming from a passion for science and art (MS in Zoology, Rights: World English University of Arizona; PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell AUGUST University), Thomas Wiewandt has forged a career in educational media production and owns Wild Horizons Publishing. He lives in Tucson, home of the world’s largest Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Showcase. For 34 years, Tom has been photographing many of the nest fossils found in remote corners of the globe, the foundation for this book. His four lms for National Geographic and the BBC earned him an Emmy Nomination in cinematography, four Cine Golden Eagles, and a Gold Apple Award; and his award-winning, independently produced lm Desert Dreams: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert has been aired on national Public Television as a pledge drive program (2015-2020). Tom is a member of the Author’s Guild, the American Society of Media Photographers, the Independent Book Publishers Association, and the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Mark Norell is Chairman, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED · 2nd EDITION, REVISED BLACK BEARS A Natural History Dave Taylor
“If you have an interest in bears then Dave Taylor’s sixteen years of research and photographs will keep your interest for hours with his new book.” — Scope Camping News Magazine
Dave Taylor has spent his life photographing and writing about North American wildlife. In this full color book with more than 100 photographs, maps and charts, Black Bears introduces the reader to this shy, reclusive and largely misunderstood animal with an encyclopedic examination of the black bear’s world by state, province and territory.
Of the three species (grizzly/brown, polar and black bear), Taylor examines and portrays his devotion and passion speci cally to the black bear, the most populous of the species. A speci c section touches upon the bear and people, offering valuable advice when camping in their environment and what to do if one encounters a bear in the wilderness.
FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE 248 pages Dave Taylor is the author/photographer of more than 50 books on 8½ × 11 978-1-55455-469-0 wildlife and natural history. He is a retired teacher who has had a paperback $40.00 full color throughout, passion for black bears since the 1960s. Ctn qty: 100 photos, maps and charts JUNE No Canadian Rights, U.S. only
Previous edition (paperback): 978-1-55041-849-1
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3rd UPDATED EDITION, IN PAPERBACK CREATURES OF THE DEEP In Search of the Sea’s Monsters and the World They Live In Erich Hoyt
Praise for the rst edition:
“More than a picture book ... Hoyt’s elegant writing provides both the historical background for deep-sea exploration and an ecological perspective on life in the ocean’s depths.” —American Scientist
“A magni cent bestiary ... and a reminder of how little we actually know about the seas surrounding us.” —Popular Science
Winner, Outstanding Non ction Book of the Year —American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., New York
In this updated third edition of Creatures of the Deep, award-winning FIREFLY BOOKS 288 pages nature and science writer Erich Hoyt gives readers a glimpse of the 9 × 11 978-0-2281-0329-5 amazing variety of creatures found in the deepest parts of the ocean. paperback with aps more than 100 full-color Weaving together details from the latest scienti c research about $29.95 photographs, index, map, sharks, giant squid, dragon sh, huge tube worms, clams and tiny Ctn qty: sources and resources microbes of the deep-sea vents, Hoyt embarks on a magical journey roaming across the abyssal plains and descending into deep-sea SEPTEMBER Rights: World trenches more than 20,000 feet down.
Hoyt unravels the complex predator-prey relationships, from “killer” copepods to battles between giant squid and sperm whales, presenting Previous edition (hardcover): 978-1-77085-281-5 compelling portraits of animals that are superbly adapted denizens of a dark high-pressure world. There are life forms, independent of sunlight and photosynthesis, which ourish around the hot, sulfurous deep-sea vents in the magni cent rift valley of the mid-ocean ridge, the world’s longest mountain range. Surviving in conditions that appear to be close to the very soup of primordial Earth, these microbes have become the basis for the latest research into Earth’s origins. The book is fully illustrated with fantastic underwater imagery.
Erich Hoyt has spent much of his life on or beside the sea, working with whales and dolphins and marine conservation. A noted conservationist and scientist, he has written more than 20 books including the acclaimed Orca: The Whale Called Killer, Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Strange Sea Creatures plus several children’s books including Weird Sea Creatures and Whale Rescue. He lives in Dorset, England.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED CAPTURING MOTION My Life in High Speed Nature Photography Stephen Dalton
“Pushing the frontiers of nature photography since the early 1970s, Stephen Dalton has sublimely crafted images that bring time to a stop, revealing the secret lives of creatures — mostly small and fast-moving — that would otherwise appear as blurs and streaks to the unaided eye. In this arresting career retrospective, each photograph merits a well-told story... Looking back, Dalton recalls being overcome by the wonder of ‘witnessing things that no human had ever seen before.’ So should all who behold these marvelous images.” —Natural History Magazine
In this fascinating book Stephen Dalton takes the reader on a journey, recounting how he started in photography and how he became fascinated with the idea of photographing insects and birds in ight.
When Dalton started to combine his interests in nature and photography, no photographer had succeeded in capturing on lm a FIREFLY BOOKS 192 pages in color focused image of an animal in midair. There were no digital cameras, 9 × 11 no high-speed lm, only primitive ash units powered by a heavy car 978-0-2281-0272-4 battery. Color lm took a week or more to be sent away and processed, plastic-laminated 80 full color photographs, index too late for Dalton to make adjustments to his camera and ash set-up. hardcover with jacket There were also no publications to learn from. $35.00 Rights: World Ctn qty: 10 Dalton describes how persistence, hard work and sheer faith that it could be done pushed him to experiment with a variety of methods. OCTOBER Two years of repeated attempts, an understanding of ight mechanics and insight into the art of photography brought success: he captured a sharply focused image of a barn owl leaving its nest. Dalton had created the art of motion photography.
Capturing Motion is part memoir, part adventure story and part scienti c explanation, illustrated throughout with Dalton’s pioneering photographs. Dalton explains how the photographic equipment of the time worked and takes the reader on his journeys into the English countryside in the 1960s as he searched for subjects. Each attempt could be long and frustrating but success nally came with his image of a barn owl in ight.
Capturing Motion follows the incredible journey of a highly skilled and creative nature photographer inventing an entirely new method. All photographers will enjoy reading about the determination and skill that went into creating a method they use every day in their craft.
Stephen Dalton is an internationally respected photographer whose high-speed wildlife photography has earned him a devoted following of both nature lovers and photographers. Dalton has published several books, including Secret Lives; Caught in Motion and The Miracle of Flight. He lives in rural England.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED STRANGE SEA CREATURES Erich Hoyt
“A young wunderpus octopus, staring you right in the eye, is the perfect choice for the opening spread of Eric Hoyt’s latest book celebrating the oceans’ wonders... Page after page, we see the surprising shapes, colors and intricate details of secretive animals — many in their juvenile forms — that dash to the surface on nocturnal forays. Hoyt’s curated collection of images from various underwater photographers continues into the deep twilight zone and onto the seabed, showcasing the mesmerizing range of life far beneath the waves.” —BBC Wildlife Magazine
Marine researchers are discovering new ocean creatures every day, especially at its deepest depths. From the author of Creatures of the Deep, Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises and other FIREFLY BOOKS 112 pages in full color books about the ocean and the animals that live there, comes a new 10 × 10 978-0-2281-0297-7 title about some of the most unusual marine life forms. plastic-laminated 90 full color photographs, hardcover with jacket glossary, index The book organizes the creatures into three parts based on where they $24.95 live in the ocean. Informative captions accompany the 90 gorgeous Ctn qty: 16 Rights: World photographs of otherworldly creatures.
SEPTEMBER Part 1: Surface Waters of the Ocean at Night: The Blackwater Vertical Migrators • In images taken by dedicated blackwater photographers Linda Ianniello and Susan Mears, these mostly larval creatures haunt the near-surface waters making vertical migrations every night to feed.
Part 2: Middle to Deep Dark Waters: Masters of the Language of Light • In this perpetual night, survival is a matter of being able to understand and process light signals, some in different colors, some ashing, some faint — the most sophisticated use of bioluminescence on Earth. The sea creatures here are small with big eyes and even larger mouths with extraordinarily sharp teeth.
Part 3. The Continental Shelf to the Abyssal Plain: The Bottom Dwellers • This bottom of the sea has fewer sh, and is populated by such alien-like creatures as no-eyed or tripod sh, sea cucumbers, as well as basket stars, crabs and worms, with species varying by depth and location.
The photographs were taken in the ocean by expert divers and submariners, most of whom are both scientists and underwater photographers. The images display the creatures vividly against a background as black as the ocean depths.
Erich Hoyt has spent much of his life on or beside the sea, working with whales and dolphins and marine conservation in the world’s oceans. A noted conservationist and scientist and an award-winning author, he has written 24 books including the acclaimed Orca: The Whale Called Killer, Insect Lives, The Earth Dwellers, Creatures of the Deep, Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, and the children’s books Weird Sea Creatures and Whale Rescue. He lives in Dorset, England. FIREFLY BOOKS FALL 2021 13 NATURE
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN Ernest Thompson Seton
“The most precious book of my childhood.” —Sir David Attenborough
An elegant and faithful reproduction of a classic.
Ernest Thompson Seton was born in England in 1860. He grew up in Toronto and from an early age his overriding passion was observation of the natural world. He spent countless hours in the woods discovering plants and fungi and quietly observing creatures of all sizes and species. He kept meticulous notes and drawings, building “an accurate account of the creature’s ways, habits, changing whims, and emotions.”
In his early 20s, Seton joined his brother on a homestead in Manitoba. He continued to dedicate himself to careful observation of animals in their element, and their relationships with humans, supporting himself through trapping and sales of his drawings and stories.
Wild Animals I Have Known is a collection of short stories written by Seton about animals he encountered. It was published in 1898, selling out in three weeks and reprinted 28 times. It made Seton an FIREFLY BOOKS 336 pages instant celebrity and a popular lecturer. The book has been published 5½ × 8 978-0-2281-0306-6 in a dozen languages and has never been out of print, which speaks embossed leather-like black-and-white volumes about the popularity and appeal of this classic book. hardcover $24.95 illustrations Ctn qty: 24 Wild Animals I Have Known opens with Seton’s most famous story, Rights: World Lobo, The King of Currumpaw. It tells the true story of when Seton AVAILABLE was hired by ranchers to trap Lobo, leader of a pack of wolves, which over the years had killed dozens of sheep and cattle. The hunt was successful but the story tragic. Seton would later regret his actions, having recognized that the human desire to overcome the wild reveals the innate human desire to exist in harmony with nature. Lobo was key to Seton’s transformation into a conservationist, but while swearing off hunting he would defend his telling of nature’s brutality: “The fact that these stories are true is the reason why all are tragic. The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.”
Seton went on to write more than 50 books and hundreds of magazine articles, and he delivered countless public lectures in the service of animal and habitat conservation. His stories established a moral connection between people and animals, and helped to change society’s consciousness about the treatment of animals and the natural environment. He lobbied for the creation of national parks and fought for protections for wildlife. Today he is remembered for Lobo but scarcely as one of the lead authors of wildlife conservation.
The stories in Wild Animals I Have Known are illustrated with Seton’s original drawings as published in the rst edition and bound in a faux- leather, embossed hardcover binding — which will make this restored edition a ne gift.
This lovely reproduction in the spirit of the original is an essential addition to personal and school libraries, all circulating collections and gift tables.
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NOW IN PAPERBACK LIVES OF CONIFERS A Comprehensive Account of the Coniferous Trees Indigenous to Northeastern North America Graham R. Powell
“Graham Powell has written an insightful and beautifully illustrated book on the lives of conifers. Everyone who works with, studies, and loves these trees will derive both knowledge and pleasure from learning about them in great detail. I have always had a special fondness for the conifers and their mystical and inspiring representatives like the massive redwoods and the bleak denizens of the boreal forests, the spruces. I conclude that Powell’s book does them their well-deserved justice.” — Graeme Berlin, Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
A comparative account of the coniferous trees indigenous to Northeastern North America.
Extensively illustrated with full-color photographs, diagrams, and drawings by the author, Graham R. Powell’s Lives of Conifers examines the complex and fascinating life cycles of the 12 coniferous FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE 276 pages trees that grow naturally in northeastern North America on both sides of 8¼ × 10 978-1-55455-479-9 the Canada-U.S. border. paperback $30.00 full color, glossary, Ctn qty: 8 bibliography, index, table Tracing their development from seeds and seedlings, to saplings, of contents through the pole stage to maturity, old age, and death, the book is AUGUST designed to provide a comparison of each species at each stage of life, No Canadian Rights, thus aiding in the recognition and identi cation of species at all stages U.S. only of their existence. It includes descriptions of developmental processes and how they differ among the species.
Previous edition (hardcover): 978-1-55041-869-9 The species covered in the book are: • balsam r • red pine • eastern hemlock • black spruce • tamarack larch • red spruce • eastern white pine • white spruce • jack pine • eastern juniper • pitch pine • eastern thuja.
The book is based almost entirely on what is visible to the careful observer in the forest, and includes only the parts of trees that can be seen above ground. Lives of Conifers will appeal to forest scientists, forestry students, foresters, forest technologists, botanists, horticulturists, arborists, naturalists, and general readers interested in knowing more about their natural surroundings.
Graham R Powell earned his B.Sc. in Forestry at the University of Edinburgh, his MSc in Forest Ecology at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and his PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Professor Powell taught at the University of New Brunswick for 34 years. In 1997 he was appointed Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management at the university.
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DIAMONDS Their History, Sources, Qualities and Bene ts Renée Newman, GG
The beauty and sparkle and mystique of diamonds is unmatched by that of any other gem in the world. Since early times, diamonds have been treasured as good luck charms, remarkable tools and status symbols and have been worn, collected and presented as lavish gifts. Today, diamonds remain among the most sought-after gemstones and continue to hold their value through good times and bad.
In Diamonds, author Renée Newman, a graduate gemologist and author of many trade-level handbooks on gemstones, invites the reader on a journey into the fascinating world of diamonds. This lavishly illustrated guide — which features hundreds of photos, maps and diagrams — covers everything from mining, cutting and evaluating diamonds to the romantic histories of some of the world’s most valuable stones.
Diamonds includes chapters on: • What a diamond is — its signi cance from antiquity to the present day and what it represents from different perspectives • The process and history of mining diamonds — the locations (both FIREFLY BOOKS 272 pages modern and historical) as well as the techniques used to mine 9 × 11 diamonds 978-0-2281-0331-8 • The evolution of diamond cutting — how a diamond is processed plastic-laminated 380 color/black & white and what are the key cuts and shapes to know hardcover with jacket photographs, 10 maps, • Diamond jewelry through the ages — how diamonds have been used $49.95 US / $59.95 CDN diagrams, resources, Ctn qty: glossary, index in jewelry from pre-Georgian times to today • Evaluating and pricing diamonds — how diamonds are priced based OCTOBER Rights: World on their many value factors, such as color, carat weight, cut, clarity, and so on • Man-made diamonds • The remarkable bene ts of diamonds.
As beautiful as they are precious and as useful as they are decorative, diamonds continue to fascinate and allure. Diamonds will be a welcome guide for anyone who has felt the romance and power of these fascinating gems. It will also be a useful resource for professionals in the jewelry trade.
Renée Newman is a highly respected gemologist and the author of over 13 guides to gems and jewelry. Her books have been used worldwide as sales-training tools, buying guides, class texts and references for jewelry professionals. She earned her graduate gemologist diploma from the prestigious Gemological Institute of America (GIA). She lives in Los Angeles, California.
Photo © Petra Diamonds
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Brooch from GeorgianJewelry.com; photo by Zachary Mial Photo © Heritage Auctions (HA.com)
Photo © Heritage Auctions (HA.com)
Photo © Heritage Auctions (HA.com) Photo © Heritage Auctions (HA.com)
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More about gemstones and jewels
The Jeweler’s Directory of Gemstones The Fire y Guide to Minerals, by Judith Crowe Rocks & Gems 176 pages · 7¾ × 10 by Rupert Hochleitner 978-1-77085-108-5 $24.95 paperback 256 pages · 4½ × 7½ Rights: U.S. & Canada 978-0-2281-0228-1 $19.95 exibound with aps Rights: World English
Here’s a great guide for kids:
Gems of the World Rocks, Minerals and Gems by Cally Oldershaw by John Farndon 256 pages · 7¾ × 10 Ages 11 to 15 978-0-2281-0007-2 $24.95 paperback 120 pages · 6¾ × 9½ Rights: U.S. & Canada 978-1-77085-868-8 $12.95 US/$14.95 CDN paperback 978-1-77085-740-7 $24.95 plastic-laminated hardcover Rights: U.S. & Canada
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ICELAND Born of Lava, Chiseled by Ice Arnold Zageris
Iceland has an alien quality that de es expectations. Its interior is lifeless and bare with volcanic formations that are reminiscent of what the earth must have looked like in Archean times. Hot geysers, deep mountainous fjords, and glaciers that carve their way into the lowlands are just some of the features that are compressed into this small island nation. It is just such a compelling and unfamiliar landscape that makes visiting here an ultimate trip.
“My focus was not on the iconic hotspots that made Iceland famous but the less visited and undiscovered features that had their own intrinsic values in texture, form and color. With each of my ve visits I discovered much more by limiting myself to explore and familiarize myself with a small select unknown area becoming more an opportunistic photographer depending mostly on luck to nd something that merited my attention. Whether I was climbing for days in the highlands of the interior, skirting calving glaciers, crossing a moonlike landscape FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE 332 pages or wandering a weatherbeaten shore, Iceland is a photographer’s 11 × 10¼ 978-1-55455-477-5 paradise.” hardcover with jacket full color photos $60.00 throughout Photographer Arnold Zageris was born in Germany in 1948 to a Ctn qty: Latvian father and German mother. At the age of two and a half years, No Canadian Rights, the Zageris family immigrated to Canada and settled in the remote SEPTEMBER U.S. only northern mining town of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Zageris has won many awards for his work and has exhibited in public and private galleries across Canada including: Art Bank of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, and The Rooms in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. He is the author of two books: On the Labrador and Antarctica. Zageris now lives with his wife Joan in Peterborough, Ontario.
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RAISING BUTTERFLIES IN THE GARDEN Brenda Dziedzic
This exciting title is for butter y lovers and gardeners who not only want to create a butter y-friendly garden, but also want to support butter ies and moths in order to maintain healthy populations.
Author Brenda Dziedzic noticed that there were far fewer butter ies around today than she saw in her childhood. Starting in her own garden she set out to learn why and what she could do to x this. Raising Butter ies in the Garden is the outcome of what she learned about these fascinating insects and the native plants they depend on. In this book, Dziedzic shares the vast experience she gained in helping butter ies thrive through all stages of life. She shows readers how they can do the same — no matter the time of year or the size of their property — by providing all of the information and practical guidance they need.
The book features more than 500 color photographs showing the life FIREFLY BOOKS 336 pages cycles of over 35 butter ies and moths — from egg to adult — as well 6 × 9 978-0-2281-0225-0 as the host and nectar plants they rely on. Each pro led species also paperback $24.95 500 color photographs includes a North American range map. Ctn qty: 16 and range maps, glossary, useful websites, Brenda Dziedzic is a Michigan gardener whose life changed when she AVAILABLE bibliography, host/larval became interested in butter ies. She is now an expert on the subject food plant index, butter y of raising Lepidopteran species and has won numerous awards for her and moth index work.
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HOW TO RAISE MONARCH BUTTERFLIES A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids Carol Pasternak
“One of the most remarkable changes in nature is how a caterpillar turns into a butter y, and this book, lled with beautiful photographs, tells kids how that change takes place and why it’s so important for the environment. The book’s easy-to-follow instructions, from nding caterpillars or monarch eggs to caring for them, will inspire you.” — Washington Post
Observing a Monarch butter y as it transforms itself from caterpillar to chrysalis to butter y is among the most thrilling experiences that nature offers. Raising Monarch butter ies is made easy with the help of this detailed guide.
How to Raise Monarch Butter ies explains what threats Monarchs FIREFLY BOOKS 48 pages face today and how readers can help conserve the Monarch’s feeding 8 × 8 978-1-77085-002-6 grounds from encroachment. Revel in one of the most remarkable paperback $9.95 full color illustrations and miracles of nature. Ctn qty: 60 photographs throughout, glossary, resources, index Carol Pasternak is a photographer, personal trainer and educator who AVAILABLE raises Monarch butter ies with her family in Toronto, Ontario. Rights: World
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2nd EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED WATERSHEDS A Practical Handbook for Healthy Water Gregor Gilpin Beck; illustrations by Clive Dobson
Water is our most vital resource, yet few understand even the basics of watershed ecology. This new edition has been updated to re ect growing environmental challenges, such as climate change, the insidious spread of invasive species and the loss of biodiversity.
Watersheds: A Practical Handbook for Healthy Water is an engaging and informative introduction to ecology and environmental issues that focus on water-related issues. Well suited for youth or general readers of any age, Watersheds combines a profusion of beautiful illustrations with non-technical and accessible text, making it attractive as well as informative. The book explains ecological principles and environmental challenges, introduces North America’s major biological regions, outlines the complexities of water and nutrient cycles and explains the ecology of wetlands and waterways. Watersheds also explains some of the major environmental issues facing North America, including air pollution, water pollution, invasive exotic species, and habitat loss and destruction. FIREFLY BOOKS 152 pages 8 × 10 978-0-2281-0323-3 Watersheds provides detailed information on: paperback $19.95 more than 100 full-color • water and nutrient cycles Ctn qty: illustrations, diagrams • bioregions and aquatic habitats throughout, glossary, • exotic species invasions SEPTEMBER bibliography, index • water and air pollution • ecological restoration Rights: World • habitat loss.
While Watersheds identi es and explains multiple ecological Previous edition (paperback): 978-1-55209-330-6 challenges, the book is engaging, empowering and positive, providing practical “How Can I Help?” sections aimed to inspire participation in efforts to restore watersheds and protect the environment. As the book explains, what’s good for one’s local watershed is also good for the planet — so we can all help protect and restore our natural environment.
Gregor Gilpin Beck is a wildlife biologist and conservation professional with a passion for nature, watersheds and outdoor pursuits. He is particularly passionate about birds, reptiles, canoeing, hiking and habitat restoration.
Clive Dobson is a multi-disciplined artist whose range of work re ects his concern for the rapidly changing North American landscape.
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This summer, grow something great
NEW VEGETABLES, HERBS AND FRUIT An Illustrated Encyclopedia Matthew Biggs, Jekka McVicar and Bob Flowerdew
The rst edition of Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit was published in 2006. All editions and formats sold more than one million copies and it quickly became a classic reference. This edition adds a new jacket, updates the design, and expands by 60 new pages for a total of over 70 vegetables, 100 herbs and 100 popular fruits. The most current information on plant varieties and cultivation techniques make it the essential sourcebook for all food gardeners, especially for anyone who would like to start growing organic produce, and who feels they need some expert advice.
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GROW WHAT YOU LOVE 12 Food Plant Families To Change Your Life Emily Murphy
Grow What You Love is a simple guide to growing vegetables, herbs and more that will add avor and variety to the fresh produce readers can access throughout the year.
Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs, the book begins with an exploration of Emily’s approach to gardening and how it can t into modern life with little time and effort. She gives advice on how best to choose food plants that readers love (or will grow to love), and follows with simple methods for garden-to-table growing, including a selection of her favorite seasonal recipes. The result for readers will be a garden-fresh bounty for any time of the year.
272 pages · 8 × 10 · 978-0-2281-0020-1 · $24.95 US / $29.95 CDN paperback Rights: World ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY SMALL GARDEN HANDBOOK Making the Most of Your Outdoor Space Andrew Wilson; photographs by Steven Wooster
A comprehensive guide to planning, planting and maintaining a small garden.
This in-depth reference packs a lot of information and expert advice into one easy-to-use resource. It is designed to help home gardeners discover the potential in a small piece of land and guide them step- by-step through the process of transforming it into a garden with oversized impact.
224 pages · 7½ × 9¾ · 978-1-77085-192-4 · $24.95 paperback Rights: U.S. & Canada
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2nd Edition 2nd Edition Microgreens Gardening with Conifers by Fionna Hill by Adrian Bloom 120 pages · 8 × 10 224 pages · 9 × 11 978-1-77085-714-8 $19.95 paperback 978-1-77085-908-1 $29.95 paperback with aps Rights: U.S. & Canada Rights: World
The Gardener’s Book of Color Growing Trees from Seed by Andrew Lawson by Henry Kock with Paul Aird, John 232 pages · 6¾ × 9 Ambrose and Gerald Waldron 978-0-2281-0171-0 $24.95 paperback 288 pages · 8½ × 11 Rights: U.S. & Canada 978-1-55407-363-4 $49.95 plastic- laminated hardcover with jacket Rights: U.S. & Canada
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BACK IN PRINT THE FONDUE BIBLE The 200 Best Recipes Ilana Simon
An updated and upgraded edition of the market leader on fondue, with over 200 recipes.
Fondue is ever popular and is the perfect choice when you want to create a memorable meal experience for family and friends. The Fondue Bible has been a market leader and a trusted resource on fondue cooking for over a decade. In addition to traditional favorites and new twists on those classics, it offers a range of recipes that go well beyond the familiar cheese and chocolate varieties, along with dozens of dips and sauces specially designed to complement the recipes.
There are hot oil fondues such as Ginger Beef Fondue, Zesty Lime Chicken, and Tempura Vegetables, and savory broth fondues such as Mongolian Hot Pot, Honey Garlic Chicken Fondue, and Thai Pork Fondue in Lemon Grass Broth. Traditional recipes with a twist include Emmentaler Fondue with Caramelized Shallots and Cheddar Cheese and Beer Fondue, while decadent nishers include Bittersweet Chocolate Fondue and Cherries Jubilee Fondue. With more than 200 recipes, there’s a fondue for everyone. ROBERT ROSE 272 pages 7 × 10 978-0-7788-0617-2 The Fondue Bible also provides menu-planning suggestions, a guide 48 color photos, paperback to using and maintaining different types of fondue pots and lots of one-color text, index $24.95 US / $27.95 CDN tips and tricks for fondue cooking. This updated edition offers 10 new Ctn qty: 30 recipes in an entire section devoted to throwing fondue parties. Rights: World AVAILABLE Ilana Simon is a food writer, editor and author of 125 Best Fondue Recipes and 125 Best Indoor Grill Recipes. She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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THE FAMILY IMMUNITY COOKBOOK 101 Easy Recipes to Boost Health Toby Amidor
An easy-to-follow, family friendly cookbook lled with delicious recipes all designed to boost health, energy and wellness.
All of us want to keep our families safe and healthy. We also want to eat delicious and satisfying food. The Family Immunity Cookbook includes 25 of the top immune-boosting foods, incorporated into 101 delicious recipes. These are ingredients that provide immune-essential nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, selenium, iron, and protein to keep your body’s defenses in tip-top shape, or they are foods that help decrease in ammation and boost antioxidant activity such as berries, fatty sh or avocados which help your body defend itself from illness and can also promote healing.
But that sounds complicated. How do we build healthy immune systems anyway? Simple. Bestselling cookbook author and nutritionist Toby Amidor is skilled at making tricky topics fun and easy to understand — she’s done the work for you. She expertly describes the nutritional bene ts of foods and then weaves them into recipes the whole family will enjoy. It tastes so good you won’t even know it’s good for you!
ROBERT ROSE 256 pages Armed with Toby’s tips and tricks, you can minimize that stress 7½ × 10 associated with cooking. These include meal prepping, preparing 978-0-7788-0680-6 75+ color photos freezer-friendly foods to keep your kitchen stocked with healthy meals, paperback with aps cooking one pot meals to minimize dishes, and nding recipes that can $24.95 US / $29.95 CDN be prepared and cooked in 30 minutes or less. Ctn qty: Rights: World Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a Wall Street Journal bestselling OCTOBER cookbook author, leading dietitian and recipe developer who believes that healthy and wholesome can also be appetizing and delicious. She is the author of six cookbooks, including The Best 3-Ingredient Cookbook, The Best Rotisserie Chicken Cookbook, Smart Meal Prep For Beginners, The Healthy Meal Prep Cookbook, and The Easy 5-Ingredient Healthy Cookbook. She is the founder of Toby Amidor Nutrition and the nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com. She lives in New York.
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NEW COVER THE COMPLETE ROOT CELLAR BOOK Building Plans, Uses and 100 Recipes Steve Maxwell and Jennifer MacKenzie
Nature’s way of storing fruits, vegetables and preserves.
Whether as a way to manage challenging economic times or retain a garden’s bounty, root cellars are making a big comeback.
This book takes a fresh look at the art, science and romance of building and stocking a root cellar. There are detailed illustrated construction guides for making four different kinds of root cellars that are functional and attractive. These include never-before-seen models for apartment and condo dwellers and home owners without a basement.
The Complete Root Cellar Book provides technical information on using photovoltaics (solar cells) and other energy technologies to enhance a root cellar’s performance and ecological sustainability. It also includes must-know information on how to choose, store and manage a supply of fruits, vegetables, nuts and preserves.
The book features 100 recipes that call for stored produce, many of ROBERT ROSE 256 pages 7 × 10 which also make use of the root cellar’s speci c environment, such 978-0-7788-0243-3 as sauerkraut and barrel-fermented dill pickles. These classic dishes, paperback 25 technical drawings, 2-color throughout, index many with new twists, include: $24.95 US / $27.95 CDN • Classic leek and potato soup Ctn qty: Rights: World • Golden puffed potato puddings • Maple pecan crumble apple pie JULY • Classic carrot cake • Spiced pear butter • Three-onion relish.
Root cellars are the best natural way to store food, and this book is the most complete and up-to-date reference available on this time-honored tradition.
Steve Maxwell is a cabinetmaker, builder and award-winning home improvement author. Over the past two decades his articles have frequently appeared across North America.
Jennifer MacKenzie is a professional home economist, author and editor with 15 years’ experience in recipe development and testing.
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EASY BREAD 100 No-Knead Recipes Judith Fertig
Yes, you can have wonderful, home-baked bread any day of the week.
Easy Bread will change the way you think about baking bread. Skip the traditional rounds of kneading and rising. With dough always ready to go, you’ll be serving up glorious, fresh-baked breads in no time! Award-winning cookbook author Judith Fertig shares her expertise with a simpli ed, step-by-step technique and clear, detailed recipes easy enough for even beginning bread bakers. Start with a simple French loaf or pizza dough and quickly advance to lled breads, bagels and aky buttery croissants. Prepare delicious bread toppings and llings, like artisan butter, cinnamon sugar and caramelized onions, ready for whenever a craving for sweet or savory strikes.
Varieties include: Basic Artisan Breads • Baguette • Rolls Whole Grain Breads • Whole Wheat • Traditional Naan ROBERT ROSE 224 pages Seeded Breads and Filled Breads 7½ × 10 • Whole Wheat Cheddar Boule 978-0-7788-0684-4 60 color photos • Rosemary and Black Olive Fougasse paperback Flavored Breads $19.95 US / $24.95 CDN Rights: World • Hamburger Buns Ctn qty: • Sun-Dried Tomato and Feta Flatbread Slow-Rise Breads OCTOBER • Slow-Rise Herbed Polenta • Slow-Rise Ciabatta Gluten-Free Breads • Gluten-Free Caraway “Rye” • Gluten-Free Cinnamon Rolls Festive Breads • Chocolate Hazelnut Swirl Loaf • Apple Custard Kuchen Brioche • Butternut Brioche • Brioche Pull-Aparts Bagels • New York Bagels • Montreal Bagels Buttery Yeast Breads • Flaky, Buttery Croissants • Danish Orange Pinwheels
Baking bread was never so easy — or so satisfying!
Judith Fertig is an award-winning and bestselling cookbook author, specializing in baking, barbecue, and the regional cuisine of the North American Heartland. Her food and lifestyle writing has appeared in The New York Times, The London Sunday Times, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Natural Awakenings, Better Homes & Gardens, Saveur, Fine Cooking, and Eating Well. Fertig has appeared on the Food Network and many TV and radio programs.
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BEST OF BRIDGE KITCHEN SIMPLE 125 Quick and Easy Recipes Emily Richards and Sylvia Kong
Best of Bridge: Simple. Everyday. Meals.
With over 4 million books sold, Best of Bridge is cherished for their scrumptious, cozy, timeless recipes. Always delicious and easy-to- follow, Best of Bridge Kitchen Simple is a welcome return to easy techniques with simple ingredients designed to take the stress out of mealtime. These all-new 125 recipes will continue your trust in Best of Bridge to bring appetizing dishes.
Struggling to nd an easy weeknight family meal everyone will look forward to? Turkey Zucchini Meatballs will be the answer. Short on time? Try your hand at the Skillet Egg Roll. Have a sweet craving and want to use your Instant Pot? Why not London Fog Rice Pudding! Need an idea for Meatless Monday? Try our Mushroom Jamaican Handpies.
By focusing on simple, easy-to-prepare recipes, smart strategies for meal prep and ingredient lists with supermarket staples, Kitchen Simple is just what it sounds like: tasty food with easy techniques all created with the Best of Bridge readers in mind. ROBERT ROSE 256 pages 8½ × 10½ 978-0-7788-0682-0 The family includes many talented contributors. 32 color photos Best of Bridge wirobound hardcover Emily Richards is a professional home economist, cookbook author, $29.95 Rights: World food writer and media spokeswoman. She lives in Guelph, Ontario. Ctn qty: Sylvia Kong is a food stylist, home economist and consultant at Savory Palate Consulting. She lives in Calgary, Alberta. This is their fourth Best OCTOBER of Bridge book.
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The Best of Best of Bridge
Best of Bridge Best of Bridge Best of Bridge Home 5-Ingredient Cooking Comfort Food Preserving by Best of Bridge by Best of Bridge by Best of Bridge 256 pages · 8½ × 10½ 256 pages · 8½ × 10½ 306 pages · 8½ × 10½ 978-0-7788-0677-6 $29.95 978-0-7788-0632-5 $29.95 978-0-7788-0482-6 $29.95 wirobound (concealed) wirobound (concealed) wirobound (concealed) hardcover hardcover hardcover Rights: World Rights: World Rights: World
Best of Bridge Best of Bridge The Best of Bridge Sunday Suppers Family Slow Cooker Weekday Suppers by Best of Bridge by Best of Bridge by Best of Bridge 324 pages · 8½ × 10½ 342 pages · 8½ × 10½ 288 pages · 7¾ × 10½ 978-0-7788-0575-5 $29.95 978-0-7788-0544-1 $29.95 978-0-7788-0610-3 $29.95 wirobound (concealed) wirobound (concealed) wirobound (concealed) hardcover hardcover hardcover Rights: World Rights: World Rights: World
Best of Bridge Bravo! Best of Bridge Fan Fare! Best of Home Cooking Cookbook Bridge Cookbook by Best of Bridge by Best of Bridge by Sally Vaughan-Johnston 360 pages · 8½ × 10½ 352 pages · 8½ × 10½ 376 pages · 8½ × 10½ 978-0-7788-0514-4 $29.95 978-0-7788-0220-4 $29.95 978-0-7788-0276-1 $29.95 wirobound (concealed) wirobound (concealed) wirobound (concealed) hardcover hardcover hardcover Rights: World Rights: World Rights: World
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BACK IN PRINT WITH A NEW COVER DESIGN 300 BEST HOMEMADE CANDY RECIPES Brittles, Caramels, Chocolates, Fudge, Truf es and So Much More Jane Sharrock
The step-by-step candy bible for home candy-makers.
With hundreds of recipes for mouthwatering candies, chocolates, pralines, crèmes, fudges, toffee, holiday treats and no-bake cookies, this candy cookbook covers the traditional to the exotic.
Complete with easy-to-follow instructions and 75 step-by-step photos, this is a treasure trove of information and inspiring recipes. Although many are intimidated at the thought of making candies at home, Jane Sharrock shows how to master a few basic principles that every candy maker should know. She makes it easy to produce delicious goodies in the home kitchen.
Heirloom Candies • Old-Fashioned Cooked Candies, Brittles, Toffees, Old-Fashioned Hard Candies, Caramels, Clusters, Patties and Pralines, Divinities, ROBERT ROSE 288 pages Nougats and Similar Candies, Old-Fashioned Candy Rolls 7 × 10 978-0-7788-0475-8 Make Mine Fudge paperback $24.95 32 color photo pages • Old-Fashioned Chocolate Fudges, Marshmallow and Marshmallow- Ctn qty: including step-by-step Crème Chocolate Fudges, Other Chocolate Fudges, Penuches photos, candy glossary, Designer Delights JULY metric charts, index • Balls and Shaped Candies, Chocolate-Coated Candies, Fondants Farmhouse Favorites Rights: World • Candied and Spiced Nuts, Popcorn Candies, Fruit Candies Short and Sweet • Simple Barks, Speedy Candy Rolls, Candies in Short Order.
With its Candy Cooking Guide, charts, candy glossary and problems/ solution section, this terri c new cookbook answers virtually every question or concern a home chef may have, truly creating the go-to candy bible.
Jane Sharrock is a third-generation candy-maker from a large extended family in Oklahoma. She has a passion for candy-making.
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THE BEST CAST-IRON BAKING BOOK Recipes for Breads, Pies, Biscuits & More Roxanne Wyss and Kathy Moore
Many home cooks have learned from relatives and top chefs about the bene ts of cooking in cast iron: it infuses food with more avor, reaches higher temperatures and is naturally nonstick. But did you know cast iron is the key to the most delicious baking you will ever taste? Think effortless, but unforgettable No-Knead Bread, the most delicious Skillet Berry Cobbler, simple Cornbread Focaccia, decadent Dark Chocolate S’Mores Pie and incredible Maple Pecan Rolls.
In The Best Cast-Iron Baking Book, veteran cookbook authors Roxanne Wyss and Kathy Moore share over 80 sweet and savory recipes. Everything in this book is cooked in a 10-inch skillet or Dutch oven. You’ll nd breads, biscuits, cobblers, pies, cakes, pizzas, brownies and much more. There are unbeatable, tried-and-true childhood favorites like Southern Pecan Pie and trending sweet treats like a dreamy Caramelized Apple Dutch Baby.
Cast-iron baking is easy — and this cookbook empowers home cooks to bake and use their cast iron con dently. Roxanne and Kathy also include tips for cooking with cast iron and information for how to care for, season and store these versatile products. It’s time to make use of ROBERT ROSE 192 pages that trusty pan and get baking! 7½ × 10 978-0-7788-0683-7 60 color photos paperback Roxanne Wyss and Kathy Moore are cookbook authors, food $19.95 US / $24.95 CDN Rights: World consultants, cooking teachers and bloggers who share their test- Ctn qty: kitchen expertise through creative recipes and tips that make cooking easier and more fun. They have written seventeen cookbooks, including OCTOBER Delicious Bundt Cakes, Delicious Dump Cakes, The 175 Best Babycake Cupcake Maker Recipes and 175 Best Cake Pop Maker Recipes. Their popular food blog can be found at www.pluggedintocooking.com.
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UPDATED FOR CANADA BERNARDIN COMPLETE BOOK OF HOME PRESERVING 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today
From the experts, the updated bible in home preserving.
The hugely bestselling Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving has been broadly updated to re ect changes over the last 15 years with new recipes and larger sections on low sugar and fermentation. Bernardin Home Canning Products are the gold standard in home preserving supplies, the trademark jars on display in stores every summer from coast to coast. This companion to their products is this bible of home preserving from the experts on the practice which has sold more than a million copies. The book includes 400 innovative recipes for salsas, savory sauces, pickles, chutneys, relishes and of course, jams, jellies, and fruit spreads. The book includes comprehensive directions on safe canning and preserving methods plus lists of required equipment and utensils. Speci c instructions for rst-timers and handy tips for the experienced make this book a valuable addition to any kitchen library.
Judi Kingry honed her skills and passion for preserving as the Marketing and Consumer Services Manager at Bernardin®. ROBERT ROSE 448 pages Lauren Devine has experience as a Product Research and Test 7 × 10 Kitchen Scientist at Ball® Fresh Preserving. 978-0-7788-0137-5 Sarah Page brings her knowledge and expertise to this updated paperback $29.95 32 full-color photographs, edition. She has experience as the Culinary Marketing Manager for Ctn qty: 16 index Ball® Fresh Preserving. AVAILABLE Rights: Canada
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UPDATED FOR USA BALL COMPLETE BOOK OF HOME PRESERVING 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today
From the experts, the updated bible in home preserving.
The hugely bestselling Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving has been broadly updated to re ect changes over the last 15 years with new recipes and larger sections on low sugar and fermentation. Ball Home Canning Products are the gold standard in home preserving supplies, the trademark jars on display in stores every summer from coast to coast. This companion to their products is this bible of home preserving from the experts on the practice which has sold more than a million copies. The book includes 400 innovative recipes for salsas, savory sauces, pickles, chutneys, relishes and of course, jams, jellies, and fruit spreads. The book includes comprehensive directions on safe canning and preserving methods plus lists of required equipment and utensils. Speci c instructions for rst-timers and handy tips for the experienced make this book a valuable addition to any kitchen library.
Judi Kingry honed her skills and passion for preserving as the Marketing and Consumer Services Manager at Bernardin®. Lauren Devine has experience as a Product Research and Test Kitchen Scientist at Ball® Fresh Preserving. ROBERT ROSE 448 pages Sarah Page brings her knowledge and expertise to this updated 7 × 10 978-0-7788-0131-3 edition. She has experience as the Culinary Marketing Manager for paperback $24.95 32 full-color photographs, Ball® Fresh Preserving. Ctn qty: 16 index
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED THE FAIR TRADE INGREDIENT COOKBOOK Nettie Cronish
New from the author of the acclaimed Everyday Flexitarian!
We live in an age when consumers are more informed than ever about what they buy, eat and use. Local producers and chefs educate their customers to understand exactly where the food they consume comes from and how it was grown or raised. People are eager to educate themselves, and to spend money on products and ingredients that bene t their bodies, environment and communities. That is why buying fair trade ingredients has a tremendous social impact.
With The Fair Trade Ingredient Cookbook, Nettie Cronish gives consumers an understanding of the process — explaining how an ingredient quali es for fair trade certi cation and how that product reaches a supermarket shelf. Each chapter will include an interview with a fair trade producer and provide background along with the bene ts of fair trade ingredients.
WHITECAP 212 pages From the cocoa farmers in Belize, the campesina coffee growers of 8 × 10 978-1-77050-330-4 Chiapas, the banana farmers and workers of Ecuador, to the Palestinian paperback $34.95 full color photographs olive growers of the West Bank, this book is the story of farmers and Ctn qty: throughout workers sharing the desire for a better world. No Canadian Rights, SEPTEMBER The Fair Trade Ingredient Cookbook is lled with many diverse U.S. only recipes using fair trade ingredients that would charm many a palate, including: Chai Rice Pudding using fair trade coconut milk; Garlic Braised Swiss Chard using fair trade olive oil; Guinness Cocoa Cake using fair trade cocoa; Organic Meringues using fair trade sugar; Quinoa Falafel Balls using fair trade quinoa; Espresso Glazed Coffee Cake using fair trade coffee and Curried Banana Cream Pie using fair trade bananas.
Nettie Cronish is a food writer, recipe developer and health and wellness seminar instructor. She has been teaching vegetarian cooking classes for the past 20 years and is the author of 3 cookbooks including Everyday Flexitarian, Flex Appeal and Nourish. Nettie lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Also by Nettie Cronish: Everyday Flexitarian 978-1-77050-021-1 paperback $29.95
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED CYPRUS CUISINE Christina Loucas
Though Cyprus is a small country, its cuisine features a large variety of dishes due to the many different cultural in uences affecting the island’s history. There is also a substantial variation in climate around the country... from sunny beaches to snow-capped mountains. Cyprus cuisine has a Mediterranean allure, mixing Mediterranean and Middle Eastern avors and ingredients.
Many Cypriot families still make home-made olive oil every year, and neighbors regularly exchange excess bounty of homegrown fruits and vegetables, including pomelo, grapes, carobs, gs, oranges, lemons, cantaloupe, bergamot, medlars, almonds, kumquats, cactus pears, and, of course, olives.
Most Cypriot dishes are not particularly hot or spicy, though there is ample use of local herbs such as wild oregano, rosemary, mint, parsley, basil, cinnamon and coriander. Spices such as allspice, cloves, mastic and mahleb powders can be found in many sweets and baked goods.
WHITECAP 272 pages The book features 68 recipes, featuring all of these Cypriot culinary 8½ × 11 delights... and more. Illustrated in full color, Cyprus Cuisine offers 978-1-77050-337-3 full color photographs a wide variety of Cypriot dishes, ranging from drinks to desserts, to paperback $34.95 soups, salads, small bites, breads and pastries, pickles, dips and main Ctn qty: throughout courses. SEPTEMBER No Canadian Rights, U.S. only Christina Loucas is a Canadian-Cypriot. She has a BA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and a BSC in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics. She currently writes and photographs for Taste Magazine in Cyprus.
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FOOD, CULTURE, PLACE Stories, Traditions and Recipes of Newfoundland Lori McCarthy and Marsha Tulk
Many homes in Newfoundland still have well-stocked pantries of bottled moose or rabbit, freezers of corned capelin, and eider ducks at the ready, waiting for a special meal. Food, Culture, Place celebrates the land these foods come from and encourages everyone to put more traditional foods back on their plates.
Lori McCarthy and Marsha Tulk have been collecting and cooking their way through the wild foods of Newfoundland for decades. This book showcases their experiences and shares the stories they have captured through their work and the people they have met. Through it all runs a deep love of everything that it takes to harvest, hunt, and prepare these foods to be enjoyed.
Fish are caught, game hunted, berries and plants foraged. Food is prepared, preserved, and stored. Throughout are recipes for traditional dishes, regional delicacies, and modern preparations for today’s home cook.
Lori McCarthy is dedicated to the cultural foods of Newfoundland and Labrador through her company Cod Sounds. She has been listed as a BOULDER 212 pages hidden gem in National Geographic and has been written up in Coastal 6 × 9 Living as one of the eight great excursions in North America. 978-1-989417-31-7 paperback $29.95 Marsha Tulk’s love of photography started at a young age when she Ctn qty: No Canadian Rights, U.S. only found her grandfather’s darkroom. She also continues crafting time- SEPTEMBER honored items like Newfoundland vamp and making a consistent supply of Cod Sounds’ own jigger slippers.
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JAPANESE CUISINE An Illustrated Guide Written by Laure Kié Illustrated by Haruna Kishi
Recipes and stories to learn all about Japan’s food culture.
Recipes, anecdotes, histories and stories, maps, techniques, stylings, utensils, native ingredients — this is a colorful invitation to discover the look and aromas and avors of Japan.
How to make sushi? What is the traditional method of making miso soup? How do you make a full Japanese meal? What are the most frequently cooked dishes in the izakaya? How do you garnish and pack a bento box?
Here are the answers in a charmingly, and beautifully, illustrated paperback book.
From how to use Japanese knives, chopsticks and cooking vessels, to familiar and unusual seafood (and seaweed!), Japanese vegetables, fruits and soy, the illustrations are clear, atmospheric and empowering. The text runs from ingredients and places to buy them, to simple dishes and whole meals. FIREFLY BOOKS 128 pages 7 × 9 The design is really fun, and this is a handbook every cook will want to 978-0-2281-0319-6 own — or give to friends and family. smythe-sewn paperback hundreds of full color $19.95 illustrations Laure Kié has written many Japanese cookbooks. She was born in Ctn qty: Rights: World English Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a French father. Her many trips to SEPTEMBER Japan helped her learn about the richness of Japanese cooking culture, which she imparts through her books and cooking classes.
Haruna Kishi is a Japanese writer, director and illustrator.
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JUST PUBLISHED LIV B’S EASY EVERYDAY 100 Sheet-Pan, One-Pot and 5-Ingredient Vegan Recipes Olivia Biermann
Fans already know Olivia Biermann, of the Liv B blog and YouTube fame, for her effortless and inexpensive plant-based cooking. In this follow-up to her bestselling Liv B’s Vegan on a Budget, Olivia is back with a new collection of 100 recipes that are tastier and easier than ever before — all helping you master cost-effective cooking. Everything in this book is cooked with either ve ingredients or in one pot or on a sheet pan. You’ll use less kitchen equipment and less effort, giving you more space to exhale in your already busy day.
Looking to meal prep savory breakfasts for the week? Whip up a ROBERT ROSE 224 pages batch of Chorizo Tempeh Breakfast Wraps. Hosting a cozy family 7½ × 10 gathering? Try Sheet-Pan Pot Pie. There are lots of delicious recipes, 978-0-7788-0679-0 85 full color photos including Frying Pan Maple Granola, Rustic Tomato and White Bean paperback with aps Soup, Double Blueberry Cinnamon Crumble Bars and London Fog $24.95 US / $29.95 CDN Rights: World Sheet-Pan Cake. The book also includes pressure cooker recipes, Ctn qty: 16 meal prep and freezing instructions, tips and food substitutions — all to help you streamline your time in the kitchen. AVAILABLE Olivia Biermann is the creator of the Liv B blog and YouTube channel, which features a mix of comfort and health-conscious plant- based recipes. She is also the author of the bestselling cookbook Liv B’s Vegan on a Budget. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
JUST REPRINTED LIV B’S VEGAN ON A BUDGET 112 Inspired and Effortless Plant-Based Recipes Olivia Biermann
Olivia Biermann, creator of the Liv B blog and YouTube channel, isn’t your typical vegan cooking star. Although eating is one of her favorite hobbies, she doesn’t love spending a lot of time in the kitchen. The meals she loves the most are those that are simple to make and taste absolutely delicious, despite putting in minimal effort. She avoids “fancy” ingredients. Olivia is here to show you that you can eat plant- based on a budget and still make incredibly mouth-watering and fun meals that will make you feel amazing.
Liv B’s Vegan on a Budget is lled with 112 simple recipes from breakfast to dessert that share Olivia’s passion for inspired and effortless vegan food. With a focus on balance between health ROBERT ROSE 224 pages and comfort and sweet and savory, you’ll nd tons of tasty recipes 7½ × 10 978-0-7788-0625-7 with beautiful full-color photos, including Tropical Green Smoothie, paperback with aps full color throughout, Half-Baked Cookie Dough Pancakes, Spicy Mango Salsa, Famous more than 100 photos, $24.95 US / $29.95 CDN Lasagna Soup, Ginger-Glazed Carrots, Sweet Sriracha Cauli ower index Ctn qty: 20 Wraps, Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai, No-Bake Brownie Bites and Deep-Dish Apple Pie with Caramel Sauce. She also includes easy-to- Rights: World AVAILABLE follow icons that identify which recipes are gluten-free, portable, and great for gatherings, to help simplify your time in the kitchen.
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JUST REPRINTED SERIOUSLY GOOD FREEZER MEALS 150 Easy Recipes to Save Your Time, Money and Sanity Karrie Truman
Let’s admit it: we all want to save time and money while still putting healthy and tasty homemade food on the table. But how? Karrie Truman, creator of the much-beloved blog Happy Money Saver, is going to let you in on a secret: the answer is freezer meals.
In Seriously Good Freezer Meals, Karrie shares 150 recipes photos that will change the way you think about freezer cooking. You won’t nd your mother or grandmother’s freezer meals here (except lasagna, of course). Her recipes include Morning Energy Bars, Empanada Hand Pies, Coconut Cashew Basil Curry Soup, Smoky Grilled Louisiana Turkey Legs, and Layered Chocolate Mousse Cake with tons of vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan options, too. Plus, she ROBERT ROSE 368 pages adds a bulk-batch chart for ease in making large quantities of each 7¾ × 10½ freezer-meal recipe. 978-0-7788-0591-5 paperback $29.95 full color photography Karrie Truman is the creator of Happy Money Saver (www. Ctn qty: 14 throughout, meal ideas, tips, index happymoneysaver.com), a blog devoted to making delicious freezer meals and helping people learn ways to live life to the fullest while AVAILABLE Rights: World on a budget, which garners about 800,000 visitors per month. Karrie lives with her husband, and four children on ve acres in Eastern Washington.
JUST REPRINTED THE JUICING BIBLE Pat Crocker
The rst edition of The Juicing Bible won the 2000 International Cookbook Revue Award and has over 700,000 copies in print. It continues to be one of the bestselling juicing books in the marketplace. In response to consumer demand, we’ve decided to add more value to this comprehensive book with an additional 16 color photographs, which takes the total photographs up to 32. All the outstanding elements in this essential guide for anyone who wants to explore the wide-ranging nutritional and health bene ts of juicing are still here:
• A market-leading 350 recipes — delicious fruit and vegetable juices, tonics, cleansers, digestives, teas, roughies, smoothies, milk and coffee substitutes and frozen treats. ROBERT ROSE 384 pages • Information on the seven body systems, including their importance 7 × 10 978-0-7788-0181-8 to good health along with diet and lifestyle changes that will keep paperback 350 recipes, 32 color each system working as well as it can. $24.95 US / $27.95 CDN photographs, • Details on 80 common health concerns, with recommendations on Ctn qty: 20 120 illustrations, index how to use natural foods to combat each condition. • 128 illustrations of fruits, vegetables and herbs, plus information on AVAILABLE Rights: World their uses and healing properties, and advice on purchasing and storage.
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JUST REPRINTED TEA History, Terroirs, Varieties Kevin Gascoyne, François Marchand, Jasmin Desharnais and Hugo Américi
An updated edition of the “World’s Best Tea Book” acclaimed by the 2014 World Tea Awards.
“Beautifully illustrated... While there is no shortage of tea-related tomes, this de nitive guide will appeal to die-hard tea enthusiasts interested in learning about the modern, global industry as well as the history and enjoyment of this ubiquitous beverage.” — Library Journal
This widely praised bestseller has been updated to incorporate the changing tastes of tea drinkers, developments in production, the impact of climate change, and an expanded and more highly developed tea market. This third edition improves Tea with this revised and FIREFLY BOOKS 288 pages extended content plus new photographs. 8½ × 9½ 978-0-2281-0027-0 Tea takes readers on an escorted tour of the world’s tea-growing paperback $24.95 full color throughout, countries — China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam Ctn qty: 12 charts, graphs, insets, appendixes, bibliography, and East Africa — where they will discover how, like a ne wine, it is AVAILABLE index “terroir” (soil and climate) that gives a tea its unique characteristics. Rights: World The authors own the popular Camellia Sinensis Tea House in Montreal which imports teas directly from producers in these countries. Each author focuses on speci c tea regions where they travel every year to work with growers and producers, discover new teas and keep abreast of developments that might, for example, remove a tea from the tea house’s menu.
The book covers black, green, white, yellow, oolong, pu’er, perfumed, aromatic and smoked teas and includes:
• An overview of the history of tea • Tea families, varieties, cultivars and grades • How tea is grown, harvested and processed • The tea trade worldwide • Pro le interviews with tea industry personalities.
Kevin Gascoyne, François Marchand, Jasmin Desharnais and Hugo Américi are professional tea tasters and the owners of Camellia Sinensis Tea House in Montreal, Quebec.
Also available The World Atlas of Tea 978-1-77085-816-9 plastic-laminated hardcover with jacket $35.00
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JUST REPRINTED · BESTSELLER THE WORLD ATLAS OF COFFEE From Beans to Brewing — Coffees Explored, Explained and Enjoyed James Hoffmann
The bestselling reference updated and expanded with seven new coffee-growing countries.
Praise for the rst edition: “Fills a gap in the popular reference literature. Recommended.” — Booklist
“The de nitive guide.... Well-written, informative, and a must-have for general readers who want to know more about their favorite morning brew.” — Publishers Weekly
“Educational, thought-provoking, and substantial. I’ve already recommended this book to (our) readers countless times.” — Barista Magazine FIREFLY BOOKS 272 pages 7½ × 10 The World Atlas of Coffee takes readers on a global tour of coffee- 978-0-2281-0094-2 growing countries, presenting the bean in full-color photographs and plastic-laminated full-color throughout, maps, glossary, index concise, informative text. It covers where coffee is grown, the people hardcover with jacket who grow it and the cultures in which it is a way of life. It also covers $39.95 US / $45.00 CDN Rights: U.S. & Canada the world of consumption — processing, grades, the consumer and the Ctn qty: 12 modern culture of coffee.
AVAILABLE For this new edition, the author expanded his research travels over the last several years to include seven additional coffee-growing regions: Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, China, Philippines, Thailand, Haiti and Puerto Rico. These are covered in 16 additional pages. As well, all of the book’s maps have been updated to show greater detail, and all statistics and data have been updated to the most recent available.
Organized by continent and then country or region, The World Atlas of Coffee presents the world’s favorite brew in color spreads packed with information.
The coverage in The World Atlas of Coffee is wide and deep. The book is used by barista and coffee-tasting instructors in North America and overseas and has been welcomed by enthusiastic coffee drinkers everywhere. Appropriate for special and general collections alike, it is an essential selection.
James Hoffmann is a coffee expert, author and the 2007 World Barista Champion. Along with a team of experts, he operates Square Mile Coffee Roasters, a multi-award-winning coffee roasting company based in East London, UK. James travels frequently to the coffee producing countries and is a popular speaker. His website is www. jimseven.com.
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Just reprinted
DIABETES MEALS FOR GOOD HEALTH COOKBOOK Complete Meal Plans and 100 Recipes Karen Graham, RD, CDE and Dr. Mansur Shomali, MD, CM
This new edition has been written with MD and Endocrinologist Mansur Shomali, and includes updated recipes based on new research and best practices. Recent CDC reports indicate that over 30 million Americans have diabetes and another 84 million have prediabetes. In this book, Karen Graham and Dr. Shomali explain that carefully planned, nutritious meals and sensible portion sizes are an essential part of diabetes and weight management.
320 pages · 8½ × 11 · 978-0-7788-0654-7 · $27.95 US / $29.95 CDN paperback Rights: World
DIABETES ESSENTIALS Tips and Recipes to Manage Type 2 Diabetes Karen Graham, RD, CDE and Dr. Mansur Shomali, MD, CM
Diabetes Essentials includes easy diabetes tips covering 72 subjects, including medications, nutrition, gut bacteria, exercise, recipes and more. For each of the 72 subjects, Registered Dietitian and Certi ed Diabetes Educator Karen Graham along with MD and Endocrinologist Mansur Shomali offer the top-ten tips for that subject (with 720 total tips across all subjects), including “Answers to Your First Diabetes Questions,” “Prediabetes,” “Diabetes First Ten Days,” “Diabetes Medical Terms,” “Lab Tests,” “Testing Your Sugar Level at Home,” “Low Blood Sugar Episodes,” and “Steps to Reduce a High Morning Blood Sugar.”
192 pages · 8½ × 11 · 978-0-7788-0631-8 · $24.95 US / $27.95 CDN paperback Rights: World
COMPLETE DIABETES GUIDE Advice for Managing Type 2 Diabetes Karen Graham, RD, CDE and Dr. Mansur Shomali, MD, CM
A new edition of Karen Graham’s diabetes guide is a companion to Diabetes Essentials and Diabetes Meals for Good Health Cookbook. Recent CDC reports indicate that over 30 million Americans have diabetes and another 84 million have prediabetes. This new edition of one of the most highly-respected resources on the subject offers new easy-to-understand content based on the latest medical expertise on diabetes from Registered Dietitian and Certi ed Diabetes Educator Karen Graham and MD and Endocrinologist Mansur Shomali.
416 pages · 8½ × 11 · 978-0-7788-0653-0 · $27.95 US / $29.95 CDN paperback Rights: World
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JUST REPRINTED THE ART AND SCIENCE OF FOODPAIRING® 10,000 Flavor Matches that Will Transform the Way You Eat Peter Coucquyt, Bernard Lahousse, Johan Langenbick
“Raspberries and chocolate are obvious friends. But how about chocolate and cauli ower? Such less-well-known duos may be just as delightful according to a visually stunning new book, The Art and Science of Foodpairing. Its authors — a chef, a bioengineer and an entrepreneur — analyzed foods’ aromatic molecular properties to devise 10,000 scienti c avor matches, from accessible (sweet potato and Cognac) to wacky (turkey and creme de cacao). Just the sort of creative prompts any cook could use right now.” — Wall Street Journal
When humans taste a food, they are processing its taste 80 percent through the nose — via the food’s aromatic molecules — and only FIREFLY BOOKS 388 pages 20 percent on the tongue. We can conclude then that knowing the 9 × 11 978-0-2281-0084-3 aromatic molecular properties of a food is critical to pairing foods gatefold, full color plastic-laminated successfully for ultimate taste. hardcover illustrations throughout, ribbon marker, index of $49.95 US / $59.95 CDN For a long time, we have been unknowingly pairing aromatic molecules Ctn qty: 8 ingredients, glossary, endnotes out of instinct, cultural history, tradition, and plain guesswork. Many of those are routine and make sense but others are counterintuitive, AVAILABLE Rights: U.S. & Canada like balsamic vinegar on strawberries. We like them because they are delicious. What we didn’t know is that they work because they share aromatic molecules. With this new knowledge we have discovered unheard-of pairings like chocolate on cauli ower and kiwi with oyster. So how do we use this new science? We at home don’t have the technology to isolate molecules or store the results in a database.
That’s where The Art and Science of Foodpairing® comes in. From the scientists and chefs who discovered this new culinary science, and the company that created and maintains the enormous database, here is a fabulous reference to 10,000 food pairings for use in both professional and home kitchens. Foodpairing® has proven to be revolutionary: When the Foodpairing® database went live, the chef and restaurant community came on like a storm with 100,000 website hits on the rst day. Now over 200,000 chefs and restaurants in 140 countries regularly access the database when designing their menus.
Peter Coucquyt is a chef, Bernard Lahousse is a bio-engineer, Johan Langenbick is an entrepreneur and all three are the co-founders of Foodpairing®, a creative food-tech agency that works with chefs, bartenders, cookery schools and other culinary creatives to provide new food combinations based on the intrinsic properties of different foods. The company analyzes foods to identify common avor components and operates one of the world’s largest ingredient and avor databases. The pairings have been validated by 14 of the world’s top chefs. Foodpairing® is based in New York City and Ghent, Belgium.
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TITANIC An Illustrated History Text by Don Lynch Paintings by Ken Marschall Introduction by Robert D. Ballard
A huge ocean liner, its lights blazing, its band playing, is slowly sinking in a calm sea. To most people, this image evokes one name alone — the Titanic.
119 years after this great maritime disaster, the haunting saga of the Titanic continues to fascinate the world. Now, republished in one splendidly illustrated volume, the complete story of the giant luxury liner that sank on its maiden voyage in April, 1912 is recreated.
Through dozens of full color, accurate paintings and illustrations by Titanic artist Ken Marschall, readers can again experience what it was like to sail on history’s most famous ship. From the sight of water crashing through the glass-domed roof of the rst-class staircase to a view of an FIREFLY BOOKS 224 pages with gatefold underwater robot exploring the remains of the staircase seven decades 11½ × 11 later, each of the original Marschall paintings displayed here has a 978-0-2281-0351-6 breathtaking impact. plastic-laminated full color throughout, hardcover photographs, illustrations Historian Don Lynch, the foremost expert on the people aboard the $29.95 US / $35.00 CDN Titanic has compiled a text lled with enthralling information about the Ctn qty: Rights: World English crew, the passengers and the ship itself. Encyclopedic in scope, this volume is an invaluable sourcebook of Titanic lore. SEPTEMBER The pages of Titanic: An Illustrated History also display hundreds of archival photographs, paintings and illustrations, many published here for the rst time. Authors Lynch and Marschall have also located and photographed ttings and xtures from the Titantic’s nearly identical sister ship, the Olympic, and can thus reveal the Edwardian splendor of the ship’s interior in colorful visual spreads.
The book’s showpiece is its 3-page foldout which reveals an original cutaway diagram of the Titanic. In this remarkable full-color illustration created by Ken Marschall expressly for this book, the Titanic’s hull is opened up to reveal the layout of her public rooms and staterooms in accurate detail.
Don Lynch is a historian for the Titanic Historical Society. Ken Marschall is the leading painter of the Titanic. His work has been featured on the cover of Time and in National Geographic. Dr. Robert Ballard led the team that discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED ILLUSTRATED HUMAN ANATOMY The Authoritative Visual Guide to the Human Body Sharat Vayttaden, PhD Dr. Dana Gustafson Sebastian Kaulitzki, Illustrator
The world’s most precise scienti c illustrations of the human body.
Packed with astonishing facts and superb quality 3-D illustrations, Illustrated Human Anatomy is a state-of-the art guide to the human body that is destined to become the de nitive illustrated human anatomy reference. Accessible text and detailed annotations give the names of organs and structures throughout the skeletal, muscular, lymphatic, cardiovascular, nervous, and reproductive systems, with focus features reviewing disorders of each system.
FIREFLY BOOKS 320 pages Illustrated Human Anatomy features the same precise 3-D 9 × 11 978-0-2281-0303-5 illustrations used by medical schools and hospitals — the accuracy is plastic-laminated full color throughout without par. Spreads feature a variety of body parts, such as muscle, hardcover bone, soft tissue and vascular, with explanatory text, as well as $35.00 US / $39.95 CDN Rights: World English sidebars and boxes. All images are fully annotated and may be shown Ctn qty: in a variety of presentations: cross-sections; views (front, top, side); projections; and overlays. Focus facts appear in balloons and other OCTOBER call-outs, and there are feature spreads throughout, such as one on fetal development.
The illustrations are from SciePro, the world’s pre-eminent medical science graphics studio of its kind. It has compiled a library of 50,000 scienti c illustrations, animations and 3-D digital animated models of the human body, the most detailed and medically accurate available. To date they have been used in more than 700 projects by pharmaceutical, medical, and scienti c clients around the globe, such as Stanford University and Ohio State University, Swiss Surgery, Proctor & Gamble, NextBio, St. Jude Medical, P zer and Endostim.
Sharat Vayttaden is a published scientist with 18 years’ experience in scienti c writing, illustrations and presentations. He earned a PhD in cell biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and has been a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Based in Chicago, Dana Gustafson is a resident doctor and medical writer with rsthand experience in clinical practice, including diagnosing, examining and treating patients. She trained in all healthcare specialties with an emphasis on surgery, diabetic wound care, infection management, internal medicine, vascular disease, pain management and radiologic diagnosis.
Sebastian Kaulitzki founded the medical illustration company SciePro (www.sciepro.com) in Berlin in 2005. It has since completed more than 700 projects for clients around the globe.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED EAT SH*T AND DIE How Our Daily Food Choices Are Killing Us Mark Linder, MD
A crash course on how the standard North American diet is killing us and the simple steps you can take to improve your health.
Dr. Mark Linder has examined the research and the news is bad. Obesity has skyrocketed, with nearly half of all Americans measuring as obese. The incidence of type-2 diabetes in the U.S. has exploded by more than 200 percent since 1980, while heart disease and stroke has nearly doubled in the same timeframe. Worse, the interventions we’ve been using for the past 40 years aren’t working.
In this no-holds-barred book, Dr. Mark Linder gives readers the straight goods on why our heath is spiraling out of control and what we can do about it. It isn’t a magic pill, a complicated array of supplements or a pile of cleverly marketed “health” products. No, it is a simple two-step process. Step 1: stop eating processed carbohydrates; Step 2: stop eating vegetable oil. That’s it.
FIREFLY BOOKS 224 pages Eat Sh*t and Die gives readers a crash course in nutrition as it relates 7 × 9 directly to health. There’s no wishy-washy pseudoscience here. 978-0-2281-0275-5 color illustrations, Instead, Dr. Linder, in his trademark off-the-cuff style, goes deep on paperback $19.95 macronutrient metabolism, explaining exactly what happens inside your Ctn qty: resources, tables, charts, sources, glossary, index body when you load in carbs, fats and proteins. Heavily illustrated and easy to follow, Dr. Linder’s book draws a straight line from our diets to OCTOBER Rights: World disease. The explanation and solution to the problem are so simple, and in Eat Sh*t and Die, seeing is believing.
Here are some of the medical facts that you’ll discover in this eye- opening volume:
• Saturated fat is good for you. • Eating foods high in cholesterol is not bad for you. • When you eat carbohydrates, your body releases insulin. Among its many functions, insulin triggers your body to store fat (for future energy) but also does not allow your body to burn fat for energy. So, consistently triggering insulin release by eating carbohydrates perpetually imprisons your fat. • Insulin resistance is the best indicator of future diabetes. • Consuming seed oils (vegetable oils) is likely putting us at risk for heart attacks and strokes. • And much, much more!
If you are concerned about your health (or someone else’s), would like to lose weight, feel more energized or are simply interested in understanding what goes on inside your body when you eat, Eat Sh*t and Die is the no-nonsense book for you.
Dr. Mark Linder practices family and emergency medicine in Toronto, Ontario, where he guides his practice by the same principles he shares in this book: Eat whole foods and stay away from re ned carbs and vegetable oil.
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HOW THE WEST WAS WRITTEN The Life and Times of James H. Gray Brian Brennan
How the West Was Written was published to celebrate the centenary of James H. Gray’s birth. He was born on 31 August 1906. James H. Gray was the rst Canadian social historian to tackle such previously taboo subjects as the sex lives and boozing habits of the early settlers. His books were on the national and Toronto Star bestseller lists before those of Pierre Berton and have since become classics of Canadian literature. Gray’s Red Lights on the Prairies stunned readers with its straight-forward approach to prostitution on the prairies and was named one of the one hundred most important Canadian books of all time by the Literary Review of Canada.
Brian Brennan is an award-winning author who specializes in books about the colorful personalities and social history of western Canada. His recent books include Scoundrels and Scallywags and Romancing the Rockies.
FIFTH HOUSE 226 pages 5¼ × 7 978-1-771770-00-2 paperback $18.95 index, 8 page black & Ctn qty: 30 white photo insert
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MAN@THE_AIRPORT How Social Media Saved My Life (One Syrian’s Story) Hassan Al Kontar
When civil war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. After a series of setbacks, he was arrested in 2017 and deported in 2018. Unable to obtain a visa for any other country, he became trapped in the arrivals zone at Kuala Lumpur Airport. Exiled by war and trapped by geopolitics, Al Kontar used social media and humor to tell his story to the world, becoming an international celebrity and ultimately nding refuge in Canada.
Man@the_airport explores what it means to be a Syrian, an “illegal” and a refugee. More broadly, it examines the power of social media to amplify individual voices and facilitate political dissent.
Hassan Al Kontar was raised in a prosperous Syrian home, the TIDEWATER 264 pages middle child of a mechanical engineer and nurse. He was working in 5½ × 8½ the UAE when his work permit expired and civil war broke out in his 978-1-777010-18-8 home country. A conscientious objector by faith and temperament, paperback $23.95 he opted for a hand-to-mouth existence in the shadows until he was Ctn qty: No Canadian Rights, U.S. only arrested and deported. Now a permanent resident of Canada, based in SEPTEMBER Vancouver, he advocates for refugees around the world.
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2nd EDITION, EXPANDED GRAPHIC WITNESS Five Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri, Erich Glas and Laurence Hyde George A. Walker Afterword by Seth
“If you care about graphic novels, you need this book.” — New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman
Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by ve great 20th- century woodcut artists from Europe and North America. The stories they tell re ect the political and social issues of their times as well as the broader issues that are still relevant today.
Frans Masereel (1899–1972) was born in Belgium and is considered the father of the wordless graphic novel. Graphic Witness includes the rst reprint of his classic work The Passion of a Man since its 1918 publication in Munich. American Lynd Ward (1905–85), author of the provocative Wild Pilgrimage, is considered among the most important of wordless novelists. Giacomo Patri (1898–1978) was born in Italy and lived in the United States. His White Collar featured an introduction FIREFLY BOOKS 464 pages by Rockwell Kent and was used a promotional piece by the labor 7 × 10 978-0-2281-0334-9 movement. Erich Glas’s (1897–1973) haunting wordless novel Leilot, ve complete wordless paperback with aps created in 1942, foreshadows the Holocaust, which was not widely novels, diagrams, $39.95 known about at the time. Southern Cross by Canadian Laurence Hyde Ctn qty: afterword, notes, bibliography, index (1914–87) was controversial for its criticism of U.S. H-bomb testing in the South Paci c. SEPTEMBER Rights: World Author George A. Walker draws on his expertise as a woodcut artist to provide insight into the tools and techniques used to create these works of art. As well, he examines the importance of the role of artists Previous edition (paperback): 978-1-55407-270-5 as witnesses and critics of their times, and the in uence of the genre on the emergence of comics and the modern graphic novel.
This newly expanded edition of Graphic Witness, which features an afterword by cartoonist Seth, will appeal to readers interested in social issues, printmaking, art history and contemporary culture.
George A. Walker is an award-winning wood engraver, book artist, author and illustrator. His courses in the book arts and printmaking at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, where he is an Associate Professor, have been running continuously since 1985. For over twenty years he has exhibited his wood engravings and limited-edition books internationally. Among many artist book projects, George has illustrated two hand-printed editions written by Neil Gaiman and is the author of Leonard Cohen: A Woodcut Biography and The Woodcut Artist’s Handbook, also published by Fire y Books.
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Laurence Hyde — Southern Cross
Frans Masereel — The Passion of a Man
Lynd Ward — Wild Pilgrimage Giacomo Patri — White Collar
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Just reprinted: Art at Home
PAINTING IN ACRYLICS The Indispensable Guide Lorena Kloosterboer
The technical secrets of a professional painter for the best results and more room for creativity.
Painting in Acrylics: The Indispensable Guide provides comprehensive guidance for painters of all experience. Realist painter Lorena Kloosterboer, known for her exceptional technical skill, starts with the basics and progresses to advanced techniques and professional practice.
320 pages · 8½ × 10 · 978-1-77085-408-6 · $35.00 US / $39.95 CDN hardcover Rights: U.S. & Canada
PAINTING IN WATERCOLOR The Indispensable Guide David Webb
Comprehensive guidance for anyone painting in watercolor, from beginners up.
Watercolor is an exquisite medium but an unforgiving one, and there is nothing that will dampen enthusiasm more quickly than the lack of a good result. The essential techniques and detailed explanations and demonstrations in this beautifully produced book will educate and encourage beginner to experienced artists so that they too can obtain results and have fun in the process.
256 pages · 8¾ × 10¼ · 978-1-77085-738-4 · $35.00 US / $39.95 CDN hardcover Rights: U.S. & Canada
5-MINUTE WATERCOLOR Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Watercolor Painting Samantha Nielsen
A comprehensive guide to quick sketching in watercolor and a new addition to a successful series.
Like the other titles in the series, 5-Minute Watercolor features 60 exercises for new and aspiring artists. This bite-sized approach will help readers to make watercolor painting a part of their everyday lives. Every spread in the book features ve expert tips and ideas, as well as examples of amazing 5-minute watercolor sketches to inspire readers.
128 pages · 6¾ × 8¾ · 978-0-2281-0114-7 · $19.95 exibound paperback Rights: U.S. & Canada
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5-Minute Sketching: Architecture 5-Minute Sketching: Landscapes by Liz Steel by Virginia Hein 128 pages · 6¾ × 8¾ 128 pages · 6¾ × 8¾ 978-1-77085-757-5 $19.95 exibound paperback 978-1-77085-918-0 $19.95 exibound paperback Rights: U.S. & Canada Rights: U.S. & Canada
5-Minute Sketching: People 5-Minute Sketching: Animals & Pets by Pete Scully by Gary Geraths 128 pages · 6¾ × 8¾ 128 pages · 6¾ × 8¾ 978-1-77085-758-2 $19.95 exibound paperback 978-1-77085-917-3 $19.95 exibound paperback Rights: U.S. & Canada Rights: U.S. & Canada
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED 365 DAYS OF DRAWING Lise Herzog
A year of easy to progressively harder daily challenges to learn the fundamentals of drawing.
You want to learn to draw. You know you have to practice. Every day. But it is that blank sheet of paper that sets off the “what do I draw?” and “I don’t know how to draw it!” panic. That is where 365 Days of Drawing comes in.
There is a step-by-step drawing exercise for every day of the year. Each shows the steps from the rst line to the last and a brief text explains the steps. You can move through the book front to back or pick and choose. All 365 drawings start with one shape or line — a circle, an oval, a square, a rectangle, a FIREFLY BOOKS 368 pages in color curved line, a straight line — upon which the object or person is built. 7¾ × 6¼ 978-0-2281-0260-1 By mixing these basic strokes anything is achievable. quarter-bound hardcover black and white drawings $24.95 The reader can add perspective to go from two- to three-dimensions: Ctn qty: 10 Rights: World English create volume turning a square into a box, add depth turning a circle into a cylinder, create distance making railway tracks disappear. A one- AVAILABLE quarter view of a box is different than from the front, and an open box even more different.
Facial features can be a beginning drawer’s nightmare but not if you know the lines of halves and thirds on which all faces are drawn. At the same time, you will learn anatomy and what goes where when someone is walking, bowling, sleeping, and more. In all, there are more than 50 drawings of people in various poses.
The variety is impressive just by using the basic shapes and lines: • all straight lines for a xylophone, an Egyptian pyramid, a house • all curved lines for a rhinoceros, a high-heeled shoe, a crying baby • curved lines mixed with straight lines for a jetliner, a city center, a tennis racket.
With its abundance of approachable drawings as well as loads of tips, instruction and inspiration, 365 Days of Drawing will have even the most artistically challenged mastering the art of drawing. Those with experience can use daily challenges to polish their skills.
Lise Herzog graduated from the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg in 1999. She has worked as illustrator of books for both adults and children, and collaborated with educational programs at museums. She lives in France.
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BACK IN PRINT PUPPY BIBLE The Ultimate Week-by-Week Guide to Raising Your Puppy Claire Arrowsmith and Alison Smith
An owner’s guide to giving a puppy a successful start to life.
Puppy Bible is uniquely designed to guide new puppy owners on a week-by-week basis from the all-important planning and decision stages, up to those exciting rst days at home, through the rst six months of a puppy’s life and beyond.
The book is divided into two parts. First, a clearly illustrated, week-by- week planner that educates the owner about a number of important topics, including:
• The puppy’s physical and mental development • What the owner should do at every stage of the puppy’s growth • Newborn: 8-week countdown to puppy’s arrival • Toddler: weeks 9 to 12 • Juvenile: weeks 13 to 18 FIREFLY BOOKS 288 pages • Adolescent: weeks 19 to 24 7½ × 9¼ • Six months and beyond 978-1-77085-193-1 • Common problems that may occur. paperback full color throughout, $24.95 US / $29.95 CDN tables, index The information in part one is cross-referenced to part two of the book, Ctn qty: 20 Rights: U.S. & Canada a comprehensive encyclopedia covering all areas of puppy care with AVAILABLE detailed expert advice on a wide number of topics, such as: • House training • General care and grooming • Health • Breed-speci c considerations • Behavior • Socialization • Obedience training • Diet • Socialization and troubleshooting • Canine rst aid.
When it comes to puppies, it’s important to do it right from the very rst day. What happens in the rst sixteen weeks of its life sets the tone for the rest of the dog’s life. While Puppy Bible is designed primarily for those rst 16 weeks, it will be useful at any stage of the dog’s life: training needs occasional reinforcement, general care and grooming are always important, and a source of rst aid care is essential.
Claire Arrowsmith is the author of Brain Games for Dogs, Correcting Bad Habits in Dogs and Instant Dog Training.
Alison Smith is the editor of Our Dogs, the UK’s best-selling canine newspaper, and the author of several books on different aspects of dog ownership.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WILD PLACES VANCOUVER ISLAND John Kimantas
One of the most spectacular places on earth, Vancouver Island is a wonderland of dense rainforests, rugged mountain trails, breathtaking coastlines, and natural beauty unlike anywhere else. In Wild Places Vancouver Island, experienced outdoorsman and bestselling author John Kimantas invites you to experience this scenic paradise for yourself, providing up-to-date information on how to access and navigate some of the island’s most stunning regions.
Wild Places Vancouver Island anticipates the needs of hikers, shers, climbers, mountain bikers, campers, kayakers, and explorers of many backgrounds and interests. With detailed maps and full-color photographs, this is a book that will lead you wherever you want to go, even if you don’t yet know where that is yourself. Whether you are going for an afternoon walk or journeying off the beaten path, John Kimantas will enrich your experience with historic and practical information, including internet resources and GPS waypoints that will ensure you have the most dependable data for your trip. WHITECAP 370 pages 8 × 9½ From hidden lakes to hilltop vistas, with every captivating twist and turn 978-1-77050-312-0 in between, Vancouver Island is an explorer’s paradise. paperback $29.95 full color throughout, maps Ctn qty: 16 John Kimantas has been a British Columbia-based journalist for almost 20 years. He is the author of The Wild Coast, BC Coastal JUNE No Canadian Rights, U.S. only Recreation Kayaking & Small Boat Atlas and The Essential Vancouver Island Outdoor Recreation Guide. He lives on Vancouver Island.
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2nd EDITION, REVISED AND EXPANDED COMPLETE GUIDE TO WINTER CAMPING Kevin Callan
Enjoy winter camping in warmth and comfort!
With careful planning, tenting during the year’s coldest months can be safe and fun. Complete Guide to Winter Camping offers advice on selecting a four-season tent and constructing other types of shelter, maintaining personal hygiene, cooking in the cold, choosing a sleep system and getting the right amount of warmth to properly enjoy winter. Chapters on how to read animal tracks, travel safely on ice and identify trees and rewood make this unique book a must-read for anyone tired of spending half their year cooped up indoors!
This updated and revised edition also includes chapters on: • Weather forecasting • Ice shing • Map and compass navigation • How to read nature to navigate • Dutch ovens and baking in the bush FIREFLY BOOKS 208 pages • Clothing, boots and snowshow selection. 7 × 9 978-0-2281-0352-3 150 color photos Complete with color photos and expert advice from seasoned winter paperback $24.95 campers and travelers, this book will appeal to both car-camping Ctn qty: Rights: World families and adventurous individuals looking to extend their outdoor activities into another season. OCTOBER Kevin Callan is the author of numerous books, including The Paddler’s Guide to Algonquin Park and the bestselling The Happy Camper. He Previous edition (paperback): 978-1-77085-988-3 is a featured speaker at many of North America’s largest paddling and outdoors events, and his YouTube channel presents many tips, tricks and bits of wisdom for anyone looking to enjoy the outdoors.
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3rd Edition 4th Edition Top 60 Canoe Routes of Ontario A Paddler’s Guide to The Explorer’s Guide Kevin Callan Algonquin Park to Algonquin Park 384 pages · 7½ × 9½ Kevin Callan by Michael Runtz 978-0-2281-0024-9 240 pages · 6 × 9 240 pages · 7½ × 9 $29.95 paperback 978-0-2281-0245-8 978-0-2281-0316-5 $29.95 Rights: World $24.95 paperback paperback Rights: World Rights: World
5th Edition Nature Hikes Top 160 Unusual Things Backroads of Ontario Janet Eagleson to See in Ontario Ron Brown 240 pages · 6 × 9 Ron Brown 256 pages · 7½ × 9½ 978-0-2281-0164-2 336 pages · 7½ × 9½ 978-0-2281-0188-8 $24.95 paperback 978-0-2281-0178-9 $29.95 paperback Rights: World $29.95 paperback Rights: World Rights: World
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100 Nature Hot Spots in British 110 Nature Hot Spots in Manitoba and 110 Nature Hot Spots in Ontario Columbia Saskatchewan Chris Earley and Tracy C. Read Lyndsay Fraser and Christina Smyth Jenn Smith Nelson and Doug O’Neill 978-0-2281-0015-7 · paperback · $29.95 978-0-2281-0017-1 · paperback · $29.95 978-0-2281-0169-7 · paperback · $29.95 248 pages · 7½ × 9½ · full color photographs, maps, 224 pages · 7½ × 9½ · full color photographs, 224 pages · 7½ × 9½ · full color photographs, maps, index · Rights: World maps, index · Rights: World index · Rights: World
125 Nature Hot Spots in Alberta 150 Nature Hot Spots in California by Leigh McAdam and Debbie Olsen by Ann Marie Brown
978-0-2281-0016-4 · paperback · $29.95 978-0-2281-0168-0 · paperback · $29.95 224 pages · 7½ × 9½ · full color photographs, maps, 256 pages · 7½ × 9½ · full color photographs, maps, index · Rights: World index · Rights: World
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BEAUTIFUL ALBERTA Text and photographs by Mike Grandmaison
Beautiful Alberta is a spectacular photographic portrait of Canada’s most prosperous province. It reveals the resplendent natural beauty of the West’s towering mountains, cerulean lakes, man-made cities and unique architecture that come together in this awe-inspiring slice of the country.
Mike Grandmaison’s perceptive eye has captured what makes Alberta special in the 125 exquisite photographs in this handsome collection. With a population of 4.1 million and a land area of 661,848 km2 (255,541 sq mi), Alberta is Canada’s fourth-largest province and contains within it distinct and varied topographies, from prairies and badlands, to boreal forests and mountain regions. Alberta’s urban areas are no less impressive with portraits of Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray. Renowned for its natural tourist attractions, its towns such as Banff, Canmore, Drumheller and Jasper accommodate legions of visitors throughout the year. FIREFLY BOOKS 144 pages 10 × 10 Alberta is home to a range of animals, including bison, grizzly and black 978-1-77085-578-6 bears, big horn sheep and mountain goats. The abundance of ora plastic-laminated 125 color photographs hardcover with jacket and fauna within Alberta’s borders contrasts with the vast industrial $29.95 Rights: World tracts devoted to extracting and processing oil, which is the province’s Ctn qty: 16 economic lifeblood.
AVAILABLE Mike Grandmaison lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is known for his landscape photography. His other books include Canada (text by Shelagh Rogers), The Rockies and Georgian Bay.
BEAUTIFUL ONTARIO J.A. Kraulis
In this gorgeous portfolio, J.A. Kraulis focuses on the Ontario landscape to spotlight a land that has been the beloved home to Algonquian- and Iroquoian-speaking Aboriginal Peoples for more than 12,000 years. The province’s Iroquois name, kanadario, is thought to mean beautiful water, beautiful lake or big body of water. That is certainly not surprising: Ontario’s 250,000 lakes hold a full one- fth of the world’s fresh water.
Kraulis turns his eye to what some like to call Canada’s economic engine, but these pages prove that Ontario is so much more. The magni cent collection of over 200 photographs and identifying captions present the diversity of the province’s landscape. There is rural and urban Ontario in brilliant color: the province’s symbolic ower, the trillium; ice-coated trees at the edge of Niagara Falls’ Horseshoe Falls; Precambrian rock formations left by Ice Age glaciers; the cherry trees of Toronto’s High Park in full bloom; kayakers in Pukaskwa National Park; FIREFLY BOOKS 224 pages downtown Toronto’s world-class architecture and Ottawa’s imposing 10 × 10 Parliament buildings, recently restored; small town streets lined in 978-0-2281-0309-7 southern Ontario’s telltale yellow brick; autumn colors on Beausoleil plastic-laminated full-color photographs hardcover with jacket throughout, index Island; Orangeville’s hot-air balloon festivities; and so much more. $29.95 Ctn qty: 12 Rights: World J.A. Kraulis, among Canada’s most proli c and talented photographers, was raised in Montreal, where he earned degrees in AVAILABLE science and architecture at McGill University.
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THE HISTORY OF SPEED The Quest to Go Faster, From the Dawn of the Motor Car to the Speed of Sound Martin Roach
Ever since we built machines that could transport us, there has been a desire to nd ways to make them go faster. For some, going faster isn’t enough — they want to be the fastest. This book celebrates those who have built the machines and driven them at ever greater speeds. This is The History of Speed.
Bestselling automotive writer Martin Roach (The Science of Supercars) tells the extraordinary story of those who have come to be obsessed by speed. From Camille Jenatzy, ‘the Red Devil’, who became the rst man to drive at over 100 kmh in 1899, through the golden age of Malcolm Campbell and his Bluebird, and on to the modern era of jet- and rocket-propelled cars, we have gone faster and faster. But this book is not just about these record-breakers, Roach also looks at the technology, the engines and the inventors who helped progress in speed at all levels, from Formula One to the supercars from the likes of Ferrari and Mercedes that are eagerly snapped up by collectors, rarely to be seen on the road.
Accompanied by some of the most stunning images of the cars and FIREFLY BOOKS 256 pages those who made and drove them (including pioneering women drivers), 7½ × 9½ 978-0-2281-0354-7 Roach tells a wonderful story of innovation and invention. He talks to plastic-laminated color/black & white some of the great drivers to nd out what inspires them to risk their hardcover photographs throughout, lives, and nds out from engineers how they developed their ideas. $29.95 US / $35.00 CDN index Along the way, we hear some remarkable tales and anecdotes, but also Ctn qty: nd out how the pursuit of speed can also have its costs, with many Rights: U.S. & Canada tragic heroes and heroines falling along the way. SEPTEMBER Filled with hundreds of color and black-and-white period photographs, this will please antique car enthusiasts as well as racing and speed fans of all ages.
Martin Roach is a best-selling author of a number of high-pro le books about supercars, including The Science of Supercars (9780228100904).
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JUST REPRINTED NBA 75 The De nitive History Dave Zarum
The most iconic moments and stories of the NBA.
In NBA 75, former Sportsnet editor and basketball super fan Dave Zarum tells the story of the NBA, all 75 years — from its early barnstorming days to the multibillion-dollar sports league it is today.
Readers are treated to all the biggest moments and greatest superstars, with over 75 stories ranging from Jerry West’s 33-win streak Lakers, through Jordan’s repeat three-peat Bulls, to Steph Curry and the 73-win Warriors and beyond. But this retrospective doesn’t shy away from the league’s controversies, covering its struggles with racial bigotry, Magic Johnson’s HIV diagnosis, Len Bias’s tragic draft-night death and the cocaine-fuelled late seventies when the Finals were broadcast on tape delay.
Each story is fully illustrated with iconic photos and accompanied by stat boxes and side stories of some of the Association’s more curious FIREFLY BOOKS 256 pages and overlooked moments. 9 × 11 978-0-2281-0290-8 plastic-laminated color/black & white Some of the events covered in NBA 75: hardcover $35.00 photographs throughout, • 1946: The rst professional basketball game between the New York Ctn qty: 8 stat boxes, index Knicks and the Toronto Huskies • 1969: The legendary duels between Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell Rights: World AVAILABLE • 1976: The merger of the ABA and NBA • 1980: The rivalry of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson • 1993: Air Jordan and his Bulls dynasty • 2006: Kobe Bryant scores 81 points • 2010: LeBron James makes his Miami decision • 2016: Steph Curry and the Warriors blow a 3-1 lead to lose the NBA Finals.
NBA 75 is the de nitive guide to the history of the NBA — perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about the league they love or simply catch up on what they’ve been missing. With the 75th anniversary of the NBA in 2021, now is the perfect time to add it to your collection.
Dave Zarum is a Toronto-born writer and editor who began his journalism career at Toronto Life magazine. In 2011, he was part of the launch of Sportsnet magazine, where he won a National Magazine Award. He is the editor for The Big Book of Sports Lists (and wrote for the television series based on the book), and authored The Greatest Game, an oral history of the 1989 Grey Cup. Zarum was NBA Editor at Sportsnet.
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HOCKEY HALL OF FAME TRUE STORIES Eric Zweig
The Hockey Hall of Fame is full of the best to ever hit the ice. But the path to hockey greatness is not all jaw-dropping saves and game- winning goals. In Hockey Hall of Fame True Stories, Hockey historian and writer Eric Zweig shares exciting tales and trivia even the most dedicated puck head might not know. This book if over owing with behind the scenes yarns of some of history’s greatest scoring sprees and winning seasons, as well as thrilling accounts of the off-ice curiosities, tragedies and heroics.
Just a few of the curious, bizarre or outrageous tales featured in this fully illustrated volume are: • The 1976 plot to kidnap Guy La eur • Extreme scoring outputs, like Darryl Sittler’s 10-point performance and Frank McGee’s 14-goal Stanley Cup outing • The time Cy Denneny fell down a well • The fastest hat tricks ever recorded by Bill Moisenko and Jean Beliveau • Hockey Hall of Famers’ skills in other sports, like Gordie Howe’s workouts with the Detroit Tigers and Art Ross’s prowess on the football eld FIREFLY BOOKS 208 pages • Tales of hockey players during the WWI and WWII 8½ × 11 • The origins of the greatest nicknames 978-0-2281-0355-4 • And many, many more! paperback $24.95 100 color and b&w Ctn qty: photographs Hockey Hall of Fame True Stories is for the fans who want to take a deeper look at the lives of the players they idolize. You know the stars, NOVEMBER Rights: World the scores, and the stats. But do you know these stories?
Eric Zweig has loved sports and compiling fact and stats since the age of 10. Eric has written dozens of books, covering hockey to golf, including Stanley Cup: The Complete History. Eric has worked as a producer for CBC Radio Sports and TSN Sports Radio. He lives in Owen Sound, Ontario.
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JUST REPRINTED THE GOLF ROUND I’LL NEVER FORGET Fifty of Golf’s Biggest Stars Recall Their Finest Moments Matt Adams
Walk with the legends as they recount their greatest game.
No matter how good a player you are, the dif cult game that is golf can often be summed up as a good walk spoiled. But for every duffer and hacker who has picked up the sticks, there is always one round that stands out from the rest. It’s the game in which drives were straight and long, chips were soft and accurate, and putts always found the hole.
Compiled by golf’s best interviewer, Matt Adams, The Golf Round I’ll Never Forget presents 50 such rounds from some of golf’s best and brightest stars.
Readers will march the nal round at Cherry Hills with Arnold Palmer as he outlasts Ben Hogan and fends off Jack Nicklaus for a remarkable FIREFLY BOOKS 176 pages comeback victory that would stand as his only U.S. Open win. Similarly, 9 × 11 readers will revel in the 46-year-old Nicklaus’s come-from-behind 978-0-2281-0212-0 victory at the 1986 Masters. And, of course, there is the Tiger Slam — paperback $24.95 more than 100 Ctn qty: 16 photographs throughout, the unforgettable rounds that encompassed the never-before-achieved scorecards, index feat of winning all four majors in succession. AVAILABLE Rights: World Standing alongside these gems from history’s three greatest golfers are other rounds that will never be forgotten:
• Billy Casper (1966 U.S. Open) • Sergio Garcia (2017 Masters) • Tom Kite (1992 U.S. Open) • Gene Sarazen (1935 Masters) • and many more.
Presented with photographs and scorecards for each round, Matt Adams’s expert prose and the illuminating quotes he elicits from his subjects makes the The Golf Round I’ll Never Forget the perfect book for every duffer and accomplished golfer.
Matt Adams is a Golf Channel personality, a New York Times best- selling author and the host of the most listened-to live daily golf talk show in the world, “the Fairways of Life Show with Matt Adams” available on every major audio platform including FairwaysofLife.com, iHeart Radio, TuneIn Radio, iTunes and Spotify.
And don’t forget:
Golf Skills One Putt Golf Cures & Fixes 978-1-55209-407-5 978-1-77085-693-6 978-1-77085-194-8 paperback $16.95 paperback $24.95 paperback $18.95
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED NFL HEROES The 100 Greatest Players of All Time George Johnson and Allan Maki
The NFL’s best players, all in one action-packed volume.
Over a century after the formation of the American Professional Football Conference, the precursor to the National Football League, pro football continues to excite and captivate millions of fans across the globe. At the core of the NFL is its legendary players — the incredible athletes who have thrown, caught, run, tackled and kicked their way into the annals of sports history. NFL Heroes presents the best of the best in pro football. From the pioneers, to the current stars, to the all- time legends that occupy the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, they’re all here, including: • Tom Brady • Jim Brown • Jerry Rice • Dick Butkus • Johnny Unitas • Deacon Jones • Reggie White • Joe Montana • Antonio Brown • Walter Payton • Aaron Donald • Lawrence Taylor FIREFLY BOOKS 256 pages 9 × 11 • Dan Marino • Terry Bradshaw 978-0-2281-0280-9 • Emmitt Smith • Brett Favre plastic-laminated over 120 color/black & white photographs, index, • Roger Staubach • Rob Gronkowski hardcover $35.00 • LaDainian Tomlinson • Deion Sanders. Ctn qty: 8 stat boxes Rights: World Featuring 100 riveting stories and over 120 photos of the game’s best, AVAILABLE NFL Heroes is a must-read for any fan of America’s favorite sport.
George Johnson is a seasoned sports journalist and currently works as a sports columnist for the Calgary Herald. He has worked for a number of newspapers across Manitoba and Alberta and spent 15 years as a beat writer for the Calgary Flames.
Allan Maki is an award-winning sports writer and news reporter. He has worked for the Calgary Herald and the Globe and Mail. In 2006, Maki was inducted into the Football Reporters of Canada section of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
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FATAL DEPTH The Rise of Oceania Timothy S. Johnston
The conclusion to the thrilling Rise of Oceania series (The War Beneath and The Savage Deeps)
Truman McClusky has been out of the intelligence business for years, working the kelp farms and helping his city Trieste ourish on the shallow continental shelf just off the coast of Florida. When his former partner steals a piece of valuable new technology and makes a mad dash into the Atlantic, Mac ends up back in the game chasing the spy. He not only needs to recapture the tech but must kill his former friend. But when he learns the grim truth behind the theft, it sends his stable life into turmoil and plunges him into an even deadlier mission: evade the submarines of hostile foreign powers, escape assassins, and forge through the world’s oceans at breakneck pace on a daring quest to survive, with more lethal secrets than he thought possible.
FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE 300 pages Timothy S. Johnston has been an educator for 20 years and a writer 6 × 9 978-1-55455-557-4 for twenty ve. He is the author of two series: The Tanner Sequence paperback $21.95 and Rise of Oceania. He lives in southwestern Ontario. Ctn qty: No Canadian Rights, U.S. only Previous titles in the series: OCTOBER The War Beneath 9781771484718 The Savage Deeps 9781771485067
WALKING AWAY FROM HATE Our Journey Through Extremism Jeanette Manning & Lauren Manning
As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought a refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle class upbringing and Lauren traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of Toronto.
Told from the perspective of both mother and daughter, Walking Away From Hate chronicles Lauren’s descent into extremism, her life within the movement and her ultimate reconnection with the family she once denounced and the mother who refused to give up on her.
Jeanette Manning is active in the Writer’s Community of Durham Region and a volunteer with Life After Hate, a non-pro t dedicated TIDEWATER 264 pages to helping people escape extremism. After a dif cult period of self- 5½ × 8½ 978-1-99016-000-4 deradicalization, Lauren Manning works in construction and as an paperback $23.95 outreach specialist with Life After Hate. Both mother and daughter live Ctn qty: No Canadian Rights, in Whitby, Ontario. U.S. only SEPTEMBER
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Just published: LYME DISEASE, TICKS AND YOU Shelley Ball
Lyme disease has been steadily on the rise since the 1990s, and the threat of Lyme is only expected to grow as warmer global temperatures potentially prolong the tick season. In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated there were 33,666 con rmed and probable cases of Lyme disease reported in the United States. The Government of Canada reported 1,487 cases that same year. Lyme, if not treated early, can develop into a debilitating disease, with symptoms that can be felt for months or even years. Lyme Disease, Ticks and You is an easy-to-follow and essential guide to understanding, detecting and treating Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
160 pages · 6 × 9 · 978-0-2281-0320-2 · $19.95 paperback Rights: World
YOUR VAGINA Everything You Need to Know! Dr. Odile Bagot
An illustrated book that reveals all the facts thoughtfully and frankly.
Accessible and straightforward, this illustrated guide reveals all the functions of the female reproductive system, its various parts, its practical purposes, and its pleasures and problems. The facts are presented in a generous spirit with light humor to help readers learn the facts in private, without embarrassment or discomfort, and to better understand this essential part of female health and well-being.
126 pages · 7 × 9 · 978-0-2281-0305-9 · $19.95 paperback Rights: World English
YOUR PENIS Everything You Need to Know About Your Friend! Dr. Michael Lenois
This is the book you’ve been waiting for — an in-depth look at the penis that tells you everything you need and want to know, including the chapter many will turn to rst: how to increase the size of your penis, what works and what doesn’t.
Your Penis is an exhaustive guide to the willy, the dick, the Johnson, examining its anatomy, function, dimensions, familiar problems and cultural signi cance. There are sections on what mistreatments it is frequently subjected to, how to dress it up, how to make it grow, how to help it age well and what nicknames we’ve given it (there are over 126!).
216 pages · 7 × 9 · 978-0-2281-0322-6 · $24.95 paperback Rights: World English
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From the creators of The Little Book of Backyard Bird Songs
Feeling Hungry and Feeling Sleepy
Here are two books perfect for parents who want to be closer to their children, while also encouraging them into healthy and positive activities: eating and sleeping.
Each book features a group of 6 attractive animals doing natural things, related to food and bedtime. Each has an amusing, rhyming text opposite a winning picture of a familiar animal, and a die-cut space in the photograph for some appropriate, faux “fur” or “feathers” to poke through, and to be touched, stroked and enjoyed by the child. Additional foil stamping adds the sparkle of snow, starlight and moonlight. Each book is a hardcover board book, with rounded corners and very endearing text and photos.
Feeling Hungry and Feeling Sleepy will be family favorites.
FEELING SLEEPY Drift off to Sleep with Your Animal Friends Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham
Follow Panda and her drowsy friends to bedtime!
This remarkable picture book is based on popular relaxation techniques for children. Reading it with small children is a simple but very effective way to encourage the little ones to drop off to sleep. It provides a stress-free end of the day for children and their parents.
The sun starts to set and the cub gives a yawn- He’s pounced and he’s played with his sisters since dawn. If you open your mouth and breathe very deeply, You’ll yawn like a lion and start to feel sleepy.
Touch the lion cub’s pink tongue, the panda’s soft fur, the polar bear’s white leg and drift off to sleep.
FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 3–6 12 pages in color 978-0-2281-0317-2 board book 6½ × 7 $9.95 US / $12.95 CDN 5 die-cut fabric inserts, Ctn qty: foil stamping inside and on cover SEPTEMBER Rights: U.S. & Canada
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FEELING HUNGRY Mealtimes Made Easy With Your Animal Friends Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham
Follow Rabbit and her hungry friends in their mealtime adventures!
This delightful picture book helps to promote healthy and positive attitudes to food through simple proven strategies. It will help take the stress out of meals for both parents and children. Eat nuts with squirrel, wash the mud off with piggy, get ready with penguin chicks, and get down to it with chipmunk, lemur and stork.
Try not to guzzle, or eat with a slurp Or nish your meals with a fart and a burp. Look at this chipmunk just stuf ng her face With nut after nut — will she run out of space?
And then caress the rabbit’s fur and the penguins’ soft feathers, and enjoy your food.
FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 3–6 Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham have one main objective 12 pages in color — to inspire the next generation to get out and appreciate the natural 978-0-2281-0332-5 world. Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington are the founders of board book 6½ × 7 5 die-cut fabric inserts, Fine Feather Press, which promotes a love of nature in children from an $9.95 US / $12.95 CDN early age. They live near Farnham, UK. Ctn qty: foil stamping inside and on cover SEPTEMBER Rights: U.S. & Canada
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NEW IN THE GUMBOOT KIDS SERIES THE CASE OF THE HANGING FOOD CATCHER Eric Hogan and Tara Hungerford
Scout and Daisy are gathering pumpkins to make pumpkin pie when Scout mentions spotting a hanging food catcher on his garden gate. But what is a hanging food catcher? Join Scout and Daisy as they nd clues to solve the Case of the Hanging Food Catcher.
About THE GUMBOOT KIDS SERIES
CBC Books, Best Books of the Year — Canadian Picture Books
“A most charming and instructive collection of nature mystery books which encourages children to head outside and discover their natural world.” — Children’s Book News FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 4–7 32 pages A celebration of nature, curiosity, discovery and mindfulness! 978-0-2281-0338-7 paperback $6.99 8 × 8 Adapted from the award-winning TV show Scout & the Gumboot Kids, Ctn qty: full color throughout; eld notes; nature craft this outstanding series of nature mystery books celebrates the joy and wonder of mindfully exploring the natural world. Month Rights: World Perfect for inquisitive young minds, The Gumboot Kids’ nature mysteries feature beloved characters, Scout and Daisy, working through a series of clues in order to crack the case. In each mystery Also available: 978-0-2281-0337-0 Scout and Daisy con rm their ndings with a trip to the library where plastic-laminated they verify the evidence they’ve gathered in nature and solve the hardcover $19.95 mystery before having a mindful moment to re ect on their journey. Ctn qty: With beautifully rendered and painstakingly detailed art, Scout and Daisy’s adventures are a visual feast that will have kids poring over the pages time and time again.
Each book concludes with two pages of eld notes on the mystery subject, as well as a nature craft inspired by the mystery, for kids to try at home.
In the same series:
The Case of the The Case of the The Case of the Buzzing Honey Makers Growing Bird Feeder Singing Ocean 978-0-2281-0281-6 $6.99 978-0-2281-0190-1 $6.99 978-0-2281-0284-7 $6.99 paperback paperback paperback 978-0-2281-0282-3 $19.95 978-0-2281-0189-5 $19.95 978-0-2281-0285-4 $19.95 plastic-laminated hardcover plastic-laminated hardcover plastic-laminated hardcover 70 FIREFLY BOOKS FALL 2021 PICTURE BOOKS
NEW IN THE GUMBOOT KIDS SERIES THE CASE OF THE SHRINKING FRIEND Eric Hogan and Tara Hungerford
Scout and Daisy are going for a winter hike. On their way to the valley, Daisy notices the snowman friend she built the day before is smaller. Why is her friend shrinking? Join Scout and Daisy as they nd clues to solve the Case of the Shrinking Friend.
Praise for previous titles in the series:
“The felted wool mice and their miniature world are adorable and will invite children to savor the tiny details. Charming and informative picture books that will help young children discover nature.” — School Library Journal
FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 4–7 Eric Hogan and Tara Hungerford are a husband-and-wife team 32 pages 978-0-2281-0336-3 who run Imagine Create Media and are the creators of The Gumboot paperback $6.99 8 × 8 Kids. They live and create with their two children in Vancouver, British Ctn qty: full color throughout; eld Columbia. notes; nature craft Month Rights: World
Also available: 978-0-2281-0335-6 plastic-laminated hardcover $19.95 Ctn qty:
In the same series:
The Case of the Story The Case of the The Case of the Rock Vanishing Caterpillar Wooden Timekeeper 978-0-2281-0192-5 $6.99 978-0-2281-0194-9 $6.99 978-0-2281-0196-3 $6.99 paperback paperback paperback 978-0-2281-0191-8 $19.95 978-0-2281-0193-2 $19.95 978-0-2281-0195-6 $19.95 plastic-laminated hardcover plastic-laminated hardcover plastic-laminated hardcover FIREFLY BOOKS FALL 2021 71 PLUSH DOLLS
Fire y publishes the book adaptations of the successful TV series Scout & the Gumboot Kids, which features the beloved characters Scout and Daisy.
There are 8 books in the Gumboot Kids nature mystery series. Each is perfect for inquisitive young minds, as they work through the clues to nd a buzzing bee, a monarch butter y, the growth rings in a tree or the singing voices of whales.
Now Fire y Books, Eric Hogan and Tara Hungerford have created plush Scout and Daisy dolls. The dolls look exactly like the characters on TV and in the books. Each has real clothing, soft tan “fur” and an endearing expression, and each will be a much-loved companion for a small child.
SCOUT PLUSH DOLL
Scout is an adventurous mouse who loves gardening, reading and, above all, solving nature mysteries with his pal Daisy and, now, kids everywhere!
From the beloved TV series Scout & the Gumboot Kids and the Gumboot Kids’ nature mysteries books comes this adorable plush Scout doll. At 8" tall, he is the perfect size for kids to take with them as they solve nature mysteries of their own. Scout is made of soft and durable polyester and ready for any adventure, whether walking along the beach to listen to the singing ocean, hiking in the woods to spot a wooden timekeeper or cuddling up in bed with a good book.
FIREFLY BOOKS Size: 8" Scout is safe for all ages and conforms to CPSIA. Some elements, such Composition: 100% 978-0-2281-0339-4 as his boots, trousers and hat, can be removed by parents if desired. Plush doll $19.95 polyester bers, Ctn qty: polypropylene pellets, new materials only SEPTEMBER Care: Surface wash only Safety: Conforms to CPSIA; safe for all ages Origin: Made in China
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Also available: 978-0-2281-0357-8 10-doll counterpack (5 of each) $199.50
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DAISY PLUSH DOLL
Daisy is a curious mouse who loves making crafts, reading and, above all, solving nature mysteries with her pal Scout and, now, kids everywhere!
From the beloved TV series Scout & the Gumboot Kids and the Gumboot Kids’ nature mysteries books comes this adorable plush Daisy doll. At 8" tall, she is the perfect size for kids to take with them as they solve nature mysteries of their own. Daisy is made of soft and durable polyester and ready for any adventure, whether digging for story rocks, watering growing bird feeders in the garden or making a nature craft.
Daisy is safe for all ages and conforms to CPSIA. Some elements, such as her boots and hat, can be removed by parents if desired.
FIREFLY BOOKS Size: 8" Composition: 100% 978-0-2281-0340-0 polyester bers, Plush doll $19.95 polyester bers, polypropylene pellets, Ctn qty: polypropylene pellets, new materials only Care: Surface wash only SEPTEMBER Care: Surface wash only Safety: Conforms to CPSIA; safe for all ages Origin: Made in China
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FIREFLY BOOKS FALL 2021 73 LOVE YOU FOREVER
BACK IN PRINT LOVE YOU FOREVER POP-UP EDITION
The much-loved bestseller, now in a pop-up edition.
When we published Love You Forever in 1986, we thought it had great appeal.
But we had no idea that booksellers would love it and sell 30 million copies.
Now there is a gift edition whose characters move!
A young mother holds her baby, and while she sings to it she rocks it back and forth. FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 4–6 And through her life, and the stages of his life, she holds her son 14 pages 978-1-77085-965-4 8¼ × 8¼ and rocks him back and forth as she tells him that she will love him hardcover pop-up forever. $24.95 US / $29.95 CDN full color throughout, Ctn qty: 20 gatefolds and moving elements In double-page spreads and gatefolds, the whole text of Love You Forever is in this book, and enhanced with three-dimensional JULY Rights: World English, elements. But even better is the feature that moves — as the chorus French, Spanish is sung, you can move the characters back and forth.
This makes a wonderful extra feature for young readers, the grandchildren of people who raised their own children with this story and who want to pass it to a new generation.
NOW AVAILABLE IN BOARD BOOK FORMAT LOVE YOU FOREVER Robert Munsch illustrated by Sheila McGraw
Booksellers have sold more than 33 million copies of Love You Forever in paperback and hardcover.
Now we have a board version, printed on light, crisp whiteboard and slightly reduced for child-sized hands.
Yet it contains every word of the original, which is much-loved by grandparents and parents everywhere.
FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 4–6 32 pages Also available: 978-0-2281-0165-9 978-0-2281-0104-8 8-copy prepack board book 6½ × 6½ × ¾ full color throughout, $71.60 US / $79.60 CDN $8.95 US / $9.95 CDN 7 × 7 × 6½ Ctn qty: 30 rounded corners
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74 FIREFLY BOOKS FALL 2021 LOVE YOU FOREVER Celebrating its 35th year in print — with 35 million copies sold!
LOVE YOU FOREVER Robert Munsch illustrated by Sheila McGraw
There are 3 million new children in America and Canada each year — and every family is touched by this book.
Available in six formats, as well as in Spanish and French, Love You Forever is a “must” for every bookstore.
FIREFLY BOOKS All Ages 32 pages 978-0-920668-37-5 paperback 8 × 8 $5.95 US / $6.95 CDN full color illustrations Ctn qty: 100 throughout
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Also available: 978-0-920668-36-8 8 × 8 plastic-laminated Spanish and French editions: hardcover $14.95 Ctn qty: 25
Also available: 978-1-55209-109-8 11 × 11 hardcover $19.95 Ctn qty: 32 Siempre te querré Je t’aimerai toujours (Spanish) (French) 978-1-895565-01-0 $6.95 978-0-920668-49-8 $7.95 Also available: 978-1-895565-66-9 paperback paperback 8 × 8 slipcased hardcover $24.95 Je t’aimerai toujours board book NEW! Ctn qty: 30 978-0-2281-0185-7 $9.95 board book
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED GLOW DOWN DEEP Amazing Creatures That Light Up Lisa Regan
“Riveting... Rarely have denizens of the deep looked more eerily appealing.” —Kirkus
“Amazing!” “Wow!” “Cool” Any one of these may well be the response when children see the lenticular cover and glow-in-the-dark illustrations in Glow Down Deep. The book takes readers into the lives of amazing glowing organisms — animal and otherwise — and shines a new light on the spectacular natural phenomena of bioluminescence, bio uorescence and ultraviolet light.
Glow Down Deep goes into the depths of the ocean to nd sea dwellers that use the power of light — or the semblance of light — to survive. It could be for camou age, mating, warding off predators or attracting prey. The Glowing Ocean, for example, is a type of bioluminescence that many humans can see. It occurs on the water surface when small planktonic surface dwellers — such as single-celled Dino agellates — are bioluminescent. Under the right conditions, they bloom in dense layers, giving the ocean surface a reddish-brown color FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 7 and up in daylight and a sparkly sheen at night. Some of the Dino agellates in 48 pages these algal blooms are poisonous to animals and can cause sickness 978-0-2281-0252-6 or even death in humans. paperback $12.95 8½ × 11 Ctn qty: 50 animated lenticular cover, 16 glow-in-the- Readers will learn about 23 organisms, their biology, what type of AVAILABLE dark pages, full-color luminescence they use, where and how they survive: illustrations, glossary • Big n Reef Squid • Glowing Oceans Rights: World • Dragon sh • Bobtail Squid • Siphonophore • Helmet Jelly sh • Glowing Coral • Tube Anemone • Cock-Eyed Squid • False Stone sh • Crystal Jelly sh • Viper Fish Also available: 978-0-2281-0253-3 • Sea Pen • Sea Cucumber plastic-laminated • Chain Catshark • White Spotted Jelly sh AVAILABLE hardcover $19.95 • Comb Jelly Ctn qty: 34 • Pipe sh • Hatchet Fish • Angler Fish • Krill • Seahorse • Plankton.
“Did You Know?” insets focus on unusual facts, like the sailors who followed the lights of Flashlight Fish to guide their boats through dangerous coral reefs at night; or the glowing Siphonophore Fish, one of the longest animals in the world, even longer than a blue whale!
Lisa Regan studied English and Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and gained a postgraduate diploma in Publishing at West Herts College. She has written over 400 books, including picture books, puzzle books and children’s reference. She lives in Colchester, UK.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED NATURE AT NIGHT Lisa Regan
“Regan’s lucid, speci c remarks about how each organism makes and uses its lights are spot-on... Both casual browsers and budding zoologists will light up.” —Kirkus
Nature at Night takes readers into the lives of some amazing glowing animal and plant organisms that use the phenomena of bioluminescence, bio uorescence or ultraviolet light as part of their survival arsenal.
Nature at Night goes into the dark corners of forest, jungle and ocean to nd organisms that use luminescence for camou age, mating, warding off predators or attracting prey. One of the organisms is not an animal but is vegetation: Fox re Fungi glow to attract animals that will eat them and spread their pores through their scat and so help the plant to reproduce.
The book includes well-known creatures like Fire ies, Eels and Lantern sh, but also three animals which, it has been recently discovered, use luminescence: Polka-Dot Tree Frogs, the only known amphibian to use bio uorescence; Puf ns, which use ultraviolet light FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 7 and up to make their beaks glow during courtship; and Hawksbill Turtles, one 48 pages 978-0-2281-0254-0 of the rarest species on our planet and the rst reptile seen exhibiting 8½ × 11 paperback $12.95 bio uorescence. Ctn qty: 50 animated lenticular cover, 16 glow-in-the- In all, Nature at Night features Fox re Fungi and Aurora, as well as dark pages, full-color AVAILABLE these 21 glowing creatures: illustrations, glossary
Rights: World • Dino agellate • Click Beetle • Glowworms • Eye-Flash Squid • Fire y • Lantern sh • Crocodile • Atolla Jelly sh • Hawksbill Turtle • Polka Dot Tree Frog Also available: 978-0-2281-0255-7 • Scorpion • Flashlight Fish plastic-laminated • Fimbriated Moray Eel • Octopus hardcover $19.95 • Jelly sh • Chameleon AVAILABLE Ctn qty: 34 • Swallowtail Butter y • Decapod Shrimp • Yellow Stingray • Puf n • Lizard sh.
Readers will learn about each organism, its biology, what type of luminescence it uses and how, where it lives and how it survives. “Did You Know?” insets share unusual facts, focus on a topic, or display incredible photographs, like curtains of shining Glowworms hanging from the ceiling of Waipu Cave in New Zealand.
Like its companion title, Glow Down Deep, Nature at Night takes a new look at how nature magically lights up the dark. Young readers will thrill at the striking cover and spend many an hour under the bedsheets marvelling at the glowing illustrations.
Lisa Regan studied English and Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and gained a postgraduate diploma in Publishing at West Herts College. She has written over 400 books, including picture books, puzzle books and children’s reference. She lives in Colchester, UK. FIREFLY BOOKS FALL 2021 77 JUVENILE NON-FICTION
REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION ON BOARD THE TITANIC What It Was Like When The Great Liner Sank Shelley Tanaka Paintings by Ken Marschall
TITANIC. This is still the greatest, most recognized name in the history of ships. And it still resonates — a great, dramatic story of pride, error and tragedy.
This is the story of the voyage of the Titanic, from embarkation to disastrous iceberg contact, sinking — and rediscovery by Dr Robert Ballard. It is told by focusing on two real young men who sailed on the great ship: wireless operator Harold Bride, and passenger Jack Thayer, son of the wealthy Marion and John Thayer, American socialites.
How the ship sank, but Jack Thayer and Harold Bride survived, is part of the greater story of the Titanic, told here FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 9–12 by the respected Canadian children’s book author Shelley Tanaka, and 48 pages + 4-page with period photographs and beautiful paintings by Ken Marschall, with 978-0-2281-0353-0 gatefold charts and illustrations that show the workings of the ship, the impact, sewn hardcover and why it went down. $16.95 US / $19.95 CDN 11 × 9½ Ctn qty: photos, illustrations, glossary First published in 1997, this edition has been revised and updated to re ect new information. SEPTEMBER Rights: World English Shelley Tanaka is the author of many children’s non- ction books.
Ken Marschall is celebrated as the nest painter of images of the Titanic.
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BACK IN PRINT 882½ AMAZING ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TITANIC Hugh Brewster and Laurie Coulter
“For all trivia lovers this is a great book of questions and answers... and would prove useful to anyone who has an interest in the topic from young readers through to adults.” —Resource Links
It’s all here. The nanciers and founders of the White Star Line; the building and launch; the ship’s features; the crew and passengers; the fateful collision; the scramble for lifeboats; the sinking and the survivors; the high-tech discovery of the wreck; the movie.... 882½ Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic is packed with all of the intriguing details and fascinating facts that tell the true story.
FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 8–14 It puts myths to rest and con rms the truth. Was the Titanic really 96 pages unsinkable? Were third-class passengers locked down below? Were 978-0-2281-0151-2 8½ × 11 there enough lifeboats? Was there a Jack Dawson? Did the Heart of the plastic laminated Ocean diamond really exist? Was there a murderer aboard the ship? hardcover $16.95 full color throughout, Ctn qty: 20 glossary, recommended reading, sources, index Illustrated with dozens of accurate paintings, diagrams and rare photographs, the book’s special features include the making of James AVAILABLE Rights: World English Cameron’s movie Titanic, a true-or-false quiz and the real-life stories of the young people who sailed on the fateful voyage.
BACK IN PRINT TITANIC Jim Pipe
A large-format, fully illustrated exploration of the Titanic that gives both the sailing experience as well as the tragic end. Includes reproductions of period items, a narrated tour of the ship, eyewitness accounts and the of cial investigation.
Author Jim Pipe assumes the role of one of the many journalists that covered the maiden voyage. He describes the facts: the nanciers and builders, the shipyard, the layout and state-of-the-art technology, the passengers, the appointments, staterooms, dining rooms and more, and also the “hidden” spaces used by the lower-class passengers and the crew.... And of course, he conveys the public astonishment at this new “wonder of the world,” the biggest ship ever, and unsinkable! FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 10–18 The narrator’s imaginary account is combined with period photographs, 28 pages 978-1-55407-303-0 illustrations, tip-ins, booklets and other ephemera and eyewitness 12 × 10½ hardcover $24.95 accounts of the sinking, including those by surviving children. He color photographs and Ctn qty: 14 covers the aftermath of the tragedy and includes the reports and illustrations throughout, inquiries of the of cial investigation. AVAILABLE pop-ups, gatefolds Rights: World English
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF WOODLAND BIRD SONGS Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham
Hear the songs and learn about 12 of North America’s woodland birds.
Being able to identify a bird’s song is a skill that brings joy and fosters an appreciation of nature. Some bird songs are distinctive and easily recognized, like the common loon and wild turkey. Hawks as a group are distinctive but the individual species vary, as do the owls. Picking up the songs of a Black-capped Chickadee and a White-breasted Nuthatch, however, is not easy. That is where this enchanting book comes into its own.
The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs features recordings of FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 5–9 twelve bird songs from some of the best-known woodland species 26 pages seen and heard in North America. It is an interactive board book that is 978-0-2281-0031-7 ideal for curious young readers. The sturdy pages are easy to turn and plastic-laminated 8¾ × 8¼ full color throughout, the twelve song buttons, each with a portrait of the bird, are easy to hardcover with 12 sound activate. The high-quality sound module is encased in durable plastic buttons, shrinkwrapped plastic 12-button sound module with replaceable and the one-inch (3-cm) speaker makes it easy to hear and differentiate $19.95 the elements of the bird’s song, such as pitch, tempo and trills. Ctn qty: 20 battery (included)
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF BACKYARD BIRD SONGS Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham
“It’s the sort of book which children have to plead with the adults to let them have a look at. Everything about it is superb. Highly recommended.” — The Bookbag.co.uk
Being able to identify a bird’s song is a skill that brings joy and fosters an appreciation of nature. Learning how to differentiate between the songs of a house nch and a gold nch, however, is not easy. That is where this enchanting book comes into its own. It features recordings of twelve bird songs from some of the best-known garden bird species seen and heard across North America.
This is an interactive board book designed for any age with features FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 5–9 for young readers. The board pages are easy to turn. The twelve song 26 pages 978-1-77085-744-5 buttons are easy to activate and each bears a portrait of the singing 8¾ × 8¼ plastic-laminated bird. The high-quality sound module is encased in durable plastic, and hardcover with 12 sound full color throughout, plastic 12-button sound the one-inch (3 cm) speaker makes it easy to hear and differentiate the buttons, shrinkwrapped elements of a bird’s song, like pitch, tempo, whistles, trills and buzzes. $19.95 module with replaceable battery (included) Ctn qty: 20 All twelve birds have winter or summer ranges in the United States Rights: U.S. & Canada and Canada. This means that readers are sure to see most if not all the AVAILABLE birds.
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF DINOSAUR SOUNDS Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham
Rumble! Hiss! Squawk! Thwack! With just the touch of a button, readers can travel back 65 million years and more to nd out what these 12 extraordinary creatures sounded like, from the trombone-like call of Parasaurolophus to the low-frequency rumble of T-Rex. Twelve of the most iconic dinosaur species are brilliantly brought to life with amazing images, fascinating facts and the authentic primeval sounds. The dinosaur noises have been reconstructed in collaboration with leading paleontologist Thomas Williamson, and are based on the very latest paleoacoustic research.
The child-friendly book brings the sounds of a long-lost world to life for young dinosaur fans.
FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 5 to 9 Features include accurate text and 12 realistic illustrations on sturdy 26 pages 978-0-2281-0302-8 pages, authentic sounds, a high-quality sound module allowing for plastic-laminated 8¾ × 8¼ replaceable batteries, and packaging that conforms to required safety hardcover, shrinkwrapped full color throughout, standards. $19.95 plastic 12-button Ctn qty: 20 sound module with a This is a sure re treat for all young dinosaur enthusiasts. replaceable battery AUGUST (included). Rights: U.S. & Canada
THE LITTLE BOOK OF SAFARI ANIMAL SOUNDS Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham
Children (and adults) will marvel over the haunting sounds of the African savannah featured in this companion to The Little Book of Backyard Bird Songs. The roaring lions, laughing hyenas and trumpeting elephants will transport readers on a sensory adventure surpassed only by a real safari.
The interactive board book is designed for any age with features safe for young readers. The pages are easy to turn and feature fascinating facts and “Did You Know” sidebars alongside a beautifully rendered portrait of the animal.
The 12 safari animals featured are: • Lion FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 5 to 9 • African Fish Eagle 26 pages 978-0-2281-0251-9 • African Elephant plastic-laminated 8¾ × 8¼ • Spotted Hyena hardcover, shrinkwrapped full color throughout, • Black-backed Jackal $19.95 plastic 12-button • Hippopotamus Ctn qty: 20 sound module with a • Grey Go-away Bird replaceable battery • Pearl-spotted Owlet (included). AUGUST • Plains Zebra • Bubbling Kassina Frog Rights: U.S. & Canada • Chacma Baboon • Cheetah.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED THE LIFE OF ANNE FRANK Kay Woodward
“An informative volume created with the assistance of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam places Frank’s diary in context... With the help of this book the words of Anne’s diary will come alive... An effective complement to an enduring chronicle of the Holocaust.” —Kirkus
A compelling visual account of how a Jewish family tried to escape Nazism.
In August 1944, Anne Frank and her family were arrested. Anne was taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she died of typhus in early 1945, about six months after her arrest and just weeks before the British liberated the camp in April 1945. Anne’s father ful lled his promise and published 1,500 copies of Achterhuis, or The Secret Annex, in German. Since then the newly named Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 30 million copies in 70 languages.
The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the young diarist’s death. FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 9 and up Anne wrote the diary during the 25 months that her family of four and 48 pages + 20 loose four others were hiding in the top oor of an Amsterdam of ce building, 978-0-2281-0301-1 now the Anne Frank Museum, which welcomes one and a half million plastic-laminated pages of reproductions visitors each year. hardcover with folder 8½ × 10½ in slipcase $19.95 black and white and color The Life of Anne Frank is a compelling factual account and timeline Ctn qty: 15 photographs of those two years. Fascinating photographs show the still unchanged Annex, including the hidden entrance, and text takes readers directly AVAILABLE Rights: U.S. & Canada inside to reveal the surroundings and Anne’s story.
The book uses images and text plus a timeline to cover: • the lead-up to war and anti-Semitism • the building, rented by Frank’s father, and the decision to hide • how the family escaped without detection • a who’s who of those hiding • where they slept, cooked, bathed and ate • how a typical day would pass • the helpers who brought food and news of the war • the attic where Anne could catch a glimpse of nature • the diary and why Anne wrote a second version • Nazism, the concentration camps and the aftermath • how other Jews hid during the war • the discovery of the hideaway • what happened to the residents when peace came.
Book only (libraries only): Anne Frank’s book is on school reading lists across the country. For many it is a reader’s rst if not only exposure to anti-Semitism and the FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 9 and up Holocaust. The Life of Anne Frank makes this seminal time in history 48 pages 978-0-2281-0289-2 come alive. Young readers can grasp the context and place themselves plastic-laminated 8½ × 10½ in Anne’s story. The vivid visual presentation throughout brings her hardcover $19.95 black and white and color ordeal to life in a way that words alone cannot, perhaps not even Ctn qty: 15 photographs Anne’s.
AVAILABLE Rights: U.S. & Canada Kay Woodward has written over 150 ction and non ction children’s books.
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HUNGRY FOR THE ARTS Poems to Chomp On Kari-Lynn Winters and Lori Sherritt-Fleming Illustrations by Peggy Collins
Hungry for groovy-groovin’? Gobble shapes that get you movin’ Choose buffets or a-la-carte Music, dance, drama, art!
Another fun collection of poems from the team behind Hungry for Math and Hungry for Science.
Explore your creativity with Hungry for the Arts, a collection of poems highlighting concepts like pathways, dynamics, roles, and textures! Celebrate arts with dancing dinosaurs, jazzy cats, a dramatic ride and a homemade robot that whizzes through chores.
Kari-Lynn Winters is an author, poet and performer. She is an FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE Ages 5–8 assistant professor at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario. She is 32 pages 978-1-55455-466-9 the author of several books for children including Buzz About Bees. hardcover $19.95 11 × 8½ Ctn qty: full color throughout Lori Sherritt-Fleming is an author, educator and performer. Her rst picture book was aRHYTHMetic. She lives in Vancouver, BC. OCTOBER No Canadian Rights, U.S. only Peggy Collins is the illustrator of In the Garden and Tooter’s Stinky Wish. She lives near Kingston, Ontario.
By the same authors: Hungry for Math Hungry for Science 978-1-55455-307-5 978-1-55455-396-9 hardcover $18.95 hardcover $18.95
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED ONCE UPON A POTTY — BOY ONCE UPON A POTTY — GIRL
The all-time favorite, now with sound button technology.
There are 28.9 million children under the age of ve in the U.S. and all of them will need to be toilet trained. This classic book has already helped millions of parents get their children through a life milestone with ease and some entertainment too.
With Once Upon a Potty, a parent reads the book to their child or allows the child to read it while on the potty. Not surprisingly, the book takes some wear. This new edition will withstand such heavy use.
The four sound buttons cover the essentials, with a dose of amusement: a trumpet fanfare for success; kitty meows (is it a milk bowl?); birds singing; and the ush-it’s-all-gone nale. The three AG-13 button cell 1.5V batteries are removable and replaceable, and access is childproof.
Since 1975, Once Upon a Potty has been THE potty training book. It has it all: bright graphics, simple language, a fun story and an anatomically correct hero. With an edition for each gender, the book relates directly to the child, making potty-training relatable and easy to understand. More than four million copies have sold worldwide.
Alona Frankel is the author and illustrator of 30 children’s books. Her characters “Joshua” and “Prudence” from the Potty books have gone on to star in other stories and in videos and instruction books.
FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 1–4 Once Upon a Potty BOY 8 pages 7 × 7½ 978-0-2281-0237-3 board book $14.95 full color illustrations Ctn qty: throughout, sound bar
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FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 1–4 Once Upon a Potty GIRL 8 pages 7 × 7½ 978-0-2281-0238-0 board book $14.95 full color illustrations Ctn qty: throughout, sound bar See board book editions on pages 130-131. FEBRUARY Rights: World English
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NOW IN PAPERBACK BITE INTO BLOODSUCKERS Kari-Lynn Winters and Ishta Mercurio
Bloodsuckers don’t have the best reputation, if those itchy mosquito bites from last summer have anything to say about them, but before you jump to any conclusions, these little pests are more than meets the eye. Everyone knows about high-jumping eas, classic vampire bats, and shudder-inducing leeches, but how about blood-sucking birds, butter ies and snails? Did you know that only 15-20% of people react to bed bug bites? Or that there are bloodsuckers that feed on other bloodsuckers? And that even dinosaurs were bugged by bloodsuckers? Sink your teeth into the world of these important creatures!
FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE Ages 7–10 Kari-Lynn Winters is the author of many books for young readers 48 pages 978-1-55455-541-3 including Hungry for Science, Hungry for Math and Buzz About Bees. paperback $14.95 7 × 10 She is assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Ctn qty: 55 full color photographs, Brock University in St Catharines. glossary, table of AUGUST contents, index Ishta Mercurio is a freelance writer and video blogger. She lives in southern Ontario. No Canadian Rights, U.S. only
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NOW IN PAPERBACK GLOW-IN-THE-DARK CREATURES Natalie Hyde
Glow-in-the-dark creatures possess one of the most amazing abilities in our world. Using only chemicals in their bodies, they can create bioluminescence, or “living light.” The lights they produce come in an astonishing variety of colors and patterns. Glow-in-the-dark creatures use their light displays to hide from enemies, to cry for help, to warn of danger, or to nd a mate. It is a beautiful silent language.
From re ies and glowworms to ashlight sh and velvet belly lantern sharks, the diversity and number of creatures who are bioluminescent FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE Ages 7–10 have surprised scientists. They have found bioluminescent creatures 40 pages who it across the night sky, creep along the shadowy ground, oat in 978-1-55455-542-0 moonless oceans and swim in the deepest, darkest parts of the sea. paperback $14.95 7 × 10 Ctn qty: 68 full color photographs, table of contents, Natalie Hyde is the author of several books for young readers including Saving Armpit, Mine! and Hockey Girl. She lives with her family in AUGUST glossary, index southern Ontario. No Canadian Rights, U.S. only
Previous edition (hardcover): 978-1-55455-330-3
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THE GIRL WHO LOVED GIRAFFES And Became the World’s First Giraffologist Kathy Stinson Illustrations by Francois Thisdale
When Anne Innis Dagg saw her rst giraffe in a zoo she was entranced. So much so that a love for giraffes shaped her whole life. She decided at a young age that she would one day travel from her home in Canada to study giraffes in their natural environment in Africa.
After overcoming obstacles based on her gender, Anne succeeded in ful lling her dream in 1956 and became the world’s leading scienti c expert on giraffes.
In The Girl Who Loved Giraffes, Kathy Stinson and Francois Thisdale have created a beautiful picture book that captures the dramatic story of Anne’s life, the majestic beauty of giraffes and fascinating facts about this most intriguing and magni cent creature.
Kathy Stinson penned the classic Red is Best almost 40 years ago. Her most recent award-winning picture book is The Man with the Violin. She lives near Guelph, Ontario.
Francois Thisdale’s award-winning art consists of a unique blending FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE Ages 5–8 of drawing, photography and richly textured painting. His books include 32 pages Missing Nimama and Poetree. Francois lives near Montreal, Quebec. 978-1-55455-540-6 hardcover $19.95 8½ × 11 Ctn qty: full color throughout
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2nd EDITION, EXPANDED HOCKEY HALL OF FAME HEROES Scorers, Goalies and Defensemen Eric Zweig Illustrations by George Todorovic
The updated and expanded edition of Hockey Hall of Fame Heroes now features 126 Hall of Famers and 45 of today’s greatest stars — and each and every one of them shines!
Hockey Hall of Fame Heroes is brought to life with great color photography, eye-popping illustrations, Hockey Hall of Fame artifacts and fascinating information on the slickest goal scorers, best defensemen and greatest goalies to ever lace them up and hit the ice.
Some of the players featured include:
Scorers: Defenders: Goalies: • Wayne Gretzky • Bobby Orr • Jacques Plante • Sidney Crosby • Brian Leetch • Dominik Hasek • Connor McDavid • Chris Pronger • Martin Brodeur • Maurice Richard • Shea Weber • Patrick Roy • Pavel Bure • Zdeno Chara • Vladislav Tretiak FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 9–12 • Mike Bossy • Scott Niedermayer • Henrik Lundqvist 160 pages • Steven Stamkos • Dion Phaneuf • Marc-Andre Fleury 978-0-2281-0343-1 3 7 ⁄8 × 10 ⁄8 paperback $16.95 8 • Gordie Howe • Nicklas Lidstrom • Ed Belfour 180 full-color photos Ctn qty: • Bobby Hull • Raymond Bourque • Roberto Luongo • Patrick Kane • Victor Hedman • Andrei Vasilevskiy Rights: World OCTOBER • Alex Ovechkin • And many more... • Kim St-Pierre • And many more... • And many more...
Hockey Hall of Fame Heroes is a real page-turner that will have Previous edition (paperback): 978-1-77085-844-2 reluctant young readers and hockey fans of all ages clamoring for more.
Eric Zweig has loved sports and compiling fact and stats since the age of 10. Eric has written dozens of books, covering hockey to golf, including Stanley Cup: The Complete History. Eric has worked as a producer for CBC Radio Sports and TSN Sports Radio. He lives in Owen Sound, Ontario.
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BACK IN PRINT ORIGAMI PAPER ANIMALS Didier Boursin
A book of origami animals that offers a wide variety of designs, rated according to skill level. The book includes four pages of basic instruction for techniques and symbols used in the books and follows with 28 paper animals illustrated in full color.
Origami is an ancient art, yet modern paper folders can still invent fascinating new folds. Origami Paper Animals is lled with new and outstanding folds that will delight, amuse, and inspire paper folders of all ages. They offer a wide variety of designs that are rated according to skill level. Everyone, from beginners to experienced folders, will nd something here to delight the hand and eye.
The book opens with four pages of instructions in basic folding techniques, the symbols used in the book and a discussion of the various papers you work with. Then come the speci c folds — Origami Paper Animals offers 28 different designs of wild animals and pets, including sh, owl, elephant, heron, penguin, panther, dog, giraffe, grasshopper, turtle, and monkey. Extremely detailed technical drawings, in color, accompany the reader every step of the way from FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 9–13 the very rst crease through to the remarkable nished creation. 64 pages 978-1-55209-622-2 7¾ × 10¼ With their elegant and fascinating folds, these are among the most paperback $9.95 innovative origami books available. They are suited for folders of Ctn qty: 50 color illustrations throughout all ages and skill levels. Thoroughly tested and carefully designed instructions make it possible for anyone to achieve results on the rst SEPTEMBER Rights: U.S. & Canada try.
Didier Boursin is a world-renowned origami expert and author who lives in Paris. Among his books are Origami Paper Airplanes and Advanced Origami: More than 60 Fascinating and Challenging Projects for the Serious Folder.
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BACK IN PRINT ORIGAMI PAPER AIRPLANES Didier Boursin
A book of origami airplanes that offers a wide variety of designs, rated according to skill level. The book includes four pages of basic instruction and follows with 28 paper planes, windmills, frisbees and other ying objects, illustrated in full color.
Origami is an ancient art, yet modern paper folders can still invent fascinating new folds. Origami Paper Airplanes is lled with new and outstanding folds that will delight, amuse, and inspire paper folders of all ages. They offer a wide variety of designs that are rated according to skill level. Everyone, from beginners to experienced folders, will nd something here to delight the hand and eye.
Each book opens with four pages of instructions in basic folding techniques, the symbols used in the book and a discussion of the various papers you work with. Then come the speci c folds — Origami Paper Airplanes offers 28 different designs of aircraft that include traditional planes, new creations, and other ying objects such as windmills and frisbees. Extremely detailed technical drawings, in color, accompany the reader every step of the way from the very rst crease FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 9–13 through to the remarkable nished creation. 64 pages 978-1-55209-616-1 With their elegant and fascinating folds, these are among the most paperback $9.95 7¾ × 10¼ Ctn qty: 50 color illustrations innovative origami books available. They are suited for folders of throughout all ages and skill levels. Thoroughly tested and carefully designed SEPTEMBER instructions make it possible for anyone to achieve results on the rst Rights: U.S. & Canada try.
Didier Boursin is a world-renowned origami expert and author who lives in Paris. Among his books are Origami Paper Animals and Advanced Origami: More than 60 Fascinating and Challenging Projects for the Serious Folder.
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NOW IN PAPERBACK ESCAPE FROM SYRIA Samya Kullab Illustrated by Jackie Roche
★ “Groundbreaking and unforgettable.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“This is a powerful, eye-opening graphic novel that will foster empathy and understanding in readers of all ages.” —The Globe and Mail
★ “In league with Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, this is a must-purchase for any teen or adult graphic novel collection.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
From the pen of former Daily Star (Lebanon) reporter Samya Kullab comes this breathtaking and hard-hitting story of one family’s struggle to survive in the face of war, displacement, poverty and relocation.
Escape from Syria is a ctionalized account that calls on real- life circumstances and true tales of refugee families to serve as a microcosm of the Syrian uprising and the war and refugee crisis that FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 12 and up followed. More than 22,000 copies of the book have sold to date and 96 pages sadly there is no end in sight for the catastrophe in Syria. 978-0-2281-0277-9 paperback $9.95 8 × 10 The story spans six years in the lives of Walid, his wife Dalia, and Ctn qty: 40 full color throughout their two children, Amina and Youssef. Forced to ee from Syria, they AVAILABLE Rights: World become asylum-seekers in Lebanon, and nally resettled refugees in the West. It is a story that has been replayed thousands of times by other families.
When the family home in Aleppo is destroyed by a government-led Still available: 978-1-77085-982-1 bomb strike, Walid has no choice but to take his wife and children plastic-laminated and ee their war-torn and much loved homeland. They struggle to hardcover $19.95 survive in the wretched refugee camps of Lebanon, and when Youssef Ctn qty: 24 becomes very ill as a result of the poor hygienic conditions, his father is forced to take great personal risk to save his family.
Walid’s daughter, the young Amina, a whip-smart grade-A student, tells the story. As she witnesses rsthand the harsh realities that her family must endure if they are to survive — swindling smugglers, treacherous ocean crossings and jihadist militias — she is forced to grow up very quickly in order to help her parents and brother.
Samya Kullab is a journalist based in the Middle East covering security, politics and refugees. She has worked in Lebanon, Turkey, the West Bank and Gaza, and Iraq for a variety of international media outlets. She was a reporter with Lebanon’s The Daily Star for three years, and is now an Iraq correspondent for the Associated Press based in Baghdad.
Jackie Roche is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator whose work has been published in news outlets, including Fusion, Harvard Library Of ce for Scholarly Communication and The Nib, and anthologies, including Sweaty Palms and Colonial Comics: New England, 1750–1775 (vol. II). She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED THE CHEERLEADING BOOK The Young Athlete’s Guide Ali Moffatt and Alana Potter
A comprehensive guide for athletes and an effective teaching aid for coaches.
More than three and a half million young athletes, female and male, participate in all-star cheerleading in North America. The Cheerleading Book is the go-to resource for anyone interested in participating in or coaching the sport of cheerleading.
World champion coaches Ali Moffatt and Alana Potter break down cheerleading into its core elements and offer athletes the techniques to build themselves into strong performers and even stronger teammates.
Illustrated with step-by-step photographs, this de nitive guide takes young athletes from individual jumps and tumbling to group choreography and ying. This exceptional teaching aid also details physical training, mental exercises and teambuilding strategies that lead to success. FIREFLY BOOKS Ages 10–16 144 pages To inspire and inform young athletes, Moffatt and Potter describe how 978-0-2281-0273-1 8 × 10 the sport has moved from the sidelines onto the center stage, as well paperback $19.95 as predict how the sport will continue to grow and evolve in the coming Ctn qty: 34 full-color photographs throughout, glossary, decade. AVAILABLE index The Cheerleading Book is for anyone, be they a newbie looking to Rights: World cheer for the rst time, or a dedicated young athlete who wants to improve his or her craft.
Ali Moffatt and Alana Potter are the founders, owners and head coaches of Cheer Sport Sharks. Their team, the Great White Sharks, are the subject of the 2016 ABC Spark and Net ix reality show Cheer Squad, which documents their attempt to win a third-straight world championship. As of today, their teams have won four world championships, as well as accomplished many top-10 nishes. They live in Cambridge, Ontario.
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A SOFT PLACE TO FALL Tanya Poznikoff
When he was ve years old, Creighton’s mother left. He and his father know she has started a career as a singer but not much more than that. Dad’s work with a carnival means they have not set down roots anywhere for long and as a result Creighton does not have a formal education. When they nally settle in a small town, Creighton is 14 years old. When he starts school there he is placed in an alternate school — which it turns out is a place for “losers” — kids who struggle with learning.
Gradually Creighton meets other kids in his new school — like Schooner who can’t read but has his own kind of wisdom and Carin who was a victim of sexual assault when she was thirteen. There is one teacher at the school who truly cares about the students and who encourages their hopes for the future. But when she announces she Cover not nal is leaving at the end of the year, the students feel abandoned. School becomes irrelevant and the students are left to fend for themselves. RED DEER PRESS Ages 12+ How will they manage to survive in spite of all the personal disasters 480 pages 978-0-88995-638-4 that challenge them. paperback $14.95 5½ × 7½ Ctn qty: Tanya Posnikoff has been a teacher at an alternate school and is now No Canadian Rights, a full time school counselor. This is her rst novel. NOVEMBER U.S. only
SECOND CHANCES Harriet Zaidman
Thirteen-year-old Dale Melnyk nds himself stuck in an iron lung, desperately ghting for breath — and wishing he could die. It is the worst outbreak of polio in the history of Winnipeg, and Dale is one of the many young victims being treated in the early 1950s. Second Chances follows Dale’s slow and often agonizing struggle to regain his life, rst of all to breathe on his own and then to regain the use of his limbs. Will he ever be able to play hockey again, he wonders? Dale comes to realize that he is doing better than a number of the other patients including Charlene, a young Métis girl con ned to a wheelchair but always trying to help their fellow patients.
When Dale discovers his younger brother Brent is also in the polio ward because their father rejected the school program vaccine, a Cover not nal confrontation with his father becomes inevitable. Brent is not getting better and will be dealing with paralysis inde nitely. When Dale nally RED DEER PRESS Ages 12+ emerges from his recovery he must reassess what is most important in 224 pages life — a life that has been changed forever. 978-0-88995-639-1 paperback $14.95 5½ × 7½ Harriet Zaidman is the author of City on Strike. She lives in Winnipeg, Ctn qty: No Canadian Rights, Manitoba. NOVEMBER U.S. only
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THE LEGEND Jean Mills
Hockey player Grif n Tardiff is starting Grade 11 in a new school, new home, new town. He has not been able to play hockey for months because of a broken arm and now is also cut off from his hockey friends and his on-again, off-again girlfriend. Floundering to nd a new focus, he gets an opportunity for school credit to work at the local radio station with the hockey guy. It’s a break (no pun intended) that ts with his abilities as a writer and his fascination with the game. It’s not long before he has made a strong positive impression.
In his new neighborhood, Griff befriends a young boy, Noah, as he practices his ball hockey shots in the driveway. The boy would love to be a hockey player but his mother has vetoed that because of the costs of the hockey program. And Noah’s older sister does not seem Cover not nal interested in encouraging her brother or in the older boy who has become a mentor to Noah. Then one night, Noah bursts in to Griff’s home terri ed because of something that has been happening at his RED DEER PRESS Ages 12+ 324 pages home. Now Griff must face a complicated reassessment about his radio 978-0-88995-640-7 5½ × 7 station mentor and several aspects of his new life. Jean Mills’ astute paperback $14.95 insights into the hockey world as well as her ability to penetrate the Ctn qty: No Canadian Rights, emotional lives of teenagers makes this a compelling page-turner. U.S. only NOVEMBER Jena Mills is the acclaimed author of Skating Over Thin Ice and Larkin on the Shore. She lives near Guelph, Ontario.
WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Avid competitive rower Holly is seventeen. There is nothing she wishes for more than to compete in the Olympics. When she fails to make the rowing team that is going to Europe she is shattered. Her dream has exploded and she is left dealing with the disappointment. She is also confronting a new reality at home: she and her mother have moved in with her mother’s boyfriend and his two sons. And then her mother announces she is pregnant… a situation she has been hiding from Holly.
This news is a blow to the close relationship Holly thought she had with her mother. And it provokes her to conceal secretly taking up training as a single-scull rower with a coach who has his own tragic story. And when Holly starts seeing someone who could become a signi cant romantic partner, she hides that from her mother as well. How long Cover not nal can you keep secrets like this? This page-turning story is enhanced by fascinating detail of what it means to be a competitive rower — as well RED DEER PRESS Ages 12+ as an emotional core that is powerful and compelling. 415 pages 978-0-88995-641-4 paperback $14.95 5½ × 7 Lorna Schultz Nicholson is the acclaimed author of A Time to Run, Ctn qty: Bent Not Broken, Born With and Fragile Bones. She lives in Edmonton, No Canadian Rights, Alberta. NOVEMBER U.S. only
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COWBOYS DON’T CRY Marilyn Halvorsen
Shane Morgan’s world is shattered when his mother is killed in a car accident. His father and hero, a famous rodeo star, drowns his sorrow in booze and soon is just a rodeo clown with a drinking problem. Then the two inherit a small ranch, and Shane looks forward to having a real home, making friends, and getting through a whole school year in the same place.
But things don’t go well at school or at home. In fact, Shane and his father seem to be growing further and further apart.
Will his father ever change? Will things ever be different?
Marilyn Halvorson is the award-winning author of a number of young adult novels. When not writing, she runs her cattle ranch hear Sundre, Alberta. Marilyn’s other books include Blood Brothers, Brothers and Strangers, Stranger on the Run and Stranger on the Line.
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COWBOYS DON’T QUIT Marilyn Halvorsen
In Cowboys Don’t Cry, Shane and dad nally settled in to a new life on a ranch in Deer Valley, Alberta. They’d been through some rough times after Shane’s mother died in a car accident and his father was drinking too much. But all that was behind them and they were getting along ne together. Or so Shane thought.
Now, in Cowboys Don’t Quit, his dad is a day late delivering some bulls to a ranch in Bozeman, Montana, and Shane is a little worried. Then it’s two days. When he gets back from his last day of school and his dad’s still not back, Shane decides that he just can’t wait around. He’s going to Montana to nd him.
But crossing an international border and driving hundreds of miles isn’t easy when you’re fteen, with no driver’s license and little money, in a bald-tired old truck. With everything against him — including both sides of the law — Shane is determined to nd his dad, before it’s too late.
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