Fifth House Publishers Spring 2015 on the Cover: Tracks to Trenches

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Pub Date: April 2015 Price: $40.00 EAN: 978-1-92708-336-9 Trim: 11 x 8.5 Pages: 288 Format: Cloth, with over 250 photographs and maps BISAC code: HIS027090, TRA004010

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Fitzhenry& Whiteside acknowledges the financial support of the Government of FifthHouse Publishers acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Can - RedDeer Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada Canadathrough the Canada Book Fund(CBF) for our publishing activities. Fitzhenry & adathrough the Canada Book Fund(CBF) for our publishing activities. Fifth House through the Canada Book Fund(CBF) for our publishing activities. Red Deer Press Whitesideacknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Publishersacknowledges with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario acknowledgeswith thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council Arts Council for their support of our publishing programs. Arts Council for their support of our publishing programs. for their support of our publishing programs. Table of Contents

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History...... pg.5-10

Nature ...... pg. 10-13

Poetry/Drama ...... pg. 14-15

Lifestyle...... pg. 16-19

Language...... pg. 20-21

Health ...... pg. 22

Travel ...... pg. 23-24

Sports ...... pg. 25

Fiction ...... pg. 26-29

Notes...... pg. 30

Staff Directory...... pg. 31

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Peace Out: A Filmmaker’s Handbook Pub Date: Available now Price: $24.95 Charles Wilkinson EAN: 978-0-88995-488-5 Northern Canada’s Peace River Valley is one of the last great wild Trim: 6 x 9 places in North America and every energy sector wants a peace of it: the oil industry, the frackers, the solar, wind and nuclear Format: Trade Paper with industries. Why? As Charles Wilkinson paddles through the photographic inserts issues he engages hydro and natural gas energy executives, oil Pages: 184 company reps, nuclear spokesmen, scientists, academics and BISAC code: SCI024000, activists. What starts to become clear is that the tricky business SCI092000 of energy supply and demand does not play out in isolation. With clarity, even handedness and a good deal of wit, Charles Comparable titles: Wilkinson connects all of us to this sweeping energy issue that is rapidly transforming our world. Who Speaks for the River (978-1-92708-301-7) Charles Wilkinson award-winning filmmaker and author lives in Vancouver. His documentary Peace Out was released to wide- acclaim and awards. Red Deer Press

Your Guide to Canadian Law: Pub Date: July 2015 3rd Edition Price: $24.95 EAN: 978-0-88995-536-3 Antree Demakos Trim: 7 x 9 1/8 Completely revised to cover Canada coast to coast. Your Guide Format: Trade Paper to Canadian Law provides expert answers to hundreds of the Pages: 672 most frequently asked questions on Canadian law, rights and BISAC code: LAW000000 our legal system. No jargon, no theory, no maze of statutes - just clear and concise answers about the laws that matter most to you. Based on real-life experience and the contributions of over Comparable titles: 300 participating lawyers, this Guide gives you everything you Your Guide to Canadian need to know about. Law: Second Edition (978-1-55041-835-4) Antree Demakos, LL.B, Director of the Law Guild of Upper Canada, is a co-founder of Legal Line, the telephone and Red Deer Press Internet resource that is kept current by the volunteer services of over 300 participating lawyers.

Tackling Hate: Pub Date: February 2015 Combating Antisemitism: The Ottawa Protocol Price: $22.00 EAN: 978-1-77161-078-0 Scott Reid & Dr. Mario Silva, editors Trim: 6 x 9 Tackling Hate is a volume of essays, testimony and documents Format: Trade Paper drawn from the work of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition Pages: 200 to Combat Anti-semitism (CPCCA). The book also contains a BISAC code: SOCO49000, distinctive analysis of anti-semitism in the context of new media SOCO 31000 and globalization as well as a detailed action plan on how to deal Comparable titles: with these new realities. Anti-Judaism Scott Reid has worked as a journalist, researcher and lecturer in (978-0-39334-791-3); New Canada, the US and Australia. He is MP for Lanark-Frontenac- Anti-Semitism Lennox & Addington and is currently the Deputy Leader of the (978-965229-789-1) Government in the House of Commons. Mosaic Press

Dr. Mario Silva is an international legal scholar. 4 Spring 2015 History

Tracks to Trenches Pub Date: April 2015 David Guay Price: $40.00 EAN: 978-1-927083-36-9 This is the untold story about the Canadian Railway Troops who built, maintained and operated the standard gauge and Trim: 11 x 8.5 light railways, the supply routes to the front lines during The Format: Cloth, with over 250 Great War. Guay discusses the evolution and management of photographs and maps this complex infrastructure in the context of German, French Pages: 288 and British railway development and military strategy. He BISAC code: HIS027090, also emphasizes the enormity of the railway work done by TRA004010 the Canadians: regimental histories, organizational charts, operating procedures, decorations, rosters of locomotives and rolling stock, as well as tips on modelling and collecting railway and military memorabilia. Lavishly illustrated throughout. Fifth House Publishers Canadian, David Guay is professor emeritus in experimental and clinical pharmacology at the University of Minnesota. He is also a leading historian of Canadian railway history.

Valiant Boys Pub Date: April 2015 Tony Blackman & Anthony Wright Price: $40.00 Foreword by Sir Michael Beetham, Marshal of the RAF EAN: 978-1-90980-821-8 A fascinating collection of personal accounts about Britain’s Trim: 6.5 x 10 first V bomber by aircrew and ground crew. The book tells the Format: Hardback; 2x 8pp story from the aircraft’s birth, (at Vickers’ tiny airfield at Wisley colour inserts near Brooklands) to its premature death from fatigue. There are Pages: 192 tales of testing atom bombs in the Australian desert, dropping BISAC code: HIS027140 hydrogen bombs in the middle of the Pacific and attacking airfields with conventional bombs in Egypt.

Comparable titles: Victor Tony Blackman OBE, MA FRAes, is an expert in aviation Boys (978-1-908110-745-8); electronics, a fellow of the American Society of Experimental Vulcan Boys Test Pilots, the Royal Institute of Navigation and a liveryman of (978-1-90980-808-9) the Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators. Grub Street Squadron Leader Anthony Wright BA joined the RAF in 1960, serving at HQ Air Cadets before retiring in 2003. He now lives in Rutland. Phantom Boys: Pub Date: June 2015 True Tales from Operators of the McDonnell Douglas Price: $39.95 F-4 EAN: 978-1-90980-822-5 Richard Pike Trim: 6.5 x 10 Originally developed for the US Navy, the F-4 twin-engined Format: Hardback; 30 colour supersonic long-range fighter-bomber first flew in the spring and 30 b/w of 1958. It entered service for the US Navy in 1961, and the Pages: 192 UK Fleet Air Arm and RAF in 1969. Regarded as one of the BISAC code: TRA002010 most versatile fighters ever built, the Phantom F-4 was the US Comparable titles: Hunter Navy’s fastest and highest-flying aircraft. It was flown by both Boys (978-1-90980-803-4); US military demonstration teams from 1969 to 1973, and ended its service in 1991 with the RAF, although continues to serve a Lightning Boys variety of air forces across the world. (978-1-90811-715-1)

Grub Street Richard Pike who joined the Royal Air Force in August 1961, flew the English Electric Lightning before converting to the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom. He lives in Aberdeenshire. 5 Spring 2015 History

Fifty Years of Flying Fun: Pub Date: June 2015 From the Hunter to the Spitfire and Back Again Price: $39.95 Rod Dean EAN: 978-1-909808-27-0 Fifty Years of Flying Fun covers, in a roughly chronological Trim: 234 x 153mm order, over fifty continuous years of flying. With in excess of Format: Hardcover with 7,000 flying hours on 59 different types Rod gives a clear, and colour inserts largely humorous, insight into the operation of a cross section Pages: 192 of piston and jet engine vintage aircraft and his undoubted fifty years of fun since the first solo on 19 March 1963.

Fifty Years of Flying Fun is not just a book for the aviation enthusiast, but for anyone wanting to learn about any aspect of flying history through the memoir of a man who lived through Grub Street it all.

Rod Dean is a CAA display authorisation evaluator and has recently been appointed as the flying display director for the annual Shoreham Airshow. Rod lives with his family in Surrey.

An Alien Sky: Pub Date: June 2015 The Story of one Man’s Remarkable Adventure in Price: $39.95 Bomber Command during the Second World War EAN: 978-1-90980-825-6 Andy Wiseman with Sean Feast Trim: 5 ½ x 8 ½ Format: Hardback; with Andy Wiseman (born Weizman) was lucky as a Jew educated at the famous Werner Siemens Real Gymnasium in Schoneberg, photo inserts which he left only months before the school was closed down, Pages: 192 He and his family fled to Poland and then to England. BISAC code: BIO008000

After a crash course in the language, finaly enlisted in the RAF in South Africa. On his return to the UK he was posted to an all-Australian Squadron (466 Squadron) equipped with the Handley Page Halifax, survived a handful of eventful trips. Grub Street

Sean Feast was born in Hertfordshire, U.K. He was a journalist for business magazines, moving into the world of PR and advertising in 1991. He is the Director and co-owner of Gravity London, responsible for its media relations and content generation business.

I Chose the Sky Pub Date: July 2015 Leonard H Rochford DSC and bar, DFC Price:$29.95 EAN: 978-1-909808-32-4 Fascinating, insightful and, at times, nail-biting, World War Trim: 210 x 135 mm One veteran, Leonard H. Rochford writes about his two action-filled years as a World War I fighter pilot with the Format: Hardcover famous No. 3 (Naval) Squadron when he flew planes such as Pages: 224 the Sopwith Pup and the Sopwith Camel. While flying many hundreds of hours in operations he was credited with many single-handed victories or driven out of control, and he vividly Grub Street recalls these engagements in the air and the exploits of the pilots with whom he flew, names that include other fighter aces like Raymond Collishaw, who has written a foreword to this book, T. F. Havell, R. H. Mulock and L. S. Breadner. 6 Spring 2015 History

Ton-Up Lancs: Pub Date: June 2015 A Photographic Record of the Thirty-Five RAF Price: $26.95 Lancasters That Each Completed One Hundred Sorties EAN: 978-1-90980-826-3 Trim: 5 ½ x 8 ½ Norman Franks Format: Trade Paper This book has thirty-five histories and personal photographs Pages: 224 from the aircrew that flew these aircraft. The most famous, plane BISAC code: HIS027140 R5868 Queenie, can still be seen in the Bomber Command Hall at RAF Museum, London. Author Norman Franks also examines the controversial accounting of the number of operations flown as he details each raid undertaken by pilots and crew during 1942-1945 including sorties over Hitler’s Third Reich, Northern Italy and during support missions before and after D-Day. Grub Street Norman Franks has written over seventy books. He lives in East Sussex, U.K

New Beginnings Pub Date: April 2013 Price: $20.00 Eric Koch EAN: 978-1-77161-058-2 Once again, Koch is inventing a new literary form that is special and astonishing, crafting five intimate stories of six fascinating Trim: 6 x 9 and important figures in Canadian history. New Beginnings Format: Paperback focuses on key characters in the history of post-World War II Pages: 160 Canada – Tommy Douglas, Igor Gouzenko, Maurice Duplessis, Mackenzie King, Vincent Massey, and Allan Monk. Koch Comparable titles: captures the very essence of these figures through brief and poignant fictional anecdotes. Fascinating, insightful, and Golden Years informed, these stories appeal to anybody who wants a new take (978-0-88962-980-6) on our Canadian history and its array of characters.

Mosaic Press Eric Koch has been at the heart of Canadian public affairs for half a century and his literary and creative output is unique in Canada. He is widely recognized as the ‘Dean of historical fiction’.

In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History Kenn Harper In this second volume of In Those Days: Collected Writings Pub Date: May 2015 on Arctic History, Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, Price: $19.95 thieves, and fraudsters—as well as the wrongfully accused—in EAN: 978-1-77227-006-8 the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and Trim: 6 x 9 twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, Format: Paperback leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history. Pages: 200 Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the Historic Sites Inhabit Media and Monuments Board of Canada. He is the author of Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo. “Taissumani,” his column on Arctic history, appears in Nunatsiaq News every Friday. 7 Spring 2015 History

Two Jews, Two Arabs, Two Britons: Their Lives Under the British Mandate Pub Date: June 2015 Price: $24.95 Hadara Lazar EAN: 978-1-77161-112-1 This is the story of six people who lived and worked in Palestine Trim: 6 x 9 during the 1930s; remarkable nonconformists who tried to Format: Paperback find a solution to the deteriorating relations between Jews Pages: 225 and Arabs, the two peoples living under British Mandate rule. BISAC code: HIS019000 Some of thesubjects took an active part in dialogues between Comparative titles: the Jews and arabs believing that it was possible to live together, although the chances were slim. When World War II broke out, the contacts ended. Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine 1918-1948 Hadara Lazar has published several novels and two non-fiction (978-0-80186-620-3) books. She was born and raised in Haifa. Mosaic Press

The First Five Hundred: Pub Date: May 2015 The Royal Newfoundland Regiment in Galipoli & on Price: $64.95 the Western Front During the Great War EAN: 978-1-927099-56-8 Trim: 9 7/8 x 7 ½ Richard Cramm with foreword by Michael O’Brien Format: Hardcover with Originally published in 1919, The First Five Hundred is a classic slipcase history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the Pages: 326 First World War. Included are individual military records and BISAC code: HIS027090, photographs of the first contingent to go overseas. They were HIS027160 known as “The First Five Hundred” or “The Blue Puttees” due to the colour of their leggings. Boulder

Pub Date: May 2015 Price: $24.95 Wilhelm von Humboldt and German Liberalism EAN: 978-1-77161-121-3 John Roberts & Thomas S. Axworthy Trim: 6 x 9 Format: Paperback The unique and thoughtful look at one of the most remarkable individuals in late 18th and early 19th century German history Pages: 142 explores the foundations of liberalism in the country. Wilhlem BISAC code: POL042020, von Humboldt was a poet, classicist, translator and an author POL058000 of books on history, political theory, diplomacy and several other topics. This book focuses on reassessing the origins and Comparative titles: particular nature of von Humboldt’s writings in the context of Liberalism: The Life of an an understanding of contemporary liberalism and liberal theory. Idea (978-0-69115-689-7); John Roberts was a diplomat in the Canadian foreign service Inventing the Individual under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He died in 2007. (978-0-67441-753-3)

Thomas S. Axworthy is a distinguished senior fellow at the Mosaic Press Munk School of Global Affairs and a senior fellow at Massey College. He lives in Toronto. 8 Spring 2015 History My Name Is Arnaktauyok: The Life and Art of Germaine Arnaktauyok Pub Date: April 2015 Germaine Arnaktauyok and Gyu Oh Price: $24.95 EAN: 978-1-77227-000-6 Germaine Arnaktauyok is one of the Canadian North’s most prolific and recognizable artists. In this book, she tells the Trim: 10 x 8.5 story of her life in her own words: her “very traditional Inuk Format: Art book Paperback life” growing up in Nunavut at a camp near Igloolik, and her Pages: 160 experiences later in a residential school in Chesterfield Inlet. BISAC code: She also provides commentary on several of her works, offering a seldom-seen perspective on her inspiration and process. Featuring over one hundred full-colour reproductions of Germaine Arnaktauyok’s fascinating pieces from throughout her career, this beautiful book provides an in-depth look at one of the world’s most important artists. Inhabit Media Germaine Arnaktauyok is an Inuit artist and illustrator. In 2000, she designed the special edition two-dollar coin commemorating the founding of the territory of Nunavut. She lives in Yellowknife.

Gyu Oh is a long-time Northern resident and artist. Gyu currently works at Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit.

Forgotten Horses: Pub Date: April 2015 Discovering the Beauty of North America’s Price: $35.00 Abandoned Equines EAN: 978-1-55455-369-3 Photography by Tony Stromberg; Foreword by Robert Trim: 10 1/2 x 12 1/4 Redford; Introduction by Lawrence Scanlan; Afterword by Format: Trade Paper Rob Laidlaw Pages: 220 BISAC code: PHOO13000 When horses outlive their usefulness to humans, they are often deemed disposable – auctioned off and sent to the slaughter- Comparable titles: This book house. But thanks to the work of rescue organizations and horse was originally published in sanctuaries, many of these magnificent animals now enjoy new- 2008 by New World Library found freedom. The horses in this book were abused, neglected, (9781577316152) rejected, and abandoned. They are lame, blind, old, or just plain unattractive according to modern-day concepts of beauty. Some Fitzhenry & Whiteside are crossbreeds, with no clearly defined pedigree or bloodline. Others are wild horses forced from public lands. All of them are enjoying a second chance to live meaningful and dignified lives...

Photographer Tony Stromberg travelled North America search- ing these amazing animals, and for the people and sanctuaries which offered them a new lease on life.

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India’s Disappearing Railways: A Photographic Journey Pub Date: April 2015 Angus McDonald Price: $45.00 India’s Disappearing Railways is a vibrant photo essay EAN: 978-1-55455-380-8 by Australian photojournalist Angus McDonald Trim: 9.5 x 11.5 (d2013). His work captures for the first time in print Format: Hardcover the India’s unique narrow-gauge railways in all their Pages: 240 vivid colour, chaos, and humanity... with rare empathy BISAC code: TRA004020, and insight, and illustrate the lives of those people who ride the trains, those who work on them, and those HIS017510 who live alongside them. India’s unique narrow gauge lines are fast disappearing as the nation converts to broad-gauge travel. As a result, this unique portrait, which documents the diversity and multi-layered way Fitzhenry & Whiteside of life is especially poignant.

Angus McDonald photojournalist and travel writer, spent five years compiling this book. McDonald died unexpectedly in 2013, while travelling in Burma. He was 50.

Queen Bee: Pub Date: May 2015 Roxanne Quimby, Burt’s Bees, and the Fight for a Price: $24.95 National Park in the Maine Woods EAN: 978-0-88448-380-9 Trim: 6 x 9 Format: Hardcover Born in Massachusetts, Roxanne Quimby made herself a Pages: 360 success by changing a roadside honey stand into a juggernaut BISAC code: BIO003000, company worth hundreds of millions of dollars before she sold BIO501010 it to Clorox in 2007. That sale allowed her to turn her attentions to the conservation of Maine’s North Woods, and she purchased more than 120,000 acres of forest in Maine’s Katahdin region as her ante in the fight to establish a national park in the area. The result remains undecided to this date. Tilbury House Publishers Journalist Phyllis Austin has covered environmental issues in Maine for more than 30 years.

10 Spring 2015 Nature Lives of Birches, Ironwood and Maples Pub Date: June 2015 Graham Powell Price: $50.00 EAN: 978-1-55455-370-9 Dr. Graham Powell’s new work builds on his earlier publication, Trim: 9 x 11 Lives of Conifers: A Comparative Account of the Coniferous Trees. Format: Cloth As in the previous book, Dr. Powell provides his readers with a detailed view of the morphological and physiological features of Pages: 320 the Canadian broadleaved species birch, maple, and ironwood. BISAC code: NATO34000 These species occur naturally in one or more of the four Atlantic Comparable titles: Lives of Provinces, in Québec, east of Québec City in Canada, and in Conifers (978-1-55041-869-9) the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in the United States. Powell’s approach offers readers unique overviews of the complex and dynamic features of tree growth, reproduction and physical development. His text Fitzhenry & Whiteside is profusely illustrated and researched and amply supported by full citations for all scholarly work quoted.

Dr. Graham R. Powell is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental management at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of numerous technical re- ports and handbooks, and directed the Faculty’s Graduate Studies Programme for ten years. He lives in Fredericton, NB.

Sable Island Pub Date: July 2015 Explorations in Ecology & Biodiversity Price: $40.00 Edited by Bill Freedman EAN: 978-1-55455-372-3 Sable Island is a storied place. This remote, 50-km-long, Trim: 9 x 10 emergent sandbar, located at the very edge of the continental Format: Trade Paper shelf off Nova Scotia, has been the locale of hundreds of tragic Pages: 360 shipwrecks, brave rescues of stranded mariners, and home BISAC code: NATO45050, to many thousands of seals and hundreds of wild horses. It SCIO20510 was because of its famous natural and historical features that Sable Island was made a new national park of Canada in 2013. From this freshly conferred status, there emerged a need to develop a management plan for the island, to ensure that its key natural features would be conserved. Profusely illustrated Fitzhenry & Whiteside with photographs, line drawings, and tables, the book also provides prudent recommendations for the ongoing research and stewardship of Sable Island.

Professor William Freedman, former head of Dalhousie University’s Biology Department, chaired the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Board of Directors, in addition to being an active member of the Tree Canada Foundation. Awarded the Canadian Geographic Society’s Gold Medal Environment Award, he is the author of several books, including Environmental Science, and Ecology: a Canadian Context, in addition to being the editor of Encyclopedia of Endangered Species.

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Wildflowers of New Brunswick: Pub Date: April 2015 Field Guide Price: $34.95 Todd Boland EAN: 978-1-927099-49-0 Trim: 6 x 9 An authoritative guide to 700 species of native and introduced species of wildflowers in New Brunswick. Page tabs and icons, Format: Softcover (flexi- along with full colour photos, offers easy identification of wild bound, waterproof, durable) plants. Pages: 420 BISAC code: NAT013000 Todd Boland is the Research Horticulturist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden and one of Boulder the founding members of the Newfoundland and Labrador Wildflower Society. He lives in St.John’s, NF.

Geology of Nova Scotia: Field Guide Sandra Barr & Martha Hickman Hild A traveller’s guide to 48 sites of geologic interest in Nova Scotia. Pub Date: April 2015 Maps, GPS waypoints, and travel directions make it easy for Price: $34.95 anyone to visit breathtaking, informative locations both on and EAN: 978-1-927099-43-8 off the beaten path. Together, these sites reveal the geological Trim: 6 x 9 history of Nova Scotia. Colour photographs and accompanying Format: Flexibound descriptions capture the appeal and significance of the rocks at Pages: 272 each site. BISAC code: NAT03800, Sandra Barr is a faculty member in the Department of Earth NAT049000 and Environmental Science at Acadia University in Wolfville. She is also co-editor of Atlantic Geology, and is book editor for Boulder the Geological Association of Canada. She lives in Wolfville, NS.

Martha Hickman Hild is a member of the American Geophysical Union.

Reading Rural Landscapes Robert Sanford Pub Date: June 2015 When hiking in Maine, it’s not uncommon to encounter the Price: $19.95 unexpected—say, a square hole in the ground, or a stone wall EAN: 978-0-88448-366-3 that seems to lead nowhere. But there’s history there, if you Trim: 6 x 9 know how to read the signs. This fascinating book, shows Format: Softcover readers the signs and secrets of the past that can be found in Pages: 400 country landscapes, from hidden orchards to cellar holes. BISAC code: SCI020000, Robert Sanford is the chair of the Department of Environmental SCI030000 Science at the University of Southern Maine. He lives in Maine. Tilbury House

12 Spring 2015 Nature Antarctica Pub Date: October 2015 Arnold Zageris Price: $60.00 EAN: 978-1-55455-367-9 Breathtaking in its superlatives, Antarctica mesmerizes visitors with its compelling beauty, awe-inspiring landscapes and im- Trim: 12 1/8 x 10 5/8 posing grandeur. No continent is its equal. Antarctica has the Format: Cloth heights, the winds, the climate and the aridity. Moreover, its ev- Pages: 248 er-changing and elusive light can paint and transform the spec- BISAC code: PHOO11030, tacle with often fantastical shapes and colours. From the delicate PHO023040, SCIO26000, tingling sounds of tiny ice crystals, to the majesty of its towering TRV020000 peaks, and the ferocity of its relentless storms Antarctica ani- mates, inspires, and humbles. Comparable titles: On the Labrador Arnold Zageris, who has been travelling to Antarctica for over (978-1-55455-244-3) 13 years, equipped with his cameras – a 35mm digital, and an old 4 x 5 view camera, shares his vision with this photographic Fitzhenry & Whiteside exploration of a land that can only be called sublime. Zageris is a world traveller who currently lives in Peterborough, ON. His next journey of adventure will be to Iceland. Georgian Bay Pub Date: August 2015 A Unique North American Ecosystem Price: $50.00 Edited by Nick Eyles EAN: 978-1-55455-381-5 Trim: 11 x 8.5 Georgian Bay and its remarkable ‘30,000 Islands’ area (there is actually closer to 100,000 islands at the last count) is the most Format: Cloth extensive freshwater archipelago anywhere in the world. It is an Pages: 242 iconic waterscape and ecosystem unique in North America. Yet Bisac code SCIO20510, this iconic landscape and the story it tells of the history of our TRV006020 planet is little known to Canadians despite its proximity to the nation’s largest urban area. Comparative titles: This book brings together leading geologists, ecologists, artists Rockscapes of Georgian Bay and archeologists to tell the dramatic and so-far untold story of (978-1-55455-348-8) Georgian Bay from its earliest beginnings some 1.5 billion years ago in the aftermath of a gigantic meteorite strike when the area Fitzhenry & Whiteside was dominated by mountains as large as the Himalayas, to the first appearance of humans during the waning stages of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago when much of the area still lay buried under ice a kilometre thick. Canada Rocks Pub Date: April 2015 The Geological Journey Price: $65.00 Nick Eyles & Andrew Miall EAN: 978-1-55455-362-4 This revised edition of Canada Rocks contains major updates to Trim: 8.5 x 11 Chapter Three: The United Plates of Canada: 4 Billion years of Format: Trade Paper Tectonic activity; to Chapter Six: Building Eastern Canada; and to Pages: 560 Chapter Nine: Cool Times: the Ice Sheets Arrive. Content for all other BISAC code: SCIO31000 chapters has been reassessed and updated, but on a less significant scale. Comparable titles: Canada Rocks: The Dr. Nick Eyles is Professor of Geology at the University of Toronto’s Geological Journey Scarborough Campus. He has written several books, and numerous (978-1-55041-860-6) papers, in addition to serving as scientific consultant for the popular Fitzhenry & Whiteside CBC –TV series, The Geologic Journey.

Andrew Miall is Professor of Geology at the Geology Department, University of Toronto . 13 Spring 2015 Poetry/Drama

Earth and Heaven: An Anthology of Canadian Myth Poetry Pub Date: March 2015 Price: $16.00 Edited by Amanda Jernigan & Evan Jones EAN: 978-1-55455-376-1 Jernigan and Jones celebrate the vitality and diversity of poetry Trim: 5 ¾ x 8 ¾ inspired by, or in conversation with, myth. Looking back to the Format: Trade Paper early 20th century and forward to the contemporary, Earth and Pages: 120 Heaven gathers voices and stories as it moves through “four ages” of mythic history. Featuring poems by some of Canada’s BISAC code: POE011000 most eminent poets, this collection tells a story of its own about the stories we tell each other.

Amanda Jernigan is a writer, scholar, editor and teacher. She resides in Hamilton, Ontario. Red Deer Press Evan Jones is the author of two collections of poetry: Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award; and Paralogues (2012). He lives and teaches in the U.K.

A Hamburger in a Gallery Pub Date: March 2015 Stuart Ross Price: $19.95 (PB) $32.95(HC) Stuart Ross’s eighth collection delivers a gallery of emotionally EAN: 978-1-927599-33-4 (PB) charged poetry experiments along with a series of philosoph- 978-1-927599-34-1 (HC) ical meditations on the aesthetically contrived and sometimes Trim: 5 ¾ x 8 ¾ downright quirky processes followed to generate the poems in this book. A Hamburger in a Gallery provides an utterly distinc- Format: Hardcover and tive experience of the relationship between the finished poem Trade Paper and the process that informed its creation. Pages: 132 BISAC code: POEO11000 Stuart Ross is one of the foremost writers of surrealist verse in Canada and one of the funniest poets. He lives in Toronto.

DC Books

Brickle, Nish, And Knobbly: Pub Date: May 2015 A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow Price: $21.95 Marlene Creates EAN: 978-1-927099-65-0 Trim: 6 x 9 This is an adaptation from Creates’s award-winning video, Format: Hardcover featuring a series of photographs and prose poems observing a river’s seasonal changes recorded through 80 named varieties of Pages: 120 ice, snow, and winter weather in the Newfoundland dialect. The BISAC code: POE023030, terms are precise, practical, evocative, sonic, and lyrical. NAT036000, SCI042000

Marlene Creates is an environmental artist and poet who lives and works in a 6-acre patch of boreal forest in Newfoundland.

Boulder

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Pub Date: March 2015 Sidelines Price: $17.00 Peter Hrastovec EAN: 978-0-88753-545-1 This is a down-to-earth poetry book straight from the mind of a Trim: 6 x 9 busy professional. Hrastovec is a lawyer, poet, father, community Format: Trade Paper leader, and occasional stage actor. His poems record time and Pages: 128 prominent people both historical and contemporary who have BISAC code: POE011000 had a significant impact on Canadian culture, people such as Comparable titles: In Lieu of Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, and Irving Layton. Flowers (978-0-88753-514-7) Peter Hrastovec grew up in Windsor, Ontario and still resides. His first book of poetry was, In Lieu of Flowers (2012).

Black Moss Press

Three Plays: Pub Date: May 2015 If Jesus Met Nanabush, the Tommy Prince Story, Price: $22.95 Manitoulin Incident EAN: 978-1-92708-332-1 Alanis King Trim: 6 x 9 If Jesus Met Nanabush, When Jesus disappears from the bible as Format: Trade Paper a young man, he emerges here, in Canada during the turbulent Pages: 192 1970s.The first person he meets up with is trickster Nanabush, the BISAC code: DRA013000 great Anishinaabe impersonation of life. Together the two make Comparable Titles: an odd cosmological couple. Nanabush is earthy, irascible, hard- drinking. Jesus is formal, a little naïve and a whole lot introverted. The Rez Sisters Yet as they adventure through downtown streets and bars and (978-0-92007-944-7); Toronto bus depots, the reader will discover that the two are not all that at Dreamer’s Rock different after all. *cover not final * (978-1-89725-270-3) The Tommy Prince Story, a poignant drama about one of Canada’s

Fifth House Publishers most decorated Native war veterans; The Manitoulin Incident, profiles the history behind the rights erosion that sparked a pivotal moment in the defence of Canadian Native rights.

Playwight and director Alanis King is a major force in Canadian and native drama. She was the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from the National Theatre School of Canada. She has been Artistic Director and Festival Director for many festivals and theatres. Alanis lives in Ottawa.

Tartuffe: Pub Date: March 2015 A Newfoundland Adaptation Price: $19.95 EAN: 978-1-92709-946-9 Andy Jones Trim: 6 x 9 Molière’s comedy classic is ingeniously re-imagined in Andy Format: Trade Paper Jones’ hilarious adaptation, set in 1930s Newfoundland. Jones’ Pages: 120 Tartuffe, set in the home of a wealthy fish merchant on the South BISAC code: DRAO13000 Coast of Newfoundland, is a blazingly funny exploration of religious hypocrisy, with a unique Newfoundland twist.

Boulder Performer, writer, Andy Jones is a former member of the CODCO comedy troupe. He lives in Newfoundland. 15 Spring 2015 Lifestyle

A Turkish Cookbook Pub Date: June 2015 Arto der Haroutunian Price: $29.95 This lovingly written recipe book is packed with traditional EAN: 978-1-90980-824-9 stories, poems and sayings. Arto der Haroutunian brings to life Trim: 6 x 9 the ancient culinary traditions of this huge and varied country. Format: Trade Paper You can recreate the wonderful fish and seafood dishes, the exotic Pages: 176 oriental pastries, experiment with different types of kebabs or BISAC code: CKB084000 prepare a selection of meze. At once a practical cookbook and a fascinating read, A Turkish Cookbook is a splendid introduction to one of the world’s great cuisines.

Arto der Haroutunian was born in Aleppo, Syria and grew Grub Street up England where he opened the first Armenian restaurant in Manchester which eventually became a successful chain of six restaurants and two hotels. He died in 1987 at the untimely age of 47. He is survived by his wife and son who still live in Manchester.

Edible Herbs and Wild Plants Pub Date: May 2015 Pamela Michael Price: $29.95 EAN: 978-1-90980-823-2 Edible Wild Plants and Herbs is both a cookbook and field guide Trim: 6 x 9 to the identification and use of foodstuffs from the wild. The book is exquisitely and lavishly illustrated with detailed full- Format: Trade Paper colour paintings by Christabel King, chief botanical artist at Pages: 224 Kew Gardens. There are almost 400 recipes covering nearly 100 BISAC code: CBKO39000 different plant varieties. In addition there is a calendar indicating what plants to look for at each season of the year, information on where the plants are found and how to identify them.

Pamela Michael was born and brought up in London, but Grub Street during the Second World War she worked on a Cornish farm, which inspired her with a lasting love of the country.

Best Salads Ever:

Recipes For Sensational Salads All Year Long Pub Date: July 2015 Sonja Bock & Tina Scheftelowitz Price: $29.95 Salads used to be thought of only as summer food but this EAN: 978-1-90980-833-1 new and beautifully illustrated book shows that it is easy to be Trim: 240 x 170mm creative with salads all year round. This is a great book to have in Format: Paperback; full- your kitchen it has the standard salad classics but also new ideas. colour throughout It is an inspiring book that extols the salad as a satisfying meal, Pages: 176 which excites the eye, delights the taste buds, and fulfills today’s drive to eat more healthily.

Best Salads Ever is translated from Danish and is a best-selling title in Denmark where it has sold 83,000 copies. Grub Street

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Pub Date: July 2015 Marguerite Patten’s Century of British Cooking Price: $29.95 Marguerite Patten EAN: 978-1-910690-05-5 Trim: 240 x 185mm Format: Paperback; full- 2015 is the year the redoubtable Marguerite Patten celebrates colour throughout her 100th birthday. In this book each chapter covers one Pages: 336 decade of the 20th century giving both history and recipes. *cover not final * The entire book is illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.

Marguerite Patten has written over 160 cookery books, sales of which amount to over 16 million worldwide. Her long and Grub Street distinguished career, which began before the war, has included regular appearances on radio and television, live and televised cookery demonstrations, lectures as well as extensive journal- ism and authorship of books and cookery cards.

English Puddings Pub Date: April 2015 Sweet and Savoury Price: $29.95 EAN: : 978-1-90916-623-3 Mary Norwak Trim: 198 x 129mm This delightful book offers a fascinating insight into the story Format: Hardcover; full- of the pudding from its birth to the final bake. It is organised colour throughout by pudding type ranging from: Jellies, Blancmanges and Pages: 320 Flummeries, to Dumplings, Pies and Tarts.

This book both redefines and revives a culture of hearty, unfussy plates of delicious slow cooked stewed meats and gently poached seasonal fruits.

Grub Street Mary Norwak was a food writer for many years, and wrote more than 100 cookery books. She contributed to many news- papers and magazines.

The Best of Jane Grigson: The Enjoyment of Food Pub Date: June 2015 Introduction by Elizabeth David Price: $36.95 EAN: 978-1-90980-828-7 Trim: 210 x 135mm With a delightful introduction by her friend, and the equally Format: remarkable Elizabeth David, this book is a staple for every Pages: 360 cook. Published to coincide with the anniversary of 25 years since Jane’s untimely death, the book is organised into regional cuisines from across the globe including: the Americas, the Mediterranean, the Europeans, India and the Far East and contains sections entitled ‘At Home in England’ and ‘At Home in France’; both places close to Jane’s heart.

Grub Street This collection of her best and most-loved recipes, with her introductions, anecdotes, quotations and poems, is a fitting tribute, not only to her culinary and literary skills, but also to the warmth, wit and intelligence that shines through all her books. 17 Spring 2015 Lifestyle

Vitally Vegetarian Pub Date: July 2015 Tina Scheftelowitz & Christine Bille Nielsen Price: $29.95 *cover not final * EAN: 978-1-910690-04-8 The book includes more than 100 recipes for everyday meals Trim: 250 x 246mm as well as for entertaining and is suitable for beginners as well Format: Paperback; full- as established vegetarians. It also includes an introduction on how to obtain the right combination of ingredients to ensure folour throughout balanced, healthy nutrition. The recipes are a combination of Pages: 236 the traditional, exotic and Mediterranean. This is quite simply a fantastic book with stunning photographs which will appeal to all- vegetarians as well as meat-eaters, both adults and children.

Tina Scheftelowitz is a highly successful cookery writer and food columnist. Grub Street

Christine Bille Nielsen is a chef, nutritionist, food journalist and lecturer. She has worked as a chef in the Michelin-starred restaurant, EraOra in Copenhagen.

Vegetarian Cooking Step by Step Pub Date: June 2015 Lena Tritto Price: $29.95 EAN: 978-1-910690-03-1 Through more than 500 step-by-step photos, this cookbook Trim: 240 x 195mm *cover not final * explains the basic techniques of vegetarian cuisine and contains some its best recipes. The book is divided into four Format: Paperback with sections: on cereals, vegetables, tofu, seitan and tempeh, and flaps nuts and seeds. Each section opens with an introduction to the Pages: 224 characteristics, properties and uses of the ingredients.

This is an ideal book for novice cooks who want to see recipes visually laid out by the step-by-step techniques for every stage of preparation and will be especially useful to students about to embark on their first tentative attempts at cooking away from Grub Street home.

Lena Tritto is a cookery teacher and a graduate in Chinese medicine from the Tao School in Bologna. She provides classes for cooks and kitchen staff of nurseries and preschools in Reggio Emilia.

18 Spring 2015 Lifestyle Meat Man: An Insider’s History of Toronto’s

Pub Date: March 2015 Greatest Restaurants Price: $27.95 Ronald Chapchuk EAN: 978-1-77161-127-5 Meat Man: An Insider’s History of Toronto’s Greatest Restaurants Trim: 8.5 x 10 is a one-of-a-kind look at Toronto’s legendary restaurants, Format: Paperback with steakhouses and hotels.Chronicling the culinary history of the illustrations; 120 photos city’s top eateries, Meat Man includes thoughtful and entertaining b & w memories, anecdotes and reminiscences that are both insightful and entirely unique. Including chapters on the city’s best delis, Pages: 160 steakhouses, high-end pubs and early Chinatown, Meat Man BISAC code: TRVO22000 also contains detailed sections on the “Jewels” and “Gems” of Comparable titles: dining out in the city. The Man Who Ate Toronto (978-1-55199-025-5); Meat Ronald Chapchuk has been one the major meat suppliers to London (978-1-55002-393-0) Toronto’s top restaurants, hotels and steakhouses for over forty years. Born and raised in Toronto, Chapchuk now lives in Mosaic Press Oakville, Ontario.

I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better Pub Date: April 2015 Monica Heisey Price: $24.95 EAN: 978-0-88995-535-6 I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better is a hilarious collection of stories, Trim: 6 x 9 essays, advice and drawings from writer and comedian Format:Trade Paper with Monica Heisey. Based on her popular online advice column flaps and illustrations on SheDoestheCity.com, “The Grown-Ass Woman’s Guide,” Pages: 220 the book covers what’s truly important in life, from sexy selfie poses to workplace politics, from how to make your apartment BISAC code: SOCO22000, look like you read design blogs to where to cry in public. Funny, SOCO28000 smart and charming, this book makes it easy to see why Monica counts Lena Dunham and Rob Delaney among her fans. Red Deer Press *cover not final * Monica Heisey is a writer and comedian from Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Playboy, The Hairpin, Reader’s Digest, the Huffington Post, FASHION.com, and SheDoestheCity.com, among others. She lives in Toronto.

Pub Date: Available now Heritage Furnishings of Atlantic Canada Price: $39.95 Henry & Barbara Dobson EAN: 978-1-55082-348-6 Heritage Furnishings of Atlantic Canada is a story in pictures of Trim: 8 x 10 good taste prevailing. Chronicling the remarkable achievement Format: Hardcover of a ‘school’ of furniture, makers who rose to prominence in Pages: 320 the Rgency period of the early 19th century. Adapting the BISAC code: ANTO54000; classical tenets of contemporary British furniture making, ANTO17000 these cabinetmakers from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island produced an elegant body of work unri- valed in Canadian furniture making history, with pieces now avidly sought at auction and displayed in museums. This book Distribution: Quarry is the authoritative catalogue raisonne of this body of work. Heritage Books Henry and Barbara Dobson are renowned antique collectors and dealers. They live in Southwestern Ontario, on the banks of the Nith River near Drumbo, Ontario.

19 Spring 2015 Language

The Art of Being Brilliant Pub Date: April 2015 Andy Cope, Chris Henley, Gary Toward Price: $18.95 EAN: 978-1-84590-940-6 (The Art of Being a Brilliant An inspiring, engaging and informative new series that shows NQT) you how to transform your practice and become – quite simply 978-1-84590-941-3 (The Art – brilliant. The series is based on Andy’s research into positive of Being a Brilliant Teacher) psychology and the science of happiness. Trim: 5 x 8 Format: Trade Paper Chris Henley and Gary Toward are teachers, trainers, and Pages: 220 motivational speakers with over 35 years’ experience in the BISAC code: EDUO29000, education field. Andy Cope, author of the famous Spy Dog EDUO32000 books, is the developer of the Art of Being Brilliant self/help motivational books. All three authors live in the UK. Comparable titles: How to be an Amazing Teacher (978-1-84590-442-5)

Crown House Publishing

Learning with E’s: Pub Date: April 2015 Educational Theory and Practice in the Digital Age Price: $39.95 Steve Wheeler EAN: 978-1-84590-939-0 Trim: 6.5 x 9 Grounded in research and pedagogical theory, the book explores Format: Paperback the practical ways that technology is influencing learning, and Pages: 232 looks toward emerging trends to determine how these might BISAC code: EDUO39000 shape the future of education. Educators who read this book Comparable titles: will be inspired by some of the new ways learning is already Freaked Out being revolutionised through the use of new and emerging (978-1-78135-105-5) technologies. Learning with ‘e’s is not your ordinary education tome. Crown House Publishing Steve Wheeler has spent his entire career working in educational technology. He is currently Associate Professor of Learning Technology at Plymouth University. He lives in Plymouth. Pub Date: March 2015 Price: $22.95 The Kodansha Kanji Usage Guide: EAN: 978-1-56836-559-6 An A to Z of Kun Homophones Trim: 5 x 7.5 Jack Halpern Format: Paperback; This is the first-ever guide to the usage of native-Japanese 2 indexes words (as opposed to words borrowed from Chinese) that are Pages: 352 pronounced similarly but written differently, and that usually BISAC code: FORO14000 differ in meaning as well. With The Kodansha Kanji Usage Guide, Comparable titles: learners will have complete access to more than 700 articles that clearly demonstrate the differences in meaning and usage. Wadaiko: An Introduction to the Sounds and Rhythms of Jack Halpern is the CEO of The CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) Japanese in Japan. A lexicographer by profession, Halpern is a best-selling (978-1-56836-558-9) author. He lives in Japan. Kodansha

20 Spring 2015 Language Wadaiko: Pub Date: March 2015 An Introduction to the Sounds and Rhythms of Price: $19.95 Japanese EAN: 978-1-56836-558-9 Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT) Trim: 7-1/8 x 10-1/8 Wadaiko immerses students in the sounds and rhythms of Format: Paperback; approx the Japanese language through songs, poetry, tongue twisters 150 illus. and photos and other word games. The purpose is to get learners to “feel” Pages: 64 Japanese, to absorb it with their ears, without being expected to understand it all. There are exercises and questions, quizzes, and

Comparable titles: other interactive features. A free CD contains audio of Japanese folk songs that students can sing along with. Fun Learning Activities for Foreign Languages The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT) is (978-1-84590-892-8) a nonprofit organization established to meet the practical needs Kodansha of people who are not necessarily specialists on Japan but who wish to communicate effectively in Japanese.

The Case for Intercultural Education in a Pub Date: June 2014 Multicultural World Price: $29.95 Essays by Jagdish Gundara EAN: 978-0-88962-936-3 Trim: 6 x 9 Format: Trade Paper This volume brings together many of Professor Gundara’s Pages: 220 essays and contribution to the evolving international field of BISAC code: EDUO48000 intercultural education.

Comparable titles: For many years now, Professor Gundara has been at the fore- Challenges of Student front in both the research on and debate about intercultural Diversity education. He has argued that within the field of education (978-1-55041-977-1) there is an urgent problem to address intercultural challenges in more and more complex multicultural societies, because Mosaic Press globalization and the marginalization of groups is increasing the pressure to deny access for educational opportunities to the poorer social classes and different types of minorities.

Professor Jagdish Gundara holds the UNSECO Chair in Intercultural Studies at the Institute of Education at the University of London.

21 Spring 2015 Health

Losing Sight Pub Date: April 2015 Joanie O’Neill Price: $22.95 EAN: 978-1-937054-40-3 It’s known as the silent menace lurking in the dark for Baby Boomers — a thief ready to steal one’s retirement years away. Trim: 6 x 7 More than 7.3 million Americans have it. More than 200,000 Format: Trade paper Baby Boomers will get it this year... and in greater numbers Pages: 200 in the years to come. It’s known as macular-degeneration—an BISAC code: HEAO37000 insidious age-related disease of the eye. When Joanie O’Neill was diagnosed with it, like many, she thought she could adjust: it only took one eye in the beginning after all... Comparable titles: AMD Age Related Macular Joanie O’Neill is a poet and writer. She has had macular- Degeneration degeneration for more than a decade. This is her first book. (2923830016)

The RoadRunner Press

Letters to a New Nurse Pub Date: April 2015 Price: $19.95 U.S. Nurses EAN: 978-1-937054-35-9 Trim: 6 x 6 Format: Hardcover Seasoned nursing professionals working in a variety of nursing positions share their single best piece of advice for a new nurse. Pages: 160 Letters To A New Nurse—Advice From America’s Best BISAC code: MEDO5800 Nursing Professionals is packed with inspiring and useful Comparable titles: advice, making it the perfect gift for a nursing student, a new What I Wish I Knew About nursing school graduate, or a new nurse joining the ward. Nursing (0980857414)

The RoadRunner Press

22 Spring 2015 Travel

Boundless Hope: A Boy Scout’s Journey of Discovery Pub Date: May 2015 Price: $15.95 Israel Valderrama EAN: 978-1-77161-061-2 This exhilarating travel memoir takes readers through ship- Trim: 6 x 9 wrecks, border wars, snakebites and love affairs, revealing a Format: Paperback remarkable portrait of adventure that crosses ten countries in Pages: 190 the mid-1950s. BISAC code: TRVO24000; The story beings in the 1950s as Israel Valderrama, a young TRVO01000 man from a tiny village in Colombia, sets off to seek his for- tune in Medellin. Accompanied by photos documenting the Comparable titles: journey, this memoir paints a remarkable portrait of life and Cycling Home from discovery. Siberia: 30,000 miles, 3 years, 1 bicycle Israel Valderrama currently lives in Burlington, Ontario, and (978-1-45160-786-4) is an early pioneer of the Latin American community in Canada. His bicycle is now part of the Niagara Historical Mosaic Press Museum in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. He remains active in the scouts.

Make Me, Remake Me: Pub Date: April 2015 Writing Myself Across Two Continents Price: $17.00 EAN: 978-0-88753-547-5 Gillian Cott Trim: 6 x 9 A farm in the south of France, the cobblestoned streets of Paris, Format: Paperback the metro of Montreal, the anonymous vastness of New York— Pages: 128 these are some of the places that frame the adventures of Gillian BISAC code: TRVO22000, Cott, a young woman embracing the philosophy of just saying POE011000, BIO508000 “Yes!” Through turns that are both invigorating and heartbreak- ing, Make Me, Remake Me immerses the reader in a world of wineries, cafés, and dinner tables. In this unique combination of poetry and prose, experience her breakdowns and triumphs while life remakes her as it does to us all. Black Moss Press Gillian Cott is a writer, now based in Victoria B. C., but grew up in Windsor, Ontario. She studied English Literature at the University of Windsor. She spent six months in France living in Burgundy, and her book is based partly on those experiences as well as her other travel adventures.

23 Spring 2015 Travel

The Roar of the Sea Pub Date: June 2015 Frank Leaman Price:$34.95 Nova Scotia’s maritime heritage is brought to life in the story of EAN: 978-1-92709-944-5 an adventurer who traveled the world on an epic solo voyage Trim size 5.5” x 8.5” in a 23-foot sailboat in the 1930s. With only his dog, Togo, as a Format: Softcover companion, Captain William Crowell overcame the challenges Pages: xxx of an unforgiving ocean.

Decades later, his grandson Frank Leaman helped him tell the story of his travels. The Roar of the Sea explores not only his family’s history, but also Nova Scotia’s seafaring heritage. Af- ter the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax included Captain Crowell’s solo voyage as part of its permanent Days of Sail exhibit, Frank continued to gather Crowell family history Boulder and dig deeper into his grandfather’s life. Together with Allison Lawlor, Frank has created a story that weaves Captain Crowell’s life into his family’s Loyalist roots and personal reflections.

Port Abundance: A Voyage of Self Discovery Pub Date: March 2015 Price: $21.95 JF Tallon EAN: 978-1-77161-109-1 Port Abundance is JF Tallon’s life voyage account of the journey Trim: 6 x 9 across the unseen hidden seas of life in search of Self- Format: Realization. The narrative is based upon the author’s personal Pages: 204 life experiences. The vivid and exciting story is based in Kerry, BISAC code: BIO026000 in South West Ireland, and culminates in an exciting rescue at sea when Eve and Noah are stranded on the island of Skelig Comparable titles: The Monk Michael, an isolated monastic settlement seven miles off the Who Sold His Ferrari: A Kerry Coast. Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your JF Tallon lives in his own Port Abundance in beautiful Destiny (978-1-77161-109-1) Glandore in SW Ireland.

Mosaic Press

A Sketch of Venetian History: Pub Date: May 2015 An Illustrated Story Price: $21.95 Sarah Pierroz EAN: 978-1-77161-064-3 Accompanied by beautiful and fantastical hand-drawn illustra- Trim: 11 x 8.5 tions, A Sketch of Venetian History tells the story of the rich and Format: Trade Paper fascinating history of Venice that will serve as the perfect travel Pages: 176 companion for anyone visiting the historic Italian city. BISAC code: HISO20000 Comparable titles: Featuring original, hand-drawn, black and white illustrations to complement details of the Republic’s extensive past, A Sketch of Venice Revealed Venetian History tells a beautiful story to accompany anyone’s (978-0-28563-635-4) journey to Venice, and serves as a beautiful souvenir. Mosaic Press Sarah Pierroz teaches Visual Art and Environmental Science at United World College of the Adriatic, just 40 km north of the Venetian lagoon. Originally Canadian, she holds an interdisci- plinary Bachelor of Arts & Science from McMaster University, and studied Visual Arts Education at Queen’s University. 24 Spring 2015 Sports Immaculate: Pub Date: May 2015 A History of Perfect Innings in Baseball Price: $20.99 Dr. John Cairney EAN: 978-1-77161-115-2 Trim: 6 x 9 In Immaculate, Cairney provides a short history of perfect Format: Paperback innings through the stories of the pitchers who pitched them. Pages: 190 Beginning with a brief overview of the numbers, the remaining BISAC code: SPO003030 chapters, one for each immaculate inning on record in major Comparable titles: baseball, provides insight into the men, their careers and details 27 Men Out: Baseball’s of the inning itself, from the first recorded perfect inning in 1889 Perfect Games to the most recent string of innings last MLB season in 2014. (978-0-74344-607-5) Mosaic Press Dr. John Cairney is currently the Director of the Infant and Child Health (INCH) Research Lab at McMaster, and President of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology (CAPE).

Sunday with the Tigers:

Pub Date: April 2015 Eleven Ways to Watch a Game Price: $17.00 Dale Jacobs EAN: 978-0-88753-546-8 Sunday with the Tigers is an in-depth exploration of a single Trim: 6 x 9 baseball game. The collection provides a detailed look at the ex- Format: Trade Paper perience of attending, watching and sharing a game. Baseball isn’t just a game, it’s an experience. Sunday with the Tigers not Pages: 128 only explores the game of baseball but also the city of Detroit, BISAC code: SPO003020 the ups and downs of fandom, the sights and sounds of the ball- park, and the genesis of a long lasting friendship.

Dale Jacobs teaches Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Windsor, Ontario. As a longtime fan of both baseball and nonfiction, Dale is proud to be able to bring together Black Moss Press this collection of diverse perspectives on a favourite sport.

The Boxing Medal

Pub Date: May 2015 N.N. Schneidman Price: $19.95 The story of a survivor of the Vilnius Ghetto, and the most EAN: 978-1-77161-118-3 unlikely story of the rediscovery of a relic from his past—a Trim: 6 x 9 sports medal awarded to him in May 1943 for his participation Format: Paperback in a boxing competition which took place in the Vilnius Pages: 190 Ghetto under Nazi control. One late fall day, November 26th, 2006, two Lithuanian friends of Professor Shneidman, went out BISAC code: SPO0008000; with metal detectors to seek hidden metal objects in a BIO006510 Lithuanian forest, when they found a medallion with a date—18 May 1943.What was it? What was its history? What piece of for- Comparable titles: gotten and obscure history would it reveal? Found in Canada, Three Tragic Heroes of the the return of the medal to its owner is also part of The Boxing Vilnius Ghetto Medal story. (978-0-88962-785-7) N.N. Schneidman is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mosaic Press Russian Literature at the University of Toronto and the author of numerous books.

25 Spring 2015 Fiction

The Inheritor Pub Date: March 2015 Paul Almond Price: $19.95 EAN: 978-0-88995-526-4 This last novel in the Alford Saga is a stand-alone Trim: 6 x 9 autobiographical roman a clef about the remarkable life, loves, Format: Trade Paper agonies, achievements and awards of Canada’s prestigious Pages: 262 movie producer, director, and entrepreneur. BISAC code: FICO08000; FICO41000 Paul Almond gave up making films in 1990 after open-heart surgery. He took a UCLA course in novel writing and began to Comparable titles: write his eight-part saga about the Alford family soon thereaf- Way We Lived Then ter. Almond plans to retire in 2015, when he turns eighty-four. (06099603884); Ride the Tiger (1451510187)

Red Deer Press

A Murder’s Coming Pub Date: May 2015 James Powell Price: $14.99 The fourth volume in Mosaic Press’s Dime Crime series, brings EAN: 978-1-77161-133-6 together some of the greatest stories from a legend of short Trim: 5.5 x 8.5 crime fiction, James Powell. A master stylist and an ingenious Format: Paperback plot maker, Powell is relentlessly logical, often hilarious, and Pages: 142 swift. Included here are some of Powell’s greatest, and award winning, stories, including those featured in Playboy and BISAC code: FICO22010 every major mystery magazine. Classic stories like “A Dirge for Comparable titles: Clowntown” which won the Ellery Queen Readers’ Award and Valentine for a Dead Lady “Bottom Walker,” which won the Arthur Ellis Award. (978-1-77161-070-4)

James Powell is one the most highly regarded writers of short crime fiction. He has been published in Ellery Queen, Alfred Mosaic Press Hitchcock’s Mystery and Playboy. He is a multi-Arthur Award nominee, winner of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award and co-recipient of the CWC’s Derrick Murdoch Award in 1992.

This One’s Trouble

Peter Sellers Pub Date: May 2015 This One’s Trouble, the third volume in Mosaic Press’s Dime Price: $14.99 Crime series offers a collection of some of the best hard-hitting EAN: 978-1-77161-124-4 crime stories from acclaimed writer Peter Sellers. Hailed as Trim: 5.5 x 8.5 “one of the key figures in the Canadian mystery renaissance” Format: Paperback in the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Peter Sellers’ entertaining and offbeat crime fiction stories have appeared in Pages: 142 every major mystery magazine including Mike Shayne Mys- BISAC code: FICO22010 tery, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery and Hardboiled. Comparable titles: Songs in the Key of Death Peter Sellers’ stories have appeared in every major mystery (978-1-77161-073-5) magazine and numerous crime anthologies. He received the Derrick Murdoch Award in 1992. Mosaic Press

26 Spring 2015 Fiction

Pub Date: May 2015 The Vampires of Ciudad Juarez Price: $22.00 Book One of a Trilogy! EAN: 978-1-77161-130-5 Clanash Farjeon Trim: 6 x 9 It starts in El Paso, one morning at dawn, when Michael Format: Trade Paperback Davenport absent-mindedly crosses the shallow Rio Grande Pages: 240 river while trying to film an enormous white Siberian tiger. He inadvertently enters Juarez. His misadventure begins and BISAC code: FICO15000 it propels him into the very seedy side of Juarez, as he explores Comparable titles: the epicenter of the drug trade, its operations, and its bloody Autobiography of Jack the and bizarre characters. Fast paced, vivid, gothic, full of twists Ripper (978-0-88962-997-4) and turns...

Clanash Farjeon is the nom-de-plume of the well-known Mosaic Press Canadian actor, director and author, Alan Scarfe. His previous novel is The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper - A Handbook for Attenmdants on the Criminally Insane published in 2014.

Wrestling with Gods Pub Date: March 2015 Price: $15.95 Liana Kerzner & Jerome Stueart, editors EAN: 978-1-77053-068-3 Trim: 5.5 x 8.5 The Tesseracts Eighteen anthology is filled with speculative Format: Paperback offerings that give readers a chance to see faith from both the Pages: 280 believer and the skeptic point-of-view in worlds where what you BISAC code: FIC028040, believe is a matter of life, death, and afterlife. FIC009040 Featuring works by: Derwin Mak, Robert J. Sawyer, Tony Pi, S. Comparable titles: L. Nickerson, Janet K. Nicolson, John Park, Mary-Jean Harris, Tesseracts series; David Clink, Mary Pletsch, Jennifer Rahn, Alyxandra Harvey, Tesseracts Seventeen Halli Lilburn, John Bell, David Jón Fuller, Carla Richards, Mat- (978-1-77053-044-7) thew Hughes, J. M. Frey, Steve Stanton, Erling Friis-Baastad, James Bambury, Savithri Machiraju, Jen Laface and Andrew Edge Books Czarnietzki, David Fraser, Suzanne M. McNabb, and Megan Fennell.

Professor Challenger: Pub Date: August 2015 New Worlds, Lost Places Price: $15.95 Edited by J.R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec EAN: 978-1-77053-052-2 This original anthology, from the authors and editors who Trim: 5.5 x 8.5 brought you the Gaslight Sherlock Holmes series, sees Format: Trade Paper Challenger and his stalwart companions including the reporter Pages: 272 Malone, big game hunter Lord John Roxton and the skeptical BISAC code: FICO22520 colleague Professor Summerlee, travel across space and witness the ravages of time. Strap yourself in for chills, thrills, and chal- Comparable titles: lenges to the unknown in exciting new worlds and lost places Gaslight Arcanum with literature’s foremost scientific adventurer. (978-1-89406-360-9); Eye of Osiris (1502823497) J. R. Campbell’s fiction has appeared in a wide variety of Edge Books publications. He lives in Calgary.

An active Sherlockian for more than 20 years with The Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen, Charles Prepolec has contributed articles to many magazines. He lives in Calgary with his family. 27 Spring 2015 Fiction

Clockwork Secrets: Box set Pub Date: Spring 2015 Price: $xx.xx Dru Pagliassotti EAN: 978-1-77053-076-8 Trim: 6 x 9 x 2 1/5 Framed for regicide and trapped on a ship crippled by enemy Format: Boxed set fi re, Taya and Ondinium’s diplomatic contingent seem helpless BISAC code: FICO28050, to prevent the well-engineered war their enemies have put into FICO9020 motion. While Alzanan and Demican armies march across Ondinium’s borders, Taya and her husband fight airborne Comparable titles: battles from the tropical islands of the Cabisi Thassalocracy Clockwork Heart to the war-ravaged mountains of Alzana. When Taya falls into (1770530266), Clockwork her enemy’s hands, she fears that nobody will be able to save Lies (1770530509), Ondinium from the devastating weapon about to be plunged into its mechanically ticking heart. Clockwork Secrets (1770530541) Dru Pagliassotti is a professor of communication at California Lutheran University, where she teaches media theory and practice. She published and edited The Harrow, an online Edge Books literary magazine for fantasy and horror, from 1998 to 2009. As a long-time roleplayer, Dru worked at About.Com’s Guide to roleplaying games from 1998 to 2001, writing weekly columns about roleplaying and reviewing hundreds of RPG systems and supplements; she had a brief appearance in About.Com’s very fi rst commercial, dressed as a swordswoman in a black doublet and pantaloons. Her martial arts training in judo, ju-jitsu, and aikido comes in handy when writing fi ght scenes.

Expiration Date Nancy Kilpatrick, editor

Nancy Kilpatrick has gathered together twenty-five original Pub Date: Available now stories by Kelley Armstrong; Nancy Holder & Erin Underwood; Price: $15.95 Steve and Melanie Tem; Lois Gresh; Gar and Judy Reeves- EAN: 978-1-77053-062-1 Stevens; Daniel Sernine; Paul Kane; Sephera Giron; Kathryn Trim: 5.5 x 8.5 Ptacek; Steve Vernon and others to look at the what-if’s of our Format: Trade Paper expiring future. Pages: 288 These stories span a range of emotions. Some will make you BISAC code: laugh, other will make you cry. They are grim and hopeful, sad and joyous, horrifying and comforting. You can expect to be touched in some way.

Award-winning author Nancy Kilpatrick has published eighteen novels, over one hundred and ninety short stories, five Edge Books collections of stories, and has edited nine other anthologies. Nancy won the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery story, is a three times Bram Stoker finalist and a five times finalist for the Aurora Award. 28 Spring 2015 Fiction

The Shadow Academy Pub Date: Available now Adrian Cole Price: $15.95 EAN: 978-1-77053-064-5 After the Plague Wars they waited for the invasion. And as the Trim: 5.5 x 8.5 new Dark Age dawns... there is one who can bring light. Format: Paperback Pages: 336 In a world little more than a whisper away from ours, the islands of Grand Brittannia lie just off the shores of the deeply forest- ed content of Evropa, the dark and forbidding realm of legends scarcely remembered. Out on the far-flung coasts, a network of ancient fortress ports wait in readiness for an invasion that some say will never come, their ancient, declining Academies com- mitted to the rigours of training the defenders of the Islands. Edge Books Adrian Cole’s previous works include four novels published in England by Robert Hale.

Cogwheels & Other Stories Pub Date: Available now Price: $18.95 Ryunosuke Akutagawa EAN: 978-1-77161-067-4 Translated by Howard Norman Trim: 5.5 x 8.5 Format: Paperback From the literary giant of Japan, who is often referred to as the Pages: 144 “Godfather of the Japanese short story”, and after whom the most coveted literary prize of Japan is named, the Akutagawa BISAC code: FIC0501000 Prize, comes this collection of three of his greatest short stories. Comparable titles: While he died at the young age of 35, the author penned well Acts of Worship over 150 short stories, including “Cogwheels” which he wrote just before his suicide in 1927. Accompanied by stunning (978-0870118241) woodcuts by renowned artists Naoko Matsubara, and expertly translated by Howard Norman, the three stories compiled here Mosaic Press reflect the haunting, precise and brilliant style of Akutagawa and offer a superb entry point to his work.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa was born in Tokyo in 1892 and during Taishō period became one of Japan’s most celebrated writers before his tragic suicide in 1927.

Naoko Matsubara is an internationally celebrated Japanese artist who now lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has works in numerous collections around the world including the British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Howard Norman immersed himself the literature and culture of Japan, where he spent many years of his life, before moving to Toronto, Canada.

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