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DCB CORMORANT BOOKS SPRING 2019 Table of Contents CORMORANT BOOKS ◄ NEW FOR SPRING 2019 ► CORMORANT BOOKS 1 • Heat Wave, a mystery by Maureen Jennings 2 • The Gods of East Wawanosh, poems by Marilyn Gear Pilling 3 • Claws of the Panda, by Jonathan Manthorpe 4 • The Y Chromosome, a novel by Leona Gom 5 • The Dead Celebrities Club, a novel by Susan Swan 6 • We Were Like Everyone Else, poems by Ken Victor 7 • A Canadian’s Guide to Money-Smart Living, a CPA Canada book by Kelley Keehn DCB 8 • The Magpie’s Library, a middle grade novel by Kate Blair 9 • Shantallow, a young adult novel by Cara Martin ◄ PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TITLES ► 10-11 ◄ FALL 2018 TITLES ► 11-12 ◄ THE MARROW THIEVES ► 13 ◄ FOR SCHOOLS ► 14-19 ◄ ESSENTIAL BACKLIST ► 20-21 ◄ COMPLETE TITLE LISTINGS ► 22-23 • Cormorant Books Titles in Print 23 • DCB Titles in Print 24-25 • Cormorant Books & DCB Author Index Sales Representation & Ordering Information* ATLANTIC CANADA, OTTAWA & E ONTARIO, MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN TORONTO (GIFT) Rorie Bruce • [email protected] Laurie Martella • [email protected] P: 204-488-9481 • F: 204-487-3993 P: 416-461-7973 • Toll-free: 1-855-444-0770 x2 • F: 416-461-0365 BRITISH COLUMBIA, ALBERTA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, YUKON QUEBEC Heather Read • [email protected] Karen Stacey • [email protected] P: 250-532-3976 • F: 250-984-7631 P: 514-704-3626 • F: 1-800-596-8496 Louis-Marc Simard • [email protected] DIRECT ORDERING P: 514-239-3594 • F: 1-800-596-8496 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS 5201 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON, M3H 5T8 TORONTO, NORTHERN & SW ONTARIO P: 416-667-7791 • Toll Free: 800-565-9523 Roberta Samec • [email protected] F: 416-667-7832 • Toll Free: 800-221-9985 P: 416-461-7973 • Toll-free: 1-855-444-0770 x1 • F: 1-800-596-8496 [email protected] Canadian Telebook Agency Number S1150391 ACADEMIC SALES (Eastern Canada) *Cormorant’s Canadian retail customers will receive free freight on Cormorant Neil MacRae • [email protected] titles when the value of combined shipment of titles from UTP Distribution is P: 514-217-2350 • Toll-free: 1-855-444-0770 x4 • F: 1-800-596-8496 greater than $300. Fiction ● New from Cormorant Books ● Spring 2019 1 CORMORANT BOOKS Heat Wave a mystery by Maureen JENNINGS It’s July 1936, and Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. An anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, and a veteran of the First World War requests the firm’s assistance in uncovering what he believes is systematic embezzlement of the Paradise Café, which he owns and operates with three other men, all of whom were prisoners of war. The two events, although seemingly unrelated, come together in this wonderful novel that brings to life characters who are as real to the reader as those of the Murdoch series. Detective Jack Murdoch, son of the Murdoch Mysteries protagonist, features in the book. Anti-Semitism and murder in Toronto “the good” in the depths of the Great Depression provide a great historical background for this murder mystery that serves, as all Maureen Jennings books do, as a canvas for fascinating character ISBN 978-1-77086-542-6 studies. $24.95 TP • 6” x 9 ” • 336 pp Publication Date: March 2019 FIC022060 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical FIC022090 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators Maureen Jennings was born in the UK and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. She FIC022040 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths is best known for her Murdoch Mysteries series, which was adapted to film and television and translated into eight languages. She was awarded the Grant Allen Author hometown: Toronto, ON Award for contribution to her genre in 2011, and has been nominated eight times Available rights: World outside Canada; for awards from the Crime Writers of Canada. film & television, audio recording Readers’ guide available soon! 2 Spring 2019 ● New from Cormorant Books ● Poetry CORMORANT BOOKS THE GODS OF East Wawanosh poems by Marilyn Gear PILLING Bearing witness to the complexities of living, Marilyn Gear Pilling’s sixth po- etry collection, The Gods of East Wawanosh, meditates on our mortality and the light in which it casts both our longing for the ideal and our embrace of the real. The first part of the collection documents scenes in the life of a Huron Coun- ty family still in thrall to the ancestral farm. Life unfolds in a series of mo- ments as the continuity of generations, family hopes, conflicts and tragedies are lived out in a setting that “both shattered and held together” their world. In the second part, Pilling assumes the role of observer and listener, recording voices of others whose paths have crossed hers — neighbours, new immi- grants, people encountered while travelling — as they relate stories of danger ISBN 978-1-77086-546-4 and escape, of extremity, of personal circumstance and cultural obligation. $18.95 TP • 5.5” x 8.5” • 72 pp Through this collection, Pilling honours life in a fundamental way — by Publication Date: March 2019 paying attention to it. POE023050 POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family POE011000 POETRY / Canadian POE000000 POETRY / General Author hometown: Hamilton, ON Available rights: World outside Canada Marilyn Gear Pilling lives in Hamilton, Ontario, although her roots are in the East Wawanosh area of Huron County, which has been a powerful Similar Title: presence in her life and work. She is the author of three collections of short fiction (most recently On Huron’s Shore, 2014), five collections of poetry, and one chapbook, Estrangement (2017). Pilling has won and/or placed in forty- five national contests for poetry, literary non-fiction and fiction, including the CBC literary awards, the Western Magazine Awards and Descant’s award for Best Canadian Poem. Her work has been broadcast on the CBC. 978-1-77086-262-3 A Bee Garden Marilyn Gear Pilling TP • 6” x 9” • $18.00 Non-Fiction ● New from Cormorant Books ● Spring 2019 3 CORMORANT BOOKS Claws OF THE Panda BEIJing’S CAMPAIGN OF INFLUENCE AND INTIMIDATION IN CANADA by Jonathan MANTHORPE “An important book … as compelling as it is disturbing.” — David Mulroney, author of Middle Power, Middle Kingdom, former Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Claws of the Panda tells the story of Ottawa’s failure to construct a workable policy towards the People’s Republic of China, and its failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to exert undue influence in Canadian affairs. Jonathan Manthorpe provides a detailed de- scription of the CCP’s campaign to embed agents of influence in Canadian business, politics, media, and academia. The party’s aims are to be able to turn Canadian public policy to China’s advantage, to acquire useful technol- ogy and intellectual property, to influence Canada’s international diplomacy, ISBN 978-1-77086-539-6 and, most importantly, to be able to monitor and intimidate Chinese Cana- $24.95 dians and others it considers dissidents. TP • 6” x 9” • 336 pp Publication Date: February 2019 The book traces the evolution of the Canada-China relationship for the past POL011000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / International 150 years, revealing how Canadian leaders have constantly misjudged the Relations / General reality and potential of the relationship, while more recently the CCP and its POL036000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage agents have benefited from Canadian naiveté. POL056000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian POL054000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian Author hometown: Victoria, BC Available rights: World outside Canada; film & television, audio recording Jonathan Manthorpe is the author of three books on international relations, politics, and history. He has been a foreign correspondent and international affairs columnist for nearly 40 years. He was the foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, and Europe for Southam News, the European Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, and the national political reporter for The Globe and Mail. In 1981 and 1982 he was an advisor in London to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on the patriation of the Canadian constitution. For the last few years he has been based in Victoria, British Columbia. 4 Spring 2019 ● New from Cormorant Books ● Fiction CORMORANT BOOKS THE Y chromosome a novel by Leona GOM From prizewinning novelist and poet Leona Gom comes an ironic and pro- vocative novel set in a futuristic society where women dominate and men are believed to be extinct. Bowden is a helper at Leth Hospital, struggling to settle into her relation- ship with her mate Delacour, a history professor who studies the Change — the violent time when men died out. But men are not extinct as the world believes. The few men still alive have been hidden on the northern farms, socialized into accepting their inferiority — although eighteen-year- old Daniel dreams of more. As their worlds collide and secrets are revealed, Daniel, Bowden, and Delacour must confront their deepest fears and beliefs about personhood and violence. Originally published in 1990, The Y Chromosome challenges readers to probe ISBN 978-1-77086-548-8 the lives of women and men in a society which, despite striking differences, $19.95 bears many similarities to our world today. TP • 6” x 9” • 256 pp Publication Date: May 2019 FIC019000 FICTION / Literary FIC037000 FICTION / Political FIC055000 FICTION / Dystopian Author hometown: Whiterock, BC Available rights: World outside Canada; film Leona Gom is a poet and novelist from the north Peace River district of & television, audio recording Alberta. She received her B.Ed. and M.A. from the University of Alberta. She has published six books of poetry and eight novels. In 1980, she won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Land of the Peace and in 1986, she won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Housebroken.