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Forthcoming / 4 Recently Released / 10 Notable Poetry / 16 Notable Fiction / 18 Ravenstone / 20 Recent Backlist / 22 Ordering / 23 4 / FORTHCOMING / FICTION YAMS DO NOT EXIST by Garry Thomas Morse

Short-Fiction 9780888016775 / $19.00 Trade Paperback, 5.5” X 8.5” / 200 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

September, 2019

Farinata Feck, a poet of mixed heritage, is a man of many appetites; yet he is most consumed by the search to find his romantic ideal. Yo-yoing between Regina and Winnipeg, Farinata crosses paths with colonial ghosts, cosplay enthusiasts, a Faulknerian gossip, a rogue tree-cop, and a sweet potato activist. With equal parts playfulness and decadence, Garry Thomas Morse renders the Beckettish adventures of the lovelorn libertine with hypnotic surrealism. A dizzying display of literary opulence and allusion, Yams Do Not Exist finds footholds in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, footnoting a twisting, prairie roadmap to romance, by turns hellish and sublime. Garry Thomas Morse Garry Thomas Morse grew up on the BC coast and now lives in Winnipeg. He has published several collections of poetry, notably Discovery Passages, about his Kwakwaka’wakw Indigenous ancestors, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Prairie Harbour, also shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award. He has twice been shortlisted for the national Re-Lit Award for fiction, and has served as the Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto and the Carol Shields Writer- in-Residence at the University of Winniepg.

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FORTHCOMING / FICTION / 5 6 / FORTHCOMING / FICTION ALL THAT BELONGS by Dora Dueck

Fiction 9780888016812 / $19.00 Trade Paperback, 5.5” X 8.5” / 225 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

September, 2019

Catherine, an archivist, has spent decades committed to conserving the pasts of others, only to find her own resurfacing on the eve of her retirement. Carefully, she mines the failing memories of her aging mother to revive a mysterious Uncle and relive the tragic downfall of her brother. Catherine remembers, and in the process, discovers darker family secrets, long silenced, and their devastating aftermath. Spanning decades between rural Alberta and Winnipeg, All That Belongs is an elegant examination of our own ephemeral histories, the consequences of religious fanaticism, and the startling familial ties—and shame—that bind us. Dora Dueck Dora Dueck is the award-winning author of numerous books, articles, and short stories. Her novel, This Hidden Thing, won the 2010 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Award for Fiction, and What You Get At Home (Turnstone Press, 2012) won the High Plains Award for Short Stories. Dueck’s novella, Mask, was also the winning entry for the 2014 Malahat Review novella contest. Dora grew up in a Mennonite community in Alberta, lived many years in Winnipeg, but currently makes her home in British Columbia. Promotional Plans Physical & digital ARCs Launches in Winnipeg and Victoria Appearances in literary festivals Advertising and review copies to literary and poetry publications Online promotion through blog tour

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What You Get at Home / 9780888014047

FORTHCOMING / FICTION / 7 8 / FORTHCOMING / FICTION COLD METAL STAIRS by Su Croll

Poetry 9780888016850 / $17.00 Trade Paperback, 5.5” X 8.5” / 125 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

October, 2019

Emerging from the expanse of bewildered mourning, Su Croll’s third collection, Cold Metal Stairs, is a timely lament for those who wander deep into the mists of failing memory, and for those who are left behind, waiting. With profound care, Croll breaks open the quiet conversations happening across the nation about dementia by bringing readers to her father’s bedside to witness his final years, months, hours, and the days that follow. Tender and aching, Croll’s verse confronts the imperfect, heart-rending act of remembering the moments, and ghosts, that linger. Su Croll Su Croll’s work has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including the Kalamalka New Writers Competition, Gerald Lampert Award, Stephan G. Stephansson Award as well as the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award. Cold Metal Stairs is her third work of poetry. She lives and writes in Edmonton.

Promotional Plans Physical & digital ARCs Launch in Edmonton Appearances in literary festivals Advertising and review copies to literary and poetry publications Online promotion through blog tour

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FORTHCOMING / POETRY / 9 Fiction / Humourous / Coming of Age / Mennonite 9780888016294 / $21.00 Trade Paperback 5.5” X 8.5” / 240 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

the greatness of this book takes it beyond the category of Men- nonite literature, beyond the regional category of prairie lit- erature, beyond the boundaries of Canadian literature. —Debra Martens

THE SALVATION OF YASCH SIEMENS by

Born “on the wrong side of the double dike” in the mythical Mennonite village of Gutenthal, Yasch Siemens seems destined for a life as a hired hand in love with the wrong girl. But all of that changes when he meets Oata Needarp. Shortlisted for both the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the Books in Canada Best First Book Award, The Salvation of Yasch Siemens is an outrageous, comic ride through Canadian literature’s most unforgettable community. Now this enduring Canadian classic is being reissued with a loving preface from the author, Armin Wiebe, and an insightful new essay from Nathan Dueck. Together they rediscover the warmth and wit in the world of Gutenthal, a profound part of Canada’s literary landscape.

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10 / RECENTLY RELEASED BESTIARY by

Poetry 9780888016690 / $17.00 Trade Paperback, 5.5” X 8.5” / 100 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

Amid hushed and howling moments, the natural bends uncanny while the extraordinary roots into the organic under Cooley’s careful eye.

COLD PRESS MOON by Dennis Cooley

Poetry 9780888016737 / $17.00 Trade Paperback, 5.5” X 8.5” / 100 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

Romantic and irreverent, playful and profound, these poems work like spells to wake the vital heart.

RECENTLY RELEASED / 11 Non-Ficiton / Travel 9780888016652 / $27.50 Trade Paperback, 6” X 9” / 200 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

MONUMENTAL Roadside Attractions and More by Meghan Kjartanson

From Flintabbaty Flonatin to Gimli’s mighty Viking, the Glenboro camel to Morden’s monstrous mosasaur, Meghan Kjartanson sets out to follow the stories of Manitoba’s many unique monuments. Featuring over 60 sites of interest, Kjartanson charts an all-ages adventure tracking prairie giants, roadside attractions, and important landmarks, including fire hydrants and golf balls, sturgeons and sunflowers, and, of course, Manitoba’s provincial “bird”—the mosquito. Explore the diverse characters and communities at the centre of Canada with this info-packed guide of hidden gems, fun facts, and larger-than-life legends and get to know Monumental Manitoba.

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12 / RECENTLY RELEASED Travel Memoir 9780888016539 / $21.00 Trade Paperback, 6” X 9” / 280 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

Highly recommended for anyone who has ever dreamed of dropping everything to experience the world beyond our borders with kids in tow. —Grant Lawrence, Adventures in Solitude

DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME One Family’s (mis)Adventures Around the World by Daria Salamon and Rob Krause

In 2015, Rob Krause and Daria Salamon sold their car, rented out their home, and packed up their two young children to embark on a 12-month journey around the world. In this dual retelling of their ambitious year away from home, Don;t Try This at Home chronicles the hilarious and sensational misadventures of a Canadian family as they travel across 15 different countries in the southern hemisphere. In an honest reflection on parenting, marriage, and living for a year on a strict budget, Krause and Salamon take readers through some of the world’s most stunning vistas while meeting the challenges of foreign customs, broken-down buses, stomach bugs, personal loss, and their often less-than-enthusiastic children.

RECENTLY RELEASED / 13 Poetry 978088801577 / $17.00 Trade Paperback, 5.5” X 8.5” / 128 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

Following Sea speaks to the listening heart. —Lorri Nielsen Glenn

FOLLOWING SEA by Lauren Carter

Spanning almost two hundred years, Following Sea finds anchor in the submerged regions of the heart. With great care, Lauren Carter wades into family histories and geography, all the while charting her own territories. Carried by the ebb and flow of language, Carter’s second collection explores issues of infertility, identity, and settler migration, offering a tender examination of home. Urgent and intimate, Following Sea leads us along the shoreline of Carter’s Manitoulin memories to show us what she has carried up from the depths.

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14 / RECENTLY RELEASED Poetry 9780888016614 / $17.00 Trade Paperback, 5.5” X 8.5” / 88 pages World Rights: Turnstone Press

From the remnants and rituals, from these “pieces that summon a whole / (hole),” these poems offer a fragile and continuous “treasure.” —Phoebe Wang

MERCY by Shirley Camia

Expanding breathlessly in the magnitude of loss, Shirley Camia’s fourth collection, Mercy, confronts despair to emerge anew with a bright offering of elegy. Beginning at her mother’s hospital bed, Camia invites readers to keep vigil while she journeys through seasons of bereavement, from the wake to the graveside, and into a year of processing, searching, and healing. Ethereal and elegant, Camia’s reflections are grounded in grief as they do the aching, earthshattering work of mourning and moving forward.

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RECENTLY RELEASED / 15 GLITTER & FALL by Di Brandt Poetry 9780888016454 / $17.00 Trade Paperback 5.5” X 8.55” / 92 pages World Rights

Short-listed: McNally Robinson Book of the Year

Di Brandt’s evocative, moving cosmology carries us along like a river. Drawing on the ancient wellspring of Daoism and fully engaged with her present, Brandt shows us with sage attention that poetic language is capable of conveying the deep measure of the spiritual. —Lillian Allen

MONTAGE FOR AN INTERSTELLAR CRY by Andrew Suknaski Poetry 9780888010483 / $6.50 Trade Paperback 5.5” X 8.5” / 85 pages World Rights

In this long poem Suknaski draws on his roots in the experimental poetry of the 60’s to produce a pyrotechnic collage to embrace an interstellar cry.

16 / NOTABLE POETRY GIMP CROW by Ken Kowal Poetry 9780888013705 / $17.00 Trade Paperback 5.5” X 8.5” / 92 pages World Rights:

Short-listed: John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer

Ken Kowal’s full-length debut is a left- handed doozer of a prairie picaresque. It’s rude, wise, sly, and sad. In pulverized rhyme and crabby free verse, Kowal sketches a tale of the eponymous mangled avian and his gals, his pals, his son. —Colin Smith

IF THERE WERE ROADS by Joanna Lilleyt Poetry 9780888016072 / $17.00 Trade Paperback 5.5” X 8.5” / 138 pages World Rights

[Lilley] has a way of taking ordinary moments and making them into something special, so that I begin to look at my own ordinary moments differently.” —Tara Borin

NOTABLE POETRY / 17 FLYING TO YELLOW by Literary Fiction 9780888012036 / $16.95 Trade Paperback 5.5” X 8.5” / 168 pages World Rights

Short-listed: McNally Robinson Book of the Year

Flying to Yellow recreates the small, yet huge world of family relationships—the nuances, the silences, the subtle exchanges between people together for the reasons that make a family— blood ties, love, necessity

MALLORY by Margaret Gunning Literary Fiction 9780888013118 / $19.95 Trade Paperback 5.5” X 8.5” / 200 pages World Rights

With humour, compassion and some fine writing, Margaret Gunning gets inside the skin of Mallory, a genius and a misfit who inhabits the raw, explosive teenage world, just under the adult radar screen, where disaster is only one misstep away.

—Sylvia Fraser, The Green Labyrinth

18 / NOTABLE FICTION MADE IN MANITOBA Short-Fiction Anthology 9780888011459 / $6.95 Mass Market Paperback 4.37” X 7” / 288 pages

The variation in the stories and the overall high quality of the collection go to show why prairie writing is as central to Canadian literature as it is to Canadian geography. —Western American Literature

BALDUR’S SONG by David Arnason Historical Fiction 9780888013736 / $19.00 Trade Paperback 5.5” X 8.5” / 242 pages World Rights

Short-listed: Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

In this modern Icelandic saga, Baldur is ­buffeted by chance and opportunity in a ­competitive, ­unforgiving new world, seeking his one true love.

NOTABLE FICTION / 19 THUNDER ROAD Book 1 of 3 by Chadwick Ginther Urban Fantasy 9780888014009 / $16.00 Trade Paperback 5” X 7.5” / 396 pages World Rights

Short-listed: Prix Aurora Award for Best Canadian Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel

[Thunder Road] blends Norse mythology into the Canadian landscape as smoothly and naturally as Joss Whedon married the Hellmouth to Southern California. —The Canadian Science Fiction Review

CROWN FIRE Book 1 of 3 by David Annandale Thriller 9780888012926 / $10.99 Mass Market Paperback 4.25” X 7” / 408 pages World Rights

David Annandale’s savvy and savage first novel announces a top new talent in thriller fiction ... it will keep aficionados reading late into the summer night. —Edmonton Journal

20 / RAVENSTONE AN ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL Book 1 of 3 by Michael Van Rooy Thirller 9780888013484 / $16.00 Trade Paperback 5” X 7.5” / 320 pages

Winner: Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author

Fast-paced, witty and full of terrific lore — learn how to booby-trap your backyard! — this is a distinctly edgy exercise in underdog revenge. —Houston Chronicle

HOOT TO KILL Book 1 of 4 by Karen Dudley Ecological Mystery 9780888012913 / $10.99 Mass Market Paperback 4.37” X 7” / 304 pages World Rights

Short-listed: Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award

Karen Dudley’s Hoot to Kill is a refreshing blend of murder, environmental infighting and owl lore.... the discerning reader will welcome Robyn, a bright and funny addition to Canadian crime fiction. —Gail Bowen

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