Dear Booksellers, Librarians, and Friends of the LPG,

Thank you for your on-going support of Canadian independent literature and the publishers that make up the Literary Press Group. We’re looking forward to getting together again to celebrate books as a community. Here are a few updates about our Sales Collective as we head into the second half of 2021:

• We are pleased to have long-time LPG member, DC Books, join the LPG Sales Collective. We are also welcoming new member, Renaissance Press of Gatineau, QC, as of June 1, 2021. • Please note that Insomniac Press is no longer represented through the LPG’s Sales Collective. • Please note that no Fall titles were announced for Bluemoon Publishers, DC Books or Stonehouse Publishing.

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Table of Contents 4 Beach Blonde by John Reynolds 5 Frame by Frame: An Animator's Journey by Co Hoedeman 6 Miraculous Sickness by ky Perraun 7 Coming to Canada by Starkie Mak 8 Gibbous Moon by Dennis Cooley, Michael Matthews 9 Green Parrots in my Garden: Poems from the Arab Middle East by Jane Ross 10 Papillons sur le toit de ma patrie by Sanaz Safari, Alice Anugraham 11 Beyond the Terrazzo Veranda by Morra Norman 12 Breaking Words: Literary Confessions by George Melnyk 13 You have been Referred: My Life in Applied Anthropology by Michael Robinson 14 Enormous Hill, The by Judd Palmer, Steve Kenderes 15 Seagull and the Barnacle, The by Judd Palmer, Nina Palmer 16 An Explosion of Feathers by Conor Kerr 17 Electricity Slides by John McDonald 18 Form 100 by Zviad Kvaratskhelia, Mary Childs 19 Les cinq vœux by Priya Chaudhary, Cindy Lin, Sophie Morgan 20 kisepayawi nikamowin nanaskamowin kistikan by Randy Morin, Shaniqua Ndiaye 21 Tarte à l'esquimaude: une poétique de l'identité inuit by Norma Dunning, Hatouma Sako 22 Thirty Poems for Children by Jawdat Fakhreddine, Huda Fakhreddine 23 Trente poèmes pour enfants by Jawdat Fakhreddine, Hana Jaber 24 Iskotew Iskwew: kiwetinok iskonikani iskwesis omasinahikan by Francine Merasty, John Merasty 25 Why I Was Late by Charlie Petch 26 Dream of No One but Myself by David Bradford 27 Autowar by Assiyah Jamilla Touré 28 Fetishes of the Floating World by Don Domanski 29 Shiatsung Project, The by Brigitte Archambeault, Aleshia Jensen 30 Weeding by Genevieve LeBleu 31 Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care by Susan MacLeod 32 Helem by Stanley Wany 33 Swan Song by Sonja Ahlers 34 Spells by Graeme Shorten Adams 35 Petrozavodsk by Alison McCreesh 36 The Man Who Walked Through Walls by Obom, Helge Dascher 37 Amik by Sharon King 38 Gold Pours by Aurore Gatwenzi

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39 Uncommon Sense: An Autistic Memoir by Adam Mardero 40 No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Sarsfield, Dorothy Williams 41 I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through by Jack Hannan 42 Blue Suitcase: Documentary Poetics by Jim Nason 43 My Arms Are Too Short to Box With God by Nathaniel Moore 44 A Nihilist Walks Into a Bar by Brianna Ferguson 45 Changing Residence: New and Selected Poems by Corrado Paina 46 Mouthful of Bees by Shannon Quinn 47 Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah by Michael Trussler 48 Repointing the Bricks by Jacqueline Bourque 49 Twisted Gardens/Les Jardins Tordus, The by Ollivier Dyens 50 Your Turn by Carole Glasser Langille 51 Personal Attention Roleplay by Helen Chau Bradley 52 Good Arabs, The by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch 53 Cine Star Salon, The by Leah Ranada 54 Tenure by Kieran Egan 55 Icefields: Landmark Edition by Thomas Wharton 56 Rescue at Fort Edmonton by Rita Feutl 57 Rescue in the Rockies by Rita Feutl 58 rump + flank by Carol Steski 59 Last Tide by Andy Zuliani 60 Stella's Carpet by Lucy Black 61 My Two-Faced Luck by Brett Grubisic 62 Sure Connection, A by W.M. Herring 63 Adventures of Sgoobidoo, The by Cathon, Helge Dascher, Robin Lang 64 Death By Water: Poems (1968-1972) by Alberto Manguel, Sarah Moses 65 Aquarium, The by Jacques Godbout, Bilal Hashmi 66 Complete Poetry by Huguette Gaulin, Simon Brown 67 Cosecant Hyperbole by Angela Marchionni, Elena Basile 68 Diamanda Galás by Catherine Mavrikakis, Nathanaël 69 Displacements and Déchirements: A Bilingual Anthology of Nathanaël's Writings by Nathanaël, Elena Basile 70 Empty Room by Sadia Abbas 71 End of the Nylon Age by Josef Škvorecký, Paul Wilson 72 Magnetic Earth, The by Édouard Glissant, Sylvie Séma-Glissant, Nathanaël 73 Mysteries of My Land by Reza Baraheni, Aleca Baraheni

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74 Plague Diary by Gonçalo Tavares, Daniel Hahn 75 Vulnerable Point, 1949: Fourteen Poems of Youth by Nikos Kachtitsis 76 The Errant Husband by Elizabeth Haynes 77 A Natural History of Unnatural Things by Zachari Logan 78 Earth-cool, and Dirty by Jacob Lee Bachinger 79 Loudest Bark, The by Gail Schwartz, Lucie Gagnon, Amélie Ayotte 80 Quels jappements! by Lucie Gagnon, Gail Schwartz, Amélie Ayotte 81 AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets by Greg Frankson 82 Samantha's Sandwich Stand by Sonia Saikaley, Nathan Fréchette 83 Artificial Divide by Randy Lacey, Robert Kingett 84 Beyond the Stone by Jamieson Wolf 85 Coffee Shop Between the Verses by Éric Desmarais 86 Dissatisfied Me: A Love Story by Bruce Gordon 87 Shifting Trust by Madona Skaff-Koren 88 Best of the Bonnet by Andrew Unger 89 Marshburning by David Arnason 90 Sweetest Dance On Earth, The by Di Brandt 91 Saving the City: The Challenge of Transforming a Modern Metropolis by Daniel Sanger 92 Open Your Heart by Alexie Morin, Aimee Wall 93 My Mother, My Translator by Jaspreet Singh 94 Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk 95 Fear the Mirror by Cora Siré 96 Hallelujah Time by Virginia Konchan 97 Perilous Passage by Arthur Mayse, Susan Mayse 98 Words are the Worst: Selected Poems by Erik Lindner, Francis Jones, David O'Meara

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Beach Series Beach Blonde By (author) John Reynolds Nov 02, 2021 | Hardcover $29.95 After serving two years in prison for breaking the neck of the man who assaulted his sister, Arden is released on bail. He lands a job working at Tuffy's, a restaurant and bar on the beach strip, alongside his former cellmate, Slip Winegarden. Things seem to be looking good for Arden, until it all starts to unravel...

When Slip is caught crossing Viktor Khernov, Tuffy's owner, Arden witnesses the madman's revenge from close quarters. Arden's parole officer tells him to find another job or lose his parole status. Meanwhile, the detective investigating Slip's murder tightens the vice by ordering Arden to stay on the job and feed him 9781988168548 information or face the same penalty. Amid Arden's ongoing drama, trying to stay cool, is Josie Marshall, widow of a detective found murdered in front of their English beach strip home a few years ago - a murder Josie solved on her own (and told in 5.5 x 8.5 x 1 in | 1 lb Reynolds' previous novel Beach Strip). Josie thinks men can be handy sometimes, but she'd prefer they left her alone. Fat chance, especially after her relationship 456 pages with Slip Winegarden becomes known. Soon she and Arden are trying to fend off At Bay Press Viktor Kernov and his muscled sidekick, as well as the homicide detective determined to solve Slip Winegarden's murder, all while drawn into a romance that neither of them saw coming but both appear unable to avoid. Subject FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Gritty, violent, with a distinct noir flavour and a nod to Elmore Leonard, Beach General Blonde reunites readers with Josie Marshall, the witty and resourceful heroine of Beach Strip. Distributor Contributor Bio LitDistCo John Lawrence Reynolds has authored or co-authored more than 30 books. A graduate of McMaster University (English & Psychology), he left a career as Creative Director with a major ad agency to explore other interests, including Expected ship date: Sep 01, 2021 music, photography, film directing and travel writing before publishing his first novel, The Man Who Murdered God.

A past-president of Crime Writers of Canada, he has won three Arthur Ellis awards for mystery fiction and a National Business Book Award, among other honours.

Dubbed "Canada's best and busiest ghost-writer" (National Post), John has worked with people such as Justin Trudeau, Shark Tank panelist Robert Herjavec (three books), and several major U.S. and Canadian business and political personalities. His best-selling work on the history of secret societies, titled

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Frame by Frame An Animator's Journey By (author) Co Hoedeman Nov 05, 2021 | Hardcover $32.95 Living through the Nazi occupation of Holland and arriving in Montreal with little more than a film reel under his arm, Co Hoedeman had a dream to work for the National Film Board of Canada's renowned animation unit. It was there where he became part of the vanguard in Quebec animation, launching a distinguished career combining animated film, writing and directing.

Shortly after joining the National Film Board, he began to make film history with his innovative techniques and his films based on Inuit legends. Working in collaboration with Inuit artists from Nunavut and Nunavik, his respect for the 9781988168555 Inuit iconography, language and music manifested in a rare anthropological poetry and began his continuing involvement in the culture and concerns of the English peoples of the North. The director of more than 27 acclaimed NFB films, including an Academy Award for Le Château de sable / The Sand Castle, he is recognized 5 x 8 x 1 in | 1 lb worldwide as a master of stop-motion animated films. 168 pages At Bay Press In his lifetime, Co Hoedeman has accomplished his dreams, despite the agonies of a World War, the trials of immigration, and the barriers of starting a new life as a Subject stranger in a strange land. Frame by Frame presents that life and journey.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Contributor Bio Artists, Architects, Photographers Co Hoedeman arrived in Montreal from the Netherlands in 1965 with a film reel Distributor under his arm and a dream to work for the National Film Board of Canada's renowned animation unit. It was there where he became part of the vanguard in LitDistCo Quebec animation launching a distinguished career combining animated film, writing and directing. He is the director of a number of independent productions Expected ship date: Sep 01, 2021 and of more than 27 acclaimed NFB films, including an Academy Award for Le Château de sable / The Sand Castle. He is recognized worldwide as a master of stop-motion animated films. His films have garnered more than 80 awards and mentions at film festivals the world over. Most recently, The Alliance for children and television awarded him the GRAND PRIX D'EXCELLENCE, Radio-Canada for his film Ludovic, The Snow Gift.

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Miraculous Sickness By (author) ky Perraun Sep 10, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 Miraculous Sickness deals with society's views and treatment of schizophrenia from ancient times to modern day. From the cure for demon possession to the recovery model, Miraculous Sickness sheds light on a subject matter still shrouded in misconceptions and myth. In this collection of poetry, we get a sense how our approach to dealing with mental illness and those affected has evolved, yet how far we have yet to go. Skillfully wrought poems that detail her own lived experience, the poet expounds upon difficult terrain with careful footing so as to create a dialogue for all to consider.

Contributor Bio 9781988168579 ky perraun is an Edmonton poet and writing group facilitator, who was diagnosed English with schizophrenia in 1997. Having had her first poetry publication in 1983, 5 x 7.5 x 1 in | 1 lb while in journalism school, she continued submitting to magazines and anthologies throughout the decades, despite her diagnosis. In the early 2000s she 152 pages helped form Right Heart Press, a micropress collective, which published her At Bay Press chapbook, Paging Dr.G.. In 2017 she received a Canada Council Cultivate Grant to produce a manuscript detailing schizophrenic treatments throughout history, which became Miraculous Sickness, to be released by At Bay Press in 2021. Subject POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General

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Coming to Canada By (author) Starkie Mak Sep 25, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $21.95 With sensitivity and tenderness, Starkie Mak has captured a tale of the immigrant experience, from the eyes of a child. Masterfully rendered with careful homage paid the children's books that have touched the hearts of so many, Mak's brush strokes and calligraphy evoke the turbulent emotions and difficulties a child must surely experience when having their little world upended, only to have a much larger and foreign world unfold before them.

In a heartbreaking parting, a child says goodbye to her family and is left with her imagination as guide. In search of a new life in a new land, a child retreats into the realm of fantasy. Through the devastating pain of childhood loss emerges the joy 9781988168562 of a child's triumph.

English Contributor Bio 6 x 9 x 1 in | 1 lb 96 pages Starkie Mak is an artist and writer deeply in love with expressive drawing and painting. Her paintings have been exhibited across Europe and Asia. She At Bay Press illustrated for children's magazine Cotton Tree and is an art teacher educating children. The classic novel The Secret Garden sparked her interest in literature. Subject Literature and illustration are indispensable parts of her life. She studied creative writing at the University of Oxford. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary She moved to Toronto from Hong Kong in 2018. Distributor LitDistCo

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Gibbous Moon By (author) Dennis Cooley , By (photographer) Michael Matthews Oct 25, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $28.95 A gibbous moon arrives in shadow and light. First at waxing then at waning, two moons in one cycle just shy of full. Poet Dennis Cooley's eloquent words merge with photographer/composer Michael Matthews' decadent abstract photographs. These two celebrated artists draw connections and parallels to each other's masterful art forms, tying the two together seamlessly. The antecedent and subsequent illuminate the night sky with their dance; the shadows and the light taking turns at showing us the way through the darkness.

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9781988168531 Dennis Cooley has lived most of his life on the Canadian prairies, where for over 40 years he has been active as teacher, editor, poet, critic, anthologist, publisher, English mentor, and supporter of writing. His work has been immersed in family, the 7.5 x 10 x 1 in | 1 lb prairies, and a play with form. His most recent titles include The Home Place (essays on Robert Kroetsch's poetry), and two books of poetry--Abecedarium and 176 pages Departures. His acclaimed poetry collection 'The Muse Sings' was released by At At Bay Press Bay Press in 2020.

Subject POETRY / General Inspired by the worlds of nature and literature, Matthews creates music that Distributor encourages the listener to step beyond the everyday, to dwell for a while in images of paradox, to consider the ever-changing tapestry of life. LitDistCo

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Green Parrots in my Garden Poems from the Arab Middle East By (author) Jane Ross Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $15.95 | Green Parrots in My Garden emerged from the years Jane Ross lived in the Arab and extended Middle East. As she discovered the wealth of life, custom and landscape, she decided to write about them. Her essaie (French: essayer - to try) sharpened as she journeyed into Arab lands and the beliefs of the people who live there. Accordingly, the poems capture what that world held and holds for her: the constellation of culture, people and places. The experiences of life in the Gulf region stretched and enlarged her sense of what is possible and/or real; warmed her with friendship and nourished her with food. The poems express how that life uplifted her with kindness, grace and perfume ? and at times troubled her with threats of war and most recently of disease. The blessings and observations of 9781988440804 that life give rise to the poems in this volume. English 6 x 9 x 0.5 in | 0.5 lb Contributor Bio 110 pages Jane Ross describes herself as rural and cosmopolitan -- in that order. Green Bayeux Arts Inc. Parrots in My Garden draws from her life in the Arab and extended Middle East, offering personal insights into people and landscapes, birds and animals, deserts and cities, carpets and perfumes, sand storms and star-filled desert nights. Having Subject lived on more than one occasion amidst threats of war, she understands the darker realities that bear on the region. But that is not the focus of her reflections. POETRY / Middle Eastern Rather, it is the warmth of human relationships, the wisdom of ancient desert values, and the beauties of artifact and design that bring her into the hearts of the Distributor people and the essence of the region. Jane Swanson Ross (PhD, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology; St. Edmund's College; University of Cambridge; LitDistCo MA, State University of New York; undergraduate degrees from University of Alberta) has published widely in the academic and popular press. She and her Expected ship date: Sep 01, 2021 husband Jack, live at Story's Way in the beautiful Battle River region of Alberta, Canada. Carton quantity: 36

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Papillons sur le toit de ma patrie By (author) Sanaz Safari , Edited by Alice Anugraham Sep 15, 2021 | Hardcover $19.95 | Toutes les histoires sont inspirées des événements de la société iranienne d'aujourd'hui.Les bossus comme moi: l'histoire métaphorique d'un homme qui en disant le mot "pour quoi" comme protestation, son dos tord avec des bosses. Madame Fabricante des baignoires: une artiste faussement accusée d'espionnage et d'exécution après l'arrivée au pouvoir du nouveau régime tyrannique.

Contributor Bio Je vis en Iran, dans la ville de Shiraz. J'ai fait des études de la littérature française 9781988440828 à l'université. C'est dans cette langue que j'ai choisi d'écrire avant tout. Je me suis lancée dans l'entreprise courageuse de faire publier mes textes écrits dans une French langue qu'il y a beaucoup de choses encore à apprendre pour moi. Je travaille 4.5 x 7 x 0.6 in | 0.9 lb aussi comme guide de voyage depuis quatre ans pour des touristes francophones. 140 pages Ce métier m'a encouragé de continuer à écrire en français et à présenter la culture, l'histoire et la société iranienne au monde où le mot " persia" est encore Bayeux Arts Inc. un mystère. Ma plume peut être porteuse d'une étrangeté pour le lecteur non- iranien, mais, j'essaie d'écrire d'une manière libre et sincère. J'espère que je puisse Subject communiquer facilement avec la société internationale. FICTION / Feminist

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Beyond the Terrazzo Veranda By (author) Morra Norman Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $19.95 | Beyond the Terrazzo Veranda is more than a love story. Although a memoir, it traces how society changes over a lifetime. Our essence is due to many factors-- some within our control--but many contingent on others' plans. Sometimes what happens before our birth impacts our personalities. My mother seeing my sister killed by a speeding truck from the veranda of our house affected my family and destroyed my mother. People mature and my evolution from a whining boy into a macho man and then a scholar was a slow and painful process. Others see us differently while struggling to know our talents and weaknesses. This story leads the reader from my early defiance, my success in sports, love of literature and lifelong passion for people into some unpredictable and dangerous situations. It also deals with prejudice, ignorance and sexism that I witnessed as a victim, a 9781988440743 bystander and perpetrator. Having no single career, I am fortunate that working in business, earning a doctorate, teaching and being an actor allowed me to English interact with people in different contexts. Sadly, nothing lasts and friendships, 5.25 x 8 x 0.9 in | 1 lb trysts and choices end. Living needs empathy for neighbors, ourselves, and the 280 pages strangers we will meet. Bayeux Arts Inc. Contributor Bio Subject Norman Morra was born in Toronto, Canada, January 1, 1945. He attended St. Michael's high school and spent several unproductive but interesting years at BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Carleton University in Ottawa during the 1960s. After twenty years in business, General he received a BA from the University of Toronto and a doctorate in sociology from York University where he published articles on violence in sport and against Distributor women. He taught criminology at Barry University in Miami and Lemoyne College in Syracuse NY and then English at Berlitz Canada where he rated international LitDistCo airline pilots' use of English. He has travelled to Japan, Europe and often to the UK. His interests include sport, literature and theatre while acting as a Expected ship date: Oct 01, 2021 background performer in movies. Sandra and Norman have two adult children and five grandchildren nearby. He enjoys early morning jogs. Carton quantity: 24

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Breaking Words Literary Confessions By (author) George Melnyk Oct 15, 2021 | Hardcover $19.95 | Breaking Words: Literary Confessions provides a lively discussion of the impact of books on an author's identity. George Melnyk is an Alberta writer, who has published in various genres--essays, poetry, Alberta literature, and Canadian cinema. Why he came to be identified by certain communities of readers with one specific book and not any of his others is a mystery to be solved. He offers an engaged description of how reviews, cultural trends, and funding for writers impacts creativity. Nor is he afraid to provide the nitty-gritty of the financial results from his writing. This is the first ever literary memoir by an Alberta writer. It offers insights into the complex nature of the literary arts when practiced in western Canada. 9781988440729 English Contributor Bio 5.25 x 8 x 0.6 in | 0.9 lb George Melnyk is the author or editor of 30 books on Canadian topics. He is a 140 pages former magazine and book publisher, an academic, and a long-time resident of Bayeux Arts Inc. Alberta, where he served as the Executive Director of the Alberta Foundation for the Literary Arts and President of the Writers Guild of Alberta. He is the recipient of the WGA's Golden Pen Award. He lives in Calgary. Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

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You have been Referred My Life in Applied Anthropology By (author) Michael Robinson Oct 15, 2021 | Hardcover $24.95 | You have been referred!: My life in Applied Anthropology, is a career memoir spanning the period 1969 - 2014, and detailing the process whereby the author combined his philosophical grounding in both Anthropology and Law to find fulfillment in several Canadian non- governmental organizations (NGOs). The organizational structure of the book follows the development of a career thesis, its exploration in antithesis employment in for- profit corporations, and its ultimate success in the synthesis provided by NGOs. The format of the book is a creative mixture of stories and case studies involving characters who were influential at each stage of the author's career development. The career arc of the book also follows the author's development as son, husband, and father in family 9781988440705 situations based in Vancouver and Calgary. Many of the chapters also trace the process of economic development in hinterland regions of northern Canada and English the Kola Peninsula of north- western Russia. Indigenous people play numerous 5.25 x 8 x 0.8 in | 0.8 lb roles in the narrative arc of the book's development. In particular, the 260 pages Mowachaht, Blackfoot, Metis, Cree, and Gwich'in Dene cultures in Canada and the Russian Sami are featured in the book. The corporate cultures of the Calgary Bayeux Arts Inc. and Toronto oil patch are also contributors. The book concludes with a fictional celebration including all the characters. Subject Contributor Bio BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General Mike Robinson is now a resident of Skelhp, a rural community on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. He grew up in Vancouver and attended UBC and Distributor University College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. His career was for 30 years (1978 - 2008) centred in Calgary, where he worked as one of the first generation LitDistCo of environmental and social affairs professionals in the oil patch, as the Executive Director of the Arctic Institute of North America, and as the CEO of the Glenbow Expected ship date: Oct 01, 2021 Museum. In 2009 he became CEO of the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver. In his volunteer life Mike has chaired the national boards of Friends of the Earth, the David Suzuki Foundation, and the Canadian Parks and Carton quantity: 24 Wilderness Society. He became a Member of the Order of Canada in 2004.

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Enormous Hill, The Text by Judd Palmer , Illustrated by Steve Kenderes Nov 01, 2021 | Hardcover $17.95 | William and Bill climb to the top of an enormous hill. Little do they realise, the hill is actually a sleeping giant, and the summit is the end of the giant's nose. It seems like a great place to eat their sandwiches, but when the giant wakes up, the kids are in for the biggest adventure of their lives. Where is the giant going? Can they figure out how to get down? Will they panic? Or will there be wonders?

The creators of The Enormous Hill are two of the founders of the world- renowned Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Judd Palmer and Pityu Kenderes. When live theatre was shut down by the Pandemic, they made the book to help Judd's young son Max come to terms with the upheaval all around him. Partly a parable 9781988440781 about finding joy even when your life seems to be out of your control, and partly a story about how friendships get us through, above all The Enormous Hill is a tale English that makes the world feel more magical. After all, who knows what giant you're sitting on right now? Who knows when it might wake up? 6 x 7 x 0.5 in | 0.6 lb 40 pages Contributor Bio Bayeux Arts Inc. Judd Palmer writes and draws things. He lives with his wife Mercedes and his Subject young son Max in a blue house near the sea in a city called Victoria, which is on a huge island off the west coast of Canada. He's been shortlisted three times for the JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, and likes to sing sad songs / General on the banjo.

Audience range Age (years) from 6 - 9 Steve (Pityu) Kenderes paints and makes sculptures, and lives on the other side of Distributor the whole country in a town called Pictou in a place called Nova Scotia. He lives in a rickety old house overlooking the sea with his partner Jen, many dogs and cats LitDistCo and stray animals, plants, and moss. He is a great lover of colour; it is his favourite thing, really. He also loves old black and white photographs, and imagining the Expected ship date: Oct 15, 2021

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Seagull and the Barnacle, The By (author) Judd Palmer , Illustrated by Nina Palmer Nov 01, 2021 | Hardcover $17.95 | The Seagull and the Barnacle are good friends even though they're very different. The Seagull flies over the ocean to wonderful places that the Barnacle can't even imagine, because he's spent his whole life stuck on a rock. When the Seagull tells the Barnacle about his adventures, does it make the Barnacle feel jealous, or sad? Or is the Barnacle happy, in his own way? Maybe there is enough beauty even in one small corner of this world to fill a whole life - but maybe it takes a barnacle to know it.

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9781988440767 Judd Palmer writes and draws things. He lives with his wife Mercedes and his young son Max in a blue house near the sea in a city called Victoria, which is on a English huge island off the west coast of Canada. He's been shortlisted three times for the 7 x 5.5 x 0.4 in | 0.5 lb Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, and likes to sing sad songs on the banjo. 32 pages Bayeux Arts Inc.

Subject Nina Palmer is a graphic designer and illustrator. She lives and works in Calgary, JUVENILE FICTION / Visionary & Alberta. Almost by accident, she and her family spent the first part of the Metaphysical Pandemic in a small, darkly lit cabin in remote Bamfield, British Columbia, where seagulls and barnacles are bountiful. She thinks it is a worthwhile pastime to sit Audience range on a dock or a snowdrift and contemplate whether it is better to be a boisterous Age (years) from 6 - 9

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An Explosion of Feathers By (author) Conor Kerr Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $16.95 | This poetry collection is a unique take on an urban, contemporary Métis life. The poems have a narrative element that connects back to land, place, and the traditional and modern territories that a family finds themselves living on. Based on oral storytelling traditions, many of the poems focus on what creates a personal connection to an urban environment that not long ago was still under Indigenous governance systems. This book explores relationality, history, disenfranchisement, cultural resurgence, and through humour, leaves the reader thinking about their own place within Indigenous territories.

Contributor Bio 9781772311532 Conor Kerr is an educator, writer and harvester. He is a member of the Métis English Nation of Alberta, part of the Edmonton Indigenous community and is descended 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.3 in | 0 lb from the Lac Ste. Anne & Fort Des Prairies Métis communities and the Papaschase Cree Nation. He works as the Manager of Indigenous Relations & 92 pages Supports at NorQuest College and is a sessional instructor in the pimâcihisowin Bookland Press program at MacEwan University. In 2019, he received The Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Poetry award. His poetry has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and has appeared in literary magazines across Canada. He is Subject honoured to be able to live and work on the land that his family has called home for generations. POETRY / Canadian / Indigenous

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Electricity Slides By (author) John McDonald Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $16.95 | Electricity Slides describes a disjointed, somewhat dystopian, slightly connected series of events, written in the Dadaist "cut-up" style of the 1950s. The book first started out as a series of performance art monologues written and performed live for a multidisciplinary exhibition put on by the Indigenous Peoples Artists Collective every year in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The stories alternate between a third-person narrative and the first-person narrative of the protagonist, who goes without a name throughout the book, but whom we discover is a military officer who has suffered an emotional breakdown during a battle and as a result speaks in a lyrical, poem-prose manner. Throughout the book, the reader is taken through a psychotropic funhouse-like journey, like a dream, where vignettes are connected only slightly, but keep the reader moving. 9781772311495 English Contributor Bio 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.35 in | 0 lb John McDonald is a Neyhiyaw/Metis multidisciplinary artist and author from 88 pages Treaty Six Territory in Northern Saskatchewan. A sixth-generation direct Bookland Press descendant of Nehiyawak Chief Mistawasis, John is one of the founding members of the P.A. Lowbrow art movement and is the Vice President of the Indigenous Peoples Artists Collective. John has studied at the prestigious University of Subject Cambridge in England where, in July 2000, he made international headlines by symbolically 'discovering' and 'claiming' England for the First Peoples of the POETRY / Canadian / Indigenous Americas. John is also an acclaimed public speaker, who has presented in venues across the globe. John has been honoured with several grants from the Distributor Saskatchewan Arts Board. LitDistCo

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Form 100 By (author) Zviad Kvaratskhelia , Translated by Mary Childs Nov 15, 2021 | Hardcover $19.95 | Form 100 is a tragic, multi-faceted detective novel. It follows the story of Zaza Zandukeli, an unemployed writer with an elderly grandmother. One day, a film studio offers Zaza the chance to compose a script that allows him to write the story that has troubled him for years: the suicide of Martha, a former lover.

Martha and Zaza were childhood friends, but her family had always been plagued by severe moral and existential problems. Following the arrest of Martha's brother, her mother leaves abroad for work. Left to her own devices, Martha encounters an investigator who promises her welfare and her brother's release in exchange for engaging in sexual contact with five boys of her age. Experiencing severe psychological pressure and being spied on daily, she willingly agrees to the 9781772311631 deal. Shortly after, she feels broken physically and spiritually and hangs herself in English her room. These events do not go unforgotten. As the five boys grow up and go their separate ways in life, they remain haunted by the evil deed they committed 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.8 in | 0 lb during their youth for the rest of their lives. 232 pages Bookland Press Contributor Bio

Subject Zviad Kvaratskhelia is a contemporary Georgian writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Jurisprudence at the Shota Meskhia Zugdidi State Institute in Georgia. FICTION / Crime From 2007 to 2008, Kvaratskhelia worked as the art editor of the public magazine Premieri. Shortly after, from 2010 to 2011, he worked as the deputy editor of the Kartuli Mtserloba magazine. Currently, he is the publishing projects Distributor coordinator and editor-in-chief for the Intelekti and Artanuji publishing houses. He is also the author and editor of several publication projects. He has published LitDistCo short stories and literary essays in Georgian periodicals, and his work has been translated to Turkish, Azerbaijani and English. In 2014, his book Form No. 100 Expected ship date: Nov 01, 2021 won the prestigious SABA Award in The Year's Best Novel category. Kvaratskhelia lives in Tbilisi, Georgia. Carton quantity: 48

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Les cinq vœux By (author) Priya Chaudhary , Illustrated by Cindy Lin , Translated by Sophie Morgan Sep 01, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $12.95 | Randy the Racoon and Cindy the Squirrel are best friends. One day, while walking in Woodland Forest, they find their friend Bella the Butterfly. She is trapped in a spider's web! After Cindy and Randy help her out of the web, she grants them five wishes. Randy and Cindy are excited to make their own dreams come true. But, when each of their wishes hurts their friends, Randy and Cindy have to undo their wishes. With only one wish left, they then stumble upon their injured friend Doris the Crow. When deciding what to do, Randy and Cindy learn the importance of kindness and giving to others.

9781772311518 Contributor Bio French Priya Chaudhary is an elementary school teacher and has a strong passion for 8 x 8 x 0.2 in | 0 lb children's literature. She was born in India and moved to Canada when she was a 26 pages child. Her children's stories have been published in Canada and internationally. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario. Bookland Press

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JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Cindy Lin worked as a graphics designer and illustrator for major corporations in Butterflies, Moths & Caterpillars North America over the last decade. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and won several awards for her design work. Cindy is also a LGBTQ activist. She lives with Audience range her partner and their child in Newmarket, Ontario. Age (years) from 3 - 6

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kisepayawi nikamowin nanaskamowin kistikan By (author) Randy Morin , Illustrated by Shaniqua Ndiaye Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $12.95 | Morning Song is a Cree girl who lives on a reserve. She does not like to eat vegetables because she thinks they are not important and do not taste good. One day, she goes on a walk and stumbles upon a magic garden where vegetables can talk. Morning Song meets carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, potatoes, pumpkins and other vegetables which explain her why each of them is an important part of a healthy diet. The book teaches children about importance of eating healthy, and living a happy and active lifestyle.

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9781772311570 Randy Morin is a teacher, storyteller and English-Cree translator from the Big River First Nation, Treaty Six area. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Cree Indigenous Studies and Bachelor of Education Degree. He is a Member of the 8 x 8 x 0.2 in | 0 lb Literary Translators' Association of Canada and has over 10 years of experience in literary, radio and video voceover translations from English to Cree and from 26 pages Cree to English. He is a strong supporter of maintaining and teaching of Cree Bookland Press language and culture, and shares his knowledge in his community in Saskatoon, SK. Subject JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / Native American Shaniqua Ndiaye is an emerging Canadian digital media artist and illustrator, Audience range originally from Senegal. Her passion for graphics design, digital media and Age (years) from 3 - 6

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Tarte à l'esquimaude: une poétique de l'identité inuit By (author) Norma Dunning , Translated by Hatouma Sako Nov 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $16.95 | Tarte à l'esquimaude: une poétique de l'identité inuit is the French translation of Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity previously published in English by BookLand Press. This poetry collection examines the author's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face and the expectations of mainstream as to what an Inuk person can and should be. Her words examine what it is like to feel the constant rejection of her work from non- Inuit people and how she must in some way find the spirit to carry through with what she holds to be true demonstrating the importance of standing tall and close to her words as an Indigenous woman. 9781772311556 Contributor Bio French 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.3 in | 0 lb Norma Dunning is an Inuit writer, scholar, professor and grandmother. She grew up beyond the tundra and lived mainly in smaller, northern communities across 80 pages Canada. She will say that she grew up in the places that no one would ever think Bookland Press to drive to. She won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018 for her short story collection Annie Muktuk and Other Stories. In the same year she was a finalist for the City of Edmonton Book Award. Dunning writes in both poetry and prose, with Subject poetry being her first go-to when it comes to creative work. Through the support of other Indigenous writers, Dunning came to realize that what she writes POETRY / Canadian / Indigenous matters, although it remains difficult for her to share her work widely. Distributor LitDistCo Hatouma Sako a grandi dans une famille plurilingue qui faisait coexister Expected ship date: Nov 01, 2021

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Thirty Poems for Children By (author) Jawdat Fakhreddine , Translated by Huda Fakhreddine Nov 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $14.95 | With vivid imagery and an appealing use of Arabic meters and rhymes, the poems in this book explore nature, family, school, play, and boundless world of the imagination. The diverse themes and sounds in Thirty Poems for Children cultivate cognitive and contemplative senses along with unique layout and drawings of the book. The 30 poems deliver an important educational message in simple, yet captivating language, and prompt children to think creatively through the senses and the imagination.

Contributor Bio Jawdat Fakhreddine is an award-winning Lebanese poet and professor emeritus 9781772311594 of Arabic literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut. He was born in 1953 in a English small village in southern Lebanon and is currently based in Beirut. He has published eleven poetry collections, two works of literary criticism, and three 8 x 8 x 0.35 in | 0 lb books of poetry for children. His books have been translated to English, French 64 pages and German. Bookland Press

Subject JUVENILE FICTION / Poetry Huda J. Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh Audience range University Press, 2021). Her previous translations from Arabic to English include Age (years) from 4 - 8

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Trente poèmes pour enfants By (author) Jawdat Fakhreddine , Translated by Hana Jaber Nov 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $14.95 | Avec des images vivantes et une utilisation attrayante des mesures et des rimes arabes, les poèmes explorent la nature, la famille, l'école, le jeu et le monde illimité de l'imagination. Les thèmes variés du livre cultivent les sens cognitifs et contemplatifs des enfants, tout comme la mise en page et les dessins uniques du livre. Les 30 poèmes de ce livre promeuvent un message éducatif important à travers un langage simple, mais captivant, et encouragent la réflexion créative des enfants par les sens et l'imagination.

Contributor Bio Jawdat Fakhreddine is an award-winning Lebanese poet and professor emeritus 9781772311600 of Arabic literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut. He was born in 1953 in a French small village in southern Lebanon and is currently based in Beirut. He has published eleven poetry collections, two works of literary criticism, and three 8 x 8 x 0.35 in | 0 lb books of poetry for children. His books have been translated to English, French 64 pages and German. Bookland Press

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Iskotew Iskwew: kiwetinok iskonikani iskwesis omasinahikan By (author) Francine Merasty , Translated by John Merasty Feb 15, 2022 | Paperback , Trade | $16.92 | This is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma while the author was working as a Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Reviews Indigenous Women and Girls in 2017. This book is about memories and experience growing up on the Pelican Narrows Reserve in northern Saskatchewan in the 1980s: summers spent on the land and the pain of "This collection provides a valuable residential school. With this collection, the author wants to teach and inform insight into the life and times of a Canadians of her experiences growing up as an Indigenous woman in young Cree woman from northern Saskatchewan. She believes it is important to share her stories for others to read. Saskatchewan, her aches and pains, her nostalgia for the old way of life on the land, love for her family and her people, 9781772311617 Contributor Bio her dreams for the future. So it is, in the Cree end, an important document for our Francine Merasty is a Nehithaw Iskwew, Opawikoschikanek ochi, a reserve in country's literary history. Bravo." -- 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.35 in | 0 lb Northern Saskatchewan. She is a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Tomson Highwway 96 pages and a fluent Cree speaker. She began writing poetry in the winter of 2017 while working for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Bookland Press and Girls as both a Statement Taker and Legal Counsel. She currently works for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan. She is a winner Subject of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Awards. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. POETRY / Canadian / Indigenous

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Why I Was Late By (author) Charlie Petch Sep 01, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places. Reviews

Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. "ther ar secrets heer within th crevices Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing--Petch works hard. And whether it's as a uv skin th fertilitee film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, n futilitee uv prsonal love if yu ask 4 or a performer/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Heroes are found mor storeez uv gendr in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, label fragilitee n damage interrogating th endless masquerade 9781771315579 accountability and acceptance. No subject--grief, disability, kink, sexuality, gender politics, violence--is off limits. n collapsing loves n worlds '..the pus / English real love / is made of' poetree heer 2 keep yu awake n 5.75 x 8.5 x 0.32 in | 0.2 lb A poet so good at drag they had everyone convinced that they were a woman for wanting mor uv ths brilliant book" 104 pages the first forty years of their life, Petch has somehow brought the stage and its --bill bissett attendant thrills into the book. Better late than. And better. Brick Books "Many of us know (and perhaps are) "Charlie Petch's Why I Was Late is a poetic debut with the wisdom of a sage and Subject that nimble farceur who uses humour the emotional range of an expert comedian. ... Do yourself a favor and read this as a coping mechanism. If we were to book. This is a master at work."--Kai Cheng Thom, author of I Hope We Choose POETRY / LGBT seek out this connection between Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World comedy and survival in verse, we must Contributor Bio look to Charlie Petch. Packed with Distributor nostalgia and ironic allusion Why I Was Late acts like the life of the poetry LitDistCo Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine person who resides in Toronto/Tkaronto. Petch's full-length spoken word vaudeville play party, yet behind every CP30, Mel Malarkey has toured all over Canada. They have several handsome Nosferatu, and Big League Chew lies a Expected ship date: Aug 06, 2021 chapbooks, and Late Night Knife Fights was published with LyricalMyrical Press. deeper vulnerability and stark social A musician, lighting designer, spoken word artist, award-winning playwright, and critique. Petch offers us a playfully complex debut collection." Carton quantity: 50 host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for Spoken Word Canada, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian --Amber Dawn, author of My Art Is Poets, and founder of Hot Damn It's a Queer Slam. Killing Me and Other Poems

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Dream of No One but Myself By (author) David Bradford Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $22.95 | An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family. Reviews

Dream of No One but Myself is an interdisciplinary, lyrical unravelling of the trauma-memoir-as-proof-it's-now-handled motif, illuminating what an auto- "How does sound assemble meaning, archival alternative to it might look like in motion. Through a complex assemble relationships across time juxtaposition of lyric verse and self-erasure, family keepsake and transformed lines, patterned, steeped, torn and photo, David Bradford engages the gap between the drive toward self- adorned? David Bradford's lyric understanding and the excavated, tangled narratives autobiography can't quite compositions and decompositions perform narration erasures, narrating 9781771315609 reconcile. The translation of early memory into language is a set of decisions, and in Dream of No One but Myself, Bradford decides and then decides again, to unnarrate, visual, textual--and to English composing a deliberately unstable, frayed account of family inheritance, somehow also live again in language, in intergenerational traumas, and domestic tenderness. consideration and construction, as 5.75 x 8.5 x 0.34 in | 0.22 lb recognition's dream."--Hoa Nguyen, 112 pages author of Violet Energy Ingots More essayistic lyric than lyrical essay, this is a satisfyingly unsettling and off- Brick Books kilter debut that charts, shapes, fragments, and embraces the unresolvable. These gorgeous, halting poems ultimately take the urge to make linear sense of one's "In Dream of No One but Myself, the Subject own history and diffract it into innumerable beams of light. structural instability of a dream is mapped onto a family. It is then reflected in the mutability of poetic POETRY / American / African Contributor Bio American form. A father's estrangement pulls a child into contradiction, toward David Bradford is a poet, editor, and organizer based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). desiring connection while straining Distributor He is the author of several chapbooks, including Nell Zink is Damn Free (Blank away from that connection. Poetic Cheque Press, 2017) and The Plot (House House Press, 2018). His work has form also strains, stretches from prose LitDistCo appeared in The Capilano Review, The Tiny, filling Station, The Fiddlehead, Carte poems in compact rhythmic units to Blanche, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Guelph and is a disjunctive works that slice across the Expected ship date: Aug 13, 2021 founding editor of House House Press. Dream of No One but Myself is his first page, to suites of anguished, cut-up book. family photographs and beautifully abstract, decomposing erasure works Carton quantity: 46 that bloom into ruinous new shapes. These formal strategies are never forced; rather, they establish a

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Autowar By (author) Assiyah Jamilla Touré Nov 01, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | A visceral, vital, unblinking debut collection of poems exploring kinesthetic memory and longing, inherited violence, and the body as a geographical site.

We're often told that we are given only what we can bear. For some of us our first lessons are in how much pain we're made to think we deserve--and the resulting scars are always meant to be kept secret. Assiyah Jamilla Touré's debut collection is a record of those scars--not those inflicted on us by the thousands of little wars we live in everyday, but those that come afterwards, those we inflict upon ourselves to mark the path.

9781771315630 Each and every poem in Autowar was written on a cell phone, transcribing an urgent revisiting of old sites of pain, and also a revisiting of one young person's English power and ability--to hurt themself, or others. These poems are powerful 5.75 x 8.5 x 0.18 in | 0.12 lb evocations of how even our scars have worlds and lives. 64 pages Brick Books here in the dark, me-space i am insatiable for my flesh i just can't get enough Subject of tiny after-wounds that's me giving, still too soft POETRY / American / African for my own teeth American Contributor Bio Distributor Assiyah Jamilla Touré is multidisciplinary artist of West African descent. She LitDistCo was born and raised on Skwxwú7mesh land and lived for many years in Kanien'kehà:ka territory (Montreal) and is now based on the lands of the Mississaugas of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Expected ship date: Oct 01, 2021 Wendat (Toronto). In 2018 her chapbook feral was published by House House Press. Autowar is her first full-length collection. Carton quantity: 70

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Fetishes of the Floating World By (author) Don Domanski Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Governor General's Award-winning poet Don Domanski's posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, moving lyric whole. Reviews

Fetishes of the Floating World continues Don's lifelong exploration of mystical ecology. It is an invitation to experience the sacred dimensions of what-is and to "Stunningly beautiful and delicate, All become more intimate with the strangeness that haunts our lively, changeable Our Wonder Unavenged is a deeply world. Here is a spirituality that doesn't turn its back on the material and moving vision about the intricacies of immerses us in earthly being. the everyday world. A spiritual and metaphysical triumph."--Jury citation, Governor General's Award for Poetry 9781771315661 The sustained apprehension of deep time underlies every moment of this work; every moment is held up against that more-than-human span and is relinquished English to it. Domanski's full-bodied, incantatory language will penetrate your very "All Our Wonder Unavenged 5.75 x 8.5 x 0.24 in | 0.17 lb marrow, calling you out of yourself to testify to the world's "inclement graces." represents the mature accomplishment of a poet with a unique, finely honed 80 pages voice. Cape Breton native Don Brick Books "Domanski's poems are intimate, but intimate on a grand scale. As far as I am Domanski speaks to a wholeness of concerned, there is no better poet writing in English."-Mark Strand on All Our being in poems that are intimate yet Wonder Unavenged Subject vast, specific yet breathtakingly universal."--Jury citation, Lieutenant POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Contributor Bio Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Nature Arts Award Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and lived for many Distributor years in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of nine previous books of poetry. His 2007 collection All Our Wonder Unavenged was honoured with the LitDistCo Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. In 2014 he won the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award for Bite Down Little Whisper. Published and reviewed Expected ship date: Sep 17, 2021 internationally, his work has been translated into Czech, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. He died on September 7, 2020. Carton quantity: 56

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Shiatsung Project, The Illustrated by Brigitte Archambeault , Translated by Aleshia Jensen Oct 14, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00

Bédélys Québec Award 2019, Short-listed

A woman lives alone in a small house situated in a tidy yard surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall.

She spends her days reading, swimming, and watching TV. She eats regular meals and keeps her house clean. But the simplicity is deceiving, because the woman has no idea how she came to live in her house, and--most importantly--what exists beyond the wall. 9781772620603 Her only source of information is a talking TV monitor in her living room called English Shiatsung. The entity controlling the monitor is committed to keeping the woman 9.25 x 6.5 x 0.4 in | 0 lb hydrated and educated, but it refuses to answer any of her existential questions 208 pages and keeps her under constant surveillance. BDANG Conundrum Press Lonely and frustrated, the woman begins to search for answers of her own. The Shiatsung Project explores surveillance culture and authoritarian control, and how they disrupt our very human need for connection, intimacy, and a meaningful Subject life. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General Contributor Bio Brigitte Archambault, born in 1973, lives in Montreal. After graduating with a Distributor degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University, her career debuted with solo and group painting and sculpture exhibitions in galleries in Quebec. Concurrent with LitDistCo this, she worked on animated film projects, including her own short films which have been screened at festivals worldwide. More recently, she has found the time Expected ship date: Oct 01, 2021 to realize a dream: that of creating her first graphic novel.

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Weeding By (author) Genevieve LeBleu Sep 28, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $18.00 X-Files meets The Young and The Restless

On a typical autumn afternoon, Martha hosts a group of middle-aged women at her suburban home. The day takes a sudden turn when Elisabeth, an estranged friend, turns up unexpectedly--and she isn't the only unwanted guest at the tea party. Martha's sister, Maureen, shows up after years of radio silence, along some painful memories and a lot of confusion. It doesn't take long for the guest list to change again when Martha disappears after a simple trip to the backyard for herbs. Martha is the most beloved of the women--but will any of the others be able to look past their own problems long enough to search for her? 9781772620481 English A satirical portrayal of feminine archetypes in the social landscape of the 60's, 7 x 10 x 0.25 in | 0 lb Weeding is inspired by soap operas that use unexplained disappearances and 104 pages repetitive character reanimations to liven up otherwise uneventful plot lines. As a Conundrum verb, "weeding" means "to remove an inferior or unwanted component of a group or collection." In Weeding, Geneviève Lebleu takes this definition to the extreme Conundrum Press with a fable about social exclusion in a world where women turn against one another. Subject COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Contributor Bio Contemporary Women Geneviève Lebleu is a multidisciplinary artist from Québec City and is currently based in Montréal. She graduated with distinction from Concordia University in Distributor Studio Arts (2016) and completed a semester at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (Israel). Her work was featured in various events, exhibitions LitDistCo and festivals in Montréal (Le Vidéographe, GIV [Groupe Intervention Vidéo], Eastern Bloc, Perte de Signal, Festival SOIR, Galerie Galerie) but also abroad--in Israel and in Indiana where she attended her first artist residency in August 2017. Expected ship date: Sep 01, 2021 Geneviève has been granted funding from both Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec and Canada Council for the Arts. Her work in stop motion animation was Carton quantity: 30 featured on national television on CBC Arts The Exhibitionist in November 2018. Outside of her personal art practice she collaborates with artists from the Montréal music scene, creating album cover art, flyers and music videos ("Cours toujours," Paupière) and participating in audiovisual performances. Geneviève has also collaborated with other visual artists such as Montréal-based duo Pénélope et Chloë.

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Dying for Attention A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care Illustrated by Susan MacLeod Oct 14, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 When Susan MacLeod accompanied her 90-year-old mother through a labyrinthine long-term care system, it was a nine-year journey navigating a government within a heart in a system without compassion. Her family, much like the system, erected walls rather than opening arms. She found herself involuntarily placed at the pivot point between her frail, elderly mother's need for love and companionship, the system's inability to deliver, and her brother's indifference. She had also spent three years as a government spokesperson enthusiastically defending the very system she now experienced as brutally cold.

9781772620610 MacLeod's tone is defined by a gentle, self-effacing humour touched by exasperation for the absurdities and the newfound wisdom around expectations. English Dying for Attention, is the latest memoir in the graphic medicine field, shelved alongside Roz Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? or Sarah 7 x 10 x 0.4 in | 0 lb Leavitt's Tangles. MacLeod includes helpful tips for communicating with nursing 160 pages homes as well as background research to provide a larger context for this under- Conundrum Press discussed experience.

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Helem By (author) Stanley Wany Sep 14, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 A surrealist journey through alienation, lost dreams, and self-redemption

A woman loses her sister to suicide and struggles with the overwhelming and confusing feelings that continue to plague her. A man reflects on a decade spent working in a call centre and the strange day-to-day momentum that caused him to unconsciously abandon his goals. Helem relies on a propulsive graphic narrative and evocative illustration to tell the intensely personal stories of two characters at a crossroads.

The stories contained in Helem, originally published by TRIP as "Agalma" and 9781772620634 "Sequences," delve deep into the internal lives of their characters. Helem, created while Wany was in a hallucinatory state brought on by a severe lack of sleep, also English provides an intimate look into his own personal dreamscape. 7 x 8 x 0.5 in | 0 lb 240 pages Contributor Bio Conundrum Press Stanley Wany is an Afro-Canadian artist whose practice includes graphic novels, pen and ink drawings, and paintings. His works have been exhibited in Canada, Subject the United States, FInland, France, Portugal and in Australia. His first graphic novel, Agalma, was nominated in 2016 for a Doug Wright Award at the Toronto COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Comics and Arts Festival. General

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Swan Song Illustrated by Sonja Ahlers Nov 14, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 Swan Song is the final chapter on a body of cut-and-paste work that is difficult to categorize but has sometimes been referred to as "graphic poetry." Culled from decades of hunting and gathering in the underground, Ahlers has filled many binders to overflowing. The book revisits the black and white photocopier esthetic of her genre-bending and influetial book Temper, Temper and its sequel Fatal Distraction. Swan Song finally completes this groundbreaking trilogy.

Part art book, part zine collection, part diary, part graphic novel, but all Sonja Ahlers, we finally have closure from an artist who continues to push the boundaries of what a book can be. 9781772620627 Contributor Bio English 6 x 8.5 x 0.6 in | 0 lb Sonja Ahlers is a visual artist and poet from Victoria, BC. Her books are hard to 240 pages classify and can be found in several different sections of the library. Conundrum Press 1994's A WANDERING EYE was the first of many self-published books that circulated mainly through the underground "penpal" network of punk rock and Subject Riot grrrl zines. Ahlers attracted national attention with TEMPER, TEMPER, published by Insomniac Press in 1998, followed by FATAL DISTRACTION in COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / 2004. In 2010, Drawn & Quarterly published THE SELVES . General

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Conundrum 25 3 Spells By (artist) Graeme Shorten Adams Jun 10, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $10.00 Where will Galen Toews wake up next?

When Galen Toews collapses in the subway station, she immediately draws a crowd. As she lies on the platform, semi-conscious, faint murmurings of concern mingle with half-remembered voices from earlier spells. Before too long, Galen regains full consciousness and shuffles slowly out of station. A man follows her, urging her to sit down and rest. But Galen wanders away, following breadcrumbs of memory back to a time when the spells were just beginning--and there was still 9781772620641 hope that someone, somewhere, might be able to explain what's happening to her.

English In Spells, Graeme Shorten Adams guides readers on a surreal journey through 4.25 x 6.25 x 0.5 in | 0.2 lb memory, consciousness, and medical mystery. 126 pages Conundrum Press Contributor Bio Graeme Shorten Adams was born in Toronto. He has sporadically put out comics Subject since 2015, both self-published and in anthologies, as well as forays into writing and illustration. Some of his work has appeared in the Quebec comics anthology COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Planches and in the climate change anthology Warmer, edited by Andrew White Literary and Madeleine Witt. He currently lives in Montreal. Distributor LitDistCo

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Conundrum 25 5 Petrozavodsk By (artist) Alison McCreesh Jun 10, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $10.00 Sometimes Google doesn't have all the answers

Alison McCreesh is on the Russian leg of a circumpolar journey, family in tow, when she discovers a lump in her breast. Worried about the possibilities and concerned about navigating an unfamiliar healthcare system, McCreesh turns to Google for reassurance, but finds none. Reluctantly, she embarks on a new excursion--to find a doctor and a diagnosis in the town she's visiting. As a local guide escorts her from place to place with only the sparsest of explanations, 9781772620665 McCreesh's anxiety mounts.

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Conundrum 25 4 The Man Who Walked Through Walls By (artist) Obom , Translated by Helge Dascher Jun 10, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $10.00 With great power comes great... misfortune?

Dutilleul lives a quiet life, spending his days in the office and evenings reading the newspaper. Until one night, when the power goes out. When the lights come back on, he finds himself in a strange situation--he's standing in the hallway, locked out of his apartment. After a few tentative experiments, Dutilleul discovers he's developed the ability to walk through walls. Perplexed by his newfound talent, he visits the doctor, who prescribes a cure. Unfortunately, Dutilleul doesn't quite 9781772620658 follow the directions--and before long, he's in over his head.

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Amik Illustrated by Sharon King Sep 30, 2021 | Paperback , Digest | $15.00 The beaver is busy... This delightful children's picture book tells the story of amik, the beaver, who works on his dam throughout the day while nature and the activities of other animals carry on around him. At the end of a long day, amik returns to his den to be with his family. Along with its beautiful cut-paper illustrations, Amik offers the chance for children to learn words and phrases in the Ojibwe language, as the text appears in both English and Anishinaabemowin. A fun, colourful and engaging book for children ages three through six.

9781928120285 Contributor Bio English Sharon King is an educator, performer and producer. Most recently she has 9 x 8 x 0.13 in | 0 lb worked at a community level as a educator in Wasauksing First Nation. She is best known for her Juno nomination in 1999 (Aboriginal Women's Voices, Hearts 20 pages of the the Nation). She has produced community arts programs, and her travels Kegedonce Press has helped with a strong connection to artists, filmmakers, and producers in Canada. Her strong hold on Indigenous culture and singing has maintained her efforts in her keeping tradition present with her family and community. Subject JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Canada / Indigenous

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Gold Pours By (author) Aurore Gatwenzi Oct 16, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | In this debut collection by emerging poet Aurore Gatwenzi, a stunning new voice emerges as she shares the experience of being young and Black in northern Ontario. Gold Pours is a collection of poems that talk about God, identity, heartbreak and passion. Gatwenzi's honest approach to writing exposes readers to humility, surrender and lessons learned from courageous acts of vulnerability.

Contributor Bio Aurore Gatwenzi describes herself as a social butterfly on the cusp of millennialism and zoomers. She holds a degree in Modern Languages and spent 9781988989372 two years in Spain teaching English as a Second Language. She is a frequent participant in the Sudbury Poetry Slam scene and is included in the anthology English Fem Grit: A Collection of Northern Voices (2020). She is a co-founder of the 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.24 in | 0.65 lb Black Lives Matter Sudbury. She currently lives in Sudbury. 100 pages Latitude 46

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Uncommon Sense An Autistic Memoir By (author) Adam Mardero Sep 25, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Adam Mardero was diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of nine, and began the journey to understand his differences and the label that would define his life. Uncommon Sense is a vulnerable and insightful exploration of a boy growing into a young man while battling a label and the misunderstandings that arise from being on the spectrum. Through the perspective of his geek world, Adam shares the challenges faced after being labeled and how he found his voice as an activist for neurodiverse young people.

Contributor Bio 9781988989358 Adam Mardero founded the blog Differently Wired to educate and advocate for English neurodiversity. He holds a Master's Degree in History and a Bachelor of 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.71 in | 0.65 lb Education. Since coming to terms with being neurodivergent, he's dedicated his life to helping further the causes of Autism and neurodiversity acceptance. Adam 170 pages lives in Sudbury, Ontario. Latitude 46

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No Crystal Stair Reprint By (author) Mairuth Sarsfield , Introduction by Dorothy Williams Nov 01, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $21.95 | First published in 1997, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of Montreal in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find Reviews gainful employment if she passes as white. Set in Little Burgundy against the backdrop of an exciting cosmopolitan jazz scene--home of Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, and Rockhead's Paradise--and the tense years of World War II, No Crystal "No Crystal Stair validated certain Stair is both a tender story and an indictment of Canada's "soft" racism. histories I already knew about Black Canadians in Montreal and taught me In 2005, No Crystal Stair was nominated for that year's Canada Reads and was about new histories as well. It's defended by Olympic fencer Sherraine MacKay. exciting to recognize yourself in a work of literature, especially one that is set 9781773900919 in the past. At a micro level, it helps to Contributor Bio English build a sense of belonging to the communities and cultures in which you 5 x 8 x 0 in | 0 lb Born in Montreal in 1925, Mairuth Sarsfield was an author, activist, journalist, exist. But at a macro level, it validates 264 pages researcher and diplomat. She was one of the first Black women appointed to the your sense of identity -- in this case a CBC Board of Directors. She worked for Foreign Affairs at Expo 67 in Montreal Linda Leith Publishing Quebecer and a Canadian. When and at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan. As senior information officer for the United Mairuth came to Montreal on her book Nations Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya, she created the international tour, I was fortunate enough to get to Subject campaign "For Every Child a Tree." In 1986, Sarsfield received the Chevalier de the Westmount Public Library in time l'ordre national du Québec. In 2005, No Crystal Stair was a contender on Canada for the reading and she signed my FICTION / African American / Reads. Mairuth Sarsfield died in 2013 at the age of 88. copy! It's nowhere to be found now, Historical sadly, because I enthusiastically lent it to friends in way of spreading the Distributor word, not only about the book, but also to bring others to the story of a great LitDistCo Dr. Dorothy Williams is an historian and consultant specializing in Black Black Canadian woman in arts and Canadian history. Her books include Blacks in Montreal, 1638-1986: An Urban culture." -- Nantali Indongo, host, The Bridge, Expected ship date: Oct 01, 2021 CBC

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I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through By (author) Jack Hannan Sep 13, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 | This is a book about three generations of an unusual family, the Heyerdahls, lesser adventurers all. In 1971 a young man walks 1,200 km, from Halifax to Montreal, to stand on a bridge at midnight and become a photographer. He meets a woman who builds motorcycles as a hobby and in 1977 they travel across Canada on her fast motorcycles to attend an exhibition of his pictures of her in Vancouver. In 2021 their daughter-in-law is a beekeeper on city rooftops, a 12- year-old boy skips school to go downtown and learn how other people live, and an old man takes LSD, trying to cure the numbness that has overtaken him. Written in a series of 53 chapters, this is a story about how family can be our one place in the world. 9781773900957 Contributor Bio English 8 x 8 x 0 in | 0 lb Jack Hannan has been a hotwalker, a typesetter for Fred Louder, a bookseller, and a publisher. He is a novelist and poet who lives in Montreal, Canada, not far 240 pages from the house where he was born. His first book was published in 1977, and his Linda Leith Publishing first novel, The Poet is a Radio, was published in 2016. His work has been shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. His family knows he is either at home or will be back soon. Subject FICTION / Family Life / General

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Blue Suitcase Documentary Poetics By (author) Jim Nason Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $18.00 | In his seventh poetry collection, poet and novelist Jim Nason, delves into the lives of the eight missing and murdered men from Toronto's gay village in 2017. The disappearance of one man in particular, Selim Esen, compels Nason to search for a deeper understanding of the serial-killer murders while examining his own troubled history. What he discovers will surprise, enrage, and inspire. Cherish each day as if it were your last, Nason urges, as if you had already died and were looking back.

Contributor Bio 9781771262798 Jim Nason is the author of six volumes of poetry, a short story collection, and English three novels. He has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Award in both the fiction 5.75 x 8.88 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb and poetry categories. His poetry book Rooster, Dog, Crow was shortlisted for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award, and his poems have been included in 80 pages anthologies across Canada, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008, Mansfield Press 2010 and 2014.

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My Arms Are Too Short to Box With God By (author) Nathaniel Moore Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $18.00 | My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God piles shock on top of shock until all one can feel is the places where ones nerves are twitching liked downed Hydro wires. A long poem outlining the trauma and resolution of teenage sexual abuse acts as the centre piece for a collection which examines the chaotic imbalance of power dynamics. These rowdy, risky poems are like sticking your fingers into an electric fan. Whether detailing love torn at every corner, family tragedy or economic anxiety, Nathaniel G. Moore's fourth collection of poetry examines the pulsing shrapnel years after the case has run cold.

Contributor Bio 9781771262781 Nathaniel G. Moore is the author of several books including Wrong Bar, Savage English 1986-2011, Honorarium and Goodbye Horses. He is the former books editor at 5.75 x 8.88 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb Broken Pencil, and his writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Canadian Literature, Atlantic Books Today, The Georgia Straight, the Toronto Star, the 80 pages National Post and subterrain. He has worked as a freelance publicist across the Mansfield Press country for nearly 20 years, and now runs moorehype, his own publicity firm out of Fredericton, where he lives with his wife, writer Amber McMillan. Subject POETRY / General

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A Nihilist Walks Into a Bar By (author) Brianna Ferguson Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $18.00 | A Nihilist Walks Into A Bar is the frustrated, fierce, and funny first book of a woman for whom all the old expectations of life have fallen apart. Railing against careers, religion, sex, drinking, and all the usual signposts on the road to self fulfillment, Ferguson strips away the facade of old ideas and shouts and laughs at the chaos that lies beneath. This book is a manifesto of the disenfranchised, and the diary of a country girl with her head in the clouds. It is a love letter to the world, and a breakup text at 3am. To anyone who's ever looked out the window and thought "yes, but why?" this book is for you.

Contributor Bio 9781771262750 Brianna Ferguson is a writer and educator located in the Okanagan Valley. Her English stories and poems have appeared across Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.A. in 5.75 x 8.88 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb magazines and anthologies such as Minola Review, Jokes Review, and The Apocrypha Files. 80 pages Mansfield Press

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Changing Residence New and Selected Poems By (author) Corrado Paina Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $20.00 | Changing Residence documents the conflicts and resolutions of a restless writer who has spent a lifetime traveling the world to document what he finds there. Raised in Italy, with its old-world perspective, and settled in Canada amid the babel of its grand multicultural experiment, Paina's poetry, over the course of many books, has been an evolutionary and revolutionary response to the accident of birth that separates humans from each other and the cultural bonds we forge to bridge that separation. Michael Redhill has called Paina's work "a celebration of homelands old and new," but it is also a passionate, sometimes angry, social critique of the very concept of a 'homeland.' Changing Residence gathers in one place, the trajectory of an artist who has remained curious, committed, and 9781771262774 engaged with whatever 'home' he happens to land in. English 6 x 9 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb Contributor Bio 180 pages Corrado Paina lives and writes in Toronto. He serves as the Executive Director of Mansfield Press the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Ontario. He was the editor of College Street--Little Italy, Toronto's Renaissance Strip, a finalist for the Toronto Heritage Award and his poetry and fiction has been widely published in Canada Subject and Italy. POETRY / General

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Mouthful of Bees By (author) Shannon Quinn Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $18.00 | Mouthful of Bees comes from Quinn's own experience as someone who both provides and uses mental health and addiction services. The collection moves between personal, communal and mythical experiences of madness to obliterate the idea that recovery is a tidy or linear event. These pieces ask us to be unflinchingly honest with how we care for each other and our environment. They ask us to be patient with each other and our inevitable mistakes while prodding at society's uncomfortable relationship with forgiveness. Finally, they challenge us to welcome resilience in all of its' messy and awkward iterations.

Contributor Bio 9781771262712 Shannon Quinn is the author of Questions for Wolf (Thistledown Press) and English Nightlight for Children of Insomniacs (Mansfield Press). Her poetry, short fiction, 5.75 x 8.88 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary journals in Canada, the US, and the UK including Room, subTerrain, THIS, Maisonneuve, ARC, Grain, The 80 pages Malahat Review, CV2 and Prairie Fire. She has worked as a writer and producer Mansfield Press for CBC Radio One. Quinn currently works for The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. Subject POETRY / General

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Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah By (author) Michael Trussler Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $18.00 | In Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah, Michael Trussler engages with the beauty and violence manifested in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The poems here blur online reality with Zen Buddhism (relating the Japanese female anthropomorph Hatsune Miku to Basho), and explore humanity's changing relationship with "Nature" to gain a deeper understanding of language and technology. With thematic subtext pertaining to mental illness and aging, much of Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah offers the sense that this subjective experience parallels the way our species has sabotaged itself. If these poems contain much grief, they also rejoice in the simplicity of light, the colours painters show, and the intricacy of what remains of the natural world. 9781771262743 Contributor Bio English 5.75 x 8.88 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb Michael Trussler writes poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction. He is also a photographer. He's published various books, most recently Melancholy Girl with 80 pages Sitar (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2020). His prize-winning work has appeared in Mansfield Press domestic and international anthologies and journals. His collection of short stories, Encounters, won the Book of the Year and City of Regina Awards from the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2006. Accidental Animals, a poetry collection, Subject was short-listed for the same awards in 2007. He teaches English at the University of Regina. POETRY / General

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Repointing the Bricks By (author) Jacqueline Bourque Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $18.00 | Repointing the Bricks inhabits and is inhabited. Examining the lasting impression that birthplace can have on those who eventually find refuge elsewhere, Jacqueline Bourque writes from multiple locations - both geographical and bodily - in pursuit of identity. Confident that home is often experienced as addition and subtraction of the self, the poet "sheds new homes regularly" with the knowledge that instability can lead to a reconsideration of how a person is defined. Repointing the Bricks is a remarkable, reorienting debut.

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9781771262736 Jacqueline Bourque grew up along the ocean shores of New Brunswick. She spent the better part of her career in Ottawa working as a communicator in the public English sector. Her poetry has been featured in a number of anthologies and journals, 5.75 x 8.88 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb including The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Queen's Quarterly, and The Dalhousie Review. In 2019, she released a chapbook titled The Dune as 80 pages Bookmark, published by Anstruther Press. Mansfield Press

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Twisted Gardens/Les Jardins Tordus, The Bilingual English / French Edition By (author) Ollivier Dyens Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $18.00 | The Twisted Gardens/Les Jardins Tordus is the exploration of an inverted creation, not that of the light that was, but that of the darkness in which everything exists. It is a journey through a territory of birth and viscera, animals and desire, spirits and metal. Written simultaneously in both French and English, Dyens searches for singular emotions and unique metaphors in the folds of two intertwined languages, examining how words both unleash and imprison our humanity. The Twisted Gardens/Les Jardins Tordus is also an experiment in virtual reality (available at www.ollivier-dyens.com/the-twisted-gardens) where sorrow and metaphors become a world, a territory, a literal journey. 9781771262767 Contributor Bio English 5.75 x 8.88 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb Ollivier Dyens is Founder and co-Director of McGill's Building 21, an open lab dedicated to rethinking higher education in the 21st century. From 2013-2018, 68 pages he was Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) at McGill University where he Mansfield Press is currently Full Professor in the Department of littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création. From 2008-2013 he held the position of Vice- Provost, Teaching and Learning at Concordia University. Dyens is the author of Subject thirteen books including La terreur et le sublime, published by XYZ, La Condition inhumaine, published by les Éditions Flammarion in Paris, and Metal and Flesh: POETRY / General The Evolution of Man, Technology Takes Over, published by MIT Press. Among his other publications are, Distributor LitDistCo Les murs des planètes, suivi de la cathédrale aveugle (VLB Éditeur), shortlisted for the Revue Estuaire/Terrasses St-Denis prize for Poetry; Continent X, Vertige du Nouvel Occident (VLB Éditeur), longlisted for the prix Roberval; and The Profane Expected ship date: Oct 01, 2021

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Your Turn By (author) Carole Glasser Langille Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $18.00 | There are poems in Your Turn that are political, outward-looking, recording inequities; others revisit literary and visual artists and other sections contain more intimate, personal poems whose theme might be summarized as the double self. Whether poems speak to those no longer here or the poet's own mortality, Your Turn affirms our trust and conviction. In their surprising insights and language these poems wake us up.

Contributor Bio Carole Glasser Langille is the author of four books of poetry, two collections of 9781771262729 short stories, and two children's books. She has been nominated for The Governor General's Award in Poetry, The Atlantic Poetry Prize, and The Alistair MacLeod English Award for Short Fiction. Her last book, Doing Time was a non-fiction book about 5.75 x 8.88 x 0.27 in | 0.28 lb giving writing workshops in a prison in Nova Scotia. She has given readings and workshops in France, India, South Africa, Hawaii, and in many venues in Canada. 80 pages Mansfield Press

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Personal Attention Roleplay By (author) Helen Chau Bradley Oct 19, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $18.95 A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships--with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals- on-wheels recipient. A queer metal band's summer tour unravels amid the sticky heat of the Northeastern US. A codependent listicle writer becomes obsessed with a Japanese ASMR channel.

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Good Arabs, The By (author) Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch Sep 21, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $17.95 Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker's communities, geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, and family both biological and chosen. The Good Arabs gifts the reader with insight into cycles and repetition in ourselves and our broken nations. This genre-defying collection maps Arab and trans identity through the immensity of experience felt in one body, the sorrow of citizens let down by their countries, and the garbage crisis in Lebanon. Ultimately, it shows 9781999058890 how we might love amid dismay, adore the pungent and the ugly, and exist in our multiplicity across spaces. English 6 x 8 x 0.45 in | 0.6 lb 208 pages Contributor Bio Metonymy Press The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology, GUTS, CarteBlanche, the Shade Journal, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Theywere longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. You can find them on Instagram and Subject Twitter@theonlyelitareq. Their book, knot body, was published by Metatron Press September 2020,and their upcoming poetry collection, The Good Arabs, will be POETRY / Middle Eastern published by Metonymy Press in 2021. Distributor LitDistCo

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Nunatak First Fiction Series 55 Cine Star Salon, The By (author) Leah Ranada Oct 01, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $21.95 | Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more than a beautician.

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Tenure By (author) Kieran Egan Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $21.95 | Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble university professor, happy with his family's lot in life, only wants the impossible: for his modest, straightforward wife to get tenure at her university.

Luckily, Mark is a man for whom impossible is just another word. As a sophisticated importer-exporter of certain recreational substances ("drug lord" is such a cliché), Mark gets to work on the academic world with the same relentless nature that helped him climb to the top of the cartel. However, the hallowed 9781774390306 campus halls reveal an environment that is vicious and corrupt beyond anything he has ever encountered in the drug business... English 5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in | 0 lb Kieran Egan's Tenure is a wildly entertaining satire mash-up, where campus 200 pages culture collides with crime. NeWest Press Contributor Bio Subject Kieran Egan was born in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, and educated in England, receiving a BA in history. He then went to California to work with IBM Corp. as a FICTION / Satire consultant while beginning a PhD at Stanford University, which he completed at Cornell University in 1972. His first academic job was at Simon Fraser University, Distributor in British Columbia, where he remained till his recent retirement. His academic work dealt with innovative educational theory and detailed practical methods LitDistCo whereby implications of the theory can be applied in everyday classrooms. He focused on the nature and development of imagination, and argued for its Expected ship date: Aug 15, 2021 centrality in learning and the construction of meaning. There have been about forty translations of his books into around twenty languages. He and his wife have three children and five grandchildren --all, of course, wonderful, and all the Carton quantity: 40 children produce books of various kinds. During his academic life he gave talks in most European countries, and throughout Asia, South America, and Australasia. He also writes poetry and has published in many Canadian, British, Irish, and USA magazines. He has an interest in Japanese-style gardens, and built one at the rear

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Landmark Edition 5 Icefields Landmark Edition By (author) Thomas Wharton Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $23.95 |

Best First Book, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and Caribbean Division 1995, Winner Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize 1995, Winner Writers Guild of Alberta's Best First Book Award 1995, Winner

In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the 9781774390368 Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight English illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green 5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in | 0 lb radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life's 248 pages purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each immersed in their NeWest Press own quest: the healer and storyteller Sara; the bohemian travel writer Freya Becker; the entrepreneur Trask; the poet Hal Rowan; and Elspeth, greenhouse Subject keeper and Byrne's lover.

FICTION / Historical / General First published in 1995, Wharton's Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the Distributor surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather. Here--where characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice as well as the stories and histories LitDistCo they tell one another--is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. Expected ship date: Sep 15, 2021 This updated Landmark Edition includes an author interview with Smaro Kamboureli and an Afterword by award-winning writer Suzette Mayr. Carton quantity: 40

Contributor Bio Thomas Wharton's novels, stories, and nonfiction have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, Italy, and other countries. His first novel, Icefields, received the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean. His first collection of fantastical stories, The Logogryph, was shortlisted the International Dublin Literary Award. He has also published a YA fantasy trilogy, The Perilous Realm, and an eco-fiction, Every Blade of Grass. Wharton lives near Edmonton, Alberta and teaches creative writing.

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Disaster Strikes! 2 Rescue at Fort Edmonton NeWest Press edition By (author) Rita Feutl Sep 01, 2021 | Paperback , Mass market | $12.95 | Janey doesn't want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto--and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be away--her mother in Turkey designing housing for earthquake victims, her dad on business trips. Her first surprise is her feisty grandma, who meets her at the airport in her vintage Cadillac, Marilyn. The second comes when she visits the Fort Edmonton historic park and time travels to 1907. The third is learning the real reason she's in Edmonton. Her grandma is going through cancer treatment and needs someone to be with her. 9781774390412 English Janey makes four trips, each to a different period of Fort Edmonton's history. What draws her into the past? Only on the last trip does she discover the meaning 5.25 x 7.5 x 0.7 in | 0.81 lb of her adventures--and their crucial connection to her own family. Rita Feutl's 176 pages first novel features a deftly handled plot and a wealth of fascinating characters NeWest Press from prairie history.

Subject Contributor Bio FICTION / Fantasy / Historical Rita Feutl has worked as a freelance journalist and writer for 20 years, publishing in the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Edmonton Journal, Audience range and others. She has also had work published in numerous magazines and in the Sightlines Language Arts textbook. Rescue at Fort Edmonton is her first book Age (years) from 12 - 16 publication.

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Rescue in the Rockies NeWest Press edition By (author) Rita Feutl Sep 01, 2021 | Paperback , Mass market | $12.95 | Can 14-year-old Janey disentangle her time-hopping dilemma and save not just her own life, but the past lives of others, before it's too late?

Rescue in the Rockies follows Janey as she is forced to spend the holidays with her grandma - and her grandma's new beau, Charlie, who has invited along his German grandson, Max - in Banff, Alberta. Janey can't believe her parents might potentially miss one of the most important holidays of the year and resigns herself to spending her time away from home wandering around the hotel with, of all people, Max, who she bickers with constantly. Getting frustrated with their 9781774390399 constant fighting, Janey turns to run away and finds herself, all of a sudden, standing in snow drifts; the hotel has disappeared, and in its place is, well... English nothing. 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.7 in | 0.81 lb 200 pages As Janey travels back and forth in time - first to 1883, then, with an unwitting Max along, to an internment camp during World War I and finally the Banff area NeWest Press after the war - she struggles to not only escape the chaotic situations she finds herself in, but to try and figure out what is causing her mysterious Subject disappearances. What do the three places have in common, and can she solve the mystery before the enemy she's made in the past captures her and Max for good? FICTION / Fantasy / Historical Contributor Bio Audience range Rita Feutl has worked as a freelance journalist and writer for 20 years, publishing Age (years) from 12 - 16 in the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Edmonton Journal, and others. She has also had work published in numerous magazines and in the Distributor Sightlines Language Arts textbook. Rescue at Fort Edmonton is her first book publication. LitDistCo Born in Toronto, Rita Feutl has lived in Paris and Vienna as well as Toronto, Expected ship date: Aug 01, 2021 London, Ontario, and Regina. Since 1985 she has made Edmonton her home. She has worked as a costumed interpreter at Fort Edmonton Park for the past 10 years, which is the genius for the story Rescue at Fort Edmonton. Carton quantity: 48

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Crow Said Poetry rump + flank By (author) Carol Steski Sep 01, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 | Carol Harvey Steski's tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature's many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even Reviews chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what bodies-- especially female ones--endure, probing the full range of experiences from pleasure and hope to deep loss and trauma. Praise for rump + flank:

These poems are piercingly humorous, sexy, and peppered with startling "Years of personal and poetic absurdities, but are grounded by an undercurrent of nostalgia (and a soupçon of experience have been consolidated in feminist rage): mercury reproduces like funhouse mirrors, oysters are whole notes Carol Harvey Stelski's marvellous collection rump + flank. Agile, with a 9781774390283 dropped into eternal song, cancer is a surly character taking and discarding lovers, a domestic chore turns dark as a mother channels her inner Lady Macbeth. flowing immediacy to the language, English Lush imagery melds with organic rhythms to spawn a visceral experience, a these poems are richly inventive and resonant. This is a visceral, sometimes 5.5 x 9 x 0 in | 0 lb tendon-and-muscle-driven engine that readers can feel racing within their own bodies. raw, book with hidden time bombs just 96 pages beneath the surface. Harvey Stelski's NeWest Press voice is unique and superbly confident, Contributor Bio speaking with a fluent urgency. It's a book I've been anticipating for years." Subject Carol Harvey Steski grew up under the wide Winnipeg sky. Her poems have been ~ Patrick Friesen, author of Outlasting published in the poetry anthology Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem the Weather: Selected and New Poems POETRY / Canadian / General Anthology, and literary magazines including Room, Prairie Fire, Freefall, 1994-2020 untethered and Contemporary Verse 2. Her work was featured in Winnipeg Distributor Transit's "Poetry in Motion" program and tootled around town on buses. Twice she was a finalist in Freefall's annual poetry contest. As a young-adult survivor of LitDistCo melanoma she has been a guest on CBC Radio-Manitoba speaking about the therapeutic benefits of writing through disease. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter, working in corporate communications. rump + flank is her Expected ship date: Aug 01, 2021 debut poetry collection and is a part of the Crow Said Poetry series. Connect with her on Twitter: @charveysteski and Instagram: @carolharveysteski. Carton quantity: 60

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Nunatak First Fiction Series 56 Last Tide By (author) Andy Zuliani Oct 01, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $21.95 | Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, making way for more gentrification.

When the pair is sent by their employers to a rustic island in the Pacific Northwest--home to hippies, runaways, and survivalist preppers--they meet Lena, an oceanographer and climate scientist, who has moved to the island in search of 9781774390344 "the big one," the cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami that she knows is the island and the West Coast's due; and Kitt, an athleisure clothing mogul, who is English overseeing the construction of a vacation home that will serve as his apocalypse- shelter. 5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in | 0 lb 200 pages These four people's lives intertwine as a police investigation throws life on the NeWest Press island into disarray, as activists and agents provocateurs take action, as dormant fault lines begin to tremble. Subject Andy Zuliani's Last Tide is a vital debut novel is an edgy glimpse at a world just FICTION / Nature & the beyond tomorrow, and a sharp reminder of what society deems valuable. Environment

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Carton quantity: 40 Andy's poetry and fiction have been published in The Capilano Review and Poetry is Dead. His debut novel, Last Tide, tells a story of real estate speculation, earthquakes, the weight of trauma, and how we might learn to care for each other in the end times.

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Stella's Carpet By (author) Lucy Black Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 | Exploring the intergenerational consequences of trauma, including those of a Holocaust survivor and a woman imprisoned during the Iranian Revolution, Stella's Carpet weaves together the overlapping lives of those stepping outside the shadows of their own harrowing histories to make conscious decisions about how they will choose to live while forging new understandings of family, forgiveness and reconciliation. As the story unfolds, readers are invited to ponder questions about how we can endure the unimaginable, how we can live with the secrets of the past, and at what price comes love. An artful and engaging story of struggle and survival, Stella's Carpet will resonate for those forced to find non- traditional ways to create community, and those willing to examine the threads that draw our tapestry together in this everchanging world. 9781989689264 English Contributor Bio 5 x 8 x 0.6 in | 0.6 lb Author of The Marzipan Fruit Basket and Eleanor Courtown, Lucy E.M. Black's 186 pages award-winning short stories have been published in Britain, Ireland, USA and Now Or Never Publishing Canada. A dynamic workshop presenter, experienced interviewer and freelance Now or Never Publishing Co. writer, she lives with her partner in Port Perry, Ontario.

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My Two-Faced Luck By (author) Brett Grubisic Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 | 1990. Transferred to Horsetail Institution and mortally ill, an inmate devotes his remaining weeks to a project--recording his history on cassette tape. The account describes a curious queer journey that began in rural New England in 1927. Meditating on ruined family, illicit lovers, drunken parties, a tragic marriage, and strange terms of employment, the American inmate strives to wring sense-- meaning--from a life now winding down in River Bend City, British Columbia... a few years after a jury found him guilty of murdering his boss, a geriatric San Francisco socialite. Decades later, the recipient of those forgotten cassettes faces the dissolution of her long marriage. Seeking respite from wintry thoughts, the former prison nurse listens to the inmate's words, eventually shaping the jumbled reminiscences into a memoir. 9781989689271 English Speculation based on a cruise ship murder in 1985 and the final volume of the River Bend Trilogy (The Age of Cities; From Up River and For One Night Only), 5 x 8 x 1 in | 1 lb My Two-Faced Luck captures a singular voice as it divulges startling facts behind 309 pages a rough passage through the upheavals of the twentieth century. Now Or Never Publishing Now or Never Publishing Co. Contributor Bio

Subject Author of four previous novels The Age of Cities, This Location of Unknown Possibilities, From Up River and for One Night Only and Oldness; or, the Last- FICTION / Literary Ditch Efforts of Marcus O, Brett Josef Grubisic calls Salt Spring Island, BC home.

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Sure Connection, A By (author) W.M. Herring Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 | In A Sure Connection the author contemplates the connections that matter, and that confirm we matter--connections with others and with our real or re-imagined selves. Through portraits of faith, family, nature, mortality and ordinary life, the work affirms resilience and resolve with clear, rich language seasoned with a wry twist, ensuring an engaging read. With many pieces set in British Columbia--from the sub-boreal plateau to the coastal rainforest--A Sure Connection evokes a sense of attachment to place that is as personal as it is universal.

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9781989689288 W.M. Herring was born in Quebec, grew up in Vancouver, and now lives at tidewater in Sooke on Vancouver Island. Her work has been published in various English literary journals including The Antigonish Review, ARC Poetry, Canadian Woman 5 x 8 x 0.3 in | 0.3 lb Studies, Literary Review of Canada and Queen's Quarterly, and A Sure Connection is her first collection. 81 pages Now Or Never Publishing Now or Never Publishing Co.

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Adventures of Sgoobidoo, The By (author) Cathon , Translated by Helge Dascher , Translated by Robin Lang Oct 01, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 | Follow Sgoobidoo, famed canine detective, to the corner store, bingo hall and amusement park in a series of feeble intrigues with disappointing endings. Listen to the deafening silence of the broken television set as the wretched Sammy sits waiting for the professor, the prospector or his mother to call with a mission. Accompany the pitiful pooch and his humble human through a series of sad adventures in this collection of stories gathered in the familiar format of an Archie digest, interspersed with ketchup-flavoured games and advertisements. In The Adventures of Sgoobidoo, Cathon pays homage once again to the B-series movies and detective novels that inspiredi The Pineapples of Wrath, her popular tiki murder mystery set in the Hawaiian quarter of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. 9782924049983 English Contributor Bio 5.25 x 7.25 x 0 in | 0 lb 120 pages Montréal-based artist Cathon makes comics and children's books. In 2013, she and fellow Québec cartoonist Iris published an absurd encyclopedia of everyday Pow Pow Press objects. Hugely popular, it was adapted by the National Film Board of Canada as The Great List of Everything, an animated web series. The Adventures of Subject Sgoobidoo is her latest book to appear in English, joining Vampire Cousins and The Pineapples of Wrath, also published by Pow Pow Press. Her off-kilter humour COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / draws upon pop culture and genre fiction, and she knows all of Columbo's iconic General lines by heart.

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Death By Water Poems (1968-1972) By (author) Alberto Manguel , Translated by Sarah Moses Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Alberto Manguel's Spanish poetry, presented here in a dual-language edition, introduces readers to a new side of one of the most eclectic writers of our time.

Contributor Bio Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator, editor and critic, born in Buenos Aires in 1948. He has published several novels, and non-fiction, including Fabulous Monsters, Packing My Library, Curiosity, With Borges, A History of Reading, The Library at Night and (together with Gianni Guadalupi) 9781988254852 The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. He has received numerous international awards, among others the Commander of the Order of Arts & Letters from English France, the Formentor Prize and the Alfonso Reyes Prize in 2017, and the 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb Gutenberg Prize 2018. He is doctorhonoris causa of the universities of Ottawa and York in Canada, and Liège in Belgium and Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge, UK. 100 pages Until August of 2018 he was the director of the National Library of Argentina. He Quattro Books lives in Lisbon.

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Aquarium, The By (author) Jacques Godbout , Translated by Bilal Hashmi Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | The publication of this novel, Godbout's first, was seen as a watershed event in French-Canadian literary history: The Aquarium broke out of the mold of the literary traditionalism and realism that had been dominant until then, and it is generally hailed as having inaugurated the nouveau roman in Québec. The action is set in an unnamed third-world country on the brink of independence, and the plot centers around a group of tense expatriates residing in the Casa Occidentale.

Contributor Bio Jacques Godbout was born in Montréal and obtained an MA from the University 9781988254821 of Montreal. He is an author who has written numerous fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in English 1958 and is also an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and scriptwriter. 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb 125 pages Quattro Books Bilal Hashmi is Executive Director and Publisher of Quattro Books. He currently Subject serves as President of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada/Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada.

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Complete Poetry By (author) Huguette Gaulin , Translated by Simon Brown Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | This dual-language edition brings together the complete poetry of one of twentieth-century Québec's most important poets.

Contributor Bio Huguette Gaulin was born in Montréal on July 7, 1944. Her poems have appeared in the les herbes Rouges magazine and in La Barre du Jour (1971). Lecture en velocipède was published by Éditions du Jour, in the collection Les poètes du Jour; (1972), before being taken over by Les Herbes Rouges in 1983. Huguette Gaulin died in Montreal on June 6, 1972. 9781988254838 English 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb 250 pages Simon Brown is a poet, translator and interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in the Québec City area. Quattro Books

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Cosecant Hyperbole By (author) Angela Marchionni , Translated by Elena Basile Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Written in the aftermath of a protracted illness and the sudden loss of two friends who had been companions on an intimate journey of healing, Marchionni's poems enact a generative conversation between the abstractions of mathematics and the polysemic openings of poetic writing (and artistic practice in general) in an effort to loosen their entanglements with the most devastating vectors of contemporary technological and economic reasoning. The vicissitudes of a body vulnerable to pain, disease and the educated guesswork of biomedical protocols constitute the experiential background of each poem, whereas a grounded sense of the deeply enlivening and relational dimension of aesthetic experience orients each poem's discernment towards building worlds governed by an ethic of responsive care rather than consumptive use. 9781988254845 English Contributor Bio 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb Angela Marchionni is a multifaceted artist active in Bologna since the early 100 pages 1980s. Her art practice spreads across multiple fields, including theatre, visual Quattro Books art, sculpture, multimedia installations and poetry. More so, her generative and collaborative approach has been of crucial importance to a number of long standing cultural projects, including early contributions to Il Teatro del Guerriero, Subject one of Bologna major feminist theatre companies active throughout the 1980s and 1990s; the founding of Beatrix V.T., a feminist collective and artist book POETRY / European / General publisher active between the 1990s and early 2000s; and, most recently, a standing collaboration with artist Letizia Rostagno, with whom she has mounted Distributor many collective exhibitions and has published early excerpts of Cosecante Iperbole. LitDistCo

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Diamanda Galás By (author) Catherine Mavrikakis , Translated by Nathanaël Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | An exercise in admiration, this book takes a look at the petrifying work of Diamanda Galás, the singer with three octaves. Far from being dumbfounded by Galás and her voice, Catherine Mavrikakis takes the artist's work head-on. From ancient Greece to the suburban United States, from the Armenian genocide to the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s, Galás is constantly renewing herself.

Contributor Bio Catherine Mavrikakis has published several novels including Le ciel de Bay City (2008), and L'annexe (2019), and several essays, including L'éternité en accéléré 9781988254869 (2010). She has won many important awards for her work, including the Grand prix du livre de Montréal (2008), the Prix des libraires du Québec (2009) and the English Prix littéraire des collégiens (2012). Mavrikakis is professor of French at the 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb Université de Montréal. 115 pages Quattro Books

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Displacements and Déchirements A Bilingual Anthology of Nathanaël's Writings By (author) Nathanaël , Edited by Elena Basile Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Displacements and Déchirements, curated by Elena Basile, is the first-ever anthology of Nathanaël's writings in English and French.

Contributor Bio Nathanaël is the author of more than thirty books written in French or in English and published in the United States, Québec and France. Her translations include works by Édouard Glissant, Catherine Mavrikakis, Hervé Guibert, and Hilda Hilst (the latter in collaboration with Rachel Gontijo Araújo). She has been recognized 9781988254876 through her work by fellowships from the PEN American Center, the Centre National du Livre de France and Terre d'Arts through ETC Caraïbe. Born in English Montréal, Nathanaël lives in Martinique. 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb 250 pages Quattro Books Elena Basile's research is sustained by a collaborative ethos that interrogates the Subject spillages and constraints of translation as it moves along the queer edges of many languaging dimensions. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General

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Empty Room By (author) Sadia Abbas Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | In 1970s Karachi, where violence and political and social uncertainty are on the rise, a beautiful and talented painter, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a trap from which there appears no escape. Accustomed to the company of her brother Waseem and friends, Andaleep and Safdar, who are activists, writers and thinkers, Tahira struggles to adapt to her new world of stifling conformity and to fight for her identity as a woman and an artist. Shortedlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019 and re-issued by Quattro Books in a new North American edition.

9781988254883 Contributor Bio English Sadia Abbas is associate professor of postcolonial studies at Rutgers University- Newark. She is the author of At Freedom's Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb Predicament, winner of the MLA first book award, and co-editor (with Jan 300 pages Howard of the RISD museum) of Extraordinary Realities, a volume on Shahzia Quattro Books Sikander's art. She has written numerous essays on subjects including Jesuit poetics and Catholic martyrdom in Early Modern English poetry, neoliberalism and the Greek debt crisis, Pakistani art, the uses of Reformation in contemporary Subject Muslim thought, and Jewish converts to Islam and treatments of subjectivity in contemporary theorizations of Muslim female agency. She has also written essays and opinion pieces for Dawn and Daily Times (the Pakistani dailies), Naya Daur, Distributor OpenDemocracy, CommonDreams and TANK magazine. She is currently completing, Space in Another Time: An Essay on Ruins, Monuments and the LitDistCo Management of Modern Life about the connected afterlives of ruins and onuments in India, Greece and the New World and their role in the production and control of racial, religious and ethnic identities. At Rutgers-Newark she also Expected ship date: Sep 01, 2021

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End of the Nylon Age By (author) Josef Škvorecký , Translated by Paul Wilson Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Banned at the time of its writing, and later published in a censored edition, this novella of 1956 is the last of Josef Škvorecký's major works to be published in English translation.

Contributor Bio Josef Škvorecký was born in 1924 in Nachod, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. He received his PhD in philosophy from Charles University in Prague in 1951. His earliest works, including The Cowards(1958), were banned by communist censors. He published novels, short stories and film scripts between 1963 and 9781988254890 1968, during a shift to more liberal political climate. After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Škvorecký and his wife, Zdena Salivarová emigrated to Canada English in 1969. Together with his wife, he ran 68 Publishers, which published, in both 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb Czech and English translations, books that we banned in Communist Czechoslovakia. By the fall of the Soviet Union, 68 published had published over 115 pages 220 works. Škvorecký published many books, including novels, poetry, non- Quattro Books fiction, as well as for film and television, among them The Engineer of Human Souls (1984), which received the Governor General's Award for fiction. Škvorecký was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, and was Subject awarded the Order of the White Lion in the Czech Republic in 1990. Josef Škvorecký died in 2012. Distributor LitDistCo

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Magnetic Earth, The By (author) Édouard Glissant , By (author) Sylvie Séma-Glissant , Translated by Nathanaël Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Sylvie and Édouard Glissant's intention was not to add hypotheses to those many that have attempted to pierce the mystery of Easter island. They wanted to touch imaginatively the stirring of a place that is both primordial and yet so contemporary, tormented and yet liberated, solitary and yet not alone, whose population, descended from a unique and legendary stock, today enjoys a peaceful existence based on its very diversity and its relationship with the world. Sylvie Glissant, during her stay there, assembled notes, drawings, photos, films, which she then discussed with Édouard Glissant. The volume presents what is essential in their collaboration. 9781988254906 Contributor Bio English 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb Poet, philosopher and writer, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) introduced the notion of antillanité as a way of reconsidering the world as archipelago. A 115 pages Martinican thinker of the creolization of cultures and the poetics of relation, his Quattro Books multi-faceted oeuvre moves between the essay (Faulkner, Mississippi), poetry (The Indies), fiction (The Fourth Century) and theatre (Monsieur Toussaint). In 1958, he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for The Ripening. Édouard Glissant Subject taught in the United States at Louisiana State University and at the City University in New York. In 2006, he founded the Institut du Tout-Monde in Paris. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American

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Mysteries of My Land By (author) Reza Baraheni , Translated by Aleca Baraheni Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Hossein Tanzifi, a young English interpreter for American advisors in Iran, is caught at a crossroads when he witnesses the assassination of an American adviser by thirteen army officers. Hossein, who had no role in the incident, is sentenced to life in prison. Fourteen people were executed for the murder and he is the only one who knows what happened and who is covering it up. Eighteen years later, during the Iranian revolution, Hossein is released from prison and while dodging his own murder, he searches for the one woman who can unveil the truth. The story, as told by this world-famous novelist, is a historical fiction, character-driven novel narrated from different perspectives. It weaves together the plights of characters from opposite hemispheres of the world. It is renowned for being the single most accurate depiction of the social atmosphere of Iran from 9781988254937 1959 to 1979 which led up to the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi through a popular uprising and its replacement with the English Islamic Republic of Iran. 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb 1000 pages Contributor Bio Quattro Books Reza Baraheni is a widely respected poet, novelist and critic. He was imprisoned under the Shah and was banned by and had to seek exile from the Islamic Subject Republic of Iran. His prison poems God's Shadowwere published in translation by Indiana UP in 1976 and his essays Crowned Cannibals: Writings On Repression In Iranwere also published in the US and widely read at the time. A number of his Distributor novels have been translated into French over the past fifteen years and published in Paris by Fayard. The range of his concerns, as well as his constant anti- LitDistCo imperialism and resistance to oppression has not endeared him to any of his country's regimes. He has lived in exile in Toronto for many years and is a former Expected ship date: Sep 01, 2021 president of PEN Canada.

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Plague Diary By (author) Gonçalo Tavares , Translated by Daniel Hahn Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Plague Diary is a series of daily journals documenting time spent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contributor Bio Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda in 1970 and teaches Theory of Science in Lisbon. Tavares has surprised his readers with the variety of books he has published since 2001 and has been awarded an impressive amount of national and international literary prizes in a very short time.

9781988254913 English 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with about seventy books to his 125 pages name. Recent translations include Juan Pablo Villalobos's I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me and (in a co-translation) the memoir of football manager Arsène Quattro Books Wenger. His work has won him the International Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Subject International Prize, among many others. He is a past chair of the UK writers' LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals

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Vulnerable Point, 1949 Fourteen Poems of Youth By (author) Nikos Kachtitsis Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Re-issued by Quattro Books in a new quadrilingual edition (English, French, Greek, Italian), the poetry of Nikos Kachtitsis is an essential read for those wishing to discover one of the most formidable and enigmatic voices in twentieth- century Greek and Canadian letters.

Contributor Bio Nikos Kachtitsis was born in 1926 in Greece and died in 1970. He spent a few years in Cameroon, Africa, eventually moved to Montréal, Canada, and returned 9781988254920 to Greece the same year he died. He published articles in Greek newspapers and contributed to Greek literary journals. Like many unappreciated authors in their English own times, Kachtitsis has achieved a modicum of fame posthumously. His works 4.5 x 7 x 0 in | 0 lb echo those of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, Joseph Conrad, and Franz Kafka, to name but a few. None of his writing in Greek has been published in English thus 80 pages far. Quattro Books

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The Errant Husband By (author) Elizabeth Haynes Oct 12, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $22.00 | Thelma's marriage is unravelling as her oblivious husband Wally rediscovers his youthful obsession with Che Guevara. When Rosa, a young Cuban poet, joins his writing group, he unexpectedly books a trip to Cuba. Thelma decides to join him and discovers that he has inexplicably disappeared. As she searches for Wally she converses with the ghost of her father, confronts her abandoned dreams, and relies on the help of odd strangers.

Contributor Bio Elizabeth Haynes' short story collection Speak Mandarin Not Dialect was a 9781989274583 finalist for the Alberta Book Awards. Her writing has been published in literary magazines including Alberta Views, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, English Prism and Room, and a number of anthologies, most recently Shy: an Anthology 5.5 x 8 x 0.6 in | 0.65 lb and Waiting (University of Alberta Press). Her awards include the Western Magazine Award for Fiction, the American Heart Association award for fiction, 320 pages and the Writers Guild of Alberta Jon Whyte award for non-fiction. She studied Hagios Press writing at the Universities of Victoria and Calgary, and UBC. Elizabeth lives in Calgary, Alberta. Subject FICTION / Psychological

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A Natural History of Unnatural Things By (author) Zachari Logan Sep 20, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | A microscopic and intense view of the sometimes invisible and ignored parts of the world we inhabit. Peering into cities and our place within them, the poet searches for meaning after the death of his father, and observes the flora and fauna, which provide beauty and nourish us. This book delights the senses and poses the question, are we contributing to, or ultimately destroying our planet?

Contributor Bio Zachari Logan is a queer Canadian poet and artist whose art is exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions throughout North America, Europe and Asia. In 9781989274545 2014, Logan received the Lieutenant Governor's Award for emerging artists, and in 2016, Logan was long-listed for the Sobey Award. In 2010, his chapbook, A English Eulogy for the Buoyant, was published by JackPine Press. Zachari Logan lives in 5.5 x 8 x 0.25 in | 0.3 lb Regina, Saskatchewan. 88 pages Hagios Press

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Earth-cool, and Dirty By (author) Jacob Lee Bachinger Oct 12, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $20.00 | Earth-cool, and Dirty is a portrayal of our existence in the Anthropocene. A meditation on the ways human life and the natural world grow into one another and yet still remain estranged, "the rock in my hand, /retrieved from my garden, / is as foreign to me as my own skull." The poet dissects family life, mortality, writes love letters to other poets, and describes how fairy-tale heroes navigate middle age.

Contributor Bio Jacob Lee Bachinger lives and works in southern Alberta on the edge of coulees 9781989274613 and the Oldman River. He teaches at the University of Lethbridge and has had his poems published in The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Riddle Fence, and The Malahat English Review among others. He is currently working on a book about his time in 5.5 x 8 x 0.25 in | 0.3 lb Labrador. Jacob lives in Lethbridge, Alberta. 72 pages Hagios Press

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Loudest Bark, The By (author) Gail Schwartz , By (author) Lucie Gagnon , Libretto by Amélie Ayotte Oct 15, 2021 | Hardcover $19.95 | Samuel knows that their real name is Simone, but things at their house are too quiet to think about how to tell their parents. When Chloe the costume designer Reviews moves in across the street with a dog about to have puppies, life becomes bigger, more colourful, and louder. And so does Simone. "A sweet and beautiful picture book that could be used to start a Contributor Bio conversation about gender identity with young children. My primary Lucie Gagnon and Gail Marlene Schwartz are passionate about children's books. students love this book and it is hard to They co-authored Clementine in Quarantine (Facile à lire, 2020) and My Sister's keep it on the shelves of my library." 9781989996034 Girlfriend (Rebel Mountain Press, forthcoming). Lucie is retired from the Lesley Bell, teacher librarian. Montreal Public Library system. She is a homeschooling mom who loves games, English pasta, and learning how things work. Gail writes for adults and is also a 8.75 x 10 x 0 in | 0 lb professional editor. She likes to sing, make challah bread, and do messy art "The illustrations are rich and full of diversity. This book sends a great 36 pages projects with friends. Along with writing, Lucie and Gail also share a home, a son, and a dog, all full of sound, in St-Armand, Quebec. Authors available for school message to kids about exploring their Rebel Mountain Press and other venue readings and presentations. self-expression and breaking out of traditional gender norms. This is an Subject exceptional LGBTQ+ book to read to a young child. Highly JUVENILE FICTION / LGBT recommended."Chantal Hughes, author in award nominated Breaking Lucie Gagnon and Gail Marlene Schwartz are passionate about children's books. Boundaries. Audience range Age (years) from 4 - 10 "A heartwarming story with dazzling artwork about family, friendship, puppies, love, acceptance, and the Distributor exciting discovery of identity. If these characters were real, I would love to LitDistCo know them!"LS Stone, author of What's in it for Me? Expected ship date: Sep 01, 2021 "A delightfully sweet story about a

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Quels jappements! By (author) Lucie Gagnon , By (author) Gail Schwartz , Libretto by Amélie Ayotte Oct 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $13.95 | Samuel sait que son vrai prénom est Simone, mais comment le dire à ses parents quand tout est tellement silencieux à la maison ! Lorsque Chloé, une costumière, Reviews déménage en face, avec un chien qui va bientôt avoir des chiots, la vie devient plus grande, plus colorée et plus bruyante. Tout comme Simone. "Un beau livre d'images qui pourrait servir à lancer une conversation sur Contributor Bio l'identité de genre avec de jeunes enfants. Mes élèves du primaire Lucie Gagnon et Gail Marlene Schwartz sont passionnées de livres pour enfants. adorent ce livre et il est difficile de le Elles sont les co-auteurs de Clémence au temps du coronavirus (Facile à Lire, garder sur les étagères de ma 9781989996041 2020) et L'amoureuse de ma sœur(Rebel Mountain Press, à venir). Lucie est bibliothèque."Lesley Bell, retraitée du réseau des Bibliothèques Publiques de Montréal. Elle est un parent- bibliothécaire enseignante. French éducateur qui adore les jeux, les pâtes et aime apprendre comment les choses 8.75 x 10 x 0 in | 0 lb fonctionnent. Gail écrit pour les adultes et est éditeur professionnel. Elle aime "Les illustrations sont riches et pleines 36 pages chanter, faire du pain challah, et travailler avec des amis sur des projets d'art salissants. En plus d'écrire ensemble, Lucie et Gail partagent une maison, un fils et de diversité. Ce livre envoie un Rebel Mountain Press un chien, tous pleins de sons, à St-Armand, du Québec. excellent message aux enfants sur l'exploration de leur expression de soi Subject et la rupture des normes traditionnelles de genre. Il s'agit d'un JUVENILE FICTION / LGBT livre LGBTQ+ exceptionnel à lire à un jeune enfant. Fortement Lucie Gagnon et Gail Marlene Schwartz sont passionnées de livres pour enfants. recommandé."Chantal Hughes, Audience range auteure en prix nominé Breaking Boundaries. Age (years) from 4 - 10 "Une histoire réconfortante avec des Distributor illustrations éblouissantes sur la famille, l'amitié, les chiots, l'amour, LitDistCo l'acceptation, et la découverte passionnante de l'identité. Si ces Expected ship date: Sep 01, 2021 personnages étaient réels, j'adorerais les connaître!"LS Stone, auteur de What's in it for Me?

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AfriCANthology 1 AfriCANthology Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets Edited by Greg Frankson Feb 01, 2022 | Paperback , UK Trade | $25.00 Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic paths in Black skin with fearless candour and audacious forthrightness. 9781990086090 Unforgettable in its charged emotional potency and stirring in its unrelenting urgency, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets is a stunning English tour de force by a celebrated gathering of truthtellers that demands we 6 x 9 x 0.75 in | 1 lb comprehensively reassess the present and reimagine the future of Blackness in 256 pages Canada. Renaissance Press Contributor Bio Subject Greg Frankson is a Toronto-based poet, author, educator and community activist. He has published three poetry collections, including Cerebral Stimulation LITERARY COLLECTIONS / (BeWrite Books, 2005), Lead on a Page (IIMHL, 2012), and A Weekly Dose of American / African American Ritallin (FriesenPress, 2015). Greg's work also appeared in the anthologies Mic Check (Quattro Books, 2008), That Not Forgotten (Hidden Brook Press, 2012) Distributor and The Great Black North (Frontenac House, 2013). He has released four album-length studio recordings and collaborated musically with several notable LitDistCo emcees, DJs and vocalists. He appeared on CBC TV's Canada's Smartest Person in 2012 and is the former resident poet on the CBC Radio One program Here and Expected ship date: Dec 01, 2021 Now Toronto.

Carton quantity: 40 He has been facilitating and speaking at mental health and anti-discrimination events across Canada for over two decades. He has participated in gatherings in North America and internationally penning poetic reflections on the current state

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Samantha's Sandwich Stand By (author) Sonia Saikaley , Illustrated by Nathan Fréchette Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Digest | $20.00 Samantha is bored. It is summer and her friends are on vacation. When she sees a lemonade stand, she wants to open one but her father convinces her to sell something different: her mother's homemade Lebanese cream cheese and cucumber pita sandwiches. But can she convince others that her sandwich treat is just as refreshing and delicious as lemonade? When her friends return from their holidays and offer to help her, along with a very hungry eagle, will customers finally come and buy her sandwiches? Samantha's Sandwich Stand is an inspiring story about believing in yourself, accepting help from others when something doesn't succeed at first, and celebrating each other's differences.

9781990086038 Contributor Bio English Sonia Saikaley was born and raised in Ottawa to a big Lebanese family. The 8.5 x 11 x 0.25 in | 0.25 lb daughter of a shopkeeper, she had access to all the treats she wanted. Her first book, The Lebanese Dishwasher, co-won the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. 56 pages She has two poetry collections: Turkish Delight, Montreal Winter and A Samurai's Renaissance Press Pink House. Her novel The Allspice Bath was awarded the 2020 IPPY Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and the Humber School for Writers. Many years ago, she belly-danced her way across Subject Northern Japan and taught English there, too. She loves eating labneh and cucumber pita sandwiches on hot summer days. JUVENILE FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural

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Artificial Divide Edited by Randy Lacey , Edited by Robert Kingett Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $25.00 Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.

This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.

When we think about it, we're not really divided. 9781990086083 English Contributor Bio 6 x 9 x 0.75 in | 1 lb Since 2010, Randy has been adapting to his new life as a visually impaired 256 pages individual. He's been a writer of poetry since the late 70's. Since 2013, he has Renaissance Press self-published 6 books of poetry. Randy has now entered the world of the short story and hopes to release a collection in the near future. When he is not busy with writing Randy blends spices and creates hot sauces. Randy hails from Subject Trochu, Alberta. FICTION / Anthologies

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Beyond the Stone By (author) Jamieson Wolf Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $20.00 After a schism renders the world unrecognizable, Magic comes out into the open. Reviews Bane is a Supernatural who works for the Clocktower, the organization that is supposed to protect mortals from themselves. Jackson is able to teleport long distances and is also a clairvoyant, something that no mortal should be able to do. That's the least of their troubles, however. Sparks fly when they meet, even if "Jamieson Wolf is a gifted writer!" relationships between mortals and Supernaturals are frowned upon. Kelley Armstrong, New York Times Best Selling Author of the Women in the Otherworld Series When they learn that the Clocktower is keeping mortals and Supernaturals prisoner, Bane knows that they will have to go against the Clocktower in order to 9781990086045 break them free... but will they break themselves in the process? "Nothing is as it seems in Jamieson Wolf's Beyond the Stone. This is an English exciting urban fantasy adventure with 6 x 9 x 1 in | 1 lb Contributor Bio many twists and turns and a world standing on the precipice of massive 232 pages Jamieson has been writing since a young age when he realized he could be writing and dangerous change. Not only is the Renaissance Press instead of paying attention in school. Since then, he has created many worlds in world in a state of change, but so is which to live his fantasies and live out his dreams. Bane, a man who is socially ostracized Subject because his skin changes into stone, He is a Number One Best Selling Author (he likes to tell people that a lot) and and has developed a rock-hard FICTION / Romance / LGBT / Gay writes in many different genres. Jamieson is also an accomplished artist. He works personality to go with it. Bane is on the in mixed media, charcoal and pastels. He is also something of an amateur road to self discovery and change as a result of a new love in his life and his Distributor photographer, a poet and graphic designer. Jamieson lives in Ottawa, Ontario, with his husband. discovery that the world that he knew isn't what he thought it was." Derek LitDistCo Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada

Expected ship date: Aug 01, 2021 "I fell for this story Rook, line, and sinker!" Cait Gordon, author of The Carton quantity: 30 Stealth Lovers

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Baker City Mysteries 3.5 Coffee Shop Between the Verses By (author) Éric Desmarais Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $20.00 Jackie sometimes likes to have conversations with the characters, and as he reads five novellas in the small Ontario town of Baker...

In The Ridiculous Adventures of Felix Felicitous, the grumpy Felix is thrown into an adventure through time, despite his protestations.

In Only Human, Rachel has accidentally signed up for the University of Monsters. 9781990086069 In Wargrave Island, Inspector Riko Dulac has to find out who's killing all her English former high school classmates before there's no one left. 6 x 9 x 0.75 in | 1 lb 240 pages In Database of the Ageless Kings, Sophia rebuilds an alien ship, only to find the galactic prince still inside. Renaissance Press In Devices of Desire, follow Artemis, Diana, and Ezekiel as they navigate secret Subject identities, demons, and love in the kingdom of Cillian. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories Are the characters Jackie is talking with real? Is he just talking to himself? Or is something else going on? Audience range Contributor Bio Age (years) from 12 - 16 Éric has had an eclectic career which ranges from casino dealer to canal boat captain to radio station DJ. Since 2009, he's worked as a layout artist and Distributor desktop publisher for the federal government. During his off time he works as a freelance layout artist for various Canadian-based authors and publishers, roasts LitDistCo gourmet flavoured coffee, runs several pen-and-paper role-playing games, writes, and helps run JenEric-Designs.ca (Home of the TravellingTARDIS.com). Expected ship date: Aug 01, 2021 He lives in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, daughter, and son. Visit him at Carton quantity: 30 www.EricDesmarais.ca.

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Dissatisfied Me 1 Dissatisfied Me A Love Story By (author) Bruce Gordon Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $20.00 Rick "Dickie" Duncan is turning fifty. Meh.

On the eve of this mid-century milestone, he finds himself alone in his mother's Ottawa basement, surrounded by gaudy decor and a carpet that hasn't been raked in years. Grabbing some brews and frozen hotdogs, Rick rummages through the clutter that's made up his dissatisfied life.

9781990086076 From the death of Santa to the last days of Scottish Rot, Rick meanders through the decades, mapping his existence amid the pop culture of the '70s to the present English day. 6 x 9 x 0.75 in | 1 lb 424 pages Marking key moments of his unsated misadventures and real-life dating disasters, Renaissance Press Rick reminds himself that his journey is a love story. Sort of.

Subject Contributor Bio FICTION / Humorous / General Bruce Gordon is the author of Dissatisfied Me: A Love Story(2021, Renaissance), a humorous mock memoir with pop-culture nostalgia woven throughout memory Distributor lane. Bruce's love for writing was sparked by the challenge of NaNoWriMo in 2017, where he completed his first draft of his novel. Since then, he's participated LitDistCo in NaNoWriMo each year with the goal of publishing a Dissatisfied Me trilogy. He is currently completing the second book, Dissatisfied Me II: West Coast Larry.By day, Bruce is an IT Manager in the federal government. He lives in the suburbs of Expected ship date: Aug 01, 2021 Ottawa with his wife Cait, who's also a published author. When he is not working or writing, Bruce enjoys playing guitar, watching superhero movies, and listening Carton quantity: 40 to Iron Maiden.

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Shifting Trust By (author) Madona Skaff-Koren Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , UK Trade | $20.00 Tyler Demir left the RCMP after an undercover operation he was in charge of turned deadly. Refusing to make life and death decisions anymore, he now works as assistant head of security for a military funded Canadian nano-tech company. But when one of their scientists is kidnapped, the military send Tyler to England to retrieve him.

Not sure who to trust, Tyler uses contacts from his undercover days to get the scientist to safety. At every step, he sees the rescue crumble around him and again he has blood on his hands.

9781990086052 How the hell did he manage to go from a stress-free job, where lives didn't depend on his split-second decisions, to this? English 6 x 9 x 1 in | 1 lb Contributor Bio 280 pages Renaissance Press Madona Skaff-Koren has a degree in biology, but somehow ended up in mining research. Her scientific background always inspires her SF stories and frequently sneaks into her mysteries. Her recent short stories include, the supernatural Subject mystery in In the Key of 13, music inspired murder and mayhem. Also, Nothing Without Us, featuring disabled protagonists. And Grave Diagnosis, stories of FICTION / Science Fiction / Crime & malaise and murder. Mystery

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Best of the Bonnet By (author) Andrew Unger Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $21.95 | Since it's debut in 2016, the internet's most trusted source for Mennonite satire has kept readers laughing with hundreds of hilarious headlines and tongue-in- cheek editorials where (almost) no topic is off limits. Best of the Bonnet brings together some of The Daily Bonnet's funniest, most loved posts, that have drawn the attention of everyone from the Canadian Prairies to the high-rises of New York. In this collection of stories is a special introduction by author Andrew Unger, commenting on the nature of satire and his love for community.

Best of the Bonnet is an absolute must-have for fans of The Daily Bonnet or anyone in love with the absurdity of day-to-day life. 9780888017390 Contributor Bio English 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.45 in | 0.35 lb Andrew Unger is best known as the author and founder of the satire website The 200 pages Daily Bonnet. An educator based in Steinbach, Manitoba, his work has appeared in Geez, Rhubarb, Ballast, CBC.ca, the Winnipeg Free Press, and many others. If Turnstone Press you go back far enough, he's probably related to you.

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Turnstone Selects 4 Marshburning By (author) David Arnason Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $17.00 | Reissued in a magnificent new edition, Marshburning is David Aranson's masterful long poem binding his Icelandic roots to the shore of Lake Winnipeg. First published in 1980, this classic is the latest edition in the Turnstone Selects series, highlighting important works that hold both mass and academic interest.

Contributor Bio David Arnason is an acclaimed ​novelist, writer of short fiction, and editor. A ​- 9780888017437 finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour (King Jerry) and a winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award (The Imagined City), David has taught at the English University of Manitoba since 1972. He has served as both the acting head of the ​- 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.13 in | 0.13 lb Department of ​Icelandic Studies and head of the ​Department of English. Currently, he lives and writes in Gimli, MB. 120 pages Turnstone Press

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Sweetest Dance On Earth, The By (author) Di Brandt Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.00 | Since her debut in 1987 with questions I asked my mother, Di Brandt has remained curious, still asking questions and pushing poetic bounds. Now for the first time, the best work of this Griffin Award winning poet has been gathered together in one place. Distilled into one collection is Di Brandt's insatiable desire to understand, question and show the world in a new light. From her feminist work to her eco poetics, readers will get a chance to see the breathtaking career of one of Canada's most influential poets.

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9780888017352 Winnipeg's Di Brandt is one of Canada's most loved and admired poets. Her internationally celebrated and award-winning poetry titles include questions i English asked my mother; Agnes in the sky; Jerusalem, beloved; and Now You Care. Her 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.18 in | 0.2 lb most recent work, Walking to Mojacar, is a multilingual collaboration with gifted poets and translators Charles LeBlanc of St. Boniface, Manitoba (l'appétit du 180 pages compteur : poèmes accumulés), and Ari Belathar, Mexican writer-in-exile, Turnstone Press currently living in Vancouver (The Cities I Have Left Behind). Mojacar was shortlisted for two 2011 Manitoba Book awards, and has been nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Di Brandt has lived in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Subject Toronto, Windsor (Ontario) and Berlin. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Literature and Creative Writing at Brandon University, Manitoba POETRY / Canadian / General (www.dibrandt.ca). Di Brandt is also an award-winning essayist and literary critic, and has collaborated with numerous other writers, critics and artists, including Distributor Annie Jacobsen, Jane Finlay-Young, Barbara Godard, Aganetha Dyck, Rebecca Campbell, Carol Ann Weaver and Jana Skarecky. LitDistCo

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Saving the City The Challenge of Transforming a Modern Metropolis By (author) Daniel Sanger Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $22.95 The rise to power of one of Canada's most progressive municipal movements in recent memory.

When it was dreamed up in the early 2000s by a transportation bureaucrat with a quixotic dream of bringing tramways back to the streets of Montreal, few expected Projet Montréal to go anywhere. But a decade and a half later, the party was a grassroots powerhouse with an ambitious agenda that had taken power at city hall--after dumping its founder, barely surviving a divisive leadership campaign and earning the ire of motorists across Quebec. 9781550655803 Projet Montréal aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city English with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and 5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in | 0.2 lb memoir, Saving the City chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and 300 pages where it's headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montréal's administration for almost a decade, Daniel Sanger's book Vehicule Press draws on dozens of interviews with other actors in the party and on the municipal scene, past and present. Subject A highly readable history of Montreal municipal politics over the past 30 years, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy Saving the City will also discuss issues of interest to city-dwellers across Canada. / City Planning & Urban Are political parties at the municipal level a good thing? Is Montreal's borough Development system a model for other big cities? What are the best ways to control urban car Contributor Bio Distributor An award-winning journalist and writer based in Montreal, Daniel Sanger took a LitDistCo two-year hiatus to work with Projet Montréal in 2010. It ended up lasting nine years. A founding editor of the Montreal Mirror in 1985, he moved onto the Montreal Gazette and The Canadian Press, including a stint as a correspondent at Expected ship date: Aug 20, 2021 Quebec's National Assembly. In the mid 1990s he quit newspaper journalism to work in magazines. He was the Quebec correspondent for The Economist for Carton quantity: 50 more than a decade while writing and editing for Saturday Night, and contributing articles to The Walrus and many other magazines and newspapers.

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Open Your Heart By (author) Alexie Morin , Translated by Aimee Wall Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 A much-celebrated auto-fictional feminist memoir, finally available in English.

In this frank and unforgettable book, celebrated Québécois writer Alexie Morin becomes the subject of her own story as she places a childhood friendship under a microscope. An autobiographical novel set in a small industrial town in Quebec during the 1990s, Open Your Heart recounts the story of a difficult friendship between two girls brought together by illness and operations suffered at a young age. One girl suffers from severe strabismus, while the other was born blue. The first, defiant, feels that something is wrong with her, while the second is an angelic child loved by all. One becomes a writer, and the other dies at eighteen, during an 9781550655780 operation that should have saved her life.

English In this debut novel, Morin stakes out an exceptional pursuit for truth in these old 5 x 7.5 x 0 in | 0.2 lb memories as she grapples with death, love, bonding and solitude. 300 pages Esplanade Books Contributor Bio Vehicule Press Alexie Morin is the author of a book of poems, Chien de fusil, a novella, Royauté and the novel Ouvrir son cœur, which won the 2019 Prix des libraires du Québec. Subject Born in Québec's Eastern Townships, Morin is an editor for the publishing house Le Quartanier and lives in Montréal. FICTION / Feminist

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My Mother, My Translator By (author) Jaspreet Singh Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $22.95 In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, if she promised to write her memoirs. After she died in 2012, he decided to take up the memoir she had started. My Mother, My Translator is a deeply personal exploration of a complex relationship. It is a family history, a work of mourning, a meditation on storytelling and silences, and a reckoning with trauma--the inherited trauma of the 1947 Partition of India and the direct trauma of the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence Singh experienced as a teenager.

9781550655797 Tracing the men and especially the women of his family from the 1918 pandemic through the calamitous events of Partition, My Mother, My Translator takes us English through Singh's childhood in Kashmir and with his grandparents in Indian Punjab to his arrival in Canada in 1990 to study the sciences, up to the closing moments 5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in | 0.2 lb of 2020, as he tries to locate new forms of stories for living in a present marked 280 pages by COVID-19 and climate crisis. Vehicule Press Contributor Bio Subject Jaspreet Singh's non-fiction has appeared in Granta, Brick: A Literary Journal, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / and the New York Times. He is the author of two novels, Chef (Véhicule Press, Personal Memoirs 2008; Bloomsbury, 2010) and Helium (Bloomsbury, 2014); a story collection, Seventeen Tomatoes (Vehicule Press, 2004); and a poetry collection, November Distributor (Bayeux Arts, 2017). His work has been published internationally and has been translated into several languages. He lives in Calgary. LitDistCo

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Antonyms for Daughter By (author) Jenny Boychuk Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $17.95 Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk's poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poet's mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a first collection, Boychuk creates unsparing scenes of their complicated life together. Poem after poem attempts to wring clarity from memories ripe with trauma and love, as Boychuk questions whether it is possible for a child to ever extricate herself from an abusive parent--to become, as it were, a living "antonym" of a painful family legacy. A booklength loss-lyric of vivid beauty, Antonyms for Daughter is a singular example of grief transformed into art.

9781550655810 Contributor Bio English Jenny Boychuk was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, and holds an 5 x 7.5 x 0 in | 0.2 lb MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Walrus, CBC Books, Best New Poets 2016, The 75 pages Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead,, Grain, The New Quarterly, PRISM Signal Editions international, among other publications. In 2018, she won the Copper Nickel Vehicule Press Editors' Prize in Poetry. She is also the winner of the 2019 CBC Nonfiction Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Subject POETRY / Canadian / General

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Fear the Mirror By (author) Cora Siré Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $19.95 A fusion of biography and history, art and politics, told through the lives branching off one family tree.

In Fear the Mirror, Cora Siré brings together thirteen stories of moments that have marked the dark intersections within her own history. A feminist mother who fled Estonia. A father who arrived in Canada with nothing but a violin. A Catalan boy whose parent is dying. A love triangle among novelists. Bodies stolen in the night and never found. Blending essay, memoir, and fiction, the Montréal author draws on her encounters in Latin America and elsewhere to compose loving and conflicted portraits - of family members, writers, filmmakers, and 9781550655773 gravediggers - culminating in the persistent legacies and strange alchemies that haunt the person she sees in the mirror. In this masterful fifth book, Siré has English written her most urgent, beguiling, and personal work to date. 5 x 7.5 x 0 in | 0.2 lb 240 pages Contributor Bio Esplanade Books Cora Siré is the author of two works of fiction and two poetry collections. Her Vehicule Press novel Behold Things Beautiful was a finalist for the QWF's Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize in 2017. Her stories, essays and poems have been Subject published in many anthologies and magazines in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Based in Montréal, she often writes of elsewheres, drawing on encounters in FICTION / Short Stories faraway places and her family history of displacement.

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Hallelujah Time By (author) Virginia Konchan Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $17.95 Hallelujah Time, Virgina Konchan's third full-length poetry collection--and the first to appear in Canada--delivers up poetry that is unlike anything being written today. Specializing in fast-moving monologues that track the vagaries and divagations of a mind in action, Konchan cuts our most hallowed cultural institutions and constructions down to size with surprising turns of language both theatrical and sincere. Hallelujah Time embraces a dazzling mix of idioms, registers, and tones in poems that compress everything they know into aphoristic, hard-boiled insights as arresting as they are witty. "My human desire," Konchan writes, "is simple: / to live on the perpetual cusp / of extremity." Hallelujah Time is a revelation. 9781550655827 Contributor Bio English 5 x 7.5 x 0 in | 0.2 lb Virginia Konchan is the author of two poetry collections, Any God Will Do and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020 and 2018), as well 75 pages as a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her Signal Editions poems and essays have appeared widely throughout the U.S. and Canada, Vehicule Press including in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Believer, and Boston Review. She lives in Halifax. Subject POETRY / Canadian / General

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Ricochet Books Perilous Passage By (author) Arthur Mayse , Introduction by Susan Mayse Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $14.95 Drug-runners threaten the West Coast! Reviews A semi-conscious man looks about a boat's cabin as a woman presses a wet cloth to his forehead. She's young, her nails are short, and her small hands are calloused. When another man tries to enter, she grabs a gun: "If you come down "A rousing tale about drug-running on here, Joe, I'll shoot you." the British Columbia coast. It is fast- moving, full of plot and surprises, including a nice assortment of For a moment, the intruder doesn't move. "I don't want your damn' old hulk," he incidental murders." - The Globe & tells her. When the woman threatens a second time, he leaves. "You'd better too," Mail 9781550655841 he says. "She's near sunk." English "No one has written more about this 5 x 7.5 x 0 in | 0.2 lb So begins the story of Clint, a reform school runaway, and Devvy, an orphaned coast more often, and more knowingly farm girl saddled with a deceitful drunk of a stepmother. Clint and Devvy are (I want to say wisely, too) than has 220 pages pushed together as they struggle against the corrupt, criminal, violent adults Arthur Mayse." - Charles Lillard Vehicule Press trying to exert control over their lives.

Subject Perilous Passage first appeared in 1949 as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. It has since been published in hardcover, paperback, and in Swedish translation. FICTION / Noir This Ricochet Books edition marks the first new edition since 1952.

Distributor Contributor Bio LitDistCo Arthur Mayse was born in 1912 on the Peguis Indian Reserve, Manitoba, the son of Baptist missionaries. He began his writing career at age twelve with a story Expected ship date: Aug 20, 2021 sold to the Toronto Star Weekly. As an adult, Mayse joined the Vancouver Daily Province and, later, the Vancouver Sun. He served two years as Fiction Editor at Maclean's, before resigning to focus on his own short stories; more than three- Carton quantity: 48 dozen appeared in the Saturday Evening Post alone. His other novels include The Desperate Search (1952), Morgan's Mountain (1960), and Hardliner's Island (1990). Arthur Mayse died in 1992.

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Words are the Worst Selected Poems By (author) Erik Lindner , Translated by Francis Jones , Introduction by David O'Meara Sep 15, 2021 | Paperback , Trade | $17.95 Born in 1968 in The Hague, Erik Lindner is one of the Netherland's most acclaimed poets. Admired for a style that fuses simplicity with strangeness, Lindner builds his poems through a montage of descriptive images that, by fending off closure, generate extraordinary visionary power. Gathering together new work with a selection from his previous six collections, Words are the Worst offers a range of pleasures that have made him celebrated in his home country: an austere eloquence; a hard, unsparing precision; a restless and idiosyncratic eye. Best of all is how his intensely filmic observations transform haunted landscapes of windmills, birds, dogs and houseboats on canals into, as one critic put it, 9781550655834 "Lindner-like" moments. Brilliantly translated by Francis R. Jones, with an introduction by Canadian poet David O'Meara, Words are the Worst introduces English a leading Dutch voice to English readers. 5 x 7.5 x 0 in | 0.2 lb 75 pages Contributor Bio Signal Editions Vehicule Press Erik Lindner is a Dutch poet, writer, and literary critic. His first book of poetry, Tramontane, appeared in 1996. Five more collections have followed, including two novels. His work has been translated into French, German and Italian. Words Subject are the Worst: Selected Poems is his first volume of poetry in English. POETRY / European / General

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