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◄ PUBLISHER’S MESSAGE ►

◄ NEW FOR FALL 2016 ►

CORMORANT BOOKS 2 • Walking Through Glass, a memoir by Joanne Vannicola 3 • A Family Outing, a memoir by Ruby Remenda Swanson 4 • Over the River, a new Benny Cooperman mystery by Howard Engel 5 • The Jane Loop, a novel by Graham Jackson

DCB/DANCING CAT BOOKS 6 • The Darkhouse, a young adult speculative thriller by Barbara Radecki 7 • The Bermuda Shipwreck, a middle grade nautical adventure by Eric Murphy

◄ NOTABLE BACKLIST ►

8-11 • Cormorant Spring 2016 Titles 12 • DCB Spring 2016 Titles 13-15 • Recent Notables 16-17 • Notable Backlist

◄ COMPLETE TITLE LISTINGS ►

18-19 • Cormorant Books Titles in Print 19 • DCB Titles in Print 20-21 • Cormorant Books & DCB Author Index

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Thirty years ago, Garry Geddes — poet, editor of anthologies, professor, and previously the publisher of Quadrant Editions, a subscription and mail-order literary press — founded Cormorant Books. The name he gave to the press — “Cormorant” — was because he had heard that the cormorant is a voiceless bird; it was his intention to give voice to those writers who up to that point in Canada had been effectively voiceless. Thirty years ago was 1986. A lifetime. The country was in the throes of the AIDS crisis, Trudeau’s legacy of multiculturalism was under attack, free trade agreements and transnational corporations were in the ascendant. There was no better time than then to give voice to poets and authors whose work was not finding a home with the mainstream publishers. Over the course of the next fourteen years, Gary’s editorial influence waned and ended as Jan Geddes took over the reins and carried forward her understanding of Gary’s vision. First novels, first collections of short fiction, and poetry continued to be published to critical acclaim. Nominations for awards occurred with greater regularity and the press’s cultural status grew accordingly. The ownership of Cormorant evolved as well. Jan sold a portion of the company to Stoddart Publishing, and then in 2001 sold her remaining shares, leaving the company. I became Cormorant’s third publisher in January of that year. The following few years were difficult, as the publishing industry underwent changes of a magnitude never before contemplated — the loss of hundreds of independent booksellers; the formation of one chain where once there had been five; the loss of all major Canadian publishers — Macmillan, M&S (sold to Random House), Stoddart Publishing (in the collapse of General Distribution Services and General Publishing), Key Porter Books (in the closure of H.B. Fenn), Douglas & McIntyre (broken into pieces), McArthur & Company. Through it all, the current staff — Barry Jowett, Bryan Ibeas, and I — have added our understanding to the original vision of the press started in an old farmhouse, next to a quarry, in Dunvegan, Ontario. We continue to publish first-time novelists, short story collections, poetry, and books for young adults and children. We give voice to the voiceless, to the authors and poets whose earliest works do not find homes with the dominant multinational publishing corporations at a time when newer free trade agreements have the potential to erode Canada’s standing as a sovereign nation, and when immigration and identity politics have been used by a federal political party as an election wedge issue. Why is it important to publish, especially to publish the works of literary artists not deemed mainstream? Because these are the voices that bring experience, ideas, and perspectives that need to be read. Because over the years, these writers become the mainstream — , Charles Foran, , , Michael V. Smith, , Claire Holden Rothman, Olive Senior, Lee Maracle — and they make the mainstream all the stronger because their points of view do not originate in it. They originated with a publisher dedicated to making their voices heard — heard against the great cacophony of commerce that passes for publishing in our modern times.

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Walking Through Glass a memoir by Joanne Vannicola

A good portion of Joanne Vannicola’s life has been spent in the spotlight — but it didn’t start that way. Walking Through Glass is the story of her journey out of the dark. The youngest of three sisters and one brother, she was raised in Montreal by a violent father and a stage mother obsessed with her. Joanne’s earliest memories are of dance lessons, fabric and costume shops, and performances. There was to be no ordinary childhood for her, and at fourteen, she had had enough. She left home for Toronto, to fend for herself in the film business. More than a personal memoir, Walking Through Glass describes what it’s like for teenagers to live in the adult world without a family, what it is to be a woman in an industry that objectifies them, to be a lesbian in a time when that same industry alternately celebrated and vilified them. It tells of her battles with an eating disorder, and of her coming to terms with her own developing sexuality. But Joanne’s tale is not one of woe; Walking Through Glass is an extraordinary tale of survival. 6

Joanne Vannicola is an Emmy Award-winning actor. She ISBN 978-1-77086-477-1 has worked extensively in film and television, with roles $24 • TP • 5.5” x 8.5” • 320 pp in , Stardom, Stonewall, Being BIO005000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ Erica, , Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, PSI Factor: Entertainment & Performing Arts Chronicles of the Paranormal, Crash Canyon, and My Dad BIO031000 Biography & Memoir/LGBT The Rockstar. Joanne lives in Toronto. BIO022000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ Women Release: October 2016

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A Family Outing a memoir by Ruby Remenda Swanson

Ruby Swanson’s life changed when her sixteen-year-old son walked to her office, closed the door, and with his hand still on the doorknob said, “I’m gay.” Despite her initial reaction of shock, fear, and denial, Ruby became a public advocate for equality and acceptance of the LGBT community. A Family Outing is the story of Ruby’s experiences. She addresses the deeply homophobic time in which baby boomers grew up, the emergence of the gay rights movement, and how the AIDS epidemic transformed the LGBT landscape. A Family Outing is a memoir about discovering gay great-uncles and learning about their lives. It is about operating spotlights at a drag queen show, and about march- ing in Pride Parades. It is about the discrimination that gay people continue to face today and what emerges from the direct, clear-eyed prose. Finally, it is the picture of a woman who endured taunts from religious fundamentalists and political protestors to become an LGBT advocate. 6

Originally from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Ruby Remenda Swanson is currently Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Studies at the University of Alberta. She was a freelance promotional writer with the Children’s Television Workshop in . ISBN 978-1-77086-476-4 She has received the University of Alberta Human Rights $24 • TP • 6” x 9” • 256 pp Education Recognition Award and was a director of PFLAG BIO031000 Biography & Memoir/LGBT Edmonton. Ruby lives in Edmonton with her husband. FAM032000 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS/ Parenting/Motherhood Release: September 2016

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Over the River a Benny Cooperman Mystery by Howard Engel

Struggling with the aftermath of a serious concussion as well as what he describes as a “leaky memory,” Benny Cooperman is back after eight years. He’s hired on a shoe- string budget to find background information on a murder victim, Leonard Holbrook, a petty crook and blackmailer, who certainly got what was coming to him — but which of the many possible suspects acted on their very good reasons? Over the river happens to be across the border, where the police of Grantham have no jurisdiction, but where Benny can interview a cast of characters who wouldn’t be out of place in the mysteries of Chandler and Hammett. In prose laced with tributes to poetry, theatre, novels, and film, Howard Engel delights and entertains the reader in this fifteenth Benny Cooperman mystery. 6

Howard Engel is the author of seventeen works of fiction, including the fourteen books in the Benny Cooperman mystery series, published in more than fifteen languages and adapted into two CBC TV movies and broadcast around the world. Regarded as one of the progenitors of Canadian crime writing, Engel was awarded the Crime Writers of Canada Grand Master Award in 2014. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2007, won the Writers’ Trust of ISBN 978-1-77086-458-0 Canada Matt Cohen Award for a life in writing in 2004, $20.00 • TP •6” x 9” • 228 pp and received an honorary doctorate from Brock University. FIC022090 FICTION/Mystery & Detective/ Private Investigators

FIC022000 FICTION/Mystery & Detective/ also by Howard Engel General CITY OF FALLEN ANGELS FIC022060 FICTION/Mystery & Detective/ A Mike Ward Mystery Historical ISBN 978-1-77086-379-8 Release: October 2016 $20 • TP

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The Jane Loop a novel by Graham Jackson

The suburbs of Toronto in the early 1960s were safe, comfortable, and convenient. For example, in Islington — home to sixteen year-old Neil Bennett — one can easily access “downtown” by way of a bus that connects with streetcars at the Jane Loop. The suburbs made few demands on their residents. Beneath the polite conversations, where words like clean, nice, neat, and order were heard frequently, Neil experiences disturbing undercurrents. His father tortures him psychologically, with tricks and jokes that belie a sadistic nature. And Neil himself finds that he is attracted, not to girls, but to boys — specifically, the dreamboat who delivers the family’s bread. As his attraction grows and is eventually acted upon, his world begins to open up: first with the visit of his aunt from Los Angeles, then during a two-week period, when his family escapes the summer humidity for the cooler climes of cottage country, and he’s left alone in the house. 6

Born and raised in Toronto, Graham Jackson has been a journalist, playwright, researcher for Methuen Publishers, and writer on male-on-male intimacy from a Jungian perspective. He lives in Toronto where, when not writing, ISBN 978-1-77086-480-1 he practices as an analytical psychologist. $22.00 • TP w/ flaps • 5.5” x 8.5” • 288 pp FIC019000 FICTION/Literary FIC014000 FICTION/Historical FIC011000 FICTION/Gay Release: October 2016

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The Darkhouse a young adult thriller by Barbara Radecki

Fifteen-year-old Gemma’s life on a small New Brunswick island with her father, Jonah, is not an exciting one. Her mother ran off when she was an infant, and Jonah, an amateur scientist, spends most of his time conducting experiments he thinks will one day bring him fame. When a woman arrives on the island, Gemma tries to play match- maker with the stranger and Jonah. But then, what seems to be a coming-of-age story turns into a thriller. Gemma discovers Jonah’s secret journals, and learns of a sinister experiment he plans for the newcomer. And just when she thinks she’s learned the darkest secret there is, Gemma discovers that this man who has claimed to be her father may, in fact, be her kidnapper … and respon- sible for the death of the twin sister she never knew she had. Mystery, science, and dreams of a better life collide in this page-turning young adult novel from Barbara Radecki. 6

Before transitioning to writing, Barbara Radecki was an established actor with many film and television roles and hundreds of commercials to her credit. In recent years, several of her screenplays have been optioned or sold. Born in Vancouver and now based in Toronto, The Darkhouse is ISBN 978-1-77086-478-8 her debut novel. Ages 13+ • Grades 8-12 $14.95 • TP • 5.375” x 8” • 240 pp YAF062000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/ Thrillers & Suspense YAF055000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/ Science & Technology YAF042000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/ Mysteries & Detective Release: October 2016 6 DCB Fall 2016 6

The Bermuda Shipwreck a middle grade adventure by Eric Murphy

Sailing, scuba diving, and beautiful weather. It seems like a great impromptu vacation for thirteen-year-old Will and his older cousin Harley. But the vacation turns into a battle with crooks who are searching for a centuries-old treasure. A client of the family sail-making business in Lunen- burg, has asked the cousins to deliver his boat to Bermuda. Little do they know that the delivery job is not what it seems, and when they get to Bermuda they find themselves being forced at gunpoint to dive for a US Civil War-era blockade runner that is said to have sunk laden with gold. As they try to foil the plans of the treasure-seekers, Will and Harley learn about the shipwreck, the Civil War blockades, and a connection to the Keith brewing family of Nova Scotia. 6

Eric Murphy spent summers sailing the Ottawa River. After writing his M.A. thesis in Quebec City, he worked in New York and Paris. He sails when visiting relatives in Halifax, and in Toronto where he lives with his family and their Jack Russell, Fitzroy. Eric works as an actor and writer. ISBN 978-1-77086-479-5 His previous sailing adventures, The Phantom’s Gold and Ages 11-13 • Grades 6-8 The Dead Man’s Boot, have been popular with readers and $12.95 • TP • 5.375” x 8” • 196 pp tourists in Canada and the United States. The Phantom’s Gold was a Resource Links Year’s Best of 2013 selection, YAF001000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/ Action & Adventure/General and was shortlisted for the 2015 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award. YAF024160 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Historical/ United States/Civil War Period (1850-1877) YAF059130 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/ Sports & Recreation/Water Sports Release: October 2016 7 Cormorant Books Spring 2016 6

Advocate Darren Greer

ISBN 978-1-77086-471-9 • $22.95 TP w/ flaps • 5.5” x 8.5” • 376 pp FIC019000 Fiction/Literary, FIC014000 FICTION/Historical, FIC043000 Fiction/Coming of Age

By the author of Just Beneath My Skin, 2015 selection for One Book Nova Scotia and winner of the 2015 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

When Jacob is called back to Advocate, he is not only returning home again, some- thing he knows he cannot really do; he is going to face his dying grandmother and the people of the town who turned on one of their own. Twenty years earlier, when his uncle David came home, it was to die. The response in Advocate was typical of most towns, large and small, in 1984: when his disease became known, Jacob, his grandmother, his mother, and his aunt were shunned, turned out from school and their jobs, out of fear of an until-then unknown virus.

The Sweetest One Melanie Mah

ISBN 978-1-77086-432-0 • $21.95 TP w/ flaps • 5.5” x 8.5” • 280 pp FIC019000 Fiction/Literary, FIC044000 Fiction/Contemporary Women FIC043000 Fiction/Coming of Age

Cosmopolitan and curious seventeen-year-old Chrysler Wong suffers from a debilitating fear brought on by belief in a family curse. Three of her siblings have died after turning eighteen and venturing beyond the borders of their tiny rural Alberta town, and the fourth, her favourite, has recently left and is incommunicado. Is she destined to share their fate — or worse, doomed to live a circumscribed life?

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Molly O • Mark Foss ISBN 978-1-77086-430-6 • $20.00 • TP w/ flaps • 5.125” x 7.625” • 200 pp FIC019000 Fiction/Literary

On a three-tiered stage in the Ontario countryside, the mellifluous voice of an auctioneer can induce grizzled farmers to buy broken shovels. His two sons help out with the business, but it’s his strangely mute young daughter who seduces auction-goers with her elaborate vintage costumes. When she disappears, the younger brother — now a Montreal film professor — begins a lifelong search that ultimately leads him to the silent, experimental cinema of Molly O.

The Land Mine • Eric Wright ISBN 978-1-77086-460-3 • $20.00 • TP • 5.125” x 7.625” • 132 pp FIC019000 Fiction/Literary, FIC014000 Fiction/Historical

In London, 1943, Derek and his mother are forced to live with his grandparents when a German “land mine” destroys the roof of their house. Returning to his backyard air raid shelter, Derek discovers it has been taken over by a suspicious man who claims to be a British double agent. The visitor’s true identity and intentions prove to be an irresistible mystery to the schoolboy and his friends.

“Wright keeps things entertaining with his easily readable style and the characters’ constant movement.” — Quill & Quire on Wright’s novel Finding Home

Griffintown • Marie Hélène Poitras • trans. by ISBN 978-1-77086-388-0 • $21.95 • TP w/ flaps • 5.125” x 7.625” • 172 pp FIC019000 Fiction/Literary, FIC014000 Fiction/Historical

Loaded with grit, heart, murder, and desire, Griffintown harnesses the style of a Spaghetti Western to tell the exhilarating story set in the world of the coachmen of Old Montreal, the city’s urban cowboys.

“There is something of a great writer in Marie Hélène Poitras.” — The Huffington Post

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Once there were Giants The Modern Montreal Poets Who Set Out to Build a National Literature David O’Rourke

ISBN 978-1-77086-469-6 • $36.95 HC • 6” x 9” • 320 pp LCO006000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS/Canadian, LIT004080 LITERARY CRITICISM/Canadian, POE011000 POETRY/Canadian

In a series of interviews conducted in the 1980s with F.R. Scott, P.K. Page, Betty Layton, Irving Layton, Audrey Sutherland, and Louis Dudek, David O’Rourke creates a vivid oral history of the times, places, and people deeply involved in Preview and First Statement, two publications that laid down the foundations for Canadian literary culture. A story evolves that is akin to a novel, complete with literary rivalries, cold garrets, love affairs, and great poetry.

Immortal Shadow A Life of William Hutt Keith Garebian

ISBN 978-1-77086-473-3 • $36.95 HC • 6” x 9” • 320 pp LCO006000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS/Canadian, LIT004080 LITERARY CRITICISM/Canadian, POE011000 POETRY/Canadian

William Hutt was one of the greatest actors to tread the hallowed boards of the and many other stages across Canada. Born into a prosperous Toronto family, Hutt did not find his calling until after serving in the Second World War, when he became involved in the theatre at Trinity College and Hart House. The arc of Hutt’s rising star charts the development of theatre and all the arts in Canada. The particulars of his life — which he seems to have gone through, something like Noël Coward, with a large martini glass in hand — touch on friendships and working relationships with many of Canada’s leading artists of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Borrowed Days Poems New and Selected Marc Plourde

ISBN 978-1-77086-468-9 • $20.00 TP • 5.5” x 8.5” • 112 pp POE011000 Poetry/Canadian

Present and past collide in Marc Plourde’s poems, which sketch out a multi- faceted portrait of his home territory over a period of half a century. Set in rural Quebec and Montreal, Park Extension’s immigrant streets, College Notre Dame in the 1960s, McGill Ghetto’s bohemia of the 1970s and the city’s changing downtown core, they focus on family, neighbours, and strangers, seen through the eyes of a sometimes bemused but compassionate observer of the human drama.

Selected Poems 1967-2011 George Jonas

ISBN 978-1-77086-475-7 • $20.00 TP • 5.5” x 8.5” • 96 pp POE011000 Poetry/Canadian

The poems in this collection, selected by Anna Porter, Barbara Amiel, Robyn Sarah, and Marc Côté, demonstrate great depth and breadth over Jonas’s forty-four year career of publishing poetry in literary and scholarly journals in Canada and abroad. From the occasional poems of the 1960s, when he was writing as a young man, to the variations and translations of great European poets — from Goethe to Faludy — when he is writing as a much wiser, older man, the poetry reveals a sensibility entirely contemporary and original, but steeped in grand tradition, a writer very much engaged with the things of his world.

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The Girl in the Well is Me • Karen Rivers ISBN 978-1-77086-464-1 • $12.95 • TP • 5.375” x 8” • Age 10-13 • Grade 5-8 JUV039230 JUVENILE FICTION/Social Issues/Bullying JUV039160 JUVENILE FICTION/Social Issues/Suicide JUV013060 JUVENILE FICTION/Family/Parents

A unique narrator with an authentic, sympathetic, sharp, funny voice tells a story perfect for fans of Flora and Ulysses, Reign Rein, and Counting by 7s. The Girl in the Well is Me will have readers laughing and crying and laugh-crying over the course of its suspenseful, utterly believable events.

“Moving, suspenseful, and impossible to put down.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Lightning Lou • Lori Weber ISBN 978-1-77086-462-7 • $12.95 • TP • 5.375” x 8” • Age 9-12 • Grade 4-6 JUV032110 JUVENILE FICTION/Sports & Recreation/Hockey JUV014000 JUVENILE FICTION/Girls & Women JUV016160 JUVENILE FICTION/Historical/Canada/General

When a team in an all-girls’ hockey league comes to recruit players, twelve-year-old Lou’s dreams seem to be coming true. But the dreams hinge on one thing: never letting on that Lou is a boy. But the road to stardom is not easy, as Lou discovers that the competition is fierce, and that he’s got a lot of work to do to match the skills of the league’s star player and his chief rival, Albertine Lepensée. All the while, he has to keep his secret, and wrestle with the moral dilemma of taking a place on the team away from a deserving girl.

The Turing Machinists • M.E. Reid ISBN 978-1-77086-466-5 • $14.95 • TP • 5.375” x 8” • Age 12+ • Grade 7-11 YAF058070 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Social Themes/Disabilities & Special Needs YAF047030 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Performing Arts/Music YAF018030 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Family/Marriage & Divorce

At seventeen, Del’s world seems to be falling apart. He’s managed his Asperger’s well, has a solid group of friends in his special needs class at school, and even manages to get by among people who don’t understand his brand of communication. When his parents split up, Del decides the way to keep them together is to live out his father’s dream of musical stardom. With some friends, he forms The Turing Machinists, an all-Asperger’s rock band. But they’ll need help, from a reclusive rock legend who would rather have nothing to do with the music scene.

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Crossover • M. Travis Lane ISBN 978-1-77086-440-5 • $18 • TP • 5.5” x 8.5” POE011000 Poetry/Canadian

Shortlisted for the 2016 Westminster Books Award for Poetry Shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry

“M. Travis Lane is powerful and confident with the lyric voice.” — The Town Crier

“In a tone that is very much reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop, Lane transforms the seemingly lacklustre into something quite extraordinary.” — Arc Poetry on M. Travis Lane’s previous poetry collection, Ash Steps

The Pain Tree • Olive Senior ISBN 978-1-77086-434-4 • $22.95 • TP w/ flaps • 5.5” x 8.5” FIC019000 Fiction/Literary, FIC029000 Fiction/Short Stories

Finalist for the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

“At every level of her stories’ constructions, Senior works deftly … dealing with open palms in the deep wells of remembrance, ancestry and a crosshatch of colonising scars, this fiction looks face-upwards to the mountains of multiple Jamaicas for hope, home and daily bread.” — The Trinidad Guardian

The Tiny Wife • Andrew Kaufman ISBN 978-1-77086-404-7 • $20 • TP • 5” x 7.25” FIC019000 Fiction/Literary

Winner of the 2015 ReLit Award (Novel)

“Clever. Brilliant. Funny. Moving.” — Cecilia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You

“It blew me away!” — Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly

“The best in magic realism … heartbreaking, tender, horrifying, beautiful, and wondrous.” — Bella’s Bookshelves

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Hope Makes Love • Trevor Cole ISBN 978-1-77086-456-6 • $29.95 • HC • 5.5” x 8.5” FIC019000 Fiction/Literary

A 49th Shelf Book of the Year for 2015

“A novel of vivid emotional truths, grounded in characters so skilfully drawn they emerge as human beings captured on the page, rather than created ... gracious and graceful, powerful and clear-eyed, thoughtful, and full of life.” —

“Cole’s ability to make readers think is as important as his talent for making them laugh ... It’s the combination of comedy and tragedy – of science and emotion – that makes the book so rewarding.” — Quill & Quire

A Secret Music • Susan Doherty Hannaford ISBN 978-1-77086-367-5 • $21.95 • TP w/ flaps • 5.25” x 8” FIC019000 Fiction/Literary, FIC014000 Fiction/Historical

“A pleasure of A Secret Music is how fond we grow of nearly all of the characters. Full disclosure: I cried at least once while reading this book and did not want to part with the Nolan family when I turned the last page. A Secret Music sings.” — Montreal Review of Books

“Brought to life by a sharp eye for physical and sensory detail and meticulous historical accuracy.” — Montreal Gazette

“A powerful debut.” —

Safe as Houses • Susan Glickman ISBN 978-1-77086-436-8 • $20 • TP • 5.125” x 7.625” FIC022000 Fiction/Mystery & Detective/General

“The mystery is a good one … it’s short and fun and well-written and perfect for a rainy after- noon at home.” — The Globe and Mail

“Almost fits into the ‘cozy’ category of mysteries, but doesn’t surrender all its teeth in order to provide a soothing read … I don’t have a cottage, but if I did, this would be an excellent book to read there.” —

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Transferral • Kate Blair ISBN 978-1-77086-454-2 • $14.95 • TP • 5.375” x 8” • Ages 13+ • Grade 8+ YAF056000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Science Fiction/General YAF029000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Law & Crime YAF058000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Social Themes/General

“Blair presents a new twist on the formulaic dystopian genre, developing flawed characters who are incredibly likable in a relatable world where right and wrong are more gray than black- and-white ... highly accessible, and the very timely themes will provide endless discussion and debate regardless of age level ... an unputdownable pick, it is a great addition for any public or secondary school library.” — School Library Journal

The Dead Man’s Boot • Eric Murphy

ISBN 978-1-77086-444-3 • $12.95 • TP • 5.375” x 8” • Age 9-12 • Grade 4-6 JUV00100 Juvenile Fiction/Action & Adventure JUV032060 Juvenile Fiction/Sports & Recreation/Water Sports JUV029010 Juvenile Fiction/Nature & the Natural World/Environment

“[The] connection between fictional and real characters is artfully constructed; readers learn not only about sailing, but also a bit about 1920s Canadian history. There is so much right about this novel — seamanship, history, narrative — that I would highly recommend it to any young readers ... Rated E for Excellent.” — Resource Links on Murphy’s The Phantom’s Gold

Delicate • C.K. Kelly Martin

ISBN 978-1-77086-452-8 • $14.95 • TP • 5.375” x 8” • Age 14+ • Grade 9+ YAF058040 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Social Themes/Dating And Sex YAF058170 YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Social Themes/Physical & Emotional Abuse

“Martin fills this novel with relevant, delicate issues common among teens today. Each charac- ter is presented as a well-rounded human, reflecting the good, bad, and ugly found in human nature. This fascinating work explores dating violence and parental issues, while also accurately addressing teen sex lives in a way that is realistic and doesn’t come across as preachy. Readers will connect with the characters through this refreshing look at contemporary issues.” — School Library Journal

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978-1-897151-78-5 978-1-897151-35-8 978-1-77086-451-1 978-1-897151-06-8 Breathing the Lives of the Celia’s Song bOTTLE rOCKET Page Saints Lee Maracle hEARTS Betsy Warland Nino Ricci $20 • TP Zoe Whittall $20 • TP $19.95 • TP $20 • TP

978-1-77086-446-7 978-1-896951-42-3 978-1-897151-21-1 978-1-77086-184-8 No Culture, Volkswagen the heart Out of My Skin No Future Blues specialist Tessa McWatt Simon Brault Jacques Poulin Claire Holden Rothman $20 • TP $21 • TP $19.95 • TP $21 • TP w/ flaps

978-1-77086-364-4 978-1-77086-002-5 978-1-77086-003-2 978-1-77086-415-3 The Geography gREAT vILLAGE And Also Sharks River Music Jessica Westhead of Pluto Mary Rose Donnelly Mary Soderstrom $21 • TP w/ flaps Christopher DiRaddo $21 • TP $24 • TP w/ flaps $21.95 • TP w/ flaps

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978-1-897151-33-4 978-1-897151-52-5 978-1-77086-042-1 m is for moose canada counts the circle game Charles Pachter Charles Pachter Joni Mitchell $20 • Age 3-5 $20 • Age 3-5 $20 • Age 3-8

978-1-77086-266-1 978-1-77086-394-1 978-1-897151-96-9 The Phantom’s Bye-Bye, Evil Eye home truths 978-1-77086-039-1 Gold Deborah Kerbel Jill MacLean The Tiffin Eric Murphy $12.95 • Age 9-12 $14.95 • Age 12+ Mahtab Narsimhan $12.95 • Age 9-12 $12.95 • Ages 9-12

978-1-77086-246-3 978-1-77086-311-8 978-1-77086-409-2 978-1-77086-214-2 Burning from Nothing Man and With Fearful the darkest corner the Inside the Purple Zero Bravery of the world Christine Walde Richard Scarsbrook Lynne Kositsky Urve Tamberg $14.95 • Age 12+ $14.95 • Age 12+ $14.95 • Age 13+ $14.95 • Age 13+

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9781770864719 TP Advocate (Greer) $22.95 9781897151211 TP Heart Specialist, The (Rothman) $21.00 9781770862616 TP All the Daylight Hours (Jernigan) $18.00 9781896951027 TP Home Movies (Robertson) $19.95 9781770860032 TP And Also Sharks (Westhead) $21.00 9781897151037 TP Home Schooling (Windley) $22.95 9781897151136 HC And Beauty Answers (Cameron) $36.95 9781897151389 TP Honey Locust, The (Round) $21.00 9781770860964 TP Ash Steps (Lane) $18.00 9781897151754 HC Hooked on Canadian Books (Rigelhof) $32.00 9781770862906 HC Aunt Winnie (Cameron) $29.95 9781770864566 HC Hope Makes Love (Cole) $29.95 9781770862630 TP Hungry (Karasik) $18.00 9781896332215 TP Banana Boys (Woo) $22.95 9781770862623 TP Bee Garden, A (Pilling) $18.00 9781770862210 HC Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie, $44.95 9781896951850 HC Berth (Bruneau) $29.95 The (Pachter, Atwood) 9781896951492 TP Beyond Measure (Holdstock) $22.95 9781770864733 HC Immortal Shadow (Garebian) $36.95 9781896951881 TP Blackbird’s Song, The 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9781770860049 TP Undercurrents (Sarah) $24.00 9781896951812 TP Underground (Hutton) $21.00

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9781770864429 TP Attack of the Toga Gang (Bowering) $12.95 9781897151334 HC M is for Moose (Pachter) $20.00 9781770864795 TP Bermuda Shipwreck, The (Murphy) $12.95 9781897151952 TP Burn (Fullerton) $12.95 9781770863118 TP Nothing Man and the Purple Zero $14.95 9781770862463 TP Burning from the Inside (Walde) $14.95 (Scarsbrook) 9781770863941 TP Bye-Bye, Evil Eye (Kerbel) $12.95 9781770862661 TP Phantom’s Gold, The (Murphy) $12.95 9781897151525 HC Canada Counts (Pachter) $20.00 9781770860421 HC Circle Game, The (Deines, Mitchell) $20.00 9781770864115 TP Sweetest Thing You Can Sing, The (Martin) $14.95

9781770862142 TP Darkest Corner of the World, The (Tamberg) $14.95 9781770860391 TP Tiffin, The (Narsimhan) $12.95 9781770864788 TP Darkhouse, The (Radecki) $14.95 9781770864542 TP Transferral (Blair) $14.95 9781770864443 TP Dead Man’s Boot, The (Murphy) $12.95 9781770864665 TP Turing Machinists, The (Reid) $14.95 9781770864528 TP Delicate (Martin) $14.95 9781770864139 TP Twisted (Harrington) $14.95

9781897151846 HC Giraffe and Bird (Bender) $18.95 9781770860902 TP Under the Moon (Kerbel) $14.95 9781770864641 TP Girl in the Well is Me, The (Rivers) $12.95 9781770863088 TP Urgle (McIsaac) $12.95 9781770863910 TP Gottika (Becker) $12.95 9781770864092 TP With Fearful Bravery (Kositsky) $14.95 9781897151969 TP Home Truths (MacLean) $14.95

9781770863057 TP Kate Tattersall Adventures in China (Fleming) $12.95

9781770864627 TP Lightning Lou (Weber) $12.95 9781770862173 TP Live to Tell (Harrington) $14.95 19 Cormorant Books & DCB Author Index 6

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Anderson, Mia Light Takes Fullerton, Alma Burn Atwood, Margaret Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie, The Garebian, Keith Immortal Shadow Becker, Helaine Gottika Gibson, Sally Inside Toronto Bender, Rebecca Giraffe and Bird Gilbert, Sky English Gentleman, An Bhat, Shashi Family Took Shape, The Glickman, Susan Safe as Houses Bishop-Gwyn, Carol Pursuit of Perfection, The Tale-Teller, The Bissoondath, Neil Casual Brutality, A Godbout, Jacques Operation Rimbaud Doing the Heart Good Goodwin, Daniel Catullus’s Soldiers Soul of All Great Designs, The Graham, Gwethalyn Earth and High Heaven Unyielding Clamour of the Night, The Swiss Sonata Worlds Within Her, The Greer, Darren Advocate Blagrave, E. Tilt Just Beneath My Skin Blagrave, Mark Salt in the Wounds Still Life with June Silver Salts Strange Ghosts Blair, Kate Transferral Tyler’s Cape Borkowski, Andrew J. Copernicus Avenue Bowering, George Attack of the Toga Gang Hannan, Jack Rhythm to Stand Beside, A Pinboy Some Frames Bradshaw, Kathlyn Frankenstein Murders, The Harrington, Lisa Live to Tell Brault, Simon No Culture, No Future Twisted Bruneau, Carol Berth Hay, Elizabeth Only Snow in Havana, The Glass Voices Holdstock, Pauline Beyond Measure Purple for Sky Blackbird’s Song, The These Good Hands Homel, David Fledglings, The Burke, Martyn Music for Love or War Midway Bushkowsky, Aaron Curtains for Roy Hugelschaffer, Dave Day Into Night Vanishing Man, The One Careless Moment Whiskey Creek Cameron, Elspeth And Beauty Answers Hunter, Martin Critic, The Aunt Winnie Hutton, June Underground Chamberlin, J. Edward Island Charney, Ann Distantly Related to Freud Jernigan, Amanda All the Daylight Hours Life Class Jonas, George Jonas Variations, The Clark, Joan Victory of Geraldine Gull, The Selected Poems 1967-2011 Cole, Trevor Hope Makes Love Jorgenson, Jill Looking East Over My Shoulder Corbeil, Carole Voice-Over Karasik, Daniel Hungry DeGrace, Anne Flying with Amelia Kaufman, Andrew Tiny Wife, The Sounding Line Kavanagh, Patrick Gaff Topsails Treading Water Kearney, Greg Desperates, The Wind Tails Kerbel, Deborah Bye-Bye, Evil Eye Deines, Brian Circle Game, The Under the Moon Desjardins, Louise So Long King, James Étienne’s Alphabet DiRaddo, Christopher Geography of Pluto, The Old Masters Doherty Hannaford, Susan Secret Music, A Pure Inventions Donnelly, Mary Rose Great Village Kohn, Michael Greener than Eden Dubé, Peter City’s Gates, The Kositsky, Lynne With Fearful Bravery Dupont, Eric Sugar Thieves Jackson, Graham Jane Loop, The Elton, Sarah City of Words Engel, Howard City of Fallen Angels Lambert, Barbara Whirling Girl, The Over the River Fagan, Cary My Life Among the Apes Lane, M. Travis Ash Steps Valentine’s Fall Crossover Fawcett, Brian Last of the Lumbermen, The Lind, Jane Perfect Red Fleming, R.S. Kate Tattersall Adventures in China Lithgow, Michael Waking in the Tree House Foss, Mark Molly O Fragoulis, Tess Goodtime Girl, The MacLean, Jill Home Truths Frenette, Christiane Woman Who Walks on Glass, The Mah, Melanie Sweetest One, The

20 Major, Kevin New Under the Sun Tamberg, Urve Darkest Corner of the World, The Maracle, Lee Celia’s Song Taylor, Bruce No End in Strangeness Martin, C.K. Kelly Delicate Taylor, Rob Other Side of Ourselves, The Sweetest Thing You Can Sing, The Tilberg, Mary Oonagh McBurney, Margaret It’s All About Kindness Tostevin, Lola Lemire Frog Moon McGrath, Donald Port Inventory, The Trofimuk, Thomas Doubting Yourself to the Bone McIsaac, Meaghan Urgle Turcotte, Elise Sound of Living Things, The McLean, Helen Man and the Woman, The McNutt, Linda Summer Point Unwin, Peter Life Without Death McWatt, Tessa Dragons Cry Rock Farmers, The Out of My Skin When We Were Old Mitchell, Gilaine E. Breaking Words, The Wolf’s Head, The Mitchell, Joni Circle Game, The Urbanyi, Pablo Silver Murphy, Eric Bermuda Shipwreck, The Dead Man’s Boot, The Vannicola, Joanne Walking Through Glass Phantom’s Gold, The Walde, Christine Burning from the Inside Narsimhan, Mahtab Tiffin, The Warland, Betsy Breathing the Page Nichol, James W. Death Spiral Weber, Lori Lightning Lou Midnight Cab Westhead, Jessica And Also Sharks Whitehead, William Words to Live By Oliva, Peter Drowning in Darkness Whittall, Zoe Bottle Rocket Hearts O’Rourke, David Once There Were Giants Windley, Carol Home Schooling Woo, Terry Banana Boys Pachter, Charles Canada Counts Wright, Eric Finding Home Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie, The Land Mine, The M is for Moose Likely Story, A Paris, Erna From Tolerance to Tyranny Persky, Stan Post-Communist Stories Pilling, Marilyn Gear Bee Garden, A Plourde, Marc Borrowed Days Poitras, Marie Hélène Griffintown Porter, Anna Bookfair Murders, The Mortal Sins Poulin, Jacques Volkswagen Blues

Quiviger, Pascale Perfect Circle, The

Radecki, Barbara Darkhouse, The Reid, Gayla Come from Afar Reid, Mary Turing Machinists, The Ricci, Nino Lives of the Saints, The Rigelhof, T.F. Hooked on Canadian Books Rioux, Hélène Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost Wednesday Night at the End of the World Rivers, Karen Girl in the Well is Me, The Robbins, Kevin City of Words Robertson, Ray Gently Down the Stream Home Movies Rothman, Claire Holden Heart Specialist, The Round, Jeffrey Honey Locust, The Rowe, Michael Other Men’s Sons Ruth, Elizabeth Matadora

Sarah, Robyn Undercurrents Saucier, Jocelyn Jeanne’s Road Scarsbrook, Richard Nothing Man and the Purple Zero Senior, Olive Dancing Lessons Pain Tree, The

Smith, Michael V. Cumberland Progress Soderstrom, Mary River Music Violets of Usambara, The Swan, Susan Western Light, The Swanson, Ruby Remenda Family Outing, A

Tamayose, Darcy Odori

21 1990 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (Winner, Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci) • 1991 Books in Canada First Novel Award (Finalist, Woyzeck’s Head by Ekbert Faas) • 1993 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction (Winner, The Only Snow in Havana by Elizabeth Hay) • 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award (Finalist, Kitchen Music by Charles Foran) • 1996 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Ostend by François Gravel, translated by Sheila Fischman) • 1999 Books in Canada First Novel Award for Fiction (Winner, Before the Flood by Alan R. Wilson) • 2001 Upper Canada Writers’ Craft Award (Shortlisted, Born With A Tooth by Joseph Boyden) • 2002 Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction (Winner, The Unyielding Clamour of the Night by Neil Bissoondath) • 2003 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award (Finalist, Cumberland by Michael V. Smith) • 2004 (Finalist, Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock) • 2005 CBC (Finalist, Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin, translated by Sheila Fischman) • 2006 Celebrating Scotiabank Giller Prize (Finalist, The Perfect Circle by Pascale Quiviger, translated by Sheila Fischman) • 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Finalist, Home Schooling by Carol Windley) • 2007 Toronto Book Award (Finalist, Inside Toronto by Sally Gibson) • 2007 Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction (Winner, Doing the Heart Good by Neil Bissoondath) • 2008 (Winner, Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall) • 2008 Municipal Chapter of Toronto IODE Jean Throop Book Award (Winner, M is for Moose by Charles Pachter) • 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-Fiction (Winner, Other Men’s Sons by Michael Rowe) • 2008 Toronto Book Award (Finalist, And Beauty Answers by Elspeth Cameron) • 2008 Canada-Japan Literary Award (Winner, Odori by Darcy Tamayose) • 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Longlisted, The Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman) • 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Finalist, High-Wire Summer by Louise Dupré, translated by Liedewy Hawke) • 2011 Amazon.ca First Novel Award (Finalist, Dancing Lessons by Olive years of Senior) • 2011 Toronto Book Award (Finalist, Etiénne’s Alphabet by James 30 King) • 2012 Dartmouth Book Award (Winner, Great Village by Mary Rose Donnelly) • 2012 Toronto Book Award (Winner, Copernicus Avenue by Andrew J. Borkowski) • 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Longlisted, My Life Among the Apes seriously by Cary Fagan) • 2012 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award (Finalist, The Tiffin by Mahtab Narsimhan) • 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Text (Finalist, Under the Moon by Deborah Kerbel) • 2012 Danuta good Gleed Literary Award (Runner-up, And Also Sharks by Jessica Westhead) • 2013 Charles Taylor Prize (Finalist, The Pursuit of Perfection by Carol Bishop-Gwyn) • 2013 OLA Evergreen Award (Finalist, The Western Light by Susan Swan) • writing. 2013 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction (Finalist, Pinboy by ) • 2014 OLA White Pine Award (Winner, Live to Tell by Lisa Harrington) • 2014 Trillium Award (Finalist, Life Without Death by Peter Unwin) • 2014 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (Finalist, The Family Took Shape by Shashi Bhat) • 2014 Lambda Literary Award (Finalist, The Desperates by ) • 2015 CBC Canada Reads (Longlisted, Celia’s Song by Lee Maracle) • 2015 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (Winner, Just Beneath My Skin by Darren Greer) • 2015 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (Finalist, Curtains for Roy by Aaron Bushkowsky) • 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry (Finalist, Crossover by M. Travis Lane) • 2015 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award (Finalist, The Phantom’s Gold by Eric Murphy) • 2016 ReLit Award (Winner, novel, The Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman) • 2016 ReLit Award (Finalist, poetry, When We Were Old by Peter Unwin) • 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Winner, fiction, The Pain Tree by Olive Senior)

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