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Cormorant-Fall-2016.Pdf CORMORANT BOOKS DCB FALL 2016 Table of Contents 6 ◄ 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 Sales Representation & Ordering Information 6 ATLANTIC CANADA, OTTAWA & E ONTARIO, BC, ALBERTA, NWT TORONTO (GIFT) Aydin Virani • [email protected] Laurie Martella • [email protected] P: 604-417-3660 • F: 604-371-3660 P: 416-461-7973 • Toll-free: 1-855-444-0770 x2 • F: 416-461-0365 BC (Lower mainland, Interior and QUEBEC Sunshine Coast), BOOKSTORES & GIFT Karen Stacey • [email protected] Kamini Stroyan • [email protected] P: 514-704-3626 • F: 1-800-596-8496 P: 604-771-5436 • F: 604-371-3660 MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN DIRECT ORDERING Rorie Bruce • [email protected] UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS P: 204-488-9481 • F: 204-487-3993 5201 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON, M3H 5T8 P: 416-667-7791 • Toll Free: 800-565-9523 ACADEMIC SALES (Eastern Canada) F: 416-667-7832 • Toll Free: 800-221-9985 Neil MacRae • [email protected] [email protected] P: 514-217-2350 • Toll-free: 1-855-444-0770 x4 • F: 1-800-596-8496 Canadian Telebook Agency Number S1150391 TORONTO, NORTHERN & SW ONTARIO Roberta Samec • [email protected] P: 416-461-7973 • Toll-free: 1-855-444-0770 x1 • F: 1-800-596-8496 Cover photo by Steve Munro Publisher’s Message 6 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 — Nino Ricci, Charles Foran, Elizabeth Hay, Joseph Boyden, Michael V. Smith, Zoe Whittall, 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. Marc Côté Publisher, Cormorant Books April 2016 Cormorant Books Fall 2016 6 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 Love and Human Remains, Stardom, Stonewall, Being BIO005000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ Erica, Rookie Blue, 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 2 Cormorant Books Fall 2016 6 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 New York City. 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 3 Cormorant Books Fall 2016 6 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.
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