University of Regina Press Spring 2019 We Also Acknowledge the Support of the University of Regina
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University of Regina Press Spring 2019 PUBLISHER’S LETTER More than a little house on the prairie. Publishers Weekly has called University We are also working with First Nations of Regina Press (URP) “more than a little University of Canada to establish a house on the prairie,” while The Chronicle publishing program there starting in of Higher Education Review said we fall 2019, and helping to train the next are “the little house that could.” Now generation of publishers. These young that URP has turned five years old, we people will change the face of our industry, are both proud of our accomplishments amplify the Indigenous voice, and tell and looking towards the future. stories not now being told. We hope one day that they will run the house. With seven national bestsellers produced since our launch in June 2013, New York In our first five years we have established 1 University Press (NYUP) approached a foundation from which to thrive. We us to partner with them. We just will continue to put our authors front negotiated a deal to put our books in and centre, and the creativity and their catalogue, and beginning in January hard work that has made that possible 2019, they will market our books in the will continue too. I’m excited about all United States and sell them through the the possibilities and opportunities. Columbia University Press rep group. This U OF R PRESS SPRING 2019 partnership will allow us to expand our publishing program in radical new ways. Our motto, “a voice for many peoples,” includes 90-year-olds, trans kids, settlers of Saskatchewan, Indigenous writers, and many others, and will now include Bruce Walsh, Publisher writers from around the globe. We have three titles from Africa in the works and another from Guatemala in development. We want to publish non-Canadian perspectives as well as our own, help spark conversations about colonialism and Indigeneity worldwide, give our authors international exposure, and strengthen the house through an enhanced bottom line. University of Regina Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. / Nous reconnaissons l’appui financier du gouvernement du Canada. Our publishing activities are also supported by Creative Saskatchewan. We also acknowledge the support of the University of Regina. NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE $24.95 CDN / $18.95 USD $21.95 CDN / $17.95 USD paper 9780889775848 cloth 9780889776258 pdf 9780889775855 pdf 9780889776265 epub 9780889775862 epub 9780889776272 5 × 8 / 312 pages 4.25 × 6.5 / 208 pages March 2019 April 2019 Categories: religion / good and evil Series: The Regina Collection Categories: history / biography ISBN 9780889775848 51895 ISBN 9780889776258 51795 9780889775848 9780889776258 Hell and Damnation American Refugees 2 A Sinner’s Guide to Eternal Torment Looking to Canada for Freedom 3 by Marq de Villiers by Rita Shelton Deverell “I find Marq de Villiers’ collection of facts and argument on eternal hen it became clear that Donald Rita Shelton Deverell is a television punishment to be persuasive. I feel more informed and intellectually Trump would become the new US broadcaster, social activist, and a founder of U OF R PRESS SPRING 2019 stimulated for having read it.” —Bill Doskoch, freelance journalist president on election night in 2016, Vision TV. Deverell moved to Canada in 1967 U OF R PRESS SPRING 2019 Wthe website for Citizenship and from Houston, Texas, and has been named Immigration Canada crashed. It was overwhelmed to the Maclean’s Honour Roll of Outstanding n Hell and Damnation, bestselling author “Hell and Damnation: A Sinner’s Guide to by Americans afraid that the United States Canadians, the Canadian Broadcasters’ Marq de Villiers takes readers on a journey Eternal Torment is a tongue-in-cheek travel would once again enter a period of intolerance Hall of Fame, and the Order of Canada. into the strange richness of the human guide through Hell, taking readers across history, and military aggression. In American Refugees, Iimaginings of hell, deep into time and geography, cultures, mythology, literature, Rita Shelton Deverell shows that from the across many faiths, back into early Egypt and religions and scripture. The book is also a Revolutionary War to the Underground Railroad the 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian epic of discussion of God, the universe, and ultimately, through to McCarthyism and Vietnam, Americans Gilgamesh. This urbane, funny, and deeply as the author puts it, ‘finding a place between have fled to Canada in times of crisis. Many still researched guide ventures well beyond the a First Cause Creator and meaninglessness, flee. All have sought better lives, while helping Nine Circles of Dante’s Hell and the many a new narrative of true understanding of the to shape Canada into the country it is today. medieval Christian visions into the hellish physical sciences that nevertheless touches descriptions in Islam, Buddhism, Jewish the human spirit.’ In the end, though, de Villiers legend, Japanese traditions, and more. encourages us to stop worrying because he’s convinced the chances of spending eternity burning in the underworld are very, very slight.” —Kathy Fitzpatrick, journalist Marq de Villiers is the Governor General’s Award–winning author of Named as a tribute to the history of boldness and innovation of Saskatchewan’s capital city, Water, and sixteen other books. Marq The Regina Collection builds upon our motto of “a voice for many peoples.” lives in Port Medway, NS. American Refugees is the tenth title in the series. NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE $18.95 CDN / $14.95 USD $24.95 CDN / $19.95 USD paper 9780889775930 cloth 9780889775817 pdf 9780889775947 pdf 9780889775824 epub 9780889775954 epub 9780889775831 5 × 8.25 / 144 pages 4.25 × 6.5 / 312 pages March 2019 January 2019 Series: Writers on Writing Series: The Regina Collection Categories: biography / writing skills / disability Categories: memoir / mental health / music ISBN 9780889775930 ISBN 9780889775817 51495 51995 9780889775930 9780889775817 Voice The Organist 4 Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness Discovering My Father in Music and Melancholy 5 by Adam Pottle by Mark Abley “Pottle writes beautifully. .” —Joanne Weber, author of The Deaf House “A wise and haunting book.” —Martha Baillie, author of The Search for Heinrich Schlögel U OF R PRESS SPRING 2019 U OF R PRESS SPRING 2019 n Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial “Pottle’s book [is] an important contribution to arry Abley was a nightmare of a “The Organist is a rich and wonderful book, a role deafness has played in the growth of the growing roster of writing supplied by deaf father: depressive, self-absorbed, deeply insightful and moving story of a family’s his imagination, and in doing so presents academics, artists, writers, actors and theatre unpredictable, emotionally journey through the 20th century. .Abley’s Ia unique perspective on a writer’s directors and professionals. .I felt a ‘coming unstable. He was also a dream tale is fearless in its revelations, yet also development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle home’ experience in reading this book. .As a H of a father: gentle, courageous, artistically loving, funny, and beautifully told.” —Ronald recounts what it was like growing up in a world deaf writer, I enthusiastically sa[y] ‘yes’ to his gifted. Mark Abley, his only child, grew up in Wright, author of A Scientific Romance of muted sound, and how his deafness has linkages between deafness and writing.” the shadow of music and mental illness. How and A Short History of Progress —Joanne Weber, author of The Deaf House influenced virtually everything about his writing, he came to terms with this divided legacy, and from his use of language to character and plot how he learned to be a man in the absence Mark Abley is a Rhodes Scholar, a choices. Salty, bold, and relentlessly honest, Adam Pottle has a PhD in English of a traditional masculine role model, are Guggenheim Fellow, a winner of Canada’s Voice makes us think about writing in entirely Literature and is the author of a play, a volume central to this beautifully written memoir. National Newspaper Award, and the first new ways and expands our understanding of poetry, and two novels, Beautiful Mutants Canadian recipient of the LiberPress Prize for of deafness and the gifts that it can offer. and The Bus. He lives in Saskatoon, SK. This extraordinary story will speak to all international writers. He has written six books of those who love music, who struggle with non-fiction, four collections of poetry, and two depression, or who wrestle with the difficult children’s books. Mark lives in Pointe Claire, QC. bonds of love between a parent and a child. Books in our new Writers on Writing series provide budding authors with insights on Named as a tribute to the history of boldness and innovation of Saskatchewan’s capital city, writing in various genres, from different perspectives. Voice is the second book in the series, The Regina Collection builds upon our motto of “a voice for many peoples.” edited by Jeanette Lynes. The Organist is the ninth title in the series. NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE $21.95 CDN / $16.95 USD $27.95 CDN / $21.95 USD paper 9780889775992 paper 9780889776166 pdf 9780889776005 pdf 9780889776173 epub 9780889776012 epub 9780889776180 6 × 9 / 192 pages 6 × 9 / 208 pages January 2019 February 2019 Categories: Indigenous / memoir / law enforcement Categories: literary collection ISBN 9780889775992 ISBN 9780889776166 51695 52195 9780889775992