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Goose Lane Editions Fall 2017 Best of Canadiana Canadian Pacific The Book of Letters I Didn’t Know The Golden Age of Travel Where to Send BARRY LANE STEVE PATTERSON 9780864928788 hc | $45 9780864928832 pb | $18.95 9780864929563 e | $18.95 9780864929570 m | $18.95 For Better or For Worse GWG In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven LYNN JOHNSTON and KATHERINE HADWAY The Great Western Garment Company JIM and SUE WADDINGTON 9780864928641 pb | $24.95 CATHERINE C. COLE 9780864928917 pb | $45 Pour le meilleur et pour le pire 9780864926418 pb | $29.95 Co-published with Art Gallery of Sudbury l’art de la bande dessinée selon Lynn Johnston Winner, CMA Award 9780864928856 pb | $24.95 Co-published with Art Gallery of Sudbury Sir John’s Table Tales from Under the Rim The Last Hockey Game The Culinary Life and Times of The Marketing of Tim Hortons BRUCE McDOUGALL Canada’s First Prime Minister RON BUIST 9780864923783 hc | $29.95 LINDY MECHEFSKE 9780864926609 pb | $19.95 9780864927248 e | $19.95 9780864928818 pb | $19.95 9780864927088 e | $19.95 Shortlisted, Toronto Book Award 9780864928399 e | $19.95 9780864928405 m | $19.95 BOOKSTORE CUSTOMERS Winner, 2016 Taste Canada Award Ask your sales rep for a complete list A 49th Shelf Book of the Year of Goose Lane’s Canadiana. Food 9780864929617 pb | $24.95 Apron Strings Navigating Food and Family 360 pages, 6 x 9 September 2017 in France, Italy, and China Food, Travel, Biography Rights held: Canada JAN WONG Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn’t keen to spend excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef and saw an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. Also appearing in ebook: On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing first-hand how globalization is changing 9780864929501 e | $19.95 food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented 9780864929518 m | $19.95 migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy’s Slow Food country, the villagers teach them without fuss or fanfare • ARCs how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they home-cook • National advertising firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveau riche and their migrant maids, who comprise • National media relations one of the biggest demographic shifts in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their • Cross-Canada speaking tour, sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting — and occasionally clashing — over their mutual love of cooking. including festivals and in- conversation events A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the • Pre-publication excerpts complicated relationships between mothers and sons, Apron Strings is complex, unpredictable, and • Social media campaign unexpectedly hilarious. • Promotion on author’s website and social media channels JAN WONG is the author of five non-fiction bestsellers, including Out of the Blue and Red China Blues, • Co-op available named one of Time magazine’s top ten non-fiction books of 1996. (Twenty years later, the book is still in print.) She has won numerous journalism awards and is now a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. A third-generation Canadian, Jan is the eldest daughter of a prominent Montreal restaurateur. Fall 2017 1 Politics & Social Sciences 9780864929945 pb | $22.95 F-Bomb Dispatches from the War on Feminism 240 pages, 6 x 9 September 2017 LAUREN McKEON Politics, Social Sciences, Women’s Studies Rights held: Canada From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head anti- feminist PR campaigns; they support anti-feminist politicians; they’re behind lawsuits to silence the victims of campus rape; they participated in Gamergate, the violent, vitriolic anti-women-in-technology movement; and they’re on the frontlines of the fight to end abortion rights. Everywhere we turn there’s evidence an anti-feminist bomb has exploded, sometimes detonated by the unlikeliest suspects. Between women who Also appearing in ebook: say they don’t need feminism and women who can’t agree on what feminism should be, the challenges of 9780864929952 e | $19.95 fighting for gender equality have never been greater. 9780864929969 m | $19.95 F-Bomb takes readers on a witty, insightful, and deeply fascinating journey into today’s anti-feminist universe. Through a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the new gender wars, Lauren McKeon • ARCs explores generational attitudes, debates over inclusiveness, and differing views on the intersection of race, • National advertising class, and gender. She asks the uncomfortable question: if women aren’t connecting with feminism, what’s • National media relations wrong with it? And she confronts the uncomfortable truth: for gender equality to prevail, we first need to • Cross-Canada speaking tour, understand where feminism has gone wrong and where it can go from here. including festivals and in- conversation events LAUREN McKEON is an award-winning editor and writer. She is the former editor of This Magazine and • Pre-publication excerpts a contributing editor at Toronto Life. Her essays have appeared in Hazlitt, Flare, the Walrus, and Reader’s • Social media campaign Digest, and she has spoken on gender issues at conferences and seminars and on radio and television • Cross-promotion on author’s broadcasts. She teaches at Humber College. website and social media channels • Co-op available 2 GOOSE LANE EDITIONS Politics & Social Sciences 9781773100210 pb | $35 296 pages, 7.75 x 9.75 Powered By Love A Grandmothers’ Movement October 2017 Politics, Social Sciences, to End AIDS in Africa Women’s Studies JOANNA HENRY with ILANA LANDSBERG-LEWIS Rights held: World Photographs by ALEXIS MacDONALD, Foreword by STEPHEN LEWIS By the time the AIDS pandemic in Africa had reached its height in the early 2000s, millions of children had been orphaned. In the face of overwhelming loss, the grandmothers of Africa stepped in to hold families and communities together. Author Joanna Henry and photographer Alexis MacDonald visited eight African countries, interviewing and photographing hundreds of grandmothers (including Sarah Obama, Barack • ARCs Obama’s grandmother) who are reclaiming hope and resurrecting lives. The extraordinary images and stories • National advertising of resourceful women fighting for a better future make Powered by Love an inspiration for everyone. • National media relations • Cross-Canada speaking tour, Writes journalist-social activist Michele Landsberg, “We thought we knew what was happening in Africa when including festivals and in- the AIDS pandemic raged across the continent, sweeping away 35 million lives. But we never knew it the way conversation events this book reveals it, in the shockingly intimate voices of the grandmothers who had to save the abandoned • Pre-publication excerpts children when no one else was left alive. These voices will leap straight into your heart. Their unguarded • Social media campaign faces, in portraits that glow with character, pain and humour, will captivate you.” • Promotion on author’s website and social media channels In 2006, the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched a campaign to engage Canadian grandmothers to support • Co-op available their African sisters. The Grandmothers Campaign, now a movement 10,000 strong, has raised over $25 million that has gone directly into the hands of African grandmothers and their grassroots organizations. Powered by Love joins this campaign by telling the story of these indomitable women and by directing all royalties from the sale of the book to African grandmothers raising children orphaned by AIDS. JOANNA HENRY is the director of program communications at the Stephen Lewis Foundation. ILANA LANDSBERG-LEWIS, a labour and human-rights lawyer, is co-founder and executive director of the SLF. ALEXIS MACDONALD is the director of external relations and a Toronto-based photographer. Fall 2017 3 Art « ... j’ai pu intervenir simplement, sans laisser de traces durables sur le terrain. » 9780864929983 cartonné | 50 $ Marlene Creates Lieux, sentiers et pauses 204 pages, 10 x 10 septembre 2017 Sous la direction de SUSAN GIBSON GARVEY et ANDREA KUNARD art visuel Droits réservés : monde entier Coédité avec la galerie d’art Jeune encore, l’artiste Marlene Creates signalait en 1979 son intention de se démarquer des installations Beaverbrook de terrassement monumentales de l’époque pour s’intéresser, au confluent de l’art et du monde naturel, à l’éphémère, à la petite échelle, au non monumental et au lieu « pas tant comme endroit géographique, » écrit-elle, « que comme processus qui inclut la mémoire, une multiplicité de récits, l’écologie, le langage et le savoir, tant vernaculaire que scientifique. » En palliant le caractère éphémère de ses interventions grâce aux techniques photographiques, elle a su trouver son public et créer une œuvre hautement originale. Depuis près de quatre décennies, Creates s’attarde avec sensibilité aux rapports entre l’expérience humaine • Exemplaires de prépublication et le monde naturel. Dès ses premières œuvres, préservant les empreintes du corps humain sur le sol, et numériques jusqu’à ses plus récentes explorations de poésie in situ dans la forêt boréale et de photographie comme • Publicité nationale médium actif, où elle laisse le ruissellement de l’eau sur l’objectif brouiller son autoportrait, Creates exerce sa • Relations avec les médias grande vigilance écologique et culturelle pour nous amener à mieux comprendre le langage du monde naturel francophones et les « lieux » que nous y occupons.