NEW ADULT PUBLISHING AWARD-WINNING ATLANTIC CANADIAN BOOKS SINCE 1978 Fall 2016 Page I FALL 2016 CATALOGUE Pick up one of our recent award-nominated titles today Nathan MacKinnon Mayann’s Train Ride Paul Hollingsworth Story by Hon. Mayann Francis $17.95 | 978-1-77108-331-7 Art by Tamara Thiébaux Heikalo Hackmatack Children’s $19.95 | 978-1-77108-348-5 Choice Award Lillian Shepherd Award for Illustration Music is for Everyone Amazing Grace Aftershock Stubborn Resistance Story by Jill Barber Lesley Crewe Janet Maybee Brian Cuthbertson Art by Sydney Smith $19.95 | 978-1-77108-316-4 $19.95 | 978-1-77108-344-7 $24.95 | 978-1-77108-346-1 $19.95 | 978-1-77108-150-4 Dartmouth Book Award Dartmouth Book Award for Atlantic Book Award for Moonbeam Award and Lillian for Fiction Non-Fiction and Margaret and Scholarly Writing Shepherd Award for Illustration John Savage First Book Award Be a Beach Detective Atlantic Coastal Gardening Fire in the Belly Jacob’s Landing Peggy Kochanoff Denise Adams Gordon Pitts Daphne Greer $14.95 | 978-1-77108-267-9 $27.95 | 978-1-77108-367-6 $29.95 | 978-1-77108-178-8 $12.95 | 978-1-77108-279-2 Hackmatack Children’s Best Atlantic-published Book National Business Book Award Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award and Dartmouth Book Award Choice Award and Silver for Non-Fiction Birch Award Touch of Gold Oak Island What Kills Good Men A Sea Glass Journey Vivien Gorham Joan Hamilton-Barry David Hood Teri Hall $12.95 | 978-1-77108-324-9 $15.95 | 978-1-77108-342-3 $21.95 | 978-1-77108-350-8 $24.95 | 978-1-77108-312-6 Hackmatack Children’s Hackmatack Children’s Dartmouth Book Award Best Atlantic-published Book Choice Award Choice Award for Fiction and Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel Catologue cover: male Blackburnian warbler, photograph by Scott Leslie from Untamed Atlantic Canada, page 9. NEW VAGRANT Mary, Mary Lesley Crewe New novel from award-winning author of Relative Happiness and Amazing Grace In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier. Her well-off aunt, the only other normal person in the family, wants to help her, but Mary’s mother is too prickly and proud. So Mary goes to work, comes home, takes care of her family, and wonders if there will ever be more to life. When a young couple moves into the apartment upstairs, it sparks a series of changes that leads to major family revelations, and Mary discovers that sometimes doing the wrong thing is the exact right thing to do. Tender, authentic, and crackling with Lesley Crewe’s irrepressible humour, Mary, Mary is a book for anyone who’s ever had a family—good, bad, or a messy mix of both. Lesley Crewe is the author of several novels, including Amazing Grace, Chloe Sparrow, Kin, and Relative Happiness, which has been adapted into a feature film. Previously a columnist and freelance writer, Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia. Visit her at lesleycrewe.com. $21.95 | Fiction | 978-1-77108-453-6 More by Lesley Crewe eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-454-3 6 x 9.25 | 224 pages | paperback Rights held: World | Pub date: October Marketing plans • Local book launch • Author library tour (Halifax, Cape Breton, Dartmouth) • National media and review mailing • Literary festivals Amazing Grace Relative Happiness Kin Lesley Crewe Lesley Crewe Lesley Crewe • National print ads 978-1-77108-316-4 978-1-77108-209-9 978-1-55109-922-4 • ABT Holiday Reading Guide $19.95 $17.95 $19.95 • Goodreads giveaway paperback paperback paperback For more titles by Lesley Crewe, please contact your sales rep or visit www.nimbus.ca. Fall 2016 Page 1 NEW VAGRANT The Fundy Vault A Rosalind Mystery Linda Moore Anticipated follow-up to gripping literary mystery Foul Deeds sees the return of thespian-criminologist Rosalind Linda Moore’s long-awaited sequel to Foul Deeds is another highly engaging mix of art and environmental justice. Finally working a real job as a researcher for the Public Prosecution Service, Roz is on her first paid vacation. She has rented a cottage on Nova Scotia’s beautiful Minas Basin with plans to explore ideas for her next theatre production. Accompanied by her cat and a stack of Samuel Beckett plays, she has no sooner settled in than she spots what looks like a woman’s body tangled in the roots of a floating tree. Before the local RCMP can send a boat out, the body is retrieved by helicopter, and Roz watches it disappear over North Mountain. It’s time to call in her old sleuthing partner, McBride. When McBride completely disappears, Roz and her longtime theatre friend Sophie roam the backroads and small towns of the Annapolis Valley in search of clues, narrowing in on the out-of-the-way quarry no one seems to want them to visit, the tanker trunks that nearly run them off the road, and a young journalist who seems to have come too close to the truth. $19.95 | Fiction | 978-1-77108-421-5 The Fundy Vault is a lightning-paced literary mystery that will keep eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-422-2 the heart pumping and the brain ticking long after the final page. 5 x 8 | 184 pages | paperback Rights held: World | Pub date: September Linda Moore resides in Halifax and has a cottage in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, on the Minas Basin. She works as a theatre director across Canada and was Artistic Director of Neptune Marketing plans Theatre in Halifax throughout the nineties. She has received several Robert Merritt Awards, including the 2015 award for • Author tour (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Stratford, Outstanding Direction. Linda has been a guest director at Halifax) McGill, Memorial, UVic and Dalhousie and was the Crake • National & regional media and review mailing Fellow in Drama at Mount Allison. She is the recipient of an • Literary festivals Honorary Doctor of Letters from Saint Mary’s University. The • National & regional print ads Fundy Vault is her second novel in the Rosalind Mystery series. • ABT Holiday Reading Guide • Goodreads giveaway Related Interest • ARCs Foul Deeds Linda Moore 978-1-55109-946-0 $15.95 paperback Fall 2016 Page 2 NEW VAGRANT Disposable Souls Phonse Jessome Gritty first novel from award-winning journalist and true-crime author The body of Pastor Sandy Gardner, a TV preacher with a global following, turns up near a Halifax container pier. The mysterious case lands with Cam Neville, a city cop with a dead wife, PTSD, and a haunting past. Can Neville, a former biker and war hero, solve the killing and find himself? In search of the truth, Neville and his partner, a Mi’kmaw Mountie named Blair Christmas, enter a perilous world of strippers, kiddie porn, and corruption that threatens to destroy them. Meanwhile, Neville is torn between loyalties to his two brothers, one still with the Satan’s Stallion bike club founded by their father, and another, a priest who wants to save everyone, including Cam. In Disposable Souls, author Phonse Jessome has created a complex and compelling protagonist and placed him in a gritty underbelly of bikers, cops, and killers, masterfully blurring the lines between good and bad, sinners and saints. Phonse Jessome is an award-winning Canadian journalist and bestselling author. He has covered some of the biggest stories in Canada and abroad over the past thirty-five years. His book Murder at McDonald’s was lauded as one of Canada’s best true crime titles. Somebody’s Daughter takes readers inside the deadly world of human trafficking. Phonse $24.95 | Fiction | 978-1-77108-417-8 lives in Halifax, where he is now taking decades of experience eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-418-5 covering crime into the field of crime fiction. 6 x 9.25 | 344 pages | paperback Rights held: Canada | Pub date: September Related Interest Marketing plans • Local book launch • Author tour (Digby, Halifax, Moncton, Toronto, Ottawa) • National & regional print ads • National & regional media and review mailing • Literary Festivals • ABT Holiday Reading Guide • Books for Everyone catalogue • Goodreads giveaway What Kills Good Men Somebody’s Daughter • ARCs David Hood Phonse Jessome 978-1-77108-350-8 978-1-55109-174-7 $21.95 $21.95 paperback paperback Fall 2016 Page 3 NEW ADULT Not My Party The Rise and Fall of Canadian Tories, from Robert Stanfield to Stephen Harper Tom McMillan Compelling political memoir of Canada’s Conservative Party from former federal Cabinet minister This outspoken book by former Mulroney Cabinet Minister Tom McMillan indicts Stephen Harper for destroying the historic Canadian Conservative Party while prime minister and party leader, accusing him of turning a force for progressive Canadian values into an American Republican-style vehicle for right- wing ideologies. Lamenting Harper’s hyper-partisan “cult of personality” politics, McMillan argues the Conservative Party is no longer the national institution founded by Sir John A. Macdonald and nurtured by successive Tory leaders until the 2003 Reform/ Canadian Alliance Party merger. In a crisp, conversational tone, McMillan contrasts this new brand of Conservatism with Robert Stanfield’s 1960s/’70s “politics of thoughtfulness,” assessing the impact of Stanfield’s legacy on successive Conservative leaders. He urges Conservative progressives to reclaim their party from right-wing extremists and revive its commitment to nation-building and national unity; to re- brand itself, once again, as Progressive Conservative.