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Publisher Information...................................................................................................................1 Contents.......................................................................................................................................2 Icefields: Landmark Edition.........................................................................................................3 The Cine Star Salon......................................................................................................................4 Last Tide........................................................................................................................................5 Tenure...........................................................................................................................................6 rump + flank.................................................................................................................................7 Rescue in the Rockies..................................................................................................................8 Rescue at Fort Edmonton...........................................................................................................9 Accolades..................................................................................................................................10 Backlist........................................................................................................................................ 11 Distribution................................................................................................................................. 12
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Icefields: Landmark Edition by Thomas Wharton A new edition of an award-winning Western Canadian classic. In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life’s purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each immersed in their own quest: the healer and storyteller Sara; the bohemian travel writer Freya Becker; the entrepreneur Trask; the poet Hal Rowan; and Elspeth, greenhouse keeper and Byrne’s lover. First published in 1995, Wharton’s Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather. Here—where characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice as well as the stories and histories they tell one another—is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. This updated Landmark Edition includes an author interview with Smaro Kamboureli and an Afterword by award-winning writer Suzette Mayr.
Trade Paperback / October 15, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439- 036-1 ISBN 13: 978-177439- 036-8 BISAC 1: FIC014000 BISAC 2: FIC077000 BISAC 3: FIC019000 336 pp / 4.75 x 7.75 / $23.95 cdn $19.95 usd
“Ice, when it is touched, can sear the flesh: in Icefields it fires the imagination.” ~ Emily Mitchell, People
About The Author Thomas Wharton’s novels, stories, and nonfiction have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, Italy, and other countries. His first novel, Icefields, received the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean. His first collection of fantastical stories, The Logogryph, was shortlisted the International Dublin Literary Award. He has also published a YA fantasy trilogy, The Perilous Realm, and an eco-fiction, Every Blade of Grass. Wharton lives near Edmonton, Alberta and teaches creative writing.
ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Originally a part of the Nunatak First Fiction Series, the longestrunning debut-fiction series in Canada. • His work has been published in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and other countries. • Book will appeal to those who enjoy historical fiction with multiple well-written characters, and for fans of the book looking for further insight and background information. MARKETING PLAN • International press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television. • Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in Edmonton, and Calgary.
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• Submit to all eligible awards. • Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue. MARKETS • National trade: literary/historical fiction • UK trade: literary/historical fiction • Jasper, AB. COMPARISON TITLES • The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek by Sid Marty (978-0-771056-98-7, McClelland & Stewart, 2008) • Places Far from Ellesmere by Aritha Van Herk (978-0-889950-60-3, Red Deer Press, 2003) • The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant (978-0-307397-15-7, Knopf Canada, 2011) newestpress.com
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The Cine Star Salon by Leah Ranada Sophia is pulled between the life she imagines, the life her parents imagine, and what the world has in store for her. Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more than a beautician. Then Sophia’s estranged friend reaches out from Manila, desperate for help. After a dubious accident, her fiery Auntie Rosy is on the verge of losing the Cine Star Salon—the place where Sophia first felt the call to become a hairstylist and salon owner. Coming to her auntie’s aid is not so easy though. Sophia worries helping might reopen old wounds and threaten the bright future she has planned. Leah Ranada’s debut novel is a graphic and engaging depiction of the importance of women’s work and the loyalties that connect friends across oceans. The Cine Star Salon marks the entry of a vital new voice in Canadian literature.
Trade Paperback / October 1, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439- 032-9 ISBN 13: 978-177439- 032- 0 BISAC 1: FIC054000 BISAC 2: FIC082000 BISAC 3: FIC051000 336 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $21.95
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“Wry and clear-eyed this powerful debut by Leah Ranada is an important new work in the literary scene.” ~ Hiromi Goto, author of Shadow Life and Chorus of Mushrooms
About The Author Leah Ranada was born in Davao City, raised in Metro Manila, and moved to Vancouver in 2006. She attended The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University in 2013. Her writing has appeared in Room Magazine, Sta. Ana River Review, Scarlet Leaf Literary Review, and elsewhere. Leah has brought her administrative and editorial skills to legal, settlement services, and academic workplaces. She lives in New Westminster and blogs at leahranada.com.
ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Part of the Nunatak First Fiction Series, Canada’s longest-running debut fiction series. • Book will appeal to those who enjoy diaspora and Asian Canadian fiction. • Setting of the book, hair salons, is a place readers have experienced but have not read about in Canadian literature. MARKETING PLAN • Early ARC and international press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television. • Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue.
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• Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in Vancouver. • Submit to all eligible awards. • Blurbs provided by Hiromi Goto and Carleigh Baker. MARKETS • National trade: Asian Canadian and literary fiction • US and UK trade: Asian Canadian and literary fiction • Vancouver, BC, and Manila. COMPARISON TITLES • Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim (978-1-984803-25-2, Penguin Random House, 2019) • Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez (978-1-55156-77-5, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017) • Belinda’s Rings by Corinna Chong (978-1-927063-27-9, NeWest Press, 2013)
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Last Tide by Andy Zuliani A debut novel that confronts the near future in microcosm. Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, making way for more gentrification. When the pair is sent by their employers to a rustic island in the Pacific Northwest—home to hippies, runaways, and survivalist preppers—they meet Lena, an oceanographer and climate scientist, who has moved to the island in search of “the big one,” the cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami that she knows is the island and the West Coast’s due; and Kitt, an athleisure clothing mogul, who is overseeing the construction of a vacation home that will serve as his apocalypse-shelter. These four people’s lives intertwine as a police investigation throws life on the island into disarray, as activists and agents provocateurs take action, as dormant fault lines begin to tremble. Recalling William Gibson’s Blue Ant trilogy and Charles Demers’s Property Values, Andy Zuliani’s Last Tide is a vital debut novel is an edgy glimpse at a world just beyond tomorrow, and a sharp reminder of what society deems valuable.
Trade Paperback / October 1, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439- 034-5 ISBN 13: 978-177439- 034-4 BISAC 1: FIC077000 BISAC 2: FIC070000 BISAC 3: FIC019000 240 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $21.95
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“With four emotionally complicated characters and a cunning setting, Last Tide’s detailed story of gentrification and the power of money pales before the stunning power of nature.” ~ Camille-Yvette Welsch, Foreword Reviews
About The Author Andy Zuliani is a writer and artist who lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. In his written and multimedia work, he is drawn to minimalist and ambient aesthetics and to narratives of crisis and healing. Andy’s poetry and fiction have been published in The Capilano Review and Poetry is Dead.
ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Part of the Nunatak First Fiction Series, Canada’s longest-running debut fiction series. • Book will appeal to those who enjoy fiction that confronts contemporary stressors and human-caused environmental damage. MARKETING PLAN • Early ARC and international press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television. • Submit to all eligible awards. • Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue.
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• Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in Vancouver. • Blurbs provided by Karen Hofmann, Rosie Chard, Stephen Collis, and Thea Bowering. MARKETS • National trade: Literary fiction • US and UK trade:Literary fiction • Vancouver, BC. COMPARISON TITLES • The Blue Light Project by Timothy Taylor (978-0-307399-30-4, Knopf Canada, 2011) • Waiting for the Man by Arjun Basu (978-1-770411-77-7, ECW Press, 2014) • Transit by Rachel Cusk (978-1-443456-02-9, HarperCollins, 2017)
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Tenure by Kieran Egan A fun blend of crime thriller and campus comedy. Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble university professor, happy with his family’s lot in life, only wants the impossible: for his modest, straightforward wife to get tenure at her university. Luckily, Mark is a man for whom impossible is just another word. As a sophisticated importer-exporter of certain recreational substances (“drug lord” is such a cliché), Mark gets to work on the academic world with the same relentless nature that helped him climb to the top of the cartel. However, the hallowed campus halls reveal an environment that is vicious and corrupt beyond anything he has ever encountered in the drug business... Kieran Egan’s Tenure is a wildly entertaining satire mash-up, where Don Winslow’s Border trilogy collides with Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members and David Lodge’s campus comedies, and where Richard Stark’s Parker trades barbs with Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim.
Trade Paperback / September 15, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439- 030 -3 ISBN 13: 978-1-77439- 030 -6 BISAC 1: FIC052000 BISAC 2: FIC016000 BISAC 3: FIC031000 264 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $21.95
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“An inspired mash-up of academia and the underworld which opens with a Hitchcockian-style hook that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go. Tenure establishes Egan as an exciting and distinct new voice in Canadian crime fiction.” ~ A.J. Devlin, award-winning author of Cobra Clutch and Rolling Thunder
About The Author Kieran Egan lives in Vancouver, BC. He was born in Ireland, educated in England and the USA, and has worked for many years at Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Education, from which he recently retired. His work focused on the nature and development of imagination. He has published poetry in Canadian, British, Irish, and USA magazines. He is married with three children and five grandchildren. He enjoys maintaining his Japanese-style garden. In his youth he played soccer and cricket, and did long-jump and triple jump to quite high standards.
ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Book will appeal to those who enjoy humorous thrillers and mysteries, as well as readers who like campus novels with a genre twist. MARKETING PLAN • International press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television. • Submit to all eligible awards. • Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue. • Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in Vancouver.
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• Blurbs provided by A.J. Devlin and Norm Boucher. MARKETS • National trade: humorous thriller • US and UK trade: humorous thriller • Vancouver, BC COMPARISON TITLES • Foresight: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung by Ian Hamilton (978-1-487003-99-9, House of Anansi, 2020) • The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow (978-1-400096-93-0, Knopf Doubleday, 2006) • Triggerfish by Dietrich Kalteis (978-1-770411-53-1, ECW Press, 2016)
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rump + flank by Carol Harvey Steski A debut collection that delves into the ‘body’ from a feminist perspective. Carol Harvey Steski’s tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature’s many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what bodies—especially female ones—endure, probing the full range of experiences from pleasure and hope to deep loss and trauma. These poems are piercingly humorous, sexy, and peppered with startling absurdities, but are grounded by an undercurrent of nostalgia (and a soupçon of feminist rage): mercury reproduces like funhouse mirrors, oysters are whole notes dropped into eternal song, cancer is a surly character taking and discarding lovers, a domestic chore turns dark as a mother channels her inner Lady Macbeth. Lush imagery melds with organic rhythms to spawn a visceral experience, a tendon-and-muscle-driven engine that readers can feel racing within their own bodies.
Trade Paperback / September 1, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439- 028- 0 ISBN 13: 978-177439- 028-3 BISAC 1: POE011000 BISAC 2: POE023000 BISAC 3: POE024000 96 pp / 5.5 x 9 / $19.95 cdn $15.95 usd
“This is a visceral, sometimes raw, book with hidden time bombs just beneath the surface. Harvey Steski’s voice is unique and superbly confident, speaking with a fluent urgency. It’s a book I’ve been anticipating for years. ” ~ Patrick Friesen, author of Outlasting the Weather: Selected and New Poems 1994-2020
About The Author Carol Harvey Steski grew up in Winnipeg. Her poems have been published in the anthology Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology, and literary magazines Room, Prairie Fire, FreeFall, untethered, and Contemporary Verse 2. She won FreeFall’s 2019 annual poetry contest and was nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Her work was featured in Winnipeg Transit’s “Poetry in Motion” program. She has appeared on CBC Radio-Manitoba speaking about the therapeutic benefits of writing through disease as a young-adult survivor of melanoma. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter, and works in corporate communications.
ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • Part of the Crow Said Poetry series. Notable Crow Said Poetry titles include The Response of Weeds by Bertrand Bickersteth, Lullabies in the Real World by Meredith Quartermain, and That Light Feeling Under Your Feet by Kayla Geitzler. • Book will appeal to those who enjoy lyrical poetry with a feminist focus. • Has been published in literary journals across Canada. MARKETING PLAN • International press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. • Press releases and review mailouts to various CBC outlets across the nation, both radio and television. • Online Zoom launch, and eventual in-person launches in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver.
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• Ads in Glass Buffalo, Prairie Books NOW, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Read Alberta Books (Alberta Views), subTerrain, and the ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue. • Submit to all eligible awards. • Blurbs provided by Catherine Graham and Patrick Friesen. MARKETS • National trade: lyrical poetry • US and UK trade: lyrical poetry • Toronto, ON, Winnipeg, MB COMPARISON TITLES • Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie (978-1-894078-11-7, Brick Books, 2001) • Table Manners by Catriona Wright (978-1-550654-67-7, Vehicule Press, 2017) • 1996 by Sara Peters (978-1-770892-71-2, House of Anansi, 2013) newestpress.com
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Rescue in the Rockies by Rita Feutl Previously published by Coteau Books. Can 14-year-old Janey disentangle her time-hopping dilemma and save not just her own life, but the past lives of others, before it’s too late? Rescue in the Rockies follows Janey as she is forced to spend the holidays with her grandma—and her grandma’s new beau, Charlie, who has invited along his German grandson, Max—in Banff, Alberta. Janey can’t believe her parents might potentially miss one of the most important holidays of the year and resigns herself to spending her time away from home wandering around the hotel with, of all people, Max, who she bickers with constantly. Getting frustrated with their constant fighting, Janey turns to run away and finds herself, all of a sudden, standing in snow drifts; the hotel has disappeared, and in its place is, well … nothing. As Janey travels back and forth in time—first to 1883, then, with an unwitting Max along, to an internment camp during World War I and finally the Banff area after the war—she struggles to not only escape the chaotic situations she finds herself in, but to try and figure out what is causing her mysterious disappearances. What do the three places have in common, and can she solve the mystery before the enemy she’s made in the past captures her and Max for good?
Trade Paperback / September 1, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439- 028- 0 ISBN 13: 978-177439- 028-3 BISAC 1: YAF024040 BISAC 2: YAF019040 200 pp / 6 x 9 / $19.95 cdn $15.95 usd
“Simultaneously knowledgeable, brave, self-deprecating, and generous, Janey’s an ideal heroine, and I wish her many more ‘Rescues’ to come.” ~ SaskBooks
About The Author Rita Feutl has worked as a freelance journalist and writer for twenty years, publishing in the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Edmonton Journal, and others. She has also had work published in numerous magazines and in the Sightlines Language Arts textbook. Born in Toronto, Rita Feutl has lived in Paris and Vienna as well as Toronto, London, Ontario, and Regina. Since 1985 she has made Edmonton her home. She has worked as a costumed interpreter at Fort Edmonton Park for the past ten years, which was the genesis for the story Rescue at Fort Edmonton. Rita Feutl is a member of the Young Alberta Book Society and actively sells at presentations and workshops.
ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • The author will get in touch with her many contacts in children’s education and museums and let them know the book is available again. MARKETING PLAN • National press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s re-release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. • Ads in library and teachers’ magazines.
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MARKETS • National trade: YA historical fiction • US and UK trade: YA historical fiction • Edmonton, AB; Banff, AB COMPARISON TITLES • Graveyard of the Sea by Penny Draper (978-1-550508-30-7, Coteau Books, 2008) • Red River Raging by Penny Draper (978-1-550505-84-9, Coteau Books, 2014)
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Rescue at Fort Edmonton by Rita Feutl Previously published by Coteau Books. Janey doesn’t want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto— and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be away—her mother in Turkey designing housing for earthquake victims, her dad on business trips. Her first surprise is her feisty grandma, who meets her at the airport in her vintage Cadillac, Marilyn. The second comes when she visits the Fort Edmonton historic park and time travels to 1907. The third is learning the real reason she’s in Edmonton. Her grandma is going through cancer treatment and needs someone to be with her. Janey makes four trips, each to a different period of Fort Edmonton’s history. What draws her into the past? Only on the last trip does she discover the meaning of her adventures—and their crucial connection to her own family. Rita Feutl’s first novel features a deftly handled plot and a wealth of fascinating characters from prairie history.
Trade Paperback / September 1, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439- 041-8 ISBN 13: 978-177439- 041-2 BISAC 1: YAF024040 BISAC 2: YAF019040 200 pp / 6 x 9 / $19.95 cdn $15.95 usd
“Rescue at Fort Edmonton is part mystery, part thriller, part historical adventure— and a completely engaging read.” ~ Edmonton Journal
About The Author Rita Feutl has worked as a freelance journalist and writer for twenty years, publishing in the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Edmonton Journal, and others. She has also had work published in numerous magazines and in the Sightlines Language Arts textbook. Born in Toronto, Rita Feutl has lived in Paris and Vienna as well as Toronto, London, Ontario, and Regina. Since 1985 she has made Edmonton her home. She has worked as a costumed interpreter at Fort Edmonton Park for the past ten years, which was the genesis for the story Rescue at Fort Edmonton. Rita Feutl is a member of the Young Alberta Book Society and actively sells at presentations and workshops.
ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS • The author will get in touch with her many contacts in childrens’ education and let them know the book is available again. MARKETING PLAN • National press release mailout. • Announcement of book’s re-release by email newsletter and on the NeWest Press Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. • Podcast reading/interview posted on Apple Podcasts, RSS feed, Facebook, and NeWest website. • Ads in library and teachers’ magazines.
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MARKETS • National trade: YA historical fiction • US and UK trade: YA historical fiction • Edmonton, AB; Fort Edmonton Park, AB COMPARISON TITLES • Terror at Turtle Mountain by Penny Draper (978-1-550508-34-5, Coteau Books, 2008) • Peril at Pier Nine by Penny Draper (978-1-550508-36-9, Coteau Books, 2007)
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ACCO L AD E S The Response of Weeds by Bertrand Bickersteth
Horseplay by Norm Boucher
• WINNER of the 2021 Gerald
Lampert Memorial Award! • Finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry and The 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize at the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards! • Finalist for the 2021 High Plains Book Awards, Poetry and First Book Categories!
• Shortlisted for the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence!
“True crime buffs will find much to admire in this eye-opening personal narrative.” ~ Publishers Weekly Trade Paperback / November 15, 2020
“...a vigorous and erudite excavation of history and a carefully constructed reclamation of place.”
~ Steven W. Beattie, Quill & Quire
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In Veritas
Taken by the Muse
by C.J. Lavigne
by Anne Wheeler
• Finalist for the 2021 Crawford
• Finalist for the Robert Kroetsch City
Award! • Best of List for Tor.com and Every Book a Doorway! “Lavigne’s debut urban fantasy novel, part of the ‘Nunatak First Fiction’ series, is full of wonder, darkness, and hope.... Reminiscent of the best of Charles de Lint, this is a book readers will not want to put down.” ~ Jennifer Beach, Library Journal
of Edmonton Book Prize at the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards! • Finalist for the 2021 High Plains Book Awards, Nonfiction Category! “What Taken by the Muse ultimately demonstrates is that ... moments of growth and joy occur when you veer off a given path and create something worthwhile out of the diversion.” ~ Madeleine Wall, Quill & Quire
Trade Paperback / May 1, 2020 ISBN 10: 1-988732-83-2
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Hunger Moon
Goth Girls of Banff
by Traci Skuce
by John O’Neill
• Shortlisted for the Seventh Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Literary Fiction Category!
• Shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Awards, Short Fiction Category!
“The artful writing and the complexity of the emotional landscape heighten the appeal and significance of each story.” ~ Marjorie Anderson, Winnipeg Free Press
“The depth and variety of perspectives O’Neill writes make this collection a staggeringly endearing pastiche.” ~ Courtney Eathorne, Booklist Trade Paperback / November 15, 2020 ISBN 10: 1-988732-95- 6
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Coconut
A Brief View from the Coastal Suite
by Nisha Patel In her debut collection, Canadian National Slam Champion Nisha Patel commands her formidable insight and youthful, engaged voice to relay experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love.
“Coconut is a book of conversationstarters. It prompts questions we didn’t realize we needed to ask and challenges those answers we thought we knew best.” ~ Anuja Varghese, Hamilton Review of Books
“Hofmann’s prose is captivating.” ~ John J. Murray, Foreword Reviews Trade Paperback / May 1, 2021
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Set in Vancouver during the economically turbulent year of 2008, this novel skillfully explores societal attitudes and the instability of personal and public lives in a world that values money above all else.
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Light on a Part of the Field
Burning the Night
by Kevin Holowack
by Glen Huser
A family grapples with artistic ambition, mental illness, and rifts that may not be possible to mend. Set in BC and AB in the 1960s and 1970s, this is a novel of finely observed vignettes offering a refracted look at art and family in the mid-century West.
Timeless and essential, GG awardwinning author Glen Huser’s Burning the Night spans across generations and distance, traversing from Vancouver to Halifax, as it bears down on the history of Canadian painting and Curtis’s awakening as a gay man.
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The Weight of Blood
by Danial Neil
by D.B. Carew
Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong lass Mary Stewart is a vibrant woman forced to depart Scotland for the frontier town of Anyox, BC. But a past like hers is not easy to escape, and living on the frontier has more challenges than even the darkest streets of Old Town.
After barely surviving the events of The Killer Trail, Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder is called in to learn what he can about the prime suspect, Marvin, an autistic man found covered in blood at the scene of the crime.
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