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2018 AUTUMN BOOKS

Introducing Autumn Books that speculate about political futures in our rapidly spinning world of technological change. Books that inspire hope for greater wellbeing. Books that document the history of some of modern society’s finest advances—and most shameful deficiencies. Books that reveal the philosophies of the rebels and renegades who changed this history for the better. Books that remind us of the beauty of art and wonder with their exquisite, intricate or mouthwatering offerings. Our collection of autumn books features titles from authors and creators who celebrate our world or are dedicated to improving it. We’re delighted to share this lineup from Canadian and US publishers with you here. If you’re reading this, chances are you are one of our trusted colleagues who make this work possible. Thank you. Please peruse these synopses and hooks at your convenience. Let us know if we can provide support for interviews, excerpts, op-eds or photo essays. As always, we’re deeply grateful for your collaborations—and your interest in these publishers and authors. Here’s to the words: those who wield them and those who share them. Yours, The ZG Team

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Slow, by Brooke McAlary

The Disordered Mind, by Eric R. Kandel

Bibliophile, by Jane Mount

Syria: A Cookbook for Olive Oil and Vinegar Lovers, by Emily Lycopolus

A West Coast Summer, by Carol Evans and Caroline Woodward

Sealskin, by Tyler Keevil

Dissident Doctor, by Michael C. Klein

The Next Ones, by Michael Traikos

GAYBCs, by Rae Congdon

Papa Goose, by Michael Quetting

Your Business, Your Family, Their Future, by Emily Griffiths-Hamilton

Building Community, by Gordon Harris with Richard Littlemore

Dubious Documents, by Nick Bantock

AI Superpowers, by Kai-Fu Lee

Sound, by Bella Bathurst

LikeWar, by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking

Seven Seasons on Stowel Lake Farm, by Lisa Lloyd, Jennifer Lloyd and Elizabeth Young

Symbols of Canada, Ed. Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney and Donald Wright

The Book I Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Want to Write, by Erwan Larher

The Woo-Woo, by Lindsay Wong

Murder by Milkshake, by Eve Lazarus

Crusoe, the Wordly Weiner Dog, by Ryan Beauchesne

Take the Torch, by Ian Waddell

Iron Road West, by Derek Hayes

Outrages, by Naomi Wolf

Slow

Simple Living for a Frantic World Brooke McAlary Have you ever taken a mental health day, or announced a break from the internet to your friends? Rapid news cycles, advertising designed to make you want what you don’t need, and perfectly staged lives on social media have been shown to increase anxiety, depression and isolation. Slow offers an alternative way to live, based on a philosophy practiced extensively across the UK and Australia. As Brooke McAlary explains, we can enjoy life more by consuming less, pacing ourselves, removing burdensome expectations and listening to our bodies when we need a break. McAlary knows this all too well. She emerged from intense post-natal depression with the realization that her fast-paced, perfect-seeming life needed to change. She put the brakes on her stressful schedule, reorganized her life, and started emphasizing depth, connection and meaningful experiences throughout her life. Alongside affirming personal stories of breaking down and rising up, Slow provides practical advice and fascinating insights into the slow life, such as how to declutter, hone mindfulness and embrace spontaneity... the perfect anecdote to our overscheduled lives.

July 10, 2018 Lifestyle / Psychology Sourcebooks ISBN: 978-1-492665540 $36.99 CAD 6 x 8 – 224 pages – Cloth Author traveling across Canada. Available for phone interviews.

Points of Interest

• Brooke McAlary embodies the slow movement: Warm, open and • • •

incredibly down-to-earth, McAlary is uniquely positioned to offer an essay or interview about slow living by drawing on her own experiences. Slow’s release coincides with McAlary’s Canadian slow road trip: This summer, McAlary and her family are “slow-travelling” across Canada, making stops in cities such as Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg, and Calgary. Compelling listicle or How-To column material: Slow is brimming with advice, tips and recommendations for creating a slow home, going on a media cleanse and practicing mindful living. A timely reminder to slow down and enjoy the little things: In a world becoming more frantic by the day, Slow is a must-read title sure to capture the minds of thousands.

BROOKE MCALARY is a slow-travelling, gutsy shiraz-appreciating writer who,

after being diagnosed with severe post-natal depression in 2011, embarked on a onewoman mission to cut out the excess in her life and reconnect with what was really important. She is now immersed in the Slow Living philosophy, and makes it her mission to help others define and achieve their slow living goals. She writes the blog Slow Your Home, and hosts and produces the podcast, The Slow Home Podcast. She is currently slow-travelling her way around North America with her family.

The Disordered Mind

What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves Eric R. Kandel What can a diseased brain tell us about a healthy one? Eric R. Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is a pioneer of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work, and breaks down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts. In his seminal new book, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a lifetime of research and the work of many other leading neuroscientists to take us on an unusual tour of the brain. He confronts one of the most difficult questions we face: How does our mind, our individual sense of self, emerge from the physical matter of the brain? Brain processes that give rise to our mind can become disordered, resulting in diseases such as autism, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. While these disruptions bring great suffering, they can also reveal the mysteries of how the brain produces our most fundamental experiences and capabilities―the very nature of what it means to be human. By studying disruptions to typical brain function and exploring their potential treatments, we can deepen our understanding of thought, feeling, behavior, memory and creativity.

Points of Interest

• Shares how disruptions lead to understanding for us all: Kandel shares • •

how studies of autism illuminate the neurological foundations of our social instincts; research into depression offers important insights on emotions and the integrity of the self; and paradigm-shifting work on addiction has led to a new understanding of the relationship between pleasure and willpower. Balance of science, philosophy, art: While sharing rigorous scientific detail about how our brain functions—and what happens when it doesn’t correctly— Kandel also answers age-old philosophical questions about the nature of self, and the relationship between consciousness, creativity and mind. World-renowned author: The vast scientific and creative knowledge of the Nobel Prize winning physiologist has yielded multiple award-winning books and the standard textbook in neural science.

August 28, 2018 Science / Psychology Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 978-0-374287863 $39.00 CAD 6 x 9 – 336 pages – Cloth Author Residence: New York

ERIC R. KANDEL is the University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor at

Columbia University and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory, he is the author of In Search of Memory, a memoir that won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present and Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures.

Bibliophile

An Illustrated Miscellany Jane Mount Most books are perfect for some readers—Bibliophile is the perfect book for every reader. In this love letter to all things literary, acclaimed illustrator Jane Mount pays tribute to bookstores, beloved authors and cult classics that have profoundly influenced bibliophiles’ understanding of ourselves and the world. Mount’s distinct illustration style is already admired by millions familiar with her work at Ideal Bookshelf, where readers can get pins, prints and tote bags of their favorite reads. Now, Mount’s depictions of bookstores and classic book spines are available for the first time in one place. Bibliophile is the new card catalogue for the literary fanatic.

August 28, 2018 Art / Lifestyle Chronicle Books ISBN: 978-1-452167237 $34.95 CAD 7.5 x 9 – 224 pages – Hardcover Author Residence: Maui, Hawaii Available for phone interviews.

Bibliophile departs from previous books of its type by honouring not only books and authors, but those that lift and champion them: the bookstores. Mount pays tribute to the bricks-and-mortar bookstores—alongside their feline mascots—that create communities from words. This is a book for the avid reader and #bookstagrammer, as well as seasoned collectors of first editions and alternate covers.

Points of Interest

• Beautifully illustrated: Bibliophile features hundreds of charming, hand• • •

drawn illustrations of books, bookstores, authors, reading nooks and libraries, providing stunning visual interest alongside engaging trivia. Encapsulates what it means to be a book lover: Through quirky knowledge and lovingly curated selections of books, Bibliophile imbues its pages with the enthusiasm of book lovers everywhere, celebrating even the tiniest details of book culture. Simulates the bookstore experience: With her spine-facing illustrations, Jane Mount’s art reflects one of the first ways we encounter a book—on the shelf. This colourful, visual feast of books groups similar titles by genre, reproducing not only how we find books at the store, but in our homes. Provides little-known and enchanting facts about bookish culture: From recommendations on your next read to tidbits about your favorite bookstore, Bibliophile is a book for every type of reader, no matter what genre they read.

JANE MOUNT is an illustrator, designer and founder of Ideal Bookshelf, a company that makes things for people who love books.

BELOVED BOOKSTORES

CHARIS BOOKS & MORE Atlanta, Georgia, USA Charis Books & More is one of few feminist bookstores founded in the 1970s that is still open. The stalwart Charis has so far outlasted other iconic shops that opened in an energetic wave during that era, including Old Wives’ Tales in San Francisco, New Words in Boston, and Lammas in Washington, DC. Charis means “grace” or “gift.” Founder Linda Bryant chose the name in honor of the friend who gave her the funds to open the store.

This cat is named Cake.

Charis Books formalized its educational and social justice programming in 1996 with Charis Circle. This nonprofit arm works with artists,

authors, and activists to bring over 250 events a year—writing groups, poetry open mics, children’s story hours, yoga classes, and intersectional meetings—to Atlanta’s feminist communities.

These brilliant appliances were inspired by Penguincubators, vending machines used by Penguin Books in 1930s London.

BOOKSACTUALLY

POLITICS AND PROSE

Singapore, Singapore For a single store, BooksActually has a significant presence in Singapore and beyond, presenting books by Singaporean authors in vending machines throughout the city and shipping books across the globe. The store started online and opened its storefront in 2005, with a global and local, new and rare selection. Its vending machines are installed at the National Museum of Singapore, the Singapore Visitor Centre, and the Goodman Arts Centre, headquarters for the National Arts Council. The hope is that even if people don’t buy a book right away, they’ll start to become familiar with the names of local authors. 14

Washington, DC, USA Politics and Prose does have roots in politics: Carla Cohen opened the store after losing her job with the Carter administration, and one of the current owners, Lissa Muscatine, was an adviser to Hillary Clinton. But it doesn’t specialize in politics, as some early would-be customers assumed. The store offers books about pretty much everything. Its name was just supposed to sound unpretentious while honoring its DC home.

Politics and Prose is known for its author talks, hosting writers ranging from Trevor Noah to Drew Barrymore, Neil Gaiman to Celeste Ng. Thankfully, readers everywhere can watch them on the Politics and Prose YouTube channel (and thousands do!).

NOVELS OF THE MILLENNIUM: OPTIMISTIC CONFUSION Another fin de siècle, another existential crisis. Instead of print media, people were consuming cable news and the internet. Natural disasters were devastating developing countries, and developed countries were worried about Y2K. The US was attacked by domestic and foreign terrorists and started a war on terror. Thankfully, as always, we could find hope and refuge in books.

When Infinite Jest was published, David Foster Wallace had never used the internet. Yet in the book, he predicts videoconferencing on smartphones. People in the book initially love the feature, but it falls out of favor quickly due to emotional stress and physical vanity. Wallace thought the cover resembled an American Airlines safety booklet. According to his editor, he had suggested an image of a “giant modern sculpture made of industrial trash.”

Little, Brown 1996 hardcover, design by Steve Snider

Arundhati Roy won the Man Booker Prize for The God of Small Things. She published her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, 20 years later. In that time she became an activist, writing several books’ worth of searing political essays, including “The End of Imagination,” which argues against nuclear-bomb testing. Haruki Murakami began writing at 29. At the time he ran a coffee house/jazz club in Tokyo and one

day just decided to try his hand at a novel. He says his style is very influenced by music, especially jazz. David Mitchell’s many novels seem quite different from each other, from the time-hopping Cloud Atlas, to the historical Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, to the semiautobiographical Black Swan Green, to the fantastical The Bone Clocks. Paying Sceptre 2014 paperback edition, design close attention, though, reveals that by Kai & Sunny all the books combine into a single, connected cosmology, with characters reappearing in several books. This is a chair you might have sat in to read these books: Marcel Wanders’s Knotted Chair, 1996.

MORE • Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke • Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee • The Hours by Michael Cunningham • The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst • High Fidelity by Nick Hornby • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini • The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger • Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Syria

Recipes for Olive Oil and Vinegar Lovers Emily Lycopolus Here is a rich, joyful reminder that Syria boasts the oldest-known production of olive oil, tracing back to 2400 BC in the ancient city-state of Ebla (located just outside Aleppo). This brightly illustrated cookbook celebrates the modern flavours of Syrian cuisine using one of its most essential ingredients: quality olive oil. The fourth cookbook in Lycopolus’ bestselling series on how to use specialty olive oils and vinegars in international dishes, Syria: Recipes for Olive Oil and Vinegar Lovers blends inviting photography with easy-to-follow recipes for classic dishes that combine bursting, fresh Mediterranean flavours with deep, aromatic spices. Readers will learn how to make Syrian falafel (which look like mini doughnuts); the staple eggplant dish, Baba Ganoush; Kibbeb Baid—a “Syrian scotch egg”; and Ataya—delicious stuffed pancakes with floral syrup. Other recipes such as Mango Cardamom Orange Blossom Jam and Mamools with Cardamom Coffee can expand an average, weekly roster of dishes for the family or be used to impress at dinner parties.

August 28, 2018 Cooking / Lifestyle TouchWood Editions ISBN: 978-1-771512817 $22.00 CAD 6.5 x 8 – 168 pages – Hardcover Author Residence: Victoria, BC Available to travel.

Elevated yet comforting, expansive yet accessible, these recipes reflect the generosity and liveliness associated with Syrian culture—and celebrate its lengthy food traditions.

Points of Interest

• Wildly popular book series: Recipes for Olive Oil and Vinegar Lovers has sold • •

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tens of thousands of copies, been celebrated by The Washington Post and Dr. Oz, and has been championed by stores across the country. Syria is the fourth book in this charming series, creating a set of go-to recipes for adventurous cooks. Celebrates Syrian culture: Too often our perception of Syria is narrowed to one of suffering and the harrowing plight of its people today. This cookbook shares part of this country’s incredibly rich, beautiful culture, and the deep love of generous hosting. Shares unique spice recipes and flavour profiles: Baharat is a ubiquitous, seven-spice blend found in much Middle Eastern cooking. Explanations of that, alongside jam, syrup and coffee techniques share background knowledge that goes beyond step-by-step recipes. Ideal for demonstrations or excerpts: Emily Lycopolus is a young author and entrepreneur who can showcase recipes with comfort and aplomb on live television. These recipes and their accompanying images also make for ideal excerpts or online features.

EMILY LYCOPOLUS is owner of Olive the Senses, a luxury olive oil and vinegar

tasting room and shop, and is the founder of This Table Collective.

DANIELLE (DL) ACKEN is a Canadian-born international food photographer

who splits her time between London, the UK and her farm studio on Canada’s beautiful Salt Spring Island.

SY R I A N “ S C OT C H E G G” K I B B E H BA I D

This isn’t actually a Scotch egg, but one look at the photo will let you know why I’ve made the comparison. And guess what? This is one of those commonplace Western foods that originated in … Syria. (At time of writing, a high-end department store in London was still claiming to have invented the Scotch egg, but there are many dissenting opinions about this.) Regardless of who invented this dish, know that originally it was designed to help use up leftovers.

Makes 6 eggs

8 eggs 1 recipe kibbeh paste (page xx) 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 Tbsp Harissa infused olive oil 2 cups panko bread crumbs Extra virgin olive oil for frying

Place 6 eggs in a saucepan of water and bring to a boil. Boil for 3–4 minutes if you like your eggs just set, 5–6 minutes if you like them well done. Rinse them in cold water and allow to cool completely in a bowl of cold water. Peel carefully and set aside. Separate the kibbeh paste into six evenly sized pieces. Working with one piece at a time, roll each piece into a square on a lightly floured surface. Place an egg in the middle of the square and gather up the sides, encasing the egg fully in the kibbeh. Seal the kibbeh, doing your best to ensure there aren’t any seams, set aside on a baking sheet (no need to line or grease it) and repeat with the remaining kibbeh and eggs. Prepare a dredging station with three shallow bowls: one for the flour, for the remaining 2 eggs, beaten with the 2 Tbsp olive oil, and one for the breadcrumbs. Heat 2–3 inches of extra virgin olive oil in a heavybottomed saucepan to 325°F. Roll one egg in the flour, coating it well and then dusting off any excess; dip it in the egg mixture, coating it well, and then dip it in the breadcrumbs, coating it well and then dusting off any excess. Repeat with the remaining eggs.

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A West Coast Summer

Watercolours by Carol Evans Text by Caroline Woodward

watercolourist Evans often spends summers vagabonding up and down AMaster west coAstCarol summer the Pacific Northwest coast, finding picturesque anchorages in communities from Gabriola Island to Klemtu. On these travels, Evans captures the beauty of life at the by Caroline Woodward, ocean’s edge, with a special skill for depicting the interplay of light and water. Glance tooWatercolours quickly and you may a photograph byseeCarol Evansinstead of deftly-intertwined paint tones. Pub date: September 2018

A West Coast Summer collects fourteen of Evans’s paintings, each inspired by local kids delighting in the coastal landscape—racing bikes along sand flats, searching under Hook logs and in tide pools for tiny creatures, jigging at the dock for herring, dancing at a Atotem gorgeous picture about summer on polechildren’s ceremony andbook leaving footprints inthe thePacific sand.Northwest coast. Matching Evans’s watercolours with a lilting rhyming story by Caroline Woodward, this beautiful children’s book tells of a timeless, idyllic summer where “Sea salt in •the Targeted national review mailingcedars smell so sweet beside the shore.” Readers of all air floats everywhere/and will enjoy this charming collaboration, sure to become a West Coast children’s •ages Blads available classic.

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herring to riding bikes on the beach to raising totem poles, Evans’s work depicts

• A BC for Everybody submission theBooks myriad of communities, flora and fauna that populate the rich landscape

September 1, 2018 Children’s / Regional Harbour Publishing ISBN: 978-1-550178432 $19.95 CAD children’s 8.5 × 11 – 32 pages – Hardcover cloth

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where the connection to land is reflected in each aspect of life.

selling points Timely reflection of summer: Launching Labour Day weekend, A West

Coast Summer promptspaintings familiesby toSalt reflect on Island favourite from • Illustrated with watercolour Spring artistmemories Carol Evans, withsummer textvacation. by children’s book author Caroline Woodward

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Intriguing author: Caroline and Woodward is famous to notpublications only for her children’s • Author is an energetic self-promoter a regular contributor such as Harrowsmith Magazine books but for operating a lighthouse on a remote island off the coast of Tofino.

• Internationally recognised artist: Carol Evans is increasingly gaining praise

previous titles in the international art world while demand for her work continues, housed in • Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeperthe by Caroline galleries and private collections around globe. AWoodward West Coast(Harbour Summer is the Publishing, 2015) ISBN: 978-1-55017-727-5, $29.95 HC, 2,000 copies sold first children’s book to feature her stunning artwork.

• Singing Away the Dark by Caroline Woodward, illustrated by Julie Morstad (Simply Read CAROL EVANS ’s work has achieved international acclaim as part of many group Books, 2010) ISBN: 978-1-89747-641-3, $18.95 HC, 1,000 copies sold (BookNet)

exhibitions and private collections worldwide. She lives on Salt Spring Island, BC,

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CAROLINE WOODWARD is the author of multiple children’s books. She has also written books for adults, including a bestselling memoir, Light Years: Memoir AutHor bios

of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper (Harbour Publishing, 2015). She lives and works as a

lightkeeper nearhas Tofino, BC, with husband Jeff Carol Evans’s work achieved international acclaim as George. part of many group exhibitions and private collections worldwide. Her art has been published in West Coast: Homeland of Mist (SummerWild Productions, 1992), Releasing the Light (Raincoast Books, 1997), and bestselling The Shores We Call Home (Harbour Publishing, 2010). She lives on Salt Spring Island, BC, with husband Bryn King.

Caroline Woodward is the author of the children’s books The Village of Many Hats (Oolichan Books, 2012) and Singing Away the Dark (Simply Read Books, 2010), which was nominated for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award and the B.C. Chocolate Lily Award, and won Canadian Children’s Book Centre red-starred Our Choice Award. She has also written several novels for adults and a memoir, Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper (Harbour Publishing, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. She lives on the Lennard Island Lightstation with her husband, Jeff George.

Sealskin: Short Stories

Tyler Keevil

“I was blown away. Beautiful writing … stunning.” —Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows “Vividly told in muscular prose, Keevil’s stories are compelling evocations of isolation and strength in an often unforgiving landscape.” —Carys Bray, author of A Song For Issy Bradley A search and rescue volunteer looks for a missing snowboarder on Christmas Eve. Two brothers retreat to the woods to shoot a film in memory of their dead friend. A reclusive forestry worker picks up a hitchhiker on his way down Mount Seymour. A young man finds a temporary haven on the ice barge where he works. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses the rugged landscape of Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet—where the city meets the mountains and civilization meets the wild—as a backdrop for characters struggling against the elements, each other and themselves. Written in a lean, muscular style, Sealskin’s stories are awash in blood and brine, and steeped in images of freedom and confinement.

Points of Interest

• Multi award-winning stories: Sealskin won the 2014 Journey Prize for best • •

Canadian short story, won the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Silver), and was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Evocative portrayal of both mountain and coastal life in Canada: Set in Burrard Inlet, Sealskin explores the tactile and often merciless existence of those whose life and livelihood is connected to the water: young men working on ice barges; forestry workers hitching lifts; search and rescue teams looking for a missing person. Stories in tradition of bold, lean writing: Like Hemingway, Bellow or MacLeod, Keevil’s work is vivid, sometimes violent. It reflects the harshness and undercurrent of beauty of working-class communities.

TYLER KEEVIL was born in Edmonton, grew up in Vancouver, and in his mid-

twenties moved to Wales. He is the author of three novels—Fireball, The Drive and No Good Brother—and his short fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies in Britain, Canada and the United States. Among other things, he has worked as a tree planter, ice barge deckhand and shipyard labourer, and a lecturer.

September 1, 2018 Literary Fiction Locarno Press $19.95 CAD ISBN: 978-1-988996011 5.5 x 8.5 – 208 pages – Paperback Author Residence: Cardiff, Wales

Dissident Doctor

Catching Babies and Challenging the Medical Status Quo

Michael C. Klein

“More than anything else, this is a testament to putting human health above conventional wisdom, no matter how supposedly expert. Sure I am biased. He’s my dad, but I cannot recommend it highly enough.” —Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything and No Is Not Enough Dr. Michael Klein’s extensive medical career can be characterized by regular confrontations with the establishment in the interest of promoting the well being of patients at all costs. His autobiography, Dissident Doctor, bristles with frank criticisms from inside the health sector—especially as it relates to mothers and infants. The distinguished scientific researcher intersperses fascinating tales of individual cases with accounts of formative elements of his practice. After working alongside midwives in Ethiopia, delivering babies with natural pain techniques, he questioned many unjustified yet established procedures in Western maternity care. In Canada, Klein campaigned tirelessly to reinstate midwifery were it was banned or discouraged by the medical mainstream. He advocated for doulas as birth attendants and for the elimination of routine intrusive interventions. His landmark assessment of routine episiotomies demonstrated they cause the very problems they’re supposed to prevent. Widespread adoption of practices championed by Klein earned him an Order of Canada in 2016.

September 8, 2018 Memoir / Health Douglas & McIntyre ISBN: 978-1-771621922 $32.95 CAD 6 × 9 – 304 pages – Cloth Author Residence: Vancouver, BC

A refreshing reminder of the importance of questioning the status quo, and a joyful account of one man’s exceptional career, Dissident Doctor pulls back the curtain on the people, communities and institutions responsible for what is arguably the most important of all life events: that of birth itself.

Points of Interest

• First maternal-fetal focus in book of its kind: While there are a plethora • • •

of books on the subject of public health, Dissident Doctor is the first to consider modern evolutions and concerns in maternal-fetal medicine specifically. Intriguing, bold and warm behind-the-scenes look at medical practices across the globe: Offering lessons from acclaimed North American physicians and Ethiopian midwifes and doulas alike, Professor Klein expands our conventional understanding of pregnancy, birth and care. Deeply personal account of a life and career well lived: From refusing to serve as a medic in the Vietnam War and subsequently immigrating to Canada, to supporting his wife Bonnie during a debilitating illness, the book shares poignant experiences of a remarkable yet relatable man. Media savvy and practiced public speaking author: Professor Klein is a warm, authoritative and captivating interviewee.

MICHAEL C. KLEIN is Professor Emeritus of family practice at the University

of British Columbia, adjunct professor of family medicine at McGill University and senior scientist emeritus at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute in Vancouver. He teaches at UBC in family practice and midwifery and is a long-time member of the editorial board of Birth. He was head of a McGill teaching centre and the Department of Family Medicine at a McGill teaching hospital in Montreal for seventeen years, and head of the Department of Family Practice at BC Children’s and Women’s hospitals in Vancouver for ten years. This is his first book. 10

The Next Ones

How McDavid, Matthews and a Group of Young Guns Took over the NHL

Michael Traikos

The NHL is a young man’s league. Connor McDavid was twenty years old when he won the scoring title and MVP in 2017. Auston Matthews was still a nineteen-yearold rookie when he tied for second in the Rocket Richard Trophy race with forty goals. By the end of the NHL’s 100th season, eight of the top thirty scorers were twenty three or younger. Who are these fresh players? How did they get their starts? What did their journeys look like? This new generation of hockey superstars grew up differently than their predecessors and they weren’t all skating on frozen ponds like Bobby Orr. Connor McDavid strapped on rollerblades and deked around paint cans in his parents’ two-car garage. Auston Matthews learned to play hockey on a tiny three-on-three rink in the desert. Patrik Laine shot pucks at pop cans, William Nylander’s dad’s NHL buddies dropped him off at hockey camp, and Johnny Gaudreau chased Skittles candies around the ice while still in diapers. Each story is different. While Aaron Ekblad was always the biggest and strongest kid even while playing two years above his age group, a late bloomer like Mark Scheifele was continuously knocked around as he fought through obstacle after obstacle on his longer and more arduous path to the NHL. What the players share is passion and perseverance—almost to the point of obsession. Hockey expert Michael Traikos travelled around the world from Helsinki to Thunder Bay interviewing rising NHL stars, their families, and more than two hundred teammates, coaches, scouts and friends. The result is a first-hand look at how each young star became the player he is today—and what they might become in the future.

Points of Interest

• Rare and intimate access to high profile players: Traikos personally • • •

interviewed players and spoke with parents, coaches and others who know them best, painting an intimate and never-before-seen portrait of some of the world’s most revered athletes. Funny and surprising details: Did you know McDavid first played hockey in rollerblades? That Gaudreau learned to shoot while still in diapers? Surprising and often witty details bring stories about our favourite players to life. Connected author: Traikos, who has reported on the NHL for two decades, has interviewed hundreds of players; he is presently the National Hockey Writer for Postmedia News and a contributor to The Hockey News. Intriguing perspective on player age: We often equate age with talent and strength—but does age really have anything to do with a player’s success? Traikos explores this question.

September 8, 2018 Hockey / Sports Douglas & McIntyre ISBN: 978-1-771621984 $18.95 CAD 6 x 9 – 240 pages – Paperback Author Residence: Newmarket, ON

MICHAEL TRAIKOS has been writing about hockey for two decades. He is the

National Hockey Writer for Postmedia News and his daily columns and feature stories are published in every major city across the country. He covered the Toronto Maple Leafs as the beat reporter for the National Post, and he is a regular contributor to The Hockey News. He lives in Newmarket, on, on a street not far from where Connor McDavid used to shoot pucks on his driveway.

GAYBCs

A Queer Alphabet Rae Congdon What would happen if someone picked up a classic ABC book, crossed out the words, and replaced them with LGBTQ terms? Apple would become ally, ice cream would become intersex, and queen would become queer. In GAYBCs, award-winning graphic designer Rae Congdon deftly explains the most common terms in the LGBTQ lexicon through subversive, playful illustrations and commentary. Simple definitions demystify terms that many people (even within the queer community) find nebulous or confusing. Decades ago, simple rhymes like “Sticks and Stones” taught children to ignore hurtful language and bullying. As a society, we now encourage inclusivity through the pronouns we use, by recognizing how gender and sexuality are separate, and acknowledging the harm heteronormative attitudes (which GAYBCs defines as “the worldview that promotes being straight as the norm”) can cause.

September 18, 2018 LGBTQ / Illustrated

GAYBCs offers a clever and quick primer for the budding ally, or a go-to, cheeky resource for the seasoned activist trying to explain terms like voguing and drag. More than anything, Congdon offers an approachable, if snarky, commentary on our society’s ever-evolving stance on how we are allowed to define ourselves.

Greystone Books ISBN: 978-1-771643948 $22.95 CAD 7.5 x 7.5 – 64 pages – Hardcover

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community: Congdon’s minimalistic approach yields surprisingly clever and provocative illustrations, and has already received the Adobe Design Achievement Award for Social Impact. Promotes inclusivity: GAYBCs is ideal as a starting point for learning common terms in the queer community. Definitions are often written with evolution in mind, allowing readers to layer their experiences over the initial explanation for more sophisticated understandings of words like cisgender and kink. Supports charity: A portion of all proceeds of GAYBCs will go toward Rainbow Railroad, an organization that helps LGBTQ people around the world find a safe haven from persecution.

RAE CONGDON is an award-winning Canadian graphic designer and a graduate

of Seton Hall University, where she studied graphic and interactive design with a minor in fine arts. GAYBCs, her first book, was awarded an Adobe Design Achievement Award in the Social Impact category.

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Papa Goose

One Year, Seven Goslings, and the Flight of My Life

Michael Quetting

“Papa Goose is destined to become a classic. This book has everything in it I love: great animals beautifully portrayed as individuals; cool science; drama, discovery, and personal transformation.” ―Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology and The Soul of An Octopus In this remarkable, charming tale, scientist and bestselling author Michael Quetting recounts his life-altering year raising seven rambunctious goslings in 2015. What starts as a scientific endeavor for a leading research institute soon transforms into an unconventional love story, as Michael finds himself surprisingly—and profoundly—attached to his “godkids.” Like all good stories, Papa Goose starts at the very beginning, when the eggs hatch in a carefully tended incubator. For the next eleven months, Quetting accompanies his goslings on swims in the nearby lake, finds them when they go astray and watches their unique personalities develop: feisty, churlish, sweet. His task is part of an ambitious research initiative for the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, which tracks animal migrations around the world. In a bittersweet twist, at the end of his task, Quetting must teach the goslings to fly. As Gloria, Nemo and the rest of the crew prepare for takeoff, Quetting, who is a seasoned airplane pilot, readies his hang glider, anticipating the most exhilarating—and most heart-wrenching—flight of his life.

September 18, 2018 Nature / Environment Greystone Books ISBN: 978-1-771643610 $29.95 CAD 5.25 x 7.5 – 248 pages – Hardcover 16-page colour insert Author Residence: Lake Constance, Germany. Available for phone and Skype interviews.

Equal parts fascinating and moving, Papa Goose shares powerful lessons about the scientific discoveries, the bonds of family in its various forms, and the importance of conservation and protection.

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Europe, Papa Goose has since been translated into eleven languages. It launches in North America to widespread acclaim. A true version of the wildly popular film, Fly Away Home: A classic film in which father and daughter raise a gaggle of goslings and teach them to migrate, Fly Away Home captured hearts across the continent. Quetting’s own adventure provides a real-life account of similar circumstances. Important scientific discoveries: Papa Goose includes cutting-edge scientific observations from the esteemed ornithologist. Strong environmental message: By sharing his deep connection to his goslings, and, as a result, his constant fear for their safety, Quetting demonstrates the fragility of bird life on our planet and the importance of humans’ role in protecting their environments.

MICHAEL QUETTING is a laboratory manager at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, a pilot, a bird lover, and a bestselling author. He has two human children and lives in Germany.

Raincoast Books

Your Business, Your Family, Their Future Emily Griffiths-Hamilton

From local stores to Fortune 500 corporations, the institution of family business is widespread and enduring. Recently, however, only thirty percent of family enterprises successfully transition to the next generation. In this accessible and Your Business, Your Family, Theirexpert Future deeply informed new book, entrepreneur and enterprise Emily GriffithsHamilton shares advice for successful multigenerational family enterprises. How to Ensure Your Family Enterprise Thrives for Generations by Emily Griffiths-Hamilton Through extensive research and personal and professional experience, GriffithsHamilton has developed an unconventional approach that looks beyond narrow From mom-and-pop stores to Fortune 500 corporations, the family business business considerations to focus on the critical aspect of every family enterprise— as an institution is widespread and enduring-yet only 30 percent of family that of the family itself. Successful multi-generational family enterprises, she enterprises successfully transition to the next generation. In this accessible explains, are animated by a unifying vision that rests on shared values. Mutual and deeply informed new book, family enterprise expert Emily Griffithstrust and strong communication skills are vital for families to articulate these Hamilton (author of Build Your Family Bank: A Winning Vision for foundational elements, which will then inform a “family enterprise framework” Multigenerational Wealth) shares the secrets of successful multigenerational that can endure for generations. With insights, examples and practical tools, Your family enterprises. Business, YourThrough Family,extensive Their Future provides families key steps to increase their research and personal and professional experience as a shared sense member of purpose—and associated success. of and advisor to family enterprises, Griffiths-Hamilton has developed an unconventional approach that looks beyond narrow business Points of Interest

considerations to focus on the critical aspect of every family enterprise-the • World-renowned expert author in subject: Griffiths-Hamilton’s "family factor." Successful multi-generational family enterprises, she explains,

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grandfather was one of North America’s most successful entrepreneurs, while are animated by a unifying vision that rests on shared values. Mutual trust and her father, Frank Griffiths, built a highly successful sports and media empire. strong communication skills are vital for (...) The author continued these traditions with her own business successes—making her the ideal author of a book that marries heart and business. Author Bio Widely relevant to Canadian industry: According to the Go Forth Institute, almost eighty of businesses in Canada are family-owned—yet onlyadvisor, Emily percent Griffiths-Hamilton is a chartered accountant, a family enterprise twenty percent of these have a strong succession plan.generations Your Business, Your Family, and a conflict resolution coach who brings three of experience to Their Future offers strategies relevant to the majorityplanning. of the country’s industries. the subject of succession and wealth-transition Her maternal grandfather, veterinarian William Ballard, was one ofFamily North America's Offers unique perspective onDr. family communication: tensions are greatest dynamic wealth creators. Her father, Frank A. Griffiths, FCA, built a commonplace, but what happens when thousands or even millions of dollars highly successful sports and media empire. Griffiths-Hamilton herself has are on the line? Griffiths-Hamilton’s work provides clarity around interbeenconnections. the co-owner of a National Hockey League team, the Vancouver generational Canucks; a National Basketball Association franchise, the Vancouver Timely Grizzlies; exploration this business tradition: From Ivankaprofessional Trump acting and aof state-of-the-art arena. Griffiths-Hamilton's as seniortraining, advisorexpertise, to her father, to the increasing wealth of Thompson and unique first-hand experience have given herReuters, a deep to rumoursunderstanding of feuds overofthe Murdoch media empire, family businesses continue to the benefits of clear, considered succession planning. Today, be in news sheheadlines. is passionate about advising individuals and families on the effective,

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generations of experience to the subject of succession and wealth-transition planning. Griffiths-Hamilton has been the co-owner of a National Hockey League team, the Vancouver Canucks; a National Basketball Association franchise, the Vancouver Grizzlies; and a state-of-the-art arena. She is now a globally sought-after speaker and family advisor on the subject of succession planning.

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Building Community

Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCity By Gordon Harris, with Richard Littlemore How do you build a complete, livable and highly sustainable community from scratch while making profit and creating a blueprint for future developments? Such was the ambition that Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia set out to achieve during the mid 90s—and succeeded. Building Community tells the story of one of the world’s most sustainable, pre-built communities: UniverCity. To residents of and visitors to the community, it is not immediately apparent that UniverCity has an advanced storm-management system; an infrastructure that will soon reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Simon Fraser University by more than eighty percent; the greenest childcare centre on the planet; homes that are some of the most energy efficient in Canada, or that its plans saved forestlands six times the size of the community. Its credentials are green in more than one way: UniverCity is a demonstration of profitable sustainability, showcasing how smart design can support research and teaching in tangible, practical ways at land-rich universities or communities. Building Community shares decision-making and building processes, not shying away from the problems encountered along the way, in a highly readable, often-humorous guide. More than a reflection of a world-leading sustainable development project, the book offers a story of creation for architects, planners, developers, and passionate urbanites who wish to improve our cities and save our natural landscapes in the bargain.

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a highly green development, UniverCity’s proceeds support an endowment fund for teaching and research at Simon Fraser University. Building Community documents the economic benefits possible through clean, green design. Honest, down-to-earth reflection of cutting edge process: UniverCity is a success—but one that faced its own set of challenges, setbacks and—frankly— mistakes along the way. Harris’s candid depiction of two decades of work creates a warm tone and useful lessons for others. Bold, bright photos and diagrams: From summertime cityscapes to photos of families playing, Building Community features dozens of eye-catching images that can be used by media, in addition to accompanying, available infographics. Timely, multifaceted perspective on sustainability, development and Canadian achievement on the world stage: Harris is available to write op-eds or feature articles relating to cutting-edge developments in sustainable design—and the importance of us rethinking the false dichotomy between sustainability and profit.

GORDON HARRIS FCIP is an urban planner, development strategist, and realestate market analyst, with three decades of experience in the public and private sectors. Harris has been President and CEO of SFU Community Trust since 2007, leading the development of UniverCity as an award-winning community. A popular lecturer on sustainable development, economic development, and planning for an aging population, Harris was elected to the College of Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Planners in 2009 and to the College of Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2016. In 2013, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to community building in Canada.

September 24, 2018 Architecture / Environment Ecotone Publishing ISBN: 978-0-997236842 $34.95 CAD 9 x 9 – 144 pages – Hardcover Author Residence: Vancouver, BC

Dubious Documents

A Puzzle Nick Bantock

The long-awaited new release from creator of the beloved Griffin & Sabine series, Nick Bantock. Following Nick Bantock’s inimitable Griffin & Sabine series, Dubious Documents is a visual epistolary puzzle to delight the senses. Featuring cryptic anagrams, number puzzles, picturegrams and wordplay scattered across 16 envelopes and an introductory note, Bantock returns with his signature flair and unparalleled imagination to introduce a new character—one sure to rival Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem, who captured the intrigue of millions. Magnus Berlin desperately needs help solving a puzzle. By studying his introductory note, and decoding his list of clues and letters, readers can engage with this delicious analog puzzle, revealing the answer to his riddle one word at a time. The form has parallels to other world-renowned puzzle books such as S. by J.J. Abrams and Dugald Steer’s Ology series (Dragonology, Wizardology, Alienology.)

September 25, 2018 Fiction / Epistolary Chronicle Books ISBN: 978-1-452166032 $26.95 CAD 6 x 7 – 16 pages – Paperback 16 letters bound in envelopes Author Residence: Victoria, BC

Packaged inside a folio with a tuck-in flap cover, spine stitching, and sixteen bound envelopes, Dubious Documents is an art object, keepsake and riddle in one treasured, collectible volume.

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be taken apart, interacted with in multiple ways, and read out of sequence. An analog brainteaser: Lovers of riddles and complex puzzles will enjoy poring over disparate clues in the envelopes, sleuthing to find the final answer and solve Magnus Berlin’s conundrum. Triumphant new release from a beloved author: When Nick Bantock’s Griffin & Sabine series ended after 25 years, Canadians and people around the world grieved the end of a love story. Now Bantock returns with Dubious Documents, and readers can again be swept away into a world full of letters and peculiar but beautiful characters.

NICK BANTOCK is most recognized for the phenomenal Griffin & Sabine book series. Also an artist, his work is publicly and privately collected across the globe. He lives in Victoria, Canada.

AI Superpowers

China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Dr. Kai-Fu Lee We know that Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world as we know it. And we know that—to date—the United States remains the global leader in AI. Or do we? In his provocative new book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee reveals that China has caught up to the US in AI development at an astonishing pace, and asks what the future holds for both nations’ development—especially if they collaborate rather than compete. The founding president of Google China envisions the US and China forming a powerful duopoly in AI, but one that is based on each nation’s unique and traditional cultural inclinations. He predicts that Chinese and American AI will have a stunning impact, not just on traditional blue-collar industries but whitecollar professions, too. AI Superpowers outlines how millions of suddenly displaced workers must find new ways to make their lives meaningful, and how government policies will have to deal with the unprecedented inequality between the “haves” and the “have-nots.” Lee explains that it’s already happening, whether we are aware of it or not—and will continue more rapidly than we expect. Lee offers both a dramatic caution about the upheaval AI will unleash on societies across the globe, and a call to begin to address how we can not only mitigate problems but thrive during these dramatic—and inevitable—changes.

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respected experts on AI, having worked at Apple, Microsoft and Google (head of Google China) in addition to writing a much-heralded New York Times Op-Ed in 2017. Unique viewpoint on Universal Income: Could Universal Income be a solution for displaced workers and rising inequality as a result of AI? While Dr. Lee doesn’t believe so, his arguments for why not offer a unique assessment of the growing political trend. China/US Trade War: AI Superpowers shares a new perspective on the ongoing trade battles between the United States and China, especially as it relates to technology and the changing inventions, and common use, in both cultures. Ideal Excerpt or Q&A Material: Deft and eye-opening, Dr. Lee’s work would make for an ideal stand-alone excerpt we can offer major publications.

September 25, 2018 Politics / Technology Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 978-1-328546395 $40.00 CAD 6 x 9 – 256 pages – Cloth Author Residence: Beijing, China

DR. KAI-FU LEE is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, which

is a leading technology-savvy investment firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China. Previously, he held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Selected as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2013, Dr. Lee has authored ten US patents, and more than one hundred journal and conference papers. He has written eight topselling books in Chinese, and has more than 50 million followers on social media.

Sound

A Memoir of Hearing Lost and Found Bella Bathurst Imagine your world without sound. In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, award-winning author Bella Bathurst describes losing her hearing for 12 years before—remarkably—regaining it. If sight offers us the world, then hearing offers connection with others. As The Guardian wrote in an extensive profile of Sound, “To lose your hearing is to lose the social connections that make you who you are. It is to always miss the punchline; to feel forever a beat behind; to lose confidence, and identity, as well as pleasures that suddenly seem fundamental, such as music and birdsong.” Bathurst explores the world as experienced by deaf and hearing individuals, interweaving her own experience with surprising, riveting research about sound, relationships and community. She interviews psychologists, ear surgeons and professors, and speaks to musicians and war veterans and factory workers who have lost their hearing. Her tapestry offers a glimpse at what sound truly means for a life. As multifaceted as the soundscapes many of us can experience daily, Sound is a stunning work that amplifies the gift and absence of an underappreciated and deeply personal sense.

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October 2, 2018 Health / Memoir Greystone Books ISBN: 978-1-771643825 $21.95 CAD 5.5 x 8.5 – 224 pages – Paperback Author Residence: Herefordshire, England

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photographer when she began to lose her hearing. After 12 years of deafness, she regained it over two different operations. Her story is not only relatable those who have lost their hearing, but everyone who takes their own for granted, too. Powerful message against hearing loss stigma: Forty percent of Canadian adults will experience at least some form of hearing loss in their lives, yet there is still significant stigma associated with deafness. Sound breaks this silence, initiating a conversation abound the impacts of hearing loss on individuals and families and its prevalence. Unique, engaging anecdotes share a different perspective of hearing loss: Sixty percent of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have suffered from hearing loss. A significant number of people who are treated for hearing loss only pretend to be deaf. Hearing loss has never been more prevalent—not due to machinery but due to personal technology. Bathurst’s statistics are fascinating.

BELLA BATHURST is a writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. She has written four nonfiction books, including The Lighthouse Stevensons, which won the 1999 Somerset Maugham Award, and a novel, Special, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, and many other outlets.

LikeWar

The Weaponization of Social Media P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking Cambridge Analytica. ISIS. YouTube recruitment videos. Trolling battles on Twitter. Social media is transforming war, crime, tech and diplomacy. All have blurred into new battlegrounds that are as close to home as our own phones. Defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking tackle the mind-bending questions that arise when war goes online. What can be kept secret in a world of networks? Does social media expose the truth or bury it? What role do ordinary people now play in international conflicts? LikeWar explores the answers while revealing a bizarre, often hidden world on the net: one where ISIS copies the Twitter tactics of Taylor Swift; an accountant in Georgia foils terrorists thousands of miles away; and OSINT (open source intelligence) outpaces other forms of espionage. We meet the unexpected warriors of social media, such as the rapper turned jihadist PR czar, and the Russian hipsters who wage unceasing infowars against the West. Finally, looking to the crucial years ahead, LikeWar outlines a radical new paradigm for understanding and defending against the unprecedented threats of our networked world.

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recruiting to privacy breaches: the weaponization of social media is one of the most talked about subjects today. Answers questions often just behind the headlines: How does social media warfare affect individual citizens? What are the risks to young people and what can parents do to protect them? Is online warfare ‘safer’ than the physical realities we associate with conflict, or more insidious? What can be done to ‘demilitarize’ social platforms? Singer offers authority and vision in answering many of the world’s unanswered—and building—concerns. Impeccably credentialed author: Wired for War, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Corporate Warriors: Singer’s extensive catalogue of work demonstrates an encyclopedic knowledge of 21st century warfare and its evolutions. Rich text examples and continuous news stories make for ideal excerpts and op-eds: LikeWar will be continually relevant in 2018 and beyond, making it ideal for excerpts, Q&As and op-eds for both breaking news stories and general interest.

October 2, 2018 Politics / Culture Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 978-1-328695741 $41.00 CAD 6 x 9 – 400 pages – Cloth Author Residence: New York Touring in Canada in October.

P. W. SINGER is an expert on twenty-first-century warfare. His award-winning

nonfiction books include the New York Times bestseller Wired for War.

Seven Seasons on Stowel Lake Farm Lisa Lloyd, Jennifer Lloyd, Elizabeth Young, with recipes by Haidee Hart Jennifer Lloyd, Elizabeth Young, & Lisa Lloyd | with recipes by Haidee Hart foreword by Michael ableMan

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This stunning coffee-table book is more than pages: it’s a place that will inspire readers to cultivate their own rich traditions of food, family and community—wherever they live.

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accessible seasonal recipes inspired by slow living, Seven Seasons offers a renewed joy in food. At the heart of the farm to table movement: One of the most successful community farms in Canada, Stowel Lake is at the forefront of the slow living and local eating movements. Warm, relatable authors and featured characters: Seven Seasons on Stowel Lake Farm shares the personal stories of each author and key members of the community, offering a glimpse into everyday farm life, and rich and relatable perspective on joyful living. Perfect for armchair travel (and photos to accompany it): Photos and excerpts capture the essence of the farm located on an island off the Pacific Northwest Coast. The island itself is steeped in a rich social and natural history and was included in the New York Times list of the world’s 52 places to see.

LISA LLOYD is the founder of Stowel Lake Farm, where she moved in 1979. Along

with helping to oversee the life of the farm, she is an avid gardener, a student of permaculture, and a lover of swallows. JENNIFER LLOYD-KARR has lived on Stowel Lake Farm since she was five years old. She facilitates community and comanages business operations on the farm, where she lives with her husband, David, and their sons Alex and Rio. ELIZABETH YOUNG moved to Stowel Lake Farm in 2000. After living in a school bus and a yurt, she built a house with her husband, Matt, where they’ve raised their three children, Addie, Max, and Scout. She co-manages the farm business and community. HAIDEE HART has lived on Stowel Lake Farm with her husband, Josh, since 2005. Their four children—Aliah, Noah, Jacob, and India— have grown up there. The head chef for the retreat groups that stay on the farm, she is passionate about farm-to-table food, natural wines and heirloom vegetables. 22

After I came home from school in the autumn, I would go up in the trees to pick apples while the wigeon ducks moved around on the grass below.

must have been one of their stops along their migration path. My siblings and I were outside all the time, and so was my mother, tending to her many plants: she had a rock garden, a vegetable garden, and a perennial garden. That hunger to farm never left me. In the mid-seventies my then-husband Stuart and I saw that the old Reynolds farm, a 115-acre parcel of land here on Salt Spring Island, was up for sale— and it was affordable! We loved the land, and Stuart is himself a farmer now, but he didn’t want to organize a farm operation here at that time. I really did. Ultimately we went separate ways, and I remained here raising our three children, Hamish, Rachel and Jennifer. I tried so many things as a farmer. In the early years here I got help from a local friend of mine, Garry, who was a Reynolds and lived with his wife and son down the road. It had been a hardscrabble life for the Reynolds family trying to make ends meet on their farm. They cleared some of the land when they settled here back in [year tk], and they had logged quite a bit of the property to earn money. Garry’s mother had been born in the farmhouse, and he had happy childhood memories of weeding the corn and all sorts of things, so he was quite keen to work together. We bought sixty ewes and went to work.

It was full of all kinds of difficulties, but it was really a grand time. The first big challenge was realizing that our new ewes all had foot rot, which is a very dangerous thing on a farm. Gary had to build foot-bath troughs with a sterilizing solution in them that the sheep could run through, and we had to continually look at all their hooves, keeping them clean with a little pick. Then there was hay. We often had about 120 lambs from the ewes, and our old hay baler didn’t work well, so we would spend a lot of time around the island getting our hay. Sheep were all we did. We smelled like sheep and dreamed of sheep. They were literally everywhere. Sometimes the baby lambs weren’t very healthy, and we’d bring them into the house— up into my downstairs bathroom, actually, where we would feed them colostrum, the first milk from the ewes. We chased them, cleaned them, fed them, milked them, wormed them, snipped their tails with a burdizzo. And of course we killed the lambs we weren’t going to keep, and cut them up in our basement with a bandsaw. Really, I am amazed when I think of it all now. After about 10 years of this in my dreams the lambs started sitting up and saying, “Why are you killing me?” I knew I couldn’t do it any more, and Garry too had had his fill of being a sheep farmer.

Keeping animals here on the farm can be a lot of work, but we’ve always found ways to share the responsibility.

“My mother was an avid gardener, and I think my affection for the land and for growing things came from her.”

Summer fruit galette is one of my favorite desserts to make: it’s a rustic, peasant style French pastry you don’t need to daunted by. You just roll it out, heap it with your fruit, and fold it over. One of the great tricks of this recipe is the layer of ground almonds and sugar, which soaks up the juices from the fruit and leaves you with this luscious, crispy pastry underneath.

summer fruit galette Galette pastry 21/2 cup unbleached white flour 1 Tbsp sugar + additional Tbsp sugar for sprinkling over finished pastry 1 tsp salt 1 cup cold butter cut into ¼ inch pieces

Ground nut filling 1 cup finely ground almonds or walnuts 3 Tbsp flour 3/4 cup sugar

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Pastry Heat oven to 400° F. Combine flour, sugar and salt in food processor. Add butter pieces and pulse until butter pieces are about the size of a pea. Add cold water and pulse briefly until just holding together. Turn pastry dough out onto your lightly floured counter. Flatten into round disk, then, using a rolling pin, roll out into an approximately 12” diameter circle. Transfer carefully to a parchment lined baking tray.

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Nut filling Combine nut filling, spread in a circle on middle of pastry, leaving the outer few inches of pastry without filling. This is the part of the pastry that will be folded over the fruit. Fruit Arrange fruit over nut filling and fold outer edge of pastry over fruit. There should be some fruit in the centre still showing, with loose folds of pastry covering the rest. Sprinkle the remaining tablespoon of sugar over the pastry border. Bake in hot oven for about 1 hour. Allow to cool completely on baking tray before slicing and serving. Cherry tomato variation Make pastry as above, through to transferring to baking tray. Spread 1 cup ricotta or chevre on the pastry, leaving a 2 inch border for folding over. Arrange cherry tomato halves, cut side down, on top of the cheese. Sprinkle sea salt onto tomatoes. Bake approximately 1 hour, until the tomatoes are bubbling and the pastry is golden brown.

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the creek—everything about it. My mother took me to ano outside Victoria when I was about eight, and I remember s myself even hunter then, “I amrabbit goingStew to live on a farm.” style Fifteen years ago there weren’t many rabbits on Salt Spring, but now the island is overrun with them, and it’s a real

problem for the ecosystem as well as for the farms. As a

chef, part of my mission is to encourage people to cook foods that we’re not utilizing, and rabbit is one of them—not only

as wild game but as an ethically raised food.

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This stew is particularly elegant and flavourful when made with rabbit, but you can also substitute chicken. It’s a kind of cacciatore, which means “hunter stew” in Italian, and it’s got those great Italian basics: red wine, a few good tomatoes, and the kind of simple herbs that grow wild in the hills of Italy, like rosemary and sage. In Italy it’s traditionally served with polenta but we most often serve it with mashed potatoes. The recipe for rosemary sea salt mashed potatoes in this book goes beautifully with it.

Rabbit, approx 31/2–4 lb, chopped in pieces

land and for growing things came from her, and from the father had created for us. We lived in Victoria on a beautif property on the ocean, with gorgeous gardens and lots of t Rinse and pat dry rabbit pieces. Lightly salt the pieces, and heat

3 Tbsp olive oil in a heavy skillet over medium high heat. Saute rabbit pieces until brown on all sides, then remove from pan. Reduce the heat to medium, and add chopped onion, rosemary, and sage to pan. Sauté until the onions are golden brown, about five minutes. Return rabbit pieces to pan, pour in 1 cup red wine. Cook over medium high heat until all the wine is evaporated, then scrape up all of the brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Add 1 cup red wine, hand-crushed canned tomatoes, and water. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for about 25 minutes. Remove lid off and boil for a few minutes to thicken the pan juices. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

1 cup chopped onions

3 Tbsp finely chopped fresh rosemary

3 Tbsp finely chopped sage 2 cups red wine

1 798 ml canned whole tomatoes with juice, crushed with your hands 1 cup water

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Symbols of Canada

Ed. Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney and Donald Wright From Timbits to totem poles, Canada is boiled down to its syrupy core in symbolic forms that are reproduced not only on t-shirts, television ads and tattoos, but in classrooms, museums and courtrooms. They can be found in every home and in every public space. They come in many forms, from objects—such as the red-uniformed Mountie, the maple leaf and the beaver—to concepts, such as free healthcare, peacekeeping and saying “eh?”.

SYMBOLS of CANADA Edited by Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney & Don Wright

October 16, 2018 Popular Culture / Canadian History Between the Lines ISBN: 978-1-771133715 $37.95 CAD 9.25 x 8.75 – 256 pages – Paperback

Where did these symbols come from and how have their meanings changed over time? Symbols of Canada gives us the real and surprising truths behind these most iconic Canadian symbols, revealing their contentious and often contested histories. Alan Gordon speaks of the Fleur-de-Lys; Michael Dawson shares his perceptions of Mounties; Catherine Gidney profiles Anne of Green Gables; John Lutz writes on the power of the Totem Pole; and Kelly Ferguson asks what it truly means to be a Peacekeeper. With these and more contributions from dozens of experts plus over 100 images, Symbols of Canada thoroughly explores Canada’s perceived and true identities while highlighting the unexpected twists and turns that have marked each symbol’s history.

Points of Interest

• Sharp, insightful and deeply funny: At once celebrating and critiquing •

Author Residences: New Brunswick

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symbols within Canadian identity, contributors are invariably witty and sometimes barbed, creating a rich, quick and satisfying reading experience. Asks important questions of Canadian identity: Symbols of Canada asks important questions about the purpose and consequences of revering particular parts of the Canadian experience. For example, Kristi Allain says of ice hockey, “Like other national symbols, hockey’s utility as a vehicle for commonsense public expressions of identity depends upon evasion, selectivity, and erasure—or, in the common parlance of the sport itself— some fancy stickhandling.” Shares little-known facts about well-known topics: From the artists’ intentions behind the Vimy Ridge monument to age-old debates about placing the beaver on the national flag, Symbols of Canada offers intriguing and eye-opening context for commonly known parts of Canadian identity. Illuminating or side-splitting photos: From iconic hockey photos to stunning watercolours to old advertisements of beavers exposing themselves (really), the book is full of eye-catching images, many of which are available to media.

MICHAEL DAWSON is professor of history at St. Thomas University. CATHERINE GIDNEY is adjunct research professor of history at St. Thomas

University.

DONALD WRIGHT is a professor of political science at the University of New

Brunswick.

Ian McKay and Jamie Swift

to symbolize Canada abroad, which allowed businesspeople and the government to avoid using the beaver. “The beaver is difficult

a “dentally defective rat” with the effrontery to wreak farmlands, roads, lake, streams and tree plantations,

to use effectively on certain types of products,” he said; “in some instances it looks rather like a rabbit.”19

my dock every summer.” She suggested replacing the Canada’s national symbol with a more majestic choice bear.21 Clearly, not everyone likes the beaver. Beyond their propensity to act like the animals are, damming watercourses and gnawing prized tree have another strike against them: their ambiguous sex classical legend about the male beaver’s self-emascul

It happened at 5:30 a.m. on april 9, 1917.

For years, on the Great War’s Western Front extending from the North Sea to the Alps, the British and the French had struggled to regain lands lost to the invading Germans. And for years they had confronted the great towering whaleback fortress of German-held Vimy Ridge, commanding the Douai Plain in northern France and repelling every Allied attack. They said the Ridge could not be taken. But they forgot to explain that to the rugged, fighting Canadians under General Arthur Currie—those brave country boys fighting, according

As a result, artists tend to accentuate two of the beaver’s features to distinguish it from other rodents: its flat tail and its large teeth. They also tend to depict it on land, rather than in the further destabilized the dominant perception of peacekeeping water.20 Stylized for the closing ceremony ofappealing the 2010 Vancouver and made it less to Canadians and their governments. In 1934, the Toronto Star and the Winnipeg Free Press ran major spreads of startlingly realistic war photographs, drawing praise from veterans grateful that, after years of official censorship and saccharine romanticism, candid war images were available to the public.

Indeed, the late 1990s would see Canada cut military spending

to historian Jonathan Vance, for “Canada, Western civilization, and Christianity.”1 Amidst the snow and sleet, after months of meticulous planning, the Canadians, nearly one-hundred-thousand-strong, detonated an ear-splitting explosion that shook the Ridge and its German defenders. Then, over the course of the next few days, through discipline and fortitude, they conquered them. In this “big turning point in the war,” the Canadian Army did much more than seize a height of land in distant Europe. It constructed the “crucible of Canadian nationhood.”2 “We went

Olympic Games, and the Parks Canada and Roots Canada and move away from peacekeeping initiatives.logos, Yet throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Canadians continued to the beaver is immediately recognizable. Inthethese theduring dencies—the idea that he will chew off his own testi commemorate work doneiterations, by Canadian peacekeepers the twentieth century through such things as coins, monubeaver is not just any rodent. ments, books, and films. One of the first efforts to commemorate fearful of attack—may suit a certain type of ironic Can Canada’s peacekeeping legacy was Reconciliation: The PeacekeepHowever, beavers use their impressive teeth to build dams ing Monument, which was conceived, developed, and erected in deprecation. On a more scientific level, it can be very d Ottawa before the controversies of the 1990s. Other tributes and create floods. Not all their actions, then, areTomhighly comincluded folksinger Stompin’ Connors’s 1991 song “Blue humans to distinguish between male and female beav Berets,” which included the lines, “Yes we are the Blue Berets / patible with humans’ use of habitats. Forproud one senator, We’re always to saycurrent / We’ll stand between the mighty and scholars, in discussing the beaver as a national and co the frail.” Performing the song at concerts throughout the early they create problems for cottagers. In 2011, Senator Nicole 1990s, Connors urged Canadians to support their peacekeepers. symbol, emphasize the animal’s ambiguous sexuality a In the years that followed, other commemorative efforts Eaton achieved some notoriety when sheto support criticized the ofbeaver, attempted an understanding peacekeeping that addressing the difficulties of defining Canadian nation 31

In 2000, Canada Post released this stamp, titled “Lester B. Pearson: On Guard for World Peace.” It was one of many widely circulated commemorative tributes to Canadian peacekeeping produced in the early 2000s.

steered clear of the Somali, Rwandan, and Bosnian controversies. In 1995, for example, Reconciliation was included on a commemorative one-dollar coin.34 Similarly, in 2001, the Canadian ten-dollar bill featured a commemorative image titled, Remembrance and Peacekeeping, which was composed of various reminders of Canada’s military history, including part of John McCrae’s poem, “In Flanders’ Fields,” a female peacekeeper, and a veteran alongside subsequent generations of Canadians. The phrase, “in the service of peace,” also inscribed on Reconciliation,

Canadian players grimly accept their silver medals after losing to the United States at the 2016 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championships in Kamloops, BC.

appeared at the top of the bill. Such images effaced earlier distinctions between Canada’s longer history as a “warrior nation” during the First and Second World Wars and modern peacekeeping.35 Together, the bill and the coin reinforced a representation of peacekeeping that seemed to actively discourage Canadians from coming to terms with the controversies of 1990s.36

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The Book I Didn’t Want to Write Erwan Larher

“Literature doesn’t stop bullets. On the other hand, it can stop a finger from pressing a trigger. Maybe. It’s a bet worth making.” Erwan Larher was enjoying a rock concert in Paris’s Bataclan Theater on November 13, 2015, when the firing started. In this genre-bending, deeply moving and unexpected memoir, Larher reflects on what the gruesome terror attack meant to him and to others. The Book I Didn’t Want to Write transcends bearing witness. Larher’s voice is intertwined with others—his partner, his father, the two friends who were going to come but didn’t—to create a deeply moving collective chronicle of the most violent night in French history since World War II. He recounts not only how such an act affected him and his loved ones, but the thousands who lived through that night, the millions who followed the event through media, and even the attackers themselves.

October 15, 2018 Literary Memoir / Politics Locarno Press ISBN: 978-1-988996004 $24.95 CAD 6” x 9” – 196 pages – Hardcover

“You were in the wrong place at the wrong time; you’re a miracle, not a victim,” he writes. Larher is anything but self-pitying. The book is all the more remarkable in its stoic, bold approach: perhaps to be expected from one of France’s most beloved rock and roll novelists with a suitably gritty look at the world and at words. There is no tearful history, unhealthy voyeurism or grudge-settling. Instead, Larher explains how he must, “write around because you are a novelist and not a chronicler, because you can only shape a text by appeasing literature.” The Book I Didn’t Want To Write is remarkable in both its construction and content. It achieves what few titles can—and does exactly what Larher set out to do: to remind us of life’s emotional and artistic depths despite tragedy. It is a masterful slap in the face and a hymn to life.

Points of Interest

• Charismatic, highly engaging author: Effortlessly cool, charismatic yet deeply •

Author Location: Paris, France Touring in Canada October 2018

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passionate, Larher is beloved in France for his poetic, punk-like approach. He makes for compelling interviews. Entirely unique perspective on surviving terrorism: Told from the perspective of himself, his family, his country and even the terrorists who opened fire in the Bataclan themselves, The Book I Didn’t Want To Write unflinchingly explores the reasons behind—and the aftermath of—acts of violence. Stunning, rich prose: Genre-defying and critically acclaimed throughout Europe, The Book I Didn’t Want To Write is an incredible accomplishment of tone and voice. Extensive North American Tour after tens of thousands sold: Larher releases the book amidst a North American tour following widespread success throughout Europe.

ERWAN LARHER was born in central France and attended the prestigious Sciences Po university. He left the music business after 15 years to write full-time; his first novel was published in 2010, and his third, The Male Abandoned in a Hostile Environment (2013), won the Claude-Chabrol and the Louis-Barthou literary awards. Larher was shot in the November 2015 attack on the Bataclan Theater.

The Woo-Woo

How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family

Lindsay Wong

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when they should really be on anti-psychotic meds. Award-winning writer Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo”—Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, Wong witnessed the woo-woo’s sinister effects: when she was six, Wong and her mother avoided the dead people haunting their house by hiding out in a mall food court, and on a camping trip, in an effort to rid her daughter of demons, her mother tried to light Wong’s foot on fire. The eccentricities take a darker turn when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. At once a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself.

Points of Interest

• Unique perspective on the Asian immigrant experience: Wong offers • • •

a modern and bitingly funny take on her loveable immigrant family through magic realism, slapstick humour and plenty of relatable, tender moments. Nuanced study of mother-daughter relationships: Most adolescent daughters will describe their mother as “acting crazy” at some point. But what if your mother’s behaviour really is cause for concern? Wong explores this idea, re-examining her fraught relationship with her mother in the context of current understandings of mental health. Highly engaging excerpts: From escaping the spiritual world by hiding in food courts to poignant discussions of intergenerational relationships, The Woo-Woo makes for ideal excerpt material. Canadian writer-to-watch: With an MFA from Columbia University and numerous awards and fellowships achieved at a young age, Lindsay Wong is one of 2018’s rising literary stars; The Woo-Woo is an anticipated, bold debut.

October 18, 2018 Memoir / Humour Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN: 978-1-551527369 $19.95 CAD Paperback Author Residence: Vancouver, BC

LINDSAY WONG holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and an MFA in literary non-fiction from Columbia University in New York. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in No Tokens, The Fiddlehead, Ricepaper, and Apogee Journal. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including from The Studios of Key West, Caldera Arts, and the Historic Joy Kogawa House.

Murder by Milkshake

An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer Eve Lazarus When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther’s funeral, her husband, Rene, a charismatic and handsome radio personality, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter, Jeannine; and Lolly’s son, Don, in the company car and took off for Disneyland. If not for the doggedness of the doctor who treated Esther, Rene would have been free to marry Lolly, who was the station’s pretty twentysomething receptionist. Instead, Rene was charged with capital murder for poisoning his wife with arsenic-flavoured milkshakes in one of British Columbia’s most sensational criminal cases ever. Murder by Milkshake is the compelling story of the Castellanis, and of their daughter, Jeannine, who was eleven at the time of her mother’s murder and who clung to her father’s innocence, even committing perjury during his trial. Rigorously researched, and based on dozens of interviews with family, friends and coworkers, Murder by Milkshake documents the case that kept Vancouver spellbound, while providing a snapshot of the city’s Mad Men-esque social and political realities in the 1960s.

Points of Interest

• Highly respected true crime author and researcher: Lazarus has won

October 1, 2018 True Crime / History Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN: 978-1-551527468 $21.95 CAD 9 × 6 – 224 pages – Paperback Author Residence: Vancouver, BC

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multiple awards for her bestselling portrayals of true crime, each of which richly portrays the individuals behind the stories. One of the most infamous crimes of recent times: From countless headlines to a cheeky folk song, Castellani’s murder has sparked intrigue and outrage in the popular culture for decades. Intriguing perspective on ‘Mad Men’ era: High-powered media executives. The wife and the mistress. Lazarus’ depiction of the events leading up to the murder offer a too-infrequently shared glimpse at the objectification and domestic violence women faced during 60s and beyond. Would a ‘respectable’ man still go to such lengths to elope with his secretary today? New criminal details revealed: Murder by Milkshake includes an intimate portrait of the Castellanis’ daughter, Jeannine, who played a major (and puzzling) role in her father’s trial and conviction, for which she was tried for perjury.

EVE LAZARUS is a Vancouver writer with an Aussie accent and a passion for

true crime stories, cold cases, and non-traditional history. She is the author of three Arsenal titles: Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders (2015), a BC bestseller and 2016 finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award at the BC Book Prizes; Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First Forensic Investigator (2017); and Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer, forthcoming in 2018. She is also the author of Sensational Vancouver (2014), Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Murders, Ghosts & Gardens (2012), and her book At Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage Houses, which was a 2008 City of Vancouver book award finalist.

Crusoe, The Worldly Weiner Dog

Further Adventures with the Celebrity Dachshund Ryan Beauchesne “If cuteness is a crime, [this dog is] guilty.” ―Mashable

The New York Times bestselling internet sensation Crusoe the Celebrity Dachshund returns in a whimsical book full of heartwarming and goofy photographs of his world travels. Jet-setting is what dachshunds do best. From Switzerland’s Alps and Mayan temples to Italian seaside villages―and locales across Canada to boot―the world’s most famous dachshund shares his wit and wisdom on appreciating culture, fine wine, and haute cuisine in the second title of this irreverent, adorable series. In Crusoe, the Worldly Wiener Dog, the adventurous canine recounts adventures of stalking evildoers in New York as Batdog, recovering from back surgery with style, and even playing doctor and dentist to his sidekick brother, Oakley. With hundreds of photographs to delight his millions of internet fans, this book shares Crusoe learning a thing or two about what really matters most in life (while being as stylish as possible). And that includes good humor and adventure.

Points of Interest

• A feel-good photo book: Crusoe, The Worldly Weiner Dog is a delightful • •

photography book that celebrates one of the world’s most goofy yet noble breeds: the dachshund. Animal lovers and children will enjoy the hundreds of pictures of this exceptional pooch. Touches on the debilitating back injury and recovery Crusoe went through: 25 percent of dachshunds encounter an issue with IVDD (intervertebral disc disease). In 2016, Crusoe underwent emergency surgery on his spinal cord to remove ruptured disc material. Many people have said his recovery showcased the best possible example to help a dog recover from IVDD. A book for the fans: Crusoe has 2.5 million followers on Facebook, 600,000 followers on Instagram, and 165,000 subscribers on YouTube. This sequel to his first book is a much-anticipated and exciting release for this fan base.

October 16, 2018 Popular Culture / Animals St. Martin’s Press ISBN: 978-1-250134721 $21.99 CAD 7 x 8 – 240 pages – Cloth Author Residence: Ottawa, ON

CRUSOE is a well educated, stunning miniature dachshund (that’s a “wiener dog”) with uncanny charisma, gorgeous good looks, and a wildly successful blog. He has been featured in People, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The Globe & Mail, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, and The Guardian, among others, and has been a guest on The Ellen Degeneres Show and Good Morning America. This is his second book. He lives in Canada with his smitten human parents. RYAN BEAUCHESNE is an online marketing professional for a web development & marketing agency based out of Ottawa, Ontario. He grew up with the photo books of William Wegman on his coffee table and has read every Calvin & Hobbes comic book several times―all inspirations for the New York Times bestselling Crusoe book.

Take the Torch A Memoir Ian Waddell

“What I love about Canada is that we are still a young country and still a place where you can make change happen.” Take the Torch is the compelling memoir from one of BC’s most animated and accomplished politicians, Ian Waddell, QC. In humorous, endearing and memorable prose he explores his journey from storefront lawyer to NDP Member of Parliament to Minister of Culture to writer, teacher, film producer and more. Where did it start? As a young lawyer, from an immigrant family, working on both the first consumer class-action lawsuit in Canada and the Berger Inquiry into the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. With each anecdote and reflection, Waddell hopes to impart lessons about how to create social change—debating, protesting, marching and even “biting dogs” at press conferences (following the old adage “dog bites man is not a story; man bites dog is a headline”). This is Nightwood Editions’ second publication in a campaign to promote participation in civic affairs and community activism. Waddell’s candid and warm writing reflects his political style: “taking on prime ministers, dictators and kings, grabbing maces, lobbying diplomats in the lobby of the United Nations, and bucking your own party.” It’s a skill he hopes to pass to multiple generations.

October 27, 2018 Politics / Memoir Nightwood Editions ISBN: 978-0-889713475 $22.95 CAD 6” × 9” – 256 pages – Paperback Author Residence: Vancouver, BC

Points of Interest

• Beloved and media-savvy political author: Waddell is a consummate media • •

professional, having worked with the press for years while in politics, and now as a political commentator for some of Canada’s most celebrated publications. Intergenerational discussion of social and political change: Civic and environmental campaigners often bemoan the lack of knowledge shared between generations, thus slowing progressive politics. Take The Torch shares secrets and anecdotes that support future political advocates. Marries apt memoir with forward-thinking suggestions: Waddell is known for assessing current politics in addition to sharing previous eras’ priorities, best demonstrated by his award-winning documentary The Drop: Why Young People Don’t Vote. He can speak fluidly and warmly to current issues—not simply his own experience.

IAN WADDELL is a Canadian politician, author and filmmaker who served

in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1993 and in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1996 to 2001. In 2002, he released the political mystery novel A Thirst to Die For. Currently, Waddell is a documentary film producer and a consultant in environmental and aboriginal affairs. In December 2013 he was appointed the honorary title of Queen’s Counsel for his merit and exceptional contribution to law.

Iron Road West

An Illustrated History of British Columbia’s Railways

Derek Hayes

British Columbia as we know it wouldn’t exist without the railway: the province was brought into the Canadian Confederation in 1871 in exchange for the promise of a transcontinental line to the West Coast. When the Canadian Pacific Railway arrived in 1886, it bolstered economic development in the province, created the city of Vancouver and spurred others to build competing lines that continued the boom. In Iron Road West, Derek Hayes charts the development of the province through its railway lines, using a wealth of photographs, maps and charts to show how rails were laid through the wild terrain that characterized much of British Columbia. As railways transformed the province, they inevitably incited fierce competition and personal hatreds, creating an exciting, frontier-like environment that Hayes describes in vivid detail. He also explores the emergence of the modern freight railway in British Columbia, including fully automated and computerized trains. Prolifically illustrated, Iron Road West will fascinate not only railway enthusiasts but anyone with an interest in the history of British Columbia.

Points of Interest

• Acclaimed, bestselling historian: Derek Hayes is widely acknowledged as one • • •

of Canada’s premier authors of books combining geography and history. The creator of the bestselling Historical Atlas Series, Hayes’ name is associated with immersive, historical books of the highest quality. Comprehensive, untold account of BC railways: Iron Road West explores the political, social and economic impact of the early railroads in BC, plus the construction, maintenance and mechanical processes of both modern and historic railways. Exciting frontier adventure: A wildly entertaining account of BC’s frontier past, the book features colourful characters such as railway tycoons, feuding towns, migrating workers and wild, wild terrain. Visually stunning: Dozens of breathtaking archival images are available for media to use.

November 3, 2018 History / Transportation Harbour Publishing ISBN: 978-1-550178388 $44.95 CAD 8.5 × 11 – 240 pages – Hardcover 500 illustrations Author Residence: White Rock, BC

DEREK HAYES is a geographer by training with a passion for old maps and what they can reveal about the past. He is the author of the bestselling Historical Atlas Series (Douglas & McIntyre), which includes the Historical Atlas of Canada, Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley, Historical Atlas of Toronto and Historical Atlas of Early Railways. He holds two degrees in geography and worked for a time as a planner with the Vancouver City Planning Commission and as a real estate consultant.

Outrages

Inventing Homosexuality as a Crime and a Cause Naomi Wolf The best-selling author of Vagina, Give Me Liberty, and The End of America illuminates a dramatic buried story in gay history—how a single English law in 1857 transformed perceptions and continues to reverberate even today. Until 1857, the State did not link the idea of “homosexuality” to deviancy. In the same year, the concept of the “obscene” was coined. Wolf’s Outrages is the story, brilliantly told, of why this two-pronged State repression took hold—first in England and then America—and why it was attached so dramatically—and for the first time—to homosexual men. Before 1857, “homosexuality” wasn’t a crime; the act of sodomy was. Yet in a single stroke love between men was made illegal, and anything that referred to this love became obscene, unprintable, unspeakable. Wolf paints the dramatic ways this played out among a bohemian group of sexual dissidents, including Walt Whitman in America and the closeted homosexual English critic John Addington Symonds. Most powerfully, Wolf recounts how a dying Symonds helped write the book on “sexual inversion” that created our modern understanding of homosexuality. And she compellingly argues why his secret memoir, mined here fully for the first time, stands as the first gay rights manifesto in the West.

January 22, 2019 History / Social History Houghton Miflin Harcourt ISBN: 978-0-544274020 $42.00 CAD 6 x 9 – 304 pages – Cloth

Points of Interest

• Celebrated and bestselling thinker: Internationally renowned Naomi Wolf • •

has earned a reputation for deftly exploring some of the most complex topics relating to sexuality and state oppression. Untold story of history of State condemnation of homosexuality: What changed so dramatically in 1857 that “homosexuality” became synonymous with “obscenity”? Why did sodomy become illegal? Wolf documents an underdiscussed period of history whose ramifications are still felt today. Celebration of historic LGBTQ2 rights campaigners: Outrages shares the life and work of individuals such as John Addington Symonds, who penned what can be considered the first gay rights manifesto in the western world. The result is a refreshing expansion of our understanding of civil rights campaigning during Victorian times and beyond.

NAOMI WOLF is the author most recently of Vagina: A New Biography; Give Me

Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries; and The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, all New York Times bestsellers. Wolf is also the author of the landmark international bestseller The Beauty Myth. A graduate of Yale and a former Rhodes Scholar, Wolf writes for publications that include The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times and Huffington Post.

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