NEW BOOKS

Title: Relentless Pursuit

Author: Anthony Dalton

Genre: Fiction

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 240 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956596

Price: $24.95

Canadian zoologist is pushing his limits. Desperate to find and protect a man-eating Royal Bengal tiger in a Bangladesh jungle, he is on a race against time as two bereaved fathers, whose daughters were killed by the striped predator, team up to hunt the menace.Working far from civilization, the three men are on a collision course beyond the boundaries of conscience. While they track the tiger from different directions, the tiger is tracking two of them. A poacher – a high-ranking military officer – throws himself into the mix, adding another, deadlier force to the potent equation.  The tiger, top of the food chain in his environment, uses stealth and cunning to gain the advantage, only to lose it as nature darkens the world.

Title: Imagine Mercy

Author: David Groulx

Genre: Poetry

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 96 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956374

Price: $15.95

Imagine Mercy is a vibrant poetry collection portraying the daily realities of living as an Aboriginal in Canada. David Groulx seamlessly weaves the spiritual with the ordinary and the present with the past. He speaks for the spirit, determination, and courage of Aboriginal people, compelling readers to confront cruel reality with his honest and inspiring vision. The poems in Imagine Mercy portray mixed bloods, resistance, determination, sovereignty, and cultural issues that generate sharply divided opinions and deep emotional struggles. Groulx’s poetic power renders an honest and painful perception of modern-day Aboriginal life with strong voice against prejudice and injustice. 

 

Title: Love's Not The Way To

Author: Stan Rogal

Genre: Poetry

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 80 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956381

Price: $14.95

This book is a collection of haiku poems dedicated to the life and works of Richard Brautigan. The poems reflect both his oeuvre and his life, not only as a tip-of-the-hat homage but also as a way of reintroducing his poetic sensibility to a newer and wider audience. There was something of the English-language Japanese poetic forms that made perfect sense to the aesthetic of Richard Brautigan, and Stan Rogal comes to these forms through a Brautigan lens in this poetry collection. Stan Rogal chose the haiku form as Richard Brautigan is best known as a minimalist writer, and he became quite famous in Japan for his short, imagistic poems and for his sensitive and humorous dealings with the transitory notions of love and death.

 

Title: Eternity Taking Its Time

Author: Michel Pleau

Translator: Howard Scott

Genre: Poetry

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 64 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956312

Price: $14.95

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language poetry. 

In Eternity Taking Its Time, Michel Pleau uses simple and moving images that go straight to the heart. He shapes words with painstaking care to give us moments of pure beauty and flashes of luminous landscape. He evokes the nostalgia of childhood in language as refreshing and bracing as the wind. With Eternity Taking Its Time, Michel Pleau invites us to a celebration of the marvellous. Attentive to his worlds, he invites us to go back to the essentials, to natural elements, innocence and light, in order to magnify the beauty of the universe.

    

Title: The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe

Author: John Maynard

Genre: Non-Fiction

Format: Trade Paperback, 6 x 9, 192 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956336

Price: $19.95

A first in sporting literature, The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe is the largely untold story of Aboriginal involvement with the world game in Australia’s sporting history. The acceptance that Aboriginal players found within the post-World War II migrant communities had a profound impact on their lives. The multicultural environment of Australian soccer provided them with a haven from the prejudice and racism of wider Australian society. Interweaving personal stories and extensive research with links to the broader Indigenous world community, this book is a celebration of the extraordinary journey taken by Aboriginal sportsmen and women to forge the way ahead for the present crop of talented players. 

 

Title: One Way Ticket

Author: David Tucker

Genre: Short Stories

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 136 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956138

Price: $17.95

Years after a near-miraculous birth imposes impossible life expectations on him, a lonely and unaccomplished man tries to radically reinvent himself. A prominent female author is stricken with writer’s block hours before she is to deliver the keynote speech of her life. On a train, a struggling former advertising executive becomes paralyzed by the silent presence of a young woman who reminds him of a lost love who derailed his life and career. One Way Ticket is a riveting collection of stories that explore the jagged psychic journey of characters forced by circumstance and fate to rewrite their life narrative or be destroyed by it.

    

Title: Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies

Author: Reneltta Arluk

Genre: Poetry

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 104 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956145

Price: $16.95

A poetry collection where stories of life’s experiences are distilled into feelings and thoughts that are universal. Reneltta Arluk weaves the traditional and the contemporary together through the eyes of a young Aboriginal woman. Her poems, both sacred and secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. Here are tales of love, betrayal, courage, defeat, acceptance, loss, grief, passion, delight, courting, coming of age, birth and death, youth and old age, hunting and surviving. The poems are united by the history of her ancestors and the ongoing struggle to define what it means to be a tribal member, an Aboriginal, and a woman in the twenty first century. 

   

Title: The Man Who Stayed Afloat

Author: Fraser Sutherland

Genre: Non-Fiction

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 160 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956169

Price: $19.95

When a Slovenian teenager sneaked into Austria in 1956, it was the start of an epic Canadian journey. Landing penniless the next year in Toronto, young Ivan Letnik worked his way up from golf-club dishwasher to greasy-spoon proprietor. Building on success, he bought a former Detroit fire tug and turned it into a floating restaurant on the barren Toronto waterfront. But in 1981 a city excursion ferry, veering off course, rammed and sank the restaurant. It didn’t sink the man who called himself Captain John, though. Battling financial reverses, he kept dishing out clam chowder to boatloads of tourists when he wasn’t hosting an annual dinner to feed the homeless. The Man Who Stayed Afloat tells his triumphant story.