FEATURED BOOKS

Title: Dead Girl Diaries            

Author: Marianne Paul

Genre: Fiction

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 192 pp.

ISBN: 9780978379384

Price: $24.95



When a young university student is assigned the task of writing her obituary by her journalism professor, she procrastinates. Who wants to think about their own death? An obituary is really about life - how one has lived it - and the assignment sends Maxine down a road of hopes and dreams, what she imagines her life to be. But life doesnt unfold in the way Maxine thinks it will. Stopping along a dark highway to help a stranger with car trouble, Maxine is attacked and left for dead at the side of the road. But like her life, Maxine’s death is full of unexpected twists of fate.

Title: Adventures with Camera and Pen

Author: Anthony Dalton

Genre: Non-Fiction/Travel/Adventures

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

ISBN: 9780978439521

Price: $24.95



Adventures with Camera and Pen is a collection of tales from Anthony Dalton ’s nomadic life as an adventurer and photo-journalist. The stories run the gamut from searching for Polar bears on the shores of Hudson Bay through mountain climbing in Western Canada to tracking Royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh jungle. They depict Dalton’s often hilarious encounters with an eclectic variety of wildlife in the Canadian Arctic, the Falkland Islands and Namibia. As an expedition leader, he documents a difficult journey to remote salt mines in the Sahara north of Timbuktu with a CBC-TV film crew.

  

Title: The Serenity of Stone

Author: Michael Fraser

Genre: Poetry

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

ISBN: 9780978379346

Price: $16.95



The poems in The Serenity of Stone emerge from places as disparate as Fraser's childhood in Grenada, adolescence in Edmonton, and teenage years and adulthood in Toronto. They span the themes of diasporadic life, themes ranging from landscape and family history, romance and love, crime and racism to kindness and abuse, squalor and education. Stylistically the poems fall into many camps. The work is rooted in many traditions, from hip hop to the English canon. Fraser skilfully combines a hip street element with the attention to high standards of detail and style.

 

Title: On Guard for Thee

Author: Matthew Bin

Genre: Non-Fiction/Canadian History

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 208 pp.

ISBN: 9780978379322

Price: $24.95



On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of soldiers stories from Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day. The stories are collected directly from the individual veterans. Contributors represent virtually every major Canadian mission, including Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cambodia, Somalia, and Afghanistan. They represent the whole of the operational experience, from the training they undergo before the mission begins, to the moment they land on foreign soil, to the return to Canada and beyond. The result is a raw, honest look at peacekeeping, from the legendary missions in Rwanda and Bosnia, to the slums of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to the ongoing fight in Afghanistan. The full Canadian peacekeeping experience is here, showing, from the ground level, how Canada’s international reputation was built.

Title: Twice in a Blue Moon

Author: Marianne Paul

Genre: Fiction

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 208 pp.

ISBN: 9780978379339

Price: $24.95



When Aley Pierce writes, her words don’t stay on the page but spill into reality. Or so her neighbours think, who see her words as evil. Tensions escalate into an organized campaign of book banning and book burning, until Aley herself doubts who she is and what she does. A century and a half earlier, Elizabeth Barnes talent for water dowsing unearths a body in her neighbours field. Under growing accusations that she is a witch, Elizabeth is blamed for the drought that puts a stranglehold on the small farming community. But water dowsing isn’t Elizabeth only talent she is a clairvoyant. Does she see the future or create it? Even Elizabeth doesn’t know. Beneath the unfolding of the blue moon, events resurface across time, and the lives of the two women interlink. Does Aley create Elizabeth, or is Elizabeth dreaming Aley?

  

Title: The Water Buffalo that Shed Her Girdle

Author: Reva Leah Stern

Genre: Fiction

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

ISBN: 9780978379353

Price: $24.95



Rachel Morganstein forages through her library of muddled thoughts to try and find some semblance of sanity in the odd turn her life has taken. She has just discovered that her youngest child, Aaron, is about to get married and she has not been invited. While pondering the depth of her son’s rejection, Rachel begins to scrutinize her own childhood memories in the hope of finding a clue as to what could cause such vitriol to surface after so many years. The tumultuous train wreck of Rachel’s life steams down the track carrying us through tunnels of dry wit, untapped sadness and sanguine arrivals.