By Adeena Karasick
An exuberant commentary on the timelessness of digital information and our ravenous, insatiable appetite for data and connection.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.75 W × 8.75 H × .75 D inches
Poetry | Frontlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012002
| Rights: WORLD
By Ted Byrne
A translation of the sonnets of Louise Labé, who lived and wrote in sixteenth-century Lyon, and those of the thirteenth-century Florentine, Guido Cavalcanti.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
Poetry | Frontlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772011999
| Rights: WORLD
By Susan Crean
Susan Crean’s memoir Finding Mr. Wong chronicles her effort to piece together the life of the man she knew as Mr. Wong, cook and housekeeper to her Irish Canadian family for two generations. Reminiscing, Crean writes, “I grew up in Mr. Wong’s kitchen …” A Chinese Head Tax payer hired…
$19.95 | 272 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
Non-Fiction | Frontlist
| Bisac: BIO002000
ISBN 13: 9781772011944
| Rights: WORLD
By Marcus Youssef & Niall McNeil
Introduction by & Al Etmanski
A collaboration across perceptions of cognitive difference.
$18.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
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Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012033
| Rights: WORLD
By Deni Béchard & Natasha Kanape Fontaine
Translated by & Deni Béchard & Howard Scott
Kuei, My Friend is an engaging book of letters: a literary and political encounter between Innu poet Natasha Kanapé Fontaine and Québécois-American novelist Deni Ellis Béchard. Choosing the epistolary form, they decided to engage together in a frank conversation about racism and reconciliation. Intentionally positioned within the contexts of the…
$19.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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Non-Fiction | Frontlist
| Bisac: SOC021000
ISBN 13: 9781772011951
| Rights: WORLD
By Jovanni Sy
1920s Hong Kong. Battling racism and his own reputation, Chinese detective Tommy Lam investigates the deaths of several women.
$19.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: DRA005000
ISBN 13: 9781772012040
| Rights: WORLD
By Marie Clements & Nelson Gray
One town. Two playwrights. Two radically different worlds.
$18.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
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Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012019
| Rights: WORLD
By Daryl Cloran
The fifteenth summer of Beth Weeks’s life is full of strange happenings: a classmate is mauled to death, children go missing on the nearby reserve, and an unseen predator pursues Beth. Not to mention Beth is becoming aware that there is darkness in her own home: her mother’s relationship…
$18.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012057
| Rights: WORLD
By Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel
Every house has its secrets, but none hides them better than the august home of Delorme family in Montreal.
$19.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
Fiction | Frontlist
| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772011968
| Rights: WORLD
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