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HOUSE OF ANANSI WINTER 2015 / SPRING 2016 TITLES
INDEX
Acacia Gardens, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
All Monsters Must Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Applebaum, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Are Men Obsolete? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Atwood, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Bärtås, Magnus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Based on a True Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Baziju . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Blais, Marie-Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Box Kite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Bozak, Nadia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Cohen, Stephen F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Crummey, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Davis, Wade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Dershowitz, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Does State Spying Make Us Safer? . . . . . . . . 19
Dowd, Maureen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Ekman, Fredrik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
El Niño . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Evil in Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Forbes, Elena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7
Greenwald, Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2016, The . . 32
Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous
Place? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SPIDERLINE ... 2
ANANSI NONFICTION ... 12
ANANSI FICTION ... 20
ANANSI POETRY ... 29
INDEX ... 33
ORDER INFORMATION ... 33
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Hayden, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Heart of Hell, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Heighton, Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Hill, Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
History’s People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Hough, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
House that Jack Built, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
I’m Coming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Jigsaw Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Kagan, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Kasparov, Garry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Killing Pilgrim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Kovalyova, Irina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Laboucane-Benson, Patti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Lake, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Leblanc, Perrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Little Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Man Who Saved Henry Morgan, The . . . . . . . 25
Mattich, Alen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3, 4
MacMillan, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Melander, Jakob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11
Mellings, Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Michael Crummey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Moran, Caitlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Nothing For You Here, Young Man . . . . . . . . 27
Ohanian, Alexis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Outside Circle, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Paglia, Camille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Payback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Pozner, Vladimir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Renzetti, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Rosin, Hanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Scream of the Butterfly, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Selma Lønning Aarø . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Should the West Engage with Putin’s Russia? . 18
Slaughter, Anne-Marie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Specimen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Stephens, Bret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Teir, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Under the Keel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Unsworth, Cathi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9
Waking Comes Late, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Walt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Wangersky, Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Wayfinders, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Weirdo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Winter War, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Without the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Zagreb Cowboy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Zakaria, Fareed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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TITLE
WALT
Subtitle
RUSSELL
WANGERSKY
AUTHOR NAME
Lead quote
— credit fine novel takes you into the mind of a character you’re
“Russell
Wangersky’s
not likely to forget in a hurry … a joy to read and difficult to put down.”
— Peter Robinson, author of the Inspector Banks series.
From critically acclaimed author
Russell Wangersky comes a dark, psychological
thriller about a man named Walt, a grocery store
cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave
in the store and discard without thought.
The grocery lists, written on everything from
cancelled cheques to mortgage statements to office
stationary, give him a personal hold over those who
both ignore him and unwittingly disclose facets of
their lives to him.
In his fifties, abandoned, he says, by his nowmissing wife Mary, Walt is pursued by detectives
unsatisfied with the answers he’s given about her
disappearance. When a new cold case squad is
formed in St. John’s to look into Mary’s disappearance, the detectives begin to realize that Walt may
be involved in more than just his wife’s disappearance.
RUSSELL WANGERSKY is a writer, editor,
and columnist from St. John’s, Newfoundland. His
books have won, or been shortlisted for, numerous
literary prizes.
FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
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TITLE
KILLING
PILGRIM
Subtitle
A Marko della Torre Novel
AUTHOR NAME
ALEN MATTICH
Lead
“Quentin
quote —Tarantino
credit had better watch his back. Alen Mattich is smart, dark,
and killingly funny.” — Alan Bradley, author of the Flavia de Luce series
Killing Pilgrim is a propulsive political thriller following a complex plot hatched by
members of the CIA and set against the backdrop
of war-torn Yugoslavia.
Early autumn, 1991. Croatia and Slovenia
officially declared independence from Yugoslavia, and war is imminent between the Croats
and the Serbs. Department VI of the UDBA has
been dismantled, while the Yugoslav government
scrambles to protect the State. In the midst of
the political maelstrom, secret policeman Marko
della Torre gets caught in an intricate web woven
by the CIA and members of the Croat nationalist movement. They enlist della Torre to make
contact with a man living in the shadows: the exUDBA agent who assassinated Olof Palme, the
former prime minister of Sweden . . .
ALEN MATTICH is the author of Zagreb Cowboy, Killing Pilgrim, and The Heart of Hell, the
first three novels in the Marko della Torre series.
Based in London, U.K., he writes for Dow Jones
and the Wall Street Journal.
FICTION / Crime
978-1-77089-109-8
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TITLE
THE
HEART OF HELL
Subtitle
A Marko della Torre Novel
AUTHOR NAME
ALEN MATTICH
“Missed
Lead
quote
the—
first
credit
two Marko della Torre novels? Read this one and then grab
the others because Marko is a cop to be savored.” — Globe and Mail
Autumn 1991. Civil war has broken out in
Yugoslavia with Croatia’s declaration of independence, and former secret policeman Marko della
Torre is set adrift. Department VI, the internal
investigations unit, is now in a state of paralysis as
Belgrade struggles to maintain its hold as the region’s centre of power.
When the body of a young woman, identified
as American agent Rebecca Vees, washes up on
the shores of Italy, della Torre is summoned by
U.S. authorities. He is the last person to have seen
Rebecca alive. Her two colleagues have also been
found shot dead on an island in Croatia, and della
Torre is coerced into locating the man they think
is responsible: the corrupt and unscrupulous cop,
Julius Strumbić. Forced to navigate Yugoslavia’s
bloody civil war in order to track Strumbić’s whereabouts, della Torre has to decide whether he will
warn his old friend or give him up to the Americans
to save himself.
In The Heart of Hell, Alen Mattich delivers a
powerful political thriller that depicts the horrors
and machinations of the Yugoslav civil war and the
humanity of those who survive it.
FICTION / Crime
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TITLE
ZAGREB
COWBOY
Subtitle
A Marko della Torre Novel
AUTHOR NAME
ALEN MATTICH
Lead
— credit ride . . . Zagreb Cowboy sets things up well for the next
“Aquote
kamikaze-paced
book, and for Mattich to look deep into the black heart of the Balkan conflict.”
— National Post
Yugoslavia, 1991. The State is crumbling, and in the midst of the political chaos secret policeman Marko della Torre has been working both sides of the law — but somewhere along
the way he’s crossed the line. When a corrupt
cop called Strumbić helps three hired Bosnian
thugs to hunt him down and kill him, della Torre
makes a run for it through Croatia, Italy, and finally to London, where he’ll take Strumbić for all
he’s worth.
A page-turning thriller shot through with
black humor and razor-sharp dialogue, Zagreb
Cowboy is the spectacular debut novel in a taut
new crime fiction series.
FICTION / Crime
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TITLE
JIGSAW
MAN
Subtitle
A Mark Tartaglia Mystery
AUTHOR NAME
ELENA FORBES
Mark quote
Lead
Tartaglia
— credit
of the London murder squad investigates a bizarre and brutal
series of murders in this gripping thriller.
Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia
spends the night in a west London hotel with a
woman he has just met. When he is called to the
same hotel the next morning to investigate a murder, he realizes it must have taken place while he
was there. The investigation takes a horrifying turn
when he recognizes the young female victim.
Still reeling from shock, he learns that another
case he has been investigating — the body of a
homeless man found in a burnt-out car — is also
not what it seems. Tests reveal the corpse has been
assembled from the body parts of four different
people.
Under mounting pressure from the media and
unsure where his loyalties lie, Tartaglia must solve
this macabre puzzle before the Jigsaw Killer strikes
again.
ELENA FORBES is the author of the Mark Tartaglia Mystery Series. The first novel in the series,
Die with Me, was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger
Award; and the second novel, Our Lady of Pain, was
a Globe and Mail Top 10 Crime Book and a National
Post pick for Best Crime Fiction. She lives in London, England, with her husband and children.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
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TITLE
EVIL
IN RETURN
Subtitle
A Mark Tartaglia Mystery
AUTHOR NAME
ELENA FORBES
Lead
“Aquote
page-turning
— credit
police procedural.” — Time Out
Bestselling novelist
Joe Logan’s
body is found dumped in a disused Victorian crypt
at the Brompton Cemetery in London. He has been
tied up, shot, and castrated. Detective Mark Tartaglia is convinced that
Logan’s personal life holds the key to his violent
death. But when the body of a second man is found
in an old boathouse on the Thames — killed in an
identical fashion — Tartaglia and the murder squad
must find the link between the two dead men before
the killer strikes again.
PRAISE FOR ELENA FORBES AND EVIL
IN RETURN:
“. . . superb . . . the third instalment in the excellent
Mark Tartaglia series [is] the best to date.”
— Globe and Mail
“. . . tautly written, with the race against time
expertly handled . . . compelling.” — Guardian
FICTION / Mystery & Detective
978-0-88784-815-5
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Month
2016
TITLE
WITHOUT
Subtitle
THE MOON
CATHI UNSWORTH
AUTHOR
NAME
“Cathi
Unsworth
has long been one of the most intriguing crime writers in
Lead quote
— credit
the country . . . [She] has created a brilliant, swirling maelstrom of a story.”
— Independent
London during the long, dark days of
the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by
exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout,
the old way of life continues: in the music halls,
pubs, and cafés, soldiers mix with petty crooks,
stage magicians with lonely wives, scandal-hungry
reporters with good-time girls — and DCI Edward
Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone.
But out on the streets, something nastier is
stirring: London’s prostitutes are being murdered,
their bodies left mutilated to taunt the police. And
in the shadows Greenaway’s old adversaries in organized crime are active again, lured by rich pickings
on the black market. As he follows a bloody trail
through backstreets and boudoirs, Greenaway must
use all his skill — and everything he knows about
the city’s underworld — to stop the slaughter.
CATHI UNSWORTH began a career in journalism at nineteen and has since worked for many
music, arts, film, and alternative lifestyle journals.
She has been called “the Queen of Noir” in the
United Kingdom and is the author of four novels,
including Weirdo, and the editor of the award-winning crime compendium London Noir. She lives in
London, England.
FICTION / Crime
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TITLE
WEIRDO
Subtitle
CATHI
UNSWORTH
AUTHOR
NAME
“Unsworth,
who has been called ‘Queen of Noir’ in her native U.K., skillLead
quote — credit
fully weaves together two narratives . . . The novel is a worthy showcase for
the author’s undeniable still.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
Named one of the Best Crime Books of the
Year by the Guardian, Weirdo is an atmospheric
thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder
in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator
who reopens the case to discover that she may not
have acted alone . . .
Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was
convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a
summer’s evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and
staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their parents.
Twenty years later, new forensic evidence suggests that Corinne didn’t act alone. Private investigator Sean Ward — whose promising career as
a detective with the Metropolitan Police was cut
short by a teenage gangster with a gun — reopens
the case, and discovers a town full of secrets, and
a community that has always looked after its own.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
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November
Month 2015
THE
SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY
TITLE
A
Lars Winkler Novel
Subtitle
AUTHOR
JAKOBNAME
MELANDER
Lead
Jo Nesbø
quote
meets
— credit
Lars Kepler in this chilling novel about the dark secrets
that are kept behind the corridors of power — the second book in the Lars
Winkler series.
The mayor of Copenhagen is found
murdered in his luxury apartment. Detective Lars
Winkler is put on this sensitive case, which is further
complicated by the fact that the victim’s mother is
the leader of the country’s most radical political party
and the current minister of finance. Lars notices the
minister and her husband are strangely untouched
by their son’s death. When he begins to dig into the
mayor’s past, he slowly uncovers the dark story of a
young, idealistic man who had only one wish: to free
himself of his family and live his own life.
Dark and chilling, The Scream of the Butterfly is
Scandinavian crime at its best.
JAKOB MELANDER is the author of the internationally acclaimed Lars Winkler crime series.
Born in 1965, he entered the eighties punk scene as
a bass player and guitar player in various bands. He
lives in Copenhagen.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International
Mystery & Crime
978-1-77089-441-9
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
TITLE
A Lars Winkler Novel
Subtitle
AUTHOR
NAME
JAKOB
MELANDER
Lead
quote —
credit
“Readers
who
enjoy James Patterson and Scandinavian crime fiction will relish
this crime thriller introducing a self-destructive but determined detective who
does anything to solve his case.” — Library Journal
The first book
in the crime series introduces Lars Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter,
and drug addict — and the most dedicated detective in Copenhagen.
A young prostitute is found murdered at the
common in Copenhagen. The woman’s body has
been preserved and her eyes removed with surgical
precision. Not long after, another body is discovered
and treated in the exact same manner. The press
quickly names the spectacular case the Sandman
Killings.
Detective Inspector Lars Winkler is put on the
case. With an addiction to classical rock music and
the odd line of speed, Lars is struggling to get his
life back together, mostly with his sixteen-year-old
daughter, Maria, who lives with him in his rundown
apartment. His wife has left him for his old friend
and former boss. Meanwhile, the atmosphere in
the Homicide and Serious Crime Department is
tense. Despite support from his new young partner,
Sanne Bissen, Lars feels edged out. While tracking
Copenhagen’s most sadistic serial killer to date, his
past — which has long been kept secret — is slowly
catching up to him.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International
Mystery & Crime
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October
Month2015
TITLE
HISTORY’S
Subtitle
Personalities and the Past
PEOPLE
AUTHOR NAME
MARGARET MACMILLAN
Lead
“An acclaimed
quote — credit
historian gives her take on some of the important people
who have shaped the present world. Fans of the author are in for another
treat.” — Kirkus Reviews
In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her
own personal selection of figures of the past, women
and men, some famous and some little-known, who
stand out for her. Some have changed the course
of history and even directed the currents of their
times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers,
adventurers, or observers.
She looks at the concept of leadership through
Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William
Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the
Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
and the bringing of a unified United States into the
Second World War. She also notes how leaders can
make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the
cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon
and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring
risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways,
often in defiance of their own societies.
Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and
adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and
Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore
the constraints of their own societies. Finally, there
are the observers, such as Babur, the first Mughal
emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that
bring the past to life.
History’s People is about the important and
complex relationship between biography and history, individuals and their times.
HISTORY / Modern / General
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TITLE
Subtitle
AUTHOR NAME
MARGARET
MACMILLAN
Lead
quote — credit
is the author of
the international bestsellers The War that Ended
Peace, Nixon in China, and Paris 1919: Six Months
That Changed the World, which won the Governor
General’s Literary Award and the Samuel Johnson
Prize. She is also the author of The Uses and Abuses of
History. She is now the warden of international history at Oxford University and a professor of history
at the University of Toronto.
PRAISE FOR MARGARET MACMILLAN
AND THE WAR THAT ENDED PEACE:
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, THE ECONOMIST,
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR , BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, AND GLOBE AND MAIL
“The War that Ended Peace tells the story of how intelligent, well-meaning leaders guided their nations into
catastrophe. These epic events, brilliantly described
by one of our era’s most talented historians, warn
of the dangers that arise when we fail to anticipate
the consequences of our actions.” — Madeleine
Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
“Utterly riveting, deeply moving, and impeccably
researched.” — Amanda Foreman, author of A World
on Fire
PRAISE FOR MARGARET MACMILLAN
AND PARIS 1919 :
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD WINNER
SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE WINNER
CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FINALIST
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE
“A wealth of colourful detail and a concentration on
the strange characters of many of these statesmen
keep [MacMillan’s] narrative lively.” — New York
Times Book Review
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TITLE
ALL MONSTERS
Subtitle
An Excursion to North Korea
MUST DIE
AUTHOR NAME
MAGNUS BÄRTÅS AND FREDRIK EKMAN
“Bothquote
Lead
a gruesome
— credit
and humorous tale of freedom and oppression.”
— Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden)
In 2008,
on the sixtieth anniversary of the
founding of North Korea, authors Magnus Bärtås
and Fredrik Ekman take a bizarre and heavily guided tour of Pyongyang and the northeastern parts
of the country. This fascinating and often hilarious
journey takes the reader through North Korea, past
and present. Tracing the birth and evolution of one
of the world’s most notorious political dynasties,
it describes in detail the founding of the People’s
Republic of Korea in 1948 by General Kim Il-sung
and the 1978 kidnapping of the greatest South Korean movie star, the actress Choi Eun-hee, and her
ex-husband, the famous film director Shin Sang-ok.
General Kim Jong-Il, then the country’s Minister
of Propaganda and a film fanatic, offers them a
“contract,” the conditions of which are that they remarry and that they publicly declare that they have
defected to North Korea of their own free will. It
also includes a gigantic film budget with everything
they could possibly wish for. Of course it’s an offer
they can’t turn down.
MAGNUS BÄRTÅS teaches at the University
College of Arts and Crafts and Design in Stockholm and has published an anthology about the
borderland between literature and the visual arts.
HISTORY / Asia / Korea
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FREDRIK EKMAN is a writer, librettist, and
editor based in Stockholm. His musical works have
toured across Europe.
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TITLE
THE
WAYFINDERS
Subtitle
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
AUTHOR NAME
WADE DAVIS
Anquote
enlightening,
Lead
— creditawe-inspiring, and cautionary look at vanishing cultures
and languages from one of the world’s most celebrated and distinguished
anthropologists.
Over the past
decade, many of us have
been alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating
extinction of our planet’s diverse flora and fauna.
But how many of us know that our human cultural
diversity is also going extinct at a shocking rate?
Biologists estimate that 18% of mammals and 11%
of birds are threatened, while botanists anticipate
the loss of 8% of flora. Meanwhile, of the 7,000 languages in the world today, fully 50% will disappear
in our lifetime. And languages are merely the canaries in the coalmine: what of the poetry, songs,
knowledge, and ways of seeing encoded in these
disappearing voices? In The Wayfinders, acclaimed
anthropologist Wade Davis offers a gripping firsthand account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on
a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous
cultures and worldviews while reminding us of the
encroaching dangers posed by unchecked globalization.
WADE DAVIS is the bestselling author of several
books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow, Light
at the Edge of the World, and Into the Silence, which
won the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize. He is
also an award-winning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer. Davis divides
his time between Washington, D.C. and northern
British Columbia.
NATURE / Ecology
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TITLE
BLOOD
Subtitle
The Stuff of Life
AUTHOR NAME
LAWRENCE HILL
Lead
“The quote
reasons—for
credit
Hill’s success as a writer are apparent throughout; if he were
not already established as an author to follow, this work would accomplish
that.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
Bestselling author Lawrence Hill
offers a provocative examination of the scientific
and social history of blood, and on the ways that it
unites and divides us today.
Blood runs red through every person’s arteries
and fulfills the same functions in every human
being. However, as much as the study and use of
blood has helped advance our understanding of
human biology, its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses
through religions, literature, and the visual arts,
and every time it pools or spills, we learn a little
more about what brings human beings together and
what divides them. Blood: The Stuff of Life is a fascinating historical and contemporary interpretation
of blood, as a bold and enduring determinant of
identity, gender, race, culture, citizenship, belonging, privilege, deprivation, athletic superiority, and
nationhood.
LAWRENCE HILL is the author of several novels and works of nonfiction, including Some Great
Thing, Any Known Blood, and the award-winning
bestseller Someone Knows My Name. He also wrote
the memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black
and White in Canada and co-authored, with Joshua
Key, The Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary
Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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TITLE
PAYBACK
Subtitle
Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
AUTHOR NAME
MARGARET ATWOOD
Lead
quote
— probing
credit and thought-stirring commentary on the financial crisis to
“The
most
date.” — New York Review of Books
Atwood investigates the topic of
“debt” — a topical subject at a time when the world
seems to be in a perpetual state of recession because
of the collapse of a system of interlocking debts.
In her intelligent and imaginative approach to the
subject, Atwood proposes that “debt” is like air —
something we take for granted and never think
about until things go wrong.
This is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon
those subjects. Rather, it goes far deeper into an
investigation of debt as a very old, very central motif
in religion, literature, and the structure of human
societies. By looking at how debt has informed our
thinking from pre-literate times to the present day,
through the stories we tell to our concepts of
“revenge” and “sin” to the way we structure our
social relationships, Atwood shows that this idea of
what we owe — in other words, “debt” — is possibly
built into the human imagination as one of its most
dynamic metaphors.
MARGARET ATWOOD is one of the world’s
preeminent novelists, and winner of the Booker
Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Governor General’s Award, among many other honours. She is the
author of more than twenty-five books, spanning
poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, many of them bestsellers and award-winners. She lives in Toronto.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
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SHOULD THE WEST ENGAGE PUTIN’S RUSSIA?
STEPHEN F. COHEN AND VLADIMIR POZNER (PRO) VS.
ANNE APPLEBAUM AND GARRY KASPAROV (CON)
STEPHEN F. COHEN is Professor Emeritus of Politics and Russian Studies at
Princeton University and Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and History at
New York University.
VLADIMIR POZNER is a veteran journalist and bestselling author. He is the
host of the top-rated weekly current affairs program on Channel One — Russia’s
largest TV network.
ANNE APPLEBAUM is a journalist and leading expert on Russia. She was a
member of the editorial board of the Washington Post between 2002 and 2006.
GARRY KASPAROV came to international fame as the youngest chess champion ever. He retired from competitive chess in 2005 to join the vanguard of the
Russian pro-democracy movement, and founded the United Civil Front.
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HAS OBAMA MADE THE WORLD A MORE DANGEROUS PLACE?
THE MUNK DEBATE ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
BRET STEPHENS AND ROBERT KAGAN (PRO) VS.
FAREED ZAKARIA AND ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER (CON)
BRET STEPHENS is a foreign-affairs columnist and deputy editorial page
editor responsible for the international opinion pages at the Wall Street Journal.
ROBERT KAGAN is a senior fellow of foreign policy at the Brooking Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe and transatlantic fellow at the
German Marshall Fund.
FAREED ZAKARIA is host of CNN’s flagship international affairs program,
Fareed Zakaria GPS, which won the 2012 Peabody Award.
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is the CEO of the New America Foundation,
one of America’s largest international affairs think tanks.
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ARE MEN OBSOLETE?
THE MUNK DEBATE ON GENDER
HANNA ROSIN AND MAUREEN DOWD (PRO) VS.
CAITLIN MORAN AND CAMILLE PAGLIA (CON)
HANNA ROSIN is the author of the definitive book on the decline of men and maleness in modern society, The End of Men and is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
MAUREEN DOWD has received the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary
and is the author of the bestselling book, Are Men Necessary?
CAITLIN MORAN is a British broadcaster, TV critic, and writer for the Times of
London. Named Columnist of the Year in 2010 and both Critic and Interviewer of the
Year in 2011 by the British Awards.
CAMILLE PAGLIA is recognized as one of the world’s top one hundred public intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect. She is currently a Professor of Humanities
and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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DOES STATE SPYING MAKE US SAFER?
THE MUNK DEBATE ON MASS SURVEILLANCE
MICHAEL HAYDEN AND ALAN DERSHOWITZ (PRO) VS.
GLENN GREENWALD AND ALEXIS OHANIAN (CON)
MICHAEL HAYDEN is a retired four-star general who served as director of the
CIA, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), and chief of the Central Service
(CSS).
ALAN DERSHOWITZ is considered one of America’s preeminent civil liberties
lawyers. Until his retirement in December 2013, Dershowitz was the Felix Frankfurter
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
GLENN GREENWALD is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and columnist for First Look Media.
ALEXIS OHANIAN is a serial Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of reddit, the
social news website used by over 100 million people each month.
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TITLE
I’M COMING
Subtitle
SELMA
LØNNING AARØ
AUTHOR NAME
“A funny,
Lead
quotesmart,
— credit
and important novel about the last sexual taboo — why do
women fake it?” — Dagbladet (Norway)
Ever since her
sexual debut, Julie has
faked orgasms. One day she decides she’s had
enough and locks herself in the bedroom with food,
baby oil, and Mr. Rabbit — a vibrator with a thirtyday orgasm guarantee. While lying in bed she reviews her sexual history: boyfriends, casual lovers,
and, not least, the man she married. Meanwhile,
her husband and their three children stomp around
outside her bedroom, along with the sexually wellfunctioning Ukrainian au pair, all of them wondering why Julie isn’t coming.
I’m Coming is a delectable comedy about society’s expectations of women and women’s expectations of themselves. Selma Lønning Aarø writes
deftly about sexuality, identity, and the media’s portrayal of what constitutes “normal.”
SELMA LØNNING AARØ is a newspaper columnist for Dagbladet and Klassekampen in Norway.
Her first novel, The Final Story, won the Cappelen
Prize for Best Debut Novel. She has since written
six novels for adults and two books for children.
Her works have been translated into English, Danish, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish.
FICTION / Contemporary Women
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TITLE
THE
Subtitle
WINTER WAR
PHILIP
TEIR
AUTHOR
NAME
Lead
“Shot
quote
through
— credit
with understated black humor and nicely balanced between tender
and acerbic, this impressive novel is a forceful reminder that there is much more to
Scandinavian writing than crime fiction.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
On the surface, the Paul family is living
the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max
Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife, Katriina,
has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in
an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But
look closer and the cracks start to show.
As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max’s life begin to dissolve. He hasn’t
produced any work of note for decades. His wife no
longer loves him. His grown-up daughters — one in
London, one in Helsinki — have problems of their
own. So when a former student turned journalist
shows up and offers him a seductive lifeline, Max
starts down a dangerous path from which he may
never find a way back.
Funny, sharp, and brilliantly truthful, Teir’s
debut has the feel of a big, contemporary, humane
American novel, but with a distinctly Scandinavian
edge.
PHILIP TEIR, a Finland-Swede, is considered
one of the most promising young writers in Scandinavia. His poetry and short stories have been
included in anthologies, including Granta Finland.
The Winter War is his first novel. He is married with
two children and lives in Helsinki, Finland, in the
same neighbourhood as the Paul family.
FICTION / Family Life
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TITLE
SPECIMEN
Subtitle
IRINA KOVALYOVA
AUTHOR
NAME
Lead influence
quote — of
credit
“The
Russian writers shines on every page . . . a technical marvel.”
— Maclean’s
The stories
in Specimen are a unique exploration of science and the human heart; the place
where physical reality collides with our spiritual
and emotional lives.
In “The Blood Keeper,” a young academic travels to North Korea to work on her dissertation and
embarks on a dangerous affair. In “Mamochka,” an
archivist at the Institute for Physics in Minsk must
come to terms with her daughter’s marriage to a
Chinese man in Vancouver. In “Peptide P,” scientists study a disease that seems to affect children
after they eat hot dogs. In “Side Effects,” a woman’s
personality is altered, and not necessarily for the
better, by botox injections. In “The Big One,” a
woman and her daughter find themselves trapped in
the rubble of an underground parking garage after
an earthquake.
Stylistically varied and with settings that range
from North Korea and Minsk to Vancouver and
Gdansk, Kovalyova is a daring and confident new
voice in fiction.
IRINA KOVALYOVA is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. She has previously
interned for NASA and worked for two years as a
forensic analyst in New York City. Her stories have
appeared in the Globe and Mail, Other Voices, Grain,
and Room. Her story “Mamochka” was nominated
for the 2012 Journey Prize. She was born in Russia
and currently lives in Vancouver.
FICTION / Short Stories
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TITLE
THE
Subtitle
LAKE
PERRINE
AUTHOR
NAME LEBLANC
“Some
authors through hard work; some are born authors like PerLead
quotebecome
— credit
rine Leblanc.” — Kim Thúy, author of Ru and Mãn
In between
the mountains and the sea, on
the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, there’s a
village called Malabourg. The village is surrounded
by all the usual features of the region: a river with
wild salmon, a stretch of the national highway, and
a coniferous forest. But Malabourg has one unusual feature: in the heart of the forest there’s a
lake the kids call “the tomb.” It’s the place where
three young women have disappeared, one by one.
As rumours and allegations spread through the village, Alexis and Mina struggle to make sense of the
tragedies before deciding the only way to forget is
to leave. Alexis relocates to France to learn how to
compose perfume and Mina moves hundreds of
kilometres away from the sea. But, in spite of the
distance, Alexis and Mina can’t forget Malabourg,
or each other.
PERRINE LEBLANC was born in Montreal
in 1980. Her first novel, published under the title
L’homme blanc in Quebec and Kolia in France, won
the Governor General’s Literary Award for French
Fiction, Quebec’s “Canada Reads” competition,
and the Grand prix du livre de Montréal, and was
longlisted for Elle magazine’s Grand prix. She lives
in Montreal, Quebec.
FICTION / Literary
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TITLE
BASED
Subtitle
ELIZABETH
AUTHOR
NAME
ON A TRUE STORY
RENZETTI
Lead
“Withquote
Based —
on acredit
True Story, Renzetti has offered up a story that is fun to read –
because this novel is a hell of a lot of fun . . . but that is also incisive, street-wise, and
written with the deft hand of a truly talented scribe.” — Globe and Mail
Augusta Price (not her real name) is famous in England for playing a slatternly barmaid
on a nighttime soap opera and for falling down
drunk in public. Now, she has no job, no relationship with her long-lost son, and a sad shortage of
tranquilizers — but she has had an improbable hit
with her memoir (which is based on a true story, but
only very loosely).
But when Frances Bleeker — an insecure and
not very successful American tabloid journalist —
tells Augusta that a man she once loved has written a book, Augusta becomes terrified that her life
story will be revealed as the web of lies it really is.
She sets out on a trans-Atlantic journey from London to California to seek revenge on her former
lover — a journey that will require the reluctant
help of Frances.
ELIZABETH RENZETTI is a columnist for the
Globe and Mail, and for several years worked the
London bureau. Her work has been anthologized in
collections of essays, and she regularly appears as a
radio and television commentator.
FICTION / Contemporary Women
978-1-77089-313-9
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TITLE
THE
MAN WHO SAVED
AUTHOR
NAME
HENRY
MORGAN
Subtitle
ROBERT HOUGH
Lead
credit
“Aquote
gifted,—
natural
storyteller … The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan is Hough’s most
amiable book, its prose moving along like a perfectly rigged sloop-of-war.”
— Globe and Mail
The year is 1664, and Benny Wand, a
young thief and board game hustler, is arrested in
London for illegal gaming. Deported to the city of
Port Royal, Jamaica, known as “the wickedest city
on earth,” Wand is forced by his depleted circumstances to join a raid on the Spanish city of Villahermosa. The mission is a perilous success, and Wand
attracts the attention of the mission’s leader, an upand-coming Welsh seaman, Captain Henry Morgan, whose raids on Spanish strongholds are funded
by the British government.
While embarking on campaigns to conquer
Spanish strongholds in the Carribbean, Wand and
Morgan develop an unlikely friendship through a
shared love of chess. As Morgan is corrupted by
his increasingly sordid attacks on Spanish cities, he
slowly becomes Wand’s greatest enemy. To defeat
his once-ally, Wand embarks on a strategic battle
of wits and must help Morgan in the most savage
and unexpected way possible. This is blistering and
bawdy storytelling at its best.
ROBERT HOUGH’s novels have been nominated
for numerous awards, including the Commonwealth
Writers’ Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award. His most recent novel, Dr. Brinkley’s
Tower, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award.
FICTION / Historical
978-1-77089-945-2
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2016
TITLE
EL NIÑO
Subtitle
NADIA NAME
BOZAK
AUTHOR
Lead
quote desert
— credit
A startling
survival novel reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s classic
Border Trilogy.
Honey hasn’t seen her mother, Marianne, in more than two years. She drives deep into
the once-prosperous border region of the Oro Desert for a surprise visit, only to discover that Marianne has vanished.
Alone in an unforgiving environment populated with hostile locals, she meets Chávez, a young
“coyote” or human trafficker, who convinces Honey
he knows her mother’s whereabouts and agrees to
take her there — for a price. As they make their way
through the Oro’s brutal no-man’s-land they are
tracked by Ocho, a teenage bounty hunter determined to recruit Chávez. And then there is Baez,
Marianne’s wizened Shepherd-coyote mix, whose
death and life intimately intersect with Honey and
Chávez’s search for Marianne and who tells the
story of the Oro Desert as it slowly comes apart.
Told from three distinct perspectives, El Niño is
an intricately constructed and starkly written novel
from a bold and inventive writer.
NADIA BOZAK is the critically acclaimed author
of Orphan Love and El Niño. Her nonfiction book,
The Cinematic Footprint, is published by Rutgers
University Press.
FICTION / Literary
978-1-77089-325-2
5.25 x 8 • 302 pages
Trade paperback with flaps • $15.95
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TITLE
THE
Subtitle
ACACIA GARDENS
MARIE-CLAIRE
AUTHOR
NAME
BLAIS
Lead
quote
“Blais
is —
thecredit
greatest living Quebec writer at present, she will certainly leave
an incredible and inexhaustible legacy for scholars of her work.”
— La Presse
What anxiety grips Petites Cendres?
Shouldn’t he be reassured by the thought that he
now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a comfortable
home where all find care, understanding, and healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy,
listen to the diabolical confessions of Wrath, the
fugitive priest, without shuddering? And, can Daniel the writer finish his novel, the one he has been
working on for twenty years, despite his sensitivity and empathy for all creatures, even if they are
the most humble, like the lizard he inadvertently
crushed under his sandal?
With this latest novel, Marie-Claire Blais once
again gives us a vibrant portrait that embraces the
span of life — from birth to death and beyond.
MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS is the internationally
revered author of more than twenty-five books, many
of which have been published around the world. She
divides her time between Quebec and Florida.
Available
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FICTION/Literary
978-1-4870-0017-2
FICTION / Literary
5.25 x 8 • 240 pages
978-1-77089-357-3
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THE
Subtitle
Anansi Fiction
OUTSIDE CIRCLE
PATTI LaBOUCANE-BENSON
AUTHOR
NAME
ART BY KELLY MELLINGS
Lead
quote
credit
“As brutal
as —
Pete’s
family’s story is, LaBoucane-Benson and Mellings’ sensitive,
careful, honest presentation reveals a narrative that must be told, acknowledged, remembered, confronted, fixed.” — Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
In this important
graphic novel, two
Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug
abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries
of historic trauma in very different ways to bring
about positive change in their lives.
Pete, a young Aboriginal man wrapped up in
gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey,
and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night,
Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into
a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and
Pete to jail. Initially, Pete keeps up ties to his crew,
until a jail brawl forces him to realize the negative
influence he has become on Joey and encourages
him to begin a process of rehabilitation through a
traditional Native healing circle.
Powerful, courageous, and deeply moving, The
Outside Circle is drawn from the author’s twenty
years of work and research on healing and reconciliation of gang-affiliated or incarcerated Aboriginal
men.
PATTI LaBOUCANE-BENSON is a Métis
woman and the Director of Research, Training, and
Communication at Native Counselling Services of
Alberta (NCSA). She has a Ph.D. in Human Ecology, focusing on Aboriginal Family Resilience.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary
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KELLY MELLINGS is an award-winning art
director, illustrator, and designer. His work has
appeared in comic books, magazines, apps, museum
exhibits, and online games, and his clients include
Microsoft. He is the co-owner of the acclaimed illustration, animation, and design firm Pulp Studios.
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TITLE
BOX KITE
Subtitle
KIM MALTMAN AND ROO BORSON
(WRITING AS BAZIJU)
AUTHOR NAME
Lead
— credit
Anquote
exquisite,
collaboratively written sequence of prose poems exploring the
literature of China, from centuries past to the present, and the meaning of
hope and of home.
“A piece of paper with writing on it is
flat, but when what is written on that paper fills the
mind of a reader, it takes off into the wind like a box
kite on a windy day,” writes Baziju — the shared
voice of poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. This
exquisite, collaboratively written sequence of prose
poems, unfolding through rich, delicate imagery,
journeys through streets and gardens, houses and
temples, cities and countryside, Canada and China. It is a meditation on the way we travel between
places and between times, and how words and ideas
travel between languages.
Sensual, and deeply personal, these poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. In a life
in which every detail has significance, the smallest
observation grows, and spreads like the branches of
wisteria.
ROO BORSON is the author of ten books of poetry, including Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida,
which won the Governor General’s Literary Award
for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Pat
Lowther Memorial Award.
POETRY / Canadian
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KIM MALTMAN is a poet and physicist. He has
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published six collections of poetry and he is the
author of the collaborative work of poetry, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei by Pain Not
Bread (Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, Andy Patton).
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TITLE
THE
WAKING COMES LATE
Subtitle
STEVEN HEIGHTON
AUTHOR NAME
“Heighton
Lead
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superb stylist . . . in complete control of the language.”
— National Post
Bestselling
author
Steven
Heighton returns with a collection of laments and
celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe
in the future of a world that continues to disappoint
us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and
even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are
poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as
they continually recommit to the present moment.
This is fierce music performed in a minor key.
STEVEN HEIGHTON is a critically acclaimed
novelist and poet. His novels include Afterlands, a
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and
The Shadow Boxer, a Publishers Weekly Book of the
Year. His collections of poetry include Stalin’s Carnival, winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial
Award for Poetry; The Ecstasy of Skeptics, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for
Poetry; The Address Book; and Patient Frame. His
fiction and poetry have been translated into nine
languages, and have appeared in the London Review
of Books, Poetry, The Walrus, and other publications.
POETRY / Canadian
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LITTLE DOGS
New and Selected Poems
MICHAEL CRUMMEY
LITTLE DOGS
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
MICHAEL CRUMMEY
POETRY / Canadian
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Twenty years after
the publication of his debut collection, Little
Dogs: New and Selected Poems brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s
first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection,
Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but also as
one of our great poets of connection.
MICHAEL CRUMMEY has published five collections of poetry: Under the Keel,
Salvage, Emergency Roadside Assistance, Hard Light, and Arguments with Gravity. He
lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Available
UNDER THE KEEL
MICHAEL CRUMMEY
POETRY / Canadian
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Under the Keel has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining
town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant
music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters;
the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of
middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin.
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TITLE
THE 2016 GRIFFIN POETRY
Subtitle
PRIZE ANTHOLOGY
AUTHOR NAME
A Selection of the Shortlist
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“The
world’s—premier
credit international poetry prize.” — Maclean’s
Each year,
the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are
honored with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the
world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards.
Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry,
focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize
Anthology features the work of the extraordinary
poets shortlisted for the awards, and introduces us
to some of the finest poems in their collections.
Royalties generated from The 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s
World Poetry Day, which was created to support
linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to
offer endangered languages the opportunity to be
heard in their communities.
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INDEX
Acacia Gardens, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
All Monsters Must Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Applebaum, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Are Men Obsolete? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Atwood, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Bärtås, Magnus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Based on a True Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Baziju . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Blais, Marie-Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Box Kite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Bozak, Nadia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Cohen, Stephen F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Crummey, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Davis, Wade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Dershowitz, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Does State Spying Make Us Safer? . . . . . . . . 19
Dowd, Maureen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Ekman, Fredrik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
El Niño . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Evil in Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Forbes, Elena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7
Greenwald, Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2016, The . . 32
Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous
Place? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SPIDERLINE ... 2
ANANSI NONFICTION ... 12
ANANSI FICTION ... 20
ANANSI POETRY ... 29
INDEX ... 33
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Hill, Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Kagan, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Kasparov, Garry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Killing Pilgrim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Kovalyova, Irina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Laboucane-Benson, Patti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Lake, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Leblanc, Perrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Little Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Man Who Saved Henry Morgan, The . . . . . . . 25
Mattich, Alen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3, 4
MacMillan, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Melander, Jakob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11
Mellings, Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Michael Crummey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Moran, Caitlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Nothing For You Here, Young Man . . . . . . . . 27
Ohanian, Alexis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Outside Circle, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Paglia, Camille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Payback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Pozner, Vladimir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Renzetti, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Rosin, Hanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Scream of the Butterfly, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Selma Lønning Aarø . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Should the West Engage with Putin’s Russia? . 18
Slaughter, Anne-Marie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Specimen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Stephens, Bret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Teir, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Under the Keel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Unsworth, Cathi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9
Waking Comes Late, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Walt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Wangersky, Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Wayfinders, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Weirdo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Winter War, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Without the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Zagreb Cowboy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Zakaria, Fareed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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