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Please see below for our Spring 2008 list:
Creative Non-FictionThe Only Snow in Havana
by Elizabeth Hay
Co-Winner of the 1993 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
In one of the earliest works by the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, Elizabeth Hay collects a series of reflections on life, identity, history, and love, drifting through her many homes to consider Canadian identity.
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NovelNo Beautiful Shore
by Beverley Stone
Bride Marsh and Wanda Stuckless have never been away from home. After 17 years, their entire world consists of a small, close-knit island off the coast of Newfoundland. But the two girls have bigger and better ambitions than to be stuck on the island their birth consigned them to.
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NovelThe Frankenstein Murders
by Kathlyn Bradshaw
Detective Edward Freame is hired to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the murder of Henry Clerval, only to be tormented by the writings of the man who was originally tried for the crime — Dr.Victor Frankenstein.
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NovelOonagh
by Mary Tilberg
In 1833, 18-year-old Oonagh Corcoran immigrates to Upper Canada from southern Ireland. She believes she has entered paradise in the deep folds of cool, green forest off of Lake Ontario; however, she finds that the New World harbours its own horrible injustices.
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Short StoriesWalking on Water
by Jancis M. Andrews
Walking on Water, the latest short story collection from award-winning author Jancis M. Andrews, searches for the intimate moments of life that reveal the fantastic amongst the mundane.
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NovelSilver Salts
by Mark Blagrave
Lillie Dempster of Saint John, New Brunswick, often imagines herself on the big screen. It is the one fantastic escape she can afford from her tragic daily life. In the burgeoning early years of the twentieth century, Lillie is a lot like the distressed damsels from the silent films she loves.
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DramaThe Collected Stage Drama of Marie-Claire Blais
by Marie-Claire Blais
The plays included in this edition are evidence of Blais’s great talent when brought to bear on the theatre, including the lost classics, The Execution, Desire, and Envy.
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NovelThe Violets of Usambara
by Mary Soderstrom
Through the 1980s and into the 1990s, the Brossards didn’t have much to worry about; they raised a prosperous Québécois family, as might be expected of a successful cabinet minister. But, with Thomas’s electoral defeat, the world outside their home becomes less inviting.
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MysteryOne Careless Moment
by Dave Hugelschaffer
When a small fire starts to creep through the underbrush deep within a Montana forest valley, Porter Cassel is brought in to organize the firefighters charged with containing it. The fire moves quickly from bad to worse, rapidly scaling the forest canopy and killing one of Cassel’s men.
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Non-FictionThe Wolf's Head:
Writing Lake Superior
by Peter Unwin
Immortalized in words and song, the symbol of the great, untreaded Wilderness, the shores surrounding Lake Superior rustle with stories of gregarious legend, unlikely heroes, quiet sorrow, and unmatched feats of bravery and adventure.
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NovelDays of Sand
by Hélène Dorion
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky
Winner of the Anne Hébert Award
Previously announced. Days of Sand is an autobiographical work which transcends mere biography to become a work of sensory fiction.
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NovelThe Worlds Within Her
by Neil Bissoondath
A Governor General's Literary Award Nominee
Previously announced. Set in both the Caribbean and Canada, The Worlds Within Her joins politics and love as Yasmin recollects her life in the 40s and 50s.
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DramaThe Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais
by Marie-Claire Blais
Previously announced. These plays show another side of Marie-Claire Blais' talent. Plays included in this volume are Vanished, Invader, Two Faces, Murmurs, Garden in the Storm, A Couple, The Exile, and Fever.
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Non-Fiction
Terracide
by Hubert Reeves
Previously announced. One of the world's greatest astrophysicists, Hubert Reeves has turned his attention to the state of planet Earth. The facts and figures he has studied lead him to believe that the human race is on the brink of making the world uninhabitable.
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Michael Rowe's Other Men's Sons is the Winner of the 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction More info Cormorant Books and Marc Côté shortlisted for 2008 CBA Libris Awards More info Carol Bruneau nominated for 2008 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction More info Cormorant Book Author Events New Reader's Guides and Excerpts from first chapters, prologues, etc. on the Reader's Page |
Spring 08 Catalogue PDF. Fall 07 list is further below.    Cormorant Books acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) of Canadian Heritage for its publishing activities. The publisher also acknowledges the The Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of its publishing program. We acknowledge financial support of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit for our publishing activities.   |
Our Fall 2007 list:  Glass Voices  The Woman Who Walks On Glass  And Beauty Answers  Finding Home  Dragons Cry  Other Men's Sons |
