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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FICTION1 On the Shores of Darkness,

There Is Light by Cordelia Strube

2 Congratulations On Everything by Nathan Whitlock

3 For the Love of Mary by Christopher Meades

SCIENCE FICTION4 2113

eds. Kevin J. Anderson and John McFetridge

5 Freenet by Steve Stanton

FANTASY6 The Alchemists’ Council

by Cynthea Masson

MEMOIR7 Ice Diaries

by Jean McNeil

8 Jersey Tough by Wayne “Big Chuck” Bradshaw

9 Moguls, Monsters, and Madmen by Barry Avrich

10 Sticking It Out by Patti Niemi

MUSIC11 Nowhere with You

by Josh O’Kane

POP CULTURE12 In My Humble Opinion

by Soraya Roberts

MYSTERY13 One or the Other

by John McFetridge

14 Triggerfish by Dietrich Kalteis

15 Sing a Worried Song by William Deverell

POETRY16 Slow States of Collapse

by Ashley-Elizabeth Best

17 You can’t bury them all by Patrick Woodcock

SPORTS18 The Hockey Scribbler

by George Bowering

WRESTLING19 Accepted

by Pat Patterson

MARTIAL ARTS20 The Ultimate Guide to

Preventing and Treating MMA Injuries by Jonathan Gelber, M.D., M.S.

21 A Killing Art by Alex Gillis

ART22 Joe’s Neighbours

by Mendelson Joe

23 China to Light Up a House, Volume 1 by Rosalie Wise Sharp

PERSONAL FINANCE24 Market Masters

by Robin R. Speziale

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From the acclaimed author of Lemon comes a clever and heartbreaking new novel of love and redemption

HARRIET IS 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown-up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees; and so, to fund her escape, she runs errands for the seniors who inhabit the Shangrila, the decrepit apartment building that houses her fractured family.

Determined, resourceful, and a little reckless, Harriet tries to navigate the clueless adults around her, dumpster dives for the flotsam and jetsam that fuels her art, and attempts to fathom her complicated feelings for Irwin, who suffers from hydrocephalus. On the other hand, Irwin’s love for Harriet is not conflicted at all. She’s his compass. But Irwin himself must untangle the web of the human heart.

Masterful and mordantly funny, Strube is at the top of her considerable form in this deliciously subversive story of love and redemption.

CORDELIA STRUBE is an accomplished playwright and the author of

nine critically acclaimed novels, including Alex & Zee, Teaching Pigs to Sing, and

Lemon. Winner of the CBC literary competition and a Toronto Arts Foundation

Award, she has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium

Book Award, the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Prix

Italia, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Strube is a two-time finalist

for ACTRA’s Nellie Award celebrating excellence in Canadian broadcasting and a

three-time nominee for the ReLit Award. She lives in Toronto.

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CORDELIA STRUBE

On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light

fiction

ISBN 978-1-77041-296-55.5 x 8.5'', 372pp, paper$18.95 CDN/U.S. | April 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-867-3

✽✽ “The eponymous teenage hero of Strube’s new novel is surrounded by no-good kids who live off a steady diet of mediocre sex, mediocre drugs, and really exceptional violence. Unimpressed, Lemon retreats into her own mind; lucky for us, it’s filled with wry and shrewd observations about the agony of growing up.” — Chatelaine on Lemon

✽✽ Strube’s previous books have been acknowledged by the prestigious Giller Prize, Governor General’s Prize, and Amazon.ca First Novel Award.


ISBN 978-1-77041-290-35.5 x 8.5'', 322pp, paper$18.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S. | May 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-858-1

✽✽ “A wonderfully complicated story about small but big ambitions, full of surprising, bitter-sweet twists. It’ll worm into your heart with its beautifully damaged human characters, and unexpected triumphs over the most hopeless adversities.” — Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom: A Memoir

✽✽ “Congratulations On Everything is a funny, sad guided tour of the private hell that is owning a bar or restaurant . . . Nathan Whitlock has an ear for authentic dialogue and the constant negotiation and disappointment that is adult life. The best novel I’ve read all year. Though I could do without so many curse words.” — Corey Mintz, author of How to Host a Dinner Party

Ambition, failure, sex, and the service industry

A DARK AND COMIC NOVEL, Congratulations On Everything tracks the struggles, frailties, and cruelly pyrrhic victories of the middle-aged owner of a bar-restaurant and a 30ish lunch-shift waitress.

Jeremy has bought into the teachings of an empowerment and success guru, hook, line, and sinker. A Toronto service industry lifer, he’s risen through the ranks until he finally takes the keys to his destiny and opens his own place, The Ice Shack.

Everyone assumes Ice Shack daytime waitress Charlene is innocent and empathetic, but in reality she’s desperately unhappy and looking for a way out of her marriage to her high-school sweetheart. A drunken encounter sends Charlene and her boss careening. The Ice Shack stops being an oasis of sanity and, as Jeremy struggles to keep his business afloat, he’ll stop at nothing to maintain his successful, good guy self-image.

In an era when the gourmand rules and chefs become superstars, Congratulations On Everything is a hilarious and occasionally uncomfortable dose of anti-foodie reality that reveals what goes on when the customers and Instagrammers aren’t around — and even sometimes when they are.

NATHAN WHITLOCK’s award-winning fiction and non-fiction has

appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Toronto Life, Report

on Business, Flare, Fashion, Geist, Maisonneuve, and Best Canadian Essays, and

he has appeared on radio and television discussing books and culture. Heather

O’Neill called A Week of This, Whitlock’s first novel, “a portrait of people in a

small town so intimate that it feels like you are under the covers with them.” He

is a contributing editor for Quill & Quire. He lives in Toronto with his wife and

children.

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NATHAN WHITLOCK

Congratulations On Everything

fiction


A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferrets

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD JACOB feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling in love. His sister is too busy dating guys in Whitesnake jackets to notice, and his best friend is occupied with his own painful pubescent crisis. Jacob’s mother has just started a curious (and rather un-Christian) holy war with the church across the street, while his father has secretly moved into the garage.

Everything changes when Jacob meets Mary. Jacob thinks Mary is the most beautiful girl in the world. If only Mary’s father wasn’t the minister at the enormous rival church. If only she wasn’t dating a youth pastor with pristine white teeth and impeccably trimmed hair. If only Jacob could work up the courage to tell Mary how he feels . . .

As the conflict between the churches escalates, a peeping Tom prowls the neighbourhood, a bearded lady terrorizes unsuspecting Dairy Queen customers, a beautiful young girl entices Jacob into a carnal romp in a car wash, and the church parishioners prepare their annual re-enactment of Operation Desert Storm.

For the Love of Mary is sidesplitting satire with a surprising amount of heart.

CHRISTOPHER MEADES’s novel The Last Hiccup won the 2013

Canadian Authors Association National Award for Fiction. His first novel was The

Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, and his stories have been featured in dozens

of journals including The Fiddlehead and The Dalhousie Review. He lives in

Vancouver, where his two young daughters treat him like a trampoline. One day

he hopes to escape his cubicle and live by the beach.

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CHRISTOPHER MEADES

For the Love of Mary

fiction

ISBN 978-1-55022-974-55.5 x 8.5'', 352pp, paper$18.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S. | June 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-828-4

PRAISE FOR THE LAST HICCUP

✽✽ “An allegorical tale ripe with symbolism . . . Meades reveals himself a gifted writer, deft with descriptions splashing surrealistic images.” — Kirkus Reviews

✽✽ “A strange and surprisingly touching novel about how people find good and evil where they look for them.” — Booklist

✽✽ “Wickedly funny . . . an admirable portrayal of an unlikely hero trying to find his way in an absurd world. This novel will amuse and touch lovers of original literature, both light and serious.” — Library Journal

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18 exhilarating journeys into Rush-inspired worlds

THE MUSIC OF RUSH, one of the most successful bands in history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, and thought-provoking futures and pasts. In this anthology, notable, bestselling, and award-winning writers each chose a Rush song as the spark for a new story, drawing inspiration from the visionary trio that is Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.

Enduring stark dystopian struggles or testing the limits of the human spirit, the characters populating 2113 find strength while searching for hope in a world that is repressive, dangerous, or just debilitatingly bland. Most of these tales are science fiction, but some are fantasies, thrillers, even edgy mainstream. Many of Rush’s big hits are represented, as well as deeper cuts . . . with wonderful results. This anthology also includes the seminal stories that inspired the Rush classics “Red Barchetta” and “Roll the Bones,” as well as Kevin J. Anderson’s novella sequel to the groundbreaking Rush album 2112.

2113 contains stories by New York Times bestselling authors Kevin J. Anderson, Michael Z. Williamson, David Mack, David Farland, Dayton Ward, and Mercedes Lackey; award winners Fritz Leiber, Steven Savile, Brad R. Torgersen, Ron Collins, David Niall Wilson, and Brian Hodge, as well as many other authors with imaginations on fire.

KEVIN J. ANDERSON is the bestselling science fiction author of over

125 novels, including Clockwork Angels: The Novel, which fictionalizes the

most recent Rush concept album, and the parallel novel Clockwork Lives. His

original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series; the Terra Incognita series;

Resurrection, Inc.; Hopscotch ; and many others. He has written spin-off novels

for Star Wars, DC Comics, StarCraft, and The X-Files and, with Brian Herbert, is

the co-author of 15 novels in the Dune universe. He lives in Colorado. JOHN

MCFETRIDGE is the author of two critically acclaimed crime novel series,

the Toronto series and the Eddie Dougherty series, and writes for the Discovery ID

series Real Detective. He lives in Toronto.

KEVIN J. ANDERSON AND JOHN MCFETRIDGE, EDS.

2113Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush

ISBN 978-1-77041-292-75 x 7.75'', 400pp, paper$18.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S. | April 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-861-1

✽✽ Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart’s novel based on the Rush album Clockwork Angels spent two weeks on the NYT bestseller list.

✽✽ The 2113 collaborators boast a combined 41K Twitter followers and 65K Facebook fans.

science fiction


“A non-stop, furiously paced story.” — Robert Charles Wilson, award-winning author

A NUANCED STORY about artificial intelligence and digital immortality, Freenet plunges readers into the far future, when humans have closed distances in time and space through wormhole tunnels between interplanetary colonies. Consciousness has been digitized and cybersouls uploaded to a near-omniscient data matrix in a world where information is currency and the truth belongs to whoever has the greatest bandwidth.

When Simara Ying crash-lands on the desert planet Bali, she finds herself trapped in a cave-dwelling culture with no social network for support. Her rescuer, Zen Valda, is yanked into a new universe of complications he can scarcely grasp and into an infinite network of data he never knew existed. When brash V-net anchorman Roni Hendrik starts investigating how Simara became the subject of an interplanetary manhunt, he finds a dangerous emergence in the network that threatens all human life.

Freenet is an exciting new novel about the power of information, as well as the strength of love, in a post-digital age.

STEVE STANTON is the author of the Canadian sci-fi trilogy The Bloodlight

Chronicles: Reconciliation (2010), Retribution (2011), and Redemption (2012).

Working from his riverside retreat in Central Ontario near the village of Washago,

Steve has published science fiction stories in 16 countries in a dozen languages,

including translations into Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian,

Finnish, Czech, and Romanian, and he served for three years as president of

Canada’s national association of science fiction authors.

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STEVE STANTON

Freenet

science fiction

ISBN 978-1-77041-229-35.5 x 8.5'', 264pp, paper$16.95 CDN / $14.95 U.S. | April 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-837-6

PRAISE FOR THE BLOODLIGHT CHRONICLES SERIES

✽✽ “Set in a future where economic transactions are tied into virtual gaming, this elegantly written sf series features believable characters and powerful situations. Stanton wastes no words in his approach to language, creating a deceptively simple style that is both appealing and lucid.” — Library Journal

✽✽ “Themes of transcendence and family love play out against backdrops of real and virtual worlds in Stanton’s slight neo-cyberpunk debut.” — Publishers Weekly

ALSO BY STANTON

The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation978-1-55022-954-7, paper

$16.95 CDN / $14.95 U.S.

The Bloodlight Chronicles: Retribution978-1-55022-989-9, paper

$16.95 CDN / $14.95 U.S.

The Bloodlight Chronicles: Redemption978-1-55022-999-8, paper

$14.95 CDN / U.S.


ISBN 978-1-77041-271-25 x 7.75'', 448pp, paper$16.95 CDN / $14.95 U.S. | May 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-846-8

✽✽ Marketing outreach includes: ARC giveaway at World Fantasty Con; Goodreads giveaways; PR outreach to niche fantasy blogs, websites, and communities online.

✽✽ Explores timely subject matter including the effects of environmental destruction and sexuality and gender.

The first in a phenomenal new fantasy trilogy, where the power of words can change the fate of all dimensions

AS A NEW INITIATE with the Alchemists’ Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, threatening its very existence. Jaden navigates alchemy’s complexities, but the more she learns, the more she begins to question Council practices. Erasure — a procedure designed not only to remove individuals from Council dimension but also from the memories of other alchemists — troubles Jaden, and she uses her ingenuity to remember one of the erased people. In doing so, she realizes the Rebel Branch might not be the enemy she was taught to fight against.

Jaden is caught between her responsibility to the Council and her growing allegiance to the rebels, as the Council finds itself at the brink of war. She is faced with an ethical dilemma involving the free will of all humanity and must decide whether or not she can save the worlds.

CYNTHEA MASSON is a professor in the English department at

Vancouver Island University. After completing a Ph.D. in English with a focus on

medieval mysticism, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship involving work with

medieval alchemical manuscripts at the British Library. In addition to articles on

mysticism and alchemy, many of her award-winning academic publications over

the past decade have been in the area of television studies. She is the co-editor

of the academic book Reading Joss Whedon (Syracuse University Press, 2014);

her fiction includes The Elijah Tree (Rebel Satori, 2009). She lives in British

Columbia.

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CYNTHEA MASSON

The Alchemists’ Council

fantasy


ISBN 978-1-77041-318-45.5 x 8.5'', 404pp, cloth20 b&w photos$26.95 CDN / $24.95 U.S. | March 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-876-5

✽✽ McNeil’s essay “Ice Diaries” was nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize.

✽✽ The process of getting to Antarctica, plus life on remote research stations, is dramatic and exciting. A rousing adventure story pulses under the surface of this literary work.

✽✽ “Armchair travellers will rejoice at the chance to cover an amazing amount of geographical and philosophical ground guided by McNeil’s gift for mining the sensual and philosophical challenges of travel.” — Globe and Mail on Nights in a Foreign Country

What do we stand to lose in a world without ice?

A DECADE AGO, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody’s country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil’s years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels to Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent.

In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life. Ice Diaries is a haunting story of the relationship between beauty and terror, loss and abandonment, transformation and triumph.

JEAN MCNEIL is the author of 10 books, including four novels and a

collection of short fiction. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor

General’s Award for Fiction and the Journey Prize, and she has won the Prism

International competitions for short fiction and creative non-fiction — the latter

for an excerpt from Ice Diaries. She is the co-director of the Masters in Prose

Fiction at the University of East Anglia and lives in London, England.

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JEAN MCNEIL

Ice DiariesA Memoir

memoir


ISBN 978-1-77041-261-36 x 9'', 336pp, paper15 b&w photos$18.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S. | March 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-843-7

✽✽ The sheer number of biker and undercover cop stories in books, movies, and on TV indicates that there will be a widespread interest in this story. The popularity of Sons of Anarchy, in particular, points to a key audience for this book.

✽✽ “As a former sergeant-at-arms in one of the other ‘Big Four’ motorcycle clubs who once warred with the Pagans in bloody battle, I can confirm the authenticity of the biker tales graphically revealed on these pages. Exposing his courage as well as frailties, Big Chuck bares all with surprising candour.” — Glen Heggstad, author of Two Wheels Through Terror

✽✽ “Bradshaw delivers both unflinching honesty and gritty, raw action in this fast-moving thriller.” — Joe Pistone a.k.a. Donnie Brasco

The only patch-wearing outlaw biker to become a sworn police officer — and live to tell his tale

IN 1977, Wayne “Big Chuck” Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his colours in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights, and high-stakes crime. But after getting too close to extreme violence, Bradshaw made the life-threatening decision to change his path.

The toughness Bradshaw used to survive biker life led him to a distinguished and heroic career as an undercover narcotics officer for the same New Jersey police department that had once arrested him. Bradshaw tells his story with the truth of the streets, from his time in the U.S. Army to his decision to join the Pagans, to the wild adventures of working narcotic stings. He rode with truly dangerous criminals and then returned to those same places as a cop. He tracks down fugitives in Jersey’s toughest neighbourhoods, risks his life rescuing dozens from a fire in a seniors’ residence, and volunteers in the aftermath of 9/11.

Jersey Tough is an unflinching memoir of personal struggle, of battling with darkness, and ultimately of redemption.

WAYNE “BIG CHUCK” BRADSHAW is an Army veteran, former

member of the outlaw Pagans motorcycle gang, and 20-year veteran of the

Middletown New Jersey Police Department. After he retired and moved to

Florida, he began teaching self-defense classes to women. Bradshaw lives in

Cape Coral, Florida, with his wife, Barbara. DOUGLAS P. LOVE is a writer,

editor, and publicist who lives on Long Island, New York. RENZO GRACIE

is a world-famous and championship-winning MMA fighter and Brazilian

Jiu-Jitsu practitioner.

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WAYNE “BIG CHUCK” BRADSHAWWITH DOUGLAS P. LOVEFOREWORD BY RENZO GRACIE

Jersey ToughMy Wild Ride from Outlaw Biker to Undercover Cop

memoir


A sharp and witty exposé of show business and notorious characters

BARRY AVRICH is a Montreal-born, self-made film producer/director, flamboyant advertising executive, and legendary biographer and connector of moguls and stars. For over three decades he has relentlessly produced films on some of the most notorious show-business titans and also found the time to market and promote feature films, concerts, and the biggest shows on Broadway.

In his memoir, Moguls, Monsters, and Madmen, Barry takes readers from his early days, shaping his brand as a creative adman with the infamous Garth Drabinsky and witnessing the genius of legendary Rolling Stones promoter Michael Cohl, to his acclaimed documentaries on Harvey Weinstein, Lew Wasserman, Bob Guccione, and many others. Go behind the scenes on his most provocative films — like The Last Mogul, Unauthorized, and Filthy Gorgeous — and follow Barry as he moves from the power rooms of Hollywood to the launches of incredible brands while hanging around with royalty, rogues, clients, and confidants.

An extraordinary raconteur, Barry spares no one, least of all himself, as he details his extraordinary relationships and encounters with everyone from Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones, and Vanity Fair columnist Dominick Dunne to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

BARRY AVRICH is a veteran marketing executive and acclaimed film

and television director/producer. As a marketing professional, Barry has led

thousands of cultural marketing campaigns for high-profile clients and films.

He is also the author of three marketing books and winner of the 2007 Ernst

& Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2008, Barry built the Daniels

Hollywood Theatre, the world’s first movie theatre in a hospital, at Sick Kids.

Barry is also a director of Hot Docs and the Prince’s Charities Trust and has

previously served as a director for TIFF and the Canadian Opera Company. He

lives in Toronto.

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BARRY AVRICHFOREWORD BY PETER FONDA

Moguls, Monsters, and MadmenAn Uncensored Life in Show Business

memoir

ISBN 978-1-77041-287-35.5 x 8.5'', 400pp, cloth18 b&w photos$28.95 CDN / $25.95 U.S. | May 2016ePub: 978-1-77090-852-9

✽✽ Extensive PR campaign, including prominent advertising in Toronto, L.A., and New York.

✽✽ Offers an inside perspective on the ad business over the past three decades, including campaigns from American Express to the Rolling Stones to marketing Broadway shows.

✽✽ Avrich details his extensive philanthropical work, including work on the One X One gala with Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, and numerous star-studded Toronto Film Festival events.

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A vivid look inside the elite and cutthroat classical music world

WHEN PATTI NIEMI was 10 years old, all the children in her school music class lined up to choose their instruments. Boy after boy chose drums, and girl after girl chose flute — that is, until it was Patti’s turn. From that point onward, Niemi devoted her life to mastering the percussive arts. Cymbals, snare drum, marimba, timpani, chimes: she practised them all, and in 1983, she entered Juilliard, the most prestigious music conservatory in the world.

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing New York City in the 1980s, Sticking It Out recounts Niemi’s years mastering her craft and struggling to make it in a cutthroat race to a coveted job in an orchestra. Along the way, she has to compete with friends, and face her own crippling anxiety and reliance on prescription medication, while confronting the delicate, and sometimes perilous, balance of power between teachers and their students.

Niemi’s memoir brings us inside a world that most of us never get to see: gruelling practise schedules, intimate musical relationships, and long moments at the back of an orchestra spent sweating and counting before a big cymbal crash. Sticking It Out is a humbling account of the work that leads to a dazzling moment of perfection, and of the dogged persistence it takes to follow a dream.

PATTI NIEMI has played percussion in the San Francisco Opera Orchestra

since 1992. She graduated from the Eastman School of Music Preparatory

Department in 1983 and earned a BM from the Juilliard School in 1987. Niemi

was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami from 1988–1992.

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PATTI NIEMI

Sticking It OutFrom Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit, a Percussionist’s Memoir

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✽✽ Describes how talent is not necessarily the catalyst for success, but drive and efforts to overcome obstacles, including anxiety, inappropriate student/teacher relationships, and extreme competition.

✽✽ Explores popular themes in non-fiction including how perseverance, determination, and dedication result in achieving one’s goals.

✽✽ Will appeal to people who attend classical music concerts, as well as people who enjoy popular “insider” books like Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.

memoir


A celebration of a beloved Canadian icon, featuring dozens of original interviews and exclusive photos

JOEL PLASKETT has earned an awful lot of honourifics in his career so far, counting folk hero, indie darling, and national treasure among them. And that’s just since the Halifax musician started making records of his own in 1999. For a decade before that, he was one-quarter of Thrush Hermit, a band of scrappy Superchunk disciples who became hard-rock revivalists and one of the last survivors of the ’90s pop

“explosion” of major-label interest in Halifax.Canada’s east coast has never been much of a pop-culture

mecca. Most musicians from the region who’ve ever made it big moved away. But armed with a stubborn streak and a knack for great songwriting, Plaskett has kept Halifax as his home, building both a career and a music community there. Along the way, he’s earned great respect: when he plays shows in Alberta, east-coast expats literally thank him for staying home.

Nowhere with You is the study of how he pulled this off, from the origins of Canada’s east-coast exodus to Plaskett’s anointment as “Halifax’s Rick Rubin.” It’s a story about what happens when you call a city “the new Seattle,” about the lessons you learn playing to empty rooms in Oklahoma, and about defying radio-single expectations with rock operas and triple records. It’s about doing what you want, where you want, no matter how much work it takes.

JOSH O’KANE is a staff reporter with the Globe and Mail. He has

previously written for the Telegraph-Journal, Toronto Star, Exclaim!, and New

Brunswick’s Here Magazine. He grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, but, like

thousands of Maritimers before him, now lives in Toronto.

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Nowhere with YouThe East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, The Emergency and Thrush Hermit

music

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✽✽ Plaskett tours incessantly: a conservative estimate puts him at more than 200 shows since the release of his certified gold album’s release (Three, 2009).

✽✽ Plaskett was the first musician to have his songs streamed a million times on CBC Radio 3, and he has won the station’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

✽✽ Includes photos from Joel Plaskett’s personal collection.


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✽✽ The core audience is the feminist-pop culture literate who reads Rookie, Bust, and Bitch and gravitates to websites like Bustle and Hello Giggles. This is the book for alt teens of the 90s and today.

✽✽ MSCL appears on countless Top Cult TV Shows lists, from sources including Time and TV Guide. The series is available on DVD.

The first book devoted to the feminist reverberations of My So-Called Life

“I WANTED HER to be seen as a full human being,” My So-Called Life creator Winnie Holzman says. “What’s more feminist than that?” And, though it never once uses the word, MSCL is arguably the most feminist teen show that has ever graced TV. The ABC series, which lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, centred on a 15-year-old girl searching for her identity. Angela Chase was a groundbreaking realistic representation of female adolescence on TV; without her there would be no Buffy or Felicity, Rory Gilmore or Veronica Mars.

The series’ broadcast coincided with the arrival of third-wave feminism, the first feminist movement to make teen voices a priority, and Angela became their small-screen spokesperson. From her perspective, MSCL explored gender, identity, sexuality, race, class, body image, and other issues vital to the third wave (and the world).

In My Humble Opinion also explores how MSCL became the prototype for latter-day TV fandom — as the first show to spawn an online campaign protesting its cancellation. To this day, passionate fans dissect everything from what Rickie Vasquez did for gay representation to what Jordan Catalano did for leaning.

SORAYA ROBERTS still feels like a teenager even though she’s, like, old.

She worked as an entertainment editor from 2005 to 2011 and is now a full-time

writer. She has contributed long-form culture articles to Hazlitt, Harper’s, and

the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She also appears in

the anthology Secret Loves of Geek Girls (Bedside Press, 2015) and is currently

working on a memoir about journalism. She lives in Toronto.

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SORAYA ROBERTS

In My Humble OpinionMy So-Called Life

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“This is an extremely good crime novel, brimming with historical verisimilitude . . . with a richly detailed protagonist and a seriously compelling mystery.” — Booklist on Black Rock

ON THE EVE of hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Montreal police are tightening security to prevent another catastrophe like the ’72 games in Munich. But it isn’t tight enough to stop a bold daytime Brinks truck robbery of three million dollars. As the high-profile heist continues to baffle the police, Constable Eddie Dougherty gets a chance to prove his worth as a detective when he’s assigned to assist the suburban Longueuil force in investigating the deaths of two teenagers returning from a rock concert across the Jacques Cartier Bridge. Were they mugged and thrown from the bridge? Or was it a murder suicide?

With tensions running high in the city and his future career at stake, Eddie Dougherty faces the limits of the force and of his own policing, and has to decide when to settle and when justice is the only thing that should be obeyed.

JOHN MCFETRIDGE has enjoyed wide critical acclaim for his Toronto

series novels. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was named a book of the year

by Quill & Quire and Tumblin’ Dice was an Amazon Editors’ Pick. His Montreal

series, featuring Constable Eddie Dougherty, features “an unpredictable mystery,

a fine character study, and a vivid snapshot of 1970s Montreal” (Publishers

Weekly). He lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons.

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JOHN MCFETRIDGE

One or the OtherAn Eddie Dougherty Mystery

mystery

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PRAISE FOR A LITTLE MORE FREE

✽✽ “If you’re looking for a writer who can be simultaneously loquacious and deadpan, John McFetridge is your guy.” — Toronto Star

✽✽ “Brilliant . . . As a police procedural, A Little More Free is superb. As a sociopolitical human drama, it’s even better — remember to breathe during those final few pages.” — Winnipeg Free Press

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✽✽ “Kalteis made me care about his cast of lowlifes, screw-ups, and marginals without stopping the action too often for endearing moments of humanity or self-conscious wit.” — Detectives Beyond Borders on Ride the Lightning

✽✽ With a pace similar to Don Winslow’s The Kings of Cool and humour along the lines of Carl Hiaasen’s Bad Monkey, Kalteis’s marginal and low-rent characters come to life with nail-biting drama and visceral violence.

You know you’re in deep water when you can’t tell cop from criminal

RENE BECKMAN is a dishonoured ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki. When the two unknowingly dock the boat in the same secluded cove as a Mexican cartel’s drug submarine, the date ends with a bang.

With the cartel’s coke-for-guns deal with local bikers torched by Beckman, he’s forced to go on the run with half the underworld chasing him through the streets of Vancouver and the waters surrounding it. While he tries to stay alive, a woman from Beckman’s past — currently on the run from CSIS and the anti-terror squad — comes back to settle an old score.

When the gangs start to go after his friends, the ex-cop stops running and turns the tables. With a ragtag crew of his own, Beckman faces the cartel and bikers head on. Fast, vicious, and thrilling, Triggerfish delivers a story where all the criminals are in conflict and no one is certain who will come out on top.

Triggerfish is DIETRICH KALTEIS’s third novel. His debut novel, Ride the

Lightning, won the bronze medal in the 2015 Independent Publisher Awards and

was hailed as one of the best Vancouver crime novels. More than 40 of his short

stories have been published internationally, and his screenplay Between Jobs

was a finalist in the Los Angeles Screenplay Festival. He resides with his family

in West Vancouver and is currently working on his next novel.

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DIETRICH KALTEIS

TriggerfishA Crime Novel

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Now in paperback: the sixth novel in the acclaimed Arthur Beauchamp series

EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence lawyer that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch sides, just the once, and prosecute a young man charged with murdering a clown. Beauchamp is confident he can prove Randolph Skyler is guilty. Confident, but still worried and surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is — and, worse, to the fissures opening in his personal life.

It’s a case Beauchamp will never forget, not even years later, when he’s happily remarried and retired to a bucolic life on Garibaldi Island in the glorious Salish Sea. As Beauchamp is about to learn, the older you get, the greater the chance that the past will come back to bite you. In Deverell’s latest marvel in his Beauchamp series, Arthur has causes aplenty to sing a worried song.

WILLIAM DEVERELL has worked as a journalist and lawyer, and he is

a founder and honourary director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. He is

the creator of CBC’s long-running television series Street Legal, which has aired

internationally in more than 50 countries. He is also the recipient of multiple

literary awards, including the $50,000 Seal Prize, the Dashiell Hammett Award

for literary excellence, and the Arthur Ellis prize in crime writing. His novels have

been translated into 14 languages and sold worldwide. He was recently awarded

an honourary Doctor of Letters by Simon Fraser University. He lives on Pender

Island, British Columbia.

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WILLIAM DEVERELL

Sing a Worried SongAn Arthur Beauchamp Novel

mystery

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✽✽ “Simply brilliant.” — Globe and Mail

✽✽ “He may be the most convincing of all writers of courtroom stories, way up there just beyond the lofty plateau occupied by such classic courtroom dramatists as Scott Turow and John Lescroart, and in the new book, it’s Deverell at peak form.” — Toronto Star

✽✽ “Deverell’s two kinds of pro at once: an extremely experienced lawyer and a longtime writer of crime fiction, he makes the courtroom scenes lively and realistic, animating the proceedings with details of personality conflicts and Arthur Beauchamp’s shaky hold on his sobriety.” — National Post



✽✽ Reminiscent of award-winning poetry by Suzanne Buffam and Karen Solie.

✽✽ Author has been widely published in literary journals and is an up-and-coming Canadian voice.

The eagerly anticipated debut from one of Canada’s most exciting new poets

IN HER DEBUT COLLECTION, Ashley-Elizabeth Best explores the cultivation of resilience during uncertain and often trying times. It’s a book built around day-to-day conflicts — poems about love, family, grief, power, and longing. Navigating the fault lines of popular culture and traditional poetry to assert that we are all history makers, Slow States of Collapse enters the landscape of personal narrative in an attempt to reconcile life’s little universal griefs.

Slow States of Collapse presents a world that is at once menacing and full of wonder and grace. It’s a poetry of “casual cruelty” and “kisses like / puncture wounds,” of “something too tender to touch” and “the threat of an intense beauty.” In this collection, illness confronts bedside manners while a migrant restlessness also paints remarkable portraits of shifting self-image, and in the process the nature of personal and political power is reimagined.

ASHLEY-ELIZABETH BEST is from Cobourg, Ontario. Her work has

appeared in Fjords, CV2, Berfrois, Grist, and Ambit Magazine, among other

publications. Recently, she was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for

Innovative Poetry. She lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario.

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Slow States of Collapse

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A poetry that is at once harrowing, angry, and achingly beautiful

PATRICK WOODCOCK has spent the past seven years engaging with and being shaped by the people, politics, and landscapes of the Kurdish north of Iraq, Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories, and Azerbaijan. His powerful new collection offers a poetry that simultaneously explores hope and horror while documenting the transformative processes of coping. You can’t bury them all follows the narratives we construct to survive the tragic failures of our humanity to their very end: everything that’s buried by snow, dirt, and ash, just like everything that’s buried by politics, homophobia, sexism, racism, religion; and history is resurrected, demanding to be heard and addressed.

In Woodcock’s poetry, how we deal with what resurfaces is the key. What do those who suffer really mean to those who have abandoned them to small, conscience-soothing charitable donations or the occasional tweet? How can the poet, or anyone else, sleep at night knowing homosexuals are being thrown off building tops, after one steps into a hole and finds an abandoned corpse in an Azeri cemetery, or after the elders of an Aboriginal community are left helpless against those who only want to exploit them? Still, You can’t bury them all demonstrates that the world is not just the horrific place the media often portrays. In each of the worlds he touches, Woodcock discovers a spirit and strength to celebrate.

PATRICK WOODCOCK is the author of nine books of poetry and countless

reviews. His work has been translated and published in 14 languages. Woodcock

has lived and worked in such diverse countries as Iceland, Poland, Russia, Bosnia

and Herzegovina, Colombia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the Kurdish north of Iraq, and

most recently Azerbaijan. Within Canada he has travelled from the west to east

coasts as well as volunteered for almost a year with the elders of Fort Good Hope,

Northwest Territories, just 20 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle.

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You can’t bury them allPoems

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✽✽ “A noisy, conflicted affair, unwilling to sacrifice complexity for theme . . . a wild, insidious journal, reminiscent of Dionne Brand’s Griffin-winning Ossuaries, with its wounded morality and its chugging, unstoppable, rhythms.” — Globe and Mail on Echo Gods and Silent Mountains


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✽✽ A mix of hockey and CanLit history in the tradition of Bowering’s popular books about baseball.

✽✽ “George’s adventures and misadventures make Pinboy the best candidate for a Stephen Leacock Award in a long, long time . . . [it] deserves a higher reward than that: many, many readers.” — Globe and Mail on Pinboy

Canada’s former poet laureate looks back at a life lived in literature and hockey fandom

HOCKEY FORMS THE BACKDROP of our lives. For many Canadians, the big moments — births, deaths, marriages, moves — are all mixed up with the wins and losses of our teams. The voices of Hockey Night in Canada sportscasters are our soundtrack, and visions of skates scraping across the ice lull us to sleep.

George Bowering, Canada’s former poet laureate, is no different. Growing up in Oliver, B.C., Bowering was entranced by the kids from Saskatchewan who skated and handled pucks as easily as breathing. His fascination with hockey followed him into adult life, from B.C. to Quebec and back again. Bowering followed his teams with a critical eye and a fan’s passion, and his stories bring us on a cross-country hockey-themed road trip, with occasional forays into boxing, poetry, and sports fashion.

Bowering has an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject. He has been an avid and attentive hockey fan since boyhood, and has an extensive catalogue of thoughts and opinions on the personalities and events that populate Canadian hockey history. In The Hockey Scribbler, Bowering brings us along on his richly detailed look back at hockey in Canada since the 1950s.

GEORGE BOWERING was born and brought up in the Okanagan Valley,

amid sand dunes and sagebrush, but he has lived in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba,

and Alberta — great sources of hockey stars. Along the way he has stopped

to write several books on baseball. He has also picked up Governor General’s

Awards for his poetry and fiction, and otherwise been rewarded with prizes for

his books, except in his home province of British Columbia. His earlier ECW book,

His Life, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for 2000. He lives in

Vancouver.

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A trailblazing wrestling legend shares his story of living life on his own terms

WHEN PAT PATTERSON was 17 years old, he was thrown out of his house after telling his parents he was in love . . . with a man. Crossing into the United States from Montreal in the 1960s, barely knowing a word of English, he was determined to succeed in the squared circle. Back when homophobia was widespread, Pat lived in the super-macho world of pro wrestling.

One of the most unlikely stories of a revolutionary talent, pioneer, and creative savant, Patterson recalls the trials and tribulations as he climbed to the upper ranks of sports-entertainment — as a performer and, later, as a backstage dignitary — in this fascinating and revealing memoir. After making his mark in the ring as the prestigious first holder of WWE’s Intercontinental Championship, Pat set out to conquer the WWE world behind the curtain. He became the lead creative force behind the Royal Rumble match and countless innovations that have shaped the way the WWE Universe has enjoyed sports-entertainment for generations.

Many WWE fans know Pat Patterson as a ring legend, WWE Hall of Famer, and one of Vince McMahon’s “stooges” during the Attitude Era. But Patterson is no stooge. He has long been one of Vince McMahon’s trusted advisors, his impact and importance to the nascent stages of WWE nearly comparable to the Chairman himself. Still active in WWE today, Pat delivers his no-holds barred story from unknown to WWE luminary.

PAT PATTERSON was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996 and

currently works as a creative consultant for WWE. BERTRAND HÉBERT

is the co-author of Mad Dogs, Midgets and Screwjobs.

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PAT PATTERSON WITH BERTRAND HÉBERT

AcceptedHow the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE

wrestling

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✽✽ Patterson is widely acknowledged as one of the first openly gay pro athletes. He came out in the early 1970s, but his sexuality was not acknowledged publicly or in WWE storylines until the season finale of WWE Legends’ House in 2014.

✽✽ Patterson has ongoing involvement with WWE promotions and telecasts, and WWE will be involved with the promotion of this book.


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✽✽ MMA injuries are discussed on sports news and match recaps. MMA fans are interested to learn more about the effect injuries will have on the fighter’s performance.

✽✽ Dr. Gelber’s site FightMedicine.net is a well-regarded resource for MMA fighters and he has a fast-growing audience on Twitter @FightMedicine.

✽✽ The tips in this book can be applied to other contact sports, including boxing, wrestling, jiu jitsu, and more.

Essential advice for fans and fighters

MMA IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S fastest-growing sports. The Ultimate Guide to Preventing and Treating MMA Injuries offers professional and amateur fighters and fans alike the sound professional advice they need to prevent and treat injuries, find a good training camp and partners, train smarter

— not harder — and choose the right equipment. Dr. Jonathan Gelber translates complicated medical topics into a guide full of practical, easy-to-follow information, complete with step-by-step photos and diagrams. From joint injuries to preventing infection, from muscle strains to the hot topic of head injuries and concussions, Dr. Gelber outlines all the need-to-know details.

Featuring advice from more than 40 UFC Hall of Famers and champions, as well as many of MMA’s top athletes and elite trainers, The Ultimate Guide to Preventing and Treating MMA Injuries is a must-have for anyone serious about today’s fight game.

JONATHAN GELBER, M.D., M.S., received his medical degree from

the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and a Masters degree in

biomedical engineering from Columbia University. He was trained in orthopedic

surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and completed a sports medicine

fellowship at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic. A lifelong interest in

combative sports has led him to a black belt in Shito-Ryu Karate, a blue belt in

Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, and to become the founder of both FightMedicine.net and the

Mixed Martial Arts Research Society. He has written numerous articles for MMA

websites and magazines. He lives in New York.

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JONATHAN GELBER, M.D., M.S.

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The eagerly anticipated updated return of a bestselling martial arts classic

THE LEADERS of Tae Kwon Do, an Olympic sport and one of the world’s most popular martial arts, are fond of saying that their art is ancient and filled with old dynasties and superhuman feats. In fact, Tae Kwon Do is as full of lies as it is powerful techniques. From its rough beginnings in the Korean military 60 years ago, the art empowered individuals and nations, but its leaders too often hid the painful truths that led to that empowerment — the gangsters, secret-service agents, and dictators who encouraged cheating, corruption, and murder. A Killing Art: The Untold History of Tae Kwon Do takes you into the cults, geisha houses, and crime syndicates that made Tae Kwon Do. It shows how, in the end, a few key leaders kept the art clean and turned it into an empowering art for tens of millions of people in more than 150 countries. A Killing Art is part history and part biography — and a wild ride to enlightenment.

This new and revised edition of the bestselling book contains previously unnamed sources and updated chapters.

ALEX GILLIS is a journalist and university writing instructor in Toronto who

specializes in literary nonfiction. He has trained in various styles of Tae Kwon Do

and other martial arts for approximately 35 years. He first heard the incredible

tales of the art from one of his instructors and entered the back rooms and high-

stakes world of Choi Hong-Hi, Kim Un-yong, and other Tae Kwon Do leaders to

find the truth about their art.

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A Killing ArtThe Untold History of Tae Kwon Do, Updated and Revised Edition of the Bestseller

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✽✽ Over 10,000 copies sold.


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✽✽ “You can certainly judge this book by its vibrant cover: an unmistakable Jean Chrétien portrait that Joe paints as a talking rear end (out of the side of the, er, mouth). It’s funny, shocking, and vulgar, but has a charming innocence about it.” — Ottawa Xpress on Joe’s Politicians

A series of energetic and vivid portraits that capture the character and integrity of rural life

OUTSIDER ARTIST Mendelson Joe is a painter, activist, musician, and renowned “self-taughter.” But to the people living in the sparsely populated region west of Algonquin Park, he is also a neighbour. With his latest book, Joe commemorates his neighbours in a series of portraits whose subjects range from Canadian musical icon Hawksley Workman to the man who installed Joe’s woodstove.

In Joe’s Neighbours, we get a glimpse into the lives of people who have strayed from the urban grid, and in Joe, we meet a “pathological painter” who is engaged with his community. Viewed through Joe’s idiosyncratic lens, rural Canadian life comes alive, and we meet a hub of artists, activists, and offbeat characters who truly embody Joe’s vision of neighbourliness.

Musician JOE’s career began with blues-rock band McKenna Mendelson

Mainline and then took a painterly turn. Known today as a multimedia artist and

activist, Joe continues to surprise with his outspoken opinions and output. He

lives in Emsdale, Ontario.

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ROSALIE WISE SHARP has been collecting porcelain for over half a century, and in that time she has amassed one of the most comprehensive collections in the world. With this first lavishly produced catalogue, Sharp shares over 1,000 pieces from her porcelain collection, illustrated in stunning full-colour photos and accompanied by provenance, fascinating historical connections, and personal anecdotes.

With China to Light Up a House, Rosalie Wise Sharp throws open the doors of her home to share her passion for porcelain and her singular, museum-worthy collection.

ROSALIE WISE SHARP was born and raised in North Toronto, where

she currently lives. She is the co-editor of Growing Up Jewish and the author of

Ceramics, Ethics and Scandal and Rifke: An Improbable Life.

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✽✽ National media outreach including TV, radio, and print.

✽✽ “Robin Speziale has interviewed Canada’s top money managers in depth. But instead of asking what stocks they like — ‘the flavour of the month’ — he talked to them about the processes they use to find investable securities.” — Ellen Roseman, personal finance expert and Toronto Star business columnist

✽✽ Investors include: Barry Schwartz, Benj Gallander, Bill Ackman, Bill Carrigan, Cameron Winser, Charles Marleau, David Burrows, Derek Foster, Francis Chou, Gaelen Morphet, Jason Donville, Jason Mann, Jeff Stacey, Kiki Delaney, Lorne Zeiler, Martin Braun, Martin Ferguson, Michael Sprung, Norman Levine, Paul Harris, Paul Gardner, Bill Harris, Peter Brieger, Peter Hodson, Randy Cass, Ross Grant, Ryaz Shariff, and Som Seif.

Tips and tricks to win in the market

MARKET MASTERS is the definitive book on investing in the Canadian market, featuring exclusive and insightful conversations and first-hand advice from Canada’s top investors. These interviews delve into each investor’s investment philosophies, strategies, and processes, as well as their successes, challenges, and outlooks in the market. Learn proven investing strategies, processes, and approaches that you can easily apply to the market to make your winnings more plentiful, predictable, and profitable.

The 28 top investors span multiple areas on the market paradigm to offer readers a variety of perspectives, including: five investing styles; proven, actionable, and timeless strategies to increase your winnings in the market; stocks, bonds, options, and other financial instruments; and shared conceptions that explain how the Market Masters continually beat the market. Through a collection of Master Keys, the most important tips from each investor are highlighted throughout the book, and Speziale describes the Millionaire Mastery Goal: how to parlay $10,000 to over $1,000,000 in 20 years, using the Master Portfolio.

Market Masters contains timeless advice on how to beat the market that will entertain, inform, and empower generations of Canadian investors. Includes interviews with Jason Donville, Francis Chou, Benj Gallander, Martin Braun, Bill Ackman, and many more.

ROBIN R. SPEZIALE is the author of Lessons from the Successful

Investor, which contains 85 important investment lessons that he learned

throughout his own trials, tribulations, and winnings in the market. Robin has

been saving, investing, and building his portfolio since the age of 18. Now, 10

years later, at the age of 28, he’s amassed a $225,000 stock portfolio. He lives

in Toronto.

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unpredictable mystery, a fine

character study, and a vivid

snapshot of 1972 Montreal.”

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FICTION1 On the Shores of Darkness,

There Is Light by Cordelia Strube

2 Congratulations On Everything by Nathan Whitlock

3 For the Love of Mary by Christopher Meades

SCIENCE FICTION4 2113

eds. Kevin J. Anderson and John McFetridge

5 Freenet by Steve Stanton

FANTASY6 The Alchemists’ Council

by Cynthea Masson

MEMOIR7 Ice Diaries

by Jean McNeil

8 Jersey Tough by Wayne “Big Chuck” Bradshaw

9 Moguls, Monsters, and Madmen by Barry Avrich

10 Sticking It Out by Patti Niemi

MUSIC11 Nowhere with You

by Josh O’Kane

POP CULTURE12 In My Humble Opinion

by Soraya Roberts

MYSTERY13 One or the Other

by John McFetridge

14 Triggerfish by Dietrich Kalteis

15 Sing a Worried Song by William Deverell

POETRY16 Slow States of Collapse

by Ashley-Elizabeth Best

17 You can’t bury them all by Patrick Woodcock

SPORTS18 The Hockey Scribbler

by George Bowering

WRESTLING19 Accepted

by Pat Patterson

MARTIAL ARTS20 The Ultimate Guide to

Preventing and Treating MMA Injuries by Jonathan Gelber, M.D., M.S.

21 A Killing Art by Alex Gillis

ART22 Joe’s Neighbours

by Mendelson Joe

23 China to Light Up a House, Volume 1 by Rosalie Wise Sharp

PERSONAL FINANCE24 Market Masters

by Robin R. Speziale

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