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—October 24, 2014

Cleis
Nine-to-Five Fantasies
Alison Tyler
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781627780605, $15.95, Fall 2014
Ebook: 9781627780728
•Review – Publisher’s Weekly – “This anthology is a must-read for anyone fancying a bit of play at work.”

Counterpoint
Gangsterland
Tod Goldberg
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781619023444, $26, Fall 2014
Ebook: 9781619024083
•Review – Los Angeles Review of Books – “Gangsterland…is a modern story, written for readers who like their imaginary characters to live in the real world… who wants to hear the same old stories? For those who don’t, there is Gangsterland.”

Frances Lincoln
Counting Chickens
Polly Alakija
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781847804372, $17.99, Fall 2014
Ebook: n/a
•Starred Review – School Library Journal – “The large format, engaging acrylic-and-pencil illustrations, and engaging story make this counting book a fine choice for read-aloud sessions and individual exploration.”

Groundwood
What There Is Before There Is Anything There
Liniers
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781554983858, $18.95, Fall 2014
Ebook: n/a
•Sunday Review – New York Times – “The renowned Argentine cartoonist lets his subversive flag fly in this canny and genuinely scary picture book.”

Grove/Atlantic
An Untamed State
Roxane Gay
Print Format: ISBN-13 9780802122513, $16, Spring 2014
Ebook: 9780802192677
•Named one of Library Journal's top 10 Best Books of 2014

Euphoria
Lily King
Print Format: ISBN-13 9780802122551, $25, Spring 2014
Ebook: 9780802192516
•Winner of Inaugural Kirkus Fiction Prize 2014

Hawthorne Books
Diamond Lane
Karbo/Smiley
Print Format: ISBN-13 9780989360449, $18.95, Fall 2014
Ebook: 9780990437024
•Review – Shelf Awareness – “Karbo's story is timeless, and her writing is seamless. She is a keen, wry observer of the hazards of Hollywood and marriage and the fraught relationships between lovers, mothers and daughters and sisters. Filled with sharp characterizations and laugh-out-loud scenes, Karbo's early '90s-era novel proves that, in the right literary hands, the comedic absurdities of life never go out of style.”

Oneworld
Shackleton
Michael Smith
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781780745725, $30, Fall 2014
Ebook: 9781780745732
•Review – Booklist – “Smith provides a well-rounded look at the renowned explorer. It is Smith’s writing style, however, that makes this biography such a page-turner and a wonderfully rich portrait of a twentieth-century icon. Shackleton has finally received the literary treatment his legendary life deserves.”

Patagonia
The Calling
Barry Blanchard
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781938340314, $27.95, Fall 2014
Ebook: 9781938340321
•TV Interview – CTV News Calgary

Pharos Editions
The Dead Girl
Melanie Thernstrom
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781940436135, $18.95, Spring 2014
Ebook: n/a
•Interview with David Shields

Plexus Publishing
Day of the Dead
Lee Karr
Print Format: ISBN-13 9780859655187, $24.95, Spring 2014
Ebook: n/a
•Review – The Horror Honeys – “With exhaustive research and passion and scores of exclusive interviews, super-fan Lee Karr has put together a stellar behind-the-scenes look at George Romero's mid-80s Day of the Dead in this release from Plexus Publishing.”

Tin House
Adult Onset
Ann-Marie Macdonald
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781941040058, $25.95, Spring 2015
Ebook: 9781941040065
•An Amazon.ca Best Book (Oct. 2014)
•Review – Toronto Sun – “…the novel is superb, a fine blending of fact and fiction, of remembered incident and forgotten history, a wonderfully written treatise on the power of the past to impinge on the present.”

The Other Side
Lacy M. Johnson
Trade Paper: ISBN-13 9781935639831, $15.95, Spring 2014
Ebook: ISBN-13 9781935639848, $15.95
•Library Journal names The Other Side as one of 2014's ten best memoirs - "Johnson refashions our culture’s narratives about violence and victimhood, deepens our understanding of the lived experience of systemic misogyny, and illumines the elusive interplay of body, word, memory, and meaning."

The Culture Works
What Motivates Me
Gostick/Elton
Print Format: ISBN-13 9780996029704, $24.95, Fall 2014
Ebook: 9780996029711
•Article – Fast Company

Three Rooms Press
Heaven and Other Poems
Israel Horovitz
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781941110119, $15.95, Fall 2014
Ebook: 9781941110126
•Review – The Rumpus – “Horovitz charms throughout this memoir-in-poetry.”

Raising Girls in Bohemia
Richard Katrovas
Print Format: ISBN-13 9781941110065, $15.95, Fall 2014
Ebook: ISBN-13 9781941110072
•Review – Shelf Awareness – “Raising Girls in Bohemia is by turns political and personal, honest and full of insight into the human condition, all filtered through a poet's thoughtful lens.”

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