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Rights
Canada
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Droits du
Canada
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2021
WELCOME BIENVENUE
Livres Canada Books is pleased to present the 2021 edition of Livres Canada Books est heureux de vous présenter l’édition
the Rights Canada catalogue! We are delighted to showcase 2021 du catalogue Droits du Canada ! Nous nous réjouissons
over 330 titles of great Canadian fiction, non-fiction, children’s de mettre en vedette plus de 330 titres exceptionnels, qu’il
books, and young adult fiction. s’agisse de romans, d’ouvrages de non fiction, de livres pour
enfants ou de romans jeunes adultes.
Whether published in English, French, or other languages in
translation, Canadian writers have captured the imaginations Les auteurs canadiens, qu’on les lise en français, en anglais ou
of millions of readers around the world, and their many awards traduits en d’autres langues, réussissent à captiver l’imaginaire
and recognitions are a tribute to that reputation. Canadian de millions de lecteurs du monde entier, et les nombreux prix et
publishers have many extraordinary works of literature to reconnaissances qu’ils reçoivent en témoignent. Les éditeurs
share, and you will find an excellent sample of them here. canadiens ont de nombreuses œuvres littéraires extraordinaires
à présenter, et vous en trouverez ici un excellent échantillon.
As we prepare (again) for our Guest of Honour role at the
Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2021, we hope that the Alors que nous nous préparons (à nouveau) pour notre rôle
outstanding quality and creativity of Canadian publishing d’invité d’honneur à la Foire du livre de Francfort en octobre
represented in this edition of Rights Canada will encourage 2021, nous espérons que la qualité exceptionnelle des titres
you to continue working with Canadian publishers and to annoncés dans la présente édition du catalogue Droits du
create new partnerships. Canada ainsi que la créativité remarquable de nos auteurs vous
inciteront à continuer de collaborer avec les éditeurs canadiens
Despite the continued travel restrictions and uncertainty,
et à créer de nouveaux partenariats.
we look forward to seeing you all in person again soon and
reconnecting with our valued friends, business partners, Malgré les restrictions de voyage et l’incertitude qui persistent,
and readers the world over, particularly with the forthcoming nous sommes impatients de tous vous revoir bientôt en
Guest of Honour countries who so graciously gave Canadian personne et de renouer avec nos précieux amis, nos partenaires
publishers one more year to shine on the world stage. commerciaux et les lecteurs du monde entier, notamment avec
les prochains pays invités d’honneur, qui ont si gracieusement
To access rich title content associated with the books
donné aux éditeurs canadiens une année de plus pour briller
showcased here, or for more information on Canadian titles,
sur la scène mondiale.
publishers, and rights contacts, we encourage you to visit
our newly redesigned Livres Canada Books website. Pour accéder aux riches contenus associés aux livres présentés
ici ou pour obtenir plus de renseignements sur les titres et les
Happy Reading!
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Livres Canada Books
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CONTENTS / SOMMAIRE
FICTION / ROMANS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
NON-FICTION / NON FICTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
CHILDREN’S / JEUNESSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
YOUNG ADULT / JEUNES ADULTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
PUBLISHERS / ÉDITEURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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on the name of any publisher to visit their website directly. et 54, vous pouvez également cliquer sur le nom d’un éditeur
pour accéder directement à son site Web.
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FICTION | ROMANS
L’Avenir Méduse
by Catherine Leroux by Martine Desjardins
In a fictionalized French-Canadian Detroit, Gloria moves into She has been called Medusa for so long she forgot her real
her late daughter’s house. Hoping to understand what led name. She walks with her head down, sparing people the
to her death and to find her missing granddaughters, she sight of her deformities—a pair of eyes so horrendous they
starts exploring her neighbourhood. With the help of this repulse everyone. She has never dared to look at herself in a
hardy community, she uncovers disturbing truths and hidden mirror. In this dark and provocative book, Martine Desjardins
worlds. In powerful prose, L’avenir delves into the depth of offers a radical tale of oppression, shame, and female force.
our collective failures, the duties of one generation to the With a contemporary, feminist twist on a gothic universe, this
next, and the inescapable ferocity of what is to come. novel sheds a crude and refined light on monstrosity.
Rights sold in English (world) and Rights sold in Canada, US, and Italy
Alto French (world except North America) Alto
BISAC: FIC000000 | Thema: FBA
2020 | French BISAC: FIC019000 | Thema: FBA 2020 | French
ISBN: 9782896944736 ISBN: 9782896944705
C$28.95; 320 pgs. C$23.95; 216 pgs.
À la foire Au nord de ma mémoire
by Maud Chayer by Mattia Scarpulla
During a hot summer day, a man is convinced by his wife A group of first-generation migrants, their bodies still scarred
and daughters to go spend the day at an agricultural show. by the stigmas of exile, regroup in Montréal to play music.
Despite his discomfort, he complies with his daughters’ Another group hides among library shelves after closing
wishes and wanders around, among beasts and guests until time, in order to keep dreaming and living among the books.
he and his family get separated. Others, uprooted and marginal, walk endlessly in search of an
encounter in an imaginary land or a dystopian future. From a
Between a cow with painful udders, a conversation with a
terrace in Turin to the corridors of a museum of memories, a
breeder, skill games, rides and many Coors Light, the man
man inexorably pursues his dream to obtain the perfect kiss.
Annika Parance ends up confronted with whom he has become, and soon Annika Parance
Éditeur realizes that he has become a prisoner of his own life. Éditeur World rights available
2020 | French World rights available 2021 | French Thema: FB, DCC
ISBN: 9782925085041 ISBN: 9782925085102
C$9.00; 58 pgs. C$13.00; 138 pgs.
Czech Techno My Claustrophobic Happiness
by Mark Jarman by Jeanne Randolph
From the author of 19 Knives and My White Planet comes a My Claustrophobic Happiness offers La Betty, a cloistered
brilliant suite of stories built around music and travel. The mega-wealthy condo inhabitant.
five stories that comprise Czech Techno are replete with the
La Betty is repeatedly beset by supernatural entities
sizzle and jump we have come to expect from a Mark Jarman
beseeching her to cease her consumerist commodity
story. And matters of the heart are never far away, weaving
adoration and engage in the active world of ordinary life.
through these tales like a knife blade through sand.
Lush and playful descriptions of La Betty’s objects and
World rights available her surreal psychological space enfold a series of complex
BISAC: FIC019000 | Thema: FBA conundrums about identity in relationship to consumerism.
Anvil Press
ARP Books World rights available
2020 | English
2020 | English BISAC: FIC019000, FIC052000, FIC064000 | Thema: FB, FUP
ISBN: 9781772141382
C$18.00; 80 pgs. ISBN: 9781927886410
C$18.00; 95 pgs.
Butter Honey Pig Bread Mirror’s Edge
by Francesca Ekwuyasi by Alex Passey
The acclaimed intergenerational saga about three Nigerian Rath has been on a downward spiral. And it’s not just
women—twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother— him—the world is a polluted mess, corporate influence has
set across three continents: a novel about food, family, replaced independent thought, and his fiancée has decided
and forgiveness. that Rath is no longer worth her time.
2021 Canada Reads runner-up; longlisted for the Scotiabank While Rath embraces his multiple vices, he never expected
Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General’s Literary Award, his next bender to land him in another world entirely. He finds
Amazon First Novel Award, and Lambda Literary Award. himself in Sarah’s world—an untainted parallel universe to his
World rights available own: a pristine woodland where every person is the absolute
Arsenal Pulp Press master of their domain.
BISAC: FIC049000, FIC044000, FIC018000 | Thema: FBA At Bay Press
2020 | English World rights available
ISBN: 9781551528236 2020 | English
C$23.95; 368 pgs. ISBN: 9781988168234 BISAC: FIC019000
C$29.95; 360 pgs.
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FICTION | ROMANS
So Many Windings Exile Blues
by Catherine Macdonald A Novel
by Douglas Gary Freeman
Reverend Charles Lauchlan travels abroad to Scotland with
his fiancé Maggie on a bicycle tour of the Highlands. Two Prez grows up in the 50s in segregated Washington, DC.
near fatal accidents put members of the tour on edge and, to Street smart and skeptical, but with a code of ethics, he,
make matters worse, a shadowy figure seems to be observing like every black kid, wants to be Malcolm, Martin or a “soul
their every move. Stuck in the remote Highland countryside, brother.” Invited to do a university course with field work
the group is thrown back on their own resources. While on Civil Rights in Chicago, a divided city, he is faced with
Charles and Maggie are trying to decipher what these police-state conditions, and must flee to Montréal and
strange events mean. It’s murder most foul. become another person.
World rights available Baraka Books “It’s the novel Malcolm X might have written had he not
At Bay Press
BISAC: FIC019000 2019 | English suffered martyrdom.”
2021 | English ISBN: 9781771862004 —George Elliott Clarke
ISBN: 9781988168463 C$24.95; 380 pgs.
C$28.95; 304 pgs. World rights available
BISAC: FIC049040 | Thema: FXQ
Fog Here the Dark
A Novel by David Bergen
by Rana Bose
From stories on the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy
“Suspenseful and sublime, Fog is a powerful novel of intrigue falls in with a young American missionary, to the Canadian
and love, family and friendship in which fog is a feeling ‘like prairies, where an aging rancher finds himself smitten and a
a tenderness of the soul.’ Grounded in place with exquisite teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté, and a novella
detail and held aloft by an inspiring worldview, this is a story about a young woman torn between faith and doubt in
with unforgettable characters whose entanglements lead a cloistered Mennonite community, David Bergen deftly
us through the magically rendered streets of Montréal and renders complex moral ambiguities and asks what it means
across continents in search of adventure and truth.” to be lost—and how, through grace, we can be found.
—Cora Siré World rights available
Baraka Books Biblioasis
World rights available BISAC: FIC000000, FIC029000 | Thema: FBA, FYB
2019 | English 2020 | English
ISBN: 9781771861847 BISAC: FIC006000 ISBN: 9781771963213
C$24.95; 232 pgs. C$22.95; 216 pgs.
Householders Letters to Amelia
by Kate Cayley by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of
self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amid her heartache,
in their characters’ overlapping lives. Householders moves the 30-year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly
effortlessly from the commonplace to the fantastic, from discovered letters written by Amelia Earhart to her lover,
west-end Toronto to a trailer in the middle of nowhere, from Gene Vidal. Letter by letter, she understands more about
a university campus to a state-of-the-art underground the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together.
bunker; from a commune in the woods to a city and back When Grace discovers she is pregnant, her life becomes
again, with the precision and clarity of short stories, but more intertwined with the pilot and she begins to write her
the depth of a novel. own letters to Amelia.
Biblioasis Book*hug Press
World rights available World rights available
2021 | English 2021 | English
BISAC: FIC000000, FIC029000 | Thema: FBA, FYB ISBN: 9781771666985 BISAC: FIC065000, FIC044000, FIC076000
ISBN: 9781771964296
C$23.00; 280 pgs. Thema: FYD, FB, JBSF11
C$22.95; 216 pgs.
We, Jane You Are Eating An Orange. You Are Naked.
by Aimee Wall by Sheung-King
Searching for meaning in her Montreal life, Marthe begins A translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to
a friendship with an older woman, also from Newfoundland, Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed
who tells her a story about purpose, about a duty to fulfill. lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling
It’s back home, and it goes by the name of Jane. The two folk tales to each other as a way to fill the undefined space
women travel to a small community on the island to continue between them. You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
the work and legacy of an underground movement in 60s is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges
Chicago: abortion services performed by women, always Western tropes and Orientalism. It is at once lyrical and
referred to as Jane. punctuated, and wholly unique, marking the arrival of a
World rights available bold new voice.
Book*hug Press Book*hug Press
BISAC: FIC076000, FIC035000, FIC066000 World rights available
2021 | English 2020 | English
ISBN: 9781771666701 Thema: JBSF11, FXR, FB ISBN: 9781771666411 BISAC: FIC019000, FIC000000 | Thema: FB, FN
C$23.00; 205 pgs. C$20.00; 195 pgs.
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FICTION | ROMANS
Saving Tiberius The Seventh Devil
by Gordon K. Jones by Suzanne Craig-Whytock
Morgan Watson has a problem. When word leaked that When nineteen-year-old runaway Verity Darkwood, flat broke
his cat, Tiberius, miraculously cured itself of diabetes and and devastated by guilt, takes refuge in a bar to escape the
may hold the key to a cure, he is attacked in his home and unwanted attention of a stranger, she doesn’t expect to meet
almost killed in a bloody fight. Paula Rogers, a strong-willed Gareth Winter, let alone become business partners with
dedicated police officer, has put herself in the line of fire him. They spend the next two years on the road, helping
protecting him. Soon, these two fiercely independent people the earthbound spirits who haunt their clients to cross over,
find themselves romantically involved and intertwined with or exorcising the demons that plague them.
the growing list of dead bodies. World rights available
World rights available BISAC: FIC015000, FIC002000, FIC012000 | Thema: FK
BookLand Press BookLand Press
BISAC: FIC031010, FIC002000, FIC031040 | Thema: FH, FF
2020 | English 2021 | English
ISBN: 9781772311228 ISBN: 9781772311433
C$22.95; 264 pgs. C$22.95; 184 pgs.
Le baiser de la mort Last Hummingbird West of Chile
d’Ericka Duflo, illustré par Audrey Petit by Nicholas Ruddock
Jonglant entre ses cours préuniversitaires, sa vie familiale A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird
et ses sorties avec ses copines, Evy mène une vie routinière West of Chile spins a tale of adventure that is in turn
jusqu’au jour où elle remarque un étrange individu au long comedic, violent, poignant, and thoughtful. Through the
manteau noir à l’arrêt d’autobus. À partir de ce moment, elle ne exploits of a young sailor born in questionable circumstances
cesse d’apercevoir le jeune homme partout où elle se trouve. and a pair of murderous servants, as well as an assortment of
Se peut-il qu’il la suive ? Serait-elle en danger ? La jeune other 19th-century regulars, the vital subjects of today—race,
femme est de plus en plus inquiète, mais son quotidien bascule religion, sexuality, environment—are framed in history and
complètement lorsqu’elle réalise qu’elle est la seule à voir human culture.
Boomerang
l’inconnu. Comment est-ce possible ? Même si rien ne laisse World rights available
présager qu’un lien unique va réunir deux univers jusque-là Breakwater Books
éditeur jeunesse
distincts, Evy découvrira que la mort et l’amour ne font qu’un. BISAC: FIC019000, FIC061000, FIC002000 | Thema: FB, FMM, FJ
2021 | English
2021 | Français ISBN: 9781550818840
ISBN: 9782897095062 Droits vendus en Europe
C$22.95; 296 pgs.
19,95 $ CA; 384 pgs.
BISAC: JUV000000 | Thema: YF
love, life awâsis—kinky and dishevelled
by Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton by Louise B. Halfe
illustrated by Sherry Farrell Racette
Do you love life? In this hilarious frolic through the hills of
Italy, our heroine discovers the past is never really gone: it There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis
runs beside us our entire lives, just waiting to bite us in the (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through
arse. love, life is a made-up true fable about coming out, shapeshifting, adopting different genders, exploring the
going back in, getting fat, Italian food, and stalking the English language with merriment, and sharing his journey of
Piazzo Bernardini. It’s a haunting love story, transcending mishaps with humour, mystery, and spirituality. Opening with
decades, countries, and heartbreak. a joyful and intimate Foreword from Elder Maria Campbell,
World rights available
awâsis—kinky and dishevelled is a force of Indigenous
Breakwater Books Brick Books resurgence, resistance, and soul-healing laughter.
BISAC: FIC044000, FIC016000, FIC068000 | Thema: FB, 5PS , FU
2021 | English 2021 | English World rights available
ISBN: 9781550818994 ISBN: 9781771315487 BISAC: POE011000, POE011010, POE021000
C$19.95; 176 pgs. C$20.00; 72 pgs. Thema: DC, NHTZ1, 5TP, 5PB-US-E
The Baudelaire Fractal November Rain
by Lisa Robertson A Paradise Cafe Mystery
by Maureen Jennings
One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated
hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of The second in a new series from the author of The Murdoch
Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes Mysteries, November Rain features PI Charlotte Frayne
every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful investigating two mysteries in post-war Toronto, one about
perambulations in 1980s Paris. This is the legend of a a veteran injured in the Great War, and another involving
she-dandy’s life. suspected communist infiltrators at a women’s wear
manufacturer. As the November clouds darken, Charlotte
The debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in
struggles to solve the two mysteries at the same time—
which a poet realizes she’s written the works of Baudelaire.
Cormorant Books until they intersect.
Coach House Books Rights sold in Turkey
2020 | English Book 1 is also available; Book 3 is forthcoming in 2021.
2020 | English BISAC: FIC044000, FIC061000, FIC019000 ISBN: 9781770866041
ISBN: 9781552453902 C$24.95; 296 pgs. Rights sold in US
C$22.95; 208 pgs. BISAC: FIC022060, FIC022090, FIC022040
Thema: FF, FV, FFH, FFJ, FFS
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FICTION | ROMANS
Chasing Painted Horses Tainna
by Drew Hayden Taylor The Unseen Ones, Short Stories
by Norma Dunning
When Ralph Thomas, an Indigenous policeman, comes across
graffiti of a horse in an alleyway, he is stopped in his tracks. A Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory,
half-asleep Indigenous homeless man sees Ralph’s reaction Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short
and over a hot coffee on a bitterly cold day, Ralph relates a stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna.
troubling moment from his childhood on when an odd little Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from
girl, Danielle, drew the same horse, a most beautiful and spiritual to jaded, young to elderly, and even from alive to
intriguing horse, and then disappeared. His questions about deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings
the horse and the artist have never left him. of alienation, displacement and loneliness resulting from their
Rights sold in Turkey experiences in southern Canada.
Cormorant Books Douglas & McIntyre
BISAC: FIC019000, FIC071000, FIC059000 | Thema: FB, FXS, 5PB World rights available
2020 | English 2021 | English
ISBN: 9781770866089 ISBN: 9781771622714 BISAC: FIC029000, FIC059000, FIC044000
C$20.00; 288 pgs. C$19.95; 160 pgs.
Sa parole contre la mienne A Foreign Country
de Chrystine Brouillet A Novel
by Fotios Sarris
Myriam est une jeune journaliste assoiffée de justice.
Déterminée à révéler au grand jour les agressions sexuelles Set in the Greek community of Mile End, Montréal,
commises par un animateur vedette dont a été victime l’une A Foreign Country traces the lives of the narrator’s parents,
de ses amies, elle se lance à la recherche d’autres femmes from their childhoods in war-torn Athens to their tragic ends
ayant subi le même sort. Mais en s’intéressant d’un peu trop in contemporary Canada. It’s also the narrator’s coming of
près au passé et à l’entourage de cet homme, elle découvre age story, and—ultimately—a meditation on the vulnerability
de terribles vérités qui la plongent au coeur d’une enquête of western secular beliefs to the powers of nationalism and
d’une ampleur inimaginable. the pull of history. Richler with a touch of Houellebecq,
Druide Tous droits disponibles and a fatalism eternally Greek.
Dumagrad Books
BISAC: FIC050000, SOC060000 | Thema: FF, JBFK2 World rights available
2021 | Français 2020 | English
ISBN: 9782897115715 ISBN: 9781988887050 BISAC: FIC019000, FIC051000 | Thema: FBA
24,95 $ CA; 440 pgs. C$19.95; 406 pgs.
Derrière la nuit Paroles biologiques
de Germaine Beaulieu de Stéphane Despatie
Derrière la nuit invite à une réflexion poignante sur la mort. La poésie de Paroles biologiques est une déambulation
La poète, saisie par le désarroi devant l’inéluctable, fait le dans les paysages intimes d’un individu en quête de repères
récit d’un corps qui se défait et de la parole qui trouve sa personnels. S’accumulent tout au long du parcours les signes
puissance évocatrice : diffus d’une direction suivie ou à prendre : le passé ou les
choix de vie, la maladie ou l’allègement de la douleur, la
Je cherche des paroles inédites. Quelques
musique ou les arts visuels. Les liens du sang laissent
mots me diront qui tu es, si tu es. Sans faille,
leurs traces un peu partout visibles. La catastrophe
une langue ponctuée d’éclatements.
est-elle inévitable ?
Sortis de la chair et des os, des mots
d’exorcisme et d’absolu. Tous droits disponibles
Écrits des Forges Écrits des Forges
Tous droits disponibles BISAC: POE011000 | Thema: FBA
2021 | Français 2021 | Français
ISBN: 9782896454051 BISAC: POE011000 | Thema: FBA ISBN: 97828964540751
16,00 $ CA; 118 pgs. 15,00 $ CA; 86 pgs.
Le jour se lèvera Phénomènes naturels
de Gabriel Osson de Vincent Fortier
Treize jeunes adultes, réunis dans le mouvement Jeune Phénomènes naturels, c’est le journal d’une rupture.
Haïti, partent de Miami à l’été 1964 et débarquent dans C’est un va-et-vient entre avant et depuis. C’est une
le Sud-Ouest d’Haïti (aux environs de Jérémie) pour une lettre d’amour. C’est un conte de fées queer sur l’art de
opération de guérilla contre le régime de Jean-Claude désapprendre. C’est l’arrivée d’Internet et l’usure de la
Duvalier. Leur mission : renverser Papa Doc ! Assoiffés de techno; c’est Miss Venezuela et un Daddy en cuir. Ce
liberté et d’indépendance, ils tenteront de convaincre une sont les toilettes publiques d’un centre d’achats et un
population prise en otage de les suivre dans leur entreprise. piano-bar de Provincetown. C’est un tremblement
Tous droits disponibles de terre au Chili et le tsunami qui s’ensuit.
BISAC: FIC014000 | Thema: JFH, 1KJH Droits vendus en Roumanie
Éditions David Éditions Hashtag
BISAC: FIC027000
2020 | Français 2020 | Français
ISBN: 9782895977247 ISBN: 97829249361601
21,95 $ CA; 240 pgs. 18,00 $ CA; 106 pgs.
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FICTION | ROMANS
Une deuxième chance pour Adam Une nuit d’amour à Iqaluit
de Felicia Mihali de Felicia Mihali
Publié d’abord en anglais, ce roman récrit en français par Une nuit d’amour à Iqaluit représente la suite du roman
l’auteur même raconte l’histoire d’un couple aux prises avec inspiré de faits réels La bien-aimée de Kandahar, véritable
le quotidien. Le livre est un éloge aux gestes menus qui font fresque sociale qui superpose la fondation de Montréal à la
la complexité de notre vie. guerre en Afghanistan. Dans le mystérieux décor de la longue
Droits vendus en Roumanie nuit polaire, les nouvelles aventures d’Irina se déroulent sous
le signe de révélations troublantes.
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L’allégorie des truites arc-en-ciel Leslie & Coco
by Marie-Christine Chartier by Marie Demers
What do you do when you love someone, but you don’t Leslie and Coco are friends. Separated all year long, they
know if love is enough? Max and Cam are friends. It’s one of finally meet again for a few days in the metropolis. That
their only certainties. Except that the line between love and summer, their lives will change completely. A lucid and
friendship is like skin: over time, it gets thinner. A novel with inspiring look at entering adulthood. Marie Demers does
two voices which will seduce the readers by its authenticity not shy away from difficult, profound, and important themes;
and its writing all in finesse. More than 11,500 copies sold. through her strong yet vulnerable characters, she addresses
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Copeaux Le Parcours du Survivant
de Mishka Lavigne de Raymond Viger
Dans cette œuvre théâtrale, l’autrice, lauréate du prix du Une ultime dérive. Une débauche touristique désabusée,
Gouverneur général en 2019, traite d’une relation amoureuse sans lendemain. Le Parcours du Survivant commence à la fin
qui s’effrite et de ce qui en reste : la fin, sans grand éclat, mais des rêves de son héros. Récit de métamorphose, c’est une
non sans ravages. Intemporel et poétique, le texte inspiré de histoire d’exaltation financière, mais de déroute amoureuse,
l’univers visuel de l’artiste canadien Stefan Thompson flotte c’est l’éloge de l’introspection autant que du témoignage
entre rêve, réalité et regrets. intime. Sur le sable d’Haïti, les aventures tropicales de
Samuel, Marie et Yolène dessinent une allégorie autour
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À train perdu La grosse laide
by Jocelyne Saucier by Marie-Noëlle Hébert, illustrated by Marie-Noëlle Hébert
After And the Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman’s
aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. Marie-
outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about Noëlle Hébert’s debut graphic memoir is visually stunning
a woman’s disappearance. Gladys is born aboard a train as and drawn entirely in graphite pencil, depicting a deeply
it winds its way through northern Ontario’s most remote personal and emotional journey that encourages us all
regions. On these same rails, she spends rapturous years to embrace the bodies we are born into.
in the company of her siblings and the other children she
Winner of the Prix des Libraires du Québec 2020.
meets at each stop. On these rails, she finds love.
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Valide Supermarket Baby
by Chris Bergeron by Susan Flanagan
An autobiographical fiction that weaves in elements of sci-fi Henry Puddester is a freshly retired civil servant whose life
and hints of cyberpunk, Valide defies genres in more ways goes off the rails after an innocent trip to the supermarket,
than one. This novel offers a retelling of the author’s past and where he inadvertently switches his shopping cart with that
her own transition while simultaneously looking towards the of a young mother. When he ends up with an infant alongside
future and the potential it holds. The result is the story of a his four dozen eggs, Henry’s life goes into free fall, and he
trans woman who leads her own revolution one night in 2050. wishes himself back at work, safe from misplaced babies,
A work of queer fiction fuelled by the eclecticism of its author aggressive lawyers, and the eccentric nutbar driving a
and borrows from the sparkle of futuristic fiction. 1983 Ford LTD covered with 4,000 trinkets.
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The Hanged Woman’s Daughter The Woman in the Attic
by Nellie P. Strowbridge by Emily Hepditch
Award-winning author Nellie P. Strowbridge weaves a The Woman in the Attic is a claustrophobic psychological
tantalizing tale of the elusive Bridget Snow, the scattering thriller wrought with suspense. This novel will put you on the
of her family by a heartless magistrate, and her attempt at edge of your seat … and make you wary of the unused spaces
anonymity—all on the heels of her mother’s execution. collecting dust in your home.
A poignant and engrossing novel, sure to enthrall
Winner – 2021 #NL Reads – Love Our Local Author
Strowbridge’s readers to its astonishing conclusion.
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If Sylvie Had Nine Lives Call Me Stan
by Leona Theis A Tragedy in Three Millennia
by K. R. Wilson
Do you ever look back and wonder, What if...?
When King Priam’s daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy,
Meet Sylvie—funny, sly, sensual and flawed. She can’t always
Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and
count on herself to make good choices. Like all of us, Sylvie
crucified, Stan was there, one cross over. Stan has been a
must make decisions that have reverberations for years to
Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for the
come. Unlike the rest of us, Sylvie gets to live more than
caravans of the Silk Road and a Great War German grunt.
one life.
He’s been a toymaker in a time of plague and an information
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Letters from Johnny The Strange Scent of Saffron
by Wayne Ng by Miléna Babin, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei
Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake Lower Saint-Lawrence, summer 1988. Looking to escape the
an innocent country, eleven-year-old Johnny Wong uncovers violent grip of her uncle and twin brother, Nil heads for Le Bic
an underbelly to his tight, downtown neighbourhood. with a half-tamed fox in tow. There, the tough young woman
He shares a room with his Chinese immigrant mother in meets Jacob, an HIV-positive restaurant owner mixed up in
a neighbourhood of American draft dodgers and new illegal saffron trafficking. Meanwhile in India, Amar is about
Canadians. In a span of a few weeks, his world seesaws. to take part in his first harvest of the red gold while his sister
He is befriended by Rollie, a draft dodger who takes on Alaka tries to conceal the embarrassment of her first period.
a mentor role. He grapples with murder, racism, and the The Strange Scent of Saffron is a raw, gut-wrenching novel
children’s welfare society. about the lack and gradual attainment of empowerment,
Guernica Editions Guernica Editions partly through a sensorially-rich connection with the world.
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Quand je parle aux morts Sois belle et tais-toi
de Guillaume Morrissette de Marie Gray
Un suspense haletant qui mêle fatalité et amour Comme à tant d’autres avant elle, on a dit à Mylène : Subis
inconditionnel. Psychologue, Morgane Edwards offre un sans riposter, tolère sans te rebeller. Sois belle et tais-toi.
service professionnel complémentaire et hors du commun : Désormais, se taire n’est plus une option. Un roman qui
elle parle avec les morts. Que ce soit pour régler de vieilles déshabille le désir et la séduction autant que la peur et
histoires ou simplement prendre des nouvelles d’un proche la honte.
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On Her Own Terms The World According to Dogs
Poems about Memory Loss An Owner’s Manual
and Living Life to the Fullest by Adrian Raeside, illustrated by Adrian Raeside
by Carolyn Gammon
With over one hundred dog cartoons and lighthearted
Internationally acclaimed author Carolyn Gammon conjures accompanying text, this Rosetta Stone of retrievers will give
a kind and unflinching portrait of her mother’s memory both those with a new puppy and the most experienced dog
loss—ultimately revealing the love, joy and life which remain people some helpful tips for improving their human-canine
even as memory fades. Each poem reveals the intimacy of relations along with lots of laughs.
this mother-daughter relationship, thrusting the reader into
A unique look inside the mind of the family pet
their dialogue and communication. Kind, often funny, and Harbour Publishing
from bestselling cartoonist Adrian Raeside.
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L’absente de tous bouquets Le monde est à toi
de Catherine Mavrikakis de Martine Delvaux
« Tu n’as jamais cultivé ton jardin. » C’est avec ces mots que Dans ce texte sensible, écrit à l’orée de l’essai, Martine
s’ouvre l’adresse d’une fille à sa mère disparue. On pourrait Delvaux interroge son rapport à sa fille. Elle ausculte l’amour
croire à un reproche ; il s’agit plutôt d’une invitation à la et réfléchit à ce qu’il y a de féministe en lui. Comment le
conversation dans un jardin littéraire où, malgré la peine et féminisme l’informe, et comment cet amour (entre une mère
la douleur, les roses, les pivoines et les jacinthes continuent et sa fille) informe la pensée féministe. Car peut-on penser le
d’éclore. Dans ce récit-hommage, il est question de fleurs, féminisme, demande-t-elle, sans penser l’amour ?
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Théo à jamais The Hunter and the Old Woman
de Louise Dupré by Pamela Korgemagi
Béatrice travaille au montage d’un documentaire sur les In the tradition of Life of Pi by Yann Martel and The Bear
tueries de masse quand elle reçoit un appel des États-Unis. by Claire Cameron, The Hunter and the Old Woman is a
Son mari, conférencier invité à l’Université de Miami, et leur breathtaking debut novel told through the voices of Cougar
fils Théo se trouvent tous deux à l’hôpital entre la vie et la and Man, two creatures utterly alien from one another in
mort. La vérité s’avère plus terrible encore que ce qu’elle mind but united in their shared destiny.
avait pu imaginer. Elle s’emploiera dès lors à fouiller le passé
“A novel of rare empathy that gives a convincing
familial pour trouver un sens à la tragédie. Mais les doutes
portrayal of a life spent in the wild… An amazing feat.”
se multiplient et les certitudes se font rares.
Héliotrope —Michael Redhill, Giller Prize–winning author
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Daria The Envy of Paradise
A Novel A Novel
by Irene Marques by Jocelyn Cullity
When a young woman is subjected to a violent attack, the In 1858, the British took over the city of Lucknow, paving the
impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who we choose to love way for Queen Victoria’s reign over India. But what happened
are thrown into sharp relief. Daria is an immigrant woman living to Begam Hazrat Mahal, the woman of African-Indian descent
in Toronto, and as she begins to tell her story, the reader is who had valiantly organized a final key resistance to British
pulled into different worlds, travelling to various timeframes rule, and to her ex-husband, Wajid ‘Ali Shah, the last King in
and moving between Canada, Portugal, Mozambique, and India, who remained imprisoned by the British? The Envy of
Cape Verde, in an unending awe-inspiring Matryoshka play, Paradise tells their stories.
Inanna Publications
where one story leads to another and another.
Inanna Publications Finalist, 2020 International Book Awards – Multicultural Fiction.
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Taaqtumi Burgundy
An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories de Mélanie Michaud
by Various Authors
Milieu des années 80. La petite Mélanie se tient droite devant
Taaqtumi is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark”—and la misère, la cruauté et l’injustice qui règnent dans son
these spine-tingling horror stories by Northern writers show quartier de la Petite-Bourgogne, appelé « Burgundy ». Avec
just how dangerous darkness can be. ses cheveux en bataille et sa moustache de jus de raisin, elle
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famille déménagent sur la Rive-Sud, l’enfant maigrichonne
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sa pauvreté. La route de l’épanouissement est longue.
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Seasons Between Us Where the Stars Rise
Tales of Identities and Memories Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law by Lucas K. Law and Derwin Mak
What is a life well lived? What kind of stories will you leave Follow 23 science fiction and fantasy authors on journeys
behind? Travel with 23 speculative fiction authors through through Asia and beyond. Stories that explore magic and
the different seasons of life to capture the memories, science. Stories about love and choices. Stories that challenge
identities, and moments of stepping through the portal of ideas about race, belonging, and politics. Stories about where
change, as they cope with their own journeys of growing we come from and where we are going. Recommended by
older. Authors include Jane Yolen, Alan Dean Foster, Library Journal, School Library Journal, and American Library
Maurice Broaddus, Candas Jane Dorsey, and Rich Larson. Association. Authors include Fonda Lee, Rati Mehrotra, and
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Créatures primordiales Je suis le courant la vase
de Tassia Trifiatis-Tezgel de Marie-Hélène Larochelle
Une femme et un homme doivent remplir des mandats qui les Athletic Centre, Toronto. Sous son regard, une nageuse lutte
mèneront d’Istanbul à Toronto, de l’estuaire de la Corne d’Or contre l’élément liquide pour s’améliorer et mériter une place
à la rivière Kobechenonk. Au fur et à mesure, ils rencontreront aux compétitions nationales. L’entraînement se poursuit
les créatures primordiales dans leur recherche de vérité. parfois ailleurs, dans son appartement à lui où elle doit se
L’homme-livre doit rassembler 7000 ouvrages sur les classes soumettre à des rituels destinés à la libérer de ses résistances.
sociales turques. La femme-hibou doit mettre au monde un Ce roman décrit cette relation de pouvoir et de vouloir, le
rejeton à l’âme millénaire. Alliant sensibilités méditerranéenne cheminement injuste et odieux qu’il faut parfois suivre pour
et boréale, la voix de Tassia Trifiatis-Tezgel est unique. accéder au plus haut niveau de performance sportive.
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Les cowboys sont fatigués Secrets boréals
de Julien Gravelle d’Anna Raymonde Gazaille
Au bout d’un chemin laissé à l’abandon, quelque part entre Réfugiée dans un village aux confins de la forêt boréale,
les rivières Mistassini et Ouasiemsca, Rozie vit seul, paisible, Brigit fuit un passé marqué par la violence. Mais le malheur
avec ses chiens. Pour vivre, il fabrique clandestinement des s’acharne lorsqu’elle découvre le cadavre d’une jeune fille
amphétamines pour le compte d’une bande de trafiquants. récemment disparue. Elle doit alors faire face à l’inspecteur
Il voudrait bien passer à autre chose, mais son passé le chargé de cette affaire de plus en plus complexe. Tiraillée
rattrape. Et il risque de tout perdre. Langue foisonnante et entre l’exigence de taire ses secrets et son implication dans
nature grandiose parfois écrasante sont au service de cette l’enquête, Brigit voit ressurgir ses hantises et les événements
intrigue haletante à l’humour grinçant tragiques de son ancienne vie.
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Le boutte de la route Aquariums
Chroniques en dix-huit roues de J. D. Kurtness
d'Yves Lafond, illustré par Yves Noblet
Dans un avenir qui nous est proche, une jeune biologiste
Avec son premier ouvrage, Le boutte de la route, Yves Lafond est invitée à participer à une expédition dans l’Arctique,
nous fait découvrir un autre art de vivre, un rythme différent, en compagnie de collègues du monde entier. Pendant leur
mais aussi des personnes, parfois dures mais toujours absence, l’humanité est presque éliminée par un virus. Isolés
émouvantes, qui, dans un environnement hostile, s’attachent en pleine mer, les exilés vivent ces événements avec un
à la lumière. Entre les zones d’ombre qui guettent dans le détachement bien involontaire. De son enfance à son voyage,
virage et le soleil qui ne veut pas mourir, ce sont une langue, entre la grande Histoire et celle, plus modeste, de sa famille,
un territoire et une musique qui s’offrent à nous. Et il est la narratrice nous raconte la vie, sous toutes ses formes.
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Le rire de García 1542
de Joanne Rochette La colonie maudite
de Raymond Rainville, illustré par Cornelius Krieghoff
Iris part en Colombie dans le cadre de ses études. Elle tombe
en amour avec le pays et invite le lecteur à marcher avec À la fois roman historique et thriller, 1542 – La colonie maudite
elle dans les rues, à rendre visite à ses amis, à découvrir le s’inspire d’un fait réel: l’expédition Cartier-Roberval. Bien
pays. Les odeurs et les couleurs sont généreuses, les sourires qu’aux prises avec la montée des troubles religieux en France,
rayonnants, la vie intellectuelle stimulante. Mais toute cette François 1er doit assurer son emprise en Amérique. Il ordonne
beauté ne peut faire oublier la pauvreté, la violence, la donc à Jacques Cartier et au Sieur de Roberval d’aller fonder
corruption étatique et le pillage des richesses naturelles une colonie en Nouvelle-France. Un étonnant amalgame de
par des sociétés étrangères. catholiques et de protestants, ainsi que de repris de justice
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Monsieur le Président Signaux pour les voyants
de Danielle Pouliot Poèmes 1937-1993
de Gilles Hénault
Roman social d’actualité, Monsieur le Président est une
réflexion cinglante sur le mercantilisme déshumanisant, Œuvre poétique complète de Gilles Hénault (1920-1996),
l’amertume de l’abandon, l’inviolabilité de la dignité et lauréat du prix Athanase-David en 1993. Considéré comme
la douceur de la vengeance. le père de la poésie moderne au Québec. Gilles Hénault fut
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1966 à 1972, journaliste et syndicaliste. À titre posthume, il fut
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La trajectoire des confettis Le fond des choses
by Marie-Ève Thuot by Thomas Desaulniers-Brousseau
Five generations of men and women struggle and play Was this eminent artist a pedophile? A young journalist takes
with the social norms of their time regarding love, sex, and the case, happy to escape his own creeping anguish for the
procreation. A mesmerizing roman chorus that is a real duration of the investigation. No one is fooled, though: the
page turner, its masterfully crafted narrative, akin to the truth is one thing, the story that is told is another. Between
composition of a fugue, and the ambitious scope of its the survivor’s word and the articles that will allow it to be
multigenerational storytelling make this an engrossing novel. heard, something essential is lost. This is a radical novel
Infused with the end of the world and feminism, it offers a on truth and anxiety that goes so far that it elevates it
magnifying lense with which to scrutinize the shortcomings to a legitimate novelistic form with caustic humour.
as well as the miracles of our time. World rights available
Les Herbes rouges Les Herbes rouges
Rights sold in French (world) BISAC: FIC076000 | Thema: FBA
2019 | French 2021 | French
BISAC: FIC076000 | Thema: FBA
ISBN: 9782894196243 ISBN: 9782894197639
C$31.95; 624 pgs. C$26.95; 296 pgs.
Kukum No Sleep Tonight
de Michel Jean Scary Short Stories
by Jordan Grupe, illustrated by Adam Laws
Ce roman raconte l’histoire d’Almanda Siméon, une orpheline
amoureuse qui va partager la vie des Innus de Pekuakami. “From Jordan Grupe, author of the gripping and terrifying novel
Elle apprendra l’existence nomade et la langue, et brisera les Beneath the Asylum, comes the appropriately named No Sleep
barrières imposées aux femmes autochtones. Relaté sur un ton Tonight collection of scary short stories—the latest offering of
intimiste, le parcours de cette femme exprime l’attachement terror for those yearning for a bout of wild-eyed insomnia”
aux valeurs ancestrales des Innus et le besoin de liberté —Michael B. Davie, author, The Late Man
qu’éprouvent les peuples nomades, encore aujourd’hui.
“Jordan Grupe has made a name for himself as an excellent
Droits vendus en anglais/Canada anglais; allemand/Allemagne; storyteller. His ability to build characters and terrify readers
espagnol/Espagne; français/France Manor House is consistently impressive...”
Libre Expression
BISAC: FIC059000 | Thema: FXS Publishing —Mr. Creeps (683,000 YouTube fans)
2019 | Français
2021 | English World rights available
ISBN: 9782764813447
ISBN: 9781988058689
24,95 $ CA; 224 pgs.
C$19.95; 240 pgs. Thema: FB
Past, Present, Future Les villages de Dieu
Stories that Haunt d’ Emmelie Prophète
by Dr. Ian Prattis, illustrated by Sira Anamwong
En Haïti, Celia, adolescente, cherche à survivre, tantôt en se
Dr. Ian Prattis is the critically acclaimed author of prostituant, tantôt en faisant la chronique des femmes de la
18 important, influential titles. As Dr. David Suzuki states: cité sur les réseaux sociaux, où elle devient influenceuse. Les
“Ian Prattis offers a way to a perceptual transformation villages de Dieu dit l’effondrement et la banalité du mal dans
that is absolutely critical if we to find a sustainable future.” cette ville de Port-au-Prince livrée à ses démons.
Of his newly released Past, Present, Future, Dr. Prattis
« D’une puissance romanesque époustouflante, portée
notes he wrote the compelling, captivating short stories on
par des personnages issus du quotidien, ce livre fait un
humanity’s self-destructive leanings “because I had to—
tatouage dans notre mémoire. »
I had a sense of reciprocity about what I felt was necessary
Mémoire d’encrier – Le Nouvelliste
Manor House to heal...”
Publishing 2020 | Français Tous droits disponibles
World rights available
2021 | English ISBN: 9782897127282 BISAC: FIC000000 | Thema: FBA, FXS
ISBN: 9781988058672 BISAC: FIC029000 | Thema: FB 22,95 $ CA; 224 pgs.
C$19.95; 192 pgs.
Taste of Evil Icefields
by Tony Aspler and Gordon Pape Landmark Editions
by Thomas Wharton
Taste of Evil is thoroughly researched and historically
accurate fictionalized story of one of Hitler’s food tasters and First published in 1995, Thomas Wharton’s Icefields is an
her relationship with Albert Speer. It contains excerpts from astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary
important documents, reports and speeches of the period, landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the
some of which are not well known; production and damage surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather.
reports to Albert Speer; text of a key speech by Himmler; Here—where characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice
quotes from important directives; slave labour reports; quotes as well as the stories and histories they tell one another—
from BBC and German radio broadcast, and more. is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the
Mosaic Press World rights available human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. Edited by
NeWest Press Smaro Kamboureli.
2021 | English
ISBN: 9781771615808 2021 | English World rights available
C$24.95; 310 pgs. ISBN: 9781774390368
C$23.95; 322 pgs. BISAC: FIC014000, FIC077000, FIC019000 | Thema: FV, FXE, FB
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