New Titles available from Fairmount

Fairmount Books has added a ton of new titles to their online catalogue since the April catalogue was printed & mailed. Get the jump on these titles before they’re printed in the May catalogue (and also check out What’s New at FairmountBooks.ca for more new additions):

Perfect for Father’s Day & the upcoming patio season:

Bar & Cocktail Companion
Michael Jackson |Running Press
This is the complete bartender’s handbook.
Hardcover |224 pp | ISBN:0762419660
5×9 |Color |Quantity Avail.:3971
Date Added: 04/10/2007
Orig. Price: $29.95
Our Price: $6.99

Grill It! Indoors
|Salamander Books
Easy recipes for fast, healthy electric grilling have never been so delicious. Indoor grills have revolutionized the way we cook, and this book has everything you need to make a healthy, great decision for dinner. Grill it up, rain or shine, and enjoy it all.
Hardcover |96 pp | ISBN:0762414901
9×12 |Color |Quantity Avail.:351
Date Added: 04/10/2007
Our Price: $9.99

BBQ Food
Kay Scarlett |Laurel Glen
A fiery entry in Laurel Glen’s series of “Food” books, this one urges and encourages you to get out of that stuffy kitchen and throw some food on the grill, with more than 300 pages of fresh and easy ideas for heartwarming barbecued favorites.
Paperback |399 pp | ISBN:1592232744
6×8 |Color |Quantity Avail.:2899
Date Added: 04/12/2007
Orig. Price: $21.95
Our Price: $7.99

Good Food No Fuss
Anne Willan |STC
150 easy-to-cook, bulletproof recipes that you just don’t have to worry about. Uncomplicated directions, clear pictures and ingredients, this is the ultimate last-resort cookbook for those in need of something simple – fast.
Hardcover |168 pp | ISBN:1584793090
9×11 |Color |Quantity Avail.:845
Date Added: 04/16/2007
Orig. Price: $43.95
Our Price: $14.99

A Great Title to Scoop Up for Canada Day:

Oh, Oh!
Aislin |McArthur & Company
A collection of political cartoons by Aislin, aka Terry Mosher. Irreverent, topical and straight to the point, these are some of of the best peeks at Americana, Canadiana, and the world around us through absurdist eyes.
Paperback |168 pp | ISBN:1552784444
9×9 |Color |Quantity Avail.:735
Date Added: 04/12/2007
Orig. Price: $24.95
Our Price: $4.99

Bateman’s latest thriller I Predict a Riot is releasing in July…stock up with some backlist:

Driving Big Davie
Colin Bateman |Headline Publishing Group
A funny, hard and fast story full of mystery and intrigue, sure to puzzle and delight readers of all stripes. Dan is doing everything in his power to do nothing, but fate, it, seems, has other plans, when murder, betrayal, and even Al Capone’s gold.
Paperback |312 pp | ISBN:0755309200
5×9 |Black and White |Quantity Avail.:1375
Date Added: 04/12/2007
Orig. Price: $24.95
Our Price: $3.99

And a few other picks from the list:

Cotton Knits for All Seasons
Debbie Bliss |McArthur & Company
25 projects for babies, children and adults, finding the perfect pattern and gift for the people closest to you. From seasonal to simple, basic to sexy, these patterns allow you to create just the right knitted treasures and keepsakes.
Paperback |128 pp | ISBN:1552782646
8×12 |Color |Quantity Avail.:398
Date Added: 04/12/2007
Orig. Price: $29.95
Our Price: $7.99

Letters to a Young Catholic
George Weigel |Basic Books
Catholicism can be a difficult path for those just starting out, full of the demands of faith and the weight of belief. But it need not all be a path of restriction – Weigel provides meaningful advice for those who wish to find their personal faith.
Hardcover |251 pp | ISBN:0465092624
6×8 |Black and White |Quantity Avail.:743
Date Added: 04/10/2007
Orig. Price: $32.50
Our Price: $6.99

Why Birds Sing
David Rothenberg |Basic Books
A journey into the mystery of bird song.
Hardcover |256 pp | ISBN:046507135X
6×9 |Black and White |Quantity Avail.:1557
Date Added: 04/10/2007
Orig. Price: $32.95
Our Price: $8.99

Pee Wee Pilates
|Lifelong Books
Essential postpartum exercise for mother and baby.
Paperback |178 pp | ISBN:0738210293
7×9 |Color |Quantity Avail.:4297
Date Added: 04/10/2007
Orig. Price: $26.95
Our Price: $4.99

Publicity for New World Library new releases

Emotional Lives of Animals, by Marc Bekoff
1-57731-502-2 | $28.50 hc | in stock
New World Library / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

• Real Simple Magazine – Article Expert – Summer 2007 TBD
• Runner’s Magazine – Article Expert – July 2007
• Dog Fancy – Review – August 2007
• E – The Environmental Magazine – Online Feature Article – April 2007
• NuVuNow.com – Article – April 2007
• LandofPureGold.com – Review April 2007

 

 
Golf’s Three Noble Truths, by James Ragonnet
1-57731-580-4 | $24.95 hc | in stock
New World Library / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

• DailyOm.com – Feature Excerpt – April 2007
• The Messenger – Review – June/July 2007
• Alternatives – Excerpt – June 2007
• New Spirit Journal – Spring TBD
• Phenomenews – Review – Summer 2007
• Golf Smarter Podcast – Interview – May 2007

 

 
Creativity for Life, by Eric Maisel
1-57731-558-8 | $22.50 pb | in stock
New World Library / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

• Shared Vision – Vancouver, BC – Review – June 2007
• New Spirit Journal – Review – June 2007
• The Messenger – Review – May/June 2007
• TheDailyLama.com – Review – April 16, 2007
• Body & Soul – Feature Article – Date TBD
• Writer’s Journal – Mention – May/June 2007
• LifeChallenges.org – Feature Article – Summer 2007
• OfSpirit.com – Featured Title/Excerpt – May 2007
• DailyOm.com – Featured Title – April 20, 2007
• Imagine Magazine E-Magazine – Review – May 2007
• Phenomenews – Feature Article – Date TBD

 

A to Z Guide to Raising Happy, Confident Kids, by Dr. Jenn Berman
1-57731-563-4 | $18.50 pb | in stock
New World Library / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

• Parenting Magazine – Article Expert – Summer TK
• Foreword Magazine – Review – Summer 2007

Sherman Alexie receives a flat out rave review in N.Y. Times

Flight, by Sherman Alexie
978-0802170378 | $16.50 pb | in stock
Black Cat / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

 

Sherman Alexie receives a flat out rave review for FLIGHT in the New York Times!

Here are some excerpts:

“(Alexie) has established an impressive reputation as a bold writer who goes straight for the aorta.  He is in the business of making his readers laugh and cry.  And his most recent novel is no exception.”

“Many of these allegorical, action-packed vignettes tread familiar thematic territory of Mr. Alexie’s earlier works.  But with FLIGHT, he takes these themes a step further: he skillfully explores both sides of the proverbial war.  Zits witnesses brutal violence through the eyes of whites and Indians, fathers and sons, and he begins to understand what it means to be the hero, the villain and the victim.”

“In this slim volume, Alexie manages to move effortlessly in and out of centuries like a person moving between waking and sleep.”

“Right up to the novel’s final sentence, Mr. Alexie succeeds yet again with his ability to pierce to the heart of matters, leaving this reader with tears in her eyes.”

More Publicity for Full Frontal Feminism: Colbert, Bust, Playgirl, more

Full Frontal Feminism, by Jessica Valenti
978-1580052016 | $19.95 pb | in stock
Seal Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

 

The publicity campaign for Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti rocks,
and the book hasn’t even officially pubbed yet! Check out the results so
far:

TELEVISION
Interview on The Colbert Report, Comedy Central (NATIONAL): June 5, 2007

PRINT
Article in New York Magazine: April 30, 2007
Excerpt in In These Times: May 2007
Review in Playgirl: June 2007
Review in Bust: June 2007
Article in In These Times: June 2007
Profile in larger article on feminist activists (working title “Searching
for Betty Freidan”) in The New York Times Magazine: Run date to come
(slated for sometime over the summer).

ONLINE
Lead article on AlterNet: April 24, 2007

Groundwood has 6 out of 10 books on the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards shortlist

Shortlist for the 2007 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards

Authors and illustrators nominated to the shortlist for the 2007 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today (see list below). The authors and illustrators come from all over Canada including Edmonton, Saskatoon, St. John’s, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montréal, Simcoe, Peterborough, Perth and Millbrook.

The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards recognize Canadian writers and illustrators who demonstrate artistic excellence in children’s literature. Winning books are selected from two categories — children’s picture books and young adult/middle reader books. The award recipient in each category receives a $5,000 prize.

Seal Press’ One of the Guys reviewed in NYTBR

One of the Guys, edited by Tara McKelvey
978-1580051965 | $19.95 pb | in stock
Seal Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

 

From the New York Times Book Review, Apr. 22:

ONE OF THE GUYS: Women as Aggressors and Torturers.

Edited by Tara McKelvey. Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. (Seal Press, paper, $15.95.)

The photographs of Lynndie England’s exploits in Abu Ghraib prison were not the first evidence of women’s capacity for brutality, and sexual coercion has long been a tool of war. But the use of female soldiers to humiliate detainees sexually was a disturbing new development, provoking conflicting and sometimes disoriented reactions in the contributors to this anthology. Some of these essays, chosen by McKelvey, a senior editor at The American Prospect, suggest that superior officers’ ordering enlisted women to employ these techniques could constitute a form of harassment; the women, says Aziz Huq, a human rights lawyer, are put in “morally clouded roles, as both perpetrator and victim.” Other writers in this volume insist the women — “willing and enthusiastic participants,” according to the journalist Lila Rajiva — were fully culpable. These issues are often obscured here by the opaque jargon of academic feminism (“vectors of patriarchal norms,” “racially gendered theater of subordination”); the clarity of the pieces by journalists and political activists comes as a relief. The standout essay is by Ada Calhoun, the editor in chief at Babble.com. It’s about distinguishing good from bad kinds of empowerment. Calhoun reflects on a photograph of Jennifer Scala, an Abu Ghraib guard, shown carrying an obscenely titled book by Inga Muscio into a courtroom. The book, Calhoun says, incorporates ideas, in grossly degraded form, from a feminist “zinefest” subculture that had inspired her in her youth. Muscio is a “fanatic,” Calhoun writes, because she places “political ends” over what should be feminism’s ethical touchstone, “human decency.”

Salon.com features Full Frontal Feminism

Full Frontal Feminism, by Jessica Valenti
978-1580052016 | $19.95 pb | in stock
Seal Press / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Rebecca Traister does a Q&A with Jessica Valenti about her new book on Salon.com, April 24th.

“Full Frontal is more like a one-woman show than a book. But it’s an attention-getting and smart one-woman show, the kind of performance that could help catapult Valenti to a position of visibility with the swelling numbers of young people who seem finally to be stirring to political action.”

MAC Farrant’s new collection reviewed in Globe & Mail, April 7

The Breakdown So Far, by M.A.C. Farrant
978-0889225565 | $17.95 pb | in stock
Talonbooks / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Globe and Mail 07/04/07 –“The Vision and the Void” full page book review:

“…aggressively short stories…what is fascinating and admirably harrowing in The Breakdown So Far is Farrant’s staunch determination to conjure beatific vision from dystopic void…. The Breakdown So Far is challenging, unnerving, unforgettable…”

A Running Start excerpted in Canadian Living

A Running Start, by Rae Pica
978-1569242841 | $19.95 pb | in stock
Marlowe & Company / Publishers Group Canada (Raincoast)

Another excerpt now in Canadian Living from Rae Pica’s book A Running
Start: How Play, Physical Activity and Free Time Create a Successful Child.

IBBY Canada nominates Brian Doyle

IBBY Canada nominates Doyle and Pratt for Hans Christian Andersen Awards

Apr 10, 2007: Ottawa author Brian Doyle and Montreal illustrator Pierre Pratt are IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Canada’s nominees for the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, which honours children’s authors and illustrators from around the world.

This year’s Canadian jury consisted of Josiane Polidori, head of children’s literature, Library and Archives Canada (and a past president of IBBY Canada); Gillian O’Reilly, freelance children’s writer and editor; Todd Kyle, manager, Churchill Meadows Branch, Mississauga Public Library; Brigitte Moreau, researcher in children’s literature and reading and children’s bookseller at Librairie Monet in Montreal; and Theo Heras, children’s librarian, Lillian H. Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library.

An international jury composed of 10 children’s literature experts will choose the winners, taking the complete work of the nominees into consideration. Winners will be announced at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in April 2008 and the awards will be presented at the IBBY Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark in September 2008.

From Q&Q April 10

Pure Spring, by Brian Doyle
978-0888997746 | $14.95 pb | in stock
Groundwood Books (HarperCollins)