Fall 2010 Online Catalogue

For a sneak peak at our Fall 2010 titles, check out our interactive online catalogue. With its saveable 'sticky note' feature, easy-to-navigate interface, and up-to-date ordering information, the online catalogue is your best tool for navigating the upcoming season.

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Dancing Cat Books Fall 2010

Cormorant's new children's imprint is launching in the Fall of 2010 with three fantastic titles:

Burn, a powerful free verse novel by Libertad author Alma Fullerton, that explores a girl’s desperate attempt to keep her family together.

Home Truths, by Jill MacLean, two-time winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award, is a revealing portrait of a bully-in-the-making and his journey to redemption.

Giraffe and Bird, the hilarious debut by author and artist Rebecca Bender, tells the story of two enemies who realize they are much better off together.

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Three Cormorant titles nominated for the OLA 2010 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award

We're proud to announce that three of our Spring 2009 titles - Underground by June Hutton, Oonagh by Mary Tilberg, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlisted The Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman - have been nominated for the Ontario Library Association's 2010 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award.

The Evergreen™ Award program was introduced at Super Conference 2005 for adults of any age, giving adult library patrons the opportunity to vote for a work of Canadian fiction or non-fiction that they have liked the most.


See the full list of nominees here

Cormorant eBooks

Our quest here at Cormorant Books is, first and foremost, to deliver great literature. Part of that means providing readers with the option of enjoying their literature in as many ways as possible. So it should come as no surprise that, starting this summer, we will be making a growing library of our titles available in ebook format for various platforms including Kobo and Kindle.

The first six titles available are
Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock, Born With a Tooth by Joseph Boyden, Home Schooling by Carol Windley, Pure Inventions by James King, The Frankenstein Murders by Kathlyn Bradshaw, and The Worlds Within Her by Neil Bissoondath.

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New Fiction

Non-Fiction | Previously Announced | Spring 2010 Releases

New Under the Sun
Kevin Major

An epic novel that unearths the rich and compelling human
history of Newfoundland, as told through the voices of the many
peoples - from the Maritime Archaic, to the Beothuk, to the Norse
and other European settlers - who have, and continue to, inhabit the land.

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Lives of the Saints 20th Anniversary Edition
Nino Ricci

For the twentieth anniversary of the release of the Governor General's Literary Award-winning Lives of the Saints,
Cormorant is proud to present a hardcover commemorative
edition, featuring new materials by Nino Ricci, illustrations by
Tony Urquhart, and an introduction by Steven Hayward.

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Etienne's Alphabet
James King

The fictional biography of an "odd" young man who is secretly
an artistic genius, Etienne's Alphabet is a celebration of life
and of living, with an unforgettable protagonist who sees every
moment as a miracle worth committing to canvas.

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Midway
David Homel

Ben Allan has studied dromomania - the peculiar male hysteria that causes people to walk away from their lives - as nothing
more than a curiosity. But now that he is turning fifty, Ben
begins to question why his life is the way it is, and what he
himself can do to get away from it all.

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Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost
Hélène Rioux
Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

The follow-up to last year's Wednesday Night at the End of
the World
, collecting interconnected tales in which people from vastly different walks of life are united in their search for what
they have lost and what they have never had.

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A Likely Story
Eric Wright

The long-awaited third installment in the Joe Barley Mystery
Series, A Likely Story showcases the biting humour, engrossing storytelling, and keen eye for the ordinary that have made Eric Wright one of the most beloved crime writers in Canada.

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New Non-Fiction

Fiction | Previously Announced | Spring 2010 Releases

A Blue Spruce Christmas
Brian Fawcett

The true Christmas story of a young Brian Fawcett, who cuts
down a tree prized by the town of Prince George, BC. Riddled
with guilt and terrified of being caught, he must learn to live with
his mistake - and in so doing, learns to see beyond the mistakes
of others.

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Pinboy
George Bowering

As a teenager, legendary Canadian poet George Bowering lived
the life of an ordinary boy. But his sexual awakening was far
from ordinary, when he found himself vying for the affections
of not one but three different women. This intimately honest
and often hilarious memoir skilfully captures the delirious
chaos that takes place when a boy becomes a man.

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Previously Announced

Fiction | Non-Fiction | Spring 2010 Releases

The Third Day Book
Linda Rogers

In this sequel to 2007’s The Empress Letters, Precious
discovers she is pregnant, stirring up bittersweet memories of her time in Hong Kong with her Chinese father and stepmother.

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The Goodtime Girl
Tess Fragoulis

Kivelli lost everything in the Great Fire of Smyrna. Now stranded
in the Greek city of Piraeus, populated by gangsters, prostitutes, fortune tellers, and other refugees, she finds herself living in the broom closet of a brothel. Only her singing voice can provide a way to rise above.

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Curtains for Roy
Aaron Bushkowsky

Alex is a playwright suffering from writer’s block and harsh reviews. His best friend, Roy, is a theatre director with lung
cancer and six months left to live. In pursuit of fresh air and
great wine, they go on a road trip to the Okanagan Valley, where Roy rediscovers his passion for theatre. But when he decides to stage a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a winery, disaster ensues.

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Sugar Thieves
Eric Dupont
Translated by Sheila Fischman

Eric, a three-year-old from Gaspésie, is a being who lives only for pleasure. Drinking from his bottle, he tastes sugar for the first time, and is immediately hooked. From that point on, Eric and his sister go to greater and more desperate lengths to satisfy their sweet tooth.

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Witness to a City: David Miller's Toronto
David Miller and Douglas Arrowsmith
Photographs by Jeff Davidson

Toronto mayor David Miller relates some
of the most inspirational and powerful stories of ordinary citizens
to show how Toronto is a place where different cultures can live, work, and dream together as one community.

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It's All About Kindness: Remembering June Callwood
Edited by Margaret McBurney

As a writer, broadcaster, and social activist, June Callwood made other people her business, trying to better the lives of those in difficult situations. In this collection, her colleagues and loved
ones pay tribute to the grace, charm, and unfailing generosity of one of Canada’s most beloved figures.

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