Spring 2013 Online Catalogue
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2012 Online Sampler
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Latest News
Lisa Harrington’s ‘Live to Tell’ wins the 2013 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s LiteratureDancing Cat Books is thrilled to announce that Live to Tell, a young adult mystery-thriller written by Lisa Harrington and [Read More]
Cormorant Books publisher says a few words about the Toronto launch of ‘The Family Took Shape’
A Toronto-area book launch for The Family Took Shape, the first novel by Halifax author Shashi Bhat (who was born [Read More]
Newsletter Giveaway (May 5, 2013)
Free book! Our prize will be a copy of Dark Days at Saddle Creek, the latest in Shelley Peterson’s Saddle [Read More]
What Keeps You Up At Night?
Several months ago, to celebrate the Governor General’s Literary Award nomination for Deborah Kerbel’s YA novel Under the Moon, we [Read More]
Newsletter Giveaway (April 24th, 2013)
Shashi Bhat’s debut novel, The Family Took Shape, just landed in our wings or throat pouches or whatever it is [Read More]
Live to Tell shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award!
The accolades continue to roll in for Lisa Harrington’s YA thriller, Live to Tell. This morning, the Crime Writers of [Read More]
Newsletter Giveaway (April 8th, 2013)
We’re giving away free books … again! This week, our prize will be a copy of Elizabeth Ruth’s Matadora, set [Read More]
Newsletter Giveaway (April 1st, 2013)
We’re giving away free books! This week, our prize will be the pair of award-nominated titles featured in our latest [Read More]
Nominations for ‘Words to Live By’ and ‘Live to Tell’!
Award-wise, 2013 has been a great year for Cormorant/DCB, and things just keep getting better and better! William Whitehead’s memoir [Read More]
Dave Hugelschaffer on CBC’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers
Dave Hugelschaffer was recently interviewed by Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter about Whiskey Creek, his latest murder-mystery [Read More]
Pinboy nominated for a 2013 BC Book Prize
George Bowering’s novelistic memoir (autobiographical novel?) Pinboy collected another accolade on Monday when it was announced as a finalist for [Read More]
The Tiffin nominated for the 2013 SYRCA Snow Willow Award
The Tiffin by Mahtab Narsimhan has been named a finalist for the 2013 Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Snow Willow Award! [Read More]
The Western Light shortlisted for the 2013 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award
The Western Light by Susan Swan has been named a finalist for the 2013 Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading [Read More]
Two Dancing Cat titles are Resource Links Year’s Best of 2012!
Two Dancing Cat books – Under the Moon by Deborah Kerbel, and The Darkest Corner of the World by Urve [Read More]
Books on builders of Canadian culture
In light of the recent award nominations for The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca and Pinboy, we [Read More]
Charles Pachter Donates Books to the Watoto Mission in Uganda
The season of gift giving is upon us! Charles Pachter, author of M is for Moose and Canada Counts, has [Read More]
Pinboy finalist for BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
Pinboy by George Bowering has been named as a finalist for British Columbia’s 2013 National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. The [Read More]
The Pursuit of Perfection longlisted for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non Fiction
The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca by Carol Bishop-Gwyn has been named to the longlist of the [Read More]
Holiday Photo Contest
Canadian independent booksellers have always been tremendous supporters of our publishing program, and we’re always looking for ways to give [Read More]
We’re so excited about Under the Moon, we’re having a contest!
What Keeps You Up at Night? They happen to all of us: those nights when our heads are swimming with [Read More]
Spring 2013 Fiction
Non-Fiction | Poetry | Recent Backlist
Matadora
Elizabeth Ruth
From Elizabeth Ruth, author of the Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize finalist Ten Good Seconds of Silence. In the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War, an orphaned young servant-girl pursues her dream of becoming a bullfighter.
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Just Beneath My Skin
Darren Greer
A man returning to the town of his birth in order to retrieve his young son must find a way to once again escape a cycle of violence and despair.
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Life Without Death
Peter Unwin
The latest collection from Peter Unwin, featuring ordinary men and women who search for meaning in lives subject to change, chance, coincidence, and catastrophe.
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The Critic
Martin Hunter
A collection about artists trying to work their way through the tensions posed by the conflicts between their professional and emotional lives. More Info
The Family Took Shape
Shashi Bhat
Mira Acharya's suburban family may be 'unusual', but what holds them together - what has always held them together - is universal. More Info
Curtains for Roy
Aaron Bushkowsky
Alex is a playwright suffering from writer’s block. 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. More Info
Spring 2013 Non-Fiction
Fiction | Poetry | Recent Backlist
Lonely Boy
Carla Luchetta
Stories and meditations from prominent men in politics, media, and the arts, who have had to deal with the loss of their fathers, either through divorce, death, or emotional abandonment.
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On Growin' Up
Ryan Kerr
A guide to growing up, being yourself, and laughing about it later.
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Fiction | Poetry | Recent Backlist
A Rhythm to Stand Beside
Jack Hannan
Working informally with a group of contemporary dancers, Jack Hannan looks at ways to write poetry to accompany performances.
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All the Daylight Hours
Amanda Jernigan
A collection of elegies, epithalamiums, dramatic monologues, and meditations tracing a human journey in which the mythological, the philosophical, the literary, and the personal interweave and converse.
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Hungry
Daniel Karasik
Witty delight and precocious insight commingle in the refreshingly accessible poems of Hungry, an introduction to one of the bright literary lights of Karasik’s generation.
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A Bee Garden
Marilyn Gear Pilling
At the heart of this luminous collection, Pilling’s fifth, is a searing sequence of poems tracing a family’s grief at the suicide of a girl on the threshold of womanhood.
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