Borrowed Memories
by Mark Foss
228 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN 978-1-926716-78-7 (pbk.) 

Borrowed Memories 

In a world where identities are in flux, and memories hold the power to shape destinies, "Borrowed Memories" by Mark Foss emerges as a poignant exploration of love, loss, and the search for self. This captivating novel, set to launch in June 2024, promises readers a literary journey that transcends borders and time.

Finalist for the 2020 Guernica Prize for Fiction

"An Ontario couple in the depth of their winter years is juxtaposed against the rage and hope of the Arab Spring. Ivan Pyefinch, a freelance translator, becomes the custodian of family memory as he cares for his aging parents in the Thousand Islands. His father, a World War II pilot, fights for his driver’s license, while his mother wages a losing battle against Alzheimer’s. Their lives take an unexpected turn with the arrival of Mia Hakim, an immigrant filmmaker with dreams of her Sephardic roots and a scenario that binds their stories in ways they never anticipated."

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PERESTROIKA: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
by João Cerqueira
398 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN 978-1-926716-77-0(pbk.) 

PERESTROIKA: An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth 

In the turbulent landscape of an alternate Europe lies the captivating tapestry of "Perestroika," a literary masterpiece that weaves together the threads of revenge, redemption, and catharsis against the backdrop of an imaginary country called Slavia. With a masterful narrative, this novel stands as a testament to the indomitable spirit of humanity in the face of political upheaval.

2024 Independent Press Award Winner in the category of World Literature ∗ 1st Place in Women's Historical Fiction, 2nd Place in Historical Fiction 2024 BookFest Awards ∗ Winner of Outstanding Creator Award for Political Fiction 2024 ∗ Winner of the 2023 HFC European Book of the Year ∗ Finalist in the Multicultural Fiction category for the 2024 American Legacy Book Award ∗ Finalist for the Book Excellence Award in Europe ∗ Finalist for the 2021 Eyland Awards ∗ Finalist for Fiction Factory Chapter Novel Competition 2022 ∗ Finalist in the 2023 Latino Book Awards

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THE HARVESTING OF HAYSTACKS KANE by Steve Schlam

348 pages | 5.25" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-70-1

The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane

607-lb, open-hearted, lepidopterist Herschel "Haystacks Kane", is a professional wrestler who just wishes to be left alone with his butterflies. Now laid out in a hospital bed in a coma after a match, they come to him one by one and thinking him deaf and oblivious on what is most probably his death bed, they pour out their confessions, their secrets and gripes.

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DON'T EXPECT THE SUN TO SHINE
by Richard Rathwell & Harold Rhenisch
178 pages | 203mm x 203mm | ISBN 978-1-926716-64-0 (pbk.) 

Don't Expect the Sun to Shine 

A Wake for Robin Blaser

"A fitting tribute to Robin Blaser, his life’s work, and his influence on Canadian poetry. “Don’t Expect the Sun to Shine: A Wake for Robin Blaser” is a must-read for poetry enthusiasts and those interested in the intersection of literature and art."

This book is a response to ongoing literary trends: the treatment of words as images in art writing; the evolution of criticism as a form of creativity; and contemporary literary narrative that treats fiction as the greatest truth. In Don’t Expect the Sun to Shine, Rathwell and Rhenisch turn time back into space: We want readers to wander around wherever they like. We don’t control their hike. Their biological history does that. We are just hosting a party, so they can meet. — Harold Rhenisch

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AN ANTHOLOGY OF EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE
Edited by Beatrice Lamwaka & Joshua Mali
344 pages | 6" x 9' | ISBN 978-1-926716-61-9

An Anthology of East African Literature

344 pages | 6" x 9' | ISBN 978-1-926716-61-9
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300+ pages, 50+ contributors, 10+ countries

"This is not just a collection of poems and short stories; it is a granary of artistic abundance! For here, will you find a rich variety of masterfully crafted pieces in a range of style, including those that draw from the African oral storytelling tradition. It is a montage of pieces of literary art, curated in a manner that allows for the ‘strict grammarian’ forms of expression to coalesce with those given to poetic licentiousness."

Whichever your favourite genre is, this anthology of East African literature has delivered something that has not been served to readers in many years. It is a fitting gift to the lovers of literary art in this first quarter of the 21st century.

SITHANA BURNING by Somsy Camvan

196 pages | 5.25" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-74-9

Sithana Burning

In a remote village of Laos, rival gangs plot to seize control of the land and exploit its resources for their own gain. But when their plans are threatened by Sithana's appearance, a deadly chain of events is set in motion that will test the limits of loyalty, courage, and love. As tensions rise and alliances shift, a web of corruption and deceit is revealed, and the villagers must band together to fight for their way of life. 

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THROUGH SHADOWS SLOW by Abraham Boyarsky

176 pages | 5.5" x 8.25" | ISBN 978-1-926716-57-2 (pbk.)

Through Shadows Slow

*Winner of the CJLA 2020 Award for Fiction

Daniel is in the twilight of his life, tormented by doubts, of cuckolding, illegitimate children, horrors of war and the inanity of all human activity. A miraculous childhood survivor of the Nazi prison camps at Bergen-Belsen, Daniel recounts how he is shipped to Canada when the war is over...

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GOD'S WIFE & THE SYNONYMOUS X by Jesse Chase

170 pages | 5.5 x 8 | ISBN 978-1-926716-43-5 | Info Sheet:; pdf, jpg

God's Wife & the Synonymous X

"God’s Wife and the Synonymous X", Jesse Chase's first novel follows the protoganist on his search for a new cultural and literary theory while he champions an ethics of self-recovery and rehabilitation of personal narrative in a world of masks, capitalism and oppression.

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THE WAR OF NONEXISTENT WOMEN by Jason Price Everett
5.5 x 8 | 220 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-51-0   Info Sheet 

The War of Nonexistent Women

Nonexistence represents the paradox at the pinnacle of the human mind, of evolved intelligence: the ability to conceive of something that is not real and does not exist. The word itself is a tribute to imagination. 

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EMPIRE BURLESQUE by Charles Talkoff

276 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-42-8 (pbk.) | Info Sheet: pdf, jpg

LOCK 7 by Dean Serravalle

230 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-50-3 | Info Sheet

Lock 7

Lock 7 is the highest and last lift up the historic Welland canal. In this literary novel, it is also the dominant metaphor for Leo’s final life epiphany. The one that always seems to come too late....

230 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-50-3  (pbk.) | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99 | Info Sheet

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THE CHASSIDIC TRAUMA UNIT by Abraham Boyarsky
5. 5 x 8 | 228 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-40-4 (pbk.)

The Chassidic Trauma Unit

“Through this fast-paced novel, replete with kidnappings, espionage and fugitive war criminals, Abraham Boyarsky captures the Chassidic communities, their lives and their voices.”

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THE MATCHSTICK GIRL by Suzanne Hocking

5 x 8 | 238 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-34-3

The Matchstick Girl

***Shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize***

THE MATCHSTICK GIRL brings LGBT undercurrents to nineteenth-century Russia, as our young protagonist struggles with class differences, schoolgirl relationships and her search for self-empowerment.

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ENSEMBLE by Thomas Phillips
4.72 x 7.48 | 148 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-29-9

Ensemble

Set in Montreal, Ensemble takes us through the throes of existential crises as lives and marriages are overturned by a man’s restless yearning.

CROSSING TO TADOUSSAC by Frederick E. Bryson
438 pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 978-1-926716-00-8 

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SPOILERS by Mark Foss
5.25 x 8 | 193 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-08-4 | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99 

Spoilers

“For now, there is Baldie Fitzgerald. He doesn't know it yet, but he too will be changed.”

Sarah. On a wall in a house in Florida she collects postcards and photos from a hundred years ago: Baldie, the young man with one short leg; Ora, the girl with a wandering eye; Jack the chairboy: all three come alive under Sarah's probing gaze.

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THE AMERICAN GHOST by Somsy Camvan
5 x 8 | 296 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-36-7 (pbk.) | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

The American Ghost

“The American Ghost” immerses the reader in the world of the Laoloum people and the jungles of Laos, not only bringing that world alive, but also bringing it home. In American Ghost, the fruits of war are peace and we learn how the memory of a combatant and a machine of war can become the instrument of understanding and friendship between two enemies twenty years later. 

ARIELLE QUEEN - Book I by Michel Levesque, Greg Kelm (translator)

5 x 8. 130 pages, ISBN 978-1-926716-32-9 (pbk.)

Arielle Queen

Book I - A Knight for a Queen by Michel Levesque

The best-selling, award-winning fantasy series by Michel Levesque.

A journey of self-discovery becomes a life-and-death struggle for our heroine as she battles supernatural forces pursuing her and learns about herself, her destiny and the prophecies foretelling her arrival.

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THE LOVE SONG OF J. EDGAR HOOVER by Charles Talkoff
5 x 8 | 302 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-10-7 | Softcover & Hardcover

The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover

The Ministry of Ambiance, Fluffy-eared Generals, Special Agent Automatic Turpentine, Katzenberg’s Super Atomic Piston Ring, Mr. Jellybean and Agency men all vie for your thoughts. Welcome to a post-9/11 paranoid world that would have had Hoover dancing in his closet.

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JUMP THE DEVIL by Richard Rathwell
5 x 8 | 146 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-11-4 | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

Jump the Devil

Rathwell’s writing is “a fistful of sentences written with the subtlety of a geisha and the terse certainty of stainless steel.”  - John Olson, Author

“There must have been a bad bite. Something had gestated. He wasn’t imagining it. There were wet, frozen pebbles tumbling in his veins. There was a sugary sense of euphoria, a smell of orange blossoms, of piss, of diesel.”  

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ACCOUNTING FOR CRIME by Richard King

Accounting for Crime

Richard King’s new novel, ACCOUNTING FOR CRIME, takes you inside the world of business gone right and people gone wrong in a roman a clef that combines intrigue, love triangles, tough talking cops and cold-blooded mobsters.

5 x 8 . 308 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-07-7. | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

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UNFICTIONS by Jason Price Everett
288 pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 978-0-9809108-6-5 (pbk.) | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

Unfictions

Unfictions dramatizes the way in which we react to such an information-rich environment in all of its glorious simultaneity--the beginning of a type of 'New Realism' in letters – reflecting faithfully a society so saturated with events and quotations that it can no longer distinguish between them and their relative meanings.

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UNWANTED HOPELESS ROMANTIC MORONS by
Geoffrey Alexander Parsons
172 pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 978-0-9809108-9-6 (pbk.) | US $15.88 CAD $19.99 UK £11.99 

Unwanted Hopeless Romantic Morons

In a touching tale, stark realism, substance abuse and sexual haggling co-exist with the innocent yearnings of youth in this modern struggle of love and idealism seeking its expression in a wasteland of nihilistic greed, narcotic egoism and righteous violence.

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THE JIHADIST 
93 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN: 978-0-9809108-8-9 (pbk.) | US $15.88 CAD $19.99 UK £11.99 

The Jihadist 

Who are the Jihadists? The author explores these questions in a sensitive portrait. Recounting the trials of a young man, disenfranchised and disconnected from his surroundings, the Jihadist in this story is not what he appears to be.  Is he a Westerner enlisting in the Armed Forces? Or a Muslim extremist? The Author plays on the ambiguity to beg the question. The Jihadist is the tale of a generation struggling to find its place in the world. Our character must confront his desire for reckless abandon—a surrender to chaotic forces which he sees as inherent to Nature and integral to Truth—and wrestle with violent fantasies of revenge, while he considers if vengeance might not be intrinsic to his idea of Justice. All this time, he seeks something “beyond and bigger than ourselves” to give his life its meaning and expatiate existential guilt. He seeks, only to be tempted by the glory promised through War that History offers him.

93 pages, Colour, 5.5 x 8.5 with colour interior artwork. ISBN: 978-0-9809108-8-9 | US $15.88 CAD $19.99 UK £11.99 

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