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FictionBlood and SaltBarbara Sapergia • Coteau BooksThe time is World War I, and Canadian soldiers are proving their worth in the trenches of Europe. But onthe home front, Ukrainian Canadians are being sent to internment camps, “Canada’s gulag.” Blood and Saltis about this forgotten part of Canadian history.Barbara Sapergia writes fiction and drama. Her fiction includes the short story collection South HillGirls (Fifth House 1992), the bestselling Coteau novels Foreigners (1984), Secrets in Water (1999), and Dry(2005). She’s written seven plays and had a number of them professionally produced. She has contributedto numerous radio and television productions, including the forthcoming television series Prairie Berry Pie,and has had work appear in a wide range of publications.Key words: Canadian novel, Historical fiction, World War I history, Canadian national identity,Multiculturalism, Political studies, Canada’s gulag, War internment campsISBN-13: 9781550505139paperback / 448 pp6 x 9 / $21.95September 2012The Book of FrogJan Zwicky • Pedlar PressTo quote Frog, this is a book about everything—it has art, music, and philosophy; technology, geometry,and ecology; diagrams, photographs, and mathematic notation; omniscient narration, mind-to-mindconversations, and emails from the ether. Those who know and have read Zwicky will be alerted tothe poet’s lyric sensibilities, her passionate engagement with music, philosophy, and ecology, and herphilosophical acumen.Jan Zwicky lives in British Columbia. Previous books include Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1996,1998), winner of the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Poetry; Wisdom & Metaphor (2003), shortlistedfor the 2004 Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction; Robinson’s Crossing (2004), winner of the DorothyLivesay Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General’s Award for Poetry; Thirty-seven SmallSongs & Thirteen Silences (2005), shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Pat LowtherAward; Plato as Artist (2009); and Forge (2011), shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Award for Poetry.Key words: Canadian prose, Music, Philosophy, Ecology, Globalization, Technology, Writing & reading,Literary studiesISBN-13: 9781897141496paperback / 96 pp5.5 x 7.75 / $20.00September 2012Rock RejectJim Williams • Roseway PublishingAfter the death of his wife, Peter abandons his life in Toronto for one of exile and desolation in rock reject,a ghastly mountain-top asbestos mine in northern British Columbia. Set in the 1970s—at a time whenthe dangers of asbestos first began to surface—Rock Reject is a story about accepting responsibility forone’s actions, corporate irresponsibility, and the blind pursuit of profit at the expense of physical andenvironmental health.“Rock Reject shows us how work does not end in a paycheque but rather reaches into the distant corners ofsociety binding us together…” —Linda LittleJim Williams was born and raised in Vancouver and has lived in Toronto, San Francisco, and Halifax,working at many jobs along the way, including in the asbestos mine and mill depicted in Rock Reject.Key words: Canadian novel, Labour studies, Asbestos, Environmental studies, Mining,Regional identity – Northern BC, StikineISBN-13: 9781552665169paperback / 256 pp6 x 9 / $19.95August 2012Literary Press Group / Congress 2013 15