LAURA KEATING
Author of Dark Fiction
THE GREAT TREES OF NEW BRUNSWICK, 2nd Edition David Palmer and Tracy Glynn
"The essential reference to the trees of the Acadian forest — at home, at the cottage, and on the river."
"New Brunswick is home to more than five billion trees, many native to the Acadian forest and some exotics introduced by settlers. For this new edition of The Great Trees of New Brunswick (the first edition was published in 1987), forester David Palmer and conservationist Tracy Glynn have prepared a book that doubles as an informative guide to the province's native and introduced species and a compendium of "champion" trees, drawn from nominations from all corners of the province."
ITEE POOTOOGOOK: HYMNS TO THE SILENCE Nancy Campbell
"Itee Pootoogook belonged to a new generation of Inuit artists who are transforming and reshaping the creative traditions that were successfully pioneered by their parents and grandparents in the second half of the 20th century."
"A meticulous draughtsman who worked with graphite and coloured pencil, Itee depicted buildings in Kinngait that incorporated a perspectival view, a relatively recent practice influenced by his training as a carpenter and his interest in photography. His portraits of acquaintances and family members similarly bear witness to the contemporary North. Whether he depicts them at work or resting, his subjects are engaged in a range of activities from preparing carcasses brought in from hunting to playing music or contemplating the landscape of the North."
THE LOST CITY: Ian MacEachern's Photographs of Saint John John Leroux
"A portrait of a lost Saint John."
"From the 1950s through the 1970s, cities throughout North America engaged in disruptive periods of massive “urban renewal” of older, poorer areas. Neighbourhoods were razed to make way for freeways, housing projects, public amenities, sports arenas, and subdivisions. Planned communities replaced older urban neighbourhoods that had evolved over generations. Ian MacEachern worked for CHSJ-TV in Saint John from 1962 to 1966, and he witnessed the profound transformation of Canada's oldest city as it was buffeted by the forces of reconstruction and modernization. He also recorded the life of the city, its neighbourhoods, its residents, and social life in more than a thousand photographs."
... EVERYTHING REMAINS RAW Mark V. Campbell
"Before there was Drake, there was The 6. The genesis and rise of Toronto's Hip Hop culture."
"A photographic excavation of Toronto's hip hop archive, ...Everything Remains Rawdraws on photographs of Kardinal Offishall, Michie Mee, Dream Warriors, Maestro, Drake, Director X, and others by Michael Chambers, Sheinina Raj, Demuth Flake, Craig Boyko, Nabil Shash, Patrick Nichols, and Stella Fakiyesi to offer a deep dive in hip hop's visual culture. An intentional intersection of the taste-making skills of the DJ and the nuanced particularism of the curator, the book and the accompanying exhibition juxtapose never-before-seen images with photojournalism, street posters, and zines to reframe and enhance popular understandings of this thing called hip hop."
ANNIE POOTOOGOOK: CUTTING ICE Nancy Campbell
"Annie Pootoogook: Cutting Ice accompanies an exhibition organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the gallery of record for works on paper from Annie Pootoogook’s Inuit community of Kinngait (Cape Dorset)."
"The life and death of Annie Pootoogook is a story of national significance. The complex narratives weaving through her short life speak to possibility and heartbreak, truth and reconciliation, the richness of community, and the depths of tragedy. These complexities are recorded in her arresting pencil crayon compositions. Her frank, sometimes challenging, sometimes amusing images of everyday life, acutely observed and marked by a linear control as taut as a wire, declare her as a major contributor to the landscape of contemporary Inuit art."
POWERED BY LOVE: A GRANDMOTHERS' MOVEMENT TO END AIDS IN AFRICA Joanna Henry
"By the time the AIDS pandemic in Africa had reached its height in the early 2000s, millions of children had been orphaned. In the face of overwhelming loss, the grandmothers of Africa stepped in to hold families and communities together."
-WINNER 2018 APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
-CBC Books Canadian non-fiction bestseller
SAKKIJAJUK: ART AND CRAFT FROM NUNATSIAVUT. Heather Igloliorte
"Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world's most southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a diverse range of Arctic and Subarctic flora and fauna, from which they have produced a stunningly diverse range of work."
-shortlist for the 2018 Best Atlantic Published Book Award
BACK TO THE WELL: RETHINKING THE FUTURE OF WATER.
Marq de Villiers' follow-up to his Governor General's Award-winningWater: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource.
"In this refreshing examination of the fate and future of water, Marq de Villiers takes on some of the biggest questions and shibboleths of the century. Who owns water? Is access to water a human right? Who is responsible for keeping water clean and ensuring it gets to the people who need it most? Is privatization of ownership and supply networks evil or an extension of the public trust?"
-shortlisted for the Donner Prize
-shortlisted for Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
The fully illustrated memoir of Ken Danby, one of Canada's foremost practitioners of contemporary realism.
"Ken Danby (1940-2007) was one of Canada's foremost practitioners of contemporary realism. Rooted in the Canadian psyche, nourished by his Ontario rural roots, Danby's subject matter was broad and expansive, yet it was the images of Canadian landscapes and life that captured the public's attention"
-Globe and Mail Bestseller