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PUB DATE
ROCK RECIPES CHRISTMAS
SEPT 2016
COOKBOOK
ISBN 13 978-1-55081-655-6
160 PP ❙ 7.75 x 9.125 PBK
$22.95 CDN
BA RRY C. PARS O NS
Your cookbook guide to the perfect family Christmas from one of the most
popular home cooks in Canada.
In Rock Recipes Christmas, Barry Parsons provides everything you need to
prepare for the ultimate holiday season. From the perfect turkey dinner with all
the trimmings to delectable cakes, cookies, breads, and desserts—there are even
recipes for gift giving—Parsons offers the blueprint for a truly delicious festive
season. A New Year’s menu is here too, with a mouth-watering ham and party
nibbles for guests. This is old-fashioned family cooking at its very best, and every
recipe is accompanied by a full-page colour photograph to help with the perfect
presentation. Rock Recipes Christmas serves as the ideal holiday gift.
One wife, two kids, one mortgage, lifelong food obsessive, recipe blogger, and food photographer: that’s how Rock
Recipes creator BARRY C. PARSONS describes himself on his popular food blog, RockRecipes.com. His first
book, Rock Recipes: The Best Food from my Newfoundland Kitchen (2014), was hugely successful selling over
10,000 copies within months of its release and Rock Recipes 2 (2015), is an unwavering follow-up on the brink
of the same sales target. Parsons lives in St. John’s, NL.
ALSO BY BARRY C. PARSONS
Rock Recipes: The Best Food From My Newfoundland Kitchen ISBN 1-55081-555-9 ❙ With delectable main dishes,
super sides, and mouthwatering desserts, this cookbook gathers the greatest Parsons recipes and delivers them from
his home kitchen to yours. Linger over a decadent weekend brunch, tuck into a family-favourite slow-cooked
supper, or solve the weeknight crunch with foolproof thirty-minute meals. From dinner party wonders to
comfort-food keepers, these recipes make menu planning a breeze and bring us back to the family dinner table
where we belong.
Rock Recipes 2: More Great Food and Photos From My Newfoundland Kitchen ISBN 1-55081-612-9 ❙ With an even
larger selection of mouthwatering recipes, Rock Recipes 2: More Great Food and Photos from My Newfoundland
Kitchen will bring your family back to the dinner table to enjoy everything from enticing main dishes and tasty
sides to show-stopping desserts. It’s all here: delicious quick-and-easy recipes, spectacular brunches, and hearty
slow-cooked Sunday dinners. From flavour combinations inspired by world cuisine to traditional Newfoundland
classics that celebrate the island’s culinary heritage, there’s a dish for every occasion. Each recipe is graciously
complemented by gorgeous, full-colour photographs, and helpful, all-purpose cooking tips are provided along the
way. And it’s all infused with Barry’s simple cooking philosophy that’s not just about making amazing meals, but
about bringing us together to share them.
NEWFOUNDLAND’S PREMIER PUBLISHER SINCE
1973
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FALL 2016
A WOMAN’S ALMANAC : VOICES
PUB DATE
FROM NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
ST. JOHN’S STAT US O F WO M A N CO U N C I L
SEPT 2016
NON-FICTION
ISBN 13 978-1-55081-656-3
160 PP ❙ 5 x 8 SPIRAL PBK
$19.95 CDN
With entries from women—including novelist Lisa Moore, business icon Zita Cobb,
musician Amelia Curran, filmmaker Ruth Lawrence, and Olympian Katelyn Osmond—
A Woman’s Almanac is a beautifully designed annual day journal featuring stories by 12
influential Newfoundland and Labrador women writing about 12 women that inspired them.
Complete with calendar, important feminist-movement dates, photographs, and empowering narratives, this almanac is both a functional day planner and a celebration of some of the
most motivating women from around the province.
THE ST. JOHN’S STATUS OF WOMEN COUNCIL/WOMEN’S CENTRE is a feminist
organization that since 1972 is continually working to achieve equality and justice through
political activism, community collaboration and the creation of a safe and inclusive space for all
women in the St. John’s area.
FALL 2016
THE OVERCAST’S GUIDE TO
BEERS OF NEWFOUNDLAND
AND LABRADOR
PUB DATE
OCT 2016
NON-FICTION
978-1-55081-659-4
80 PP ❙ 6.25 x 8.25 HC
$19.95 CDN
ISBN 13
T HE OVERCAST
Newfoundland has a long history of local brewing and in recent years has enjoyed a
resurgence of that tradition, drawing locals and travellers alike to the distinctive tastes
now available from island brew masters. Compiled by the writers and photographers
of The Overcast, Newfoundland’s popular alternative newspaper, the Guide to Beers
of Newfoundland is a full-colour introduction to the lagers, pilsners, ales, and stouts
that can only be found here. Designed for locals, tourists, and aficionados, this is the
definitive guide to beer on the rock.
THE OVERCAST is a media body in St. John’s that serves as the voice of culture for
Newfoundland via monthly print editions and multiple digital mediums available
worldwide. It has won the City of St. John’s Discovery Award, MusicNL’s Media Person
of the Year, Outstanding Company of the Year, and an ECMA nomination for Media
Outlet of the Year.
NEWFOUNDLAND’S PREMIER PUBLISHER SINCE
1973
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FALL 2016
PUB DATE
TWO-MAN TENT
OCT 2016
SHORT STORIES
ROBERT CHAFE
ISBN 13 978-1-55081-660-0
216 PP ❙ 5.5 x 8.5 PBK
$19.95 CDN
In Two-Man Tent, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Robert Chafe, offers his longawaited collection of short fiction. The individual stories are thematically linked by an
interwoven, recurring tale of a long-distance relationship told in the form of text messages,
chat sessions, and emails, as Chafe brings his singular talent for dialogue and scripting to
work within new forms of communication. The results are stunning in an absorbing and
thoroughly contemporary collection that reads like no other.
ROBERT CHAFE ’s
stage plays have been seen worldwide and include Oil and Water and
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Twice shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award
for Drama, he won the award in 2010. He is artistic director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland
and lives in St. John’s.
FALL 2016
PUB DATE
THE GERANIUM WINDOW
OCT 2016
FICTION
BEATRICE MAC N E I L
ISBN 13 978-1-55081-661-7
312 PP ❙ 5 x 8 PBK
$19.95 CDN
In the fictional village of Rocky Point, Cape Breton, just after WWII, the Briar family keeps
a secret. Locked in his room, Joseph Briar, a child with visible and non-visible disabilities,
is hidden from the community. And what Alfie Johns discovers through Joseph’s window
will lead him to love and a future, framing beauty in photographs. Harkening back to John
Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, Beatrice
MacNeil reveals the destructive power of shame and the redemptive power of art.
BEATRICE MACNEIL
was awarded the Tic Butler Award for outstanding contribution to Cape
Breton writing and culture. Her novels have been short-listed for the IMPAC Award, named one
of 100 Best Books by the Globe and Mail, and she has won the Dartmouth Book Award on
three occasions. She lives in Cape Breton, NS.
ALSO BY BEATRICE MACNEIL:
Where White Horses Gallop
the Dark ISBN 1-55081-626-6
ISBN
1-55081-454-5
❙ Keeper of Tides
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FALL 2016
PUB DATE
THE MONEY SHOT
OCT 2016
FICTION
ISBN 13 978-1-55081-657-0
224 PP ❙ 5.5 x 8.5 PBK
$19.95 CDN
GLENN DEIR
Sebastian Hunter is always looking for the money shot, that moment when a normal news
story will tip to the sensational. Now he has a chance to bring down a government by
exposing the private life of a political leader. But as he chases the story, it’s his own life that
stands on the edge of disaster. Reminiscent of Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter, The Money
Shot offers an unfiltered and hard-hitting vision of broadcast journalism, but also reveals
how in chasing disaster, we leave disaster in our wake.
GLENN DEIR is a former CBC television reporter who lives
in St. John’s. He used three decades worth of journalistic
black humour to write The Money Shot. His memoir, Sick
Joke: Cancer, Japan and Back Again, was shortlisted for the
Rogers Communication Award for Non-fiction.
ALSO BY GLENN DEIR:
Sick Joke: Cancer,
Japan and Back Again
ISBN
1-55081-332-6
FALL 2016
PUB DATE
THE INWARD JOURNEY
OCT 2016
FICTION
KATE EVANS
ISBN 13
978-1-55081-658-7
❙ 5.5 x 8.5 PBK
256 PP
$19.95 CDN
Sylvia Bolfe sits in her nursing home, criticizes the food and the staff—all but her trusted
confidant and registered nurse, Eleanor— and with humour and feistiness recounts her turbulent life. From an upper-class Irish family, Sylvia marries a young medical student beneath her
station and leaves Ireland for Newfoundland. When her husband unexpectedly dies, she is left
with the children to make her own way. As in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin, Evans
spins a spirited, funny, no-nonsense narrative in the voice of an unforgettable narrator.
Born in Co. Sligo, Ireland, KATE EVANS now lives in St.
John’s. She is a teacher of English as a Second Language and
has taught in Dublin, London, Montreal, and Bangkok. Her
first novel, Where Old Ghosts Meet, was a finalist for both
the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and the
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award.
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ALSO BY KATE EVANS:
Where Old
Ghosts Meet
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