http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca AMBP Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:02:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No events up for July - watch for updates for August! http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/07/12/july-august/ Les mathématiques au travail 10. Le programme Mathématiques pour les métiers et le milieu de travail a été conçu pour les élèves qui voudraient poursuivre des études postsecondaires afin d'occuper un métier ou une profession certifiée ou pour ceux qui voudraient entrer directement sur le marché du travail. Ainsi, Les ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/28/nouveautes-juillet-aout/ God’s Middle Name by Jennifer Overton is the compelling tale of one mother’s journey through the uncharted territory of raising an autistic child. Jennifer is the mother of the child with autism. The play, in a series of episodic scenes, follows Jennifer’s family over the course of 10 years: from ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/28/july-august-drama/ It is Just That Your House is So Far Away by Steve Noyes. Divorced, adrift, and fast approaching forty, Jeff Mott has come to China, fascinated by the culture and the language. He secures a teaching post in a small town north of Beijing, where he meets a young woman, ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/28/july-august-fiction/ Book 2: Scars, by David Alexander Robertson, illustrated by Scott Henderson, follows White Cloud and the people he encounters, as he struggles to survive against impossible odds. The book also reconnects readers to Edwin, a lost young man on his own quest introduced in book 1, Stone. By learning about ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/28/july-august-graphic-novel/ The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation, edited by Chris K. Huebner and Tripp York, with a foreword by John Milbank. When the Radical Reformers demanded the separation of church and state, it was not to privatize their convictions or depoliticize the church, but rather an attempt to recognize ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/28/july-august-non-fiction/ Blue Wherever by Barry Dempster. “In the new world, we wake up/to a bone ark bobbing on a blue wherever,” Dempster writes in the title poem of this new collection, his twelfth book of poetry. He connects the intensity of loving someone with the visceral vividness of being alive, as ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/28/july-august-poetry/ Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers 2010 Writing Contests Three categories: Bliss Carman Poetry Award, Short Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction. 1st prize $1,250, 2nd prize $500, 3rd prize $250 in all categories. Deadline November 30. For more information check out ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/11/calls-for-submissions/ The Restless Tree by France Adams, illustrations by Serge Salvador, translation by Mark Stout from L’arbre aux coeurs. Amélé Dupré’s life is turned upside down the day she finds a heart-shaped seed inside an apple. Through her tender loving care, a sprout emerges from the seed and changes into a ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/11/new-releases-june-childrens/ A Criminal to Remember by Michael Van Rooy. Michael Van Rooy’s writing is fast-paced, highly entertaining, and exciting with a mix of quirky humour and dark, dry wit. Spine-tingling moments alternate with edge-of-your-seat action in his Monty Haaviko crime thriller series. This third instalment takes a darker tone from An ... http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/2010/06/11/new-releases-june-fiction/