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Submitted by joe on Sun, 2009-10-04 14:59
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Celebrating Freedom in Canada
By Natasha L. Henry
When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, effective August 1, 1834, people of African descent celebrated their newfound freedom. Now those African-American slaves who had fled to Canada, the free Blacks who had emigrated to Canada, and the few remaining enslaved Africans in Canada could live an unfettered life, a reality worthy of celebration.
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Submitted by joe on Sun, 2009-10-04 14:59
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A Jack Taggart Mystery
By Don Easton
This intriguing, suspense-packed novel is the fourth Jack Taggart Mystery, following Loose Ends, Above Ground, and Angel in the Full Moon. This time the implacable Mountie Jack Taggart goes undercover to follow the trail of a cheap Saturday-night special found at the scene of a murder.
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Submitted by joe on Sun, 2009-10-04 14:59
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By Wyndham Lewis; Introduction by Allan Pero
Self Condemned, originally published in 1954, tells the story of Professor Ren Harding and his wife, Essie, as they find themselves in Momaco, a fictionalized version of Toronto, following Ren's resignation as an academic in London, England. Reduced to a position at the second-rate University of Momaco, Ren and Essie suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien city.
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Recent News
Submitted by dundurnpress on Thu, 2010-08-12 10:31
Body Blows by Marc Strange has been nominated for another award south of the border.
The Shamus Awards, which are presented by the Private Eye Writers of America, recognize the best in private eye writing, with an investigator (not a police or government agent) as the main character. Body Blows has been nominated in the Best Paperback Original PI Novel category. The winners will be announced this coming October.
Body Blows recently won the 2010 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Paperback Original from the Mystery Writers of America this past April.
Submitted by dundurnpress on Wed, 2010-08-04 10:54
Dundurn author Dr. Lucille H. Campey has been awarded a grant from the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK. The foundation was established in 1974 and, amongst other things, supports UK and Canadian academics, resident in the UK, with their research costs. Lucille’s grant will go towards the preparation of the second book in the series The English in Canada which is being published by Dundurn Press.
Submitted by dundurnpress on Wed, 2010-08-04 09:40
Dundurn Press has acquired two new titles, both of which focus on different aspects of history and culture.
Submitted by ashleigh on Thu, 2010-07-15 11:02
The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010 has received an honourable mention for the 2010 Keith Matthews Award, presented by the Canadian Nautical Research Society. The Keith Matthews Award is for the best book published in the previous year on a Canadian nautical or maritime subject.
Submitted by dundurnpress on Wed, 2010-06-23 11:44
Dundurn Press has acquired four new titles, three of which continue the company’s commitment to Canadian history.
Revisiting "Our Forest Home": The Immigrant Letters of Frances Stewart by Jodi Aoki is a collection of personal writings spanning nearly 75 years, exploring the experience of one of the first pioneer women in the Peterborough, Ontario region.
Submitted by dundurnpress on Thu, 2010-06-17 16:50
Paul Carroll, author of The Wexford and Four Years on the Great Lakes, 1813-1816, has been awarded the SOS Marine Heritage Award.
This award, presented by Save Ontario Shipwrecks, honours people who help to preserve, study, and promote Ontario's marine heritage.
Submitted by dundurnpress on Tue, 2010-05-18 15:12
Dundurn Press has acquired Dead Light District, the second book in the Sasha Jackson Mysteries series by author Jill Edmondson. After a very successful debut case in Blood and Groom (Dundurn, 2009), Sasha is plunged into the world of commercial sex after she is hired to find a missing hooker. Sasha’s moral compass is tested as she tries to understand the sex trade and how those enmeshed it in will do anything to survive — even if it means murder. Dead Light District will be released in Fall 2010.
Submitted by dundurnpress on Thu, 2010-05-13 11:16
Dundurn author Alan D. Butcher has won the 2010 Donald Grant Creighton Award from the Ontario Historical Society for his book, Unlikely Paradise: The Life of Francis Gage.
In 1967, The Ontario Historical Society established an Awards program to honour significant contributions to the preservation and promotion of Ontario’s heritage. Thirteen different awards acknowledge the work of outstanding individuals and organizations, and raise public awareness of Ontario’s history and the people who work to preserve and interpret it.
Submitted by dundurnpress on Wed, 2010-05-05 11:27
Dundurn Press had added three new titles to its Fall 2010 release schedule.
Submitted by ashleigh on Fri, 2010-04-30 11:30
Body Blows by Marc Strange has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original presented by the Mystery Writers of America. The award ceremony took place last night, Thursday, April 29th at the 64th annual Mystery Writers of America Gala Banquet held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. The last Canadian to win in this category was also a Dundurn author. Sylvia Maultash Warsh won in 2004 for Find Me Again.
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