Keeping these Giants off the Bestseller List

Seventy-one Canadian book publishers and imprints have formalized commitments in place to safeguard the world's remaining ancient forests and biodiversity by eliminating papers that originate from the world’s ancient and endangered forests. These publishers and imprints include:

Anchor Canada* Macfarlane, Walter and Ross*
Arsenal Pulp Press   McGill-Queen's University Press*
Banff Centre Press NeWest Press
Bristol & Glass New Society Publishers
Broadview Press Penguin Canada*
Doubleday Canada* Polestar Books
Douglas & McIntyre         Press Gang Publishers*
Greystone Books       Raincoast Books               
Groundwood Books* Random House Canada*
Heritage House     Ronsdale Press*
House of Anansi Press Seal Canada*
Key Porter Books* Tundra Books*
KidsCan Press University of Alberta Press
Knopf Canada* University of British Columbia Press*
Literary Press Group (umbrella commitment for its 44 member publishers - listed below) Vintage Canada*
McClelland & Stewart Whitecap Books


* List of Ancient Forest Friendly titles not yet available

 

The Literary Press Group (LPG) is committed to working with its 44 member publishers to eliminate papers originating from ancient forests. Several LPG members have developed their own individual commitments (these publishers appear in the list of publishers on page 1). Member publishers of the Literary Press Group are:


Anvil Press Mansfield Press
Arsenal Pulp Press The Mercury Press
The Banff Centre Press NeWest Press
Beach Holme Publishing Limited New Star Books Ltd.
Brick Books Nightwood Editions
Broken Jaw Press Oolichan Books
Maritimes Arts Projects Productions Penumbra Press
Buschek Books Playwrights Canada Press
Coach House Books The Porcupine's Quill
Conundrum Press Pottersfield Press
Cormorant Books Incorporated Red Deer Press
Coteau Books Ronsdale Press
Creative Book Publishing Seraphim Editions
DC Books Signature Editions
ECW Press Talon Books
Ekstasis Editions Theytus Books Ltd.
Gaspereau Press Thistledown Press Ltd.
Goose Lane Editions TSAR Publications
Hargios Press Inc. Turnstone Press
House of Anansi Press Ltd. Vehicule Press
Insomniac Press Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
J. Gordon Shillinford XYZ éditeur/XYZ Publishing
Kagedonce Press


2004 Titles on Ancient Forest Friendly Paper

 

Fiction

*  Survival, Margaret Atwood  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  Runaway, Alice Munro (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Possible Past, Aislinn Hunter (Polestar Books)

*  Sointula, Bill Gaston (Raincoast Books)

*  The Good Body, Bill Gaston (Raincoast Books)

     

*   The Madonna List, Max Foran (Brindle & Glass)

*   Stop the Car, Judy Larmour and Henry Saley (Brindle & Glass)

 

*   The Worthwhile Flux, Corey Frost (Conundrum Press)

*   Neither, Either, Nor Or, Joey Dubuc (Conundrum Press)

    

*  Lightning, Fred Stenson (Douglas & McIntyre)

    

*  True North, Jim Harrison (House of Anansi)

*  Degrees of Nakedness, Lisa Moore (House of Anansi)

*  La Guerre, Yes Sir!, Roch Carrier (House of Anansi)

    

*  The Mob, Clem Martini (KidsCan Press)

    

*  Damage Done by the Storm, Jack Hodgins (McClelland & Stewart)

*  The Last Good Day, Gail Bowen (McClelland & Stewart)

*  The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble (McClelland & Stewart)

*  Claire’s Head, Catherine Bush (McClelland & Stewart)

*  In the Place of Last Things, Michael Helm (McClelland & Stewart)

*  The Journey Prize, # 16, Various (McClelland & Stewart)

*  The Master, Colm Toibin (McClelland & Stewart)

*  The Mysteries, Robert McGill  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  Flight, Victoria Glendinning  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  Fragrant Harbour, John Lanchester  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  A Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, Roo Borson  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  The Best Thing For You, Annabel Lyon  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  Sometimes A Great Notion, David Donnell  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  Camber, Don McKay  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  A Wild Peculiar Joy, Irving Layton  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  The Holding, Merilyn Simonds  (McClelland & Stewart)

*  Playing With Fire, Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart)

       

*   Dogstar, Beverely & Chris Wood (Polestar Books)

*   Momentum of Red, Monica Kidd (Polestar Books)

       

*   The Cripple and His Talismans, Anosh Irani (Raincoast Books)

*   Some Great Thing, Colin McAdam (Raincoast Books)

*   After Goodlake's, Terence Young (Raincoast Books)

*   The Silver Door, Terry Griggs (Raincoast Books)

*   Francesca and the Magic Bike, Cynthia Nugent (Raincoast Books)

*   Redress, Roy Miki (Raincoast Books)

*   Healing time of Hickeys, Karen Rivers (Raincoast Books)

*   The Week of the Horse, Jocelyn Reekie (Raincoast Books)

*   Wild Science, Victoria Miles (Raincoast Books)

*   Still There, Clare, Yvonne Priz (Raincoast Books)

*  Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Karen X. Tulchinsky (Raincoast Books)

*  Changing on the Fly, George Bowering (Raincoast Books)

*  Mouse Woman and the Mischief Makers, Christie Harris (Raincoast Books)

       

*   The Snowbird Poems, Robert Kroetsch (University of Alberta)

       

*   At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Alexander McCall-Smith (Vintage Canada)

*   Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, Alexander Smith-Smith (Vintage Canada)

*   Portugese Irregular Verbs, Alexander Smith-Smith (Vintage Canada)

    

*  Aldershot 1945, Bruce Allen Powe (NeWest Press)

*  The Almost Meeting, Henry Kreisel (NeWest Press)

*  Displaced Persons, Margie Taylor (NeWest Press)

*  West Wind, North Chatter, Deanna Kent-McDonald (NeWest Press)

 

      Non-Fiction

*   Moving Targets, Margaret Atwood (House of Anansi)

*   Greenpeace, Rex Weyler (Raincoast Books)

*   Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac, David Pitt-Brooke (Raincoast Books)

*  From Naked Ape to Superspecies, Dr. David Suzuki, and Holly Dressel (Greystone Books)

*   The Greenpeace to Amchitka, Robert Hunter (Arsenal Pulp Press)

*   David Suzuki Reader (Greystone Books)

*   Sacred Balance, David Suzuki (Greystone Books)

*   Tree, David Suzuki (Greystone Books)

*   Prisoners of the North, Pierre Berton (DoubleDay Canada)

       

*   My Mother is an Alien: Ten Takes on Life and Film, George Melnyk (Banff Centre Press)

*   Right to Dance: Dancing for Rights, Edited by Naomi M. Jackson (Banff Centre Press)

       

*   Kidmonton, Linda Goyette (Brindle & Glass)

*   Eye Opener Bob, Grant Mac Ewan (Brindle & Glass)

*   Irresponsible Freaks, James Martin (Brindle & Glass)

*   Brilliant, the Electric Company (Brindle & Glass)

 

*   Aesthetics of Natural Environments, Edited by Allen Carlson & Arnold Berleant (Broadview Press)

*   Anti-Pamela/Shamela, Eliza Haywood & Henry Fielding, Edited by Catherine Ingrassia (Broadview Press)

*   Between Two Worlds, Miriam Tlali (Broadview Press reprint)

*   Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction, Edited by Julia Gaunce & Suzette Mayr (Broadview Press)

*   Bug-Jargal, Victor Hugo, Edited by Chris Bongie, Translated by Chris Bongie (Broadview Press)

*   Canadian Politics, 4th edition, Edited by James Bickerton & Alain-G. Gagnon (Broadview Press)

*   Common Sense, Thomas Paine, Edited by Edward Larkin (Broadview Press)

*   Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, Edited by L.M. Findlay, Translated by L.M. Findlay (Broadview Press)

*   Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors, 2nd edition, Edited by Susan Hamilton (Broadview Press)

*   Critical Thinking, 4th edition, William Hughes & Jonathan Lavery (Broadview Press)

*   The Erie Train Boy, Horatio Alger, Jr. (Broadview Press reprint)

*   Fantomina and Other Works, Eliza Haywood, Edited by Alexander Pettit, Margaret Case Croskery & Anna C. Patchias (Broadview Press)

*   Harrington, Maria Edgeworth, Edited by Susan Manly (Broadview Press)

*   A History of Science in Society, Volume 1, Andrew Ede & Lesley B. Cormack (Broadview Press)

*  A History of Science in Society, Volume 2, Andrew Ede & Lesley B. Cormack (Broadview Press)

*  Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations, Béla Szabados & Eldon Soifer (Broadview Press)

*  Inequality, Poverty and Neoliberal Governments, Vincent Lyon-Callo (Broadview Press)

*   Institutions of Liberal Democratic States (Broadview Press)

*   Micropolitics of Canadian Business, Peter Clancy (Broadview Press)

*   Real Worlds of Canadian Politics, 4th edition, Robert M. Campbell, Michael Howlett & Leslie A. Pal (Broadview Press)

*   Sociable Letters, Margaret Cavendish, Edited by James Fitzmaurice (Broadview Press)

*  Social Theory, Volume 1, Edited by Roberta Garner (Broadview Press)

*  Social Theory, Volume 2, Edited by Roberta Garner (Broadview Press)

*  The Story of a Modern Woman, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Edited by Steve Farmer (Broadview Press)

*  Unhomely States, Edited by Cynthia Sugars (Broadview Press)

*  The Vagabond, George Walker, Edited by W.M. Verhoeven (Broadview Press)

*  The Woman Who Did, Grant Allen, Edited by Nicholas Ruddick (Broadview Press)                   

       

*   Book of Small, Emily Carr, Foreword by Sarah Ellis (Douglas & McIntyre)

*   House of All Sorts, Emily Carr, Foreword by Susan Musgrave (Douglas & McIntyre)

*   Return of the State, Adam Harmes (Douglas & McIntyre)

*   First Peoples of Canada (Douglas & McIntyre)

*   Adventures of a Sea Hunter, James P. Delgado, Foreword by Clive Cussler (Douglas & McIntyre)

*   Last Heathen, Charles Montgomery (Douglas & McIntyre)

*   Village of Small Houses (Douglas & McIntyre)

 

*   Test of Will, Warren MacDonald (Greystone Books)

*   Mr. Nasty, Cameron White (Greystone Books)

*   Frozen in Time, Owen Beattie, and John Grigsby Geiger (Greystone Books)

       

*   Off Our Rockers and Into Trouble: The Raging Grannies, Alison Acker and Betty Brightwell (Heritage House)

*   Lonesome: Memoirs of a Wilderness Dog, Chris Czajkowski (Heritage House)

*   Finding Home: A War Child’s Journey to Peace, Frank Oberle (Heritage House)

       

*   Feeding the Future, Edited by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon (House of Anansi)

*   The Myth Ability, John Mighton (House of Anansi)

*   Perspectives on Our Age, Jaques Ellul, Adited by Willem H. Vanderbuurg (House of Anansi)

*   The Truth About Stories, Thomas King  (House of Anansi)

*   The Rights Revolution, Michael Ignatieff (House of Anansi)

*   The Educated Imagination, Northrup Frye (House of Anansi)

*   Prisons We Choose to Live Inside, Doris Lessing (House of Anansi)

*   The Unconscious Civilization, John Ralston Saul (House of Anansi)

*   A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright (House of Anansi)

*   Looking in the Distance, Richard Halloway (House of Anansi)

*   The Rivers North of the Future, Ivan Illich, Edited by David Gayley (House of Anansi)

 

*   Future: Tense, Gwynne Dyer (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Wild City, Tim Tiner (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Essential Classical Recordings, Rick Phillips (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Rushing to Armageddon, Mel Hurtig (McClelland & Stewart)

*   I’ll Tell You a Secret, Anne Coleman (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Roger’s World, Wayne Scanlon (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Jacob’s Wound, Trevor Herriot (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Shades of Black, Richard Siklos (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Here Be Dragon, Peter C. Newman (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Worth Fighting For, Sheila Copps (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Undaunted, Spencer Dunmore (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Stories from the Firestorm, Ross Freake and Don Plant (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Last Chance to Eat, Gina Mallet (McClelland & Stewart)

*   The Great Big Book of Guys, Erika Ritter (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Wild Country, Andy Russell (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Consultation with the Back Doctor, Dr Hamilton Hall (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Edison & the Electric Chair, Mark Essig  (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Beyond Crazy, Julia Nunes & Scott Simmie (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Houseboat Chronicles, Jake MacDonald (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Making History, Mark Storowicz (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Skinny on Fat, M. Sara Rosnethal (McClelland & Stewart)

*   A Nurse’s Story, Tilda Shalof  (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux  (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Norman Bray,In the Perfomance of His Life, Trevor Cole (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Baseballissimo, Dave Bidini (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Grand Centaur Station, Larry Frolick (McClelland & Stewart)

*   The Last Honest Man, Michael Posner (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Solo, Katherine Govier (McClelland & Stewart)

*   The New Canada, Erin Anderson, Michael Valpy, et al. (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Air Monopoly, Keith McArthur  (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Ego & Ink, Chris Cobb  (McClelland & Stewart)

*   Dying for a Hamburger, Dr Murray Waldman & Marjorie Lamb (McClelland & Stewart)

*   A Fool & Forty Acres, Geoff Heinricks (McClelland & Stewart)

*   A Dune Adrift, Marg de Villiers & Sheila Hirtle (McClelland & Stewart)

 

*   Earthbag Building, Donald Kiffmeyer & Kaki Hunter (New Society Publishers)

*   Green Remodeling, David Johnston & Kim Masters  (New Society Publishers)

*   Timber of Framing for the Rest of Us, Rob Roy  (New Society Publishers)

*   The Natural Step for Communities, Sarah James & Tobjorn Lahti (New Society Publishers)

*   Rural Renaissance, John Ivanko & Lisa Inquist (New Society Publishers)

*   Global Profit AND Global Justice, Deb Abbey, et al (New Society Publishers)

*   Somebodies and Nobodies, Robert Fuller (New Society Publishers)

*   The Sustainable Kitchen, Stu Stein & Mary Hinds (New Society Publishers)

*   Building Without Borders, Joe Kennedy (New Society Publishers)

*   The Water You Drink, Julie Stauffer (New Society Publishers)

*   Teaching Green: The Middle Years, Edited by Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn (New Society Publishers)

*   Powerdown, Richard Heinberg (New Society Publishers)

*   Crossing the Rubicon, Michael Ruppert (New Society Publishers)

*   Homes that Heal (and Those That Don’t), Athena Thompson (New Society Publishers)

*   The Co-housing Handbook, Chris Hanson, Kelly Scott Hanson (New Society Publishers)

*   Photovoltaics, the Solar Energy International (New Society Publishers)

*   Alliances, Coalitions and Partnerships, Joan M. Roberts (New Society Publishers)

*   The Joy of Conflict Resolution, Gary Harper (New Society Publishers)

*   The Power and Promise of Humane Education, Zoe Weil (New Society Publishers)

*   Calling the Maritimes Home, Julie V. Watson (Raincoast Books revised edition)

*  Calling the Prairies Home, Mike O'Brien (Raincoast Books revised edition)

*  Sexual Spectrum, Olive Skene Johnson (Raincoast Books)

*   Smokescreen, Paul William Roberts (Raincoast Books)

*   Nervous System, Or Losing My Mind in Literature, Jan Lars Jensen (Raincoast Books)

*   Hearts of Gold, Lorne Zeiler (Raincoast Books)

*   So You Want to Be a Canadian, Kerry Colburn & Rob Sorensen (Raincoast Books)

*   Beyond the Outer Shores, Eric Enno Tamm (Raincoast Books)

*   Devil and the Disappearing Sea, Rob Ferguson  (Raincoast Books)

*   War Against Truth, Paul William Roberts (Raincoast Books)

*   Hot Sun, Cool Shadows, Angela Murrills (Raincoast Books)

*   Lost Patrol, Dick North (Raincoast Books)

*   Man Who Mapped the Arctic, Peter Stele  (Raincoast Books)

    

*   Apostrophes VI: Open the Grass, E.D. Blodgett (University of Alberta)

*   Building Sustainable Peace, Tom Kennedy (University of Alberta)

*   Edmonton In Our Words, Linda Goyette (University of Alberta)

*   Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada, Derek Truscott (University of Alberta)

*   High River and the Times, Paul Voisey (University of Alberta)

*   Ms. Holmes of Baker Street: The Truth About Sherlock, Alan Bradley (University of Alberta)

*   Poets Talk: Interviews with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlot, by Pauline Butling (University of Alberta)

*   The Power of Greed: Collective Action in International Development, Michael Rosberg  (University of Alberta)

*   Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants, Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP, William Barr (University of Alberta)

*   Response to Death, The Literary Work of Mourning, Edited by Christian Riegel (University of Alberta)

*   Spoken Cree, Level II, C. Douglas Ellis (University of Alberta)

*   The Studhorse Man, Robert Kroetsch (University of Alberta)

*   Best Mounted Police Stories, Dick Harrison (University of Alberta)

    

*  Adrenaline Ride (Whitecap Books)

*  Wineries of BC (Whitecap Books)

*  Mustang Mountain, Sharon Siamon  (Whitecap Books)

*  Ask Dr Keith: Candid Answers to Queer Questions, Dr. Keith Loukes  (Whitecap Books)

               

*   Knocked Up, Rebecca Eckler (Anchor Canada)

 

*  Gone But Not Forgotten, Elizabeth McLachlan (NeWest Press)

*  Knocking on the Moonlit Door, Margaret Thompson (NeWest Press)

*  Room with Five Walls, Byrna Barclay (NeWest Press)

*  River Time, John Firth (NeWest Press)

*  Snow Bodies, Elizabeth Hudson (NeWest Press)

*  Treatro Trilogy, Stewart Lamoine (NeWest Press)

*  Unmarked, Sarah de Leeuw (NeWest Press)

*   Elections, John Courtney (UBC Press)

*   Political Parties, William Cross (UBC Press)

*   Citizens, Elisabeth Gidengil, Andre Blais, Neil Nevette, and Richard Nadeau (UBC Press)

*   Federalism, Jennifier Smith (UBC Press)

*   Advocacy Groups, Lisa Young and Joanna Everitt (UBC Press)

*   Legislatures, David Docherty (UBC Press)

*   This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, edited by Melody Hessing, Rebecca Ragion, and Catriona Sandilands (UBC Press)


*   Dave Gorman's Googlwhack Adventure!, Dave Gorman (Vintage Press)

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