Your Scrivener Press is celebrating two new spring titles - Ramasseur, a novel by Richard deMeulles, and Arcadia Borealis: Childhood and Youth in Northern Ontario, a memoir by George Case - on Saturday with a book launch at a  local pub.
The community is invited to join the authors at Peddler's Pub, 63 Cedar St. on May 10, from 7-9 p.m. They will be reading and signing books. They will also be signing earlier in the day at Chapters on the Kingsway from 1-3 p.m.
A magically-realistic novel in the form of a story-sequence, Ramasseur is a series of exquisitely crafted, highly readable tales that conspires to draw readers into a larger puzzle that's sure to keep them up late into the night, the Scrivener Press website states. While these gripping little tales of beasts, prophets and saints are set in a remote mining town and span three generations, the book's themes resonate with universal modern anxieties about memory, identity and the possibility of reconciliation.
Richard deMeulles grew up in Timmins (where Ramasseur is set), and now lives in Sudbury. He divides his time between Sudbury and North Bay as executive director of the Mines and Aggregates Safety and Health Association (MASHA). Though deMeulles has published a number of short stories, Ramasseur is his first novel. It is part of the Literary Press Group of Canada's Fiery First Fiction cross-Canada celebration this May, and is in bookstores from coast-to-coast.
The website describes Arcadia Borealis: Childhood and Youth in Northern Ontario as a linked series of self-contained essays, telling the story of one person's experiences coming of age in the 1970s and 80s. Set among the small towns and steel cities of the rugged Canadian Shield, Arcadia Borealis is a funny, sad, and deeply reflective meditation on time, change, and the meaning of home.
George Case was raised in Sault Ste Marie, left when he was 20 in 1987, and returned last year, at 40, with his wife and daughters. In spring 2007, he published the story of enigmatic Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page - Magus, Musician, Man - to excellent reviews across North America.
For more information phone Laurence Steven, Your Scrivener Press, at 522-5126 or visit www.yourscrivenerpress.com .
