New Releases by Heather Spears

Is it right to thank a hurricane? Harvey's damage was insane! Homes destroyed by water and wind. No power for days, he did send! Trees uprooted. Limbs were broken. People cringed as his name was spoken. But a "thank you, Harvey" is surely due. You taught us something with the wind you blew. If you love adventure, then join Gabriel's little minnow friend as she navigates the floodwaters of a hurricane. What will be the golden key? Open this book, and you will see! Be sure to look for the golden key hidden in each picture.

Do you love adventure? How about looking for gold? Do you have time for a rhyme? If you answered yes, then grab your detective hat and dive into Gabriel’s Golden Key right alongside his little minnow friend. Gabriel wants to find the golden key and Elah has the clues he needs to unlock the mystery. However, curious Gabriel has a few questions during his journey. He wants to know what angels do in heaven and why some of them don’t have wings. Join Gabriel as he hunts for answers and the golden key . . . actually, the shiniest golden key of all! Will he ever find the key? Open this book and you will see!

Part historical fiction, part murder mystery, "A Muted Voice" brings the 19th-century village of Kirkfieldbank to life in this story about the fascinating life and untimely death of an independent woman torn between duty and desire.

A completely original concept, this title challenges practical artists of every capability and art teachers as never before. It will make them rethink what they see, how they see it, even how they name it, as well as how they reproduce it.

With amazing authenticity, the novel gives voice to 'Chattie, ' Miss Charlotte Spears of Annville, a music teacher and composer torn by duty and desire. Part historical fiction, part murder mystery, The Flourish brings to life an independent woman's adventures beside the River Clyde in the late 19th century.

Winner of the Pat Lowther Award In 1999 and 2000, two Victoria teenagers were convicted of the murder of their schoolfellow, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk. Of the more than 500 drawings she prepared as courtroom artist for the trials, Heather Spears has selected some 50 to accompany the poems that record her experience of the process. As poet and as artist, Spears bears witness throughout her work to the plight of young people under stress.

"Anyone who has watched Heather Spears drawing her fast, incisive portraits will have been astonished by the sureness of her hand and the sympathy of her eye. She writes poems the same way: unblinking in their honesty but tender in their empathy, cutting straight to the heart of the matte but never forgetting that what she finds there is a heart." - Stephen Scobie

The Panum Poems is a unique volume combining illustrations and poetry on the subject of the facial muscles that give each of us expression. The poems trace the same lines as the drawings do, and the drawings are poems that seek to communicate with a graphic and not a verbal line.

In the far future, deadly radiation from atomic conflict has caused humanity to mutate into two-headed or bi-cephalic people, who are essentially twins inhabiting one body. In the Moonfall series, readers follow one-headed Tasman and her family, witnessing their development from outcasts to heroes, the only ones able to fit into the ancient spaceships and save the Earth from the threat of the moon_s unstable orbit. The Taming, sequel to Moonfall and The Children of Atwar, concludes the epic saga of humanities strange future.

In the second book of the Moonfall Trilogy, the story continues in a post-holocaust world inhabited by bicephalic humans - two-headed twins sharing the same body. With the birth of a new religion, which makes its saviors into victims, the children of Atwar must complete the prophecy of Moonfall.

Tasman is born into a world populated by two-headed bicephalic "twins" who share one body. Alone, she struggles for acceptance and becomes the unwitting key to the Earth's salvation, in a poetic and apocalyptic vision of the future where technology exists as a mere remnant of a destroyed world, conjoined twins are the norm and the orbit of the moon is decaying.

Spears travels widely and reports on her findings in disturbing and powerful drawings and poems. She makes us see and hear what needs to be seen and heard, without apology.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry Winner of the Pat Lowther Award The poems are informed by the author's long sojourns in both Canada and Europe, and a new horizon appears: the author gets acquainted with a group of refugees from the Near East and in some of the poems describes their predicament and her own identification with these homeless people, who begin to define a new country of the mind. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award.

How to Read Faces won The Canadian League of Poets' Pat Lowther Award for 1998.