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Determined to navigate
a publishing sea tossed by tempests, with good vessels foundering
everywhere, Encompass
weighed anchor in 2009 and in March of 2010 set sail towards a stormy
horizon. Since then we've launched eleven titles and are even now
fitting out a new fleet of reading.
Our objective?
To
equip our readers with books good to read.
To serve our authors well. To stay afloat. |
The Atlantic Book Awards Society
has released the shortlist for the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards. We're proud to announce that Encompass author Denise Cormier's The Village of My Heart's Mistake has been nominated for the Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction.  Congratulations, Denise! See you in Halifax May 16th! |
Volume II of That Line of Darkness: The Gothic from Lenin to bin Laden
"With this book Robert Douglas brings his monumental study of the Gothic to the present. He does not hesitate to go deep into the history of the turbulent 20th century to challenge our assumptions about the dominant ideologies that gave shape to Hitler's Nazi Germany and to Stalin's Russia. This is cultural history writ large, with no stone left unturned. Even more provocative than the first volume, Douglas’ The Gothic from Lenin to bin Laden once again deserves a broad readership."
Dr Leonard Friesen,
Associate Professor of Global Studies and History, Wilfrid Laurier University
| Cosmetic
surgery and its related procedures have become hugely popular in recent
decades, but the success of these procedures depends on one factor more
than any other: the person who performs them. Now one of North America's foremost authorities on cosmetic surgery sets out guidelines to protect patients from disappointment and loss. “Dr
Lycka has an astute insight that makes this book
~ Jeffrey Riopelle, MD, Laser Advantage
of San Ramon Medical Groupa ‘must read’ for anyone considering cosmetic surgery.” |
Under the Linden Tree
is Cassandra Krivy Hirsch's masterful evocation of love lost and
regained and a life lived by rules that now seem remote from our
own.
Not just a fully realized portrait of a mid-nineteenth century Massachusetts fishing village, Linden Tree paints the interior life of a character who seems almost to grow out of it. "Hirsch's delicate sensibility, expressed in crystalline prose, makes the distant world of mid-19th century Rockport, Massachusetts seem both familiar and deeply evocative. A beautiful novel." ~ Paula Marantz Cohen, author of Jane Austen in Boca and What Alice Knew |
The
latest in Philip Kraske's politically charged thrillers, City on the Ledge
plays out in Quito, Equador, where the machinations of the rich, the
powerful and the corrupt are no less tangled than in Kraske's other
exotic and carefully wrought tales.
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R.
Carroll's inaugural novel brings the Catholic church and demonic
possession together in a sleepy Illinois town, where local citizens and
Satan alike are challenges to Father Bailey and the Vatican's Christian
Mannix.
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Denise
Cormier's frank
confessional of life in the Acadian fishing village that was once her
home.
The Village of My Heart's Mistake is the story of a slow emergence from the chrysalis of a perfect childhood, the striving for romantic completion, the persistence of life in the face of bad, bad news. |
Skinworks is the most recent book
by
Dr. Barry Lycka, one of North America's most eminent cosmetic surgeons. In SkinWorks, Dr. Lycka conducts a comprehensive survey of personal skincare, from the simplest precautions to the most advanced procedures, procedures of which he himself has often been an important early introducer. |
 This
is the first volume of That Line of
Darkness, Robert
A. Douglas' ambitious two-volume exploration of the Gothic sensibility
as the
nineteenth century became the twentieth.
Douglas' starting point is Stoker's Dracula, but he ultimately traces the process by which hunter and hunted are fused, culminating in the grisly killing fields of the Great War. |
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