Publishers We Distribute

Annika Parance Publishing is an independent publishing house founded in 2009 that produces medical books for the general public. Annika Parance worked at Éditions Rogers Média for eighteen years, where she launched and was Director of the books department. She also oversaw Libre Expression publications for the Librex group (Quebecor Media).

The mission of Basic Health Publications is to publish books by experts in a wide range of health-related fields. Their goal is to help consumers of varying ages, lifestyles, and health concerns make choices that will lead them to optimum health and enhance the quality of their lives.

Basic Health Publications will cover a wide range of health issues including alternative medicine, disease state management, nutrition and diet, vitamins, minerals, herbs and other nutritional supplements, exercise and fitness, and environmental issues.

Capstone Press is the leading educational publisher of non-fiction children’s books, serving school and public libraries since 1991. They are dedicated to building a strong foundation for beginning and struggling readers, as well as ESL students, to achieve reading success. From early childhood materials to the highest high/low books, Capstone Press titles are accurately leveled to meet your library's needs.

Compass Point Books are designed with the reader in mind. They create fascinating educational books that capture the attention and spark the imagination. Sharp, full-color photographs, attractive designs, and numerous special features augment the content-rich, beautifully designed books for the K-8 library.

Coughlan Publishing is a family-owned company that supports the reading needs of preK-12 students through the range of high-quality non-fiction and high-interest fiction they offer.

Coughlan's books are sold through 5 lines of books; Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Picture Window Books, Stone Arch Books and Red Brick Learning. Links for each of these lines are on this page.

EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing encourages, produces and promotes thought-provoking and well written science fiction and fantasy literature.

Glenbow Museum is Where the World Meets the West - where intriguing stories from Western Canada connect with extraordinary art and artifacts from around the world. Combining a museum, art gallery, library and archives all under one roof, Glenbow boasts over a million artifacts and some 28,000 works of art in its vast collections and is one of the largest museums in Canada.

Good Books is a family run business that produce books where quality, reliability, and readability to be their hallmarks. Many of their books have been authored by experts on our various staffs. Many were written by other outstanding authors.

Heinemann-Raintree is a leading non-fiction-based publisher that has established a reputation for setting new standards of quality in compelling, curriculum-based educational materials for the PreK-Secondary library and classroom markets. Their mission is to enhance readers' literacy, knowledge, awareness of the world, and to assist educators and parents in helping them to be successful.

Inhabit Media Inc. is a small Canadian, Inuit-owned publishing company that aims to promote and preserve the stories, knowledge and talent of Northern Canada.

Inhabit Media Inc. hopes to contribute to the Canadian publishing industry by promoting authors, storytellers and artists that live in remote regions of Northern Canada.

For more than six decades the Japan Publishing Trading Co. has been exporting high quality Japanese publications and miscellaneous articles of Japanese culture and tradition to many nations of the world, mainly to institutions of Japanese studies, Japanese schools, and Japanese nationals outside Japan.

Kodansha Limited is the largest Japanese publisher of literature and manga (comics and print cartoons). It is a privately owned company headquartered in Tokyo, which has been run by consecutive generations of the Noma family since 1909.

Lee & Low Books - An independent US children's book publisher focusing on diversity. It is the company's mission to meet the need for stories that all children can identify with and enjoy.

Mel Bay Publications is an American publisher of materials for musical instrument playing, particularly instructional books that teach a particular instrument or style. It was founded in 1947 by player Mel Bay and is based in Pacific, Missouri.

Marshall Cavendish is a major international publisher of books, directories, magazines and partworks. Their philosophy of enriching life through knowledge transcends boundaries of geography and culture. In line with this vision, their products reach across the globe in 13 languages, and their publishing network spans Asia, Europe, Canada and the USA.

Fitzhenry and Whiteside distribute Marshall Cavendish's Children's Books line

Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. publishes and carries theatre and related texts in many categories to fit the needs of schools, colleges, churches, theatres or community theatre groups!

The family-owned company is a drama specialist publisher. Recently the book publishing division has diversified into textbooks, theatre professional scene books and how-to books on all theatre subjects.

Founded twenty-eight years ago in Atlanta, Peachtree is one of the original independent southern book publishers. They publish many categories of books, but focus on titles for children and teenagers, self-help, parenting, and health, and books about the south. Their books are thoughtfully and lovingly designed and illustrated, and tell stories that are powerful, moving, and affecting.

Pelican Publishing Company enjoys national recognition as a rapidly growing medium-sized company with a backlist of nearly 500 titles and fifty to sixty new titles produced annually. As a general trade publisher, Pelican produces travel guides, art and architecture books, Christmas stories, local and international cookbooks, motivational and inspirational works, and children's books, as well as a growing number of social commentary, history, and fiction titles.

Picture Window Books publishes informational picture books and easy readers. Our titles combine lyrical text and dazzling illustrations to create a meaningful learning experience by sparking a child's natural love of learning.

Pokeweed Press specializes in picture books for children from 4 to 12. Their motto is "Reading for the fun of it" and their goal is to create entertaining books for children to read by themselves and to share with their parents.

Preferred Nutrition distribute products from Lorna R. Vanderhaeghe, Dr. Julian Whitaker,  and Brad King. These lines are distinguished by their adherence to the highest standards of quality and convenience. Lorna’s well-known passion for providing natural treatments for women’s health problems has produced a best-selling line for the treatment and maintenance of women’s health.

Their products, our information, and especially our people are dedicated to keeping you healthy, well informed and feeling good.

Red Brick Learning partners with educators to help all students, from struggling to fluent readers, achieve reading success. They create innovative supplemental educational materials that provide carefully leveled nonfiction books and targeted instruction support for K-8 classrooms.

Stone Arch Books publishes appealing high-interest fiction for young readers. Our passion is to reach struggling, reluctant, and less-confident readers, especially boys. Our books remove the obstacles, spark the imagination, and create a hunger for pleasure reading. Stone Arch Books will turn your scanners, skimmers, and screen-agers into enthusiastic book lovers.

Stone Arch Books believes that struggling and reluctant readers deserve quality stories, innovative artwork, and most of all, a sense of fun when they are confronted with opening up a new book.

Telos Publishing Ltd., Kent, England, is a small, independent publisher specializing in high quality, collectible books for all fans of horror, dark fantasy, cult TV, and Doctor Who. They also produce a variety of unofficial guide books to popular television and film series, as well as the Time Hunter series of novellas.

TFH Publications has been at the forefront of pet publishing for over half a century, creating and sustaining publications for owners of a wide variety of companion animals.

Look to TFH to produce books and learning vehicles for pet owners that ensure the optimum human-companion animal experience: a long, healthy, happy life full of trust and companionship.

Tilbury House is an independent publisher in Maine. It publishes award-winning children's picture books that help young people build character, appreciate cultural diversity, and explore the natural world. It publishes some wonderful teacher's guides, and its website also offers a "Teachers Take Note" section for each of its children's books, with activities, discussion points, and further resources.

Tilbury House's adult books are about history, maritime history, regional culture, and environmental issues in the Northeast.

Tradewind Books has been publishing fine books for young people since 1996. Their titles have been recognized internationally for their illustration, award-winning writing and innovative stories from around the world: from Mexico to Iraq, China to Russia. They publish picture books, poetry, chapter books and novels for all ages.

In the early 1990s Chad Carpenter started a comic strip known as Tundra in Alaska. The strip has grown and now runs in newspapers throughout the U.S., Canada and even Jamaica & Trinidad. The Tundra Empire has grown to include 12 different books, dozens of shirt designs, many different note cards, mouse pads, bumper stickers, and an interactive CD-ROM.

Verve Editions, from Burlington, VT, is involved in the conception, development, and production of fine art and illustrated books, and related exhibitions. They collaborate with outstanding authors, artists, photographers, graphic designers and printers to create distinguished publications conceived to reach the widest possible audience.

Whitecap Books is one of Canada’s leading independent book publishers. Their diverse list features full-colour gift books on almost every North American state, province, and major city along with books on food, wine, gardening, health and well-being, regional history, and regional guidebooks. They publish books for children and youth under their Walrus Books imprint.

Whitecap’s expertise in culinary books has gained them recognition in Canada and internationally.