New Releases by Richard Scarsbrook

The Trouper-Royale Orpheum Galaxie Theatre is a jewel in the entertainment crown of Niagara Falls. At least, that’s what the marquee out front says. To the Fabulous Trouper Quintuplets their family’s old theatre is a thorn in the crown of their adolescent memories. Under their famous-child-actor-turned-director father’s overbearing, and narcissistic eye, the quintuplets are raised on a strict diet of Golden Age entertainment and homeschooling to mold them into the best actors of their generation. But through a series of hilarious and tragic events, the siblings begin to develop their own personalities and ambitions, rebelling against their father’s aspirations for them. The tension rising from the quintuplets’ newfound individualism sparks an onstage brawl during a performance on their 18th birthday that changes the trajectory of all their lives. Twenty years later, the quintuplets reunite for the reading of their father’s will and his demand for one last performance.

Welcome to the Apocolypse! and it has arrived, not with a bang, but with the white noise hum of tabloid news and and the promise of the internet.Richard Scarsbrooks Apocalypse One Hundred strips back the veneer of our screen filled lives to expose every nip and tuck.Each one hundred word poem from the Apocalypse peeks over the event horizon to see the noise and distraction that bind us to this world, hemming in thought and imagination.To learn more . . . just click here!

A National Post Bestseller! A multi-faceted story that explores how small actions and changes can give rise to startling and unintended consequences. Trajectory. Declination. Impact. Escape Velocity. These are rocketry terms that could also describe aspects of the human experience. A lumberjack obsessed with space travel loses four different wedding rings, and each of the lost rings symbolizes something different to the person who finds it. There are the members of a rich family whose dramas overlap with those of the homeless people living right next door, under the bridges of the Rosedale Ravine. The wheelchair-bound teen who declares war on a man parking his luxury car in the handicapped parking spot. The would-be rock star selling insurance, whose terminal diagnosis sets his life on a new and dizzying path. And many others. Every person is connected to every other — genetically, coincidentally, necessarily, or randomly. Every action has a consequence, seen or unseen, from the sublime to the catastrophic.

The Avengers for children of the Great Recession, The Indifference League take an obsessive, confused, and stressed-out look back at their old, superheroic dreams. When eyes go blurry trying to spot the line between good and evil, failure and success, sometimes the most important question is "why bother?"

Marty Apostrophes and Bill Brown are from opposite sides of the tracks, but their friendship allows them to overcome bullies and scrape through classes (with Bill doing the lion''s share of the scraping). Bill''s obsession with the classic cars owned by Marty''s family leads to a joy ride in a 1937 Cord 812 Sportsman, and the accidental foiling of a robbery . which is caught on video by their friend, aspiring teen reporter Elizabeth Murphy. The video goes viral, and Marty and Bill - or at least, their accidental alter egos, Nothing Man and the Purple Zero-become instant celebrities. Is this a fleeting moment of celebrity? Or are the trio living up to a destiny foretold by a dying principal who reminded them that "Some have greatness thrust upon them"? In Nothing Man and the Purple Zero, award-winning author Richard Scarsbrook brings us more hilarious adventures from Faireville High School.

Life is full of those moments, good and bad, that define you, make you whole, and provide direction to your journey. Richard Scarsbrooks brilliant debut collection of poetry, Outtakes, uncovers the moments that we keep hidden deep inside us, that steer us through the currents and eddies of the everyday.

Chronicles pivotal moments in a young man''s coming of age from grade seven through first year university.

Told in the first person, this unique picture book tells the tale of a baby on their journey to be born, filled with places to personalize the narrative with child and family photos. The whimsical, amusing illustrations—a mixture of cut paper and watercolor—transport readers to a world of their own, where they are allowed to be the heroes of the story. Presenting a child’s arrival into this world as a great event for the entire family, the book helps kids understand the origins of the special bond between mothers and babies, as well as the magnificent passage to the family nest.

Born with an extreme facial deformity, Philip was an easy target for stares, sneers and bullying. While riding his fathers motorcycle to Toronto on a journey of payback and revenge Philip has a life-changing experience that transforms him into the hero he never imagined he could be.

Richard Scarsbrook''s stories illuminate the moments when life spins in unexpected and inexplicable directions. A girl with a deadly allergy to the sun ventures out-of-doors. A businessman abandons his sports car in the middle of a traffic jam. A small-town waitress orders her favourite breakfast for a motorcycle-riding stranger. A Lolita-chasing man has a run-in with a mysterious black taxicab on a busy street and goes for a different kind of ride. Sometimes, destiny does wait. Book jacket.

Continuing rock ''n roll advertures of Dak Sifter as he builds his band, the Featherless Bipeds.