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THE PEERLESS FOUR
PATTERSON, VICTORIA
Running so hard you think you’ll choke on your next breath. Peripheral vision blurred by the same
adrenaline that drowns out the cheers coming from the full stadium. And of course, the reporters. The
men scribbling furiously on their notepads so they can publish every stumble, sprain, and sniffle in these
historic games. This was the world of the female athletes in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the first
games in which women were allowed to compete in track and field (and on a trial basis, at that).
Nicknamed “the Peerless Four,” the Canadian track team included some of the strongest and most
diversely talented women on the scene. Narrated by the team’s chaperone—a former runner herself—the
women embark on their journey with the same golden goals as every other Olympian, male or female. But
as the Olympic tension begins to rise with unexpected injuries, heartbreaking disqualifications, and the
pressure of supreme athletic performance, each woman discovers new fears and new priorities, all while
the weight of women’s future in the Olympics rests on their performance poise.
FICTION
COUNTERPOINT
9781619021778
$23.99 HC
NOVEMBER 2013
192 PAGES
PERFECT
JOYCE, RACHEL
On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old Byron Hemming and his mother are driving to school
in the English countryside. On the way, in a life-changing two seconds, an accident occurs. Or does it?
Byron is sure it happened, but his mother, sitting right next to him in the car, has no reaction to it. Over the
course of the days and weeks that follow, Byron embarks on a journey to discover what really happened--
or didn't--that fateful morning when everything changed. It is a journey that will take him--a loveable and
cloistered twelve-year-old boy with a loveable and cloistered twelve-year-old boy's perspective on life--
into the murkier, more difficult realities of the adult world, where people lie, fathers and mothers fight
without words, and even unwilling boys must become men. Byron will have to reconcile the dueling
realities of that summer, a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit and the power of
compassion.
FICTION
BOND STREET BOOKS
9780385677721
$29.95 HC
NOVEMBER 2013
320 PAGES
A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
BANKS, RUSSELL
A sterling collection of short stories from the author of Rule of the Bone and The Sweet Hereafter--his first
in almost fifteen years--including six never-before-published works.
FICTION
KNOPF CANADA
9780345808127
$22.95 TP Original
NOVEMBER 2013
1ST PRINTING 25,000 IN CANADA
224 PAGES