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SAVAGE LOVE
GLOVER, DOUGLAS
Savage Love marks the long-awaited return of one of Canada’s most lauded and stylistically brilliant
authors. Glover skewers every conventional notion we’ve ever held about that cultural-emotional
institution of love we are instructed to hold dear. Peopled with forensic archaeologists, horoscope writers,
dental hygienists, and even butchers, Glover’s stories are of our time yet timeless; spectacular fables that
stand in any era, any civilization. Whether he is writing about sexually ambiguous librarians or
desperadoes of the most despicable kind, Glover exposes the humanity lurking behind our masks, the
perversities that underlie our actions.
FICTION
GOOSE LANE
9780864929013
$29.95 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013
264 PAGES
SCANDAL AT SIX
PURSER, ANN
Spring has arrived in Long Farnden and with it, a mysterious infestation. Lois Meade’s daughter has
found her village store overrun by insects and reptiles. And Lois has no time to stop and smell the roses,
if she’s to stay one step ahead of the creepy crawlies. As Lois looks into the invasion, she becomes
embroiled in yet another “ferretin’ case,” as her husband would say. Her investigation leads her to Robert
Pettinson, a seemingly unhinged zookeeper, and his nephew. The two of them are knee-deep in illegal
trade, and they don’t take kindly to Lois poking her nose into their business. Lois enlists the help of her
faithful cleaner Dot Nimmo and police inspector Hunter Cowgill to discover more about Pettinson and a
suspicious death at the zoo. And death is in store for more people, if Lois doesn’t put the killer behind
bars soon…
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 25,000
BERKLEY
336 PAGES
9780425261767 SERIES: LOIS MEADE
$27.50 HC
DECEMBER 2013
THE SCENT OF PINE
VAPNYAR, LARA
Though only thirty-eight, Lena finds herself in the grips of a midlife crisis. But then she strikes up a
precarious friendship with Ben, a failed artist turned academic, who is just as lost as she is. They soon
surprise themselves by embarking on an impulsive weekend adventure, leaving their middle-aged
responsibilities behind. On the way to Ben’s remote cabin in Maine, Lena begins to talk, for the first time
in her life, about the tumultuous summer she spent as a counselor in a Soviet children’s camp twenty
years earlier, when she was just discovering romance and her own sexuality. As Lena opens up to Ben
about secrets she has long kept hidden, they begin to discover together not only the striking truths buried
in her past, but also more passionate truths about the urgency of this short time they have together.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 35,000
SIMON & SCHUSTER
256 PAGES
9781476712628
$28.99 HC
JANUARY 2014