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THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT
TAN, AMY
Violet is one of the most celebrated courtesans in Shanghai, a beautiful and intelligent woman who has
honed her ability to become any man’s fantasy since her start as a “Virgin Courtesan” at the age of
twelve. Half-Chinese and half-American, she moves effortlessly between the east and the west. But her
talents belie her private struggle to understand who she really is and her search for a home in the world.
Abandoned by her mother, Lucia, and uncertain of her father’s identity, Violet’s quest to truly love and be
loved will set her on a path fraught with danger and complexity—and the loss of her own daughter. Lucia,
a willful and wild American woman who was once herself the proprietress of Shanghai’s most exclusive
courtesan house, nurses her own secret wounds, which she first sustained when, as a teenager, she fell
in love with a Chinese painter and followed him from San Francisco to Shanghai. Her search for penance
and redemption will bring her to a startling reunion with Flora, Violet’s daughter, and will undo all that
Violet believed she knew about her mother.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 750,000
HARPER COLLINS CANADA
608 PAGES
9781443410229
$34.99 HC
NOVEMBER 2013
THE VALLEY OF MASKS
TEJPAL, TARUN
The harrowing dystopian thriller that was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
FICTION
MELVILLE HOUSE
9781612192628
$23.95 HC
FEBRUARY 2014
336 PAGES
THE VANISHING THIEF
PARKER, KATE
When a frantic woman comes to Georgia claiming that her neighbor, Nicholas Drake, has been abducted
by the notorious Duke of Blackford, Georgia and the Archivist Society agree to take the case. But Drake is
no innocent—he is a thief who has been blackmailing many of the leading members of London society. To
find Drake and discover who is behind his abduction, Georgia and her beautiful assistant, Emma, will
have to leave the cozy confines of their bookshop and infiltrate the inner circles of the upper crust—with
the help of the dashing but dubious Duke of Blackford himself. But the missing thief and his abductor are
not the only ones to elude Georgia Fenchurch. When she spies the man who killed her parents years
ago, she vows to bring him to justice once and for all…at any cost.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 25,000
BERKLEY
304 PAGES
9780425266601 SERIES: VICTORIAN BOOKSHOP
$16.00 TP Original
DECEMBER 2013