Catalogue - HarperCollins Publishers

Contents
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New Fiction and Non-fiction
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Harper Paperbacks
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Harper Weekend
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Young Adult & Children’s Titles
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Index
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Key Contacts
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The most painful secrets
create the deepest of lies
nancy richler
The Imposter Bride
A Novel
FICTION • $29.99 CL
ISBN: 978-1-44340-402-0 • SHIPPING IN MARCH
FIC019000 • 352 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 20
rights acquired: Canada/English language
other rights: The Cooke Agency
editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Meghan Paton
When a young, enigmatic woman arrives in post-war
Montreal, it is immediately clear that she is not who
she claims to be. Her attempt to live out her life as Lily Azerov
shatters as she disappears, leaving a new husband and baby
daughter, and a host of unanswered questions. Who is she really
and what happened to the young woman whose identity
she has stolen? Why has she left and where did she go? It is
left to the daughter she abandoned to find the answers to these
questions as she searches for the mother she may never find or
really know.
praise for your mouth is lovely
“This accomplished novel summons up the lost world of the
Russian shtetls. . . . Richler’s work recalls the stories of Isaac
Babel, in which the knowable is charged with mystery.”
THE NEW YORKER
“Your Mouth Is Lovely is a true achievement—
astonishing. . . . These are characters to relish.”
THE VANCOUVER SUN
“A story as sublime as its title. . . . This novel is weighty in
substance—in its textured weave of Jewish history, class
struggle and female experience—and yet light and agile in
style. It owes much to the Russian novel, but it also recalls
the 19th-century Victorian narratives of Charlotte Brontë. . . .
A wonderfully realized work of the imagination.”
THE GAZETTE (MONTREAL)
NANCY RICHLER’s short fiction has been published in various
American and Canadian literary journals, including Room of
One’s Own, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Another Chicago
Magazine and The Journey Prize Anthology. Her first novel,
Throwaway Angels, was published in 1996 and was shortlisted
for the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. Her
second novel, Your Mouth Is Lovely, won the 2003 Canadian
Jewish Book Award for fiction and Italy’s 2004 Adei-Wizo Prize.
It has been translated into seven languages. Born in Montreal,
Nancy Richler lived for many years in Vancouver but has recently
returned to Montreal.
also available by nancy richler
Your Mouth Is Lovely
978-0-00-639202-6 . $18.95 tpb
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Ten-year-old Judith McPherson is a believer. Her world is
carefully constructed around her faith: nightly scripture
reading with her father, weekly gatherings at the Meeting Hall
and daily proselytizing to the lost. With no TV and no books
“of the world” to entertain her, she passes time by creating The
Land of Decoration, a model in miniature of The Promised
Land which she has made of collected discarded scraps—divine
treasures that she squirrels away.
But Judith’s troubles are mounting. At school, Neil Lewis’s
relentless terrorizing has reached a feverish, dangerous pitch
and, in town, a strike threatens the factory where her father
works. One Sunday night, terrified of the violence that awaits
her in the halls on Monday, Judith conjures a snowstorm in The
Land of Decoration made of shaving cream, cotton and cellophane.
The next morning the ground outside her window is a
crisp, dazzling white. Judith can perform miracles. In fact, she
might just be God’s chosen instrument. But with power comes
weighty consequences, and Judith must face them head on to
keep her faith—and her family—alive.
With its intensely taut storytelling and gorgeous prose, The
Land of Decoration is a harrowing story of good and evil, belonging
and isolation, faith and doubt, and it introduces us to
a classic new heroine. It’s a novel that gives us many incredible
gifts, but its most exciting is the gift of Grace McCleen, a brilliant,
heartbreaking new voice in fiction.
GRACE MCCLEEN is an author and singer who lives in London.
The Land of Decoration is her first novel and will be published
around the world in Spring 2012.
My name is Judith McPherson. I am ten years old.
Three days ago a miracle happened. That is what
I’m going to call it. And I did it all. It was because of
what Neil Lewis said about putting my head down
the toilet. It was because I was frightened. But it was
also because I had faith.
from the land of decoration
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An utterly unforgettable debut narrated
by a young girl whose steadfast belief leads
her down a treacherous path—shot through
with electric life by the power of faith,
doubt and the love of a family
grace mccleen
The Land of Decoration
A Novel
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ISBN: 978-1-44340-848-6 • SHIPPING IN MARCH
FIC019000 • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 24
rights acquired: Canada/English language
other rights: Aitken Alexander Associates
editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Emma Ingram

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From the #1 bestselling author, a fresh and
fully updated edition of her classic money
management guide for women
gail vaz-oxlade
It’s Your Money
Becoming a Woman of Independent Means
PERSONAL FINANCE • $21.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS
ISBN: 978-1-55468-867-8 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER
BUS050000 • 400 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24
rights acquired: Canada/English language
other rights: P.S. Literary Agency
editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Laura Hughes
With everything she does, Gail Vaz-Oxlade focuses on
putting money in perspective and encouraging people
to take control of their money and their lives. But over the
years, she’s found that an astonishing number of smart, competent
women are relinquishing that control. It’s Your Money
is designed to inspire and inform them to take charge of their
financial destinies.
This book will help each reader come to terms with why
she deals with her money as she does. It helps her establish
a solid financial foundation on which to build as she moves
through her life. Gail walks her through the major milestones—
partnering, raising a family and retiring—making sure she is
empowered to make her own decisions, if she’s in a relationship
or not. It also shows the reader how to cope when stuff
hits the fan, without adding financial stress to her burdens. For
the woman who finds herself the sole breadwinner in a family,
dealing with aging parents or coping with divorce or widowhood,
Gail shows her how to keep her financial life on track.
Whether they need Gail’s voice to encourage them to reach
for new financial goals, or to kick their credit-card-happy butts
back into line, women will turn to It’s Your Money in good
times and in bad.
GAIL VAZ-OXLADE is the #1 bestselling author of Debt-
Free Forever and Never Too Late. She is currently doling out
her no-nonsense approach to finance as host of the television
shows Princess and Til Debt Do Us Part, and is a columnist
for Chatelaine and MoneySense.ca. Visit her online at
www.gailvazoxlade.com.
also available by gail vaz-oxlade
Debt-Free Forever
978-1-55468-590-5 . $21.99 otpb
978-1-55468-591-2 . $21.99 tpb (december 2011)
Never Too Late
978-1-55468-868-5 . $21.99 otpb
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April 14, 2012, marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking
of the Titanic. The “unsinkable subject,” the story of
the giant ship that sank on its maiden voyage, has become one
of our most potent modern parables and enduring metaphors.
The image of the ship’s plunging stern is an icon, and expressions
like “rearranging the deck chairs” and “hitting the iceberg”
need no explanation.
Yet on a cold, clear April night the disaster happened to
real people—stokers, millionaires, society ladies, parsons,
parlourmaids—people who displayed a full range of all-toohuman
reactions as the events of the night unfolded. With
new research, R.M.S. Titanic weaves the dramatic story of that
fateful crossing with compelling portraits of the people on
board—those who survived, and those who tragically lost their
lives—allowing us to place ourselves on that sloping deck and
ask, “What would we do?”
HUGH BREWSTER is an award-winning writer and editor
and was for twenty years the editorial director and publisher of
Madison Press Books. Hugh’s books include Anastasia’s Album,
Inside the Titanic, 882½ Amazing Answers to Your Questions
About the Titanic, On Juno Beach, The Other Mozart and
others. He speaks regularly on the Titanic and his Toronto Life
article on Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, a Toronto survivor of the Titanic,
won a National Magazine Award. He lives in Toronto.
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In the vein of The Devil in the White City,
the definitive account of the disaster
that shaped a century
hugh brewster
RMS Titanic
Gilded Lives on a Fatal Voyage
HISTORY • $29.99 CL
ISBN: 978-1-44340-530-0 • SHIPPING IN MARCH
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b&w photographs throughout
rights acquired: Canada/English language
other rights: Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Laura Hughes

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Every generation gets the
Pride and Prejudice it deserves
kim izzo
The Jane Austen
Marriage Manual
A Novel
FICTION • $21.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS
ISBN: 978-1-44340-723-6 • SHIPPING IN APRIL
FIC044000/FIC000000 • 288 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32
rights acquired: Canada/English language
other rights: Fletcher & Company/Rupert Heath Literary Agency
editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Emma Ingram
It is Fall 2008, the recession is in full swing and Kate Shaw is
about to turn forty. As an acting beauty editor for a fashion
magazine, Kate has glided from contract to contract only to be
told that, due to cutbacks, her services are no longer required.
Through no fault of her own she finds herself single, homeless
and desperate to help her family survive its own financial
and emotional crises. Known for her love of all things Jane
Austen, Kate is given a freelance gig that changes everything: is
it possible, in these modern times—and at a certain age—to
marry well?
What starts as an article quickly turns into Kate’s real-life
quest. From the polo fields of West Palm Beach to the slopes
of St. Moritz and the glamour of London’s social scene, Kate,
who gets mistaken for an aristocrat—Lady Kate—chases the
man of her dreams, a charming and elegant older financier. But
she keeps running into a brooding Englishman, Griffith Kent,
who works at an impeccably Austenesque estate called Penwick
Manor. Caught between Mr. Rich and maybe Mr. Right, Kate
must choose what she really wants out of life: to marry for
money or marry for love.
KIM IZZO is the co-author of the internationally bestselling
book The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum and its sequel, The
Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Grace Under Pressure. She has made
numerous television and radio appearances including Oprah,
The Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor and Canada AM. Her advice
and opinions have appeared in the pages of The New York
Times Sunday Style section, InStyle, InStyle Weddings, Marie
Claire, Glamour, Redbook, Cosmopolitan and Vogue (UK), to
name only a few. Kim Izzo is currently deputy editor of Zoomer,
a lifestyle magazine for men and women over forty. Her byline
has also appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Fashion,
More, Flare and other publications. She lives in Toronto.
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T
he Carpenter is set in a God-fearing small Ontario town
in the 1980s, a town rife with secrets, grudges passed
through the generations and an undercurrent of criminal behaviour.
Lee King, the carpenter, is returning after a lengthy stay
in maximum-security prison to a community that still recalls
his horrendous crime. His mother is dying, and he wants to see
her and his sister Donna after so many years. But things are still
not quite right in the town as Stan Maitland, the retired cop,
knows. Not only does he vividly remember Lee’s unexplained
violence from years before, he is also caught up in a mysterious
new death. He has just found the body of a young woman, Judy
Lacroix, in a car at the abandoned drive-in on the edge of town.
Stan can’t help getting involved, though his policing days are
long over. And what about Lee King—will he ever understand
where his violent streak comes from? When Lee finally faces
who he is, the lives of his family are once again overturned.
A suspenseful, darkly humorous, emotionally engaging
work, The Carpenter is a powerful debut novel. Like Dennis
Lehane, Matt Lennox is completely at home in the back alleys
and dark corners of small-town life—and of the human heart.
“Fresh and invigorating prose.”
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Born in Orillia, Ontario, MATT LENNOX first pursued a military
career, becoming a captain in the Canadian army, where he was
posted to Afghanistan between 2008 and 2009. He wrote many
of the stories in his first collection, Men of Salt, Men of Earth,
there. It was published in 2009 and was shortlisted for the 2010
ReLit Award (the title story had been previously published in
Best Canadian Stories in 2006). He lives in Toronto and is completing
an MFA at Guelph-Humber.
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a phyllis bruce book
An unforgettable debut novel about family
secrets, revenge and retribution
matt lennox
The Carpenter
A Novel
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ISBN: 978-1-44340-734-2 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY
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rights acquired: Canada/English language
other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates
editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Lindsey Love

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A vivid and unsettling portrait of a world
ruled by the rush for resources—and what
it means for us
dambisa moyo
Winner Take All
China’s Race for Resources
and What It Means for the World
BUSINESS/CULTURAL STUDIES • $24.99 CL
ISBN: 978-1-44340-740-3 • SHIPPING IN MARCH
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rights acquired: Canada/English language
other rights: The Wylie Agency (UK)
sponsoring editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Rob Firing
Newspaper headlines and media commentators scream
warnings of the impending doom nearly every day—
shortages of arable land, clashes over water, and the political
Armageddon as global demand for energy in the form of fossil
fuels far outstrips any possible supply. The picture painted
is bleak, and the possible impact of commodities markets on
how we live is far-reaching, but our grasp of the details and the
mega shifts in the commodity space remains blurred. There’s so
much noise surrounding resource scarcity and China’s emerging
dominance in commodities that we risk complacency.
Overturning our assumptions, bestselling author Dambisa
Moyo charts the commodity dynamics that the world will face
over the next several decades, and the implications of China’s
rush for resources across all regions of the world, from Africa
to Latin America, from North America to Europe to Australia.
praise for how the west was lost
“Moyo’s diagnosis of the recent disasters in financial markets
is succinct and sophisticated. . . . I applaud her brave
alarm against our economic and social complacency.”
PAUL COLLIER, THE Ob SERVER
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“Important. . . . [Moyo] prescribes a tough dose of medicine.”
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DAMBISA MOYO is an international economist who comments
on the macroeconomy and global affairs. She is the author
of the New York Times bestsellers Dead Aid: Why Aid Is
Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa and
How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly—and
the Stark Choices Ahead. In 2009 Dr. Moyo was named by
Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the
World. Her writing regularly appears in publications such as the
Financial Times, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal.
She completed a PhD in economics at Oxford University and
holds a master’s degree from Harvard University. She lives in
London, England. Visit her online at www.dambisamoyo.com.
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Taras Grescoe has written books that have changed the way
we look at illicit substances, in The Devil’s Picnic, and how
we think about the world’s seafood, in bottomfeeder. Now, as
oil prices soar and suburbs continue to sprawl, Grescoe hits the
commuter road in a global quest to understand and illuminate
the challenges of the post-automobile age.
Ultimately, Straphanger’s subject is the city, and it offers
a global tour of alternatives to car-based living, told through
encounters with bicycle commuters, subway engineers, idealistic
mayors and disillusioned trolley campaigners. Along the
way, Grescoe meets libertarian apologists for the automobile,
urbanists who defend suburban sprawl, champions of buses,
rapid transit and light rail, and planners fighting to liberate cities
from the empire of the automobile.
In a world of skyrocketing gas prices and political unrest
in the oil-rich corners of the world, Straphanger is an essential
book that addresses one of the most critical discussions of the
near future.
praise for bottomfeeder
“Part gustatory adventure and part ethical question about
how to eat responsibly in a world of vanishing resources,
Grescoe’s book is an aquatic version of Fast Food Nation
that crushes the naive view of the ocean as an endlessly
renewable bounty of fish.” NATIONAL POST
“Bottomfeeder could do for sustainable seafood what
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma has done for
pasture-raised meat.” QUILL & QUIRE
TARAS GRESCOE is the author of four books, including the
bestselling Bottomfeeder, which won the 2008 Writers’ Trust
Non-Fiction Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction.
Two other titles, Sacré Blues and The End of Elsewhere, were
shortlisted for Writers’ Trust awards. His work has appeared in a
great variety of major publications including The New York Times,
National Geographic Traveler, Gourmet, The Globe and Mail,
Canadian Geographic, The Times (UK) and The Independent.
He lives in Montreal. Visit him online at www.tarasgrescoe.com.
also available by taras grescoe
bottomfeeder
978-1-55468-402-1 . $19.95 tpb
The Devil’s Picnic
978-0-00-639482-2 . $22.95 tpb
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The most entertaining and thorough
examination of global car culture yet written
taras grescoe
Straphanger
How Subways, Buses and Trains
Are Saving Our Cities from the
Empire of the Automobile
CULTURAL STUDIES • $31.99 CL
ISBN: 978-1-55468-624-7 • SHIPPING IN MARCH
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other rights: Tessler Literary Agency
editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Lindsey Love

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The most notorious murderer Tony Hill
and Carol Jordan have ever put behind
bars escapes from prison with his heart
set on revenge
val mcdermid
The Retribution
A Novel
FICTION/MYSTERY • $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/FLAPS
ISBN: 978-1-44341-043-4 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY
ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER
(ISBN: 978-1-44341-042-7 • $34.99)
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other rights: Gregory & Company Authors’ Agents
sponsoring editor: Lorissa Sengara • publicist: Meghan Paton
As detective Carol Jordan is set to move from downand-out
Bradfield to a new post in nearby—and less
crime-ridden—Worcester, Tony Hill, her longtime criminalpsychologist
colleague, wonders if there might also be new
horizons for their complicated relationship: he and Carol
have been brought together professionally over the years by
ruthless crimes, which has led to an undeniable—but maddeningly
stalled—personal connection.
But sex workers are being targeted and viciously killed in
Bradfield, and it’s up to Carol to determine if the murders are
connected—and where the killer might strike next.
Meanwhile, in a nearby prison, someone is dreaming of
rare steak, fine wine—and revenge. Jacko Vance, former sports
hero and TV celebrity, murdered almost twenty teenage girls
before being caught. He knows exactly who is responsible for
putting him behind bars, and Tony and Carol are at the top of
the list. Following an audacious escape, he’s on the loose and
planning to teach them all a lesson they will never forget. Now
the pair are squarely in a psychopath’s crosshairs—and he’s just
getting started.
praise for fever of the bone
“Everything a great detective novel should be: pacey, gripping,
clever and stylish and, most of all, a fantastic read.”
SUNDAY EXPRESS
“So gripping that it puts your life on hold.”
THE TIMES (LONDON)
“Val McDermid’s sixth novel featuring psychologist
Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan . . . [is] as brilliant and
compelling as the other five.”
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VAL McDERMID is the internationally bestselling author of
more than twenty crime novels. She has won the CWA Gold
Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year and the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize; her novels have been selected as
New York Times Notable Books and have been Edgar Award finalists.
She was the 2010 recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond
Dagger for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Crime Writing.
More than 10 million copies of her books have been sold
around the world. She lives in the north of England. Visit her
website at www.valmcdermid.com.
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Three men are found dead in the locked second floor office
of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except
ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue
left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly unrecognizable to the
human eye.
In the lush forests of Oahu, an advance in micro-robotics
has put unheard-of resources at the fingertips of science; trillions
of previously unknown micro-organisms, tens of thousands
of species of bacteria, are being discovered, feeding a
search for new life-saving drugs and profitable applications on
a scale beyond anything previously imagined.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group of graduate students
at the forefront of their fields are recruited to work at a
cutting-edge microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies’
exploratory work is conducted under a veil of secrecy and
promises the young researchers the chance to wield unprecedented
new tools at the limits of scientific discovery. To participate
they must commit now and come to Hawaii—or be left
behind and watch their peers reap the rewards.
But when the true costs of Nanigen’s innovations are revealed
in Oahu, the graduate students find themselves cast out
of the stable certainties of the lab, thrust into a hostile wilderness,
prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power.
An instant classic, Michael Crichton’s boundary-pushing
and up-to-the-minute final thriller has all the hallmarks of his
greatest adventures. And no one is better suited to complete
this novel than visionary science writer Richard Preston: pitting
nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion,
Micro melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create
yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.
MICHAEL CRICHTON’s novels include Pirate Latitudes, Next,
State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda
Strain. He is also known as a filmmaker and the creator of
ER. One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold
over 150 million books, which have been translated into thirtysix
languages; thirteen have been made into films. He remains
the only writer to have had the number one book, movie and TV
show at the same time.
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A group of graduate students are lured to
Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech
company—only to find themselves physically
transformed and cast out into the rainforest,
with nothing but their scientific expertise and
wits to protect them
michael crichton
Micro
A Novel
FICTION • $31.99 CL • ISBN: 978-1-44340-640-6
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“I enormously admire this rising voice of
new Christian possibilities, and I commend
her penetrating insights into the new
generation of spiritually aware and spiritually
open people.” —Bishop John Shelby Spong
gretta vosper
Amen
What Prayer Can Mean in a World
Beyond Belief
RELIGION • $32.99 CL
ISBN: 978-1-55468-647-6 • SHIPPING IN MARCH
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Prayer is an essential part of the daily lives of many people.
Some believe it connects them with God, a cosmic force,
the universe or life itself, and that it can change circumstances
or bring them comfort, protection and peace. Others engage in
the act of prayer as a traditional ritual from which they neither
demand nor expect results. Many who pray cannot imagine living
without it.
For many others, however, prayer has no significance in
their lives at all. Having left a practice they once knew or matured
without religious intervention or instruction, the idea of
praying regularly might be considered by these individuals as
nothing more than a waste of time.
In Amen, Gretta Vosper, United Church minister and author
of the controversial bestseller With or Without God, examines
these diverse positions in the light of the harsh realities
of unanswered prayer, the secular critique of supernatural intervention
and the need for a deep sense of ownership for the
suffering in the world. With characteristic honesty, she calls the
reader to submit the tradition of prayer to the test of integrity.
Can we draw from it useful principles for addressing human
and global needs? Or is it safe, and maybe even more effective,
to get up from our knees and live out the answers we seek?
praise for with or without god
“A passionately argued case for a post-Christian church.”
MACLEAN’S
“With or Without God inspires.” GUELPH MERCURY
“Vosper’s book exemplifies her own criteria for a
good church: open-mindedness, passion, creativity
and intellectual rigour.”
JOANNA MANNING, AUTHOR OF IS THE POPE CATHOLIC?
AND THE MAGDALENE MOMENT
GRETTA VOSPER, author of the national bestseller With or
Without God, is pastor of West Hill United Church in Toronto,
and founder of the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity.
She received her master of divinity from Queen’s Theological
College in 1990 and was ordained in 1992. Vosper is a widely
sought-after speaker and is regularly interviewed in the national
media. Visit her at progressivechristianity.ca.
also available by gretta vosper
With or Without God
978-1-55468-400-7 . $19.95 tpb
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Containers are a gardener’s best friend—they make it
easy and fun to bring a burst of life and colour to your
porch, balcony or front step. But so many of us get stuck in a
rut. Frankie Flowers is here with 150 inspiring, beautiful and
sometimes surprising container ideas to get your juices flowing.
Each plays with Frankie’s signature technique of using a
thriller, a filler and a spiller to make sure your pot will have
maximum impact. Frankie gives you the breakdown on which
plants he’s used, and to which conditions they’re best suited.
And if you’re feeling a little peckish, Frankie’s even got some
delicious edibles for you to throw into the mix. With Frankie’s
step-by-step instructions, and the don’t-sweat-it attitude readers
came to love in his first bestseller, Get Growing, Frankie’s
Pot It Up will have the whole country going to pot—in the best
way possible!
praise for get growing
“Frankie Flowers makes it all seem so easy. . . . Practical,
witty and forthright, Ferragine is a gifted writer who is able
to simultaneously put the novice gardener at ease and
also pump them up to tackle the challenges that lie ahead
in any gardening endeavour.” TORONTO STAR
FRANKIE FLOWERS (a.k.a. Frank Ferragine) is the author of
Get Growing, Canada’s #1 gardening book. He reaches more
than one million Canadians each week as the gardening expert
for BT Toronto, CityLine and CityTV News, and also writes columns
for Canadian Living and Canadian Gardening. His family
business, Bradford Greenhouses, is one of Canada’s largest
combined greenhouse/garden businesses. He lives with his
family in Innisfil, Ontario.
SHANNON J. ROSS is the photographer behind Get Growing
and is a regular contributor to Canadian lifestyle magazines. After
graduating from McGill University, he opened Shannon Ross
Photography in 1999 and since then has photographed for a
wide range of editorial, advertising and corporate clients. Shannon
lives with his wife and their two cats in Toronto, Ontario.
also available by frankie flowers
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Bored by your same-old begonias?
Perturbed by petunias? Impatient with your
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frankie flowers
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“The real treasure is [Livesey’s] gift for exploring
the unreduced human psyche with all its
radiant contradictions, mercurial insights and
desperate generosities.”—David Wroblewski,
author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
margot livesey
The Flight of
Gemma Hardy
A Novel
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Fate has not been kind to Gemma Hardy. Orphaned by the
age of ten, neglected by a bitter and cruel aunt, sent to a
boarding school where she is both servant and student, young
Gemma seems destined for a life of hardship and loneliness.
Yet her bright spirit burns strong. Fiercely intelligent, singularly
determined, Gemma overcomes each challenge and setback,
growing stronger and more certain of her path. Now an independent
young woman with dreams of the future, she accepts
a position as an au pair on the remote and beautiful Orkney
Islands.
But Gemma’s biggest trial is about to begin . . . a journey of
passion and betrayal, secrets and lies, redemption and discovery
that will lead her to a life she’s never dreamed of.
“The portrait of a delicate, iron-willed girl, an orphan and
a heroine in the grand tradition. The writing is at once
wholehearted and razor sharp.”
DAVID WROBLEWSKI, AUTHOR OF T HE STORY OF E DGAR S AWTELLE
“Enchanting, from the first page to the last.”
ANDREA BARRETT, AUTHOR OF SHIP FEVER
AND SERVANTS OF THE MAP
“The prose is meticulous, the tale transporting. Trust me,
you will love this book.”
KAREN JOY FOWLER, AUTHOR OF THE JANE AUSTEN b OOK CLUb
MARGOT LIVESEY is the acclaimed author of the novels The
House on Fortune Street, Homework, Criminals, The Missing
World, Eva Moves the Furniture and Banishing Verona. Her fiction
has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly,
and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. The
House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New
England Award. Livesey was born in Scotland and grew up on
the edge of the Highlands. She currently lives in the Boston area
and is a distinguished writer-in-residence at Emerson College.
also available by margot livesey
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Born of an adulterous affair in London, England, Marcel is
ethnically ambiguous, growing up in the racially charged
1960s with a white surrogate father named Oliver. Abandoned
as an infant, Marcel is haunted by vague memories of his bohemian
mother, and is desperate to know who his real parents are.
When Oliver is promoted to foreign correspondent, he
leaves Marcel in the care of his ill-equipped friends, including
the beautiful Pippa. The world is being swept by a wave of liberation—coups,
revolutions and the end of colonialism. While
Oliver rushes toward the action, Marcel is set adrift in swinging
London, a city of magic—and a city where he can never quite fit
in. Just when it seems they will never be reunited, Marcel is sent
to join Oliver in Vietnam. But by the summer of 1963, the war
is escalating, and Oliver is finally overwhelmed by his doomed
love for Pippa. When Marcel eventually uncovers the shattering
truth about his mother, his entire world is rearranged.
Now, as his fiftieth birthday approaches, Marcel is asked to
take care of his friend’s eleven-year-old daughter, Iris. Prodded
by her sharp-eyed company, he reflects on his own bittersweet
childhood and the experiences that have shaped his present. A
Thousand Tiny Hammers is beautifully illustrated with original
drawings by noted Toronto artist/filmmaker Heather Frise.
praise for the letter opener
“A graceful debut.” CHATELAINE
“Kyo Maclear’s humanity is an indispensable part of everything
she writes. . . . Her voice is exquisite and incisive.”
JOY KOGAWA
KYO MACLEAR was born in London and grew up in Toronto
as the only child of a foreign correspondent. Her father reported
on some significant world events, including recording the
first interviews with American POWs in North Vietnam. While
A Thousand Tiny Hammers is entirely a work of fiction, it is informed
by her experiences living with her father. Her first novel,
The Letter Opener (2007), was awarded the K.M. Hunter Artists
Award and shortlisted for the Amazon/Books in Canada
First Novel Award. Maclear is also an award-winning visual arts
writer and the author of two children’s books: Spork (2010) and
Virginia Wolf (2012). Visit her online at www.kyomaclear.ca.
also available by kyo maclear
The Letter Opener
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A playful, witty and profound novel
of betrayal, lost love and identity
kyo maclear
A Thousand
Tiny Hammers
A Novel
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A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a
scathing indictment of liberal motherhood
elisabeth badinter
translated by adriana hunter
The Conflict
How Modern Motherhood Undermines
the Status of Women
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For decades Elisabeth Badinter has been at the forefront
of the fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive
new book, she points her finger at an unlikely and unexpected
danger that’s undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood
in conflict with all that is “natural.” Attachment parenting,
co-sleeping, natural childbirth, homemade baby food,
baby-wearing, stay-at-home mothers and especially breastfeeding—these
hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have
succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an
extent not seen since the 1950s. Badinter argues that the taboos
now surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers and
anything that distracts a mother’s attention from her offspring
have turned child-rearing into a singularly regressive force.
In sharp, engaging prose, Badinter names a reactionary
shift that is intensely felt but has not been clearly articulated
until now, a shift that North America has pioneered. She reserves
special ire for the fanaticism of the La Leche League—an
offshoot of conservative evangelicalism—showing how ondemand
breastfeeding, with all its limitations, curtails women’s
choices. Moreover, the pressure to provide children with 24/7
availability, empathy and wisdom has produced a generation
of overwhelmed and guilt-laden mothers—one cause of the
West’s alarming declining birth rate.
A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a scathing indictment
of a stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full potential.
“Written with a fine passion, The Conflict challenges the
received ideas of environmentalists, feminists and
conservatives alike.” T HE N EW YORK T IMES
“A bracing call to arms. . . . Badinter rows against the
ideological current.” S UNDAY T ELEGRAPH
ELISABETH BADINTER is the acclaimed author of three
seminal works on feminism (The Myth of Motherhood, Dead
End Feminism and XY: On Masculine Identity), which have
been translated into fifteen languages. She lives in Paris, where
she teaches philosophy at the prestigious École Polytechnique.
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With more than four million copies sold in fifty-one languages,
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari launched a
bestselling series and continues to help people from every walk
of life live with far greater success, happiness and meaning in
these times of dramatic uncertainty.
Now available in a beautiful gift edition for a limited time,
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari celebrates the story of Julian
Mantle, a successful but misguided lawyer whose physical and
emotional collapse propels him to confront his life. The result
is an engaging odyssey on how to release your potential and live
with passion, purpose and peace.
A brilliant blend of timeless wisdom and cutting-edge success
principles, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is now, more
than ever, a guide for the times, as countless Canadians dedicate
themselves to living a life where family, work and personal
fulfillment are achieved in harmonious balance.
“Nothing less than sensational. This book will bless your life.”
MARK VICTOR HANSEN, CO-AUTHOR, CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL
ROBIN SHARMA, LL.B., LL.M., is one of the world’s top
leadership experts. He is the author of eleven major international
bestsellers, including Who Will Cry When You Die?
and The Greatness Guide. Robin Sharma is the founder of
Sharma Leadership International Inc., a leadership training
firm with clients such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, IBM, Microsoft,
GM, Nike and Panasonic. His website, robinsharma.com, is
one of the most popular personal success destinations on
the Internet, and he is an enormously popular blogger. Follow
him on Twitter and Facebook.
also available by robin sharma
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The internationally bestselling phenomenon,
now in a specially priced limited edition
robin sharma
The Monk Who
Sold His Ferrari
Special 15th Anniversary Edition
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Human trafficking touches the lives of two
very different families in a debut novel that
John Grisham calls “beautiful in its story
and also important in its message”
corban addison
A Walk Across the Sun
A Novel
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An unforgettable journey into the underworld of modernday
slavery, A Walk Across the Sun begins on December
26, 2004, as seventeen-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her younger
sister, Sita, are walking on the beach outside their home in
Chennai, India. Suddenly, the unimaginable happens: a devastating
tsunami hits the shore, tearing their family apart instantly
and leaving them orphaned and alone. As they attempt
to travel toward safety inland, they are kidnapped and delivered
to a Mumbai brothel, to begin new lives as captive prostitutes.
In Washington, DC, a young lawyer, Thomas Clarke, is
forced to take a sabbatical from his prestigious law firm. He
chooses to serve his time with a non-profit group working in
the red-light areas of Mumbai, where his wife, Priya, has returned
to live with her family following the tragic loss of their
child. Little does he know that his reluctant penance will soon
turn into an international quest for the woman he has lost and
a child he has never met.
Though separated by half a world, the destinies of Thomas
and the Ghai sisters become intertwined as Sita is trafficked to
Paris and then New York. Before long, Thomas is navigating the
brutal system of international human trafficking in an effort to
reunite the sisters and save Sita’s life. Unflinchingly gritty yet
ultimately hopeful, A Walk Across the Sun is an eye-opening
tale of family and survival.
ADVANCE PRAISE FROM JOHN GRISHAM
“Since my first novel was released over twenty years ago, I
have been presented with many opportunities to endorse
the works of other authors hoping to find a publisher. I
have always declined, until now. A Walk Across the Sun
deserves a wide audience. I strongly suspect Mr. Addison
will be heard from again and again.”
CORBAN ADDISON is a litigation attorney and a supporter of
human-rights and social-justice causes around the world. He
holds degrees in law and engineering and lives with his wife and
children in Virginia. This is his first novel.
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When eighteen-year-old Ruth Becker visits her cousin
Dora in Munich in 1923, she meets the love of her life,
the dashing young journalist Hans Wesemann, and eagerly
joins in the heady activities of the militant political left in Weimar
Germany. All three friends are working to secure the release
of prisoner Ernst Toller, a hero of the 1919 revolution,
celebrated conscience of the Republic and the wunderkind of
German theatre.
Ten years later, Ruth and Hans are married and living in
Berlin when Hitler comes to power, and their glamorous Weimar
life comes abruptly to an end. Ernst is forced by the newly
installed Nazi regime to flee the country, and Dora follows him
into exile with Hans and Ruth not far behind. The four take
refuge in London in 1933, and dedicate themselves to a passionate,
dangerous mission: to bring down Hitler, and alert the
British government to the very real Nazi threat to which it has
remained willfully blind.
Based on a true story, Anna Funder’s novel brings to light
new—and very early—heroes of the resistance. All That I Am is
their heartbreaking story—a very special novel with an uncommon
depth of humanity and wisdom, a searing and intimate
portrait of courage and its price, of desire and ambition, and of
the devastating consequences when they are thwarted.
praise for stasiland, winner of the
samuel johnson prize for non-fiction
“Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is
still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book.
A classic.” THE GUARDIAN “BOOKS OF THE YEAR”
ANNA FUNDER is the author of Stasiland: Stories from Behind
the Berlin Wall, which has been published in twenty countries
and translated into sixteen languages. In 2004, Stasiland
won the Samuel Johnson Prize. Anna Funder’s forthcoming
novel, All That I Am, is to be published in sixteen countries and
will be available from HarperCollins in 2012. Visit her online at
www.annafunder.com.
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Stasiland
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Based on real people and real events, the
little-known story of four young people who
risked everything to stop Hitler
anna funder
All That I Am
A Novel
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“A seamless blend of modern-day thriller
and historical mystery with an ending
that left me breathless.”
—James Rollins on Library of the Dead
glenn cooper
The Devil Will Come
A Novel
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Elisabetta Celestino, a brilliant young archaeologist at work
in Rome’s ancient catacombs, has discovered a unique
pattern of astrological symbols on an underground wall. She
feels sure that evidence of a previously unknown pre-Christian
sect lies in an adjacent chamber, and is devastated when the
Vatican refuses to support her excavation effort.
Ten years later, a cave-in damages the vault, revealing a
chamber full of human skeletons that share a disturbing anatomical
feature. Elisabetta has joined an Augustinian order following
the tragic end of her academic career, but unexpectedly
finds herself in a race to solve the secret of the catacomb and
prevent an apocalyptic event that threatens the future of humankind.
Moving between present-day Europe, 1st-century Rome
and Elizabethan England, The Devil Will Come is an exhilarating
tale of a battle between the forces of good and evil that has
been fought in the shadows through the centuries and across
continents—and that both sides are willing to kill to keep secret.
praise for library of the dead
“Marks the debut of a startling new talent. Here is a
story both incandescent and explosive. A debut not
to be missed.” JAMES ROLLINS
“As Cooper builds the layers of intrigue it becomes clear
that this is no ordinary crime thriller, but one that asks big
questions. . . . Gripping.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
GLENN COOPER is the author of three internationally bestselling
novels: Library of the Dead, its sequel, Book of Souls,
and The Tenth Chamber. He graduated from Harvard with a
degree in archaeology and received his medical degree from
Tufts University. After practicing medicine, he was the chairman
and CEO of a biotechnology company in Massachusetts.
He is also a screenwriter and film producer. Visit him online at
glenncooperbooks.com.
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Library of the Dead
978-1-55468-310-9 . $13.99 tpb
The Tenth Chamber
978-1-55468-806-7 . $13.99 tpb
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At the age of twenty-eight, Adam is engaged to Rachel, his
girlfriend of twelve years, and can foresee a brilliant future:
partnership in his father-in-law’s legal firm, holidays with
their extended families on the Red Sea, evenings out with the
friends they’ve known since childhood in the well-heeled London
neighbourhood they’ve shared since birth. It’s a perfect
match: the fulfillment of the desires and expectations of everyone
Adam knows and loves.
When Rachel’s beautiful cousin Ellie suddenly appears in
shul at the beginning of Yom Kippur, having returned to London
to escape her scandal-touched past in New York, Adam’s
comfortable perspective and chosen life path begin, for the
first time, to feel uncomfortable. Initially troubled by Ellie’s
presence and the gossip that her questionable history arouses,
he soon finds himself dangerously drawn to the worldly, vulnerable
young woman, his imagination ignited by her fierce
independence and lack of regard for convention. As their impossible
relationship plays itself out under the watchful eyes
of their close-knit community, Adam is forced to examine the
competing demands of his heart and re-evaluate every choice
he has ever made.
The Innocents portrays modern-day Jewish life with both
wit and empathy, guiding us effortlessly through a contemporary
cultural milieu whose social rules, both spoken and unspoken,
are just as claustrophobic as those of 19th-century New
York. Heralding the arrival of a major new literary talent, this
irresistible story is a novel of manners for the 21st century.
“An exuberant, sensitive, witty novel, elegantly written,
partly a study of the universal dramas of love, marriage
and fear, partly a very modern, sassy London story, partly
a Jewish novel. I found it irresistible.”
S IMON S EBAG M ONTEFIORE, AUTHOR OF J ERUSALEM:
T HE bIOGRAPHY
FRANCESCA SEGAL was born in London in 1980. She studied
at Oxford and Harvard before becoming a journalist and
critic. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Guardian and The
Daily Telegraph, among other publications. For three years she
wrote the debut fiction column in The Observer; until recently,
she was a features writer at Tatler. The Innocents is her first
novel. Visit her at francescasegal.com.
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Funny, romantic, gently satiric
and sharply observed—a dazzling
contemporary recasting of Edith Wharton’s
classic novel The Age of Innocence
francesca segal
The Innocents
A Novel
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A hilarious, neurotically charged quest
for species that don’t belong
glen chilton
The Attack of the Killer
Rhododendrons
My Obsessive Quest to Seek Out Alien Species
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Glen Chilton, the author of the rollicking Stephen Leacock
Medal for Humour finalist The Curse of the Labrador
Duck, returns with yet another quest, this time to seek out species
ill-advisedly introduced into foreign environments.
Chilton visits Ireland to witness how rhododendrons, an
ornamental plant that escaped a private garden, now threaten
to choke out the last of the great oak forests of the United Kingdom.
He escapes blood-thirsty midges and a murderous Hungarian
architect while visiting a colony of forgotten Scottish
wallabies; finds out how termites, brought in on packing crates
after the Second World War, contributed to the devastation of
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; and dodges crocodiles and
big guns in the eucalyptus forests of Ethiopia. And, in true Glen
Chilton fashion, he never turns down the opportunity to share
a few pints with eccentric locals, often finding himself in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
praise for the curse of the labrador duck
“From the wilds of Nova Scotia to the neglected bowels of
decrepit museums, Glen Chilton is in relentless pursuit
of evidence of the extinct Labrador Duck. And the curse?
You’ll have to read this engaging adventure to find out.”
T IM F LANNERY, AUTHOR OF T HE W EATHER M AKERS
“Cross Farley Mowat with Bill Bryson, give him a lunatic
obsession with a dead duck, and send him out to examine
every stuffed specimen and stray egg in the world. Thirty
cities, 130,000 kilometers—what can I say? This is the
zaniest romp I’ve read in years.”
K EN M CG OOGAN, AUTHOR OF FATAL PASSAGE AND
R ACE TO THE P OLAR S EA
DR. GLEN CHILTON, professor emeritus at St. Mary’s University
College, Calgary, and adjunct professor at James Cook
University, Townsville, Australia, is an internationally recognized
ornithologist and behavioural ecologist, and the world’s leading
authority on the extinct Labrador Duck. His detective work for
The Curse of the Labrador Duck took him around the world the
equivalent of 3.3 times. Chilton now resides in Australia.
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Trevor Greene travelled the world as a journalist, and at the
age of forty-one, the reservist in the Canadian Forces decided
to travel to Afghanistan, leaving behind his fiancée, Debbie,
and his young daughter, Grace. On March 4, 2006, while
on a mission of peace to a remote village in Kandahar Province,
Greene removed his helmet, confident that a centuries-old pact
would protect him from his enemies. Without warning, a teenage
boy under the influence of the Taliban walked up to the
soldier and landed a rusty axe in his skull, nearly splitting his
brain in half.
Debbie was told that Trevor would not survive. Then she
was told that he would never move on his own, he wouldn’t be
able to communicate, that he would never be the same. Debbie
never left Trevor’s side, and despite years of rehabilitation,
setbacks and crises, Greene not only learned how to talk and
move again but, in July 2011, he stood at his wedding, his bride,
Debbie, at his side and their flower girl, Grace, dancing down
the aisle.
March Forth is a remarkable story of love, told in two voices:
first in Trevor’s, up until the attack; then Debbie’s, as she
works tirelessly to rehabilitate her fiancé. Together, Trevor and
Debbie have written the next chapter in their remarkable story.
TREVOR GREENE is an accomplished journalist and the author
of two books, Bad Date: The Lost Girls of Vancouver’s Low
Track and Bridge of Tears. After a stint with the Canadian navy,
Greene joined the army reserves and went to Afghanistan in
2006 on a mission of peace. While on a visit to a village, he was
critically injured in an axe attack. Greene survived despite enormous
odds and now speaks to large audiences about his story.
DEBBIE GREENE is a chartered accountant and travels with
Trevor to their many public appearances.The story of Trevor and
Debbie was made into the Gemini Award–winning W5 documentary
Peace Warrior. Trevor and Debbie Greene live with their
daughter, Grace, in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
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Captain Trevor Greene was attacked in
Afghanistan and suffered a catastrophic brain
injury. Doctors told his wife he wouldn’t live.
trevor greene
and debbie greene
foreword by general rick hillier
March Forth
The Inspiring True Story of a Canadian
Soldier’s Journey of Love, Hope and Survival
MEMOIR • $29.99 CL
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Hope, discovery and intrigue from
the efforts to rescue the world’s most
endangered species from the brink
of extinction
scott leslie
100 Under 100
The Race to Save the World’s
Rarest Living Things
NATURE • $24.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS
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Includes
rarely seen
photos!
Scientists estimate that the total biodiversity on Earth is
between 10 million and 100 million species. Of these,
just over 1.6 million and counting have actually been catalogued
and described. One percent, or 16,306, of those species
are threatened with extinction, about one-fifth of them
critically. Of this group, some have vanishingly small populations
in the double or single digits. A few species, including
the Pinta Island giant tortoise and the Yangtze giant softshell
turtle, sit squarely on the border of extinction in the wild with
a population of one.
In 100 Under 100, Scott Leslie tells the fascinating stories
of species in far-flung places nobody ever hears about, like the
northern hairy-nosed wombat, the Gorgan mountain salamander
or the Irrawaddy river shark. Closer to home are the
Vancouver Island marmot, the Wyoming toad and the Devil’s
Hole pupfish. Leslie also tells stories of hopeful progress, as
some of the rarest of the rare are back from the brink of extinction
through the dedicated efforts of people around the world.
SCOTT LESLIE is an award-winning photographer and
author of five books including Bay of Fundy: A Natural Portrait,
Woodland Birds of North America and Wetland Birds of North
America. His writing has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Harrowsmith,
Scuba Diving, EarthKeeper and Canadian Wildlife.
He has won an Atlantic Journalism Award twice, was nominated
for a National Magazine Award in 2005 and is a category
winner of the Nature’s Best International Wildlife Photography
Competition.
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With half of Canadians overweight or obese, it is abundantly
clear that a “one size fits all” approach to losing
weight doesn’t work. When following the same diet, person A
may lose five pounds, while person B may lose half a pound!
How can there be such a discrepancy? The answer is metabolism—what
works well for one person may not suit another.
Dr. Joey Shulman puts an end to “cookie cutter” weight-loss
methods by showing you exactly how to boost your metabolism
and keep the weight off for life. Her four-step approach
includes
• Identifying your metabolic roadblocks.
• Metabolic boot camp—a period of sixty or ninety days, depending
on the number of roadblocks determined in step 1.
• Getting to goal—Most dieting books do not address the
“second half” of weight loss where results may slow (typically
occurs anywhere from week eight to twelve). In this
book, Dr. Shulman will ensure you get to your goal weight
by jumpstarting your metabolism at this critical stage.
• Maintenance—Once you have successfully lost weight, Dr.
Shulman’s priority is to give you the success tools to keep it
off for life!
On The Metabolism-boosting Diet, there are no customized
foods to purchase, no injections to take and no low-calorie
plans to follow. There is no additional expense, no hunger, no
feeling of deprivation—just results!
“Dr. Joey’s weight loss approach is a recipe for long-term
success in keeping weight off and staying healthy. We
encourage all of our patients to try it.”
DR. LANCE CERESNE AND DR. GEOFF LITNER OF MD DIRECT
DR. JOEY SHULMAN is the author of several books including
her latest, Healthy Sin Foods. She graduated from Canadian
Memorial Chiropractic College and is a registered nutritionist.
A popular writer, speaker and consultant, Dr. Shulman appears
regularly on shows including CityLine and CanadaAM, and has
written for publications including The Globe and Mail and Chatelaine.
She is also the founder and CEO of Shulman Weight
Loss Clinics. Visit her website at www.drjoey.com.
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“If you want to lose weight, you must
do it with Dr. Joey. She is magic!”
—Tracy Moore, host of CityLine
dr. joey shulman
The Metabolism-
Boosting Diet
A Personalized Weight-Loss System
for Increasing Energy, Sleeping Better,
and Keeping the Weight Off for Life
HEALTH • $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB
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A remarkable and unique look at how
the Second World War was won, from the
renowned author of The Rise and Fall
of the Great Powers
paul kennedy
The Engineers of Victory
How the Second World War Was Won,
from January 1943 to June 1944
MILITARY HISTORY/HISTORY • $34.99 CL
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sponsoring editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Lindsey Love
In this fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the previously
unexplored strategic factors that led to Allied victory, Paul
Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was practically
achieved by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers
and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’
visions of success.
In January 1943, FDR and Churchill established the Allied
objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi Blitzkrieg; to control
the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over Western and Central Europe;
to take the fight to the European mainland; and to end Japan’s
imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a year later, these
ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished. With riveting
tactical detail, The Engineers of Victory reveals how.
From exactly how thousands of individual Allied planes
and fighting ships were choreographed to collectively pull off
the invasion of Normandy, to how crew chiefs perfected the
high-flying and inaccessible B-29 Superfortress that would
drop the atomic bombs on Japan, Kennedy reshapes our understanding
of the Second World War’s most crucial victories.
In The Engineers of Victory Kennedy uncovers the real heroes
of the war, highlighting for the first time the creative strategies,
tactics and organizational decisions that made the lofty
Allied objectives into a successful reality.
praise for the parliament of man
“An artful study . . . that helps to set the record straight. . . .
His assemblage of data is extraordinary.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Amid the morass of commissions and conferences, and
failures like Rwanda, he manages to find something convincingly
heroic.” THE NEW YORKER
PAUL KENNEDY is Dilworth professor of history and director
of international security studies at Yale University. He is the
author and editor of fourteen books, including The Rise and
Fall of the Great Powers, which has been translated into more
than twenty languages and was named by The Times Literary
Supplement as one of the 100 Most Influential Books since the
Second World War. Professor Kennedy lives in Connecticut.
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Based on the wildly popular segments broadcast during the
Vancouver Olympics, Superbodies explores how genetics
and DNA, the brain, muscles, lungs, heart and blood work together
in extreme conditions. It’s an inside look that draws on
Dr. Greg Wells’ research at Sick Kids Hospital and the University
of Toronto and more than fifteen years’ experience working
with Olympic athletes. Superbodies is a fascinating explanation
of the human body and an easy-to-follow plan that shows how
everyone can learn from the pros to improve their health and
performance. Dr. Wells explains
• How the same training techniques that elite athletes follow
can be even more effective for most people
• What’s happening inside your body when you’re exercising,
and fighting illness
• What makes elite athletes such as pro-hockey players
successful, and what you can learn from them
• Why little things can add up, and how simple choices can
make a huge difference.
Fascinating, easy-to-read and packed with full-colour illustrations
and photographs, Superbodies shows how people of
all ages and abilities can improve their own health and performance.
GREG WELLS, PhD, is a physiologist, researcher and professor
of high-performance sport at the University of Toronto.
Wells trains and coaches Olympic and elite athletes around the
world and is the sports science and sport medicine analyst for
CTV’s Olympic broadcasts. The Gemini-winning Superbodies
segments were seen by millions around the world during the
Vancouver Olympic Games. New Superbodies segments are
in production for the Summer Olympics in 2012. Greg regularly
appears on CTV’s Canada AM and TSN’s Off the Record. Visit
his website at www.drgregwells.com.
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Leading-edge science
and secrets from elite athletes
and their coaches
greg wells
Superbodies
How the Science Behind World-Class Athletes
Can Transform Your Body and Health
HEALTH • $29.99 CL
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You would die for your child.
But would you kill for her?
mo hayder
Hanging Hill
A Novel
FICTION/THRILLER • $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/FLAPS
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sponsoring editor: Lorissa Sengara • publicist: Emma Ingram
Imagine finding yourself divorced and penniless, with no
skills and a teenage daughter to support. What if the only
way to survive was to do things you never thought possible?
These are questions Sally Benedict has never thought
about. Married to a successful businessman, she’s always been a
bit of a dreamer. Until now.
Her sister, Zoë, is a detective in the city of Bath. She is
fiercely independent, loves her job, and oozes self-confidence
in spite of a crippling secret that dates back twenty years and
which—if exposed—may destroy her.
The two women haven’t seen each other for almost twenty
years, but the horrific murder of a teenage girl is about to
change that. Then Sally’s daughter gets into trouble, and Sally
suddenly needs cash—lots of it—fast. With no one to help her,
she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and
illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls go missing.
Two sisters intent on survival find themselves confronting
situations they never expected to face . . . until one of the sisters
does something so horrific and desperate that there’s no way back.
“[Hayder] has in no way lost her ability to shock, thrill, entertain
and occasionally torture us with her use of words.”
THE TIMES ( LONDON)
MO HAYDER is the author of Birdman, The Treatment, The
Devil of Nanking, Pig Island, Ritual, Skin and Gone, all of which
have been international bestsellers. She was shortlisted for the
CWA Dagger in the Library Award in both 2010 and 2011. Mo
Hayder lives with her daughter in Bath, England. Visit her online
at www.mohayder.net.
also available by mo hayder
birdman
978-1-44340-948-3 . $13.99 tpb (january 2012)
The Devil of Nanking
978-0-00-639499-0 . $10.99 mm
Gone
978-1-55468-879-1 . $22.99 otpb
978-1-55468-880-7 . $13.99 tpb (january 2012)
Pig Island
978-0-00-639135-7 . $10.99 mm
Ritual
978-1-55468-199-0 . $10.99 mm
Skin
978-1-55468-642-1 . $13.99 tpb
The Treatment
978-1-44340-950-6 . $13.99 tpb (january 2012)
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July 5, 2018, Masini, Uganda: 218 people are massacred
when the Lord’s Resistance Army attacks an undefended
hospital. Among them are thirty-two American volunteers.
September 12, UN Security Council: the United States announces
its plan to eradicate the Lord’s Resistance Army once
and for all. But it will mean military intervention in China’s
African sphere of influence. The message from the Chinese is
to keep out.
October 17, Wall Street: after a trio of high-flying traders
hatch a secret plan to make a killing by undermining the share
price of a certain New York–based bank, stock prices tumble
as a wave of uncertainty sweeps the US markets. Memories of
the collapse a decade earlier are still fresh, and Washington is
prepared to do what it takes to prop up America’s banks. But
the government’s concern is that this time the turmoil is orchestrated—that
someone is deliberately undermining the
US markets. Are these completely unrelated incidents, or the
opening moves in a much larger confrontation between two
superpowers?
With hawks and hardliners on both sides keen to provoke
conflict, the crisis escalates inexorably. American diplomat
Marion Ellman must defuse the situation before it’s too late.
Will the world’s two superpowers pull back from the brink, or
is worldwide catastrophe inevitable? The author once again
takes us behind the scenes in the worlds of high finance and
international diplomacy in this sharply intelligent follow-up to
his internationally praised debut novel, Ultimatum.
praise for ultimatum
“[A] frightening, compulsively readable novel. Here’s my
ultimatum: read it. Do it for your kids and your own future.”
WHITLEY STRIEBER, AUTHOR OF 2012: THE WAR FOR SOULS
“A great read—both a gripping thriller and a remarkably
intelligent political novel. Matt Glass weaves together
fascinating research, thoughtful analysis and first-rate
storytelling to produce a novel that is hard to put down
and will stay with the reader long after the conclusion.”
DAVID LISS, AUTHOR OF THE WHISKEY REb ELS
MATTHEW GLASS is the author of the internationally
acclaimed novel Ultimatum. He writes under a pseudonym and
lives in England.
also available by matthew glass
Ultimatum
978-1-55468-353-6 . $13.99 tpb
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A worldwide financial meltdown.
A military showdown. Is this our future?
matthew glass
Trigger Point
A Novel
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From social networking to job sharing:
the new tools and proven approaches
for career success
marge watters
It’s Your Move (4th edition)
A Guide to Career Transition and
Job Search for Canadian Managers,
Professionals and Executives
BUSINESS/CAREERS • $24.99 TPB
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editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Julia Barrett
For over a decade, It’s Your Move has been helping Canadian
executives, managers and professionals get the job they
really want with proven advice and strategies. Today, competition
for jobs is tough, but at the same time, opportunities for
career change are plentiful. Thoroughly revised and updated
throughout, It’s Your Move offers clear, proven advice and strategies
including
• How to use social media effectively—from establishing a
powerful online presence to making the most of professional
sites such as LinkedIn.
• A step-by-step guide to networking—approaching contacts
and conducting networking meetings in a way that generates
new leads and, eventually, employment opportunities.
• The importance of research for the job search—how to differentiate
yourself from the competition through research
that goes much deeper than what can be found easily on the
Internet.
• How you negotiate a job offer—this can set a positive or
negative tone for your relationship with a new employer.
Understand what to negotiate and what to leave as is.
For the millions of Canadians contemplating a career
change or currently experiencing a sudden job loss, the updated
edition of It’s Your Move will be a key tool in their storehouse
of career strategies.
MARGE WATTERS is a co-founder of KWA Partners, one of
Canada’s premier career transition and job search management
firms. She holds a master of divinity degree and a bachelor of
arts in economics, and she spent nineteen years in the financial
services industry. The combination of her business acumen and
skills in working with individuals during times of personal change
has given her a unique ability to counsel both employees experiencing
job loss and organizations undergoing change.
previous edition: 978-0-00-639153-1 tpb
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Why are some people driven to dangerous risks, while
others shun danger? Why do some people seem to be
born optimists, while others are more prone to worry and pessimism?
Drawing on her own groundbreaking research and the research
of many other scientists from around the world, Elaine
Fox helps answer why. With a compelling mix of science and
anecdotes, Rainy brain, Sunny brain addresses
• Why optimism is more difficult than pessimism
• How innocent stimuli can become triggers for terror
• The emergency brain: how our ancient neural circuits take
over our thoughts and memories
• New techniques for counteracting fear and anxiety disorders
• Dangerous minds: the psychology of risk
Perhaps most important, Rainy brain, Sunny brain shows
how malleable our minds really are. There is increasing evidence
that we can learn to change our brain states. It is possible
for people trapped in pessimistic and negative mindsets to take
their more “rainy” brain to a sunnier one with real change that’s
reflected at the level of neurons within their brains.
ELAINE FOX is head of the Department of Psychology and
Centre for Brain Science at the University of Essex, where she
runs a department of thirty-six psychologists and 600 students.
There, her work incorporates cognitive psychology, as well as
neuroimaging and genetics, in a bid to unravel the complexities
of fear and optimism. Published in the leading scientific journals,
her work has also been discussed in a wide range of outlets,
including Nature, Science, New Scientist, The Economist, The
New York Times and The Guardian, as well as countless other
newspaper, TV and radio outlets around the world.
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Glass half-full or half-empty—
it’s all in the genes
elaine fox
Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain
The New Science of Fear and Optimism
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From the highly acclaimed author of Out
backward, an intensely moving portrait of an
ordinary man and the loss of a great love
ross raisin
Waterline
A Novel
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sponsoring editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Julia Barrett
Meet Mick Little. He used to be a shipbuilder in the Glasgow
yards. He used to be married to his beloved Cathy. But
the yards closed, one after another, and the search for work
took him and Cathy to Australia and back again, struggling
for a living, longing for home. Thirty years later the yards are
nearly all vacant and Cathy is dead. The ties that bound Mick
to the past are loosened, and now he has to find a new way to
live: get a new job, get out of the house where they raised their
boys, and start again.
In his new novel Ross Raisin brings vividly to life the story
of an ordinary man caught between the loss of a great love and
the outer reaches of modern existence. Tracing Mick’s journey
from the Glasgow shipyards to the crowded, sweating kitchens
of an airport hotel to the streets and riversides of London,
Waterline paints a vivid picture of the alienation of lives lived
quietly all around us.
praise for out backward
“Mature, taut and beautifully written.”
SUNDAY TIMES, THE BEST NEW NOVELS OF 2008
“Risk-taking, post-modern, yet defiantly readable.”
THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“Chilling in its effect and convincing in its execution.”
J. M. COETZEE
“Bleak and beautiful. . . . A richly distinctive narrative
voice.” THE INDEPENDENT
ROSS RAISIN’s first novel, Out Backward, was nominated
for eleven awards, including the Guardian First Book Award,
the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award, and was awarded the Sunday Times Young Writer of
the Year Award and the Betty Trask Award. He is an occasional
contributor to The Guardian and holds an MFA from Goldsmiths
College in London, England, where he resides.
also available by ross raisin
Out backward
978-1-55468-022-1 . $18.95 tpb
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Naomi Benaron’s debut novel follows Rwandan Jean Patrick
Nkuba, a Tutsi, from his earliest dreams of becoming
his country’s first Olympic medal contender in track, to the
moment when he finds himself facing a mob of killers, with no
choice but to vault over a wall and run for his life. In the years
preceding the genocide, Jean Patrick’s world becomes ever more
violent and restrictive, spinning toward the inevitable moment
when the killing begins and he must leave behind the woman
and country he loves. Benaron interweaves Rwanda’s politics,
the beauty of its landscape, and the yearning and dedication
of Jean Patrick himself into a tremendously moving story of
the country and the character’s unraveling and tentative new
beginning.
“Culturally rich and completely engrossing. It engages
the reader with complex political questions about ethnic
animosity in Rwanda and so many other issues relevant to
North American readers. For one, it conveys the impossibility
of remaining neutral within a climate of broad moral
compromise—even for purportedly apolitical institutions
like the Olympics.”
BARBARA KINGSOLVER, BELLWETHER JURY CITATION
“Benaron writes with self-assurance, intelligence and a rare
musicality.”
M ICHAEL S CHAUB, PU b LISHERS LUNCH
NAOMI BENARON holds an MFA and a master of science
degree in earth sciences, is a certified orthopedic massage
therapist and an Ironman triathlete, teaches online for the UCLA
Extension Writers’ Program, and works with the Afghan Women’s
Writing Project online and with African refugees in Arizona.
She speaks French, was once fluent in Hebrew and is learning
Kinyarwanda.
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“Truly fearless writing: ambitious,
beautiful, unapologetically passionate.”
—Barbara Kingsolver
naomi benaron
Running the Rift
A Novel
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From the acclaimed author of We Need to Talk
About Kevin and finalist for the National Book
Award comes a story that is part parable, part
adventure, set deep in the midst of terrorism
lionel shriver
The New Republic
A Novel
FICTION • $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS
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sponsoring editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Carolyn Ovell
former fat boy, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be
A popular. When he’s offered the post of foreign correspondent
in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown
terrorist movement, he recognizes the disappeared larger-thanlife
reporter he’s been sent to replace, Barrington Saddler, as exactly
the outsized character he longs to emulate. Infuriatingly,
all his fellow journalists cannot stop talking about the beloved
“Bear” no longer lighting up their work lives. But all is not as it
appears. Why, with Barrington vanished, do terrorist incidents
claimed by the “SOB” suddenly dry up?
A droll, playful novel set in an alternative past on a fictional
peninsula called Barba, The New Republic is a fast-paced,
plot-driven thriller. Addressing weighty issues like terrorism
with a deft, tongue-in-cheek touch, Shriver presses the more
intimate issue: what makes particular people so infuriatingly
magnetic, when the rest of us inspire barely a shrug? What’s
their secret? And who really has the better life—the admired,
or the admirer?
praise for so much for that
“A horrific and brilliant novel. . . . Shriver’s gifts include
compelling characters and situations and a story that
always moves briskly.” NATIONAL POST
“This is the rare novel that will shake and change you.
With these wholly realistic and sympathetic characters,
[Shriver] makes us consider the most existential questions
of our lives.” THE WASHINGTON POST
LIONEL SHRIVER’s novels include the National Book Award
finalist So Much for That, the New York Times bestseller The
Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need
to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian,
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many
other publications. She lives in London, England, and Brooklyn,
New York.
also available by lionel shriver
Checker and the Derailleurs
978-0-06-171137-4 . $17.99 tpb
The Female of the Species
978-0-06-171139-8 . $18.99 tpb
The Post-birthday World
978-1-55468-169-3 . $18.95 tpb
So Much for That
978-1-55468-202-7 . $17.99 tpb
We Need to Talk About Kevin
978-0-06-112429-7 . $15.99 tpb
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In this gripping, brilliantly reported and sure to be newsmaking
book, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ron Suskind
tells the complete story of America’s financial meltdown and
an untested new president charged with commanding Washington,
taming Wall Street, rescuing an economy on the verge
of collapse and restoring the confidence of a shaken America.
Suskind moves from the frenzied trading floors of lower
Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway and introduces
a larger-than-life cast of politicians and advisors, titans
of high finance, reformers, lobbyists and others who faced
a crisis that threatened not only the United States but the entire
world. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and exhaustive
research, filled with piercing insight and startling disclosures,
Suskind’s eye-opening book goes beyond the headlines
and previous accounts, bringing into focus the unprecedented
struggle between Wall Street and Washington, between hope
and fear—a struggle that continues to roil the United States of
America.
“Suskind is at heart a storyteller. . . . He is brave enough to
discover, through relentless reporting and a sustained and
admirable act of sympathy, the right questions. In this age
of scandal, we must be grateful to him for that.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
praise for the way of the world
“A bombshell book.” THE TODAY SHOW
“Moving. . . . Mr. Suskind is a prodigiously talented craftsman.
. . . These hard times, Mr. Suskind’s book suggests,
call for a non-fiction Dickens.”
THE NEW YORK Ob SERVER
RON SUSKIND is the author of the New York Times bestsellers
The Way of the World, The One Percent Doctrine and The Price
of Loyalty, as well as A Hope in the Unseen. From 1993 to 2000
he was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal,
where he won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He lives in
Washington, DC. Visit him online at www.ronsuskind.com.
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The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning
journalist and New York Times–bestselling
author goes behind the scenes to tell the
riveting story of the financial crisis and the
political and economic aftershocks that remain
ron suskind
Confidence Men
Wall Street, Washington,
and the Education of a President
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The “impossible to put down” Publishers
Weekly Top 100 book of the year
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The Four Stages
of Cruelty
A Novel
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When an inmate goes missing inside a maximum security
penitentiary, Corrections Officer Kali Williams is forced
to come to terms with the cruelty and corruption around her.
Ditmarsh Penitentiary holds many secrets in its walls, and contains
every breed of hatred, self-destruction, greed and regret.
Its inmates aren’t the only ones who grapple with these emotions.
Under constant threat, yet given absolute authority, the
guards routinely cross the divide between law enforcement and
criminality.
Kali Williams takes pains to avoid the complicated traps
of inmates and guards alike. But through the unreliable stories
of a young inmate named Joshua, Kali comes to believe that
an elaborate comic book drawn by the missing inmate contains
information in its pages that has been the cause of the
increasing violence throughout the prison. Following Joshua’s
clues, Kali enters a labyrinthine world inside the prison with
unexpected connections to the outside world. Along the way,
she uncovers the most bewildering secret of all—the mystery
of human compassion, the twisted forms it can take, and the
violence and redemption it makes possible.
This morally complex, tensely plotted story leads to an explosive
ending with no easy answers.
“First comes the awareness that you’re home alone. Next
the butterflies kick in. Soon you’re skipping ahead to the
bottom of the page before you get the nerve to back up
and face what happened.” THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Powerful, articulated, mesmerizing and filled with startling
moments of insight into what separates people from
monsters—not much at all—The Four Stages of Cruelty is
a resonant powerhouse of a novel.” THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“[An] impressive first novel, a complex and atmospheric
thriller.” PUb LISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
KEITH HOLLIHAN worked as a business analyst and a ghostwriter
before publishing his first novel, The Four Stages of Cruelty.
He has travelled widely and lived in Japan, Canada and
the Czech Republic. A Canadian, he now lives with his wife and
sons in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Visit keithhollihan.com.
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“Every page offers you nourishment for
your soul. I was deeply touched by Grace’s
passionate and profound honesty.”
—Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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Take the Step:
The Bridge Will Be There
Inspiration and Guidance for
Moving Your Life Forward
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reissue of the inspirational bestselling classic that has
A been providing encouragement and guidance to readers
for more than a decade, Take the Step is a powerful antidote
to the trials of modern life. It offers practical suggestions on
how to tackle problems head-on and how to live a more soulful,
meaningful and passionate life. It will help readers discover
ways to
• Reconnect with a divine, authentic self
• Grow self-esteem and self-respect
• Rediscover a passion for life
• Build courage to make decisions and stick with them
• Heal the past, forgive and let go
• Take risks to move life forward
Filled with inspirational stories, anecdotes, hard-won experience,
wise advice and heartfelt direction, Take the Step is an
essential read for anyone wanting to cross the emotional and
mental bridge to limitless possibilities.
“I am so touched, so warmed and so elated by the words
in Take the Step: The Bridge Will Be There. . . . Her words
hug my opened heart, and I feel connected to God’s own
wisdom-filled love.”
NEALE DONALD WALSCH, AUTHOR OF CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD
GRACE CIROCCO is a professional speaker, personal development
expert and relationship coach. She has addressed
hundreds of thousands of people on three continents in the areas
of personal mastery, emotional wellness, resilience, relationships
and spiritual renewal. Through her training and coaching
company, Grace designs and delivers seminars and keynote
presentations for clients in the private and public sectors as well
as intensive healing retreats for couples and individuals. A former
broadcast journalist with CBC Radio, Grace has appeared
on television and radio, and her work has been published in
newspapers and magazines across North America. She lives
with her family in the Niagara Peninsula. Visit Grace Cirocco at
www.gracecirocco.com.
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It is August 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin
and nuclear missiles stand primed in the Siberian silos. The
Iron Curtain divides East from West as three generations of
the Krasnansky family leave the Soviet Union to get their first
taste of freedom. Choosing Canada rather than Israel as their
destination, the Krasnanskys find themselves on an enforced
holiday in Italy with thousands of other Russian Jewish immigrants
all facing an uncertain future. Together the irresistible
and quarrelsome Krasnanskys will spend six months in Rome,
where they will immerse themselves in the carnival of emigration,
in an Italy rife with love affairs and ruthless hustles, with
the promise and peril of a new life.
Writing in precise, musical prose, David Bezmozgis has
created an intimate portrait of a tumultuous era, confirming
his reputation as one of our most mature and accomplished
storytellers.
“A delicious drama of ambivalence and excitement. . . . The
vigour of the book’s characters is achieved in the remarkable
way Bezmozgis puts words together.” MACLEAN’S
“Bezmozgis has a keen eye for absurdity, which is a delight
for the reader. . . . A brisk, shrewd, multi-faceted tale.”
NATIONAL POST
DAVID BEZMOZGIS, a writer and filmmaker, was born in Riga,
Latvia, in 1973. His first book, Natasha and Other Stories, won
the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Canada
and Caribbean Region), was a New York Times Notable Book
for 2004 and was nominated for a Governor General’s Award.
He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Dorothy and Lewis
B. Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. Bezmozgis’
first feature film, Victoria Day, debuted at the Sundance Film
Festival. In 2010, he was named one of The New Yorker’s “20
Under 40.” Bezmozgis lives in Toronto.
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“Self-assured, elegant and perceptive.”
—The New York Times
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The Free World
A Novel
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Winner of the Scottish Mortgage Investment
Trust Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South Asia
and Europe Region) and longlisted for the
Orange Prize
leila aboulela
Lyrics Alley
A Novel
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In 1950s Sudan, the powerful and sprawling Abuzeid dynasty
has amassed a fortune through their trading firm, with
Mahmoud Bey at its helm. But when Mahmoud’s son, Nur,
the handsome heir to his business empire, suffers a debilitating
accident, the family is suddenly divided in the face of an
uncertain future.
As British rule nears its end, Sudan is torn between modernizing
influences and the call of traditions past—a conflict
reflected in the growing tensions between Mahmoud’s two
wives: the younger, Nabilah, longs to return to Egypt and
escape the dust of “backward-looking” Sudan; and Waheeba,
who lives traditionally in the confines of her open-air kitchen.
It is not until Nur begins to assert himself outside the strict
cultural limits of his parents that both his own spirit and the
frayed bonds of his family can begin to mend.
Moving from the alleys of Sudan to cosmopolitan Cairo
and a decimated post-colonial Britain, Lyrics Alley is a sweeping
tale of desire and loss, faith, despair and reconciliation. It
is one of the most accomplished and evocative portraits ever
written about Sudanese society at the time of independence.
“Aboulela’s vivid . . . fleet and engrossing narrative . . .
[is full of] a generosity of spirit that extends to all her
characters.” THE NEW YORK TIMES b OOK REVIEW
“Leila Aboulela has created a story for all the senses,
one to be savoured and enjoyed.”
AMINATTA FORNA, FINANCIAL TIMES
LEILA ABOULELA was born in Cairo and grew up in Khartoum.
She is the author of two novels: The Translator, a New
York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Minaret—both
longlisted for the Orange Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award. Her book of short stories, Coloured Lights, published
in 2001, contained her story “The Museum,” which made her
the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Leila
Aboulela lives between Doha and Aberdeen. Visit her website
at www.leila-aboulela.com.
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Critically lauded, The beggar’s Garden is a brilliantly surefooted,
strikingly original collection of nine linked short
stories that will delight as well as disturb. The stories follow a
diverse group of curiously interrelated characters, from bank
manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to web designer to
car thief, as they drift through each other’s lives in Vancouver’s
Downtown Eastside. These engrossing stories, free of moral
judgment, are about people who are searching in the jagged
margins of life—for homes, drugs, love, forgiveness—and collectively
they offer a generous and vivid portrait of humanity,
not just in Vancouver but in any modern urban centre.
The beggar’s Garden is a powerful and affecting debut. Its
individual stories have been anthologized in The Journey Prize
Stories and have been nominated for major awards, including
a National Magazine Award for fiction. The collection has been
longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story
Award.
“About as good as a first book can be. Set in his native Vancouver
and peopled with the down-and-out, the disenfranchised
and disaffected, these stories are by turns funny,
melancholy, bizarre and very, very real.” T ORONTO S TAR
“A sympathetic and compassionate examination of modern
urban loneliness and disaffection.” NATIONAL POST
“Every person in this book, no matter what their age, gender
or peculiarity, is convincing and vivid. . . . The more
you read this, the better it gets.” WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
MICHAEL CHRISTIE received his MFA in creative writing at
the University of British Columbia. Prior to this, he worked in a
homeless shelter on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and provided
outreach to the severely mentally ill. A former professional
skateboarder, he is senior writer for Color Magazine, an awardwinning
publication that celebrates skateboarding culture. Michael
Christie lives in Thunder Bay, and is working on his next
book, a novel.
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Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor
International Short Story Award
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The Beggar’s Garden
Stories
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An elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting novel,
set in a mystical, exotic world, in which a
gifted young girl charms a sultan and changes
the course of an empire’s history
michael david lukas
The Oracle of Stamboul
A Novel
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Late in the summer of 1877, as the tsar’s royal cavalry descends
on the defenseless Ottoman outpost of Constanta,
and a flock of purple and white hoopoes suddenly appears over
the town, Eleonora Cohen is brought into the world by a mysterious
pair of Tartar midwives who arrive only minutes before
the birth. Eleonora, whose mother dies during labour, is raised
by her father, Yakob, a carpet merchant, and her stern and resentful
stepmother. From the moment Eleonora learns to read,
her father recognizes that she is an extraordinarily gifted child,
a prodigy.
When Yakob sets off by boat for Stamboul on business, his
eight-year-old daughter, unable to bear the separation, stows
away in one of his trunks crammed with carpets. On the shores
of the Bosporus, in the house of her father’s business partner,
Moncef Bey, a new life awaits Eleonora. Books, backgammon,
sumptuous new dresses, markets, cafés and some mysterious
events she cannot yet decipher. For in Stamboul in 1886, people
are not always what they seem.
Marvellously evocative and magical, Michael David Lukas’s
bestselling historical novel will transport readers to another
time and place—romantic, exotic, yet perhaps not so different
from our own.
“Beguiling. . . . Lukas veers from the tried-and-true, making
The Oracle of Stamboul a novel that offers delightful surprises.”
JANE CIABATTARI, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“[Lukas] brings a raconteur’s sense of storytelling, a traveler’s
eye for color and a scholar’s sense of history to his
first novel. . . . Lukas has given us a Turkish delight.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS has been a Fulbright scholar in
Turkey, a late-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv and a Rotary scholar
in Tunisia. He is a graduate of Brown University and the University
of Maryland, and his writing has been published in the
Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, National Geographic Traveler
and the Georgia Review. Lukas lives in Oakland, California,
less than a mile from where he was born. When he isn’t writing,
he teaches creative writing to third- and fourth-graders.
Visit him online at www.michaeldavidlukas.com.
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Through Debt-Free Forever, more than 100,000 Canadian
families have used Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s brand of money
management to dig themselves out of debt. Her strategy is
straightforward—it isn’t about neat tricks, hidden agendas and
mysterious fixes. As Gail says, “Money isn’t rocket-science, it’s
discipline.” Gail has made it her life’s mission to make money
management something everyone can do. And she won’t take
no for an answer. Hers is a style that’s unique, a voice that is
demanding, an approach that is holistic.
Debt-Free Forever helps readers take back responsibility
and control over their money. Gail’s Rules are simple: you
can’t spend money you don’t have, you must save something
and if you’re in debt, you must get the albatross off your back.
That said, she knows that executing them can be hard. That’s
why Debt-Free Forever will serve as a roadmap to getting out of
debt, with carefully detailed plans, and Gail’s unfailing support
to help readers get to the right destination.
GAIL VAZ-OXLADE is the #1 bestselling author of Debt-Free
Forever and Never Too Late. She is currently doling out her nononsense
approach to finance as host of the television shows
Princess and Til Debt Do Us Part, and is a columnist for Chatelaine
and MoneySense.ca. Visit her online at gailvazoxlade.com.
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money by negotiating it yourself
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Debt-Free Forever
Take Control of Your Money and Your Life
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The bestselling novel from the author
of the award-winning The book of Negroes
lawrence hill
Any Known Blood
A Novel
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Langston Cane V is thirty-eight, divorced and childless, and
has just been fired for sabotaging a government official’s
speech. The eldest son of a white mother and prominent black
father, Langston feels more acutely than ever the burden of
his illustrious family name. After a run-in with his father in
Oakville, Langston takes off for Baltimore, where he embarks
on a remarkable quest to uncover his family’s past—and his
own sense of self.
At once elegant and sensuous, wry and witty, Any Known
blood slips effortlessly from the slave trade of 19th-century Virginia
to the modern, predominantly white suburbs of Oakville,
Ontario—once a final stop on the Underground Railroad. Rich
in historical detail, Any Known blood is an engrossing tale
about one man’s attempt to find himself through unearthing
and giving voice to those who came before him.
“Any Known Blood illuminates 150 years of little-known
black experience on both sides of the Canada–US border.
At the same time, Hill’s characters remain deeply realized
creations that exert a strong imaginative pull.”
MACLEAN’S
“Lawrence Hill masterfully threads the history of the five
generations of men named Langston Cane into an engaging
commentary of changing times. . . . Hill’s depth, skill
and objectivity come to the fore . . . allowing him to weave
a story of prejudice, segregation and slavery.”
TORONTO STAR
LAWRENCE HILL is the author of several novels and works
of non-fiction, including the nationally bestselling The Book of
Negroes, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White
in Canada and Some Great Thing. He also co-authored, with
Joshua Key, The Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier
Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq. Lawrence Hill lives
in Hamilton, Ontario. Visit his website at www.lawrencehill.com.
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Lawrence Hill’s nationally bestselling novel has garnered
praise and awards around the world. The book of Negroes
has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Rogers Writers’
Trust Fiction Prize and CBC Canada Reads, among many
others. Lawrence Hill—and his remarkable character Aminata
Diallo—have become household names throughout Canada.
In these new editions, readers will follow the story of Aminata,
an unforgettable heroine who cut a swath through an
18th-century world hostile to her colour and her sex. Abducted
as an eleven-year-old child from her village in West Africa and
put to work on an indigo plantation on the sea islands of South
Carolina, Aminata survives by using midwifery skills learned
at her mother’s side, and by drawing on a strength of character
inherited from both parents. Eventually, she has the chance to
register her name in the “Book of Negroes,” a historic British
military ledger allowing 3,000 Black Loyalists passage on ships
sailing from Manhattan to Nova Scotia.
This remarkable novel transports the reader from an
African village to a plantation in the southern United States,
from a soured refuge in Nova Scotia to the coast of Sierra
Leone, in a back-to-Africa odyssey of 1,200 former slaves.
Bringing vividly to life one of the strongest female characters
in recent fiction, Lawrence Hill’s remarkable novel has
become a Canadian classic.
“A masterpiece.”
THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“Anna Karenina. Hagar Shipley. Aminata Diallo. . . . The
exclusive club that includes literature’s most memorable
characters now has a remarkable new member.”
CALGARY HERALD
“A wonderfully written fictional slave narrative . . . populated
by vivid characters and rendered in fascinating detail.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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The beloved novel that has captivated more
than half a million readers across Canada—
now in mass market and Perennial editions
lawrence hill
The Book of Negroes
A Novel
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“Julie Wheelwright’s journey through
the archives and streets of Québec makes
both come alive in this fascinating story
of her ancestor, Esther Wheelwright.”
—Nathan M. Greenfield, author of The battle
of the St. Lawrence and The Damned
julie wheelwright
Esther
The Remarkable True Story of
Esther Wheelwright—Puritan Child,
Native Daughter, Mother Superior
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In 1703, a war party of French soldiers and Abenaki warriors
raided the Puritan village of seven-year-old Esther Wheelwright,
killing several men, women and children and taking
twenty-two captives. That Esther managed to survive the 200mile
journey by foot through swamps and forests to a Jesuit
mission in New France is astonishing. That she was adopted,
quite happily, into a family of her Abenaki captors is equally
amazing. But for the Wheelwright family, who waited years
before receiving word that Esther had even survived the raid,
the abduction was a tragedy. Esther’s release from her Abenaki
family was finally negotiated through a French Jesuit who
took her to the city of Québec—but it was too late. Esther, by
then twelve years old, broke her parents’ hearts by refusing to
go home. They never saw her again. Instead, she remained in
Québec, the capital of New France, where, against all odds, she
went on to become Mother Superior of the Ursulines—and a
pivotal figure after the siege of Québec in 1759.
Written by Julie Wheelwright, Esther’s descendant, this
book is a spiritual and an emotional journey of survival, and
an awe-inspiring example of the human capacity for transformation.
“A highly readable and meticulously researched history. . . .
I was cheering on both Esther and her author.”
THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“Esther’s story is a microcosm of the multicultural,
multi-religious Canada we recognize today, and Julie
Wheelwright does both her ancestor and her country
justice in telling it.”
QUILL & QUIRE (STARRED REVIEW)
JULIE WHEELWRIGHT, born in England and raised in Canada,
is the author of a biography of Mata Hari, The Fatal Lover,
as well as the book Amazons and Military Maids. A prolific
journalist, she has also produced documentaries for radio and
television. Wheelwright lives with her two daughters in London,
England, where she runs an MA program in non-fiction writing
at City University London.
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The author of the internationally #1 bestselling The Weather
Makers returns with a powerful new book about the
fate of the planet. We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension
of our place in nature—of our true abilities and
of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a
global civilization of unprecedented might, driven forward by
the power of our minds—a civilization which is transforming
our Earth. We are masters of technology, and of comprehension,
but it’s what we believe that may, from now on, determine
our fate.
Tim Flannery’s first major book since The Weather Makers
charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth,
which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace,
Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of
evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had
disastrous effects on many of the Earth’s ecosystems and could
lead to our downfall. But equally, Flannery argues, we are now
equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with
the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural futures
depend. Here on Earth is not just a dazzling account of life
on our planet. It will change the way you live.
“Excellent. . . . I found myself wanting to commit much of it
to memory.” THE GAZETTE (MONTREAL)
TIM FLANNERY is a writer, scientist and explorer. He has written
many award-winning books, including The Weather Makers,
an international bestseller that reached #1 in Canada, and
its adaptation for young adult readers, We Are the Weather
Makers. He is the National Geographic Society’s Australasian
representative and a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.
In January 2007, he was named Australian of the Year.
Visit him online at www.theweathermakers.org.
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“This bravura synthesis spanning scientific
disciplines and billions of years tells us why
we can hope.” —The Globe and Mail
tim flannery
Here on Earth
A Natural History of the Planet
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Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake
Morrison’s new novel is a taut, atmospheric,
brilliantly chilling story of a rivalrous friendship
with a frightening twist
blake morrison
The Last Weekend
A Novel
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The novel opens with a surprise phone call from an old university
friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days
by the sea. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a golden couple
whose glamour and happiness drive Ian to distraction, and
dangerous tensions quickly emerge. Beneath congenial yet
charged conversation over meals and wine, the history of Ian’s
attachment to Daisy is slowly uncovered. His rivalry with Ollie
intensifies as they resurrect an almost forgotten bet made
twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges
for higher and higher stakes, setting in motion actions that will
have irreversible and fatal consequences.
In vivid, careful prose, where flashes of wit collide with
moments of troubling uncertainty, Blake Morrison perfectly
conveys the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest
days of summer.
“Morrison gambles significantly on a narrator who seems
petulant and maudlin for the first half of this story. . . . By
the time we realize Ian is a manipulative sneak, not a passive
whiner, Morrison’s bet comes up a winner.”
THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“Morrison has created a memorable story, and a narrator
that readers won’t soon forget.”
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
“[Morrison’s] skills are on full display. In this onion of a
novel, Morrison slowly peels back layer after layer as he
explores timeless themes.”
EDMONTON JOURNAL
Born in Yorkshire, England, BLAKE MORRISON is the author
of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your
Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me, three novels,
The Justification of Johann Gutenberg, South of the River and
The Last Weekend, and a study of the Bulger murder case, As
If. He is also a poet, critic, journalist and librettist. He teaches
creative writing at Goldsmiths College and lives in London, England.
Visit his website at www.blakemorrison.com.
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Vienna under the Nazis. A string of murders throws the
city into a state of anxiety. Anton Beer, a young doctor
who has made a study of forensic psychology, is asked by the
retired Professor Speckstein to investigate the slaughter of his
dog, which may or may not be related to the murders. It is an
unwelcome request: Speckstein’s job is to spy on the building’s
residents for the Party, and Doctor Beer has his own reasons
for keeping his private life hidden from public scrutiny. Beer’s
life becomes further complicated when in a neighbour’s apartment
he discovers a paralyzed young woman, deathly ill from
a mysterious ailment, and smuggles her into his home to nurse
her in secret.
In a story that is gripping from start to finish, Dan Vyleta
deftly captures the paranoia of totalitarian Austria. Imbued
with menace and uncertainty, The Quiet Twin reveals the temperament
of a diseased society where all actions are coloured
by the possibility of evil.
“Innocence and cunning, humour and pathos, sacrifice and
cruelty—all operate side by side in a world gone wrong in
this breathtaking page-turner.” WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
“Nimble, nuanced, fierce, scrupulous.”
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“Vyleta builds an atmosphere of fear and paranoia. . . .
With The Quiet Twin, he proves he is no one-book wonder.”
THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“Hitchcock’s Rear Window rescripted by Dostoevsky
and Kafka.” THE SUNDAY TIMES
DAN VYLETA is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to
Germany in the late 1960s. He now calls Canada his home. His
debut novel, Pavel & I, has been published in thirteen countries
and translated into eight languages. An inveterate migrant, Dan
Vyleta is currently roaming the Great Lakes region. Visit the author’s
website at www.danvyleta.com.
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“Vyleta’s story . . . makes him the heir
to the throne left empty since the death
of Graham Greene. Yes, he’s that damn good.”
—San Francisco book Review
dan vyleta
The Quiet Twin
A Novel
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“It is a gripping story which I couldn’t
read fast enough.”
—Sebastian Junger, author of War
james brabazon
My Friend the Mercenary
A Memoir
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James Brabazon, a war reporter and filmmaker, was already
a veteran of many conflict zones by his early thirties. So
when he was offered an exclusive opportunity to report from
Liberia, caught up in a vicious civil war, it proved too tempting
to turn down. He needed to take a bodyguard, someone
with strong knowledge of the region and, more importantly,
someone with a gun slung over his shoulder. James hired Nick
du Toit, a former South African soldier and mercenary commander,
to guide him into the bloody world of Liberia’s rebels.
During their time together, James and Nick slowly formed an
unlikely friendship, forged during scorching days under unrelenting
gunfire. Narrowly surviving the harrowing experience,
James returned to the quieter, saner confines of his life in London.
But only a few months later he found himself back with
Nick in a fly-blown bar in West Africa plotting another, much
more dangerous journey—this time to the heart of Equatorial
Guinea. Nick’s mission: to overthrow the government of this
tiny nation fabulously rich in oil.
My Friend the Mercenary is an exploration of the mercenary
myth and a chapter in the story of modern Africa. It is a
brutally honest and undeniably human account of a journey
into the heart of what it takes to be a friend, a survivor and a
journalist in the morally corrosive crucible of war.
“A spellbinding adventure story . . . a fast-paced
page-turner. . . . [Brabazon is] a brave adventurer
and a brilliant storyteller.” THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“Masterfully crafted.” WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
“A beautifully written adrenaline rush by one of our
generation’s bravest journalists.”
AIDAN HARTLEY, AUTHOR OF THE ZANZIb AR CHEST
JAMES BRABAZON is an award-winning frontline journalist
and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has travelled
in more than sixty countries investigating, filming and directing
in the world’s most hostile environments. He has written for The
Observer and The Sunday Times, appears as a commentator
on CNN and the BBC, and lectures on the ethics and practicalities
of reporting conflict.
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We are living in an extraordinary age of discovery. After
millennia of musings and a century of false claims, our
knowledge of other worlds has suddenly exploded. Since 1995,
astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting other
stars—discoveries that have surprised us and challenged our
views many times over. At the crux of the astronomers’ pursuit
is one basic question: Is our solar system, with planets in circular
orbits, gas giants in the outer realm and at least one warm,
wet, rocky world teeming with life, the exception or the norm?
It’s an important and timely question for every one of us. Astronomers
expect to find alien earths by the dozens within the
next few years and to examine them for telltale signs of life before
this decade is out. If they succeed, the ramifications for
all areas of human thought and endeavour—from religion and
philosophy to art and biology—are profound, perhaps revolutionary.
What’s at stake is the true measure of our own place in
the cosmos.
In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana
offers an insider’s look at the cutting-edge science
of today’s planet hunters, our prospects for discovering alien
life, and the debates and controversies at the forefront of extrasolar
planet research.
“Jayawardhana is among a posse of cosmic cowboys
mapping the space frontier.”
TORONTO STAR
“Anyone scanning the shelves today to learn about such
urgent news from the universe should go directly to ‘J’
and take down Ray Jayawardhana’s Strange New Worlds.”
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“An exciting, highly readable glimpse into a discovery that
could have broad scientific and cultural implications.”
PUb LISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
RAY JAYAWARDHANA is a professor at the University of
Toronto, where he also serves as Canada Research Chair in
observational astrophysics. A graduate of Yale and Harvard, he
is a world leader in the study of planetary origins and diversity.
Jayawardhana is an award-winning writer, a popular speaker
and a frequent commentator for the media.
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The truth is out there, somewhere—
are there other Earth-like planets,
and is there life on them?
ray jayawardhana
Strange New Worlds
The Search for Alien Planets
and Life Beyond Our Solar System
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From a stunning new talent, the charming
and original story of Churchill’s Black Dog
rebecca hunt
Mr. Chartwell
A Novel
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It’s July 1964. In bed at home in Kent, Winston Churchill is
waking up. There’s a visitor in the room, someone he hasn’t
seen for a while, a dark, mute bulk, watching him with tortured
concentration. It’s Mr. Chartwell.
In her terraced house in Battersea, Esther Hammerhans,
young, vulnerable and alone, goes to answer the door to her
new lodger. Through the glass she sees a vast silhouette the size
of a mattress. It’s Mr. Chartwell.
Mr. Chartwell is a huge, black dog.
Charismatic and dangerously seductive, Mr. Chartwell
unites the eminent statesman at the end of his career and the vulnerable
young woman. But can they withstand Mr. Chartwell’s
strange, powerful charms and his stranglehold on their lives?
In this utterly original, moving, funny and exuberant novel,
Rebecca Hunt explores how two unlikely lives collide as Mr.
Chartwell’s motives are revealed to be far darker and deeper
than they seem.
“Clever. . . . Hunt does a credible job of introducing
Churchill, his residence (now a stately home and worth
visiting), his wife Clementine and his long-term struggle
with depression in a way that few first-time novelists
could pull off.” WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
“A brilliantly imagined tale of an aging icon’s depression. . . .
[Hunt] delivers a refreshing, strange and deeply empathetic
portrait of the great man in decline, along with a jumpy,
twisty, brilliantly imagined story.”
THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“Deft, stylish and utterly original, Mr. Chartwell offers a
more convincing portrait of depression, although tonguein-cheek,
than any medical text. . . . [Hunt’s] novel is crisp,
darkly hilarious and laced with telling truths.”
TORONTO SUN
REBECCA HUNT graduated with a first class degree in fine
art from Central Saint Martins College in 2002. Her paintings
have been successfully exhibited in London and all over the UK.
In 2008 she started writing and her short stories have already
been published in several eminent literary magazines.
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For international operative Gabriel Allon and his wife,
Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant
weekend in London—but a pair of deadly bombings in Paris
and Copenhagen have just occurred, and while walking toward
Covent Garden, Gabriel notices a man he believes is
about to carry out a third attack. Before Gabriel can draw his
weapon, he is knocked to the pavement and can only watch as
the nightmare unfolds.
Haunted by his failure to stop the massacre of innocents,
Gabriel returns to his isolated cottage in Cornwall until a summons
brings him to Washington, and he is drawn into a confrontation
with the new face of global terror. At the centre of
the threat is an American born cleric in Yemen to whom Allah
has granted “a beautiful and seductive tongue.” A gifted deceiver,
who was once a paid CIA asset, the mastermind is plotting a
new wave of attacks.
Gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the
network of death from the inside, a gambit fraught with risk,
both personal and professional, and to succeed, Gabriel must
reach into his violent past.
Set against the disparate worlds of art and intelligence,
Portrait of a Spy is a breathtaking portrait of courage in the face
of unspeakable evil.
“Of those writing spy novels today, Daniel Silva is quite
simply the best.”
K ANSAS C ITY S TAR
“Silva’s thrillers bring readers the best of all spy worlds.”
bOOKLIST
DANIEL SILVA is the number one New York Times–bestselling
author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The
Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The
Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger,
The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector and The
Rembrandt Affair. He is married to NBC News Today correspondent
Jamie Gangel; they live in Washington, DC, with their
two children, Lily and Nicholas. In 2009 Silva was appointed to
the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
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“Those in the know are calling him the new
John le Carré. Those who are reading him
can’t put him down.”—Chicago Sun-Times
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Portrait of a Spy
A Novel
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Snowdrop. 1. An early-flowering bulbous
plant, having a white pendant flower.
2. Moscow slang. A corpse that lies buried
or hidden in the winter snows, emerging
only in the thaw.
a.d. miller
Snowdrops
A Novel
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Nick Platt is a British lawyer working in early-2000s Moscow,
a city of hedonism and desperation where secrets,
and corpses, come to light when the snows thaw. Nick doesn’t
ask too many questions about the shady deals he works on—
he’s too busy enjoying the surreally sinful nightlife Moscow has
to offer.
Riding the subway on a balmy September day, he rescues
two willowy sisters, Masha and Katya, from a would-be purse
snatcher. Soon Nick begins to feel something for Masha that
he is pleased to think is love. Then the sisters introduce him
to their aged aunt, Tatiana, the owner of a valuable apartment.
Before summer arrives, Nick will make disturbing discoveries
about his job, his lover and, most of all, himself.
Snowdrops is a riveting story of love and moral freefall.
Taut and intense, it has a momentum as irresistible to the
reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens
to overwhelm, its narrator. In Moscow, as Nick’s friend Steve
warns him, “there are no love stories. There are no business stories.
There are only crime stories.”
“A powerful, morally complex novel set in a world which
few of us can imagine. . . . Genuinely surprising, moving
and ultimately devastating, Snowdrops is a must-read.”
ROBERT WIERSEMA, EDMONTON JOURNAL
“In turns touching and devastating. . . . Miller is at his best
capturing the peculiar anesthetizing quality of life for a
rudderless expat, one grasping through inertia at the potential
for new love and new direction.”
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
“A superlative portrait of a country in which everything has
its price, Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence reminiscent
of Robert Harris at his best.”
FINANCIAL TIMES
Born in London in 1974, A.D. MILLER studied literature at
Cambridge and Princeton. He writes for The Economist; from
2004 to 2007 he was the magazine’s Moscow correspondent,
travelling widely across Russia and the former Soviet Union. He
is the author of the acclaimed family history The Earl of Petticoat
Lane. Snowdrops is his first novel.
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Joyner’s Dream is the sweeping story of a family and its dubious
legacy: an abiding love of music coupled with a persistent
knack for thieving. Beginning in England in the 1780s,
continuing in Halifax at the time of the Great Explosion, and
ending in Toronto in the present, eight larcenous generations
from all walks of life—craftsmen and highwaymen, aristocrats
and servants, lawyers and B-movie actors—are connected by
music, a secret family journal and one long-lived violin. When
the branches of the family are reunited and lingering secrets
are revealed, we have come full circle in a hugely satisfying and
surprising tale.
This multi-generational story—told in a spellbinding series
of historical voices—abounds in such rich social detail and
sharply rendered characters, it affords the deep reading pleasures
to be found in the novels of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.
Enjoy the accompanying album, Joyner’s Dream: The
Kingsfold Suite, with all-original music by Sylvia Tyson. Available
at zunior.com.
“Wherever musicians gather, thievery abounds. That’s an
old story, but Tyson breathes fresh life into it with power
and acumen. . . . [Tyson’s characters] speak to us . . . as a
chorus interweaving universal themes orchestrated by a
master harmonizer.” THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“It really should not come as a surprise that Sylvia Tyson
can write. . . . The result is a brutally honest family history
in which adult children admit to resentments, mothers
admit to indulgences, fathers admit to negligence, and
almost everyone admits to the two hereditary strains that
simultaneously gave life to and destroyed the Joyner
dream—music and madness.” WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
For eighteen years, SYLVIA TYSON was one half of the internationally
renowned folk duo Ian and Sylvia. Sylvia has recorded
ten solo albums since the duo split in 1975, and since 2000 has
been recording and performing with the group Quartette. She
has also had a distinguished radio and television career, both
in music and documentaries. Sylvia Tyson is a member of the
Order of Canada and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. She
lives in Toronto.
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A lyrical multi-generational story,
from a Canadian folk music legend
sylvia tyson
Joyner’s Dream
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In the vein of our national bestsellers The
Weather Makers and The World Without Us,
a bold new thought experiment about climate
change and how humans will live on the
new Earth
curt stager
Deep Future
The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
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In this extraordinary book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager
shows how what we do to the environment in the next one
hundred years will affect not just the next few centuries but
the next 100,000 years of human existence. Most of us have accepted
that our planet is warming and that humans have played
the key role in causing climate change. Yet few of us realize the
magnitude of what’s happening.
In Deep Future, Curt Stager draws on the planet’s geological
history to provide a view of where we may be headed long
term. On the bright side, we have already put off the next ice
age. But whether we will barrel ahead on a polluting path to a
totally ice-free Arctic, miles of submerged coasts or an acidified
ocean still remains to be decided. And that decision is ours to
make. Deep Future adds a new dimension to the debate—one
that will change how we think about what we are doing to our
planet.
“A probing exploration of the impact of climate change over
geological time. . . . Essential reading.”
KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
“Amid all the ranting, confusing and contradicting books
on climate change, at last here’s one that does something
truly useful: Clearly and engagingly, scientist Curt Stager
guides us back into the atmosphere’s history, letting us
compare it to the present and draw informed ideas about
what to expect in the future. It’s heartening to know that he
expects us to have one.”
ALAN WEISMAN, AUTHOR OF THE WORLD WITHOUT US
CURT STAGER is an ecologist, a paleoclimatologist and a
science writer with a PhD in biology and geology from Duke
University. He has published more than three dozen climateand
ecology-related articles and co-hosts a weekly science
program on a local radio station. He teaches at Paul Smith’s
College in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and
holds a research associate post at the University of Maine’s Climate
Change Institute, where he investigates the long-term history
of climate in Africa, South America and the polar regions.
Visit him online at www.curtstager.com.
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Set in the eighteenth century, in what is now Manitoba, this
unflinching and powerful novel takes the reader deep into
unexplored territory.
Molly Norton, mixed-blood daughter of Governor Moses
Norton, is ill-prepared for the ordeal fate has in store. Dressed
in English clothes unsuited to the harsh conditions at the
Prince of Wales Fort and forbidden to practice the traditional
skills of her mother’s people, Molly bears witness to her father’s
increasingly tyrannical rule. Governor Norton is suspicious of
every man, but particularly resentful of Matonabbee, the esteemed
hunter and Dene captain, whom he once considered his
brother. But it is the explorer Samuel Hearne who receives the
brunt of Norton’s temper when, returning from his expedition,
he sets his sights on Molly.
In the days that follow, larger events unfold and every
man, woman and child at the fort is confronted by forces greater
than themselves. Allegiances are both broken and tragically
upheld as one of history’s cruel ironies takes shape in the harsh
ancestral landscape from which Molly descends.
“Vivid. . . . Holdstock’s writing manages to be both heartbreakingly
poetic and densely detailed. . . . A great work of
fiction.” THE GLOb E AND MAIL
“Holdstock’s writing moves seamlessly between her research
and her polished storytelling of people, landscape
and grief. . . . Compelling and rich.”
NATIONAL POST
“A beautifully written, powerful novel about dissolution and
belonging, sorrow and hope.”
BETH POWNING, AUTHOR OF THE SEA CAPTAIN’S WIFE
PAULINE HOLDSTOCK’s novel Beyond Measure was shortlisted
for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
and the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and won the Ethel Wilson
Fiction Prize. Holdstock’s other novels include The Blackbird’s
Song, The Turning and The Burial Ground. She lives on
Vancouver Island. Visit her online at paulineholdstock.com.
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The bestselling true story behind
one of the worst mass murders
in Canadian history
peter edwards
The Bandido Massacre
A True Story of Bikers, Brotherhood
and Betrayal
TRUE CRIME • $18.99 TPB
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On the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of
Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied
bodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found
dead on a local farm. The massacre made headlines around the
world, and the shocking news brought a grim light to an otherwise
quiet corner of the province. Six Bandidos would eventually
be convicted of the first-degree murder of their biker
brothers.
Like other outlaw bikers, Bandidos portray themselves as
motorcycle aficionados who are systematically misunderstood
and abused by police, as well as feared by the public. We now
know the Bandidos were anything but simple motorcycle enthusiasts.
However, unlike such biker gangs as the Hells Angels,
who run sophisticated criminal empires, the Bandidos were
highly disorganized and prone to petty infighting, and even engaged
in sabotaging fellow members. This is the story of how
the Bandidos self-destructed over one dark night.
As gripping as any crime novel, The bandido Massacre takes
us inside a crumbling brotherhood bent on self-obliteration
and betrayal.
“Peter Edwards knows how real bad guys eat, sleep and
breathe, and on the page brings them to life—even the
dead ones—better than any other true crime writer.”
LINWOOD BARCLAY, INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
“Peter Edwards is one of the best crime writers in Canada
and our most reliable reporter on organized crime.”
MICHEL AUGER, AUTHOR OF THE b IKER WHO SHOT ME
PETER EDWARDS, crime reporter for the Toronto Star, is the
author of ten books, including the highly praised One Dead
Indian: The Premier, the Police and the Ipperwash Crisis.
Edwards has been nominated four times for the Arthur Ellis
Award and has been interviewed about organized crime for
the Mob Stories and Outlaw Biker series for History Television.
A two-hour History Television documentary on The Bandido
Massacre is currently in development. Edwards works in Toronto.
Visit www.bandidomassacre.com.
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In 16th-century Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Bathory tortured
and killed more than 600 servant girls in order to bathe
in their blood. She believed this practice would keep her beauty
immortal.
Quiver captures the chilling legacy of the notorious Countess
Bathory through the modern-day story of Danica, a young
forensic psychologist. Danica works at Stowmoor, a former
insane asylum turned forensic hospital, where one of her patients,
Martin Foster, is imprisoned for murdering a fourteenyear-old
girl. Danica suspects that Foster may have belonged
to a gothic cabal idolizing Bathory and reenacting her savage
murders.
When Maria, a seductive archivist with whom Danica has
had a complicated past, contacts her to claim she has found
Bathory’s long-lost diaries, Danica is drawn into Maria’s glamorous
orbit. Soon Danica is in too deep to notice that Maria’s
motivations are far from selfless, and that they may just cost
Danica her life.
“Fast and wicked and dark. The writing in this novel is as
clean and slick as a stiletto between the ribs.”
ANTANAS SILEIKA, NATIONAL POST
“A gripping psychological thriller that has combined the
complexity and careful detail of a novel with the beautiful
and terrible simplicity of drama. This novel masterfully
illuminates those quick dark moments when the safety
doesn’t catch and people lie, forge the cheque, steal the
car, use the knife.”
EDEN ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF MONKEY b EACH AND b LOODLINES
HOLLY LUHNING was raised on a farm in Saskatchewan,
and holds a PhD specializing in 18th-century literature, madness
and theories of the body. Currently, she is a Leverhulme
Fellow at the University of Chichester, England. She has received
a Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award, and
her collection of poetry, Sway, was nominated for a Saskatchewan
Book Award. Visit her online at www.hollyluhning.com.
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“Quiver has everything: style, substance,
terror, a treacherous murderess.”
—The Globe and Mail
holly luhning
Quiver
A Novel
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“Genuinely funny and tremendously charming.
. . . My only complaint might be that I
wanted to hang out with these characters a
little longer.” —National Post
susan juby
The Woefield Poultry
Collective
A Novel
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Woefield Farm is a sprawling thirty acres of scrub land,
complete with dilapidated buildings and one halfsheared,
lonely sheep named Bertie. It’s “run”—in the loosest
possible sense of the word—by Prudence Burns, an energetic,
well-intentioned twenty-something New Yorker full of backto-the-land
ideals, but without an iota of related skills or experience.
Prudence, who inherited the farm from her uncle,
soon discovers that the bank is about to foreclose on Woefield
Farm, which means that she has to turn things around, fast. But
fear not! She’ll be assisted by Earl, a spry seventy-something,
banjo-playing foreman with a distrust of newfangled ideas and a
substantial family secret; Seth, the alcoholic, celebrity-blogging
boy-next-door who hasn’t left the house since a scandal with
his high school drama teacher; and Sara Spratt, a highly organized
eleven-year-old looking for a home for her prize-winning
chickens, including one particularly randy fellow soon to be
christened Alec Baldwin.
Full of off-beat charm and characters you won’t soon forget,
The Woefield Poultry Collective is a heartwarming novel
about learning how to take on a challenge, facing your fears and
finding friendship in the most unlikely of places.
“Amusing rural comedy. . . . Susan Juby’s first novel for
adults features an eclectic mix of characters whose assortment
of quirks and skills meld into some laugh-outloud
moments.” WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
“A sweetly cockamamie tale. . . . A lightly funny and touching
yarn about an endearing band of social wrecks who
are impossible not to love.” PUb LISHERS WEEKLY
SUSAN JUBY is the author of the critically acclaimed Another
Kind of Cowboy, as well as the bestselling Alice series: Alice, I
Think; Miss Smithers; and Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last. She
holds a master’s degree in publishing. She currently lives on Vancouver
Island with her husband, James, and their dog, who prefers
to remain anonymous. Visit her online at www.susanjuby.com.
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Little is known about the Labrador Duck, which once populated
eastern North America but has been extinct for more
than a hundred years. Stuffed specimens are rare—only fiftyfour
are thought to exist. Even rarer is the kind of scientist who
would travel around the globe more than three times in search
of every last stuffed bird. And what about the curse? Everyone
who has owned a particular specimen has come to a bad end.
Over the course of his epic journey, Chilton encountered a
colourful flock of scientists, journalists and amateur ornithologists,
not to mention a Scottish egg thief. His pursuit of the
extinct species took him from the duck’s breeding habitat in
Labrador to Europe and America as he searched museums and
personal collections. He also endured numerous hangovers and
narrowly avoided arrest in New York City, all leading up to his
final pursuit of the last duck and his own part in the species’
many-feathered legacy.
The Curse of the Labrador Duck is a quest unlike any other,
an impulsive journey around the planet in pursuit of a bird no
one in our lifetime has seen alive or ever will again.
“Fascinating. . . . Glen Chilton—currently my favorite harddrinking
ornithologist—is a wonderful guide, with prose
that calls to mind James Herriot and Bill Bryson.”
A.J. JACOBS, AUTHOR OF THE YEAR OF LIVING b I b LICALLY
AND THE KNOW-IT-ALL
“Nothing matches Glen Chilton’s galloping obsession to
corner the market on rare stuffed ducks. A funny, fastpaced
and oddly heroic tale.”
WILL FERGUSON, AUTHOR OF HOW TO b E A CANADIAN
DR. GLEN CHILTON, professor emeritus at St. Mary’s University
College, Calgary, and adjunct professor at James Cook
University, Townsville, Australia, is an internationally recognized
ornithologist and behavioural ecologist, and the world’s leading
authority on the extinct Labrador Duck. He is also the author of
The Attack of the Killer Rhododendrons. Chilton now resides
in Australia.
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for Humour and the William Saroyan
International Prize for Writing
glen chilton
The Curse of the
Labrador Duck
My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction
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Foursome
A Novel
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Rebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends
since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married
Isabel, and the two couples are inseparable. But everything is
about to change. They say you should keep your friends close
and enemies closer, but sometimes your best friend can become
your worst enemy . . .
“Chick lit with an edge.” THE GUARDIAN
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The Devil’s Cure
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Convicted murderer David Haines sits on death row. Meanwhile,
researcher Dr. Laura Donaldson discovers that
Haines’s blood may hold the cure to cancer. When she unwittingly
helps Haines escape, she and FBI agent Kevin Sheldrake
embark on a terrifying manhunt. It is imperative that Haines
be brought back alive—but he’d sooner kill himself than offer
his blood to medical science.
KENNETH OPPEL is the author of more than twenty books for
young people, including the Silverwing Saga, the Airborn series,
and Half Brother. The Devil’s Cure is his first adult novel. Visit
him online at kennethoppel.com.

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Birdman
A Novel
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Five bodies, all young women, all ritualistically murdered
and dumped near the Millennium Dome in southeast
London. A post-mortem examination tells the police they’re
dealing with a sexual serial killer. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery
knows he has only limited time before the sadistic killer
strikes again.
“A first-class shocker.” THE GUARDIAN
MO HAYDER is the author of Birdman, The Treatment, The
Devil of Nanking, Pig Island, Ritual, Skin and Gone, all of which
have been international bestsellers. She was shortlisted for the
CWA Dagger in the Library Award in both 2010 and 2011. Mo
Hayder lives with her daughter in Bath, England. Visit her online
at www.mohayder.net.
mo hayder
The Treatment
A Novel
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In a residential neighbourhood in south London, a husband
and wife are found tied up and imprisoned in their house.
Their young son is missing. Detective Jack Caffery is called in
to investigate. When the child’s body is found, he attempts to
unravel the motive and sequence of events, especially when he
discovers that a tragedy in his own past is indirectly connected
to the murder.
“The most frightening book I’ve ever read.” THE GUARDIAN
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In Office Hours
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Stella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work for the same
company. Bella is doomed to work as an invisible assistant
to a series of men of half her intelligence. Stella is twenty
years older and about to get a seat on the board. What possesses
both women to embark on affairs with men they wouldn’t have
looked twice at outside the office?
“Funny, frank and shrewd, this comic novel is always on
the money.”
THE INDEPENDENT
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Gone
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When a car is taken by force, with an eleven-year-old
girl inside, Detective Jack Caffery knows this is a carjacking
unlike any other. Sergeant Flea Marley, head of the Police
Underwater Search Unit, has a theory that the car-jacker is far
more dangerous than everyone thinks. Soon the perpetrator will
choose another car with another child in the back seat…
“Hayder’s well-defined characters help move along a
tight plot. . . . Gone is great crime fiction.”
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Min Green and Ed Slaterton have broken up, so Min is
writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is
why they broke up. A movie ticket from their first date, a comb
from the motel room they shared and every other memento
collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship.
Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and
then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.
Why We broke Up is a sincere and moving portrait of first
love, first heartbreak and all the firsts in between. Min’s smart,
sharp, devastatingly honest voice is one of the most memorable
in contemporary young adult literature.
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“A book that pushes boundaries and demands such active
participation on the part of both readers and listeners . . .
is to be commended.” b OOKLIST
DANIEL HANDLER is the author of the novels The Basic
Eight, Watch Your Mouth and, as Lemony Snicket, the bestselling
collection of children’s novels entitled A Series of Unfortunate
Events, which has sold more than sixty million copies worldwide,
has been translated into thirty-nine languages and was adapted
into a feature film starring Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep.
MAIRA KALMAN is an illustrator, author and designer who
has written and illustrated a dozen children’s books, including
Lemony Snicket’s 13 Words. Her artwork has been featured on
the cover of The New Yorker, and she has been a visual columnist
for The New York Times. She lives in New York City.
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“I’m telling you why we broke up, Ed.
I’m writing it in this letter, the whole
truth of why it happened.”
daniel handler
illustrations by maira kalman
Why We Broke Up
A Novel
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An explosive thriller ripped from today’s
headlines, by internationally award-winning
author Allan Stratton. Is Sami’s father the loving
dad he’s always known or the mastermind
of a terrorist plot as everyone else suspects?
allan stratton
Borderline
A Novel
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Life’s not easy for Sami Sabiri, especially since his dad stuck
him at a private boys’ school where he’s the only Muslim
kid. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse.
When Sami catches his father in a lie, he gets suspicious.
Unfortunately, he’s not the only one. The FBI raids his home,
and suddenly his family is at the centre of an international terror
plot—and Sami is forced to question everything he’s ever known.
borderline is an action-packed page-turner about loyalty and
identity that tackles the ethical debate at the heart of today’s
toughest security issues, starring a funny and gutsy fifteenyear-old
determined to save his father, his family and his life.
“A powerful story . . . with a message that extends well
beyond the timely subject matter.”
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“A tautly paced thriller with well-crafted characters and
realistic teen dialogue. . . . A great, fast-paced read.”
S CHOOL L I b RARY J OURNAL (STARRED R EVIEW)
“Smart, meticulously plotted and thrilling. The scariest
thing about Borderline is how utterly believable it is.”
T IM W YNNE-JONES, AUTHOR OF bLINK & C AUTION
• Canadian Library Association
Young Adult Book Award nominee
• John Spray Mystery Award finalist
• White Pine Award finalist
• America Library Association Best Fiction selection
• Resource Links Year’s Best selection
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Hans is on the run from his adoptive father, a grave robber
who found him as a baby hidden inside a wooden box
that washed ashore. Now fate has introduced Hans to Angela
von Schwanenberg, a young countess fleeing the evil forces of
Archduke Arnulf, who has chosen her to be the next in his long
line of brides, and the dreaded Necromancer.
Together, Hans and Angela gallop through dark forests,
treacherous lands and secret passageways on their quest to
uncover the truth about Hans’ shadowy past and save Angela’s
parents from the archduke’s monstrous asylum. In this world
of highwaymen, hermits and dancing bears, anything is possible—even
for a grave robber’s apprentice.
Brimming with action and ghoulish delights, The Grave
Robber’s Apprentice is a grand fantasy adventure from one of
Canada’s most acclaimed authors for young readers.
“A rollicking, enchanting fairy tale for the 21st century.”
KENNETH OPPEL, AUTHOR OF THE SILVERWING SAGA
AND AIRBORN SERIES
“A tale told with sound and furious action—chock-full of
villainous villains, heroic heroes (and heroines) and moments
of absolute hilarity. Stratton is a master at his craft
and he’s given this story a heart of gold.”
ARTHUR SLADE, AUTHOR OF THE HUNCHBACK ASSIGNMENTS SERIES
ALLAN STRATTON is the internationally acclaimed author of
Chanda’s Secrets, winner of twenty-six awards and citations
including the ALA’s Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the Children’s
Africana Best Book Award and Booklist’s Editor’s Choice. The
film version, Life, Above All, won the Prix François Chalais at
the Cannes Film Festival and was South Africa’s Oscar entry for
best foreign language film. Its sequel, Chanda’s Wars, won the
CLA Young Adult Book Award and was a Junior Library Guild
selection (USA). His most recent novel, Borderline, earned an
American Library Association Best Fiction nod. All his books
have been nominated for the White Pine Award. He lives in Toronto.
Visit him online at www.allanstratton.com.
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Inside a dark and dusty tomb,
a ghoulishly delightful adventure awaits
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The Grave Robber’s
Apprentice
A Novel
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Return to the world of Ingo as myth
and reality collide once again
helen dunmore
Stormswept
Chronicles of Ingo
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In this companion novel to the Ingo series, myth and reality
collide when Morveren, a young girl from a Cornish island,
discovers a Mer boy, Malin, half-buried in the sand dunes. New
conflicts erupt between the worlds of sea and air, and storm
clouds of danger gather as Morveren and her twin sister, Jenna,
struggle to protect Malin. An enthralling battle of loyalties
begins when Morveren and Jenna learn that even your closest
friend can betray you, and that a tragic reality lies beneath their
island’s legends.
praise for the crossing of ingo
“Helen Dunmore’s writing is quick and infectious. The
Crossing of Ingo is an eclectic adventure, a swift and dangerous
journey through the seas of Ingo. . . . Dunmore’s
prose is as fluid as the currents that carry her characters.”
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praise for the deep
“Dunmore’s writing, steeped in maritime legends, is exquisite.
The descriptions of plunging ‘sleek and fast as a
seal’ through turquoise water into the rich blue-purple that
lies beneath are gorgeous. The Deep is sophisticated and
supple.” THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)
praise for the tide knot
“Intensely compelling and written in gorgeous, pellucid
prose.” THE TIMES (LONDON)
HELEN DUNMORE is a novelist, short story writer and poet.
She has written twenty-two children’s books, including Brother
Brother, Sister Sister; The Lilac Tree; The Seal Cove; and the
bestselling Ingo series. She has written nine adult books including
A Spell of Winter, which won the 1996 Orange Prize for
Fiction. Her poetry collections have won the Poetry Society’s
Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Signal Poetry Award. Helen
Dunmore was born in Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Bristol
with her husband and children.
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Ingo
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The Tide Knot
978-1-55468-288-1 . $7.99 mm
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Amy (a.k.a. Bird) seems to have the perfect life: loving
parents, a hot boyfriend, the best friend ever. She even
writes an online advice column, full of Top Tips, to help other
teens take control of their lives. But after a new guy shows up at
school, Bird can’t seem to follow her own wisdom.
Pete is the consummate bad boy. He’s everything Bird is
not: wild, unambitious and more than a little dangerous. Although
she knows he’s trouble, Bird can’t stay away. And the
more drawn she is to Pete, the more cracks are revealed in her
relationship with Griffin, her doting boyfriend. Meanwhile, her
parents’ marriage is also fracturing, possibly for good.
Bird is way out of her comfort zone. All it takes is one mistake,
one momentary loss of control, for her entire future to be
blown away . . .
ALICE KUIPERS is the author of Life on the Refrigerator
Door. Sold in twenty-nine countries, it was the winner of the
Saskatchewan First Book Award, the Sheffield Libraries Choice
Award and the Grand Prix de Viarmes. It was longlisted for the
Carnegie Medal and was named a New York Times Book for
the Teen Age. Her second YA novel, The Worst Thing She Ever
Did, published in eight territories to critical acclaim, was shortlisted
for the White Pine Award and the Arthur Ellis Award. She
lives in Saskatoon. Visit her at alicekuipers.com.
When I was eight years old, I climbed a tree and told
my mum I was a bird.
I remember the branches wide around me, the
leaves dancing in the breeze. I’d balanced at the edge
of a branch and looked up at the tempting blue sky.
My mum screamed at me, “No, Amy, stop!”
“I’m a bird,” I cried and flew.
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Top Tip: Some secrets are too hard to keep
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40 Things I Want
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Starving can lead you anywhere—
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Winner of the
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Prize
F
“
irst, that is a lie. You are not trying to take a train to Germany.
Second, your papers are false. Do you think you can
trump up false papers and just walk onto one of our trains?”
(Hunger Journeys)
It’s World War Two in Amsterdam. Lena leaves her starving
family to travel by train with her friend Sofie to Almelo, a
town close to the German border, in search of food. It’s a risky
plan. The girls have false papers and are quickly pulled off the
train by German soldiers. Only by fluke do they get back on
again—with the help of Albert, one of the soldiers. After Lena
discovers that the train had also been used to transport Jews
to concentration camps, she fears her new friendship with the
well-meaning Albert may lead her into more danger. Sofie, too,
befriends a soldier, a relationship that quickly turns serious and
has unfortunate consequences for both girls.
“De Vries has done a masterful job of creating a believable
world peopled with characters whose loyalties are agonizingly
divided between family, friends and nation.”
QUILL & QUIRE
“An exemplary young adult novel, with a quick-paced and
interesting plot line, characters who involve the reader on
many levels and a setting which transports the reader to a
different time and place. . . . Hunger Journeys is historical
fiction at its best.” CM MAGAZINE
MAGGIE de VRIES is the author of six other books for children,
including the picture books Fraser Bear and Tale of
a Great White Fish, as well as one book for adults, Missing
Sarah, a memoir about her sister that was shortlisted for the
Governor General’s Literary Award. She has also contributed
to two anthologies, one of them Dropped Threads 3. A former
children’s book editor and writer-in-residence for the Vancouver
Public Library, she now focuses on teaching creative
writing at the University of British Columbia and on her own
writing. Maggie de Vries lives in Vancouver. Visit her online at
www.maggiedevries.com.
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After beating the pirates to Island X and its treasures, Scarlet
and Jem and the rest of the Lost Souls have now settled
on the island. While Uncle Finn wanders the island in search
of rare plants, Jem tries to construct tree houses, and Scarlet
deals with her newfound ability to channel the feelings of the
island’s animals. But everything is thrown into disarray when
the Dread Pirate Captain Wallace Hammerstein-Jones and his
crew, including the traitor Lucas Lawrence, come back to the
island. Things get even more worrisome when a troop of King’s
Men appear—led by Scarlet’s father!
Can they keep the pirates from the rubies and prevent the
King’s Men from plundering the island’s treasures? The Lost
Souls have to use all their wits—along with help from some
surprising island inhabitants—to keep Island X safe.
praise for the ship of lost souls
“A perfect and exciting parable for modern times. The New
World islands depicted are at once familiar and otherworldly,
her take on piracy as a foil for plundering colonial
powers is brilliant and her placing of children in charge of
their own destiny amid a lawless society is highly appealing
to pre-teens. . . . A book that combines classic themes
and appealing adventure in the most seamless way possible.”
CM MAGAZINE (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
“A pirate ship, a treasure map and a crew of orphans: how
could even the most reluctant young reader resist such a
premise?” QUILL & QUIRE
RACHELLE DELANEY lives in Vancouver, BC, where she
works as a freelance writer, editor and creative writing teacher.
The Lost Souls of Island X is the follow-up to her first novel,
The Ship of Lost Souls, which won the Canadian Authors Association/BookLand
Press Emerging Writer Award and was
shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, the
Chocolate Lily Book Award and the Red Cedar Book Award.
Visit her online at www.rachelledelaney.com.
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What happens when you uproot a true city girl
and transplant her onto a ramshackle organic
farm in the middle of nowhere? Everything.
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All You Get Is Me
A Novel
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Sixteen-year-old Roar has been yanked from her city life and
transformed into a farm girl, albeit a reluctant one. Now she
sells organic figs at the farmers’ market and develops her photographs
in a rickety shed, her hair pulled back with a rubber band
meant for asparagus. Caught between a trouble-making sidekick
named Storm and a brooding, easy-on-the-eyes L.A. boy,
not to mention a father on a complicated human rights crusade
that challenges the fabric of the farm community, Roar is going
to have to tackle it all—even with dirt under her fingernails.
“Prinz (The Vinyl Princess) infuses romance into a heated
battle for justice in this provocative novel. . . . Aurora’s
introspective narration and Prinz’s well-drawn characterizations
sustain this judicious story.”
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“A sweet first love unfolds over the course of the summer
and culminates in Aurora’s tenderly described first
sexual experience. The writing is fluid and the plot moves
quickly, but it is grounded by descriptions of summer on a
vegetable farm. This book should appeal to fans of Sarah
Dessen and contemporary romance.”
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YVONNE PRINZ is the author of several books, including the
Clare series and The Vinyl Princess, which won the California Library
Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award, was shortlisted
for an Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction and was named
to Resource Links’ Year’s Best of 2010 list. A Canadian living
in San Francisco, she is the co-founder of Amoeba Music, the
world’s largest independent music store.
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Big-hearted and ever-hungry, Farley follows his nose from
one alluring scent to the next on a beautiful summer’s
day. Wandering ever farther from home, he explores his town,
helps out a new friend and—after many adventures—is finally
reunited with his adoring family.
A brand-new picture-book star, Farley is also a beloved
old friend. The Old English sheepdog from For better or for
Worse is already an audience favourite—and sure to win new
fans with this rhythmical tale of snacks, smells and friends. Following
in the steps of such great cartoonists turned children’s
book authors as Shel Silverstein, Crockett Johnson, Syd Hoff
and Art Spiegelman, Lynn Johnston has created a hero we can’t
help but love.
A portion of the proceeds from this book benefit the Farley
Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping
provide essential veterinary services for pets whose owners do
not have the means to pay these costs. Find out more at www.
farleyfoundation.org.
“A most amusing read, and hopefully young readers will be
treated to further adventures of this loveable dog.”
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LYNN JOHNSTON is the creator of one of the world’s most
popular comic strips, For Better or for Worse, which began in
1979 and is published in more than twenty countries. Lynn,
a Pulitzer Prize nominee, has received many honours, including
the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award and the
prestigious Order of Canada. Farley, the Old English sheepdog
from her comic strip, is based on a beloved dog—of the same
name—she once owned. Lynn lives in Northern Ontario.
BETH (JOHNSTON) CRUIKSHANK has been a practising
veterinarian and has worked with the Computers for Schools
program in Canada. She has also been a freelance writer for
many years and frequently collaborates with Lynn on For Better
or for Worse projects. Beth has owned (or been owned by) hundreds
of pets of every size, shape and sort. She lives in Miami,
Manitoba, in the rural heartland of Canada.
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Author Index
Aboulela, Leila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Addison, Corban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Badinter, Elisabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Benaron, Naomi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Bezmozgis, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Brabazon, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Brewster, Hugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Chilton, Glen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 61
Christie, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Cirocco, Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Cooper, Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Crichton, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Cruikshank, Beth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Delaney, Rachelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
de Vries, Maggie ...................................72
Dunmore, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Edwards, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Fallon, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Flannery, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Flowers, Frankie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Fox, Elaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Funder, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Glass, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Greene, Debbie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Greene, Trevor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Grescoe, Taras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Handler, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Hayder, Mo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 64, 65
Hill, Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44, 45
Holdstock, Pauline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Hollihan, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Hunt, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Izzo, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Jayawardhana, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Johnston, Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Juby, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Kalman, Maira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Kellaway, Lucy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Kennedy, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Kuipers, Alice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Lennox, Matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Leslie, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Livesey, Margot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Luhning, Holly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Lukas, Michael David ...............................42
Maclear, Kyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
McCleen, Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
McDermid, Val . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Miller, A .D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Morrison, Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Moyo, Dambisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Oppel, Kenneth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Prinz, Yvonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Raisin, Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Richler, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Ross, Shannon J . ...................................13
Segal, Francesca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Sharma, Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Shriver, Lionel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Shulman, Dr . Joey ..................................25
Silva, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Stager, Curt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Stratton, Allan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68, 69
Suskind, Ron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Tyson, Sylvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Watters, Marge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Wells, Greg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Wheelwright, Julie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Vaz-Oxlade, Gail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 43
Vosper, Gretta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Vyleta, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Title Index
40 Things I Want to Tell You. .........................71
100 Under 100 .....................................24
All That I Am ......................................19
All You Get Is Me ...................................74
Amen .............................................12
Any Known Blood ..................................44
Attack of the Killer Rhododendrons, The ...............22
Bandido Massacre, The. .............................58
Beggar’s Garden, The. ...............................41
Birdman ..........................................64
Book of Negroes, The ................................45
Borderline .........................................68
Carpenter, The ......................................7
Confidence Men ....................................35
Conflict, The. ......................................16
Curse of the Labrador Duck, The ......................61
Debt-Free Forever ..................................43
Deep Future .......................................56
Devil’s Cure, The ...................................65
Devil Will Come, The ...............................20
Engineers of Victory, The ............................26
Esther. ............................................46
Farley Follows His Nose. .............................75
Flight of Gemma Hardy, The .........................14
Foursome. .........................................63
Four Stages of Cruelty, The ...........................36
Free World, The ....................................39
Gone .............................................65
Grave Robber’s Apprentice, The .......................69
Hanging Hill. ......................................28
Here on Earth ......................................47
Hunger Journeys ...................................72
Imposter Bride, The. .................................2
Innocents, The .....................................21
In Office Hours. ....................................63
Into the Heart of the Country .........................57
It’s Your Money .....................................4
It’s Your Move. .....................................30
Jane Austen Marriage Manual, The ....................6
Joyner’s Dream. ....................................55
Land of Decoration, The ..............................3
Last Weekend, The. .................................48
Lost Souls of Island X, The ...........................73
Lyrics Alley ........................................40
March Forth .......................................23
Metabolism Boosting Diet, The .......................25
Micro .............................................11
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, The. .....................17
Mr. Chartwell ......................................52
My Friend the Mercenary ............................50
New Republic, The. .................................34
Oracle of Stamboul, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Portrait of a Spy ....................................53
Pot It Up ..........................................13
Quiet Twin, The ....................................49
Quiver ............................................59
Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain. ...........................31
Retribution, The ...................................10
R.M.S. Titanic ......................................5
Running the Rift. ...................................33
Snowdrops. ........................................54
Stormswept ........................................70
Strange New Worlds ................................51
Straphanger ........................................9
Superbodies. .......................................27
Take the Step: The Bridge Will Be There. ...............38
Thousand Tiny Hammers, A .........................15
Treatment, The.....................................64
Trigger Point. ......................................29
Walk Across the Sun, A ..............................18
Waterline .........................................32
Why We Broke Up ..................................67
Winner Take All .....................................8
Woefield Poultry Collective, The ......................60

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Charidy Johnston, Associate Marketing
Director, National Accounts
Cory Beatty, Associate Marketing Director,
Digital Strategy
Laura Hughes, Publicity Manager
Lindsey Love, Senior Publicist
Emma Ingram, Publicist
Carolyn Ovell, Publicist
Meghan Paton, Publicist
Julia Barrett, Publicity Assistant
Melissa Zilberberg, Marketing & Publicity
Manager, Children’s Books
Paul Covello, Creative Coordinator
Jessica Anderson, Marketing Coordinator
Jason Pratt, Marketing Assistant
Shannon Parsons, Marketing Assistant
SALES
Leo MacDonald, VP, Sales & Marketing
Sandra Leef, Senior Sales Director,
National Accounts
Steve Osgoode, Senior Director, Digital Business
Development
Michael Guy-Haddock, Sales Director,
National Accounts
Liza Morrison, Sales Director,
Children’s Books
Sara James, Sales Director, National Accounts
Rosalyn Steele, Sales Director, Library &
Academic Markets
Leanne Williams, Sales Director,
Gift & Special Markets
Deanna McFadden, Associate Director,
Digital Product Development
Anita Lajunen, Director, Supply Chain
Nadeena Hussain, Supply Chain Manager
Don Bassingthwaite, Supply Chain Manager
Thomas Grady, Business Manager
Mark Bertils, Manager, Digital Products
Amanda Olson, Sales Manager, National
Accounts
Shamin Alli, Sales Manager, National Accounts
Jacqueline Vukasovic, Sales Representative,
Wholesale Markets
Alicia Edwards, Sales Associate,
Wholesale Accounts
Bradley Macks, Sales Assistant,
National Accounts
Justin Beaubien, Sales Assistant
Melissa Castronovo, Sales Assistant
Julianna Varga, Digital Assistant
KEY ACCOUNT REPS
Terry Toews, Field Sales Director,
Prairie & Atlantic Provinces
Ph 204.235.0673 / Fx 204.233.1786
Doug Findlay, BC, Vancouver Island,
Yukon & Northwest Territories
Ph 604.536.4919 / Fx 604.536.4935
Inge Siemens, BC & Alberta
Ph 604.683.0990 / Fx 604.683.0933
Kathryn Wardropper, Toronto, Southwestern
& Northern Ontario
Ph/Fx 519.576.5363
Mike Mason, Eastern Ontario & Québec
Ph 613.523.5108 / Fx 613.523.0057
EDITORIAL
Ph 416.975.9334 / Fx 416.975.9884
SALES AND MARKETING
Ph 416.975.9334 / Fx 416.975.5223
AGENTS
Aitken Alexander Associates
Ph 44.020.7373.8672 / Fx 44.020.7373.6002
Baror International
Ph 914.273.9199 / Fx 914.273.5058
Rick Broadhead & Associates
Ph 416.929.0516
Curtis Brown Group Ltd. (UK)
Ph 44.020.7396.6600 / Fx 44.020.7396.0110
Conville & Walsh
Ph 44.020.7287.3030 / Fx 44.020.7287.4545
The Cooke Agency
Ph 416.406.3390 / Fx 416.406.3389
Fletcher & Company
Ph 212.614.0778 / Fx 212.614.0728
Barry Goldblatt Literary
Ph 718.832.8787
Gregory & Company Authors’ Agents
Ph 44.020.7610.4676
Helen Heller Agency
Ph 416.489.0396
David Higham Associates Limited
Ph 44.020.7434.5900 / Fx 44.020.7437.1072
InkWell Management
Ph 212.922.3500 / Fx 212.922.0535
Melanie Jackson Agency
Ph 212.873.3373 / Fx 212.799.5063
Lutyens & Rubinstein
Ph 44.020.7792.4855
Anne McDermid & Associates Ltd.
Ph 416.324.8845 / Fx 416.324.8870
P.S. Literary Agency
Ph 416.907.8325 / Fx 416.907.5838
Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency
Ph 212.780.9800
Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
Ph 416.964.9598 / Fx 416.921.7726
Tessler Literary Agency
Ph 212.242.0466 / Fx 212.242.2366
Transatlantic Literary Agency
Ph 416.488.9214 / Fx 416.488.4531
Trident Media Group
Ph 212.262.4810 / Fx 212 262-4849
A.P. Watt Ltd.
Ph 44.020.7405.6774 / Fx 44.020.7831.2154
Westwood Creative Artists Ltd.
Ph 416.964.3302 / Fx 416.975.9209
Writers House
Ph 212.685.2400 / Fx 212.685.1781
The Wylie Agency (UK)
Ph 44.020.7908.5900 / Fx 44.020.7908.5901

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