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todd babiak Toby: A Man a nove l

TV presenter and man-about-town Toby Ménard has it all. But in the days after his father has a startling accident, Toby makes a series of terrible, wincing choices. As a result, he is fired from his job as an etiquette commentator and loses his superb condo, his beautiful girlfriend and his beloved BMW. Worse still, he must move back to the FICTION • $32.99 CL grey Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux and live in his parents’ basement. SHIPPING IN JANUARY With his silent BlackBerry and a sudden absence of friends or saviours, Toby ISBN: 978-1-55468-439-7 feels he has reached the limits of misery and humiliation. But his father’s increas- • FIC016000 ingly frightening behaviour is where the real trouble—and risk—lies. Who is this • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 man? What can Toby do? Then, in a moment of misplaced gallantry, Toby encoun- • rights acquired: Canada/English language ters an unstable francophone mother who disappears and abandons her two-year- • other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates old son, Hugo, to his care. Trapped with a toddler and forced to deal with his father’s • editor: Jennifer Lambert tragedies, Toby emerges from the basement bungalow of his life—muddy, broke, bruised, heartbroken—but, finally, a man.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK OF STANLEY

“Todd Babiak has written what few contemporary authors manage: a funny, smart social satire that, at its very centre, has a heart.” —The Globe and Mail

“A mix of tenderness, kookiness and high-spirited blasphemy. . . . The Book of Stanley gives us a divinity for our noisy, coarse times. . . . The big deal, The Book of Stanley reminds us, is not that miracles occur, it’s in recognizing them when they do.” —The Gazette (Montreal)

TODD BABIAK is an award-winning author, journalist and screenwriter. His second novel, The Garneau Block, was a #1 regional bestseller, a longlisted title for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the winner of the City of Edmonton Book Prize. His third novel, The Book of Stanley, is in development for television. Babiak is a col- umnist for the Edmonton Journal and on the board of PEN Canada. Visit his website at www.toddbabiak.com.

2 H a r p e r C o l l i n s A Complicated Kindness meets The Last Picture Show in this charming novel of lost dreams

dianne warren Cool Water a nove l

Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town—the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people—and it’s easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets. Situated on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, Juliet and its inhabitants are caught in limbo between a century-old promise of prosperity and FICTION • $31.99 CL whatever lies ahead. SHIPPING IN MARCH But the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its ISBN: 978-1-55468-558-5 people: the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him; the • FIC000000 pregnant teenager and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding; a shy couple, well • 320 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 36 beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another; • rights acquired: Canada/English language a camel named Antoinette; and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift the • other rights: The Cooke Agency landscape. Their stories bring the prairie desert and the town of Juliet to vivid and • editor: Phyllis Bruce enduring life. This wonderfully entertaining, witty and deeply felt novel brims with forgive- ness as its flawed people stumble towards the future.

PRAISE FOR A RECKLESS MOON

“Dianne Warren is in the big league of story writers, and story readers should take the shortest route a book store.” —The Globe and Mail

“These quiet stories are enhanced by the subtlety with which their secrets and surprises are revealed.” —Publishers Weekly

“A wonderfully captivating and original writer.” —Marian Engel Award jury citation

DIANNE WARREN is the author of three books of short fiction and three plays. Her play Serpent in the Night Sky was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award for Drama in 1992. Her most recent collection, A Reckless Moon, was a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2002, and in 2004 she won the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 3 An explosive new book about early Christianity by the co-author of The Jesus Family Tomb and the author of How Jesus Became Christian SIMCHA JACOBOVICI & BARRIE WILSON The Lost Gospel J es u s ’ M a r r iag e to M a ry M ag da l ene , B r ide of g O D

Gathering dust at the British Museum is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, written by an anonymous monk. The manuscript is at least 1,600 years old, possibly dating to the first century and the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. It seems to be the first solid written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, recounting RELIGION • $31.99 CL that Magdalene was a gentile, that Jesus and Mary had children, and that there was SHIPPING IN MARCH a plot to kill Jesus, abduct Mary and murder their offspring. ISBN: 978-1-55468-653-7 Part detective story, part travelogue about a journey into the maw of an • REL067020 ancient world, The Lost Gospel reveals a secret that’s been hiding in plain sight for • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 centuries. Award-winning writer Barrie Wilson, author of the bestselling How Jesus • b&w illustrations throughout Became Christian, and award-winning documentarian Simcha Jacobovici, co-author • rights acquired: Canada/English language of the New York Times bestseller The Jesus Family Tomb and star of TV’s The Naked • other rights: The Elaine Markson Archaeologist, take us on an earth-shaking quest that illuminates the connection Literary Agency between a document long forgotten and paradigm-shifting secrets that are finally • editor: Jim Gifford coming to light.

PRAISE FOR simcha jacobovici and Barrie Wilson ALSO AVAILABLE BY SIMCHA JACOBOVICI “A slick and suspenseful narrative. . . . Jacobovici is a maverick, a self-made Indiana Jones.” —Newsweek on The Jesus Family Tomb The Jesus Family Tomb 978-1-55468-170-9 • $17.50 TPB “Forget about Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. . . . Barrie Wilson has produced a significant and sensational work of scholarship. And it is truly religious dynamite.” —The Globe and Mail on how jesus became christian

SIMCHA JACOBOVICI is an award-winning investigative journalist and author, as well as a three-time Emmy Award–winning documentary director and producer of such films asThe Lost Tomb of Jesus and The Exodus Decoded. He lives in Canada and Israel.

BARRIE WILSON is a professor of religious studies at York University in Toronto, where he specializes in early Christianity. His book How Jesus Became Christian, a national bestseller, was longlisted for the Cundill International Prize in History and won the Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Award. Wilson lives in Toronto.

4 H a r p e r C o l l i n s From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about the universal truth of men at war

sebastian junger War

They were collectively known as “The Rock.” For one year, in 2007–2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied 30 men—a single platoon—from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army as they fought their way through a remote valley in eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he could count, as current events/history men he knew were killed or wounded and he himself was almost killed. His relation- $32.99 CL ship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon, SHIPPING IN APRIL and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few, if any, journalists ever attain. ISBN: 978-1-55468-554-7 War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing • BIO080000 and the love between platoon-mates who would rather perish than let each other • 384 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 down. Gripping, honest and intense, War explores the neurological, psychological • rights acquired: Canada/English language and social elements of combat, as well as the incredible bonds that form between • other rights: Stuart Krichevsky Literary these small groups of men. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the “War on Agency Terror”; it is a book about all men, in all wars. Junger set out to answer what he thought of as the “hand-grenade question”: why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men he has known for probably only a few months? ALSO AVAILABLE The answer is elusive but profound, going to the heart of what it means not just to BY SEBASTIAN JUNGER be a soldier, but to be human. The Perfect Storm 978-0-06-114846-0 •$17.50 TPB Praise for The Perfect Storm

“Ferociously dramatic, vividly told.” —Entertainment Weekly

“A powerful book.” —the New York Times Book Review

SEBASTIAN JUNGER is a National Magazine Award–winning journalist who writes for numerous publications, including Vanity Fair and National Geographic Adventure. He is the author of the bestselling books The Perfect Storm, Fire and A Death in Belmont. He resides in New York City.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 5 From the author of the Orange Prize-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin, a novel that asks how much money is one life worth?

lionel shriver So Much for That a nove l

Shep Knacker discovered long ago that the same money that lasts one year in Westchester lasts ten in the Developing World. That lesson has guided him towards fulfilling the dream he calls “The Afterlife.” Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with days of “talking, thinking, seeing and being”—and FICTION enough sleep. When he sells the home-repair business he built from scratch for a $32.99 cl cool $1 million, his dream finally seems within reach. SHIPPING IN February Yet instead of The Afterlife, Shep is stuck in the present one, thanks to the foot- ISBN: 978-1-55468-201-0 dragging of his wife, Glynis. With no exit date in sight, the 48-year-old Shep reluc- • FIC019000 tantly returns as an employee to the company he founded. Angry and humiliated, he • 384 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 12 gives Glynis an ultimatum: he’s leaving for Tanzania, with or without her. • rights acquired: Canada/English language Glynis, too, has news: she has cancer. Shep cannot abandon her now; in addi- • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. tion to his love and support, she needs his health insurance. But this “health insur- ance company from hell” only partially covers the staggering bills, and suddenly this ALSO AVAILABLE BY Lionel Shriver once well-off family is hurtling toward bankruptcy. Double Fault 978-0-06-171138-1 • $17.99 TPB PRAISE FOR The Post-Birthday World Checkers and the Derailleurs 978-0-06-171137-4 • $16.95 TPB “The novel’s beauty, wisdom and heartbreaking honesty lies in examining the small The Female of the Species details of two seemingly different lives with equal amounts of compassion and 978-0-06-171139-8 • $14.95 TPB A Perfectly Good Family detachment. Shriver is not too concerned with feminist-inflected notions of choice— 978-0-06-123949-6 • $17.50 TPB the ‘what if?’ question or the ‘sliding-doors’ theory of life—but in actions and their The Post-Birthday World consequences.” —The Globe and Mail 978-1-55468-169-3 • $18.95 TPB We Need to Talk About Kevin 978-0-06-112429-7 • $17.99 TPB LIONEL SHRIVER is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds and book reviews for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Economist, Marie Claire and many other publications. She is fre- quently interviewed on television; on radio and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.

6 H a r p e r C o l l i n s It was the crime of the century. A riveting fictionalized account of the greatest tabloid scandal in 19th-century American history ellen Horan 31 Bond Street a nove l

The sensational murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell in his lower Manhattan townhouse was the biggest news story in the United States before the Civil War; “Who killed Dr. Burdell?” was the question that gripped the nation. Deftly interweaving fiction and fact, 31 Bond Street is a clever historical narrative that blends romance, politics, greed FICTION and sexual intrigue in a suspenseful drama. $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB w/ flaps When an errand boy discovers Burdell’s nearly decapitated body in the bed- SHIPPING IN JANUARY room of his posh Bond Street home, there are no witnesses and virtually no clues. ISBN: 978-1-55468-471-7 With the city up in arms over the vicious killing, District Attorney Abraham Oakey • FIC014000 Hall immediately suspects Emma Cunningham, the striking young widow who • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 has been living at 31 Bond Street with her two teenaged daughters, caring for • b&w illustrations throughout Burdell’s home in exchange for a marriage proposal. But Burdell’s past is murky • rights acquired: Canada/English language and his true intentions towards Emma Cunningham were questionable, leaving • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. Emma with a plausible motive for murder. With the help of her defence attorney, Henry Clinton, Emma embarks on a legal drama to prove her innocence and spare herself from the gallows. Set against the background of a bustling and corrupt New York City in 1857, 31 Bond Street is a fascinating archeological dig, taking the reader through the minu- tiae of a buried past, only to uncover circumstances that are shockingly contempo- rary: a sensationalist press, burgeoning new wealth, a booming real estate market, and race and gender conflicts. Ellen Horan’s gripping novel vividly exposes a small slice of lost history as it explores New York City on the eve of the Civil War.

ELLEN HORAN, a book and magazine photo editor, has contributed to many publica- tions, including Vanity Fair, Vogue, House and Garden, Forbes and Art News. She has also worked on photo books (on interiors, design and history) for such publishers as Rizzoli; Crown; Little, Brown; Random House; and the Design Trust for Public Space. She lives in New York City.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 7 Eat kosher(ish), Pray at shul (when you can), Love thy fiancée (always)

BENJAMIN ERRETT Jew and Improved H ow C hoosin g to B e C hosen M ade M e a B ette r M an

This is a story of goy meets girl, and of what happens when a couple in their 20s takes on a complex faith in its 6000s. Laugh-out-loud funny, thoughtful and revealing, Jew and Improved is Errett’s take on joining an ancient tribe and dragging his fiancée along for the ride. MEMOIR/ HUMOUR • $29.99 CL When Benjamin Errett proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Sarah, he decided SHIPPING IN JANUARY to go the distance by converting to Judaism. This engaging book follows Ben and ISBN: 978-1-55468-427-4 Sarah’s education in spirituality, community and gefilte fish when the couple was • BIO018000/HUM014000 pretty sure they already had all those things figured out. But more than that, it’s a • 272 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 love story about the ordinary things that happen after you make an extraordinary • b&w illustrations throughout choice. It’s about making a big change in your life for someone else and realizing • rights acquired: Canada/English language that you were doing it for yourself all along. • other rights: The Rights Factory Jew and Improved is a book about a spiritual journey for people who don’t read • editor: Jennifer Lambert books about spiritual journeys; it’s a primer on a major world religion and an answer to all those embarrassing questions about circumcision. And who doesn’t love a book that features both a wedding and a recipe for brisket?

For most of my life, I was quite happy to be unemployed, spiritually speaking. But when Sarah and I got engaged, I decided joining her tribe was the right thing to do. Beyond that slogan for Quaker Oats, I couldn’t quite articulate why I wanted to do this. Sure, it made her parents happy, but I’d like to think I had them onside from the beginning. I knew I was searching for something, though I had no clear idea what that something was. —From Jew and Improved

BENJAMIN ERRETT studied biology at McGill University and was just about to head off to medical school when he realized what he really wanted to do was write terrifi- cally punny headlines about popular culture. At 22, he was hired as an editor at the National Post with next to no experience. Now 30, Benjamin is a managing editor at the paper. Sarah Lazarovic, a filmmaker, animator and illustrator, has provided the illustrations throughout the book.

8 H a r p e r C o l l i n s a phyllis bruce book

Tragedy, triumph, tears and laughter mix in this dramatic story of the Irish in Canada

SHARON DOYLE DRIEDGER An Irish Heart H ow a S ma l l I mmi g r ant C omm u nit y S haped C anada

During the Great Famine of the 1840s, thousands of impoverished Irish immigrants, escaping from the potato crop failure, fled to Canada on what came to be known as “fever ships.” As the desperate arrivals landed at Quebec City or nearby Grosse Isle, families were often torn apart. Parents died of typhus and children were put up CANADIAN HISTORY • $34.99 CL for adoption, while lucky survivors travelled on to other destinations. Many people SHIPPING IN february made their way up the St. Lawrence to Montreal, where 6,000 more died in appall- ISBN: 978-0-00-200784-9 ing conditions. • HIS006000 Despite these terrible beginnings, a thriving Irish settlement called Griffintown • 384 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 was born and endured in Montreal for over a century. The Irish became known for • b&w illustrations throughout; maps their skill as navvies, building our canals and bridges, working long hours in factories, • rights acquired: Canada/English language raising large, close-knit families. This riveting story captures their strong faith, their • other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates dislike of authority, their love of drink, song and a good fight, and their loyalty. • editor: Phyllis Bruce Filled with personal recollections drawn from extensive author interviews, An Irish Heart recreates a community and a culture that has a place of distinction in our history. From D’Arcy McGee and Nellie McClung to the Montreal Shamrocks, Brian Mulroney and beyond, Irish Canadians have made their mark.

The Irish call it the Harbour of Tears. From time beyond memory, countless thousands have sailed away from their beloved Ireland from the Cove of Cork, a rare natural har- bour tucked into the wild, jagged cliffs of the southwest coast. . . . Never did Cork Har- bour see more weeping and wailing than in Black ’47. In that single sad year, more than 10,000 men, women and children left from that port, among the year’s unprecedented exodus of more than a quarter of a million Irish to North America. —From An Irish Heart

SHARON DOYLE DRIEDGER, a former senior writer for Maclean’s magazine, was born in Griffintown to a third-generation Irish family. This book grew out of a Maclean’s cover article that had tremendous reader response. Doyle Driedger has won a National Magazine Award for her writing. She lives in Toronto with her family.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 9 A raw, sexy novel of the city from one of Canada’s most provocative writers

russell smith Girl Crazy a nove l

Tightly plotted and fast paced, Girl Crazy is a cinematic ride through one man’s obsession with a younger woman. Justin, a dissatisfied community college teacher, meets Jenna and is attracted at once to her mixture of toughness, vulnerability and ripe sexuality. Jenna is unlike anyone Justin has ever known—through her he discov- FICTION ers a world of drugs and sex, casual violence and intimidation that at first frightens $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/FLAPS and then thrills him. Justin falls deeper into Jenna’s thrall, particularly as her erratic SHIPPING IN APRIL behaviour keeps him guessing. When Jenna ends the relationship abruptly, Justin ISBN: 978-1-55468-534-9 finds he isn’t willing to let go of this new life, or of Jenna, without a fight. • FIC048000 • 320 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 PRAISE FOR MURIELLA PENT • rights acquired: Canada/English language • other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates “A nuanced, and ultimately funnier, comedy of manners. . . . Elegant and moving . . . • editor: Jennifer Lambert a tremendous leap forward for an already intriguing novelist.” —Toronto Star

“Interspersed with the biting wit is an almost elegiac quality to the writing. . . . Smith comes closest to [Mordecai] Richler in his targeting of cultural industries and CanLit.” —The Globe and Mail

“Marches with boldness and humour into the minefield of race. . . . Smith writes some of the most luminous prose in Canadian fiction.”—The Gazette (Montreal)

“A gifted and sensually alert writer.” —National Post

RUSSELL SMITH, born in South Africa and raised in Halifax, is a writer of wide acclaim. His debut novel, How Insensitive, was a finalist for theGovernor General’s Award. Both his short story collection, Young Men, and his novel Muriella Pent were shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. He is also the author of Noise; The Princess and the Whiskheads (a fable); Diana: A Diary in the Second Person; and the style guide Men’s Style. Smith works regularly with the CBC and The Globe and Mail.

10 H a r p e r C o l l i n s A dark and gripping debut novel set in the years just before Hong Kong’s dramatic return to China

anne berry The Hungry Ghosts a nove l

Alice Safford, troubled daughter of a leading figure in Hong Kong’s colonial govern- ment, explores the site of an old army hospital. The “hungry ghost” of a young Chinese girl, murdered during the Island’s Japanese occupation 25 years earlier, awaits her in the morgue’s shadows. The perfect host for the parasite, Alice returns FICTION • $31.99 cl with the ghost to the family’s luxury home on The Peak. Here, the lethal mix of SHIPPING IN DECEMBER the two, entangled in the Safford family’s web of dark secrets and desperate lies, ISBN: 978-1-55468-453-3 unleashes chaos. • FIC019000 As successive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarm- • 400 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 20 ingly. She flees to England, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her • rights acquired: Canada/English language unwanted spirits have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for will prove • other rights: HarperCollins UK far more elusive than she could ever have imagined. With its dazzling array of characters, human and spectral, and the numerous twists and turns in their fortunes, The Hungry Ghosts is a rich feast for the imagina- tion, marking the debut of a storyteller of the very highest rank.

As she listens to echoes of the past, I slide into her and instantly feel my strength return- ing. I become the scum in her blood. I garland myself with ropes of silver-stranded veins. And in the resonance of each heartbeat I know her every thought, her every memory, her every experience, her every twist and turn of emotion, often before she does, as if they are my own. —From The Hungry Ghosts

ANNE BERRY is the daughter of a former key figure in the British government in Hong Kong. She has worked as a journalist for the South China Morning Post, as a professional actress, as a drama and English teacher and as a speech therapist. An award-winning public speaker, she has four children and lives in Surrey, England. This is her first novel.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 11 The bestselling author of Stuffed and Starved takes on a new crusade: the true cost of everything we buy

raj patel The Value of Nothing wh y eve ry thin g costs so m u ch mo r e than we think

As retirement funds shrink, savings disappear and houses are foreclosed on, now is a good time to ask a question for which every human civilization has had an answer: why do things cost what they do? The Value of Nothing tracks down the reasons through history, philosophy, neuroscience and sociology, showing why prices are ECONOMICS/CULTURAL STUDIES always at odds with the true value of the things that matter most to us. $26.99 cl Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull sold for a record $100 million at auc- SHIPPING IN DECEMBER tion. But if we account for the possibility that blood diamonds were used (as many ISBN: 978-1-55468-622-3 suspect), the human cost is even greater. A Big Mac might seem like the best deal in • SOC000000/BUS022000 these economic times, but after analyzing the energy to produce each burger, from • 208 pp • 5 x 7 3/4 • carton qty: 32 field to Happy Meal, Patel argues the real price tag is a whopping $200. But it is • rights acquired: Canada/English language easiest to see the gap between price and value by looking at things that are so-called • other rights: International Creative free. Examining everything from Google to TV, from love to thoughts, The Value of Management/Curtis Brown (UK) Nothing reveals the hidden social consequences of our global culture of “freedom.”

PRAISE FOR STUFFED AND STARVED ALSO AVAILABLE BY Raj Patel

“Patel successfully connects the dots of seemingly disparate issues like hunger, obesity, Stuffed and Starved 978-1-55468-011-5 • $19.95 TPB free trade, rural depopulation and food safety to create the picture of a food system run by corporate greed.” —The Globe and Mail

“Magisterial . . . . This is the kind of book from which you emerge enlightened, surprised, angry and determined.” —The Independent (UK)

RAJ PATEL, author of the internationally acclaimed book Stuffed and Starved, has worked for the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations; he has also waged international campaigns against each. He is currently a researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds degrees from Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University. Visit him online at www.rajpatel.org.

12 H a r p e r C o l l i n s On the 30th anniversary of the daring Canadian rescue of Americans during the Iran hostage crisis, a master portrayal of the man who orchestrated their freedom

robert wright Our Man in Tehran K en Tay lo r and the I r an H ostag e C r isis

The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. As the city exploded in a fury of revolution, few knew about the six American embassy staff who escaped into hiding. For three months, Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador to Iran—along with his History/Politics wife and embassy staffers—concealed the Americans in their homes, terrified that $32.99 CL Ayatollah Khomeini would find out and exact deadly consequences. SHIPPING IN JANUARY January 28, 2010, marks the 30th anniversary of an event that stunned the world, ISBN: 978-1-55468-299-7 when Ken Taylor masterminded the exfiltration of the six diplomats from Tehran. • HIS026000 Americans were held in thrall as Ted Koppel updated the nation on the fate of its hos- • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 tages and the Canadians orchestrated an intrepid escape. Americans celebrated in the • b&w illustrations throughout streets across the nation, raising banners that read “Thank you, Canada!” • rights acquired: world/all languages In Our Man in Tehran, Robert Wright, author of the award-winning national • editor: Jim Gifford bestseller Three Nights in Havana, tells the story behind a major historical flashpoint, a story of cloak-and-dagger intrigue, the stuff of John le Carré and Frederick Forsyth made real. Also available by robert wright

Three Nights in Havana Praise for Three Nights in Havana 978-0-00-215800-8 • $19.95 tpb

“The book’s genuine charm lies in its evocation of the querulous yet quirky mood of the 70s and, in particular, of the love affair between Pierre and Margaret Trudeau.” —John English, The Globe and Mail

“Masterfully portrayed. . . . The power of Three Nights in Havana comes . . . from the account of the Trudeau–Castro friendship, and the revelation of its emotional inclusion of Margaret and the Trudeau sons.” —Winnipeg Free Press

ROBERT WRIGHT, Ph.D., is a professor of history at Trent University, specializing in foreign policy. He is the author of the national bestseller Three Nights in Havana, which won the 2008 Canadian Authors’ Association’s Lela Common Award for Canadian History and is currently being made into a feature documentary. He resides in Toronto with his wife and children. Visit him at www.robertwright.ca.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 13 From the author of the 2007 New York Times Notable Book Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name comes a stunning novel about the love between husbands and wives, mothers and children

vendela vida The Lovers a nove l

Yvonne, recently widowed and the mother of grown twins, returns to Datça, the coastal village in Turkey where she and her husband honeymooned 24 years earlier. She hopes to immerse herself in the warm sand and sea, and in memories of a better time in her life. But her plans are quickly complicated. Her Turkish landlord and his FICTION •$27.99 cl bold and intriguing wife have a curious marital agreement and are constant visitors SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY to the home. And Yvonne, rather than being comforted by her memories, finds they ISBN: 978-1-55468-617-9 begin to trouble her. Overwhelmed by her past and her environment, Yvonne clings • FIC019000 to her newfound friendship with Ahmet, a young Turkish boy who sells shells at • 224 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 32 the local beach. With the boy as her guide, Yvonne gains new insight into her own • rights acquired: Canada/English language grown children and begins to enjoy the shimmering sea and the relaxed pace of the • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. Turkish coast. But a terrible accident throws her life into chaos and her own sense of self into turmoil. With the crystalline voice, mordant humour and depth of feeling for which ALSO AVAILABLE BY VENDELA VIDA her work has been so celebrated, Vendela Vida has crafted another unforgettable Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name heroine in a beautiful and mysterious landscape. 978-1-55468-168-6 • $16.50 TPB

PRAISE FOR LET THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ERASE YOUR NAME Winner of the Kate Chopin Award

“A taut, intricately layered page-turner that looks deeply and fearlessly into matters of profound human concern.” —Michael Cunningham

“The language is precise and spare, minimalist yet evocative. In its emotional complexity, brutal beauty and stark simplicity, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name resembles . . . the early films of Ingmar Bergman. . . . An enthralling story with skillfully drawn characters.” —National Post

VENDELA VIDA is the author of And Now You Can Go and Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She is a founding co-editor of The Believer magazine and lives in Northern California with her husband and children.

14 H a r p e r C o l l i n s Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book National bestseller in Canada

christos tsiolkas The Slap a nove l

Finalist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner of the ALS Gold Medal At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a FICTION shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or $24.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/FLAPS indirectly influenced by the repercussions. AVAILABLE NOW In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing ISBN: 978-1-55468-645-2 eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the 21st • FIC019000 century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present • 496 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own • rights acquired: Canada/English language families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. • other rights: Allen and Unwin What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, par- enting and children, and the fury and intensity—all the passions and conflicting beliefs—that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever- growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, pro- vocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.

“With The Slap, Tsiolkas secures his place as one of our most important novelists. . . . It is thrilling to have our life reflected back at us so accurately. . . . Tsiolkas has written an absolute ripper.” —The Age

“Another disquieting masterpiece from one of Australia’s pre-eminent novelists.” —Vogue

“Strikingly tender. . . . It claws into you with its freshness and truth.” —Sydney Morning Herald

CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS is the author of three previous novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On; The Jesus Man; and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He is also a play- wright, essayist and screenwriter. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 15 In the spirit of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Sarah Elton charts a blueprint for Canada’s local food revolution

sarah elton Locavore f r om fa r me r s ’ fie l ds to r ooftop g a r dens — how canadians a r e chan g in g the way we eat

Strawberries in January, fresh tomatoes year-round and New Zealand lamb at all times—these well-travelled foods have a carbon footprint the size of an SUV. But there is a burgeoning local food movement taking place in Canadian cities, farms and shops that is changing both the way we eat and the way we think about food. FOOD • $32.99 cl Locavore describes how foodies,100-milers, urbanites, farmers, gardeners and SHIPPING IN MARCH chefs across Canada are creating a new local food order that has the potential to fight ISBN: 978-1-55468-418-2 climate change and feed us all. Combining front-line reporting, shrewd analysis and • SOC000000/CBK030000 passionate food writing to delight the gastronome, Locavore shows how the pieces of • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 a post-industrial food system are being assembled into something infinitely better. • rights acquired: world/all languages We meet city-dwellers who grow crops in their backyards and office work- • other rights: HSW Literary Agency ers who have traded their keyboards for pitchforks. We learn how a group of New • editor: Jim Gifford Brunswick farmers saved the family farm, why artisanal cheese in Quebec is so pop- ular and how a century-old farm survives in urban British Columbia, bordered by the ocean on one side and by a new housing development on the other. We follow food culture activists as they work to preserve the genetic material of heritage plants to return once-endangered flavours to our tables. In recounting the stories of its diverse cast of characters, Locavore lays out a blueprint for a local food revolution.

At farmers’ markets across the city, heritage tomatoes, free-range eggs and organic purs- lane are sold out before noon. . . . And at the cheese shop, the rich but not-too-salty sheep’s milk feta made on the outskirts of Toronto is so popular I never know when I’ll find it again. Everywhere, it seems, demand outstrips supply for local produce. —From Locavore

SARAH ELTON is the food columnist for CBC Radio’s Here & Now and a writer for numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, This Magazine, Report on Business magazine and Chatelaine. She documents her locavore adventures on her food blog, www.thelocavore.ca.

16 H a r p e r C o l l i n s Sex, adultery, betrayal, divorce—right in your own backyard

BRIDGET STUTCHBURY The Bird Detective I nvesti g atin g the S ec r et l I V E S of B i r ds

A Yale-educated professor of biology and a GG finalist for Silence of the Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests studying the social lives and sexual antics of birds, sharing with us the curious reasons for their strange behaviour, bright colouring and elaborate songs. Are birds truly faithful to their mates? Stutchbury explains the sci- SCIENCE/NATURE ence behind the surprisingly sophisticated and often amusing habits of birds, draw- $32.99 CL ing on examples from around the world. SHIPPING IN APRIL In The Bird Detective, the author explains why some birds readily “divorce,” why ISBN: 978-1-55468-347-5 parents don’t treat their sons and daughters equally, why females sneak in quick sex • SCI070040/NAT004000 with neighbouring males and why some adults forgo breeding altogether. Stutchbury • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 writes about the territorial nature of birds and describes their nesting habits, revealing • b&w illustrations throughout; why some species prefer to live in over-crowded groups. Perhaps most important, she 4 pg colour insert illuminates how climate change and other pressures of the modern world are forcing • rights acquired: world/all languages birds to change their habits as they fight for their very survival. • editor: Jim Gifford

PRAISE FOR Silence of the Songbirds Finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction ALSO AVAILABLE A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year BY BRIDGET STUTCHBURY A Toronto Star Best Science Book of the Year Silence of the Songbirds 978-0-00639-577-5 • $19.95 TPB

“A must-read for anyone whose heart has thrilled to the song of a bird.” —Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers

BRIDGET STUTCHBURY completed her Master’s of Science at Queen’s University and her Ph.D. at Yale, and was a fellow and research associate at the Smithsonian Institute. She is now professor of biology at York University and is affiliated with more than a dozen organizations that seek to preserve bird habitats. In 2005, Stutchbury was named one of the Toronto Star’s “People to Watch” after her groundbreaking research into the sexual antics of birds made international headlines. Her book The Silence of the Songbirds was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Non- fiction. She lives in Woodbridge, Ontario.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 17 From the no-nonsense host of Til Debt Do Us Part, a practical, step-by-step guide to getting out of debt—and staying out

GAIL VAZ-OXLADE Debt-Free Forever Take C ont r o l of Yo u r M one y and Yo u r l I F E

Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s brand of money management isn’t full of tricks. There’s no hidden agenda. There’s no mystery. As Gail says, “Money isn’t rocket science—it’s disci- pline.” 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, PERSONAL FINANCE with a voice that is demanding, and an approach that is holistic. $21.99 ORIGINAL TPB w/flaps Debt-Free Forever will help readers take responsibility for, and control of, their SHIPPING IN DECEMBER money. Gail’s rules are simple: you can’t spend money you don’t have, you must ISBN: 978-1-55468-590-5 save something, and if you’re in debt, you must get the albatross off your back. But • BUS050000 Gail knows following the rules can be tough. That’s why Debt-Free Forever gives you • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 32 a roadmap to getting out of the red in 36 months or less. By following Vaz-Oxlade’s • rights acquired: Canada/English language detailed plans and drawing on her unflagging faith in people’s ability to take control, • other rights: P.S. Literary Agency readers will reach the right destination: a debt-free life. • editor: Kate Cassaday

Don’t buy this book if you’re a wuss. Don’t buy this book if you’re a whiner. Don’t buy this book if you hate the idea of doing whatever it takes—no matter how hard—to get out of the mess you made. This book will make you squirm. This book may make you cry. This book is the way to move from the crappy place you are now to a wonderful life where you are in control. —From Debt-Free Forever

GAIL VAZ-OXLADE, one of Canada’s most successful and respected financial writ- ers, has written several bestselling books. She currently doles out her no-nonsense approach to money management as host of the television show Til Debt Do Us Part, which airs in 32 countries and reaches over 1 million Canadian viewers each week. Visit her website at www.gailvazoxlade.com.

18 H a r p e r C o l l i n s “This book made me happy in the first five pages. And the more I read it, the happier I got.” —A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Guinea Pig Diaries

GRETCHEN RUBIN The Happiness Project Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun

What if you could change your life without really changing your life? On the outside, Gretchen Rubin had it all—a good marriage, healthy children and a successful career— but she knew something was missing. Determined to end that nagging feeling, she set out on a year-long quest to learn how to better enjoy the life she already had. memoir • $29.99 cl Each month, Gretchen pursued a different set of resolutions—go to sleep ear- SHIPPING IN december lier, tackle a nagging task, bring people together, take time to be silly—along with ISBN: 978-1-55468-279-9 dozens of other goals. She read everything from classical philosophy to cutting-edge • BIO026000 scientific studies, from Winston Churchill to Oprah, developing her own definition • 320 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 28 of happiness and a plan for how to achieve it. She kept track of which resolutions • rights acquired: Canada/English language worked and which didn’t, sharing her stories and collecting those of others through • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. her blog (created to fulfill one of March’s resolutions). Bit by bit, she began to appre- ciate and amplify the happiness in her life. The Happiness Project is the engaging, relatable and inspiring result of the author’s twelve-month adventure in becoming a happier person. Written with a wicked sense of humour and sharp insight, Gretchen Rubin’s story will inspire read- ers to embrace the pleasure in their lives and remind them how to have fun.

“A cross between the Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love.” —Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness

“Happiness is contagious. And so is The Happiness Project. This is the rare book that will make you both smile and think—often on the same page.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind

GRETCHEN RUBIN is the bestselling author of two books and a regular contributor to many magazines and newspapers. Her daily blog, www.happiness-project.com, ranks in the Technorati “Top 5K” and is cross-posted on Slate, The Huffington Post and Yahoo! She lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 19 A beautiful, richly illustrated edition of the beloved novel that has captivated more than a quarter of a million Canadians

lawrence hill The Illustrated Book of Negroes

#1 National Bestseller Winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Winner of CBC Canada Reads FICTION • $34.99 CL SHIPPING IN NOVEMBER This beautiful full-colour gift edition of the new Canadian classic, The Book of Negroes, ISBN: 978-1-55468-695-7 shares with readers the many photos, works of art and documents that inspired • FIC014000 Lawrence Hill to create his award-winning work. It adds to the novel more than • 544 pp • 8 x 9 1/8 •carton qty: 16 150 images: early maps and documents, archival photos, period paintings and never- • over 150 full-colour illustrations throughout before-published pages from the original handwritten ledger from which the novel • rights acquired: Canada/English language draws its name. Readers will travel with Aminata Diallo from a West African village • other rights: Ellen Levine/Trident Media Group to an indigo plantation in South Carolina, through the tough streets of New York City and the harsh climate of Nova Scotia to the coast of Sierra Leone, and finally to • editor: Iris Tupholme/Brad Wilson an abolitionist’s home in London. A holiday gift to treasure, this keepsake edition is essential for any booklover’s ALSO AVAILABLE BY LAWRENCE HILL collection. The Book of Negroes 978-1-55468-156-3 • $24.95 TPB PRAISE FOR THE BOOK OF NEGROES Any Known Blood 978-1-55-468508-0 • $24.95 TPB “The Book of Negroes is a masterpiece, daring and impressive in its geographic, Blackberry, Sweet Juice historical and human reach, convincing in its narrative art and detail, necessary for 978-0-00-638508-0 • $19.95 TPB imagining the real beyond the traces left by history.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL

“Aminata is a heroic figure, a little larger than life, residing within and outside of history. You can never forget this character.” —TORONTO STAR

LAWRENCE HILL is the award-winning author of Black Berry, Sweet Juice; Any Known Blood; and Some Great Thing. He also co-authored, with Joshua Key, The Deserter’s Tale. Lawrence Hill lives in Hamilton, Ontario. Visit him at www.lawrencehill.com.

20 H a r p e r C o l l i n s harperperennial and second editions barbara gowdy The White Bone a nove l

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

If elephants could tell just one story, it would be the story of Mud, a young elephant cow orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. Mud’s life on the African plain is changed forever when she and her adopted family are forced by prolonged drought to linger at one of the few remaining watering holes. The herd is ambushed there by ivory poachers, who kill almost all the cows and their young. The traumatized survivors, including a pregnant Mud, set out in search of the talismanic white bone that can lead them to a paradise free from human savagery.

“Comic, apocalyptic, faintly hopeful, The White Bone succeeds as a brave and captivating act of imagination.” —The Globe and Mail

BARBARA GOWDY is an award-winning author whose books have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the world. Her most recent novel, Helpless, won the Trillium Book Award in 2008. A recipient of the Marian Engel Award in 1996, she has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers’ Writers Trust Fiction Prize. She lives in Toronto.

FICTION • $19.99 TPB WITH FLAPS SHIPPING IN april • ISBN: 978-1-55468-524-0 FIC019000 • 368 pp •5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 32 rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Westwood Creative Artists

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22 H a r p e r C o l l i n s Celebrating timeless books by Canada’s pre-eminent authors

thomas king Green Grass, Running Water a nove l

Fiction • $00.00 tpb NATIONAL BESTSELLER shipping in august Winner of the Canadian Authors Award for Fiction ISBN-13: 978-0-00-000000-0 Finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction ISBN-10: 0-00-000000-0 Finalist for CBC Radio’s Canada Reads • BISAC Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, hard-headed men, all searching for the • 000 pp middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollick- ing tale by award-winning author Thomas King. Alberta, Eli, Lionel and others are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance. There they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote—and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again. . . .

“King has established himself as a first-rate comic novelist . . . as savagely and darkly funny as Twain. . . . King has produced a novel that defies all our expectations about what Native American fiction should be. It is a first-class work of art.” —Newsweek

THOMAS KING is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter and photographer of Cherokee and Greek descent. His acclaimed, bestselling fic- tion includes Medicine River; Truth and Bright Water; One Good Story, That One; and A Short History of Indians in Canada. In addition to its many award distinc- tions, Green Grass, Running Water was named to Quill & Quire’s Best Canadian FICTION • $19.99 TPB WITH FLAPS Fiction of the Century list. A member of the Order of Canada and the recipi- SHIPPING IN april • ISBN: 978-1-55468-525-7 ent of an award from the National Aboriginal Foundation, Thomas King is a FIC019000 • 448 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 28 professor of English at the University of Guelph, Ontario. rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Westwood Creative Artists

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W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 23 A deeply moving and gorgeously crafted story of three lives undone by a childhood tragedy

STEPHANIE KALLOS Sing Them Home a nove l

Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, knows the story of Hope Jones, the physi- cian’s wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tor- nado of 1978. For Hope’s three children, the stability of life with their distant, preoc- cupied father, and with Viney, their mother’s spitfire best friend, is no match for their FICTION • $18.99 TPB mother’s absence. Once grown up, Larken, the eldest child, an art history professor, SHIPPING IN JANUARY seeks in food an answer to a less tangible hunger; Gaelan, the only son, is a telegenic ISBN: 978-1-55468-434-2 weatherman who devotes his life to predicting the unpredictable; and Bonnie, the • FIC0019000 baby of the family, is a self-proclaimed archivist who combs the roadside for clues to • 560 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 20 her mother’s legacy and permission to move on. When, decades after their mother’s • rights acquired: Canada/English language disappearance, the siblings are summoned home after their father’s sudden death, • other rights: Atlantic Books (U.S.) they are forced to revisit the childhood tragedy at the centre of their lives. With breathtaking lyricism, wisdom and humour, Stephanie Kallos explores PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-435-9 TPB the consequences of protecting the ones we love and conjures an extraordinary cast of characters teeming with quirks, blind spots and secrets. Sing Them Home is a magnificent tapestry of lives connected and undone by tragedy, lives poised—unbe- knownst to the characters themselves—for redemption.

“Fans of Ann Patchett and Haven Kimmel should dive onto the sofa one wintry weekend with Stephanie Kallos’s wonderfully transportive second novel.” —Entertainment Weekly

“With empathy and wit, Kallos weaves together the stories of the living and the dead, creating a world in which love trumps loss and faith can summon redemption. The result is a magical novel that even cynics will close with a smile.” —People

STEPHANIE KALLOS spent 20 years in the theatre as an actor and teacher. The author of the bestselling, award-winning novel Broken for You, which has been translated into 10 languages, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two sons. Visit her at www.stephaniekallos.com.

24 H a r p e r C o l l i n s An Italian Canadian family, three sons, their nonna and all kinds of advice given and received. The perfect choice for bookclubs!

anne giardini Advice for Italian Boys a nove l

Nicolo’s older and younger brothers seem to have their lives in focus. Nicolo works hard, saves his money, respects his parents and his nonna, but he is still living at home in his early 20s, his life as unformed as gelato. If only he knew which direction to take. His father wants him to study. His mother hints that he should to start a family FICTION • $18.99 TPB of his own. Nonna’s advice is emphatic but mysterious. SHIPPING IN MARCH Filomena Pavone, Nonna to her family, watches over and advises her grand- ISBN: 978-1-55468-032-0 sons by day, and dreams by night of her youth in the southern Italian village of • FIC0019000 Arduino—its dusty narrow streets, its fragrant flowers, her first forbidden kisses. No • 352 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 one knows or remembers this other Filomena, and her surrendered life of passion • rights acquired: Canada/English language and love. But her spirit still glows inside her like banked coals. • editor: Jennifer Lambert Beloved by readers and critics alike, Advice for Italian Boys resonates and sur- prises. Anne Giardini reveals how life’s most intense moments arise unexpectedly, PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-030-6 CL and how, like Nicolo, we must glean the advice we need to live our lives from well- intentioned but often misguided friends, family and strangers. ALSO AVAILABLE BY ANNE GIARDINI

The Sad Truth About Happiness “Richly layered, with a cast of deeply textured and enjoyable characters. . . . Stunning.” 978-0-00-639410-5 • $18.95 TPB —January Magazine

“An unhurried but affectionate portrait of an Italian Canadian family. . . . Surprisingly satisfying.” —The Gazette (Montreal)

ANNE GIARDINI is a lawyer and writer. A former columnist for the National Post, she has written numerous essays and articles on a wide range of subjects. Her bestselling first novel,The Sad Truth About Happiness, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the 2007 Audie Award, honouring excellence in audio publishing. She currently sits on the board of the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Vancouver International Writers Festival. Giardini lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband and three children.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 25 A national bestseller and the ultimate handbook for anyone who needs a better understanding of economics—which probably means you!

joseph heath Filthy Lucre economics fo r peop l e who hate capita l ism

Economists have a bad reputation. Not only do they assume that everyone is self- interested and amoral, they are almost always cheerleaders for the free market. As a result, most people who do not already share their beliefs ignore everything that economists have to say. This is a problem. Even among the highly educated, eco- POPULAR CULTURE/ECONOMICS nomics is a minefield of fallacies and errors. Among those who know little about the $19.99 TPB subject—a group that includes the average taxpayer and consumer, as well as most SHIPPING IN APRIL journalists, political activists and politicians—almost every widely held belief is false. ISBN: 978-1-55468-374-1 The level of economic illiteracy is stunning. • SOC022000/BUS069000 Filthy Lucre aims to level the playing the field and, in this time of enormous • 352 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 market volatility and unprecedented instability, raise our level of economic literacy. • rights acquired: world/all languages Drawing on everyday examples to skewer the six favourite economic fallacies of the • editor: Jim Gifford right and then the left, we learn why the right wing so wrongly believes that capital- ism is the natural order of things, that any tax cut is a good tax cut, and that personal PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-395-6 CL responsibility can solve any problem. And, contrary to how the left feels, why we must resist the urge to fiddle with prices, why the pursuit of profit is not such a bad thing, and why, despite efforts to improve or even fix wages, some jobs will always suck. ALSO AVAILABLE BY JOSEPH HEATH The Rebel Sell “This is a terrific book, courteous, clear, witty and fair. . . . Heath has an almost [Adam] 978-0-00-639491-4 • $19.95 TPB Smithian sense of the sophistication of human motivation.” — The Globe and Mail

“As he showed in previous books…Heath writes with a certain boldness, as well as clarity and wit.” —Winnipeg Free Press

JOSEPH HEATH is an associate professor in the department of philosophy and the school of public policy and governance at the University of Toronto. He is the author of three previous books, including the Canadian bestseller The Efficient Society, along with the international bestseller The Rebel Sell, co-authored with Andrew Potter. Joseph Heath lives in Toronto.

26 H a r p e r C o l l i n s The thrilling, and changing, world of bears—from one of Canada’s top nature writers

jake M a c donald Grizzlyville advent u r es in bea r co u nt ry

More than ever before, bears and human beings are living closer together as climate change, deforestation and community encroachment diminish bear territory. Once considered romantic creatures living in rural surroundings, bears are now becoming as common in some places as raccoons. NATURE • $19.99 TPB Some experts believe that the animals should be left entirely alone; others argue SHIPPING IN APRIL that responsible hunting will best serve both bears and human beings. In Grizzlyville, ISBN: 978-1-55468-371-0 award-winning writer Jake MacDonald gives weight to both sides as he examines • NAT003000 the history and behaviour of the three species of bears in North America—grizzlies, • 272 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 40 black bears and polar bears. • rights acquired: North America/English Part memoir, part natural history, Grizzlyville is MacDonald’s fascinating medi- language ation on North America’s largest predators and on the people who live alongside • other rights: Westwood Creative Artists them. As he skillfully interweaves their stories, he delivers a message for all to con- • editor: Jim Gifford sider as bear habitat shrinks and our worlds come ever closer together. PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-370-3 CL “MacDonald spins yarns as if were sitting on the next log at the campfire.” —Winnipeg Free Press

“A great, great book. It offers insights into the very soul of Canada. It is as literary as it is scientific—but above all it is brilliant and compelling old-fashioned storytelling. Like its subject, this is a book with raw power and surprising gentleness, a book that leaves the visitor in awe of both topic and teller.” —Roy MacGregor, author of A Life in the Bush

JAKE MacDONALD is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and journalist. He has authored ten books. His memoir, Houseboat Chronicles, won three awards, includ- ing the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize. His feature articles have been published in Outdoor Canada, where he is field editor, as well as inSaturday Night, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and Canadian Geographic. He divides his time between Winnipeg and Toronto and a rustic retreat in Minaki, Ontario.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 27 a phyllis bruce book

“As beautifully rendered as the land it celebrates. . . . Rises to the level of art.” —The Globe and Mail

trevor herriot Grass, Sky, Song P r omise and P e r i l in the Wo r l d of G r ass l and B i r ds

Published to wide acclaim, this beautiful meditation on the fate of grassland birds has been praised for its profound wisdom and lyrical grace. Herriot, in a narrative that is at once intimate and informative, argues for the essential nature of these tiny creatures. He invites us into the unique world of dedicated scientists, passionate naturalists and such historical figures as 19th-century botanist John Macoun, the last ENVIRONMENT/NATURE naturalist to see the Great Plains in its pre-settlement grandeur. $22.99 TPB WITH FLAPS Now in a beautiful paperback edition with flaps, illustrated with the author’s SHIPPING IN march delicate black-and-white drawings, Grass, Sky, Song is a blending of personal expe- ISBN: 978-1-55468-039-9 rience, history, philosophy and scientific research. Filled with evocative “sidebar” • NAT011000/NAT004000 descriptions of threatened birds, from the sharp-tailed grouse to the chestnut- • 288 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 32 collared longspur, this graceful book demonstrates why Trevor Herriot is regarded • b&w line drawings throughout as one of Canada’s finest non-fiction writers. • rights acquired: world/all languages • other rights: Westwood Creative Artists “A moving testimony to a landscape in flux, and also a profound meditation on ‘wildness’ • editor: Phyllis Bruce by the pre-eminent prairie naturalist of his generation.” —The Walrus PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-038-2 CL “Combines information, meditation and a captivating evocation of place. . . . It is not merely a lyrical summer read but a call to action.” —Quill & Quire

TREVOR HERRIOT is the author of River in a Dry Land (winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and finalist for theGovernor General’s Award) and Jacob’s Wound (a finalist for theWriters’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize). He lives in Saskatchewan. Visit his blog at trevorherriot.blogspot.com.

28 H a r p e r C o l l i n s The attention-grabbing, critically acclaimed memoir— now in paperback

dan hill I Am My Father’s Son A M emoi r of lOV E and F o r g iveness

In this deeply moving memoir, one of Canada’s most respected singer-songwriters traces his difficult, often tumultuous relationship with his father. From the time Dan Hill picked up a guitar at age 11, he tried to win the approval of Daniel Hill Sr., a man who has been called Canada’s father of human rights. But Hill Sr. set impossibly MEMOIR/MUSIC high standards for himself and his family, especially for his eldest son, leading to con- $17.99 TPB flict and alienation even as young Dan achieved international fame and success. SHIPPING IN JANUARY Through vivid family stories, letters, memories and his own award-winning ISBN: 978-1-55468-191-4 lyrics, Dan Hill tells the story of two parallel lives—his father’s in mid-20th-century • BIO026000/BIO004000/MUS000000 America and his own as a young black man coming of age in suburban Canada—and • 408 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 32 the stormy but ultimately loving way each of those lives affected the other. • b&w photos throughout • rights acquired: Canada/English language “Inevitably, Hill’s musical sensibility infuses his prose. . . . The story has a musical pulse, • editor: Jennifer Lambert an exactness of comedic timing. Like his father and brother . . . Hill possesses the gift of storytelling, in the broad, oral, African-American tradition.” —Ottawa Citizen PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-190-7 CL

“Took me on an intellectual, emotional and spiritual pilgrimage that instantly changed my life forever. . . . Dan Hill is my hero. His compassion, fearlessness and resilience reignited a flame in me that was almost dim. Thank you for the laughs, thank you for the tears, and thank you for your moments.” —Jully Black

“Describes a complicated family, in a complicated situation, in a complicated time, and does it with honesty and verve.” —National Post

DAN HILL had his first smash hit, “Sometimes When We Touch,” at the age of 23. It went on to become one of the most covered pop songs of all time. For the last decade, he has been writing and producing songs for such stars as Celine Dion, Alan Jackson and Britney Spears. He recently recorded a single, “I Am My Father’s Son,” and is releasing his first album in a decade in early 2010, which will be accompanied by a national tour. Visit Dan Hill at danhill.com.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 29 “Far more chilling than all the blood-and-guts accounts so far published, Steavenson’s book should be a must-read on Iraq.” —The Sunday Times

WENDELL STEAVENSON The Weight of a Mustard Seed T he I ntimate l I F E of an I r aqi Fami ly D u r in g T hi rt y y E A r s of T y r ann y

General Kamel Sachet was one of Saddam Hussein’s commanders in his Special Forces, in charge of Kuwait City during Desert Storm, and a governor in the prov- ince of Maysan. Over the course of two years in Baghdad, Wendell Steavenson came to know Sachet, his wife and their nine children closely, and began to unravel BIOGRAPHY/CURRENT EVENTS their stories. The Weight of a Mustard Seed tells of a father with a glittering military $17.99 TPB career, a decorated hero with a private conscience; of a wife who acquiesces to her SHIPPING IN MARCH husband’s increasing religiosity; of young, ideological sons whose religious fervor ISBN: 978-1-55468-376-5 grows increasingly dangerous; and of daughters who must bow to their father’s • BIO000000/HIS026000 rigid moral strictures. • 304 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 “In Iraq there was never one story, there were always many stories, layers of • rights acquired: Canada/English language episodes, each one a wound.” As Steavenson gradually reveals the emotional and • other rights: Atlantic Books UK psychological scars left on one family after decades spent living with war and repres- sion, so too does she reach toward the heart of a previously unspoken story of a PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-375-8 CL once prosperous nation, reduced by Hussein’s megalomania and paranoia to bank- ruptcy, corruption and impotence.

“An insightful, compelling and often startling account. . . . Its central narrative is powerful and unsettling, and it provides a vivid portrait of a world that will be alien to most readers.” —The Gazette (Montreal)

“A masterly and elegantly told story that weaves together the Iraqi past and present. . . . Steavenson writes imaginative, powerful prose.” —The New York Times

WENDELL STEAVENSON was a writer for TIME in London before publishing, in 2002, the acclaimed Stories I Stole: A Journey to Georgia, which was shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award. Steavenson has also written for such publications as The Telegraph, The Observer, Prospect, Granta magazine and The New Yorker. She cur- rently resides in Paris, France.

30 H a r p e r C o l l i n s The superb psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid mixes fiction with one of the most symbolic moments in recent British history

val mcdermid A Darker Domain a nove l

In Britain circa 1984, the news is dominated by the national miners’ strike. The region of Fife in Scotland is hard hit by the strike, devastated economically and shaken by clashes between miners and police. Against this violent and bitter backdrop, heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom should FICTION/MYSTERY • $10.99 MM have gone smoothly, but instead the payoff goes horribly wrong, and Catriona and SHIPPING IN JANUARY her son disappear without a trace. ISBN: 978-1-55468-081-8 Twenty-four years later, dramatic new evidence discovered by a jogger in • FIC022000/FIC025000 Tuscany prompts police to reopen the cold case. Detective Sergeant Karen Pirie • 448 pp • 4 3/16 x 6 3/4 • carton qty: 48 leads the investigation. It won’t be the only cold case to end up on her desk. A • rights acquired: Canada/English language young woman soon walks into the station to report a missing person, Mick Prentice, • other rights: Gregory & Company Authors’ who abandoned his family in Fife in 1984 to join the strike-breakers down south. Agents Labelled a blackleg scab, he might as well be dead as far as his friends and relatives are concerned. PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-080-1 TPB Past and present intertwine as McDermid, author of the bestselling Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries, weaves a dark novel of psychological suspense. ALSO AVAILABLE BY VAL McDERMID “One of the best authors writing crime novels.” —The Globe and Mail Beneath the Bleeding “Clever and absorbing. . . . McDermid is deft, inventive and generally terrific at plotting, 978-1-55468-079-5 • $10.99 MM The Distant Echo and the new book is up to her lofty narrative standards.” —Toronto Star 978-0-00-639306-1 • $9.99 MM “One of the world’s leading mystery writers. . . . Thomas Harris crossed with Agatha The Grave Tattoo 978-0-00-639159-3 • $9.99 MM Christie. . . . A great read.” —Observer Killing the Shadows 978-0-00-639296-5 • $10.99 MM The Last Temptation VAL McDERMID is the internationally bestselling author of more than 20 crime 978-0-00-639208-8 • $10.99 MM thrillers. McDermid lives in the north of England. Visit her at valmcdermid.com. The Mermaids Singing 978-0-00-639293-4 • $10.99 MM A Place of Execution 978-0-00-639295-8 • $10.99 MM The Torment of Others 978-0-00-639408-2 • $9.99 MM The Wire in the Blood 978-0-00-639292-7 • $10.99 MM

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 31 Now in mass market: “The biggest challenger to Dan Brown’s crown” —The Mirror (UK)

sam bourne The Last Testament a th r i l l e r

Maggie Costello is a “closer,” an expert brought into negotiations when all other options have failed. Now in Jerusalem, she mediates peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which have broken down after two high-profile deaths. Hawkish Zionist Shimon Guttman was gunned down by bodyguards who believed he was FICTION/THRILLER about to assassinate the Israeli prime minister. “This will change everything,” $10.99 MM Guttman had cryptically warned the prime minister before he was killed. Palestinian SHIPPING IN MARCH Ahmed Nour, a respected archaeologist, has also been killed on suspicion of being a ISBN: 978-1-55468-075-7 collaborator. When Maggie discovers that the two men were secret colleagues, she • FIC031000 is plunged into a mystery rooted in a last, unsolved riddle of the Bible. It all leads • 544 pp • 4 3/16 x 6 3/4 • carton qty: 48 back to an ancient clay tablet looted from Baghdad’s Museum of Antiquities and a • rights acquired: Canada/English language secret that could end a war—or spark a new one. • other rights: Curtis Brown (UK) The Last Testament is a pulse-pounding blockbuster of timeless enigmas and modern technology from Sam Bourne, author of the international bestseller The PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-074-0 TPB Righteous Men. Compulsively readable, driven by Bourne’s intimate knowledge of the conflict in the Middle East, The Last Testament evokes the tension of high-stakes politics and the excitement of ancient historical mysteries unravelled.

“One fine potboiler that is two parts religious mystery, one part thriller and one part history lesson. . . . The Last Testament will keep you reading well into the night.” —Calgary Herald

“An elegant and literate writing style.”—The Guardian

SAM BOURNE is the literary pseudonym of award-winning journalist and broad- caster Jonathan Freedland. A columnist for The Guardian, he previously served as the paper’s Washington correspondent. He has covered the Middle East conflict for nearly two decades and in 2002 chaired a three-day dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, sponsored by The Guardian. His first novel,The Righteous Men, was a #1 bestseller in the UK and a New York Times bestseller in the United States.

32 H a r p e r C o l l i n s “Healthy living and modern medicine have given our lives longevity. A New Purpose is a guide to making the most of all that time.” —Mehmet Oz, M.D., co-author of YOU: The Owner’s Manual

ken dychtwald, Ph.D. and daniel j. kadlec A New Purpose r E D E F I N I N g M one y, Fami ly, Wo r k , r E T I r ement and S u ccess

Success is defined differently at different moments in life. As a child, it has a lot to do with pleasing our parents. In our teens, it’s usually about academic achievement and popularity. As a working adult, success is often about balancing the challenge of creat- ing a healthy family while building a satisfying career. But what comes next? Is it too SELF-HELP/BUSINESS late to go back to school, start a new and gratifying encore career (or turbo-charge your $18.99 TPB current one), fall in love again, reinvent yourself? Since happiness is about more than SHIPPING IN january what’s in the bank, what are the essential components of an all-weather, successful “life ISBN: 978-1-55468-488-5 portfolio”—with a significant investment in head, heart, spirit and civic engagement? • SEL031000/BUS046000 This hopeful and motivating new book answers the essential questions: what • 304 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 64 is success now, and what is the new purpose of life’s second half ? Dychtwald also • rights acquired: Canada/English language shares inspiring stories of people who have made a difference and points us to • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. resources that will enable us to do the same. This book is for fans of Bill Clinton’s Giving and Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life. And for those who find themselves PREVIOUS EDITION (titled With Purpose): asking, “Now what?” A New Purpose has the answers. 978-1-55468-487-8 CL

“Ken Dychtwald maps out where success intersects with meaning—and he provides the ALSO AVAILABLE BY KEN DYCHTWALD tools to help you find your own unique crossing.”—D eepak Chopra, M.D., author Gideon’s Dream of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success 978-0-06-143497-6 • $19.99 CL “Ken Dychtwald offers anyone who seeks a more fulfilling life and career a practical way forward. A New Purpose points the way to our true north, the compass we all need to follow for a meaningful life.” —Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence

KEN DYCHTWALD, Ph.D., is a renowned psychologist, gerontologist and public speaker and the bestselling author of 15 books, including The Power Years, Bodymind, Age Wave and Workforce Crisis. His firm, Age Wave, has consulted on product and service development for baby boomers for more than half the Fortune 500 busi- nesses. He has been featured on 60 Minutes and Oprah as well as in the Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Maclean’s and TIME.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 33 Children’s Titles The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz Borderline by Allan Stratton Darklight by Lesley Livingston The Barnes and the Brains Series by Kenneth Oppel

High Fidelity for teen readers

YVONNE PRINZ The Vinyl Princess a nove l

Summer is here, and 16-year-old Allie, a self-professed music geek, is exactly where she wants to be: working full-time at Berkeley’s ultra-cool Bob and Bob Records. There, Allie can spend her days bantering with the street people, talking the talk with the staff, shepherding the uncool bridge-and-tunnel shoppers, all the while bliss- TEEN FICTION, 13+ fully surrounded by music, music, music. It’s the perfect setup for her to develop her $14.99 ORIGINAL TPB secret identity as The Vinyl Princess, author of both a brand-new zine and blog. SHIPPING IN DECEMBER From the safety of her favourite place on earth, Allie is poised to have it all: love, ISBN: 978-1-55468-516-5 music and blogging. • JUV031040 Her mother, though, is actually the one getting the dates, and business at Allie’s • 320 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 36 beloved record store is becoming dangerously slow—not to mention that there have • rights acquired: Canada/English language been a string of robberies in the neighbourhood. At least her blog seems to be gain- • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. ing interest, one vinyl junkie at a time…. • editor: Lynne Missen

PRAISE FOR Still There, Clare

“One for the (young) ages—two, actually.” —The Globe and Mail

“Prinz’s breezy story succeeds on many levels: it’s funny [and] the characters, including the adults, are appealing and interesting. . . . Suggest this to reluctant readers and their friends who want a sweet, satisfying read about a summer transformation.” —Booklist

YVONNE PRINZ has written three books in the Clare series. Still There, Clare was a BookSense pick and was nominated for an IPPY Award (an Independent Publisher Award) and a Red Cedar Award. Not Fair, Clare was recently shortlisted for the Red Maple Award. A Canadian living in San Francisco, Prinz founded the famed independent music store Amoeba Records with her husband. There, she keeps her finger on the pulse of hip teen culture. You can read the blog of The Vinyl Princess at www.vinylprincess.blogspot.com.

36 H a r p e r C o l l i n s An explosive thriller ripped from today’s headlines—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 nove l

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. In a whirlwind, the FBI and RCMP descend, and Sami suddenly TEEN FICTION, 13+ finds his family at the centre of an international terror plot. Everything he’s ever $14.99 ORIGINAL TPB known comes into question as Sami fights to keep his world from unravelling. SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY Borderline is an action-packed page-turner about loyalty and identity, starring a ISBN: 978-1-55468-083-2 funny and gutsy 15-year-old determined to save his father, his family and his life. • JUV039120 • 320 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 36 PRAISE FOR Chanda’s Wars • rights acquired: Canada/English language • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. “An utterly gripping and unforgettable tale. . . . Chanda’s harrowing journey is one that • editor: Lynne Missen will leave both teen and adult readers breathless, emotionally drained and with much to think about.” —Canadian Children’s Book News

“Stratton crafts a beautifully written tale of family, loyalty, loss, and love. [The] action ALSO AVAILABLE BY ALLAN STRATTON keeps the pages turning, but complex, fully realized characters make readers want to Chanda’s Wars linger. . . . This novel is a masterpiece.” —VOYA (Starred Review) 978-1-55468-025-2 • $15.99 TPB 978-1-55468-566-0 • $7.99 MM (shipping in October) “Heart-wrenching. . . . Outstanding.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

ALLAN STRATTON is the internationally acclaimed author of Leslie’s Journal, an ALA YALSA Best Book, and Chanda’s Secrets, whose many awards include the Snow Willow Award in Canada and an ALA Michael L. Printz Honor Book in the United States. His follow-up novel, Chanda’s Wars, won the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book Award and was shortlisted for the White Pine Award. You can reach him online at www.allanstratton.com.

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 37 lesley livingston Darklight a nove l

The showstopping sequel to Lesley Livingston’s rich and satisfying urban fantasy romance, Wondrous Strange

In this sequel to Wondrous Strange, Kelley Winslow finds her NYC acting career blossoming as she takes the lead in Romeo and Juliet. But she also finds herself desperately miss- ing Sonny Flannery—who was forced back to the Faerie Otherworld, charged with a dangerous mission by Kelley’s father, King Auberon. When Kelley finds herself thrown into the Otherworld following a deadly chase in Central Park, her passionate reunion with Sonny is cut short. Ancient magick is stirring, and a dangerous enemy has Sonny and Kelley caught in a web of Faerie deception that could tear their love apart.

In spite of himself, Sonny knelt back down on the grass and glanced into the Faerie queen’s improvised scrying pool. He had no wish to spy on Kelley. Still, he found he could not look away. . . . The wild, dangerous look on Kelley’s face made her look so much like her mother that it gave Sonny a hollow feel- ing in the pit of his stomach. But not nearly as much as the last, lingering image that flared up in the water—the image of Kelley throwing her arms around another man. —From Darklight

ALSO AVAILABLE BY LESLEY LIVINGSTON

Wondrous Strange 978-1-55468-273-7 • $17.99 TPB 978-1-55468-274-4 • $9.99 DIGEST

38 H a r p e r C o l l i n s LESLEY LIVINGSTON is the author of the critically acclaimed Wondrous Strange, as well as being an actress. She has a master’s degree in English from the University of Toronto, where she specialized in Arthurian and Shakespearean literature. She is a principal performer and founding member of the Tempest Theatre Group, based in Toronto. Visit her online at www.lesleylivingston.com.

Wondrous Strange a nove l

“Twilight . . . Thou hast a strong contender.”—The Globe and Mail

Kelley Winslow is living her dream. Seventeen years old, she has moved to New York City Darklight and started work with a theatre company. Sure, she’s only an understudy for the Avalon TEEN FICTION, 13+ Players, a third-tier repertory company so far off-Broadway it might as well be in Hoboken, $17.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/FLAPS but things are looking up—the lead has broken her ankle and Kelley’s about to step into the SHIPPING IN DECEMBER role of Titania the Faerie Queen in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But Faeries ISBN: 978-155468-345-1 are far more real than Kelley thinks, and a chance encounter in Central Park with a hand- • JUV037000/JUV026000 some young man named Sonny Flannery plunges her into an adventure she could never • 320 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 36 have imagined. Sonny and Kelley find themselves drawn to each other—and into a terrible • rights acquired: Canada/English plot that could spell disaster for both New York and the Faerie realm alike. language • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. “As a young adult fantasy, • editor: Lynne Missen this book has it all.” —The Globe and Mail wondrous strange “There have been plenty of urban fairy TEEN FICTION, AGES 13+ fantasies recently, but what sets Lesley $9.99 DIGEST Livingston’s Wondrous Strange apart SHIPPING IN DECEMBER is her liberal use of Shakespearean ISBN: 978-1-55468-274-4 allusions. . . . A clever, action-packed debut.” —Horn Book • JUV037000/JUV026000 • 336 pp • 5 3/16 x 7 5/8 • carton qty: 28 “Enchanting from beginning to end!” • rights acquired: Canada/English —L. J. Smith, New York Times language bestselling author of the Vampire • other rights: HarperCollins U.S. Diaries • editor: Lynne Missen

PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-273-7 TPB

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 39 Pimples, bad hair days and a family curse that involves being hit by lightning—a day in the life of Newton Starker

arthur slade Jolted newton sta r ke r ’ s ru l es fo r s u rviva l

SHORTLISTED FOR The Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature The Saskatchewan Fiction Book of the Year The Saskatoon Book of the Year Young adult FICTION, AGES 10+ The Rocky Mountain Book Award $9.99 DIGEST SHIPPING IN february The Starker family appears to be cursed: every person of Starker blood has died ISBN: 978-0-00-639571-3 from being struck by lightning. Fourteen-year-old Newton Starker is the last of his • JUV035000/JUV029020 line—except for his great-grandmother, Enid, a woman as friendly as a pickled wol- • 224 pp • 5 3/16 x 7 5/8 • carton qty: 52 verine—and he’s determined to survive. • rights acquired: Canada/English language Newton has spent all of his life following a list of rules for self-preservation, • other rights: Scott Treimel NY guidelines passed down through generations of Starkers. But Newton wants to try something new. He has enrolled at Jerry Potts Academy of Higher Learning and • editor: Lynne Missen Survival in Moose Jaw with the hope that he’ll be able to beat the odds. But if he PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-0-00-639569-0 TPB wants to go beyond just getting by, Newton is going to need more than rules. He’s going to need friends. ALSO AVAILABLE BY ARTHUR SLADE

“Jolted is funny and smart and fast paced. And it’s written with real love for that Dust fascinating liminal creature called the young teenager, for whom the sky is always just 978-0-00-648594-0 • $7.99 MM about to fall.” —Tim Wynne-Jones, The Globe and Mail The Hunchback Assignments 978-1-55468-354-3 • $18.99 CL (Aug. 2009) “Slade offers readers plenty of humor (often at Newton’s expense). . . . Slade’s portrayal Megiddo’s Shadow of Newton’s sweep of emotions as he deals with his perceived fate—fear, fury, dogged 978-0-00-639570-6 • $7.99 MM determination—is especially convincing.” —Publishers Weekly 978-0-00-639568-3 • $15.99 TPB Tribes 978-0-00-639169-2 • $7.99 MM ARTHUR SLADE is the author of Dust, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Children’s Literature; Tribes; Megiddo’s Shadow; Monsterology; Villainology; and the Canadian Chills series. His forthcoming book (Fall 2009), The Hunchback Assignments, is the first of an exciting new series. Slade lives in Saskatoon.

40 H a r p e r C o l l i n s The Barnes and the Brains series gets a brand-new look! Books for younger readers from Canada’s superstar author

kenneth oppel

A Bad Case of Ghosts Giles Barnes’ new house creaks and rustles, and fluttering sounds fill his bedroom. His mother insists there are no such thing as ghosts, but Giles enlists the help of his new neighbours, “local geniuses” Tina and Kevin Quark, and their “ghostometer.” Together Barnes and the Brains solve the mystery—and get rid of the ghosts for good! ISBN: 978-1-55468-528-8

A Strange Case of Magic When Giles, Tina and Kevin see books moving in the library all by themselves, they know they have to investigate. But Tina’s amazing ghostometer doesn’t pick up any ghosts, so what could that mysterious presence be? ISBN: 978-155468-529-5

A Crazy Case of Robots Tina Quark has invented the ultimate robot! The Tinatron 1000 is programmed to perform any task flawlessly—from cleaning to homework, and everything in between. But when Tinatron’s circuits start to overload, sparks fly! ISBN: 978-1-55468-530-1

“These elementary-level chapter books are perfect for the beginning independent reader. Interest-grabbing action begins with the first page, and the mystery and suspense of the problems to be solved carry the reader through to the end.… A very appealing series. Highly recommended.” —Canadian Book Review Annual

KENNETH OPPEL’s most recent work is The King’s Taster, a picture book for chil- JUVENILE FICTION, AGES 7 TO 9 dren ages 4 and up. He is also the author of Airborn, which won the Governor $6.99 DIGEST General’s Award; Skybreaker, winner of the Red Maple Award and the Ruth and SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY Sylvia Schwartz Award; and Starclimber, a CLA Book of the Year for Children • JUV037000 Honour Book. His many other books include the million-copy-selling Silverwing • 96 pp • 5 3/16 x 7 5/8 • carton qty: 112 Saga. Kenneth Oppel lives in Toronto with his wife and their three children. Visit his • b&w illustrations throughout website at www.kennethoppel.com. • rights acquired: Canada/English language • other rights: Writers House

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 41 Watch out, ladies: Sherman Mack, cool operator, smooth investi- gator and expert cook, is back in a new mass market edition

susan juby Getting the Girl A G u ide to P r ivate I nvesti g ation, S u rvei l l ance and C ooke ry

Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award and the Edgar Award (US) A White Ravens Selection (International Youth Library) A Kirkus Review Best YA 2008 selection young adult FICTION, AGES 13+ Meet Sherman Mack. Short. Nerdy. Amateur P.I. and prepared to do anything for $7.99 MM Dini Trioli. SHIPPING IN february Nobody knows who began it or when it became a tradition, but every girl ISBN: 978-1-55468-676-6 at Harewood Tech fears being D-listed, a ritual that wipes her off the social map • JUV028000/JUV000000 forever. When Sherman believes Dini is in danger of being D-listed, he snatches • 416 pp • 4 3/16 x 6 3/4 • carton qty: 48 up his surveillance gear and launches a full-scale investigation to uncover who is responsible. • rights acquired: Canada/English language Part comedy, part mystery and with all of Juby’s trademark tongue-in-cheek • other rights: HarperCollins U.S./Westwood humour, Getting the Girl takes on one of the cruellest aspects of high school: how Creative Artists easy it is for an entire school to turn on someone, and how hard it is to be the only • editor: Lynne Missen one willing to fight back. PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-0-00-200709-2 TPB “Think Harriet the Spy meets Sam Spade, with a good dose of Wayne’s World thrown in. Funny, honest, self-effacing, [Sherman] Mack is the charmingly irresistible heart that ALSO AVAILABLE BY SUSAN JUBY beats behind Juby’s funny and immensely readable Getting the Girl.” Alice in a Box —Quill & Quire 978-0-00-639564-5 • $44.99 TPB Box Set Alice, I Think “As always, Juby endows her endearing characters with quirky, comedic voices and 978-0-00-639288-0 • $7.99 MM original backgrounds.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Miss Smithers 978-0-00-639527-0 • $7.99 MM Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last SUSAN JUBY is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Another Kind of Cowboy, 978-0-00-200828-0 • $7.99 MM as well as the bestselling Alice series: Alice, I Think; Miss Smithers; and Alice MacLeod, Another Kind of Cowboy Realist at Last. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, James, and their dog, 978-1-55468-260-7 • $7.99 MM (Sept. 2009) who prefers to remain anonymous. Visit her online at www.susanjuby.com.

42 H a r p e r C o l l i n s The penultimate and final books in the Ingo quartet— now in mass market and trade paperback editions

helen Dunmore

The Deep The Deep YA FICTION, ages 10+ A devastating flood has ripped through both worlds, Air and Ingo. And now, deep $7.99 MM in the ocean, a monster is stirring and demanding his due. Mer legend dictates that SHIPPING IN February only those with mixed-blood—half Mer and half human—can conquer the Kraken. ISBN: 978-1-55468-588-2 So Sapphy must return to the deep and, with the help of her brother, Conor, face a • JUV037000 struggle that will test her like no other. • 384 pp • 4 3/16 x 6 3/4 • carton qty: 48 • rights acquired: Canada/English language “Dunmore’s series is written in a sensual, descriptive prose that evokes the watery • other rights: A. P. Watt Ltd. kingdom with conviction. Characters are clear-cut and written with exuberance.” —The Sunday Times Culture PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-017-7 TPB

The Crossing of Ingo The crossing of Ingo is an ancient and dangerous coming-of-age ritual: a journey to the bottom of the world. Sapphy and Conor have been called to take part, the first of human blood ever to make an attempt. But Ervys and his followers are determined to stop them: dead or alive. Helen Dunmore builds her classic, much-loved series up to a breathtaking finale.

“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.” — The globe and mail The Crossing of Ingo HELEN DUNMORE is a multi-award-winning novelist, short story writer and poet. She YA FICTION, ages 10+ has written nine adult books, including A Spell of Winter, winner of the firstOrange $14.99 TPB Prize for Fiction in 1996, and twenty-two children’s books, including The Tide Knot, SHIPPING IN February the sequel to Ingo and the winner of the UK Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Silver ISBN: 978-1-55468-248-5 Medal. Helen Dunmore lives in Bristol, England, with her husband and children. • JUV037000 Visit her online at helendunmore.com. • 368 pp • 5 x 7 3/4 • carton qty: 32 • rights acquired: Canada/English language ALSO AVAILABLE BY HELEN DUNMORE • other rights: A. P. Watt Ltd.

Ingo The Tide Knot PREVIOUS EDITION: 978-1-55468-247-8 CL 978-1-55468-246-1 • $7.99 MM 978-1-55468-288-1 • $7.99 MM

W i n t e r 2 0 1 0 43 title indEX Author index

31 Bond Street...... 7 Babiak, Todd...... 2 Darker Domain, A...... 29 Berry, Anne...... 11 Advice for Italian Boys...... 23 Bourne, Sam...... 30 Bad Case of Ghosts, A...... 39 Doyle Driedger, Sharon...... 9 Bird Detective, The...... 17 Dunmore, Helen...... 41 Borderline...... 35 Dychtwald, Ken...... 31 Cool Water...... 3 Elton, Sarah...... 16 Crazy Case of Robots, A...... 39 Errett, Benjamin...... 8 Crossing of Ingo, The...... 41 Giardini, Anne...... 25 Darklight...... 36 Gowdy, Barbara...... 22 Debt-Free Forever...... 18 Herriot, Trevor...... 26 Deep, The...... 41 Heath, Joseph...... 24 Filthy Lucre...... 24 Hill, Dan...... 27 Getting the Girl...... 40 Hill, Lawrence...... 20 Girl Crazy...... 10 Horan, Ellen...... 7 Grass, Sky, Song...... 26 Jacobovici, Simcha, and Barrie Wilson...... 4 Green Grass, Running Water...... 23 Juby, Susan...... 40 Grizzlyville...... 25 Junger, Sebastian...... 5 Happiness Project, The...... 19 Kallos, Stephanie...... 22 Hungry Ghosts, The...... 11 King, Thomas...... 23 I Am My Father’s Son...... 27 Livingston, Lesley...... 36-37 Illustrated Book of Negroes, The...... 20 MacDonald, Jake...... 25 Irish Heart, An...... 9 McDermid, Val...... 29 Jew and Improved...... 8 Oppel, Kenneth...... 39 Jolted...... 38 Patel, Raj...... 13 Last Testament, The...... 30 Prinz, Yvonne...... 34 Locavore...... 16 Rubin, Gretchen...... 19 Lost Gospel, The...... 4 Shriver, Lionel...... 26 Lovers, The...... 14 Slade, Arthur...... 38 New Purpose, A...... 31 Smith, Russell...... 10 Our Man in Tehran...... 12 Steavenson, Wendell...... 28 Sing Them Home...... 22 Stratton, Allan...... 35 Slap, The...... 15 Stutchbury, Bridget...... 17 Strange Case of Magic, A...... 39 Tsiolkas, Christos...... 15 So Much for That...... 6 Vaz-Oxlade, Gail...... 18 Toby: A Man...... 2 Vida, Vendela...... 14 Value of Nothing, The...... 13 Warren, Dianne...... 3 Vinyl Princess, The...... 34 Wilson, Barrie, and Simcha Jacobovici...... 4 War...... 5 Wright, Robert...... 12 Weight of a Mustard Seed, The...... 28 White Bone, The...... 22 Wondrous Strange...... 37

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