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n this deeply moving memoir, Margaret Trudeau speaks with Icandour and insight about the illness that silently shaped her life—a life lived often in turbulence and in the public’s fasci- nation. Plagued since childhood by extreme moods, Margaret was ill-prepared for the high-profile role into which she was cast at age twenty-two, as Canada’s youngest first lady. Capti- vated by her high spirits, youth and beauty, Canadians fell in love with Margaret, just as they had with her charismatic hus- band, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, three years earlier. When their first son, Justin, was born on Christmas Day and their second son, Sacha, on the same day two years later, this “I believe that I was born bipolar couple seemed almost enchanted. but that it took nearly fifty years for But away from the cameras and the public appearances, and increasingly isolated at , Margaret struggled a true and proper diagnosis, and for with a growing depression offset by bouts of mania. Her behav- me to be able to accept that fact.” iour seemed inexplicable to many—including to herself—and —from On Balance two years after the birth of their third son, Michel, the mar- riage broke down. Gradually, though, a fragile stability took hold, as Margaret found happiness in work as a photographer margaret trudeau and in her marriage to Fried Kemper. But the tragic death of Mi- chel Trudeau, closely followed by ’s own passing, On Balance caused her to spiral into suicidal depression. Finally accepting AMemoir the diagnosis of bipolar, she sought medical treatment. Under intense international scrutiny, Margaret Trudeau MEMOIR • $34.99 CL has survived remarkable highs and devastating lows. Since ISBN: 978-1-55468-538-7 regaining control of her life, she has brought her formidable ONE-day LaydOwN: OCtOBER 19/10 passion to helping others, be they Canadians suffering from BIO026000 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 mental illness or families living without access to water half a 50 full-colour photos rights acquired: world/all languages world away. A recipient of the Society of Biological Psychiatry other rights: Michael A. Levine, Goodmans LLP Humanitarian Award, she now offers her journey of recovery, editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Rob Firing acceptance and hope, and generously shares with us many pre- viously unreleased photos, in one of the most important mem- oirs to come out of this country.

MARGARET TRUDEAU was born in , Canada, where she attended Simon Fraser University. The former wife of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, she is also the author of two previous memoirs, Beyond Reason (1979) and Consequences (1982). Margaret now works with WaterCan, a registered charity dedi- cated to providing clean drinking water to the world s poorest people, and speaks across the country on mental health issues. She lives in .

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r. Brian Goldman is both an emergency room physician o five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It’s where he dat Mount Sinai and a prominent medical journalist. Nev- twas born and where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. er one to shy away from controversy, Goldman specializes in At night, Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case kicking open the doors to the medical establishment, revealing Old Nick comes. The popular host of CBC Radio’s what really goes on behind the scenes—and in the minds of Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it’s the prison where White Coat, Black Art takes us to the doctors and nurses. Old Nick has kept her for seven years, since she was nineteen. This room is not on any map In The Night Shift, Goldman shares his experiences in the Through ingenuity and determination, Ma has created a life for front line of emergency medicine witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. herself and her son, but she knows it’s not enough for either of We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an ER after mid- them. Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s desperation— emma donoghue dr. brian goldman night: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last and Room can’t contain either of them for much longer . . . call, teens assaulted in the streets by other teens and a woman Told entirely in the inventive, often funny voice of Jack, Room the Night Shift who punches another woman out of jealousy over a man. But Room is a celebration of the resilient bond between parent and A Novel Goldman also reveals the emotional, heartbreaking side of child, and a brilliantly executed novel about a journey from one RealL ifein t heHear tof t heE R everyday ER visits: adult children forced to make life and death world to another. FICtION • $29.99 CL decisions about critically ill parents, victims of sexual assault, ISBN: 978-1-55468-831-9 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt HEaLtH/HEaLtH CaRE • $29.99 CL FIC019000 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 ISBN: 978-1-55468-391-8 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER and mentally ill and homeless patients looking for understand- EMMA DONOGHUE has published six novels, including the rights acquired: Canada/English language HEA028000 • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 ing and a quick fix in the twenty-four-hour waiting room. Writ- internationally acclaimed and bestselling Slammerkin, Life Mask other rights: Little, Brown U.S. rights acquired: world/all languages ten with Goldman’s trademark honesty and with surprising and The Sealed Letter, which was longlisted for the Giller Prize. editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Emma Ingram other rights: Rick Broadhead & Associates humour, The Night Shift is also a frank look at many issues fac- Born in Ireland, Donoghue lives in , Ontario, with her editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Lindsey Love ing the medical profession today, and offers a highly compelling partner and their two children. Visit the author online at www. inside view into an often shrouded world. emmadonoghue.com.

For more than twenty years, DR. BRIAN GOLDMAN has been “Emma donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing in- a highly regarded emergency physician at Toronto s Mount Si- nocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a nai Hospital, and he has parlayed his medical expertise into an book to read in one sitting. when it’s over and you look up, the world looks the same but you are somehow different, award-winning career in medical journalism. CBC Radio One s and that feeling lingers for days.” h ouse doctor, Dr. Goldman is also the host of the radio pro- audrey niffenegger, author of the time traveler's gram White Coat, Black Art, which airs on CBC Radio. He lives wife and her fearful symmetry in Toronto with his wife and two children. “I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling “What’s wrong with me, doctor?” It’s a typical ques- use of language. and with all this, an entirely credible, en- tion, even if it’s not spoken out loud. But it’s in their dearing little boy. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before.” anita shreve eyes; it hovers in the air as I take down their medical history. Some ask an even tougher question: “Am I going to die?” They want answers and sometimes I have them, even if they’re not the answers they want also available by emma donoghue or pray to hear. The Sealed Letter from the night shift 978-1-55468-037-5  $18.95 tpb Slammerkin 978-1-55468-470-0  $19.99 tpb

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Drawn from the life of Henry James— Canada’s most popular military leader an unconventional woman at odds challenges Canadians: lead, follow with those who control her fate or get run over melissa jones general rick hillier Emily Hudson Leadership Matters ANovel BuSINESS • $32.99 CL FICtION • $21.99 ORIGINaL tPB w/ FLaPS ISBN: 978-1-55468-493-9 ISBN: 978-1-55468-542-4 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt ONE-day LaydOwN: OCtOBER 5/10 FIC000000 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 BUS071000 • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 rights acquired: Canada/English language rights acquired: world/all languages other rights: Conville & Walsh other rights: Westwood Creative Artists publicist: Lindsey Love editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Lindsey Love

t the start of the American Civil War, Emily, an orphan, is MELISSA JONES, the daughter of a Jamaican screenwriter eneral Rick Hillier’s views on leadership evolved over his GENERAL RICK HILLIER enlisted in the Canadian Forces in aexpelled from school because of her “extravagant” friend- and an English actress, was born in London in 1965 and ed- Gthree decades as a soldier, first by watching many of his 1973 and in May 2003 was appointed Commander of the Army. ship with another pupil and her unsettlingly wild nature. Sent ucated at Oxford University (where she won a scholarship to superiors make bad decisions, then by learning from the school In February 2005, he was promoted to Chief of the Defence to live with her rich, puritanical uncle and his family by the sea study English). After working in film and television as well as in a of hard knocks as the head of emergency rescue operations in staff; he stepped down in the summer of 2008. The author of in Newport, she longs to be an artist, but her attempts at self- variety of odd jobs, Melissa is now living with her family in Essex Canada and international task forces in eastern Europe and the #1 bestseller A Soldier First, Hillier resides in . expression are frowned upon by her estranged family. Her uncle and writing full-time. Afghanistan. Never one to be shy with his opinions, Hillier is seeks to rid himself of her through a marriage, even though she as frank and straightforward in Leadership Matters as he is in praise for a soldier first, has no fortune. “I loved Emily Hudson: an elegant, persuasive and his #1 bestselling memoir, A Soldier First. a globe and mail best book of 2009 Despite the formidable restraints of her new life, Emily engrossing novel.” For Hillier, leadership is all about people—embracing “what is most important about General Rick Hillier’s book forms a close alliance with her cousin William. Ailing and fay weldon those in your charge and winning over those you need to work is what he writes about the world context in which Canada ambivalent about his sexuality, William becomes obsessed by with—not about risk aversion or management fads. Leaders lives. . . . without the capacity to deploy effective, well- “My favourite book in a long while: a spellbinding tale Emily’s spirit and beauty and uses it as a way of funding his own think long, and have a vision. Their actions speak, not their trained, well-led hard power when needed, no one will pay that manages to be both literary and romantic.” attention to Canada. Hillier superbly makes [that] case.” creativity. He rescues Emily from an uncertain future by inviting words, and they make their own luck. But leaders also act out of julia gregson, author of east of the sun her to accompany him to England, where she enrolls as an art moral courage, accept failure, take advantage of crisis and are student, dependent on his support. “No ordinary piece of Victoriana. . . . [Henry] James’ cousin perpetually optimistic. Dramatically told in beautiful and tender prose, Emily Minnie temple is given the life she deserved.” Leadership Matters is an inspirational, easy-to-read and, in Hudson is a brilliantly readable novel that will appeal to any- the times (london) true Hillier fashion, always entertaining collection of principles also available by general rick hillier body who has ever sought to be true to themselves but also to that will challenge the way you run your business, start a proj- A Soldier First 978-1-55468-491-5  $34.99 cl find love. ect or take that next step in life. available in tpb in august 2010 (see page 53)

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avid Pepin has loved his wife since the moment they met, n a quiet manor house in Oxfordshire, an ailing housekeeper by a phyllis bruce book dand after thirteen years of marriage he still can’t imag- Ithe name of Aerlene Ward feels that she must now confess the ine living without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her great secret that has shaped her life: she is the illegitimate daugh- demise. Soon she is dead, and he’s both deeply distraught and ter of William Shakespeare, England’s most famous playwright. The Giller-winning author of An audacious first novel unlike anything the prime suspect in her possible murder. With a brilliant eye and ear for this rich period of history, brings us another unforgettable you’ve read—Mr. Peanut is a police The officers investigating her death are intimately famil- Richard B. Wright brings to life the teeming streets of Elizabe- woman—meet Shakespeare’s daughter iar with conjugal enigmas. Detective Ward Hastroll was hap- than London and the seasonal rhythms of rural life in Oliver procedural of the soul pily married until his wife became inexplicably and militantly Cromwell’s England as he interweaves the intriguing stories bedridden. And Detective Sam Sheppard is especially sensi- of the lovely Elizabeth, who allows herself to be seduced by a richard b. wright adam ross tive to marital guilt, having decades before been convicted struggling young writer from Stratford, and her plain but clever and then declared innocent of his wife’s brutal murder. daughter, who must live with the consequences. As their lives un- Mr. Shakespeare’s Mr. Peanut When Pepin is linked to a hit man, the ambiguity en- fold, secrets are revealed, love is found and lost, and futures are folding this case begins to resemble the Escher drawings that forever changed. Readers will be fascinated by glimpses of the Bastard ANovel inspire the computer games Pepin designs for a living. These young Will as an actor with the Queen’s Men and, fifteen years A Novel complex, interlocking dramas of murder and marriage bril- later, as a world-weary but increasingly wealthy playwright— FICtION • $32.99 CL FICtION • $32.99 CL ISBN: 978-1-55468-837-1 • aVaILaBLE NOw liantly explore the twinned impulses of love and hate, each who may have had an unexpected daughter. ISBN: 978-1-55468-835-7• SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER FIC022020 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 endlessly cycling into the other. An engaging blend of invention and historical detail, and FIC019000 • 352 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 rights acquired: Canada/English language Surprising, emotionally intense, and astonishing in its echoing the unmistakable style of the Bard himself, Mr. Shake- rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Susanna Lea Associates reach, Mr. Peanut is a first novel of the highest order. speare’s Bastard confirms Wright as one of our finest storytellers. other rights: The Cooke Agency editor: Alex Schultz • publicist: Margaret Nozuka editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Margaret Nozuka “the most riveting look at the dark side of marriage since “a many-layered marvel.” Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . . . It induced nightmares, on clara callan at least in this reader. No mean feat.” stephen king RICHARD B. WRIGHT is the author of eleven previous novels, including Clara Callan, a #1 bestseller that won the Giller Prize, ADAM ROSS was born and raised in New York City. He holds the Governor General s Award, the Trillium Book Award and the an MA in creative writing from Hollins University and an MFA in CBA Libris Awards for Best Book and Author of the Year. The creative writing from Washington University, where he studied Age of Longing was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Gov- with Richard Dillard, Stanley Elkin and William Gass. He lives in ernor General s Award. Adultery was a #1 bestseller, as was the Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and two daughters. Giller-longlisted October.

also available by richard b. wright When David Pepin first dreamed of killing his Adultery wife, he didn’t kill her himself. He dreamed of 978-0-00-639381-8  $19.95 tpb convenient acts of God. The Age of Longing from mr. peanut 978-0-00-639206-4  $17.95 tpb Clara Callan 978-1-55468-480-9  $19.99 tpb Final Things 978-0-00-639271-2  $18.95 tpb In the Middle of a Life 978-0-00-639207-1  $18.95 tpb October 978-0-00-200690-3  $18.95 tpb Sunset Manor 978-0-00-639239-2  $18.95 tpb

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n a leafy street in the quiet village of Bishopthorpe there atty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old Olives a very ordinary and averagely dysfunctional happy PSt. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant- family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife Helen is garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort part of the local book club. Their children, Clara and Rowan, of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your bat- In his first novel since The Corrections, may be experiencing all the hormonal anguish of being teenag- teries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. Meet the Radleys, ers . . . but that’s only a normal part of growing up. However, She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s the extraordinary #1 bestseller, Jonathan an everyday family of vampires Peter and Helen have kept from the children a life-changing dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, com- Franzen delivers a powerful epic of family secret. muter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part contemporary love and marriage One night, when Clara finds herself driven to committing to build a better world. matt haig a bloodthirsty act of violence, her parents react with resignation But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have rather than horror. Peter and Helen must now explain things to become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with jonathan franzen the Radleys their children: why it is that their skin is so sensitive to sunlight, the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Wal- ANovel why they all find garlic so repulsive, why Clara’s recent decision ter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Freedom to go vegan has been so detrimental to her health . . . and other Katz—outré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rival— A Novel FICtION • $21.99 ORIGINaL tPB w/FLaPS disadvantages of being a family of abstaining vampires. still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to ISBN: 978-1-55468-858-6 • SHIPPING IN dECEMBER Reeling from their parents’ revelation, and with the police Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become “a very FICtION • $34.99 CL FIC015000 • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 28 ISBN: 978-1-55468-883-8 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt rights acquired: Canada/English language closing in, Clara and Rowan are stunned by the further dis- different kind of neighbour,” an implacable Fury coming un- FIC019000 • 576 pp • 6 X 9 • carton qty: 16 other rights: Canongate Books (U.K.) covery that they also have an uncle, a smooth-talking and de- hinged before the street’s attentive eyes? rights acquired: Canada/English language publicist: Rob Firing cidedly active vampire who has been kept away from them all In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen other rights: Farrar, Straus and Giroux their lives. But when he swoops into the village to save the day, has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. publicist: Colleen Clarke he unleashes a host of shadowy and even darker secrets that Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations will bring the whole Radley family either to reconciliation and and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken readjustment . . . or to self-destruction. compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and praise for the last family in england joys of Freedom’s intensely realized characters as they strug- “a comic tour de force.” gle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, the times (london) Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving por- trait of our time. praise for the dead fathers club

“Poignant, funny, innocent, touching. . . . a fine piece of JONATHAN FRANZEN is the author of The Corrections, win- work by a talented and clearly imaginative young writer.” ner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The sunday express Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two collections of essays, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone. He lives in MATT HAIG has published three adult novels: The Last Fam- New York City. ily in England, The Dead Fathers Club and The Possession of Mr. Cave (which the New York Times called c hilling, riveting, heartbreaking.) . Matt has also published two highly regarded also available children s novels, Shadow Forest (winner of the Nestl Chil- by jonathan franzen dren s Book Prize) and The Troll. Visit him online at The Corrections www.matthaig.com. 978-0-00-639309-2  $19.95 tpb The Discomfort Zone 978-0-00-255420-6  $18.95 tpb How to Be Alone 978-0-00-639433-4  $19.95 tpb

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he Damned tells the largely unknown saga of Canada’s first o event in our history is more legendary than the Yukon a phyllis bruce book tland battle of the Second World War—fought in the hills NGold Rush of 1896. With the discovery of rich gold and valleys of Hong Kong in December 1941—and the terrible deposits in Bonanza Creek, 100,000 prospectors headed for years the survivors of the battle spent as slave labourers for the the Yukon within a few months. People from all walks of life— Mounties, miners, ministers and dance hall The true story of the Canadian defeat at Hong Empire of Japan. Canadians, Americans, British, even Australians—landed in the girls—they all came to boom-and-bust Kong and the harrowing POW experience Their story begins in the fall of 1941, when almost 2,000 newly created Dawson City in search of instant wealth. Hungry Dawson City in the Yukon as the members of the Royal Rifles and Winnipeg Grenadiers were sent miners hoped for the one big strike; others, for prosperity in to bolster the British garrison at Hong Kong. In the seventeen- this instant boom town; some, for the adventure of a lifetime. world went mad for gold nathan m. greenfield day battle for the colony following the attack on December 8, the This is the story of the Gold Rush through the intimate Canadians suffered grievous losses: 927 men were either killed lives of six extraordinary people: the saintly priest Father Judge; charlotte gray the damned or wounded and, by the end of the battle, 1,185 soldiers and two the feisty entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney; the struggling writ- TheCan adiansat t heB attleof Hon gKon g nursing sisters had been captured—a casualty rate of 100 per- er Jack London; the imperious British journalist Flora Shaw; Gold diggers andt heP OWE xperience,194145 cent, the very definition of a military catastrophe. the legendary Sam Steele of the Mounties; and the prospector The second part of their story—of how the Canadians William Haskell. Brilliantly interweaving their stories, Gray Striking It Rich in the Klondike MILItaRy HIStORy • $34.99 CL survived the horrid conditions of Japanese POW camps—lasts creates a fascinating panorama of a frontier town where despera- CaNadIaN HIStORy • $34.99 CL ISBN: 978-1-55468-219-5 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER three and a half years. Many prisoners died, some from malnu- dos, saloon keepers, gamblers, dance hall girls, churchmen and HIS027160 • 400 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 ISBN: 978-0-00-200857-0 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER trition or disease, some as a result of torture, and others from law-makers were thrown together in a volatile time. 16 pages of b&w photos; 7 maps HIS006020 • 416 pp • 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 • carton qty: 24 rights acquired: Canada/English & French languages,audio the effects of brutal slave labour in factories, shipyards and Beautifully illustrated with period photographs and docu- 50 b&w illustrations; 4 maps other rights: Factotum Literary Management coal mines. ments of the Gold Rush, Gold Diggers is a colourful and enter- rights acquired: Canada/English language editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Carolyn Ovell But despite the circumstances, the young Canadian sol- taining journey into a world gone mad for wealth. other rights: Westwood Creative Artists diers remained unbowed and unbroken. Theirs is a story of editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Margaret Nozuka determination and valour, of resilience and faith. praise for charlotte gray “Perhaps this biographer’s greatest skill is her ability to praise for baptism of fire create a richly textured historical and social background, “Greenfield is a strong writer and offers you-are-there with a wealth of fascinating details.” glimpses of purgatory and hell, supplying plenty of poignant and arresting incidents.” the globe and mail “a new book from Charlotte Gray is always worth celebrating.” calgary herald “a masterpiece of research, in German and allied records alike; platoon by platoon, he tells who CHARLOTTE GRAY, one of Canada s pre-eminent biogra- moved where, when.” phers, has won many awards for her writing, including the 2002 the gazette (montreal) UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the CAA Birks Family Foundation NATHAN M. GREENFIELD, PhD, is the Canadian correspon- Award for Biography. She has received the prestigious Pierre dent for The Times Education Supplement and a contributor Berton Award for a body of historical writing. She is currently the to Maclean s, Canadian Geographic and The Times Literary Chair of Canada s National History Society. Supplement. He is the author of Baptism of Fire, which was a finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and the widely praised The Battle of the St. Lawrence. Green- also available by charlotte gray field lives in Ottawa. Flint & Feather 978-0-00-639119-7  $19.95 tpb Reluctant Genius also by nathan m. greenfield 978-0-00-639476-1  $22.95 tpb Baptism of Fire 978-0-00-639576-8  $22.95 tpb Battle of the St. Lawrence 978-0-00-639450-1  $22.95 tpb

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HARPERPERENNIAL MODERNCLASSICS HARPERPERENNIAL MODERNCLASSICS 14 harpercollins fall 2010 15 a phyllis bruce book hen Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, wsurveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan, and his newspaper has put him on indefinite leave; his psychia- A brilliant dissection of one man’s trist wife, Lucille, seems headed for the door; he is strongly mid-life crisis . . . and the family that attracted to Ursula, the wife of a dairy farmer from Minnesota; and his daughter appears to be having an affair with one of her won’t give up on him professors. What is a thinking man to do but turn to Cicero and Pla- to and Socrates in search of the truth? Or better still, call one of those discreet “dating services” in search of happiness? But the Matter with Morris happiness, as Morris discovers, is not that easy to find. David Bergen’s most accomplished novel yet is an unfor- ANovel gettable story with a vitality and charm and intelligence all its own. Bergen proves once again that he is one of our fin- FICtION • $29.99 CL ISBN: 978-1-55468-774-9 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER est writers, dazzling us with his wit and touching us with his FIC019000 • 256 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 28 compassion. rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Westwood Creative Artists praise for the retreat editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Margaret Nozuka “The Retreat is a powerful and engrossing novel, further proof that the late-blooming Bergen is now one of Canada’s very best writers.” the gazette (montreal) david bergen david bergen “Bergen excels at creating dramatic scenes of survival. . . . a meaningful and significant work.” a year of Lesser See the Child the globe and mail

FICtION • $17.99 tPB FICtION • $17.99 tPB praise for ISBN: 978-1-55468-873-9 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt ISBN: 978-1-55468-874-6 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt “a subtle and elegantly written novel by an author in FIC019000 • 224 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 48 FIC019000 • 240 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 48 complete command of his talent.” rights acquired: Canada/English language rights acquired: Canada/English language jury other rights: Westwood Creative Artists other rights: Westwood Creative Artists editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Margaret Nozuka editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Margaret Nozuka DAVID BERGEN is an award-winning author of five previous a New York Times Notable Book hen Harry, the local cop, knocks on Paul Unger’s door novels and a collection of short stories. A Year of Lesser was winner of the Book award early one morning to give him the grim news—that his a New York Times Notable Book and The Case of Lena S. w son, Stephen, has been found drowned—Paul descends into a was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. In hen Johnny Fehr, a down-on-his-luck feed supply grief that carries him to a dark and unfamiliar place. His com- 2005, Bergen won the Giller Prize for The Time in Between. The wsalesman, thinks about Lorraine, his lover, it’s like the fortable life is overturned, and he is left to question his own recent winner of the Writers Trust Award for a writer in mid- Holy Spirit tickling his spine. But Johnny is already married to role in his son’s death. When, several years later, a woman career, Bergen lives with his family in Winnipeg. Charlene. If only he could be a better person and stop hurting returns to town with a boy who might be Paul’s grandson, Paul the people he loves. In this richly layered novel, David Bergen imagines in both of them a path back to his son. depicts the small prairie town of Lesser, where everybody’s private moments become public knowledge. “Confirms Bergen as one of this country’s finest novelists.” toronto star “a finely observed first novel. . . . david Bergen explores what happens when the simplest of contemporary souls asks the biggest questions.”

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Hail to the heroes—Canada’s Meet the mavericks—lives writ large, top insider celebrates The Greats in passion or poison peter c. newman peter c. newman Heroes Mavericks CanadianCh ampions,Dar kHor sesan dI cons CanadianR ebels,R enegadesan dA nti-Heroes

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n Heroes, Peter C. Newman incisively analyzes dozens of PETER C. NEWMAN s writing about Canadian politics and eter C. Newman’s poison pen has lodged itself firmly in praise for peter c. newman ICanadians, past and present, who have defined this country, business set new standards of investigative journalism in this Pthe viscera of the Canadian elite. In Mavericks, he has se- “Of all the lions who roamed the Canadian literary land- drawing on fifty years of writing. From the world of popular country, especially relating to how power is gained, used, lected his most evocative writing about those Canadians who scape, Newman is the fiercest.” culture, he writes about Terry Fox, and June abused, lost and regained. His Renegade in Power (1963) run against the grain on the grandest scale, including Barbara toronto star Callwood. From politics, Pierre Trudeau, Christina McCall and revolutionized Canadian political reporting with its controversial Amiel and her husband, Conrad Black. Some of the other char- Lester B. Pearson, among others. And from the world of busi- in siders-tell-all approach. Four decades later, Newman did it acters who populate this volume include Garth Drabinsky, the “Peter Newman is the Jacques Cousteau of the Canadian corporate aquarium. His books are the Canadian equiva- ness, Newman includes some of the most active entrepreneurs again, with his ultimate insider books on the Canadian estab- Eaton boys, Louis Riel, Robert Campeau and Peter Nygard. In lent of Grauman’s Chinese theater, where Hollywood stars on the planet, including Jimmy Pattison, Heather Reisman and lishment. The author of twenty-five volumes that have sold more the world of politics, he takes on , the sub- press their hands in fresh cement.” Paul Desmarais. The grandmaster at the top of his game, New- than two million copies, Newman has won a dozen of the coun- ject of his ground-breaking Renegade in Power, as well as Brian the globe and mail man shares the inside stories of these pivotal characters whose try s most illustrious literary awards. A former editor-in-chief of Mulroney, , René Lévesque, Bill Vander Zalm lives and times set examples for all of us. the Toronto Star and Maclean s, Newman has been honoured and Lucien Bouchard. “to be Newmanized ensures your place as one of the big boys.” with a National Newspaper Award, elected to the News Hall winnipeg free press of Fame and appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada.

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HARPERPERENNIAL MODERNCLASSICS HARPERPERENNIAL MODERNCLASSICS 18 harpercollins fall 2010 19 a phyllis bruce book o matter where you enter the —through hen she decides to auction her remarkable jewellery col- Nexploration, politics, business, education or literature— wlection, Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi you find that the Scots and their descendants have played a ballet, believes she has drawn a curtain on her past. Instead, leading role. Today, almost five million Canadians identify the aged dancer finds herself overwhelmed by memories of her From explorers to politicians, from rebels themselves as Scottish, and their influence is felt throughout homeland and of the events—both glorious and heartbreak- A breathtaking debut tale of love and art, to radicals, the Scots have left their tartan the land. Starting with his own deep roots in Scotland and early ing—that changed the course of her life half a century before. betrayal and redemption, set against mark on Canada Canada, Ken McGoogan has created a lively, entertaining nar- It was in Russia that Nina first learned to dance, that she the backdrop of Stalinist Russia rative that focuses on more than sixty Scots who have led the fell in love with a dashing poet, that she and her dearest com- c way in shaping this country. panions became victims of Stalinist aggression and that a ter- ken m googan Early arrivals included explorers Alexander Mackenzie, rible discovery led to a deadly act of betrayal—and to a daring daphne kalotay Simon Fraser and the “Scotch West Indian,” James Douglas. and ingenious escape that eventually brought her to the city of How the Scots Later, Scots such as Lord Selkirk and John Galt encouraged Boston. Russian winter Invented Canada thousands to immigrate. Nation-builders followed, among Nina has never shared the dark secrets of her heart. But A Novel them John A. Macdonald, James McGill and the reformer Nellie two people—an associate director at the auction house and a CaNadIaN HIStORy/BIOGRaPHy • $29.99 CL McClung. Then came the visionaries, Scottish Canadians such as Russian professor looking for the key to his own ambiguous FICtION • $23.99 ORIGINaL tPB w/FLaPS ISBN: 978-1-55468-233-1 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER , Doris Anderson and Marshall McLuhan, who history—will not let the past rest, and they find themselves ISBN: 978-1-55468-672-8 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt HIS006000 • 384 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 20 have turned Canada into a nation that revels in diversity. unravelling a literary mystery whose answers will hold life- Also available in hardcover (978-0-06-196216-5 • $33.99) 60 b&w illustrations FIC044000 • 480 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 20 McGoogan commemorates the first settlers to land at Pic- changing consequences for them all. rights acquired: Canada/English language rights acquired: Canada/English language tou, Nova Scotia, and celebrates such hybrid Canadians as the other rights: Beverley Slopen Literary Agency other rights: HarperCollins U.S. editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Carolyn Ovell Cherokee Scot John Norton, Thérèse MacDonald Casgrain and Author of the acclaimed collection Calamity and Other Stories, publicist: Lindsey Love the kilt-loving John George Diefenbaker. He honours the war DAPHNE KALOTAY has a PhD in literature from Boston Uni- contributions of Scottish Canadian regiments, and he toasts Sir versity, and has since taught creative writing at Middlebury Col- Walter Scott and the beloved Robbie Burns. Beautifully illustrat- lege, Boston University and Skidmore College. She has received ed and handsomely packaged, How the Scots Invented Canada is fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Vassar, an exuberant celebration of the building of a nation. Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Born in Canada, Kalotay lives in the Boston area. Visit her online at www.daphnekalotay.com. “Ken McGoogan is required reading for any Canadian who wants to know the real history of our country.” “tender, passionate and moving, daphne Kalotay’s lovely peter mansbridge debut novel about ballet, jewels, love and betrayal is also a delicious form of time travel.” KEN McGOOGAN s quartet of books about Arctic history jenna blum, new york times-bestselling author of Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner, Lady Franklin s Revenge and those who save us Race to the Polar Sea have made him one of the most highly “Kalotay writes about her characters . . . with sensitivity, hu- praised popular historians in Canada and a national bestsell- mour and wisdom. I believed in these characters and cared ing author. A proud third-generation Ulster Scot, he has ex- about their fates. . . . a captivating and entertaining read.” tensively researched both his family history and that of other oscar hijuelos, pulitzer prize-winning author of Scottish Canadians to write this book. Visit his website at the mambo kings play songs of love www.kenmcgoogan.com.

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obert Herjavec has lived the classic “rags to riches” story, eeing is believing. . . . This illustrated edition of SuperFreak- The full-colour expanded and illustrated Rfrom having only $20 in his pocket to starting up tech- Sonomics adds exciting new information presented through edition adds a visual, superfreaky dimension nology companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The photographs, charts, diagrams and illustrations, including son of Croatian immigrants, Herjavec overcame the odds and to the already provocative thinking that amassed incredible wealth, doing it through pure hard work • a by-the-numbers tally of a high-priced call girl’s career, and made Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics Television’s hottest dealmaker shares his and determination. Today a star on television’s Dragons’ Den, a tracking sheet from an intensive survey of Chicago street part of the national zeitgeist wealth of wisdom on business and life he bankrolls the best inventions and shoots down the best in- prostitutes; tentions. And now, for the first time, he shares his hard-won • a visual quiz that lets you pit your memory against the wisdom in one of the most inspirational business books of memory of a chess grandmaster; steven d. levitt & robert herjavec the season. • images of the hurricane-killing machine and other geo- stephen j. dubner Driven is organized by the work and life principles that engineering inventions described in SuperFreakonomics; and driven made Robert Herjavec both wealthy and successful (indeed, • previously unpublished letters between Kurt Vonnegut and SuperFreakonomics* Howt oS ucceedin B usinessan din L ife these terms are not synonymous). Herjavec reveals the se- a climate scientist, showing how the novelist came up with GlobalCoolin g,P atriotic Prostitutes, and Why crets that took him from waiting tables to growing his nascent some of his most outlandish plot points. SuicideB ombers Should Buy Life Insurance BuSINESS • $32.99 CL technology company, The Herjavec Group, into a world-class ISBN: 978-1-55468-708-4 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER conglomerate. His principles are as valuable in the living room Whether probing the intricacies of sex change operations, *The Super-Deluxe, BUS025000 • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 Super-Illustrated Edition Thereof. rights acquired: Canada/English language as they are in the boardroom. Anyone can succeed, on their the effectiveness of child car seats, or what really motivates peo- own terms, by following his sage but simple advice—as long as ple to do good, this richly illustrated edition of Super-Freako- other rights: Westwood Creative Artists BuSINESS & ECONOMICS • $40.00 CL editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Colleen Clarke they’re willing to take chances, take control of their future and nomics uses beautiful, full-colour spreads to help readers see ISBN: 978-0-06-194122-1 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER stay true to their vision. the world in a bold, fresh way. BUS000000 • 352 pp • 8 x 10 • carton qty: 10 full-colour illustrations throughout ROBERT HERJAVEC launched one of the first companies that “Levitt and dubner’s writing follows an easy-to-state but rights acquired: Canada/English language provided corporations with Internet security systems, selling hard-to-execute recipe: Mix astute critical thinking with other rights: HarperCollins U.S. publicist: Colleen Clarke the company to AT&T for over $100 million. His other ventures good storytelling. . . . well written.” winnipeg free press include the sale of a Silicon Valleyb ased technology company to Nokia for $225 million and the creation of The Herjavec Group. STEVEN D. LEVITT is a professor of economics at the Univer- Robert Herjavec and his family reside in a 50,000-square-foot sity of Chicago and a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, mansion that he has loaned to such celebrities as Mick Jagger, awarded to the most influential economist under the age of forty. John Travolta and Michael Bubl . A star of CBC TV s Dragons Den and ABC TV s The Shark Tank, Herjavec supports several STEPHEN J. DUBNER, a former writer and editor at The New charities that fund cancer research, and divides his time be- York Times Magazine, is the author of Turbulent Souls (Choos- tween Toronto and Miami. ing My Religion), Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper and the chil- dren s book The Boy with Two Belly Buttons.

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al McDermid first introduced her massive readership to n The Tenth Chamber, Glenn Cooper introduces us to a new VTony Hill and Carol Jordan in 1995 with the publication Ihero, Luc Simard, an archaeologist with a flawless academic of The Mermaids Singing, which went on to become an interna- career and a flawed history with women. When a book dating A new Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novel tional bestseller. Fever of the Bone is the sixth novel in the series to the fourteenth century is found after a fire in a monastery about a serial killer who knows no bounds— and promises to be the most compulsive and gripping to date. in the Perigord region of France, Luc’s old friend Hugo calls An ancient secret. In Fever of the Bone, Val introduces Tony Hill’s most twist- him in to help decipher the mysterious illustrations that dot from the 2010 winner of the CWA Cartier A deadly conspiracy. ed adversary to date—a killer with a shopping list of victims, the coded manuscript. The illustrations remind Luc of the cave An astonishing deception. Diamond Dagger Award a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by paintings the Perigord region is famous for, but neither man the most perverted of desires. The murder and mutilation of can make any sense of the text’s message, save for the fact that val mcdermid teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it claims to be written by a 200-year-old monk. glenn cooper it’s not long before Tony realizes it’s just the start of a brutal and What Luc and Hugo do find in the manuscript is a map ruthless campaign to target an apparently unconnected group that leads them to a ten-chambered cave that is beyond their the tenth Chamber Fever of the Bone of young people. Struggling with the newly awakened ghosts wildest expectations. The cave’s walls are painted with images ANovel of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony far more detailed and advanced than those at Lascaux, yet there A Novel battles to find the answers that will give him personal and pro- are clues that suggest this cave is more than 10,000 years older. FICtION/MyStERy • $19.99 ORIGINaL tPB w/FLaPS FICtION • $21.99 ORIGINaL tPB w/FLaPS fessional satisfaction in his most testing investigation yet. Theirs is the discovery of a lifetime. The secret of the cave lies ISBN: 978-1-55468-747-3 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt ISBN: 978-1-55468-805-0 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER Also available in hardcover (978-1-55468-746-6 • $34.99) in the coded pages of that fourteenth-century manuscript, but FIC002000 • 368 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 FIC022000 • 448 pp • 6 X 9 • carton qty: 24 “Fever of the Bone is everything a great detective novel it’s a secret that someone is willing to kill to protect. rights acquired: Canada/English language rights acquired: Canada/English language should be: pacey, gripping, clever and stylish and, most other rights: Westwood Creative Artists other rights: Gregory & Company Authors’ Agents of all, a fantastic read.” praise for library of the dead publicist: Lindsey Love publicist: Margaret Nozuka sunday express “Both incandescent and explosive. a seamless blend of modern-day thriller and historical mystery.” VAL McDERMID grew up in a Scottish mining community, james rollins then completed an English degree at Oxford. She was a jour- nalist for sixteen years. In 1995, she won the CWA Gold Dagger “Prepare to be enthralled by this epic thriller. Glenn Award for best crime novel of the year. She is the recipient of the Cooper’s debut novel is a masterpiece of suspense. 2010 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. Visit her website at Eat your heart out, dan Brown.” www.valmcdermid.com. peterborough evening telegraph

DR. GLENN COOPER graduated magna cum laude in archaeology from Harvard and got his medical degree from Tufts also available by val mcdermid University School of Medicine. He has been the chair and CEO Beneath the Bleeding of a major public biotechnology company in Massachusetts. 978-1-55468-079-5  $9.99 mm The author of the internationally bestselling Library of the Dead A Darker Domain 978-1-55468-080-1  $22.95 tpb and its sequel, Book of Souls, Cooper is also a screenwriter The Distant Echo and producer. Visit him online at www.glenncooperbooks.com. 978-0-00-639306-1  $9.99 mm The Grave Tattoo 978-0-00-639159-3  $9.99 mm also available by glenn cooper The Torment of Others 978-0-00-639408-2  $9.99 mm Book of Souls 978-1-55468-311-6  $21.99 tpb Wire in the Blood 978-0-00-639292-7  $10.99 mm Library of the Dead 978-1-55468-310-9  $13.99 tpb (harperweekend edition) please see your sales representative for more val mcdermid titles

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More adventure and survival from Les From the author of the #1 international Stroud—bestselling author of Survive!, and bestseller The Last Testament comes a chilling creator and star of Survivorman and the new thriller about a hidden brotherhood and the international series Vanishing World last great mystery of the Second World War les stroud sam bourne will to Live the Final Reckoning LesS troudR elivest he Greatest Survival ANovel Storiesof A llT ime

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om Byrne has come a long way since his days as an ideal- SAM BOURNE is the literary pseudonym of award-winning n a survival situation, life really does hang in the balance, and Compelling, surprising and intriguing, Will to Live also in- tistic young lawyer. Now he’ll work for anyone—as long as journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland. A columnist for Ia wrong decision could spell the difference between life and cludes stories from Les’s own experiences, along with sidebars the price is right. When the UN asks him to take on a dubious The Guardian, he previously served as the paper s Washing- death. No one knows this better than Les Stroud, who has sur- that include practical tips on how to escape quicksand, butcher job, he doesn’t hesitate. A suspected suicide bomber shot by ton correspondent. He has covered the conflict in the Middle vived everywhere from the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari a moose, cross a snow-covered crevasse and more. security staff has turned out to be a harmless old man, and Tom East for nearly two decades and in 2002 chaired a three-day to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon. In Will to Live, must placate the family. But he soon discovers that the victim dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, sponsored by The Les examines a host of famous and less well-known (but no LES STROUD, expert survivalist, is also the six-time Gemini- was not quite the innocent man that he seemed. Guardian. Bourne is the author of the New York Times bestsell- less compelling) survival stories, and he not only explains what nominated creator, producer, host and director of the televi- Now the murdered man’s daughter, Rebecca, is dead too— er The Righteous Men, which has been translated into twenty- happened and why but also offers perspective on what went sion shows Survivorman and Vanishing World. A member of the latest victim of a hidden brotherhood united in a world- eight languages, and The Last Testament. He lives in London right, what went wrong and what could have been done differ- the prestigious Explorers Club, Les has produced, hosted and wide mission that has caused hundreds of unexplained deaths. with his wife and two children. ently. Will to Live is a compilation of history’s most intriguing appeared in many television specials, including Shark Week, Pursued by ruthless killers, Tom must unlock a secret that’s survival stories by one of the world’s foremost experts, and in- Surviving Alaska and Off the Grid with Les Stroud. Visit him been buried for more than sixty years—the last great secret of cludes the tales of online at www.lesstroud.ca. the Second World War. also available by sam bourne Based on the true story of a group of Holocaust survivors • Chris McCandless—subject of Into the Wild The Last Testament who sought revenge for Nazi deeds, The Final Reckoning is an 978-1-55468-075-7  $10.99 mm • Yossi Ghinsberg—who survived alone in the Amazon for also available by les stroud atmospheric, emotionally engaging and twisting thriller that twenty-one days Survive! moves at warp speed from first page to last. • Douglas Mawson—the Antarctic “superman” who survived 978-0-00-200886-0  $21.95 tpb three hellish months at the bottom of the planet Survive! The Ultimate Edition “The Final Reckoning is a solid entry in the conspiracy • Nando Parrado—who was trapped for two months high in 978-1-55468-637-7  $34.99 tpb (full colour) thriller stakes. the story moves along at a good pace the Andes after a plane crash killed his friends and family and Bourne provides some interesting historical back- HARPER COLLINS

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ockey Facts & Stats was the #1 hockey statistics book in or more than ten years, Dave Mercer’s one-minute fishing HCanada again in 2009, outselling even the NHL Official Ftips have been seen by over 2.7 million Canadians on four Guide and Record Book and making it the #1 hockey stats book TV networks, and his full-length Facts of Fishing show airs on four years in a row. Updated for the 2010–2011 season, this OLN and WFN across Canada. A self-described fishing freak Don’t let this one get away! pocket-sized marvel returns with new stats and an even bigger and accomplished angler, Dave Mercer has collected the best Canada’s #1 hockey stats book is back— collection of facts. This year, to celebrate the incredible double tips, tricks and secrets into a handy, compact guide that’s ideal Canada’s favourite fisherman bigger and better than ever! gold victories of Canada’s men’s and women’s teams at the Van- for stockings, glove compartments and tackle boxes. And it’s gives you secrets for your tackle box couver Olympics, Hockey Facts & Stats provides full summaries guaranteed to help Canadians catch more fish because, as Dave of both events which drew television audiences of 26.5 million says, “it’s all fun and games until someone loses a fish.” andrew podnieks and 12 million viewers, respectively. It also includes team his- dave mercer tories, the complete 2009–10 NHL season, international stand- here are some facts about fishing in canada: with terry battisti Hockey Facts & Stats ings and more. The ultimate reference for hockey pools and • 8 million Canadians fish 20102011 trivia leagues, and an ideal stocking stuffer for fans of every age, • More Canadians over age fifteen fish than play golf and Facts of Fishing Hockey Facts & Stats is set for another winning year. This year’s hockey combined 135S ecretsF ish Don t Want You to Know SPORtS/HOCKEy • $10.99 tPB massive Hockey Facts & Stats includes • Anglers spend a total of $6.7 billion on transportation, tour- ISBN 978-1-55468-907-1 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER SPORtS/FISHING • $14.99 ORIGINaL tPB SPO002000/SPO019000 • 576 pp • 3 x 4 3/8 • carton qty: 60 ism, boating and equipment to support their outdoor passion ISBN: 978-1-55468-060-3• SHIPPING IN OCtOBER rights acquired: Canada and the U.S./English language • fully updated international results and standings, including a (Source: Canadian Sportfishing Industry Association) SPO014000 • 256 pp • 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 • carton qty: 44 other rights: The Cooke Agency full round-up of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Para- full-colour photographs and illustrations throughout editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Carolyn Ovell lympics; DAVE MERCER is the host of the television show Facts of rights acquired: world/all languages • an A–Z directory of NHL players with comprehensive stats Fishing. His TV show, short spots and radio tips reach an audi- editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Carolyn Ovell and biographical information; ence of over 2 million Canadians on The Sports Network, Out- • team histories, NHL standings and Stanley Cup finals results door Life Network, The Weather Network, MCTV, AM640, Q107 since 1917; and more. He participates in tournaments across Canada and • a complete list of players and personalities enshrined in the conducts over 125 fishing seminars every year. Dave lives in Hockey Hall of Fame; and Port Perry, Ontario. Visit him online at www.factsoffishing.com. • a summary of the 2009–2010 NHL season, including shoot- out statistics and scoring leaders.

ANDREW PODNIEKS is the author of more than fifty books on hockey, including last year s commemorative Olympics book Canadian Gold. He produces all official media guides for the IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation)O lympics, World Championships, World Women s Championships, World U20 (Junior) Championshipsa nd has created all previous editions of the bestselling Hockey Facts & Stats. Andrew Podnieks lives in Toronto. Visit his website at www.andrewpodnieks.com.

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n December 15, 2008, two snowmobilers discovered a oaded with hair-metal references, wide right jokes and an Opair of abandoned horses atop B.C.’s Mount Renshaw in Labsolute refusal to be boring or earnest, How to Be a Bush The heartwarming story of two the Canadian Rockies. Belle and Sundance were a sorry sight— Pilot reads like Tina Fey channeling Dr. Ruth. Spanning from stranded horses and the small town they were emaciated, shivering and trapped in a small shelter remedial education to moves that will educate even the savviest determined to save them they had made for themselves by tramping down the six-foot- Wilt Chamberlain, this book is flight school for the modern Higher. Stronger. Hotter. More often. deep snow. Next morning, a party of four from the nearby playboy and sexual adventurer. And much slower than last time. town of McBride was sent back up the mountain with a bale of Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man introduced birgit stutz and hay, a handgun and a heartbreaking choice to make: either feed women to the messy yet simple realities of how to please a man. lawrence scanlan the horses, or shoot them. Now comes How to Be a Bush Pilot—a master class for men in claudia dey The four agreed: there was an undeniable glimmer in the becoming the lover that every woman wants but doesn’t know the Rescue of Belle eyes of Belle and Sundance, and the decision was made to feed how to ask for. It’s for readers of The Game who now find them- How to Be a Bush Pilot them. But saving the two horses would require a lot more than selves at home with their doe-eyed vixens, wondering what on Get Luckier and Sundance hay. Weighing their options, many people in McBride decided Earth to do with them. It’s for readers of How to Make Love Like AMir acleon Mou ntR enshaw to pull on their long johns and pitch in—they would dig, by a Porn Star who were hoping for instructions. And it’s for the SEX & RELatIONSHIPS • $24.99 CL hand, the three-foot-wide, six-foot-deep, kilometre-long tun- girlfriends and wives reading over their shoulders. ISBN: 978-1-55468-552-3 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER MEMOIR/PEtS • $24.99 CL nel that became Belle and Sundance’s route to freedom. In a book that is fearless, playful and always command- HEA042000 • 352 pp • 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 • carton qty: 24 ISBN: 978-1-55468-619-3 • SHIPPING IN NOVEMBER The Rescue of Belle and Sundance takes the reader up that ing, yet never intimidating, Claudia Dey uses female insight rights acquired: world/all languages BIO026000/NAT016000/PET006010 starkly beautiful but bitterly cold mountain to the heart of the to turn mere men into that elusive master of the bedroom: other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Margaret Nozuka 208 pp • 6 x 7 1/4 • carton qty: 40 struggle to save two horses. In this account, with its grim begin- the Bush Pilot. 24–32 b&w photos throughout ning and its glad and joyful end, Stutz and Scanlan recreate the rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Westwood Creative Artists rescue that sent a message of hope and compassion around the CLAUDIA DEY is a novelist, playwright and columnist. For editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Emma Ingram world. two years, she wrote the weekly Group Therapy column for The Globe and Mail. She also wrote Toro magazine s sex col- BIRGIT STUTZ was a key member of the rescue team. A umn under the pseudonym Bebe O Shea. Her plays have been horse trainer and journalist, she lives on a ranch near McBride produced internationally and include Beaver, Trout Stanley and in northeastern British Columbia. The Gwendolyn Poems, which was nominated for the Governor General s Award and the Trillium Award. Her debut novel, Stunt, LAWRENCE SCANLAN, based in Kingston, Ontario, is the was chosen by The Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire as a Book ghostwriter behind Monty Roberts New York Times bestseller, of the Year and was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel The Man Who Listens to Horses, and the author of nine books Award. Dey lives in Toronto. about horses, including The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World s Greatest Racehorse. In the following 352 pages, you will evolve from a man with a few patented moves into a man with unparalleled technique. Your sexual willingness will become your sexual prowess. Your medieval sword: a lightsabre. Your BB gun: a six-shooter. Your name will be scrawled across bathroom walls, tattooed to backsides and hipbones, and held hushed on the ends of tongues. from how to be a bush pilot

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Any idea why the sky is blue? Confused about chromosomes? Forgotten what actually happened in 1837? Don’t worry—brush up A hip, gorgeous, comprehensive baking here on all the essentials companion for a new generation of bakers e. foley and b. coates paul allam and foreword by sen cullen david mcguinness Homework for Grown-ups Bourke Street Bakery EverythingY ouL earnedat S chool... TheUlt imateB aking Companion andP romptlyF orgot COOKING • $39.99 tPB w/FLEX BINd & FLaPS CanadianE dition ISBN: 978-1-55468-881-4 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER CKB004000 • 368 pp • 7 1/2 x 10 • carton qty: 10 REFERENCE • $24.99 CL full-colour photos throughout ISBN: 978-1-55468-764-0 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER rights acquired: Canada/English language REF028000 • 432 pp • 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 20 other rights: Murdoch Books (Australia) line drawings throughout editor: Kirsten Hanson • publicist: Rob Firing rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Random House U.K. editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Carolyn Ovell

omework for Grown-ups is a brilliantly informative and Packed with essential facts, figures and theories, Home- ituated in the hip foodie enclave of Sydney’s Surry Hills is “a book highly recommended for the home cook who loves Hentertaining book of old-school knowledge for adults. It work for Grown-ups is a practical and wonderfully nostalgic Sthe original Bourke Street Bakery, a cozy nook selling arti- to bake—or aspires to.” is the ultimate refresher course on mathematics (remember revision guide for adults that will entertain while exercising the sanal baked goods of the highest order. The bakery’s long queue the age (australia) Pythagoras’ theorem? You will!), English grammar and litera- mind. It’ll make readers the hit of any cocktail party, and might of customers waiting for their daily fix is testament to the popu- “the sumptuous photography . . . gets the tastebuds tingling.” ture (do you know your Margarets?), and chemistry and the even equip parents to handle their child’s homework without larity of their utterly delicious wares—from rustic breads such the sunday mail sciences (including the big bang theory). It spans geography humiliation. as their famous spelt sourdough to the flaky pork and fennel (can you name the planets in order?), history (what exactly sausage rolls (delicious and easy to make) to the most addictive PAUL ALLAM and DAVID McGUINNESS are both well- was the Family Compact?), art, Latin, phys. ed. (hockey!), E. FOLEY and B. COATES are authors and editors who live in sweet pastries like ginger brûlée and pistachio tarts. travelled chefs with a passion for good food and artisan-baked home economics and much more . . . including, crucially, re- London, England. Bourke Street Bakery is the ultimate baking companion goods. India was David s inspiration for the bakery s famous cess (finally, definitive rules for Red Rover!). with clear and concise instructions aimed at the novice home ginger br l e and pistachio tarts. They began Bourke Street baker, while remaining an inspirational and technical reference Bakery in 2004 and opened The Central Baking Depot in Syd- for professionals of the crust and crumb world. ney s central business district in 2008, following that with two Passionate owners/bakers Paul Allam and David McGuin- further bakeries. This is their first cookbook. ness share their secrets for more than ninety of their excep- tional creations, including starters, croissants, brioches and other delights. This book’s beautiful and inviting photography captures the mouthwatering detail of the buttery, crumbly fare as well as the infectious vibe of the bakery itself.

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onna Hay broke her own records for a bestseller with No dTime to Cook. This time she is back with a completely dif- ferent cookbook. Seasons builds on the trend for cooking with whatever ingredients are in season, which means you will al- ways be eating beautifully fresh food. The perfect dish, whatever the season! Designed with Donna’s usual flair for food styling, Seasons features more lifestyle than Donna’s previous books, giving read- donna hay ers tips and suggestions for how to enjoy the best of each season.

At the age of eight, DONNA HAY skipped into a kitchen, picked Seasons up a mixing bowl and never looked back. She moved to the world Theb estof DonnaHay Magazine of magazine test kitchens and publishing, where she established her trademark style of simple, smart and seasonal recipes all el- COOKING • $39.99 ORIGINaL tPB egantly put together and photographed. Hers is food for every ISBN: 978-1-55468-906-4 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER cook, every food lover, every day and every occasion. Her unique CKB077000 • 324 pp • 11 x 10 • carton qty: 8 full-colour photos throughout style turned her into an international food-publishing phenomenon rights acquired: Canada/English language as a bestselling author of sixteen cookbooks, publisher of Donna other rights: HarperCollins Australia Hay Magazine, newspaper columnist and creator of a homewares publicist: Colleen Clarke and food range. Visit her online at www.donnahay.au.com.

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ltimatum is a terrifying political thriller set in a future uwhere climate change has become the central issue of global politics, creating tensions that eventually propel the United States and China to the brink of war. When idealistic the Ladies’ Democrat Joe Benton becomes the 48th president of the Unit- Lending Library Start your weekend with an ultimatum and ed States, he replaces four years of Republican apathy with an agenda of dynamic reform. But within weeks, he is forced to FICtION • $13.99 tPB Matthew Glass’s unstoppably good debut face the threat of environmental devastation posed by accel- ISBN: 978-1-55468-899-9 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER erated global warming. China—with its appalling record of FIC044000 • 272 pp • 5 5/16 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 64 rights acquired: Canada/English language pollution and refusal to do anything about it—becomes the matthew glass other rights: The Cooke Agency enemy, and as the two superpowers lock horns, the ensuing editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Carolyn Ovell ultimatum battle of wits becomes a race against time as the world edges towards a tragedy of unprecedented proportions. n August of 1963, the women of Kalyna Beach prepare for FICtION • $13.99 tPB Taking over where Primary Colors and The West Wing left Itheir annual end-of-summer party. With their husbands away ISBN: 978-1-55468-353-6 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER off, Matthew Glass’s visionary and deeply unsettling thriller in the city all week, the women’s days are ruled by the predict- FIC037000/FIC031000 • 448 pp • 5 5/16 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 40 steers us into the dark heart of political intrigue and a future able rhythms of children and chores, and lightened by the “racy” rights acquired: Canada/English language that is all too believable. books they trade amongst themselves and their Friday afternoon other rights: Atlantic Books U.K. publicist: Carolyn Ovell meetings for gin and gossip. But this summer, everything will “Glass’s debut, an anxiety-inducing thriller about global change for the girls and women of Kalyna Beach, as they gain a warming, effectively taps a hot topic and handles it with new understanding of the possibilities open to them all. flair. . . . a compelling tale of environmental doom.” publishers weekly sandra gulland “Masterful.” “the first politico-diplomatic-disaster thriller, Mr. Glass’s engrossing work leaves the reader thinking long after the JANICE KULYK KEEFER s acclaimed works comprise novels, last page is turned. . . . the book may be set in the future, Mistress of the Sun non-fiction, short story collections and poetry. She is a recipi- but it is really about today.” ent of the Marian Engel Award, the Kobzar Award and several FICtION • $13.99 tPB the economist National Magazine Awards. Janice Kulyk Keefer lives in Toronto. ISBN: 978-1-55468-898-2 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER FIC014000 • 416 pp • 5 5/16 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 40 MATTHEW GLASS writes under a pseudonym. He lives in rights acquired: Canada/English language England. other rights: Westwood Creative Artists editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Carolyn Ovell

rom the author of the acclaimed Josephine B. Trilogy Fcomes this enchanting historical novel about Louise de la Vallière, the spirited child of minor nobility and an extraordi- nary horsewoman, who falls in love with a wild stallion and uses ancient magic to tame him. This act shadows her throughout her life as she enters the court of Louis XIV of France, where she captures—and then tragically loses—the King’s heart.

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et adrift by his wife’s suicide and struggling to keep some etlands is narrated by eighteen-year-old Helen Memel, Ssort of grasp on reality, Bunny Munro drives off in his yel- wan outspoken, contradictory teenager whose childlike low Fiat Punto, Bunny Jr. in tow. To his son waiting patiently stubbornness is paired with a premature sense of sexual con- “Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny in the car while he peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely fidence. She speaks from a hospital bed in the Department of Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero, larger Internal Medicine, where she’s recovering from an operation An international sensation that breaks all and they might just come up with Bunny Munro.” than life. But Bunny himself seems to have only a dim aware- after accidentally cutting her hemorrhoids while shaving. The the taboos—reader discretion advised —Irvine Welsh ness of his son’s existence, viewing his needs as a distraction surgery leaves her bedridden and in excruciating pain. Beyond from his relentless pursuit of sex, alcohol and drugs. her physical discomfort, Helen is still reeling over her parents’ When his bizarre road trip shades into a final reckoning, divorce. charlotte roche nick cave and when England’s small towns seem to become stopping But while she sees her hospitalization as the perfect way translated by tim mohr points in a strange, mythical landscape, Bunny realizes that the to get her parents in a room together, she continuously fails the death revenants of his world—decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jeal- to synchronize a visitation. To distract herself, Helen boldly wetlands ous husbands and horned psycho-killers—lurk in the shadows, flirts with and intentionally tries to unnerve her male nurse, A Novel of Bunny Munro waiting to exact their toll. and maintains a constant flow of deeply candid narration that

ANovel At turns dark and humane—and with all the mystery thrusts the reader on “a headlong dash through every crevice FICtION • $17.99 tPB and enigma fans will recognize as Cave’s singular vision—The and byproduct” (The New York Times) of Helen’s body and ISBN: 978-1-55468-506-6 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt FICtION • $18.99 tPB Death of Bunny Munro questions the nature of sin and redemp- mind. Surrounded by surgical instruments and humming X- FIC000000 • 240 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 80 ISBN: 978-1-55468-541-7 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER tion, and lays bare the imprints that fathers leave on their sons. ray machines, she reflects in ever more uncomfortable detail on rights acquired: Canada/English language FIC000000 • 288 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 the eccentric wonders of the female body. other rights: Grove Atlantic rights acquired: Canada/English language publicist: Carolyn Ovell other rights: Canongate Books (UK) “Cave has always woven together language from the gutter Wetlands is a fearless, gritty and, at times, revolting slap publicist: Carolyn Ovell and the heavens. . . . Mordantly funny.” in the face to the glossy, sanitized prescription for femininity montreal the gazette ( ) espoused by women’s magazines.

“the novel’s a bit Portnoy’s Complaint, a lot early Martin “a compulsive read.” amis. It’s lewd, it’s surreal, it’s very funny.” cbc.ca the globe and mail Over ONE MILLION “[Wetlands] has taken feminist daring to a whole new level.” copies sold NICK CAVE, the Australian-born lead singer of The Birthday the globe and mail Party, The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, is recognized as one of worldwide the most gifted songwriters and performers of our time. He is Thirty-year-old CHARLOTTE ROCHE, born in High Wycombe the author of And the Ass Saw the Angel, his first novel, and a but raised in Germany, has been a recognizable face in her collection of his lyrics, King Ink. In addition to writing the screen- adopted home country since she started working as a presenter play and music for the filmThe Proposition, Cave has composed on Viva, the German equivalent of MTV, in the mid-1990s. She soundtracks for several films, including The Road. Cave lives in went on to write and host programs and late-night talk shows Brighton, England. Visit him online at www.nick-cave.com. for Arte and ZDF, and won the highly respected Grimme Prize for television in 2004. previous edition: 978-1-55468-540-0 cl

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Hilary Mantel turns her dark genius From the Booker Prize–winning author on the world of psychics in this smart, of , a breathtakingly intelligent unsettling novel novel that asks enormous questions hilary mantel a Change of Climate

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Commonwealth writers’ Prize for Best Book alph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Nor- (Eurasia Region) Rfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of children plucked from the squa- a New York Times Notable Book of the year lor of the East London streets for a breath of fresh countryside air hides the growing crises in their own family. Memories of lison Hart is a medium by trade. But her ability to commu- their time as missionaries in South Africa and Botswana, of the anicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her terrible African tragedies that have shaped the rest of their lives, plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. refuse to be put to rest and threaten to destroy the fragile peace Her days and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her they have built for themselves and their children. childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother, Emmie. And the more she tries to be rid “witty, disturbing and memorable. . . . Smart, astringent and of them, the stronger and nastier they become. marvelously upsetting.” the new york times book review “Original and deeply dark. . . . a daring and extravagant book.”

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ess Heath is born to a life of privilege, one bound by ompassionate, honest and unsparing, this extraordinary a phyllis bruce book BEdwardian convention and a duty to marry well. But in Cnovel captures the many shades of friendship and love 1915, on the verge of her eighteenth birthday, she returns home through the story of three women who are lifetime friends. Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara from school to an unfamiliar scene—the elegance of the life she Sandra, Colleen and Jude share sexual secrets, decorating Three women share a lifetime Falls, this is an epic love story as rich, spell- once knew has vanished; her father is a broken man, jobless and tips, counsel on marriage, even a hairdresser. Despite their dif- of friendship, until illness strikes— binding and majestic as the falls themselves losing hope; and her mother is struggling to keep the family ferences and occasional snarls, the friendship only grows stron- afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic sister Bess has always relied ger over time, and their partners, Jack, Richard and Gus, go the brilliant new novel from the on, is almost unrecognizable. She has shut herself in her bed- along with it, letting it shape their lives. Now, with Sandra’s cri- Giller-winning author of cathy marie buchanan room, brooding and refusing to eat—and harbouring a secret. sis, everyone must find a way to endure the present and imag- Forced into an early adulthood, Bess finds solace with ine the future. Sweeping through and beyond the second half the day the Falls riverman Tom Cole, against her family’s strong objections. of the twentieth century—from men on the moon to 9/11— Rough-hewn and guileless, Tom finds that his daring river res- this intimate story of friendship creates an indelible portrait of Stood Still cues render him a local hero—and cast him as a threat to the three women balanced on the knife edge of middle age. Suddenly ANovel power companies that seek to harness the energy of the falls. Suddenly is classic Burnard: subtle, witty, revelatory, brave. A Novel As Bess’s life becomes more fully entwined with Tom’s, she is Like ’s Lives of Girls and Women, this is a seminal FICtION • $17.99 tPB forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and novel with the power to change the way women—and men— FICtION • $19.99 tPB ISBN: 978-1-55468-328-4 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt what is best for her family. understand one another. ISBN: 978-0-00-648524-7 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER FIC014000 • 320 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 Set at a time when daredevils shot the river rapids in bar- FIC019000 • 336 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 Illustrations: 16 b&w archival photos throughout rights acquired: Canada/English language rels and great industrial fortunes were made and lost as quickly “Bonnie Burnard delivers a novel about death that is rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Westwood Creative Artists teeming with life. . . . another unassuming masterpiece other rights: Hyperion as lives disappeared, The Day the Falls Stood Still is an intoxicat- editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Carolyn Ovell editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Carolyn Ovell ing debut novel. that transports the life unfolding before our very eyes onto the canvas of the page.” the globe and mail “what a wordsmith! what a work of depth and breadth! what a world newcomer Cathy Marie Buchanan brings “this sweeping portrayal of female friendship tested by to propulsively glittering and gorgeous life in The Day time is an inspiring read.” the Falls Stood Still. Few first novels exhibit the mastery, toronto star maturity and majesty of Buchanan’s riveting fictional debut, a heart-wrenching, soul-racking, spell-binding

tale interwoven with guts, anguish and glory guaranteed to remain in readers’ minds long after they’ve crossed BONNIE BURNARD s Casino & Other Stories was shortlisted its devastating finish line.” for the inaugural Giller Prize and won the Saskatchewan Best the globe and mail Book Award. Her first story collection, Women of Influence, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Her CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN s The Day the Falls Stood Still first novel, A Good House, won the Giller Prize and the CBA is a Barnes & Noble Recommends selection and a Barnes & People s Choice Award, and was published around the world in Noble Best of 2009 book, and debuted on the New York Times many languages. A recipient of the Marian Engel Award, Bonnie bestseller list. Her stories have appeared in many of Canada s Burnard lives in London, Ontario. most respected literary journals. Buchanan holds a BSc (Hon- ours Biochemistry) and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, she now resides in previous edition: 978-0-00-225494-6 cl Toronto. Visit her online at www.cathymariebuchanan.com.

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Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story aof a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces: Manhood atrick is a loner, an intelligent but unhappy young man for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing Pstruggling to find his place in the world. But, not long from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly after he leaves home to begin a new life in a boarding house in interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writ- “Ruefully captivating. . . . [Chabon] renders “A complete original . . . Hyland aims straight a remote seaside town, he commits an act of violence and must ers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way his observations in sometimes startlingly for the truth and the heart.”—Hilary Mantel face the awful and chilling consequences. so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections, thoughtful prose.”—Toronto Star This Is How is a compelling and unsettling journey into the regrets and re-examinations, each sparked by an encounter, in m.j. hyland dark side of human existence and a powerful meditation on the the present, that holds some legacy of the past. nature of guilt and redemption. As a devoted son, as a passionate husband and, above all, as michael chabon the father of four young people, Chabon’s memories of child- this Is How “Outstanding. . . . Bleak yet moving, mercilessly dispassion- hood, of his parents’ marriage and divorce, of moments of Manhood for amateurs ANovel ate yet shot through with kindness and wit, it is a profound painful adolescent comedy, and of giddy encounters with the The Pleasures and Regrets achievement.” popular art and literature of his own youth are like a theme of a Husband, Father and Son FICtION • $17.99 tPB played—on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in ISBN: 978-1-55468-502-8 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER a new key—by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself MEMOIR • $17.99 tPB “an expertly paced, gripping novel that doesn’t falter and FIC019000 • 384 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 44 ISBN: 978-1-55468-206-5 • aVaILaBLE NOw never compromises its emotional truth.” co-conductor. rights acquired: Canada/English language BIO026000 • 320 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 56 the times london Now with a P.S. section featuring a new essay by the other rights: Canongate Books (U.K.); Black Cat/Grove (U.S.) ( ) rights acquired: Canada/English language publicist: Carolyn Ovell author, Manhood for Amateurs is dazzling, hilarious, moving . . . other rights: HarperCollins U.S. “an eerie, commanding book. . . . thrilling, moving and and destined to become a classic. publicist: Carolyn Ovell compassionate.” the new york times “Probably the premier prose stylist—the updike—of his generation.” M.J. HYLAND was born to Irish parents in London in 1968 and lev grossman, time magazine spent her early childhood in Dublin. She studied English and law at the University of Melbourne and worked as a lawyer for sev- “[Chabon’s] work is page-turning and poignant; he is eral years. How the Light Gets In, her first novel, was shortlisted one of the best writers of English prose alive.” for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and her second novel, washington post book world Carry Me Down, was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and won both the Encore Award and the Hawthornden Prize. MICHAEL CHABON is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize Hyland lives in Manchester, England, where she teaches in the winning author of many books, including Wonder Boys, The Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. Visit her Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen s online at www.mjhyland.com. Union and Gentlemen of the Road. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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n Eternal Life: A New Vision, Bishop John Shelby Spong’s Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Iremarkable spiritual journey about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he came to a orn in the United States and reared in a series of provisional new conviction about eternal life. Spong argues that the discov- households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a lia- The leading Christian liberal and human- B ery of the eternal can be found within each of us if we go deeply bility to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. He aims for The acclaimed bestseller, rights pioneer takes a journey beyond into ourselves, transcend our limits and become fully human. invisibility, observing his world and recording everything with a now in paperback—a gripping religion to the question of life after death By seeking God within, by living each day to its fullest, we will peculiar selfless irony in his notebooks. Life is whatever he learns and heart-rending tour de force come to understand how we live eternally. from servants putting him to work in the kitchen, from errands john shelby spong Always compelling and controversial, Spong, the leading he runs in the streets and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for Christian liberal and pioneer for human rights, wrestles with famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Making himself useful in barbara kingsolver the question that all of us will ultimately face. In this book, the household of Rivera, his wife Frida Kahlo and exiled Bolshe- Eternal Life: a New Vision Spong affirms that the fully realized human life empties into vik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot the Lacuna BeyondR eligion,B eyondTh eism, and participates in the eternity of God. The pathway into God with art and revolution, and the howling gossip and reportage A Novel BeyondHeaven an dHell turns out to be both a pathway into ourselves and a doorway that dictate public opinion. into eternal life. To Job’s question, “If a man (or a woman) dies, A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly FICtION • $19.99 tPB RELIGION • $17.99 tPB will he (or she) live again?” he gives his answer as a ringing yes! caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War Two. ISBN: 978-1-55468-476-2 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt ISBN: 978-0-06-077842-2 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina, Harrison FIC019000 • 464 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 40 REL070000 • 272 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 48 “Fear of death is the most fundamental fear of human remakes himself in America’s hopeful image. But political winds rights acquired: Canada/English language rights acquired: Canada/English language existence. the only way it can be conquered is through other rights: HarperCollins U.S. other rights: HarperCollins U.S. continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that knowledge and experience of your eternal being. Eternal publicist: Carolyn Ovell publicist: Carolyn Ovell turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna— Life: A New Vision is an elegant invitation to find this part between truth and public presumption. of yourself and be liberated.” deepak chopra, author of the third jesus “Breathtaking . . . dazzling. . . . Kingsolver gives voice to truths whose teller could express them only in silence.” JOHN SHELBY SPONG was the Episcopal Bishop of Newark the new york times book review before his retirement in 2000. As a visiting lecturer at Harvard and at universities and churches throughout North America and BARBARA KINGSOLVER is the author of seven works of the English-speaking world, he is one of the leading spokesper- fiction, including the novels The Poisonwood Bible, Animal sons for liberal Christianity. He has initiated landmark discus- Dreams and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, es- sions of controversies within the church and has become an says and creative non-fiction. Her most recent book, Animal, outspoken advocate for change. Vegetable, Miracle, was a major bestseller. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, the highest honour previous edition: 978-0-06-076206-3 cl given to U.S. citizens for service through the arts. Kingsolver lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

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lizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, the youngest Photos That Changed Canada went immediately a phyllis bruce book Edaughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on August 100 onto bestseller lists and received rave reviews. A 4, 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would book full of memories, a book to browse through and share, lead a life of ease and privilege. Few could have imagined the this album of 100 images offers a fascinating perspective on The #1 bestselling gift book in a The most intimate book ever profound effect she would have on Britain and its people. Her great moments from our history. Over thirty writers enrich stunning paperback edition—now with life spanned the whole of the twentieth century, and this official the photos with commentary, creating a tapestry of Canadian written about the Royal Family the 101st photo that changed Canada biography tells not only her story but, through it, that of the life that is nostalgic, moving, sometimes shocking, but always country she loved so devotedly. memorable. Published under the auspices of Canada’s National william shawcross Drawing on unique access to her private correspondence History Society and created by the staff of Canada’s History mark reid, ed. and other unpublished material from the Royal Archives, magazine, 100 Photos That Changed Canada is an elegant keep- Queen Elizabeth William Shawcross vividly reveals the witty girl who endeared sake and an essential addition to every library. 100 Photos that herself to soldiers convalescing at Glamis, her family castle, The Queen Mother: The Official Biography Changed Canada in the First World War; the assured young Duchess of York; contributors include: Christie Blatchford, , the Queen, who upheld her nervous husband after the abdi- Tim Cook, , J.L. Granatstein, Rudyard Griffiths, Published in conjunction with BIOGRaPHy • $26.99 tPB Canada s National History Society ISBN: 978-1-55468-776-3 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER cation; the war leader who, after being nearly killed by Ger- Tina Loo, Peter Mansbridge, Ken McGoogan, Christopher BIO014000 • 1120 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 12 man bombs in Buckingham Palace, at last felt able to look the Moore, Don Newman, Jacques Poitras and Winona Wheeler. Foreword by Charlotte Gray 32 pp of colour and b&w photos East End in the face at the height of the Blitz; and, finally, the Preface by Deborah Morrison rights acquired: Canada/English language Queen Mother, representing the nation at home and abroad photographers include: Doug Ball, Jim Brandenburg, other rights: Greene & Heaton/The Cooke Agency HIStORy/CaNadIaNa • $29.99 tPB throughout her widowhood. It is the definitive portrait of a Robert Flaherty, Ted Grant, Shaney Komulainen, Rod MacIvor, publicist: Carolyn Ovell ISBN: 978-1-55468-498-4 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER remarkable woman. William Notman and Barbara Woodley. PHO019000/HIS006000 • 240 pp • 9 x 11 • carton qty: 16 101 colour and b&w photos “whether being playful or poignant, the Queen “It’s a wonderful book.” rights acquired: Canada/English and French languages Mother was as entrancing on paper as she was in peter c. newman other rights: Canada’s National History Society person. . . . [Queen Elizabeth] is a treasure chest of editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Carolyn Ovell illuminating detail.” “an ambitious volume—richly informative.” toronto star national post (chosen as a "picture-perfect coffee-table book") “In william Shawcross’s majestic and elegantly written biography, we come closer than any other to the kernel CANADA S NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETY is the premier of Queen Elizabeth’s being.” history organization in Canada, founded fifteen years ago by the spectator london ( ) the Hudson s Bay Company. In addition to publishing Canada s History magazine and Kayak: Canada s History Magazine for WILLIAM SHAWCROSS is an internationally renowned writer Kids, the society annually celebrates Canada s top history hon- and broadcaster. As well as being the author of several highly ours, including the Governor General s Awards for Excellence acclaimed books on subjects as wide-ranging as the Shah of in Teaching Canadian History and the Pierre Berton Award for Iran and Rupert Murdoch, he appears regularly on television popular history. and radio. In 2002, he presented the BBC s landmark TV series Queen and Country. He lives in London, England. Visit his web- site at www.williamshawcross.com. previous edition: 978-1-55468-497-7 cl

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The #1 bestseller, now with the untold story of Theo Fleury’s comeback, a look Canada’s most trusted voice for working behind the bench in today’s NHL, and people delivers the real story of the thoughts on how this book changed his life Big Three and the economic crisis theo fleury buzz hargrove with kirstie mclellan day Laying It on the Line Playing with Fire DrivingaHar dB argainin Ch allengingT imes TheHigh estHigh san dL owestL ows ofTh eoF leury BuSINESS • $18.99 tPB ISBN: 978-1-55468-446-5 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER BIOGRaPHy/HOCKEy • $19.99 tPB BUS070020 • 336 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 28 ISBN: 978-1-55468-240-9 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER rights acquired: Canada/English and French languages SPO020000 • 352 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 other rights: Rick Broadhead & Associates 16 pages colour photos editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Carolyn Ovell rights acquired: Canada/English and French languages other rights: Objective Entertainment editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Colleen Clarke

n late 2008, the world’s economy began to tumble at ava- BUZZ HARGROVE was the national president of the CAW heo Fleury was determined to leave the game he loved THEOREN THEO FLEURY has won a World Junior title, Ilanche speed, and at the forefront of the collapse were the from 1992 until his retirement in September 2008. Born and twith his head held high. But how? With a comeback. Six a Turner Cup, a Stanley Cup, a Canada Cup and an Olympic Big Three automakers: Ford, GM and Chrysler. Buzz Hargrove, raised in Bath, New Brunswick, the former Windsor, Ontario, years after his last game, at forty-one, weighing 215 lbs., and gold medal. A former player with the Calgary Flames, Colorado former head of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), retired autoworker, along with UAW Canadian Director Bob White, with 25 percent body fat, he had only seven months to get ready Avalanche, New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks, he right before the collapse, but not before witnessing the decades helped found the CAW. A former VP of the executive committee for Flames training camp. His chance for redemption came in a now lives in Calgary, where he is a motivational speaker and an of decadence that led to the frighteningly quick downfall of of the Canadian Labour Congress, Hargrove has also written an pre-season game against the New York Islanders. The score was investment representative with a land development company. this mighty industry. No one knows the automotive sector like autobiography entitled Labour of Love. Named an Officer of the 4–4 going into a shoot out, when his coach leaned over and told Buzz Hargrove, a man who championed the cause of on-the- Order of Canada in 2008, Hargrove is a distinguished visiting him, “You’re up next.” KIRSTIE McLELLAN DAY s screenplays and books include line workers but who also earned the immense respect of some professor at Ryerson University. In this up-to-date edition of Playing with Fire, Fleury gives No Remorse and Above and Beyond, a biography of cable of this country’s wealthiest entrepreneurs. readers the inside story on how his life has changed since this magnate JR Shaw. Born in Saskatchewan, she writes two In Laying It on the Line, Hargrove explains how and why book was first published. Along with the original, fearlessly weekly movie and TV columns for the Calgary Herald. previous edition: 978-1-55468-445-8 cl the Big Three crashed, what this means for Canada, and ul- honest tale that captivated the nation, he now chronicles his timately how the manufacturing sector can again become comeback. In the same frank, fast-paced style, Fleury shares “the book rocked the hockey world as surely as andre this country’s foremost economic driver. Along the way, he fascinating stories about life as a forty-one-year-old rookie and agassi’s recent memoir rocked tennis.” “Laying It on the Line reveals Buzz Hargrove to be a shares the behind-the-door dealings with GM, Ford, Air as an author on the road and under the spotlight. the new york times shrewd negotiator and a pragmatist of the first order, Canada and other major corporations, and explains how and A #1 bestseller, Hockey Book of the Year (Denver Post) and an unconventional man undaunted at the prospect of “It’s hard to believe Fleury survived his own life.” why he agreed to some controversial deals over his decades as one of the ten bestselling books of 2009, Playing with Fire is befriending should-be foes and alienating would-be allies.” the globe and mail Canada’s chief labour leader. Laying It on the Line is a timely the globe and mail Theo Fleury’s journey to hell and back—ending, appropriately, call-to-arms not only for the automotive industry but for all with redemption. Canadians who want to know how we can survive this turning “Hargrove . . . does not pull any punches.” point in our history. toronto star previous edition: 978-1-55468-239-3 cl

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hen The Weather Makers was first published, the book a Globe and Mail Best Book of the year wplayed a large part in forcing the John Howard govern- ment in Australia to change its environmental policy. While on hen General Rick Hillier resigned his command as “Wonderful. . . . A moral appeal to restore tour to promote awareness of global warming, Flannery met wChief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces, you equity, and in so doing to become human with other political and business leaders, including Al Gore, could almost hear the sigh of relief in Ottawa as Canada’s most The #1 national bestseller that Richard Branson and Prime Minister ’s science again.” —The Globe and Mail popular, and most controversial, leader since the Second World made headlines across the country advisor, as well as such leading thinkers as David Suzuki. War left a role in which he’d been as frank, unpredictable and With Now or Never, a landmark essay about sustainabil- resolutely apolitical as any military leader this country has seen. tim flannery ity, Flannery reignites the conversation with new insights and Born and raised in Newfoundland, Hillier joined the mili- general rick hillier foreword by david suzuki warnings about the environmental dangers that confront us tary as a young man and quickly climbed the ranks. But it was today—as well as solutions. Flannery discusses in detail three his role as General Rick Hillier, Canada’s Chief of the Defence a Soldier First potential solutions to climate change, the most urgent of the Staff, that defined him as a Canadian public figure. In Afghani- Now or Never Bullets,B ureaucrats and the Politics of War challenges we face in our pursuit of sustainability. Flannery’s stan, Canada faced its first combat losses since the Korean War WhyW eNeed t oA ctNowt oA chieve crisp and engaging prose presents his arresting argument with and every casualty suddenly became front-page news. Canadians aS ustainableF uture MILItaRy/MEMOIR • $19.99 tPB sincerity and enduring passion as he confronts the greatest were gripped by the drama playing out not only halfway around ISBN: 978-1-55468-492-2 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt threat of our time. The book also features detailed responses to the world but in Ottawa, where Hillier pulled no punches, BIO008000 • 528 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 SCIENCE/NatuRE • $15.99 tPB 24 pages of colour photos ISBN: 978-1-55468-605-6 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER Flannery’s work by Richard Branson, Gwynne Dyer and others. demanding more funding, more troops and more appreciation rights acquired: world/all languages SCI026000 • 192 pp • 5 x 7 3/4 • carton qty: 48 Brilliant and terrifying, Now or Never is a panoramic look for the women and men fighting a war on foreign soil. other rights: Westwood Creative Artists rights acquired: Canada/English language at climate change in the context of human existence, by one of A hard-hitting, candid account of Hillier’s role in his own editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Lindsey Love other rights: Black Inc. (Australia) the world’s leading thinkers and writers on the natural world. words, A Soldier First is one of the most important books to publicist: Carolyn Ovell come out of this country this decade. “Out of all the books on global warming that have passed my desk in recent years, this is the best so far.” “without the capacity to deploy effective, well-trained, well- the age (australia) led hard power when needed, no one will pay attention to Canada. . . . Hillier superbly makes the case that we cannot TIM FLANNERY is a writer, scientist and explorer. He has writ- allow the Canadian Forces to go down that road again.” ten many award-winning books, including The Weather Mak- the globe and mail ers, an international bestseller that reached #1 in Canada, and “[A Soldier First] will certainly rattle some people in Ottawa. its adaptation for younger readers, We Are the Weather Mak- Hillier is blunt, writing from his heart and without excuses.” ers. He is the chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, winnipeg free press National Geographic s Australasian representative and a profes- sor at Macquarie University. He was the 2007 Australian of the GENERAL RICK HILLIER, born in Newfoundland and Lab- Year. Visit him online at www.theweathermakers.org. rador, was promoted to Chief of the Defence Staff in February 2005 and stepped down in the summer of 2008. He lives in previous edition: 978-1-55468-604-9 cl Ottawa.

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or thousands of Canadians, Margaret Wente is the colum- he anonymity of a phone line is the secret to the success Fnist who makes sense of daily issues and events. Even when tfor Darrell Bricker and John Wright of Ipsos Reid, the they disagree with her conclusions, most Globe and Mail read- largest market research company in Canada. Ipsos’ accuracy in Canada’s most-read columnist, author of ers still report that her column is the first thing they turn to gathering people’s thoughts and predicting trends makes them Canada’s pre-eminent pollsters peek under the bestselling An Accidental Canadian, in the newspaper. In a recent feature in The Economist on the the go-to source for major companies seeking answers to un- our toques to see what we’re really thinking at her very best world’s twenty most influential newspaper columnists, Marga- usual questions, such as: What would your ideal lover look like? ret Wente was the only Canadian journalist to make the list. Would you rather touch the Stanley Cup or Dorothy’s ruby margaret wente As she did so successfully in An Accidental Canadian, Mar- slippers from The Wizard of Oz? And, do you believe in ghosts? darrell bricker garet Wente here weaves the story of her own life in with her In Canuckology, Wright and Bricker, the bestselling authors and observations of the current scene. She recounts the biggest up- of What Canadians Think about Almost Everything, share with john wright you Can’t Say that roars her columns have caused, and also revisits her more per- us the wealth of their thousands of polls, drawn from conversa- sonal articles, the ones that get put on fridge doors or pinned tions with some unlikely characters, including the retired man Canuckology in Canada to bulletin boards. And, as always, she brings her trademark who still believes in Santa Claus, the non-parent who freaks out FromD ollars to DonutsC anada s Canada’s Most Influential Columnist Reflects candour, warmth and wit. about toy safety, and the woman who would rather take her dad Premier Pollsters Reveal What onL ife,P oliticsan dt heP ursuitof Hap piness to a movie premiere than George Clooney. Canadians Think and Why “She is best known for controversy . . . but she’s often quite Filled with hilarious insights from every province and CuRRENt aFFaIRS • $17.99 tPB funny. She can rip off a one-liner with the best of them.” territory, as well as from people of every age, gender and eco- CuRRENt aFFaIRS • $14.99 tPB ISBN: 978-1-55468-469-4 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER the globe and mail nomic standing—and peppered with fun factoids and quiz- ISBN: 978-1-55468-262-1 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER BIO025000 • 288 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 56 REF018000/SOC022000 • 288 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 68 zes—Canuckology is compulsive, must-have reading for any rights acquired: Canada/English language “She is a writer with a voice all her own, quite possibly the rights acquired: world/all languages other rights: Beverly Slopen Literary Agency best newspaper columnist in the country.” Canadian. editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Carolyn Ovell editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Carolyn Ovell robert fulford DARRELL BRICKER is president and CEO of Ipsos Reid MARGARET WENTE has enjoyed a successful career in Public Affairs North America. He holds a PhD in political sci- Canadian journalism as both a writer and editor. Since 1992 she ence from Carleton University and is the co-author (with Edward has been a leading columnist for The Globe and Mail and has Greenspon) of Searching for Certainty: Inside the New Cana- twice won the National Newspaper Award for her writing. Born dian Mindset. He is the co-author, with John Wright, of What in Chicago, she moved to Toronto in her teens. Wente holds a Canadians Think about Almost Everything. BA from the University of Michigan and an MA in English litera- ture from the . Her first book,An Accidental JOHN WRIGHT is the senior vice-president and managing Canadian, was a national bestseller in 2004. director of the North American public-opinion polling division of Ipsos Reid. For the last fourteen years, he has been the lead media spokesperson for the company on politics, policy and previous edition: 978-1-55468-468-7 cl consumer trends; he also hosts a weekly radio show on CFRB. Wright is the co-author, with Darrell Bricker, of What Canadians Think about Almost Everything. also available by margaret wente An Accidental Canadian previous edition: 978-1-55468-261-4 otpb 978-0-00-639509-6  $19.95 tpb

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overs of curling are passionate about the game. More than L1 million Canadians curl at 1,000 curling clubs nation- wide, and television ratings for curling events are often higher than for Hockey Night in Canada. Russ Howard, one of the big- Gold-medal advice for all curlers— gest names in elite curling, shows you how to put everything from novice to elite you can into your game. Russ Howard has won every curling prize going. He’s russ howard racked up a record-breaking 107 Brier wins; he’s a multiple World Championship winner; and he was named “Curler of foreword by brad gushue the Century” by Sweep magazine. He is also a 2006 Olympic gold-medal winner as a member of Canada’s famous “Team Curl to win Gushue.” With three decades of experience, Russ has a unique ExpertA dvicet oI mproveY ourGame ability to blend the mental and physical sides of curling, and a huge talent for strategizing and acing near-impossible shots. SPORtS/CuRLING • $19.99 tPB Curl to Win is his best advice for improving both your skill ISBN: 978-0-00-648168-3 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER level and your understanding of the game. He gives you tips on SPO052000 • 224 pp • 7 3/8 x 9 1/4 • carton qty: 28 creating a game plan, choosing the best shot, the arts of sweep- full-colour photographs throughout ing and delivery and what to do in twenty common game sce- rights acquired: world/all languages other rights: Landmark Sport Group narios. editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Carolyn Ovell Fully illustrated with step-by-step photographs and dia- grams, Curl to Win is the essential guide for all curlers, from amateurs to Olympians.

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“you need not aspire to a national or Olympic champion- ship in order to benefit from Russ’s book. whether you are a weekend warrior, local league member, or . . . [an] international-level athlete, you will become a better curler—a winning curler—after having read Curl to Win.” brad gushue, 2006 olympic gold medallist, men's curling

RUSS HOWARD s curling career spans thirty years and numerous championships at provincial, world and Olympic lev- els. He is the creator of the Moncton Rule, a change that made the game more competitive and exciting. He is a mem- ber of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame and is now a com- mentator for TSN. Howard lives in Moncton, New Brunswick.

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hen Ben Tomlin’s mother brings home his new “baby wbrother,” an eight-day-old chimpanzee, Ben is far from thrilled. His father, a renowned behavioural scientist, has up- rooted the family and moved them halfway across the country, to Victoria, B.C., so he can pursue a high-profile experiment— to determine whether chimpanzees can learn human sign lan- In science, you can control the subject. guage. The chimp, named Zan, must be raised exactly like a But what happens when the subject human. He’s dressed in clothes and fed in a high chair and has becomes part of the family? a room full of toys and books. Ben is soon smitten. Joining the team of students who are helping with the experiment, Ben Half Brother becomes both researcher and adored older brother. A Novel Within months, Zan learns his first signs and becomes a media sensation. At his new school, Ben’s life seems similarly ya FICtION, aGES 12+ • $19.99 CL charmed as he vies for the attentions of the beautiful Jennifer— ISBN: 978-1-55468-812-8 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt using his newly acquired scientific observational skills. JUV013090 • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 But when Project Zan unexpectedly loses its funding, Ben’s rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Writers House father is under huge pressure to either make the experiment editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg succeed or abandon it—and Zan. Unable to convince his father that Zan is now part of the family, Ben must risk everything he knows and everyone he loves in order to save his baby brother.

KENNETH OPPEL is the Governor General s Awardw inning kenneth oppel author of the Airborn series and the Saga, which has sold over a million copies worldwide. Kenneth Oppel lives in Kenneth Oppel’s bestselling, award-winning Toronto with his wife and their three children. Visit his website at Silverwing series—now in a digest size with www.kennethoppel.com. a stunning new look! This is how we got Zan. ISBN: 978-1-55468-613-1 He was eight days old and his mother was holding While Dusk fights his urge to flap, Carnassial gives in to his him, nursing him. He was cuddled against her, and instincts to become a vicious predator. The battle for survival she made comforting sounds, waving the flies away has begun . . . with her free hand. Her back was turned, so she didn’t see the gun when it fired the dart into her leg. . . . Outside the cage, the man passed the baby to Silverwing ISBN: 978-1-55468-815-9 the woman. She wrapped him gently in a soft blan- When Shade, a young Silverwing bat, gets separated from his ket and cradled him in her arms, making shushing colony, he must set out on a dangerous journey to find his way sounds. back to them. This was my mother. from half brother

Sunwing ISBN: 978-1-55468-816-6 Shade travels to the far southern jungle, where he will do all he MIddLE GRadE FICtION, aGES 10+ can to find his father—and save the world from an eternal night. SHIPPING IN OCtOBER • $9.99 dIGESt please see your sales representative JUV000000/JUV001000/JUV002000 for other kenneth oppel titles 336 pp • 5 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 24 rights acquired: Canada/English language ISBN: 978-1-55468-817-3 HARPER COLLINS Shade’s son Griffin is sucked into an underworld, and Shade other rights: Writers House • editor: Lynne Missen publicist: Melissa Zilberberg HARPER PERENNIAL must save him before a deadly foe finds him first. HARPER TROPHYCANADA HARPER COLLINS

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he first of four Larten Crepsley books that will span the t’s World War Two in Amsterdam. Teenaged Lena leaves her tnineteenth and twentieth centuries, Birth of a Killer fea- Istarving family to travel by train with her friend, Sofie, to tures Larten as a young boy whose life is thrown into chaos Almelo, a town close to the German border. It’s a risky plan. Darren Shan’s brand new series comes when his closest friend is brutally murdered. Retreating from They have false papers and are quickly pulled off the train by to Canada—the exciting new prequel the world of humans, he finds refuge in the night-world of the German soldiers. Only by fluke do they get back on again— to the Cirque du Freak books vampire clan. But although he has the bravery, strength and with the help of Albert, one of the other soldiers. After Lena Writing for young adults for the first time, skill to go far as a creature of the night, he faces a number discovers that the train had also been used to transport Jews award-winning author Maggie de Vries creates of troubling obstacles and setbacks. He never feels totally in to concentration camps, she fears her new friendship with darren shan charge of his life, and though he always tries to do the right the helpful Albert may lead her into more danger. Sofie, too, a vivid story of survival during wartime thing, sometimes he makes serious mistakes . . . for which he befriends a soldier, a relationship that quickly turns serious and the Saga of must later pay. Like the Cirque du Freak series, this is a coming- has unforeseen consequences for both girls. maggie de vries Larten Crepsley of-age story, but it is spread across a far wider time period, and takes us even farther into the darkness of the vampire world. MAGGIE de VRIES is the author of five books for children, Hunger Journeys BookOn e:B irthof aKiller including Fraser and Tale of a Great White Fish, as well as DARREN SHAN is the author of the internationally bestselling one book for adults, Missing Sarah, a memoir about her sister s ya FICtION, aGES 12+ • $14.99 ORIGINaL tPB MIddLE GRadE FICtION, aGES 10+ series Cirque du Freak (known as The Saga of Darren Shan in disappearance (shortlisted for the Governor General s Award). ISBN: 978-1-55468-579-0 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt $13.99 ORIGINaL tPB the U.K.), as well as the Demonata series. His adventures have She has also had two short pieces in anthologies, including JUV016060 • 240 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 ISBN: 978-1-55468-686-5 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER been read by millions of people around the world in thirty-one Dropped Threads 3. She has been a children s book editor and rights acquired: world/all languages JUV018000 • 240 pp • 5 x 7 1/2 • carton qty: 48 editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg rights acquired: Canada/English language languages, yet much of his life remains shrouded in mystery. He a writer-in-residence for the Vancouver Public Library. Since the other rights: Christopher Little Literary Agency lives in seclusion in the depths of Ireland. And he never drinks fall of 2007, de Vries has focused on writing and teaching cre- publicist: Melissa Zilberberg blood. Or so he claims. Visit him online at darrenshan.com. ative writing at UBC. She lives in Vancouver.

“I would ask you to stay a while,” the creature mur- praise for tale of a great white fish, mured, and something in its tone made Larten a 101 canadian children's books everyone should read ccbc selection pause. He cast a quick glance upwards and saw that ( ) the thing had lowered its head. Only a handful of “Maggie de Vries’s latest book wonderfully recreates inches now separated their faces. the impressive tenacity of this species.” quill & quire Larten squealed and slammed against the jamb of the doorway. But still he didn’t spill out of the crypt and run away. Because the creature hadn’t sounded threatening when it spoke. It had sounded strangely lonely. from birth of a killer

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achariah Thomson lives in the Nicholls Ward, a mental t the end of Night Runner, Zack awakes from death to dis- Zinstitution in Peterborough, not because he’s crazy, but acover that his best friend, Charlie, and the lovely Luna are because it’s the only place that can take care of him. His mother vampires. His uncle Maximilian has disappeared, and so has died when he was two, and his father died from an accident on the evil Baron Vrolock. Shortlisted for the Red Maple and Sunburst an archaeological expedition when Zack was still quite young. A year passes, and while Ophelia, a reliable confidante from A dramatic sequel to Night Runner— awards, Max Turner’s new series is a story Now a teenager, Zack has spent his whole life with an inhib- his past, helps Zack and his friends cope with the downside of iting illness that restricts his diet to mysterious pink drinks being vampires, a mysterious creature appears. Likened to the the dark excitement continues! of vampires, Canadian-style and keeps him in bed during the day, so the institution seems Beast of the Apocalypse, it begins to dismantle the network of the best place for him . . . until Zack is visited by an enigmatic support around Zack, who discovers he is more than just an or- max turner max turner stranger who claims to be his uncle and to know the real reason phaned vampire—he is the subject of an ancient prophecy that behind Zack’s parents’ deaths—and his strange sickness. relates to the End of Days. As friends and enemies, old and new, End of days Night Runner throw his world into chaos, he is forced to re-examine what it “Night Runner is a fast-paced page-turner, full of surprising means to be good at a time when it seems that only the strong Night Runner II ANovel twists and clever turns that’ll have you on the edge of your and ruthless can survive. seat wondering what could possibly happen next!” ya FICtION, aGES 12+ • $14.99 ORIGINaL tPB ya FICtION, aGES 12+ • $8.99 dIGESt alyson noel, new york times-bestselling author ISBN: 978-1-55468-536-3 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER I’m told vampires are popular in books these days. ISBN: 978-1-55468-085-6 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER of evermore JUV037000/JUV001000/JUV018000 JUV037000/JUV001000/JUV018000 I’m not surprised. The perks of infection are pretty 256 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 48 256 pp • 5 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 48 “Max turner has written a gothic fantasy full of sick. Awesome physical power. Highly tuned senses. rights acquired: world/all languages rights acquired: world/all languages surprises—and bite!” The ability to recover from almost any injury. Good editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg katherine marsh, edgar award-winning author dental hygiene. A simple diet. And that immortality of the night tourist thing—very impressive on a resumé. But it’s not a free ticket to the Boardwalk. I hate “a fast-paced struggle against fate that had me cheering to sound like I’m complaining, but those perks come for Zack at every turn of the page. . . . Max turner has with a heavy price tag. created an exciting addition to the vampire genre that left me guessing and hoping every step of the way.” from end of days brian james, author of zombie blondes

MAX TURNER is a high school teacher in Ottawa. Night Runner, his bestselling debut novel, was shortlisted for both the Sun- burst Award and the OLA Red Maple Award, and was released in the U.S. in September 2009. End of Days, the sequel to Night Runner, will be published (in Canada and the U.S.) in Fall 2010.

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ommy is the best at everything: Not only does she car- nicket and Kalman present a startlingly beautiful adven- Mpool and untangle kites, she seems to light up the sun Sture woven from a practical introduction to thirteen won- with her love. derful words, including such marvels as Bird, Dog, Panache and Grab the little one you love, and join the celebration of the Haberdashery. Maira Kalman, renowned for her design, her From the #1 national bestselling team From bestselling author Lemony Snicket ordinary, everyday—and special—moments between mother illustrated New York Times column The Principles of Uncertain- and celebrated illustrator Maria Kalman Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell and child in this sweet duet of first love. Because Mommy can ty, and her book illustration, including the bestselling Elements do anything—even hang the moon in the dark night sky. of Style, carries this madcap adventure to wondrous heights comes an uproarious, whimsical word jamie lee curtis My Mommy Hung the Moon is the ninth dazzling picture with her vision of a world populated with hats, song and cake. book like no other illustrated by laura cornell book by the #1 New York Times–bestselling team of Jamie Lee A rollicking adventure joins forces with magnificent art to cre- Curtis and Laura Cornell. Written straight from the heart and ate a true celebration of words. lemony snicket illustrated with tender hilarity, the book is a keepsake with a illustrated by maira kalman My Mommy Hung wonderful message to moms and kids about how much that LEMONY SNICKET s research has been collected and pub- the Moon special love means, in another Book to Grow By ™ to help kids lished in a variety of bestselling titles, including those within A navigate childhood. Series of Unfortunate Events, The Composer Is Dead and The 13 words PICtuRE BOOK, aGES 4–8 • $19.99 CL Lump of Coal. PICtuRE BOOK, aGES 3–5 • $19.99 CL ISBN: 978-0-06-029016-0 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt “Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell are making a habit of ISBN: 978-0-06-166465-6 • SHIPPING IN SEPtEMBER JUV013060 • 40 pp • 11 x 9 1/2 • carton qty: 24 putting out great books for little ones . . . full of text and MAIRA KALMAN is an author, artist and designer who is well JUV009080 • 40 pp • 8 1/2 x 11 • carton qty: 30 full-colour throughout illustrations which are both overtly funny and subtly known for her many picture books; her iconic New Yorker cov- full-colour throughout rights acquired: Canada/English language witty—something adults will appreciate.” ers; her illustrated edition of the venerated Elements of Style; rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: HarperCollins U.S. books in canada other rights: HarperCollins U.S. publicist: Melissa Zilberberg and The Principles of Uncertainty, a collection of her illustrated publicist: Melissa Zilberberg New York Times columns. JAMIE LEE CURTIS is an actor and the bestselling author of Is There Really a Human Race?, It s Hard to Be Five, I m Gonna Like Me, Where Do Balloons Go?, Today I Feel Silly and other books. She lives with her family in Los Angeles. You can visit her also available by lemony snicket online at www.jamieleecurtis.com. The Composer Is Dead 978-0-06-177515-4  $19.50 cl The Lump of Coal LAURA CORNELL is the bestselling illustrator of books by 978-0-06-157428-3  $14.99 tpb Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as Good Night Pillow Fight by Sally Horseradish Cook and Annie Bananie by Leah Komaiko. She lives in New 978-0-06-0124006-5  $15.99 cl York, N.Y., with her daughter, Lilly. You can visit Laura online at www.lauracornellbooks.com.

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The fun and exciting follow-up to Shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff the critically acclaimed adventure at sea, Children’s Literature Prize The Ship of Lost Souls rachelle delaney rachelle delaney the Ship of Lost Souls the Lost Souls ANovel of Island X ANovel JuVENILE FICtION, aGES 8–12 • $8.99 dIGESt ISBN: 978-1-55468-116-7 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt JuVENILE FICtION, aGES 8–12 • $14.99 ORIGINaL tPB JUV001000 • 240 pp • 5 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 48 ISBN: 978-1-55468-117-4 • SHIPPING IN auGuSt rights acquired: Canada/English language JUV001000 • 240 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 48 other rights: Transatlantic Literary Agency rights acquired: Canada/English language editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg other rights: Transatlantic Literary Agency editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg

he misfit crew of the legendary Margaret’s Hop picks pock- carlet and Jem and the rest of the Lost Souls are now on RACHELLE DELANEY was born in Edmonton and now lives tets and raids pirate ships. It’s jolly good pirate fun . . . until SIsland X, settling themselves in the clearing and keeping in Vancouver, B.C. She has worked as a freelance writer and you grow up, when you must leave the ship forever. an eye on the aras (the beautiful red birds that hide rubies in editor, and now teaches creative writing to students of all ages. Twelve-year-old Scarlet McCray is the daring young cap- their nests). While Scarlet deals with her newfound ability to Her first book was The Ship of Lost Souls. Visit her at www. tain leading this motley bunch, who call themselves the Lost channel the feelings of the island’s animals, and Jem tries to rachelledelaney.com. Souls. When their newest recruit, Jem, reveals that he has a construct tree houses, Uncle Finn wanders the island in search much-sought treasure map, the young pirates set out on a quest of rare plants, and the rest of the Lost Souls settle in as best they praise for the ship of lost souls for the prize, unaware of the mysterious jungles, threats of mu- can. But everything is thrown into disarray when the Dread “First-time novelist delaney reaches into some of the tiny and lessons in leadership that await them. Pirate Captain Wallace Hammerstein-Jones and his crew, in- most classic themes and adventures to create a perfect cluding the traitor Lucas Lawrence, come back to the island. and exciting parable for modern times. . . . Highly “a pirate ship, a treasure map and a crew of orphans: how Things get even more worrisome when a troop of King’s Men recommended.” could even the most reluctant young reader resist such a appears—led by Scarlet’s father! canadian materials (cm) ****/4 premise?” How can they keep the pirates from the rubies and the quill & quire “a well-spun story of child adventurers, evil pirates and King’s Men from plundering the island’s valuable resources? swashbuckling adventure, which often has its tongue The Lost Souls have to use all their wits—along with help from in its cheek.” previous edition: 978-1-55468-115-0 otpb some surprising island inhabitants—to keep Island X safe. deakin newsletter (online review)

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With over 1.5 million mysteries sold, ince the age of nine, Madoca has been the slave of these perennial favourites are now available SAnnoc, daughter of a local chieftain. Annoc aspires to become the next dragon seer, but at the Divination Ceremony, in a new three-book-in-one format, with Madoca is shocked to be chosen for this revered role. Guided by a brand-new look! mentors Nechtan and Eenna, Madoca enters a new and exciting Shorlisted for the Canadian Library world where she learns to care for the dragons of Orkney and Association’s Book of the Year for Children share their ancient lore. When dragon-hating Vikings arrive in eric wilson and the Young Adult Book Award Orkney, Madoca must draw upon her newfound powers. Can she save the dragons from extinction? Eric wilson’s janet mcnaughton Canadian Mysteries “the ancient, mystical land of the Orkney Isles is exquisitely rendered in this compelling tale of magic Volumes1t o3 and Viking menace.” dragon Seer canadian children's book news A Novel VOL. 1, 978-1-55468-822-7 VOL. 2, 978-1-55468-823-4 “Evocative. . . . Readers will be captivated by Drag on Seer MIddLE GRadE FICtION, aGES 10+ • $9.99 dIGESt VOL. 3, 978-1-55468-824-1 and its strong young heroine.” ISBN: 978-0-00-200683-5 • SHIPPING IN OCtOBER JuVENILE FICtION, aGES 8–12 the chronicle-herald halifax JUV037000 • 256 pp • 5 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 24 $12.99 tPB • SHIPPING IN JuNE ( ) rights acquired: Canada/English language JUV001000/JUV030030 • 448 pp • 5 x 8 • carton qty: 24 other rights: Curtis Brown U.S. rights acquired: Canada/English language JANET McNAUGHTON is the multi-award-winning author of editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg many books, including Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice; To Dance at the Palais Royale; Make or Break Spring; The Secret Under My Skin; An Earthly Knight; and The Raintree Rebellion. Volume 1 She has won the Ruth Schwartz Award, the Mr. Christie s Book Murder on The Canadian Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction and the The Case of the Golden Boy Violet Downey Award, as well as the Ann Connor Brimer Award The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma and the Bruneau Family Children s Literature Award. She lives in St. John s, Newfoundland, with her family. Visit her online at Volume 2 www.janetmcnaughton.ca. Red River Ransom The Ghost of Lunenburg Manor

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Allam, Paul and David McGuinness...... 33 McGuinness, David and Paul Allam ...... 33 100 Photos That Changed Canada...... 49 Mr. Peanut ...... 8 Bergen, David...... 14–15 Day, Kirstie McLellan ...... 51 13 Words ...... 65 Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard ...... 9 Bourne, Sam...... 24 McNaughton, Janet ...... 69 Beyond Black ...... 40 My Mommy Hung the Moon...... 64 Bricker, Darrell and John Wright ...... 55 Mercer, Dave ...... 27 Bourke Street Bakery...... 33 Night Runner ...... 62 Buchanan, Cathy Marie ...... 42 Newman, Peter C...... 16–17 Canuckology...... 55 Night Shift, The ...... 4 Burnard, Bonnie ...... 43 Oppel, Kenneth ...... 58–59 Change of Climate, A...... 41 Now or Never ...... 52 Cave, Nick...... 38 Podnieks, Andrew ...... 26 Curl to Win...... 56 On Balance ...... 2–3 Chabon, Michael ...... 45 Reid, Mark, ed...... 49 Damned, The ...... 12 Playing with Fire ...... 51 Coates, B. and E. Foley ...... 32 Roche, Charlotte ...... 39 Darkwing ...... 58 Queen Elizabeth...... 48 Cooper, Glenn ...... 23 Ross, Adam...... 8 Day the Falls Stood Still, The ...... 42 Radleys, The ...... 10 Curtis, Jamie Lee...... 64 Scanlan, Lawrence and Birgit Stutz ...... 30 Death of Bunny Munro, The...... 38 Rescue of Belle and Sundance, The ...... 30 de Vries, Maggie ...... 61 Shan, Darren ...... 60 Dragon Seer ...... 69 Room ...... 5 Delaney, Rachelle...... 66–67 Shawcross, William...... 48 Driven ...... 20 Russian Winter...... 19 Dey, Claudia...... 31 Snicket, Lemony ...... 65 Emily Hudson...... 6 Saga of Larten Crepsley, The ...... 60 Donoghue, Emma ...... 5 Spong, John Shelby ...... 46 End of Days...... 63 Seasons ...... 34 Dubner, Stephen J. and Steven D. Levitt ...... 21 Stroud, Les ...... 25 Eric Wilson’s Canadian Mysteries ...... 68 See the Child...... 15 Flannery, Tim ...... 52 Stutz, Birgit and Lawrence Scanlan ...... 30 Eternal Life: A New Vision ...... 46 Ship of Lost Souls, The...... 66 Fleury, Theo ...... 51 Trudeau, Margaret ...... 2–3 Facts of Fishing...... 27 Silverwing ...... 58 Foley, E. and B. Coates ...... 32 Turner, Max ...... 62–63 Fever of the Bone ...... 22 Soldier First, A ...... 53 Franzen, Jonathan...... 11 Wente, Margaret ...... 54 Final Reckoning, The...... 24 Suddenly ...... 43 Glass, Matthew ...... 36 Wilson, Eric ...... 68 Firewing ...... 58 Sunwing ...... 58 Goldman, Brian...... 4 Wright, John and Darrell Bricker ...... 55 Freedom ...... 11 SuperFreakonomics ...... 21 Gray, Charlotte ...... 13 Wright, Richard B...... 9 Gold Diggers ...... 13 Tenth Chamber, The ...... 23 Greenfield, Nathan M...... 12 Half Brother ...... 59 This Is How...... 44 Gulland, Sandra...... 37 Heroes ...... 16 Ultimatum ...... 36 Haig, Matt ...... 10 Hockey Facts & Stats ...... 26 Wetlands ...... 39 Hargrove, Buzz ...... 50 Homework for Grown-ups ...... 32 Will to Live ...... 25 Hay, Donna...... 34 How the Scots Invented Canada...... 18 Year of Lesser, A ...... 15 Herjavec, Robert ...... 20 How to Be a Bush Pilot ...... 31 You Can’t Say That in Canada...... 54 Hillier, General Rick ...... 7, 53 Hunger Journeys ...... 61 Holmes, Mike...... 28–29 Lacuna, The ...... 47 Howard, Russ...... 56 Ladies’ Lending Library, The ...... 37 Hyland, M.J...... 44 Laying It on the Line ...... 50 Jones, Melissa...... 6 Leadership Matters ...... 7 Kalotay, Daphne ...... 19 Lost Souls of Island X, The ...... 67 Keefer, Janice Kulyk ...... 37 Make It Right™: Basements, Attics and Additions ....28–29 Kingsolver, Barbara...... 47 Make It Right™: Kitchens and Bathrooms ...... 28–29 Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner ...... 21 Manhood for Amateurs ...... 45 Mantel, Hilary ...... 40–41 Matter with Morris, The...... 14 McDermid, Val ...... 22 Mavericks ...... 17 McGoogan, Ken...... 18 Mistress of the Sun ...... 37 72 harpercollins

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