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page 2 New Fiction and Non-fiction
page 33 Cookbooks
page 34 Harper Paperbacks
page 57 Children s Books
pages 72-73 Index
page 74 Key Contacts
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nne Blythe is lucky. She’s got a brand new book contract, a great newspaper job and a steadfast best friend, and she Acan land just about any man she sets her sights on—and the ones that appeal are typically tall, dark and handsome. If your romantic choices kept ending Problem is, the men she chooses never last. Shortly after yet in heartache, would you let someone another relationship goes down in flames, Anne comes across a card for what she believes is a dating service, and pockets it choose your husband for you? just in case. If she’s so unlucky in love, maybe she could use a little assistance. Then her best friend announces she’s engaged, catherine mckenzie and envy gets the better of Anne. Now’s the time, she decides, to give the service a try—and she is shocked to discover that what the company specializes in are exclusive, and pricey, arranged Arranged marriages. After learning of the company’s success rate, how- A Novel ever, she overcomes her reluctance and signs on. After all, ar- ranged marriages are the norm for millions of women around FICTION • $19.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS the world, and she’s not done so well selecting a mate on her ISBN: 978-1-55468-760-2 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER FIC044000 • 352 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 28 own. So why not use a professional service that claims it can rights acquired: Canada/English language produce the perfect match? other rights: Kimberly Cameron & Associates Some time later, Anne is travelling to a Mexican resort, editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Lindsey Love where in one short weekend she will meet and marry Jack, the man they have chosen for her. And against all odds, it seems to be working out, until Anne learns that Jack and the company who arranged their marriage are not what they seem at all.
praise for spin
F ull of pop-culture allusions, some really funny ones. . . . Spin is a compelling, fast-paced read. the globe and mail
M cKenzie successfully portrays a group of young friends as they struggle to figure out who they are and what they want . . . [and] steers the novel to a satisfying conclusion.” the gazette (montreal)
CATHERINE McKENZIE was born and raised in Montreal where she now works as a litigator. When not serving on many professional associations, she teaches part time at McGill Uni- versity’s faculty of law. Her bestselling first novel, Spin, was re- leased to critical acclaim in 2010. Arranged is her second book.
also available by catherine mckenzie Spin 978-1-55468-758-9 $19.99 tpb available from harperweekend in december 2010 (see page 50)
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ummer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching toward peace, and in the bus- tling,S polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have ap- peared: thousands of Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom From the acclaimed author of through a crack in the Iron Curtain. Among the thousands who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are Natasha and Other Stories, an irresistible the members of the Krasnansky family—three generations of first novel about one large, fractious Russian Russian Jews. family and the layover of a lifetime There is Samuil, an old communist and Red Army veteran, who reluctantly leaves the country to which he has dedicated himself body and soul; Karl, his eldest son, a man eager to em- david bezmozgis brace the opportunities emigration affords; his younger son, Alec, a carefree playboy for whom life has always been a game; The Free World and Polina, Alec’s new wife, who has risked the most by break- A Novel ing with her old family to join this new one. Together, they will spend six months in Rome—their way station and purgatory. FICTION • $31.99 CL They will immerse themselves in the carnival of emigration, an ISBN: 978-1-4434-0399-3 • SHIPPING IN MARCH Italy rife with love affairs and ruthless hustles, with dislocation FIC019000 • 400 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 and nostalgia, with the promise and peril of a better life. In rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Farrar, Straus and Giroux the unforgettable Krasnansky family, Bezmozgis has created an editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Lindsey Love intimate portrait of a tumultuous era. Written in precise, musical prose, The Free World is a stun- ning debut novel, a heartfelt multigenerational saga of great his- torical scope and even greater human depth. Enlarging on the themes of aspiration and exile that infused his first collection, Natasha and Other Stories, The Free World establishes Bezmoz- gis as one of our most mature and accomplished storytellers.
“Bezmozgis’ pointed, emotionally resonant tales are so elegant they seem destined, like [Isaac] Babel’s, for anthologies of classic fiction.” the globe and mail on natasha and other stories
DAVID BEZMOZGIS, a writer and filmmaker, was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973. His first book,Natasha and Other Stories, won the Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2004 and was nominated for a Governor General s Award. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. Bezmozgis’ first feature film, Victoria Day, de- buted at the Sundance film festival. In 2010, he was named one of The New Yorker s 20 Under 40. Bezmozgis lives in Toronto. also available by david bezmozgis Natasha and Other Stories 978-0-00-639322-1 $16.95 tpb
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ave you ever looked enviously at a neighbour’s garden and wished you had a green thumb? Have you ever gone Hto the garden centre full of enthusiasm, only to find yourself Over 1 million Canadians use Frankie’s confused and defeated? Have you ever wished that somehow advice to help their gardens thrive. Now gardening could just be, well, easy? If so, it’s time to Get Grow- his easy-to-follow techniques can transform ing with Frankie Flowers. In 352 pages packed with inspiring your outdoor space! yet instructional photos, Frankie coaches gardeners of all levels through the basics of getting a garden growing. Broken down into seasonal chapters that give the reader concise, clear in- frankie flowers structions on what you need to do now and why, it provides a photography by shannon j. ross solid foundation for building a beautiful ornamental garden, a healthy, natural lawn and a bountiful vegetable garden. With Get Growing tons of step-by-step detail—in words and photos—this book An E veryday Gu ide t o High -impact, includes everything from planning and planting to pruning and Low-fuss Gar dens fine tuning. It’ll also help gardeners of all levels troubleshoot problems like weeds and slugs and rodents (oh my!). Garden- GARDENING • $28.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS ing shouldn’t be complicated or overwhelming—it should be ISBN: 978-1-55468-833-3 • SHIPPING IN MARCH fun. The secret is just to get outside and Get Growing! GAR000000 • 352 pp • 8 1/4 x 9 1/4 • carton qty: 24 full-colour photos throughout FRANKIE FLOWERS (aka FRANK FERRAGINE) reaches rights acquired: world/all languages editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Carolyn Ovell over 1 million Canadians each week as the gardening expert for BT Toronto, CityLine and CityNews, and also writes a column for Canadian Living. His family business, Bradford Greenhous- es, is one of Canada s largest combined greenhouse/garden businesses. He lives with his family in Innisfil, Ontario.
SHANNON J. ROSS is a regular contributor to Canadian lifestyle magazines. After graduating from McGill University, he opened Shannon Ross Photography in 1999 and since then has photographed for a wide range of editorial, advertis- ing and corporate clients. Get Growing is his first book-length project. Shannon lives with his wife and their two cats in Toronto, Ontario.
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e all know we should save for retirement, right? But we don’t. We’re just not sure where to start . . . or when. WExperts conjure magic numbers and use complicated terminol- ogy. Do we really need a million dollars? And if we don’t have a From the #1 bestselling author of Debt-Free snowball’s chance in hell of saving that much, should we even Forever and the host of Til Debt Do Us Part bother? and Princess, a no-nonsense, step-by-step Gail’s answers are no and yes—there is no magic number that fits everyone, and yes, you must bother! The hardest part guide to creating your best retirement plan of retirement planning is getting started, so Gail walks you through the steps to put momentum on your side—even if it’s gail vaz-oxlade with as little as a dollar a day. She’ll help you figure out where you are now, where you want to be and how to get there. No expert, Gail included, should offer a one-size-fits-all Never Too Late solution, which is why Never Too Late has concrete steps for Take Con trol of Y our R etirement developing a plan that is right for YOU. Never Too Late is about and Y our F uture cutting through the crap, taking charge, and taking action to PERSONAL FINANCE • $21.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS create the future you want. ISBN: 978-1-55468-868-5 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER BUS050040 • 336 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 28 GAIL VAZ-OXLADE, one of Canada s most successful rights acquired: Canada/English language and respected financial writers, is the author of #1 bestseller other rights: P.S. Literary Agency Debt-Free Forever. She currently doles out her no-nonsense editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Melissa Nowakowski approach to money management as host of the television shows Til Debt Do Us Part and Princess. Visit her website at www.gailvazoxlade.com.
Retirement planning should not be an exercise in frustration. It should be the conscious choice to cre- ate what you want in your future by setting aside the money you’ll need. If you set aside nothing— if you spend every red cent you make, and then some—you’re making a choice. It won’t be an easy one to live with later, but it is YOUR choice. Choose instead to put a little effort into building a retire- ment nest-egg and you’ll be surprised how easy it is, if you start early and do it consistently. from never too late also available by gail vaz-oxlade Debt-Free Forever: Take Control of Your Money and Your Life 978-1-55468-590-5 $21.99 tpb
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nee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent Kon his death: how did Murray Watson end up here? His quiet life in university libraries researching the lives of writers seems a world away, and yet it is because of the mysterious writer Some secrets are best left buried Archie Lunan, dead for thirty years, that Murray now finds him- self scrabbling in the dirt on the remote island of Lismore. Loaded with Welsh’s trademark wit, insight and Gothic louise welsh charisma, this adventure novel weaves the lives of Murray and Archie together in a tale of literature, obsession and dark magic. Naming the Bones A Novel “It’s not magic that takes us to another world—it’s storytell- ing. And Louise Welsh is mistress of that dark art.” val mcdermid FICTION • $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS ISBN: 978-1-55468-698-8 • AVAILABLE NOW FIC030000 • 400 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 “Smart and horribly funny. . . . This is Welsh’s best novel rights acquired: Canada/English language since her 2002 hit The Cutting Room. . . . Welsh augments other rights: Canongate Books Ltd. her thriller plot with neat satire on academic life and pithy publicist: Carolyn Ovell insights into the psychology of those writers who devote themselves to creating ‘paper facsimiles of lives hurtling towards death.’ Highly recommended.” the guardian
“Academic obsession turns dangerous in Louise Welsh’s thriller Naming the Bones, the story of a man’s pursuit of a mysterious poet. Welsh heaps the tension, chapter by chapter, in this enthralling read. vogue
LOUISE WELSH is the bestselling author of The Cutting Room, Tamburlaine Must Die and The Bullet Trick. She was chosen as one of Britain s Best First Novelists of 2002 by The Guardian. Her awards include the Crime Writers Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger and the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow.
also available by louise welsh The Bullet Trick 978-0-00-639537-9 $19.95 tpb The Cutting Room 978-0-00-639535-5 $19.95 tpb Tamburlaine Must Die 978-0-00-639574-4 $16.95 tpb
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arilyn Monroe’s image is so universal that we can’t help but believe that we know all there is to know of her. EveryM word and gesture made headlines and garnered contro- versy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed An extraordinary, unprecedented by her notoriety—and the way the camera fell helplessly in collection of private writings from one love with her. of the twentieth century’s greatest stars But what of the other Marilyn? Beyond the headlines— and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation—was marilyn monroe a woman far more curious, searching and hopeful than the edited by stanley buchthal one the world got to know. Even as Hollywood studios tried to mold and suppress her, Marilyn never lost her insight, her pas- and bernard comment sion, and her humour. To confront the mounting difficulties of her life, she wrote. Fragments Now, for the first time, we can meet this private Marilyn Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters and get to know her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts—notes to her- AUTOBIOGRAPHY • $32.00 CL • ISBN 978-1-4434-0268-2 self, letters, even poems—in Marilyn’s own handwriting, never ONE-DAY LAYDOWN: OCTOBER 5/10 before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. These BIO005000 • 256 pp • 7 3/4 x 10 • carton qty: 16 full-colour photos throughout bits of text—jotted in notebooks, typed on paper or written on rights acquired: Canada/English language hotel letterhead—reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove other rights: Farrar, Straus and Giroux to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing publicist: Emma Ingram in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny and im- possibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances so memorable emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so heartbreaking. Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest stars of the twentieth century and which, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe’s humanity.
MARILYN MONROE was the defining actress of her age. Ac- claimed for her performances in Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch and many other films, Monroe also studied with Lee Strasberg at t he A ctors S tudio. S he d ied in 1962.
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e are living in an extraordinary age of discovery. After millennia of musings and a century of false claims, as- Wtronomers have found hundreds of planets around other stars Canada’s leading astronomer chronicles since 1995. These discoveries have surprised us and challenged the new space hunt that could redefine our views many times over. At the crux of the astronomers’ pursuit is one basic question: Is our solar system, with planets what it means to be human in circular orbits, gas giants in the outer realm and at least one warm, wet, rocky world teeming with life, the exception or the ray jayawardhana norm? It’s an important question for every one of us. Astrono- mers expect to find alien earths by the dozens within the next three years, and to take their spectra, looking for telltale signs of Strange New Worlds life, before this decade is out. If they succeed, the ramifications The S earch f or A lien P lanets an d for all areas of human thought and endeavour—from religion Life Beyond Our Solar System and philosophy to art and biology—are profound, if not revo- lutionary. What’s at stake is a true measure of our own place in SCIENCE • $29.99 CL the cosmos. ISBN: 978-1-55468-447-2 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY SCI004000 • 272 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jay- b & w illustrations throughout awardhana brings the latest news from the forefront of re- rights acquired: Canada/English language search, including some of his own findings, and tells a tale rich other rights: Westwood Creative Artists in history and personalities. editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Emma Ingram
RAY JAYAWARDHANA is a professor and serves as Canada Research Chair in observational astrophysics at the University of Toronto. A graduate of Yale and Harvard, he is a world leader in the study of planetary origins and diversity. Jayawardhana is an award-winning writer, a popular speaker and a frequent commentator for the media.
There were the many decades of failed attempts and refuted claims, of painstaking refinements to the in- struments and software. Finally, in the fall of 1995, astronomers announced definitive evidence of the first planet orbiting a normal star other than the sun. . . . Within a year, six more were found. The new discoveries marked the culmination of an age- old quest. from strange new worlds
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e stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our his- Wtory—is supremely important. We have formed a global civi- lization of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds—a civilization that is transforming our Earth. We A powerful new book about the fate are masters of technology, and of comprehension, but it’s what of the planet from the author of the #1 we believe that may, from now on, determine our fate. international bestseller The Weather Makers Tim Flannery’s first major book since the #1 bestsellingThe Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and tim flannery Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had Here on Earth disastrous effects on many of the Earth’s ecosystems and could A Nat ural His tory of t he Planet lead to our downfall. But equally, Flannery argues, we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT • $34.99 CL the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural fu- ISBN: 978-1-55468-981-1 • SHIPPING IN APRIL tures depend. Here on Earth is not just a dazzling account of life SCI026000 • 320 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 28 on our planet. It will change the way you live. b & w illustrations throughout rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: InkWell Management TIM FLANNERY is an internationally acclaimed scientist, ex- editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Rob Firing plorer and conservationist. His award-winning books include The Weather Makers and its adaptation for younger readers, We Are the Weather Makers. He is the Australasian representative for National Geographic and a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, and he was the chair of the Copenhagen Climate Coun- cil. Visit him online at www.theweathermakers.org.
What is the true nature of our planet—Gaia, if you like? Is it akin to a cell, an organism or an ecosystem? What is its energy budget, and how flexible is it in the face of various challenges? And what of us? Are we a species forged in the furnace of natural selec- tion to be so selfish and greedy that we’re doomed to a catastrophic fate? Or are there reasons to believe that we can overcome the problems confronting us? from here on earth also available by tim flannery An Explorer’s Notebook 978-1-55468-194-5 $21.95 tpb Now or Never 978-1-55468-605-6 $15.99 tpb We Are the Weather Makers 978-0-00-200849-5 $15.99 tpb The Weather Makers 978-0-00-200831-0 $22.95 tpb
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n Nazi-occupied Vienna, a string of unsolved murders has thrown the residents of one apartment building into Ia state of uneasy watchfulness. Anton Beer, a young doctor who has made a study of forensic psychology, is asked by the retired Professor Speckstein to investigate. It is an unwelcome An unforgettable tale of political paranoia, request: Speckstein’s job is to spy on the building’s residents dangerous liaisons and defiant compassion for the Nazis, and Doctor Beer has his own reasons for keep- ing his private life hidden from public scrutiny. When Beer discovers a paralyzed young woman in a neighbour’s apart- dan vyleta ment, his life is further complicated. The woman is unable to talk and deathly ill, and Beer, whose own wife has recently left The Quiet Twin him, smuggles her into his home to nurse her in secret. A Novel As the story unfolds in propulsive, gripping prose, Dan Vyleta captures the atmosphere of paranoia and suspicion that FICTION • $29.99 CL was part of encroaching Nazi culture, and explores our disturb- ISBN: 978-1-55468-904-0 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY ing instinct in times of threat to turn a blind eye to uncomfort- FIC030000 • 288 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 able realities. The darkest mystery at the heart of this aston- rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Writers House ishing novel reveals itself to be not a question of whodunit so editor: Alex Schultz • publicist: Emma Ingram much as the temper of a diseased society in which every per- son’s actions are infected by the possibility of evil.
praise for pavel & i
“Every so often . . . a Canadian debut novel appears which restores one’s faith in the possibility of new writing in this country, a book so striking, so original and so very fine as to remind readers of what they have long been missing. Pavel & I, the first novel from Dan Vyleta, is such a book.” robert wiersema, edmonton journal
“[A] remarkable debut. . . . Vyleta is a writer to watch.” the globe and mail
DAN VYLETA is the son of Czech refugees who immigrated to Germany. After growing up in Germany, he completed a PhD in history at Cambridge. His debut novel, Pavel & I, has been published in thirteen countries and translated into eight languages. He is also the author of Crime, Jews and News: Vienna 1895 1914. Vyleta lives and works in eastern Canada. Visit him at danvyleta.com.
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oyner’s Dream is the sweeping story of a family and its du- bious legacy: an abiding love of music coupled with a per- Jsistent knack for thieving. Beginning in England in the 1780s, continuing in Halifax at the time of the Great Explosion, and ending in Toronto in the present, eight larcenous generations from all walks of life—craftsmen and highwaymen, aristocrats A folk music legend’s masterful debut and servants, lawyers and B-movie actors—are connected by music, a secret family journal and one long-lived violin. When the branches of the family are reunited and lingering secrets sylvia tyson are revealed, we have come full circle in a hugely satisfying and surprising tale. Joyner’s Dream This multi-generational story—told in a spellbinding se- A Novel ries of historical voices—abounds in such rich social detail and sharply rendered characters, it affords the deep reading plea- FICTION • $24.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS sures to be found in the novels of Charles Dickens and Thomas ISBN: 978-1-55468-495-3 • SHIPPING IN MARCH Hardy. FIC019000 • 400 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 rights acquired: world/all languages For eighteen years, SYLVIA TYSON was one half of the in- other rights: Westwood Creative Artists editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Lindsey Love ternationally renowned folk duo Ian and Sylvia, who shared a manager with such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Band and Janis Joplin. Their hits included F our Strong Winds,” written by Ian, and (for the group We Five) “You Were on My Mind, written by Sylvia. Sylvia has recorded ten solo albums since the duo split in 1975, and since 2000 has been recording and performing with the group Quartette. She has also had a distinguished radio and television career, both in music and in documentaries. Sylvia Tyson is a member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. She lives in T oronto.
My name is Frank Joyner. It is my father’s wish that I should set down these events, as he can neither read nor write, and wishes to leave an account of his life, so that some part of him will remain in the world and in the memory of those who follow. from joyner's dream joyner's dream, a companion collection of 11 pieces of new original music by sylvia tyson inspired by this book, will be available for purchase online upon publication.
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rilliantly sure-footed, strikingly original, tender and fun- ny, this memorable collection of nine linked stories fol- Blows a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters—from bank manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to mental pa- tient to web designer to car thief—as they drift through each The powerful and affecting debut of an other’s lives like ghosts in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown original new voice in Canadian fiction Eastside. These darkly comic and intoxicating stories, gleefully free of moral judgment, are about people searching in the jagged michael christie margins of life—for homes, drugs, love, forgiveness. They range from the tragically funny opening story “Emergency Contact” The Beggar’s Garden to the audacious, drug-fuelled rush of “Goodbye Porkpie Hat” Stories to the deranged and thrilling extreme of “King Me.” The Beggar’s Garden is a powerful and affecting debut, FICTION • $24.99 CL written with an exceptional eye and ear and heart. ISBN: 978-1-55468-829-6 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY FIC029000 • 272 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 32 “Imagine Galileo was alive today. Imagine he was living rights acquired: world/English language; Canada/French language out of dumpsters, writing his memoirs and saying to hell other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates with the stars. Then you might discover in his tear-stained editor: Alex Schultz • publicist: Carolyn Ovell pages the level of wonder and intellect at play in the teem- ing world of The Beggar s Garden. heather o'neill, author of lullabies for little criminals
“A terrific collection. Michael Christie’s writing is strong and vibrant, and these stories show a side of human experience rarely seen in literature. An impressive, arresting debut.” steven galloway, author of the cellist of sarajevo
“Michael Christie’s collection makes the stuff of myth out of all life’s slips and falls, tragedies small and large—his language picks you back up again and dusts you off, his wise-dumb characters become your new friends, and their stories remind you of the strange, funny struggle that is written on our collective heart.” lee henderson, author of the man game
MICHAEL CHRISTIE received his MFA in creative writing from UBC. Previously, he worked in a homeless shelter in Vancou- ver s Downtown Eastside and provided outreach to the severely mentally ill. Along with being a nearly washed-up professional skateboarder, he s currently a senior writer for Color Magazine, an award-winning skateboarding/arts publication. He lives in Victoria, B.C.
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oefield Farm is a sprawling thirty acres of scrub land, complete with dilapidated buildings and one half- Wsheared, lonely sheep named Bertie. It’s “run”—in the loosest possible sense of the word—by Prudence Burns, an energetic, “I think enthusiasm counts for a lot well-intentioned twenty-something New Yorker full of back- to-the-land ideals, but without an iota of related skills or expe- in dancing and in life.”—Prudence rience. Prudence, who inherited the farm from her uncle, soon discovers that the bank is about to foreclose on Woefield Farm, susan juby which means that Prudence has to turn things around, fast. But fear not! She’ll be assisted by Earl, a spry seventy-something, banjo-playing foreman with a distrust of newfangled ideas The Woefield and a substantial family secret; Seth, the alcoholic, celebrity- Poultry Collective blogging boy-next-door, who hasn’t left the house since a A Novel scandal with his high-school drama teacher; and Sara Spratt, a highly organized eleven-year-old looking for a home for her FICTION • $21.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS prizewinning chickens, including one particularly randy fellow ISBN: 978-1-55468-744-2 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY soon to be christened Alec Baldwin. ALSO IN HARDCOVER (978-1-55468-743-5 • $32.99) Full of offbeat charm and characters you won’t soon for- FIC016000 • 336 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 28 get, The Woefield Poultry Collective is a heartwarming novel rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Westwood Creative Artists about learning how to take on a challenge, facing your fears, editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg and finding friendship in the most unlikely of places. With al- ternating narratives, Susan Juby shows how a team of misfits can find acceptance and success, even with—and sometimes in spite of—their highly unorthodox approach.
SUSAN JUBY is the author of the critically acclaimed Another Kind of Cowboy, as well as the bestselling Alice series: Alice, I Think; Miss Smithers; and Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last. She holds a master s degree in publishing. She currently lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, James, and their dog, who prefers to remain anonymous. Visit her online at www.susan- juby.com. also available by susan juby Alice in a Box 978-0-00-639564-5 $44.99 box set Alice, I Think 978-0-00-639288-0 $7.99 mm Alice MacLeod, Realist At Last 978-0-00-200828-0 $7.99 mm Another Kind of Cowboy 978-1-55468-260-7 $9.99 digest Getting the Girl 978-1-55468-676-6 $8.99 digest Miss Smithers 978-0-00-639527-0 $7.99 mm
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n 1703, a war party of French soldiers and Abenaki war- riors raided the village of seven-year-old Puritan girl Esther IWheelwright, taking thirty-nine captives and killing a handful The true story of the Puritan girl who became of men, women and children. That Esther managed to survive the 200-mile journey by foot through swamps and forests to a the most important woman in Quebec Jesuit mission in New France is astonishing. That she was ad- opted, quite happily, into a family of her Abenaki captors, is julie wheelwright equally amazing. But for the Wheelwright family, who waited years before they had word that Esther had even survived the raid, this was a tragedy. Esther When Esther’s release from her Abenaki family was finally The R emarkable T rue S tory of negotiated through a French Jesuit who took her to the city of Esther Wh eelwright P uritan Ch ild, Quebec, it was too late. At the age of fourteen, Esther broke Native Dau ghter, Mot her S uperior her parents’ hearts by refusing to go home; they never saw her again. Instead, she remained in Quebec, the capital of New CANADIAN HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY • $32.99 CL ISBN: 978-0-00-200723-8 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY France, where, against all odds, she rose through the ranks to HIS006010/BIO022000 • 352 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 become Mother Superior—and a pivotal figure after the siege b&w illustrations throughout of Quebec in 1759. rights acquired: Canada/English language Written by Esther’s descendant, Julie Wheelwright, Esther other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates is a spiritual and an emotional journey of survival, and of the editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Meghan Paton human capacity for transformation.
JULIE WHEELWRIGHT is the author of a biography of Mata Hari, The Fatal Lover, as well as the book Amazons and Military Maids. She is a prolific journalist, and has produced documen- taries for radio and television. Wheelwright lives with her two daughters in London, England, where she runs an MA program in non-fiction writing at City University London.
The story of Esther Wheelwright had always been a puzzling and maddeningly sparse one in my family. . . . I fell in love with Esther’s story because it spoke to me; she was that rare thing, a girl who had an adventure. She had lived in a wigwam deep in the forest. It sounded so romantic when I was a child. from esther
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n this major new book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager shows how what we do to the environment in the next 100 years Iwill affect not just the next few centuries but the next 100,000 years of human existence. Most of us have accepted that our “Our short moment on earth is changing the planet is warming and that humans have played the key role in planet essentially forever. . . . This is both a causing climate change. Yet few of us realize the magnitude of scientifically and ethically crucial book.” what’s happened. —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature In Deep Future, Curt Stager draws on the planet’s geologi- cal history to provide a view of where we may be headed long- term. On the bright side, we have already put off the next Ice curt stager Age. But whether we will barrel ahead on a polluting path to a totally ice-free Arctic, miles of submerged coasts, or an acidi- Deep Future fied ocean still remains to be decided. And that decision is ours The Nex t 100,000 Y ears of L ife on Earth to make. There has been much written about global warming and climate change, but no other book offers the far-reaching SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT • $31.99 CL perspective that Curt Stager gives us here. Deep Future adds a ISBN: 978-1-55468-662-9 • SHIPPING IN MARCH new dimension to the debate—one that will change how we SCI026000 • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 think about what we’re doing to our planet. b&w illustrations throughout rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Westwood Creative Artists/ “We’re short-term thinkers: this fiscal quarter, this presi- The Sandra Dijkstra Agency dential term. But as Curt Stager points out in this fasci- editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Rob Firing nating, eloquent and truly novel new account, what we’re doing in the short run will have an almost unimaginably long-term effect. Our short moment on earth is changing the planet essentially forever, at least in human terms— which means that this is both a scientifically and ethically crucial book.” bill mckibben, author of the end of nature
“This intriguing and thought-provoking view of the far future is an essential read for all interested in the full force of climate change. paul andrew mayewski, director, climate change institute, university of maine, and author of the ice chronicles
CURT STAGER is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist and sci- ence writer. He has written for popular audiences in National Geographic and other publications. He teaches at Paul Smith s College and holds a research associate post at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, where he investigates the long-term history of climate in Africa, South America and the polar r egions.
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n sixteenth-century Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Bathory began to torture and kill over 600 servant girls so as to bathe Iin their blood. She believed this practice would render her beauty immortal; it certainly did her reputation. Quiver tells the chilling story of the notorious Countess Bathory and her The Historian meets The Silence of the Lambs undying power to enthrall. in a bloody tale that simmers with pure evil Danica, a young forensic psychologist, is one of many who have been drawn into the orbit of Bathory’s enduring legend. Danica has moved to England from Canada to work at Stow- holly luhning moor, a former insane asylum turned forensic hospital, and one of her patients is Martin Foster, imprisoned for murdering Quiver a fourteen-year-old girl. Foster is a menacing but fascinating A Novel patient, and Danica begins to suspect he may have belonged to a cabal idolizing Bathory and reenacting her savage murders. FICTION • $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS At the same time, Danica receives a mysterious note from ISBN: 978-1-55468-696-4 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY Maria, a seductive archivist who moves in glamorous circles FIC015000 • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 28 and with whom Danica has an intriguing and complicated rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Transatlantic Literary Agency past. Maria claims she has discovered Bathory’s long-lost dia- editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Carolyn Ovell ries, which chronicle her spectacularly bloody crimes, and as Danica’s career and her relationship with her artist-boyfriend, Henry, begin to break down, Maria increasingly insinuates her- self into her life. Soon, Danica is in too deep to notice that Ma- ria’s motivations are far from selfless, and that, in fact, they may just cost Danica her life.
Raised in Saskatchewan and now living in Montreal, HOLLY LUHNING holds a PhD, specializing in eighteenth- century literature, madness and theories of the body. Current- ly, she is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and teaches creative writing. She has received a Saskatchewan Lieuten- ant Governor s Arts Award, and her collection of poetry, Sway, was nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award.
He’d never hurt anyone before. But he always thought about it. About what it would feel like to at- tack someone, to hold his hand on their chest while their heart stopped beating. He had killed a stray dog once but it didn’t stop his thoughts. It only fed him, teased him. And when he met them it was like they could sense it immediately. from quiver
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et in eighteenth-century Churchill, this compelling new novel takes the reader deep into unexplored territory. Ap- pearingS only fleetingly in the historical record of the Hudson’s Bay Company are the Native women who lived at the compa- From the Giller-shortlisted author, ny’s Prince of Wales Fort and served as “country wives” to the a beautifully rendered reimagining European traders—and whose survival was bound, for better or worse, to the fortunes of those men. of a tragic historic event Across more than two centuries, the mixed-blood woman Mary Norton, daughter of Governor Moses and personal fa- pauline holdstock vourite of the explorer Samuel Hearne, speaks to us from her dreams. As the story of her liaison with Hearne unfolds, we move toward its tragic consequences. When their small society Into the Heart is torn apart by a French attack on the fort, Mary and the other of the Country women find themselves and their children abandoned by their A Novel British masters. Now—in one of history’s cruel ironies—they must fend for themselves in the harsh country from which their FICTION • $32.99 CL own ancestors sprang. ISBN: 978-1-55468-634-6 • SHIPPING IN MARCH Unflinching, powerful and rich in moral ambiguity, this FIC019000 • 400 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 24 haunting novel explores a tragic meeting of cultures that still rights acquired: Canadian/English language reverberates in the present day. other rights: Westwood Creative Artists editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Lindsey Love praise for beyond measure
“Holdstock’s vivid, unflinching tale doesn’t sugarcoat the casual brutality of the period, and is punctuated by star- tling moments of beauty.” publishers weekly
“Holdstock, with a few deft strokes, pulls the reader into the tumultuous life of an alluring rabble of characters: painters, sculptors, patrons, fools and slaves. . . . In Beyond Measure, she proves herself a master of pacing. Her lively, macabre plot trips lightly along in spite of its dark elements. the globe and mail
PAULINE HOLDSTOCK s novel Beyond Measure was short- listed for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canada and Caribbean Region) and the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, and it won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Hold- stock s other novels include The Blackbird s Song, which was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, The Turning and The Burial Ground. She lives on Vancouver Island. Visit h er on line at p aulineholdstock.com.
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t’s July 1964. In bed at home in Kent, Winston Churchill is waking up. There’s a visitor in the room, someone he hasn’t Iseen for a while, a dark, mute bulk, watching him with tortured concentration. It’s Mr. Chartwell. In her terraced house in Battersea, Esther Hammerhans, Meet the Black Dog young, vulnerable and alone, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the glass she sees a vast silhouette the size of a mattress. It’s Mr. Chartwell. rebecca hunt Mr. Chartwell is a huge, black dog. Mr. Chartwell is charismatic and dangerously seductive. Mr. Chartwell Can Esther and Winston Churchill withstand his strange, pow- A Novel erful charms and strong hold as their lives are slowly drawn together? In this utterly original, moving, funny and exuber-
FICTION • $21.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS ant novel, Rebecca Hunt explores how two unlikely lives col- ISBN: 978-1-55468-865-4 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY lide as Mr. Chartwell’s motives are revealed to be far darker and FIC019000 • 256 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 36 deeper than they seem. rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Lutyens & Rubinstein REBECCA HUNT graduated from Central Saint Martins Col- editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Emma Ingram lege with a first-class degree in fine art. She lives and works in London, England. Mr. Chartwell is her first novel.
Churchill wasn’t alone in his bedroom; some- thing else in the dark, a mute bulk in the corner, a massive thing, was watching him with tortured concentration. Churchill was aware of its presence. He didn’t need to see or hear it to know it was there; he had more of a sense, an instinctual certainty when it appeared. Its eyes pressed on him hotly, imploring him to wake up. It willed him to move. After hours of waiting it ached with the desire to explode from the corner and shake him. from mr. chartwell
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et over a long weekend, Blake Morrison’s new novel is a taut, atmospheric, brilliantly chilling story of a rivalrous Sfriendship—as told by Ian, the deceptively casual narrator. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old univer- sity friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a glamorous couple. And A perfectly crafted literary page-turner with the scene is set for sunlit relaxation and cheerful reminiscence. echoes of Match Point and Notes on a Scandal But dangerous tensions quickly emerge. In vivid, careful prose, Blake Morrison perfectly conveys the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days blake morrison of summer. Troubling revelations from Ian’s past slowly in- trude. And his rivalry with Ollie intensifies as they resurrect The Last Weekend a seemingly forgotten bet made twenty years before. Each day A Novel becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, set- ting in motion actions that will have irreversible consequences. FICTION • $29.99 CL The Last Weekend is a beautifully crafted page-turner, ISBN: 978-1-55468-871-5 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY FIC019000 • 288 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 where little can be taken for granted, and nothing is quite as rights acquired: Canada/English language it seems. It offers a dark, haunting tale of friendship, sexual other rights: InkWell Management/United Agents passion and jealousy—and confirms Blake Morrison as one of editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Carolyn Ovell Britain’s most unpredictable and talented writers.
“Clever, intricate. . . . The Last Weekend messes with your head, refusing to clarify, delighting in its elisions and ambiguities. . . . In art, as [character] Milo says, the point is ‘fun,’ not veracity. Morrison has lots of that in The Last Weekend, and so do we.” the times (london)
“An age-old tale of obsession, jealousy and revenge given a sharply contemporary flavor. . . . Morrison handles the elements of his novel with impeccable control.” the observer
“Creepy, compelling, but often extremely funny. Blake Mor- rison has inhabited the world of a deeply flawed character with unforgettable results.” financial times
BLAKE MORRISON is the author of the bestselling memoirs Things My Mother Never Told Me and And When Did You Last See Your Father?, which was made into a film starring Colin Firth. Morrison is also a novelist, poet, critic, journalist and libret- tist. He lives in L ondon, E ngland.
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ight is falling in the West Country as murder detective Jack Caffery arrives to interview the distraught victim of Na carjacking. What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and in the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing. He watches. He waits. Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the po- And then he takes what isn’t his. lice. And Caffery becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child. Who is the carjacker? How is he choosing his targets? mo hayder And—most urgent of all—can Caffery find the child before it’s too late? Gone A Novel praise for skin
“Hayder is the closest we’ve got to Stephen King. . . . FICTION/THRILLER • $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS [She’s] the goriest thriller writer this side of the pond.” ISBN: 978-1-55468-879-1 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY the mirror (uk) FIC031000/FIC022000 • 368 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 rights acquired: Canada/English language “No matter how much you despise yourself for getting other rights: Gregory and Company Authors’ Agents sucked into such places, Hayder is brilliant at making publicist: Emma Ingram you read on. the daily telegraph
“[Hayder’s] characters are almost as chilling as the horrors that they are investigating. She writes and plots with panache. Macabre, yes, but also absorbing and hugely entertaining. the times (london)
MO HAYDER is the author of Skin, Ritual, Pig Island and The Devil of Nanking; her first novel,Birdman , was hailed as a “first- class shocker by The Guardian, and her follow-up, The Treat- ment, was voted by The Times (London) as one of the t op ten most scary thrillers ever written. Hayder lives in England s West Country. Visit her online at www.mohayder.net.
also available by mo hayder The Devil of Nanking 978-0-00-639499-0 $10.99 mm Pig Island 978-0-00-639135-7 $10.99 mm Ritual 978-1-55468-198-3 $22.95 tpb Skin 978-1-55468-641-4 $22.99 tpbB
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ebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married RIsabel and, for twenty years, they have been inseparable. When Alex walks out on Isabel, Rebecca thinks things can’t get any worse. But then she finds out the reason why, and she’s left harbouring a secret she’d rather forget. And not only that, Two couples. Four best friends. Alex’s new girlfriend just happens to be Rebecca’s skinny, neu- So many little lies . . . rotic, self-obsessed colleague, Lorna, her arch-nemesis at work and now a regular feature in her social life too. They say you should keep your friends close and enemies jane fallon closer, but sometimes your best friend can become your worst enemy . . . Foursome A Novel “Jane Fallon tackles the fine art of injecting humour and glamour into the unglamorous realities of infidelity FICTION • $22.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS and separation. ISBN: 978-1-55468-052-8 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY winnipeg free press on got you back FIC027020 • 400 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 rights acquired: Canada/English language “Clever and unpredictable, with writing that clips along at other rights: Curtis Brown (U.K.) • publicist: Meghan Paton a TV pace. . . . Fallon has turned typical chick lit on its head. calgary herald on getting rid of matthew
JANE FALLON is a leading figure in the TV industry and has won several awards for producing the series This Life (BBC) and Teachers (Channel 4). Her first novel, Getting Rid of Matthew, was a Richard & Judy pick in the U.K. and an international best- seller. She is also the author of the bestselling novel Got You Back. Fallon lives in London with her longtime partner, Ricky Gervais (of The O ffice). also available by jane fallon Getting Rid of Matthew 978-0-00-200014-7 $9.99 mm Got You Back 978-1-55468-050-4 $22.95 tpb available from harperweekend in february 2011 (see page 50)
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athering dust at the British Museum is an ancient man- uscript of the early Church, written by an anonymous Gmonk. The manuscript is at least 1,600 years old, possibly dat- A startling discovery about early Christianity ing to the first century, at the time of the ministry of Jesus of by the co-author of The Jesus Family Tomb Nazareth. It seems to be the first solid written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, recounting that Magda- simcha jacobovici lene was a gentile, that Jesus and Mary had children, and that there was a plot to kill Jesus, abduct Mary and murder their and barrie wilson offspring. Part detective story, part travelogue about a journey into The Lost Gospel the maw of an ancient world, The Lost Gospel reveals a secret Jesus Mar riage t o Mar y Magd alene, that’s been hiding in plain sight for centuries. Award-winning Bride of God writer Barrie Wilson, author of the bestselling How Jesus Became Christian, and award-winning documentarian Sim-
RELIGION • $31.99 CL cha Jacobovici, co-author of the New York Times bestseller The ISBN: 978-1-55468-653-7 • SHIPPING IN MARCH Jesus Family Tomb and star of TV’s The Naked Archaeologist, REL000000 • 272 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 take us on an earth-shaking quest that illuminates the con- b&w illustrations throughout nection between a document long forgotten and paradigm- rights acquired: Canada/English language shifting secrets that are finally coming to light. other rights: Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inc./ Joelle Delbourgo Associates, Inc. praise for simcha jacobovici and barrie wilson editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Lindsey Love “A slick and suspenseful narrative. . . . Jacobovici is a mav- erick, a self-made Indiana Jones.” newsweek on the jesus family tomb
“Barrie Wilson has produced a significant and sensational work of scholarship. And it is truly religious dynamite.” the globe and mail on how jesus became christian
SIMCHA JACOBOVICI is a multi-award-winning documen- tary director and producer of The Lost Tomb of Jesus, The Exo- dus Decoded and the Naked Archaeologist television series. He s also a bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. Jacobovici lives in Toronto.
BARRIE WILSON is a professor of religious studies at York University in Toronto and a specialist on early Christianity. His 2008 book, How Jesus Became Christian, received rave re- views. Wilson lives in Toronto.
also available by simcha jacobovici The Jesus Family Tomb 978-1-55468-170-9 $17.50 tpb
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ames Brabazon, a war reporter and filmmaker, was already a veteran of many conflict zones by his early thirties. So Jwhen he was offered an exclusive opportunity to report from Liberia, caught up in a vicious civil war, it proved too tempt- ing to turn down. He needed to take a bodyguard, someone The unlikely and controversial friendship with strong knowledge of the region and, more importantly, between a war reporter and a mercenary someone with a gun slung over his shoulder. James hired Nick du Toit, a former South African soldier and mercenary com- in the heart of a vicious conflict mander, to guide him into the bloody world of Liberia’s rebels. During their time together, James and Nick slowly formed an james brabazon unlikely friendship, forged during scorching days under unre- lenting gunfire. Narrowly surviving the harrowing experience, James returned to the quieter, saner confines of his life in Lon- My Friend the Mercenary don. But only a few months later he found himself back with MEMOIR/WAR • $31.99 CL Nick in a fly-blown bar in West Africa plotting another, much ISBN: 978-1-55468-548-6 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY more dangerous journey—this time to the heart of Equatorial BIO008000 • 480 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 20 Guinea. Nick’s mission: to overthrow the government of this b&w photos throughout tiny nation fabulously rich in oil. rights acquired: Canada/English language My Friend the Mercenary is an exploration of the merce- other rights: Canongate Books Ltd. editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Colleen Clarke nary myth and a chapter of the story of modern Africa. It is a brutally honest and undeniably human account of a journey into the heart of what it takes to be a friend, a survivor and a journalist in the morally corrosive crucible of war.
“A classic story of intrigue, greed and violence.” sebastian junger, author of war
“Outstanding. . . . I couldn’t put this book down.” andy mcnab, author of bravo two zero
“A beautifully written adrenaline rush by one of our genera- tion’s bravest journalists.” aidan hartley, author of the zanzibar chest
JAMES BRABAZON is an award-winning front-line journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has travelled in more than sixty countries investigating, filming and directing in the world s most hostile environments. He has written for The Observer and The Sunday Times, appears as a commentator on CNN and the BBC and lectures in the ethics and practicali- ties of reporting conflict.
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trangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom, a small, dingy Tunisian café on Paris’ distant fringes. Run by theS widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the café offers a home away from home for the North African immigrant work- “Lovesong is full of wisdom and compas- ers toiling at the great abattoirs of Vaugiraud. But when one sion.”—Anne Michaels, Orange Prize– day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in the winning author of Fugitive Pieces and café from a sudden Parisian rainstorm, the quiet simplicities of The Winter Vault their lives are changed forever. John is like no one Sabiha has met before—his calm grey eyes promise her a future she was not yet even aware she want- alex miller ed. Theirs becomes a contented but unlikely marriage—a mar- riage of two cultures lived in a third—and yet because they are Lovesong essentially foreigners to each other, their love story sets in mo- A Novel tion an irrevocable course of tragic events. Years later, living a small, quiet life in suburban Melbourne, FICTION • $19.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS what happened at Vaugiraud seems like a distant, troubling ISBN: 978-1-55468-803-6 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY dream to Sabiha and John. It is a story about home and family, FIC019000 • 368 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 32 human frailties and passions, raising questions of morals and rights acquired: Canadian/English language purpose—questions that have no simple answer. other rights: Allen and Unwin publicist: Colleen Clarke “Utterly enthralling. . . . Though the novel has often been proclaimed dead, Miller persuasively proclaims its con- tinued relevance and potency. . . . With exceptional skill, Miller records the ebb and flow of emotion.Lovesong is a love song to the potential of fiction.” australian literary review
“Miller belongs . . . with Günter Grass, Ismail Kadare and J.M. Coetzee. . . . He is essential reading.” the australian
A lex Miller is one of our most profound and interesting writers.” australian book review
ALEX MILLER is the author of several award-winning nov- els including The Ancestor Game and Journey to the Stone Country, both winners of the prestigious Miles Franklin Liter- ary Award (Australia s premier literary prize), and Conditions of Faith, nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literature Award. Miller also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book for The Ancestor Game in 1993. Miller s seventh novel, Prochownik s Dream, was published in 2005.
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ick Platt is an English lawyer living in Moscow during the wild Russian oil boom. Riding the subway on a balmy NSeptember day, he rescues two willowy sisters, Masha and Katya, from a would-be purse snatcher. Nick soon begins to feel something for Masha that he is pleased to believe is love. In Moscow, “there are no love stories. As the snow starts to fall, the sisters introduce him to Tatiana There are no business stories. Vladimirovna, their aged aunt and the owner of a valuable There are only crime stories.” apartment. Before summer arrives, Nick will travel down to the sweaty Black Sea and up to the Arctic, and he’ll make disturb- ing discoveries about his job, his lover and, most of all, himself. a.d. miller Snowdrops is a fast-paced drama that unfolds during a beautiful but lethally cold Russian winter. Ostensibly a story of naive foreigners and cynical natives, the novel becomes Snowdrops something richer and darker: a tale of erotic obsession, self- A Novel deception and moral freefall. It is set in a land of hedonism and FICTION • $29.99 CL desperation, corruption and kindness, magical hideaways and ISBN: 978-1-55468-783-1 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets, and corpses, come FIC031000 • 240 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 36 to light when the snows thaw. rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Melanie Jackson Agency/Rogers, Coleridge & White “A chilling first novel about the slide from relative inno- editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Meghan Paton cence into amorality. I love the honesty of the writing, and the way the furious cold of a bitter Moscow winter gradually emerges as a character in its own right.” julie myerson
Snowdrops is an irresistible, sophisticated and compel- ling thriller of darkly delicious Russian corruption and decadence, by a writer who truly understands where the corpses lie buried under the pure Russian snows.” simon sebag montefiore, author of sashenka and young stalin
“Anybody who has spent any time in Moscow will instantly recognize the city’s infamous decadence as well as its attraction in this extraordinarily evocative book—and any- body who has never been there will experience both the lure and the horror of modern Russia.” anne applebaum
A.D. MILLER is the author of one previous, non-fiction, book— the acclaimed The Earl of Petticoat Lane. He writes for The Economist and was until recently the magazine s Moscow cor- respondent. Miller lives in London, England. Snowdrops is his first novel.
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tella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work for Atlantic Energy, a global oil company in London. Bella is a pretty singleS mother who dropped out of college and is doomed to work as an invisible assistant to a series of men of half her in- telligence. Stella is twenty years older, about to get a seat on A master class in office love . . . the board, and is the original no-glass-ceiling, high-achieving, multi-tasking mother of two. Everyone admires her; she’s so straightforward and sensible. So what possesses both women to lucy kellaway embark on pole-axing, heart-wrenching affairs with men they wouldn’t have looked at twice outside the office? In Office Hours Smart, funny, moving and agonizing, In Office Hours A Novel holds up a mirror to modern corporate life. It’s all here—the lies and sabotage, the strutting lunacy of CEOs, men’s choice of
FICTION • $21.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS sandwiches, women’s choice of affair underwear, taking credit ISBN: 978-1-4434-0396-2 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY for others’ ideas, the building and crashing of egos . . . and the FIC044000 • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 28 obsessive, dangerous conduct of work colleagues who, in the rights acquired: Canada/English language grip of passion, break all the rules. other rights: Aitken Alexander Associates editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Colleen Clarke “Kellaway is very funny and acutely observant about workplace politics—the office here is a hotbed of passion and betrayal.” the times (london)
“Kellaway is an acute observer of the small lies, the fear of discovery and the allure of transgression. . . . Kellaway, who writes a satirical management column for the Financial Times, brilliantly skewers corporate language and the casual egotism of business executives. . . . [Her] insights elevate In Office Hours beyond run-of-the-mill chick-lit.” the guardian
LUCY KELLAWAY is the Financial Times management col- umnist. She lives in London and is married with four children. She is the author of Martin Lukes: Who Moved My Blackberry?
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eter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties, denizens of Man- hattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers inP the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston and lively friends, they are ad- mirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it From the Pulitzer Prize–winning seems, to be happy. author of The Hours comes a new novel Then Rebecca’s much younger, look-alike brother, Ethan that challenges the way we live (known in the family as Mizzy, “the mistake”), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a his- tory of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking michael cunningham for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself question- ing his artists, their work, his career—the entire world he has so carefully constructed. By Nightfall Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The A Novel Hours, Michael Cunningham’s masterly new novel is a heart- FICTION • $29.99 CL breaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and after- ISBN: 978-1-55468-989-7 • AVAILABLE NOW shocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and FIC019000 • 256 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 28 meaning of beauty, and about the place of love in our lives. rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Farrar, Straus and Giroux MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM s novel The Hours won both publicist: Emma Ingram the Pulitzer Prize and a PEN/Faulkner Award and became an Academy Award–winning film starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep. An earlier novel, A Home at the End of the World, was made into a film starring Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek and Robin Wright. Cunningham lives in New Y ork. also available by michael cunningham Specimen Days 978-0-00-639290-3 $19.95 tpb
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n old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the win- Adows come loose from their sashes and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: news- paper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a debut novel the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds of breathtaking lyricism and tenderness from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death throes from cancer and kidney failure. paul harding A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his Tinkers father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he had lost seven A Novel decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his im- poverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers a FICTION • $19.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable ISBN: 978-1-55468-986-6 • AVAILABLE NOW from him, menacing and awe inspiring. FIC019000 • 224 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 40 Tinkers is about the legacy of consciousness and the po- rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Global Literary Management, LLC rousness of identity from one generation to the next. At once publicist: Emma Ingram heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss and the fierce beauty of nature.
“A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.” pulitzer prize jury citation
“A poignant exploration of where we may journey when the clock has barely a tick or two left and we really can’t go anywhere at all.” boston globe
“In Harding’s skillful evocation, Crosby’s life, seen from its final moments, becomes a mosaic of memories, ‘showing him a different self every time he tried to make an assessment.’” the new yorker
PAUL HARDING has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Work- shop. He has taught writing at Harvard and the University of Iowa. He lives near Boston with his wife and two sons. This is his first novel.
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efore Ulrich lost his sight, he read a magazine story about parrots. A group of explorers had come upon a commu- Bnity of parrots speaking the language of a society wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by this discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists could Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ record what remained of the lost language. But the parrots, Prize—an imaginatively audacious and already traumatized by the devastation they had recently wit- lyrically brilliant portrait of a century nessed, died on the way. Now one hundred years of age, Ulrich wonders if he, un- like these hapless birds, has any wisdom left to leave the world. rana dasgupta He embarks on an epic armchair journey of remembrance and imagination—through the turbulent century that marked his country, Bulgaria, and through his own lifetime of lost love and Solo thwarted ambitions. A Novel Intertwining science and music, the Old World and the FICTION • $19.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS New, the real and the imagined, Solo is an outstanding novel by ISBN: 978-1-55468-983-5 • AVAILABLE NOW a remarkable fabulist, a writer of prodigious talent. FIC019000 • 368 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 rights acquired: Canada/English language “The judges chose Solo for its innovation, ambition, cour- other rights: The Wylie Agency (U.K.) age and effortlessly elegant prose. A remarkable novel of publicist: Carolyn Ovell two halves, this is a book that takes risks and examines the places where grim reality and fantastical daydreams merge, diverge and feed off each other. Solo, the judges concluded, is a tour de force, breathtaking in its boldness and narrative panache.” commonwealth writers' prize jury citation
“A novel of exceptional, astonishing strangeness, Solo confirms Rana Dasgupta as the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation.” salman rushdie
RANA DASGUPTA was born in England in 1971, and grew up in Cambridge. Having lived in France, Malaysia and the United States, he moved to Delhi in 2001. His first book,Tokyo Cancelled, was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Visit him online at www.ranadasgupta.com.
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or more than four decades, “Footprints” has touched mil- lions of people around the world. Now, Margaret Fishback FPowers, the author of that beloved poem, has compiled stories and sayings that celebrate the special bond between mothers From the bestselling author, a new treasury and daughters. She includes the touching story of a young girl’s that’s the perfect gift for women of all ages last visit with her grandmother; moving tales of motherly love, sacrifice and quiet strength; remembrances of a rural child- hood; deeply honest pieces about challenges and concerns; and margaret stories that will bring a smile to your face. fishback powers Throughout Footprints for Mothers and Daughters, there are inspiring and humorous quotations from famous and not- so-famous moms—and even treasured family recipes that have Footprints for been handed down from mother to daughter. A number of the Mothers and Daughters stories are by Margaret Fishback Powers herself, from her per- spective as a mom and a daughter, a grandmother and a grand- INSPIRATION • $16.99 CL daughter. ISBN: 978-1-55468-785-5 • SHIPPING IN APRIL In a beautiful hardcover edition with a ribbon marker, FAM032000/SEL021000/REL036000 272 pp • 5 x 7 • carton qty: 36 Footprints for Mothers and Daughters is an uplifting treasury rights acquired: world/all languages and a perfect gift for women of all ages. editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Meghan Paton MARGARET FISHBACK POWERS is the bestselling author of many inspirational books and of the famous F ootprints poem. She has travelled the world as an evangelist with her husband, Paul, for over forty-four years. She lives in British Co- lumbia. Visit her website at www.footprintspoem.ca.
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice: once for herself, and once for her child.” —Sophia Loren
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”—From The Golden Girls
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rom designing better baby shoes all the way to produc- ing erotic videos, mompreneurs have been shaking up the Fworld of business even while working carpool to carpool. For many women, self-employment is the answer to the challenge The friendly, no-nonsense guide to of combining work and family, which is why over 900,000 en- starting a successful business and still trepreneurs in Canada are women (many of them moms)—it’s having time for your family one of the fastest growing segments of the Canadian economy. But starting a successful, lasting business isn’t as simple as put- amy ballon and ting down the diaper bag and picking up a briefcase. Drawing on their own experiences as successful mompreneurs and that danielle botterell of mompreneurs across Canada and the U.S., Amy Ballon and with rebecca reuber Danielle Botterell cover all the bases:
• Deciding to take the plunge—is mompreneurship the answer? Mom Inc. • Researching your business idea and developing a business Raising Y our F amily an d Y our B usiness and marketing plan Without L osing Y our Min d or Y our S hirt • Navigating the early stages of planning and financing • Balancing your business and family in the early stages and as BUSINESS • $24.99 ORIGINAL TPB ISBN: 978-1-55468-626-1 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY your business (and child) grows BUS025000 • 304 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 36 • Handling surprises and setbacks and managing growth rights acquired: world/all languages editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Colleen Clarke With informative sidebars and tips from Rebecca Reuber, Canada’s leading expert on entrepreneurship, Mom Inc. is a friendly and hands-on look at the truth about mompreneurship and the challenges of juggling business and family, and an au- thoritative guide on how to start and run a successful business.
AMY BALLON and DANIELLE BOTTERELL are the co- founders of Admiral Road Designs and mothers of five young children. Previously, Amy worked as a strategic management consultant and Danielle spent five years in the investor relations and corporate communications field.DR. REBECCA REUBER is a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the Uni- versity of Toronto. She is a member of the advisory panel for The G lobe a nd M ail’s Small Business Incubator.
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his indispensable reference guide, first published in 1997 and now in its fourth edition, has been fully updated to Treflect current, important changes in Canadian law. Every Ca- Trusted by Canadians for over a decade, this nadian’s Guide to the Law unfolds in a clear, accessible “cradle- to-grave” format, addressing issues from fetal rights to hu- popular legal reference is back—fully revised, man rights, from teen sexuality to marriage and divorce, from with a new trim size and a lower price workplace issues to will and estate issues. Linda Silver Dranoff provides insight into the process of law and how it responds to linda silver dranoff changing social values, revealing how laws evolve over time and pointing to future trends. The new edition addresses important legal developments, Every Canadian’s including significant changes to family law—from stricter Guide to the Law rules against non-disclosure and non-payment to tough orders Fourth E dition against parental alienation, from revised pension-sharing rules to the novelty of three or more support-paying parents for LAW/REFERENCE • $24.99 ORIGINAL TPB some children. This encyclopedic guide elucidates new rights ISBN: 978-1-55468-882-1 • SHIPPING IN MARCH for the self-employed, drastic changes to retirement rules, laws LAW098000/REF015000 • 448 pp • 6 x 9 • carton qty: 20 against identity theft, dramatic changes to criminal law sen- rights acquired: world/all languages tencing and upgraded protections for children, and more. As other rights: Beverley Slopen Literary Agency the number of self-represented litigants continues to grow, the editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Meghan Paton need for an easy-to-understand and comprehensive guide to Canadian law has never been greater.
“A glorious achievement. . . . It is wonderfully accessible, written with beautiful brevity and clarity.” june callwood
“A most significant achievement. . . . This book does indeed represent a very successful effort to demystify the law for the average person.” hon. r. roy mcmurtry, former chief justice of ontario and former attorney general of ontario
LINDA SILVER DRANOFF is an award-winning family lawyer in private practice with over thirty years of experience at every level of court. She is also a writer, an activist, a speaker and a lecturer, with a special interest in legal, community, women s and law reform issues. She spearheaded the reform movement that culminated in Ontario’s Family Law Act in 1986, was Chat- elaine magazine’s legal columnist for twenty-five years, and wrote the bestselling books Every Woman s Guide to the Law and Women in Canadian Law. Linda Silver Dranoff lives in To- ronto with her husband.
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n the new economic climate, many people will return to simpler, more affordable home cooking; it’s a trend that has Icome around again and again. Home canning and preserving is a time-honoured practice that many people will be trying for the first time in the months to come, preserving both for the Preserving: the easy, economical pleasure of it, and for its inherent economy. With the plethora and green kitchen art form of farmers’ markets, too, home cooks will have a bonanza of produce to buy inexpensively, and they will want to know pre- cisely what to do with it. Pat Crocker’s Preserving: A Resource pat crocker Cookbook for Home Canning and Freezing has all the informa- tion anyone needs to get started, and to keep going! This cookbook is practical, focusing on simple but effec- Preserving A R esource Cook book f or tive concepts. It will follow the seasons, providing easy-to-follow, Home Can ning an d F reezing accurate and thorough information on preserving everything from asparagus to winter squashes. Canning, jamming and freez- COOKING • $34.99 ORIGINAL TPB ing techniques will be covered, from the most basic hot-packed ISBN: 978-1-55468-610-0 • SHIPPING IN MARCH fruit recipes to gorgeous, internationally flavoured chutneys and CKB015000 • 480 pp • 8 1/2 x 11 • carton qty: 10 relishes. Providing both safe and detailed instructions, as well as full colour photos throughout step-by-step photography and over 200 recipes, this cookbook rights acquired: world/all languages will be the new home-preserving bible. editor: Kirsten Hanson • publicist: Rob Firing
PAT CROCKER is the author of eight cookbooks and creator of the Riversong Herbal Handbook Series. She also writes for international magazines, newspapers and corporate clients. Her book The Vegan Cook s Bible won Best in the World in the vegetarian category in P r igueux, France, in 2009, and her Juicing Bible won Best in the World in the nutrition category in 2 000.
It is comforting to know that a pantry of profes- sional dishes lies waiting to be used. With the twist of a lid, and the recipes in this book, you can serve restaurant-style dishes with home-style quality and economy. This is the key to the modern-day preserv- ing puzzle. Our time preserving is an enjoyable part of our busy lives—a relaxing end in and of itself— but it also saves us time by providing quick, home- made everyday recipe solutions. from preserving
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ete Dizinoff has spent years working toward a life that would be, by all measures, deemed successful. A skilled internist,P he’s built a thriving practice in suburban New Jersey. He has a devoted wife, a network of close friends, an impressive “These people will stay in your head house and, most important, he has a son, Alec, on whom he’s pinned all his hopes. Pete has afforded Alec every opportunity, and keep their hands on your heart.” bailed him out of close calls with the law, and even ensured his —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize–winning acceptance into a good college. author of Olive Kitteridge But Pete never counted on the wild card: Laura, his best friend’s daughter. Ten years older than Alec, irresistibly beauti- ful, with a past so shocking that it’s never spoken of, Laura sets lauren grodstein her sights on Alec, who falls under her spell. And with that, Pete sees his plans for his son not just unravelling but being A Friend of the Family completely destroyed. Believing he has only the best of inten- A Novel tions, he sets out to derail this romance and rescue his son. But he could not have foreseen how his whole world would shatter FICTION • $18.99 ORIGINAL TPB in the process. ISBN: 978-1-4434-0336-8 • AVAILABLE NOW FIC019000 • 320 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 rights acquired: Canada/English language “The story . . . unfolds with suspense worthy of other rights: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hitchcock. . . . [Grodstein] is a terrific storyteller publicist: Meghan Paton and an even better ventriloquist.” the new york times
“Grodstein brings great insight into a father’s protective urge for his son in this gripping portrait of an American family in crisis. publishers weekly (starred review)
“Horrifyingly plausible and deeply poignant.” boston globe
LAUREN GRODSTEIN is the author of the collection The Best of Animals and a novel, Reproduction Is the Flaw of Love, which was both a Breakout Book selection from Amazon.com and a Borders Original Voices pick. Her work has been translat- ed into German, Italian and French. She teaches creative writing at R utgers Un iversity at Camd en.
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Yale-educated professor of biology, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests and jungles studying the social lives and Asexual antics of birds, sharing with us the curious reasons for A fascinating look at the dating, mating their strange behaviour, their bright colouring and their elabo- and social lives of birds from the Governor rate songs. She explains the science behind the surprisingly so- phisticated and often amusing behaviour of birds by describing General’s Award–nominated author of bird species from around the world. Silence of the Songbirds In The Bird Detective, Stutchbury tells us why some birds readily divorce their partners, why parents don’t treat their bridget stutchbury sons and daughters equally, why females sneak quick sex with neighbouring males, why mothers sometimes desert their babies, and why some adults forego breeding altogether. She The Bird Detective writes about the territorial nature of birds and their nesting Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds habits, why some species prefer to live in overcrowded groups, and, perhaps most importantly, how birds are being forced by SCIENCE/NATURE • $19.99 TPB climate change and other pressures to change their habits in a ISBN: 978-1-55468-348-2 • SHIPPING IN APRIL SCI070040/NAT004000 fight for their very survival. 272 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 72 b&w line drawings throughout; 4-page colour insert “Here is the rare academic who can make research accessi- rights acquired: world/all languages ble to the public without dumbing it down. But Stutchbury editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Carolyn Ovell does more than that: she makes it exciting. . . . [She] made me wish I could travel along with her in the field.” the gazette (montreal)
“Stutchbury’s special gift is to be able to describe her work in fascinating and graceful prose that will beguile even those who can’t tell the difference between an eagle and an egret. . . . There is hardly a page on which even expe- rienced birders won’t find some fascinating new piece of information. winnipeg free press
BRIDGET STUTCHBURY was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto. She completed her MSc at Queen s University and her PhD at Yale, was a fellow and research associate at the Smithsonian Institute and is now professor of biology at York University. She was selected by the Toronto Star as one of the P eople to Watch in 2005 after her groundbreaking research into the sexual antics of birds made headlines around the world. Stutchbury lives in Woodbridge, Ontario.
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trawberries in January, fresh tomatoes year-round and New Zealand lamb—these well-travelled foods which we pileS regularly into our shopping carts have a carbon imprint the size of an SUV. Now, a burgeoning local food movement taking place in Canadian cities and on Canadian farms is changing the The national bestseller that lays out a way we eat and think about food. blueprint for Canada’s local food revolution Locavore tells the stories of how foodies, 100-milers, urban- ites, farmers, gardeners, chefs and just plain folks in Canada are creating a new local food order that has the potential to fight cli- sarah elton mate change and feed us all. Part front-line reporting, part analy- sis, part passionate description of food, this book shows how the Locavore pieces of a post-industrial food system are being assembled by an From F armers F ields t o interesting cast of characters who want to reclaim food as their Rooftop Gar dens How Can adians own. From city-dwellers keeping chickens in their backyards to Are Ch anging t he W ay W e E at Ontario farmers shunning national grocery chains and selling their meat from the backs of their trucks, from the fastidious FOOD • $17.99 TPB seed savers who are collecting and preserving the genetic mate- ISBN: 978-1-55468-419-9 • SHIPPING IN MARCH SOC000000 • 256 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 76 rial of heritage plants to the artisan cheese-makers of Quebec, rights acquired: world/all languages this book tells the stories of a diverse cast of characters and lays other rights: HSW Literary Agency out a blueprint for a new local food order. editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Rob Firing
“A really good read of a book of heartwarming stories [with] lively explanations of everything from the downtown vegetable patch to weekly baskets of organic vegetables to supermarkets obtaining their worldwide assortment of products—and a trip clear across Canada, to boot.” the gazette (montreal)
“Embodying equal parts Michael Pollan and Raj Patel, Elton has delivered a book that will enrich her readers, while also challenging them to think about what they eat. . . . Elton has built a powerful case for the potential to change our food system for the better.” quill & quire
SARAH ELTON is the food columnist for CBC Radio s Here & Now and has written for numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, Maclean s, The Atlantic s Food Channel, Re- port on Business magazine and Chatelaine. She documents her locavor e ad ventures on h er f ood b log, t helocavore.ca. previous edition: 978-1-55468-418-2 cl
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aped and then murdered in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942, Lin Shui—now a “hungry ghost”—clings Rtenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue that is des- tined to become a school, she finds a host off whom to feed. It A novel for those who loved Behind the is twelve-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply troubled daughter Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows Alice to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, Bible and The Lovely Bones embroiled in the family’s web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of po- anne berry litical unrest, riots, extremes of weather and the countdown to the colony’s return to China. The Hungry Ghosts As successive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage A Novel swells. She flees to England, then to France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find that her unwanted “hungry ghosts” have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for is to prove far FICTION • $17.99 TPB ISBN: 978-1-55468-454-0 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER more elusive than she could ever have imagined. FIC019000 • 400 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 48 rights acquired: Canada/English language “This book is so skillfully crafted, and the writing so elegant, other rights: HarperCollins U.K. it’s hard to believe it is a first novel. . . . Gorgeous.” publicist: Meghan Paton the globe and mail
“This is a novel as breezy as the best summer reads, yet secrets and deadly jealousy seethe at its dark core.” daily mail (london)
“A very original and quite grand novel. . . . Berry shows the clash of culture between the British rulers and the Hong Kongers with clarity.” independent weekly
ANNE BERRY is the daughter of a former key figure in the British government in Hong Kong. She has worked as a journal- ist for the South China Morning Post, a professional actress, a drama and English teacher, and a speech therapist. She has four children and lives in Surrey, England. This is her first novel.
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hep Knacker has long saved for “The Afterlife,” an idyl- lic retreat to the bargain-basement Third World where his nestS egg can last forever. Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with “talking, thinking, seeing and being”—and enough sleep. When he sells his home-repair Another New York Times bestseller business for a cool $1 million, his dream finally seems within from one of the most daring chroniclers reach. Yet his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses as to in contemporary fiction why it’s never the right time to go. Weary of working as a peon for the company he founded, Shep announces that he’s headed for a bucolic Tanzanian island, with or without her. lionel shriver Just returned from a doctor’s appointment, Glynis has some news of her own: Shep can’t go anywhere because she desperately needs his health insurance. But their policy only So Much for That partially covers the staggering bills for her treatments, and A Novel Shep’s nest egg for The Afterlife soon cracks under the strain. FICTION • $17.99 TPB Enriched with three other medical subplots that also ex- ISBN: 978-1-55468-202-7 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY plore the human costs of the American health care system, So FIC019000 • 464 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 64 Much for That follows the profound transformation of a mar- rights acquired: Canada/English language riage in which grave illness proves an unexpected opportunity other rights: HarperCollins U.S. for tenderness and renewed intimacy. publicist: Carolyn Ovell
“A brilliant novel.” national post
“[You will] marvel at Shriver’s finely wrought sentences and million-dollar vocabulary.” the globe and mail
LIONEL SHRIVER s novels include the New York Times best- seller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Her earlier books include Double Fault, A Perfectly Good Family and Checker and the Derailleurs. Her novels have been trans- lated into twenty-five languages. She lives in London, England. previous edition: 978-1-55468-201-0 cl also available by lionel shriver Double Fault 978-0-06-171138-1 $17.99 tpb Checker and the Derailleurs 978-0-06-171137-4 $17.99 tpb The Female of the Species 978-0-06-171139-8 $18.99 tpb The Post-Birthday World 978-1-55468-169-3 $18.95 tpb We Need to Talk About Kevin 978-0-06-112429-7 $17.99 tpb
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he world watched with fear in November of 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American Tembassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived The front-page sensation about Ken Taylor’s takeover evolved into a crisis that would see fifty-three em- bassy personnel held hostage, most of them for 444 days. The activities during the Iran Hostage Crisis United States, the most powerful nation on the planet, found itself handcuffed by the fractured, fundamentalist government robert wright of a country they could not understand and had completely underestimated. Our Man in Tehran Even as Tehran exploded in a fury of revolution, few Ken Taylor, the CIA and the Iran Hostage Crisis knew about the six American embassy staff who escaped into the hands of Canadians who put their own lives on the line to
HISTORY/POLITICS • $19.99 TPB save their friends in the diplomatic corps. For three months, ISBN: 978-1-55468-300-0 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador to Iran, along with his HIS026000 • 432 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 48 wife and embassy staffers concealed the Americans in their b&w illustrations throughout homes, always with the prospect that the revolutionary gov- rights acquired: world/all languages ernment of Ayatollah Khomeini would exact deadly conse- editor: Jim Gifford quences. When footage of the six freed houseguests aired and publicist: Colleen Clarke their escape made headlines around the world, Americans cel- ebrated in the streets across the nation, raising banners that read “Thank you, Canada!”
“Wright is a historian, one of a very few who can draw out the drama of past events without sacrificing authenticity and integrity. literary review of canada
“In this highly readable volume, Wright has filled in many gaps and in doing so has made a major contribution to the historical record. william j. daugherty, phd, armstrong atlantic state university, and hostage during the 1979 iran crisis
ROBERT WRIGHT, PhD, is an associate professor at Trent University, specializing in Canadian history, foreign policy and sovereignty issues. He is the author of the national bestseller Three Nights in Havana, winner of the 2008 Canadian Authors Association s Lela Common Award for Canadian History. Wright resides in Toronto with his wife and children.
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s retirement funds shrink and savings disappear, now is a good time to ask a question for which every human civi- Alization has had an answer: Why do things cost what they do? The Value of Nothing tracks down the reasons through history, “Bracingly written and full of surprises, philosophy, neuroscience and sociology, showing why prices The Value of Nothing is itself invaluable, are always at odds with the true value of the things that matter showing us a path out of the darkness of the most to us. economic woods.”—Michael Pollan A Big Mac might seem like the best deal in these economic times, but after analyzing the energy to produce each burger, from field to Happy Meal, Patel argues the real price tag is a raj patel whopping $200. But it is easiest to see the gap between price and value by looking at things that are so-called free. Exam- The Value of Nothing ining everything from Google to TV, from love to ideas, The Why E verything Costs Value of Nothing reveals the hidden social consequences of our So Mu ch Mor e Th an W e Th ink global culture of “freedom.” ECONOMICS/CULTURAL STUDIES • $18.99 TPB “With epic scope, The Value of Nothing poses a spirited ISBN: 978-1-55468-623-0 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER exploration of everything from the influence of market ex- SOC000000/BUS022000 tremist Gary Becker of the Chicago School of Economics 256 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 76 (and contemporary of Alan Greenspan) to social move- rights acquired: Canada/English language ments on food sovereignty and participatory budgeting other rights: International Creative Mgmt/Curtis Brown (U.K.) that show us what real democracy is, or should be, about.” editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Rob Firing the globe and mail
“Rarely has an assault on capitalism been so witty, fluent and lucidly argued. winnipeg free press
“[A] penetrating and admirably concise guide to the follies of market fundamentalism. the observer
RAJ PATEL has worked for the World Bank, interned at the World Trade Organization, consulted for the United Nations and been involved in international campaigns against his former em- ployers. He is currently a researcher at the University of KwaZulu- Natal in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Patel divides his time between South Africa and Oakland, California. previous edition: 978-1-55468-622-3 cl also available by raj patel Stuffed and Starved 978-1-55468-011-5 $19.95 tpb
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hough there are no witnesses and no clues, when Dr. Har- vey Burdell is found dead in his lower Manhattan town- Thouse, fingers point to Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale- “Scandal, social climbing and corruption in skinned widow who managed Burdell’s house and his servants. Manhattan during the 1850s come alive in Rumoured to be a black-hearted gold digger with designs on the doctor’s name and fortune, Emma is immediately put un- Horan’s historical mystery. . . . Captivating.” der house arrest during a murder investigation. A swift convic- —Booklist (starred review) tion is sure to catapult flamboyant district attorney Abraham Oakey Hall into the mayor’s seat. But one formidable obstacle ellen horan stands in his way: the defence attorney Henry Clinton. Com- mitted to justice and the law, Clinton will aid the vulnerable widow in her desperate fight to save herself from the gallows. 31 Bond Street Set in 1857 New York, this gripping mystery is also a richly A Novel detailed excavation of a lost age. Horan vividly recreates a tu- multuous era characterized by a sensationalist press, aggressive FICTION • $16.50 TPB new wealth, a booming real-estate market, racial conflict, eco- ISBN: 978-1-55468-472-4 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY FIC014000 • 368 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 52 nomic inequality between men and women, and the erosion b&w illustrations throughout of the old codes of behaviour. A tale of murder, sex, greed and rights acquired: Canada/English language politics, this spellbinding narrative transports us to a time that other rights: HarperCollins U.S. eerily echoes our own. publicist: Meghan Paton
“An impressive blend of imagination and history . . . it vividly brings to life one of New York City’s most notorious crimes. ron rash, new york times‒bestselling author of serena
“An engrossing read that gains much from the author’s historical acuity while making no compromises on narrative pace.” the washington post
ELLEN HORAN has worked in New York City as a freelance photo editor for magazines and books.
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ightly plotted and fast-paced, Girl Crazy follows Justin, a bored community college teacher in his thirties, as he Tfalls into an obsessive relationship with Jenna, a much young- er woman. Jenna opens up a new world of sex, drug dealers, intimidation and casual violence. It’s a world that Justin finds frightening at first, then increasingly exciting, particularly as Russell Smith like you’ve Jenna’s erratic behaviour keeps him guessing. As Justin falls never seen him before into Jenna’s thrall, paying her debts and acting as a drug runner, he develops a growing, aggressive confidence unlike anything he’s felt before. When Jenna ends their relationship, russell smith Justin finds he isn’t willing to let go of this new life, or Jenna, without a fight. Girl Crazy Cinematic, sexy, at times raw, Girl Crazy is an exciting de- A Novel parture for acclaimed journalist and novelist Russell Smith. FICTION • $17.99 TPB A darkly comic study of fractured masculinity. . . . ISBN: 978-1-55468-535-6 • SHIPPING IN APRIL FIC048000 • 400 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 48 The nicely ambiguous conclusion can be seen as either rights acquired: Canada/English language the recognition of a kind of atavistic male impulse, or a other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates cautionary tale about the perils of pursuing desire to its editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Lindsey Love most dangerous extreme. the walrus
“Daring and well executed. . . . Girl Crazy is a hot floor show for those of us desperate for the present to finally get its time in the Canadian literary spotlight. the globe and mail
“Smith excels at presenting the sexual fixations of the male psyche, slicing them apart and exposing the emotional impotence beneath. quill & quire
RUSSELL SMITH was born in South Africa and raised in Halifax. His first novel, How Insensitive, was shortlisted for the Governor General s Award. Young Men, a short story collec- tion, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, as was his novel Muriella Pent. He is also the author of Noise; The Princess and the Whiskheads; Diana: A Diary in the Second Person; and Men s Style. He works regularly with the CBC and writes for The Globe a nd M ail. R ussell Smith lives in T oronto. previous edition: 978-1-55468-534-9 otpb
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bandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There, Ain the rich, smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws and teeth, he joins four puppies suckling at their mother’s teats. And so “In exploring what it might be like to be a begins Romochka’s life as a dog. dog from a human perspective, Dog Boy sheds Weak and hairless, with his useless nose and blunt little much light on what it is like to be human.” teeth, Romochka is ashamed of what a poor dog he makes. But —Yann Martel learning how to be something else . . . that’s a skill a human can master. As Romochka grows and learns what it takes to be a dog in a loving clan, the tension between his dog self and his boy eva hornung self increases. He is drawn inexorably back into the dangerous world of human beings. It is only a matter of time before the Dog Boy authorities take an interest. A Novel Written with an unflinching voice and beautiful prose, Dog Boy is a novel about the outer perimeter of being human. FICTION • $17.99 TPB Award-winning author Eva Hornung has vividly and viscerally ISBN: 978-1-55468-373-4 • SHIPPING IN MARCH recreated a timeless story that will push boundaries and pull FIC019000 • 304 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 64 heartstrings all at once. rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Jenny Darling and Associates publicist: Carolyn Ovell “Tough and visceral, and [Eva Hornung] maintains a strong narrative pulse right through to her conclusion.” winnipeg free press
“Beautiful and assured: her descriptions of this dog boy life are vivid and visceral and sensual and utterly compelling. . . . You’ll never look at a dog in the same way again.” sunday telegraph
Dog Boy emerges as a novel that is not only very moving, but also morally and philosophically urgent in its core concerns. the guardian
EVA HORNUNG is the author of six novels published in her na- tive Australia. Her work has won several major literary awards. She has also published literary criticism, short stories, poems, articles and translations from Arabic.
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ianne Warren’s first novel was published to overwhelming praise from critics and readers alike. Her town of Juliet, DSaskatchewan, is such a blink-of-an-eye kind of place that it’s a phyllis bruce book easy to imagine nothing happening on its hot and dusty streets. But the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping sto- ries of its inhabitants: the foundling who now owns the farm “A mixture of archetypes and surprises, the his adoptive family left him; the pregnant teenager and her mother planning a fairytale wedding; a missing camel named characters in Cool Water endure and prevail. . . . Antoinette; and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift Unforgettable.”—The Globe and Mail the landscape. Warren brings the prairie desert and Juliet to vivid and enduring life. dianne warren
“Timeless and powerful and hauntingly beautiful.” bonnie burnard Cool Water A Novel “Warren makes every word she writes about the place believable. Which is good because a strange thing has FICTION • $18.99 TPB happened; this oh so ordinary good-hearted little town has ISBN: 978-1-55468-559-2 • SHIPPING IN MARCH become the truly exotic destination.” FIC000000 • 336 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 national post rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: The Cooke Agency “Warren demonstrates a finely tuned understanding editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Carolyn Ovell of the importance of everyday life that is reminiscent of Carol Shields’ abilities to transform the quotidian into something meaningful. winnipeg free press
DIANNE WARREN is the author of three books of short fiction and three plays. Her most recent collection, A Reckless Moon, was a Globe and Mail Book of the Year, and her play Serpent in the Night Sky was shortlisted for a Governor General s Award for Drama. In 2004, she won the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid -career. W arren lives in R egina, Saskatchewan. previous edition: 978-1-55468-558-5 cl
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even years ago, Vivek “Vicky” Rai, the playboy son of the home minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendyS restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farm- The author of the blockbuster novel house at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. Slumdog Millionaire shows us that there’s The police cordon off the venue and search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession a caste system even in murder and are taken in for questioning. Who are these six suspects? And what were they doing in the farmhouse that night? vikas swarup In this elaborate murder mystery, we join Arun Advani, India’s best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these Six Suspects six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat, A Novel an American tourist, a stone-age tribesman, a Bollywood sex symbol, a cellphone thief and an ambitious politician. Each is equally likely to have pulled the trigger. Both a riveting page- FICTION • $17.99 TPB ISBN: 978-1-55468-607-0 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY turner and a richly textured tale of human frailties and emo- FIC048000 • 480 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 40 tions, Vikas Swarup’s second offering will delight the many fans rights acquired: Canada/English language of his acclaimed debut Slumdog Millionaire. Audaciously and other rights: Transworld Publishers U.K. astutely plotted, with a panoramic imaginative scope, Six Sus- publicist: Meghan Paton pects is the work of a master storyteller.
“A tasty whodunit. You will be hard pressed to figure out the culprit until the very last page. This, too, should make a great movie.” the gazette (montreal)
“Although the story’s geographical span is even bigger than India, the whole thing feels handily confined to the kind of isolated, air-tight setting that Agatha Christie’s readers love. . . . Six Suspects is gleeful, sneaky fun. the new york times book review
VIKAS SWARUP is the author of Slumdog Millionaire (previ- ously published as Q & A and translated into forty-three lan- guages). A member of the Indian Foreign Service, he is pres- ently posted in Japan as India’s consul general in Osaka-Kobe. Slumdog Millionaire was made into an acclaimed feature film, which won eight Oscars, including Best Picture.
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ew and Improved is the story of a young man who decides to make his marriage proposal much more meaningful by Jpledging to convert to Judaism for his girlfriend. The result is an education in spirituality, community and gefilte fish for a A love story about the ordinary couple who were pretty sure they had all those things figured things that happen after you make out; a love story about the ordinary things that happen after an extraordinary choice you make an extraordinary choice; and a laugh-out-loud tale about making a big change in your life for someone else and realizing that all along you were also doing it for yourself. benjamin errett Jew and Improved is a book about a spiritual journey, for people who don’t typically read books about spiritual journeys. Jew and Improved In the words of CBC Radio’s Jonathan Goldstein, “It’s sure to How Ch oosing t o B e Chosen become a bible for anyone switching bibles, and a fun, thought- Made Me a B etter Man provoking reading experience for everyone else.” MEMOIR/HUMOUR • $19.99 TPB “Considering he’s only recently become a Jew, Errett has ISBN: 978-1-55468-428-1 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY a good line in self-deprecating shtick. . . . His style is BIO018000/HUM014000 readable, funny and cheeky.” 288 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 winnipeg free press b&w illustrations as chapter openers rights acquired: Canada/English language “Spiritual journeys are rarely laden with knee-slappers. other rights: The Rights Factory But it is precisely Errett’s whimsy that brings his journey editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Emma Ingram to a place almost anyone can relate to. the gazette (montreal)
BENJAMIN ERRETT studied biology at McGill University and was accepted to medical school there when he realized that what he really wanted to do was write terrifically punny head- lines about popular culture. At the age of twenty-two, he was hired as an editor at the National Post with next to no experi- ence. Now thirty, Benjamin is a managing editor at the paper. Sarah Lazarovic, a filmmaker and illustrator, has provided the illustrations t hroughout the book. previous edition: 978-1-55468-427-4 cl
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t forty, Penny Stevens is not quite living the life she imag- ined for herself . . . but it’s good enough. Isn’t it? That Aquestion is answered when Penny catches the overzealous eye of a local newspaper’s “life renovation” expert and becomes the focus of a makeover—whether she likes it or not.
“The novel’s leisurely romp is studded with eruptions of inspired lunacy. the globe and mail
LYNN CRYMBLE is a former drama teacher who lives with her family in North Vancouver, B.C. This is her first novel. winter 2011 49
dennis richard murphy Darkness at the Stroke of Noon A Novel
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hen RCMP Sergeant Booker Kennison is dispatched to investigate the death of two archaeologists in remote WNunavut, he discovers that at least one of the victims was mur- dered. As the ice moves in and supplies grow scarce, Kennison’s heart-stopping hunt for the killer begins.
“A cast of marvellous characters. . . .” the globe and mail glenn cooper DENNIS RICHARD MURPHY was a film and television writer, director, producer and teacher. He passed away in 2008 shortly Book of Souls after completing Darkness at the Stroke of Noon. A Novel
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ill Piper’s uneasy retirement from the FBI is interrupted yet again when a long-missing book surfaces at an auc- Wtion house in London. Pursued by deadly government opera- tives intent on stopping him, Will discovers that the ancient missing volume contains a series of clues—clues that point to a secret which humanity may not be prepared to accept.
“Eat your heart out, Dan Brown.” peterborough evening telegraph, on library of the dead
GLENN COOPER, author of Library of the Dead and Book of Souls, graduated in archaeology from Harvard and got his medical degree from Tufts University. Visit him online at glenncooperbooks.com. 50 harpercollins
jane fallon Got You Back A Novel
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hough they’ve drifted apart over the years, married couple Stephanie and James are relatively content—until Stepha- Tnie discovers a text message on James’s phone that is simply signed “K.” “K” is Katie, James’s girlfriend in the country. When Stephanie calls to give Katie hell, the two women realize they’ve been duped and band together to plot revenge.
A chingly poignant, laugh out loud funny and menacingly real. catherine mckenzie daily mail (london) JANE FALLON is a well-known, award-winning producer of Spin British television. Her first novel,Getting Rid of Matthew, was an A Novel international bestseller. She lives in London, England, with her partner, Ricky Gervais. FICTION • $13.99 TPB ISBN: 978-1-55468-759-6 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER FIC044000 • 480 pp • 5 5/16 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 48 rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Kimberly Cameron & Associates editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Lindsey Love
hen Kate Sandford interviews for her dream job at a music magazine still drunk from partying the night be- Wfore, it’s no surprise she doesn’t get the gig. But the folks at the media company think she might be perfect for another assign- ment: to follow a young female celebrity into rehab and get the inside scoop.
F ull of pop-culture allusions, some really funny ones. . . . Spin is a compelling, fast-paced read. the globe and mail
CATHERINE McKENZIE was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She is a litigator with the firm Irving Mitchell Kalich- man, and she teaches part-time at McGill University s Faculty of Law. Spin, h er d ebut n ovel, is a n ational b estseller. winter 2011 51
kathleen tessaro The Flirt A Novel
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ughie Venables-Smythe is a professional flirt. When his love interest, Letitia Vane, and the unhappily married Ol- Hivia Bourgault de Coudray both start receiving beautiful note- cards bearing handwritten clues, the plot thickens. Who is flirt- ing with whom? And is flirtation as innocent as it seems—or can it lead to dangerous territory?
“Ultra-smart and classily edgy, this is the glitz novel brought up to date.” the sunday times isabelle laflèche KATHLEEN TESSARO is originally from Pittsburgh. She is J’adore New York the author of the bestsellers Elegance, Innocence and The Flirt. A Novel of Hau te Cou ture an d t he Tessaro lives in London, England. Corner Office
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hen Catherine Lambert, an effortlessly chic Parisian lawyer, transfers to the New York office of her presti- Wgious firm, she is determined to conquer the world of Manhat- tan law—and love. But the job is a lot less glamorous than she’d imagined, and her romance with a handsome new client holds an unexpected surprise.
“A stylish and very entertaining debut.” isabel wolff, author of a vintage affair
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his beautifully told story of the Irish migration to Canada received rave reviews on publication. During the Great TFamine of the 1840s, thousands of impoverished Irish immi- a phyllis bruce book grants escaped to Canada on what came to be known as “fe- An instant bestseller—the dramatic story ver ships.” As Erin’s desperate exiles arrived at the Grosse Isle quarantine station near Quebec City, families were often torn of the Irish in Canada apart by disease and death. Survivors travelled on to other des- tinations, many making their way up the St. Lawrence River sharon doyle driedger to Montreal, where as many as 6,000 more died in appalling conditions. Despite these terrible beginnings, many of the immigrants An Irish Heart remained in Montreal’s Griffintown, a thriving Irish settlement How a Small Immigrant Community that would endure for more than a century and would come to Shaped Can ada typify Irish working-class culture in North America. The Irish became known for their skill as navvies (building our canals CANADIAN HISTORY • $19.99 TPB W/ FLAPS and bridges) and for working long hours in factories, as well as ISBN: 978-0-00-639488-4 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY for raising large, close-knit families and building a community HIS006000 • 416 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 b&w illustrations throughout; maps based on strong faith. rights acquired: Canada/English language Filled with personal recollections drawn from extensive other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates author interviews, this engaging book recreates a culture that editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Emma Ingram has a place of distinction in our history. From senators to sports champions, from bishops to Hall of Fame boxers, Irish Canadians have made their mark.
A n astonishingly detailed, elegiac history of the mainly Irish enclave called Griffintown.” the globe and mail
“In this painstakingly researched book, [Doyle Driedger’s] love for the community is evident.” winnipeg free press
“Offers a lively, readable description of the horrors that befell those who journeyed across the sea in search of a better life.” calgary herald
SHARON DOYLE DRIEDGER, a former senior writer for Ma- clean s magazine, was born in Griffintown to a third-generation Irish family. This book grew out of a Maclean s cover article that received tremendous reader response. She lives in Toronto with her family.
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ver fifteen months, Sebastian Junger followed a single platoon based at a remote outpost in eastern Afghani- Ostan. His objective was both simple and ambitious: to convey what soldiers experience—what war actually feels like. In these pages, he gives insight into the truths of combat: The #1 national bestseller that, the fear, the honour and the trust among men. He describes in the words of General Rick Hillier, things that few civilians will ever witness or go through—the endless, body-numbing anticipation of battle; the adrenaline- “has captured the reality of modern warfare fueled confusion of being ambushed; the unquestioned and in riveting, often moving prose.” automatic risks soldiers take in combat situations to protect their brothers. Junger shows what it means to fight, to serve sebastian junger and to face down mortal danger on a constant basis. Throughout, War illuminates the lives of the men who fight for us—how they live; what they see and learn and feel. War Junger draws on biology, psychology and military history to ex- CURRENT EVENTS/HISTORY • $19.99 TPB plain the decisions soldiers make and to put their ordeals into SHIPPING IN MAY • ISBN: 978-1-55468-555-4 context. In the vivid prose for which he has become known, HIS027000/BIO080000 • 304 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 32 he relates the physical toil, the suffocating heat, the sounds of rights acquired: Canada/English language gunfire and the agony of loss. other rights: Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency publicist: Lindsey Love
“[A] powerful work. . . . I have never read a more compelling account of the complex suffering and rewards of the combat experience.” the globe and mail
“This is potent material, seldom rendered better. . . . Terrific.” boston globe
“Offers a close-up view of men and the raw elements of war: fear and courage, killing and death, love and brotherhood.” los angeles times
SEBASTIAN JUNGER is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS-Novartis Prize for journalism. Along with Tim Hetherington, he directed the doc- umentary Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sun- dance. Junger lives in New York City. For more information, visit www.sebastianjunger.com. previous edition: 978-1-55468-554-7 cl also available by sebastian junger A Death in Belmont 978-0-06-074269-0 $18.99 tpb Fire 978-0-06-008861-3 $17.99 tpb
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HARPERPERENNIAL MODERNCLASSICS 54 harpercollins yves lavigne Bestselling author and veteran reporter Yves Lavigne unmasks one of the world’s most notorious biker gangs, the Hells Angels, in these now-classic accounts “Lavigne is the journalistic equivalent of Batman.” —The Globe and Mail
Hells Angels: Into the Abyss Hells Angels at War
y becoming the right-hand man of legendary Hells Angels ells Angels at War is the explosive story of the bikers’ ruth- leader Sonny Barger, Anthony Tait learned all the club’s dirt- less and bloody campaign for supremacy in the under- Biest secrets. As the eyes and ears of an elaborate FBI undercover Hworld of organized crime. Veteran investigative reporter and sting, he exposed some of the club’s “brothers” for what they real- bestselling author Yves Lavigne exposes the deadly politics ly are—ruthless businessmen and vicious thugs who take murder and tactics used by outlaw motorcycle gangs as they fight for contracts out on informers, run a multimillion-dollar drug ring control of drug territory across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. that peddles speed and cocaine, and steal and spy on each other— This book unmasks an evil that threatens to forever change our sometimes with deadly results. Hells Angels: Into the Abyss will world and challenges those entrusted to protect us to confront forever change the way you look at this dangerous biker club. and defeat the menace.
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YVES LAVIGNE is an international expert on motorcycle and other illegal gangs, infiltrating their ranks on many fronts and receiving commendations from law enforcement agencies for his work. He has spent a quarter-century reporting and writing on crime. A for- mer veteran reporter for The Globe and Mail, Yves Lavigne lives in Toronto. He is the author of the national bestsellers Hells Angels: Into t he A byss, Hells A ngels: Taking C are of B usiness and Hells Angels at War.
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n the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied Obodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found dead on a local farm. The massacre made headlines around the world, and the shocking news shed a grim light on an otherwise The only book that tells the inside story quiet corner of the province. Six Bandidos would eventually of one of the worst mass murders be convicted of the first-degree murder of their biker brothers. in Canadian history Like other outlaw biker gangs, the Bandidos portrayed themselves as motorcycle enthusiasts who were misunderstood and abused by police and feared by the public. We now know peter edwards that the Bandidos were anything but simple motorcycle buffs. However, unlike such biker gangs as the Hells Angels, who run The Bandido Massacre sophisticated criminal empires, the Bandidos were highly dis- A T rue S tory o f Bikers, organized, were prone to petty infighting, and even engaged in Brotherhood an d Betrayal sabotaging fellow members. This is the story of how the Bandi- dos self-destructed over one dark night. TRUE CRIME • $10.99 MM As gripping as any crime novel, The Bandido Massacre takes ISBN: 978-1-55468-045-0 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY us inside a crumbling brotherhood bent on self-obliteration TRU002000 • 592 pp • 4 3/16 x 6 3/4 • carton qty: 50 16 pages b&w photos and betrayal. rights acquired: world/all languages editor: Jim Gifford • publicist: Lindsey Love “Edwards probes the mystique and allure of the outlaw biker world with sensitivity and intelligence. . . . He also captures the contradictions and absurdities of a lifestyle that preaches brotherhood, loyalty and love while practis- ing treachery, betrayal and intrigue.” the hamilton spectator
“This hard-to-put-down, must-read book provides a fasci- nating glimpse into the biker culture and how one sad- sack gang crashed and burned so spectacularly.” london free press
PETER EDWARDS, crime reporter for the Toronto Star, is the author of ten books, including the highly praised One Dead In- dian: The Premier, the Police and the Ipperwash Crisis and A Mother s Story: The Fight to Free My Son David (with Joyce Milgaard). Edwards has been nominated four times for the Ar- thur Ellis Award. He works in Toronto. Visit www.bandidomas- sacre.com. previous edition: 978-1-55468-044-3 cl
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hat if you could change your life without really chang- ing your life? On the outside, Gretchen had it all—a Wgood marriage, healthy children and a successful career—but she knew something was missing. Determined to end that nag- A Globe and Mail and New York Times ging feeling, Gretchen set out on a year-long quest, her own bestseller, now in paperback “happiness project,” to learn how to better enjoy the life she already had. Each month, Gretchen pursued a different set of resolu- gretchen rubin tions: go to sleep earlier, tackle a nagging task, bring people to- gether, take time to be silly, along with dozens of other goals. The Happiness Project She read everything from classical philosophy to cutting-edge Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the scientific studies, from Winston Churchill to Oprah, devel- Morning, Clean My Clos ets, F ight R ight, oping her own definition of happiness and a plan for how to Read A ristotle, an d Gen erally Have Mor e F un achieve it. She kept track of which resolutions worked and which didn’t, sharing her stories and collecting those of others MEMOIR • $17.99 TPB through her blog (created to fulfill one of March’s resolutions). ISBN: 978-1-55468-280-5 • SHIPPING IN OCTOBER Bit by bit, she began to appreciate and amplify the happiness BIO026000 • 320 pp • 5 5/16 x 8 • carton qty: 60 that already existed in her life. Written with humour and in- rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: HarperCollins U.S. sight, Gretchen’s story will inspire readers to embrace the plea- editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Emma Ingram sure in their lives and remind them how to have fun.
“The more I read it, the happier I got. It’s filled with great insights that have changed every part of my life.” a.j. jacobs, author of the year of living biblically
“Both inspirational and forgiving. . . . Rubin’s project makes curiously compulsive reading, which is enough to make any reader happy. publishers weekly (starred review)
GRETCHEN RUBIN is the author of Forty Ways to Look at JFK and the bestselling Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill. Visit her daily blog at www.happiness-project.com.
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t’s the Depression, but Red’s family is managing better than most on their Prince Edward Island farm. Hard working and Iresourceful, they have enough to eat and to help others, even if at times they are mocked by their neighbours for putting education ahead of farm work. Eleven-year-old Red has plenty Anne of Green Gables meets Owen Skye of chores around the farm, and the days can be long, but he still gets the odd break to go swimming or fishing, provided his homework is done. Red’s older sister, Ellen, teaches at the local rachna gilmore school, and if Red doesn’t shine, she will not only punish him, but also make sure their parents hear about it. That Boy Red But then Red’s father’s hand is seriously injured and the A Novel family’s situation looks dire. Red steps up to the challenge, finishing the tobacco boxes that his father makes and helping
JUVENILE FICTION, AGES 8–12 • $11.99 ORIGINAL TPB shovel out a train stuck in the snow. Stubborn and even pig- ISBN: 978-1-55468-459-5 • SHIPPING IN APRIL headed, Red does make mistakes along the way (such as pre- JUV016160 • 208 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 48 tending to be dead so that his younger sister will stop following rights acquired: Canada/English language him), but his heart is always in the right place. other rights: Transatlantic Literary Agency editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg RACHNA GILMORE is the author of many children s books, including the (1999) Governor General s Award w inning A Screaming Kind of Day and The Sower of Tales, which was the winner of the 2006 IODE Violet Downey Book Award. Her most recent novel for young readers, The Trouble with Dilly, was a Resource Links Best of 2009 book, as well as a Girl Guide Book Club pick. Visit her online at www.rachnagilmore.ca.
Ellen marched them back to the schoolhouse. She drew two small circles on the chalkboard and Red and Eddie had to stand with their noses pressed against them. Red’s circle was just low enough so he had to stoop the whole hour. The injustice of it galled worse than his aching back. He knew Ellen would be sure to bring it up at home and Ma and Pa would ask why he’d been fighting, and he wouldn’t be able to say anything. from that boy red
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eef has been living in Calgary for the past year, but now he’s back in Halifax for the funeral of Frank Colville, his formerR mentor. Memories of Frank compete with memories of Leeza and the terrible way their relationship ended. Mindful that the restraining order against him has been renewed by Leeza’s mother, Reef has no intention of staying in Halifax for long. Together at last? Leeza, in the meantime, is feeling stifled by her mother’s “concern.” A first-year university student at Dalhousie, she is kicking herself for not attending university out of town. don aker Despite Reef’s best efforts to stay away, circumstances quickly unfold to push him and Leeza ever closer to each other. The Fifth Rule An eager political crusader wants to close Reef’s former group A Novel home, and he will stop at nothing to get media attention, includ- ing manipulating news items—Reef is shocked to discover that TEEN FICTION, AGES 13+ • $14.99 ORIGINAL TPB he has been photographed outside Leeza’s house and is, there- ISBN: 978-1-55468-863-0 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY fore, in violation of the restraining order. Finding himself at the JUV000000 • 256 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 36 centre of growing controversy, Reef is pushed to his limits. rights acquired: world/all languages Before he leaves town, Reef must face his demons and other rights: Transatlantic Literary Agency editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg make some tough choices or else risk losing everything he has ever worked for, including the only girl he has ever loved.
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Leeza reappears wearing a helmet and pushing a bi- cycle, a sleek silver multi-speed that, even seen from the street, appears almost brand new. She closes the garage door, lifts her leg over the seat, and coasts the bike down the driveway, barely giving the parked taxi a glance as she looks for an opening in traffic. . . . His head whirling with indecision, Reef asks, “Can you follow that bicycle?” from the fifth rule also available by don aker The First Stone 978-0-00-639286-6 $7.99 mm One on One 978-0-00-639531-7 $12.99 tpb The Space Between 978-0-00-638522-6 $8.99 mm
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hen Mr. Socrates, a member of the shadowy Permanent Association, hears of a hunchbacked infant with the Wability to transform his appearance, he decides to take him in. The first in Arthur Slade’s edge-of-your-seat, Naming him Modo, he raises the boy in isolation, training him to become a secret agent. Then, when Modo turns fourteen, critically acclaimed steampunk adventure his education is complete. He is transported to the streets of series—now in paperback! downtown London and abandoned, penniless, to try to survive. But Modo is resourceful, and he finds a way to get by, arthur slade keeping to himself . . . until one day, when the beautiful Octa- via Milkweed knocks on his door. Soon, with the help of Mr. Socrates, Modo and Octavia find themselves uncovering a sin- The Hunchback ister plot being carried out in the very sewers beneath their feet. Assignments Will they be able to stop the mad scientist Dr. Hyde before he A Novel unleashes his monstrous plans upon unsuspecting Londoners?
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hile Modo has spent a quiet winter recovering from his adventure in the dark deeps, talk of ancient Egyptian Wruins in the midst of the Australian rainforest has been swirling around London. A temple bulges with riches, but also contains danger: the infamous God Face. No one knows what the God Face is or what it is made of, but it is rumoured to be a powerful The thrilling third book in the weapon; anyone who looks upon it will be driven mad. critically acclaimed Hunchback series Modo’s next assignment? Go to Queensland in Australia and discover the truth behind the God Face. He won’t be alone: Octavia and even Mr. Socrates will be accompanying him, as arthur slade well as Mrs. Finchley, Modo’s beloved caregiver from child- hood days. But hot on their trail is the Clockwork Guild, with Empire of Ruins a brand-new weapon—mechanical birds, capable of transmit- A Novel ting signals as well as delivering poison. With an airship battle, an escape from spear-waving na- YA FICTION, AGES 12+ • $18.99 CL tives and an astounding discovery—one that hinges on Modo’s ISBN: 978-1-55468-358-1 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY JUV037000 • 256 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 24 true appearance—the Hunchback Assignments series contin- rights acquired: Canada/English language ues to enthrall readers of all ages! other rights: Scott Treimel NY editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg ARTHUR SLADE is the author of The Hunchback Assign- ments, which was a CLA Young Adult Book of the Year Honour Book and has been nominated for several other awards, includ- ing the CLA Book of the Year for Children, the Arthur Ellis Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. Slade is also the au- thor of Dust, the winner of the 2001 Governor General s Award for Children s Literature. His other acclaimed novels include Tribes, Megiddo s Shadow and Jolted. His most recent book, the second in The Hunchback Assignments series, is called The Dark D eeps. V isit h im on line at www .arthurslade.com.
In a Queensland rainforest, over ten thousand miles from London, Modo crouched next to a strangler fig tree. He tightly bound his handkerchief around the stump of the little finger on his left hand. The sabre cut had been clean, and he was surprised that there hadn’t been much blood. The pain, though, clouded his every thought. But he had been trained to ignore pain, and so, with several deep breaths, he was able to clear his mind. He had other tasks to perform. from empire of ruins
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uch has changed since Kelley Winslow learned she was a Faerie princess, fell in love with changeling guard Sonny Flannery,M and saved the mortal realm from the ravages of the Wild Hunt. Now Kelley is stuck in New York City, rehearsing Romeo and Juliet and missing Sonny more with every stage kiss, Shortlisted for the new Teen Reads while Sonny has been forced back to the Otherworld and into a awards at Indigo deadly game of cat and mouse with the remaining Hunters and Queen Mabh herself. When a terrifying encounter sends Kelley tumbling into lesley livingston the Otherworld, her reunion with Sonny is joyful but destined to be cut short. An ancient, hidden magic is stirring, and a dan- Darklight gerous new enemy is willing to risk everything to claim that A Novel power. Caught in a web of Faerie deception and shifting alle- giances, Kelley and Sonny must tread carefully, for each next TEEN FICTION, AGES 13+ • $9.99 DIGEST TPB step could topple a kingdom . . . or tear them apart. ISBN: 978-1-55468-346-8 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER JUV037000/JUV026000 • 336 pp • 5 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 64 “In the world of Twilight read-alikes, Livingston’s novels rights acquired: Canada/English language stand out. Kelley has personality and spunk that Bella other rights: HarperCollins U.S. and others are missing, and the ‘star-crossed’ romance editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg between Kelley and Sonny is more emotional and genuine than others in this genre. school library journal
“Bad-boy Fennrys adds an interesting wrinkle in Kelley’s devoted but increasingly strained relationship with Sonny. . . . Readers will anxiously await the concluding volume.” booklist
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n the days after Darklight, the Avalon Theatre has burned to the ground. The shadowy figure poisoning King Auberon is Istill at large. And Kelley and Sonny are torn asunder—because of the lie Kelley told that changed everything. Now Kelley tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, while Sonny takes refuge with a band of Lost Fae in an aban- The stunning conclusion to doned reservoir beneath Central Park. But those who would the Wondrous Strange trilogy steal the Green Magick are not finished yet. A final showdown is coming, one that will put Sonny and Kelley’s love for each other to the ultimate test—if they survive that long. lesley livingston A vivid cast of characters returns—among them, Summer Fae Tyff, trickster Bob, Mabh and Titania, and the dangerously Tempestuous alluring Fennrys Wolf. A Novel
LESLEY L IVINGSTON is a writer and actress living in Toronto. TEEN FICTION, AGES 13+ • $17.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS The author of Wondrous Strange, winner of the CLA Young ISBN: 978-1-55468-455-7 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER JUV037000/JUV026000 • 320 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 28 Adult Book Award, and its sequel, Darklight, Livingston has a rights acquired: Canada/English language master s degree in English from the University of Toronto, where other rights: HarperCollins U.S. she specialized in Arthurian and Shakespearean literature, and editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg is a founding member of the Tempest Theatre Group. Visit her online at www .lesleylivingston.com.
Untie the spell . . . The voice in her head grew to a roaring and a winter-white sunburst exploded all around her. Kel- ley’s wings burst forth . . . furling outward like silver lace, edged with purple flame. She leaped and they swept her up through the crumbling rafters of the derelict theatre and out into the night sky. from tempestuous
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he Vinyl Princess gives us a coming-of-age summer in the life of sixteen-year-old Allie, a self-professed music geek, Twho has her dream job working at Berkeley’s independent re- cord store, Bob and Bob’s Records. And it’s shaping up to be a summer like never before, what with her mother starting to High Fidelity for teens date again after the divorce, business at Bob and Bob’s getting dangerously slow, Allie crushing on a handsome stranger and, biggest of all, her new blog, The Vinyl Princess, which seems to yvonne prinz be gaining interest one vinyl junkie at a time . . .
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ixteen-year-old Roar has been yanked from her city life and, suddenly, she’s a farm girl, albeit a reluctant one, selling figsS at the farmer’s market and developing her photographs in a rickety shed. Caught between the lure of a troublemaking friend named Storm, falling in love with a brooding, easy-on-the-eyes L.A. boy, and her complicated feelings about her father’s human A modern-day To Kill a Mockingbird from rights crusade on behalf of undocumented Mexican farm work- the popular author of The Vinyl Princess ers that challenges the fabric of the farm community, Roar is go- ing to have to tackle it all—even with dirt under her fingernails. yvonne prinz
YVONNE PRINZ has written three books in the Clare series. Still There, Clare was a Book Sense pick and was nominated All You Get Is Me for an IPPY Award and a Red Cedar Award. Not Fair, Clare was A Novel shortlisted for the Red Maple Award. A Canadian living in San Francisco, Prinz founded the famed independent music store TEEN FICTION, AGES 14+ • $14.99 ORIGINAL TPB Amoeba Music with her husband. There, she keeps her finger ISBN: 978-1-55468-514-1 • SHIPPING IN DECEMBER JUV025000 • 336 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 28 on the pulse of hip teen culture. Visit the website for The Vinyl rights acquired: Canada/English language Princess at www .thevinylprincess.com. other rights: HarperCollins U.S. editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg Rufus butts the bedroom door open with his snout and clicks across the wood planks to say good morn- ing. He’s an early riser and a fantastic afternoon napper. Bits of dog food cling to his mongrel beard. He nuzzles my face with his nose and I ruffle the fur on his soft head, which smells slightly of skunk. Ru- fus is a country dog. I am a city girl. Rufus has lived here on the farm all of his life, and I have lived in the city all of mine until two years ago last spring when my dad up and bought a farm like he was running out for a quart of milk. I’m pretty sure I’ll never for- give him for that. from all you get is me
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oë Monday Costello is the go-to gal at school, where she keeps recess in order, and at home, where she keeps a Zcareful eye on Grandma’s medicine. Her invisible rules (like A Smart Girl Doesn’t Put Up With Anything) will have you well- Tish Cohen’s spunky first novel for kids, now prepared for life’s surprises, big and small. When a new girl with a brand-new look and a brand-new price! with a reputation arrives at school, Zoë is determined to help her fit in—but her meddling backfires . . . Is there any unwrit- ten rule that can help Zoë now? tish cohen “Cohen handles the heavier elements of the plot with a light touch and gives her narrator an amusingly wry voice that The Invisible Rules will have readers rooting for her.” of the Zoë Lama school library journal
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oë is gone from school a week and a day and is deliciously certain that everyone’s lives will be in shambles, ready for Zher to save the day. But then she finds out that a sixer named Devon Sweeney has done a good job of keeping things run- The follow-up novel to the very fun ning in Zoë’s absence. Even worse, while Zoë is brainstorming top-notch ideas to show Devon up, she’s dealing with her own The Invisible Rules of the Zoë Lama, by problems at home. Will Zoë succeed in regaining her throne, or Tish Cohen, with a brand-new look! is she yesterday’s guru?
The One and Only Zo Lama is a brilliant sequel. Zoë may tish cohen be a bit bratty and a bit self-righteous at times, but she is highly lovable. Her faults and flaws, tempered by her quick The One and Only humour, make Cohen’s second novel about the Zoë Lama as much fun to read as the first.” Zoë Lama cm magazine (highly recommended) MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION, AGES 10–12 • $8.99 DIGEST TPB I n The One and Only Zo Lama, versatile Toronto writer ISBN: 978-0-00-639428-0 • SHIPPING IN JANUARY Tish Cohen revitalizes the classic [middle-grade] novel JUV039000/JUV013000 • 256 pp • 5 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 48 with panache.” b&w illustrations throughout sarah ellis, quill & quire rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Writers House editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg previous edition: 978-0-00-639513-3 otpb also available by tish cohen Inside Out Girl 978-1-55468-120-4 $15.95 tpb 978-1-55468-547-9 $13.99 tpb (harperweekend edition) Little Black Lies 978-1-55468-461-8 $14.99 tpb Town House 978-0-00-200807-5 $17.95 tpb 978-1-55468-777-0 $13.99 tpb (harperweekend edition) The Truth About Delilah Blue 978-1-55468-586-8 $19.99 tpb
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truggling to cope with the death of his father and reel- ing from the marriage of his mother to his uncle, Ham- letS doesn’t realize that his troubles are just beginning. An en- counter with his father’s ghost reveals the terrible truth: he was murdered—by his brother! Urged by the ghost to kill his uncle Hamlet like you’ve never read it before in revenge, Hamlet is wracked with indecision. He spirals into a despair so deep that even his best friends, Horatio and the beautiful Ophelia, seem unable to help him. A visiting acting john marsden troupe inspires Hamlet to form a plan, but the path ahead is riddled with mistakes and devastation. Hamlet & Ophelia Hamlet & Ophelia is a compelling read for teens and A Novel adults alike. In following the contours of Shakespeare’s play, John Marsden has created a stunning tale that brings new life
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“Marsden stays true to Shakespeare’s text, while modern- izing the dialogue. . . . This is a wonderful treatment of the play: engaging, gripping, dark and lovely.” school library journal (starred review)
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JOHN MARSDEN was born in Victoria, Australia, in 1950. A teacher, he published his first book, So Much to Tell You, in 1987. He is the author of over thirty books, including the Tomor- row When the War Began series and the Ellie Chronicles. His books have sold over 4 million copies worldwide.
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ee is feeding the chickens the morning they discover the bones on the mountain. A sense of foreboding strength- Dens when the police show her a ring found with the remains. It belonged to a friend of hers, Mary Ann Simpson, who had Winner of the 2010 Arthur Ellis Award disappeared four years ago. Strangely, other girls have also dis- (Best Juvenile Fiction) and shortlisted for appeared from this small town nestled in the shadow of the Bruce Peninsula—the “mountain” that Dee knows like the back the CLA Young Adult Book Award of her hand. Like her grandmother, Dee has “The Sight,” an ability not barbara only to see spirits from the afterlife but also to experience their deaths—a “gift” that becomes more troubling as this story takes haworth-attard darker turns. While trying to help local police with the investi- gation, Dee is drawn into a deepening mystery that soon strikes Haunted terrifyingly close to home. A Novel Set in the aftermath of World War I, when soldiers are re- turning to a society that doesn’t know the full horrors of what YA FICTION, AGES 13+ • $9.99 DIGEST TPB they went through, Haunted is an atmospheric story that will ISBN: 978-1-55468-976-7 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY haunt readers long after they finish reading. JUV018000 • 288 pp • 5 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 68 rights acquired: Canadian/English language other rights: Scott Treimel NY “Creepiness and dread build forcibly as this spooky tale of editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg predation and murder builds toward its moments of revela- tion. . . . A satisfying read. toronto star
BARBARA HAWORTH-ATTARD is the acclaimed author of thirteen children s books, including A Is for Angst, which was shortlisted for the Snow Willow Award, and Theories of Rela- tivity, which was nominated for the Governor General s Award and won the Snow Willow Award and the Stellar Book Award. Barbara Haworth-Attard lives with her family in London, Ontario. previous edition : 978-0-00-200821-1 otpb also available by barbara haworth-attard A is for Angst 978-0-00-200820-4 $14.99 tpb Flying Geese 978-0-00-648574-2 $7.99 mm Forget Me Not 978-0-00-639549-2 $12.99 tpb Home Child 978-0-00-639312-2 $7.99 mm Irish Chain 978-0-00-639216-3 $7.99 mm Love Lies Bleeding 978-0-00-639563-8 $7.99 mm Theories of Relativity 978-0-00-639300-9HARPER COLLINS $7.99 mm
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n this final book of the Ingo series, Sapphy and her brother Conor have been called to take part in the ancient and dan- Igerous coming-of-age ritual known as the Crossing of Ingo. It’s a trial for even the strongest Mer—and Sapphy and Conor will be the first of human blood ever to make an attempt. However, The dramatic conclusion to not everyone is happy that Sapphy and Conor are joining in the popular Ingo books this ancient Mer tradition, particularly Ervys, whose influence amongst the Mer is increasing daily. Ervys wants to cleanse Ingo of all mixed blood and will stop at nothing to do so. He helen dunmore will use every trick—everything in the sea—to make sure Sap- phy and her brother do not return. The Crossing of Ingo is not The Crossing of Ingo just a rite of passage for Sapphy, Conor, Faro and Elvira; it’s a A Novel matter of life and death.
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HELEN DUNMORE is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet and children s author. The Tide Knot, the second book in her Ingo series, won the Silver Medal in the Nestlé Chil- dren s Book Prize and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her novel A Spell of Winter won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Helen Dunmore was born in York- shire and now lives in Bristol, England, with her husband and children. Visit her at www.helendunmore.com.
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t long last, Matt Cruse is at the helm. Though it’s only a summer job piloting a humble aerocrane, he’s thrilled to Abe helping to build the Celestial Tower, Paris’s extraordinary gateway to outer space. But Matt’s idyllic summer is short-lived. He narrowly survives a deadly attack by the fanatical Babelites, who are opposed to humans reaching the heavens. Worse still, Blast into space with this his nights spent stargazing with Kate de Vries must end when gorgeous edition of Starclimber! she’s summoned back to Lionsgate City by her parents. But then the chance of a lifetime boosts Matt’s hopes of be- ing airborne once more. Canada wants to reach space first, and kenneth oppel the Canadian Minister of Air has asked Kate to join the first ex- pedition as an expert on aerial zoology. There’s a place for Matt, Starclimber too—if he can pass the grueling tests to become one of the A Novel world’s first astralnauts on board the incredible shipStarclimber . It’s a race to the very top, and Matt is determined to be a MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION, AGES 10+ • $9.99 DIGEST TPB part of the adventure. But can he outlast his competition? And ISBN: 978-1-55468-521-9 • SHIPPING IN FEBRUARY JUV037000/JUV001000 • 368 pp • 5 x 7 1/8 • carton qty: 36 if he is chosen to join the crew, will they ever return to Earth? rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Writers House “Relentlessly suspenseful. . . . No reader who comes to the editor: Lynne Missen • publicist: Melissa Zilberberg book for sheer excitement will be disappointed.” the globe and mail
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KENNETH OPPEL is the author of many books, including Airborn, winner of the Governor General s Award; Skybreak- er, winner of the Red Maple Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award; and the million-copy-selling Silverwing Saga. His most recent novel is Half Brother. Kenneth Oppel lives with his wife and three children in Toronto. Visit his website at www.kennethoppel.com. previous edition: 978-1-55468-520-2 tpb also available by kenneth oppel Airborn 978-1-55468-281-2 $9.99 digest tpb Skybreaker 978-1-55468-282-9 $9.99 digest tpb please see your sales representative for other kenneth oppel titles
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Aker, Don ...... 59 Morrison, Blake...... 19 Ballon, Amy and Danielle Botterell ...... 31 Murphy, Dennis Richard ...... 49 Berry, Anne ...... 38 Oppel, Kenneth ...... 71 Bezmozgis, David ...... 3 Patel, Raj ...... 41 Botterell, Danielle and Amy Ballon ...... 31 Prinz, Yvonne ...... 64–65 Brabazon, James ...... 23 Rubin, Gretchen...... 56 Christie, Michael ...... 12 Shriver, Lionel ...... 39 Cohen, Tish ...... 66–67 Slade, Arthur ...... 60–61 Cooper, Glenn ...... 49 Smith, Russell ...... 43 Crocker, Pat ...... 33 Stager, Curt ...... 15 Crymble, Lynn...... 48 Stutchbury, Bridget...... 36 Cunningham, Michael ...... 27 Swarup, Vikas ...... 46 Dasgupta, Rana ...... 29 Tessaro, Kathleen ...... 51 Dranoff, Linda Silver ...... 32 Tyson, Sylvia...... 11 Driedger, Sharon Doyle ...... 52 Vaz-Oxlade, Gail ...... 5 Dunmore, Helen ...... 70 Vyleta, Dan...... 10 Edwards, Peter...... 55 Warren, Dianne ...... 45 Elton, Sarah ...... 37 Welsh, Louise...... 6 Errett, Benjamin ...... 47 Wheelwright, Julie ...... 14 Fallon, Jane...... 21, 50 Wilson, Barrie and Simcha Jacobovici ...... 22 Fishback Powers, Margaret ...... 30 Wright, Robert...... 40 Flannery, Tim ...... 9 Flowers, Frankie ...... 4 Gilmore, Rachna ...... 58 Grodstein, Lauren ...... 35 Harding, Paul...... 28 Haworth-Attard, Barbara...... 69 Hayder, Mo...... 20 Holdstock, Pauline ...... 17 Horan, Ellen...... 42 Hornung, Eva...... 44 Hunt, Rebecca ...... 18 Jacobovici, Simcha and Barrie Wilson ...... 22 Jayawardhana, Ray ...... 8 Juby, Susan ...... 13 Junger, Sebastian ...... 53 Kellaway, Lucy ...... 26 Laflèche, Isabelle ...... 51 Lavigne, Yves ...... 54 Livingston, Lesley ...... 62–63 Luhning, Holly ...... 16 Marsden, John ...... 68 McKenzie, Catherine ...... 2, 50 Miller, A.D...... 25 Miller, Alex...... 24 Monroe, Marilyn...... 7 winter 2011 73
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31 Bond Street...... 42 Lost Gospel, The...... 22 All You Get is Me ...... 65 Lovesong ...... 24 Arranged ...... 2 Mom Inc...... 31 Bandido Massacre, The...... 55 Mr. Chartwell...... 18 Beggar’s Garden, The...... 12 My Friend the Mercenary ...... 23 Bird Detective, The ...... 36 Naming the Bones ...... 6 Book of Souls...... 49 Never Too Late ...... 5 By Nightfall...... 27 One and Only Zoë Lama, The ...... 67 Cool Water ...... 45 Our Man in Tehran ...... 40 Crossing of Ingo, The ...... 70 Preserving ...... 33 Darklight...... 62 Quiet Twin, The...... 10 Darkness at the Stroke of Noon...... 49 Quiver ...... 16 Deep Future ...... 15 Six Suspects...... 46 Dog Boy...... 44 Snowdrops...... 25 Empire of Ruins ...... 61 Solo ...... 29 Esther...... 14 So Much for That ...... 39 Every Canadian’s Guide to the Law...... 32 Spin ...... 50 Fifth Rule, The ...... 59 Starclimber ...... 71 Flirt, The...... 51 Strange New Worlds ...... 8 Footprints for Mothers & Daughters ...... 30 Tempestuous ...... 63 Foursome...... 21 That Boy Red ...... 58 Fragments ...... 7 Tinkers ...... 28 Free World, The ...... 3 Value of Nothing, The ...... 41 Friend of the Family, A ...... 35 Vinyl Princess, The ...... 64 Get Growing ...... 4 War ...... 53 Girl Crazy ...... 43 Woefield Poultry Collective, The ...... 13 Gone ...... 20 Got You Back ...... 50 Hamlet & Ophelia ...... 68 Happiness Project, The ...... 56 Haunted ...... 69 Hells Angels at War ...... 54 Hells Angels: Into the Abyss ...... 54 Here on Earth ...... 9 Hunchback Assignments, The ...... 60 Hungry Ghosts, The...... 38 In Office Hours...... 26 Into the Heart of the Country ...... 17 Invisible Rules of the Zoë Lama, The...... 66 Irish Heart, An ...... 52 It Can Happen to You ...... 48 J’adore New York ...... 51 Jew and Improved ...... 47 Joyner’s Dream...... 11 Last Weekend, The...... 19 Locavore ...... 37 74 harpercollins
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