Winter 2017 Dewey Diva Picks- Adult Books HarperCollins Canada

An Almond for a Parrot by Wray Delaney- Mira- 9780778330158- HC- $29.99- Fiction / Historical- 352 pp. - February 2017 In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets of 18th century London to her stepmother Queenie's Fairy House—a place where decadent excess is a must…

The Color of Our Sky: A Novel by Amita Trasi- William Morrow Paperbacks- 9780062474070- TP Original- $21.00- Fiction- 416 pp. – April 2017 In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice—a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night.

Dragon Springs Road: A Novel by Janie Chang - HarperCollins Canada- 9781443439374- TP Original- $22.99 -Fiction- 384 pp. – January 2017 From the author of Three Souls comes a new novel set in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, where, as an ancient imperial dynasty collapses, a new government struggles to life and two girls—one a Eurasian orphan, the other a daughter of privilege—are bound together in a friendship that will be tested by duty, honour and love.

The Finishing School: A Novel by Joanna Goodman - Harper Paperbacks- 9780062465580- TP Original- $19.99- Fiction- 352 pp. - April 2017 In this suspenseful, provocative novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student twenty years earlier.

The Fire by Night: A Novel by Teresa Messineo- William Morrow- 9780062459107- HC-$33.50 - Fiction / Historical- 320 pp. –January 2017 A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of women who risked their lives in the fight—a riveting saga of friendship, valor, sacrifice, and survival. Simult. TPB (9780062662095, $21.99) & LP (9780062644145, $33.50)

Her Every Fear: A Novel by Peter Swanson- William Morrow- 9780062427021- HC- $33.50- Fiction / Thrillers- 352 pp. – January 2017 The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller—as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark—involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder. Simultaneous TPB (9780062662101, $21.99) and Large Print (9780062643988, $33.50) also available

The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie: A Novel by Cecily Ross - HarperCollins Canada- 9781443450195- TP Original- $22.99- Fiction / Historical- 400 pp. - April 2017 Engrossing historical fiction for readers of The Bride of New France and The Birth House, about one of Canada's most inimitable pioneers and her struggles to survive in the wilderness, brought beautifully to life in this accomplished debut.

The Midnight Cool: A Novel by Lydia Peelle- Harper- 9780062475466- HC- $33.50- Fiction / Literary- 368 pp. - January 2017 The Whiting Award-winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers an enchanting debut novel set in 1916 Tennessee about two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe: mules.

The Midnight Sun: A Novel by Cecilia Ekbäck - HarperCollins Canada- 9781443452052- TP Original- $22.99- Fiction / Thrillers / Historical-336 pp. - March 2017 From the acclaimed author of Wolf Winter comes a new historical crime novel set in Sweden in 1855. The Minister of Justice has received a disturbing message. There’s been a massacre on one of Lapland’s mountains: a priest, a law enforcement officer, and a local settler have been slaughtered by one of the indigenous Sami people. But is the man being held truly responsible?

Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars: A Novel by Miranda Emmerson- HarperCollins Canada- 9780062476722- Hardcover $33.50- HC- Fiction / Literary- 368 pp. - February 2017 In this sparkling debut novel imbued with the rich intrigue of Kate Atkinson’s literary mysteries and the spirited heart of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, a disparate group of Londoners plunge into a search for a missing American actress. Simultaneous TP (9781443450775, $22.99)

Miss You: A Novel by Kate Eberlen -HarperCollins Canada- 9780062460226 – HC- $31.99- Fiction / Contemporary Women- 448 pp. – April 2017 A wryly romantic and moving debut novel with echoes of One Day that asks, What if The One just walked right by you, and you didn’t even know it? Simultaneous TPB (9781443449984, $24.99)

Mitzi Bytes: A Novel by Kerry Clare - 9781443449229- HarperCollins Canada- TP Original- $22.99- Fiction / Contemporary Women- 288 pp. - March 2017 Back when the Internet was still unknown territory, Sarah Lundy started an anonymous blog documenting her return to the dating scene after a devastating divorce. The blog was funny, brutally honest and sometimes outrageous. Readers loved it. Fifteen years later, Sarah is happily remarried and she’s still blogging, but nobody IRL knows about Mitzi- or so Sarah thought until threatening emails start to arrive from the mysterious Jane Q!

No Other World: A Novel by Rahul Mehta- Harper- 9780062020468- HC- $31.99- Fiction/ LGBTQ- 304 pp. - February 2017 From the author of the prize-winning collection Quarantine, No Other World is an insightful, compelling debut novel set in rural America and India in the 1980s and `90s. Part coming-of-age story about a gay Indian American boy, part family saga about an immigrant family's struggles each to find a sense of belonging, identity, and hope.

On Second Thought by Kristan Higgins- HQN- 9780373803972- HC- $29.99- Fiction / Romance- 448 pp. - January 2017 Simultaneous Trade Paperback (9780373789252, $18.99) also available Ainsley O'Leary is so ready to get married—she's even found the engagement ring her boyfriend has stashed away. What she doesn't anticipate is for Eric to blindside her with a tactless breakup he chronicles in a blog…which (of course) goes viral. Devastated and humiliated, Ainsley turns to her half-sister, Kate, who's already struggling after the sudden loss of her new husband.

The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff- Mira- 9780778330639 – HC- $29.99- Fiction/Historical- 352 pp. - February 2017 (Simultaneous TPB: 9780778319818, $19.99) Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier. Her baby taken away, she lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees.

Perfect Little World: A Novel by Kevin Wilson- 9780062450326- HC- $33.50- Fiction / Literary- 352 pp. - January 2017 Isabelle Poole, fresh out of high school and pregnant with her art teacher’s baby, decides to join an experimental commune. It’s a “perfect little world”, created to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are.

Ragdoll: A Novel by Daniel Cole- Ecco- 9780062653956- HC- $34.99 -Fiction / Thrillers- 384 pp. - April 2017 A pulse-pounding procedural with a dark sense of humor, Ragdoll follows a volatile detective as he tracks down a murderer before he becomes its next victim. With a breakneck pace, a twisty plot, and a wicked sense of humor, RAGDOLL announces the arrival of the hottest new brand in crime fiction.

Shining City: A Novel by Tom Rosenstiel- Ecco- 9780062475367- HC- $33.50- Fiction / Thrillers / Political - 368 pp. - February 2017 In the tradition of House of Cards and Michael Connelly’s Bosch series, a polished and gripping political thriller introducing Peter Rena, a fixer hired by the president to vet his nominee for the Supreme Court. Simultaneous Large Print (9780062644435, TP, $33.50)

A Simple Favor: A Novel by Darcey Bell- Harper- 9780062497772- HC- $31.99 - Fiction / Thrillers- 304 pp. - March 2017 A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. Simultaneous TP (9780062666338, $21.99)

The Stolen Child: A Novel by Lisa Carey- Harper Perennial- 9780062492180- $19.99- TP Original- Fiction / Literary- 400 pp. – February 2017 From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants’ lives and tangled relationships—perfect for fans of Sarah Waters, and Angela Carter.

Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh- MIRA- 9780778326854- HC- $29.99- Fiction / Literary- 304 pp. - January 2017 Fifteen-year-old Yasmin Doner is a social misfit—obese, obsessive and deemed a freak by her peers at school. Yasmin yearns for a sense of belonging, finding comfort only in food and the fantasy of being close to Alice Taylor, a girl at school. When Yasmin notices a sinister-looking man watching Alice from the school fence, she sees a way of finally winning Alice's affection—because this stranger, Yasmin believes, is going to take Alice.

The Women in the Castle: A Novel by Jessica Shattuck- William Morrow- 9780062563668-HC- $33.50- Fiction / Literary- 368 pp. -March 2017 Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once grand castle of her husband’s ancestors. The widow of a resistor murdered in the failed July, 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. Simultaneous TPB (9780062663450, $21.99), Large Print (9780062644190, TP, $33.50) and Audio (9780062657398, CD, $55.99) Nonfiction

Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome by Ty Tashiro- William Morrow-9780062429155- HC- $33.50- Psychology / Interpersonal Relations- 288 pp. – April 2017 In the vein of Quiet and The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth comes this illuminating look at what it means to be awkward—and how the same traits that make us socially anxious and cause embarrassing faux pas also provide the seeds for extraordinary success.

The Marriage Bureau: True Stories from 1940s London Matchmakers by Penrose Halson- HarperCollins Canada- 9781443451420- TP Original- $22.99- Biography- 320 pp. - April 2017 In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London’s Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau’s extensive archives, Penrose Halson—who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau—tells their story, and those of their clients.

The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder by Claudia Rowe- Dey Street Books- 9780062416124- HC- $33.50- True Crime / Murder / Serial Killers- 288 pp. -January 2017 In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us.

Steal Away Home: One Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom - And Her Long Road Back to the South by Karolyn Smardz Frost – HarperCollins Canada- 9781554682515- HC- $29.99- History/Canada- 432 pp. – January 2017 For readers of The Book of Negroes, Bound for Canaan, House Girl and The Illegal comes the story of a fifteen-year-old escaped slave named Cecelia Reynolds, who slips away to freedom in Canada while her Kentucky owners holiday at Niagara Falls.

Sunshine State: Essays by Sarah Gerard- Harper Perennial- 9780062434876- TP Original- $19.99 Literary Collections / Essays- 384 pp. -April 2017 Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Florida’s gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survival—physical, emotional, environmental—through a collection of essays exploring intimacy, addiction, obsession, religion, homelessness, and incarceration.

Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee – Ecco- 9780062422156- HC- $34.99- Autobiography -272 pp. - February 2017 Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year’s Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world—quite literally—upside down. By New Year’s Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. For months, Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. It is from these memories that she has constructed this frank and compelling memoir about the stroke that changed her life.

Unbound: Finding Myself on Top of the World by Steph Jagger – HarperCollins Canada- 9781443446587- HC- $32.99- Autobiography- 304 pp. - January 2017 After a lifetime of checking all the right boxes, Steph Jagger decides to leave her paint-by-numbers life and follow winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey. In the process, she tests the mettle of her body, breaks a world record for the most vertical feet skied in a year, falls in love, and learns to live a truly authentic life. In the tradition of Wild and Eat, Pray, Love comes an epic new story about one woman’s triumph of spirit. The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad -HarperCollins Canada- 9781443453448- HC- $32.99-Self- Help / Personal Growth / Happiness- 256 pp.- April 2017 Part investigation, part personal odyssey, award-winning journalist Katrina Onstad shows us why we need to take back the weekend-those once-sacred 48 hours intended for leisure, enjoyment, and relaxation- what a well-lived weekend looks like, and practical ways to make it happen for maximum happiness, creativity, productivity, and success. Simultaneous TPB (9781443449250, $24.99) also available

The Whisky King: The Remarkable True Story of Canada's Most Infamous Bootlegger and the Undercover Mountie on His Trail by Trevor Cole – HarperCollins Canada- 9781443442237- HC- $34.99- True Crime / Organized Crime- 496 pp. - April 2017 A rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, the King of the Bootleggers, Rocco Perri, and the man who pursued him, “Operative No. 1,” Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean Jobb and Charlotte Gray

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