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contents - HarperCollins Publishers
c o n t e n t s
pag e 2
New Fiction and Non-fiction
pag e 43
Harper Paperbacks
pag e 6 0
Harper Weekend
pag e 62
Young Adult & Children's Titles
pag e 7 3
Key Contacts
p a g e 74
Author Index
pag e 75
Title Index
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One of the world’s most innovative business leaders
shares his passion, wisdom and insight
F
rank Stronach came to Canada from Austria with a few dollars
in his pocket, a lot of hustle and a hunger to succeed. In a few
F r a n k S t r o n ach
short years, the young Stronach went from washing dishes to starting
up his own tool and die shop in a rented garage, working long hours
and sleeping on a cot next to his machines. He would build that small
The Magna Man
My Road to Economic Freedom
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shop into Magna International Inc., one of the world’s biggest auto parts
manufacturers, with 115,000 employees in twenty-six countries.
For the first time, and in his own words, Canada’s greatest industrialist tells the remarkable story of how he overcame hardship and heartache to climb to the top of one of the world’s most competitive industries. And along the way, he shares the formula behind his company’s
spectacular success: the unique business philosophy he created known
as Fair Enterprise. It’s a can’t-fail formula that has fuelled the company’s
unstoppable growth and allowed Magna to share billions of dollars in
profits with its employees, managers, shareholders and society.
The Magna Man is not only an inspirational story of business triumph and innovation, it’s an invaluable guide for anyone eager to start
their own business, acquire the skills of a highly effective leader, or make
a difference in the world around them.
F R A N K ST R ON A C H
was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall
of Fame and is a member of the Order of Canada. He is a passionate
philanthropist, having provided assistance to a wide range of charitable
and community service organizations. He has received numerous honorary doctorates and is one of the world’s leading thoroughbred racehorse owners and breeders.
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An intimate, human and philosophical look at the life of
the UFC world champion—his journey from years of bullying to the very top of the world of mixed martial arts
A
s the world’s most popular UFC fighter, Georges “Rush” StPierre seems almost impossibly tough and dominant. But long
before he was “GSP,” as his millions of fans know him, he was just a kid
geo r ges s t - pie r r e
harassed by bullies. But he was also a kid who, thanks to years of practicing martial arts, invented his own way of life.
He became a black belt in karate at the age of 12. In his later teens,
working as a garbage collector to finance his unique and innovative
training methods, GSP learned from repeated losses and ultimately
found a way to triumph in a highly competitive field.
Along the way, he discovered a simple truth: never stop reaching
for your goal.
With startling honesty, GSP relates the true story of growing up in
the martial arts and discovering that his passion for learning and con-
GSP
The Way of the Fight
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stant improvement makes him happy. By way of fighting, he’s discovered
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how to succeed; by way of injury, how to maintain perspective on that
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success. This book highlights the lessons that brought him there, the
unique system he invented to combine various forms of fighting arts,
and the key people who helped make him world champion.
G EO R G ES ST- P I E R R E ,
from Montreal's South Shore, is the current
reigning welterweight champion of the UFC. He practices various
fighting disciplines, including wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and karate.
He won his first amateur bout at age 16. In 2006, he became the UFC
Welterweight Champion; he lost the title in 2007 but regained it in
front of his hometown fans in 2008. He has not lost a single title defense since then. He is now recognized as one of the best pound-forpound MMA fighters and all-around athletes in the world, and he is a
three-time Canadian Athlete of the Year.
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» » T WI TTE R : @Georges S tPierre
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Recessions can hurt . . . but austerity kills
I
n The Body Economic, Dr. David Stuckler and Dr. Sanjay Basu provide hard evidence to reveal the tragic human toll of the ongoing re-
cession worldwide. From a rise in alcoholism in the UK to scores of sui-
D r . D avid S t uc k le r
& D r . S a n jay B asu
cides in California to HIV outbreaks and abandoned children in Greece,
the book tells the stories of people who were not bailed out and who
are now bearing the brunt of the 2007 stock-market crash.
The authors argue that this suffering is not inevitable. Based on a
The Body Economic
decade of groundbreaking research stretched across five continents,
The Body Economic shows how key public health decisions can affect
the impact of financial crises for better or for worse.
How Recessions Affect Your Health
and What to Do About It
growing area of “recession medicine.” It speaks to a hopeful audience,
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Urgent and provocative, The Body Economic draws attention to a
not only providing evidence of the realities of recession and illness
response to difficult conditions. The authors show that recession can
provide opportunities to tackle long-standing public-health problems in
surprising new ways, paving the way for a happier and healthier future.
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publicist: Colleen Simpson/Ashleigh Martyn
D R . D AV I D S T U C K L E R
is a university lecturer in sociology at
Cambridge University and associate faculty at Johns Hopkins'
Department of Health Policy and Management. He lives in Cambridge,
England.
D R . S A N J AY B A S U
is an assistant professor of medicine and an epi-
demiologist at the Prevention Research Center of Stanford University. A
former Rhodes Scholar, he lives in San Francisco.
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The journey of a man who loses everything in one
terrible moment
W
hen Leo, a young painter, arrives on La Mouche, a tiny island
off the coast of Normandy, in 1966, he is in crisis, devastated
by the loss of his French wife and child, who were killed in a terrorist attack in Cyprus two years earlier. The local priest, Père Caron, hopes that
lewis d e so t o
the island will in time work its magic and free Leo from guilt and despair.
Soon, Leo finds himself strangely drawn to two troubled people: Lorca,
a brilliant composer fighting demons from her own past, and Tobias, an
orphaned boy whose wildness masks an inability to speak. But can Leo
ever move beyond his own losses to find, perhaps, a new definition of
love and the restoration of hope?
This luminous novel from the acclaimed author of A Blade of Grass
explores the intersection of creativity and love and the ways in which
the past is woven into the present. DeSoto’s marvellous painterly eye, his
affinity for the natural world and his deep insight into human nature—in
particular, the act of artistic creation—have produced an unforgettable
work of fiction set in a landscape that is the stuff of dreams.
PRAISE FOR A BL ADE OF GR A SS
“An admirable offering . . . finely rendered, vital and moving.”
—NATIONAL POST
“A significant work of post-colonial literature . . . and a gripping
read. A wondrous thing indeed.” —THE GAZETTE (montreal)
“An intense reading experience. . . . Something readers will
remember.” —CHICAGO TRIBUNE
L E W I S D e SOTO
was born in South Africa and moved to Canada as
a teenager. His first novel, A Blade of Grass, was an international bestseller and an International Book of the Month selection. Longlisted for
both the Man Booker Prize and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the
novel was also a finalist for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje
Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. DeSoto is
also the author of a biography of the painter Emily Carr. An artist as well
as a writer, he divides his time between Toronto and Normandy, France.
» » web: lewisdesoto.com
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A Blade of Grass
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The Restoration Artist
A Novel
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“Gloriously gifted and alarmingly intelligent, Engel
writes with an almost fable-like intensity.” —Junot Díaz
L
ita del Cielo has been granted one year to pursue her studies in
Paris before returning to America to work in the family business.
pa t r icia e n gel
She moves into a gently crumbling Left Bank mansion known as the
House of Stars, where the spirited but bedridden Countess Séraphine
rents out rooms to young women visiting Paris to study, work, and, un-
It's Not Love,
It's Just Paris
A Novel
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officially, to find love. Cautious and guarded, Lita keeps a cool distance
from the other girls, who have come to the City of Light from all over the
world, and who intimidate and fascinate her. Then one day Lita meets
Cato, and the contours of her world shift.
Set in a Paris of late-night bars, parties on the river, and vintage
shops, Engel’s debut novel marks the arrival of an original new voice.
PRAISE FOR VIDA
“The stories in Patricia Engel’s striking debut collection are like
snapshots from someone’s photo album: glimpses of relatives,
friends, lovers and acquaintances, sometimes posing, sometimes
caught by the camera unawares. . . . [Engel has] a voice that’s
immediate, unsentimental and disarmingly direct.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The N e w Yor k Times
“Here, friends, is the debut I have been waiting for.”
—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Won d rous
L i fe o f Oscar Wao and This is H ow You Lose H er
PAT R I C I A E N G E L
was born to Colombian parents and raised in New
Jersey. She has a degree in French and art history from New York University and an MFA from Florida International University. Her first book,
Vida, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction awards; the winner of an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for literary fiction; and was named a
New York Times Notable Book of the Year and an LA Weekly Top Book
of the Year. She lives in Miami, Florida.
» » WE B : patriciaen g el .com
» » FAC E B OOK: patricia eng el
» » T WIT T E R: @ patricia _ engel
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A wrenching and dramatic story that explores the fabric
of family: sibling rivalries, marriages on the rocks, hurt
children, midlife crises—in short, modern life
W
hen Charlie Bellerose reunites with his flamboyant brother
Nate, after two decades apart, their youthful rivalry seems
forgotten. Drawn together again by their failed marriages, trying to
de n n is boc k
survive in a world of long-distance parenting and hopeful reunions,
they begin to imagine that they can be a new family of sorts. But Charlie’s chance encounter with his first love, Holly, now happily married,
unravels his past and complicates his present, plunging him back to
his bittersweet college days in Montreal and the fate of his best friend
Miles, and forward into Nate’s dangerous attraction to Holly’s sixteenyear-old daughter, Riley. Yet even Charlie, with all he now knows about
his brother, cannot foresee the violence to come.
A novel about the mysteries of the human heart, Going Home
Again is rich with the exquisite tensions between men and women as
they fall in and out of love.
PRAISE FOR THE A SH GAR DEN
“Mysterious and compelling. . . . An elegant, unnerving novel.”
—TH E N E W YO R K TIM E S
“Beautifully composed and finely realized.” —N ATIO N A L P OS T
PRAISE FOR THE COMMUNIST’S DAUGHTER
“Another triumph from Dennis Bock. . . . Vivid and haunting.”
—N OW M AGA ZIN E
D ENN I S B OC K’ s
first book of stories, Olympia, won the CAA Jubilee
Award, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Betty Trask Award in
the UK. His first novel, The Ash Garden, was a #1 bestseller and was
published to international acclaim. It won the Canada-Japan Literary
Award and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Kiriyama Prize and the
Amazon.ca First Novel Award.
ALSO AVAILABLE BY DENNIS BOCK
The Ash Garden
9780006485452 • $19.95 TPB
The Communist’s Daughter
9780006392378 • $21.95 TPB
Olympia
9780006392361 • $18.95 TPB
Going Home Again
A Novel
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A raw and groundbreaking journey to the depths of
addiction, from a Giller-longlisted author
C
olleen Kerrigan wakes up sick and bruised, with no clear memory of the night before. She vows to quit drinking. It’s Monday
lau r e n b . davis
morning, and she is late for work again. She’s shocked to see the nearempty vodka bottle on her kitchen counter. It was full at noon yesterday;
surely she didn’t drink that much last night? As she struggles out the
The Empty Room
A Novel
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door to the bus, she fights the urge to have a sip, just to take the edge
off. But no, she’s not going to drink today.
But today is the day Colleen’s demons come for her. A very bad
day spirals into night as a series of flashbacks take the reader through
Colleen’s past—moments of friendship and loss, and fragments of peace
and possibility. We see how connections fade, how crippling loneliness
can be, and we witness the importance and grace of one person reaching out to another. The single constant is the bottle—always in reach,
Colleen’s worst enemy and her only friend.
In this partly autobiographical work, acclaimed novelist Lauren B.
Davis has created as searing, raw and powerful a portrayal of the chaos
and pain of alcoholism as we have seen in fiction. With compassion,
insight and an irresistible gallows humour, The Empty Room takes us on
a clear-eyed journey to the depths of addiction and poses the bracing
question of whether it’s ever possible to get all the way back.
P R A I S E F O R O U R D A I LY B R E A D
“One of the best of the year.” — BOS TO N GLO BE
“Stark, beautiful, sad and frankly terrifying. . . . Finely crafted, with
careful attention to characterization, style and pacing. It succeeds
on every level.” — QU I L L & QU I R E
L A U R E N B . D AV I S
( s ta r r ed r eview )
is the author of the bestselling and critically ac-
claimed novels The Stubborn Season, The Radiant City and Our Daily
Bread, which was longlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and
named as a best book of the year by both The Globe and Mail and the
Boston Globe. Born in Montreal, she now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
» » web : laurenbdavis.com
» » facebook : L auren b . davis, writer
» » twitter : @ L aurenbdavis
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Our Daily Bread
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The Radiant City
9780006393474 • $19.95 TPB
The Stubborn Season
9780006391869 • $19.95 TPB
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The inspirational memoir of the Canadian boxer who
fought some of the greatest heavyweights in history,
including Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, but lost
everything outside the ring
F
rom a tough Toronto childhood as the only son of immigrant parents, through a twenty-three-year career that earned him induc-
tion into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, to the public tragedies that
G eo r ge C huvalo
w i t h M u r r ay G r eig
decimated his family long after the cheering stopped, George Chuvalo
tells his life story as only he can.
Chuvalo traded punches with several all-time greats—Joe Frazier,
George Foreman and, most famously, Muhammad Ali (twice)—yet in
nearly one hundred bouts, he was never knocked down. But his biggest fight came after he hung up his gloves, when drugs and suicide
devastated his family. Chuvalo is both a top-flight boxing memoir and a
poignant, hard-hitting story of coping with unimaginable loss.
Chuvalo: A Fighter’s Life
The Story of Boxing’s Last Gladiator
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G E O R G E C H U VA L O
is the longest reigning champion in Canadian
boxing history. After teaching himself the basics, he turned pro as an
eighteen-year-old in 1956 and over the next twenty-three years fought
some of the sport’s greatest names. After retiring from the ring in 1979,
Chuvalo has had to come to terms with a series of crushing body blows.
His youngest son, a heroin addict, died of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound. Two others died from heroin overdoses. In between, his first
wife, overcome with grief, took her own life. Yet Chuvalo has stoically
fought back. He formed his Fight Against Drugs foundation in 1996 and
has spent the last seventeen years travelling across Canada and parts of
the United States, talking to tens of thousands of students and young
adults about what happened to his family.
» » web: fightagainstdrugs .ca
M U R R AY G R E I G
launched his career in journalism in 1976 and in 1983
began a long association with Sun Media that has included stints as an
editor and columnist in Calgary, Winnipeg and Edmonton, where he is
currently based. In 2003–2004, Greig spent thirteen months in Beijing
as the lead sports columnist for China Daily. He is the author of five
previous books.
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A celebration of life from a woman who is facing
death—and who knows every day counts
I
n June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Geh-
S usa n S pe n ce r - W e n del
and Bret Witter
rig’s disease. It is a disease that systematically destroys the nerves that
power muscles; Susan, forty-five years old and a mother of three, already walks with braces and is losing her ability to speak. Though Susan
cannot stop the rapid decline of her body, she refuses to let her life stop
Until I Say Good-Bye
A Memoir
before its time. Since her diagnosis, Susan has made sure that every day
counts. She is more present than ever in her daily life, and ready to share
her strength, determination and spirit.
Susan’s story began attracting interest when she published a piece
in her local paper about a trip she took to see the northern lights fol-
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lowing her diagnosis. But one of the most important adventures Susan
has planned will take her to New York City with her fourteen-year-old
daughter, Marina. Susan and Marina, both big fans of TLC’s Say Yes to
the Dress, will visit Kleinfeld Bridal, where the two can share the experience of Marina’s search for the perfect dress for the wedding Susan will
never see.
Until I Say Good-Bye is a truly magical story and so much more
than one woman’s “bucket list.” It’s a celebration of life, a look into the
face of death, and an account of the effort we must make to show
the people we love and care about how very much they mean to us.
A journalist for over twenty years, S U S A N S P E N C E R -W E N D E L left
her job as courts reporter for the Palm Beach Post when she was diagnosed with ALS in 2011. She has been honoured by the Society of
Professional Journalists, the Florida Press Club and Florida Bar for her
coverage of legal issues. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from the
University of Florida. She lives in Florida with her husband, John, and
their three children, fourteen-year-old Marina, ten-year-old Aubrey and
nine-year-old Wesley.
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“One story is all stories,” says Colum McCann, author of
the award-winning Let the Great World Spin
I
n his remarkable new novel, Colum McCann masterfully reaches
across the centuries to braid together three unforgettable stories.
In 1845, a black American slave lands in Ireland to champion ideas of
democracy and freedom, only to find a terrible famine unfurling at
C olum M c C a n n
his feet. In 1919, two brave young airmen emerge from the carnage
of World War I to pilot the first transatlantic flight from St. John’s,
Newfoundland, to the west of Ireland. And in 1998, an American
senator criss-crosses the ocean in search of a lasting peace in Ireland.
Taking these stories as his point of departure, Colum McCann
weaves together the lives of Frederick Douglass, John Alcock and Teddy
Brown and Senator George Mitchell in a tapestry that is provocative,
ambitious and unforgettable.
P R A I S E F O R L E T T H E G R E AT W O R L D S P I N
“Every character, from priest to hooker to veteran’s grieving
mother, grabs you by the throat and makes you care. McCann’s
dazzling polyphony walks the high wire and succeeds
triumphantly.” —eMMA DONOGHUE
“This is a gorgeous book, multi-layered and deeply felt, and it’s a
damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write
one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There’s so much
passion and humour and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the
Great World Spin that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.” —DAVE EGGERS, editor of M c S WEEN E Y ’ S and author of
What Is the What
C O L U M M c C A NN ,
originally from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of
five novels and two collections of stories. He has won numerous international literary awards for his work, including the U.S. National
Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the
Hennessy Award. His novel Let the Great World Spin was a bestseller
on four continents. His short film Everything in This Country Must was
nominated for an Oscar. His fiction has been published in over thirty
languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly,
GQ, The Paris Review and Granta, among others. McCann lives in New
York with his wife, Allison, and their three children. He teaches at the
MFA program at Hunter College.
» » web: colum mccann.com
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Let the Great World Spin
9781443412315 • $18.99 TPB
Transatlantic
A Novel
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A parenting guide from the viral sensation that has parents laughing in playgrounds across the country
T
he toddler stage can be a rude awakening for parents, whose
sweet infants morph, seemingly overnight, into tyrants. Their iron
t he ho n es t t oddle r
w r i t t e n u n de r t he supe r visio n
of bu n mi ladi t a n
will is matched only by their adorableness and changeability: a toddler
will take your hand and say “I love you,” then slap you in the face.
Parents aren’t blameless, though—toddlers have their own grievances. They just don’t express them “with their words,” whatever that means.
But finally, after minutes of horror, they have The Honest Toddler to speak
The Honest Toddler
The Definitive Guide to Successful Parenting
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on their behalf. Who better to instruct parents on the needs of toddlers
than a toddler himself, who can authoritatively spell out preferred toddler
foods (fishy crackers: stat!), sleep training methods (hint: none), and the
proper response to bananas with strings (complete collapse).
With a voice that is at once inimitable and universal, The Honest Toddler has built a loyal following of parents laughing through their tears as
they recognize their own child in the shenanigans of one bravely honest
toddler. From the indignity of a trip to Canadian Tire to the rough park justice of sand-throwing, from the legal torture that is a night of cry-it-out to
the outrage of being served diluted apple juice, The Honest Toddler sets
the record straight in this indispensible guide to parenting, toddler-style.
“Thought I ate an M&M. It was a button. I regret nothing.”
“Lady offered me a piece of chickpea loaf. Hit it out of her
hand because that’s what cake would have wanted.”
“Oh, we’re out of cookies? Well, now we’re also out of unbroken television remotes, so deal with that.”
Th e H ONEST T O D D L E R
lives in Montreal and enjoys attention,
cake, television, running and games. He has 130,000 adults following
him on Twitter.
» » WE B : thehonesttoddler.com
» » FAC E B OOK: honest toddler
» » T WIT T E R: @thehonesttoddler
B U N M I L A D I TA N
started her first media company at age eighteen.
Soon after, she launched and sold a social networking site geared toward moms and began a social media agency, working with Fortune
500 companies. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post,
Mothering and iVillage.com, where her satirical pieces on parenting and politics have often gone viral. In May 2012, she created The
Honest Toddler, a character based on her youngest child. She lives with
her family near Montreal.
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The bestselling author of Frozen in Time and The Third
Man Factor explores a haunting phenomenon—the
apparition of an unbidden angelic presence in times of
great stress that provides guidance and comfort
J
ohn Geiger’s last book, The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, explored an extraordinary idea: that people under enormous
J oh n G eige r
stress, sometimes at the edge of death, experience a sense of an incorporeal being beside them, who encourages them to survive. Through
his research and the response from readers around the world, it became
clear to Geiger that explorers and adventurers are not the sole recipients of such interventions.
It’s a phenomenon encountered across the world and shared by
men and women, the religious and the non-religious, throughout history. Under extreme stress, people often encounter a benevolent being
that can perform everyday miracles—saving lives, offering advice, providing a balm to victims and those in the throes of disease.
The Angel Effect describes people’s encounters with this power
when faced with physical and sexual assaults; after terrible car accidents
and airplane crashes; during events like a shark attack or a bank heist; in
the midst of a long illness or in cases of persistent, gnawing loneliness.
It explores how an ancient prayer, discovered by monks in the Egyptian
desert in the early Christian era, may hold the key to accessing the effect at will.
P raise for T he T hird M an Factor
“This deeply humane book is far more than the sum of its parts:
Geiger elegantly demonstrates how these divergent and very
personal experiences reveal our profoundly social nature.”
—M aclean ’ s
“Offers a fascinating look at the phenomena through the eyes of
those who have experienced it and invites speculation about our
beliefs.” — A ssociated Press
JOHN GEIGER
is the bestselling author of The Third Man Factor: Sur-
viving the Impossible and four other books of non-fiction, including the
international bestseller Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. His work has been translated into eleven languages. Born in Ithaca,
New York, Geiger is the Editorial Board Editor at The Globe and Mail
and a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. He is president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society. He lives in Toronto.
» » W E B: johng eig er . net
The Angel Effect
The Powerful Force That Ensures
We Are Never Alone
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Four bodies in the water. A father, mother and son convicted of murder. The shocking truth about the “honourless crime” that stunned a nation
O
n the morning of June 30, 2009, police in an eastern Ontario
Rob T r ipp
city made a ghastly discovery: four females dead in a car sub-
merged in a shallow canal. Sisters Zainab Shafia, nineteen, Sahar Shafia, seventeen, Geeti Shafia, thirteen, and Rona Mohammad Amir, fifty,
Without Honour
The True Story of the Shafia Family
and the Kingston Canal Murders
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floated serenely inside the car, seemingly the victims of a terrible accident. That morning, Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba and their son,
Hamed, arrived at the Kingston police station to report the four missing.
In a sweeping covert investigation that spanned three continents, police
uncovered layers of lies in the Shafias’ story and developed a horrifying theory: Zainab, Sahar, Geeti and Rona had been the victims of a
meticulously plotted family murder—Canada’s first mass honour killing. In Without Honour, award-winning journalist Rob Tripp draws on
three years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews to make
sense of a senseless crime in a way no other writer could. His unprece-
other rights: The Hellen Heller Agency
dented access tells a story beyond anything the jury heard: a story about
editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Rob Firing
a patriarch who fled war and strife in Afghanistan but who did not leave
behind his devotion to repressive tradition. Tripp was the first journalist
on the scene as the news broke and the only reporter to attend every
day of court sessions, through to the convictions of Mohammad, Tooba and Hamed on four counts each of first-degree murder, fuelled by
what Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Maranger called a “twisted
notion of honour.” In this gripping and compassionate account, Tripp
reveals the heartbreaking and stunning truth about the desperate lives
of four women who died in the pursuit of freedom.
ROB TRIPP
is an award-winning investigative reporter who has been
covering crime for more than twenty-five years. He has worked for CBC
Radio, the Toronto Star, the National Post, The Gazette (Montreal) and
the Kingston Whig-Standard, among other papers. He is a regular commentator on crime and justice issues for national media. He has won a
National Newspaper Award and has been nominated five more times,
including twice for his coverage of the Shafia case. Formerly a resident
of Kingston, he now lives with his family in Calgary.
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Summer 2 0 1 3
From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award
finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a striking new
novel about siblings, marriage and obesity
F
or Pandora, food is central to life, so central that she sometimes
wonders if “She foraged” should be engraved on her tombstone.
lio n el sh r ive r
For her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed cabinetmaker who crafts
lovely but unaffordable one-of-a-kind furniture, exercise is paramount:
he spends hours a day cycling. But the couple’s comfortable, if sometimes strained, routine is about to be irrevocably changed with the arrival
of Pandora’s big brother, Edison, who is now three times the size he was
when the siblings last saw each other. He is, in fact, morbidly obese.
And it’s not just the weight. Edison interjects himself into Pandora’s
world—breaking Fletcher’s handiwork, making massive breakfasts for
the family and, most disconcertingly, forming a bond with Pandora’s
stepchildren and opening doors to the past and to her parents that she
would rather keep shut.
Determined to keep her family together, and to confront the literal elephant in the room, Pandora embarks on a challenge: she’ll find
an apartment for Edison, move in with him and support him financially,
but only if he loses weight—enough weight to resemble the person he
once was. It will be the hardest thing that Edison has ever done. The
result is a series of transformations so shocking that it throws the family
into chaos and presents Pandora with a challenge of her own: do you
sometimes have to choose between the family you’re born into and
the one you’ve created?
PRAISE FOR LIONEL SHRIVER
“If Jodi Picoult has her finger on the zeitgeist, Shriver has her
hands around its throat.” —RON CHARLES, TH E WA SH IN GTO N P OS T
“Shriver’s understanding of her people is so intimate, so unsentimental . . . it lofts these characters permanently into the reader’s
imagination.” —MICHIKO KAKUTANI, TH E N E W YO R K TIM E S
LIONEL SHRIVER’s
novels include The New Republic, the National
Book Award finalist So Much for That, New York Times bestseller The
Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk
About Kevin.
ALSO AVAILABLE BY LIONEL SHRIVER
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Big Brother
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An exhilarating journey through high fashion (real and
counterfeit), the war against fake consumer goods, and
the irresistible realm of Parisian luxury, from the author
of the bestselling J'adore New York
I sabelle L afl è che
W
hen chic Parisian lawyer Catherine Lambert lands her dream
job as intellectual property director for Christian Dior, she
is on top of the world. She’s prepared to embark on the ride of her life
J’adore Paris
A Novel
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in the world of fashion, fighting high-profile legal battles against international counterfeiters. She’ll also be reunited with colleague-turnedboyfriend Antoine in her beloved hometown.
But Catherine’s visions of front-row seats at the couture shows and
strolling the Champs-Élysées hand in hand with the love of her life are
soon displaced by the realities of dingy police vans and threatening
anonymous phone calls. The code of ethics that she knew from mergers
and acquisitions does not seem to apply in the nefarious counterfeiting
other rights: Peter W. Bernstein
underworld, and Catherine finds her life turned upside-down by sur-
editor: Lorissa Sengara • publicist: Bridget Haines
prise meetings in dark alleys and an unexpected degree of notoriety
among the criminal element. Will Catherine and her loyal assistant,
Rikash, manage to outsmart even the most crooked of characters and
come out on top?
P R A I S E F O R J ’A D O R E N E W Y O R K
“Just the right blend of froth and Sex and the City.”
—TH E GA ZE T TE (MONTREAL)
“Isabelle Laflèche has skewered corporate life with an elegant and
deadly accuracy. A stylish and very entertaining debut.”
—ISABEL WOLFF, author of A V I N TAGE A FFA I R
“Stylish, sassy and fun.”
—LISA STEINKE and LIZ FENTON, authors of I ’ L L H AV E W H O SH E’ S H AV I N G
ISABELLE L AFLÈCHE
worked for more than ten years as a corporate
attorney in New York City, Montreal and Toronto. She now writes on
culture, books and fashion for the Quebec fashion magazine Clin d’oeil.
J’adore Paris is the sequel to her bestselling debut novel, J’adore New
York. She lives in Montreal.
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Summer 2 0 1 3
17
A jilted wife adopts a femme fatale persona: confident,
sexy and set on revenge
W
hen Clara Bishop, a struggling screenwriter-turned-tabloidjournalist in Hollywood, is jilted by her philandering hus-
band, she follows him to London, determined to win him back. Armed
with only a glamorous wardrobe of vintage clothing inherited from her
k im i z z o
grandmother, a former film noir actress, Clara discovers that the clothes
really do make the woman. Dressed to kill, she adopts a new femme
fatale persona: confident, sexy and set on revenge. But on the road
to retaliation, Clara discovers an unfinished film script that sheds light
on her grandmother’s mysterious death years before. Then it happens:
somehow, magically, her whole life is transported back in time, into a
living, breathing film noir that reveals to Clara the potential to write her
own ending.
PRAISE FOR THE JA NE AUSTEN M A R R I AGE M A NUA L
“[A] delightful page-turner of a romantic comedy that’s filmic in its
deft depiction of characters and sharp plot twists.”
—TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL
“Kate Shaw is the Bridget Jones for our age. Unstoppable, unflappable, full of charm and quick-witted maneuvers, she trips,
stumbles, and soars her way into our hearts. This is a seriously
funny book!” —WILL FERGUSON, winner of the scotiabank giller
prize and THE LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
K IM IZ ZO
is the author of The Jane Austen Marriage Manual, her first
novel, and is also co-author of the international bestseller The Fabulous
Girl’s Guide to Decorum and The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Grace Under
Pressure. She has appeared on numerous television and radio shows,
including Oprah, The Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor and Canada AM.
Her advice and opinions have appeared in the pages of The New York
Times Sunday Styles section, InStyle, Marie Claire, Glamour, Red Book,
Cosmopolitan and Vogue (U.K.). She is deputy editor/beauty director
of Zoomer magazine.
» » web: ki m izzo.com
» » FACE BO O K : Kim Izzo
» » T witter: @ki m izzo
ALSO AVAILABLE BY KIM IZZO
The Jane Austen Marriage Manual
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Life in Black and White
A Novel
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A tale of love, vodka, coming out and a life-changing
storm of the century
W
hen his parents tell him that they’re splitting up and his dad
leaves home, a ten-year-old boy begs the sky to help him.
P ie r r e S z alows k i
The next day, a storm covers Montreal in a deep layer of ice. As the
power goes out across the city and the temperature drops, people must
help each other in order to survive. The boy is convinced that it’s all his
Fish Change Direction
in Cold Weather
A Novel
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fault.
But at least one neighbourhood will never be the same. Julie, the
exotic dancer who lives across the street, helps Boris, an eccentric Russian mathematician, save his fish from the cold weather. And the urbane
Michel and Simon open their door to Alexis, their homophobic neighbour, and his son. Three days in the frozen city will turn their lives upside
down—but will the ice storm bring the boy’s parents back together?
Sparklingly funny, wise and joyful, Fish Change Direction in Cold
Weather reminds us that life is full of the unexpected, and that happy
endings might still be possible.
other rights: Canongate Books Ltd.
sponsoring editor: Jennifer Lambert
publicist: Maylene Loveland
“A book that does nothing less than make you happy. . . .
An absolute pleasure.” —FRANCE INTER
“This novel is full of quiet happiness. It transforms you. . . .
A great breath of truth and good humour, fresh and delicate.”
—la R ÉFÉR EN CE
“Just a mouthful of a book, but a delicious one.”
—VO I R M O N TR E A L
PIER R E SZ A LOWSK I
has been a press photographer, an artistic di-
rector in marketing and the vice president of Ubisoft. These days, he is
a screenwriter and novelist. Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather is
his first book and was an international bestseller. He lives in Montreal.
» » T WIT T E R: @ pierreszalowski
Summer 2 0 1 3
When a married man suffers a sudden fatal accident,
two women are shattered—his wife and someone
else's—and past secrets, desires and regrets are
brought to light
W
hile walking home from work one evening, Jeff Manning is
struck by a car and killed. Not one but two women fall to
C a t he r i n e M c Ke n z ie
pieces at the news: his wife, Claire, and his co-worker Tish. Reeling from
her loss, Claire must comfort her grieving son and contend with funeral
arrangements, well-meaning family members and the arrival of Jeff’s estranged brother—her ex-boyfriend—Tim.
With Tish’s co-workers in the dark about her connection to Jeff
outside the workplace, she volunteers to attend the funeral on the company’s behalf, but only she knows the true risk of inserting herself into
the wreckage of Jeff’s life. Told through the three voices of Jeff, Tish and
Claire, Hidden explores the complexity of relationships, our personal
choices and the responsibilities we have to the ones we love.
Hidden
A Novel
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P R A I S E F O R C AT H E R I N E M c K E N Z I E
“[Forgotten] is a refreshing take on your typical coming-of-age
story. . . . A must-read.”
—RO M A N TIC TIM E S (four stars)
“Arranged addresses a serious issue—marriage—with pathos
and humour in the style of the romantic oeuvre for the thirtysomething set. Think Eat, Pray, Love and Sex and the City,
with a peppering of Harlequin romance.”
—TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL
“Spin is a compelling, fast-paced read.”
—TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL
C AT H E R I N E M c K E N Z I E
was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec.
A graduate of McGill University and McGill Law School, Catherine
practices law in Montreal. She is an avid runner and skier. Her novels
include Forgotten, as well as Spin and Arranged, which are international bestsellers.
» » web: catherinemckenzie .com
» » FACE BO O K : Catherine McK enzie
» » T WI TTE R : @CEMc Kenzie1
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Spin
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A suspenseful, intoxicating mystery of art, young
love and betrayal, set amid the glory and corruption
of Renaissance Rome
W
hen young Francesco Angeli sees a golden-haired woman
G i n a B uo n agu r o
a n d J a n ice Ki r k
being pulled from the Tiber on a rainy Rome morning, he is
shocked to realize that he knows her. It is 1508, and Francesco is a reluctant houseboy to Michelangelo, who is at work on the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel. Francesco prefers the company of the urbane Raphael
The Wolves of St. Peter’s
A Novel
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and the artistic circle that gathers at the home of Imperia, who operates a brothel in the shadow of the Vatican while the all-powerful Pope
Julius II turns a blind eye. The woman in the river is one of Imperia’s
ladies, and against his will, Francesco becomes involved in the search
for the truth about her death.
Meanwhile, rising waters flood the city’s streets, turning Romans
into refugees and the Coliseum into an emergency refuge, and hungry
wolves descend from the hills to stalk the city like ghosts. As Francesco
follows the deepening mystery from the backstreets to the pope’s inner sanctum, he begins to realize that danger and corruption may lurk
behind the most beautiful of facades.
P R A I S E F O R T H E S I D E WA L K A R T I S T “There is enough erudition about the painter and his times—and
enough charming detail about Paris and Italy—to give sustenance
to all the romantically starved among us.”
— BO O K S I N C A N A DA
“Dripping with idealized romantic settings, mystery, art and a
touch of magic, The Sidewalk Artist will keep readers wondering
what is real and what is artifice—as fine paintings always do.”
—SUSAN VREELAND, author of GI R L I N H YACI N TH BLU E
G I N A B U ON A G U R O
and
JANICE KIRK
live in Toronto and Kings-
ton, respectively. After meeting in a French class in Kingston, they became writing partners and co-authors. They are the authors of two previous novels, The Sidewalk Artist and Ciao Bella.
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Summer 2 0 1 3
When her marriage collapses and puts an adoption at
risk, Eleanor Sweet hires Isabelle, a search angel, to
find her own birth mother—and uncovers some painful
secrets about the past
A
s the owner of the upscale children’s boutique Pretty Baby,
Eleanor Sweet is surrounded by gleaming strollers, organic
Tish C ohe n
cotton onesies and round-bellied expectant mothers. It’s a serene
atmosphere of new beginnings but for the sounds of punk and funk
coming from the graffiti-splattered new record shop next door and
Eleanor’s fierce desire for a baby of her own. Her wish for a child is
finally granted in the form of Lily, an abandoned baby en route from
Korea. But Eleanor’s husband unexpectedly backs out, and the adoption is at risk.
Orphaned as a young woman herself and determined to give Lily
the family she deserves, Eleanor hires Isabelle, a search angel, to find
her own birth mother. What Eleanor discovers about love and family
isn’t what she expects but gives a new understanding of what it means
to be a mother.
P R A I S E F O R T I S H CO H E N
“There are some books you can’t put down and others that won’t
even let you look away. Tish Cohen’s new novel is both.”
—TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL on TH E TRU TH A BOU T DELIL A H BLU E
“A beautifully written, finely wrought, race-to-the-end novel
about finding your family, finding a life and finding yourself. Tish
Cohen is the next great thing in women’s fiction.”
—ALLISON WINN SCOTCH, N e w Yor k Times bestselling author, on
TH E TRU TH A BO U T D ELIL A H BLU E
“This highly readable first novel offers plenty of sardonic humor
and a cast of endearing eccentrics.”
—BO O K L IS T on TOW N H OUSE
T I S H CO H EN
is the author of both YA and adult novels, including The
Truth About Delilah Blue, Inside Out Girl and Town House. The latter
two have been optioned for film.
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“The business world owes Rasmus much gratitude for
his facts-based, in-depth studies of what it truly takes to
possess, identify and build talent.”
—Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO of the Lego Group
Rasmus A n k e r se n
W
hy are 137 of the world’s 500 best female golfers from South
Korea? How did one athletic club in Jamaica produce most
of the world’s best sprinters? What’s the reason that the world’s best
The Gold Mine Effect
Crack the Secrets of High Performance
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marathon runners grew up in the same village in Ethiopia? What is the
secret behind Brazil’s mass production of soccer superstars? How has
one tennis club in Moscow managed to develop more top tennis players in ten years than the whole of the United States?
For six months, Rasmus Ankersen travelled around the world visiting these talent gold mines. He talked, trained and lived with the athletes in order to discover what, if anything, they have in common and to
attempt to crack the code of developing world-class talent. The result
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is The Gold Mine Effect, a book that questions all the misconceptions,
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conventional wisdom and popular theories about talent, hard work, par-
sponsoring editor: Brad Wilson • publicist: Sonya Koson
enting and motivation and looks at how we can apply this knowledge
to our own lives.
R ASMUS ANKERSEN
is the bestselling author of The DNA of a Win-
ner and Raising a Winner, two of the bestselling business books in Denmark. Rasmus speaks about the Gold Mine Effect for organizations and
companies all over the world, including at the famous TED forum. In his
home country, Denmark, he has been recognized as one of the three
most influential business coaches, and the prime minister recently invited him to contribute a chapter to his upcoming book. Rasmus, who
is bilingual, has now moved to London as he is in high demand internationally as a speaker, currently delivering 120 talks each year all over
the world.
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Summer 2 0 1 3
Is Kelly Oxford the next David Sedaris?
The next Chelsea Handler? The next Sloane Crosley?
No, they were the last Kelly Oxford
K
elly Oxford has been one of the most hysterical voices on the
Internet since it was still a series of tubes. In 1997, she began
sharing stories of her life as a young wife and mother on a Geocities
Kelly O x fo r d
page, then on an anonymous blog, then on a MySpace account. She
eventually found her métier in the widely followed Tumblr blog Eject
and in her raucous, sometimes filthy, always hilarious Twitter feed, which
now has 400,000 followers. There is no mistaking Oxford’s voice:
“Something people in McDonalds have? Fries. Something
people in McDonalds don’t have? Ankles.”
“Caught 2 yr old chewing on a corn kernel she found in her
shoe; looks like my husband doesn’t need that paternity test
after all!”
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“When my dog smells someone’s crotch I say, ‘Sorry, she’s
one of those cancer-smelling dogs.’”
“Had my son’s hearing tested because he’s always yelling.
Turns out he’s just an asshole.”
Straight-talking and riotously funny, Kelly Oxford has garnered an
incredible following through her trademark blend of biting wit, selfdeprecation and a knack for seeing the hilarity in the everyday. Now,
she has written a side-splitting book of stories that shine her blindingly
sardonic light on life as she sees it. From childhood to motherhood,
from the zany to the tear-jerking, Oxford covers it all.
P R A I S E F O R K E L LY OX F O R D
“Well, she’s bitingly funny, but everybody knows that.”
—ROGER EBERT
“Kelly Oxford is one of the funniest writers I have read in a long
time.” — J A S O N
Everything Is Perfect
When You’re a Liar
S EG E L
K E L LY O X F O R D
is a thirty-four-year-old former model turned stay-
at-home mother to three. She has always been a writer but came into
the international spotlight via Twitter, where she currently has over
400,000 followers. Her Tumblr has received five million hits and counting. Though she has spent the last decade in Calgary, she considers herself an Edmontonian.
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editor: Kate Cassaday • publicist: Emma Ingram
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From the writer praised as a cross between Hitchcock
and Dostoyevsky, a dark and suspenseful novel set in
post-war Vienna among the spectators in a criminal trial
M
id-summer, 1948. Two strangers, Anna Beer and young Rob-
D a n V yle t a
ert Seidel, meet on a train as they return to Vienna, where life
is just resuming after the upheavals of war. Men who were conscripted
into the German army are filtering back home, including Anna’s es-
The Crooked Maid
A Novel
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tranged husband, Dr. Anton Beer, who was held prisoner in a brutal
Russian camp. But when Anna returns to their old apartment, she finds
another man living there and her husband missing.
At his own house, Robert is greeted by a young maid with a deformed spine. The household is in disarray, with his mother addicted to
narcotics and his stepfather, an industrialist and former Party member,
hospitalized after a mysterious attack.
Determined to rebuild their lives, Anna and Robert each begin a
other rights: Writers House LLC
dogged search for answers in a world where repression is the order of
editor: Jennifer Lambert • publicist: Emma Ingram
the day. Before long, they are reunited as spectators at a criminal trial
set to deliver judgment on Austria’s Nazi crimes.
In The Crooked Maid, Dan Vyleta conjures up a city haunted by its
sins and a people caught between the needs of the present and debts
owed to the past.
PRAISE FOR THE QUIET T WIN
“Vyleta’s story of a crime in Vienna during the early days of World
War Two makes him the heir to the throne left empty since the
death of Graham Greene. Yes, he’s that damn good.”
—S A N FR A N CISCO BO O K R E V I E W
“One of the best—and most quietly disturbing—books of the year.”
— N ATIO N A L P OS T
“A compelling rumination on watching and watchfulness, served
up with Nabokovian glee.” —TH E GUA R D I A N
D A N V Y L E TA
is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Ger-
many in the late 1960s. He now calls Canada his home. His debut novel,
Pavel & I, was published in thirteen countries and translated into eight
languages. His most recent novel, The Quiet Twin, was a finalist for the
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
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A visceral, epic novel that challenges what we
know about history’s most dynamic and maligned
Renaissance family, the Borgias
R
ooted in the energetic, brutal and corrupt world of 15th-century
Italy, Blood and Beauty opens with Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia,
clever and charismatic, buying his way to the Papal crown. In this he is
S a r ah D u n a n t
not unusual. Neither is the fact that he has illegitimate children. What
does mark him is his blood; he is a Spaniard in a country run by established Italian families. To thrive, even to survive, he must create his own
dynasty using the papacy and his family as the building blocks of power.
His son Cesare is his most brilliant pupil. Fearless and calculating (later
immortalized in Machiavelli’s The Prince), he provides the driving energy
and the muscle. The Pope’s daughter, Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is
their marriage tool. Just twelve when the novel opens, she is to have one
dynastic union annulled and a second—beloved—husband murdered
by her own brother to make way for a third strategic marriage—all before the age of twenty. Hers is a journey from pawn to political player.
Using the high-wire tension of a political thriller, this portrait of
power and its personal costs is the most thrilling family saga to come out
of Italy since The Godfather. The Borgias emerge not as the poisoning
sexual monsters of popular myth, but in all their ruthless determination
and complex humanity. PRAISE FOR SACR ED HE A RTS
“[T]his novel unequivocally does what fiction is supposed to do
and rarely does: It takes us to a place we could never personally
experience. Dunant creates such a living and tangible environment, built on meticulous yet unobtrusive research, that she
shares with us the joys and sorrows, the frustration and anger, the
rebellion, submission and sometimes even the presence of God.”
—TH E WA SH IN GTO N P OS T
P R A I S E F O R I N T H E C O M PA N Y O F T H E C O U R T E S A N
“Dunant teases out the plot’s layers like coloured scarves from a
magician’s hand. This is a lusty good read.” —TH E GLO BE A N D M A I L
S A R A H D U N A NT
is the author of the international bestsellers The
Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan, which have received major acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Her earlier novels include three Hannah Wolfe crime thrillers, as well as Snowstorms in a Hot
Climate, Transgressions and Mapping the Edge. She has two daughters
and lives in London and Florence.
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» » T WI TTE R : @sarahdunant
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Office worker by day, exotic dancer by night—a young
woman is pulled into the mob underworld of corruption
and violence
T
he first time Genevieve saw it, she knew it was the one: Revenge of
E li z abe t h H ay n es
the Tide, “an odd sort of a name for a boat.” Genevieve had finally
escaped the stressful demands of her London sales job and achieved
her dream—to leave the city behind and start a new life aboard a house-
Dark Tide
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boat in Kent. She left the boat’s name as it was. Revenge had character,
after all, and living in a marina made her feel a bit safer, a little less lonely,
almost as if the boat looked after her, hid her away from view.
But her dreams are shattered the night of her boat-warming party
when a body washes up, and to Genevieve’s horror, she recognizes the
victim as a close friend from nights dancing onstage at a private members’ club, the Barclay. She doesn’t share this information with the police, though; next to no one knew what Genevieve did every Friday and
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Saturday night to save money for her escape, and she sees no reason
sponsoring editor: Iris Tupholme
to reveal her past.
publicist: Sonya Koson
Soon the lull of the waves against Revenge feels anything but
soothing, as Genevieve begins to receive mysterious calls and can’t
reach the one person who links the present danger with her history at
the club. And then there is the parcel on her boat she’s meant to be
safekeeping for an old flame, which seems to be putting her in jeopardy. As Genevieve begins to fear for her safety, she recalls the moment
when it had all started to go horribly wrong: the night she recognized
her daytime boss in the crowd of customers at the Barclay . . .
PRAISE FOR INTO THE DAR K E ST COR NER
“Intense, gripping, and utterly unputdownable. A stunning debut.”
—S.J. WATSON, AUTHOR OF BEFO R E I G O TO SL EEP
“Check the locks on your doors and windows and surrender to this
obsessive thriller.” —KARIN SLAUGHTER, AUTHOR OF FA L L EN
E L I Z A B E T H H AY N E S
is a police intelligence analyst, a civilian role
that involves determining patterns in criminal behaviour. Her first novel,
Into the Darkest Corner, was Amazon U.K.’s Best Book of 2011, and a
film is in development with Revolution Films.
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Summer 2 0 1 3
The Time Traveler’s Wife meets Michael Crichton in
a powerful debut novel about a man frozen in ice for
more than a century, who reawakens in the present day
W
hen Dr. Kate Philo and her exploration team discover
what appears to be a seal frozen in an Arctic iceberg,
they believe they have made a momentous breakthrough in their
S t ephe n Kie r n a n
research. Kate is part of the Lazarus Project, run by the egocentric genius Erastus Carthage. To date they have brought small creatures like plankton and shrimp “back to life”—for one tenth of a creature’s natural lifespan. As the underwater excavation begins, Kate
and her team realize it is not a seal they have found, but a man.
Carthage orders that the man be brought back to the lab in Boston and
reanimated. They learn that he was—is—Jeremiah Rice, a man born in
1868, whose last memory is of falling overboard into the Arctic Ocean
in 1906. Kate befriends Jeremiah while the media hound him, religious
conservatives accuse the Lazarus Project of blasphemy, and the world
The Curiosity
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at large suspects the entire enterprise is a massive fraud. Meanwhile,
sponsoring editor: Lorissa Sengara
Kate has fallen in love with Jeremiah, the clock is ticking, and Jeremiah’s
publicist: Ashleigh Martyn
new life is slipping away.
In this gripping, original thriller, the very nature of humanity is examined as it never has been before: man as a scientific subject, as the
prey of tabloids, and as a living being—a curiosity.
“A true page-turner, mixing cutting-edge science with an all-toohuman love story. . . . One of the most assured debuts in years, a
book that will stop your heart and start it again.”
—JUSTIN CRONIN, AUTHOR OF TH E PA S S AGE AND TH E T WELV E
“As thought-provoking and powerful as Flowers for Algernon, and
the writing is breathtakingly beautiful. And that ending? Poignant,
luminescent and absolutely perfect.”
—CHRIS BOHJALIAN, AUTHOR OF M I DW I V E S, SECR E T S O F ED EN AND TH E
D O U BLE BIN D
STE P H EN K I E R N A N
is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop fic-
tion MFA program and holds an MA from Johns Hopkins University. In
his twenty-five years as a journalist, he has won more than forty awards.
He is a popular media commentator and the author of the non-fiction
books Last Rights and Authentic Patriotism.
» » web: ste p henpkiernan .com
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A hilarious and unvarnished look at motherhood,
perfect for fans of Caitlin Moran and Sloane Crosley
“M
others. Those women with purses the size of meat trays that
hold an entire deck of school portrait photos and a cheque-
M eg M aso n
book, make a casserole without a recipe, make the tightest bed you′ll
ever sleep in and only swear under extreme duress. How, how, would I
go from me to that?”
Say It Again in a
Nice Voice
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At twenty-four, Meg Mason was newly married to a man “essentially indistinguishable from a young Matt Damon” after landing her dream
job writing for The Times in London. Nothing, she told herself, could
possibly go wrong. A holiday shortage of birth control and eight months
later, she was heavily pregnant and sobbing on the side of a road over
trading her career for something she knew zip about.
But she soldiered on. One fine Sunday, she invented motherhood
by Having a Baby. On Monday, she discovered that a bunch of women
had already done that, but still they couldn′t tell her how to do it.
Thanks to a helpful neighbour, she learned that convincing a newborn to take a bottle by letting it lick a Dorito first to “get more thirsty”
didn′t always work, but not what to do when your child won′t sleep for
roughly two years, why making friends at the park is more difficult than
meeting deadlines, or how to remove your hand from a stroller—after
you′ve Super-Glued it to the handle.
Hair-raising and hilarious, Say It Again in a Nice Voice is the story
of Meg’s journey from parenting novice to . . . well . . . Meg With Kids.
Along the way she discovers that being a mother, however disasterprone, might just be the only thing that she is truly irreplaceable at.
“Funny, poignant, raw.” —CO U R I ER M A I L (AUSTRALIA)
“Achingly funny.” —better homes an d gar d ens (AUSTRALIA)
Born in New Zealand, M E G M A S O N began her career at the Financial
Times in London before switching to The Times to write on lifestyle,
parenting and humour. After relocating to Australia, she continued
to write for a range of publications that include the Sydney Morning
Herald, Cosmopolitan and GQ. She lives with her husband and two
daughters in Sydney.
» » web : meg mason.com
» » T WIT T E R: @ meg _ mason
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The feel-good hit of 2013, The Rosie Project is a
classic screwball romance about a handsome but
awkward genetics professor and the woman who
is totally wrong for him
A
first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry
clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love,
G r aeme S imsio n
until a chance encounter gives him an idea.
He will design a questionnaire—a sixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaire—to uncover the perfect partner. She will most
definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is
all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent, strangely beguiling, and
looking for her biological father—a search that a DNA expert might just
be able to help her with.
The Rosie Project is a romantic comedy like no other. It is arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, and it will make you want
to drink cocktails.
The Rosie Project
A Novel
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GR AEME SIMSION
is an IT consultant and educator. He wrote The
Rosie Project as a screenplay before turning it into his first novel. The
screenplay won the Australian Writers Guild Inscription Award for Best
Romantic Comedy Script in 2010 and then won the 2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript.
» » web: g raem esimsion .com
» » T witter: @Graem eS im sion
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is at once
a historical novel of the pre-Twitter moment and the
most flamboyant piece of comic fiction ever to be
set in Luton
Nicola B a r k e r
“T
here was a rat in the bath,” Gene explains. “It’s a long story, but
basically I fished it out and was carrying it around by the tail, not
quite sure how to dispose of it, when I managed to barge in on this
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woman having a genital tattoo.”
The year 2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently
there. Tiger Woods’s reputation is entirely untarnished, and the English
Defence League does not yet exist. Storm clouds of a different kind are
gathering above the bar of Luton’s less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel.
Among those caught up in the unfolding drama are a man who’s had
cancer seven times, a woman priest with an unruly fringe, the troubled
family of a notorious local fascist, an interfering barmaid with three Es
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at A-level but a PhD in bullshit, and a free-thinking Muslim sex therapist
sponsoring editor: Iris Tupholme
with his considerably more pious wife. But at the centre of every intrigue
publicist: Bridget Haines
and the bottom of every mystery is the repugnantly charismatic figure of
Stuart Ransom—a golfer in free fall.
“With all its loose energy, its generosity of attention and invention, its puckishness and wild similes, its lyric intensities and its
sudden lurches of feeling, The Yips is a novel that’s more than
just odd. . . . [It’s] another extravaganza from the unique Nicola
Barker.” —TH E GUA R D I A N
“There is nothing conventional about The Yips . . . its originality, its
charm or its peculiar beauty. . . . Yet [it is] full of straightforward
reading pleasures.”—TH E SU N DAY TIM E S
NICOL A BA R K ER’s
eight previous novels include Darkmans (short-
listed for the Man Booker and Ondaatje prizes, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize), Wide Open (winner of the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award) and Clear (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). Barker
has also written two prize-winning collections of short stories. Her work
has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in east
London.
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A gritty urban drama about the many—and sometimes
torturous—forms of redemption
S
ummer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue collar dockside community
where the East River opens into the bay. The nice streets are the
streets that have trees. The bar called the Dockyard is not trying to be
ironic. June and Val, two fifteen-year-old girls, head out onto the bay
I vy P ochoda
one night on a hot pink inflatable raft, beckoned by the skyline of Manhattan. Only Val makes it back to land, washed ashore semi-conscious
in the weeds. What exactly happened to June that night has reverberations for
everyone in Red Hook: Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner; Cree, a teenager whose father was murdered; and Jonathan, an alcoholic music
teacher drawn to Val. As in the work of Richard Price and Zadie Smith,
the physical and emotional landscape of the setting is indelible. Ivy Pochoda has a gift for conveying those arresting details that beautifully
capture a neighbourhood, a night or a city with a few bold strokes. And
then she draws us into a compelling story, a page-turner in the best
sense: not only do we need to know what happens to the girls, but we
need to know these characters better, where they come from and where
they’re heading. A novel about seizing the chance to escape—even at
great risk—Visitation Street is a gripping and absorbing read.
“Visitation Street explores a community’s response to tragedy
with crystalline prose, a dose of the uncanny, and an unblinking
eye for both human frailty and resilience. . . . Marvellous.”
—DEBORAH HARKNESS, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A D ISCOV ERY O F W ITCH E S
I V Y P O CH O DA
is the author of the novel The Art of Disappearing,
which was published to excellent reviews. Her short fiction has appeared in H.O.W. Journal and Canteen, and she has contributed to The
Rumpus and the Huffington Post book section. She has a BA in English
and classical Greek from Harvard University and an MFA in fiction from
Bennington College. She is a former professional squash player and
now lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
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» » T WI TTE R : @ivypochoda
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Bruno, Chief of Police, comes face to face with black
magic and an infamous royal mistress in the fifth novel
in this series set in the idyllic French town of St-Denis
I
t’s two weeks before Easter, and satanism has reared its ugly head in
M a r t i n W al k e r
St-Denis. A female body bearing the ghastly signs of a black magic
ritual has been found on a boat. The search for her identity leads to a local elderly aristocrat known as the Red Countess, herself a descendent
The Devil’s Cave
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of the bewitching Madame de Montespan, also known as Athénaïs, a
mistress of Louis XVI and a notorious figure in French history. This is the
last thing Bruno needs. The chief of police-cum-culinary connoisseur
has too much on his plate as it is, mediating both a domestic abuse
case and a local development proposal that seems just too good to be
true. Moreover, his beloved hound, Gigi, is gone, as is his usual roster of
ladies. He’s never felt so alone. But Bruno soon finds himself energized
by the case and back at his best, which is just as well if he’s to solve the
mystery that’s threatening to scar his town’s reputation.
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“A page-turning thriller. . . . And if you like France, it’s a must.”
—TR I BU N E M AGA ZI N E
“Walker’s obvious love for and understanding of French country
life is obvious on every page. . . . An enjoyable read for crime
fans—Francophile or not.” — I R ISH E X A M I N ER
“Irresistible.” — LITER A RY R E V I E W
M A R T I N WA L K E R
is the senior director of the Global Business Policy
Council in Washington, D.C., as well as editor emeritus at the global
news agency United Press International. He is the author of eighteen
books of non-fiction and fiction, including four previous novels featuring Captain Bruno Courrèges.
» » web : brunochie fof p olice .com
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva
delivers another stunning thriller in his latest actionpacked tale of high-stakes international intrigue
S
ilva’s work has captured the imagination of millions worldwide.
His Gabriel Allon series, which chronicles the adventures of an art
restorer/spy as he foils terrorists the world over, has earned the praise
D a n iel S ilva
of readers and reviewers everywhere. This promises to be the biggest
book yet from the genre’s undisputed master.
P R A I S E F O R DA N I E L S I LVA
“Silva’s thrillers bring readers the best of all spy worlds. The action
roars along, touching down in both glamorous settings and godforsaken outposts. . . . For readers who crave both deft characterization and old-fashioned, spy-novel action.” — BO O K LIS T
“With a dollop of Simon Templar, a dash of Jack Bauer, the urbanity of Graham Greene, and the humanity of John le Carré, Daniel
Silva has hit upon the perfect formula to keep espionage-friendly
fans’ fingers glued to his books, turning pages in nearly breathless
expectation.” — BO O K PAGE
D A N I E L S I LVA
is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill
Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince
of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy and The Fallen Angel.
His books are published in more than thirty countries and are bestsellers around the world. He serves on the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council and is married to NBC News Today national correspondent Jamie Gangel.
» » web: danielsilvabooks .com
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Game
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Game, Buzz and Bubble
A
imless young Henrik “HP” Petterson finds a cellphone on a
Stockholm train that invites him to play a game: in no time, he’s
embarking on daring, high-stakes missions that turn his ordinary life ex-
A breathtaking new voice in Nordic crime fiction—the internationally bestselling sensation,
now available in English
side to the seemingly innocent contest?
Meanwhile, ambitious Detective Rebecca Normén is moving up
the career ladder in the Swedish Secret Service but is troubled by the
handwritten notes she keeps finding in her locker. Whoever writes them
S
wedish author Anders de la Motte exploded onto
the international literary scene in 2010 with his heart-
pounding debut, Game, the first novel in his high-concept,
high-tech Game Trilogy, which has been acclaimed as “utterly brilliant” (DAST Magazine) and “first-class entertainment” (Kristianstadsbladet). Praised for its contemporary
energy, wit and linguistic playfulness, the Game Trilogy,
now an international sensation to be published in more
than twenty-five countries, represents a thoroughly original
and refreshing voice in Nordic crime fiction.
ANDER S DE L A MOT TE
traordinary. HP loves the thrill, and the rewards, but is there a sinister
was formerly a police officer
and then director of security at one of the world’s largest IT
companies. He is currently freelancing as an international
security consultant. His debut novel, Game, received the
First Book Award from the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy and has sold 100,000 copies in Sweden alone.
» » T WI TTE R : @AndersdelaMotte
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knows way too much about her past. HP’s and Rebecca’s worlds inevitably collide. But if reality is just a game, then what is real?
“A brilliant and fast-paced debut, destined to be an international
success.” — CH I (ITA LY )
“Entertaining and breathless. . . . Pure entertainment.”
—LITTERATURSIDEN.DK (DENMARK)
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Buzz
Bubble
A Novel
A Novel
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T
misses the danger, and the adrenalin rush. When he meets the
T
rich and beautiful Anna Argos in a luxurious Dubai hotel, life in-
trust and the boundaries between reality and the virtual worlds
stantly gets more interesting. But there is something mysterious
dangerously blurred. He resolves to complete one final mission in
lurking beneath Anna’s cool surface. And there’s something un-
order to expose the Game and uncover the truth behind it.
he Game has brought HP Petterson wealth and freedom,
but his newly comfortable life is a little . . . unsatisfying. He
settling about her cellphone . . .
he thrilling conclusion to the Game Trilogy finds HP liv-
ing off the grid, convinced he is being hunted by both the
police and the masterminds behind the Game, with no one to
Ousted from the police force, Rebecca is in crisis, self-
Rebecca Normén is now heading up an elite bodyguard
medicating to cope with stress. When she finds a safe-deposit
team and thinks she’s put her personal demons behind her, but
box that belonged to her father, she is shocked to find that it
everything changes when she learns of a web forum containing
contains a gun and several passports. She starts her own search
threatening posts that obviously refer to her. As the walls close in
for the truth: what is the connection between her father’s past,
on HP and Rebecca, old questions catch up with them. What is
the Game and what is happening to HP?
real? Whom can you trust? And how do you protect yourself from
a threat whose existence you cannot prove?
“A trilogy you shouldn’t miss. . . . Escalates to a breakneck
level.” —DAGENS N Y H E TER (SWEDEN)
“First-class entertainment. . . . The fast pace from the debut
novel remains, with full speed from the first page until the
very last.” — K R IS TI A NS TA DSBL A D E T (S W ED EN )
“One of Sweden’s most skilled thriller writers.”
— DA S T M AGA ZI N E (SWEDEN)
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The sensational new novel from Charlotte Roche,
author of Wetlands
I
n her controversial first novel, Wetlands, which The New York Times
called “a cri de coeur against the oppression of a waxed, shaved,
C ha r lo t t e Roche
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douched and otherwise sanitized women’s world,” Roche wrote about
sex and the female body in an unprecedentedly frank way. Roche’s second novel, Wrecked, is just as raw and powerful as her debut but is a
more mature work that deals with sex, death, fidelity and the question
Wrecked
A Novel
of what is expected from a 21st-century wife and mother.
It’s easier to give a blow job than to make coffee. That’s what Elizabeth Kiehl, mother of seven-year-old Liza, thinks to herself after a particularly lengthy and inventive bout of sex with her husband Georg—recounted in detail over the book’s first sixteen pages. Elizabeth makes
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great efforts to pleasure her husband in the bedroom and is also an extremely thoughtful and caring mother to her daughter. But her perfect
mother and wife act hides a painful past and a tragic rift in her psyche.
As a result, Elizabeth’s relationship with Georg is rather unusual: most
husbands and wives wouldn’t watch porn together or go off on joint
trips to a local brothel for threesomes with prostitutes while their daughter is at school. But is their relationship unhealthy or just a very modern
marriage?
PRAISE FOR WETL A NDS
“[An] explicit and provocative debut novel about an eighteenyear-old girl with a very active sex life. . . . Through [protagonist]
Helen Memel’s mix of eroticism and profanity, Roche attacks
conventional views on hygiene, sexuality and the definition of
femininity.” — PU BL ISH ER S W EEK LY
“The novel is both an assault on the sexual and behavioral taboos
that inhibit young men and women and an at times excruciatingly
explicit account by the female narrator of how she goes about
systematically breaking them.” —TH E I N D EPEN D EN T (U . K .)
CHAR LOT TE ROCHE
was born in 1978 in High Wycombe, England,
but was brought up and lives in Germany. Her first novel, Wetlands, was
an international publishing sensation, selling over two million copies
worldwide.
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“A story about love, loss and music in four interwoven
lives, and an insightful exploration of the sources and
expression of creativity. . . . Compulsively readable,
memorable and wise.”
—Nancy Richler, award–winning author of The Imposter Bride (shortlisted for
the Scotiabank Giller Prize) and Your Mouth Is Lovely
D aph n e Kalo t ay
O
n a warm spring day after a long New England winter, Hazel
and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Under or-
dinary circumstances, this meeting might seem insignificant. But Remy,
a gifted violinist, is married to the composer Nicholas Elko—once the
love of Hazel’s life, now struggling with a masterwork he cannot fully
realize. In the twenty years since Hazel’s world was tipped on its axis,
these three artists have faced unexpected joys, mysterious afflictions
and other puzzles of life, their fates irrevocably entwined.
As their story unfolds across two decades, moving from Europe to
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America and from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
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this skillfully crafted novel explores how the quest for creative truth can
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lead to personal revelations—the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.
Lyrical and evocative, Sight Reading asks questions about what makes a
family, about the importance of art and beauty in daily life, and about
the role of intuition in both the creative process and the evolution of
the self.
PRAISE FOR RUSSIA N WINTER
“A window into an older world of poetry, dance, betrayal, true and
false love, thwarted ideals and secrets kept tighter than a sealed
drum. Kalotay . . . has brought to life hidden worlds with the verve
of an expertly executed tour jeté.” — M ACLE A N ’ S
“A sweeping transgenerational novel . . . that, in the end, boils
down to the simplest of elements: love, fear, disappointment and
loss. An auspicious first novel, elegantly written and without a
false note.” — K IR KUS R E V IE W S (STARRED REVIEW)
D A P H N E K A L O TAY
grew up in New Jersey and attended Vassar Col-
lege before completing Boston University’s Creative Writing program,
where her stories went on to win the Florence Engel Randall Fiction
Award and a Transatlantic Review Award from the Henfield Foundation. The author of Calamity and Other Stories—shortlisted for the Story
Prize—as well as the novel Russian Winter, Daphne Kalotay is a Canadian citizen.
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maggie o ' fa r r ell
maggie o ' fa r r ell
After You’d Gone
The Vanishing Act of
Esme Lennox
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A
lice Raikes boards a train at King’s Cross to visit her sisters
in Scotland. Hours later, she steps into traffic on a busy
London road and is taken to hospital in a coma. Who or what
did she see in Edinburgh that made her return to London so suddenly? Was the accident a suicide attempt? And what exactly do
her family, waiting at her bedside, have to hide? Sliding between
different levels of consciousness, Alice listens to the conversations around her, and begins sifting through recollections of her
past and a recently curtailed love affair.
“A psychological meditation on the issues of family and love
. . . written in crisp, clear, unadorned prose. Maggie
O’Farrell is certainly a voice to look out for.”
—COLUM McCANN, AUTHOR OF LE T TH E GR E AT WO R LD SPIN
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E
sme Lennox is a dreamy, bookish young woman, the kind
of girl who stares and listens and won’t flirt with boys. And
then, in the space of a moment, she disappears. Years later, a
stunning phone call breaks the silence at Iris Lockhart’s vintage
shop: her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital after sixty-one years. Iris’s
grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child, but Esme’s
papers prove she is Kitty’s sister, and Iris can see the shadow of
her dead father in her face. Still, she’s basically a stranger. If Iris
takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit?
“Strange, sad, and a marvelously well-written novel.”
—AUDREY NIFFENEGGER, AUTHOR OF TH E TIM E TR AV ELER ’ S W I FE
Summer 2 0 1 3
One of Ireland’s most beloved novelists—with more
than 1.5 million copies of her books in print—now published in Canada for the first time
J
uly, 1976. One morning Robert Riordan tells his wife, Gretta, that he
is going around the corner to buy a newspaper.
He doesn’t return.
M aggie O ’ F a r r ell
Drawn back home to London to help solve the mystery, Gretta’s
grown-up children fit awkwardly into their childhood roles, and tensions
run high. Each is at a turning point in his or her life. The eldest, Michael
Francis, is increasingly estranged from his wife by parenthood and his
guilt over a brief affair. Monica’s performance as a perfect stepmother
is convincing no one; and Aoife, the black sheep of the family, is finding
that even in New York she can’t hide from the secret that has set her
apart since childhood.
A journey back to Connemara, Ireland, brings surprises, insights
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cures Maggie O’Farrell’s position as one of the best of the new genera-
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tion of Irish writers.
publicist: Ashleigh Martyn
P R A I S E F O R M AG G I E O ’ FA R R E L L
“O’Farrell is one of our most skillful and successful writers of
romantic fiction: passionate love affairs and long-buried family
secrets are her stock-in-trade.” —TH E TELEGR A PH
“What makes her really remarkable among modern novelists is
that you care passionately about her characters and their fates.”
—TH E TIM E S (LONDON)
M A GG I E O ’ FA R R E L L
sponsoring editor: Iris Tupholme
was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in
Wales and Scotland. She now lives in London with her family. Her debut novel, After You’d Gone, was published to international acclaim and
won a Betty Trask Award; her third novel, The Distance Between Us, won
the Somerset Maugham Award.
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The first book in an outstanding new thriller trilogy set
in modern-day Venice, featuring a tough, sexy female
investigator and a dark conspiracy of murder, international intrigue, the CIA and the Catholic Church
J o n a t ha n H ol t
I
t is midnight on the feast day of La Befana, and Venice is celebrating.
Masked figures crowd the vaporettos, fireworks pop over the city,
and every trattoria hums with grappa-soaked gossip. But on the steps
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of Santa Maria, there is a deathly hush. A body has washed up from
the Grand Canal: a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest—a
desecration known as the Abomination.
This is Captain Katerina Tapo’s first murder case. The trail leads her
from the labyrinthine backstreets of Venice to an abandoned asylum
on the uninhabited island of Poveglia, to Carnivia.com, an encrypted
gossip website holding the city’s secrets, to an ancient Catholic monastery, and finally to an American military base. Along the way, she makes
uneasy allies of Lieutenant Holly Boland, a young U.S. army intelligence
officer with unique ties to the country in which she has been stationed,
and Daniele Barbo, a reclusive and brilliant Venetian aristocrat-turnedcomputer-hacker who operates, and fiercely protects, Carnivia.com.
Then, suddenly, the trail goes cold. Evidence goes missing, and Kat is
ordered to close the case.
What follows is the unravelling of a dark and powerful conspiracy
with sinister roots in post–Cold War Italy that will test loyalties Kat did
not know she had. She understands that old crimes cannot be forgotten—left unpunished, corrupt forces will continue to repeat their sins.
J O N AT H A N H O LT
read English literature at Oxford and is now the
creative director of an advertising company. He lives in London.
Summer 2 0 1 3
Your favourite comfort food, with the volume turned
up to the max!
C
hef Chuck Hughes cooks in his restaurants all week, making
sure that every dish he sends out at his two Montreal places,
Garde Manger and Le Bremner, is perfect and that every client leaves
happy. On his one day off, he cooks some more—for his friends, family
C huc k H ughes
and staff. He cooks for love and for fun, and what he cooks up makes
for fabulous and engaging television viewing on the hit Food Network
Canada show Chuck’s Day Off.
This cookbook features over 100 recipes: favourite dishes and
menus from the long-running show, plus all-new recipes developed just
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connected to stories that Chuck tells, providing a behind-the-scenes
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look at Chuck’s life and the challenges he faces in balancing his dedica-
full-colour photographs throughout
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lovers and cooks of all levels will fall in love with Chuck’s open and honest cooking and addictive style of comfort food.
In 2006, C H U C K H U G H ES and two friends opened their first restaurant, Garde Manger, in old Montreal. They haven’t looked back. A fanatical clientele made up of locals and tourists keeps the place hopping;
everyone is in search of Chuck’s magical take on comfort food classics.
Chuck defeated Iron Chef Bobby Flay in the battle of Canadian lobster and starred in The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs. His show Chuck’s
Day Off airs in over eighty countries including the U.S. (Cooking Channel) and Canada (Food Network), as does his follow-up series, Chuck’s
Week Off. Recently he completed the first season of his primetime
show, Chuck’s Eat the Street, for Cooking Channel, and he is currently
discussing another series for Food Network Canada for 2013.
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One in four Canadian couples has difficulty getting
pregnant. This is your guide to beating the odds
T
he journey to pregnancy is not always easy, particularly as infertility rates are rising in Canada. In fact, it can be downright confus-
d r . Tom H a n n am
ing. What tests might be necessary? Why is this so difficult? And most
importantly: is it ever going to work?
Your Fertility Plan covers all aspects of fertility, from lifestyle tips
Your Fertility Plan
How to Get Pregnant—Even if You
Thought You Couldn’t
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at home to non-traditional medicine to the most advanced techniques
available in Canadian fertility clinics. The goal is simple: to help Canadians get pregnant by explaining the process in a simple, step-by-step
way that lets you set your own fertility plan. Reassuring, easy to read and
authoritative, Your Fertility Plan will help Canadians:
»» understand the five factors that affect fertility and what
you can do to increase your chances of success
»» develop an individual fertility plan and know when to
make changes
»» make sense of tests and treatment options
»» choose the right doctor or fertility clinic
»» cope with the myriad choices and emotional decisions
»» find help, including how to finance the cost of fertility
treatments.
dr . T O M H A N N A M
is the founder of the Hannam Fertility Centre in
Toronto and a frequent guest on TV and radio. For the past decade, Dr.
Hannam has been dedicating himself to the art and science of helping
couples conceive. Dr. Hannam is on the executive board of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society and is a member of the American
Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Society of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists of Canada and the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
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Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Carlos
Ruiz Zafón returns to the world of the Cemetery of
Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop
ca r los r ui z z af ó n
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B
arcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife,
Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby
son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is
about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger
visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible se-
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cret that has been buried for two decades in the city’s dark past. His
appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure
that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco’s
dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search
for the truth that will put into peril everything they love and ultimately
transform their lives.
Full of intrigue and emotion, The Prisoner of Heaven is a majestic
novel in which the threads of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s
Game converge under the spell of literature and bring us toward the
enigma hidden at the heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a collection of lost treasures known only to its few initiates, and the very core
of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s enchanting fictional world.
“[The Prisoner of Heaven] is a sumptuous, thoroughly modern
reimagining of classic 19th-century novels. . . . An engrossing read
replete with plot twists, gory crimes, foul villains and doomed
love affairs.” — M ACL E A N ’ S
“Zafón combines sincere engagement with genre tradition, with
clever touches of the literary post-modern. . . . This is explicitly,
and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned
from them, and what is lost when they are lost.” —TH E GUA R D I A N
“Zafón’s characters and dialogue are as lively and full-blooded as
ever.” —TH E O B SERV ER
C AR LOS RUIZ Z AFÓN
is the author of six novels, including the inter-
national phenomena The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game.
His work has been published in more than fifty languages and honoured
with numerous international prizes. He divides his time between Barcelona and Los Angeles.
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A national bestseller and finalist for the Scotiabank
Giller Prize
A
young, enigmatic woman—Lily Azerov—arrives in post-war
Montreal expecting to meet her betrothed, Sol Kramer. When
Sol sees Lily at the train station, however, he turns her down. His brother,
Nathan, sees Lily and instantly decides to marry her instead.
Na n cy Richle r
But Lily is not who she claims to be, and her attempt to live a quiet
life as Nathan Kramer’s wife shatters when she disappears, leaving behind her baby daughter with only a diary, an uncut diamond and a need
to discover the truth.
Who is Lily and what happened to the young woman whose identity she stole? Why has she left and where did she go? It is up to the
daughter Lily abandoned to find the answers to these questions as she
searches for the mother she may never find or truly know.
“An intriguing tale of historical fiction that will transport you from
Montreal to war-torn Europe and back again for a satisfying resolution of one family’s haunting secrets.”
—SHILPI SOMAYA GOWDA, AUTHOR OF SECR E T DAU GHTER
“With delicacy and warmth, Richler weaves together the threads
of a family: its closeness and secrets, opaqueness and hidden
beauty. . . . The rich storyline moves between the quotidian and
the unspeakable, showing survivors starting over in an evocative
post-war Montreal.”
—DAPHNE KALOTAY, AUTHOR OF RUS SI A N W IN TER AND SIGH T R E A D I N G
“Nancy Richler paints a deft and loving portrait of Jewish Montreal
in the post-war years and then turns to wartime Europe for the
dark mystery that provides her intriguing plot.”
—KATE TAYLOR, AUTHOR OF M M E PROUS T A N D TH E KOSH ER K ITCH EN
NANCY RICHLER’s
short fiction has been published in various Amer-
ican and Canadian literary journals, including Room of One’s Own, The
New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Another Chicago Magazine, and the Journey Prize anthology. Her first novel, Throwaway Angels, was shortlisted
for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. Her second novel,
Your Mouth Is Lovely, won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction
and Italy’s Adei-Wizo Literary Prize. Born in Montreal, Nancy Richler
lived for many years in Vancouver but has recently returned to her
hometown.
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An inspiring story of the bonds of sisterhood, this
extraordinary book speaks to the power of every
individual to foster positive change in the world
N
azanin Afshin-Jam was on top of the world. In 2006, she had just
Na z a n i n A fshi n - J am
a n d S usa n M c C lella n d
signed her first record deal and, after placing as first runner-up
for Miss World, was a sought-after fashion model and an icon within the
Iranian dissident community. But one afternoon, she received an email
that would change the course of her life. The subject of that email—a
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Kurdish girl named Nazanin Fatehi—was facing execution in Iran, as punishment for stabbing a man who had tried to rape her. Afshin-Jam quickly
came to Fatehi’s defence, striding into the world of international diplomacy and confronting the dark side of the country of her birth.
The Tale of Two Nazanins weaves together the lives of two women—one leading a life of opportunity, the other living in abject poverty—
and a fight for justice that, if only for a moment, brought the Iranian
regime to its knees.
“A book that could change your life—and perhaps save another.”
—THE HON. PAMELA WALLIN, SENATOR
“The tragedy in this world is when we stop believing and indifference takes over. This story speaks powerfully about the strength
of solidarity.” —THE RIGHT HON. MICHAËLLE JEAN
NA Z ANIN AFSHIN-JAM
is an award-winning international human
rights and democracy activist, a public speaker and the co-founder and
president of the organization Stop Child Executions. Born in Iran and
raised in Vancouver, Afshin-Jam holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and political science, and a master’s degree in diplomacy with a concentration in international conflict management. She
splits her time between Ottawa, New Glasgow and Paris.
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SUSAN McCLELL AND
is a feature writer, an investigative journalist
and the author of The Bite of the Mango, which was published to both
literary and popular acclaim. McClelland has won numerous national
and international awards for her work, including two Amnesty International Media Awards for excellence in human rights reporting. Her
writing has appeared in such publications as The Globe and Mail, The
Guardian, Maclean’s, Chatelaine and The Walrus.
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Summer 2 0 1 3
From the New York Times bestselling author, a
suspenseful novel exploring the complexities that
lead us to believe in our chosen truths
F
light Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young
woman’s narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force
of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara
B a r ba r a Ki n gsolve r
Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel’s inhabitants
and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters
and readers alike are carried into the unsettled ground of science, faith
and everyday truces between reason and conviction.
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own
plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled
for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through
an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. As she hikes up a mountain
road behind her house to a secret tryst, she encounters a shocking sight:
a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can
only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other
explanations from scientists, religious leaders and the media. The bewildering emergency draws rural farms into unexpected acquaintance
with urbane journalists, opportunists, sightseers, and a striking biologist
with his own stake in the outcome. As the community lines up to judge
the woman and her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church,
her town and a larger world in a flight toward truth that could undo all
she has ever believed.
Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of
our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy, Kingsolver
dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
“[A] majestic and brave new novel. . . . [Kingsolver] takes palpable
pleasure in the craft of writing, creating images that stay with the
reader long after her story is done.” —the ne w yor k times
B A R B A R A K I N G S O LV E R
has seen her work translated into more than
twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and
abroad. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal,
America’s highest honour for service through the arts. She received the
2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her body of work and in 2010 won
Britain’s Orange Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna. Before she made her
living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a
scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
» » web: kin gsolver.com
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“A mesmerizing gothic tale of a good man gone wrong.”
—Booklist (starred review)
I
t is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger,
Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the
Robe r t G ool r ic k
town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village nestled in the Valley of Virginia.
All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains his few possessions,
including a fine set of butcher knives; the other is full of money. A lot
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of money.
Finding work at the local butcher shop, Charlie befriends the owner
and his family, including the owner’s son, Sam, whom he is soon treating
as though he were his own flesh and blood. And it is through the shop
that Charlie gradually meets all the townsfolk, including Boaty Glass,
Brownsburg’s wealthiest citizen, and most significantly, Boaty’s beautiful
teenage bride, Sylvan.
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to lust and then to a need to possess her, a need so basic it becomes an
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all-consuming passion that threatens to destroy everything and everyone in its path.
Heading Out to Wonderful is a suspenseful masterpiece, a haunting, heart-stopping novel of obsession and love gone terribly wrong.
“Goolrick effortlessly creates a timeless, erotically charged tale
of illicit passion and peoples it with a unique cast of characters,
ranging from a gifted black seamstress to a country girl besotted
with Hollywood movie stars and fashion. Finely crafted fiction
from a captivating writer.” —BO O K L IS T (STARRED REVIEW)
“Goolrick’s tale of doomed love resonates like a folk ballad. . . .
[It] packs an emotional punch, and then haunts readers with its
quintessentially American refrain.” — PU BL ISH ER S W EEK LY
ROBERT GOOLR ICK
is the author of the novel A Reliable Wife and
the memoir The End of the World as We Know It. He lives in a small town
in Virginia with his dog, Preacher.
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From the American master and Pulitzer Prize winner, a
haunting novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost,
and the mysterious and powerful bonds of family
W
hen fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons’ parents rob a bank, his
sense of a happy, knowable life is forever shattered. In an
instant, this private cataclysm drives his life across a threshold that can
Richa r d F o r d
never be uncrossed.
His parents’ arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and uncertain future for Dell and his twin sister, Berner. Willful and burning
with resentment, Berner flees their home in Montana, abandoning her
brother and their life. But Dell is not completely alone. A family friend
intervenes, spiriting him across the Canadian border, in hopes of delivering him to a better life. There, adrift on the Saskatchewan prairie, Dell
is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic and charismatic American
whose suave reserve masks a dark and violent nature.
In this brilliant novel, set largely in Saskatchewan, Richard Ford has
created a true masterwork. Haunting and spectacular in vision, Canada
is a novel rich with emotional clarity and lyrical precision, and an acute
sense of the grandeur of living. Told in spare, elegant prose by one of
the greatest writers of our time, this resonant and luminous novel is destined to become a classic.
“Majestic. . . . There is a sure-footed, plain-spoken quality to Ford’s
language that is pitch perfect for the tale being told.”
—TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL
“Ford writes the kind of marooned-on-a-desert-island books that
force you to question why you need to read anyone else.”
—TO RO N TO S TA R
“Mesmerizing. . . . A masterwork by one of our finest writers working at the top of his form.” —TH E N E W YO R K TIM E S BO O K R E V I E W
R ICHAR D FOR D
is the author of the Bascombe Trilogy, which includes
The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day—the first novel to
win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award—and The Lay
of the Land. He has also written several short story collections, including Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which contain several widely
anthologized stories. Richard Ford lives in East Boothbay, Maine, with
his wife, Kristina Ford.
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A sharp and provocative collection of essays from the
bestselling and award-winning author of Freedom and
The Corrections
J
onathan Franzen’s Freedom was the most-discussed novel of 2010,
J o n a t ha n F r a n z e n
an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the
21st century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus
proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illu-
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mination “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral
intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew.”
In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigour to
the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him.
Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus,
examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival
David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways
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in which technology has changed how people express their love, these
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pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing. Taken
together, his essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind
wrestling with itself, with literature and with some of the most important
issues of our day.
“An unfailingly elegant and thoughtful collection of essays from
the formidable mind of Franzen, written with passion and haunted
by loss.” — K I R KUS R E V I E W S
“This intimate read is packed with provocative questions about
technology, love and the state of the contemporary novel.”
— PU BL ISH ER S W EEK LY
“The struggle to be a good human being, against the pulls of
solipsism and narcissism, can be glimpsed in every page of these
essays, which if nothing else offer a telling battle report from
within the consciousness of one of our major novelists.”
—TH E N E W YO R K TIM E S BO O K R E V I E W
J O N AT H A N F R A N Z E N
is the author of four novels, The Twenty-
Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections (winner of the 2001
National Book Award for Fiction), and Freedom; a collection of essays,
How to Be Alone; and a personal history, The Discomfort Zone. He
has been named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and is
a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Harper’s. He lives in New
York City and Santa Cruz, California.
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Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize
for Nonfiction and an Amazon.ca Best Book of 2012
I
n the 1960s, Kamal Al-Solaylee’s father was one of the wealthiest property owners in Aden, in the south of Yemen, but when the
country shrugged off its colonial roots, his properties were confiscated and the family of twelve was forced to leave. They moved first to
Kamal A l - S olaylee
Beirut, where sectarian violence began to tear the country apart, and
then to Cairo. After a few peaceful years, even the safe haven of Cairo
struggled under a new wave of Islamic extremism that culminated in the
assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. The family returned to Yemen, a
country that was by then culturally isolated from the rest of the world.
Kamal’s father, Mohamed, always impeccably dressed as he sought
to provide for his itinerant family, would remain largely unemployed as
his influence waned. Kamal’s mother, Safia, the illiterate daughter of a
Yemeni shepherdess, struggled at first to adjust to her new life yet demonstrated a remarkable ability to adapt. But Kamal, caught between the
Intolerable
A Memoir of Extremes
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cultural and religious changes in the Middle East and the allure of the
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West, found himself with few choices for survival. As a gay man living in
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an intolerant country, Al-Solaylee escaped first to England and eventually to Canada, where he became a prominent journalist and academic.
Intolerable is part memoir of an Arab family caught for six decades
in the turmoil of Middle Eastern politics, part personal coming-out narrative and part cultural analysis. This is a story of the modern Middle
East, in all its irreconcilable differences, seen through a unique lens.
“This beautiful book about a family’s tortured relationship to history—and a region’s fraught relationship to modernity—is everything a great memoir should be: It’s as moving as it is complex.”
—TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL
“Powerful, heartfelt. . . . Necessary reading for anyone who cares
about Canada’s place in the world.” —TH E WA L RUS
K A M A L A L - S O L AY L E E ,
an associate professor and undergraduate
program director at the School of Journalism at Ryerson University, was
previously a theatre critic at The Globe and Mail. A former staffer at
Report on Business magazine, he has written features and reviews for
numerous publications, including the Toronto Star, the National Post,
The Walrus and Toronto Life. Al-Solaylee holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham and has taught at the University of Waterloo and
York University. He lives in Toronto.
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The international bestseller and winner of the CWA
John Creasey Dagger, described by The New York Times
as “a pure page-turner”
C
hristine wakes up every morning with an unfamiliar man. She
S . J . W a t so n
looks in the mirror and sees an unfamiliar, middle-aged face.
And every morning, the man she wakes up to must explain that he is
Ben, he is her husband, and a terrible accident two decades earlier deci-
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mated her ability to form new memories.
But it’s the phone call from a Dr. Nash—a neurologist who claims
to be working with Christine, without her husband’s knowledge—that
directs her to her journal, hidden in the back of her closet. For the past
few weeks, Christine has been recording her daily activities and rereading past entries, relearning the facts of her life as retold by the husband
upon whom she has become completely dependent. As the entries accumulate, inconsistencies in Ben’s account jump off the page. What was
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was the horrific accident that caused such a profound loss of memory?
The closer Christine gets to the truth, the more unbelievable it
seems.
“Exceptional. . . . It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished
the last page.” —DENNIS LEHANE
“A cracking good thriller.” — LIONEL SHRIVER
“A deeply unsettling debut that asks the most terrifying question:
what do you have left when you lose yourself?” —VAL McDERMID
“A truly amazing debut. Christine is beautifully drawn. It’s hard to
imagine a more compelling, believable and sympathetic portrayal
of a damaged human being. I loved it from start to finish.”
—MO HAYDER
S . J . WAT S O N
lives in London and worked in the National Health Ser-
vice for a number of years. In 2009, Watson was accepted into the first
Faber Academy Writing a Novel course, a rigorous and selective program that covers all aspects of the novel-writing process. Before I Go to
Sleep is the result. The book is now sold around the world in more than
thirty-five languages.
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An acclaimed neuroscientist transforms our understanding of the relationship between the brain, the
mind and consciousness
W
here does our sense of self originate? What happens to “us”
after our body perishes? Can the mind exist without the
body? These questions have engendered considerable debate through-
M a r io B eau r ega r d
out history and have led successive cultures to develop beliefs about
human nature, immortality and the afterlife. Over the last several centuries, scientists working under the presumption that matter is all that exists
have concluded that consciousness can simply be reduced to a collection of nerve cells in the brain. That is, there is no separation between
self, consciousness and mind—who we are—and the function of brain.
Dr. Beauregard disagrees. He asserts that there are multiple lines of
hard evidence that reveal that the mind and consciousness are transmitted and filtered through the brain, but they are not generated by the
brain. This controversial theory turns accepted science on its head by
showing how mental events—which significantly influence the functioning of our brains and our bodies—can also affect events outside the
confines of the body. In other words, humans are more than complex
biological machines. The fact that our minds function apart from our
brains invites a whole new understanding of the universe.
Filled with the latest scientific research and remarkable stories of the
mind’s incredible abilities, Brain Wars is a page-turning, paradigm-shifting
work. The evidence can no longer be ignored, and Dr. Beauregard introduces a major shift in our understanding of the age-old mind/body
debate. Our consciousness transcends the material world, and this new
understanding has profound social and moral implications for the future.
“Explains why the prevailing brain-mind paradigm is falling apart.
The consequences of this paradigm shift are profound, and
Beauregard does a magnificent job in explaining why.”
—DEAN RADIN, PhD, CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF E XPLORE: THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
AND HE ALING AND SENIOR SCIENTIST AT THE INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
M A R IO B E AU R EGA R D,
PhD., is an associate research professor in
the departments of psychology and radiology and the Neuroscience
Research Centre, Université de Montréal. He is the co-author of The
Spiritual Brain and more than 100 publications in neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry.
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“Blum has created a lively guide to the very physical
world upon which our cyber-lives depend.”
—The Globe and Mail
W
hen your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does
A n d r ew B lum
it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives—and
the broader scheme of human culture—can be found on the Internet.
But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the
Tubes
A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on
his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, has
been unexplored territory. Until now.
In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet’s physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing an utterly fresh look
at the online world we think we know. It is a shockingly tactile realm of
unmarked compounds, populated by a special caste of engineer who
pieces together our networks by hand; where glass fibres pulse with
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light and where creaky telegraph buildings, tortuously rewired, become
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communication hubs once again. From the room in Los Angeles where
the Internet first flickered to life to the busy hub in downtown Toronto that links Canada to the world; from the coast of Portugal, where a
10,000-mile undersea cable just two thumbs wide connects Europe and
Africa to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where Google, Microsoft
and Facebook have built monumental data centres, Blum chronicles the
dramatic story of the Internet’s development, explains how it all works,
and takes the first-ever in-depth look inside its hidden world.
“In fluid and always engaging prose, Blum gives shape to the contemporary communications ‘cloud.’” — C A N A D I A N GEO GR A PH IC
“You will never open an email in quite the same way again.”
—TOM VANDERBILT, AUTHOR OF TR A FFIC
ANDR EW BLUM ,
who studied human geography at the University
of Toronto, writes about architecture and technology for many publications, including Wired, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York
Times, The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Saturday Night, Slate and
Popular Science. He lives in New York City.
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“An excellent read.”
—Quill & Quire (starred review)
M
ost people have never heard of prions. Indeed, most are only
barely aware of the diseases they cause, except, perhaps, for
mad cow disease. Yet prions are the stuff of a revolutionary science—a
science that might lead to cures for some of humankind’s most devas-
J ay I n g r am
tating diseases.
Fatal Flaws is a scientific detective story about this elusive protein,
starting with the discovery in the 1950s of kuru, a disease unique to New
Guinea that baffled scientists and carried with it whispers of cannibalism. The revelation of kuru began a scientific stampede to seek out the
agent of this mysterious ailment—the prion—a misfolded protein whose
existence some of the world’s top scientists still find difficult to accept.
Today, the subject of prions remains controversial, yet these proteins
might promise new treatments for some of the most intractable brain
diseases, ones that affect millions around the planet, including Parkinson’s, ALS and Alzheimer’s.
Fatal Flaws
How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists
and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
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“Jay Ingram is one of Canada’s foremost expositors of science . . .
adept at guiding the scientifically challenged through the most
complex ideas. . . . There’s a lot more to the mysterious prions,
and Ingram compellingly unravels the still-emerging science
around them.” —TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL
J ay I n g ra m
was the host of Discovery Channel Canada’s Daily
Planet from the first episode until June 2011. Prior to joining Discovery,
Ingram hosted CBC Radio’s national science show, Quirks & Quarks.
He has received the Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian
Institute, the Royal Society’s McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of
Science and the Michael Smith Award from the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada. A distinguished alumnus of
the University of Alberta, Ingram holds five honorary doctorates and is a
member of the Order of Canada. He has written eleven books, most of
which became bestsellers.
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Gabriel Allon returns to Rome in this spellbinding
thriller—the #1 international bestseller, now available in
mass market paperback
A
fter narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the
da n iel silva
wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the
walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio’s greatest masterpieces. But early one morning he is summoned to St. Peter’s
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Basilica by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to
his Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman lies broken
beneath Michelangelo’s magnificent dome. The Vatican police suspect
suicide, but Gabriel believes otherwise. So, it seems, does Donati. But
the monsignor is fearful that a public inquiry might inflict another scandal on the Church, and so he calls upon Gabriel to quietly pursue the
truth . . . with one caveat. ”Rule number one at the Vatican,” Donati says.
“Don’t ask too many questions.”
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Gabriel learns that the dead woman had uncovered a dangerous
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secret—a secret that threatens a global criminal enterprise that is looting timeless treasures of antiquity and selling them to the highest bidder.
But there is more to this network than just greed. A mysterious operative
is plotting an act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of
apocalyptic proportions . . .
“It’s a grand entertainment to watch Silva putting Gabriel Allon’s
skills to work, whether shedding blood or daubing varnish. A topnotch thriller.” — K I R KUS R E V I E W S (STARRED REVIEW)
“Allon is the 21st-century Bond—elegantly paced, subtle and wellinformed.” — DA ILY M A I L
“Sexily brooding Allon . . . must be the most famous superspy not
played by Daniel Craig.” —TH E DA I LY TEL EGR A PH
D A N I E L S I LVA
is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill
Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince
of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair and Portrait of a Spy. He is married to
NBC News Today correspondent Jamie Gangel; they live in Washington, D.C., with their two children, Lily and Nicholas. In 2009 Silva was
appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
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The national bestseller, now in paperback
E
very day, newspaper headlines and media commentators
scream warnings of impending doom—shortages of arable land,
clashes over water and political Armageddon as global demand for
fossil fuels far outstrips supply. Shortages in the commodities markets
have the potential to dramatically affect the way we live. Only one
D ambisa M oyo
country appears to understand the importance of controlling these
crucial assets: China. Over the last several decades, China has taken
forceful action—from buying up mines, agricultural land and oil fields
to rerouting rivers—to achieve market dominance in the future struggle for global resources.
In Winner Take All, international economist and bestselling author
Dambisa Moyo explains the commodity dynamics that the world will
face over the next several decades, focusing in particular on the implications of China’s rush for resources around the world. The scale of
China’s campaign for hard commodities (metals and minerals) and soft
commodities (water and foodstuffs) is among the most aggressive in history, surpassing even the voracious demands for raw materials sparked
by the Industrial Revolution.
“Moyo [is] a youthful emerging superstar among global-economy
mavens.” —TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL
“A warning to western governments and a source of valuable
information to investors about where to hedge the commodity
dollar of the future.” —WIN N IPEG FR EE PR E S S
D A M B I S A M OYO
completed a PhD in economics at the University of
Oxford and holds a master’s degree from Harvard University. She writes
about the macroeconomy and global affairs for such publications as
the Financial Times, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. She is
the author of the New York Times bestsellers Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not
Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa and How the West
Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly—and the Stark Choices Ahead.
In 2009 Time magazine named Dr. Moyo as one of the hundred most
influential people in the world.
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China’s Race for Resources and
What It Means for the World
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“Wonderful. Illuminating. Full of insight, beauty and
humor.” —David Eagleman, author of Incognito and Sum
T
he Self Illusion is about the science of self—the truth behind the
illusion that we all share, that we exist as individuals inside our
B r uce H ood
bodies and are in control of our own thoughts and behaviours. Recent
developments in neuroscience tell us that we consist of a multitude of
unconscious mechanisms interpreting the world, yet we are largely un-
The Self Illusion
How the Social Brain Creates Identity
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der the influence of those around us. We are not the individuals we think
we are. The truth—that our self is a narrative our brain creates—may
startle those of us who fervently believe that we are in full control of who
we are and what we do.
Bruce Hood, a world-renowned expert on the brain, reaches deep
into our evolutionary past to find out what makes us tick. He reveals fascinating original research about child development and ultimately takes
us inside our own heads to explain how and why we act the way we do,
even in the new frontier of Twitter and Facebook. The Self Illusion is a
highly accessible, often entertaining and ultimately provocative book
about the nature of you, yourself and I.
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“Bruce Hood is one of the most profound thinkers of our age who
can also clearly communicate the complex and often confusing findings of science. Even though the self is an illusion, Hood
restores our humanity through his masterful narrative of what
makes us human.”
—MICHAEL SHERMER, PUBLISHER OF SK EP TIC MAGAZINE, COLUMNIST FOR
SCI EN TIFIC A M ER IC A N AND AUTHOR OF TH E BEL IE V I N G BR A I N
B R U CE H OO D
is currently a professor of developmental psychology
in society at the University of Bristol. He has been a research fellow at
Cambridge University and University College London, a visiting scientist at MIT and a faculty professor at Harvard. He is the author of several
books, including The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain
Creates Supernatural Beliefs. He was also the 2011 Royal Institution
Christmas Lecturer—the most prestigious appointment for the public
engagement of science in the U.K.—for which he wrote and presented
three lectures on the brain, broadcast on the BBC to an audience of
over three million viewers.
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“A must-read for teachers and parents.”
—Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat
M
oving her young family to her husband’s hometown in northern
France, Canadian Karen Le Billon is prepared for some cultural
adjustment, but she doesn’t expect a family food revolution. The fancy
foods and snack-free culture she finds there are hard for her picky-eater
Ka r e n L e B illo n
daughters to handle. And equally hard for their mother, who is lectured
for slipping her fussing toddler a snack—“a recipe for obesity!”—and forbidden from sending a brown-bag lunch in lieu of the elaborate fourcourse school lunches intended to teach children to love their veggies.
The family initially rebels, but Le Billon begins to see the wisdom in
a simple set of unwritten “food rules” that govern how the French foster
healthy eating habits and good manners in babies and children. She observes that French kids willingly eat everything—from fruit salad to foie
gras, potato chips to snails, spinach to stinky blue cheese—and that this
practice is considered normal by everyone, including the kids! Moreover,
since diets are almost unheard of for French children, Le Billon discovers yet another version of the famous French paradox: while French kids
love to eat, they are rarely overweight. And, intriguingly, although French
French Kids Eat Everything
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Cured Picky Eating, Banished Snacking,
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Combining personal anecdotes with practical tips and delicious,
other rights: Anne McDermid & Associates
easy recipes (like Five-Minute Fish en Papillote, Baby’s Vichyssoise,
Crêpes, Zesty Orange Salad, and Mousse au Chocolat, French Kids Eat
Everything is a humorous, provocative look at the way we feed our kids.
“This book is not only about how to teach children (and yourself)
to eat well and happily for life, it’s about how to help build and
maintain the foundations of any civilized society. I loved it.
Essential reading, whether you have children or not.”
—LAURA CALDER, AUTHOR OF D IN N ER CH E Z M O I AND HOST OF FR EN CH
FO O D AT H O M E
K A R EN B A K K E R L E B I L L O N
is a professor at the University of British
Columbia and was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2011. A
Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from the University of Oxford, she has published three books and over 100 articles in academic journals and the
popular press. Bilingual and married to a Frenchman, she is the mother
of two young girls. For the past decade, her family has divided its time
between Canada and France.
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gle n n coope r
ma r t i n wal k e r
The Devil Will Come
The Crowded Grave
A Novel
A Novel
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trological symbols on an underground wall. When a cave-in dam-
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ages the vault, a shocking discovery is made, and Elisabetta finds
are raised by an escalating series of attacks on local foie gras pro-
herself in a race to solve the secret of the catacomb and prevent
ducers, an upcoming summit between the French and Spanish
an apocalyptic event that threatens the future of mankind.
governments, and two women vying for Bruno’s affections.
“A debut not to be missed.”
“A pleasure for francophiles, oenophiles and the palate.”
lisabetta Celestino, a young archaeologist at work in Rome’s
ancient catacombs, has discovered a unique pattern of as-
—JAMES ROLLINS ON LIBR A RY O F TH E D E A D
GLENN COOPER
is the author of five internationally bestselling
hen a local archaeological dig looking for early human
remains near the town of St-Denis turns up a distinctly
contemporary corpse, Bruno has a new case to solve. The stakes
— BO O K L IS T
M A R T I N WA L K E R
is the author of eighteen books of non-fiction
novels, including Library of the Dead.
and fiction, including five novels featuring Captain Bruno Cour-
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règes. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C., and spends his
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summers in the southwest of France.
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joh n law r e n ce r ey n olds
Forgotten
Beach Strip
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a massive earthquake hits the region. When Emma is finally able to
W
return home, she is shocked to find that her friends believed her
fears it could be true. As she tries to uncover the truth, she is car-
dead, and her boyfriend is dating her arch-enemy. Can Emma pick
ried toward the dark corners of the beach strip and the darker
up where she left off? Should she? sides of its colourful residents. Who can she trust? On the beach
mma Tupper, a young lawyer with a bright future, falls ill on
a journey to Africa and is recovering in a small village when
hen Josie Marshall’s detective husband, Gabe, is found
naked outside their beachfront home with a bullet in
his brain, everyone calls it suicide. Josie doesn’t believe it . . . but
strip, nothing is quite what it seems . . .
“A refreshing take on your typical coming-of-age story. . . .
A must-read.”—romantic times (fou r s ta r s)
“Funny and irreverent. . . . A nifty welcome back to crime
fiction for Reynolds.” —TO RO N TO S TA R
C AT H E R I N E M c K E N Z I E
was born and raised in Montreal. Her
novels include Spin and Arranged, which are international best-
J O H N L AW R E N C E R E Y N O L D S
sellers.
dozen works of fiction and non-fiction. He has written six previous
» » web: catherinemckenzie .com
mystery novels and is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award.
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He lives in Burlington, Ontario.
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youn g adult &
children ’ s titles
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From Governor General’s Award finalist Frank Viva
comes a picture book that soars from the ocean to
outer space—or from space to sea—and back again
R
eady . . . Steady . . . Down! Zoom away on an adventure that
begins on a distant planet and plunges into the mysterious deep.
Or begin your adventure underwater, then go zipping upward into the
F r a n k V iva
wondrous cosmos. This two-direction story follows an adorable alien
who leaves his family to discover a new life in the ocean depths—or a
sea creature who leaves his cozy ocean home to find his new family in
outer space, depending on which way the pages are turned. Gorgeous,
innovative and utterly original, A Long Way Away will soar for a long,
long time.
A Long Way Away
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PRAISE FOR A LONG A LONG ROA D
“[An] outstanding visual treat.”
—SCH O O L LIBR A RY JOU R N A L (STARRED REVIEW)
“Will appeal to any and all whose eyes (and minds) light up
when visual pleasures, not to mention the call of the open
road, beckon.” —TH E GLO BE A N D M A IL
“This is one of those rare picture books that deserves a place not
only on a child’s bookshelf but in an art museum—and would be
equally at home in both.” —BOS TO N GLO BE
F R A N K V I VA
runs a branding and design agency in Toronto. He is a
cover artist for The New Yorker, sits on two college advisory boards, and
is past president of the Advertising & Design Club of Canada. His first
picture book, Along a Long Road, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and named one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Illustrated
Children’s Books of 2011, School Library Journal ’s Best Books of 2011
and Toronto Public Library’s First & Best for 2011.
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From the acclaimed author of The Space Between and
The First Stone
A
ll Ethan Palmer wants is wheels of his own, and he’s finally saved
enough money to buy his dream car . . . when he accidentally
Don Aker
rams his dad’s Volvo into their garage. It’s not like his lawyer/politician
father can’t afford to pay for the damage, but of course his old man is
going to turn this into another Big Life Lesson.
Running on Empty
A Novel
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With all of his hard-earned cash going into repairs, Ethan won’t be
sliding behind the wheel of that Mustang Cobra any time soon. Or will
he? He thinks he’s found a way to make some easy money, and suddenly
nothing is more important. Not school, not the girl he loves, not even
the secrets that divide his family. For Ethan, it’s all about payback. But he
has no idea what his choices will cost him.
“Don Aker’s genius for crafting intense and powerful stories
featuring utterly believable teen boy characters has never been
more clearly in evidence than in this, his latest book. . . . [Running
on Empty] is gripping, heartbreaking and revelatory, a book that
will touch teen (and adult) readers deeply.”
— C A N A D I A N CH I L D R EN ’ S BO O K N E W S
“Running on Empty succeeds as a cautionary tale, but the book really shines at showing how a boy reckons with ideals, and what he
has to do when they slip out of his grasp by his own actions.”
— N ATIO N A L P OS T
D ON A K E R ’ S
most recent novel is The Fifth Rule, a finalist for the White
Pine Award. His acclaimed backlist also includes The Space Between,
winner of the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Honour Book
Award and also a finalist for the White Pine Award; One on One, winner
of the Canadian Authors Association Lilla Stirling Award and nominated
for the Hackmatack Award and the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice
Award; and The First Stone, winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award
and the White Pine Award. A former high-school teacher, Don lives by
the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.
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Two bestselling talents shed new light on an age-old fear
L
azlo is afraid of the dark. It hides in closets and sometimes sits behind the shower curtain, but mostly it lives in the basement. One
night, when Lazlo’s nightlight burns out, the dark comes to visit him in
his room. “Lazlo,” the Dark says. “I want to show you something.” And so
Lazlo descends the basement stairs to face his fears and discover a few
lemo n y s n ic k e t
comforting facts about the mysterious presence with whom all children
illus t r a t ed by jo n k lasse n
must learn to live.
Beautifully rendered with sympathy and wit, this first collaboration
between Snicket and Klassen offers a fresh take on a universal childhood experience.
PRAISE FOR LEMONY SNICKET’S 13 WOR DS
“This charming chef-d’oeuvre sings like a mezzo-soprano.”
— K IR KUS R E V IE W S (STARRED REVIEW)
The Dark
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P R A I S E F O R J O N K L A S S E N ’ S I WA N T M Y H AT B A C K
“A wonderful and astonishing thing, the kind of book that makes
child laugh and adult chuckle, and both smile in appreciation.”
—TH E N E W YO R K TIM E S
LEMONY SNICKET
has been accused of leaving his readers in the
dark. He is the author of Who Could That Be at This Hour?, the first book
in a new series called All the Wrong Questions; the thirteen volumes in
A Series of Unfortunate Events, which have sold more than sixty million
copies worldwide; 13 Words, illustrated by Maira Kalman; and several
other alarming books. He is known to communicate through emissary
Daniel Handler, whose Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Why We Broke
Up, also illustrated by Maira Kalman, received six starred reviews.
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JON KLASSEN
was born in Winnipeg, where the dark arrives early for
much of the year. His illustrations for Cats’ Night Out earned him the
Governor General’s Award, and he was also nominated for House Held
Up By Trees. His picture book I Want My Hat Back was named a New
York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2011 and a Geisel Award
Honor Book by the American Library Association. His most recent
books are Extra Yarn and This is Not My Hat.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events 1
9780061146305 • $8.99 TPB
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions, Book One)
9781443401920 • $16.99 CL
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The epic vampire tale concludes . . .
P
repare for a shock as the four-part Saga of Larten Crepsley comes
to a terrifying end. Just as Larten is adjusting to his new place in
vampire society, his family suffers a horrifying tragedy, thanks to the ne-
D a r r e n S ha n
Brothers to the Death
The Saga of Larten Crepsley, Book Four
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farious Vampaneze. But there is even more evil brewing, and Larten may
soon find himself grieving again as he faces the worst and final betrayal.
“Fast paced and packed with thought-provoking discussions of
war and peace, hate and tolerance, and resentment and forgiveness . . . the book does not disappoint with vampire mythology,
action and adventure, and plot twists. Fans of the series will appreciate the conclusion of the master’s story, while new fans will
be able to jump into the book without any trouble. This is a good
read for fantasy and adventure fans alike.”
—VOYA (STARRED REVIEW)
in association with Curtis Brown Group Ltd.
“Shan gives his grand finale a totally unexpected twist . . . one that
sponsoring editor: Hadley Dyer
will both surprise and horrify readers. . . . [He] never fails to give
us the best, goriest and most horrifying adventures.”
—TEEN R E A DS
D A R R EN S H A N
is the author of the internationally bestselling series
Cirque Du Freak (known as The Saga of Darren Shan in the U.K.), and the
Demonata. His adventures have been read by millions of people around
the world in twenty languages, yet much of his life remains shrouded
in mystery. He lives in seclusion in the depths of Ireland, and he never
drinks blood, or so he claims.
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The second magical adventure of Jennifer Strange,
now in paperback!
A
long time ago, magic faded away. All that the world was left with
were yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-north
J aspe r F fo r de
enchantment and a spell that keeps bicycles from falling over.
But things are about to change. Magical power is on the rise, and
King Snodd IV of Hereford has realized that he who controls magic con-
The Song of the
Quarkbeast
A Last Dragonslayer Novel
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trols almost everything. Only one person stands between Snodd and his
plans for power and riches beyond the wildest dreams of avarice.
Meet Jennifer Strange, the sixteen-year-old acting manager of
Kazam, an employment agency for sorcerers and soothsayers. With
help from only one functioning Wizard and her faithful assistant, Tiger Prawns, Jennifer must use every ounce of ingenuity to derail King
Snodd’s plans. It may involve a magic carpet, the mysterious Transient
Moose and a powerless sorceress named Once Magnificent Boo.
But one thing is certain: Jennifer Strange will not relinquish the
noble powers of magic to big business and commerce without a fight.
other rights: Janklow & Nesbit
sponsoring editor: Hadley Dyer
P R A I S E F O R T H E L A S T D R AG O N S L AY E R S E R I E S
“Fforde’s first kids’ fantasy is spoof, comic mayhem and sharp cultural criticism. . . . Reminiscent of Pratchett in tone, this is clever,
suspenseful and engaging.” —TO RO N TO S TA R
“This year’s grown-up J.K. Rowling.” —TH E SU N DAY TIM E S
“True literary comic genius.” —SU N DAY E XPR E S S
J A S P E R FF O R D E
is the critically acclaimed author of the Thursday
Next novels and the Nursery Crime books. After giving up a varied career in the film industry, Jasper now lives and writes in Wales and has a
passion for aviation.
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“This series has to be one of the best reads available to
steampunk fans and adventure seekers alike.”
—Canadian Children’s Book News
T
he final adventure in the Hunchback Assignments series finds the
shape-shifting, masked spy Modo on his most personal quest yet:
for the truth about who he really is. A coded letter from the bewitching
A r t hu r S lade
French spy Colette Brunet sends our hero in search of the biological
parents who abandoned him as a baby. When the Clockwork Guild gets
to them first, Modo and his loyal friend Octavia Milkweed give chase
across Europe and North America to the Island of Doom. An epic showdown with his magnificently evil and terrifying enemies in their Pacific
island stronghold brings Modo’s story to a thrilling conclusion.
“By turns touching and pulse-pounding, this conclusion will leave
fans fully satisfied.” — K IR KUS R E V IE W S
Island of Doom
The Hunchback Assignments IV
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ARTHUR SL ADE
is the author of The Hunchback Assignments, which
won the prestigious TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. The second volume in the Hunchback Assignments series, The Dark Deeps, was
a finalist for the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children Award and the CLA’s Young Adult Book Award, and the third volume, Empire of Ruins, was a finalist for the Saskatoon Book Award. Slade
is also the author of Dust, winner of the Governor General’s Award for
Children’s Literature, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Children’s Literature. He lives in Saskatoon.
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More money, more mystery and more murder.
Will Gerald ever be able to enjoy his billions?
T
he police have finally caught the evil murderer Sir Mason Green.
The third casket and whatever treasure it contains can remain a
Richa r d Newsome
secret, just as the Fraternity wished, and Gerald can relax and enjoy his
billions. Or can he?
At his trial, Green drops dead in the dock. Forensic testing shows
The Mask of Destiny
The Archer Legacy, Book Three
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that he was poisoned by a dart, and Gerald’s DNA is on the blowgun.
Then a mysterious cat woman steals the key to the third casket—a
mysterious woman with a store of poison darts, who happens to be Sir
Mason Green’s niece, Charlotte.
Now Gerald is on the run with Ruby and Sam, wanted for murder.
Can they beat Charlotte to the ruby casket and prove that she killed
Green? Their quest takes them to caverns beneath the island castle of
Mont St. Michel in France, locked rooms in the Vatican and the ancient
hidden city of Delphi in Greece to discover the secret of the three caskets and the great power they hold.
P R A I S E F O R T H E A R C H E R L EG AC Y T R I LO GY
“[The Mask of Destiny] is a terrific story and a great way to sum up
all three books. Verdict: a brilliant mystery.”
—H ER A L D SU N (AUSTRALIA)
“If your aim is to foster a love of reading, there are a billion good
reasons to stock your library with Richard Newsome’s novels.”
— PR IM A RY FO CUS FIC TIO N 2011
“The plot [of The Billionaire’s Curse] is rife with killings, suspects,
ancient clues and booby-trapped caverns straight out of an Indiana Jones movie.” —BO O K LIS T
R ICHAR D NEWSOME
was born in Wanganui, New Zealand, and now
lives in Brisbane, Australia, with his wife and three children. His Archer
Legacy series grew out of stories he made up for his children at bedtime,
tales of kids getting into mischief, tackling puzzles and solving crimes.
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A CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Honour
Book and finalist for the Silver Birch and Red Cedar
awards
I
t’s the Depression, but Red’s family is managing better than most
on their Prince Edward Island farm. Hard working and resourceful,
they have enough to eat and to help others, even if at times they are
Rach n a G ilmo r e
mocked by their neighbours for putting education ahead of farm work.
Eleven-year-old Red, with his preference for woodworking, doesn’t always shine at school, but he can’t slack off—his older sister, Ellen, is the
local teacher, and she simply won’t tolerate it.
But when Red’s father is injured, the family’s situation looks dire.
Red must step up to the challenge to finish the tobacco boxes that his
father makes and help shovel out a train stuck in the snow. Stubborn,
even pig-headed, Red makes many mistakes along the way, landing
himself in the midst of some hair-raising and hilarious adventures involving horses, lost sisters, outhouses and even airplanes. But in this
gem of a novel—a CCBC Best Books for Kids and Teens selection and
Girl Guides of Canada Book Club pick—the hero’s heart is always in
the right place.
“Red is a sympathetic, believable character, a rough-and-tumble
eleven-year-old boy for the ages. And like that other famous P.E.I.
literary creation, Anne Shirley, his exploits will appeal to young
readers.” —QU ILL & QU IR E (STARRED REVIEW)
“Gilmore paints an image of . . . a family and a community along
with its values, strengths, challenges and diversity. . . . Readers will
enjoy the perspective of the spirited young boy Red.”
—C M M AGA ZIN E (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
R ACH N A G I L MO R E
is the author of many children’s books, including
the Governor General’s Award–winning A Screaming Kind of Day and
The Sower of Tales, which was the winner of the 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.
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That Boy Red
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The future is so Bright
L
ike all the girls at the House of Gear, Bright has a higher purpose:
to be, like, awesome. This means Bright’s engineered body must
always look perfect. It means she must be appealing at all times. The
S usa n J uby
personal support staff are watching, after all.
One of them, Grassly, is on a mission that will lead Bright toward
“enlightenment” and a new future while exposing her to incredible dan-
Bright’s Light
A Novel
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ger. If the other P.S. staff catch even a whiff of rebelliousness, they may
decide it’s time to reboot the entire population—just as Bright is discovering a whole new purpose within herself.
Susan Juby brings her trademark humour to dystopian and sci-fi
worlds in this electrifying new addition to the genres.
“A kind of combination of M. T. Anderson’s Feed and Libba Bray’s
Beauty Queens. . . . A biting, hyperbolic imagining of the culture
of youth, fashion and fun.” —TO RO N TO S TA R
editor: Hadley Dyer
“With its utterly original and wackily outrageous premise, Susan
Juby’s latest offering treats readers to the offbeat humour that
they have come to expect from her in a tale that is unlike anything
else she has written.” — C M M AGA ZI N E
SUSA N J U BY
is the author of the critically acclaimed YA novels Get-
ting the Girl and Another Kind of Cowboy, as well as the bestselling
Alice series (Alice, I Think; Miss Smithers; Alice MacLeod, Realist at
Last) and a novel for adults, The Woefield Poultry Collective. She holds
a master’s degree in publishing. Susan lives on Vancouver Island with
her husband, James, and their dog, who prefers to remain anonymous.
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Author Index
Afshin-Jam, Nazanin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Moyo, Dambisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Aker, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Newsome, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Al-Solaylee, Kamal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
O’Farrell, Maggie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 39
Ankersen, Rasmus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Oxford, Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Barker, Nicola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Pochoda, Ivy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Basu, Sanjay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Reynolds, John Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Beauregard, Mario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Richler, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Blum, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Roche, Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Bock, Dennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Buonaguro, Gina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Shan, Darren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 67
Chuvalo, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Shriver, Lionel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cohen, Tish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Silva, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 56
Cooper, Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Simsion, Graeme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Davis, Lauren B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Slade, Arthur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
de la Motte, Anders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 35
Snicket, Lemony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
DeSoto, Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Spencer-Wendel, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Dunant, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
St-Pierre, Georges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Engel, Patricia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Stronach, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Fforde, Jasper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Stuckler, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Ford, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Szalowski, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Franzen, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Tripp, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Geiger, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Viva, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Gilmore, Rachna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Vyleta, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Goolrick, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Walker, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 60
Greig, Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Watson, S. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Hannam, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Haynes, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Holt, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Honest Toddler, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Hood, Bruce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Hughes, Chuck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Ingram, Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Izzo, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Juby, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Kalotay, Daphne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Kiernan, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Kingsolver, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Kirk, Janice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Laflèche, Isabelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Le Billon, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Mason, Meg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
McCann, Colum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
McClelland, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
McKenzie, Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 61
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Title Index
Abomination, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
J’adore Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
After You’d Gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Life in Black and White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Angel Effect, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Long Way Away, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Beach Strip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Magna Man, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Before I Go to Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Mask of Destiny, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Big Brother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Prisoner of Heaven, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Blood and Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Restoration Artist, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Body Economic, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Rosie Project, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Brain Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Running on Empty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Bright’s Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Say It Again in a Nice Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Brothers to the Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Search Angel, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Bubble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Self-Illusion, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Buzz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Sight Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Song of the Quarkbeast, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Chuck’s Day Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tale of Two Nazanins, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chuvalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
That Boy Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Crooked Maid, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Transatlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Crowded Grave, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Curiosity, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Until I Say Good-Bye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Dark Tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Untitled Gabriel Allon Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Dark, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Devil Will Come, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Visitation Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Devil’s Cave, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Winner Take All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Empty Room, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Without Honour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Wolves of St. Peter’s, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Fallen Angel, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Wrecked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Farther Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Yips, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Fatal Flaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Your Fertility Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Zom-B Angels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Flight Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Forgotten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
French Kids Eat Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Going Home Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Gold Mine Effect, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
GSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Heading Out to Wonderful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Hidden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Honest Toddler, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Imposter Bride, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Instructions for a Heatwave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Intolerable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Island of Doom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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