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Beatrice & Virgil
Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-39877-2 (0-307-39877-3)
April 6, 2010 | $29.95
At last! An astonishing and original new novel by the author of Life of Pi.
A famous author receives a mysterious letter from a man who is a struggling writer but also turns out to be a taxidermist, an eccentric and fascinating character who does not kill animals but preserves them as...
Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-39877-2 (0-307-39877-3)
April 6, 2010 | $29.95
At last! An astonishing and original new novel by the author of Life of Pi.
A famous author receives a mysterious letter from a man who is a struggling writer but also turns out to be a taxidermist, an eccentric and fascinating character who does not kill animals but preserves them as...
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Blood Safari
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-35663-5 (0-307-35663-9)
April 6, 2010 | $19.95
When the rich and famous visit South Africa, their first port of call is often Body Armor, the personal security company offering two types of protection: the big and intimidating muscle men called Gorillas or the lean and hungry former government body guards, referred to as Invisibles.
Lemmer is a freelance...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-35663-5 (0-307-35663-9)
April 6, 2010 | $19.95
When the rich and famous visit South Africa, their first port of call is often Body Armor, the personal security company offering two types of protection: the big and intimidating muscle men called Gorillas or the lean and hungry former government body guards, referred to as Invisibles.
Lemmer is a freelance...
Brother & Sister
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35770-0 (0-307-35770-8)
April 6, 2010 | $16.95
Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister. Except that they aren't — brother and sister that is. They were both adopted when their loving parents found that they couldn't have...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35770-0 (0-307-35770-8)
April 6, 2010 | $16.95
Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister. Except that they aren't — brother and sister that is. They were both adopted when their loving parents found that they couldn't have...
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The Reckoning
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-66536-0 (0-385-66536-9)
April 6, 2010 | $17.95
Only two weeks ago, life was all too predictable. But that was before I saw my first ghost. Now along with my supernatural friends Tori, Derek, and Simon, I'm on the run from the Edison Group, which genetically altered us as part of their sinister experiment. We're hiding in a safe...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-66536-0 (0-385-66536-9)
April 6, 2010 | $17.95
Only two weeks ago, life was all too predictable. But that was before I saw my first ghost. Now along with my supernatural friends Tori, Derek, and Simon, I'm on the run from the Edison Group, which genetically altered us as part of their sinister experiment. We're hiding in a safe...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Swimming Pool
Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Psychological; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66791-3 (0-385-66791-4)
April 6, 2010 | $29.95
An illicit affair, an unsolved murder, an intense summer romance in Cape Cod - introducing Holly LeCraw's explosive and stunningly-written debut.
Seven summers ago, on Cape Cod, Marcella Atkinson - a married woman - fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, married father of two. Fuelled by desire and mutual respect, a secret...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Psychological; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66791-3 (0-385-66791-4)
April 6, 2010 | $29.95
An illicit affair, an unsolved murder, an intense summer romance in Cape Cod - introducing Holly LeCraw's explosive and stunningly-written debut.
Seven summers ago, on Cape Cod, Marcella Atkinson - a married woman - fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, married father of two. Fuelled by desire and mutual respect, a secret...
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Walt Whitman's Secret
Hardcover | 368 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31223-9 (0-679-31223-4)
April 6, 2010 | $32.00
As compelling and revelatory as Colm Toibin's The Master, Walt Whitman's Secret mines the life of the most influential poet in the American canon for insights about creativity, relations between the sexes and the dangers of excessive patriotism.
In this wonderfully imagined novel, Walt Whitman's secret isn't his homosexuality but another one...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31223-9 (0-679-31223-4)
April 6, 2010 | $32.00
As compelling and revelatory as Colm Toibin's The Master, Walt Whitman's Secret mines the life of the most influential poet in the American canon for insights about creativity, relations between the sexes and the dangers of excessive patriotism.
In this wonderfully imagined novel, Walt Whitman's secret isn't his homosexuality but another one...
Also available as an
eBook.
Chef
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39933-5 (0-307-39933-8)
March 30, 2010 | $19.95
A finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, this hypnotic novel that tells the story of the India-Pakistan conflict is now available from Vintage Canada.
Chef Kirpal, seriously ill, returns to Kashmir after a gap of fourteen years to cook his last meal at the Governor's residence. He embarks on...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39933-5 (0-307-39933-8)
March 30, 2010 | $19.95
A finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, this hypnotic novel that tells the story of the India-Pakistan conflict is now available from Vintage Canada.
Chef Kirpal, seriously ill, returns to Kashmir after a gap of fourteen years to cook his last meal at the Governor's residence. He embarks on...
Also available as an
eBook.
Dahanu Road
Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66699-2 (0-385-66699-3)
March 30, 2010 | $29.95
With an inimitable mix of earthy humour and searing tragedy, bestselling author Anosh Irani gives us his most ambitious novel yet.
Zairos is a dissolute young landowner's son living in the town of Dahanu, just outside Bombay, when his life of careless luxury is brought up short by a mysterious death: the...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66699-2 (0-385-66699-3)
March 30, 2010 | $29.95
With an inimitable mix of earthy humour and searing tragedy, bestselling author Anosh Irani gives us his most ambitious novel yet.
Zairos is a dissolute young landowner's son living in the town of Dahanu, just outside Bombay, when his life of careless luxury is brought up short by a mysterious death: the...
Also available as an
eBook.
Tell Me No Secrets
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66980-1 (0-385-66980-1)
March 30, 2010 | $19.95
People are inexplicably disappearing from Chicago prosecutor Jess Koster's life. Eight years ago, her mother vanished without a trace and now a client, the victim of a brutal, sadistic rapist, is also missing. Someone is disrupting Jess's neat, ordered existence with chaos and terror. And from the shadow of her past...
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66980-1 (0-385-66980-1)
March 30, 2010 | $19.95
People are inexplicably disappearing from Chicago prosecutor Jess Koster's life. Eight years ago, her mother vanished without a trace and now a client, the victim of a brutal, sadistic rapist, is also missing. Someone is disrupting Jess's neat, ordered existence with chaos and terror. And from the shadow of her past...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Golden Mean
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35621-5 (0-307-35621-3)
March 23, 2010 | $21.00
On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35621-5 (0-307-35621-3)
March 23, 2010 | $21.00
On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect...
No and Me
Hardcover | 256 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-66755-5 (0-385-66755-8)
March 23, 2010 | $22.00
"All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am, out of the picture, the conversation, at one remove, as though I was the only one able to hear the sounds or words that others can't and deaf to the words that they seem to hear. As if I'm outside...
Hardcover | 256 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-66755-5 (0-385-66755-8)
March 23, 2010 | $22.00
"All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am, out of the picture, the conversation, at one remove, as though I was the only one able to hear the sounds or words that others can't and deaf to the words that they seem to hear. As if I'm outside...
Also available as an
eBook.
The House of Special Purpose
Hardcover | 432 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66867-5 (0-385-66867-8)
March 16, 2010 | $34.95
Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign.
Eighty year old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past - a past of death, suffering and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living...
Hardcover | 432 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66867-5 (0-385-66867-8)
March 16, 2010 | $34.95
Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign.
Eighty year old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past - a past of death, suffering and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Snowman
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35865-3 (0-307-35865-8)
March 16, 2010 | $24.95
The next thrilling installment in the Harry Hole series.
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its...
Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35865-3 (0-307-35865-8)
March 16, 2010 | $24.95
The next thrilling installment in the Harry Hole series.
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its...
Also available as an
eBook.
Angelology
Hardcover | 464 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-385-66861-3 (0-385-66861-9)
March 9, 2010 | $29.95
Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, Angelology has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of The Da Vinci Code and Kate Mosse's Labyrinth
Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care...
Hardcover | 464 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-385-66861-3 (0-385-66861-9)
March 9, 2010 | $29.95
Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, Angelology has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of The Da Vinci Code and Kate Mosse's Labyrinth
Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care...
Also available as an
eBook.
Burnt Shadows
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66696-1 (0-385-66696-9)
March 9, 2010 | $19.95
Hiroko steps out onto the veranda. Her body from neck down a silk column, white with three black cranes swooping across her back. She looks out towards the mountains, and everything is more beautiful to her than it was early this morning. Nagasaki is more beautiful to her than ever before...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66696-1 (0-385-66696-9)
March 9, 2010 | $19.95
Hiroko steps out onto the veranda. Her body from neck down a silk column, white with three black cranes swooping across her back. She looks out towards the mountains, and everything is more beautiful to her than it was early this morning. Nagasaki is more beautiful to her than ever before...
