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Brad Pattison Unleashed
Written by Brad Pattison

Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Pets - Dogs; Pets - Reference
978-0-307-35774-8 (0-307-35774-0)

April 6, 2010 | $29.95

(Available April 6, 2010)


Dog advocate and human-being life coach Brad Pattison brings his innovative, tough-love training and in-your-face counselling skills to the page.

Whether you're just getting started on training your new pup, looking to take your good relationship with your dog to a higher level, or trying to correct negative dog behaviours, Brad Pattison's...

Also available as an eBook.

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Coal Black Heart
Written by John Demont

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
978-0-385-66505-6 (0-385-66505-9)

April 6, 2010 | $22.95

(Available April 6, 2010)


A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters.

The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industrialized world. Coal has powered that world, and controlled the destinies of millions. And nowhere has that influence run more deeply than...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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The Hormone Diet
Written by Natasha Turner

Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Random House Canada | Health & Fitness; Health & Fitness - Nutrition
978-0-307-35649-9 (0-307-35649-3)

April 6, 2010 | $22.00

(Available April 6, 2010)


With hormonal imbalance, the risk of conditions associated with aging – cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis or heart disease – is magnified. If our hormones are in balance, we have the potential to age gracefully and remain youthful.

The complete fat-loss and preventative health guide for men and women has finally arrived. What's the...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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Slow Death by Rubber Duck
Written by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Current Affairs
978-0-307-39713-3 (0-307-39713-0)

April 6, 2010 | $19.95

(Available April 6, 2010)


Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us.

Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes - now, it's personal.

The most dangerous pollution has always come from commonplace items in...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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The Baby's Table

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Random House Canada | Cooking - Baby Food; Family & Relationships - Infants & Toddlers; Health & Fitness - Nutrition
978-0-307-35883-7 (0-307-35883-6)

March 30, 2010 | $23.95

(Available March 30, 2010)


Baby's hungry! And when it comes to mealtime, nothing is better than food you prepare yourself. Newly revised and updated to comply with health Canada's current guidelines on infant feeding, The Baby's Table shows how easy it is to prepare delicious and healthy meals for the little ones in your life...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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In the Sweet Kitchen
Written by Regan Daley

Trade Paperback | 704 pages | Random House Canada | Cooking; Cooking - Baking
978-0-307-35934-6 (0-307-35934-4)

March 30, 2010 | $35.00

(Available March 30, 2010)


Regan Daley's first encounter with a vanilla bean was an epiphany. The heady aroma was intoxicating and the bottled stuff she was used to paled in comparison. Why had she never noticed the considerable gap between these two forms of the same ingredient? Naturally, a crème anglaise made with vanilla extract...

Also available as a hardcover.

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God Is.

Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Anchor Canada | Religion - Philosophy
978-0-385-66652-7 (0-385-66652-7)

March 23, 2010 | $19.95

(Available March 23, 2010)


In this invaluable contribution to the continuing debate about religious belief, David Adams Richards offers an exhilaratingly fresh perspective and a voice more impassioned, heartfelt, and sometimes furious, than anything written about God by an atheist.

David Adams Richards, one of Canada’s most beloved and celebrated authors, has been wrestling with...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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French Kissing
Written by Catherine Sanderson

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66433-2 (0-385-66433-8)

March 16, 2010 | $22.95

(Available March 16, 2010)


Name: Sally Marshall
Status: Single mother
Age: 32
Nationality: Ten years in France, yet still English through and through. I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four-years-old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread . . .

So reads Sally's ad, posted on a French online dating site called...

Also available as an eBook.

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Called Out of Darkness
Written by Anne Rice

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Religion - Christian Life - Personal Growth; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39760-7 (0-307-39760-2)

March 9, 2010 | $19.95



An intimate memoir of Anne Rice’s Catholic girlhood, her unmaking as a devout believer, and her return to the Church – what she calls a decision of the heart.

Moving from her New Orleans childhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, with all its religious devotions, through how she slowly lost her belief...


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Curtains
Written by Tom Jokinen

Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Current Affairs; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-35568-3 (0-307-35568-3)

March 9, 2010 | $32.00



If Bill Bryson were to join a Winnipeg funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains - enlightening, full of life in the midst of death, and very funny.

"There's a time, from when someone dies...


Also available as an eBook.

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Direct Red
Written by Gabriel Weston

Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Medical
978-0-385-66581-0 (0-385-66581-4)

March 2, 2010 | $19.95



In this powerful and sometimes shocking account, a surgeon reveals her experience of hospital life with rare frankness.

In her mid-twenties, Gabriel Weston - an arts graduate with no scientific qualification beyond high school-level biology - decided to become a surgeon. She enrolled at night school, then went through many years...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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Switch
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Business & Economics
978-0-307-35727-4 (0-307-35727-9)

February 16, 2010 | $32.00



Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?

The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are...

Also available as an eBook.

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Citizens of London
Written by Lynne Olson

Hardcover | 496 pages | Bond Street Books | History
978-0-385-66937-5 (0-385-66937-2)

February 2, 2010 | $34.95



While justly acclaimed as the closest, most successful military partnership in history, the "special relationship" forged between the United States and Britain during World War II was anything but the inevitable alliance it appears to be in hindsight. As the countries of Western Europe fell one by one to Hitler, and...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Smart Cookies' Guide to Couples and Money

Hardcover | 240 pages | Random House Canada | Business & Economics - Personal Finance
978-0-307-35798-4 (0-307-35798-8)

January 26, 2010 | $29.95



This hip and accessible guide addresses all of the nagging money questions and thorny situations that come up when you're in a relationship, whether you're just starting to get serious or you're already married.

This book gives couples the perfect excuse to break the silence and start talking about… money! Staying on...

Also available as an eBook.