Falling Backwards

eBook | Knopf Canada |
978-0-307-39986-1 (0-307-39986-9)
November 1, 2011 | $13.99

Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene - always candid, always unplugged. You thought you knew Jann Arden, but there is more - to her readers' delight, in Falling Backwards Jann reveals her childhood...

Onstage Offstage

eBook | Doubleday Canada |
978-0-385-67627-4 (0-385-67627-1)
October 25, 2011 | $19.99

An intimate portait, in pictures and his own words, of the enormously successful Canadian singer Michael Bublé became an international phenomenon with the release of his first, self-titled album of 2003, which reached the top ten in Canada and in the UK. Since then he has sold more than 25 million...

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

eBook | Doubleday Canada |
978-0-385-66926-9 (0-385-66926-7)
October 4, 2011 | $13.99

A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction written for the general public.

FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
"We are prone to a cycle of craving what we don't have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then craving it all the...

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

eBook | Random House Canada |
978-0-307-35915-5 (0-307-35915-8)
September 13, 2011 | $13.99

In this tour-de-force sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa with the story of her unforgettable family.

In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multi-layered narrative around the Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the grimness of her father's...

The Measure of a Man

eBook | McClelland & Stewart |
978-0-7710-4649-0 (0-7710-4649-9)
September 27, 2011 | $14.99

FINALIST - Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - Governor General's Literary Award - Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - BC Book Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (2012)
 
A son’s decision to alter his father’s last surviving suit for himself is the launching point for this powerful book – part personal memoir, part social...

Sleeping with the Enemy

eBook | Vintage |
978-0-307-95703-0 (0-307-95703-9)
August 16, 2011 | $14.99

“From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André Malraux

Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.

She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their...

Mordecai

eBook | Knopf Canada |
978-0-307-37602-2 (0-307-37602-8)
October 19, 2010 | $14.99

Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century.

The first major biography with access to family letters and archives. Mordecai Richler was an...

A Matter of Principle

eBook | McClelland & Stewart |
978-1-55199-316-4 (1-55199-316-3)
August 31, 2011 | $16.99

"I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it."
—Conrad Black, in his statement to the court, June 24, 2011

In 1993, Conrad Black was the proprietor of...

Hope Is Better Than Fear (e-book original)

eBook | Random House Canada |
978-0-307-36174-5 (0-307-36174-8)
September 27, 2011 | $6.99

An e-book original inspired by the vision of late NDP leader Jack Layton with short, personal essays by a diverse line-up of Canadian writers and activists.
 
HOPE IS BETTER THAN FEAR reflects upon and looks forward on a number of issues that Jack Layton championed over the course of his extraordinary career...

Trudeau Transformed

eBook | McClelland & Stewart |
978-0-7710-5126-5 (0-7710-5126-3)
October 17, 2011 | $19.99

This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.

When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University of Montreal...