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Her Fearful Symmetry
Written by Audrey Niffenegger

Hardcover | 416 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39745-4 (0-307-39745-9)

October 6, 2009 | $34.95



Another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers — normal, at least, for identical “mirror” twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they...

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Last Night in Twisted River
Written by John Irving

Hardcover | 576 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39836-9 (0-307-39836-6)

October 20, 2009 | $34.95



From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes...


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An Echo in the Bone
Written by Diana Gabaldon

Hardcover | 848 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Historical
978-0-385-66610-7 (0-385-66610-1)

September 22, 2009 | $39.95



A new Outlander novel — the seventh — from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.

Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldon’s epic Outlander saga — a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genre’s most popular and...

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New York
Written by Edward Rutherfurd

Hardcover | 880 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-66426-4 (0-385-66426-5)

November 10, 2009 | $39.95



A brilliant mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, New York gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of America's history.

A blockbuster masterpiece that combines breath-taking scope with narrative immediacy, this grand historical epic traces the history of New York through the lenses of several...

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Ford County: Stories
Written by John Grisham

Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday | Fiction
978-0-385-53245-7 (0-385-53245-8)

November 3, 2009 | $28.95



In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.

Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother...


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Angel Time
Written by Anne Rice

Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Suspense
978-0-676-97808-7 (0-676-97808-8)

October 27, 2009 | $35.00



Anne Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades with this new novel — the first book in a new series called “Songs of the Seraphim.”

Angel Time is a dark, suspenseful novel about angels, reluctant assassins and a journey of redemption.

Toby O’Dare — a.k.a...


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Breathless
Written by Dean Koontz

Hardcover | 352 pages | Bantam | Fiction
978-0-553-80715-8 (0-553-80715-3)

November 24, 2009 | $35.00



#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountains—and the balance of the world begins to tilt….
  
In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of...

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Southern Lights
Written by Danielle Steel

Hardcover | 336 pages | Delacorte Press | Fiction
978-0-385-34028-1 (0-385-34028-1)

October 20, 2009 | $35.00



Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel—at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.

Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband’s betrayal...

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The Age of Orphans
Written by Laleh Khadivi

Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9571-9 (0-7710-9571-6)

August 4, 2009 | $29.99



A Kurdish boy is forced to betray his people, in service of the new Iranian nation, with tragic consequences.

Reza had been like any other Kurdish boy; but after he is orphaned in a massacre by the armies of Iran’s new shah, everything changes. Later, as husband to a Tehrani woman...

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That Old Cape Magic
Written by Richard Russo

Hardcover | 272 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-41496-1 (0-375-41496-7)

August 4, 2009 | $32.00



Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.

Griffin has been tooling around for...


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South of Broad
Written by Pat Conroy

Hardcover | 528 pages | Nan A. Talese | Fiction
978-0-385-41305-3 (0-385-41305-X)

August 11, 2009 | $37.00



The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.

Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom...


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The Rapture
Written by Liz Jensen

Hardcover | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66701-2 (0-385-66701-9)

August 11, 2009 | $29.95



That summer, the summer all the rules began to change, June seemed to last for a thousand years. The temperature was merciless: ninety-eight, ninety-nine, then a hundred in the shade. It was heat to die in, to go nuts or to spawn in. Old folks collapsed, dogs were cooked alive in...

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Becoming George Sand

Hardcover | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66619-0 (0-385-66619-5)

August 18, 2009 | $32.95



Maria Jameson, an Edinburgh academic, is passionately involved with a younger man and married to a steady, reliable husband with whom she has two children. She wonders: Is it possible to love two men at the same time? And must she feel guilty?

For answers she reaches across the centuries to the...

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Baking Cakes in Kigali
Written by Gaile Parkin

Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-6901-7 (0-7710-6901-4)

August 18, 2009 | $28.99



Baking Cakes in Kigali is a tale in fourteen confections, and behind each cake lies a story. As baker Angel Tungaraza busies herself with her customers’ orders, we learn about their lives: Ken Akimoto — with his penchant for partying, her best client — and Bosco, his lovesick driver; Dr. Rejoice...

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The Shortest Distance Between Two Women
Written by Kris Radish

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Bantam | Fiction
978-0-553-80541-3 (0-553-80541-X)

August 18, 2009 | $17.50



Bestselling author Kris Radish takes the emotional measure of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends in her wise and wonderful new novel of a woman unsure if she’s on the verge of a breakdown—or a breakthrough.…

After all these years is there any way you would see me again? When Emma Lauryn Gilford...

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The Invisible Mountain

Hardcover | 384 pages | Bond Street Books | Fiction - Family Saga; Fiction - Historical
978-0-385-66772-2 (0-385-66772-8)

August 25, 2009 | $29.95



On the first day of the millennium, a small town gathers to witness a miracle and unravel its portents for the century: the mysterious reappearance of a lost infant, Pajarita. Later, as a young woman in the capital city — Montevideo, brimming with growth and promise — Pajarita begins a lineage...


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Small Wars
Written by Sadie Jones

Hardcover | 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39853-6 (0-307-39853-6)

September 1, 2009 | $29.95



Sadie Jones, the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Outcast, returns with an ambitious, richly imagined novel that confirms her place in the literary firmament.

A passionate and beautifully written tale of personal loss in the midst of war in late 1950s Cyprus, Small Wars raises important questions that are just...

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39840-6 (0-307-39840-4)

August 25, 2009 | $32.00



The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over.

It’s summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn’t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty’s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn’t know that the...

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Homer & Langley
Written by E.L. Doctorow

Hardcover | 224 pages | Random House | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-6494-6 (1-4000-6494-5)

September 1, 2009 | $32.00



From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.

Homer and Langley Collyer are...


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The Wonder
Written by Diana Evans

Hardcover | 320 pages | Bond Street Books | Fiction
978-0-385-66818-7 (0-385-66818-X)

September 8, 2009 | $32.95



From the acclaimed author of 26a, comes a dazzling new novel about the fight to achieve one’s dream, and an unsolved disappearance at the heart of a family.

As a child Lucas assumed that all children who’d lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the...

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The Golden City
Written by John Twelve Hawks

Hardcover | 368 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66425-7 (0-385-66425-7)

September 8, 2009 | $34.95



A riveting blend of high-tech thriller and fast-paced adventure. Packed with knife-edge tension, intriguing characters, and startling plot twists that will keep you turning the pages.

In the Fourth Realm trilogy, John Twelve Hawks introduces readers to a dangerous fantasy world inspired by modern technology that monitors our lives. The suspense...


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A Gate at the Stairs
Written by Lorrie Moore

Hardcover | 336 pages | Bond Street Books | Fiction
978-0-385-66824-8 (0-385-66824-4)

September 8, 2009 | $29.95



Lyrical, devastatingly funny, wise, and beguiling, A Gate at the Stairs is Lorrie Moore’s most ambitious book to date.

The long-awaited new novel from one of the most heralded writers of the past thirty years, A Gate at the Stairs is a book of stunning power.

Set just after the events of...

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Mathilda Savitch
Written by Victor Lodato

Hardcover | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66770-8 (0-385-66770-1)

September 15, 2009 | $29.95



A fiercely funny and touching debut novel of a young girl uncovering the truth about her sister’s death.

Fear doesn’t come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look directly at things nobody else can even mention: for example, her beloved older sister’s death. She was pushed in front of a train by a...

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Voices in the Dark
Written by Catherine Banner

Hardcover | 464 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66306-9 (0-385-66306-4)

September 22, 2009 | $23.95



Seventeen-year-old Anselm Andros has several clearly defined roles in his family and they’re ones that he plays very well: he is confidante to his mother, Maria, who at age 15 gave birth to him and so grew up alongside him; he is the confessor to his stepfather Leo, a man haunted...

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The Broken Teaglass
Written by Emily Arsenault

Hardcover | 384 pages | Delacorte Press | Fiction - Literary
978-0-553-80733-2 (0-553-80733-1)

September 29, 2009 | $29.95



The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gritty urban park–all collide memorably in Emily Arsenault’s magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle...

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