Bookclubs rejoice! This holiday season offers you a buffet of best-selling books, now in paperback.
The Bishop's Man
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35707-6 (0-307-35707-4)
August 3, 2010 | $22.00
Something about the boat, perhaps its name, and the posture of that boy caused me to defer my anxieties for the moment. It was so rare to see someone that age stationary, somber. I was more accustomed to a rowdy adolescent enthusiasm. This young man, I realized, was exceptional only because...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35707-6 (0-307-35707-4)
August 3, 2010 | $22.00
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Something about the boat, perhaps its name, and the posture of that boy caused me to defer my anxieties for the moment. It was so rare to see someone that age stationary, somber. I was more accustomed to a rowdy adolescent enthusiasm. This young man, I realized, was exceptional only because...
New York
Trade Paperback | 880 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66427-1 (0-385-66427-3)
September 21, 2010 | $22.95
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...
Trade Paperback | 880 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66427-1 (0-385-66427-3)
September 21, 2010 | $22.95
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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...
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66585-8 (0-385-66585-7)
November 2, 2010 | $19.95
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder — but then, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die. When the master puppeteer’s van breaks down in the village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is front and centre to help Rupert and his charming assistant, Nialla, put together a performance in the...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66585-8 (0-385-66585-7)
November 2, 2010 | $19.95
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder — but then, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die. When the master puppeteer’s van breaks down in the village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is front and centre to help Rupert and his charming assistant, Nialla, put together a performance in the...
The Year of the Flood
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39798-0 (0-307-39798-X)
July 27, 2010 | $22.00
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39798-0 (0-307-39798-X)
July 27, 2010 | $22.00
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From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice
In a world...
The Very Thought of You
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67052-4 (0-385-67052-4)
August 3, 2010 | $22.00
England, 31st of August, 1939
The world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate opened up to evacuees...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67052-4 (0-385-67052-4)
August 3, 2010 | $22.00
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England, 31st of August, 1939
The world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate opened up to evacuees...
Also available as an
eBook.
Ford County: Stories
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Bantam | Fiction
978-0-553-38681-3 (0-553-38681-6)
August 17, 2010 | $17.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters: Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a...
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Bantam | Fiction
978-0-553-38681-3 (0-553-38681-6)
August 17, 2010 | $17.00
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters: Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
Chronic City
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27752-7 (0-307-27752-6)
August 24, 2010 | $17.95
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27752-7 (0-307-27752-6)
August 24, 2010 | $17.95
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The bestselling and beloved author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude delivers a searing love letter to the city that has inspired his finest work.
Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned...
Waiting for Columbus
Trade Paperback | 408 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8547-5 (0-7710-8547-8)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
Highly acclaimed Canadian novelist Thomas Trofimuk bursts onto the international literary stage with this dazzling novel, rich with all the emotional intensity of The English Patient.
In a Spanish mental institution in 2004, a man who believes he is Christopher Columbus begins to tell his story. Nurse Consuela listens, hoping to discover...
Trade Paperback | 408 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8547-5 (0-7710-8547-8)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
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Highly acclaimed Canadian novelist Thomas Trofimuk bursts onto the international literary stage with this dazzling novel, rich with all the emotional intensity of The English Patient.
In a Spanish mental institution in 2004, a man who believes he is Christopher Columbus begins to tell his story. Nurse Consuela listens, hoping to discover...
A Gate at the Stairs
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66826-2 (0-385-66826-0)
August 24, 2010 | $19.95
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...
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66826-2 (0-385-66826-0)
August 24, 2010 | $19.95
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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...
Another Life Altogether
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66768-5 (0-385-66768-X)
September 7, 2010 | $21.95
A profoundly moving, heartrending story of a girl's struggle to love her mother in spite of her frightening mental illness
After years of living in the shadow of her mother's mental illness, thirteen-year-old Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village near the coast...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66768-5 (0-385-66768-X)
September 7, 2010 | $21.95
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A profoundly moving, heartrending story of a girl's struggle to love her mother in spite of her frightening mental illness
After years of living in the shadow of her mother's mental illness, thirteen-year-old Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village near the coast...
Homer & Langley
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-7563-5 (0-8129-7563-4)
September 7, 2010 | $17.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great...
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction - Literary
978-0-8129-7563-5 (0-8129-7563-4)
September 7, 2010 | $17.00
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
Nocturnes
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-39788-1 (0-307-39788-2)
September 21, 2010 | $19.95
In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the “hush-hush floor” of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-39788-1 (0-307-39788-2)
September 21, 2010 | $19.95
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In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the “hush-hush floor” of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at...
The Last Woman
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction
978-0-7710-1070-5 (0-7710-1070-2)
September 28, 2010 | $21.00
In the heart of cottage country in Ontario, bordering on a native reservation, Ann and Richard are confronted with the abrupt reappearance after ten years of a local man, Billy. His presence once again in their lives brings back powerful memories and rekindles old conflicts, love, and a betrayal, as each...
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction
978-0-7710-1070-5 (0-7710-1070-2)
September 28, 2010 | $21.00
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In the heart of cottage country in Ontario, bordering on a native reservation, Ann and Richard are confronted with the abrupt reappearance after ten years of a local man, Billy. His presence once again in their lives brings back powerful memories and rekindles old conflicts, love, and a betrayal, as each...
8 X 10
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66594-0 (0-385-66594-6)
October 5, 2010 | $17.95
Shockingly original and intensely intelligent, 8 × 10 is a series of snapshots of a world torn apart by war and migration.
Fearless in form, Michael Turner’s 8 × 10 casts aside traditional narrative structure and characterization to delve deeper into the issues gnawing at today’s global society. Through a sequence of...
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66594-0 (0-385-66594-6)
October 5, 2010 | $17.95
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Shockingly original and intensely intelligent, 8 × 10 is a series of snapshots of a world torn apart by war and migration.
Fearless in form, Michael Turner’s 8 × 10 casts aside traditional narrative structure and characterization to delve deeper into the issues gnawing at today’s global society. Through a sequence of...
The Museum of Innocence
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-676-97969-5 (0-676-97969-6)
October 5, 2010 | $21.00
A sweeping, emotionally charged novel of the nature of romantic attachment and the strange allure of collecting — this is Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement.
It is Istanbul in 1975. Kemal is a rich and engaged man when he by chance encounters a long-lost relation, Fusun, a young shopgirl whose beauty stirs all...
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-676-97969-5 (0-676-97969-6)
October 5, 2010 | $21.00
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A sweeping, emotionally charged novel of the nature of romantic attachment and the strange allure of collecting — this is Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement.
It is Istanbul in 1975. Kemal is a rich and engaged man when he by chance encounters a long-lost relation, Fusun, a young shopgirl whose beauty stirs all...
Sunset Oasis
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8386-0 (0-7710-8386-6)
October 12, 2010 | $19.99
Winner of the first “Arabic Booker Prize,” a vivid compelling historical tale set in late nineteenth-century Egypt.
When Mahmoud, a disgraced Egyptian officer, is posted to the remote desert town of Siwa, his Irish wife insists on accompanying him, to pursue the secrets of Alexander the Great. Neither is prepared for the...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8386-0 (0-7710-8386-6)
October 12, 2010 | $19.99
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Winner of the first “Arabic Booker Prize,” a vivid compelling historical tale set in late nineteenth-century Egypt.
When Mahmoud, a disgraced Egyptian officer, is posted to the remote desert town of Siwa, his Irish wife insists on accompanying him, to pursue the secrets of Alexander the Great. Neither is prepared for the...
The Parabolist
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66875-0 (0-385-66875-9)
October 19, 2010 | $19.95
Parabolist: noun (1) one who speaks in parables. (2) a member of a splinter group of disaffected young poets in Mexico City c. 1975. (3) a practitioner of the art of concentrating multiple sources of energy into a single focus, illuminating or, if left unchecked, destroying everything in its path.
Part comedy...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66875-0 (0-385-66875-9)
October 19, 2010 | $19.95
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Parabolist: noun (1) one who speaks in parables. (2) a member of a splinter group of disaffected young poets in Mexico City c. 1975. (3) a practitioner of the art of concentrating multiple sources of energy into a single focus, illuminating or, if left unchecked, destroying everything in its path.
Part comedy...
A Dead Hand
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8542-0 (0-7710-8542-7)
November 2, 2010 | $19.99
Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta.
In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8542-0 (0-7710-8542-7)
November 2, 2010 | $19.99
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Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta.
In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and...
The Cripple and His Talismans
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67011-1 (0-385-67011-7)
November 2, 2010 | $19.95
Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior — even the rules governing time and gravity — are set on their heads. This dark and wry fable begins with the narrator waking up and discovering he is missing an arm. He has no idea how he lost it or how...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67011-1 (0-385-67011-7)
November 2, 2010 | $19.95
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Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior — even the rules governing time and gravity — are set on their heads. This dark and wry fable begins with the narrator waking up and discovering he is missing an arm. He has no idea how he lost it or how...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39922-9 (0-307-39922-2)
November 2, 2010 | $17.95
This is a story. In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the reader questions...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39922-9 (0-307-39922-2)
November 2, 2010 | $17.95
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This is a story. In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the reader questions...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-66866-8 (0-385-66866-X)
November 30, 2010 | $22.00
Written with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition.
When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the Pakistani village shopkeeper, he...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-66866-8 (0-385-66866-X)
November 30, 2010 | $22.00
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Written with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition.
When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the Pakistani village shopkeeper, he...
The Sea Captain's Wife
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39711-9 (0-307-39711-4)
November 30, 2010 | $22.00
A gripping novel of love and obsession set in the 1860s, The Sea Captain's Wife masterfully combines truths of the heart with the sweep of adventure - and takes us on an unforgettable voyage amidst breathtaking beauty.
Azuba Galloway, daughter of a shipwright, sees ships leaving for foreign ports from her bustling...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39711-9 (0-307-39711-4)
November 30, 2010 | $22.00
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A gripping novel of love and obsession set in the 1860s, The Sea Captain's Wife masterfully combines truths of the heart with the sweep of adventure - and takes us on an unforgettable voyage amidst breathtaking beauty.
Azuba Galloway, daughter of a shipwright, sees ships leaving for foreign ports from her bustling...
Noah's Compass
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66776-0 (0-385-66776-0)
December 28, 2010 | $21.00
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a retired school teacher forced to re-evaluate his life.
Liam Pennywell has never liked teaching at a run-down private school, so when he is forced to retire at sixty-one, it doesn’t bother him. But what does is having...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66776-0 (0-385-66776-0)
December 28, 2010 | $21.00
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From Pulitzer Prize–winner Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a retired school teacher forced to re-evaluate his life.
Liam Pennywell has never liked teaching at a run-down private school, so when he is forced to retire at sixty-one, it doesn’t bother him. But what does is having...
