Bookclubs rejoice! This holiday season offers you a buffet of best-selling books, now in paperback.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66479-0 (0-385-66479-6)
September 8, 2009 | $22.95
Beautifully written and elegantly paced, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting tale of retribution, inhabited by empathic animals, prophetic dreams, second sight, and vengeful ghosts.
Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle feels separate...
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66479-0 (0-385-66479-6)
September 8, 2009 | $22.95
Beautifully written and elegantly paced, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting tale of retribution, inhabited by empathic animals, prophetic dreams, second sight, and vengeful ghosts.
Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle feels separate...
Red Dog, Red Dog
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-4632-2 (0-7710-4632-4)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
A National Bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
One of the most powerful, gripping works of fiction to come out of Canada, Red Dog, Red Dog is Patrick Lane’s virtuoso debut novel.
An epic novel of unrequited dreams and forestalled lives, Red Dog, Red Dog is set in...
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-4632-2 (0-7710-4632-4)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
A National Bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
One of the most powerful, gripping works of fiction to come out of Canada, Red Dog, Red Dog is Patrick Lane’s virtuoso debut novel.
An epic novel of unrequited dreams and forestalled lives, Red Dog, Red Dog is set in...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66583-4 (0-385-66583-0)
November 10, 2009 | $19.95
Winner of the 2007 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger
A delightfully dark English mystery, featuring precocious young sleuth Flavia de Luce and her eccentric family.
The summer of 1950 hasn’t offered up anything out of the ordinary for eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce: bicycle explorations around the village, keeping tabs on her neighbours, relentless...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66583-4 (0-385-66583-0)
November 10, 2009 | $19.95
Winner of the 2007 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger
A delightfully dark English mystery, featuring precocious young sleuth Flavia de Luce and her eccentric family.
The summer of 1950 hasn’t offered up anything out of the ordinary for eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce: bicycle explorations around the village, keeping tabs on her neighbours, relentless...
The Great Karoo
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66406-6 (0-385-66406-0)
September 8, 2009 | $21.00
From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.
The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66406-6 (0-385-66406-0)
September 8, 2009 | $21.00
From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving.
The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land...
Little Bee
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66531-5 (0-385-66531-8)
August 25, 2009 | $21.95
Sarah Summers is enjoying a holiday on a Nigerian beach when a young girl named Little Bee crashes irrevocably into her life. All it takes is a brief and horrifying moment of crisis — a terrifying scene that no reader will forget. Afterwards, Sarah and Little Bee might expect never to...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66531-5 (0-385-66531-8)
August 25, 2009 | $21.95
Sarah Summers is enjoying a holiday on a Nigerian beach when a young girl named Little Bee crashes irrevocably into her life. All it takes is a brief and horrifying moment of crisis — a terrifying scene that no reader will forget. Afterwards, Sarah and Little Bee might expect never to...
The Pyramid
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39835-2 (0-307-39835-8)
October 6, 2009 | $21.00
Now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada, this international bestseller is the missing piece of the critically acclaimed Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings.
The Pyramid is the prequel to the bestselling Kurt Wallander series, and reintroduces readers to a character they thought they knew...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39835-2 (0-307-39835-8)
October 6, 2009 | $21.00
Now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada, this international bestseller is the missing piece of the critically acclaimed Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings.
The Pyramid is the prequel to the bestselling Kurt Wallander series, and reintroduces readers to a character they thought they knew...
The Wasted Vigil
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66551-3 (0-385-66551-2)
September 8, 2009 | $21.00
From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers, a new novel, at once beautiful and blistering, about war today told through the lives of five people who come together by chance–and tragically revealed circumstance– in post—9/11 Afghanistan.
Five disparate lives intersect through decades of invasion, occupation, and violence. There’s Marcus, an English...
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66551-3 (0-385-66551-2)
September 8, 2009 | $21.00
From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers, a new novel, at once beautiful and blistering, about war today told through the lives of five people who come together by chance–and tragically revealed circumstance– in post—9/11 Afghanistan.
Five disparate lives intersect through decades of invasion, occupation, and violence. There’s Marcus, an English...
Broken
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-2287-6 (0-7710-2287-5)
August 4, 2009 | $18.99
An edgy, affecting, and darkly funny debut novel — narrated by Skunk, an eleven-year-old girl in a coma — that explores innocence and its betrayal as powerfully and unforgettably as do Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Lovely Bones
Skunk Cunningham’s world is a small one, populated by her family; her teachers...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-2287-6 (0-7710-2287-5)
August 4, 2009 | $18.99
An edgy, affecting, and darkly funny debut novel — narrated by Skunk, an eleven-year-old girl in a coma — that explores innocence and its betrayal as powerfully and unforgettably as do Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Lovely Bones
Skunk Cunningham’s world is a small one, populated by her family; her teachers...
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No Such Creature
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31432-5 (0-679-31432-6)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31432-5 (0-679-31432-6)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
La's Orchestra Saves the World
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39812-3 (0-307-39812-9)
November 17, 2009 | $19.95
La's Orchestra Saves the World is another delightful story celebrating friendship and the healing power of music, told with the warmth and charm we've come to love from this favourite storyteller.
It's 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, La, the generous...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39812-3 (0-307-39812-9)
November 17, 2009 | $19.95
La's Orchestra Saves the World is another delightful story celebrating friendship and the healing power of music, told with the warmth and charm we've come to love from this favourite storyteller.
It's 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, La, the generous...
Babylon Rolling
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39682-2 (0-307-39682-7)
August 11, 2009 | $19.95
From the author of the acclaimed debut Pretty Little Dirty comes a complex, seductive novel about race and culture, set in New Orleans.
Babylon Rolling is a glittering, gritty, unflinching novel of five families living along an Uptown block in the year before Hurricane Katrina. Told in numerous voices, it explores what...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39682-2 (0-307-39682-7)
August 11, 2009 | $19.95
From the author of the acclaimed debut Pretty Little Dirty comes a complex, seductive novel about race and culture, set in New Orleans.
Babylon Rolling is a glittering, gritty, unflinching novel of five families living along an Uptown block in the year before Hurricane Katrina. Told in numerous voices, it explores what...
Curse of the Pogo Stick
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39726-3 (0-307-39726-2)
August 11, 2009 | $19.95
A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse Down upon a Hmong Village.
In Vientiane, a booby-trapped corpse - intended for Dr Siri, the national coroner - has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui's intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri's...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39726-3 (0-307-39726-2)
August 11, 2009 | $19.95
A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse Down upon a Hmong Village.
In Vientiane, a booby-trapped corpse - intended for Dr Siri, the national coroner - has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui's intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri's...
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Rotten Apple
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66319-9 (0-385-66319-6)
September 1, 2009 | $16.95
Apple is the opposite of her outspoken mother and gossipy, chatty best friends; she’s always been the cool, calm, and collected one. But her life is about to spiral out of control. Apple’s super-sized, secret crush on her friend Zen leads her into major trouble. And she’s realizing it might not...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66319-9 (0-385-66319-6)
September 1, 2009 | $16.95
Apple is the opposite of her outspoken mother and gossipy, chatty best friends; she’s always been the cool, calm, and collected one. But her life is about to spiral out of control. Apple’s super-sized, secret crush on her friend Zen leads her into major trouble. And she’s realizing it might not...
Yesterday's Weather
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-3070-3 (0-7710-3070-3)
September 1, 2009 | $19.99
From the author of the Man Booker Prize— winning literary sensation and long-time Globe and Mail bestseller The Gathering, comes a dazzling, seductive new collection of stories.
“Anne Enright’s style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion’s; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro’s; . . ...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-3070-3 (0-7710-3070-3)
September 1, 2009 | $19.99
From the author of the Man Booker Prize— winning literary sensation and long-time Globe and Mail bestseller The Gathering, comes a dazzling, seductive new collection of stories.
“Anne Enright’s style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion’s; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro’s; . . ...
The Story of a Widow
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39719-5 (0-307-39719-X)
August 18, 2009 | $19.95
“One day when she looked at the portrait, she considered how blessed she had been in life. She contemplated her good fortune in finding an upright man like Akbar Ahmad as her life partner and felt grateful for his bounteous legacy, which released her from all financial cares. Akbar Ahmad looked...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39719-5 (0-307-39719-X)
August 18, 2009 | $19.95
“One day when she looked at the portrait, she considered how blessed she had been in life. She contemplated her good fortune in finding an upright man like Akbar Ahmad as her life partner and felt grateful for his bounteous legacy, which released her from all financial cares. Akbar Ahmad looked...
Arctic Chill
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35683-3 (0-307-35683-3)
September 29, 2009 | $21.00
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-35683-3 (0-307-35683-3)
September 29, 2009 | $21.00
On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope...
The Siege
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66664-0 (0-385-66664-0)
October 20, 2009 | $19.95
From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize – a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Márquez, and Rushdie – the stunning new translation of one of his major works.
In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is...
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66664-0 (0-385-66664-0)
October 20, 2009 | $19.95
From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize – a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Márquez, and Rushdie – the stunning new translation of one of his major works.
In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is...
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The Boat
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-66557-5 (0-385-66557-1)
August 11, 2009 | $19.95
With his immensely imaginative and gifted voice, Nam Le brings us a haunting collection of stories that resonate like those of JD Salinger, ZZ Packer, and Canada’s own Vincent Lam.
A stunningly inventive fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-66557-5 (0-385-66557-1)
August 11, 2009 | $19.95
With his immensely imaginative and gifted voice, Nam Le brings us a haunting collection of stories that resonate like those of JD Salinger, ZZ Packer, and Canada’s own Vincent Lam.
A stunningly inventive fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York...
Each Man's Son
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9359-3 (0-7710-9359-4)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
In Each Man’s Son, his fourth novel, Hugh MacLennan returns to his native Cape Breton to present life in a small mining community.
Dr. Daniel Ainslie, who ministers to the rough miners, yearns for a son, which he can never have. He comes to love young Alan MacNeil, the son of Mollie...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9359-3 (0-7710-9359-4)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
In Each Man’s Son, his fourth novel, Hugh MacLennan returns to his native Cape Breton to present life in a small mining community.
Dr. Daniel Ainslie, who ministers to the rough miners, yearns for a son, which he can never have. He comes to love young Alan MacNeil, the son of Mollie...
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39700-3 (0-307-39700-9)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
Isabel’s incandescent curiosity is piqued when she is asked to help a professor of medicine who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a simple but grave mistake? If not, what explains the tragic accident that...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39700-3 (0-307-39700-9)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
Isabel’s incandescent curiosity is piqued when she is asked to help a professor of medicine who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a simple but grave mistake? If not, what explains the tragic accident that...
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Bear
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9379-1 (0-7710-9379-9)
August 4, 2009 | $17.95
After five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute, Lou is given a welcome field assignment: to catalogue a nineteenth-century library, improbably located in an octagonal house on a remote island in northern Ontario. Eager to reconstruct the estate’s curious history, she is...
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9379-1 (0-7710-9379-9)
August 4, 2009 | $17.95
After five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute, Lou is given a welcome field assignment: to catalogue a nineteenth-century library, improbably located in an octagonal house on a remote island in northern Ontario. Eager to reconstruct the estate’s curious history, she is...
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Drawing Dead
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31401-1 (0-679-31401-6)
December 8, 2009 | $19.95
Lawyer Rick Redman decides it is time to make a career change. Murder can do that to a guy. A beautiful woman offering a substantial cash retainer makes it seem like a good idea too. But when he loses the cash in a poker game and he ends up in Nevada...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31401-1 (0-679-31401-6)
December 8, 2009 | $19.95
Lawyer Rick Redman decides it is time to make a career change. Murder can do that to a guy. A beautiful woman offering a substantial cash retainer makes it seem like a good idea too. But when he loses the cash in a poker game and he ends up in Nevada...
Emily Climbs
Trade Paperback | 376 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9382-1 (0-7710-9382-9)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if...
Trade Paperback | 376 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9382-1 (0-7710-9382-9)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if...
Emily's Quest
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9383-8 (0-7710-9383-7)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
The third and final volume of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s celebrated Emily trilogy, Emily’s Quest is a vigorously drawn study of a woman coming to terms with love and her own ambition. In no other novel did Montgomery explore more fully the beauty, complexity, and wonder of love. In every detail, this...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9383-8 (0-7710-9383-7)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
The third and final volume of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s celebrated Emily trilogy, Emily’s Quest is a vigorously drawn study of a woman coming to terms with love and her own ambition. In no other novel did Montgomery explore more fully the beauty, complexity, and wonder of love. In every detail, this...
A Mercy
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97831-5 (0-676-97831-2)
August 11, 2009 | $21.00
A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl...
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97831-5 (0-676-97831-2)
August 11, 2009 | $21.00
A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl...
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