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Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-66144-7 (0-385-66144-4)
September 26, 2006 | $17.95
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures welcomes readers into a world where the most mundane events can quickly become life or death. By following four young medical students and physicians – Ming, Fitz, Sri and Chen – this debut collection from 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam is a riveting, eye-opening account...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-66144-7 (0-385-66144-4)
September 26, 2006 | $17.95
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures welcomes readers into a world where the most mundane events can quickly become life or death. By following four young medical students and physicians – Ming, Fitz, Sri and Chen – this debut collection from 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam is a riveting, eye-opening account...
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39704-1 (0-307-39704-1)
February 6, 2009 | $21.00
This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst.
One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39704-1 (0-307-39704-1)
February 6, 2009 | $21.00
This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst.
One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Dial Press Trade Paperback | Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-34100-4 (0-385-34100-8)
May 5, 2009 | $16.50
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Dial Press Trade Paperback | Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-34100-4 (0-385-34100-8)
May 5, 2009 | $16.50
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
The Flying Troutmans
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39750-8 (0-307-39750-5)
June 2, 2009 | $22.00
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn't know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39750-8 (0-307-39750-5)
June 2, 2009 | $22.00
"Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn't know what Thebes meant either), Logan was in trouble at school, something about the disturbing stories he was writing, Thebes was pretending to be Min on...
Life of Pi
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97377-8 (0-676-97377-9)
October 10, 2002 | $21.00
Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97377-8 (0-676-97377-9)
October 10, 2002 | $21.00
Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of...
The Time Traveler's Wife
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97633-5 (0-676-97633-6)
June 15, 2004 | $22.00
New York Times Bestseller
Today Show Book Club Selection
Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry...
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97633-5 (0-676-97633-6)
June 15, 2004 | $22.00
New York Times Bestseller
Today Show Book Club Selection
Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry...
A Wild Affair
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction
978-0-345-49982-0 (0-345-49982-4)
April 28, 2009 | $15.50
The big day is almost here for Jessica Wild. She’s finally engaged to the perfect man–sexy, wonderful Max–and is in the middle of planning the perfect wedding. Nothing, absolutely nothing, stands between her and happily-ever-after. Well, almost nothing. Probably nothing. You see, lately Max has been evasive, even secretive. And when...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction
978-0-345-49982-0 (0-345-49982-4)
April 28, 2009 | $15.50
The big day is almost here for Jessica Wild. She’s finally engaged to the perfect man–sexy, wonderful Max–and is in the middle of planning the perfect wedding. Nothing, absolutely nothing, stands between her and happily-ever-after. Well, almost nothing. Probably nothing. You see, lately Max has been evasive, even secretive. And when...
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All the Colours of Darkness
Paperback | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7617-6 (0-7710-7617-7)
May 26, 2009 | $11.99
The eagerly awaited new novel from Canada’s top crime-fiction writer.
It’s the May half-term school holiday, and the first warm day of the year has drawn a few children to the River Swain for a swim. When one boy chases another off the path that runs alongside Hindswell Woods, a glimpse of...
Paperback | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-7710-7617-6 (0-7710-7617-7)
May 26, 2009 | $11.99
The eagerly awaited new novel from Canada’s top crime-fiction writer.
It’s the May half-term school holiday, and the first warm day of the year has drawn a few children to the River Swain for a swim. When one boy chases another off the path that runs alongside Hindswell Woods, a glimpse of...
The Almost Archer Sisters
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66039-6 (0-385-66039-1)
December 30, 2008 | $19.95
Georgia “Peachy” Archer Laliberte has almost gotten her life under control. Peachy, her husband Beau, and their two rambunctious sons live on the family farm in a small town in Canada, just across the border from the U.S.. Their closest neighbor is Peachy’s draft-dodging hairdresser father, Lou, who lives in a...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66039-6 (0-385-66039-1)
December 30, 2008 | $19.95
Georgia “Peachy” Archer Laliberte has almost gotten her life under control. Peachy, her husband Beau, and their two rambunctious sons live on the family farm in a small town in Canada, just across the border from the U.S.. Their closest neighbor is Peachy’s draft-dodging hairdresser father, Lou, who lives in a...
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American Wife
Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction
978-0-8129-7540-6 (0-8129-7540-5)
February 10, 2009 | $17.50
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown, she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity...
Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction
978-0-8129-7540-6 (0-8129-7540-5)
February 10, 2009 | $17.50
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown, she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity...
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The Calling
Paperback | 432 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-8896-4 (0-7710-8896-5)
April 28, 2009 | $9.99
Voted one of the Best Mystery Books of 2008 by Publisher's Weekly
This dazzling crime-fiction debut — a dark, haunting, compassionate story of the hunt for a killer motivated by love — will be the international publishing event of the season.
This brilliant debut mystery has it all: characters so realistic they rise...
Paperback | 432 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-8896-4 (0-7710-8896-5)
April 28, 2009 | $9.99
Voted one of the Best Mystery Books of 2008 by Publisher's Weekly
This dazzling crime-fiction debut — a dark, haunting, compassionate story of the hunt for a killer motivated by love — will be the international publishing event of the season.
This brilliant debut mystery has it all: characters so realistic they rise...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Paperback | 320 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-1-4000-2535-0 (1-4000-2535-4)
December 26, 2007 | $10.99
International Bestseller
#1 National Bestseller in Canada
Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil.
Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The Sopranos) and Brad Pitt in their...
Paperback | 320 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-1-4000-2535-0 (1-4000-2535-4)
December 26, 2007 | $10.99
International Bestseller
#1 National Bestseller in Canada
Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil.
Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The Sopranos) and Brad Pitt in their...
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Devil May Care
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66553-7 (0-385-66553-9)
May 19, 2009 | $19.95
Bond is back with a license to thrill. Forty-three years ago, Ian Fleming wrote his last great 007 adventure. Now, in Devil May Care, the world's most iconic spy returns in a Cold War story spanning the world's exotic locations. By invitation of the Fleming estate to mark the centenary of...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66553-7 (0-385-66553-9)
May 19, 2009 | $19.95
Bond is back with a license to thrill. Forty-three years ago, Ian Fleming wrote his last great 007 adventure. Now, in Devil May Care, the world's most iconic spy returns in a Cold War story spanning the world's exotic locations. By invitation of the Fleming estate to mark the centenary of...
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Friday Nights
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35766-3 (0-307-35766-X)
April 28, 2009 | $16.95
It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her scruffy house in Fulham she observes two young women with small children, separate — struggling and plainly lonely — and decides to invite them in and see what happens. What happens is that these very different women, Eleanor, Paula and Lindsay, are...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35766-3 (0-307-35766-X)
April 28, 2009 | $16.95
It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her scruffy house in Fulham she observes two young women with small children, separate — struggling and plainly lonely — and decides to invite them in and see what happens. What happens is that these very different women, Eleanor, Paula and Lindsay, are...
The Good Mayor
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39797-3 (0-307-39797-1)
May 12, 2009 | $19.95
This magical debut novel is a love story. It is also a story of loss, magic, friendship, wonderful food, a brass band, an Italian witch, a large lawyer, an occasional dog and a car chase at a walking pace. Set in the little town of Dot in a forgotten part of...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39797-3 (0-307-39797-1)
May 12, 2009 | $19.95
This magical debut novel is a love story. It is also a story of loss, magic, friendship, wonderful food, a brass band, an Italian witch, a large lawyer, an occasional dog and a car chase at a walking pace. Set in the little town of Dot in a forgotten part of...
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The English Patient
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28013-4 (0-394-28013-X)
August 27, 1993 | $21.00
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28013-4 (0-394-28013-X)
August 27, 1993 | $21.00
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient...
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Inside the Whale
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66721-0 (0-385-66721-3)
June 2, 2009 | $19.95
Inside the Whale marks the arrival of a blazing new talent: fizzing with eclectic characters and poignant imagery, Rooney’s heartwrenching debut is a story to relish, and to recommend passionately to everyone you know.
Stevie Stanford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth — but the past is complicated and difficult...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66721-0 (0-385-66721-3)
June 2, 2009 | $19.95
Inside the Whale marks the arrival of a blazing new talent: fizzing with eclectic characters and poignant imagery, Rooney’s heartwrenching debut is a story to relish, and to recommend passionately to everyone you know.
Stevie Stanford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth — but the past is complicated and difficult...
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The Kite Runner
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66007-5 (0-385-66007-3)
May 11, 2004 | $21.00
“I sat on a bench near a willow tree and watched a pair of kites soaring in the sky. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an afterthought, ‘There is a way to be good again.’”
Now in paperback, one of the year’s international literary...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66007-5 (0-385-66007-3)
May 11, 2004 | $21.00
“I sat on a bench near a willow tree and watched a pair of kites soaring in the sky. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an afterthought, ‘There is a way to be good again.’”
Now in paperback, one of the year’s international literary...
Late Nights on Air
Trade Paperback | 376 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-3812-9 (0-7710-3812-7)
March 31, 2009 | $19.99
The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.
Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a...
Trade Paperback | 376 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-3812-9 (0-7710-3812-7)
March 31, 2009 | $19.99
The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.
Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a...
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The Origin of Species
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66361-8 (0-385-66361-7)
March 30, 2009 | $22.00
The crater held a circle of stars above them as if they were closed up in a snow globe, a private cosmos. He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid traveling the world, the first of the backpackers. It was only afterwards...
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66361-8 (0-385-66361-7)
March 30, 2009 | $22.00
The crater held a circle of stars above them as if they were closed up in a snow globe, a private cosmos. He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid traveling the world, the first of the backpackers. It was only afterwards...
The Outcast
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39668-6 (0-307-39668-1)
March 10, 2009 | $19.95
The village was asleep, with all the people behind the walls and through the windows and up the stairs of the little houses blind and deaf in their beds while anything might happen. Lewis headed down the middle of the road and he kept falling and had to remember to get...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39668-6 (0-307-39668-1)
March 10, 2009 | $19.95
The village was asleep, with all the people behind the walls and through the windows and up the stairs of the little houses blind and deaf in their beds while anything might happen. Lewis headed down the middle of the road and he kept falling and had to remember to get...
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The Private Patient
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39779-9 (0-307-39779-3)
March 31, 2009 | $21.00
With all the qualities that P. D. James’s readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterization, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery.
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr. Chandler-Powell’s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a...
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-39779-9 (0-307-39779-3)
March 31, 2009 | $21.00
With all the qualities that P. D. James’s readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterization, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery.
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr. Chandler-Powell’s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a...
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The Tenth Gift
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66501-8 (0-385-66501-6)
May 26, 2009 | $19.95
In an expensive London restaurant Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. It appears to be a book of exquisite 17th-century embroidery patterns but on closer examination Julia finds it also contains faint diary entries. In these, Cat Tregenna, an embroideress, tells how she and others were stolen...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66501-8 (0-385-66501-6)
May 26, 2009 | $19.95
In an expensive London restaurant Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. It appears to be a book of exquisite 17th-century embroidery patterns but on closer examination Julia finds it also contains faint diary entries. In these, Cat Tregenna, an embroideress, tells how she and others were stolen...
The Gargoyle
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35678-9 (0-307-35678-7)
June 23, 2009 | $21.00
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to...
Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35678-9 (0-307-35678-7)
June 23, 2009 | $21.00
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to...
Unaccustomed Earth
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97935-0 (0-676-97935-1)
April 14, 2009 | $21.00
Knopf Canada is proud to welcome this bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author with eight dazzling stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97935-0 (0-676-97935-1)
April 14, 2009 | $21.00
Knopf Canada is proud to welcome this bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author with eight dazzling stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is...
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