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Non-Fiction
Hugh Brewster Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage The Titanic, Her Passengers and Their World
T Hugh Brewster is responsible for many bestsellers about the Titanic, including The Discovery of the Titanic with Robert D. Ballard, and Titanic; An Illustrated History, the inspiration for James Cameron’s epic movie Titanic. Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose: The Story of a Painting was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and nominated for Canada’s two top literary awards. Praise for Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose “...compelling, essential reading.”
American Artist
“…this [is an] exquisite book.”
Washington Post
Praise for The Other Mozart “…history at its best, exciting and illuminating.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“..an absorbing, beautifully illustrated biography.”
Globe & Mail
he wealthy and glamorous passengers who boarded the Titanic, history’s most famous ship, provide “an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era.” But in most books about the doomed voyage, their stories are incidental to the ship’s collision with an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Hugh Brewster, who created several bestselling books on the Titanic, here uses original research to intertwine, for the first time, their lives within the powerful arc of the ship’s dramatic demise. The cast includes artist and writer Frank Millet, the Director of Decorations for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair; White House aide Archie Butt; John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim; and Lady Lucile Duff-Gordon, a leading couturiere, among others. Through these vivid characters, we gain insight into the arts, politics, culture, and sexual mores of a world both distant and near to our own. All converge on the boat deck of the Titanic during the ship’s final hours and we become witnesses to a heartbreakingly poignant scene where some survive and some do not. The final chapters recount the rescue of the passengers in lifeboats by the Carpathia and the trip back to New York with only 705 of the more than 2,200 on board. Some men who survived lived under a cloud of cowardice. Others left a remarkable legacy that leads us to art collector Peggy Guggenheim whose father died when the Titanic sank, or to philanthropist Brooke Astor, daughter-in-law of John Jacob Astor, and how the circumstances of her recent death became “the last Astor scandal.” The Titanic is one of the most enduring stories of all time. The focus on it will be intensified for the 100th anniversary of its sinking on April 14/15, 2012 for which hundreds of commemorative events are being scheduled.
HarperCollins Canada 2012
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History
Timothy Brook Vermeer’s Hat The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World
“Vermeer’s Hat ... provides not only valuable historical insight but also enthralling intellectual entertainment.” “a spellbinding book…mind-expanding.”
The Times, UK
“Brook is a wonderful storyteller... I doubt I will read a better book this year.” The Telegraph, UK
“Timothy Brook is one of those historians who can tell world history like an adventure novel and economic history like a crime novel...After reading [this] one sees Vermeer’s world differently. And one’s own too.” Spiegel, Germany
“..provides…not only valuable historical insight but also enthralling intellectual entertainment.” The Washington Post, US Winner: Lynton Prize in History
Bloomsbury US 2008 Chungrim Korea 2008 Edition Tiamat Germany 2009 Europa Konyvkiado Hungary 2009 Gradiva Portugal 2011 Iwanami Japan 2010 Kalima Arabic 2010 Payot & Rivages France 2009 Penguin Canada 2008 Profile UK 2008 Record Brazil 2009 Yuan-Liou Taiwan 2009 Wenhui Press China 2009 Wereldbibliotheek Netherlands 2010
Michael Dirda, Washington Post
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he story opens in Vermeer’s studio in Delft with his stunning portrait, Officer and Laughing Girl. This intimate tableau, in which the officer wears an extravagant hat of beaver felt, subtly captures the widening world. Beaver fur from northern Canada financed voyages of the explorers looking for a route to the riches of China. Lust for luxury goods drove expansion. Pursuing beaver pelts, Champlain introduced his gun, the arquebus in 1609, and it had a profound and bloody impact on North America’s indigenous peoples. The silken wrap of Paolo’s robe, and Wen’s silver vase reveal much about east-west commerce at the time. The craving for porcelain spawned as much bloodshed as beauty. Astoundingly, tobacco and the spread of smoking is the great unintended consequence of North American discovery. It spread to Asia within decades of North American discovery, thanks to the seeds carried by the sailors. Here also are tales foreshadowing religious conflict. Globalization in cultural, legal, political, and moral spheres is very much with us, but these trail the economic web which began in the 17th Century. Timothy Brook is the author or editor of 12 books on China, including Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement and Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952. He is editor of a six volume series on China published by Harvard University Press, and until recently held the Shaw Chair in Chinese Studies at Oxford University. He is currently Professor of History at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
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Health/Nutrition
Aileen Burford-Mason with Judy Stoffman
Living Strong
A Scientific Guide To The Nutrients You Need For Healthy Aging
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ileen Burford-Mason is a distinguished immunologist and nutritional counsellor who lectures widely to medical professionals and lay audiences while maintaining a private practice in Toronto. Judy Stoffman was book review editor, publishing reporter and arts writer at the Toronto Star for two decades. She has written for several magazines and is on the advisory board of the Humber School for Writers and the Jewish Book Awards Committee.
Nothing protects your health more effectively than optimal nutrition, she asserts, and she shows you how to achieve it. Our cells are constantly dying and being remade. Whether your “next� body and the following one will be in good working order depends on the quality of the raw materials out of which new cells are built. The nutrients in food used to be able to provide reliable building blocks for cell renewal but contemporary methods of food processing steal micro nutrients, while urban water purification removes essential minerals from our water. Fatigue, sleep disorders, constipation, the condition of hair, skin and nails, mood, colds and flu, and weight gain are signals of nutritional deficits. Similarly, degenerative diseases that can make aging a misery including arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia, muscular degeneration, heart disease and stroke are hastened by nutritional deficits. Aileen Burford-Mason reassures us with clear information and scientific evidence on how to age with health and vigor. After reading this book no one will be able to resist making myriad small changes whether it is applying magnesium gel for cramps and insomnia or taking vitamin D for bone health, or feeling comfortable about adding the right kinds of fat to your diet.
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Aileen Burford-Mason graduated from University College, Dublin and later received a Ph.D in immunology. She is director of a Cancer Research Laboratory at Toronto General Hospital. She has developed a continuing medical education course for physicians and other health practitioners at the University of Toronto on the use of diet and nutritional supplements in clinical practice. She is a popular speaker and in demand by the media.
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Mystery
Pat Capponi
Pat Capponi
Last Stop Sunnyside
The Corpse Will Keep
A Dana Leoni Mystery
A Dana Leoni Mystery
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ana Leoni, recovering from post-traumatic stress, is living in a rough Joy Fielding rooming house when a be“No one can portray the loved housemate among the marginalized as well as group of the marginalized Pat Capponi... clearly and the mad is found dead. “A most unusual original heroine, and a welcome addition to the genre.”
the author knows these people and that comes through on each page.”
Catherine Gildiner
“Capponi tells the story with compassion...by the end, I was really rooting for Leoni and her ragtag gang of unlikely detectives.”
Police quickly run out of leads, leaving Dana and the other residents to investigate.
Dana and her rag-tag posse amusingly cope with the hindrances of poverty. They can’t synchronize their Now watches because they only have one watch. They can’t “... the novel is laced with tail suspects—they don’t the sort of wry humour drive. They can go by bus, that is Capponi’s signabut there’s not much money ture survival tool.” Toronto Star for bus fare.
The author of five works of non-fiction, Pat Capponi made a spectacular debut as a mystery writer with Last Stop Sunnyside. For three years, struggling with her own demons, Capponi lived in a boarding house more grim than the one she portrays in her novels. She became a leading advocate for the mentally ill with the mantra of “a home, a job and a friend.” “...it’s a worthy sequel to Last Stop Sunnyside. Pat Capponi has successfully taken her unlikely heroine from accidental investigator to professional sleuth.”
Globe and Mail
Yet, ingenuity and persistence lead them to the villains who are holding vulnerable women in captivity to extract their meager pensions.
HarperCollins Canada 2006
Last Stop Sunnyside is a triumphant journey with an unforgettable heroine.
HarperCollins Canada 2008 World Rights
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ealthy businessman Bernie Preston persuades Dana to investigate why his mother, an elegant dowager known for charity work among the homeless, is handing over wads of cash to low-lifes. It is the perfect case for Dana and her friends who are at home among street people and soup kitchens. But the assignment turns dangerous. Jesse, a volunteer at the church, kidnaps Dana and holds her hostage with Mrs. Preston. Jesse had targeted the older woman when one of his girlfriends revealed her secret, allowing him to invade her life, her home and her bank account. There is a grisly climax before Dana’s housemates come to the rescue. Pat Capponi’s talent for suspense, and astute eye for telling details of social class, make her second outing richly rewarding.
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Fiction
Laurie Channer
Laurie Channer
WishFull Thinking
Godblog
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Laurie Channer is a novn the surface, the office elist and screenwriter in of WishFull Thinking Toronto. is your average dysfunctionAdvance Praise for WishFull Thinking “WishFull Thinking is beautifully written, features a wonderful cast of quirky characters, and resounds with note-perfect dialogue. I laughed my way through it, and then immediately went out and bought a lottery ticket.”
Terry Fallis Winner of 2008 Leacock Medal for Humour
“Laurie Channer has the eye and ear to perfectly capture the petty, but passionate, comedies of corporate life. In her smoothly satirical second novel, she dissects office politics like an old time Kremlinologist.”
Mark Leiren-Young Winner of 2009 Leacock Medal for Humour
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odblog is an entertaining and inventive tale of Dag Olsson, a young cofal workplace with a sheen of “Godblog is a nifty little fee barista who discovers his noble purpose—dispensing story about an ex-snow- amazing powers of influence last wishes to terminally ill boarder-now-barista through blogging. children. named Dag who starts writing an increasingly When his athletic career as Then, the capricious gods influential blog with a snowboarder plunges to strike. Six of the 12 employ- consequences that spin a halt, Dag stumbles into a ees win a $25 million jack- utterly out of control.” job at a Rocky Mountain ski Alex Epstein pot, dividing the staff into Complications Ensue resort where he uses his conwinners and losers and exsiderable charm to become posing emotions they didn’t the best barista at the corknow they harbored. porate chain Black Arts Coffee Company. But in his off Suspicions rankle. Why hours, he secretly begins his did Pino, the financial guy, Heroblog. who fulminated on the folly of lotteries, yet kept the His provocative thoughts inspreadsheet for the office filtrate the minds and imagipool, throw his money into nations of his readers and the the pot that week? Or so he blog becomes a public phesaid. Why was Tillman, the nomenon. office charmer, fired—for Napoleon Books Fall 2008 When coffee company execs cause (embezzling), or was Film Option Red Car discover that the mastermind he a scapegoat? Why does Producers Jane (not her real name) not of Heroblog is an employee, use her real name? Heroblog morphs into the Godblog, and Dag wages For fans of the Coen brothwar against the corporation. ers, The Office, 30 Rock, and Soon Dag’s percolating idenDouglas Coupland. Wishtity crisis boils over into realFull Thinking is hilarious life jeopardy, scalding himself and profound. and those around him. Godblog has been optioned for film.
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Fiction
Farzana Doctor Six Meters of Pavement
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smail Boxwala made the worst mistake of his life one summer morning twenty years ago: he forgot his baby daughter in the back seat of his car. “...excruciatingly honest...refreshingly genuine.”
Globe & Mail
“...moving...a realistic portrayal of suffering and a paean to second chances.” Publishers Weekly
Farzana Doctor’s first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and earned a devoted readership upon its release in 2007. In addition to novels, Doctor has written on social work and diversity-related topics, and in her spare time she provides private practice consulting and psychotherapy services. She lives in Toronto.
After his daughter’s tragic death, his guilt erodes his interest in life. A divorce, years of heavy drinking, and sex with strangers leave him feeling increasingly alone. But Ismail’s story begins to change after he reluctantly befriends two women: Fatima, a young queer activist kicked out of her parents’ home, and Celia, his grieving Portuguese-Canadian neighbour who, at the age of fifty, finds herself widowed and broke. A slow simmering romance develops between Ismail and Celia. Meanwhile, dangers lead Fatima to his doorstep. Each woman makes complicated demands on him, ones he is uncertain he can meet. Six Meters of Pavement is a vivid work that explores loss, regret and redemption, from a gifted author who is not afraid to take her readers deep into her characters’ interior worlds.
Dundurn World 2010
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History
Modris Eksteins Solar Dance Vincent van Gogh and a Man Called Wacker Art, Fame, and Our Crisis of Truth
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“Eksteins is as gifted a stylist as he is a scholar. One reads it with fascination and intellectual gratitude.” Alfred Kazin
“a witty and enterprising scholar.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“…an immensely stimulating book... deserves to be widely read.”
The Times Literary Supplement
Praise for Walking Since Daybreak
Winner Pearson Literary Prize
“…a beautiful meditation, written with both intellectual and moral urgency.”
Publishers Weekly
“...an important reassessment of WWII and it’s outcome... provocative and ambitious.” Kirkus Reviews
Knopf Canada 2012
he 19th century was the century of certainty – of Marx, Darwin, Wagner; it was the century of expansion and empire. It believed that there was a line to be drawn between the subject and the object. It believed in category. The 20th Century was the century of doubt – of Marcel Duchamp, Werner Heisenberg, and Monty Python; it was the century of contraction and decolonization. It disrupted all category. A man whose spirit straddled the two ages was Vincent van Gogh. Repudiated in his own time, he became the most loved and expensive artist of the 20th Century. He was the great synthesizer who captured in his art the exhilaration of life but also its fragility and tragedy. Modris Eksteins, whose subject is the 20th century, approaches the era through the lens of the sensational trial of a Berlin art dealer Otto Wacker and his role in the forgery of 33 Van Gogh paintings. In 1925, Wacker began releasing these hitherto unknown works which he cleverly had authenticated by experts. Through the progress of this drama Van Gogh’s commercial value rocketed skyward. Doubt and disaster also were crucial to Van Gogh’s posthumous success-- his own madness and suicidal end, and the subsequent near-destruction of European civilization in fratricidal war. In the Wacker-Van Gogh story, with its cast of characters who both delight and frighten us, is the story of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In this thrilling book, Modris Eksteins illuminates the major themes of the modern world where a culture of vitality, life, and art has overwhelmed one of authority, form, and law. Modris Eksteins is the author of acclaimed books on modernism, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age and Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century. He is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
History
“Eksteins is as gifted a stylist as he is a scholar. One reads it with fascination and intellectual gratitude.”
Modris Eksteins
Modris Eksteins
Rites of Spring
Walking Since Daybreak
The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
n his journey to 1945 and the firestorm in Berlin, Eksteins weaves the story of his family in Latvia into the major events of the era, merging the subjectivity of the modern style with the objectivity of the scholar.
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his classic, award-winning book, in print Alfred Kazin since 1989, is celebrated by “…a witty and enterpris- scholars and readers alike. It ing scholar” even inspired a Hollywood Kurt Vonnegut film, Max, starring John “...nothing less than a Cusack. retrospective of our entire century. Art and politics, dance and war, have never been the same. ...It is the start of a new history.” James Carroll
“This provocative and disturbing reappraisal of modernism rings with authority.” Publishers Weekly
Awards
Winner Trillium Award Macmillan UK 2000 OP Houghton Mifflin USA 1989 Key Porter /Can Rowohlt Ger 1990/OP Plon France 1990 OP TBS Britannica Japan Editora Rocco Brazil Standard Uitgeverij Holland PIW Poland Geulhangari Korea
“The Great War was the psychological turning point for modernism,” argues Eksteins. “The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places.” With originality and discerning historical analysis, he describes the origins, impact, and aftermath of WWI from the premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913, to the final dance by the denizens of Hitler’s bunker in 1945. This is a remarkable cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past and think about the future.
“A deeply moving and intellectually challenging view of modern history.” Los Angeles Times
“...a beautiful meditation, written with both intellectual and moral urgency.”
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Empire, war, communism, fascism, the Holocaust, Publishers Weekly genocide, the huge tide of European refuges, New “...an important reas- World immigration, freesessment of WWII and dom...These are the markers its outcome...provaca- of our turbulent age. tive and ambitious.”
Kirkus Reviews
Awards Winner Pearson Literary Prize
Standaart Nthlds 2007 Houghton Mifflin US1999 Macmillan UK 2000 OP Key Porter Canada 1999 Atena Latvia 2002
Born in Latvia, Eksteins arrived as a child in 1950 among the displaced in Canada. He surveys the wreckage from two angles: by looking back from 1989 and the collapse of the Berlin Wall and, at the same time, moving forward from the perspective of the 19th century borderlands between Russia and Germany. It is an astute and thrilling panorama from the imperial age of coherence to our current confusions and fragmented logic.
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Fiction
Howard Engel has been honoured with the Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction, the prestigious Matt Cohen award for literature, and the order of Canada. His novels have been adapted for film and radio and translated into more than a dozen languages. He grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario a few miles north of Buffalo, New York which is the model for his fictional Grantham. He now lives in Toronto.
Howard Engel
Howard Engel
East of Suez
Memory Book
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aving just recovered from a brutal attack, Benny Cooperman is ready to hang up his gumshoes for good. That is, until his old friend Vicky shows up and pleads with Benny to help her find her husband Jake. She last saw Jake in Miranam on the Malay Penisula where they were running a tourist business, ferrying scuba divers to a celebrated reef. Their life savings, a fortune in diamonds, has also gone missing.
Benny jets off in search of Jake and finds a world where life is cheap and ever.” nothing is what it seems.
Penguin Canada 2008 Millionhouse Korea 2009
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In 2001 Howard he most lovable private Engel experienced a eye in the business, stroke that resulted in Benny Cooperman, has sufalexia sine agraphia. fered a grievous, life-altering injury. He was trying to find Oliver Sacks, in an af- a young university professor terword, analyzes the who went missing, when he rare brain condition received a vicious blow to and then asks: “Is the the head. He is thrown in a present volume up to dumpster and left for dead. the standard of the When Benny wakes, he is in previous Cooperman hospital with no memory of novels? My answer, as the event, and deprived of a reader of detective the ability to read. stories, is ‘Yes, absolutely.’ As he works to solve the mystery, Benny copes with “Engel has produced a rare condition, alexia sine one of the most unusual agraphia, meaning he cannot and affecting mysteries read, but he can still write. Kirkus Review
His memory book, a three“This is a slick mystery, ring binder where he records People disappear and dead but it’s also a terrific re- important items to keep in bodies turn up, but ever covery tale.” his grasp, is his life-line. The Globe and Mail the detective, Benny finds a new lease on life and realWith his girlfriend Anna “Probably his most izes he’s not ready to give up talked about book in 25 working as field agent, and sleuthing just yet. help from two Toronto cops, years.” New York Times Benny unmasks his assailant. East of Suez is the 12th The final scene, worthy of Final Yayinlari Turkey 2012 in Howard Engel’s Benny Agatha Christie, takes place Millionhouse Korea 2009 Cooperman mystery series. BUR Italy 2008 in the hospital common Hakurosha Japan 2007 room where Benny gathers Penguin Canada 2005 the suspects. Carroll & Graf 2006 Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
Howard Engel Vanessa Moss, the sexy siren in the executive suite, hires Benny to protect her. He gets more trouble than he expected.
Benny’s environmental anxieties fester when a trucker with hazardous cargo is murdered.
Benny mixes with Grantham’s elite who buy, trade and steal paintings -- and also murder.
The rabbi and the president of Grantham’s synagogue hire Benny when a lawyer absconds with the life savings of the congregation.
Benny Cooperman Mysteries A CLASSIC DOZEN! Reissues from Penguin Canada Fall/08 “Engel keeps up the pace...lots of funny material.”
Washington Post
“Benny Cooperman is back and better than ever.”
Tony Hillerman
“His wittiest case ever!” Benny is awash in black-flies, cults, and murder in the Canadian wilderness, while tracking a celebrity evangelist.
An old woman whose estate is plundered leads Benny to corrupt lawyers and intrigue at a TV news station.
Kirkus
“Mr. Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist...This is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines.”
Ruth Rendell
“Engel can turn a phrase as neatly as Chandler.’’
Julian Symons
CBC TV Film
Did heiress Gloria Warren collude in her own kidnapping? Where is the money? Benny, the Mob, the cops and Gloria want to know.
A Hollywood movie crew is shooting more than film at Niagara Falls.
Dr. Zeckeman, Grantham’s wealthy psychiatrist, loses a patient to suicide. Benny suspects homicide.
The local crime boss wants Benny to find out who is trying to kill him, and Benny can’t refuse.
CBC TV Film
Howard Engel’s novels have been published in about 20 countries since his debut in 1980 and have won literary prizes. Two have been adapted for TV films. Engel also is the author of two historical mysteries, Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell and Murder in Montparnasse. With the Benny Cooperman Classic Dozen from Penguin Canada, we are seeking international reissues for this endearing sleuth. Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
Fiction
“...it’s amusing, enlightening...It deftly explores the Machiavellian machinations of political culture.”
Globe & Mail
The Best Laid Plans “has a certain charm, some clever turns of phrase and a well-honed appreciation for the absurdities of political life.”
Terry Fallis
Terry Fallis
The Best Laid Plans
The High Road
Winner of 2011 Canada Reads
Short-listed for Leacock Medal for Humour
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isillusioned by politics and lacerated by romantic betrayal, Daniel Addison, a young political speechwriter, wants out. But it’s not that easy.
Forced to barter his lost idealism with one last obligation, he must cajole a sacrificial candidate to contest the election for the Liberal Montreal Gazette Party in a riding that is a “The plot is advanced hive of Conservatives. with self-deprecating and side-splitting vignettes... The novel is that and much more.” Silhouette’s A&E Magizine
Terry Fallis achieved the impossible. He self-published his first novel as a podcast, then as a book. The iUniverse edition won the prestigious Leacock Medal for Humour. It was later acquired by McClelland & Stewart— the home of Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje. Winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour 2008
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“…a new brand of pohis deeply funny satire litical satire -- the most continues the story of irreverent, sophisticated Honest Angus McLintock, and engaging CanLit an amateur politician who has seen since Stephen dares to do the unthinkable: Leacock.” Winnipeg Free Press
tell the truth.
Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the governOttawa Citizen Resourceful, Daniel perment with a deciding vote. suades his landlord, Angus “The High Road will No he wants Daniel to manMcLintock, a curmudgeon- entertain. There will age his next campaign. ly Engineering Professor to be snickers, occasional allow his name to be used. It snorting and hooting, Soon Daniel is helping Anwill be an election campaign and almost certainly rip- gus fight an uphill battle with no signs, no rallies, no roaring belly laughs.” against “Flamethrower” Fox, Chronicle Herald speeches, and no budget. a Conservative notorious The campaign headquarters for his dirty tactics. Togethis Daniel’s jalopy. Terry Fallis is a part- er they decide to take “The ner in Thornley Fallis, High Road” and -- against all But politics is filled with a public relations com- odds -- turn the race into a surprises. Suddenly Angus pany in Toronto, and nail-biter with hilarious ups is catapulted to victory and is completing his third and downs, cookie-throwhe and Daniel must exam- novel. ing seniors, and even a Waine their political principles. tergate-style break-in. But They learn how to survive that’s only the beginning of McClelland & Stewart this deft political satire and the political process, the Fall 2010 roughest game around. laugh-out-loud comedy. “an easy-reading page turner...anyone with even a passing or cynical interest in the political process should enjoy The High Road and after the romp be left with some food for thought.”
McClelland & Stewart 2008
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Young Adult Fiction
Sheree Fitch Pluto’s Ghost
“Pluto’s Ghost is destined to be a classic.” Tish Cohen
“Not since Salinger’s Holden Caulfield have I encountered a teen protagonist as engrossing as Sheree Fitch’s Jake Upshore. Masterfully crafted and populated with utterly convincing characters.” Tish Cohen
“Rough and beautiful, harsh and poetic, Pluto’s Ghost is an absolute page-turner.”
Arthur Slade
“Pluto’s Ghost hits like a brick through a window. Jake Upshore is a wonderful narrator -- a lovesick bad-ass on a desperate quest. Note perfect.”
Richard Scrimger
“Fitch’s prose, always refreshingly energetic, is so informed by poetic precision and intensity that it can’t help but surprise... Her picareque plot and vivid language deliver a tale engaging from beginning to end.”
Toronto Star
Praise for Fitch’s other novels: “Marvelously funny, dark, irreverent.”Meg Wolitzer Doubleday Canada 2010 Other rights available
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ake Upshore, a jokester, a self described “jake-ass,” and a witty dyslexic, is misunderstood by the town of Poplar Hills. Having lost his mother at age five, the teenager is raised by his loving dad. His other allies include his friend Teddy and English teacher Shep. To everyone else, Jake’s simmering rage and intense longing translate into trouble. One person who senses Jake’s vulnerability is the delicate beauty Skye Derucci, with whom he has a passionate, clandestine relationship. Skye vanishes without telling Jake and rumors swirl that she is pregnant and planning an abortion. The only clue is her diary which she leaves in Jake’s locker. Desperate, Jake begins a frenzied journey to search for her. On the way he encounters drifters, deadbeats, and a shaman, while Skye’s menacing father is close on his tail. Jake doesn’t realize he is on a collision course with tragedy. A dead body, incriminating evidence, and a bad reputation put him in a compromising situation. The explosive charge of love, sex, and disaster makes Pluto’s Ghost an unforgettable thriller and heart-rending love story. Sheree Fitch is the award-winning author of books for children including Sleeping Dragons All Around, Toes in My Noes, and If You Could Wear My Sneakers, published by Doubleday Canada. She is winner of the Vicky Metcalf Award for her children’s books. Her first novel for adults, Kiss the Joy As It Flies was short-listed for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. She has received three honorary doctorates. Pluto’s Ghost is short-listed for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year and Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award. Shortlisted: Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
Fiction
Joanna Goodman She’s Got Baggage
H Praise for You Made Me Love You “Goodman...is a witty, energetic storyteller.”
Montreal Gazette
“In this novel, the stuff of life happens.”
The Globe and Mail
“You Made Me Love You is a wonderful novel, full of humour, wisdom, and hope.”
Joy Fielding
“...feels, in spirit, like a cross between Four Weddings and a Funeral and Hannah and Her Sisters.”
Quill & Quire
Praise for Harmony “Joanna Goodman is such a fine, polished writer. Harmony is an honest heart-wrenching and complex look at the tangled emotions and lives of both mothers and wives.” Michelle Berry
“Goodman’s solid writing is permeated with commentary on the societal pressures to have it all.”
Publishers Weekly
olly Moore has been a widow for two years. Her husband Scott, whose job on Wall Street provided a comfortable life for the family in Brooklyn, died with a handful of secrets. He neglected to disclose his large debts, the identity of the mysterious woman who was with him the night he died, and a lawsuit that consumed him for decades. Holly, a devoted mother in her mid-thirties, has made her four children the focus of her life. But at the urging of her glamorous sister Courtney, she manages a spa getaway for two indulgent days. Swathed in a Moshup Mud Cocoon, she meets Zack, who sweeps her off her feet. There is only one problem. He is determined to travel light and Holly is packing heavy baggage. While Zack pursues her in New York, Holly neglects to mention small details – like her four kids. To mask her responsibilities, she adopts aspects of Courtney’s life and job and postpones the moment of truth with Zack far too long -- until after she’s fallen in love with him. Enraged by her deception, Zack ends their romance. In the meantime, there are the attentions of her next-door neighbor, who loves her baggage and is patient while she mourns losing Zack and wrestles with the unsettling revelations about her dead husband and the marriage she thought they’d had. This is a grown-up comic drama, with a satisfyingly rich plot, a cast of appealing women and two attractive men, all making hard choices on how to live and love. Joanna Goodman is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Belle of the Bayou, You Made Me Love You and Harmony. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two young children, and is co-owner of a retail enterprise specializing in linens, home décor and fashion.
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Parenting
Lyndsay Green Teens Gone Wired Are You Ready?
Reassuring advice from parents who’ve been there
F Lyndsay Green, a mother of two daughters, and an authority on learning technologies, soothes fearful parents in the amused and calm voice of a Doctor Spock. She has spent her 25-year career analyzing learning technologies and managing their applications. Described as an “information agent of the future,” her expertise has been sought by federal and provincial governments, international agencies, and private and public sector organizations. She was the co-founder and co-publisher of The Training Technology Monitor, a highly regarded technologies and workplace learning newsletter. Prior to establishing her consulting practice Ms. Green was coordinator of the Federal Women’s Film Program of the National Film Board of Canada. She published Babies Aboard (McGraw-Hill 1990) and has a chapter in Bringing It Home: Women Talk About Feminism in Their Lives (Arsenal Press, 1996).
or many parents the web is a scary monster, set to entrap vulnerable adolescents with a knapsack of temptations, The round the clock accessibility of porn, scurrilous blogs, and vicious gossip is often hidden from view. The myriad pitfalls of cell phones that photograph, and in seconds, spread the word on the internet, can lure kids into adventures that terrify and thwart caring adults. Lyndsay Green uses examples from parents and teens to highlight issues of responsibility, respect and trust. She also deals with techniques, many of them not often discussed, to address on-line bullying, sex, video games and depression. Although danger lurks in the wireless ether, so does help. Lyndsay Green offers a plethora of great web sites and tips that are invaluable resource aids. Family therapists who write books on raising teens see those at the extreme edges, but this book focuses on ordinary kids. Lyndsay Green offers peer advice that will reassure parents they too can survive and even enjoy the turbulent teen years. Lyndsay Green is author of the recent bestseller You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready?
Thomas Allen Canada 2012
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Historical Mystery
“Too bad most school history teaching lacks the wit and sparkle of this tale.” Quill & Quire
“Gutteridge is not only master of this historical period, he writes like a veritable visitor from it. Canadian history has never been more gripping and enlightening. Fans of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O’Brian will love Don Gutteridge and his Marc Edwards Mysteries.”
Don Gutteridge
Don Gutteridge
Turncoat
Solemn Vows
A Marc Edwards Mystery
A Marc Edwards Mystery
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olemn Vows opens with Marc’s humiliation in the pursuit of an assassin, and the murder of a prominent politician during a public rally.
arc Edwards, disenchanted with legal studies in London and eager for action, joins the British army in 1835. Alas, he is posted to Fort York in Toronto, a colonial backwater north of Buffalo and Detroit. No place for glory. The British have lost their southern American colonies and now a fractious populace north of the border chafes under British rule.
“A lively, witty and frequently shrewd portrayal of life before Ontario or Canada existed... that puts entertaining round flesh on history’s bones.”
The investigation takes Marc and his colleagues from the “Gutteridge has a fine offices of the rebels strugear for Victorian voices, gling against the British to a keen eye for style and the mansions of ruling elite. Joan Barfoot
gets the characters just right.” Margaret Cannon
In Turncoat, Marc joins the ruling circle to investigate a murder. Was it a political Don Gutteridge, ac- killing by rebels trying to claimed poet and nov- oust the British masters? Or elist, has completed 12 was it a personal attack? Terry Fallis Author The Best Laid Plans
novels in this landmark series starring the dashing Marc Edwards. They will appeal to fans of Patrick O’Brian or Bernard Cornwell.
Simon & Schuster Canada 2010
It takes them into the lives and bedrooms of several charming ladies. And it increases Marc’s tension between his duty to the crown and his love for Beth, an American-born widow who continues to be active in the reform movement.
Marc’s loyalty to the British crown becomes complicated when he falls in love with Beth, a Reformer and he finds his sympathies drifting. Marc solves the crimes but his romance awaits other episodes.
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Vital Secrets, the third Marc Edwards Mystery is coming soon from Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster Canada 2011
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Non-Fiction
David Healy Pharmageddon
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harmageddon has arrived. The large pharmaceutical companies have hijacked healthcare and the results are alarming.
Praise for David Healy’s Mania: “David Healy is the new enfant terrible of psychiatry...and a very brave man...Mania constitutes the latest salvo in Healy’s continuing assault on professional sacred cows.” Times Literary Supplement
David Healy is Professor of Psychiatry at Cardiff University in Britain, a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and the author of more than 20 books and 350 articles. He has written seminal histories of antidepressants, antipsychotics, and bipolar disorder. He was the leading figure in bringing the suicide-inducing hazard of antidepressants to light as well as the risks of dependence on these drugs.
David Healy, an internationally respected psychiatrist, scientist, and author, whom the New York Times portrayed as a “self-effacing scholar” and “gadfly,” also indicts well-meaning physicians for diverting medical care away from the patient. Under the sway of drug companies, they diagnose for risks, using “numbers” and charts handed to them. Lacking an understanding of how diseases and treatment standards are formulated for cholesterol, osteoporosis, mood, or respiratory and disgestive ailments, doctors often prescribe drugs that don’t work for diseases that don’t exist. The consequences are detrimental to physical and financial health: 1. Life expectancy in the US has dropped compared to other advanced countries. 2. The global market for pharmaceuticals is $667 billion US but only a small percentage targets disease. Bestselling drugs are “lifestyle” or “risk management” drugs: antidepressants, cholesterol lowering statins blood sugar lowering hypoglycemics, and treatments for osteoporosis and sexual dysfunction. 3. Side effects range from discomfort to death. Newer generations of drugs under patent often are less effective than earlier versions. 4. Healy exposes the secrets behind the supposed protections of Randomized Controlled Trials and Evidence Based Medicine; how drug companies conceal raw data from published reports and manipulate statistics; the role of medical ghostwriters; and how US agencies allow new drugs to be tested against a placebo rather than compared with existing similar drugs.
U of California Press US 2012
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Mystery
Mary Jackman Spoiled Rotten
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eggy, sexy Liz Walker is the owner of Walker’s Way, a funky, hip restaurant and a breeding ground for young, soon-to-be famous chefs. Mary’s sample glossary of restaurant terms: Bucket of Death - a pail of water with a miniature tilting gang plank Bag of White - a ten pound quantity of chicken breast with the bone out Covers - number of meals served to customers in a given period Expediter - person who controls pick-up and delivery of plated foods Rail - trough containing easy access to bottles of the house brand liquor Salamander - a broiler attached to the top of a stove range used to heat flash foods, a separate unit
Liz, smart and savvy, the mother of a 20-year-old son, knows how to deal with transient staff and temperamental cooks. But she is shocked when the butcher Mr. Tony, where she buys meat, is found hacked to death, the victim of a grisly murder. Moreover, she is worried when her talented young chef Daniel hasn’t shown up for work and becomes the main suspect. Liz goes looking for Daniel and winds up in the middle of a delicious plot that includes real estate machinations, a scam for selling illegal work visas, and betrayal. The fact that the police investigator on the case, David Winn, is falling for Liz adds zest to the adventure, but also raises the stakes. Mary Jackman, like her delightful heroine Liz Walker, owns a cool and funky restaurant, the Peter Pan in Toronto’s Queen St neighborhood where a few celebrity chefs (Susur Lee) got their start. In her new venture, she gives us an insider’s view of the restaurant and food business with all of its allure and some of its tribulations. Spoiled Rotten will entertain and enlighten anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant, dreamed of owning a restaurant, or eaten in a restaurant.
Stiff - person who doesn’t tip or is dead, same thing really Supremes - the breast and upper wing, bone out in the breast
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Memoir
Jack Kuper Child of the Holocaust
“Marvellous . . . The charm and fascination of the book lie in the dual role of survival and growing up.” London Times Literary Supplement
Remarkable . . . Gripping . . . a child’s struggle for survival”
The Globe and Mail
“Astounding . . . a work that amounts to a letter from inside a nightmare . . . A miraculous example of the human spirit at its most resilient.” Toronto Star
“Artfully rendered . . . testifying to the spirit of a man who emerged whole from a childhood of shame and despair.” Saturday Review
“He reveals the terror, the mental and physical sufferings, and the hope and courage of a youngster’s desperate will to survive.” Seattle Times
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ack Kuper was only nine years old when he came home to find everyone in his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his village in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language and abandon his religion in order to survive. Jack wanders through Nazi occupied Poland for four years, with no place to hide and no one to trust. The harrowing true story of how he survives has been hailed as a classic, as powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank. It has been in print in various editions in English and a dozen other languages since 1966. For a new edition released this year in Canada, Jack Kuper revisited the manuscript for the first time since he wrote it more than 40 years ago. He was able to include the correct names of those who helped him and to add new material. Jack Kuper escaped Poland and immigrated to Canada at the age of 15. He spent much of his career in advertising, producing and directing award-winning TV commercials. As a filmmaker he has written and directed several shorts. His film RUN! was honoured at the Venice Film Festival. He is also the author of After the Smoke Cleared, the sequel to this book. He now lives in Toronto with his wife Terrye and speaks often to groups about his experiences during the Holocaust.
Mexico Diana/Planeta 2009 Key Porter Reissue, 2007 Dozens of translations/editions US, UK, Can rights available
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Non-Fiction
Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster Raising Smarter Kids
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ntelligence is not fixed from an early age. Smart kids can do poorly and ordinary kids can excel.
Two internationally recognized experts in gifted education use their extensive experience with children, families, and schools to give parents techniques to improve their children’s success in school and life, whether they are gifted or “ordinary.”
Praise for Being Smart about Gifted Education “Vibrantly grounded in real-life experience...I recommend this humane and empowering text to all educators and parents.”
Gifted Education International
Dona J. Matthews, Ph.D, now partially based in the U.K., was founding director of the Center for Gifted Studies and Education, Hunter College, City University of New York. In 2008, she received the Upton Sinclair award for her “outstanding contribution to the field of education in America.” Joanne F. Foster, Ed.D is a leading authority on gifted education. She teaches courses in educational psychology and gifted education at the University of Toronto, provides consultancy services to teachers, serves on advisory committees, and co-writes a parenting column.
Both Dona and Joanne were designated “gifted” as children, both have children who were enrolled in the gifted stream, and they have been thinking about nuturing abilities in their careers as educators. What is intelligence? What can parents, educators, and others do to nurture gifted-level development when it isn’t so obvious, and support it when it is? In Raising Smarter Kids, they reveal how parents can identify a child’s abilities, foster creativity, bolster effort and persistence, prevent or alleviate emotional and social problems, and provide a balance of support and challenge at home and at school. They show how to embrace failures as learning opportunities and to praise children not for their intelligence but for their efforts. They draw on insights from current brain research to show that intelligence is not a fixed capacity. Through myriad anecdotes from their case files, and in a warm reassuring voice, they offer practical suggestions and strategies for raising smarter kids. Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster are the authors of the award-winning Being Smart about Gifted Education, a finalist in the National Best Books 2009 Awards sponsored by USA Book News.
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Non-Fiction Highlights
“His biography is detailed and compulsive.” The Mail on Sunday (London)
“...an exhaustive and scrupulously researched biography.”
Sara Wheeler Times of London
HarperCollins Canada 2005 Bantam United Kingdom 2007
Ken McGoogan
Ken McGoogan
Lady Franklin’s Revenge
Fatal Passage
Born into a wealthy London family in 1791, Jane Griffin was denied the opportunities available to men of her class. Yet she became a world traveler, and with her husband Sir John Franklin presided over Tasmania. She helped Franklin seize the leadership of a Royal Navy expedition to find the shortcut to China. After he disappeared in the Arctic, Jane dispatched seven doomed expeditions to find him, and became the most important person in Arctic exploration.
“In Ken McGoogan’s artful telling, John Rae emerges from the shadows to take his place among the most intriguing of the 19th century arctic explorers. This is delightful reading.” Andrea Barrett
Carroll & Graf USA 2002 Bantam Press UK 2002 HarperCollins Canada 2001 Film PTV
The Observer
“A gripping tale of genuine adventures, very well told.”
Kirkus Reviews
Bantam Press UK 2004 Carroll & Graf USA 2004 HarperCollins Canada 2003
Rae’s heroic achievements were almost wiped from history by Franklin’s widow who enlisted Charles Dickens in her campaign against him.
Ken McGoogan
Ken McGoogan
Ancient Mariner
Race to the Polar Sea
Samuel Hearne, the first European to reach the Arctic coast of North America, made a remarkable 3500mile journey over land in his quest for copper.
“Brisk, readable books don’t come much better than this.”
In May 1854, John Rae, a young Scottish doctor, achieved the goal dozens of Arctic explorers had attempted and failed. He discovered the key link in the Northwest Passage, and he learned the shocking truth of cannibalism among the starving crew of the expedition led by Sir John Franklin.
The harrowing expedition culminated in the infamous massacre of Bloody Falls in 1771. Later, Hearne was captured by the French in a siege against his Arctic outpost. He was torn away from his lover, a native woman, who tragically died before he could return to her.
Elisha Kent Kane, a young Philadelphia doctor, is often proclaimed to be America’s Shackleton. He led two gruelling expeditions in the 1850s to the North Pole. “An impressive case for the bravery and importance of the explorer who first identified the Greenland ice sheet.”
The young adventurer’s rightful place in Arctic legend was ruined by his love for an unsuitable woman.
Publishers Weekly
“Terrifically accessible.”
Kirkus
Counterpoint US 2008 HarperCollins Canada 2008
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Thriller
Robert Miller Three Andrew Gunn Thrillers Sharkskin * Bankroll * Paperweight
Robert L. Miller enjoyed a stellar career in news at several Canadian outlets including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Maclean’s Magazine. His work experience also includes TV, radio and consulting. In partnership with BAA PLC, he developed a pre-Internet electronic-shopping system for Heathrow Airport. He is coauthor (with film producer Bill Marshall) of Dreadlock, a thriller published in 1981 by McClelland & Stewart. Miller is married and lives in Toronto.
Andrew Gunn exudes star power and usually exhibits an easy-going elegance. A former hockey hero with the hapless Toronto Maple Leafs, Gunn now chairs an international security business with a top management team. He may be rich and famous, but when the occasion demands he has no fear of rolling up his made-to-measure sleeves to tackle the thugs, mobsters, shysters and sharks who infest the streets of his beloved hometown, Toronto the Good. Robert Miller, co-author of the thriller Dreadlock (M&S, 1981), has completed the first three of seven planned “Gunner” novels, each using one of the deadly sins as a theme. The books are fast-paced. Plots are fresh, dialogue is crisp and villains are quirky and memorable. His splendid ensemble of recurring characters includes a tough sidekick out of Glasgow, ex-Royal Navy commando Pussy Ross, Gunn’s preppy college age twins, and the love of his life, his ex-wife Penelope. In Sharkskin (The Deadly Hunt for Mr. Greed), Gunn enters the dangerous world of predatory lenders and Russian bomb-makers. In Bankroll (The Ice-Cold Revenge of Little Miss Anger), Gunn matches wits with Chinese hoodlums conspiring to crash a major bank. And in Paperweight (The Secret Shame of Brother Pride), Gunn solves a sensational society murder with direct links to the contemporary world of stressed newspapers, while exposing a love affair kept secret for 60 years. Fifteen years after injuries forced his retirement from hockey, Gunn understands the sport’s power to convene. In Toronto, cops, politicians, tycoons, and even big-time gangsters ignore this power at their peril. The combination of his Hall of Fame hockey career and his successful security business give Andrew Gunn access to areas other amateur detectives can only dream about. He may have hung up his skates, but Gunner still has all the moves. Next in the series: Songbird (The Mournful Wail of Sister Sloth)
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Memoir
Shannon Moroney Through The Glass
W Shannon Moroney speaks widely on restorative justice. She is also a teacher in Toronto.
hen Shannon Moroney married in October of 2005, she had no idea that her happy life as a newlywed was about to come crashing down. One month after her wedding, a police officer arrived at her door to tell her that her husband, Jason, had been arrested and charged in the brutal assault and kidnapping of two women. In the aftermath of these crimes, Shannon dealt with a heavy burden of grief, the stress and publicity of a major criminal investigation, and the painful stigma of guilt-by-association, all while attempting to understand what had made Jason turn to such violence. In this intimate and gripping journey into prisons, courtrooms and the human heart, Shannon exposes the far-reaching impact of Jason’s crimes, the agonizing choices faced by the loved ones of offenders and the implicit dangers of a correctional system and a society that prioritizes punishment over rehabilitation, and victimhood over recovery. Through it all, Shannon retained unwavering support from her closeknit family and golden circle of friends. In forging her own path to forgiveness –to let go of hope for a better past-- she won a fellowship to complete a Master’s degree in International Child Welfare in England at the University of East Anglia. She speaks internationally on restorative justice and has extensively toured Canada and the U.S., addressing university and high school students, prison inmates, legal and mental health professionals and law-enforcers on the ripple effects of crime for all victims and for society at large. She is a volunteer with Leave Out ViolencE and is a contributor to The Forgiveness Project, an international charity that encourages people to explore the nature of forgiveness and alternatives to revenge.
Doubleday Canada Fall 2011
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Fiction Highlights
Donna Morrissey
Donna Morrissey
What They Wanted
Sylvanus Now The time is the 1950s and the place is Canada’s Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks.
Sylvie Now fevers for the larger world, both for herself and her vulnerable, artistic brother Chris.
“An absolute terrific original.” David Adams Richards
Brother and sister journey west to the booming oilfields to earn quick, hard cash, joining rough characters. In that throbbing angry earth, their lives are changed. Yet, out of pain and piercing grief, there is reconciliation and renewal.
“Morrissey summons energy ... the writing is poised, charged and tactile, almost biblical in places.” The Sunday Times (London)
“A splendidly unique novel.”
Alistair MacLeod
Penguin Canada 2005 Hodder & Stoghton UK 2005 W.W.Norton U.S.A. 2006
Penguin Canada Fall 2008 DTV Germany 2008
“A Newfoundland Thomas Hardy...Morrissey’s work is a performance, an almost oral folk epic.” The Globe and Mail
Aoyama Japan 2003 Forum Sweden 2004 Houghton Mifflin US 2003 Hodder & Stoughton UK 2002 Penguin Canada 2002
This is the love story of Sylvanus Now and the fiery Adelaide. With their heartbreaking loss and renewal of passion, we are aware that Sylvanus Now’s eternal, beloved sea is on the cusp of cataclysmic change. A powerful tale of two people caught in the upheaval of personal, social, and global change of unimagined proportions.
Donna Morrissey
Donna Morrissey
Downhill Chance
Kit’s Law
Job Gale, a fisherman, hunter, logger, joins the army in World War II, leaving his distraught wife and two young daughters. When Job returns, he is broken in body and tortured with a secret shame that cascades over the family.
At 14, never having known her father, Kit becomes responsible for her mentally handicapped mother when her grandmother dies. She fends off village busybodies who try to place mother and daughter in institutions.
His young daughter Clair escapes by becoming a teacher at nearby Rocky Head, then falls in love with Luke, who courts her from afar with a story which reveals his own secret sorrow.
“Irresistible...Masterful... The rich, rocky terrain of Newfoundland has borne a native storyteller with talent to burn in Donna Morrissey.” Sunday Tribune, Dublin
Throughout the turmoil, Kit is sustained by a kindly doctor and the love of Sid, son of Reverend Ropson. Confronted by shattering revelations, Kit retains her courage and resilience.
Cairo Italy 2009 Aoyama Japan 2003 Houghton Mifflin US 2003 Heyne Germany 2001
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Memoir
Marina Nemat After Tehran A Life Reclaimed
W Marina Nemat is the author of the internationally bestselling memoir Prisoner of Tehran, which is published in 26 countries and won Italy’s Grizane Book Award. She is recipient of the European Parliament’s inaugural Human Dignity Award. “...an account as graceful, honest, and revelatory as her original.”
Maclean’s Magazine
“[a] portrait of an artist and the evolution of an activist.”
Globe & Mail
“...a fascinating study of one woman’s struggle to win back her life from the ravages of a traumatic past.”
Quill & Quire
Praise for Prisoner of Tehran “Gripping, elegantly written memoir…masterly.” The Wall Street Journal
“Her story is unforgettable.”
Vogue
“It is an act of bravery, this book”
hen Marina Nemat walks out of the notorious Evin prison at age 18, after being incarcerated for 2 years, 2 months, and 12 days for political crimes, and crosses the busy Jordan Highway in Tehran to rejoin her family, she hopes to resume her life. But release from prison promises a freedom that is elusive. Her loving but flawed parents are wary of probing the details of torture and rape. Her high school sweetheart Andre, the boy who played the church organ, has waited for her. Yet, she can’t tell him about her forced marriage to her captor, Ali, a Revolutionary Guard, or about Ali’s death, and the miscarriage she had suffered. Even her marriage to Andre imperils them. Her reversion to her Catholic faith after her forced conversion to Islam is regarded as apostasy, a crime punishable by death. She and Andre manage to leave Iran to come to Canada in 1991 and to raise two sons. Despite her attempts to compartmentalize her present from her past, survivor guilt, the burden of secrets, and flashbacks of the agonies she suffered, intrude on her life as a housewife and mother with a job as a waitress at a suburban fast food restaurant. Marina finds freedom when she summons the courage to break her silence in her bestselling memoir Prisoner of Tehran. It is a powerful story of a girl held hostage by a cruel regime. After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed is a moving and triumphant story of a mature woman and her struggle to breathe free. Both books are a validation of process of bearing witness, an act which requires both the author and the reader. Therein lies the beauty and the healing.
The Globe and Mail
Penguin Canada 2010 Cairo Italy Nov 2010 Droemer Germany 2011 Kinneret Isreal 2011
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Marina Nemat Prisoner of Tehran
“. ..the portrait of a world only too real, where women’s lives are cheap -- but not this one.”
Jacquelyn Mitchard Author of The Deep End of the Ocean
Grinzane Book Award Italy 2008 The FreePress U.S.A. 2007 John Murray UK 2007 Penguin Canada 2007 Artemis Netherlands 2007 Weltbild Germany 2007 Cairo Italy 2007 Quidnovi Portugal 2007 Espasa Calpe/Planeta Spain 2007 Forum Sweden 2007 TV2Forlag Danish 2007 Psichogios Greece 2007 Tammerraamat Estonia 2007 Kinneret Israel 2007 Wisdom Korea 2007 Concept Marathi 2007 Jota Czech 2007 Planeta Brazil 2007 Trivium Kiado Hungary 2007 BWP Complex Chinese 2008 Alnari Serbian 2008 Duc In Altum Polish 2008 JCGawsewitch French 2008 Pustaka Alvabet Indonesia 2008 Ucila International Slovenia 2009 Pegasus Yayincilik Turkey 2010 Kalimat Arabic 2010 Sarasavi Sinhalese 2011 Film option
“Marina Nemat’s beautiful book...is an act of bravery...as well as compassion. Her words, well wrought and heartfelt, expose her shocking dilemma and the terrible system that tried to defile her.”
The Globe and Mail n January 15, 1982 Marina Nemat was arrested and sentenced to death for political crimes. It was a deadly time in Ayatollah Khomeini’s new regime, when her mildly critical article of the state in her high school newspaper put her on a watch list. Her fate was sealed when she complained that the teacher of calculus was substituting “government propaganda” for math.
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Marina was seized from her family’s apartment in Tehran and taken to Evin prison. In a bizarre twist, one of the Revolutionary Guards, Ali, fell in love with her. Using his family connections, he plucked her from the firing squad with only minutes to spare. In return, he demanded that she convert from Catholicism to Islam and marry him. If she didn’t, he said, with the dizzying combination of terror and tenderness that would characterize their relationship for the next two years, he would ensure that her family was harmed. After Ali was gunned down by rival factions and died in her arms, Marina was eventually released. For years, Marina Nemat, a waitress at a suburban Toronto restaurant, the wife of an electrical engineer, and mother of two sons, kept her secret until the silence became too burdensome. This important and enthralling book is a major international literary event. • Bestseller in Germany, Italy, Canada • 5 printings in Portugal • 2 printings in Netherlands
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Thriller
James W. Nichol Death Spiral
T “This excellen third novel by Nichol is perfect for fans of good crime fiction..the characters are solid and the story is really intriguing.”
The Globe & Mail
“Nichol displays a provocative talent for writing that gets under your skin in his most recent novel, Transgression. Death Spiral deepens this rich capacity with stylish and edgy writing to give us a confrontational piece of addictive fiction.”
Hamilton Spectator
“...[an] unforgettable story.”
Chronicle Herald
James W. Nichol is author of Midnight Cab which is published in several countries including Germany where it is a best seller with sales in excess of 500,000 copies. It was short listed for the Gold Dagger award in the UK, and won the Canadian Crime Writers Award for the best first novel. He is also author of the suspenseful literary tale Transgression (HarperUS 2009). He lives in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. McArthur & Co. Canada 2009 C&T Poland 2011
his complex, multi-layered thriller opens with a glorious hero’s welcome for Wilf McLauchlin, a celebrated Canadian Spitfire fighter pilot who scored 12 “kills” during WWII and miraculously survived his own serious injuries. Wilf, with a severe limp and only one functioning arm, is broken in body and confused in spirit. Temporarily perched at his father’s law office until he can resume his legal studies, he seems to be a magnet for dark and violent crimes that begin seeping from the small town in the war’s aftermath. Wilf finds an elderly client dead and frozen in his bath, the victim of an apparent heart attack, revealed as murder. Another gruesome discovery is the bloody body of a transient whose arm has been hacked off. A woman is found gassed in her house, with her young son dead as collateral damage. The man who caused these last two deaths, a family friend of Wilf ’s parents, shoots himself when Wilf confronts him. Is Wilf the common motivating element in all these crimes, as he begins to fear? And what happened to him in Europe during the War? Wilf was shot down in Germany, near Buchenwald, and lost his sight for three months. There are several missing days, from the time of his crash to the time he was found by American soldiers. What happened in those intervening days? Do the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials that are absorbing his father offer insight? Death Spiral is an engrossing thriller, a literary tour-de-force, and a meditation on the deforming nature of war for aggressors, heroes, and by-standers alike. Short-listed: 2010 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel Evergreen Award, Ontario Library Association
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Fiction
James W. Nichol Transgression
A new novel by the bestselling author of Midnight Cab “Nichol’s vivid prose, harrowing plot and the defiant Adele will keep readers invested in this love story–cum–murder mystery until the very last page.”
Publishers Weekly
“Nichol presents this can’t miss melodrama..with an eye as sensitive to petty humiliations as to life-changing catastrophes, and the result is an odyssey piercing in its details.” Kirkus
“Exciting and well written. I couldn’t put it down.”
Joy Fielding
“Brilliantly constructed... It is a heart-wrenching, haunting, beautiful book.”
Historical Novels Review *Editors’ Choice
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n 1946, a little girl finds a severed finger in a Canadian field. It points to a grisly crime that occurred nearby. It also points to the past, to the harrowing events in the life of a young French woman, Adele Georges, in war-torn Rouen. When Adele’s beloved father is captured by the German forces, she makes inquiries at the local authorities. A German soldier, 19 years old and far from home, tries to help her navigate the bureaucracy. Love grows across the enemy lines, with devastating consequences. Adele, a seamstress in a factory, is exposed as a “horizontal collaborator” and tortured with other women in the town square. Her lover Manfred has been transferred, and Adele, abandoned by her family, her head shaven, is alone. Despairing that Manfred has been killed, Adele yields to the protective embrace of a Canadian soldier who marries her and brings her home as a war bride to his small town. He too is scarred by war and twisted by the turmoil of reentry. Adele, stranded on foreign shores, harboring her shameful secret of consorting with the enemy, is terrified of being unmasked. When Manfred reappears, trying to recapture their youthful love, everyone is tested with deadly consequences. Yet, redemption, truth and renewal are also possible. Short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel 2009
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Fiction
James W. Nichol Midnight Cab
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Bestseller in Germany --over 500,000 copies sold to date! Shortlisted for 2004 UK Gold Dagger Award Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel
“Takes the reader on a wild ride through the past, and into the mind of a mad man. Gripping.”
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“This is an engaging thriller that never lets its metaphorical foot off the clutch and races down mysterious roads, all leading back to the past, of course -- with the aplomb of Harlan Coben. It also conjures up one of the most sinister and unforgettable villains crime fiction has drawn in a long time.”
Two slim clues were in his pocket: a photograph of two children and a chatty letter from a teenage girl. His clothes indicated that he had been well cared for. A dim memory of his mother makes him feel that he was loved.
“...a compelling read.”
James W. Nichol, a prominent playwright and screenwriter, lives in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. His second novel Transgression, will be published in Canada in Spring 2008. It has already been translated and issued in German to wide acclaim.
Kathy Reichs
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Sunday Telegraph/UK
“Nichol’s elegantly simple and taut prose becomes addictive.”
alker, age 19, has come to the city to unearth the mystery of his early life. He was left at age three, terror-stricken beside a deserted country road, clutching a wire fence. He had no identification.
Walker’s quest for his identity is more dangerous than he knows. Aided by his girlfriend Krista, he unearths the horrific truth, driving them into the deadly grasp of Bobby, a young man who has matured from early cruelty to murderous pleasures.
The Globe and Mail
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Non-Fiction
Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant The Age of Persuasion How Marketing Ate Our Culture “Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th Century.” Marshall McLuhan
“A lively, anecdotal primer...filled with smart and breezy tales told from an insider’s perspective.”
“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside the swill bucket.”
“[A]n instant classic on media literacy.”
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“Witty and insightful... this ragbag of pop culture references, anecdotes, solid research, and advice will be indispensable to marketers or anyone curious about the power and ubiquity of advertising in modern culture.”
Publishers Weekly
“O’Reilly and Tennant are exceptionally talented writers...In a straightforward, popular style, The Age of Persuasion is easy-to-read and often subversive.”
Globe & Mail
Terry O’Reilly has won hundreds of advertising awards and is the co-founder of Pirate Radio and Television. The Age of Persuasion is broadcast on CBC Radio and NPR’s WBEZ Chicago. Knopf Canada 2009 Counterpoint US 2010 Cheers Publishing China 2010
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itty, erudite, and irrepressibly irreverent, Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant offer a lively social history of advertising and its impact as a major cultural force in modern life. Terry O’Reilly is the perfect guide to the age of persuasion. As the host, creator and co-writer with Mike Tennant of two wildly popular CBC Radio series on advertising, he is known as a delightful raconteur and scholar of media literature. But unlike academics, his day job as one of the top directors of radio and TV commercials affords him a unique perspective on marketing and how it has driven a change in the way we react to media. The age of persuasion dawned in the 1880s with the rise of ad agencies. In its fledgling years, advertising was defined as “salesmanship on paper.” That concept was left in the dust with the explosion of media and consumerism. Radio in the 1920s and television in the 1950s spawned market research and the idea of persuasion as a “science.” The creative explosion in the 1960s, however, revealed persuasion to be a delicate “art.” In the 1980s, the arrival of a multi-channel universe and MTV’s rapid-fire editing of images and sound, forever altered our attention span and notions of fast and slow, short and long. The authors also explore such topics as ad clutter, the implied contract advertisers have with consumers and the peril of breaking it. They chart the rise and fall of branded entertainment, disclose new language of persuasion and candidly reveal examples of opportunism and cynicism. But they also appreciate the inventiveness, craft and art in creating the best ads that add colour to daily life. Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
Non-Fiction
David Pratt
David Pratt
Formula for Genius
The Impossible Takes Longer
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ince its inception in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been the hallmark of genius. The laureates are sought after for their views on the state of the world, international affairs, the He is Professor Emeri- meaning of life, love, and, tus, Queen’s University, above all, success. David Pratt, who reads widely in several languages in the arts and sciences, has been studying Nobel laureates for decades, amassing an archive of 7,200 quotations.
Canada, was educated at Oxford, Harvard, and In Formula For Genius, DaToronto. He lives Strat- vid Pratt probes Nobel lauford, Ontario, Canada. reates’ life experiences and
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“A fanatic is the one or more than a century who can’t change his the Nobel Prize has honmind and won’t change ored achievements in literathe subject.” ture, science, and civic life. Winston S. Churchill Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel science laureates have given us X-rays, penicillin, Prozac and polio vaccine. They comprise a club of the planet’s best and brightest.
“My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.” From the Nobel’s extraorLeon Lederman Nobel Prize for Physics
hardships for clues that predict their success and what “Let us not then speak we can learn from them. ill of our generation, it is
dinary collection of talent, David Pratt compiled an original archive of 7,200 quotations and for this book selected 1,000 pithy and perceptive comments.
not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of Here are some of the world’s it at all.”
Pratt’s narrative sparkles with nuggets of biography and is threaded with delightful descriptions of their Samuel Beckett prize-winning works, all Nobel Prize for Literature informed by historical con“Instead of telling girls text. Wise and often funny, Pratt’s account of these fascinating people makes you think that you too may one day grasp the brass ring.
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to cover their hair, we should teach them to use their heads.”
clearest minds on subjects like: Achievement and Failure; Work; Faith; Truth; Lies; Ideals; Death; Money; Emotions; and the Meaning of Life.
Shirin Ebadi Nobel Prize for Peace
Walker US 2007 D & M Canada 2007 PPM Editorial Catalan 2008 Ersen Estonia 2009 JR Publishers UK 2008 Ullstein Germany 2009 Beijing Mediatime China 2012
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True Crime
Robert Remington & Sherri Zickefoose Runaway Devil
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family A 12-year-old Catholic schoolgirl is a multiple killer!
T “Those who want a solid, sensationalist crime account that gets into the heads of its subjects should find this a page-turning thrill.” Publishers Weekly
“The authors have done a masterful job of crafting a story like a crime novel and combining their long-established skills as senior journalists with a writing flair that proves reality can be just as chilling and compelling as any fictional yarn.”
Bob Blakey, Fast Forward Weekly
“Runaway Devil effectively details the ‘who’ of a shocking triple murder...This book does a better job than many in the genre.” Winnipeg Free Press
“Elegantly crafted and written, Runaway Devil is a fine attempt to explain the inexplicable.” Elliott Leyton
Since its release, Runaway Devil has been on several bestseller lists. McClelland & Stewart 2009
his chilling story alerts parents to the toxic stew of teenage rebellion, the internet, pubescent sexuality and the allure of the Goth style leading to a horrifying end of sickening murders. Runaway Devil, as she was known online is unique in the annals of children who are multiple murderers. She was only 12 when she killed her parents and her little brother and she lacked a justifiable motive. She was an honor student and a wholesome member of the swim club. There is no evidence that she was molested, beaten, or mentally abused. Her parents were simply guilty of trying to be parents and she didn’t like it. They tried all the Dr. Phil strategies to restrain their daughter and interrupt her relationship with a man 10 years older. They grounded her, locked up her computer, and tried to protect her. They ended up dead, and their young son, Runaway Devil’s little brother, had his throat slashed while he pleaded with his sister. The scene of his death made the police officers weep. Some assumed that she had come under the spell of her boyfriend Jeremy Steinke who went by the online nickname of Souleater and claimed to be part of a lycan brotherhood. How could a 12-year-old exert any control over him? But a jury found her to be cold, calculating and her actions premeditated. Unlike her accomplice, she showed little remorse. It happened in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada which makes it all the more frightening. It means it could happen anywhere. Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose, both experienced reporters and skilled writers, have been reporting on the case for the Calgary Herald since the first day of the murders. Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
Historical Thriller
Roberta Rich The Midwife of Venice
H “Roberta Rich introduces a unique heroine, and her wry humour leavens a serious subject.” Globe & Mail
annah ha-Levi, a midwife in the Venetian ghetto is put in terrible danger. She has gained renown for her skill in coaxing reluctant babies out of their mother’s bellies using her “birthing spoons” as rudimentary forceps. One night a Christian nobleman, Conte Paolo di Padovani, appears at Hannah’s door in the Jewish ghetto with an impossible request.
“compelling... those who are curious about religion, birthing or 16th century history will enjoy this book.”
He implores Hannah to help his dying wife and save their unborn child. But a Papal edict has made it a crime, punishable by death, for Jews to give medical treatment to Christians. The Conte offers her a huge sum of money, enough to enable her to sail to Malta to ransom her beloved husband, Isaac. He was captured at sea and is a slave of the Knights of St. John.
“The Midwife of Venice is a compelling and engaging novel, a well-researched high-stakes drama written with elegance and compassion. Fascinating!”
Hannah acquiesces and delivers the infant, Matteo, a child who captures her heart. As she prepares to depart for Malta to rescue Isaac, she discovers that the baby’s uncles are plotting to murder the child in order to seize the family fortune.
Vancouver Sun
Sandra Gulland
“Not only did Roberta Rich transport me to 16th century Venice with its seductive tapestries of smells, sights, textures, and beliefs, she involved me in a poignant story of seasoned love. Katherine Ashenburg
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In the absence of the Conte and his wife who are in Ferrara on urgent business, Hannah believes she must safeguard Matteo. She enlists her sister Jessica who is a courtesan and living as a Christian outside the ghetto. An outbreak of the plague traps them in Venice and makes them easy prey for the baby’s murderous uncles. Woven through Hannah’s travails are Isaac’s hardships as a slave in Malta. Blessed with wit and charm, he earns scraps of food as a scribe and pins his hopes for freedom on bartering his precious silkworm eggs. To reach Isaac, who believes she has died in the plague, Hannah must outsmart the Padovani family and sail to Malta before Isaac manages to buy his passage to a new life in Constantinople. Roberta Rich has crafted an enthralling story that makes 16th Century Venice throb with life and suspense. Her next novel will be set in Constantinople. She divides her time between Vancouver and Mexico.
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Fiction
Hilary Scharper Perdita
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istorian Garth Hellyer is bemused when he is assigned to interview Marged Brice, a resident of Clarkson Home for The Aged as part of his work on the Longevity Project. Official records indicate that she is 134 years old, arousing suspicions of bureaucratic error or major fraud. When Garth finally meets her, he is intrigued. Marged, looking as old as polished stone, her sharp mind occasionally drifting to reverie, tells him she wants to die but Perdita won’t let her. Not too old to be charmed by Garth, she entrusts him with her journal which he takes with him to his cottage near the Cape Prius lighthouse of Marged’s childhood. This remote peninsula on the Great Lakes was a summer respite for the elite, including a renowned artist who may have been Marged’s lover, and a prominent ornithologist whom Marged assisted. But Garth is also driven by his curiosity about Perdita, the name of the infant girl in Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale who is left on a seacoast to die but is rescued by shepherds. Hilary Scharper masterfully constructs Marged’s story set in the dawn of the 1900s and its impact on the unresolved issues in Garth’s life, offering us a glorious romance of gothic and modern. Fans of Jane Eyre, Rebecca, and Possession will enjoy the rich pageant of conflicting passions, wild storms, and the mystery of the supernatural. Hilary Scharper, who lives in Toronto, spent a decade as a lighthouse keeper on the Bruce Peninsula with her husband. She also is the author of a story collection, Dream Dresses and God and Caesar at the Rio Grande (University of Minnesota Press) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. She received her Ph.D. from Yale and is currently Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
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Fiction
Sean Simmans In the Meat Zone
G Sean Simmans is an artist and writer who lives in Melfort, Saskatchewan. He has published several novels under the pseudonym Bill Czolgosz, including Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim (Simon & Schuster US, 2011).
reg Cebulski, recently divorced and sequestered in his lakeside cottage with his dog Banjo, nearly misses the news. Extraterrestrials have invaded the planet. The earth’s major cities and most of its population are devastated. When low-flying triangular spaceships begin to float overhead, Greg is quickly attuned to the necessity of survival. To his relief, he discovers he is not the lone man on earth. He is joined by two survivors, a woman and a small boy. Their tenuous sense of security is short-lived. Relief and a growing family tenderness turn to dread when the menacing Fendiuk family arrives. A wounded man, Adrian, who accompanies them, is afraid to tell what he knows. As the war of the worlds rages, alien sightings in the forest increase. Heavily armed Greg, beset by danger and isolation, battles both the aliens and murderous humans. Written with the dramatic verve of the pulps, and the skill of a literary master, Sean Simmans’s paranormal horror sickens and fascinates as murder, torture and vengeance flourish and then abate.
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Fiction
Joey Slinger
NINA, THE BANDIT QUEEN
Nina, The Bandit Queen
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N Joey Slinger’s wild and dark imagination, his subversive humor, and his surprising arcs of fancy have attracted passionate fans to his humor column which appeared several times a week in the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper. He has published two collections of his columns: No Axe Too Small to Grind, which won the Leacock Medal for Humour and If It’s A Jungle Out There, Why Do I Have to Mow the Lawn? He is also the author of Down & Dirty Birding (Simon & Schuster), a beginner’s guide to birdwatching. His first novel Punch Line was published by Key Porter Books. Slinger lives in Toronto, Ontario.
ina Dolgoy grew up in a part of town so beaten down that even prostitutes and drug dealers have written it off. Still, she imagines that if the neighbourhood pool wasn’t boarded up, a rigorous swimming program might keep her four daughters from falling into degradation. The bitterly self-proclaimed “welfare queen” leads her community on a fund-raising, pool-fixing, self-improvement campaign. Unfortunately, the only way she can think to raise money herself is by robbing a bank. Unfortunately she isn’t very good at it. Coincidentally, her brother Frank gets out of jail and robs one. But it’s a put-up job, and unfortunately he double-crosses the bad guys who hired him and takes off with the loot. After accidentally knocking him off, the bad guys conclude that he stashed the cash in Nina’s house and start dismantling it around her ears. As mother-lion courageous as this makes her, it’s no use when even trusted friends turn out to want the money for themselves and believe she’s got it and is holding out on them. Nina and the girls have to flee for their lives. But what happens when their escape in a yellow school bus turns into a sublimely bizarre slowmotion chase? With the world watching live, she somehow has to find a way to to pull the wool over everybody’s eyes. This caper-in-reverse about an unfortunate, and unfortunately misunderstood, woman would be really sad if it wasn’t presented with a frankness so staggering it knocks the legs out from under you. It’s hard for your heart to break when you’re laughing out loud.
Dundurn World 2012
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Fiction
Jaron Summers Elder Wonder Comes of Age A young man’s comic quest for sex and God young
Jaron Summers grew up in Edmonton, Canada and lives in Los Angeles where is an author and screen witer. Like Jerry Wonder, Summers was a young Mormon missionary in New Zealand. He could not write this novel until after his mother’s death.
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erry Wonder is 19-year-old Mormon missionary who leaves South Dakota in 1962 to save souls in New Zealand for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elder Wonder’s path is fraught with challenge. He misses his girlfriend Susan and worries he will lose her in his two-year absence. And he is flawed. Against the strictures of the LDS church he is a compulsive masturbator, or in Mormon parlance, a “self-pollinator.” Jerry makes a solemn covenant with his Father in Heaven that each time he self-pollinates, he will harvest a soul for Jesus. After one month, he owes his Father in Heaven 40 converts. Elder Wonder also has difficulty developing his testimony—i.e. one’s absolute belief in the absolute truth of the LDS faith.Complicating his life is Elder Freight, a 20-year-old missionary who teaches him the finer points of converting heathens –when he is not breaking their bones. But he does bond with Brother Ormsby, a Maori who urges him to persist despite his doubts. When Elder Freight takes his life, Jerry is devastated and he delves into the dark history of the church learning that the founding polygamist prophets were often conmen, fortune hunters, or even murderers. Salvation of a sort comes when Susan flies to his side. They will be expelled from the church and disgrace their families. But first, Jerry has to protect the mission president and his wife from Church officials in Utah, something he manages with characteristic ingenuity. Within its comic frame, the novel is informative about the Mormon Church. It also reveals the attempts of older men to stifle and control young men.
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Non-Fiction
Lionel Tiger and Michael McGuire God’s Brain
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od’s Brain is not about whether God exists or not. It is not an assertion about whether or not religions are good, noble, necessary, a sign of infirmity, or catalogues of grand silliness. “This is easily the best book on the nature of religion to appear for a long time.”
This book answers the essential questions of existence. What is the purpose of religion? What is its source? Why does 80% of the world’s population have some religious affiliation?
“The book is a well-written, easy to read, unique perspective on religion.”
God’s Brain describes why, how, and what the brain does as part of religious experience and organization. Neurophysiology and neuroanatomy are as necessary to understanding religion as knowing about the leg’s muscles and blood circulation is necessary to train hurdlers.
Robin Fox, University Professor of Social Theory, Rutgers University
Jay R. Feierman, editor, The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion
“Recent, often bitter debates have lacked a scientific take on religion that is not at the same time trying to destroy it. This lively, creative account helps fill that gap. It may even help you with your own trials of faith.” Melvin Konner, author of The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints
on the Human Spirit
“Tiger and McGuire have concocted an amazing and insightful look—based on sound science— into how the human brain ‘seeks’ religion.”
R. Curtis Ellison, MD, professor of medicine and public health, Boston University School of Medicine Prometheus Books 2010 Wise Book Korea 2011 Lannoo Dutch 2011 Alfa Turkey 2011
In God’s Brain, the authors consider religion’s role in socialization, its relentless obsession with regulating sex, its conceptions of an after-life, its influence on law, and the similarities between non-human primate and human social groups. They also demonstrate religion’s ability to help the brain adjust to stress and anxiety in lieu of modern-day drugs and therapy. This answer to Dawkins and Hitchens is without judgment but is scientifically and socially judicious. The story is told by a master neuropsychiatrist and an accomplished detective about the mysteries of human behavior. It is the most important book on the subject of religion to appear, for both the religious and non believers alike. Michael McGuire, MD, is the author or editor of 10 books including Darwinian Psychiatry (with A. Troisi), and he is the primary discoverer of seratonin’s crucial role in brain chemistry. He is President of the Biomedical Research Foundation, and Director of the Bradshaw Foundation and the Gruter Institute of Law and Behaviour. Lionel Tiger is the bestselling author of Men in Groups, The Imperial Animal (with Robin Fox) and The Pursuit of Pleasure. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Harvard Business Review and Brain and Behavioural Science. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
Historical Mystery
Morley Torgov Murder in A-Major
T “This is a story well told--setting, character, plot, enriched by the lifestyles and colours of the time. Murder is investigated, clues unearthed, expanded and timed to keep the reader turning the pages. Music and mystery make captivating partners.”
Hamilton Spectator
Next Hermann Preiss Mystery Coming Spring 2012
ake one of the crowning musical geniuses of mid-nineteenth centry Europe, surround him with enemies, add several scoundrels, including one who ends up murdered under highly mysterious circumstances...and there you have the world of Robert and Clara Schumann in Germany of the 1850s. This is a historical mystery that explores what or who was driving Robert Schumann mad. It takes the reader into the world of midnineteenth century music, where classical composers were stars, and their egos were just as monstrous as the rock stars of today. Inspector Preiss tackles a mysterious off-key A on the Schumanns’ piano, but are all mysteries meant to be solved? Inspector Preiss has the final answer. Morley Torgov is an award-winning author of five previous novels and has won the Leacock Medal for Humour twice. The Outside Chance of Maxmilian Glick was made into a movie that took the main prize at the Toronto International Film Festival and was also the basis of a 26 part CBC TV sit-com. His first book A Good Place To Come From was adapted for TV and for three full-length stage plays by Israel Horovitz that have enjoyed productions at numerous community theaters in the US. Morley Torgov, who has an exceptional knowledge of classical music, has balanced two careers for most of his working life—writing and practising law. in Toronto, Canada. Murder in A-Major is the first of several historical mysteries by Torgov featuring classical musicians. He is completing The Mastersinger From Minsk where the commanding, despicable genius, Richard Wagner takes the podium in Inspector Preiss’s murder investigations.
Metaixmio Publishing Greece 2009 Actes Sud France 2009 Sallim Korea 2009 Napoleon RendezVous Crime US/Canada Spring 2008
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Parenting
Michael Ungar, Ph.D. The Last Problem Child
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ichael Ungar, who is world-renowned on topics of families and youth in crisis, knows about troubled children. He knows what puts them at risk and he knows what makes them safe and resilient. Michael Ungar is a Professor of Social Work, and a marriage and family therapist, based in Halifax at Dalhousie University. He is internationally recognized for his work in more than a dozen countries on resilience and at-risk youth.
In this beautiful and helpful book, Michael Ungar takes us into his world each Wednesday when he meets with three families with very troubled children. But here, Michael is not the all-knowing therapist. He, too, had been a troubled teen, growing up in an emotionally neglectful and physically abusive home, and he shares his struggles. In the group, Michael discusses nine strategies for raising problem free and flourishing children. They are: structure, consequences, parent-child connections, lots of peer and adult relationships, a powerful identity, a sense of control, a sense of belonging, spirituality and life purpose, fair and just treatment by others, and safety and support. Hopeful in tone, and using knowledge gathered across cultures, The Last Problem Child does more than just tell parents what to do. Recounting the stories of three struggling families, Ungar shows that it is never too late to help a child. The Last Problem Child is not only a guide for parents and a gritty tale of the everyday heroics of parenting challenging kids, but it is also a singular work of literature. Dr. Ungar is also the author of We Generation: Raising Socially Responsible Kids, Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens, and Playing at Being Bad: The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens. He appears regularly on radio and TV and is in demand as a lecturer and keynote speaker at conferences and workshops for parents and professionals. For details see his web site www.michaelungar.com
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Fiction
Rangeley Wallace Love Is Merely A Madness “Rangeley Wallace is a hard, fresh wind from the south, with a voice full of particularity and a born sense of story.” Rangeley Wallace moved from the South to Washington, D.C. where she is an author and a lawyer. She is the author of No Defense (St. Martin’s Press).
Praise for No Defense “Wallace avoids any Grishamcome-lately clichés in this interesting novel of southern justice... This page-turner of a novel is refreshing in it’s uncommon perspective, as opposed to the usual legal novel that focuses on lawyers.” Booklist
“Rangeley Wallace has written a taut, compelling Southern drama that is cut from the same cloth as Harper Lee and the early William Faulkner.” Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
“A riveting courtroom drama… Another fine story in the Southern literary tradition.”
Library Journal
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Anne River Siddons
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t seems like a benign case of wedding jitters when Alexa Cunningham’s ambivalence about her forthcoming marriage to the glamorous David Lassiter grips her. But in this beautifully told tale, rich in the cultural texture of the contemporary South, it points to Alexa’s unresolved issues from her past. Four years earlier, Alexa’s happy life script was written. She and her boyfriend Nick and her dearest friend Kat had moved to Carsonville, Alabama. Their plans included marriage to Nick and a position in the family business for Alexa, legal training for Nick, and medical studies for Kat. Then tragedy strikes. When Alexa and Kat are horseback riding, Kat suffers a terrible fall on one of Alexa’s horses. It leaves Kat a paraplegic, and an ensuing lawsuit against Alexa’s family envelops everyone in anger. Relationships are ruptured. Confused, abandoned by her friend, and guilt-ridden, Alexa flees her hometown and Nick, and reestablishes herself as an investment banker in Atlanta where she is swept away by the sophisticated jewellery designer David. Coming back to Carsonville to be with her father, stirs Alexa’s longings for Nick, the family construction business, and the life she expected to have. To her shock, Kat also is back in Carsonville, and once again is close to her family. Ironically, everyone has moved on except Alexa. And she has lost her footing. Can she go back? With compassion, humor and deep understanding, Rangeley Wallace weaves a story of family, friendship and love to engage the heart. Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
Sports Memoir
Brock Walsh Die Happy Golf, Life, and the Perils of Par
I Advance Praise “Die Happy is a delight. I’ve never played golf and thought I had zero interest in it. But I’m drawn to literary tales about drive and obsession, about the need to extract lessons from painful experience, about the tireless search for aesthetic perfection. On all these levels, Walsh succeeds admirably. To my amazement, I found myself following the book’s final eighteen holes with tense fascination. Walsh gives us a big-hearted adventure.”
Brad Leithauser Author of The Art Student’s War
“Stirring, instructive and beautifully written, Walsh’s tale of his quest for par golf is a free drop for anyone whose life has gotten lost in the woods.”
Roger Director Author of I Dream In Blue
“Brock Walsh has captured the essence of the game of golf-- it is the quest!”
n a chaotic and uncertain world, the goals we set can soothe our fears and guide our destiny. Brock Walsh, a Los Angeles songwriter and avid golfer, pursued a two-year quest to shoot a round of “level par,” a feat achieved by one amateur in a thousand. What he didn’t know was that life was cuing up its own slew of challenges that would test him far more. Walsh takes us on a wild ride of harrowing reversals and surprising victories. He is betrayed by his business partner, loses his job, has to fight to keep his home, while his wife battles a life-threatening drug resistant bacteria. Staring into this dark vista, he is forced to contemplate deeper issues of aging, courage and self. For Walsh, who has had a sterling career writing songs for the major stars of his generation, the change in fortune could not have been more vertiginous. Die Happy is a golf story, a love story, and a life story. Whether he takes us backstage with the Rolling Stones, into the studio with Michael Jackson, or down the tree line at the municipal golf course with the dawn patrol, Walsh weaves a tale that is smart, funny, and heartbreakingly real. After graduating from Harvard, Brock Walsh began his professional life as a touring musician and back-up singer for Linda Ronstadt, Karla Bonoff, and Andrew Gold with whom he produced such hits as “Lonely Boy” and “Thank You For Being a Friend.” He was a staff producer for Quincy Jones and has written and produced hits for such artists as Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion, The Pointer Sisters, and Aretha Franklin. He lives in Santa Monica with his wife and three children.
Eddie Merrins Author Playing A Round With the Little Pro
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Non-Fiction Highlights Henry Aubin Rescue of Jerusalem A thrilling military history and stirring political analysis of the ancient world. 2003 Jewish Book Award Editions E & C France 2007 Gold Book Kft. Hungary 2005 Soho Press USA 2002 Doubleday Canada 2002
Timothy Brook The Confusions of Pleasure Ming life in all its ebullient complexity by a superb scholar and writer.
U of California Press 1998
Lita-Rose Betcherman Court Lady and Country Wife A gripping tale of two noble sisters embroiled in the romance, intrigue and scandal of 17th Century England. HarperCollins Canada2005 HarperCollins USA 2005 Wiley UK 2005
Ron Dembo and Daniel Stoffman Upside Downside A guru of risk helps investors make smart choices in today’s increasingly complex and volatile financial markets. Doubleday Canada 2005
Will Kymlicka
Michael Marrus
Contemporary Political Philosophy
The Holocaust in History
A discussion of major topics of contemporary political thought including communitarianism and feminism. Oxford University Press 15+ translations
Blanche Howard and Carol Shields A Memoir of Friendship A thirty year dialogue on love and literatue between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard.
Penguin Canadaa 2007
A classic on the findings of historians on central questions of the Holocaust by the leading authority on the subject.
Several editions in print in various languages
Rona Maynard My Mother’s Daughter A woman’s identity is forged in her relationahip with her mother. Rona Maynard, the former editor of Chatelaine, is beautifully suited to illuminating this journey from daughter to woman. McClelland & Stewart Canada 2007
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Non-Fiction Highlights William Weintraub
Jeffrey Rosenthal
Getting Started
Struck By Lightning
The adventures of Weintraub and his three friends Mordecai Richler, Brian Moore, and Mavis Gallant as they struggle to become writers.
Randomness and probability explained by a warm and funny mathematician.
McClelland & Stewart Canada 2001
HarperCollins Canada World Rights 2005 Various international editions
Carole Tanenbaum
Elliott Leyton
Fabulous Fakes
Hunting Humans
Beautiful and unforgettable vintage costume jewelry by the world’s leading authority and collector.
Examines modern American society through the eyes of the multiple murderer and serial killer.
Artisan US 2006 Madison Press other rights
Alba Spain 2005 Carroll & Graf USA 2004 McClelland & Stewart Canada
Elliott Leyton
Elliott Leyton
Men of Blood
Sole Survivor
An anthropologist looks at society through the lens of murder, yielding surprising insights.
Explores the world of middleclass children who slaughter their parents and siblings revealing the hidden class structure in American society.
McClelland & Stewart 1995 Reissued 2002
Blake UK Reissue 2001 McClelland & Stewart Canada
Martin Knelman
Martin Knelman
The Joker is Wild
Mike’s World: The Life of Mike Myers
The rags -to-riches tale of actor Jim Carrey.
An examination of Mike Myers’s talent, ambition, and career. Firefly USA 2000 Blake UK 2000 Penguin Canada 1999
Firefly USA 2003 Penguin Canada 2002
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Non-Fiction Highlights
Dave Bagby
Harold Troper
Dance with the Devil
The Rescuer
The heartbreaking true story of the murder of young doctor Andrew Bagby exgirlfriend by Shirley Turner, 12 years his senior, when he tried to end their relationship.
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Before his parents Dave and Kate Bagby could gain custody of their grandchild, Shirley murdered Zachary and killed herself.
“An important story that had to be told . . . As this book shows, sometimes the power of one is greater than the ignorance of many.”
Dave Bagby’s riveting memoir is a moving story and an indictiment of the judicial and social welfare systems.
A fast-paced tour-de-force worthy of any spy novel.”
The Globe and Mail
National Post
Lester, Mason and Begg 2007
Kirkus
Steerforth US 2008
The Rescuer is the remarkable narrative fo the heroic and deeply humanitarian actions of one seemingly ordinary woman. Harold Troper is the author of several books including None is Too Many with coauthor Irving Abella.
Tod Hoffman
Howard Engel
The Spy Within
The Man Who Forgot How to Read
Larry Chin was the top Chinese linguist working for the C.I.A. And for 30 years, he was China’s top spy.
“Hoffman possesses a solid command of his material and conveys the secretive nature of espionage agencies with a novelist’s panache.”
After seeing a news report about 12 Syrian Jews blown up in a minefield trying to escape their country, Judy Feld Carr knew she had to help. For almost 30 years she publicly championed the cause of Syrian Jews while secretly negotiating their escape.
The Spy Within recounts one of the most significant cases in the history of espionage - the longest running penetration ever. It offers unique insight into the mysterious realm of Chinese intelligence tradecraft, and reveals untold details about the investigation and the prosecution of Larry Chin.
“His memoir manages to transcend...a self-consciousness that is predicated on unreliable memories....[It avoids] jargon, hyperbole or self-glorification. It finds humour in the grim.” The Globe and Mail
While he slept, the brilliant mystery writer Howard Engel experienced a stroke and was afflicted with the rare condition alexia sine agraphia, the inability to read - a devastating blow for a man devoted to reading. In this absorbing and uplifting memoir, Engel chronicles his rehabilitation, how he slowly began to learn to read again and how he continued to write.
HarperCollins Can/World Rights 2007
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Fiction Highlights
William Weintraub
Sheree Fitch Kiss the Joy as it Flies
Crazy About Lili Richard Lippman’s life is changed at age 17 when his roguish Uncle Morty takes him to the Gayety Burlesque and introduces “Crazy About Lili is a funny, him to the dazzling strip- “Mercy is a great heroine-farcical, and thoroughly en- per, Lili L’Amour. wise, sexy, extremely funny. gaging look back.”
This book is a joy ride.”
Lisa Moore It is Montreal in 1949, when booze, burlesque, Awards: gambling, and corrup- Awards: Leacock Medal for Humour Leacock Medal for Humour tion make it a vibrant Finalist Finalist city - perfect for a lad’s Douglas Gibson Books education. The Globe and Mail
McClelland & Stewart Canada 2005 Film option
Vagrant Press 2008 Other Rights Available
Joanna Goodman
You Made Me Love You
Harmony
Estelle dreams of becoming a celebrated film ediMontreal Gazette tor; Erica lacks direction before a fateful meet“...feels, in spirit, like a cross between Four Weddings and ing with a female rabbi a Funeral and Hannah and guides her future; and Jess’s perfect life, set in Her Sisters.” Quill & Quire stone, begins to crack. Penguin Canada 2005 NAL/Penguin US 2006
But tidying up the edges of her life means the past comes rushing back to haunt her and the present keeps throwing up more to do’s. In a week filled with the riot of an entire life, nothing turns out the way she expected.
Joanna Goodman
A dark and surprising secret lurks at the heart of this comic novel. Soon, it will surface and profoundly alter Anne Mahroum’s sense of identity.
The three appealing Zarr sisters each face life-altering decisions about work, love, ambition, and family. “Goodman...is a witty, energetic storyteller.”
Panic-stricken by the news that she needs exploratory surgery, 48 year-old Mercy Beth Fanjoy drafts a to do list to put her messy life in order.
“Goodman’s solid writing is permeated with commentary on societal pressures to have it all”
Publishers Weekly
“Goodman writes compassion.”
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Patti Henry
Penguin Canada 2007 NAL/Penguin USA 2007
Anne, a perfectionist and collage artist, is married to Elie, a Lebanese-born dealer in rare coins. Their infant son, to Anne’s distress, is born with clubfeet. This clouds her fantasy of showing her perfect son to her father -- a man she never knew.
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Non-Fiction Highlights
Edward Shorter
Edward Shorter
Written in the Flesh
Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
An elegant and erudite history of sexual desire in the western world.
Awards: Governor-General’s Award Non-Fiction Short List
Colibri Russia 2007 Unniversity of Toronto Press 2005
Renowned medical historian Edward Shorter demonstrates that desire is hardwired into the brain, expressing itself in remarkably similar ways in men and women, adolescent and adult, and in gays, lesbians, and straights alike. Drawing from a wide array of sources, Shorter explores the widening of Western society’s sexual repertoire.
The first historical dictionary of psychiatry covers the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of the neurosciences.
Oxford University Press 2005
Edward Shorter and David Healy
Bringing together information from the English, French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian languages, the Dictionary rests on an enormous base of primary sources that cover the growth of psychiatry through all of Western society.
Edward Shorter Before Prozac
Shock Therapy
An unsettling look at modern psychiatry where drugs that don’t work are used to treat diseases that don’t exist. Edward Shorter reveals how greed, lax regulation, and academic infighting have set the field back.
Electroshock therapy was considered by many to be the penicillin for the severely mentally ill, but it fell out favor in the 1960s for curious, cultural reasons.
Rutgers University Press 2007 University of Toronto Press 2008
This book by two leading authors will be a major contribution to ameliorating the stigma attached to shock therapy. Why this effective treatment fell out of favour is one of the great unknown stories of modern medicine. Oxford University Press 2009
Based in part on unprecedented access to federal archives and on extensive interviewing, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape in a revealing and provocative account of why psychiatry is losing ground in the struggle to treat depression.
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