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The Pilgrim
Paul Almond
In 1896 Jack Alford travels the 450 mile Labrador coastline by sled & boast - visiting his parishioners and surviving the challenges of the north.
National bestseller!
Soon to be a television miniseries from Cream Drama
Author tour to Montreal, Quebec City, Gaspe (May/June), Maritimes, Lower North Shore, Montreal, Toronto (Sept/Oct)
The Lola Quartet
Emily St. John Mandel
“Riveting…evocative, intriguing and complex” Starred Library Journal
Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he’s fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It’s early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly; the economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression. The last thing Gavin wants is to return to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida, but he’s drifting toward bankruptcy and is in no position to refuse when he’s offered a job by his sister, Eilo, a real estate broker who deals in foreclosed homes.
Eilo recently paid a visit to a home that had a ten-year-old child in it, a girl who bears a strong resemblence to Gavin and who has the same last name as Gavin’s high school girlfriend Anna, whom Gavin last saw a decade ago. Gavin -- a former jazz musician, a reluctant broker of foreclosed homes, obsessed with film noir and private detectives -- begins his own private investigation in an effort to track down Anna and their apparent daughter. The Lola Quartet, a work of literary noir, is concerned with jazz, Django Reinhardt, economic collapse, friendship and love, Florida’s exotic wildlife problem, fedoras, and the unreliability of memory.
Somewhere In Between
Donna Milner
Following tragic events from which Juliee O’Dale believes she will never recover, she buys into her husband Ian’s dream to give up their comfortable city lives and retreat to the isolated Chilcotin area of British Columbia. Only after purchasing the remote six hundred acre cattle ranch do they realize that, along with the and, they have inherited the reclusive tenant who occupies and old trapper’s cabin on the property. As both Juliee and Ian wrestle with their individual guilt over their deteriorating marriage and their sorrow, they also have to contend with the wilderness at their doorstep and the mysterious tenant, Virgil Blue. Another riveting novel from the author of THE PROMISE OF RAIN, a Globe and Mail Top 100 title in 2009.
The Box of the Dead
Beatrice MacNeil
THE BOX OF THE DEAD centers on Ivadoile, who was widowed early and has run a boarding house on Cape Breton for many years in the splendid home left to her by her doctor husband. We muse with her over the turns her life has taken as she approaches old age---the characters who stayed with her between sea-voyages, the blood on her hands at far too young an age. Ivadoile now pauses to listen to the fat bird sing in her ‘Secret Garden’ and reminisces about the thorns and roses in her long life.
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Billy's Best Bottles: Wines for 2013
Billy Munnelly
BILLY’S BEST BOTTLES is Canada’s bestselling wine guide. Billy Munnelly’s system make buying wine as easy as grocery shopping. His picks are arranged by the six main drinking situations/moods, and all styles of wine are covered—dry, sweet, light and rich. Each chapter comes with a recommendation for ‘best times’---connecting Billy’s wine picks to moments, moods, and foods.
And each recommendation comes with a colour photo of the bottle along with its code number—which is applicable Canada wide.
Yes, there is good wine for under $10! And there are even good bottles from Italy and Argentina for under $8! Over 1500 wines tasted every year and 400 best wine buys from around the globe featured.
Silent Sam and the Singing Sausages From Saturn
Margaret Atwood; illus. Dušan Petricić
SILENT SAM (and the Singing Sausage from Saturn) is the fifth hilarious alliterative adventure in the Wandering Wenda & Friends series, now sold to Breakthrough Productions and soon to be an animated television series for children. Sam is a very silent little boy, the son of a shopkeeper and his spouse. One September Saturday after supper, he and his parents (and their saxophones) are sucked up into a silvery saucer-shaped spaceship!
Book Trailer: A captivating and fast-paced adventure, The Survivor is Book Two of the Alford Saga, a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of one settler’s family.
Book Trailer: A remarkable story of friendship, adventure and love, The Beauty Chorus is a story of female Spitfire pilots during WWII.
