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	Through Black Spruce Delve into the online world of Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce. Explore and find out more about Joseph and his works through exclusive podcasts, interviews, a Readers Guide, excerpts, and more.
	The Man Game In 1886, out of the smouldering ashes of the great fire that destroyed much of the city,Molly Erwagen—former vaudeville performer—arrives from Toronto with her beloved husband, Samuel, to start a new life. Meanwhile, Litz and Pisk, two lumberjacks exiled after the fire, and blamed for having started it, are trying to clear their names. Before long, they’ve teamed up with Molly to invent a new sport that will change the course of that fledgling city’s history.
	The Architects Are Here When Gabriel English's partner, Nell, doesn't come home from work one day, he connects with longtime friend David Twombly for a trip back to their hometown in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where years ago their lives began to unravel after a tragic drowning. Michael Winter explores the nature of grief and friendship in unwaveringly powerful prose and considers who we are and how we go on when the future seems uncertain.
	The Twice Born When Huy is sent away from his family?s farm to attend a prestigious school, he is soon befriended by the family of the local governor. Just as Huy starts to feel at home with his aristocratic new friends, an unexpected attack shockingly takes his life. But after five days in a crypt, being prepared for his own burial, Huy miraculously revives. An ingenious and suspenseful novel of ancient Egypt, The Twice Born is a treat for all fans of historical or fantasy fiction.
	Shining at the Bottom of the Sea In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania?an island nation whose English-speaking citizens draw upon the English, American, Australian, and Canadian literary traditions. The result is a vibrant evocation of a country?from the birth pangs of its first settlers and their hardy vernacular to its revolutionary years and right up to the present?told in Stephen Marche?s innovative and accomplished writing.
	Ysabel In this exhilarating and moving new work, Guy Gavriel Kay casts brilliant light on the ways in which history refuses to be buried. Ned Marriner, fifteen years old, accompanies his photographer father to Provence. There, one holy, haunted night of the ancient year, when the borders between the living and the dead are down, Ned, his family, and his friends, are shockingly drawn into confronting dangerous, mythic figures from conflicts of long ago as they erupt into the present, claiming and changing lives.
	Templar Trilogy It is 1088. While many French nobles continue their occupation of a violently hostile England, one young knight, Hugh de Payens, is inducted into a powerful secret. When the new Pope calls for knights to join his Crusade, Hugh finds himself in hellish battle in Jerusalem. But the Order has a different plan, and soon the brethren are charged with a seemingly impossible mission to uncover a treasure that might not only destroy the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem but also threaten the fabric of the Church itself.
	The Fighter Paul Harris is a spoiled rich kid who has never had to work for anything. Rob Tully is a born fighter who trains daily with his father and his Uncle Tommy, believing that his gift can change all their lives for the better. When two men step into the ring of an underground fight club, only one will walk out. Set in the world of illegal bare-knuckle boxing, The Fighter pulls no punches in its depiction of lives lived in desperation.
	Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet After freakishly foretelling the death of a friend, seventeen-year-old Luke Hunter becomes big news in Stokum, his rank little pinprick of a hometown. Hormonal and funny, exhilarating and wise, Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet explores the need to belong, the isolation of youth, and the powerful brew of fear and truth, music and noise, that plays inside us all.