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The Fault in Our Stars

Thurs, 26 January 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

The Cure for Everything

Wed, 11 January 2012 11:00:00 +0000

In The Cure for Everything! health-law expert Timothy Caulfield exposes the special interests that twist good science about health and fitness in order to sell us services and products that mostly don’t work.

The Beggar's Opera

Wed, 30 November 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The first volume in the atmospheric and suspenseful Inspector Ramirez series. In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. For Inspector Ricardo Ramirez, head of the Major Crimes Unit of the Cuban National Revolutionary Police, finding his prime suspect isn't a problem—Cuban law is, and also a dementia that makes him see the ghosts of victims of unsolved murders.

Coppermine

Wed, 02 November 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Part epic adventure, part romance and part true-crime thriller, Coppermine is a dramatic, compelling, character-driven story set in 1917 in the extremes of Canada's far north and the boom town of Edmonton.

This Will Be Difficult to Explain

Thurs, 29 September 2011 11:00:00 +0000

With this collection of wise, querying stories, Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud introduces us to an astonishing array of characters. Insightful and masterfully crafted, these stories bear the mark of one of Canada's most remarkable voices, and linger in the mind long after the final page has been turned.

After Tehran

Thurs, 15 September 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Marina Nemat's bestselling Prisoner of Tehran chronicled her arrest, torture, and two-year imprisonment in the notorious Evin prison as a teenager in 1980s revolutionary Iran. In her new book, Nemat provides a riveting account of her escape from Iran and her 1991 journey to Canada, via Hungary, with her husband and infant son.

Charles Dickens: A Life

Thurs, 25 August 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Claire Tomalin, author of Whitbread Book of the Year Samuel Pepys, paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. Charles Dickens: A Life is the examination of Dickens we deserve.

Bloodlines

Thurs, 25 August 2011 10:00:00 +0000

The first book in Richelle Mead's brand-new teen fiction series — set in the same world as Vampire Academy.

Fall of Giants

Thurs, 04 August 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Fall of Giants is Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families�American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh�as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

The Keeper of Lost Causes

Thurs, 04 August 2011 10:10:00 +0000

Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's premier crime writer. The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl MØrck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best.

Pyre of Queens trailer

Fri, 06 May 2011 10:00:00 +0000

After thirteen centuries, an ancient ritual casts long shadows, drawing the dead from their graves, as the past invades the present. Pyre of Queens is the first novel in an epic four part series. Available in Canada on May 24, 2011

Finding Myself in Fashion

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Penguin Canada talked to international fashion icon Jeanne Beker about life on and off the runway.

In her new memoir, Finding Myself in Fashion, Beker recalls some of the high and low points of the turbulent past decade. She traveled the world with FQ Magazine; witnessed epic events and conducted intimate interviews as a fashion reporter; launched her own clothes labels; wrote newspaper columns; and hosted or appeared on innumerable television shows. This is Jeanne's candid account of a life lived to the max.

Karma

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:05:00 +0000

An impossible first love, a girl caught between two worlds, and a country on the verge of chaos. Karma is a bold, epic love story set against an extraordinary backdrop and told in masterful strokes of verse. Author Cathy Ostlere shares her pick for her desert island book, and the inspiration behind her characters in this video interview.

Leslie Beck's Longevity Diet

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Celebrity nutritionist Leslie Beck unlocks the secrets to achieving good health and maintaining an active and energetic lifestyle in Leslie Beck's Longevity Diet. Complete with food plans, new recipes, tips, and strategies, Leslie Beck's Longevity Diet includes essential information to help slow aging and promote lifelong vitality.

Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:00:00 +0000

A TINY BIT MARVELLOUS by Dawn French is the story of a modern family all living in their own separate bubbles lurching towards meltdown. It is for anyone who has ever shared a home with that weird group of strangers we call relations.

Mo is about to hit the big 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite apparent: She doesn't understand either of her teenage kids, which as a child psychologist, is fairly embarrassing.

Dead or Alive

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:00:00 +0000

For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in ... dead or alive.

Keith Ross Leckie, Coppermine

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:10:00 +0000

Part epic adventure, part romance, and part true-crime thriller, Coppermine is a dramatic, compelling, character-driven story set in 1917 in the extremes of Canada's far north and the boom town of Edmonton.

The story begins when two missionaries disappear in the remote Arctic region known as the Coppermine. North West Mounted Police officer Jack Creed and Angituk, a young Copper Inuit interpreter, are sent on a year-long odyssey to investigate the fate of the lost priests.

Fatima Bhutto, Songs of Blood and Sword

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0000

In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father Murtaza was murdered, along with six of his associates. In December 2007, Benazir Bhutto, Fatima's aunt, and the woman she had publically accused of ordering her father's murder, was assassinated in Rawalpindi. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of the world's best known political dynasties.

Eoin Colfer, And Another Thing

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:15:00 +0000

And Another Thing, the 6th book in the Hitchhiker's trilogy, or rather 'double trilogy' as it has now become, is to be written by the brilliantly funny Eoin Colfer, international number-one bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Colfer is not unaccustomed to strange going-ons and far-fetched story-lines with his celebrated Artemis Fowl novels. Widow Jane Belson said of Eoin Colfer, 'I love his books and could not think of a better person to transport Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new.'

Joseph Boyden Speaks With Students

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Bestselling author and winner of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize Joseph Boyden in video-chat with students from Lumsden High School (Lumsden, Saskatchewan).

Richard Poplak, The Sheikh's Batmobile

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:45:00 +0000

What happens to our pop culture when it meets another culture head-on—especially one that according to some is completely at odds with our own?

In The Sheikh's Batmobile, pop-cultural commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual two-year odyssey. His mission is to see what becomes of his, and North America's, obsessions—pop songs and sitcoms, Hollywood movies and shoot-em-up video games, muscle cars and punk music—when they make their way into the Muslim world.

Michael Ignatieff, True Patriot Love

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:30:00 +0000

In his prize-winning memoir, The Russian Album, Michael Ignatieff chronicled the fortunes of his father’s family in Russia and in Canada. Now, in True Patriot Love, Ignatieff turns to his mother’s family, the Grants. Over three generations the Grants conducted a spirited public argument about what Canada was and should be. True Patriot Love is both a tribute to and a reckoning with that inheritance.

Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T S Spivet

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:40:25 +0000

When 12-year-old genius map-maker T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian, life as normal—if you consider mapping dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins. During his journey, T.S. discovers a secret family history in his luggage. And the farther he travels, the greater he understands home.

Kim Echlin, The Disappeared

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:30:03 +0000

This story of passionate love between a Canadian and her Cambodian lover evokes their tumultuous relationship in a world of colliding values. Set against the backdrop of horrific loss, these two self-exiled lovers struggle to recreate themselves in a world that rejects their hopes. Spare, unrelenting, and moving, The Disappeared is an unforgettable consideration of love, language, justice, and memory set against the backdrop of the killing fields of Pol Pot.

Hamish Hamilton Canada � A New Page In Canadian Publishing

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:20:03 +0000

Founded in 1931 by Jamie Hamilton as one of Britain’s most distinguished literary lists, Hamish Hamilton quickly became an integral part of Penguin and continues to provide a home for an exciting and eclectic group of authors, united by the distinctiveness and excellence of their writing. We’re delighted to be joining this tradition of literary merit with the launch of Hamish Hamilton Canada. The well-attended launch party was celebrated at Nyood restaurant in Toronto, ON. Making an appearance at the festivities were authors Colin McAdam, Reif Larsen, and Kim Echlin among others.

Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:10:03 +0000

First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago’s most notorious gang and captured the world’s attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and went on to witness—and participate in—events that have rarely been described in print.

Janice Y.K. Lee, The Piano Teacher

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:50:00 +0000

In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Will is sent to an internment camp, where he and other foreigners struggle daily for survival. Meanwhile, Trudy remains outside, forced to form dangerous alliances with the Japanese—in particular, the malevolent head of the gendarmerie, whose desperate attempts to locate a priceless collection of Chinese art lead to a chain of terrible betrayals.

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:40:00 +0000

A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman’s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.

Dracula The Un-Dead

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:30:03 +0000

Dracula: The Un-Dead is set twenty-five years after the close of Bram Stoker's classic tale. Dark forces are closing in on London. Quincey—son of Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray—and his companions, many of them original characters, must join together to do everything in their power to stop them.

The Enemy

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:20:03 +0000

When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician - every adult - fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry.

Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.

But can they make it there - alive? ...

Wake

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:10:03 +0000

Caitlin Decter is a typical teen—smart, pretty, and wired ... but she's also blind. She undergoes an experimental procedure to regain her sight and the results are unexpected. She "sees" but not just the way we do—for her the world wide web is a riot of colours and shapes, its own dimension. While exploring it, she finds an "other" lurking there—and it finds her, seeing what she's seeing and learning as she learns. But that's not where it ends ...

Half World

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Melanie Tamaki is an outsider.

Unpopular and impoverished, she is the only child of a loving but neglectful mother. She barely copes with surviving school and life. But everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a vile creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie embarks on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to save her mother. What she does not yet realize is that the state of the universe is at stake...

Scarpetta

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:40:00 +0000

Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward.