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The Pioneer: Book Three of the Alford Saga
Paul Almond

Enthralling and adventurous, the Alford Saga is a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of a settler’s family.

The riveting Alford Saga continues with James Alford, the Deserter, battling old age and ferocious winters, but even more crippling, the departure of his son and only heir, Young Jim, who sets out on snowshoes for Montreal, seven hundred miles away. Arriving at last in Montreal, Jim is driven by starvation into a back-breaking job constructing the Victoria Bridge. Jim finds lodgings with an Irish widow in Griffintown, and falls in love. After being deceived in this romance, he rejects the bitter realities of urban life and returns to the Old Homestead and its community of pioneers. His ageing father recruits him to rally recalcitrant neighbours to found a school for their children and a church for their worship in Shigawake.

A Curious Dream
Kate Pullinger

Collected works, including new fiction and memoir, from the Governor General's Award winning author Kate Pullinger

Both startling and funny, Kate Pullinger creates stories that probe our relationships, with our friends, with our lovers, and with our family. Richard, who finds being middle-aged isn’t all it’s made out to be, cannot bring himself to phone his father. Squatters in London’s abandoned Vauxhall Palace form an ersatz family soon faced with strains of close living. A flatsitter is overwhelmed by the uncomfortable familiarity brought on by living her friends’ space. A birthday video sent to a co-worker spirals into an overnight Internet phenomenon.

Infrared
Nancy Huston

**A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book for 2011**

With exceptional flair and talent, Nancy Huston explores the links between family intimacies and our collective lives, between destruction and creation.

In the spirit of her bestselling novel Fault Lines, Infrared is a story about how childhood, family, and our culture all have a direct impact on our lives. After a childhood marked by pain, Rena Greenblatt has found the strength to build a successful career as a photographer. Like the ultrasensitive infrared film she uses, Rena sees what others don’t see, and finds a form of love.

Flying With Amelia
Anne DeGrace

From the bestselling author of Wind Tails and Sounding Line

In 1847 a famine ship arrives in Canada from Ireland, and here, the tale begins, weaving through generations and time. A St. John’s boy learns the finer points of communication while his employer receives the first transatlantic wireless signal. In the Maritimes, a young woman answers a personal ad written by a Saskatchewan schoolteacher, resulting in recipes and romance set against a backdrop of unrest during the Great Depression—while the world looks to the skies for hope, inspiration, and a glimpse of a bright wingtip caught in the sun.  Watch >>> Book Trailer

The Sky's Dark Labyrinth
Stuart Clark

The Sky's Dark Labyrinth is the first of a trilogy of novels inspired by the dramatic struggles, personal and professional, and key historical events in man’s quest to understand the Universe.

At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe convulsed in conflict between Catholic and Protestant, these men prepared to die for that truth. This is the story of Kepler and Galileo, two men whose struggle with themselves, with the evidence and with the forces of reaction changed not simply themselves but our world.        Watch >>> Meet Stuart Clark

The Hanging Shed
Gordon Ferris

Glasgow, 1946. The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over but victory’s wine has soured and Brodie’s back in Scotland to try and save childhood friend Hugh Donovan from the gallows. Working with advocate Samantha Campbell, Brodie trawls the mean streets of the Gorbals and the green hills of western Scotland in their search for the truth. What they find is an unholy alliance of troublesome priests, corrupt coppers and Glasgow’s deadliest razor gang, happy to slaughter to protect their dark and dirty secrets.

The Christmas Angel
Marcia Willett

‘We’re all pilgrims,’ he said thoughtfully. ‘One way or another, aren’t we? Always searching for something.’

As Christmas approaches, everything seems to be falling into place for Dossie. Her son Clem and his adorable five-year-old son Jakey have moved to Cornwall to be closer to her. She runs her own successful catering business. All she needs now is for the run of bad luck in her romantic life to end. Forming a slightly unconventional family setup with Dossie are the jovial nuns of the local convent and the wonderfully eccentric Janna – a warm-hearted, generous woman who looks after little Jakey when she’s not helping at the nunnery. With humour, kindness and a deep need of somewhere to belong, they form a tight bond. But the sisters’ life as they know it is at risk when an avaricious property developer starts prowling around their Grade I listed building. Will this close-knit unit who so depend on each other still be together next Christmas? And what will they have learnt about the true meaning of family?

NEW NON-FICTION RELEASES

Billy's Best Bottles: Wines for 2012
Billy Munnelly

Canada's best selling wine book! Most under $20, many under $12

The 22nd edition of Billy Munnelly’s annual wine handbook is an accessible and friendly guide that makes buying wine as easy as going grocery shopping. Munnelly gives advice on purchasing wine by the mood, pairs the wine with food and has written an extensive section of wine tours in Ontario. The beautiful full-colour pocketguide includes pictures of every bottles of wine recommended (and tasted!) by Billy Munnelly. Have fun with wine without getting too serious or snobby! Follow Billy and find out more about events in your area at www.billysbestbottles.com

My Toronto
Dusan Petricic; introduction by Rick Salutin

Clever, thought-provoking cartoons of Toronto from one of Canada's most acclaimed illustrators and editorial cartoonists

A collection of cartoons and drawings by Dusan Petricic looking at Toronto with both the eye of a native Torontonian and the eye of an immigrant. These two distinct perspectives of Toronto look at the many dimensions of Toronto's architecture, history, environment, art and culture.

1000 Years of Annoying the French
Stephen Clarke

A new and hilarious take on history by the bestselling author of A Year in the Merde

The English Channel may be only twenty miles wide, but it’s a thousand years deep. Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war - or at least glowering at each other across what the Brits provocatively call the English Channel. Along the way he explodes a few myths that French historians have been trying to pass off as ‘la vérité’, as he proves that the French did not invent the baguette, or the croissant, or even the guillotine, and would have taken the bubbles out of bubbly if the Brits hadn’t created a fashion for fizzy champagne.

Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City
Stephen Clarke

Where to see fantastic art away from all the crowds? Why Parisian men feel compelled to pee in the street? How to choose a hotel room where you might actually get a good night’s sleep? Which is the most romantic spot to say “je t’aime”? And the sexiest? What scares Parisians most about their own city?  In this witty and authoritative book, Stephen Clarke goes behind the scenes to reveal everything Parisians know about their city -- but don’t want to tell you. Structured by theme, including chapters on architecture, history, romance, food, art and a map of “don’t miss” locations, this is essential reading for anyone who wants the inside scoop on the City of Light. Don’t visit Paris without reading this book!

Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery
Margaret Atwood; illus. Dusan Petricic

In Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery, best-selling author Margaret Atwood offers a wonderfully whimsical tale about a girl in search of her missing parents. With Atwood’s delightful text accompanied by Dusan Petricic’s engaging and insightful illustrations, Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery is a worthy treat for readers of all ages.

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.