CADDY EVER AFTER
Author: Hilary McKay
ISBN: 0-340-903147
Price: $19.95
Children: 9+

Love is in the air for the Casson family! Four hilarious, endearing tales unfold as Rose, Indigo, Saffy, and Caddy each tell their intertwining stories. Rose begins by showing what she does special with her Valentine’s card for Tom in New York. Not to be outdone, Indigo has his own surprise in store for the Valentine’s Day disco at school For her part, Saffy has an unusual date in a very, very, dark graveyard, and is haunted by a balloon that almost costs her her best friend.

But is is Caddy who dares everything – as she tells all about love at first sight when you have found the Real Thing. Unfortunately the Real Thing is not darling Michael. What is Rose doing to do?

CANADIAN SCREEN LEGENDS
Author: Bruce Yaccato
ISBN: 1-55278-615-3
Price: $29.95
NonFiction

Screen Legends chronicles the astonishing achievements of Canadians in film and television. Both before and behind the camera, since the moving image first appeared over a century ago. Canadians have been pivotal players.

CANADIAN WORDS AND SAYINGS
Author: Bill Casselman
ISBN: 1-55278-569-6
Price: $10.99
NonFiction

Here are 500 Canadian sayings just to laugh at, and Canuck words that Canadians of any age will find fascinating. These words and sayings are perfect for the whole family and approved for classroom use. In this volume,. Casselman has kept in the witty and funny sayings and cut out the expressions that are too racy for the family dinner table.

In this new anthology, Casselman delights and startles with word stories from every province and territory of Canada. Did you know that Scarborough means "Harelips’ Fort"? To deke out is a Canadian verb that began as hockey slang, short for "to decoy an opponent."

This is the book on Canada's words and sayings that should be in every house in the country where people are proud to say: "That’s Canadian, eh."

CAPTAIN STARLIGHT'S APPRENTICE
Author: Kathryn Heyman
ISBN: 9780755302185
Price: $16.95
Fiction

The story of two women living very different, heroic lives in two very different Australias. Jess is a stunt rider who can outride any man. In the early days of film she finds her calling, playing wild outlaw women who answer to no one. But when her circus-owner husband disappears she is left pregnant and vulnerable and after enormous betrayal, find herself closer to the outlaw's life than she had ever imagined.

Rose goes to Australia in the 1950s in search of a new life. But neither the new country nor motherhood are what she had hoped and she soon finds herself estranged from those she loves, incarcerated and terrified. As Rose's world unravels, it is clear that neither woman's story will be finished until they find a way of helping each other recover their loss, and to discover hope in the midst of their disrupted lives.

CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD
Author: James Kynge
ISBN: 0-297-852450
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

Winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Book of the Year 2006.

Compelling, in-depth and authoritative account of how China’s economic rise will affect the world.

James Kynge, for eight years China Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, details not only the extraordinary rise of the Chinese economy, but what the future holds as China begins to influence the world.

Kynge shows the successes – the outflow of Chinese manufactured products, tourists, students, corporate and personal investments, as well as China’s weaknesses – its environmental pollution, crisis in social trust, weak financial system and the faltering institutions of its governments – which are poised to have disruptive effects on the world.

CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON
Author: David Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig
ISBN: 1-55278-538-6 / 1-55278-614-5
Price: $34.95 / $18.95
Non Fiction

How in three weeks, over Christmas 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt planned the Grand Alliance that won the Second World War.

By Christmas Eve 1941, the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States, and so Churchill braves the North Atlantic in HMS Duke of York for meetings with President Roosevelt. These took place over Christmas and the New Year and because, neither the new British Chief of Staff, Alanbrooke, nor Churchill's private secretary, John Colville, accompanied their boss, their otherwise complete and revealing diaries for once say little or nothing about what happened.

In what will prove an enthralling microcosm of WWII Bercuson and Herwig have pieced together the hitherto untold story of how two very different nations began to work together, and how Churchill and Roosevelt, two super-egos, were joined by a common purpose.

CIVIL BLOOD
Author: Meredith Stephure
ISBN: 9781552786703
Price: $24.95 tbp
Fiction

Reminiscent of the narrative non-fiction of Antonia Fraser, this epic historical novel tells the vivid and powerful story of a nation torn by civil war, and of an honourable man facing the consequences of his loyalty. The nation is Britain. The year is: 1688.

On November 5th, 1688, Protestant Prince William of Orange answered the call of nobles and churchmen to come and ‘rescue the nation’ from the Catholicism of King Richard II. Despite misgivings about King James, Thomas de Chastelain stays true to his oath of loyalty to the monarchy, thereby imperilling himself and his family. Defeathed in battle, the temptation to compromise is great as thomas’ father-in-law, lord Pelham, who has effortlessly switched sides, never ceases to remind him. But Thomas is made of sterner stuff and his fateful decision triggers a series of dramatic events.

CLOSE
Author: Martina Cole
ISBN: 0-7553-28604
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Martina Cole is acclaimed for her hard-hitting, uncompromising and haunting writing, as well as her extraordinary success. In Close, she reveals the unseen side of the criminal fraternity – the story of the women left behind as they try to keep their families together while their men are in prison. With the compelling and ruthlessly honest style that makes her unique, Close is a stunning novel.

THE CLOUDSPOTTER'S GUIDE
Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
ISBN: 0-340-921838 / 978-0-340-895900
Price: $24.95 / $16.95
Non Fiction

A wonderfully eccentric journey through our cloudscape.

The author is a self-confessed cloud nerd. His quirky book is both a paean to clouds and a practical guide to spotting and identifying them. It tells how Hindus believed the cumulus clouds were the spiritual cousins of elephants, how thermal air currents act on cumuli, and how to save a fortune in psychiatric bills by using the clouds as Roschach images.

Looking up will never be the same again.

COLOUR OF BLOOD, THE
Author: Declan Hughes
ISBN: 9781719568411
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Ed Loy finds himself working on what looks like an open and shut case: the disappearance of his client Shane Howard's daughter, Emily. Little does Loy realize that this seemingly simple case will force him to delve into the world of blackmail, organized crime and the very murky secrets of the Howard family. He may have located Emily within twenty-four hours, but by then two murders have been committed. Now Loy finds himself in a race against time to catch the killer.

The Ed Loy series will be loved by fans of Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson and Dennis Lehane.

COME AWAY
Author: Anne Hines
ISBN: 9781552786352
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Nestled between two of the most formidable voices of the Old Testament Bible, Ecclesiastes, which does not love women and Isaiah, which loves them less, is one short book which has disturbed clergy and baffled religious scholars for over two thousand years. The Song of Solomon, also called The Song of Songs is an erotic love poem. Probably written by a woman. Not containing any mention of God.

So, what is it doing there?

University of Toronto professor, Reggie Nefeild, has devoted his life to
unraveling the mystery of this gem of sensuous poetry, only to suddenly discover that the answer is not at all what he expected. And, amid the glittering towers of ancient Babylon, a young Jewish woman, priestess of the goddess Asherah, is confronted with a return to Jerusalem and to a strange solitary god named Yahweh.

Painstakingly researched and with the classic humour of Anne Hines, the two story lines call out to each other like the lovers in The Song of Songs,
suggesting startling truths about the genesis of the Bible, our concept of God and of love itself.

COMMAND
Author: Julian Stockwin
ISBN: 0-340-898569
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness. But his jubilation does not last long - peace is suddenly declared and Kydd is left ashore on half pay.

A rare chance gives him the opportunity to once again go to sea. He sets sail as captain of a convict transport for the penal colony in New South Wales - and challenges that will test both his seamanship and humanity to the limit.

Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness. But his jubilation does not last long - peace is suddenly declared and Kydd is left ashore on half pay.

A rare chance gives him the opportunity to once again go to sea. He sets sail as captain of a convict transport for the penal colony in New South Wales - and challenges that will test both his seamanship and humanity to the limit.

Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness. But his jubilation does not last long - peace is suddenly declared and Kydd is left ashore on half pay.

A rare chance gives him the opportunity to once again go to sea. He sets sail as captain of a convict transport for the penal colony in New South Wales - and challenges that will test both his seamanship and humanity to the limit.

CONSTANCE
Author: Rosie Thomas
ISBN: 9781552786659
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Constance has made a new life for herself in a foreign land.  She is a musician, a composer, a highly paid arranger of other people's music, living in a lively expatriate community in Bali.  There the world is idyllic – beautiful beaches framed with lush, green trees, charming small houses and a relaxed, convivial lifestyle.  So when the news comes of her sister's serious illness the last thing she wants to do is return to London.

For her sister is much older than Constance – and not a real relative.  Constance was adopted.  While she never felt completely at home with her 'family' nor did she ever want to find her birth mother.  Bu none of these are the real reason she is so reluctant to go home.  It is far more complicated than that:  before leaving London, she fell in love with her sister’s husband. 

But when Constance does go back to London, she discovers a great deal more abut her sister and family  She gets to know her 18-year-old nephew and his Lithuanian girlfriend, learns about her family history and the hidden connections with her past.  Most important of all, she must face the d dilemma of her forbidden love; and in doing so, discovers a new identity for herself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers If My Father Loved Me, Sun at Midnight and Iris and Ruby.  She is also an experienced traveler, having climbed the Alps and Himalayas, lived on a tiny research station in Antarctica for research, and traveled up Pakistan's Karakoram Highway then along the Silk Route to the ancient trading cities of Samarkand and Obkhara.  She lives in London.

COULD IT BE FOREVER
Author: David Cassidy
ISBN: 9780755316755
Price: $24.95
Non Fiction

In the early seventies, when he was just twenty years old, David Cassidy achieved the sort of fame that is rarely seen.

A teen idol, he was mobbed everywhere he went. His clothes were regularly ripped off by adoring fans. He sold millions of records the world over. He was bigger than Elvis. Including stories of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll that explode the myth of Cassidy as squeaky clean, this is a brutally frank account of those mindblowing days of stardom. It’s also the story of how to keep on living life and loving yourself when the fickle fans fall away.

CRUELLEST MONTH
Author: Louise Penny
ISBN: 9780755328949 / 9780755328956
Price: $34.95 / $24.95
Fiction / Mystery

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Suete du Quebecis called to the peaceful village of Three Pines. A séance held on Easter Sunday has gone tragically wrong and someone has been literally scared to death. As Gamache starts to unearth the secrtes of those close to the deceased, he faces his own demons. A powerful enemy within the Surete has planted a traitor in his tem. But who? And how far will they go to ensure Gamache’s downfall?

CRUSADER GOLD
Author: David Gibbins
ISBN: 0-7553-29279
Price: $24.95
Fiction

The greatest lost treasure in history is the Jewish menorah, the huge golden candlestick looted by the Romans from Jerusalem in AD 70 and carried through Rome in triumph. It vanished during the Crusades and today. Nobody knows where it is.

Jack Howard is the only man who can find out. But the clock is ticking. The search takes him from the fall of Rome to the last days of Nazi power, uncovering a trail more thrilling than anyone could imagine.

CUTTING CONFIDENTIAL
Author: Anon
ISBN: 9780752875361
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

In this exposé of the celebrity hairdressing industry we accompany the famous 'Mane Man' on his travels around London. Dashing between Buck House, an early morning Breakfast TV makeover spot and a fashion shoot with an A-List celeb (who needs more than just her hair washing, the reader is given an insight into the world of the rich, the famous and the downright outrageous. There are drugs, there are egos and there are flirtations. But more than anything there's lot of celeb gossip, razor-sharp wit and more trade secrets than you can shake a hair weave at.