THE
HEARTBREAK GRAPE
Author: Marq de Villiers
ISBN: 1-55278-610-2
Price: $16.95
Non Fiction
Shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award and the James Beard Best Book on Wine and Spirits Award, The Heartbreak Grape is finally back in print, in a newly revised and updated edition.
Award-winning writer Marq de Villers’ search for the perfect Burgundian pinot noir is even more timely since the success of the movie Sideways.
De Villier’s quest for the elusive “Heartbreak Grape” begins with one sip of the superlative Calera Jensen ’87, and leads him through the intricacies of soil, weather, acids, esters and chemical conversions. He follows the fortunes and misfortunes of a small California winery determined to succeed where all but the French have failed – even if it means abandoning technology for tradition and planting daringly close to the San Andreas Fault.
Behind the scenes of one of the world’s most fascinating and romantic industries, Marq de Villiers celebrates the tenacity and invention of the individuals who devote their lives to the magnificent obsession of wine-making.
HELLO
LAZINESS
Author: Corinne Maier
ISBN: 0 75287 186 2
Price: $19.95
Fiction
The runaway international bestseller that calls for office workers to do less if they want to achieve more.
Office workers the world over are finally waking up to the reality that hard work, extra responsibility and overtime are for the foolhardy. The days of conscientious employee diligently working his way to the top of the ladder are long gone. In today's world, only the lazy succeed!
Corinne Maier's revolutionary book on getting away with doing as little as possible at work is setting the world ablaze. It has sold over 225,000 copies in its native France and was a No. 1 bestseller in Spain. Covering subjects ranging from getting promoted, to managing in meetings and dealing with colleagues, Hello Laziness is a witty antidote to the rash of American motivational books and will entertain and inform.
A HIDDEN LIFE
Author: Adele Geras
ISBN: 0752872583 / 0752872591
Price: $37.95 / $24.95
Fiction
When Louise Barrington's wealthy grandmother dies she leaves behind a large family network. But when the members gather to hear her last will and testament, shock ensues. Louise learns that she will receive only the copyright of her late grandfather's obscure novels. But it is these books that will eventually reveal an explosive family secret.
A
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES SINCE 1900
Author: Andrew Roberts
ISBN: 0-297-850768
Price: $45.00
Non Fiction
Prize-winning British historian tells the story of how English-speaking peoples shaped the twentieth century.
Winston Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples, in four volumes, ended in 1900. Andrew Roberts has been inspired by Churchill’s example to write the story of the twentieth century.
HOT
BLOOD
Author:
Steven Leather
ISBN: 978034092168
Price: $24.95
Fiction/Mystery
An extraordinary new contemporary thriller from action-adventure-bestseller Stephen Leather.
A SAS friend is kidnapped, and threatened with execution. The government refuses to negotiate. There is only one option. Dan “Spider’ Shepherd must put himself in the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world — Baghdad.
HOT
SPRINGS
Author:
Steve Zio
ISBN: 1-55278-564-5 / 978-1-55278-6260
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction
The world’s first i-novel
iNovel stands for "Interactive Novel" and Hot Springs integrates traditional fiction publishing with the dynamic platform of the Internet. It is a marriage between book and the internet that embraces the salient characteristics of each to create a whole new entity.
Although Hot Springs is foremost a traditional bound book, its companion website (www.hotspringsnovel.com) adds meaning, depth and color to the story, characters, and settings. This website is not just about reviews or interviews but is instead a place where readers can find new aspects of the story, locales, and characters – and even add some themselves. Where novels are black and white, the Hot Springs website is about music, color, sounds, sights, and contributions from the reading community.
Jason Chiron, six months away from his 30th birthday, had realized his career ambition and now he thoroughly regretted it. Fed up with his job as a web developer in the city and wondering about the role of spam, pop-ups and commitment in modern life, Jason chucks it all to return to Hot Springs Island and the hotel run by his toupeed, check-shirted, Shakespeare-quoting father and a cast of lovable but quirky islanders and Music Club members.
Assaulted by surprises and blasts from the past, Jason leaves on a search that takes him to Bath, England where he falls under the spell of Dianna the twin and the passionate and intellectual Maddie MacDonald - not to mention the enigmatic, charismatic publisher Seamus who helps Jason come up with The Next Big Thing and catapults him into circumstances unintended and unimagined.
As Jason embarks on an odyssey that takes him to hot springs in Canada, England, and even Japan, he finds himself in hot water both literal and figurative. This is a story about love, music, art, nature, loyalty, family, and the search for warmth and connection that dominates all of our lives.
Steve Zio was born in Montreal and has been educated in Quebec, Ontario, England, and the US. He's been a teacher, publisher, textbook author, freelance translator and writer (as well as a drugstore delivery boy, for 35 cents an hour). He's lived in Canada, England, the US, Japan, and Taiwan and hopes one day soon to live somewhere else. Writing, music, traveling and sailing are his passions. He currently resides in Sidney, BC with his wife, the talented Japanese painter, Kimiko. They have one son.
HOW
TO BECOME A MONSTER
Author: Jean Barbe
ISBN: 1-55278-579-3
Price: $24.95
Fiction
A prisoner, known as the Monster, refuses to speak and, behind prison bars, awaits his trial. A foreign lawyer, who came to assist him, seeks to uncover the reasons behind his mutism and the circumstances surrounding his crimes. What if there was nothing to understand? What if the madness of ordinary men had paved the way for the birth of the Monster? On the trail of his client, in a country just barely recovering from a fratricidal war, the lawyer is plunged against his will into the heart of a tragedy.
A tale of adventure, a love story, a philosophical quest, How to Become a Monster reads like a detective novel in which each person is both guilty and innocent. This vividly inspired and powerful work casts a lucid look at the human condition with its dark parts, but also its moments of redemption.
Jean Barbe was born in Montreal in 1962. He is the author of a first novel, Les soupers de fête (1991), a collection of articles, Chroniques de l’air du temps (1993) and a biographical essay, Autour de Dédé Fortin (2001). First and foremost a cultural journalist, he now devotes his time to writing.
HOW
TO BECOME AN ANGEL
Author: Jean Barbe
ISBN: 9781552786369
Price: $24.95
Fiction
Enigmatic in character, a guru despite himself, a man of absolute goodness, does Victor Lazarre possess supernatural powers or does he merely know how to listen to others to the extent that it changes the course of their life?
This question will haunt François for years.
A budding journalist, François lives with two young people, a strange girl named Provençal, and the unpredictable Fred. In the twenty years of friendship based on respect and independence, from the 1980s to today, these three friends will evolve, change, sever ties with the past, and sometimes suffer the consequences, while together perceiving the chaos of a world completely redesigned by eventful decades. Love, violence, shattered utopias, experiences and deviance, professional success and disappointment, all this baggage — mixed accomplishments and failures — that one day, François finds himself compelled to write a book about Victor Lazarre. Because this morning, before his astounded eyes, Victor flew away…
Jean Barbe was born in 1962 in Montréal. A longtime cultural journalist, today he is a publisher. He is the author of five books, three of which are novels. Jean Barbe won the Prix des Libraires du Québec in 2005 for his last novel, How to Become a Monster.
HOW
TO CHEAT A DRAGON'S CURSE
Author: Cressida Cowell
ISBN: 9780340902639
Price: $9.95
Children: 7-9 years
The fourth in the bestselling Hiccup series.
Fishlegs has been struck with deadly Vorpentitis. The only cure is rare and almost impossible to find … a potato.
But where on Berk will Hiccup find such a thing? He’ll have to dodge Sharkworms, battle Doomfangs and outwit crazy hooligans if he’s going to be a Hero … again.
How
Will I Know?
Author: Sheila O'Flanagan
ISBN: 0 7553 2780 2
Price: $24.95
Fiction
Description: Claire's love affair with her husband Bill began when they were just five years old. It was supposed to last for ever. But it ended in a moment when tragedy snatched Bill away. Three years later, the one thing that gets Claire up in the morning is her teenage daughter Georgia. And Georgia badly needs advice on dating — something Claire’s never had to do. Claire’s going to have to start. She's willing to try anything — and her safe world is about to change in the most unexpected ways.
