LABYRINTH
Author: Kate Mosse
ISBN: 0 75286 053 4 / 0 75286 554 4
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

A Globe and Mail Bestseller. A stunning novel of courage, destiny and betrayal.

Effortlessly weaving together the past and the present, Kate Mosse's novel combines brilliant storytelling, strong characters and a spellbinding plot — the perfect 'big summer read.'

When Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons during an archaeological dig in the Pyrenees she sets in motion a chain of events that will place her life in danger. This thrilling story of courage, intrigue, sex and betrayal is steeped in the atmosphere of medieval and contemporary Carcassonne.

LAST OIL SHOCK:
A Survival Guide to the Ultimate Extinction of Petroleum Man
Author: David Strahan
ISBN: 9780719564239
$24.95
Non Fiction

The story of a threat even more serious than global terrorism and even more urgent than global warming: the world is running out of oil.

• For every barrel of oil we discover, we now consume three

• Oil production is already falling in 33 of the 48 biggest oil-producing countries

• At some point, probably in the next decade, global oil production will start to fall — for ever

This may be the most important book you will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international terrorism and just as urgent as climate change. World leaders know it, so why aren’t they telling?

The Last Oil Shock is the secret behind the crises in Iraq and Iran, the reason your gas bill is going through the roof, the basis of a secret deal cooked up in Texas between George Bush and Tony Blair, the cause of an imminent and unprecedented economic collapse, and the reason you may soon be kissing your car keys and boarding pass goodbye. David Strahan explains how we reached this critical state, how the silence of governments, oil companies and environmentalists conspire to keep the public in the dark, what it means for energy policy, and what you can do to protect yourself and your family from the ravages of the last oil shock.

LIFE, INTERRUPTED
Author: James McConnelI
ISBN: 0-7553-15030
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

From a childhood overshadowed by the tragic death of his sister, James McConnel found some solace in his talent for piano playing. But his uncontrollable sniffs, coughs and twitches brought him bullying and a sense of being a 'nearly' person.

It was not until he was 32, when he was finally diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, that he was at last able to feel comfortable in his own skin. Life, Interrupted is an intimate and humorous story about an endearing, charming and larger-than-life boy.

LIGHT
Author: Margaret Elphinstone
ISBN: 1-55278-603-X
$24.95
Fiction

"A wonderfully old-fashioned novel." - Owen Sound Sun Times

Light is set in the early 1830's on a small island off the Isle of Man. Two surveyors arrive to start working on a modern lighthouse to replace the ancient light which, for generations, has been tended by the only family on the island. The surveyors, who work for Robert Stevenson, the famous Scottish lighthouse engineer, are billeted with the family. Inevitably, misunderstandings and tensions arise. The women who keep the light see this new intrusion as a threat to their way of life. For their children it is both an adventure and yet another inscrutable display of adult behaviour. And for the surveyors it is simply another job, which suddenly becomes unexpectedly complicated.

When the weather changes and the surveyors are stormbound, relations on the island reflect the growing storm offshore. This novel features life on the edge, physically and culturally, as the traditional rhythms and values of a remote island society encounter the self-confident forces of the Edinburgh Enlightenment and advancing technology.

LONGINGS AND BELONGINGS
Author: Nancy Huston
ISBN: 1-555278-547-5
Price: $19.9
Non Fiction

Longings and Belongings is a collection of twenty-four essays published by Nancy Huston, in English or French or both, over the past two decades (1981-2002). They can be seen as milestones on her path as novelist and expatriate, mother and intellectual, dreamer and realist, body and soul. In these non-fiction pieces, Huston discusses a number of authors who have inspired or infuriated her over the years : Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Milan Kundera, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, and especially Romain Gary. Though the essays cover a wide-ranging number of topics — motherhood, eroticism, war, madness, exile, the search for identity, the transgression of taboo, the moral implications of creation — they all revolve in one way or another around a single theme : the mind-body problem.

THE LORD'S DAY
Author: Michael Dobbs
ISBN: 9780755326860 / 9780755326877
Price: $37.95 / $24.95
Fiction

Once a year, the most powerful people in the land gather together in one room. The Queen, the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the judges, the bishops, leaders spiritual and temporal, assemble in the House of Lords for the State Opening of Parliament. On this day, the Lords' Day, the gathering is still more impressive, for sitting beside his mother is the heir to the throne and up in the galleries are the sons of both the US President and the British Prime Minister. But they are all about to be taken hostage. It is the greatest siege of all time. It will lead some to selfless sacrifice, others to lose the respect of those they love most dearly.

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