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SAD, MAD AND BAD: Women and the Mind Doctors From 1800
Author: Lisa Appignansi
ISBN: 9781552786765
Price: $34.95
Non Fiction

This is the story of madness, badness and sadness, the ways in which we have understood them over the last two hundred years and conceive of them now. It is also the story of the professions who grew up to provide a growing array of treatments and the women patients who sometimes benefitted from their care, at others did not, even when it was women, themselves, who provided the therapy.

Frenzies, possessions, manias, melancholy, nerves, delusions, aberrant acts, dramatic tics, passionate loves and hates, sex, visual and auditory hallucinations, fears, phobias, fantasies, disturbances of sleep, dissociations, communication with spirits and imaginary friends, addictions, self-harm, self-starvation, depression are all characters in the story this book tells. So too are the Latinate and Greek designations they took on as diagnoses – monomania, melancholia, hysteria, dementia praecox, schizophrenia, anorexia - and their often casual, but scientizing shorthand today, MPD, ADHD, OCD.

In this fascinating history, Lisa Appignanesi brings to life a series of extraordinary women and their mind doctors. On the way she unravels how symptoms and diagnoses in any given period have often played into each other; and more and more of our emotions and experience have become a matter for medics, therapists and drugs.

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
Author: Paul Torday
ISBN: 9780297851721
Price: $24.95
Fiction

This is the story of Dr. Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist — for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new toothbrush — who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen. A wickedly wonderful cast of characters includes a visionary sheikh, a weaselly spin doctor, Fred’s devilish wife and a few thousand transplanted salmon. It’s a novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy, dreams and deniability,and the transforming power of faith and love.

SECOND HONEYMOON
Author: Joanna Trollope
ISBN: 1-55278-572-6 / 978-1-55278-6277
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

Joanna Trollope has written eleven highly acclaimed contemporary novels including The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector’s Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People’s Children, Marrying the Mistress and Girl from the South. She lives in Gloucestershire.

An elderly priest brutally murdered; the body of a young man floating in the River Aude; a nervous woman sitting in a damask-draped room; a smiling man in the shadows. Four different people, scattered across France, scattered across the ages. The only link, the painted tarot cards they hold ...

SERENDIPITY ROAD
Author: Catherine Devrye
ISBN: 9781552786451
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Born in Canada and abandoned as a baby, Catherine Devrye was adopted by loving parents in Calgary. When she was 21 they died of cancer within a year of each other. An only child, Catherine packed her bags for Australia, arriving jobless and near penniless.

This led to a lifelong journey to find her place in the world. She waited tables, taught school, worked on a mine site and went on to become a public servant. She then joined IBM, who sent her on postings to Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York. Named Australian Executive Woman of the Year, Catherine found herself dining with princes, prime ministers and Olympic athletes. She also cycled over the Andes, dived with sharks and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

Yet, still something was missing. So, eventually Catherine decided to search for her biological parents. And that’s when her adventures really began ….

SHOCKWAVE
Author: Stephen Walker
ISBN: 0 7195 6625 8
Price: $39.95
Non Fiction

Stephen Walker's countdown to Hiroshima and its aftermath is a tense real-life narrative of events as they unfolded in the last terrible weeks of the war. Unprecedented interviews with American and Japanese witnesses interweave in a tapestry of voices. They include the co-pilot who writes a minute-by-minute diary on board the Enola Gay. The atomic scientist who arms the bomb in mid-air, equipped with a screwdriver and a spanner. The Japanese student desperately searching for his lover in the ruins of the city. The doctor forced to treat thousands of burnt bodies with only soy-bean oil and wet leaves.

Combining a rich array of sources with brilliant storytelling, Stephen Walker charts the defining event of the twentieth century on its sixtieth anniversary.

The author of the bestselling The Ship of Brides returns with her most stunning and emotionally fulfilling novel yet, set in an unconventional backwater seaside town in Australia.

When Mike Dormer heads out from London to a small seaside town in Australia, he expects just another multi-million pound hotel development. But the inhabitants of the eccentric ramshackle Silver Bay Hotel - the enigmatic skipper Liza McCullen, as well as the crews of the local whale-watching boats - swiftly begin to temper his own shark-like tendencies. He is forced to answer the question that haunts all whale-watchers: how close can you get, before you end up destroying what you love?

SIXTYFIVE ROSES
Author: Heather Summerhayes Cariou
ISBN: 1-55278-611-0
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

Heather Summerhayes was six when her four-year-old sister Pam was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis and given only months to live. “Sixtyfive Roses” was the way Pam pronounced the name of the disease that forever altered the lives of her siblings and parents, who in turn helped alter the community's response to the disease by founding the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. With the help of the Foundation, research and new treatments, the fight to save Pam’s life lasted for years, ending with her death at the age of twenty-six.

This beautifully written memoir offers a compassionate yet unflinching eyewitness account of the hope, pain, and courage of a family in crisis as it falls apart and puts itself together again and again, to emerge stronger and more loving. The heart of the story explores the relationship between the two sisters: one devastatingly ill, the other healthy but burdened with guilt as they journey through childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood.

Rich in detail, loving, funny and profoundly moving, Sixtyfive Roses is a story about fighting for your life and your dreams and never giving up. It's about loving fearlessly and the choices we make in the name of love. It’s about the kind of faith, fortitude, and forgiveness we tell ourselves we don’t possess, but which is present in all of us.

THE SLEEPING BUDDHA
Author: Hamida Ghafour
ISBN: 9781552786444
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction

An evocative family memoir and unique portrait of Afghanistan from a young, Afghan-born Canadian journalist

Hamida Ghafour's family fled the Soviet invasion in 1981 and settled in Canada where she grew up.

In 2003 she returned as a journalist for the Globe and Mail and the London Daily Telegraph to cover the post-Taliban era. She finds a place utterly changed from the world which her parents raised her to believe in. Changed, even, from the world of her grandmother, an early Afghan feminist.

All around her is the West's first post-9/11 experiment in building an Islamic democracy. But the people she meets reveal a different kind of nation building: her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, the beautician without borders who teaches women a new kind of independence; the archaeologist digging for his nation's lost civilization in the form of a giant, sleeping Buddha.

As she participates in her country's present, its elusive past and her family's own story come vividly together. But only when she is standing by her grandmother's grave — after a heavily escorted Chinook trip to the wildest corner of the land — does she start to find her own place in it all.

SNAPSHOTS FROM MY LIFE
Author: Helen Mirren
ISBN: 9780297851974
Price: $37.95
Biography

A beautifully written and illustrated book containing many private photographs. The daughter of Russian immigrants, Mirren has become a 'national institution' in Britain and a household name for her starring roles on TV (Prime Suspect, Elizabeth) in films, (O Lucky Man, Gosford Park, Calendar Girls, The Queen) and a host of famous stage roles.

SOUL EATER
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Book 3
Author: Michelle Paver
ISBN: 1-84255-172-8
Price: $18.95
Children: 9+

Wolf is snatched by the Soul Eaters and Torak hatches a perilous plan to save him. Face to face with the most feared and powerful mages alive, Torak confronts their treachery and subterfuge, encounters vengeful ice bears and battles in the frozen wilderness. He takes another step on his quest to destroy the Soul Eaters, but with it comes the burden of an utterly chilling secret of his own.

STILL LIFE
Author: Louise Penny
ISBN: 0 7553 2889 2 / 0 7553 28906
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines — a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets ...

Still Life introduces the wonderful Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec who, with his neatly trimmed moustache, Burberry coat and tweed cap, looks more like a country squire than a highly respected detective but whose kindly demeanor hides a sharp eye and a brilliant mind.

STONEHEART
Author: Charlie Fletcher
ISBN: 9780340911624
Price: $21.95
Children: 9+ years

Deep in the City, something had been woken, something so old that people had been walking past it for centuries without giving it a second look …'

When George breaks a small dragon carving the results are instant and terrifying: a stone pterodactyl launches from the side of a museum and hunts him through the streets with an unstoppable hatred.

What's even more frightening is that no one else can see what's happening to him except his new companion, Edie, unwittingly trapped in this world of danger by wild powers of her own.

George has disturbed things between the Spits and Taints — the warring statues of London. He's plunged into a race for survival in a city peopled by sculptures and stone carving that move and fight, where it's never clear who to trust or fear. Even the Gunner who steps off his war memorial to help George has his own reasons to mistrust Edie. Nothing is what it seems.
This epic adventures throws us into the many layers and pasts that exist beneath the surface of everyday London. Enter its original and breathtaking world!

STRATTON'S WAR
Author: Laura WilsonBrian Freeman
ISBN:9780752876238 / 9780752876245
Price: $37.95 / $24.95
Fiction / Mystery

An exciting new series of crime novels set in central London during WWII from a CWA Dagger award winner
When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a fence in Fitzrovia, the coroner rules her death a suicide. But Detective Inspector Ted Stratton, CID, is not convinced.

Two murders have shocked the city of Las Vegas – a celebrity assassinated during a fling with a prostitute, and a schoolboy killed in a brutal hit-and run. Two victims with nothing in common, two deaths without a motive. Detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are under pressure to get these crimes out of the headlines. But exposing the truth might just get them killed. Because there are only two ways to go in Vegas. You can hit the jackpot. Or you can get stripped …

“I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life. I am cursed by folk as an optimist and a dreamer, which is a dangerous combination . . . "
Sylvia is a story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212. It is perhaps the strangest true event to have taken place in European history. I enjoyed the digging that uncovered it - buried in a dark corner of times long out of mind. It is also a story of how, throughout some of the darkest medieval times, the redeeming power and strength of a young woman's love and intelligence prevail over poverty, brutality and bigotry. I trust you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed taking the few scattered bones of medieval Latin and Arabic texts and recreating from them this story of Sylvia: a remarkable, talented and eccentric young woman.

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