THE TAKE
Author: Martina Cole
ISBN: 0 7472 6972 6
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Martina Cole's utterly compelling novels head straight to No. 1 on the Sunday Times bestsellers lists. Her most recent The Graft, topped the hardback charts for a record-breaking ten weeks.

Martina tells it like it really is, and her unique, honest and compassionate style shines through in her latest novel. Jackie Jackson is preparing a party to welcome home her husband Freddie. Everyone is gathered at the party, including her sister Maggie. But after six years in prison, Freddie thinks he is the Essex equivalent to the Godfather. And he’s going to make sure everyone knows it.

THE TEMPLAR
Author: Paul Doherty
ISBN: 9780755338481 / 9780755338498
Price: $37.95 / $24.95
Fiction / Mystery

1095 and crusading fervour has swept Europe. Christ’s fief of Jerusalem has been seized by the Infidels. The Frankish Knights of the West are to march east to liberate the Holy City. Hugh de Payens and Geoffrey de St Omer, the soon-to-be founders of the Templar Order, and Hugh’s younger sister, Eleanor, leave the security of their homes in Burgundy, France, with a plan to join one of the great Lords, Godfrey de Bouillon, and march across the known world to Jerusalem.

THESE FOUR WALLS
Author: Susan Cameron
ISBN: 9781552786666
Price: $29.95
Fiction

Rose Morash is a woman who guards her privacy and her secrets. From an early age to old age, keeping certain things hidden was essential to her survival. It is only after Rose's death that her daughter Barbara uncovers some startling truths—truths that re-write the past and transform her own future.

In Depression-era Halifax, 11-year-old Rose Morash and her two sisters are orphaned when tuberculosis claims both parents. With no one to turn to, Rose and Lily are packed off to the Protestant orphanage. The Home is full of strict rules, tedium, emotional neglect—and strangers.  Only Ora proves worthy of her friendship. "We'll look out for each other, Rose. Promise."    

At eighteen, Rose, now a determined, focused young woman, quickly rids herself of the maid's apron and the sweatshop seamstress job, and moves up in the hierarchy of an elegant downtown department store.  Amidst the chaos of WWII come new relationships and new losses.  "People aren't forever," Rose concludes as the war rages on. "Don’t count on them." These words, this motto, shape the choices she makes and the course her life takes.

Years later, daughter Barbara tries to find renewed connection with her remote and bitter mother. Her efforts are in vain. It is only in the sorting of belongings, the packing of boxes, that Barbara finds the long-hidden truths of the woman whom she never fully knew.

"A reminder of the force, both limited and lasting, of each individual life." – Vancouver Sun on Treading Water

THIS FOOD THAT WINE
Author: Chris Knight
ISBN: 9781552786840
Price: $29.95
Fiction

Fast on the heels of the hit TV series “This Food That Wine” comes the companion cookbook and wine pairing guide. Written by co-hosts Chef Angie MacRae and Sommelier Stacey Metulynsky with TV Producer Chris Knight, the book features some 150 recipes with an emphasis on fresh ingredients, simple preparation and big flavours. Each recipe is accompanied by wine pairing suggestions and explanations. The book also features easy to understand explanations of all things vino including how to pour, how to store, why wine “turns”, wine glass 101, how wine is made, who put the bubbles in bubbly and most importantly, why some wines work with some foods and others don’t. The emphasis here is on debunking and demystifying the intimidating world of fermented grape juice. This is a must have cookbook for anyone who loves good food and wants to know more about wine.

THIS THING OF DARKNESS
Author: Harry Thompson
ISBN: 0 7553 2714 4
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Captain Robert FitzRoy is a believer — that God created men equal, and that the Bible presents history as truth. But as they explore the coast of South America on board HMS Beagle, his friend Charles Darwin begins to think differently.

This is the story of a remarkable friendship and the obsessions that tore it apart — a tale of adventure, science and colonialism that sheds light on our beliefs today, yet also one of history's great untold stories, of men who risked their lives for truth.

TOXIC CHILDHOOD
Author: Sue Palmer
ISBN: 0-75287-359-8 / 978-0-75288-091-4
Price: $27.95 / $16.95
Non Fiction

What are the causes of the rising tide of troubled children, and what can be done to stop it?

One in six children in the developing world is now diagnosed as having 'development or behavioural problems' – and the number is rising by 25 % every year. In this timely but alarming book, Sue Palmer looks at the problems facing children today, from poor diet, bullying and a lack of exercise to increasing levels of ADD and dyslexia, and shows what we can do to help ensure we are not raising a generation of toxic children.

TRAFALGAR
Author: Nicholas Best
ISBN: 0 297 84622 1
Price: $40.00
Non Fiction

Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Nelson's last and greatest victory, Trafalgar is a vivid recreation of the whole campaign from autumn 1804 to 21 October 1805. Nicholas Best follows events through the accounts of eyewitnesses on the gundecks as well as the admiral's cabins. He recaptures the fears and anxieties of both sides in a fast-paced and gripping narrative that culminates in a thrilling minute-by-minute description of the battle. 

TREADING WATER
Author: Anne DeGrace
ISBN: 1-55278-526-2
Price: $24.95 (B Format Paperback released Fall 2007)
ISBN: 1-55278-598-X
Price: $14.95
Fiction

"Heather's Pick at Chapters/Indigo"

Description: In the novel Treading Water, the voices of the residents of Bear Creek surface. Gus Sanders, a young trapper, arrives to seek his fortune in 1904 but loses his heart, and then his life; Jack Schroeder must choose between his desire to join up and his Mennonite pacifist roots; Isobel Grey, suffragette, leaves the movement in Winnipeg and brings her politics with her; Dutch war bride Aliesje Miler, six months pregnant, waits at the train station for a husband whose face she can no longer remember; and young Paul Doyle's summer job demolishing houses to make way for the new hydroelectric dam teaches him more than he bargained for. The indomitable personality of Ursula Hartmann, first child born in Bear Creek and among the last to leave, threads through the novel as they trace a community from its innocent beginnings until the day the waters rise.

Anne DeGrace is a librarian, journalist, writer, illustrator, volunteer, mother, and multi-tasker. Treading Water, inspired by the tiny community of Renata that once flourished on Lower Arrow Lake, is her first novel. She lives in Nelson, British Columbia.

"DeGrace's characters are compelling." - Quill and Quire

" The writing is clear as a bell, the language crisp and clean, the stories very moving." - Books in Canada

"A simple story, told with grace and care." - Owen Sound Sun TImes

"A reminder of the force, both limited and lasting, of each individual life." - Vancouver Sun

THE TRINNY & SUSANNAH SURVIVAL GUIDE
ISBN: 1-84188 267 4
Price: $45.00
Non Fiction

Trinny and Susannah show you how to get on top of your life and be at your best every day in this beautifully packaged lifestyle guide.

The girls’ secret weapon is being organized and this book contains all the personal and style information you need throughout the year. It’s packed with time-saving ideas, dress and beauty notes, recommended products, DIY beauty and pampering treatments, and useful girlie information. There’s room for reminders – holidays, birthdays, show sizes, car details – and an extensive list of useful websites on every subject.

THE TRUDEAU VECTOR
Author: Juris Jurjevics
ISBN: 1-55278-524-4 / 1-55278-586-6
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction

Geopolitics, environmental disaster, and bioterrorism collide in this timely political thriller set in the bleak Arctic winter.

As the international team of scientists at the spectacular Trudeau Research Center prepares for six months of unrelenting Arctic winter, three of their colleagues are found dead, their pupils missing and their bodies contorted in ghastly, unnatural positions. An American epidemiologist, the talented and unconventional Dr. Jessica Hanley, is summoned to investigate the medical riddle posed by these grisly deaths, and to find the unknown biological agent that caused them before hundreds more succumb. At the same time, a decorated Russian admiral in Moscow is assigned a top-secret mission to locate and retrieve a Russian submarine that has suddenly and inexplicably vanished from central command's radar. The die is cast. Their lives will cross in Jurjevics' engrossing debut thriller, brilliant and terrifying in its medical and historical accuracy. Hanley's inquiry and Admiral Rudenko's quest bring them up against hazards much bigger than microbes — scientific megalomania, lingering cold war tensions, world-threatening environmental toxins, all unfolding in the unforgiving extremes of the Arctic.

A thriller that superbly depicts the precarious, volatile area where science and global politics can clash with disastrous results, The Trudeau Vector is reminiscent of such classic suspense novels as Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal and Robert Wilson's A Small Death in Lisbon with the terrifying realism of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, and yet Jurjevics' novel rivals them all in its details and scope. With its disquieting and revelatory authenticity, readers cannot help but fall under its spell, and ask themselves: "Could this really happen?"

TWELVE BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Author: Melvyn Bragg
ISBN: 0-340-398813 / 978-0-340-839829
Price: $24.95 / $18.95
Non Fiction

When we think of great events in history, we tend to think of war, revolution or natural catastrophe. But there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place between the pages of a book.

Here is a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political and personal revolution. Here are books by Darwin, Newton and Shakespeare - but also less well-known works, such as Marie Stopes' Married Love, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the RIghts of Women - and even the rules to the most popular sport in the world ...

Melvyn Bragg is a British TV personality and author. His works of non-fiction include the worldwide bestseller The Adventure of English.

TWO LIVES
Author: Vikram Seth
ISBN: 1-55278-496-7
Price: $34.95
Non Fiction

Two Lives tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But a friendship developed and each managed to leave Germany and found their way to Britain as the Nazis rose to power. Shanti joined the army and lost his right arm at the battle of Monte Cassino, while Henny (whose family were to die in the camps) made a life for herself in her adopted country. After the war they married and lived the émigré life in north London where Shanti, despite the loss of his arm, became a much-loved dentist.

During his own adolescence in England, Vikram Seth lived with Shanti and Henny and came to know and love them deeply. His is the third life in this story of Two Lives. This is also a book about history, encompassing as it does many of the most significant themes and events in the 20th century, whose currents are reflected in the lives of Shanti, Henny and their family: from the Raj and the Indian freedom movement to the Third Reich, the Holocaust and British postwar society.

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