THE WEDDING OFFICER
Author: Anthony Capella
ISBN: 9781552786505
Price: $24.95
Fiction

From the author of the bestselling The Food of Love comes a second wonderful novel featuring the same irresistible combination of food, romance and Italy.

Twenty-two-year-old James Gould arrives in Occupied Naples in 1943 where his duties include dissuading Allied soldiers form marrying their beautiful Italian girlfriends and his diet includes little more than spam fritters and warmed up rations.

The girls of Naples, however, soon arrange for a beautiful young country girl to join his staff as a cook. Under the twin influences of Italian food and Italian passion, James has only just realized that his heart is more important than his orders when an eruption of Vesuvius sets in motion a series of epic events that will change their lives forever.

WHAT NEXT?
Author: Aislin
ISBN: 1-55278-609-9
Non Fiction

Aislin’s 40th book includes his unique take on not one but TWO federal elections (and two Prime Ministers), and of course cartoons about potholes, baseball and ongoing wrangling in Quebec and around the world that have caught his fancy.

WHITETHORN
Author: Bryce Courtenay
ISBN: 1-55278-606-4
Price: 34.95
Fiction

It's 1939; the world is on the brink of war. The rumbles of change reach the remote mountains where young Tom Fitzsaxby is working through some tough life lessons.

Like the whitethorn,one of Africa’s most enduring plants, Tom is learning to survive and even flourish against the harshest of odds. When a terrible event sets Tom on a journey to ensure that justice is done, along the way his most unexpected discovery is love.

Bryce Courtenay is the number one bestselling author in Australia.

WHITETHORN WOODS
Author: Maeve Binchy
ISBN: 1-55278-602-1
Price: $24.95
Fiction

Globe and Mail #1 Bestselling Fiction Title for 2006

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character and charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stores and traffic problems and housing estates.

But still, there are the woods, full of spiky bushes and criss-crossed with paths and there's St. Ann’s Well, where generations have come to pray or make wishes or just to look back at the pretty little town.

Which is why there is going to be such a fuss about the plans for the new motorway. It's going to bypass Rossmore, cutting through Whitethorn Woods and endangering the well itself,. The new road will bring jobs and relieve traffic in the town, but it will also destroy business and leave the town a backwater.

The people of Rossmore are divided. There is a lot of land standing in the way of the great road of progress. Quite by accident the decision rests on Neddy Nolan – the most honest man in Rossmore. A man determined to do the right thing.

THE WIDOW AND HER HERO
Author: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 9780340825273
Price: $29.95
Fiction

When Grace married Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia in 1943, they were young, in love — and at war. Ready, like so many, to put the war effort first, they never seriously doubted that they would come through unscathed.

Sixty years on, Grace recounts the story of her doomed hero: a tale of dashing undercover missions against the Japanese, a charismatic but unstable Irish major and, going by the details that emerge after the war, flawed leadership by those in high command. But not until many years later does she discover the final pieces in the jigsaw, and an ultimate betrayal.

As absorbing as it is moving, this timely novel reminds us of the terrible costs of war as it questions why men so willingly and fatally adopt the heroic code.

WIND TAILS
Author: Anne DeGrace
ISBN: 9781552786635
Price: $29.95
Fiction

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

At a side-of-the-highway diner on a mountain pass, during one extraordinary, windy day in 1977, the paths of an odd assortment of travellers cross. The stories of each circle around points of departure: what sets one on one's journey. These seemingly unconnected—but oddly interconnected—stories involve strange twists, turns, and the kinds of chance encounters that change the way we see the world. There is the old woman who, told she has just weeks to live, tells everyone exactly what she thinks of them—and then doesn't die; the water witcher who comes to terms with his gift instead of drowning in it; the woman who never leaves her own town but travels vicariously through the tales of the hitchhikers she picks up; a trucker with a kind heart; and the proprietor, Cass, and the story that haunts her. Central to this remarkable day is Pink, travelling in whatever direction the wind takes him, and Jo, a young waitress whose own life twists—family betrayal, and the birth and adoption of a baby—have left her anchorless. For Jo, Cass's Roadside Café is a waystation, holding her until a series of interactions with strangers give her permission to find her own point of departure, and embark upon her own journey.

WINNING IS NOT ENOUGH
Author: Sir Jackie Stweart
ISBN: 9780755315376
Price: $39.95
Biograhy

Sir Jackie Stewart is a man of immense charisma and integrity and is one of the most highly regarded names in global sport – winner of three F1 World Championships, 27 Grand Prix and ranked in the top ten drivers of all time. On retiring from the circuit, he went on to build an equally impressive international business career. In the 1960s and into the 70s, with his black cap, sideburns and Aviator shades Jackie Stewart was an unmistakable icon in a glorious era of style, glamour and speed. On the track, his story is one of drama, excitement, tragedy, controversy, celebrity, danger and massive success. Beyond the sport his life is a compelling tale of battling against the odds and achieving world-wide recognition as an outstanding sportsman, a role model and a highly accomplished and respected businessman. From growing up in a Scottish village, to the race track of Monaco and the boardrooms of the world, Sir Jackie Stewart has led a full and eventful life – and it is told now for the first time in his own words.

THE WRONG KIND OF BLOOD
Author: Declan Hughes
ISBN: 0-7195-67459 / 978-0-7195-6746-9
Price: $24.95 / $16.95
Fiction

"The night of my mother's funeral, Linda Dawson cried on my shoulder, put her tongue in my mouth and asked me to find her husband. Now she was lying dead on her living-room floor, and the howl of a police siren echoed through the surrounding hills."

Ed Loy is a private investigator with a dark past. He returns to Dublin to bury his mother, and suddenly finds himself thrown into a world of organized crime, long-hidden secrets, corruption and violence. And murder.

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