Blood, Bones & Butter

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Cooking; Biography & Autobiography - Women
978-0-8129-8088-2 (0-8129-8088-3)

January 24, 2012 | $19.00



Chapter 1

We threw a party. The same party, every year, when I was a kid. It was a spring lamb roast, and we roasted four or five whole little guys who each weighed only about forty pounds over an open fire and invited more than a hundred people. Our house was...

Ru

Hardcover | 160 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35970-4 (0-307-35970-0)

January 17, 2012 | $25.00



I came into the world during the Tet Offensive, in the early days of the Year of the Monkey, when the long chains of firecrackers draped in front of houses exploded polyphonically along with the sound of machine guns.
 
I first saw the light of day in Saigon, where firecrackers, fragmented into...

The Street Sweeper

Hardcover | 576 pages | Bond Street Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-385-66562-9 (0-385-66562-8)

January 3, 2012 | $32.95



Seneca,
the first frozen apple juice,
enriched with vitamin C.
Rich, delicious Seneca . . .
 
Memory is a wilful dog. It won’t be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are. It has a schedule...

The Winter Palace

Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-385-66656-5 (0-385-66656-X)

January 3, 2012 | $24.95



I could have warned her when she arrived in Russia, this petty German princess from Zerbst, a town no bigger than St. Petersburg’s Summer Garden, this frail girl who would become Catherine.
 
This court is a new world to you, I could have said to her, a slippery ground. Do not be...

Falling Backwards

Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39984-7 (0-307-39984-2)

November 1, 2011 | $32.00



I look across my yard every morning at my parents’ little house. They live fifty feet from me now. I can see their lights go on in the morning and shut off at night. I can see them moving about in the yard when they’re watering plants or cutting wood or...

Wingfield's World

Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Humorous; Drama - Canadian
978-0-307-36084-7 (0-307-36084-9)

October 18, 2011 | $24.95



There’s a lot to read in a weekly newspaper. At first bounce, you wouldn’t think there was anything much to say about a town like Larkspur. And yet my staff and I manage to squeeze ten thousand words a week into every issue of the Free Press and Economist. Forty thousand...

Through the Glass

Hardcover | 368 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography; True Crime
978-0-385-67603-8 (0-385-67603-4)

October 11, 2011 | $32.95



I was happily writing a thank-you card for a wedding gift when I heard the knock at my hotel room door. It was November 8, 2005, I was thirty years old, and my life was about to change forever.
 
I was away from home, attending a school guidance counsellors’ conference. When I...

Lost Memory of Skin

Hardcover | 432 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-40173-1 (0-307-40173-1)

October 4, 2011 | $32.00



It isn’t like the Kid is locally famous for doing a good or a bad thing and even if people knew his real name it wouldn’t change how they treat him unless they looked it up online which is not something he wants to encourage. He himself like most of the...

The Grandest Challenge

Hardcover | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Social Science
978-0-385-66718-0 (0-385-66718-3)

September 20, 2011 | $32.95



Our inspiration for writing this book stems from a simple but powerful fact: If your home is in London, New York or Toronto, you can expect to live well into your late seventies or early eighties. If you live in Morogoro, Tanzania, on the other hand, you will live only about...

Tell It to the Trees

Hardcover | 272 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-676-97893-3 (0-676-97893-2)

September 20, 2011 | $29.95



One of the searchers spotted two ravens yanking at something and walked over to investigate. I watched as he squatted and peered down at the ground, raised his arm and waved the others over. They had found her.
 
The birds, they told us later, were tugging at her red and gold earring...