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February 01, 2010
The history of slave trading between China and the United States rears its head in modern day Sweden, in Henning Mankel’s latest political crime thriller The Man from Beijing.
January 18, 2010
Vermont deputy-cum-author Archer Mayor’s 20th novel in the Joe Gunther detective series traces the roots and bloody consequences of two mysterious New England crimes.
January 18, 2010
Abduction surrounds the characters in Jacquelyn Mitchard’s No Time to Wave Goodbye, a novel that revisits the family she introduced in 1996’s The Deep End of the Ocean.
January 18, 2010
British history writer Alison Weir maintains her focus on royalty of the past in The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn.
Book Pick: Blood’s A Rover
January 03, 2010
From the heist that opens this entertaining novel, Blood’s A Rover takes readers on a thrilling ride through 1960s America.
Book Pick: L.A. Noir
January 03, 2010
Governing magazine writer John Buntin presents a fantastic, well-rounded and researched account of Los Angeles’ history between the 1920s and ’60s, presenting the metropolis as a true vice city.
Book Pick: Last Night in Twisted River
January 03, 2010
New Hampshire’s Androscoggin River is the symbolic title body that flows through the pages of American novelist John Irving’s latest.
Book Pick: Summertime
December 28, 2009
Nobel prize winner and two-time Booker Prize recipient J.M. Coetzee completes his trilogy of fictionalized memoirs with Summertime.
Book Pick: Kanata
December 28, 2009
From the magazine journalist and author of Canada: A People’s History comes Kanata, a fictionalized take on the forming of the nation.
Book Pick: Cleaving
December 28, 2009
In Cleaving, the namesake behind the book and film adaptation Julie and Julia once again lets readers peer into her life from the vantage point of the kitchen counter.
Book Pick: Pilgrims
December 21, 2009
Set in Lake Wobegon, the town noted American radio personality Garrison Keillor put on the map in his past works Lake Wobegon Days and Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, Pilgrims arrives at a point of uncertainty in Margie and Carl Krebsbach’s relationship.
Book Pick: A Good Fall
December 21, 2009
In his latest collection of stories, Chinese author Ha Jin enters the immigrant experience, focusing on Chinese characters in America and their feelings of being torn between two national identities.
Book Pick: A Week in December
December 21, 2009
British writer Sebastian Faulks tries to decongest metropolitan English life in his latest novel, A Week in December.
Book Pick: Make No Small Plans
December 14, 2009
Forty years ago, Toronto athlete and sportscaster Harry (Red) Foster brought the very first Special Olympics to Canada.
Book Pick: The Truth About Santa
December 13, 2009
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout. I’m telling you why
Book Pick: Yours Ever
December 13, 2009
In his 1984 examination A Book of One’s Own, American author Thomas Mallon tackled the diary, exploring the literary form’s prevalence and relevance to different kinds of writers.
Book Pick: Her Fearful Symmetry
November 30, 2009
In the sophomore effort following her breakout debut The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger explores bonding, loss and love with a paranormal twist in Her Fearful Symmetry.
Book Pick: The Taken
November 30, 2009
The Taken presents a story as mysterious as its author Inger Ash Wolfe, the pen name of an unknown but established Canadian writer.
Book Pick: The Brightest Star In The Sky
November 30, 2009
The latest novel by Irish author Marian Keyes follows the residents at 66 Star Street in Dublin.
Book Pick: Last Words
November 23, 2009
The 2008 death of American comedian George Carlin marked the passing of one of the country’s preeminent comic forces.
Book Pick: Prince of Stories
November 23, 2009
Although he’s just shy of 50-years-old, English novelist Neil Gaiman is the subject of Prince of Stories
Book Pick: The Financial Lives of Ethe Poets
November 23, 2009
Matt Prior’s brainwave to launch Poetfolio.com, a portal for his financial poetry, might have seemed like his opportunity to showcase creativity in numbers.
Book Pick: Sunset Oasis
November 09, 2009
Winner of the inaugural International Prize for Arab Fiction in 2008, Bahaa Taher’s Sunset Oasis weaves politics, passion and the power of a locale unknown set against a late 19th-century Egyptian landscape.
Book Pick: Laying It On The Line
November 09, 2009
As former national president of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union, Buzz Hargrove witnessed the pattern of poor decision-making that led to the 2008 car industry crumble years in advance.
Book Pick: Have A Little Faith
November 01, 2009
In his latest non-fiction account, bestselling American author Mitch Albom discovers the shared bases of belief between two people with considerably different callings and lifestyles.
Book Pick: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
November 01, 2009
To follow up its literary mashup smash hit Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk Books and author Ben H. Winters return
Book Pick: Half Broke Horses
November 01, 2009
American journalist Jeannette Walls rose to global acclaim with her 2005 memoir, The Glass Castle, a reflection on the pain she suffered at the hands of her troubled parents.
Book Pick: Dracula the Un-Dead
October 26, 2009
More than 100 years ago, Bram Stoker published the gothic-horror classic Dracula. But that wasn’t the count’s last hurrah
Book Pick: Frostbite
October 26, 2009
A job in the Northwest Territories turns into a life-changing nightmare for Cheyenne Clark in David Wellington’s Frostbite.
Book Pick: Thirst No. 1
October 26, 2009
In the mid-1990s, young- adult fiction author Christopher Pike released The Last Vampire, a popular six-part series focusing on Sita, a 5,000-year-old vampire.
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