FICTION

ALEXIE, Sherman
Ten little Indians
Poignant stories about Native Americans at personal and cultural crossroads.

BARNARD, Robert
The mistress of Alderley
A witty whodunit about movie stars, mistresses and murder in an
English village.

BERG, Elizabeth
Say when
A man in a Chicago suburb watches his seemingly perfect life come undone through divorce and betrayal.

BYERS, Michael
Long for this world
A medical researcher into a degenerative childhood disease faces an ethical dilemma.

CAMILLERI, Andrea
The snack thief
Inspector Malbano takes on a Mafia-free Italian crime featuring murder in an elevator and a little boy who steals food.

CANTOR, Jay
Great Neck
"From the author of Krazy Kat and The Death of Che Guevara, the tumultuous story of a group of friends growing up idealistic, radical, and romantic in the sixties and seventies."

CHANG, Hsi-Kuo
The city trilogy
This Taiwanese author blends intrigue, fantasy, Chinese history and time travel to produce three serious allegorical novels unique in modern Chinese writing.

COUPLAND, Douglas
Hey Nostradamus
Religious zeal and paranoia ran riot in a sleepy Vancouver neighborhood and continue to haunt those who witnessed its violent outcome.

CUSK, Rachel
The lucky ones
Their arrival in a small English village begins a voyage of discovery for the Walcotts.

DEWAR, Isla
Dancing in a distant place
When Iris's husband dies she is left penniless and throws herself into her teaching; but her own children need her help, too.

DAVEY, Janet
English correspondence
Sylvie's father has died, and, in the time it takes to arrange his funeral, she scrutinizes her own life as wife of a hotelier in a small French town. Subtle and intelligent.

DUNANT, Sarah
The birth of Venus
A historical novel of love, politics and murder in 14th century Florence.

FORSTER, Margaret
Diary of an ordinary woman, 1914-1995
Independent but vulnerable, she copes with death, wars, love affairs and the vicissitudes of a century.

GARCIA-ROZA, Luiz
December heat
Retired Rio de Janeiro detective Inspector Espinosa has been hailed for "his existential sensibility, his exotic beat and his literary merit."

GORDIMER, Nadine
Loot and other stories
A collection of ten stories by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer that probe the depths of our contemporary world.

GOUGH, Laurence
A cloud of suspects
Sardonic characters, twisted motives and snapping prose; in other words, the mixture as before in this lively Jack Willows and Claire Parker Vancouver noir mystery.

HILLERMAN, Tony
Sinister pig
The latest Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn Navajo Tribal Police mystery is a gas: natural gas, that is…

HOSPITAL, Janette Turner
Due preparations for the plague
Obsession with uncovering the whole truth about an aircraft hijacking that took their parents' lives traps two people in a maze from which there seems to be no exit.

JAMES, P.D.
The murder room
Commander Adam Dalgliesh finds himself caught in a labyrinth of copycat murders - and in love.

JOHNSTON, Jennifer
This is not a novel
The drowning death of Imogen's brother sets the stage for a powerful novel by this noted Irish writer.

KERR, Katharine
Snare : a novel of the far future
Descendants of Islamic fundamentalists war with descendants of scientists and the alien natives for the fate of the planet Snare.

LIVELY, Penelope
The photograph
A husband discovers the secret life of his much-loved dead wife.

OATES, Joyce Carol
The tattooed girl
When he takes on a new assistant, a reclusive author unwittingly embarks on the most dangerous adventure of his privileged life.

PRATCHETT, Terry
The wee free men
Meet the fightin', thievin', tiny blue-skinned pictsies, who were thrown out of Fairyland for being drunk and disorderly, in this latest Discworld humorous fantasy.

RICHARDS, David Adams
River of the brokenhearted
Three generations of a New Brunswick family in a town on the Miramichi suffer from the resentment, malice and violence of their narrow fellow citizens, but their spirits remain undaunted.

RIORDAN, Rick
Cold Springs
Working to redeem a failed life, Chadwick rescues troubled teens for a living, but the latest candidate for his tough love wilderness school could destroy his carefully rebuilt existence.

ROBERTS, Michele
The mistressclass
A tale of desire, guilt and pleasure in London and France.

ROSE, Michael E.
The Mazovia legacy
The murder of her uncle leads Natalia on an adventure that dredges up crimes from World War II.

SHIGEKUNI, Julie
Invisible gardens
Despite her two young children, a stable marriage and a university teaching career, a 35-yr-old Japanese-American woman feels her life is falling apart; thoughtful and disturbing.

SMITH, Brad
All hat
A rollicking tale of small-time horse-racing scams and big-time characters set in rural Ontario. From the author of One-Eyed Jacks.

SPARKS, Nicholas
The guardian
A young widow must choose between the two men in her life and avoid being killed.

TAIBO, Paco
Returning as shadows
Subversive and entertaining magic realism set in Mexico City, a city bursting with German agents in1941.

TIFFANY, Grace
My father had a daughter
A novel that fleshes out what little is known of Judith Shakespeare into a powerful story of a daughter trying to understand her father's actions.

TREMAIN, Rose
The colour
Abandoning his wife and mother, Joseph, an unsuccessful English immigrant, sets off on an obsessive quest for gold across the mountains of 19th century New Zealand.

WESTLAKE, Donald
Money for nothing
Bad things can happen when the government gives you money you haven't earned…yet.

WIGGINS, Marianne
Evidence of things unseen
In the years between the two world wars, ordinary people in Tennessee find their faith in the promise of science to ensure a safe future compromised by government projects like the Oak Ridge atomic laboratory.

WOLFE, Gene
LATRO IN THE MIST
Two novels by acclaimed fantasy author Gene Wolfe about a Roman mercenary who can talk to the gods.

BIOGRAPHY

ANSTEE, Margaret
Never learn to type: a woman at the United Nations
She grew up in rural England in the 1930s and 40s, but rejected the confines of class and sex to forge an international career at the heart of world affairs working against war and poverty.

BERG, A. Scott
Kate remembered
One of the most private public figures of her time, actress Katherine Hepburn revealed something of her career, personal life and character in the course of a twenty year friendship with the author.

BLAIR, Betsy
The memory of all that: love and politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris
Wed to Gene Kelly following a whirlwind courtship, she revelled in the theatre and film scene until the 1950s, when her growing political and artistic awareness led her to a serious acting career in Europe and a second marriage.

BUDDEN, Julian
Puccini: his life and works
Blends astute musical analysis with a colourful account of the affable operatic giant's life. One of the Master Musicians series.

CRANE, Kathleen
Sea legs
This autobiography of one of the first female oceanographers is a story of relentless adversity both on land and beneath the waves

CROUCH, Tom
The Wright brothers and the invention of the aerial age
One hundred years ago, these two young Americans changed the world. Rare archival photographs form a significant part of this timely tribute to the self-taught geniuses.

FICOWSKI, Jerzy
Regions of the great heresy: Bruno Schulz, a biographical portrait
Shot in 1942 in a Nazi shooting spree on the streets of his home town of Drohobycz, this tortured Polish/Jewish literary genius has remained an enigma until now, when his life and art have been explored by a noted Polish poet.

HEYLIN, Clinton
Can you feel the silence?: Van Morrison, a new biography
Explores the two sides of the Belfast-born composer of some of the most appealing music of the rock era: the successful composer musician and the hard-drinking, anti-social loner.

HIBBERD, Dominic
Wilfred Owen: a new biography
Sheds fresh light on the family background, education and sexual orientation of the great British poet of the Great War, and describes in detail his experiences on the Western Front and the poets who influenced his mature work.

HOLMES, Rachel
Scanty particulars
The scandalous life and astonishing secret of Queen Victoria's most eminent military doctor, James Barry, who was not all he seemed.

JUSKA, Jane
A round-heeled woman
This story of a courageous (or misguided) 66 year old English teacher searching for intimacy will raise "both eyebrows and blood pressure".

KERSHAW, Alex
Blood and champagne : the life and times of Robert Capa
From Budapest in the twenties to Paris in the thirties, postwar Hollywood, Stalin's Russia, Indochina, the brief life of this charismatic Hungarian photographer was filled with action and drama.

HISTORY & POLITICS

ADAMS, Michael
Fire and ice: the United States, Canada and the myth of converging values
Are Canadians doomed to become Americans in a generation or two? The author furnishes evidence that the cultural divergence between us will continue for years to come.

BAWLF, R. Samuel
The secret voyage of Sir Frances Drake, 1577-1580
Argues that the great Elizabethan explorer made an attempt to find the Northwest Passage in 1579, records of which were skillfully concealed due to England's precarious political situation at the time.

BOWERING, George
Stone country: an unauthorized history of Canada
Entertaining, provocative and unashamedly left-leaning.

COLLAS, Philippe
Edith Wharton's French Riviera
Between the wars it was a playground for the rich and famous and a microcosm of the kind of society that absorbed the American novelist. Vintage photographs evoke a Golden (if vacuous) Age.

COLLEY, Linda
Captives
Examines the relationship between the invader and the invaded in England's quest for empire.

DILLON, Patrick
The much-lamented death of Madam Geneva
A history of the gin craze in 18th century London.

FERGUSON, Niall
Empire: the rise and demise of the British world order and the
lessons for global power
"A remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls" of the British empire, from a world renowned economist.

GREENE, Melissa
Last man out: the story of the Springhill mine disaster
The harrowing story of the 1958 Springhill mine disaster and its aftermath for the nineteen survivors forever haunted by their prolonged ordeal underground.

HELLIWELL, John
Globalization and well-being
Considers the effects of globalization on national identity, community and family.

NICOLSON, Adam
God's secretaries
A chronicle of the people, politics and poetry that went into the making of the King James Bible.

RAVITCH, Diane
The language police: how pressure groups restrict what students learn
An expert in education blows the whistle on a system fuelled by political correctness that is forcing U.S. schoolchildren to read insipid, bowdlerized texts, willingly doctored by publishers eager for sales.

ROACH, Mary
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers
A host of interesting if macabre facts about the contributions of the dead to human progress are presented in a light-hearted but respectful manner by this science journalist.

WILLIAMS, Andrew
The battle of the Atlantic
A "rousing historical narrative" about the battles between the German U-boats and the British navy that would decide the fate of the war.

ARTS & LETTERS

AYCKBOURN, Alan
The crafty art of playmaking
Advice from the venerable British playwright on writing, directing and what makes good comedy.

CHARTERS, Ann
The portable sixties reader
A collection of writings from the most notable authors of that very turbulent decade.

COLLINS, Paul
Sixpence house
The story of the author and his life in Hay-on-Wye, the town of antiquarian book shops, is "a wonderfully engaging meditation on what books mean to us."

FERRARA, Lidia Guibert
Reclining nude
A provocative look at art and the female form by a graphic designer and an art historian.

GALBRAITH, Stuart
The Emperor and the wolf
A comprehensive look at the work of two of the world's greatest film makers, Akiro Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.

JAMES, Clive
As of this writing
This latest collection of essays from critic Clive James is "a prism through which to view his entire career."

MAGIC PENCIL: CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION TODAY
Published to coincide with a British Council exhibition of the same name, Quentin Blake's selection of living British artists is superb and the commentaries both revealing and stimulating. For artists, parents, children and anyone who was ever a child.

THE PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF HEARTBREAK, MADNESS SEX, LOVE, BETRAYAL, OUTSIDERS, INTOXICATION…
…God, death, dinner, baseball, travels, the art of writing and everything else in the world since 1953.

THE POETRY ANTHOLOGY 1912-2002
For ninety years this American magazine published every significant poet of the twentieth century from Yeats to Rita Dove.

TOWARD MODERN ART: FROM PUVIS DE CHAVANNES TO MATISSE AND PICASSO
This major exhibition, held in Venice, proposes a ground breaking new interpretation of the origins of modern art.

VITAMIN P: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN PAINTING
Boost your understanding of contemporary painting worldwide with this visually stimulating and informative volume.

WALKER, Paul Robert
The feud that sparked the Renaissance
How Florentines Brunelleschi and Ghiberti changed the art world of the
15th century through their competitive artistic genius.

NATURE & NURTURE

BRYSON, Bill
A short history of nearly everything
Discusses what we know about the world and how we know it. An engaging book for those averse to science.

CORREIA, Clara Pinto
Return of the crazy bird: the sad, strange tale of the Dodo
How this flightless bird went from discovery to extinction between the 16th and 17th centuries and became a byword for wackiness.

CRITSER, Greg
Fat land
How Americans became the most obese people in the world.

DELISLE, James R.
When gifted kids don't have all the answers
A guide to helping gifted children grow socially and emotionally.

ELLIS, Richard
The empty ocean: plundering the world's marine life
Brings to life the natural history of marine species, the threats they face, their struggle for survival and the implications for mankind.

FREEDBERG, David
The eye of the lynx:
Galileo, his friends and the beginnings of natural history
A 17th-century group of nobles and eccentrics, the Academy of Lynxes, based in Rome, set out to record all that was known about nature. Spectacular illustrations.

MERCHANT, Carolyn
Reinventing Eden
Ecology professor Carolyn Merchant argues that nature is an autonomous agent and suggests a bold new plan of action to save the world.

NARAYAN, Shoba
Monsoon diary: a memoir with recipes
From her childhood in South India and her college days in America to her home in New York, the author's world is peopled with memorable characters and described in stories as satisfying as her vegetarian cuisine.

PRINGLE, Peter
Food Inc.
A journalist analyses both sides of the debate for and against genetic modification.

RIDLEY, Matt
Nature via nurture: genes, experience and what makes us human
Traces the history of various schools of thought, focusing particularly on the contribution of genes to the brain's development and the modification of genes themselves in response to experience and social cues, as revealed by the latest biological research.

ROSENZWEIG, Michael L.
Win-win ecology:
how the earth's species can survive in the midst of human enterprise
Describes a hopeful new trend in ecological thinking.

SANGHAVI, Darshak
A map of the child: a pediatrician's tour of the body
Describes the physical development of a child's body, in terms of the heart, blood, bones, brain, skin, gonads and gut.

SCHWARTZ, Rosie
The enlightened eater's whole food guide
From the author of The Enlightened Eater comes a book on phyto foods and how to use them.

STRAUCH, Barbara
The primal teen
Looks at the role the brain plays in making teens the way they are and suggests how parents can deal with it.