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Fall Preview
The following is a small selection of the many enticing titles that will be coming to our shelves in the next few months.
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Gargoyle
Andrew Davidson
$32.95 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $26.36
August
Canadian author Andrew Davidson’s debut novel is an international publishing sensation and is receiving wonderful advance reviews. On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. A woman walks into his hospital room and insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. As she begins to tell him amazing tales of their love, she draws him back to the world of the living.
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World in Six Songs
Daniel Levitin
$32.00 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $25.60
August
The new book by the author of This is Your Brain on Music showcases his daring theory of “six songs,” illuminating how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms— for knowledge, friendship, ceremony, joy, comfort, and love. Levitin shows how music and dance enabled the social bonding and friendship necessary for human culture and society to evolve. |
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What Is America?
Ronald Wright
$29.95 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $23.96
August
From the award-winning author of A Short History of Progress comes another surprising, frightening and essential book. The USA is now the world’s lone superpower, whose deeds could make or break this century. For better and worse, America has Americanized the world. How did a marginal frontier society, in a mere two centuries, become the de facto ruler of the world? Why do America’s great achievements in democracy, prosperity and civil rights now seem threatened by forces within itself? Brimming with insight into history and human behaviour, and written in Wright’s captivating style, What Is America? offers a fresh, passionate look at the past and future of the world’s most powerful nation. |
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Through Black Spruce
Joseph Boyden
$34.00 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $27.20
September
Joseph Boyden, the internationally acclaimed author of Three Day Road, has written another powerful novel, this time of contemporary aboriginal life. When beautiful Suzanne Bird disappears, her sister Annie, a loner and hunter, is compelled to search for her, leaving behind their uncle Will, a man haunted by loss. While Annie travels from Toronto to New York, from modeling studios to A-list parties, Will encounters dire troubles at home. Both eventually come to painful discoveries about the inescapable ties of family. Through Black Spruce is an utterly unforgettable consideration of how we discover who we really are. |
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The Flying Troutmans
Miriam Toews
$32.00 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $25.60
September
The quirky charm of Miriam Toew’s award-winning novel A Complicated Kindness touched many readers. She returns with a novel that is at once hilarious and heartrending. The Flying Troutmans is about a family falling apart and a road trip that just may keep it together. Fresh from heartbreak in Paris, Hattie returns home to find her sister in the psychiatric ward and her niece and nephew on her doorstep. Without much more than an old address to go on, the three of them set off on a wild road trip to find the kids’ long-lost father. |
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The Private Patient
P.D. James
$32.00 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $25.60
September
P.D. James’s new novel contains all the qualities her readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterization, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery.
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr. Chandler-Powell’s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring facial scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week’s peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset’s most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She will never leave Cheverell Manor alive. When Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder – and a second death occurs – even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt arise. |
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A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada
John Ralston Saul
$34.00 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $27.20
September
In this startlingly original vision of Canada, thinker John Ralston Saul argues that the famous “peace, order, and good government” concept that supposedly defines Canada is a distortion of the country’s true nature, since every document before the BNA Act used the phrase “peace, welfare, and good government,” demonstrating that the well-being of its citizenry was paramount. He also contends that Canada has been heavily influenced by aboriginal ideas: egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence. Saul also argues that Canada has an increasingly ineffective elite, a colonial non-intellectual business elite that doesn’t believe in Canada. It is critical that we recognize these aspects of the country in order to rethink its future. |
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Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World
Andrew Weaver
$34.00 Hardcover
September
Brilliantly researched, Keeping Our Cool is a comprehensive and engaging examination and explanation of global warming, with a specific emphasis on climate change in Canada. In an engaging and accessible way, Weaver explains the levels of greenhouse gas emissions needed to stabilize the climate and offers solutions and a path toward a sustainable future.
Dr. Andrew Weaver is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modeling and Analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. He was lead author in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is currently the chief editor of the Journal of Climate. He lives in Victoria. |
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Red Dog, Red Dog
Patrick Lane
$32.99 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $26.39
October
Red Dog, Red Dog is Patrick Lane’s virtuoso debut novel of unrequited dreams and forestalled lives. Set in the mid-1950s, in a small town in the interior of B.C, the novel focuses on the Stark family, and on brothers Eddy and Tom, who are bound together by family loyalty and inarticulate love. Filled with moments of harrowing violence, breathtaking description, and deep humanity, Red Dog, Red Dog is about the legacies of the past and the possibilities of forgiveness and redemption. With this astonishing novel, one of Canada’s best poets also takes his place as one of our finest novelists. |
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Doors Open
Ian Rankin
$24.95 paperback / Munro’s Price $19.96
October
Ian Rankin’s first stand-alone novel in over a decade. Mike Mackenzie, a self-made man with too much time on his hands, settles on a plot to commit a “perfect crime.” But his plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around brings him into contact with a dangerous criminal underworld. |
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A Most Wanted Man
John Le Carre
$32 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $25.60
October
A starved Russian Muslim boy is smuggled into Hamburg by night. He says his name is Issa. Annabel, a German civil rights lawyer desperate to save Issa from deportation, appeals to Tommy Brue, owner of a failing British bank, but they attract the attention of spies from three nations. Peopled with unforgettable characters, A Most Wanted Man prickles with humour and tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a work of deep humanity and irresistible relevance to our times. |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
$32.00 Hardcover
October
This is the first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, a Swedish series which has swept bestseller lists in Europe, selling over three million copies. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired to investigate the forty year old case of a missing young woman from a powerful family, but he quickly finds himself in over his head. He hires a competent assistant: the gifted and conscience-free computer specialist Lisbeth Salander, and the two unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. |
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Thomas L. Friedman
$30.95 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $24.76
September
Thomas L. Friedman’s No. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world, and globalization, in a new way. With his latest book, Friedman brings a fresh and provocative outlook to another pressing issue: the interlinked crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy--both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. |
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Old Father William’s Well-Ordered Universe
A General Reliable Compendium of Facts, Figures and Formulae, Specifically Intended for the Bathroom-Bound (And Those Who Love Them)
Bill Richardson
$22.95 paperback
October
A bathroom book like no other from the irrepressible Bill Richardson. Silliness and curiosity abound, with trivia you never knew you were missing: famous people born on kitchen tables, strange events that have happened in sheds, important sketches on the backs of napkins, and things people keep under their pillows. |
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
$30.99 Hardcover/ Munro’s Price $24.79
November
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. |
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