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Penguin Canada WINTER 2015

PENGUIN CANADA | 416-925-2249 | PENGUIN.CA 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, ON M4P 2Y3 Catalogue ISBN: 978-0-14-319379-1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Who’s Who / Ordering

From the internationally bestselling author of The Disappeared comes a stirring new novel about the transformative power of music and friendship

KIM ECHLIN

HAMISH HAMILTON March • Fiction • 978-0-670-06532-5 $29.95 • Hardcover • 5¼ × 8¼ • 224 pages Rights: World, All languages

Under the Visible Life

SALES Echlin’s last novel was an international bestseller and a Heather’s Pick, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Fatherless Katherine carries the stigma of her mixed-race background through an era that is hostile to her and all she represents. It is only through music that she finds the freedom to temporarily escape and dream of a better life for herself, nurturing this hard-won refuge throughout the vagaries of unexpected motherhood and an absent husband, and relying on her talent to build a future for her family.

A novel with heart! Under the Visible Life, an emotional read about the lives of women, is certain to appeal to bookclubs and reading groups. The Disappeared was published to rave reviews in over 16 countries, and this novel will have the same reach with its international settings and captivating story.

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Orphaned Mahsa also grows up in the shadow of loss, sent to relatives in Pakistan after the death of her parents. Struggling to break free, she escapes to Montreal, leaving behind her first love, Kamal. But the threads of her past are not so easily severed, and she finds herself forced into an arranged marriage. For Mahsa, too, music becomes her solace and allows her to escape from her oppressive circumstances.

Award-winning author KIM ECHLIN lives in Toronto. She is the author of Elephant Winter, Dagmar’s Daughter, and Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer. Her third novel, The Disappeared, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction.

Simultaneous publication with Grove in the U.S.

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When Katherine and Mahsa meet, they find in each other a kindred spirit as well as a musical equal, and their lives are changed irrevocably. Together, they inspire and support one another, fusing together their cultures, their joys, and their losses—just as they collaborate musically in the language of free-form, improvisational jazz. Under the Visible Life takes readers from the bustling harbour of Karachi to the palpable political tension on the streets of 1970s Montreal to the smoky jazz clubs of New York City. Deeply affecting, vividly rendered, and sweeping in scope, it is also an exploration of the hearts of two unforgettable women: a meditation on how hope can remain alive in the darkest of times when we have someone with whom to share our burdens.

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Praise for The Disappeared

Excerpt in Upfronts

“Echlin’s masterful novel of meetings, partings and cross-cultural love … Precise, expressive … A powerfully vivid narrative … Extreme beauty … Luminous … A complex expression of annihilating loss and eternal love that is best experienced, in a sense, like the final act of a tragic play: as something inevitable and beyond the calculations of reason.”

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—The Globe and Mail

Also available: The Disappeared 978-0-14-317045-7 • $18.00 • PB Elephant Winter 978-0-14-317058-7 • $18.00 • PB Dagmar’s Daughter 978-0-14-317059-4 • $18.00 • PB

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A beautiful novel that reminds us that it’s never too late to see the things you’ve longed to see, or to say the things you’ve longed to say

FI N A L CO VE R N OT

HAMISH HAMILTON January • Fiction • 978-0-670-06774-9 $29.95 • Hardcover • 6 × 9 • 240 pages Rights: Canada, English

EMMA HOOPER

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Etta and Otto and Russell and James

To be published in 18 countries, including Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and Penguin in the U.K. Emma Hooper has published short stories, non-fiction pieces, poetry, and libretti. She’s got her own iPhone app called SingSmash.

Eighty-two-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 3,232 kilometres from Saskatchewan to Halifax.

For fans of Rachel Joyce, Helen Simonson, and Jonas Jonasson.

Her husband, Otto, wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. I will try to remember to come back, Etta writes. Otto has seen the ocean, having crossed the Atlantic years ago to fight in a faraway war, so he understands. But with Etta gone, the memories come crowding in. The only way to keep them at bay is to keep his hands busy.

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Russell, raised as a brother to Otto, has loved Etta from afar for sixty years. He insists on finding her, wherever she’s gone. Leaving his farm will be the first act of defiance in his whole life.

Raised in Canada, EMMA HOOPER brought her love of music and literature to the U.K., where she received a doctorate in musico-literary studies at the University of East Anglia and currently lectures at Bath Spa University. A musician, Hooper performs as the solo artist Waitress for the Bees and was awarded a Finnish cultural knighthood. She also performs with the Stringbeans Quartet and has toured with Peter Gabriel and Toni Braxton. She lives in Bath, U.K., but goes home to Canada to crosscountry ski whenever she can.

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As Etta walks toward the ocean—accompanied by a coyote named James— memory, illusion, and reality blur. Like the gentle undulation of waves, Etta and Otto and Russell and James move from a past filled with hunger, war, passion, and hope to a present of quiet industry and peaceful communion, from trying to remember to trying to forget. Starred Kirkus review

“Stunning and powerful … A masterful near homage to Pilgrim’s Progress: souls redeemed through struggle.” —Kirkus

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“Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper is incredibly moving, beautifully written, and luminous with wisdom. It is a book that restores one’s faith in life even as it deepens its mystery. Wonderful!” —Chris Cleave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Bee

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A kaleidoscopic novel that traverses the worst wars of the twentieth century to reveal the transformative power of art and the resilience of the human heart

REIF LARSEN

HAMISH HAMILTON February • Fiction • 978-0-670-06871-5 $33.95 • Hardcover • 6 × 9 • 656 pages Rights: Canada, English

I Am Radar

SALES Larsen’s first novel was a New York Times bestseller and published in 29 countries. The movie adaptation of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet—entitled The Young and Prodigious Spivet—was written and directed by JeanPierre Jeunet (Amélie, Delicatessen).

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In 1975, a black child named Radar Radmanovic is mysteriously born to white parents. Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in Yugoslavia, Norway, Cambodia, the Congo, and beyond. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists—who stage experimental art for people suffering under wartime sieges—Radar is forced to confront the true nature of his identity. In I Am Radar, acclaimed novelist Reif Larsen—the author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet—delivers a triumph of storytelling at its most primal, elegant, and epic.

REIF LARSEN’s first novel, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, was a 2010 Montana Honor book, a Border’s Original Voices Finalist, and an IndieBound Award Finalist; it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Larsen’s essays and fiction have appeared in Tin House, one story, The Millions, Virgina Quarterly Review, and The Believer. He studied at Brown University and has taught at Columbia University where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. Larsen is also a filmmaker and has made documentaries in the U.S., the U.K., and sub-Saharan Africa. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York State.

In the wreckage of the twentieth century, the characters of I Am Radar hunt for what life and art can still be salvaged. During the civil wars of Yugoslavia, two brothers walk shockingly different paths: one into the rapacious paramilitary forces terrorizing the countryside, the other into the surreal world of besieged Belgrade. In arctic Norway, resistance schoolteachers steal radioactive material from a secret Nazi nuclear reactor to stage a dramatic art performance, with no witnesses. In the years before Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime, an expatriate French landowner adopts an abandoned native child and creates a lifelong scientific experiment of his new son’s education. In the modern-day Congo, a disfigured literature professor assembles the world’s largest library in the futile hope that the books will cement a peace in the war-torn country. All of these stories are united in the New Jersey Meadowlands, where a radio operator named Radar struggles with a horrible medical affliction, a set of hapless parents, and—only now, as an adult—all too ordinary white skin. A sophisticated, highly addictive reading experience that draws on the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history, and performance art, Larsen’s I Am Radar is a novel somehow greater than its remarkable parts—a breathtaking, unparalleled joyride that takes us through the worst humanity has to offer only to arrive at a place of shocking wonder and redemption.

Simultaneous co-publication with Penguin Press in the U.S.

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Praise for The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

“Like nothing you’ve ever picked up before … steeped in poignancy, humour, and wisdom.”—Vanity Fair “A cracking tale of adventure.” —Winnipeg Free Press

Also available: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet 978-0-670-06975-0 • $35.00 • HC

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From Brazil’s most acclaimed young novelist, the mesmerizing story of how a troubled young man’s restorative journey to the seaside becomes a violent struggle with his family’s dark past

The second instalment of Sebastien de Castell’s swashbuckling adventure-epic series of brotherhood, courage, and honour

DANIEL GALERA

SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL

Blood-Drenched Beard

Greatcoat’s Lament Falcio val Mond is the first Cantor of the Greatcoats. Trained in the fighting arts and the laws of Tristia, the Greatcoats are travelling Magisters upholding King’s Law. They are heroes. Or at least they were, until they stood aside while the Dukes took the kingdom and then began fighting among themselves.

The young man’s father, dying, at last tells him the truth about his grandfather— or at least the truth as he knows it. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some fellow villagers in Garopaba, a town on the Atlantic now famous for its surfing and fishing. It was during a Sunday dance at a community hall. The lights went out suddenly, and when they came up, his grandfather was lying on the ground in a pool of blood … or so the story goes.

The horrifying murder of a duke and his family sends Falcio in a deadly pursuit to capture the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies. As chaos and civil war begin to overtake the country, Falcio has precious little time left to stop those determined to destroy his homeland.

It is as if his father has given him a deathbed challenge. And his girlfriend has just left him, so he has no strong ties. He is a great ocean swimmer, so why not strike out for Garopaba and see what he can discover? The young man travels up the coast, finds an apartment by the water, and begins to build a simple new life, taking his father’s old dog as a companion. He swims in the sea every day, makes a few friends, falls into a relationship, begins to make inquiries.

HAMISH HAMILTON January • Fiction • 978-0-670-06834-0 $32.00 • Hardcover • 6⅛ × 9¼ • 384 pages Rights: Canada, English

Steeped in tension, atmosphere, and the sultry allure of south Brazil, Daniel Galera’s masterfully spare and powerful prose unfolds a story of discovery that feels mythic, elemental, and archetypal—a wise and potent display of story telling sorcery that announces one of Brazil’s greatest young writers as a blazing new literary talent to the English-speaking world.

SALES Blood-Drenched Beard is already a critically acclaimed bestseller in Brazil and Germany, and will be published in over 15 other countries, including Penguin Press in the U.S., Hamish Hamilton in the U.K., and Random House in Spain.

Galera has also translated a dazzling range of the most important young writers in the English language, including David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Benjamin Kunkel, and Jonathan Safran Foer.

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Published by Companhia Das Letras, Blood-Drenched Beard won the 2013 São Paulo Literary Prize, and Galera was named in Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists.

DANIEL GALERA is a Brazilian writer, translator, and editor. He was born in São Paulo, but spent most of his life in Porto Alegre, only returning to São Paulo in 2005. He has published four novels in Brazil to great acclaim, the latest of which, Blood-Drenched Beard, was awarded the 2013 São Paulo Literature Prize. In addition to writing, he has translated the work of Zadie Smith and Jonathan Safran Foer into Portuguese.

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But information doesn’t come easily. A rare neurological condition means that the young man doesn’t recognize the faces of people he’s met—leading frequently to awkwardness and occasionally to violence. And the people who do know about his grandfather are fearful to give anything away. Life becomes complicated for him in Garopaba, and even dangerous.

Greatcoat’s Lament is a dark, daring tale of idealism and betrayal in a country crushed under the weight of its rulers’ corruption. It is the second book in the Greatcoats series that began with Traitor’s Blade. SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL started out as an archaeologist but left to pursue a career in music, interactive design, fight choreography, teaching, acting, and product strategy. He lives in Vancouver, where he is director of strategic program development at the Vancouver Film School. decastell.com

@decastell

Praise for Traitor’s Blade

“This is one hell of a good book. So many fantasies concentrate on the darkness in humanity these days. There’s something to be said for that, if it’s well done. Yet this is a book that reminds you that deep down, we want to have courage and honour—and we admire those who do. Hugely enjoyable throughout. Five stars—well deserved.”

SALES De Castell is a fight choreographer, weapons consultant, certified advanced actor/ combatant, and a level 1 fencing coach. Co-publication with Quercus U.K. and U.S. Perfect for fans of Patrick Rothfuss, Joe Abercrombie, and Brandon Sanderson.

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—Conn Iggulden, bestselling author of The Wars of the Roses, Conqueror and Emperor series

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Fantasy • 978-0-14-318874-2 • $18.00 Original Trade Paperback • 5¼ × 8¼ • 304 pages Rights: Canada, English 9

The author of the groundbreaking and bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft sets out to discover how we can gain control over our mental lives SALES Crawford is beloved by media, and has appeared on The Colbert Report, CNN, News Hour, and BBC World News.

MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD

Shop Class as Soulcraft was a New York Times and Canadian bestseller. Simultaneous co-publication with FSG. For fans of Susan Cain’s Quiet and Daniel Levitin’s The Organized Mind.

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The World Beyond Your Head

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On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD is a philosopher and mechanic. He has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago and served as a post-doctoral fellow on its Committee on Social Thought. Currently a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, an independent motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Virginia. matthewbcrawford.com

In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one’s own mind. We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defence against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self. Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice-hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behaviour of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature. The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of common experience, from the frustrations of airport security to the rise of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children, the design of public spaces, and democracy itself, this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life.

Praise for Shop Class as Soulcraft

“Shop Class as Soulcraft is a beautiful little book about human excellence and the way it is undervalued in contemporary America.” —The New York Times Book Review

Also available: Shop Class as Soulcraft 978-0-14-311746-9 • $18.50 • PB

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The highly anticipated cookbook by the award-winning Simple Bites blogger and urban homesteader

AIMÉE WIMBUSH-BOURQUE

Brown Eggs and Jam Jars Family Recipes from the Kitchen of Simple Bites Aimée’s rural-homesteader upbringing, years working as a professional chef, and everyday life as a busy mom led to the creation of the hugely popular blog Simple Bites. Raising three young children with husband Danny, Aimée traded her tongs and chef whites for a laptop and camera, married her two passions—mothering and cooking—and has since been creating recipes with an emphasis on whole foods for the family table, sharing stories and tips, and inspiring readers to make the family–food connection on the Simple Bites blog. Brown Eggs and Jam Jars is Aimée’s long-awaited cookbook, inspired by her urban homesteading through the seasons and the joyous events they bring. It embraces year-round simple food with fresh flavours, from celebrating spring with a stack of Buttermilk Buckwheat Pancakes and pure maple syrup, to a simple late-summer harvest dinner with Chili-Basil Corn on the Cob and Lemon Oregano Roast Chicken. Autumn favourites include Apple Cinnamon Layer Cake with Apple Butter Cream Cheese Frosting, while Slow Cooker Cider Ham is the perfect comfort food for those cold winter nights. But that’s just a few of the more than one hundred recipes (like melt-on-your-tongue maple butter tarts and tangy homemade yogurt) that have a touch of nostalgia, feature natural ingredients, and boast plenty of love.

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Brown Eggs and Jam Jars will inspire readers to connect family and food right where they are in life—from growing their own tomatoes to making a batch of homemade cookies. Enjoy your urban homestead.

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AIMÉE WIMBUSH-BOURQUE, a former chef turned modern homesteader, is the creator, editor, and writer of the award-winning blog Simple Bites, which is devoted to healthy, family-focused food—with a little urban homesteading in the mix. She is married and the mom of three kids, boss of two cats, and farmer of six brown hens. simplebites.net SimpleBites aimeebourque

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SALES Wimbush-Bourque has a huge social media following—approximately 12,000 followers on Twitter, 30,000 “likes” on Facebook, and 400,000 unique visitors a month on her blog. Simple Bites won the prestigious Saveur Best Food Blog Award in 2013 for Best Kids’ Cooking Blog. She is a contributing writer to JamieOliver.com as well as Canadian Tire (Home Grown Goodness). Simultaneous publication with Pintail in the U.S. Includes four-color photographs throughout.

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MARCH • PENGUIN Cooking/General • 978-0-14-319050-9 • $32.00 Original Trade Paperback with French Flaps • 8 × 10 288 pages • Rights: World, All languages, excluding U.S.

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A brilliant historical novel set during twelfth-century England— a dark time of dark deeds—by the bestselling and award-winning author of the Mistress of the Art of Death series

China’s dramatic rise is shaping Canada’s future, and we need a better plan ME CO VE R TO CO

DAVID MULRONEY

ARIANA FRANKLIN

Middle Power, Middle Kingdom

The Siege Winter 1141 a.d.: King Stephen is warring with his cousin Empress Matilda over the throne of England. Every cathedral, every castle, every seat of power will swear fealty to one or the other—but not every stronghold is as strategic or as valuable as Kenniford Castle in Oxfordshire. Its mistress, sixteen-year-old Maud of Kenniford, swears fealty to Stephen, but Matilda’s forces have decreed that she marry the odious John of Tewing.

For fans of C.J. Samson, Sharon Kay Penman, and Ellis Peters. Simultaneous publication with William Morrow in the U.S. and Bantam in the U.K.

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Life in the fenlands carries on as usual—that is, until the mercenaries ride through the marsh, and a small red-haired girl named Em is snatched and carried off. After the soldiers have finished with her, they leave her for dead. But fenland girls are not easy to kill. Although she has lost all memory of her past life, including her name, Em survives and falls under the protection of Gwyl, a Breton archer. Together Gwyl and his new protegé— now crop-headed and disguised as a boy—travel through the countryside giving archery exhibitions. But there is one man who hasn’t forgotten the little red-haired girl. He has some unfinished business with her, and he is determined to see it through.

David Mulroney, former Canadian ambassador to China, is firm: We need to start paying closer attention. While not quite as important as the U.S., China has become our second largest economic partner and is far bigger than all the rest. Canada exerts a magnetic pull on Chinese tourists and students. It’s also a popular destination for Chinese homebuyers in search of a new life or simply looking for a safe place to park money. An assertive China is challenging the balance of power in the Pacific, and it is more than willing to reach across borders, including Canada’s, to steal technologies and to confront challenges to its ideology.

And one freezing winter in an Oxfordshire castle completely besieged, he might well get his chance …

We must do better. With his experience in China and as a leader in forming a successful strategy in Afghanistan, Mulroney is uniquely positioned to argue this. He discusses what our challenges in Afghanistan were and how we eventually got it right, and how these lessons can be applied to the future challenges of China, and beyond.

ARIANA FRANKLIN was the pen name of British writer Diana Norman. A former journalist, Norman wrote several critically acclaimed biographies and historical novels. She lived in Hertfordshire, England, with her husband, the film critic Barry Norman. Norman was the author of the acclaimed, award-winning Mistress of the Art of Death series. She passed away in 2011, before she was able to deliver the manuscript for The Siege Winter. Her daughter, Samantha, completed the novel on her mother’s behalf. SAMANTHA NORMAN is a journalist and broadcaster who lives in West London. arianafranklin.com

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“I’d like to crown Ariana Franklin, Queen of the Historical Mystery.”—Tess Gerritsen

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Cutting right to the heart of the issue, Middle Power, Middle Kingdom is an intimate account of how foreign policy works, and how policies must be changed if Canada is to prosper.

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Franklin is the winner of the 2007 Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction, and winner of the British Crime Writers’ Association’s 2010 Dagger in the Library Award.

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The rise of China is having a direct impact on our prosperity, on our health and well-being, and on our security here in Canada. The road to achieving many of our middle-power aspirations now runs through the Middle Kingdom.

DAVID MULRONEY served as ambassador of Canada to the People’s Republic of China from 2009 to 2012. Prior to this, he served as the deputy minister responsible for the Afghanistan Task Force, overseeing interdepartmental coordination of all aspects of Canada’s engagement in Afghanistan. He is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.

SALES Clearly explains how official Canadian policies toward China affect the daily lives of Canadians. Includes anecdotes from Mulroney’s time in China involving former GG Michaëlle Jean and artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Connects lessons learned in Afghanistan to our current policies for China. For fans of Henry Kissinger’s On China and Pierre Trudeau’s and Jacques Hebert’s Two Innocents in Red China.

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Health science expert Timothy Caulfield is on a mission to debunk the bad science and false happiness that flow from celebrity culture

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SALES Caulfield often appears in media as a health expert and is a passionate advocate for good health and good science.

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TIMOTHY CAULFIELD

TIMOTHY CAULFIELD is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health as well as research director of the Health Law and Science Policy Group at the University of Alberta. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He lives in Edmonton. @CaulfieldTim

Tim Caulfield was named one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People (2014) by Alberta Venture magazine. He is a regular contributor to Breakfast Television in Edmonton.

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?

For fans of Tim Caulfield’s The Cure for Everything, Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test, and A.J. Jacobs’ Drop Dead Healthy.

The Not-so-Creative Coupling of Celebrity Culture and Pseudo-Science

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Over the past few decades, celebrity culture’s grip on our society has tightened. For Timothy Caulfield, a health science expert, this culture has a measurable influence on individual health-care decisions. But this is not a book about celebrity culture. Nor does it mock those who enjoy it (Caulfield in fact loves celebrity culture). Instead he identifies and debunks the messages and promises that flow from the celebrity realm, whether they’re about health, diet, beauty, or what is supposed to make us happy. As he did so convincingly in The Cure for Everything, Caulfield separates sense from nonsense and provides usable, evidence-informed advice about what actually works and what is a complete waste of money and time. In typical Caulfield manner, it isn’t enough to just interview experts and read all the current studies (which he does). Caulfield employs a more hands-on approach: He tries celebrity-recommended beauty routines and diets. He signs on with a modelling agency and goes to a competition in New York. He follows celebrity Twitter feeds, peruses gossip blogs, and forces himself to read every issue—cover to cover—of People magazine, for an entire year, in his quest to understand the relationship between celebrity culture and our individual health choices. Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? That’s the question Caulfield sets out to answer in this fun, factual book that offers real-life advice.

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The Cure for Everything was a national bestseller, and the ebook was one of our best non-fiction sellers.

“[The] Cure for Everything is insightful and entertaining … Gently and with humour, Caulfield guides readers through the funhouse world of health sciences.”—National Post “[An] entertaining and thought-provoking slam.”

Also available: The Cure for Everything 978-0-14-317785-2 • $20.00 • PB

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Soon to be published in twenty-three countries, an irresistible novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens when no one else is looking SALES Instant bestseller and Instant #1 Indie bestseller in Australia.

BROOKE DAVIS

Co-publication with Dutton in the U.S. Over 23 other countries will publish Lost & Found, including Hachette in Australia. Davis is the winner of the Allen and Unwin Prize for Prose Fiction, the Verandah Prose Prize, the 2009 Bobbie Cullen Memorial Award for Women Writers, and the 2011 Postgraduate Queensland Writing Prize.

Lost & Found

Penguin Random House Audio (Global) has selected Lost & Found as one of it’s Winter 2015 audiobooks.

Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie’s father, leaves her in the big ladies’ underwear department of a local store and never returns.

Davis is the second author (after Hannah Kent, Burial Rights) to be featured on the hugely popular documentary series Australian Story, airing this summer.

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Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, hasn’t left her house—or spoken to another human being—since she was widowed seven years ago. She fills the silences by yelling at passersby, watching loud static on the TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule.

BROOKE DAVIS has worked as a travel writer, editor, and bookseller. Her debut novel, Lost & Found, was written as a Ph.D. thesis on grief at Curtin University in Western Australia, and part of it was anthologized in Award Winning Australian Writing 2012. Davis attended Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, but now makes Perth, Australia, her home. @this is brooked

For fans of Graeme Simsion, Maria Semple, and Mark Haddon.

Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife’s skin. Now that she’s gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Karl’s been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he’s on the lam.

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Brought together in strange circumstances, the three will embark upon a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie’s mum. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a man again, and Agatha just wants everything to go back to how it was.

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Together, they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life. Excerpt from Lost & Found

“She crawls back under the Ginormous Women’s Underwear and takes a sandwich out of her backpack. As she eats it, she watches the mannequin through the gap in the undies. He watches back. Hello, she whispers. The only other sound, a humming from the lights in the display cabinets.” FEBRUARY • VIKING Fiction • 978-0-14-319385-2 • $22.95 Original Trade Paperback with French Flaps 5¼ × 8¼ • 208 pages • Rights: Canada, English

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From the bestselling authors of Quinoa 365, easy and delicious gluten-free, wheat-free baking for all occasions

PATRICIA GREEN and CAROLYN HEMMING

Sweet Goodness Unbelievably Delicious, Gluten-Free Baking Recipes Both healthy and deliciously decadent, these simple recipes use a manageable number of easy-to-find gluten-free and alternative ingredients. And just because the recipes are gluten-free doesn’t mean they’re lacking! Filled with flavour, these unique recipes produce the look, taste, and texture you’d expect from regular baking. Plus, you’ll benefit from the health-boosting nature of such gluten-free ingredients as coconut, millet, oats, quinoa, chia, and psyllium, as well as alternative sweeteners like honey, maple syrup, and less-refined, organic sugars. Sweet Goodness includes all the basics of using the key ingredients and techniques that are essential for gluten-free baking success, including important factors such as moisture in gluten-free recipes, grinding flours, storage, and how and why you should make your own flour combinations instead of buying ready-made gluten-free flour blends. Inside Sweet Goodness readers will find recipes for a wide variety of breads and doughs, cookies and bars, simple baked goods, tarts and pies, and special-occasion treats. For those new to gluten-free baking or those who are experienced, these recipes have wide appeal for the whole family.

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PATRICIA GREEN and CAROLYN HEMMING are sisters and the bestselling authors of Quinoa 365, Quinoa Revolution, and Grain Power. They are both mothers who balance family, career, and fitness goals as well as avidly explore the use of superfoods and new meal ideas. www.patriciaandcarolyn.com

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SALES Quinoa 365 has sold over 200,000 copies. For the increasing number of people affected by wheat-related allergies or sensitivities, celiac disease, colitis, or Crohn’s disease, and those simply choosing to avoid gluten as part of a healthy lifestyle. Recipes use popular gluten-free ancient grains and seeds like quinoa, millet, chia, oats, sorghum, and teff as well as other healthy and popular ingredients. Includes four-color photographs throughout. Simultaneous publication with Pintail in the U.S.

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Bestselling author Harley Pasternak’s proven plan to lose the most stubborn pounds and keep them off forever

HARLEY PASTERNAK, MSc

5 Pounds The Breakthrough 5-Day Plan to Jumpstart Rapid Weight Loss (and Never Gain It Back!) For most people, the hardest part of lasting weight loss is either getting started or reaching their goals—too often, motivation is tough to maintain or those final few pounds simply won’t budge, no matter how many hours are logged on the treadmill and how many calories counted. Now, from The New York Times bestselling author of The Body Reset Diet, comes a deceptively simple plan to slim down—whether you need to shed those last few stubborn pounds or want to jumpstart a more significant weight-loss effort. 5 Pounds teaches readers how to implement five simple strategies as daily habits:

SALES Pasternak trains celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Kanye West, Amanda Seyfried, Kim Kardashian, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and many more; he’s also regularly profiled on TV and in magazines and newspapers—including People, Us, Shape, LA Times, and The New York Times. He is a columnist for People.com. Pasternak has a big social media following, especially on Twitter and Instagram. He’s a spokesperson and product developer for New Balance and the Harley Blender (coming to Canada in 2015). Both The Body Reset Diet and The Body Reset Diet Cookbook were instant Globe and Mail bestsellers.

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Walk 5 miles a day. Eat protein and fibre 5 times a day. Do resistance exercise 5 minutes a day. Sleep at least 7 hours a night. Unplug at least 1 hour a day.

Readers will enjoy immediate results—dropping 5 pounds or more in just 5 days—and boost energy, improve overall health, and finally achieve long-term weight-loss success. With step-by-step advice, easy-to-prepare recipes, and motivating success stories, 5 Pounds will transform the way readers look and feel forever. HARLEY PASTERNAK, M.SC., is a renowned fitness and nutrition expert and the bestselling author of The Body Reset Diet Cookbook, The Body Reset Diet, The 5-Factor World Diet, The 5-Factor Diet, and 5-Factor Fitness. He appears regularly on ABC’s Good Morning America and has appeared on The View, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Access Hollywood, Extra!, Entertainment Tonight, The Rachael Ray Show, and America’s Next Top Model. He blogs for People.com, AOL.com, and the Huffington Post and has been featured in numerous publications. He lives in Los Angeles. harleypasternak.com harleypasternak

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HELEN OYEYEMI

Named one of the “18 Books to Watch for in 2014” by CNN. Named one of the “5 Books to Get Excited About This Winter” by Vulture. The Amazon Best Book of the Month for March 2014. Front-page coverage in The New York Times Book Review

Boy, Snow, Bird

A Heather’s Pick.

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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow.

HELEN OYEYEMI is the author of five novels, most recently White Is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and Mr. Fox, which won a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2013, she was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.

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A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she’d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy’s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. And even as Boy, Snow, and Bird are divided, their estrangement is complicated by an insistent curiosity about one another. In seeking an understanding that is separate from the image each presents to the world, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time.

“Oyeyemi is one of the few storytellers who seems on intimate terms with the language of myth, swims in it with apparent ease, and teases exciting possibilities from the old stories with her hypnotic command of prose … When Oyeyemi explores a theme, it tends to follow patterns similar to a melody rather than those of systemic analysis. Images and ideas arise, embodied in gorgeous prose.”—The Globe and Mail

“This imaginative novel explores identity, race, and family, arguing in brilliant language that black, white, good, evil, beauty, and monstrosity are different sides of a single, awesome truth.” —People

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHATELAINE BOOKCLUB SELECTION SALES An Indigo Spotlight Pick.

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GABRIELLE ZEVIN has published seven novels for adults and young adults and is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. She lives in Los Angeles. gabriellezevin.com @gabriellezevin gabriellezevin.tumblr.com gabriellezevinfanpage

A New York Post Must-Read book. Debuted at #6 on the ABA Bestseller list. A #1 Indie Next Pick for April 2014, shattering the record for most bookseller nominations. A #1 Library Reads selection. A Canadian Independent Bestseller (#3).

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

A National Post Afterword Reading Society.

A.J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island—from Chief Lambiase, the well-intentioned police officer who’s always felt kindly toward him; from Ismay, his sister-in-law, who is hell-bent on saving A.J. from his dreary self; from Amelia, the lovely and idealistic (if eccentric) Knightley Press sales rep who persists in taking the ferry to Alice Island, refusing to be deterred by A.J.’s bad attitude. Even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him. These days, he can only see them as a sign of a world that is changing too rapidly.

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And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore. It’s a small package, though large in weight—an unexpected arrival that gives A.J. the opportunity to make his life over, the ability to see everything anew. It doesn’t take long for the locals to notice the change overcoming A.J., for the determined sales rep Amelia to see her curmudgeonly client in a new light, for the wisdom of all those books to become again the lifeblood of A.J.’s world. Or for everything to twist again into a version of his life that he didn’t see coming. As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love. Praise for The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Wonderful, thoughtful, and touching … The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is … better than merely ‘worth reading’—it’s actually a treat, a small gem of a book … [It] explores the depth of grief, yearning, and heartbreak. There is a love story, yes, but it’s handled with a sensitivity and genuine clarity that is both surprising and refreshing … It is a powerful novel.” —The Globe and Mail 26

Perfect for book clubs.

A Penguin.ca Spotlight title. S selection on CBC’s Ultimate 2014 Summer Reading List.

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“A smart, sweet, and surprising story about life, love, and second chances.”—CBC Books “Marvelously optimistic about the future of books and bookstores and the people who love both.” —The Washington Post

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Original stories from the Vinyl Tap rock star on his life in music have their first airing here

A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone ME CO VE R TO CO

ISHMAEL BEAH

RANDY BACHMAN

Radiance of Tomorrow

Tales from Beyond the Tap

At the centre of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, two long-time friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after a devastating civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones and drenched in deep despair. The war may be over, but the denizens of Imperi are not spared the dangers that hover over them, menacing as vengeful ghosts. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they’re beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depradations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town’s water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they’re forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike.

Randy Bachman’s Tales from Beyond the Tap gives rock fans a VIP tour of an extraordinary life in music. Randy has met, and even performed with, almost every musician you can think of, but who are the artists he wishes he had met? The answers may surprise you. What is Randy’s creative process for writing a hit song, and what’s it like working with some of those famous musicians? When you’ve played thousands of gigs over a fifty-year career, they can become a blur—but there are some performances that stand out. Life on the road is also not as glamorous as most people imagine. And for the first time, Randy discusses his roller-coaster relationship with former Guess Who bandmate Burton Cummings. Randy has seen the Canadian music scene develop from the beginning, and his thoughts on its evolution will make you appreciate the music even more. Tales from Beyond the Tap offers a rare and exclusive glimpse behind the man, the music, and the show that puts radio back on top.

Bachman is a constant media presence with his CBC radio show and appearances at major Canadian music events and award shows.

Bachman’s Vinyl Tap is available in the U.S. on Sirius Satellite Radio.

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He frequently tours and performs in venues across Canada.

RANDY BACHMAN has become a legendary figure in the rock ’n’ roll world through his talent as a guitarist, songwriter, performer, and producer. Best known for his work in the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, he has earned more than 120 gold and platinum album/singles awards around the world for performing and producing. Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Stories was a national bestseller. randybachman.com

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“Though directed primarily at his fans, the book and its colorful and lively patter should have broad appeal for rock music enthusiasts.”—Publishers Weekly

With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times. If A Long Way Gone taught us to mourn the crimes of yesterday, Radiance of Tomorrow introduces us to a people who must survive their guilt and accept tomorrow, with all its promise—and radiance.

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ISHMAEL BEAH was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He moved to the United States when he was seventeen and graduated from Oberlin College in 2004. He is a UNICEF ambassador and advocate for Children Affected by War, a member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Advisory Committee, and president of the Ishmael Beah Foundation. He lives with his wife in New York City.

SALES An Indigo Spotlight Pick. Named one of the “18 Books to Watch for in 2014” by CNN. Named one of the “10 Best Books of January” by The Christian Science Monitor. Amazon Best Book of the Month for January 2014. Will feature new commercial packaging to appeal to fans of A Long Way Gone.

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“Evocative … Beah’s writing is powerful. His use of language echoes the poetry of his mother tongue … Radiance of Tomorrow is a potent and poignant story that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.” —Winnipeg Free Press

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING NEW parent-friendly packaging to come

prescription for healthy, thriving kids

“If you liked All the President’s Men … you’ll love Crazy Town.” —The Next Chapter, CBC Radio

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ROBYN DOOLITTLE

SHIMI K. KANG, m.d.

Crazy Town

The Dolphin Way A Parent’s Guide to Raising Healthy, Happy and Motivated Kids, Without Turning into a Tiger

Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s drug- and alcohol-fuelled antics made world headlines and engulfed the city in unprecedented controversy. Reporter Robyn Doolittle was one of three journalists to view the video of Ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine. Her dogged pursuit of the story uncovered disturbing details about the mayor’s past and shone a light on the history of substance abuse and criminal behaviour that has beset the Fords, one of the most ambitious families in Canada.

In this inspiring book, Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Shimi Kang provides a guide to inspiring children to develop their own internal drive and lifelong love of learning. Drawing on the latest neuroscience and behavioural research, Dr. Kang show why pushy “tiger parents” and permissive “jellyfish parents” actually hinder self-motivation. She proposes a powerful new parenting model: the intelligent, joyful, playful, and highly social dolphin.

SALES Dr. Kang has a strong media presence (recently was on CBC National discussing cyber bullying, teen suicide, and mental health in relation to the tragic Nova Scotia case).

Combining irrefutable science with unforgettable real-life stories, The Dolphin Way walks readers through Dr. Kang’s four-part method for cultivating self-motivation. We are not forced to choose between being permissive or controlling. The third option—the option that will prepare our kids for success in a future that will require adaptability—is the dolphin way.

Dr. Kang has contributed pieces to various media outlets such as Time.com and Huffington Post. She is an in-demand public speaker on health- and parenting-related issues.

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SHIMI K. KANG, M.D., is the medical director for Child and Youth Mental Health for Vancouver and a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Kang has helped hundreds of children, adolescents, and their parents move toward positive behaviours and better mental health.

Updated with new material, Crazy Town is a page-turning and insightful portrait of a troubled man, a formidable family, and a city caught in a jaw-dropping scandal. ROBYN DOOLITTLE is a reporter with The Globe and Mail. She began her career covering crime and moved to the municipal politics beat during the 2010 mayoral elections. She is one of three reporters to have viewed a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. A graduate of Ryerson University’s journalism school, Doolittle lives in Toronto.

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As the medial director for child and youth mental health community programs in Vancouver, Dr. Kang has witnessed firsthand the consequences of parental pressure: anxiety, high stress, suicide, and addiction. As the mother of three children and the daughter of immigrant parents who struggled to give their children the “best” in life, Dr. Kang argues that by trusting our deepest intuition about what is best for our kids, we will allow them to develop key dolphin traits to enable them to thrive in an increasingly complex world: adaptability, community-mindedness, creativity, and critical thinking.

After Doolittle helped break news of a second crack video, Ford entered rehab. Stripped of his mayoral powers, he nevertheless remains optimistic heading into the October 2014 election.

“Doolittle chronicles the investigations into Ford’s misconducts with admirable journalistic rigor and fairmindedness … Crazy Town serves as a crucial primer as events continue to unfold.”—Zoomer “For anyone interested in finding out why Rob Ford is the way he is … A wealth of information … The book has a dramatic quality that makes it compelling.”

SALES Updated material on the second crack video scoop, Ford’s stay in rehab, his return to office, and Doolittle’s career switch. Doolittle appeared in all the key Canadian media and now has an even larger national platform as a reporter with The Globe and Mail. Massive international media attention, including appearances on The Late Show with Seth Myers, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. Interest in the Fords will continue to build in the lead-up to the fall municipal elections.

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—Toronto Life

“This is a powerful book that not only reminds us of what it means to live a balanced human life, but also how to achieve it—simply and naturally. The Dolphin Way guides us towards balance in an often imbalanced world.”—David Suzuki Previous ISBN: 978-0-670-06756-5

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Two beautiful new reissues from the author of Cloud

ERIC McCORMACK The Dutch Wife

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Rachel, the mother of the aging professor Thomas Vanderlinden, shared her life with two men. Both went by the name of Rowland Vanderlinden. The first husband went abroad and never returned. The second, whom Rachel also unquestioningly accepted as her husband, was a mystery. In an attempt to understand his mother’s adventurous decisions regarding love and marriage, Thomas sets out on a journey to the far reaches of the Pacific to find the first Rowland, and his real father. As the mystery of the two Rowlands unfolds throughout the novel, so too does a fascinating portrait of one woman and the choices she makes. Set against a backdrop of fantastical places, The Dutch Wife is a profound meditation on the nature of love. ERIC McCORMACK was born in a small village in Scotland. He moved to Canada in 1966 and attended the University of Manitoba. He taught English for over thirty years at St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, specializing in seventeenth-century and contemporary literature. He has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Governor General’s Award. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women A masterpiece of the sexual gothic, this is the story of Andrew Halfnight, whose life, part dream, part nightmare, begins with a mother’s tragic choice and ends with a lover’s embrace. In between he experiences tempests at sea, on land, and in the mind, relatives who kill for love, and lovers who sacrifice their bodies—all the while moving ever closer to the central mystery of his and all existence. First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women is Eric McCormack at his finest.

SALES The First Blast of the Trumpet was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction.

“Some books you wish would never end. So it is with Eric McCormack’s First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women … [a] dark, rollicking fabulous story.”—Toronto Star

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The Canadian legend that inspired a nation and forever changed the “sport of kings”

KEVIN CHONG

Northern Dancer The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation In “the sport of kings,” Northern Dancer is not only a Canadian legend, but the cornerstone of his breed. It has been estimated that 70 percent of the thoroughbreds alive today are his descendants, including the majority of the horses running in the biggest races around the world. His offspring have received record-breaking prices on the auction floor. But he is best known for his legendary 1964 campaign, which saw him win two of the Triple Crown races in the U.S. and Canada’s Queen’s Plate. In that time, he captured the attention of the world and the hearts of all Canadians. In Northern Dancer, the world-famous horse comes alive through the people whose lives he touched: E.P. Taylor, the visionary industrialist; Horatio Luro, the dapper Argentinean trainer (and tango dancer, pilot, and race-car driver) who was notorious for his affairs with Hollywood starlets and his tender treatment of horses; and Bill Hartack, a wildly successful jockey whose squabbles with the press and his inability to conceal his unvarnished thoughts from influential owners and trainers were, by 1964, beginning to affect his career. Using news clippings from 1964 and interviews, Kevin Chong not only offers a novelistic telling of the remarkable 1964 Triple Crown and Queen’s Plate races, but also revisits, fifty years later, the era in which Canada was struggling to establish an identity and needing, more than anything, a national hero. KEVIN CHONG was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver. He’s the author of four other books, including the racetrack memoir My Year of the Racehorse, which was cited as a book of the year on Amazon.ca and in the National Post. His work as a journalist has appeared in a range of publications. He teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia and lives in Vancouver.

SALES Nothing else like it in the market—while there have been books about Northern Dancer as a sire, no other book focuses on the championship races and the people involved. An established and charismatic author with a novelistic non-fiction writing style.

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“A straightforward, detail-filled, and nation-proud reciting of one of Canada’s ‘most thrilling stories … Horse race history buffs may appreciate the glimpses of behind-thescenes politicking, while a general readership may be gratified by the brisk pacing of the storytelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Compelling.”—Maclean’s “[A] smart recreation of a four-legged hero.” —The Globe and Mail

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EMMA HOOPER Etta and Otto and Russell and James 1 Otto, The letter began, in blue ink,

I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone there. Don’t worry, I’ve left you the truck. I can walk. I will try to remember to come back.

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Yours (always), Etta. Underneath the letter she had left a pile of recipe cards. All the things she had always made. Also in blue ink. So he would know what and how to eat while she was away. Otto sat down at the table and arranged them so no two were overlapping. Columns and rows. He thought about putting on his coat and shoes and going out to try and find her, maybe asking neighbors if they had seen which way she went, but he didn’t. He just sat at the table with the letter and the cards. His hands trembled. He laid one on top of the other to calm them. After a while Otto stood and went to get their globe. It had a light in the middle, on the inside, that shone through the latitude and longitude lines. He turned it on and turned off the regular kitchen lights. He put it on the far side of the table, away from the letter and cards, and traced a path with his finger. Halifax. If she went east, Etta would have three thousand, two hundred and thirty-two kilometers to cross. If west, to Vancouver, twelve hundred and one kilometers. But she would go east, Otto knew. He could feel the tightness in the skin across his chest pulling that way. He noticed his rifle was missing from the front closet. It would still be an hour or so until the sun rose.

Growing up, Otto had fourteen brothers and sisters. Fifteen altogether, including him. This was when the flu came and wouldn’t go, and the soil was even dryer than usual, and the banks had all turned inside out, and all the farmers’ wives were losing more children than they were keeping. So families were trying and trying, for every five pregnancies, three babies, and for every three babies, one child. Most of the farmers’ wives were pregnant most of the time. The silhouette of a beautiful woman, then, was a silhouette rounded with potential. Otto’s mother was no different. Beautiful. Always round. Still, the other farmers and their wives were wary of her. She was cursed, or blessed; supernatural, they said to one another across postboxes. Because Otto’s mother, Grace, lost none of her children. Not One. Every robust pregnancy running smoothly into a ruddy infant and every infant to a barrel-eared child, lined up between siblings in gray and off-gray nightclothes, some holding babies, some holding hands, leaning into the door to their parents’ room, listening fixedly to the moaning from within.

Etta, on the other hand, had only one sister. Alma with the pitch-black hair. They lived in town. Let’s play nuns, said Etta, once, after school but before dinner. Why nuns? said Alma. She was braiding Etta’s hair. Etta’s just-normal like a cowpat hair. Etta thought about the nuns they saw, sometimes, on the edges of town, moving ghostly-holy between the shops and church. Sometimes by the hospital. Always clean in black and white. She looked down at her own red shoes. Blue buckles. Undone. Because they’re beautiful, she said. No, Etta, said Alma, nuns don’t get to be beautiful. Or have adventures. Everybody forgets nuns.

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I don’t, said Etta. Anyway, said Alma, I might get married. And you might too. No, said Etta. Maybe, said Alma. She leaned down and did up her sister’s shoe. And, she said, what about adventures? You have those before you become a nun. And then you have to stop? asked Alma. And then you get to stop.

2 The first field Etta walked across the morning she left was theirs. Hers and Otto’s. If there was ever dew here, there would still have been dew on the wheat stalks. But only dust brushed off onto her legs. Warm, dry dust. It took no time at all to cross their fields, her feet not even at home in the boots yet. Two kilometers down, already. Russell Palmer’s field was next. Etta didn’t want Otto to see her leaving, which is why she left so early, so quietly. But she didn’t mind about Russell. She knew he couldn’t keep up with her even if he wanted to. His land was five hundred acres bigger than theirs, and his house was taller, even though he lived alone, and even though he was almost never in it. This morning he was standing halfway between his house and the end of his land, in the middle of the early grain. Standing, looking. It took fifteen minutes of walking before Etta reached him. A good morning for looking, Russell? Just normal. Nothing yet. Nothing? Nothing worth noting. Russell was looking for deer. He was too old, now, to work his own land, the hired crew did that, so instead he looked for deer, from right before sunrise until an hour or so after and then again from an hour or so before sunset until right after. Sometimes he saw one. Mostly he didn’t. Well, nothing except you, I suppose. Maybe you scared them away. Maybe. I’m sorry. Russell had been looking all around while he spoke, at Etta, around her, above her, at her again. But now he stopped. He just looked at her. Are you sorry? About the deer, Russell, only about the deer. You’re sure?

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I’m sure. Oh, okay. I’m going to walk on now, Russell, good luck with the deer. Okay, have a good walk. Hello and love to Otto. And to any deer if you see them. Of course, have a good day, Russell. You too, Etta. He took her hand, veined, old, lifted it and kissed it. Holding it to his lips for one, two seconds. I’ll be here if you need me, he said. I know, said Etta. Okay. Goodbye then. He didn’t ask, where are you going, or why are you going. He turned back around to face where the deer might be. She walked on, east. In her bag, pockets, and hands were: Four pairs of underwear. One warm sweater. Some money. Some paper, mostly blank, but one page with addresses on it and one page with names. One pencil and one pen. Four pairs of socks. Stamps. Cookies. A small loaf of bread. Six apples. Ten carrots. Some chocolate. Some water. A map, in a plastic bag. Otto’s rifle, with bullets. One small fish skull.

Six-year-old Otto was checking the chicken wire for fox-sized holes. A fox could fit through anything bigger than his balled fist, even underground, even up quite high. He would find an opening and press his hand gently against it, pretending to be a fox. The chickens would run away. Unless Wiley, whose job it was to throw grain at the birds, was with him. But this time Wiley wasn’t there, and, so, the chickens were afraid of Otto’s fist. I am a fox. Otto wrapped his thumb around the front of his balled fingers and moved it like a mouth. I am a fox, let me in, pressing gently, but as hard as a fox, as a fox’s mouth. I am hungry, I will eat you. Otto was hungry. He almost always was. Sometimes he ate little bits of the chicken grain. Good to chew on. If Wiley wasn’t there.

He had checked three and a half sides of the wiring when three and-a-half-year-old Winnie walked up in overalls with no shirt. Otto had put a shirt on her that morning, but it was hot, so she had taken it off. Dinner, she said. Close enough that he could hear, but not too close; chickens scared her. Otto, she said. Dinnertime. Then she left to find Gus and tell him the same. This was her job. As well as a name, each child in Otto’s family had a number, so they were easier to keep track of. Marie1, Clara-2, Amos-3, Harriet-4, Walter-5, Wiley-6, Otto-7, and so on. Marie-1 was the eldest. The numeration was her idea. 1? Yes. 2? Yes. 3? Hello. 4? Yes, hello. 5? Yes, yes, hello, hello. 6? Present. 7? Yes, please. 8? Present. 9? Hello! Everyone was always present. Nobody ever missed dinner, or supper. So, said Otto’s mother, everyone is here. Everyone is clean? Otto nodded vehemently. He was clean. He was starving. Everyone else nodded too. Winnie’s hands were filthy and everyone knew it, but everyone nodded, including Winnie. Okay then, said their mother, ladle propped against her round belly, soup! Everyone rushed to the table, each to their own chair. Except today there was no chair for Otto. Or, rather, there was, but there was someone else in it. A boy. Not a brother. Otto looked at him, then reached across, in front, and took the spoon from him. That’s mine, he said. Okay, said the boy. Otto grabbed the knife. That’s mine too, he said. And this, he said, grabbing the still-empty bowl. Okay, said the boy.

The boy said nothing else and Otto didn’t know what else to say, or do. He stood behind his chair, trying not to drop all his things, trying not to cry. He knew the rules. You didn’t bother parents with child-problems unless there was blood or it involved an animal. Otto’s mother was coming around, child by child, with the pot and ladle, so Otto, standing with his things, crying quietly, would have to wait for her to get to them. The other boy just looked straight ahead. Otto’s mother was spooning exactly one ladle of soup into each child’s bowl. One for each, exactly, until, a pause, and, I don’t think you’re Otto. No, neither do I. I’m Otto, right here. Then who is this? I don’t know. I’m from next door. I’m starving. I’m Russell. But the Palmers don’t have any children. They have a nephew. One nephew. Me. Otto’s mother paused. Clara-2, she said, get another bowl from the cupboard, please.

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KIM ECHLIN Under the Visible Life What she is I am. My mother ran away with my father from Lashkar Gar near the Helmand River that rises in the Hindu Kush and gave birth to me when she was eighteen years old. She liked to make us laugh with her Pashto-Urdu-American jokes and her proverbs and idioms in English. Her name was Breshna Najibullah. She had bright grey eyes that were interested in everything, especially in me and my father. She wore her long hair loose and she had a half-moon scar on her chin from a fall as a child. It looked like a little second smile. She moved with great energy, and gracefully. My father was an American water engineer who came to Afghanistan to work on the water projects and he liked Super-8 homemovies and playing piano. His name was John Weaver. He bought our piano from Hayden’s and he used to say with a modest shrug, I only play party music but your mother likes it. He filled up our living room with “Blueberry Hill” and “Be-Bop-A-Lula.” When I was three, I have been told, I began to copy him, picking out tunes. He showed me how to find the chords on the bottom and after that it was easy. I made up my own tunes and I liked to do this and spent a lot of time at it. I do not remember ever not being able to play. From the beginning my parents were teetering on their own brink. I did not have them for long. They were murdered when I was thirteen years old. Their favourite place to go dancing was the Beach Luxury Hotel and my father’s eyes were always on my mother. He was handsome in an American way with his shaved smooth face and his hair short and parted to one side. There was a little stoop in his shoulders that was from tallness not humility, and he was enthusiastic to see or try anything new. He liked to wear a narrow tie, unusual in the heat of Karachi. I sometimes tied one of his ties around my own neck so that I could pretend to be him. The timbre of his voice was gentle as if he were leaving lots of room for me to think, which he was. He spoke slowly but not stiffly and he pronounced his consonants clearly, which he said was useful to people who did not know English. He said, When I try to understand other languages it helps if people speak slowly. My mother laughed and said, John, you only know how to speak American. It won’t matter how slowly a person speaks.

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He said, That’s nonsense, I speak English and I know how to say thank-you in Urdu and Pashto and Goan, listen, chook-liaverra-much-indeed venerable wife-ji. There’s no such thing as Goan, she said. Then he sang the Troggs song “Love Is All Around” and took her in his arms to dance. He stopped singing and put his face in her hair and he kissed her neck and they stopped dancing for a moment and then he said, That’s Goan. They did not mind me seeing how much they loved each other and they liked to tell over and over the story of how they met in western Afghanistan. My mother’s eyes were soft and bright like winter mountain stars when she said, He asked me to dance in Pashto. He said if I was married his grave would be his wedding bed. Your father was full of hullaballoo. I repeated, Hullaballoo, because I liked the rolling sound of it. She looked at him to see if he was delighting in us. She may mean baloney, said my American father to the ceiling fan because there was no one else in the room. It did not matter if we said hullaballo or baloney, it was love that he was full of. He said, I could no more not love your mother than stop locusts. I called my mother Mor, which is Pashto, and I called my father Abbu, which is Urdu, and when I wanted to tease them I called them Ma and Pa, which I learned in an American book. Abbu laughed when he heard that and said it made me sound like a hillbilly but Mor and I did not know what that was. My name is Mahsa which means like-the-moon and my family name was Weaver-Najibullah which Abbu said was a mouthful but Mor said, She will need both our names one day. The girls at my school had all kinds of names, Moslem and Christian and Hindu, but mine was the longest. My father mostly called me Porcupine because when I was a baby my mother sang, Do you know what the porcupine sang to her baby? O, my child of velvet. Abbu used to tell me, You have my big hands and your mother’s beautiful eyes and you will someday be as graceful as she is and touch a man’s heart and I hope he will be a good man. Like you, I thought.

He said, Where your Mor comes from, women are protected from lions and the likes of me. But I saw something in her eyes so I took a leap, and I sent her love notes and I asked, Are you promised to anyone? Are you married? The bird sees the grain not the snare. My parents were in love and they did not wait. In Lashkar Gar my father wrote a report that the underground water from the karezes was too salty for vineyards and orchards, that the soil was good for pea shrubs and poppies and nothing else. No one wanted to hear this. Abbu had already been accused of being a communist in America. Now he was criticizing the American projects and he was speaking to a Pashto girl and the Pashto men were outraged. John Weaver, the honest water engineer, was offending everyone. He said, Porcupine, sometimes the truth gets you into trouble. He hid Mor in the back of an American supplies truck as far as the border and paid a guide to help them cross into Pakistan on foot. They slipped into Karachi, the Bride of Cities, and Mor was pregnant. In those days it was a green place where men washed the streets at night and people took trams from the Empress Market to Keamari. In those days Karachi was the Pearl of the Arabian Sea and there were backpackers from America and Europe who wore jeans and played their western music on cassette tapes on the beaches. Mor was eighteen and Abbu was five years older and sometimes they talked with the young travellers and listened to their music. Abbu took a Super-8 movie of Mor sitting with them, holding me in an Afghan-style baby sling. She is smiling and young and prettier than European girls. Abbu used to joke, I was always afraid your Mor would run away on the hippy trail. In Karachi they had gone to the only person they knew, Mor’s grey-eyed uncle, Barak Dilawar. According to our tradition, he had to offer them nanawatai, or sanctuary, until they got on their feet. He was the first man in our family to learn to read and to leave Afghanistan. In Karachi he had met a Pathan wrestler who told him that he could get a job at the Beach Luxury Hotel, which employed Bengali cooks and Sindhis and Punjabis, local Urdu-speakers and Baloch people. The man told him, Mr. Avari is looking for all good workers. Come. Uncle was impressed by the graceful and spacious buildings and the long dormitories on each side for the hotel workers, where troops had lived during the war. He had never imagined living in such opulence. With his reading and his wrestling strength he was hired and he rose quickly to become the night manager at the front desk of the Beach Luxury Hotel.

to read left to right and right to left, in English and Arabic, and I could decipher Nasta’liq. I took in languages easily like Mor did and Abbu said, You have ambidextrous eyes that go back and forth like a carpet weaver’s shuttle. Abbu taught at the university and Mor with her polyglot tongue got office work at the Pakistan International Airlines and wore a uniform designed by Pierre Cardin. Abbu was proud of her and said, That’s jim-dandy. PIA is the first airline to fly the Super Constellation and to show in-flight movies. Then he winked in his American way and said, Maybe your Mor could get us some tickets. Would it not be good to watch movies in the sky? But I liked going to movies with them on the ground, at the Paradise and the Nishat. After we saw To Kill a Mockingbird, Abbu said to Mor, See, America ain’t so great, and we corrected his grammar though he did it on purpose. Mor liked Barsaat Ki Raat with qwaali music about the policeman’s daughter falling in love with a poet who sings: In all my life I’ll never forget that rainy night, for I met a lovely girl that rainy night. I saw Casablanca so many times with Abbu that we memorized the words and acted it out together. Abbu played the piano and pretended to be Sam, and I always said to him, Here’s lookin’ at ya kid. I began to have my own tastes too. I liked dancing the twist with my friends and I liked Chubby Checker, and I especially liked Sam Cooke singing “Twistin’ the Night Away.” When I practised in my room Abbu came in and smiled in a way Mor called fond and said, You’re turning American. Mor and I spoke Pashto. I remember sitting in a big chair looking at our chinar tree, listening to her tell the love stories of Layla and Majnun, of Antara and Ablan. When I was afraid of anything Mor said, No matter what anyone says, you think: Though I am but a straw, I am as good as you. And she reminded me over and over, Never forget that your grandmother knew only Pashto, and only to speak it. Can you imagine what it is to not read? I did not care. I did not care in four languages. Mor said the same thing every day. Thirteen years after Mor and Abbu arrived in Karachi, I was in bed, listening to Mor weeping and pleading with Abbu. She said, We have lived here long enough. My father is dead and there is no one to stop my brothers. Let us go now to America. Stop them from what? I wondered. Abbu said, We never bothered them. She said, John, the sun cannot be hidden behind two fingers. But we are far away.

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BROOKE DAVIS Lost & Found Millie grips the jar while she watches for gold shoes all afternoon. And when afternoon becomes night, and the last door is clicked shut, and everything goes black—the air, the sound, the earth—it feels like the whole world is closing. She presses her face against the window, cups her hands around her eyes, and watches people walk back to their cars with other people, with husbands and wives and girlfriends and boyfriends and children and grandmothers and daughters and fathers and mothers. And they all drive off, every single one of them, until the parking lot is so empty it makes her eyes hurt. She crawls back under the Ginormous Women’s Underwear and takes a sandwich out of her backpack. As she eats it, she watches the mannequin through the gap in the undies. He watches back. Hello, she whispers. The only other sound, a humming from the lights in the display cabinets. Millie once thought that no matter where you fell asleep, you would always wake up in your own bed. She fell asleep at the table, on the neighbor’s floor, on a ride at the show, and when she woke she was under her own covers, looking up at the ceiling of her own bedroom. But one night she woke when she was being carried from the car into the house. She looked at her dad through half- closed eyes. It’s been you all this time, she whispered into his shoulder. On The Second Day Of Waiting, Millie wakes to the sound of high heels clacking toward her. She has spread herself out during the night, and her feet poke from underneath the clothing rack. She pulls her knees into her chest, hugs them, holds her breath, and watches the high heels clack past. Clickclack, click- clack, click- clack. They’re black and shiny, and red- painted toes stick out at the ends like ladybugs trying to crawl in. Why would her mum leave her under the undies all night? Millie holds on to her stomach and peers through the gap in

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the undies. She knows why her mum might leave her there but she doesn’t want to think about it, so she doesn’t. The mannequin is still looking at her. She waves at him. It’s a careful wave, her fingers folding down one after the other until she holds them all in a fist. She’s not sure if she wants to be his friend yet. She pulls on her gumboots, crawls out from under the undies, and looks up at the sign she stuck on the rack last night. In Here Mum. She tears it down, folds it up, and slides it into her backpack. The man with the tree- bark face walks toward her. He shuffles down the aisle, straight past, and toward the café. Millie follows, and watches him from behind the potted plants. He sits down like it hurts, and stares at his coffee. Millie walks over to him and puts her hand on his. Have you seen chicken come in a bucket? she asks. The man looks at her hand and then up at her. Yes, he replies, pulling his hand away from hers and tapping his fingers on the table. Well? Millie says, sitting down in the chair opposite him. What’s it like? Exactly how it sounds, he says. Millie bites her bottom lip. Do you know many people who are dead? she asks. Everyone, he says, looking into his coffee. Everyone? Yes. Do you? he asks, still tapping his fingers on the table. Yes. Twenty- nine Dead Things, she says. That’s a lot. Yep. He leans forward in his chair. How old are you? he asks. Millie crosses her arms. How old are you? I asked first. Let’s say it at the same time.

Eighty- even. Seven. He sits back in his chair. Seven? Millie nods. And a half. Almost eight, really. You’re young. You’re old. The dimples on his cheeks are waking up. Your boots match my suspenders, he says, tapping his fingers on his suspenders. Your suspenders match my boots. Millie looks at his hands. Why do you tap your fingers when you talk? I’m not tapping, he says, tapping. I’m typing. Typing what? Everything I say. Everything you say? Everything I say. What about what I say? I don’t do that. Are you gonna eat that? she says, pointing to a muffin. He pushes the plate toward her. Millie shoves the muffin into her mouth. Why won’t you drink your coffee? she says, mouth full, pushing his coffee toward him. I don’t want it. He pushes it back. Millie wraps her hands around it and leans over it, feeling the steam rising beneath her chin. Why did you get it? It’s nice to have somewhere to put my hands. Millie smiles. Oh. She pulls her feet up onto the chair and rests her chin on her knees. Spread out on the table is a long line of small plastic squares, each one about the size of her fingertip. What are those? He shrugs. You don’t know? He shrugs again. Millie leans over the table. They’re computer keys, she says. Like the ones on the keyboards from school. She folds her arms. But they’re not on a keyboard. Yes, he says. So you do know, she says. They’re all dashes. From different keyboards. He leans forward in his chair. Do you know what a dash is? Maybe. You put them between two words to make one word. Like what?

Like … He thinks for a moment. Happy- sad? Millie says. Not really. Hungry- sleepy? No, he says. Like, action- packed. Or blue-e yed. But not happy-s ad. No. Or hungry- sleepy? No. Why have you got so many? There’s lots of them lined up against each other in a long, straight line. I collect them. Why? Got to collect something. Millie thinks about her Book Of Dead Things. I collect Dead Things, she says. He nods. She holds his gaze as she nudges an index finger forward, moving one of the keys out of line. It hangs above the rest of them on an angle like it’s mid-backflip. Tree- Bark- Face doesn’t move. They go between numbers, too, she says. Not just words. She flicks another key and it skids along the table, stopping at the edge. He sucks in a breath and watches as it teeters and then falls into his lap. Don’t do that, he says, picking it up and putting it back in line. Where did you get them all from? Borrowed them. From who? Millie spots a screwdriver sticking out of his jacket pocket. He puts a hand over the screwdriver, shielding it from Millie’s gaze. No one ever suspects an old person, he says, smiling a half smile. We’re kind of invisible. What’s your name? Karl the Touch Typist. What’s yours? Just Millie.

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MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD The World Beyond Your Head

INDEX 5 Pounds.................................................................................22

Hemming, Carolyn.........................................................20–21

5-Factor Fitness.....................................................................22

Hooper, Emma....................................................... 4–5, 35–37

5-Factor World Diet, The.......................................................22

I Am Radar........................................................................... 6–7

A, B, C A Long Way Gone...................................................................29

We are living through a crisis of attention that is now widely remarked upon, usually in the context of some complaint or other about technology. As our mental lives become more fragmented, what is at stake often seems to be nothing less than the question of whether one can maintain a coherent self. I mean a self that is able to act according to settled purposes and ongoing projects, rather than flitting about. Because attention is so fundamental to our mental lives, this widely felt problem presents a rare philosophical opportunity: to reconsider what a human being is. Such a reconsideration has been made necessary by profound cultural changes. I find that these changes have a certain coherence to them, an arc—one that begins in the Enlightenment, accelerates in the 20th century, and is perhaps culminating now. Though digital technologies certainly contribute to it, our current crisis of attention is the comingto-fruition of a picture of the human being that was offered some centuries ago. This picture is so pervasive that it is difficult to make an object of scrutiny. At the center of it is a certain understanding of how a person stands in relation to the world beyond his or her head. My efforts to understand the actual experience of attending to something have led me to call that whole picture into question. In the course of doing so, some of the strangeness of our culture—for example, our approach to education, and the mood of our public spaces—comes into focus. Drawing on certain dissident strands of thought in the philosophical tradition, I offer what I take to be a more adequate picture of how we stand in relation to the world beyond our heads. My hope is that this alternative self-understanding can help us think clearly about our current situation, and reclaim certain possibilities of human flourishing. The weight of this positive argument is carried by case studies of attention in various skilled practices. The point of these is not to spur the reader to fantasize about becoming a short order cook, a motorcycle racer, or a builder of pipe organs. Rather, activities like these, which elicit complete immersion in

a particular situation, reveal something about our constitution that tends to get lost in the official self-understanding of the West. They provide heightened examples of what it feels like to join oneself to the world without reservation, and in a way that tends to thwart narcissistic projections. Ultimately, I believe an adequate understanding of skilled action provides insight into how it is that we achieve individuality. For it is an achievement, particularly in a mass society that speaks endlessly of individualism, and thereby obscures the genuine article.

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?............16–17

A Murderous Procession.......................................................14

J, K, L

Bachman, Randy...................................................................28

Kang, Dr. Shimi K..................................................................30

Beah, Ishmael........................................................................29

Larsen, Reif......................................................................... 6–7

Blood-Drenched Beard............................................................8

Lost & Found.......................................................18–19, 40–41

Body Reset Diet Cookbook, The............................................22 Body Reset Diet, The..............................................................22 Boy, Snow, Bird................................................................24–25 Brown Eggs and Jam Jars.............................................12–13 Caulfield, Timothy..........................................................16–17 Chong, Kevin..........................................................................33 City of Shadows......................................................................14 Cloud........................................................................................32 Crawford, Matthew................................................. 10–11, 42 Crazy Town.............................................................................31

M, N, O McCormack, Eric...................................................................32 Middle Power, Middle Kingdom............................................15 Mistress of the Art of Death..................................................14 Mr. Fox.....................................................................................25 Mulroney, David.....................................................................15 Northern Dancer....................................................................33 Opposite House, The..............................................................25 Oyeyemi, Helen..............................................................24–25

Cure for Everything, The.......................................................17

P, Q, R

D, E, F

Pasternak, Harley.................................................................22

Dagmar’s Daughter.................................................................3 Davis, Brooke.....................................................18–19, 40–41 de Castell, Sebastien.............................................................9 Disappeared, The.....................................................................3 Dolphin Way, The....................................................................30 Doolittle, Robyn.....................................................................31 Dutch Wife, The......................................................................32 Echlin, Kim............................................................. 2–3, 38–39 Elephant Winter........................................................................3 Etta and Otto and Russell and James................. 4–5, 35–37 First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women..............................................................32 Franklin, Ariana....................................................................14

G, H, I Galera, Daniel..........................................................................8 Grain Power............................................................................21 Grave Goods...........................................................................14 Green, Patricia ...............................................................20–21 Greycoat’s Lament...................................................................9

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Icarus Girl, The.......................................................................25

Quinoa Revolution..................................................................21 Radiance of Tomorrow..........................................................29 Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Stories....................................28

S, T, U Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, The.................................... 6–7 Serpent’s Tale, The................................................................14 Shop Class as Soulcraft........................................................11 Siege Winter, The...................................................................14 Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, The.........................................26–27 Sweet Goodness..............................................................20–21 Tales from Beyond the Tap...................................................28 Traitor’s Blade..........................................................................9 Under the Visible Life............................................ 2–3, 38–39

V, W, X, Y, Z White Is for Witching.............................................................25 Wimbush-Bourque, Aimée...........................................12–13 World Beyond Your Head, The................................ 10–11, 42 Young and Prodigious Spivet, The..................................... 6–7 Zevin, Gabrielle.............................................................26–27

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