Author: Camilla Gibb
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Keywords: belly, sweetness
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $20.22
ISBN-10: 0385660189
ISBN-13: 9780385660181

Author: CS Richardson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Keywords: alphabet
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $17.29
ISBN-10: 0385663412
ISBN-13: 9780385663410

Ambrose Zephyr and his wife Zappora Ashkenazi (“Zipper”) have achieved a happy and balanced life together. She is the yin to his yang. He is the only man she has loved without adjustment. The two live contentedly in a narrow London terrace full of books.That contentment is thrown into turmoil on or about Ambrose’s fiftieth birthday, when they receive the news that he has contracted a mysterious illness that will most certainly lead to his death within the month. In panicked delirium, from beneath their bed Ambrose withdraws an oxblood suitcase containing the ephemera of his long-suppress

Author: Richard Wagamese
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Keywords: company, ragged
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0385256949
ISBN-13: 9780385256940

Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck. A found

Author: Sergei Lukyanenko
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Keywords: watch, book, day
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2007-01-30
List price: $15.82
ISBN-10: 0385663668
ISBN-13: 9780385663663

The second installment of the phenomenal Russian quartet The Night Watch vampire novels set in a richly realized post-Soviet Moscow. The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series, The Day Watch begins where The Night Watch left off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the 1,000-year-old treaty between Light and Dark maintains its uneasy balance through careful vigilance from the Others. The forces of darkness keep an eye during the day, the Day Watch, while the agents of Light monitor the nighttime. Very senior Others called the Inquisitors are the impartial judges insisting o

Author: Peter Rushforth
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Keywords: novel, kindergarten
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-12-11
List price: $18.85
ISBN-10: 0385665415
ISBN-13: 9780385665414

From the acclaimed author of Pinkerton’s Sister, a moving retelling of the Hansel and Gretel story.A woman is murdered during a terrorist attack, leaving her three sons in the care of their grandmother, Lilli. As the four prepare to celebrate Christmas without her, Lilli is drawn into a lonely world of memories, forced to confront the horrors of the Nazi persecution she managed to survive. After losing her entire family in the Holocaust, Lilli finds that it is this final death–that of her daughter–that allows her to reach out to the next generation and, with them, forge a unique path tow

Author: Nikita Lalwani
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Keywords: novel, gifted
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 038566382X
ISBN-13: 9780385663823

Rumi Vasi is 10 years, 4 months, 13 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 6 seconds old. She’s figured that the likelihood of her walking home from school with the boy she likes, John Kemble, is 0.2142, a probability severely reduced by the lacy dress and thick wool tights her father, an Indian émigré, forces her to wear. Rumi is a gifted child, and her father believes that strict discipline is the key to nurturing her genius if the family has any hope of making a mark on its adoptive country. Four years later, a teenage Rumi is at the center of an intense campaign by her parents to make her one

Author: Peter Temple
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Keywords: thriller, irish, jack, debts
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-09-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 038566303X
ISBN-13: 9780385663038

Introducing Australia’s most acclaimed crime-thriller writer to North American audiences with his first two books in his award-winning Jack Irish series.A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long, and he’s still cooking for one. When Danny turns up dead, Jack is forced to take a walk back into the dark and dangerous past.With suspenseful prose and black humor, Peter Temple builds a