978-0-307-36213-1 The Lion Seeker Kenneth Bonert Trade Paperback Original $25.00 CA

1. 978-0-307-36213-1 The Lion Seeker Kenneth Bonert Trade Paperback Original $25.00 CA On Sale: 02-26-2013 576 Pages Carton Quantity: 24 Knopf Canadian Publishing Knopf Canada's one and only New Face of Fiction for 2013: a brawny, brilliant debut novel about an irrepressible Jewish boy and his indelible mother in 1930s South Africa, reminiscent of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and perfect for lovers of Cutting for Stone. Set in the tough streets of Doornfontein, Johannesburg, in the years leading up to the Second World War, The Lion Seeker tells the coming-of-age story of one Isaac Helger, the son of Jewish immigrants, whose mother, Gitelle, suffuses his young life both with an overpowering sense of his mission--to obtain for the family, as she says, "a house of our own"--and with the duty never to forget those family members left behind in the tiny village of Dusat, Lithuania. But it is the terrible unspoken secrets of the family's past that form another more enduring legacy for Isaac, one that haunts him even as he makes his way in the world, one that will lead to the moment when he must face the starkest moral choice of his life as the threat of war looms like a storm cloud over the Jews of Europe.

2. 978-0-307-36247-6 The Andalucian Friend Alexander Soderberg Hardcover $29.95 CA On Sale: 03-12-2013 464 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 Knopf Canadian Publishing BRAND NEW BLOCKBUSTER that has already taken the publishing world by storm. With a perfect mix of high-quality writing and page-turning action, Alexander Söderberg has created a singular reading experience: an explosive literary thriller with an international scope that is thematically complex and totally, utterly addicting, centred around a woman--a single mother and nurse--who becomes the pawn between two warring international crime syndicates, before retaking control of her life in unexpected fashion. Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into deadly obsession... All of their paths will collide in this turbo-charged, action-packed, highly sophisticated debut thriller that will set the world on fire.

3. 978-0-307-36078-6 The Stop Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis Hardcover $29.95 CA On Sale: 03-19-2013 320 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 RH Canadian Publishing The inspiring story of how one young man took the reins of a dilapidated inner-city food bank and opened up the good-food revolution to everyone. In 1998, when community worker Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, it was like thousands of other food banks, offering canned handouts in a cramped, dreary, makeshift space. Today, it is a thriving, internationally respected "community food centre" with gardens, kitchens, a greenhouse, farmers' markets, and a mission to revolutionize our food system. British super-chef Jamie Oliver visited The Stop and told his 750,000 Twitter followers that he'd travelled all over the world and never seen anything like it. In telling the remarkable story of The Stop's transformation, Saul argues that we need a new politics of food, in which everyone has a dignified, healthy place at the table. By turns funny and sad and full of the drama of life on the margins, The Stop is a fresh and timely story about overcoming obstacles, challenging sacred cows and creating lasting change. The Stop's Green Barn is a major stop on Toronto's food scene these days, and Nick has had to turn away publicity leading up to the book's publication. In 2012, Nick left The Stop after 14 years to take the Community Food Centre concept across Canada, with 15 centres to open by 2017. This Toronto story is about to become a Canadian story (and an international one, but that's another story...)

4. 978-0-7710-5708-3 Salt Sugar Fat Michael Moss Hardcover $29.99 CA On Sale: 03-12-2013 352 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 McClelland & Stewart Health From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at New York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us. Sugar, Salt, Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential ingredients, over the past five decades, to dominate the North American diet. This is an eye-opening book that demonstrates how the makers of these foods have chosen, time and again, to double down on their efforts to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators would never figure them out. With meticulous original reporting, access to confidential files and memos, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, it shows how these companies have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired publicly). Sugar, Salt, Fat is the story of how we got here, and it will hold the food giants accountable for the social costs that keep climbing even as some of the industry's own say, "Enough already."

5. 978-0-7710-2536-5 Wave Sonali Deraniyagala Hardcover $27.00 CA On Sale: 03-05-2013 240 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 McClelland & Stewart Biography A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family.On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.

6. 978-0-385-67066-1 The Hungry Ghosts Shyam Selvadurai Hardcover $29.95 CA On Sale: 04-02-2013 400 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 Doubleday CAN Titles fiction -- general The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens shows us a dazzling and fully mature writer at the height of his powers.      In Sri Lankan myth, a person who dies may be reborn a "hungry ghost"--a ghost with a large stomach that can never be filled through its tiny mouth--if he has desired too much during his life. It is the duty of the living to free the dead who are doomed to this fate by transferring karma from their own good deeds. In Shyam Selvadurai's masterful new novel, Shivan, a troubled young man of mixed Tamil and Sinhalese ancestry, is preparing to travel from Toronto, Canada, to the land of his childhood, Sri Lanka, to rescue his ailing grandmother and bring her back to die. But on the eve of his departure--as Shivan meditates on his turbulent past, recalls his gradual discovery of his homosexuality, and wrestles with his complicated relationship with the wily old woman--he discovers just how much his own heart's desires are entwined with the volatile political, racial, and sexual mix of Sri Lanka's past and present. In the end, Shivan must decide: will he rescue his grandmother, or join her?The Hungry Ghosts is an unconventional exploration of the immigrant experience; a tale of family ties and the long reach of the past; and a heart wrenching look at how racial, political, and sexual differences can tear apart a country, a family, and a human being.

7. 978-0-224-09781-9 Two Pints Roddy Doyle Hardcover $12.00 CA On Sale: 11-27-2012 96 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 RH Canadian UK Distribution Fiction & Literature-General A collection of sublimely funny dialogues inspired by a year's worth of news.      Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss... They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids' pets, their football teams and -- this being Ireland in 2011-12 -- about the euro, the crash, the presidential election, the Queen's visit. But these men are not parochial or small-minded; one of them knows where to find the missing Colonel Gadaffi (he's working as a cleaner at Dublin Airport); they worry about Greek debt, the IMF and the bondholders (whatever they might be); in their fashion, they mourn the deaths of Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Davy Jones and Robin Gibb; and they ask each other the really important questions like 'Would you ever let yourself be digitally enhanced?'     Inspired by a year's worth of news, Two Pints distils the essence of Roddy Doyle's comic genius. This book shares the concision of a collection of poems, and the timing of a virtuoso comedian

8. 978-1-84655-704-0 Philida André Brink Hardcover $35.95 CA On Sale: 09-25-2012 320 Pages Carton Quantity: 1 RH Canadian UK Distribution Fiction An unforgettable story of a woman determined to find her freedom -- set in South Africa in 1830s, as slavery was about to be abolished. The masterpiece from the twice Booker-shortlisted author. This is what it means to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don't say no. You don't ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far in the back of your head you think: One day there must come a time when you got to say for yourself: This and that I shall do, this and that I shall not.     Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of the slaves. Philida decides to risk her whole life by lodging a complaint against Francois, who has reneged on his promise to set her free.     His father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent Cape Town family, and Philida will be sold on to owners in the harsh country up north. Unwilling to accept this fate, Philida continues to test the limits of her freedom, and with the Muslim slave Labyn she sets off on a journey across the great wilderness on the banks of the Gariep River, to the far north of Cape Town. Philida is an unforgettable story of one woman's determination to survive and be free.

9. 978-1-78116-264-4 Joyland Stephen King Trade Paperback Original $12.95 US / $15.95 CA On Sale: 06-04-2013 Pages Carton Quantity: 24 Titan A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME!      A college student finds himself working in a small town North Carolina amusement park for the summer, but the events he will uncover are about to change his life forever. Never before published. This is an trade paperback original (this had to be trade paperback because his contract with S&S has his cloth books). He has worked with this publisher before, and loves gum show hard boiled stuff. Not only is King going retro with the content of his upcoming novel, he is also sticking to a tried and true format. It is a "who-dunit" and a carny novel about growing up and growing old and about those who don't get to do either because death comes for them before their time. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

10. 978-1-61219-194-2 I Await the Devil's Coming Mary MacLane Trade Paperback Original $16.00 US / $16.00 CA On Sale: 03-19-2013 304 Pages Carton Quantity: 24 Melville House I Await the Devil's Coming was a publishing sensation in the early twentieth century that has now been almost completely forgotten. It is an important early work of feminism and a bold, unique addition to the diaries canon. We expect significant uptake by college gender studies departments and print and online review coverage.      The shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902, written in a potent, raw prose that propelled her to celebrity on the book's publication. A deceased Canadian- she was born in Winnipeg in 1881- (with Jessa Cripin creating a foreword) reissue of this raw and provocative work of feminism; her diary of a 19 year old girl living in Butte Montana in 1902. In the early 20th century Maclane's name was synonymous with sexuality. Critics praised her work for its daringly open and confessional style. Early American feminist authors hailed her work. In its first month of publication the book sold 100,000 copies. Now the book is almost completely forgotten. She died in 1929. Crispin will position the book as a vital work in the feminist canon.

11. 978-1-59474-626-0 Untitled Last Policeman book 2 Ben H. Winters Trade Paperback Original $14.95 US / $14.95 CA On Sale: 07-16-2013 288 Pages Carton Quantity: 40 Quirk Books The second book in The Last Policeman trilogy.      Book 2 in The Last Policeman trilogy is a murder mystery set in Concord, New Hampshire, during the last three months on earth before the impact of an asteroid.

12. 978-1-59474-616-1 The Resurrectionist E. B. Hudspeth Hardcover $24.95 US / $26.95 CA On Sale: 04-23-2013 208 Pages Carton Quantity: 24 Quirk Books It's an art book that reads like fiction -- perfect for the Comic Con crowd & fans of Quirk's fantasy fiction. One-third fictional biography, two-thirds coffee-table art book, and one hundred percent bizarre -- The Resurrectionist pairs dazzling black-and-white anatomical drawings with a bizarre fantasy narrative set in late-19th-century Philadelphia. Jaw-dropping Gray's Anatomy-style anatomical illustrations of mermaids, minotaurs, satyrs, centaurs, Ganesh, and other mythological beasts, with meticulously detailed annotations. Prefaced by a novella-length fictional biography detailing the life of the drawings' creator, Dr. Spencer Black, a 19th-century Philadelphia anatomist and surgeon.

13. 978-0-385-67645-8 The Smart One Jennifer Close Hardcover $29.95 CA On Sale: 04-02-2013 352 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 Knopf Fiction From the author of the best-selling Girls in White Dresses (An "irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel." --Marie Claire): a gloriously funny new novel of sibling rivalry, thwarted expectations, and that place you return to when things go staggeringly awry: home.      Weezy and Will Coffey raised their children, Martha, Claire, and Max, to be kind, smart, and independent. They gave them help with their homework, a dog, and homemade birthday cakes. It's true that Martha's a little too sensitive--she calls Claire several times a week to discuss natural disasters and local crime. And Claire has a short fuse with her sister--she becomes irate when Martha suggests that the two of them attend couples therapy. And Max, the baby and a senior in college, is a little too happy-go-lucky--though not as lucky as everyone would hope. Still, their parents did their best preparing them for the world. So why, Weezy wonders, is Martha living in her childhood bedroom after a career flame-out? And why has Claire canceled her wedding and locked herself in her New York apartment? And how has Max managed to get himself into a girlfriend fiasco? A story about the ways in which we never really grow up, The Smart One is a witty, gossipy, perfectly-drawn portrait of family life.

14. 978-0-385-67137-8 Life After Life Kate Atkinson Trade Paperback Original $24.95 CA On Sale: 04-02-2013 400 Pages Carton Quantity: 24 Doubleday CAN Titles fiction -- general Here is Kate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?     During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.     During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.     What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, she finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past.

15. 978-0-385-67821-6 Child of Vengeance David Kirk Trade Paperback original $24.95 CA On Sale: 03-12-2013 336 Pages Carton Quantity: 24 Doubleday CAN Titles fiction A bold and vivid historical epic of feudal Japan, based on the real-life exploits of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto      Japan in the late sixteenth century was a land in turmoil. Lords of the great clans schemed against one another, served by aristocratic samurai bound to them by a rigid code of honour. Bennosuke is a high-born but lonely youth living in his ancestral village. His mother died when he was a young boy, and his powerful warrior father, Munisai, has abandoned him for a life of service to his lord, Shinmen. Bennosuke has been raised by his uncle Dorinbo, a Buddhist monk who urges the boy to forgo the violence of the samurai and embrace the contemplative life. But Bennosuke worships his absent father, and when Munisai returns, gravely injured, Bennosuke is forced to confront truths about his family's history and his own place in it. These revelations soon guide him down the samurai's path--awash with blood, bravery, and vengeance. His journey will culminate in the epochal Battle of Sekigahara, in which Bennosuke will first proclaim his name as Musashi Miyamoto.      This rich and absorbing epic explores the complexities of one young man's quest while capturing a crucial turning point in Japanese history with visceral mastery, sharp psychological insight, and tremendous narrative momentum.

16. 978-0-385-67797-4 The Blind Man's Garden Nadeem Aslam Hardcover $29.95 CA On Sale: 04-02-2013 336 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 Doubleday CAN Titles fiction -- literary The author of The Wasted Vigil gives us a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11--a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.      Jeo and Mikal, foster brothers from a small Pakistani town, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans, but rather to help care for wounded civilians. Their good intentions, though, can't keep them out of harm's way. From the wilds of Afghanistan to the heart of the family left behind--their blind father, haunted by the death of his wife and by the mistakes he may have made in the name of Islam and nationhood; Jeo's wife, whose increasing resolve helps keep the household running; and her superstitious mother--the narrative takes us on an extraordinary journey. In language as lyrical as it is piercing, in scenes at once beautiful and harrowing, The Blind Man's Garden unflinchingly describes a topical yet timeless world, powerfully evoking a place where the line between enemy and friend is indistinct, and where the desire to return home burns brightest of all.

17. 978-0-385-67780-6 Drunk Mom Jowita Bydlowska Trade Paperback $22.95 CA On Sale: 04-23-2013 256 Pages Carton Quantity: 24 Doubleday CAN Titles biography -- memoir There are many alcoholic mothers. Only one has told her story.      Three years after giving up drink, Jowita B found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. "It's a special occasion," she said to her boyfriend. And indeed it was. It was a party celebrating the birth of their first child. It also marked Jowita's immediate, full-blown return to alcoholism and all that entails for a new mother who is at first determined to keep her problem a secret.      Her trips to liquor stores are in-and-out missions. Perhaps she's being paranoid, but she thinks people tend to notice the stroller. Walking home, she stays behind buildings, in alleyways, taking discreet sips from a bottle she's stored in the diaper bag. She know she's become a villain: a mother who drinks; a mother who endangers her child. She drinks to forget this. And then the trouble really starts.     Jowita Bydlowska's memoir of her relapse into addiction is an extraordinary achievement. The writing is raw and immediate. It places you in the moment--saddened, appalled, nerve-wracked, but never able to look away or stop turning the pages. With brutal honesty, Bydlowska takes us through the binges and blackouts, the self-deception and less successful attempts to deceive others, the humiliations and extraordinary risk-taking. She shines a light on the endless hunger of wanting just one more drink, and one more again, while dealing with motherhood, anxiety, depression--and rehab.     Her struggle to regain her sobriety is recorded in the same unsentimental, unsparing, sometimes grimly comic way. But the happy outcome is evidenced by the existence of this brilliant book: she has lived to tell the tale.

18. 978-1-84655-726-2 The Childhood of Jesus J. M. Coetzee Hardcover $29.95 CA On Sale: 04-23-2013 288 Pages Carton Quantity: 12 RH Canadian UK Distribution Fiction & Literature-General The mysterious new masterpiece from J. M. Coetzee.      After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simon and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where officialdom treats them politely but not necessarily helpfully.     Simon finds a job in a grain wharf. The work is unfamiliar and backbreaking, but he soon warms to his stevedore comrades, who during breaks conduct philosophical dialogues on the dignity of labour, and generally take him to their hearts.      Now he must set about his task of locating the boy's mother. Though like everyone else who arrives in this new country he seems to be washed clean of all traces of memory, he is convinced he will know her when he sees her. And indeed, while walking with the boy in the countryside Simon catches sight of a woman he is certain is the mother, and persuades her to assume the role.      David's new mother comes to realise that he is an exceptional child, a bright, dreamy boy with highly unusual ideas about the world. But the school authorities detect a rebellious streak in him and insist he be sent to a special school far away. His mother refuses to yield him up, and it is Simon who must drive the car as the trio flees across the mountains.The Childhood of Jesus is a profound, beautiful and continually surprising novel from a very great writer.