This anthology of 16 new short stories pay homage to the great detective Sherlock Holmes. These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations, create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes canon, and reveal their own personal obsessions with the great detective. Contributors include S.J. Rozan, Phillip and Jerry Margolin, Colin Cotterill, Charles Todd, Lee Child, Neil Gaiman, Laura Lippman, Margaret Maron and Jacqueline Winspear.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a passionate lifelong fan of Sherlock Homes adventures and a member of The Baker Street Irregulars – the most famous of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is an engaging personal introduction to Holmes's creator, as well as a rare insider's account of the activities and playful scholarship of The Baker Street Irregulars. This book also introduces readers to the author's lesser-known but fascinating writings in an astounding range of other genres. On Conan Doyle is a book for anyone who already loves Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and the world of 221B Baker Street, or would like to know more about them, but it is also a celebration of Arthur Conan Doyle's genius for every kind of storytelling.
On the eve of India's 100th year of independence, 10 people are doing 10 very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation – from gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists, to computer-generated soap stars. River of Gods shows a civilization in flux, a river of gods. This is an epic science-fiction novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes.
Dave Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Fans begging for guitar picks and angry drunks chucking pint glasses. Bidini has played all across the country many times. In 1996, when the Rheostatics opened for the Tragically Hip on their Trouble at the Henhouse tour, Bidini kept a diary. In On a Cold Road, he weaves his colourful tales about that tour with revealing and hilarious anecdotes from the pioneers of Canadian rock, including BTO, Max Webster, the Guess Who, Trooper, Bruce Cockburn and others. The result is an original picture of what it has meant, for the last 40 years, to be a rock musician in Canada.
Chellam, the family's rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed crimes – the latest in a series of recent, precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. A few short weeks before, Aasha's grandmother Paati passed away under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, departed for Columbia University, leaving Aasha alone to cope with her mostly absent father, her bitter mother, and her imperturbable older brother. Set in Malaysia, this Preeta Samarasan's debut introduces readers to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as its closely guarded secrets are slowly peeled away.
In this provocative work, Jean Vanier shares his profoundly human vision for creating a common good that radically changes our communities, our relationships, and ourselves. He proposes that by opening ourselves to outsiders, those we perceive as weak, different, or inferior, we can achieve true personal and societal freedom. Our society shuns weakness and glorifies strength. By embracing weakness, however, we learn new ways of living and discover greater compassion, trust, and understanding.
1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's ode to George Orwell's 1984, told in alternating male and female voices. It relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer. As Aomame's and Tengo’s narratives converge, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them together: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.
On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a week, even as Joyce was preparing for his discharge, Ray was dead from a hospital-acquired virulent infection, and Joyce was suddenly faced with the reality of widowhood. A Widow's Story illuminates one woman's struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.
First published in 1946, Independent People is an epic novel set in rural Iceland in the early 20th century. It tells the story of Bjartur, a sheep farmer determined to make a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Ásta Solillja, the child he brings up as his daughter, can pierce his stubborn heart. As she grows up, keen to make her own way in the world, Bjartur's obstinacy threatens to estrange them forever.
Clean Start is about eating minimally processed foods for maximum nutrition. Terry Walters' first cookbook, Clean Food, taught the benefits of eating foods that are locally grown, seasonal and fresh, with a focus on whole grains, fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds. This follow-up cookbook makes eating well even easier, with 100 new recipes for the foods we all need more of, featuring quick, easy and delicious preparations. Clean Start is a great cookbook for vegans and vegetarians, or for anyone wanting to include more plant-based foods in their diet.
An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. Her brother Henry is a famous author, and her other brother William a rising star in the new field of psychology. But when they all find themselves quite unusually involved in the chase for a most vile new murderer – one who goes by the chilling name of Jack the Ripper – Alice is certain of two things: no one could be more suited to gather evidence about the nature of the killer than her brothers. But if anyone is going to correctly examine the evidence and solve the case, it will be her.
Amanda Hesser, the well-known New York Times food columnist, brings her signature voice and expertise to this compendium of influential and delicious recipes from chefs, home cooks and food writers. Devoted Times subscribers will find the many treasured recipes they have cooked for years, from 1940s Caesar salad and 1960s flourless chocolate cake to today's fava bean salad and no-knead bread. The Essential New York Times Cookbook is for people who grew up in the kitchen with Craig Claiborne, for curious cooks who want to serve a 19th century raspberry granita to their friends, and for the new cook who needs a book that explains everything from how to roll out dough to how to slow-roast fish – a volume that will serve as a lifelong companion.
In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate – a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance – to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his 16-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their and their families’ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried – until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them.
It's never too early to start planning your spring garden! Framed raised beds and a modular approach to growing vegetables means more production in less space and with less work. Raymond Nones shows you how to set up the raised-bed modular system and then gives in-depth descriptions of all gardening procedures: sowing seeds, thinning, transplanting, cultivating, mulching, watering, harvesting, pest control, composting, crop rotation and seed saving. This is a complete gardening book for both the beginner and the experienced gardener.
The linked short stories in Flying with Amelia chronicle the loose history of two families who cross the Atlantic from Ireland together in 1847. The stories explore significant events in Canada's history, including Marconi's invention of the telegraph; the march on Ottawa in 1934; the removal of Doukhobour children to residential schools in the 1950s; and the influx of draft dodgers in the '60s and '70s – each through the personal stories of people living through them. DeGrace's authorial touch is compassionate but unflinching. Particularly compelling is her story of a WWI veteran serving at a WWII POW camp in Manitoba. "All of the Colours" sympathetically portrays a man damaged by the last war and struggling to understand both himself and the prisoners he guards. Recommended for older high school students to compliment studies in Canadian history and for adults who enjoy historical fiction.
Like his fiction, BC poet Patrick Lane's poems are not for the faint of heart or for those who like their verse flowery. He sees both beauty and brutality with a clear eye, and the resulting poetry has been described by a Globe and Mail reviewer as "small threats of intense beauty." They are naked emotion, raw and purposeful violence by both human and animal, and startlingly gorgeous phrases that strike deeply. This collection takes us from his youth, fresh from a difficult childhood in the BC Interior, to his mature adulthood as a poet, teacher and partner to another acclaimed BC poet, Lorna Crozier. One small sample – a poem called "Chinook": "Beneath the tree, glutted in winter / apples, seven sparrows lie / drunk, beating small wings in the snow / as if they could fly into it / and make of ice an element as free as air."
The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited, heralding the end of a repressive era. Now, more than 120 years after handing it over to his publisher, Wilde's uncensored typescript is published here for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.
Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned 40, her world turned upside down. Her husband of 15 years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, and the same week, a car accident left her injured. Needing a place to rest and pick up the pieces of her life, Rhoda packed her bags, crossed the country and returned to her quirky Mennonite family's home, where she was welcomed back with open arms and offbeat advice. Written with wry humor and huge personality, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is a moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead.
In a small Bengal town, a family lives in solitude in a vast new house where the past intertwines with the present, history interrupts the everyday, and lives unravel in longing and love.
Utterly and totally debilitated by a viral disease, Elisabeth Bailey recaptures the wonder of the natural world by observing an animal whose slowness and sense of time was the same as her own.
Brooke Reynolds died in a car crash. Tragic accident, the police say. But her father Don Hoffman knows otherwise, and he wants Joe Hunter to find the men responsible. Joe is not convinced until he is attacked by two troublemakers, and Don's other daughter is also threatened. And sure enough, the entire family is soon under siege with only Joe to protect them. The ensuing blood bath is the beginning of a trail of death that leads right to the heart of a racist conspiracy.
In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa that has channeled billions of dollars in aid but failed to reduce poverty and increase growth. He offers a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.
A young man with a secretive high-tech job takes a ride in an elevator and is hurdled into a dark, foreboding subterranean world beneath Tokyo. There, he meets a quirky old scientist who gives him a task called shuffling, and in doing so splits the young man's mind into two streams of reality, each one as tangible and compelling as the other. Murakami shows off his craft in interweaving the fantastical and slightly absurd into the lives of ordinary denizens in this thought-provoking narrative about human consciousness, memory and technology. Will the young man, with the help of the scientist's granddaughter, reclaim his true mind?
If you are looking for something easy, healthy and Japanese, then look no further than this delightful cookbook by what many consider to be the Martha Stewart of Japan. You will be introduced to basic Japanese ingredients and cooking techniques while being led to explore a range of fresh, seasonal vegetables, tastes and textures. The recipes featured in this collection are simple to prepare, down to earth, and fit for feeding your family as well as entertaining your friends and honoured guests.
In this beautifully told exploration of grief and loss, Bin Okuma, a celebrated visual artist, sets out on a journey to the site of the internment camp where he and his family lived after being removed from their home on Vancouver Island. He has just lost his wife to a stroke and his son is away at university and Bin uses the journey to remember his years in the internment camp and times with his wife and son and, in the process, begins to reconcile the grief and loss from his past and his present.
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