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A heartwarming story about a curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins that proves it’s never too late to be the person you want to be…and that family is what you make it. After a disastrous first meeting with the grandson she never knew she had, eighty-four-year-old Veronica McCreedy…

“Grady’s novel reads with the velvety tempo of the jazz music of its day. . . . Grady fearlessly explores heated race relations and the masks we all assume.” Chatelaine With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It’s…

“In this propulsive medical thriller–from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author–Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with…

The heartfelt memoir from one of Canada’s most beloved writers. Staring the modern world in the eye, Richard Wagamese confronts its snares and perils. He sees people coveting without knowing why, looking for roots without understanding what constitutes home, searching for acceptance without extending reciprocal respect, and longing for love without knowing how to offer…

The classic scifi alien invasion novel tells the suspenseful tale of the Triffid attack on Earth, which wreaks havoc across the planet as a grotesque form of plant life, harmful to humankind, terrorizes human civilization. Reader’s Guide included. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

To escape a life of hard time, a hapless petty criminal agrees to impersonate a legendary drug lord as part of a government scheme to rescue an federal agent, only to find himself prey to cops and killers alike. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Insurance adjustor Jack Wade investigates a house fire which killed a California heiress. Police rule an accident, but Wade suspects the woman’s husband. Or is he being led up the creek by the real arsonist? By the author of The Death and Life of Bobby Z.

Following his acclaimed Sunday Timesbestseller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian’s new novel returns us to the realms of Arthurian legend . . . Britain is a land riven by anarchy, slaughter, famine, filth and darkness. Its armies are destroyed, its heroes dead, or missing. Arthur and Lancelot fell in the last great battle and Merlin has not…

“After taking up his enchanted sword against the dark sorcerer Arcannen, Paxon Leah has become the sworn protector of the Druid order. Now a critical hour is at hand, as a beloved High Druid nears the end of her reign and prepares to pass from the mortal world to the one beyond. There is little…

The surviving members of four non-demon races, who have co-existed peacefully for five hundred years after creating their magically protected valley, band together against frightening creatures that are penetrating the shield around their home.