Books from HarperCollins Canada
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Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid
By Evelyn LauA bestselling memoir, Runaway is a story of survival: physical, emotional and psychological. It is at times tragic, sometimes infuriating, but always honest and inspired; Runaway makes no apologies and offers no solutions.
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Homework For Grown-Ups: Everything You Learned at School...and Promptly Forgot
By E. Foley, B. CoatesHomework for Grown-ups is a brilliantly informative and entertaining book of old-school knowledge for adults.
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Almost Dead
By Assaf GavronEitan Enoch -- nicknamed “Croc” -- is a thirty-something Tel Aviv yuppie whose life is turned upside down one morning when he narrowly escapes the suicide bombing of the bus he takes to work.
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Indian Camp: Short Story
By Ernest HemingwayYoung Nick Adams is exposed for the first time to life and death as he assists his father, a country doctor, with an emergency caesarian section on a young woman at a secluded Indian camp. “Indian Camp” was the first story feature the ...
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Madame Zee
By Pearl LukeA popular reading group choice, Pearl Luke’s acclaimed and sensitive re-imagining of this enigmatic figure was a Flare and Chatelaine book-club pick. It includes a fascinating P.S. section with information about the real Madame Zee.
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Beggar's Garden: Stories
By Michael ChristieThese engrossing stories, free of moral judgment, are about people who are searching in the jagged margins of life—for homes, drugs, love, forgiveness—and collectively they offer a generous and vivid portrait of humanity, not just in ...
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Bottomfeeder: A Seafood Lover's Journey to the End of the Food Chain
By Taras GrescoeBottomfeeder is a seafood lover’s round-the-world quest for a truly decent meal. From strip mall Red Lobsters to the rotary sushi bars of Tokyo, Taras Grescoe travels to the end of the seafood supply chain and back.
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Eric Wilson's Canadian Mysteries Volume 1: Murder on the Canadian, The Case of the Golden Boy, The Lost Treasure of...
By Eric WilsonTHREE BOOKS IN ONE!
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Secret Of Devil Lake
By Robert SutherlandSet in the Brockville/Westport area of Ontario, against the backdrop of the 1837 Rebellion, The Secret of Devil Lake is a race-against-time that's packed full of action, danger and perfectly timed plot twists.
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The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Short Story
By Ernest HemingwayOne of America’s foremost journalists and authors, Ernest Hemingway as also a master of the short story genre, penning more than fifty short stories during his career, many of which featured one of his most popular prose characters, Nick ...
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Attachment
By Isabel FonsecaAssured, funny, tender and provocative, Attachment -- set in London, New York and the Indian Ocean -- is unflinching in its depiction of desire, of the responsibility that comes with age and family, and of the impulses that colour and ...
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Gutenberg's Apprentice
By Alix ChristieAn Economist Book of the Year An October 2014 Indie Next Pick An enthralling literary debut that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval Germany—a story of invention, intrigue and betrayal ...
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Get Growing: An Everyday Guide to High-impact, Low-fuss Gardens
By Frankie FlowersWith tons of step-by-step detail -- in words and photos -- this book includes everything from planning and planting to pruning and fine tuning.
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Bruno, Chief Of Police: (Bruno, Chief of Police #1)
By Martin WalkerThis addictively readable novel, filled with the sights and sounds—and politics—of the French countryside, launches a stunning new crime fiction series.
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Let The Great World Spin
By Colum McCannHailed as an American masterpiece, McCann’s powerful allegory of 9/11 comes alive in the unforgettable voices of these, and other, seemingly disparate characters, drawn together by hope, beauty and the tightrope walker’s “artistic ...
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Ghost Whisperer: The Empty Desk: Ghost Whisperer Series #1
By Steven LockleyBased on the hit television series Ghost Whisperer, the new novel The Empty Desk continues the story of Melinda Gordon, a young woman with the extraordinary ability to see and communicate with ghosts, who uses this gift to help spirits ...
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Ship Of Lost Souls
By Rachelle DelaneyHeaped with humour, this is a rollicking story that boys and girls will love for its themes of loyalty, friendship and confidence—and because it’s just plain fun.
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Charmed: Let Gorgons Be Gorgons Part 1: Charmed Series #2
By Paul RuditisWith only the Book of Shadows to guide them, the Halliwell sisters are the fulfillment of their ancestor Melinda Warren's prophecy that three sisters descending from her line would become the most powerful witches of all time.
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Under An Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity
By Mellissa FungUnder an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung’s days in captivity, and a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances.