Happy CIBD from Shashi Bhat! Penguin Random House Canada 2024-04-26 | Shashi Bhat shares her love for independent bookstores as part of this year’s Canadian Independent Bookstore Day celebrations. Find your copy of Death by a Thousand Cuts at your local Canadian independent bookstore: indiebookstores.ca/book/9780771095115
Living Stories by Penguin Random House Canada Penguin Random House Canada 2024-04-09 | Penguin Random House Canada is proud to announce the launch of the early access web app, Living Stories, which aims to transform every bedtime story into an immersive experience. The app was developed to ignite children’s love for books by leveraging the popularity of smart home technology and to bring a multi-sensory experience to reading. By using predetermined cues that activate smart lights and sound effects, Living Stories connects with the sound of caregivers’ voices while they’re reading from a selection of physical books with their children. Penguin Random House Canada’s Living Stories is a completely free and functional web app that brings to life children’s books you read aloud with smart lights in your home and your smartphone speakers. For the launch of Living Stories, Penguin Random House Canada collaborated with creators, Ben Clanton; Chris Hadfield and the Fan Brothers; Sharon Hampson, Lois Lilienstein, and Bram Morrison with Randi Hampson and Qin Leng; and Eija Sumner and Nici Gregory, to bring four five children’s books to the app’s library: Bubbles; Blankie; The Darkest Dark; Sharon, Lois and Bram’s Skinnamarink; and The Good Little Mermaid’s Guide to Bedtime. How to enjoy Penguin Random House Canada’s Living Stories experience● Step 1: On your mobile, visit penguinlivingstories.com and follow the onscreen instructions for the first-time setup guide.● Step 2: Tap on the cover of the book you would like to read.● Step 3: Pick up the physical copy of the book and tap on Start Reading.● Step 4: Set your phone by your side, and prepare your little one to enter a wonderful world of stories. The current beta version of Living Stories has been developed through Philips open source software and is only accessible with a Philips Hue Bridge (main hub to control your light) and a compatible smart light bulb. To make reading a magical moment for kids, everyone is invited to visit penguinlivingstories.com.
How to Set Up Living Stories Penguin Random House Canada 2024-04-09 | How to enjoy Penguin Random House Canada’s Living Stories experience● Step 1: On your mobile, visit penguinlivingstories.com and follow the onscreen instructions for the first-time setup guide.● Step 2: Tap on the cover of the book you would like to read.● Step 3: Pick up the physical copy of the book and tap on Start Reading.● Step 4: Set your phone by your side, and prepare your little one to enter a wonderful world of stories.
The Adversary by Michael Crummey Penguin Random House Canada 2023-09-06 | From one of Canada's most beloved writers comes a powerful, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.On sale September 26, 2023.
The Light of Eternal Spring by Angel Di Zhang Penguin Random House Canada 2023-04-20 | Angel Di Zhang's intensely cinematic debut novel travels from the streets of New York City to northeast China, on the trail of a young photographer who needs to reconcile with her dead mother before she is able to see the world again.Learn more about the book: bit.ly/3Lhvxvl
Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality by Lindsay Wong Penguin Random House Canada 2023-02-15 | From Lindsay Wong, the author of the critically acclaimed The Woo-Woo, comes Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality, a wild, darkly hilarious, and poignant collection of stories that will haunt and consume you – in strange and unsettling ways.Learn more about the book here: http://bit.ly/3jvUfgm
Pure Life by Eugene Marten - Book Trailer Penguin Random House Canada 2022-02-07 | A teaser book trailer for PURE LIFE by Eugene Marten, a daring, complex, and powerful novel that explores the demolition of modern myths and the emotional carnage that results.Find out more about the book: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/671354/pure-life-by-eugene-marten/9780771051760
The Winter Wives by Linden MacIntyre Penguin Random House Canada 2021-08-04 | A thrilling new psychological drama from Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntrye, weaving threads of crime, disability and dementia together into a tale of unrequited love and delusion.Get your copy of The Winter Wives now: bit.ly/TheWinterWives
What Strange Paradise - Book Trailer Penguin Random House Canada 2021-07-08 | From Omar El Akkad, the author of the internationally acclaimed American War , comes a powerful new novel. WHAT STRANGE PARADISE is a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving work that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes.Buy your copy here: bit.ly/WhatStrangeParadise
Speak, Silence by Kim Echlin Penguin Random House Canada 2021-02-26 | From the internationally bestselling and Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted author of The Disappeared, an astounding, poetic novel about war and loss, suffering and courage, and the strength of women through it all.Get your copy: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/647053/speak-silence-by-kim-echlin/9780735240612
#IndieFeatureFriday: Khary Mathurin (Another Story) & Tanaz Bhathena Penguin Random House Canada 2020-08-31 | Leading up to Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, August 29, Penguin Random House Canada is spotlighting a Canadian independent bookstore every Friday at 3 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @PenguinRandomCA and follow the hashtag #IndieFeatureFriday!On August 28, our #IndieFeatureFriday spotlight was on Another Story Bookshop, an independent bookstore with 30 years of history, offering a broad range of literature for children, young adults and adults with a focus on themes of social justice, equity,& diversity. At 3 p.m. EDT, Tanaz Bhathena, author of Hunted by the Sky and The Beauty of the Moment, interviewed Khary Mathurin from Another Story Bookshop.Visit the Another Story Book Shop website: anotherstory.caFind a local independent bookstore near you: penguinrandomhouse.ca/canadian-independent-bookstores-delivery Be sure to follow @PenguinRandomCA for more upcoming events!Keep in touch about future events by signing up here: penguinrandomhouse.ca
Celebrating #CIBD and Canada Reads 2020: Amanda Brugel in conversation with Samra Habib Penguin Random House Canada 2020-08-29 | Saturday, August 29 is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD)! CIBD is dedicated to celebrating the vital role that independent bookstores play in our communities, and this year especially we applaud the resiliency and innovation our incredible booksellers have shown against all of the challenges posed by COVID-19. To help us raise awareness about CIBD and further support our indies, we are delighted to share a conversation between award-winning actor Amanda Brugel and Samra Habib, author of We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir. Amanda successfully defended Samra's title to victory in this year's CBC Canada Reads debates, the first time in the show's history that a book written by a woman has won with a female defender.In this video, Amanda and Samra share their respective Canada Reads experiences in addition to fascinating book recommendations, and of course, the importance of independent bookstores. It’s an incredibly warm and inspiring conversation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Thank you, Amanda and Samra!Be sure to follow @PenguinRandomCA and the hashtag #CIBD today to help us spread the word and to join the celebration! Find and support your local independent bookstore near you: bit.ly/CanadianIndies Meet some of Canada's incredible booksellers: penguinrandomhouse.ca/campaign/1810/indie-feature-friday Keep in touch about future events by signing up here: penguinrandomhouse.ca
#IndieFeatureFriday: Paul MacKay (Kings Co-op Bookstore) & Desmond Cole Penguin Random House Canada 2020-08-24 | Leading up to Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, August 29, Penguin Random House Canada is spotlighting a Canadian independent bookstore every Friday at 3 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @PenguinRandomCA and follow the hashtag #IndieFeatureFriday!On August 21, our #IndieFeatureFriday spotlight was on King's Co-op Bookstore, an independent and cooperatively run bookstore since 2006 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At 3 p.m. EDT, Desmond Cole, author of The Skin We're In, interviewed Paul MacKay from King's Co-op Bookstore.Visit the King's Co-op Bookstore website: kingsbookstore.ca/?q=hFind a local independent bookstore near you: penguinrandomhouse.ca/canadian-independent-bookstores-delivery Be sure to follow @PenguinRandomCA #IndieFeatureFriday for more upcoming events.Keep in touch about future events by signing up here: penguinrandomhouse.ca
#IndieFeatureFriday: Confidence Survival (Sankofa Bookstore) in conversation with David Chariandy Penguin Random House Canada 2020-08-14 | Leading up to Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, August 29, Penguin Random House Canada is spotlighting a Canadian independent bookstore every Friday at 3 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @PenguinRandomCA and follow the hashtag #IndieFeatureFriday!On August 14, our #IndieFeatureFriday spotlight is on Sankofa Bookstore, an Afrocentric bookstore, one of very few in Canada. Based in Ottawa, the store's main purpose is to bring forward the missing link, that of the story of the Nubian, Kemetic, Moorish and Afrikan story. At 3 p.m. EDT, David Chariandy, author of Brother and I've Been Meaning to Tell You, will interview Confidence Survival from Sankofa Bookstore. Register now to join the free event!Support Sankofa Bookstore: sankofabooks.com Find a local independent bookstore near you!: penguinrandomhouse.ca/canadian-independent-bookstores-delivery Be sure to follow @PenguinRandomCA #IndieFeatureFriday for more upcoming events.Keep in touch about future events by signing up here: penguinrandomhouse.ca
#IndieFeatureFriday: Jason Purcell (Glass Bookshop) in conversation with Vivek Shraya Penguin Random House Canada 2020-08-07 | Leading up to Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, August 29, Penguin Random House Canada is spotlighting a Canadian independent bookstore every Friday at 3 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @PenguinRandomCA and follow the hashtag #IndieFeatureFriday!On August 7, our #IndieFeatureFriday spotlight was on Glass Bookshop located in Edmonton, Alberta, that focuses on Canadian writing with special attention paid to LGBTQ2SIA and IBPOC writers, as well as the independent publishers who help to produce their work. Vivek Shraya, author of I'm Afraid of Men and her most recent novel The Subtweet, interviewed Jason Purcell, co-founder of Glass Bookshop.Support Glass Bookshop - shop online at bookmanager.com/8101124 Find a local independent bookstore near you!: penguinrandomhouse.ca/canadian-independent-bookstores-delivery Be sure to follow @PenguinRandomCA #IndieFeatureFriday for more upcoming events.Keep in touch about future events by signing up here: penguinrandomhouse.ca
#IndieFeatureFriday: Hilary Atleo (Iron Dog Books) in conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt Penguin Random House Canada 2020-07-27 | Leading up to Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, August 29, Penguin Random House Canada is spotlighting a Canadian independent bookstore every Friday at 3 p.m. EST. Join us on Twitter @PenguinRandomCA and follow the hashtag #IndieFeatureFriday!On July 24, our #IndieFeatureFriday spotlight was on Iron Dog Books, an Indigenous-owned bookshop and book truck dedicated to bringing low-cost reading to Tsleil-Waututh, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Musqueam territories (metro Vancouver). At 3 p.m. EST, Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of A History of My Brief Body, interviewed Hilary Atleo, co-owner of Iron Dog Books.Support Iron Dog Books - shop online at irondogbooks.comFind a local independent bookstore near you!: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/can... Be sure to follow @PenguinRandomCA #IndieFeatureFriday for more upcoming events.Keep in touch about future events by signing up here: penguinrandomhouse.ca
#IndieFeatureFriday: Sean Liburd (Knowledge Bookstore) in conversation with Eternity Martis Penguin Random House Canada 2020-07-13 | Leading up to Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, August 29, Penguin Random House Canada is spotlighting a Canadian independent bookstore every Friday at 3 p.m. EST. Join us on Twitter @PenguinRandomCA and follow the hashtag #IndieFeatureFriday!On July 10, our #IndieFeatureFriday spotlight was on Knowledge Bookstore, an independent Afrocentric bookstore located in Brampton, Ontario that sells African Canadian, African American, Caribbean and children’s books. At 3 p.m. EST, Eternity Martis, award-winning journalist and author of They Said This Would Be Fun, interviewed Sean Liburd, co-owner of Knowledge Bookstore.Visit the Knowledge Bookstore website: knowledgebookstore.comHelp Knowledge Bookstore to grow: ca.gofundme.com/f/ybfws-help-knowledge-bookstore-to-growFind a local independent bookstore near you!: penguinrandomhouse.ca/canadian-independent-bookstores-delivery Be sure to follow @PenguinRandomCA #IndieFeatureFriday for more upcoming events.Keep in touch about future events by signing up here: penguinrandomhouse.ca
#IndieFeatureFriday: Itah Sadu (A Different Booklist) in conversation with Ian Williams Penguin Random House Canada 2020-06-29 | Leading up to Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, August 29, Penguin Random House Canada is spotlighting a Canadian independent bookstore every Friday at 3 p.m. EST. Our inaugural #IndieFeatureFriday spotlight included a virtual event in which Giller Prize-winning author Ian Williams interviewed Itah Sadu, co-owner of A Different Booklist, a Toronto-based, independent, multicultural bookstore specializing in books from the African Caribbean Diaspora and the Global South.Support A Different Booklist - shop online at adifferentbooklist.comFind a local independent bookstore near you - penguinrandomhouse.ca/canadian-independent-bookstores-deliveryBe sure to follow @PenguinRandomCA #IndieFeatureFriday for more upcoming events.Keep in touch about future events by signing up here: penguinrandomhouse.ca
Book Trailer | The Innocents by Michael Crummey Penguin Random House Canada 2019-07-15 | From bestselling, award-winning author Michael Crummey comes a sweeping, heart-wrenching, deeply immersive novel about a brother and sister alone in a small world. On sale August 27, 2019.
The Kingfisher Secret by Anonymous Penguin Random House Canada 2018-10-11 | Who owns the most powerful man in the world?Her code name is Kingfisher. Her mission: to seduce and marry a man of wealth and political influence. Now she must protect a terrifying secret. October 2016: In America, the election is a few weeks away. Journalist Grace Elliott has just landed a scoop that she believes will make her career. A porn star is willing to talk about her affair with the man some hope and many fear will become the next president of the United States. But no one will touch it. Not even Grace's boss, the right-wing publisher of America's leading tabloid. Instead, Grace is sent to Europe where she discovers a story so big, so explosive that it could decide the American election and launch a new Cold War. As long as she can stay alive long enough to tell it. Spies, murder, and one of the biggest conspiracies of our time lie at the heart of this immersive thriller.Read more: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/592475/the-kingfisher-secret-by-anonymous/9780771001697
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Penguin Random House Canada 2018-09-17 | From internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.Pre-order now: http://tanyatagaq.com/writing
The Last Schmaltz by Anthony Rose and Chris Johns Penguin Random House Canada 2018-07-16 | On-sale October 9, 2018
The Last Schmaltz by Anthony Rose and Chris Johns - Book Trailer Penguin Random House Canada 2018-07-16 | On-sale October 9, 2018
How We Can Win by Anthony Lacavera Penguin Random House Canada 2017-11-15 | Our kids are smart, our banks are sound, our health care system is humane, our democracy is stable—but technological change is about to disrupt our economy and threaten our way of life. Canadians aren’t ready for the race to the future. Can we still catch up—or even win?Yes, says Anthony Lacavera, one of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. But we need to change the way we think and talk about our own abilities—dream bigger, aim higher and go for gold, not bronze. We also need to change the way we do business. Our dominant business culture, Lacavera believes, is fundamentally unCanadian: traditional, backward-looking, insular, timid, greedy, unoriginal—everything that Canadians themselves are not. And that unCanadian business culture, protected by outmoded regulations and government policies, is stifling our economic growth. It dumps roadblocks in the path of entrepreneurs who want to build the kind of powerhouse businesses that will create jobs and fuel our economy.Anthony Lacavera faced those roadblocks himself, when he was building WIND—an epic battle against the big three telecommunications giants in Canada. But he’s certain we have the talent and the brains to tear those roadblocks down. He gives us vivid portraits of some of Canada’s most important natural resources: our talented, innovative entrepreneurs, who want to change the world for the better (and, yes, make money while they’re at it). But we are shipping far too many of them to the United States, gift-wrapped in our tax dollars. They don’t want to leave—they’re forced out because it’s just too difficult to build big, bold businesses in Canada.How We Can Win explains what we need to do to keep them here, and what all Canadians must do to ensure our future prosperity. Our biggest problem is not that we are a small country, but that we think too small.We can be a nation of big dreamers and bigger doers. Not by aping Silicon Valley, but by focusing on uniquely Canadian strengths and then doubling down on them. If we bet aggressively on ourselves, and our future, rather than clinging to the status quo, we will create a new, more solid economic foundation—one that allows us to win the race to the future without leaving home.
Endurance by Scott Kelly Penguin Random House Canada 2017-11-06 | A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station—a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come.The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both life-threatening and mundane: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth; the catastrophic risks of colliding with space junk; and the still more haunting threat of being unable to help should tragedy strike at home--an agonizing situation Kelly faced when, on a previous mission, his twin brother's wife, American Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was shot while he still had two months in space.Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and determination resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble New Jersey childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career, and as he makes clear his belief that Mars will be the next, ultimately challenging, step in spaceflight.In Endurance, we see the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the infinite wonder of the galaxy.Learn more: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/549529/endurance#9780735233713
John Ruffalo on How We Can Win by Anthony Lacavera Penguin Random House Canada 2017-10-04 | Are Canadian businesses innovative enough to compete on a global scale? John Ruffalo tells us #HowWeCanWinHOW WE CAN WIN by Anthony Lacavera is available now: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/550087/how-we-can-win#9780735272590
Jodi Kovitz on How We Can Win by Anthony Lacavera Penguin Random House Canada 2017-10-04 | How Canadian nonprofits succeed, both locally and globally? Jodi Kovitz tells us #HowWeCanWin.HOW WE CAN WIN by Anthony Lacavera is available now: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/550087/how-we-can-win#9780735272590
Michele Romanow on How We Can Win by Anthony Lacavera Penguin Random House Canada 2017-10-04 | If Canadians are generally thought well of around the world, why aren't there more globally recognized Canadian brands? Michele Romanow tells us #HowWeCanWinHOW WE CAN WIN by Anthony Lacavera is available now: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/550087/how-we-can-win#9780735272590
A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena Penguin Random House Canada 2017-07-27 | From the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, a new thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can't account for herself and unsettling questions that threaten to tear a couple apart.You come home after a long day at work, excited to have dinner with your beautiful wife.But when you walk through the door, you quickly realize that she's not there.In the kitchen, there is a pot on the stove, and vegetables on the counter, abandoned.Her cellphone and her purse are still in the house, in the bedroom, exactly where she keeps them.It looks like she's left in a blind panic.You fear the worst, so you call her friends to see if they know where she is.Then you call the police.The police tell you that your wife's been in an accident. They found her in the worst part of town, after she lost control of the car while speeding through the streets. But why would she go to that neighbourhood? And why was she driving so fast? Was she running toward something? Or away from something?The police think your wife was up to no good.You refuse to believe it, at first.Then, as the stories and facts don't line up, and your wife can't remember what happened that evening, you start to wonder. You've been married for two years and you thought you knew her better than anyone else in the world . . . . . . but maybe you don't.Read more: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/543959/stranger-house#9780385686976
Life on the Ground Floor by Dr. James Maskalyk Penguin Random House Canada 2017-06-13 | A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be alive.In this deeply personal book, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk, author of the highly acclaimed Six Months in Sudan, draws upon his experience treating patients in the world's emergency rooms. From Toronto to Addis Ababa, Cambodia to Bolivia, he discovers that although the cultures, resources and medical challenges of each hospital may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Dr. Maskalyk witnesses the story of "human aliveness"--our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit. And it's here too that he is swept into the story, confronting his fears and doubts and questioning what it is to be a doctor. Masterfully written and artfully structured, Life on the Ground Floor is more than just an emergency doctor's memoir or travelogue--it's a meditation on health, sickness and the wonder of human life.Find out more information: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/108744/life-ground-floor#9780385665971
Into the Fire by Jerron Hawley, Graham Hurley & Steve Sackett Penguin Random House Canada 2017-04-25 | The dramatic story of one of the biggest natural disasters in Canadian history, the Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016, told by three of the firefighters who fought to save the city.Read more: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/554678/fire#9780771039294
American War by Omar El Akkad Penguin Random House Canada 2017-03-06 | An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle -- a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war as one of the Miraculous Generation and now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past -- his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.Learn more: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/543957/american-war#9780771009396
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai Penguin Random House Canada 2017-02-06 | All Our Wrong Todays is about the versions of ourselves that we shed and grow into over time. It is a story of friendship and family, of unexpected journeys and alternate paths, and of love in its multitude of forms. Filled with humor and heart, and saturated with insight and intelligence and a mind-bending talent for invention, this novel signals the arrival of a major talent.Read more: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/539561/all-our-wrong-todays#9780385686846
The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield, Illustrated by the Fan Brothers Penguin Random House Canada 2016-12-01 | Inspired by the childhood of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield and brought to life by Terry and Eric Fan's lush, evocative illustrations, The Darkest Dark will encourage readers to dream the impossible. Chris loves rockets and planets and pretending he's a brave astronaut, exploring the universe. Only one problem--at night, Chris doesn't feel so brave. He's afraid of the dark. But when he watches the groundbreaking moon landing on TV, he realizes that space is the darkest dark there is--and the dark is beautiful and exciting, especially when you have big dreams to keep you company.Find out more: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/538745/darkest-dark#9781101918623
A Disappearance in Damascus by Deborah Campbell Penguin Random House Canada 2016-11-19 | Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, the renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide, "fixer," and friend. Her frank, personal account of her journey to rescue her, and the triumph of friendship and courage over terrorism, is as riveting as it is illuminating. The story begins in 2007 when Deborah Campbell travels undercover to Damascus to report on the exodus of Iraqis into Syria following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. There she meets and hires Ahlam, a refugee working as a “fixer”—providing Western media with trustworthy information and contacts to help get the news out. Ahlam, who fled her home in Iraq after being kidnapped while running a humanitarian centre, not only supports her husband and two children through her work with foreign journalists but is setting up a makeshift school for displaced girls. She has become a charismatic, unofficial leader of the refugee community in Damascus, and Campbell is inspired by her determination to create something good amid so much suffering. Ahlam soon becomes her friend as well as her guide. But one morning Ahlam is seized from her home in front of Campbell’s eyes. Haunted by the prospect that their work together has led to her friend’s arrest, Campbell spends the months that follow desperately trying to find her—all the while fearing she could be next. Through its compelling story of two women caught up in the shadowy politics behind today’s conflict, A Disappearance in Damascus reminds us of the courage of those who risk their lives to bring us the world’s news.*Copyright © Writer's Trust of Canada
Ami McKays Advice for New Witches Penguin Random House Canada 2016-10-31 | 'The Witches of New York' by Ami McKay The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth House and The Virgin Cure is back with her most beguiling novel yet, luring us deep inside the lives of a trio of remarkable young women navigating the glitz and grotesqueries of Gilded-Age New York by any means possible, including witchcraft...Find out more: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/208718/witches-new-york#9780676979589
Rajiv Surendra talks about his book The Elephants in My Backyard Penguin Random House Canada 2016-10-04 | Kevin G wrote a book!Buy it here: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/540011/elephants-my-backyard#9780345816801Rajiv Surendra (the rapping mathlete from Mean Girls) read Life of Pi, discovered it was being adapted into a major motion picture, and embarked on a ten-year journey to land the role of a lifetime--but this is not a journey of goals and victories, this is a story of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life.In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was acting in Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman on set gave him a copy of Life of Pi, inadvertently changing the course of his life.Rajiv dove into the novel, mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself--they are both five-foot-five, with coffee-colored complexions; both share a South Indian culture; Pi lives in a zoo, and Rajiv grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, right beside the Toronto Zoo. When Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture, he is convinced Pi is the role he is destined to play.To land the role he knows he must embody the spirit of the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. In a great leap of faith, he quits university and buys a one-way ticket to India. Thus begins his enchanting and bumpy years-long journey from Toronto to the sacred stone temples of South India and the actual private school in Pondicherry that the fictional Pi attended, to rural Maine where Rajiv befriends a real-life castaway, and culminating in the most unexpected of places--the cobbled streets of Munich. Poignant, funny, colorful, and absolutely unforgettable, The Elephants in My Backyard is an inspiring tale of taking risks and following one's dreams, of process and determination, and looking back on one's endeavors--be they successes or colossal defeats--with new appreciation and meaning.
The Elephants in My Backyard by Rajiv Surendra Penguin Random House Canada 2016-10-04 | Kevin G wrote a book!! Pre-order it today: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/540011/elephants-my-backyard#9780345816801Rajiv Surendra (the rapping mathlete from Mean Girls) read Life of Pi, discovered it was being adapted into a major motion picture, and embarked on a ten-year journey to land the role of a lifetime--but this is not a journey of goals and victories, this is a story of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life.In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was acting in Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman on set gave him a copy of Life of Pi, inadvertently changing the course of his life.Rajiv dove into the novel, mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself--they are both five-foot-five, with coffee-colored complexions; both share a South Indian culture; Pi lives in a zoo, and Rajiv grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, right beside the Toronto Zoo. When Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture, he is convinced Pi is the role he is destined to play.To land the role he knows he must embody the spirit of the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. In a great leap of faith, he quits university and buys a one-way ticket to India. Thus begins his enchanting and bumpy years-long journey from Toronto to the sacred stone temples of South India and the actual private school in Pondicherry that the fictional Pi attended, to rural Maine where Rajiv befriends a real-life castaway, and culminating in the most unexpected of places--the cobbled streets of Munich. Poignant, funny, colorful, and absolutely unforgettable, The Elephants in My Backyard is an inspiring tale of taking risks and following one's dreams, of process and determination, and looking back on one's endeavors--be they successes or colossal defeats--with new appreciation and meaning.
Its a Canadian Fact: Sir John A. Macdonald Penguin Random House Canada 2016-09-27 | #ReadAllAboutIt #Canada1`50
Ninth City Burning: Book Trailer #2 Penguin Random House Canada 2016-08-31 | For fans of Red Rising, Starship Troopers, and Ender’s Game comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut...Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it—until we discovered we could wield the power too.Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines. Those who refused to support the war have been exiled to the wilds of a ruined Earth.But the enemy's tactics are changing, and Earth's defenders are about to discover this centuries-old war has only just begun. As a terrible new onslaught looms, heroes will rise from unlikely quarters, and fight back.Find out more: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536079/ninth-city-burning#9781101991459
We Found A Hat by Jon Klassen Penguin Random House Canada 2016-08-18 | Hold on to your hats for the conclusion of the celebrated hat trilogy by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen, who gives his deadpan finale a surprising new twist.Two turtles have found a hat. The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles. And there is only one hat. . . . Evoking hilarity and sympathy, the shifting eyes tell the tale in this brilliantly paced story in three parts, highlighting Jon Klassen’s visual comedy and deceptive simplicity. The delicious buildup takes an unexpected turn that is sure to please loyal fans and newcomers alike.Find out more: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/545603/we-found-hat#9780763656003
