1. Art and Diseño

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2Hardcovers and
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Hamish Hamilton
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New in Paperback
28Excerpts
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Who’s Who / Ordering
The stunningly vibrant final novel
in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy
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The Ibis Trilogy has garnished high
praise around the world, and the final
installment is much awaited
Amitav Ghosh is an internationally
bestselling author whose awards
include the Pris Medicis and the
Arthur C. Clarke Award
AMITAV
GHOSH
Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for
the Man Booker Prize
Ghosh’s ability to trace the way
drug money shapes the destinies of
individuals and countries has a powerful
contemporary resonance
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It is 1839, and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India
following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight,
the colonial government declares war.
AMITAV GHOSH was born in Calcutta in
1956, and grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
and India. He studied at the universities of
Delhi and Oxford, and published the first of
seven novels, The Circle of Reason, in 1986. He
currently divides his time between Calcutta,
Goa, and Brooklyn. The first novel in the Ibis
trilogy, Sea of Poppies, was shortlisted for the
Man Booker Prize.
Flood of Fire is a thrillingly realized and richly populated novel, imbued with a wealth
of historical detail, suffused with the magic of place, and plotted with verve. It is a
beautiful novel in its own right, and a compelling conclusion to an epic and sweeping
story—it is nothing short of a masterpiece.
Praise for Amitav Ghosh
@GhoshAmitav
“A glorious babel of a novel … marvellously
inventive … utterly involving … The next volume
cannot come too soon.”—Sunday Times
“A writer of uncommon talent who combines
literary flair with a rare seriousness of purpose …
His descriptions bring a lost world to life.”
—The Washington Post
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One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastward from Bengal
to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings
together a diverse group of travellers, each with his own agenda to pursue. Among
them is Kesri Singh, a sepoy in the East India Company who leads a company of
Indian sepoys; Zachary Reid, an impoverished young sailor searching for his lost love;
and Shireen Modi, a determined widow en route to China to reclaim the wealth and
reputation of her opium-trader husband. Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War and China’s
devastating defeat, to Britain’s seizure of Hong Kong.
Amitav-Ghosh
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Praise for River of Smoke
“A tremendous novel, and if Amitav
Ghosh can sustain its brilliance … his
Ibis Trilogy will surely come to be
regarded as one of the masterpieces
of twenty-first-century fiction.”
—Literary Review
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“H is for Hawk will be a classic … It deserves to sell shedloads
and win prizes. It is naturalist writing of that spectacular quality
that is literature too.”—The Times
The thrilling conclusion to the Mesopotamian trilogy about
the origin of angels and the real location of the lost Garden of Eden
FI N A L
CO VE R N OT
HELEN MACDONALD
D.J. McINTOSH
H is for Hawk
The Angel of Eden
In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger,
yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see.
Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they’re the birdwatchers’ dark grail.
In 2011, D.J. McIntosh took the book world by storm with her bestselling debut
novel, The Witch of Babylon. Praised by The Globe and Mail for its “stellar research”
and “superb writing,” it introduced readers to John Madison, a rakish New York art
dealer with a past who uncovered a fabulous treasure trove of antiquities in the hills
outside Baghdad and the truth behind a famous story long believed to be a myth.
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane
terminology and read all the classic books, including T. H. White’s tortured masterpiece,
The Goshawk, which describes White’s struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest.
In this highly anticipated conclusion, a mysterious man strikes a deal with Madison to
reveal the names of his actual parents if Madison agrees to find George Helmstetter, the
man’s former assistant. Helmstetter, an ancestor of the real Faust, disappeared thirty-five
years ago along with a rare sixteenth century book on angelology. Madison’s quest leads
him to an extraordinary cave village where he discovers the true location of the Garden
of Eden, the nature of the devil, and the origin of the great Sumerian nation. In a final
conflict with the magician, Madison learns the deadly secret of his birth.
To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk, and so gain the ability to predict what
it will do next. Eventually you don’t see the hawk’s body language at all. You seem to feel
what it feels. The hawk’s apprehension becomes your own. As the days passed and I put
myself in the hawk’s wild mind to tame her, my humanity was burning away.
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Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and
the Waterstones Book of the Year
Helen Macdonald has plenty of media experience,
including appearing on several programs on
hawks and falcons for the BBC
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HAMISH HAMILTON
Destined to be a classic of nature writing, H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey—an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald’s struggle with grief during the
difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it’s a
kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T.H. White, best
known for The Once and Future King. It’s a book about
memory, nature, and nation, and how it might be possible
to reconcile death with life and love.
HELEN MACDONALD is a writer, poet, illustrator,
historian, and affiliate at the Department of History and
Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
Praise for H is for Hawk
“The discovery of the season.”—The Economist
“Soars beyond genres, and burns with emotional
and intellectual intensity.”—Nature
“It is not just a definitive work on falconry;
it is a definitive work on humanity, and all that
can and cannot be possessed.”—Rich Bass
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When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, Macdonald becomes
obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a
Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with
hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of
trying to train this wildest of animals.
D.J. McINTOSH is a member of the Society for Mesopotamian
Studies and a former co-editor of the Crime Writers of Canada’s
newsletter, Fingerprints. She is a strong supporter of Reporters
Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
She lives in Toronto.
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Praise for The Book of Stolen Tales
“In this second installment of the much buzzed
about Babylon Trilogy, D.J. McIntosh takes her readers
on a whirlwind adventure, blurring the lines between myth
and reality to reveal the shocking repercussions of
dark legends of old.”—Chatelaine
Praise for The Witch of Babylon
“A book so good, everyone should buy it twice.”
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The first book in the series, The Witch of
Babylon, was one of CNN’s “Six Most Enduring
Historical Thrillers,” one of Amazon.ca’s Top
Mysteries and Thrillers of 2011, winner of
the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished
Crime Novel, shortlisted for the Crime Writers’
Association Debut Dagger Award, and was a
Globe and Mail national bestseller in paperback
The Book of Stolen Tales, the second book in the
series, was a Quill & Quire Book of the Year
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Emily Dickinson’s life is reimagined in her own voice
and through eyes of a young Irish maid—an enchanting novel
in the spirit of Longbourn and Mrs. Poe
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Simultaneous publication with Penguin US
A vivid and beautiful evocation of the
domestic life and passion of the whimsical
and wistful American poet Emily Dickinson
NUALA
O’CONNOR
O’Connor is the recipient of many fiction
awards, including RTÉ radio’s Francis
MacManus Award, the Cúirt New Writing
Prize, the Jane Geske Award (U.S.A.), the
inaugural Jonathan Swift Award, and the
Cecil Day Lewis Award
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Miss Emily
NUALA O’CONNOR was born in
Dublin in 1970 and lives in East Galway
with her family. She holds a B.A. in Irish
from Trinity College Dublin and a masters
in translation studies (Irish/English) from
Dublin City University. She is a short-story
writer, and novelist and the recipient of
many fiction awards, including RTÉ radio’s
Francis MacManus Award, the Cúirt New
Writing Prize, the Jane Geske Award (U.S.A.),
the inaugural Jonathan Swift Award, and the
Cecil Day Lewis Award.
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Ada Concannon’s first day in America is a success. She’s the new maid for the
respected but eccentric Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts. Despite the
differences in age and class, eighteen-year-old Ada, “a neat little Irish person, fresh
off the boat,” strikes up a deep freindship with Miss Emily, the gifted elder daughter living a spinster’s life at home. Emily is a bastion of support as Ada struggles
to find her place in this new world, while Ada’s toil gives Emily the freedom she
needs to write.
Interest in Emily Dickinson has been
renewed by The Gorgeous Nothings, a
collection of the poet’s envelope writings; by
the recent online release of her manuscripts
in the open-access Emily Dickinson Archive;
and by the opening of the off-Broadway
show The Belle of Amherst, starring Joely
Richardson
But Emily’s passion for words begins to dominate her life. She decides to wear
nothing but white and increasingly avoids the outside world. When Ada’s safety
and reputation are threatened, however, Emily faces down her own demons in
order to help her friend, with shocking consequences.
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“A triumph of a novel, creating an
utterly human and believable Emily Dickinson
through the eyes of an enchanting and
complex fictional Irish woman.”
—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
“What a truly wonderful novel. Nuala
O’Conner’s beautiful writing sings from every
single page as Emily and Ada’s fascinating story
unfolds. An absolute joy to read—I will be
telling everyone about this book.”
—Hazel Gaynor, New York Times best-selling
author of The Girl Who Came Home
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“An original portrayal of Emily Dickinson seen here
not just as a lover of words, but as a heroine and
friend to a plucky Irish maid who casts a new and
sympathetic light on the Belle of Amherst.”
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—Sheila Kohler, author of Becoming Jane Eyre
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CO VE R NOT FIN AL
This New York Times bestselling authors’ critically acclaimed
program will change your life in thirty days!
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DALLAS
and
MELISSA
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Dallas and Melissa Hartwig are dynamic
authors with a huge social media platform:
their WHOLE30 website and forum get over
two million page views per month, they
have close to 300,000 Facebook fans, over
50,000 Twitter followers, and over 65,000
followers on Instagram
The WHOLE30
The 30-Day Guide to TOTAL HEALTH
and FOOD FREEDOM
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Dallas and Melissa Hartwig’s critically acclaimed WHOLE30 program has
helped hundreds of thousands of people transform how they think about their
food, bodies, and lives. Their approach leads to effortless weight loss and better health—along with stunning improvements in sleep quality, energy levels,
mood, and self-esteem. Their first book, The New York Times bestselling It Starts
with Food, explained the science behind their life-changing program. Now they
bring you The WHOLE30, a stand-alone, step-by-step plan to break unhealthy
habits, reduce cravings, improve digestion, and strengthen your immune system.
The WHOLE30 features more than a hundred chef-developed recipes, like
Chimichurri Beef Kabobs and Halibut with Citrus Ginger Glaze, designed to
build your confidence in the kitchen and inspire your taste buds. The book also
includes real-life success stories, community resources, and an extensive FAQ to
give you the support you need on your journey to “food freedom.”
DALLAS HARTWIG is a certified sports
nutritionist, licensed physical therapist, and
functional medical practitioner.
MELISSA HARTWIG is a certified sports
nutritionist. They authored The New York
Times bestselling book It Starts with Food.
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It All Starts with Food has sold 300,000 copies
in the U.S. and is on The New York Times
bestseller list
Their WHOLE30 program strips out unhealthy,
hormone-unbalancing, gut-disrupting,
inflammatory food groups (grains, legumes,
dairy, sugar) for 30 days
“Here is the nutrition book we’ve been waiting for.
It Starts with Food gives us common sense and
counseling to help you break through the barriers
and figure out your own optimal diet.”
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—Emily Deans, M.D., Harvard Medical School
“Need some tough love cleaning up a lousy diet?
Dallas and Melissa Hartwig ask that you enlist in
their 30-day boot camp—and you’ll emerge
a brand new person.”—The Los Angeles Times
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Thirty-three men, five regions, and one big idea
Rob Ford may be notorious, but when it comes to
mayoral shenanigans, he’s in good company
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
PHILIP SLAYTON
Three Weeks in
Quebec City
Mayors Gone Bad
Mayors Gone Bad, a series of profiles of recent and current Canadian mayors gone amok, is
an entertaining companion volume to the bestselling Lawyers Gone Bad. Whether they’ve
misappropriated funds, had cosy relationships with Mafia hoods, been caught with prostitutes, or admitted to smoking crack, Canada’s mayors are a colourful collection: Peter Kelly,
long-serving mayor of Halifax, driven from office by investigative reporting of ethical lapses;
Gerard Tremblay of Montreal resigned in suspicious circumstances; Michael Applebaum
of Montreal faces criminal charges of fraud; Gilles Vaillancourt of Laval also resigned and
faces similar criminal charges; Alexandre Duplessis of Laval left after a hooker scandal; Joe
Fontana was convicted of fraud and is under house arrest; Susan Fennell of Brampton was
under police investigation for possible criminal use of city funds; Sam Katz of Winnipeg
was dogged throughout his mayoralty by conflict-of-interest allegations; and Rob Ford
made headlines across North America as “the crack-smoking mayor of Toronto.” But it’s
not all bad news: Philip Slayton writes about the “western triangle of mayoral goodness,”
Nenshi of Calgary, Iveson of Edmonton, and Robertson of Vancouver. Also, Slayton features four foreign mayors who have made an impact: Jón Gnarr of Reykjavik, Boris Johnson
of London, Michael Bloomberg of New York, and Anne Hidalgo of Paris.
The Meeting That Made Canada
In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to
pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil
War, not yet over, encouraged the small and barely defended provinces to consider uniting
for mutual protection. But there were other factors: the rapid expansion of railways and
steamships spurred visions of a continent-spanning new nation.
Federation, in principle, had been agreed on at the Charlottetown conference, but now it
was time to debate the difficult issues of how a new nation would be formed. The delegates
included John A. Macdonald, George Etienne-Cartier, and George Brown. Historian
Christopher Moore demonstrates that Macdonald, the future prime minister, surprisingly
was not the most significant player here, and Canada could have become a very different
place.
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This is the final book in the History of
Canada series
The significance of this conference is played out in Canadian news each day. The main
point of contention at the time was the issue of power—a strong federal body versus stronger provincial rights. Because of this conference, we have an elected House of Commons, an
appointed Senate, a federal Parliament, and provincial legislatures. We have what amounts
to a Canadian system of checks and balances. Did it work then, and does it work now?
Today’s debates about Senate reform, power
distribution, and elections can all be traced
back to the Quebec conference
Aside from creating a rogues’ gallery of mayors, Slayton offers insight into the nature
of municipal government in Canada and speculates about why people seek the office
of mayor. Little real power is exercised by any mayor, but the abuses of that power are
nonetheless significant. As well, Slayton provides a series of proposals to reform municipal
government. Written with the dry wit that made Lawyers Gone Bad a national bestseller,
Slayton’s new book is an eye-opening look at how we are governed.
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CHRISTOPHER MOORE is an accomplished historian and has
written or contributed to fifteen books. His first book, Louisbourg
Portraits: Life in An Eighteenth Century Garrison Town, won the
Governor General’s Award for non-fiction, and he won the 2011
GG Award for children’s literature. He has a long-running column
in Canada’s History, and his journalism has been recognized with
three National Magazine Award nominations. He lives in Toronto
with his family.
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PHILIP SLAYTON is the bestselling author of Lawyers Gone Bad
and Mighty Judgment. A Rhodes scholar, he has been a law clerk at
the Supreme Court of Canada, dean of a Canadian law school,
and senior partner of a major Canadian law firm. Currently, he is
president of PEN Canada. He divides his time between Toronto
and Port Medway, Nova Scotia.
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Lawyers Gone Bad was a national bestseller
Slayton, an excellent speaker, is currently
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“1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal is just about
the best work on our history I have ever read.”
—Dalton Camp
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A modern take on a beloved tradition
“Leave the sous vide to the chefs:
what people want are simple,
creative dishes to serve quickly.
Enter Amy. In addition to raising
a family, this young mom cooks
straightforward recipes for home
cooks that have garnered her
five blogger awards (including
one from Jamie Oliver), on top
of teaching hands-on cooking
classes for children and adults.”
AMY BRONEE
The Canning Kitchen
101 Simple Small Batch Recipes
The Canning Kitchen blends the traditions of home preserving with the tastes of
the modern home cook with 101 simple, small batch recipes and vivid photography.
Fill jars with canning classics such as Strawberry Rhubarb Jam and Crunchy Dill
Pickles, and discover new classics like Salted Caramel Pear Butter, Bing Cherry
Barbecue Sauce, and Sweet Thai Chili Chutney. With fresh ideas for every season,
you’ll want to keep your canning pot handy year-round to make delicious jams,
jellies, marmalades, pickles, relishes, chutneys, sweet and savory sauces, and jars
of homemade pantry favourites.
In addition to year-round recipes, The Canning Kitchen includes all the basics
you’ll need to get started. Boost your canning confidence with straight-forward
answers to common preserving questions and find out about the canning tools you
need, many of which you may already have in your kitchen. Get tips on choosing
seasonal ingredients and fresh ideas on how to enjoy your beautiful preserves.
Use the step-by-step checklist to safely preserve each delicious batch, leaving you
with just enough jars to enjoy at home plus a little extra for sharing.
—Western Living magazine
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AMY BRONEE is a food blogger, recipe developer, and
cooking instructor. Her blog, Family Feedbag, receives millions
of visitors a year and is recognized as one of Canada’s top food
blogs. Bronee lives in Victoria with her husband and two
young boys.
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Praise for FamilyFeedbag.com
“After reading Amy’s recipe for Spaghetti with Chicken
in White Wine Parmesan Sauce, we think we might want
to drink the sauce right from the bowl. Amy’s fantastic
foodtography leaves us drooling. We are delighted by the way
she takes a recipe and adds an unexpected ingredient or two to
make it unique and oh-so-tempting.”—SheKnows.ca
“We love this blog because Amy’s recipes start
from scratch and come out of her own garden.
All of the content—recipes and images—are original
and beautiful.”—SavvyMom.ca
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FamilyFeedbag.com was named one of Canada’s
best food blogs by the National Post, SavvyMom.ca,
and Sweetspot.ca, and Blog of the Month by Jamie
Oliver’s Food Revolution
Amy Bronee earned a certificate in home food
preservation through the University of Georgia and
the National Center for Home Food Preservation
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A literary thriller reminiscent of The Dinner and The Silent Wife
that follows a famous author whose wife—the brains behind his
success—meets her death, leaving him to deal with the consequences
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SASCHA
ARANGO
The Truth and Other Lies is an international
sensation, first published by Bertelsmann in
Germany and rights sold in 21 countries,
including to Atria in the U.S., Simon & Schuster
in the U.K. as well as to Australia, Czech
Republic, France, Italy, The Netherlands,
Russia, and Spain
Movie rights were sold to the producers of
Magic Mike, The Road, The Tree of Life,
and Killing Them Softly
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On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like, or even
admire. A famous bestselling author who appears a modest everyman. A loving,
devoted husband even though he could have any woman he desires. A generous
friend and co-worker. But Henry Hayden is a construction, a mask. His past is a
secret, his methods more so. No one besides he and his wife know that she is the
actual writer of the novels that made him famous.
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For most of Henry’s life, it hasn’t been a problem. But when his hidden-in-plainsight mistress becomes pregnant and his carefully constructed facade is about to
crumble, he tries to find a permanent solution, only to make a terrible mistake.
SASCHA ARANGO is one of Germany’s most
prominent screenplay writers and for his work on
the long-running detective series Tatort is a twotime winner of the Grimme Prize, a prestigious
award for German television. His first novel,
The Truth and Other Lies, will be published in
more than thirteen countries in 2015. He lives
in Germany.
Now not only are the police after Henry, but his past—which he has painstakingly
kept hidden—threatens to catch up with him as well. Henry is an ingenious man,
and he works out an ingenious plan. He weaves lies, truths, and half-truths into a
story that may help him survive. But bit by bit the noose still tightens.
Smart, sardonic, and compulsively readable, here is the story of a man whose
cunning allows him to evade the consequences of his every action, even when he’s
standing on the edge of the abyss.
“One thing must be made absolutely clear:
Truth and Other Lies is, until further notice,
this year’s best achievement on the German
crime book scene.”—Die Welt
“Arango writes the perfect portrait of a liar.”
—Corriere della sera
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“Noir fiction of the most beautiful kind,
even in its most evil moments maintaining
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New, satisfying,
energizing, and vibrant
vegan recipes from
Canada’s leading natural
food trailblazers
RUTH TAL and
JENNIFER HOUSTON
Super Fresh
150 Naturally Healthy Vegan Recipes
Bestselling authors and founders of the bustling Fresh restaurants have been
creating vegan meals, smoothies, and juices from whole, natural ingredients for
almost two decades.
In Super Fresh, Ruth and Jennifer offer 150 deliciously healthy recipes that include a
wide range of brand new recipes and a few of their most popular recipes that are simply
indispensable classics. We all need food to fuel our bodies, so why not cook with natural
ingredients that have a high nutritional value? In addition to being healthy, all these
recipes are remarkably simple, the ingredients easy to find and quick to prepare.
Super Fresh includes nutrient-packed salads, wraps, burgers, tacos, and fresh bowls like
Ace of Kales Salad, Black Bean Burrito, Thai Burger, Squash Tacos, Powerhouse Bowl,
and Tiger Bowl. Filled with energy-boosting ingredients, their smoothies and juices are
out of this world—Lucky Charm Smoothie, Tropical Transfusion Smoothie, Green
Candy Juice, Premium Detox Smoothie, Power Cookie Shake, and Trail Mix Shake.
Eat super fresh every day!
With the success of The Oh She Glows Cookbook
and others like it, vegan cooking is popular and
mainstream
Tal and Houston are the bestselling authors of
Fresh at Home
Readers are increasingly interested in how
to eat healthier and adopting (either partially or
full-time) a plant-based diet
Recipes are made from popular, healthy, and
easy-to-find ingredients
Fresh is an extremely popular restaurant with
four locations in Toronto and two in Quebec (2015)
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RUTH TAL and JENNIFER HOUSTON are co-owners of Fresh restaurants and
bestselling authors of several vegetarian and vegan cookbooks. Both live in Toronto.
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“A cookbook that tells a story, which
makes it a worthwile addiction to
anybody’s collection.”
—The Vegetarian
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From the bestselling author of The Disappeared and
Under the Visible Life comes a spellbinding new version
of a long-forgotten ancient story
A heartwarming look at how happiness—and redemption—can
be found at both ends of the leash in all kinds of places
KIM ECHLIN
ELIZABETH ABBOTT
Inanna
Dogs and Underdogs
A New English Version
Finding Happiness at Both Ends of the Leash
Inanna, a goddess of ancient Mesopotamia, was worshipped around 1800 bce by our ancestors in the land that is now modern-day Iraq. But who was she? Who were her followers?
And what did her stories mean for their lives?
Elizabeth Abbott had always been an animal lover, sharing her life with all kinds of dogs
in need. But when worlds collided and her beloved dog Tommy was left behind in Haiti, a
new journey began: one that would take her to some very surprising places and ultimately
teach her some essential truths about the power of hope and redemption.
Lost for millennia, Inanna’s stories were buried and forgotten, unearthed by archaeologists only
recently, around the turn of the nineteenth century. Their translation has been a remarkable
work of collaboration by scholars from disparate parts of the globe as fragments of stone tablets were pieced together and the symbols on them recorded, transliterated, and interpreted.
From the soulless concrete corridors of an American prison to the halls of a Canadian
hospital to life among the ruins in post-war Serbia, Abbott meets people whose lives are
changed forever by a wagging tail and a pair of soulful eyes—and dogs who find a new
lease on life with devoted human companions.
And although we still know relatively little about this ancient time, a picture of this
extraordinary figure has slowly begun to emerge through the painstaking work of these
dedicated scholars: Inanna the creator, the destroyer, the leader, the warrior, the lover, the
friend. Inanna was a guiding light for her followers, a commanding symbol of justice and
honour, and her stories have much to teach a contemporary readership about love, power,
independence, and compassion.
Kim Echlin’s impressive work on this
fascinating ancient text makes it accessible
and interesting for a new generation of
general readers
Now, these stories are brought to vivid, visceral life by beloved author Kim Echlin, who brings
her trademark passion and poet’s sensibility to the translation of the Inanna myth. With a new
introduction and comprehensive notes, this new English version renders Inanna’s powerful
story accessible and captivating for a new generation of eager readers.
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Published in an affordable format for
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Award-winning author KIM ECHLIN lives in Toronto. She is the
author of Elephant Winter and Dagmar’s Daughter, and her third
novel, The Disappeared, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller
Prize and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers
Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel is Under the Visible Life.
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Throughout Dogs and Underdogs, Abbott shares her own incredible and often amusing
stories of rescuing dogs in need of shelter, friendship, and love: devoted Tommy, the
inspiration who began it all; irrepressible Bonzi, the beagle who charmed his way
into prisoners’ hearts; sweet Alice, the little mama who survived a puppy mill to be
“mothered” by other dogs; and many more. With wit and passion, Abbott digs down
into the deepest roots of the human–animal bond, showing us that together people
and dogs can find hope and happiness.
ELIZABETH ABBOTT is the bestselling author of A History
of Celibacy, A History of Mistresses, A History of Marriage, and
Sugar. Abbott has written for numerous media, including The
Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Ottawa
Citizen, and The Gazette (Montreal). She lives in Toronto.
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Abbott has been shortlisted for several
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“Tightly crafted and brilliantly paced, Fear the Darkness is a page-turner of a read
filled with secrets, science, and sleuthing. Seeing the world through Brigid Quinn’s
eyes has officially become my new addiction.”—Ami McKay
BECKY MASTERMAN
Fear the Darkness
Retirement is a bitch. Between ravine walks with her pugs and liquid lunches with
her new friend Mallory, ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn can’t stop working, and she’s
immediately drawn to the suspicious death of a local teen that may have chilling
consequences for her own family.
A fully-clothed fourteen-year-old boy is found drowned in a swimming pool. None of
his friends is talking, and Brigid fears the boy’s death could be the first of many. Enter
Brigid’s clever but emotionally damaged niece Gemma Kate. Gemma Kate comes to
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with a local boy who knew the drowned teen. Gemma Kate’s arrival also coincides with
a series of ghastly poisonings.
As she tries to get to the bottom of a series of allegedly accidental deaths and increasingly
gruesome occurrences at home, Brigid realizes that maybe this time she’s let the darkness
inside the only place she ever felt safe. Sometimes death is closer than you think.
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BECKY MASTERMAN is the senior acquisitions editor for
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and law enforcement. Her first novel, Rage Against the Dying,
featuring fifty-nine-year-old retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn, was
shortlisted for the Debut Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was a
Literary Guild Main Selection.
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missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up.
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“Put Kavalier & Clay to one side … Henderson has contributed
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to Scottish history buffs and fans of Bernard Cornwell.”—Publishers Weekly
JACK WHYTE
LEE HENDERSON
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The Road Narrows
As You Go
A Tale of Andrew Murray
The Guardian Series, set in the fourteenth century, features three extraordinary
guardians of medieval Scotland, the three greatest heroes the country ever produced, all of whom were contemporaries and knew one another: William Wallace,
Robert the Bruce, and Sir Andrew Murray.
All Wendy Ashbubble has ever wanted is to draw comics as well as Charles Schultz’s
Peanuts—and to one day see her creations grace the pages of a major daily newspaper.
Growing up in Victoria in the 1970s, Wendy dreams of getting out, getting away … and
getting recognition for her talent. And there’s another, never-whispered motivation that
prompts her to seek her fortune: a deeply buried memory and unshakeable belief that her
unknown father is Ronald Reagan, the fortieth president of the United States.
Andrew Murray was a Scottish military and political leader who supported David II
of Scotland against Edward Balliol and Edward III of England during the Second
War of Scottish Independence. He held the lordships of Avoch and Petty in north
Scotland, and Bothwell in west-central Scotland. In 1326, he married Christina
Bruce, a sister of Robert I of Scotland. Murray was twice chosen as guardian of
Scotland, first in 1332 and again from 1335 on his return to Scotland after his
release from captivity in England. He held the guardianship until his death in 1338.
His novels are published in 13 countries
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the brash optimism and ruthless amoralism of the decade, as well as its preoccupation, with
repressed memories, and fully captures the flavour of an uncertain but deeply vibrant era.
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JACK WHYTE was born and raised in Scotland and
emigrated to Canada in 1967. He is an actor, orator, singer, and
poet, and was awarded an honorary doctor of letters (D. Litt.)
for his contribution to Canadian popular fiction. He is the
author of the Dream of Eagles series (eight Arthurian novels
set in Roman Britain) and the Templar Trilogy (featuring the
legendary Knights Templar). Whyte’s novels are also published
in the United States, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Germany,
France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Brazil, and
Russia. He lives in Kelowna, British Columbia.
A chance meeting with an attractive-but-mysterious travelling artist inspires Wendy to take
the plunge, and she runs away to live in a dilapidated artists’ commune in San Francisco.
There, amid the haze of top-quality weed, unbridled creativity, and unfettered sex, her
dream begins to take tangible shape.
LEE HENDERSON is the author of the award-winning short-story
collection The Broken Record Technique. He is a contributing editor to the
arts magazines Border Crossings in Canada and Contemporary in the U.K.
He has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals and
co-organizes Father Zosima Presents, a monthly night of sound performances
in Vancouver where he lives. His first novel, The Man Game, won the BC
Book Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
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Entertaining and raucous.”—Toronto Star
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SASCHA ARANGO
Truth and Other Lies
The manuscript of Frank Ellis was his discovery. It was lying wrapped
in greaseproof paper under a stranger’s bed. Henry found it, his head
throbbing with pain, as he hunted for his left sock so that he could
steal out of the stranger’s room as he’d stolen out of so many others.
He couldn’t remember the woman lying next to him in bed, and he
felt no desire to get to know her now. He could only see her foot and
the feminine silhouette running from the dip of her pelvis up to her
fine, chestnut-brown hair, and he investigated no further. The stove
was cold; the room was dark. It smelt of dust and bad breath. Time
to make himself scarce.
Henry was hideously thirsty because he’d drunk
a particularly large amount of alcohol the night
before. It had been the eve of his thirty-sixth birthday. Nobody had wished him any happy returns.
How could they? Nobody knew. Who could possibly know? Drifters don’t form close friendships,
and his parents had been dead for a long time.
He had no flat of his own, no fixed income and
no idea what he was to do next in life. Why should
he? The future is uncertain. Anyone who says they
know what the future holds is a liar. The past is nothing but memory and thus pure fabrication—the
present alone is certain, gives us space to evolve, and
is over again in an instant. What tormented Henry
far more than uncertainty was the thought of certainty. Knowing what
lay in store for him was tantamount to the pendulum over the pit.
What was there left to hope for except remorse, death and decay? In
keeping with this entirely clear-eyed outlook, Henry defined his life
as a cumulative process, to be judged by historians only after his death.
And happy is he who leaves nothing behind; he need fear no judgment.
Keeping silent goes against human nature. Thus the opening sentence of Martha’s manuscript. It might easily, Henry thought, be something he would say. Absolutely to the point and so simple. He read the
next sentence, and then on and on. His left sock stayed off; he didn’t
creep out of the little flat; nor did he, as was his wont, walk off with
whatever cash or items of value happened to be lying around in order
to buy himself something to eat.
From the first paragraph he had the impression that the story was not
unlike his own. He read the whole manuscript in a sitting, turning the
pages as quietly as he could, so as not to wake up the unknown woman
gently snoring beside him. There were no corrections on the densely
typed pages as far as he could make out, and no typos either—not a
comma out of place. Every now and then Henry stopped reading for
a moment to take a closer look at the sleeping woman. Was it possible
they’d met before? Had he told her about himself and then forgotten
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they’d ever met? What was her name again? Had she even mentioned
it? She hadn’t talked much, that was for sure. She was unprepossessing, delicate, with long eyelashes which now shielded her closed eyes.
***
When Martha awoke in the early afternoon, Henry had already lit
the stove, solved the mystery of the dripping tap, fixed the shower
curtain, cleared up the kitchen and made fried eggs. He had oiled the
small typewriter which stood on the kitchen table and straightened
out a jammed key over the gas flame. Martha’s manuscript was lying
wrapped up under the bed again. She sat down at
table and devoured the fried eggs.
He suggested they live together and she said nothing, which he took for a yes.
***
In the cellar Henry found a suitcase filled with
rotting manuscripts, hastily buried like children’s
corpses beneath mouldy rat droppings. The pages
had clumped together into a pulp; only the odd
phrase was still legible. Lost stories. The manuscript
of Frank Ellis would have rotted too, or been turned
into a brief blast of heat in the stove on a cold day, if
Henry hadn’t hidden it. He was to thank for that. As
he would later tell his conscience, even if he hadn’t
created Frank Ellis, he had at least rescued it. That had to count for
something.
“I’m not interested in literature,” Martha said on the subject. “I just
want to write.” Henry made a mental note of the sentence for later on.
Where Martha in her hermetically sealed world got hold of the ideas
for creating such illustrious characters remained a mystery to him. She
wasn’t well-travelled, and yet she knew the whole world. He cooked for
her; they talked, were silent, made love. At night she got up to write;
in the early afternoon he made them something to eat, and then read
what she’d written. He kept every single page of her writing safe; she
never asked about it. In this way their love grew quietly, as a matter of
course. They took pleasure in doing things together and profited from
one another; Henry could not imagine ever being happier. It was just
up to him not to destroy the harmony.
Henry sent the manuscript of Frank Ellis in his own name to four
publishers he’d looked up in the Yellow Pages. First he had had to make
a solemn vow to Martha that he would under no circumstances reveal
who had written it. It was to remain a lifelong secret, and if anything
actually got published, then it could only be under his name. Henry
thought that was all right and swore not to tell. In his own way, he
kept his word.
NUALA O’CONNOR
Miss Emily
Miss Emily Dickinson Finds a New Companion in the Kitchen
It is a very real possibility that I will remain always and forever under
my father’s roof. I am, of course, happiest in my home circle—this is
where I bloom—but something in me also longs for the peace of a
place of my own, somewhere to withdraw to completely. I do not wish
for travel or brave new lands, only a house surrounded by a sprawling
orchard that holds orioles and bluebirds that trill for my ears alone, a
cozy home with a kitchen uncluttered by others. I do not desire a man
or babes; a husband would demand too much, I fear,
of my time, of my very self. And there is no doubt
that I would make an opinionated, quarrelsome wife.
The new Irish girl started some weeks past. I have
not seen much of her, as I have been scratching ink
across pages, but she seems lively and capable. She is
a compact person, tidy in her dress, and has dark hair
and icy eyes. Mother complained today that Ada is
“prone to speechmaking,” which makes her appeal
grow tenfold for me. Not that I mentioned this fact
to Mother. I allow myself so few companions that I
do enjoy a person who likes to talk.
I entered the kitchen last week, and Ada stopped
dead.
“Miss Dickinson?” she said.
“I am a regular here, Ada. Loaves of bread have been born into the
world under my guidance.” She stared hard at me. “I like to bake,” I said.
“Like to, miss?”
I had to hold back a laugh so as not to wound her. I suppose for
her baking is mere work, whereas for me it is ease and alchemy.
“Perhaps we might bake together soon,” I said, and left her alone.
Now it occurs to me that she will have fresh methods of fashioning cakes and breads to share. What new tricks will she have brought
from her mother’s table to ours? I lift my eyes to the window to see
rain falling; I love the kitchen on a dreary day. I put down my pen
and go there to question Ada about what she knows of cake making.
Rain sleets against the kitchen window, but all is warmth and industry. Ada is scraping the leavings of a stew from a pot into a bowl.
“The birds use their wings as umbrellas on days such as these,” I say.
She stops midscrape. “Is that so?” She fills the bowl, lays down her
spoon and looks at me. “Begging your pardon, miss, but you talk a lot
about birds. You must be very fond of them.”
“Do I talk about birds so much?” I ask.
“The other day you said something about a nightingale.”
“‘It was the nightingale, and not the lark, / That pierced the fearful
hollow of thine ear.’” I was quoting Shakespeare to amuse Mother. We
need nothing else when we have Shakespeare, Ada.”
“That’s as may be, but your mother didn’t look very amused, miss,
if you don’t mind my saying. And I have pots to scrub.”
Ada has a superior, petulant face, but when she smiles, she glows
like a window opening on a bright day. I want to make her smile.
“I hear that you Irish love rain,” I say. “My sources tell me you are
not happy unless soaked through by a torrent.”
“We’re used to rain, miss— it is constant in Ireland—but that
doesn’t mean we welcome it.” She turns toward the
scullery, and I have to stand in her way to stop her
going.
“Margaret O’Brien brought variety to our table,
Ada. I wonder if you have any particular things you
like to bake? Cutler’s store can order in even the most
unusual items. We have an account there, of course.”
“I know that. Miss Vinnie has already instructed
me.” She smooths her apron with one hand and
looks at me as if she would like to be left alone. “The
Concannons, the same as most Irish people, are plain
eaters, Miss Dickinson. My mammy looks at salt as
if the devil himself brought it to her table. If you like
unfussy food, then I’m happy to share what I know
with you.” She wriggles past me, a saucepan held out
in front of her like a chalice.
“My Indian round bread took a prize at the Amherst Cattle Show,
you know,” I say to her retreating back, and even as the words leave my
lips, I know how silly I sound.
Ada turns. “Do cows like the taste of rye bread, Miss Emily?”
she asks.
Is she teasing? The Irish employ a canny innocence that has fooled
me before. Then she smiles, that lit‑up grin of hers, and winks slowly.
“Oh, Ada.”
“I think you should get out from under my feet, Miss Emily, and
let me move on with my day.”
“Let me perch here. I will be quiet as a nestling, and you won’t
even know that I am in the room.”
She tuts. “Miss Emily, you’re more of a turkey than a wren, truly,
and I will know quite well that you’re here.”
But she smiles again, and I know that, like Margaret O’Brien before
her, she welcomes a chance to chatter as she goes about her work.
The Irish put great store in spinning a narrative around every small
thing, and although I may view life New Englandly, I think I must be
somewhat Irish at my core, for I love to do the same.
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HELEN MACDONALD
H is for Hawk
In the half-light through the drawn curtains she sits on her perch,
relaxed, hooded, extraordinary. Formidable talons, wicked, curved
black beak, sleek, café-au-lait front streaked thickly with cocoacoloured teardrops, looking for all the world like some cappuccino
samurai. “Hello hawk,” I whisper, and at the sound she draws her feathers
tight in alarm. “Hush,” I tell myself, and the hawk. Hush. Then I put on
my falconer’s glove, step forward and take her up onto my fist, untying
the falconer’s knot that secures her leash to the perch.
She bates. Bating. A “headlong dive of rage and terror, by which
a leashed hawk leaps from the fist in a wild bid for
freedom.” That’s how White described it in The
Goshawk. The falconer’s duty, he explained, “is to
lift the hawk back to the fist with his other hand in
gentleness and patience.” I lift her back onto my fist
with gentleness and patience. Her feet grip the glove
convulsively. This perch is moving. I feel her mind
grappling with novelty. But still it is the only thing I
understand. I shall hold it tight. I persuade her to step
onto a perch on a modified set of scales. Hawks have
a flying weight, just as boxers have a fighting weight.
A hawk that’s too fat, or high, has little interest in
flying, and won’t return to the falconer’s call. Hawks
too low are awful things: spare, unhappy, lacking the
energy to fly with fire and style. Taking the hawk
back onto my fist I feel for her breastbone with the bare fingers of my
other hand. She is plump, her skin hot under her feathers, and through
my fingertips I feel the beating of her nervous heart. I shiver. Draw my
hand back. Superstition. I can’t bear to feel that flickering sign of life,
can’t help but suspect that my attention might somehow make it stop.
In the front room I sit, tuck a piece of raw steak into the glove
under her scaly feet, and wait. One minute, two. Three. And I take
the hood from her head.
Two wide, wild eyes stare at me for a fraction of a second, and
then they are gone. Before the hawk can work out what the hell is
happening she is trying to fly away as fast as possible. Brought up short
by her jesses she twitters in high-pitched distress as the realisation of
her hateful circumstances strikes. She can’t get away. I lift her back
onto the glove. Under her feathers is sinew, and bone, and that fastbeating heart. She bates again. And again. I hate this. In these first few
minutes there’s nothing you can do but accept that you are terrifying
the hawk when it is the very opposite of everything you desire. After
three more bates my heart is beating like a fitting beast, but she’s back
on the glove, beak open, eyes blazing. And then there is a long moment
of extraordinary intensity.
The goshawk is staring at me in mortal terror, and I can feel the
silences between both our heartbeats coincide. Her eyes are luminous,
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silver in the gloom. Her beak is open. She breathes hot hawk breath in
my face. It smells of pepper and musk and burned stone. Her feathers
are half-raised and her wings half-open, and her scaled yellow toes and
curved black talons grip the glove tightly. It feels like I’m holding a
flaming torch. I can feel the heat of her fear on my face. She stares. She
stares and stares. Seconds slow and tick past. Her wings are dropped
low; she crouches, ready for flight. I don’t look at her. I mustn’t. What
I am doing is concentrating very hard on the process of not being there.
Here’s one thing I know from years of training hawks: one of the
things you must learn to do is become invisible. It’s
what you do when a fresh hawk sits on your left fist
with food beneath her feet, in a state of savage, defensive fear. Hawks aren’t social animals like dogs or
horses; they understand neither coercion nor punishment. The only way to tame them is through positive
reinforcement with gifts of food. You want the hawk
to eat the food you hold—it’s the first step in reclaiming her that will end with you being hunting partners.
But the space between the fear and the food is a vast,
vast gulf, and you have to cross it together. I thought,
once, that you did it by being infinitely patient. But
no: it is more than that. You must become invisible.
Imagine: you’re in a darkened room. You are sitting
with a hawk on your fist. She is as immobile, as tense
and sprung as a catapult at full stretch. Underneath her huge, thorny
feet is a chunk of raw steak. You’re trying to get her to look at the steak,
not at you, because you know—though you haven’t looked—that her
eyes are fixed in horror at your profile. All you can hear is the wet click,
click, click of her blinking.
To cross this space between fear and food, and to somehow make
possible an eventual concord between your currently paralysed, immobile minds, you need – very urgently – not to be there. You empty
your mind and become very still. You think of exactly nothing at all.
The hawk becomes a strange, hollow concept, as flat as a snapshot or a
schematic drawing, but at the same time, as pertinent to your future as
an angry high court judge. Your gloved fist squeezes the meat a fraction,
and you feel the tiny imbalance of weight and you see out of the very
corner of your vision that she’s looked down at it. And so, remaining
invisible, you make the food the only thing in the room apart from
the hawk; you’re not there at all. And what you hope is that she’ll start
eating, and you can very, very slowly make yourself visible. Even if you
don’t move a muscle, and just relax into a more normal frame of mind,
the hawk knows. It’s extraordinary. It takes a long time to be yourself,
in the presence of a new hawk.
INDEX
A, B, C
Masterman, Becky................................................................20
Abbott, Elizabeth...................................................................19
Mayors Gone Bad...................................................................11
Angel of Eden, The...................................................................5
McIntosh, D.J............................................................................5
Arango, Sascha..............................................................14–15
Mighty Judgment...................................................................11
Book of Stolen Tales, The........................................................5
Miss Emily...................................................................... 6–7, 29
Broken Record Technique, The.............................................25
Moore, Christopher...............................................................10
Bronee, Amy...................................................................12–13
Canning Kitchen, The......................................................12–13
O, P, Q
Cunning Man, The...................................................................26
O’Connor, Nuala............................................................ 6–7, 29
Cut Stones and Crossroads..................................................27
Order in Chaos........................................................................24
Organized Mind, The.......................................................22–23
D, E, F
Dagmar’s Daughter...............................................................18
R, S, T
Davies, Robertson ................................................................26
Rage Against the Dying.........................................................20
Disappeared, The...................................................................18
Renegade, The........................................................................24
Dogs and Underdogs.............................................................19
River of Smoke.........................................................................3
Echlin, Kim.............................................................................18
Road Narrows As You Go, The..............................................25
Elephant Winter......................................................................18
Sea of Poppies..........................................................................3
Fear the Darkness.................................................................20
Slayton, Philip........................................................................11
Flood of Fire........................................................................ 2–3
Standard of Honor.................................................................24
Forest Laird, The....................................................................24
Stolen Continents...................................................................27
Sugar.......................................................................................19
G, H, I, J, K
Super Fresh.....................................................................16–17
Ghosh, Amitav..................................................................... 2-3
Tal, Ruth...........................................................................16–17
Glass Palace, The.....................................................................3
This Is Your Brain on Music..................................................23
Guardian, The.........................................................................24
Three Weeks in Quebec City.................................................10
H is for Hawk..................................................................... 4, 30
Time Among the Maya...........................................................27
Hartwig, Dallas................................................................... 8–9
Truth and Other Lies, The........................................ 14–15, 28
Hartwig, Melissa................................................................ 8–9
Henderson, Lee.....................................................................25
U, V, W, X, Y, Z
History of Marriage, A...........................................................19
Under the Visible Life............................................................18
Houston, Jennifer..........................................................16–17
WHOLE30, The..................................................................... 8–9
Hungry Tide, The......................................................................3
Whyte, Jack............................................................................24
Inanna......................................................................................18
Witch of Babylon, The..............................................................5
Knights of the Black and White............................................24
World in Six Songs, The........................................................23
World of Wonders..................................................................26
L, M, N
Wright, Ronald.......................................................................27
Lawyers Gone Bad.................................................................11
Levitin, Daniel J..............................................................22–23
Macdonald, Helen...................................................................4
Man Game, The.......................................................................25
Manticore, The........................................................................26
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