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When Sandy's daddy leaves for work in the morning, he blows Sandy a kiss. What follows is a wild adventure through the town, the countryside, the bogs and the marshes of the Land of Everywhere... to try to catch up to Daddy's kiss!

Meet Andy Curran, drummer in a struggling jazz trio. When a distinctly odd street person sings at an open mic night at the club where they work, it's clear they've found their salvation: a vocalist of incredible talent. After she departs as abruptly as she'd arrived, Andy sets out to discover where Olivia Saint has gone and who she really is.

Hollis Grant is in Toronto, hoping for a quiet summer of study. But the murder of her friends secretive stepson puts paid to those plans as the friend teeters on the edge of hysteria. Arson, a bomb, a sabotaged sailboatthe killer is closing in again. Who will be the next victim? Hollis races to solve the case.

This is a story of pioneering courage and compassion in the New World. Jeanne dreamed of devoting her life to caring for others. In 1641, she courageously gave up her comfortable middle-class life in France to journey to the French colonies, today's province of Quebec.

Circumstances force Dag, a young snowboarder, to give up his sport and to find another way to live. He embarks on two paths, the first a subsistence job as a barista in a coffee megachain, where he works hard to be a worker extraordinaire. He also invents an online alter ego who pronounces his own brand of wisdom and rant, expressing what Dag can't in his role of coffee slave. Dag doesn't know who he is any more. Crapped out of his sport. Can do no right by his best friend. Can do no wrong by his girl roommate. Pursued by the corporate paranoia of his coffee overlords. Baiting the world with his blog. Dag's brewing a 21st century identity crisis that will scald everyone in his path.

Yousuf Karsh emigrated to North America from Turkey in the 1920s, eventually settling in Ottawa. An early interest in photography inspired him to open his own studio. As he became known for the quality of his work, Karsh's close proximity to powerful leaders in Ottawa led to commissions of portraits of politicians. He became known as the worlds' finest portrait photographer for his gift of drawing out and capturing a subject's character in a photograph. Over a seventy plus year career, Karsh photographed many famous musicians, artists, actors, captains of industry and politlcians. He was also a humanitarian who worked with sick children. This is the first children's biography of the man who immortalized the makers of history.

David Thompson's story is one of the great tales of North American adventure. His life was a mixture of truth and legend, but he was without a doubt one of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers of the North American continent. Raised in a charity school in London, England, and apprenticed to the Hudson's Bay Company as a teenager, he then travelled extensively, recording valuable navigational information. His life was one of adventure and hardship but also of incredible accomplishment.

Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in justice for victims of violent crimes. Her uneasy association with the world of crime takes a bizarre turn when a vicious fashion columnist with underworld connections is crucified in a downtown hotel room.

Willa has never known her father. In fact, her mother has refused to tell the eight-year-old anything at all about him. Willa dreams about what he might look like and who he might be. She often asks herself why her hair, which is "afro-crinkly", and her skin, which is dark, are so different from her mother's brown hair and pale skin. A substitute teacher's request that the class draw pictures of their dads for a Father's Day card launches Willa on an odyssey to discover the truth. Her head filled with fantasies of kings and princesses, Willa gathers the clues and, with the help of her good friend Marina, begins the alternately amusing and touching search for her father.

Violin virtuoso Victoria Morgan and her devoted piano accompanist are on yet another European tour. While playing to a full house in Vienna, Tory leaves the stage and disappears in the middle of this important concert, leaving behind a puzzled audience. Why would a seasoned professional do something so damaging?

After four million votes were cast, Lethbridge, Alberta's Theo Tams emerged as the 2008 Canadian Idol winner, having captured the hearts of fans from coast to coast. Theo Tams: Inside the Music is a colourful, scrapbook-style look at Theo's Canadian Idol journey and the life experiences that led him to his victory.

Alone, directionless, and 30-something in the big city, this is a story about loss, confusion, anger, vulnerability, resentment, jealousy, inadequacy, depression, and hopelessness. It is a love story. The Year She Left takes an irreverent, though not entirely unsympathetic, look at the question: When you discover that your life isn't going to work out as planned, how do you make plans for the rest of it? Those left to answer it are Stuart Lewis, a man in his early 30s who finds himself alone and homeless after finding out that his fiance doesn't love him anymore, and Kate Mackenzie, a woman of a similar age in similar circumstances, though she is the one who breaks it off with her boyfriend. Told over the course of one year and through the experiences of Kate, Stuart, and an eclectic group of their friends, colleagues, and relations, The Year She Left explores with humour and a critical eye the motives of those who want to change themselves and the ability that they have to do so.

For the fan who already has the CD and the T-shirt. Inside Music Books is a new imprint from Napoleon & Company. IMB is pleased to introduce The Fan Lowdown series by acclaimed music journalist Karen Bliss. These books will offer the fan an enhanced experience. Produced in scrapbook style, Karen solicits stories from fans via the artist's message board and mailing list: concert or road trip stories; meeting the artist; making cookies for the band; a song they fell in love with; a lyric that helped get them through a tough time. Karen has interviewed the band members, sharing her most interesting submissions and getting the band's thoughts, reactions, and their own memories. The result is a unique look at the artist's career, as remembered from both sides of the stage.

When Emily Stowe was born in 1831, every girl's life followed a set pattern. Her future was limited to housework and childcare. With the help of original sketches and archival material, Changing the Pattern creates a vivid picture of Canada in the late 1800s as it follows Emily's crusade to create new patterns for girls' lives.

Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of water and that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, the authors celebrate that most Canadian of locations: the ocean, lake, or river near you.

Jade is a curious nine-year-old who likes to help out at her family's Chinese restaurant, The Fragrant Garden, after school. Though she is often allowed to help set tables or clean up, she longs to be part of the more exciting tasks such as helping in the kitchen or using the cash register.

Homicide becomes more than an academic study for Toronto criminologist Ted Boudreau when his own suburban home is burglarized, with deadly results. Was his computer targetted because of his interest in a secretive biker gang?

Vikkan Lantry, a pianist with more talent than ambition, is content with his job at an upscale cocktail lounge until a request from reclusive soprano draws him grudgingly back into the world of classical music. Her mysterious past ushers him into an intrigue that begins with a song cycle composed by Schumann and ends in a grisly double murder.

Just as Jeanie decides to leave her job as a horse trainer, deferring to her husband's movie industry career, one of the principals of the race track where she works is murdered and she is thrown back into the maelstrom of racetrack politics and the care of the valuable horses.

Haunted by the love he threw away and his former lover's mysterious murder, the nameless narrator leaves his job and sets off in search of direction. On an epic journey over land and sea, his heart and mind struggle to find common ground. Mile by mile he develops justification for an act of violence and maybe his own redemption.

A controversial psychiatrist is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market. Initially, the killing appears to be merely a mugging gone wrong, but Inspector Green's complex investigation leaves him grappling with the ultimate meaning of justice.

Nine-year-old Michiko bids her father goodbye. She doesn't know the government has ordered all Japanese-born men out of the province. Ten days later, her family joins hundreds of Japanese-Canadians on a train to the interior of B.C. She must face local prejudice, the worst winter in forty years, and her first Christmas without her father.

In early twentieth century Shanghai, three women determine the tragic fate of a young piano prodigy. Which of them is really responsible? Looking back on her actions thirty years later from her new life in Toronto, Tatiana wonders if she may have been the catalyst for a series of devastating events that caused havoc in the lives of her friends.

Short Candles spans some forty years in the life of Suzanne Cardinal, who has the giftor bears the burdenof foresight. While she becomes a visionary to some people in her home town, to her family she is the difficult child who was unable to warn them of an impending death. But Suzanne has little control over the manifestation of her gift.

After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto. The unusual murder of a prominent industrialist gives him the biggest case of his career and a not entirely welcome opportunity to make his name on the force.