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Amazon Extreme : Three Ordinary Guys One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth3 reviews
Colin Angus, Ian Mulgrew

Anchor Canada, 2004

This book is the definition of adventure
I had no idea that the Amazon was anything other than a flat meandering river flowing through the South American jungle. When my wife first gave me this book, I thought, 'so what? some guys went down a river.' I had no idea that only a select few have ever achieved this feat and that it was so incredibly difficult. Angus paints a magical picture of beauty and fear as they navigate the Amazon's ... 		  
  







  
  
Anne of Green Gables (reissue)
L. M. Montgomery

Anchor Canada, 2009

“The dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice.” Mark Twain Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a real home. So when she is sent to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert at Green Gables farm, she thinks she’s found one at last. Green Gables is the most beautiful place Anne has ever seen and she knows she wants to stay forever. But a spirited redheaded chatterbox with a vivid ... 		  
  







  
  
Bad Debts: A Jack Irish Thriller
Peter Temple

Anchor Canada, 2006

Introducing Australia’s most acclaimed crime-thriller writer to North American audiences with his first two books in his award-winning Jack Irish series. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long, and he’s still cooking ... 		  
  







  
  
The Assassin's Song1 review
M.G. Vassanji

Anchor Canada, 2008

Light's my middle name, too
This novel is a prime example of how the most specific of stories can have the most universal meaning. Vassanji brings to life a small piece of India -- a shrine to a Sufi mystic -- and the experience of a boy who grows to manhood full of doubts about his father's beliefs and his longing to see the world. What son has not gone through this with his father? The relationship between Karsan and his ... 		  
  







  
  
All Will Be Revealed7 reviews
Robert Anthony Siegel

Anchor Canada, 2008

Even better than his first novel.
A photographer who refuses to see people as anything more than the raw material for pictures. A spirit medium who has come to doubt the reality of her conversations with the dead. A deceased polar explorer who cannot quite bring himself to regret the journey that killed him. A disappointed lover who trains a performing bear to read minds. These are the characters that people the novel All Will Be ... 		  
  







  
  
Bedside Book of Birds, The
Graeme Gibson

Anchor Canada, 2006

From The Bedside Book of Birds ~ Stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a bird. He went into the garden to listen more closely, and when he returned, after what he thought were only a few minutes, he discovered that a century had gone by, that his fellow monks were dead and his ink had turned to dust. The song of the bird had given him a taste of Paradise, where an instant is as a ... 		  
  







  
  
The Acadians: In Search of a Homeland
James Laxer

Anchor Canada, 2007

An evocative and beautifully written history of some of Canada’s earliest settlers, and their search for a definitive home. In 1604, a small group of migrants fled political turmoil and famine in France to start a new colony on Canada’s east coast. Their roughly demarcated territory included what are now Canada’s Maritime provinces, land that was fought over by the British and French empires until the Acadians were finally ... 		  
  







  
  
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-190926 reviews
Pierre Berton

Anchor Canada, 2001

Vale Pierre Berton
This excellent book, first published in 1988, stands as a fitting memorial to the prolific and accomplished writer Pierre Berton, who passed away at age 84 as recently as November 31, 2004. It details the events and personalities of Arctic exploration over nearly a century, beginning in 1818 with the first British naval expedition of John Ross and Edward Parry, and the related disastrous first ... 		  
  







  
  
Calling Out8 reviews
Rae Meadows

Anchor Canada, 2007

Calling Out, a sad and sweet first novel
Wow. What a lovely first novel. Jane, Calling Out's heroine, travels west after a bad break up and unfulfilling advertising job come to an end in New York City. She finds herself answering phones at an escort agency in Salt Lake City, land of the Mormons. Its a slippery slope and not long before she finds herself going out on "dates". Lost and sympathetic, Jane's empathy for her clients makes her ... 		  
  







  
  
Black Tide: A Jack Irish Thriller
Peter Temple

Anchor Canada, 2006

Jack Irish – gambler, lawyer, finder of missing people – is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the missing son of Des Connors, the last living link to Jack’s father. It’s an offer he soon regrets. As Jack begins his search, he discovers that prodigal sons sometimes go missing for a reason. Gary Connors was a man with something to hide, and his trail leads Jack to millionaire ... 		  
  







  
  
Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found1 review
Jan Wong

Anchor Canada, 2008

more-yay!- from the author of Red China Blues
Jan Wong returns with a second sequel of sorts to "Red China Blues" with "Beijing Confidential". This book, along with "Jan Wong's China, Notes from a Not-So Foreign Correspondent",(1999) returns to Ms. Wong's stomping grounds of Beijing. Beijing Confidential is the more personal of the two, as on this trip she goes to expiate the sin of ratting out one of her fellow Beijing University students ... 		  
  







  
  
Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery17 reviews
Hakan Nesser

Anchor Canada, 2007

A witty, atmospheric Scandinavian procedural
Swedish author Hakan Nesser, has his laconic, sardonic series detective, Inspector VanVeeteren, investigate a serial ax murderer in a quiet seaside town, in "Borkmann's Point," winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Best Novel Award for 1994. Van Veeteren is not feeling his best after a dreary coastal vacation partly spent with his paroled son, and is looking forward to returning to the city ... 		  
  







  
  
Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet
Colin Angus

Anchor Canada, 2008

In June, 2004, Colin Angus left Vancouver on his bicycle. Nearly two years later, he rolled back in, looking like a castaway, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. Angus cycled, skiied, and rowed a route that took him to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and the Siberian winter, across Europe from Moscow to Portugal, then across the Atlantic to Costa Rica–a 156-day rowing odyssey. From there it was a ... 		  
  







  
  
Brahma's Dream1 review
Shree Ghatage

Anchor Canada, 2005

Quietly unassuming, deeply powerful.
Shree Ghatage traces the lives of the members of the Oek family in the waning years of the British Raj through the eyes of Mohini, a child whose body is assaulted by disease, leaving her mind clear and lucid. The writing in this book has a slow, measured pace enabling the reader to slip back in time to when life was not lived at breakneck pace and to savour a story that is told with a master's ... 		  
  







  
  
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Stories14 reviews
Vincent Lam

Anchor Canada, 2006

Poignant tales that ring true
I found these interconnected stories very moving. Most doctor stories don't seem real to me. In these stories, it was the first story that I had a hard time getting into, but the others were excellent, and the twist on SARS really worked. As a physician, I usually don't read medical fiction because it is too hard to suspend disbelief as is so often required of fiction. It this case, I didn't ... 		  
  







  
  
Black Mass: How Religion Led the World into Crisis7 reviews
John Gray

Anchor Canada, 2008

Un-realising a "perfect" world
It's not easy categorising John Gray. He's generally listed as a "philosopher", but he rarely delves into the roots of human behaviour. His philosophy is founded on recorded history. Like most modern "philosophers", his arena is the canon of Western European tradition and practice. That approach, at least in Gray's hands, makes him more political commentator than philosopher. The shift of ... 		  
  







  
  
Bring on the Apocalypse: Collected Writing
George Monbiot

Anchor Canada, 2008

A new fusillade of provocative thinking from the author of the bestselling Heat . With Heat , George Monbiot confirmed his standing as one of the most important voices in the war against global warming. But as Bring on the Apocalypse makes clear, Monbiot is far from being a one-issue thinker. In this collection of his journalism, none of which has been published in Canada before, he tackles a wide range of issues drawn from recent headlines, ... 		  
  







  
  
The Blackest Bird2 reviews
Joel Rose

Anchor Canada, 2008

"Good citizens will tell the truth."
In 1841, New York City is bound in a unique social construct, the city teeming with Americans of every walk of life, the very wealthy, the great working class and a rich pool of literary talent, all juxtaposed with newspapers that fight for readership, corrupt backroom politics and gangs of leatherheads who compete as fire brigades, the city a microcosm of a rapidly changing world. One impressive ... 		  
  







  




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