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Oct 01, 2009 • 0 Comment(s)
Guardians of Being by Eckhart Tolle and Illustrated by Patrick McDonnell
This wonderfully unique collaboration brings together two masters of their fields, joining original words of wisdom by Eckhart Tolle with delightful illustrations by Patrick McDonnell. Inhabited by beloved MUTTS characters, every heartwarming page provokes thought, insight, and smiling reverence for each moment. Sure to be a classic, this charming book will inspire readers everywhere to recognize the lessons of the present moment, as embodied by the dogs and cats who share our world.
Praise for MUTTS: “One of the best comic strips of all time.”
—Charles Schulz, Peanuts creator
Praise for Eckhart Tolle: “He is a prophet for our time.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
Patrick McDonnell is the award-winning creator of the MUTTS comic strip, which appears in over 700 newspapers in 20 countries and has an estimated daily readership of 50 million, as well as the author and illustrator of the picture books The Gift of Nothing, Hug Time, and the upcoming October release, Wag! (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers). He lives in New Jersey. His website is www.muttscomics.com
Eckhart Tolle is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Now (3 million copies sold) and A New Earth, the fastest-selling Oprah Book Club selection ever (5 million copies sold). He speaks and teaches extensively throughout the world. He lives in Vancouver, Canada and his website is www.eckharttolle.com
Published by New World Library
Available at your favourite local bookstore or here:
Amazon.ca
Chapters.Indigo.ca
How to Survive a Zombie Holocaust? Handbook Required
Jul 29, 2009 • 0 Comment(s)
THE ZOMBIE HANDBOOK by Rob Sacchetto
You may be familiar with Rob already - that's right, he's the Sudbury born (and still living in) creator of the website ZombiePortrait.com
You send in a photo and he zombie-fies it for you.
His latest zombie contribution is a new handbook that tells you: How to Identify the Living Dead and Survive the Coming Zombie Holocaust.
This definitive study combs through every zombie-ological subject, from feeding habits to favorite sexual positions. Of course, the book's most important section is surviving and fighting the brain-eaters when the inevitable zombie apocalypse arrives. There's vital information on everything from weaponry and battling techniques to booby traps and zombie-proofing a home.
Beginning with a fascinating historical retrospective on the "living dead" and continuing with an in-depth look at modern zombies, the book also addresses the crucial question of the day—can human beings and zombies peacefully coexist?
Rob will also be appearing at the Rue-Morgue Festival of Fear National Horror Convention this August 28th-30th. He'll be exhibiting at the Metro Convention Centre.
The Zombie Handbook
Published by Ulysses Press
In stores now
It’s All In the Cover
Jul 27, 2009 • 0 Comment(s)
Another reason to buy Zeitoun - it's beautiful design a lovely addition to any personal library.
CBC: Anthrax War: part 2/7
Jun 25, 2009 • 0 Comment(s)
Had to air part 2 as well.
Anthrax Wars - a documentary based on Bob Coen's DEAD SILENCE: FEAR AND TERROR ON THE ANTHRAX TRAIL (Counterpoint Press) It's in stores now.
CBC: Anthrax War: part 1/7
Jun 25, 2009 • 0 Comment(s)
Bob Coen's fascinating documentary that aired early spring.
His book DEAD SILENCE is now available
A Cover That Needs To Be Felt
Jun 18, 2009 • 0 Comment(s)
This is the fantastic cover for The Wild Things Limited Edition coming out this fall by Dave Eggers.
Name me an electronic reader that can even come close to providing the tactile experience that this faux fur covered novel promises.
About The Book:
The Wild Things — based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze — is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control. His father is gone, his mother is spending time with a younger boyfriend, his sister is becoming a teenager and no longer has interest in him. At the same time, Max finds himself capable of startling acts of wildness: he wears a wolf suit, bites his mom, and can’t always control his outbursts. During a fight at home, Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Funny, dark, and alive, The Wild Things is a timeless and time-tested tale for all ages.
Coming this October in both a fur covered limited edition and regular cloth.
It's published by McSweeney's.
Congratulations Michael Thomas!
Jun 15, 2009 • 0 Comment(s)
First-time novelist Michael Thomas won the world's richest literary prize for his novel, MAN GONE DOWN. He won 100,000 Euros in the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, announced June 11th.
The Boston native now lives in New York with his wife and three children, and his book faced stiff international competition with 145 titles, nominated by 157 public libraries from 41 countries.
From the judges:
"We never know his name. But the African-American protagonist of Michael Thomas' masterful debut, "Man Gone Down," will stay with readers for a long time. He lingers because this extraordinary novel comes to us from a writer of enthralling voice and startling insight. Tuned urgently to the way we live now, the winner of the International Dublin IMPAC Prize 2009 is a novel brilliant in its scope and energy, and deeply moving in its human warmth."
Man Gone Down
Michael Thomas
9780802170293 * $18.00 Paper
Grove Press
Available at your favourite local bookstore or:
Amazon.ca
Chapters.Indigo.ca
New Dave Eggers coming this July!
Jun 10, 2009 • 0 Comment(s)
McSweeney's recently announced ZEITOUN, a new book by Dave Eggers, will release this summer
About the Book:
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared.
Eggers’s riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores Zeitoun’s roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy—an American who converted to Islam—and their children, and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United States generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun was possible. Like What Is the What, Zeitoun was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research—in this case, in the U.S., Spain, and Syria.
Zeitoun ships later this month and hits stores mid-July.
McSweeney's
978-1-934781-63-0 * $30.95 cl
Nonfiction/Current Affairs/Politics
6 x 8.5 * 342 pages
