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ASTRAY
DONOGHUE, EMMA
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Goldminer. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The
colourful, fascinating characters that roam the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are
emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex and
sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich detail, the celebrated author of Room
takes us from puritan Massachusetts to the Yukon gold rush, antebellum Louisiana to a 1960s Toronto highway.
Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 6000 IN CANADA
HARPER COLLINS 288 PAGES
9781443410793
$29.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
THE AVENGEFULS
JOHNSTON, RICH
Avengefuls Assemble! A fundamentalist Islamic terrorist codenamed The Iron Muslim, the world's leading forprofit
deity ScienTHORlogy, and Captain American Idol, a reality TV star thawed out from the 1940s. Can The
Hoff assemble this rag-tag group together into a team ready to face Earth's greatest threats? Well, he better,
because that's why we're making this comic!
GRAPHIC NOVELS 1ST PRINTING 10,000
BOOM! STUDIOS 112 PAGES
9781608862733
$18.99 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2012
AVENGER OF ROME
JACKSON, DOUGLAS
Rome, summer 66AD and Nero's agents mercilessly hunt down the last survivors of the Piso Conspiracy. Yet,
despite purging this viper's nest with fire and iron, the increasingly unstable young Emperor feels his grip on
power weakening. In Judaea, rebels have bested his army and taken an eagle, in Germania, the Rhenus legions
agitate for better conditions. In Hispana, his governor plots. But the most dangerous threat is in the east where
Rome's greatest general, Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, presides over an Empire within an Empire. Is Corbulo
preparing to march against Rome and take the purple? Gaius Valerius Verrens, Hero of Rome, is ordered to
Antioch with the power of life and death over the soldier he worships. There he finds every man's hand against
him and Corbulo's eyes not on Rome, but on a new threat from the Parthian King of Kings, Vologases.
Outnumbered, Corbulo marches with Valerius at his side into the barren wastes beyond the Tigris, to meet
Vologases in a mighty confrontation that will decide the future of the Empire.
FICTION
BANTAM 384 PAGES
9780593065174
$24.95 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2012
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