Once Upon a Bookshelf

For over three hundred years, Hudson’s Bay Company has been more than a retailer – it’s a brand Canadians recognize instantly, from the multicoloured stripes of its Point Blanket to The Bay’s ribbon banner. Where Bay men once traded blankets with First Nations trappers for pelts, today the retailer offers the best and brightest of the world’s fashions. The merchandise may be different but the mission is the same: to deliver what is new, exciting and authentic. In these pages more than 200 illustrations trace the history of Hudson’s Bay Company and how it continues to shape tastes and trends today.

At some point in their lives, all young people believe their parents are evil . . . but what if they really are?

Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly and Nico – whose lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When these six young friends discover their parents are all secretly super-powered villains, the shocked tens find strength in one another. Together, they run away from home and staright into the adventure of their lives – vowing to turn the tables on their evil legacy.

How far will you go to find your way home?

Emma and her father are always on the move, traveling from place to place as her father’s work demands, until they move into a strange building in a strange city. Their new home is certainly different. There’s a frightening oman who lives down the hall, who bears an uncanny resemblance to a witch. There’s a mysterious light that comes from her apartment, a small boy trapped inside, and basement brownies in the vents.

Haunted by visions of her mother, Emma follows the brownies down the vent to a land deep within the earth, where she travels through the brownies’ burrow to the valley of Hades to visit with the goddess Ceres, following a series of clues that lead her across the sea of memory to the center of the world.

There, on an inhospitable rock floating in a sea of steaming lava, she must find a way to defeat the witch and restore life to the brownie burrows, and by extension, to the human world above.

The Demonologist marks a major departure for critically acclaimed author Andrew Pyper as he takes the reader into a terrifying new literary direction of unimaginable horror.

Professor David Ullman is a world-renowned expert in the literature of the demonic, notably Milton’s Paradise Lost. But David is a scholar, not a believer, until he witnesses a malevolent act so shocking it forces him to reexamine everything he has thought to be real.

On a consulting trip to Venice to observe a mysterious phenomenon, he finds his world – and his heart – ripped apart when a door is opened that allows a demonic spirit to take his young daughter hostage.

Now David is pushed headlong into a desperate journey of discovery, forcing him to confront the boundaries between human good and inhuman evil. Guided by arcane symbols and riddles from the pages of Paradise Lost, he enters the underworld of shadows that exists everywhere around us in a quest to rescue his daughter from the Unnamed – a demonic entity that has chosen him as its unlikely messenger. It is an impossible task undertaken in the name of lover – a task that, if he fails, will mean David’s daughter will be claimed by darkness for eternity…

The Mortal War is over, and Clary Fray is back home in New York, exited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to user her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And – most important of all – Clary can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price.

Someone is murdering the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine’s Circle, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her. His mother’s just found out that he’s a vampire and now he’s homeless. Everywhere he turns, someone wants him on their side – along with the power of the curse that’s wrecking his life. And they’re willing to do anything to get what they want. At the same time he’s dating two beautiful, dangerous girls – neither of whom knows about the other.

When Jace begins to pull away from Clary without explaining why, she is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.

Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. The stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels.

The long-awaited magnum opus from Haruki Murakami, in which this revered and bestselling author gives us his hypnotically addictive, mind-bending ode to George Orwell’s 1984.

The year is 1984. Aomame is riding in a taxi on the expressway, in a hurry to carry out an assignment. Her work is not the kind that can be discussed in public. When they get tied up in traffic, the taxi driver suggests a bizarre ‘proposal’ to her. Having no other choice she agrees, but as a result of her actions she starts to feel as though she is gradually becoming detached from the real world. She has been on a top secret mission, and her next job leads her to encounter the superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange disturbance that develops over a literary prize. While Aomame and Tengo impact on each other in various ways, at times by accident and at times intentionally, they come closer and closer to meeting. Eventually the two of them notice that they are indispensable to each other. Is it possible for them to ever meet in the real world?

The Irregulars return home to 1803 England safely, but their worldview has changed. Not only have their heroic efforts at Dunkirk given them pride and confidence, but their dangerous mission has increased their magical powers.

Tory delights in the ever-deepening bond she shares with Allarde until she discovers how powerfully he is connected to his ancient family estate – the lands he will not inherit unless he denies his magical powers and chooses a nonmagical mate. If Tory really loves him, she must walk away – but does she have the strength to leave the love of her life?

Cynthia’s heroic efforts at Dunkirk have won her the respect of the Irregulars, but her sharp tongue keeps everyone at a distance. Isolated and very alone at Lackland Abbey over the Christmas holidays, she reluctantly agrees to join Jack Rainford and his family for their celebration even though they’re commoners, far below her own noble rank. The warm welcome of the Rainfords makes her feel happier and more acepted than she has ever been. But she can’t possibly be falling in love with flirtatious Jack! Can she?

Then the Irregulars are drawn into a dangerous attempt to rescue a vitally important French scientist from Nazi-occupied France. Tory and Allarde must work together because countless lives are at stake. Disaster strikes and not only is their mission threatened, but their very lives. Can magic and their loyalty to each other help them survive to return home?

Suppose there were 12-year-old twins, a boy and girl named (respectively) John and Abigail Templeton.

Let’s say John was pragmatic and played the drums, and Abigail was theoretical and solved cryptic crosswords. Now suppose their father was a brilliant, if sometimes confused, inventor. And suppose that another set of twins – adults – named Dean D. Dean and Dan D. Dean, kidnapped the Templeton twins and their ridiculous dog in order to get their father to turn over one of his genius (sort of) inventions. Yes, I said kidnapped. Wouldn’t it be fun to read about that? Oh, please. It would so.

Luckily for you, this is just the first in a series perfect for boys and girls who are smart, clever, and funny (just like the twins), and who enjoy reading adventurous stories (who doesn’t?!).

It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother’s existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea – and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrols Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right – but it’s a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geralindine’s certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.

Doctor Who is the television program that’s bigger on the inside. It’s no wonder that, after five decades on the air, the Doctor, the TARDIS and his enemies are icons of British culture. Who is The Doctor is a fun and insightful guide to Doctor Who‘s triumphant return to television in 2005. Doctor Who experts Graeme Burk and Robert Smith? bring insights into everything about the New Series, including:

• an in-depth assessment of every episode of the first six seasons of the New Series, examining each story’s place in Doctor Who history, the characters and the ongoing story arcs, along with trivia, nitpicks and thoughtful, irreverent reviews
• special examinations of Doctor Who history from the Classic Series
• sidebars on the writers, creators, actors, spinoffs such as Torchwood, the theme music, the sonic screwdriver and more

Thirteen-year-old Henry’s happy, ordinary life comes to an abrupt halt when his older brother, Jesse, picks up their father’s hunting rifle and leaves the house one morning. What follows shatters Henry’s family, who are forced to resume their lives in a new city, where no one knows their past. When Henry’s therapist suggest he keep a journal, at first he is resistant. But soon he confides in it at all hours of the day and night.

In spite of Henry’s desire to “fly under the radar,” he eventually befriends a number of oddball characters, both at school and in his modest apartment building. And even though they know nothing about his past – at least, not yet – they help him navigate the waters of life after “IT.”

Susin Nielsen has created a fantastic new character in Henry, whose journal entries are infused with humor and provide a riveting read about a family in turmoil.

Sweet Valley is back…

Ten years after graduating from Sweet Valley High, the Wakefield twins have had a falling-out of epic proportions. When Jessica commits a complete and utter betrayal, Elizabeth flees to New York to escape the pain and immerse herself in her lifelong dream of becoming a journalist.

Jessica remains in California, dealing with the fallout of her heart-wrenching choices. She has a career she loves and lots of old friends, but she misses her sister, her oldest best friend. With Elizabeth as her enemy, Sweet Valle is no longer the idyllic town of their youth.

Jessica longs for forgiveness, but Elizabeth can’t forget her twin’s duplicity. She decides the only way to heal her broken heart is to get revenge. Always the “good” twin, the one getting her reckless sister out of trouble, Elizabeth is now about to turn the tables…