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FRONTLIST
Featured Titles
Qvadis has acquired leading Palm e-book publisher Editio-Books.com
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 We are pleased to bring you the best in contemporary fiction and non-fiction Palm ebooks in our FrontList section, all HotSync ready for use with Qvadis Express Reader.
Bestseller!
"When the first fish came ashore from the primordial swamp, it must have been dragging
a mash tub because beer has been with us since Day One." So begins Alan D
Butcher's authoritative, and always amusing account of beer and the often
arcane, sometimes black art of brewing.
Bestseller!
The Rank of Hands, Wild Cards, Shuffling, The Deal, Betting, Folding,
30 Poker Games...served with a stiletto-sharp wit:
"We try to keep our rules to a minimum. The host provides an ample supply of junk food,
and pays a steep penalty if he forgets to get pistachio nuts...Players
are expected to arrive for games at 7:45 - it costs a nickel for every five minutes you are late -
and bring their own beer...The cards are almost always good to us after that."
** Special Offer **
Bestseller! EBook award nominee!
With humour and startling insight, Mike Verano offers a simple plan
for taking much of the "work" out of working. This is a must-have guide
for surviving in the 21st century.
EBook award nominee!
These eight linked stories offer unusually clear sight lines.
Philip H Schneider's writing is clean and concise, as we watch his main character,
simply known as Jones, go about the daily tasks of living.
Delightful, deceptively simple, beautifully wrought.
The Formal Logic of Emotion by Michael Mirolla
"Mirolla's wildly imaginative first book is a funny, tragic glimpse into the territory of the absurd,
somewhere between Franz Kafka and Kurt Vonnegut," said one reviewer about
The Formal Logic of Emotion. Here is a superbly inventive storyteller, whose fine art
surprises and delights on every page.
The Growing Dawn by Mark Frutkin
The year is 1901.
A stormy Atlantic isolates two worlds, until an insignificant letter 'S'
sent by Guglielmo Marconi rides the waves - and heralds the dawn of a new mythology.
In the Time of the Angry Queen by Mark Frutkin
As he delves ever deeper into the mythical world of chess -- its elegant aesthetics, its
brilliant eccentrics -- artist Karl Grunfeld is branded an enemy of the game.
Bestseller!
"When the first fish came ashore from the primordial swamp, it must have been dragging
a mash tub because beer has been with us since Day One." So begins Alan D
Butcher's authoritative, and always amusing account of beer and the often
arcane, sometimes black art of brewing.
eBook-of-the-Month selection!
The true story of an authentic Canadian hero - a man whose courage and determination
saved the lives of countless soldiers and civilians in the besieged mountains of wartorn Yugoslavia.
A national bestseller in Canada, now revised and updated.
Bestseller!
In the course of pondering the whole shocking drama that occurred during the Second World War,
historians have virtually ignored the curious role played in London by nearly a dozen
European royal families. Yet this "flight of kings" to Shakespeare's scepter'd isle
deserves something more than marginal reference in the annals of the twentieth century's
most horrific conflict.
Bestseller! EBook award nominee!
With humour and startling insight, Mike Verano offers a simple plan
for taking much of the "work" out of working. This is a must-have guide
for surviving in the 21st century.
Bestseller!
The Rank of Hands, Wild Cards, Shuffling, The Deal, Betting, Folding,
30 Poker Games...served with a stiletto-sharp wit:
"We try to keep our rules to a minimum. The host provides an ample supply of junk food,
and pays a steep penalty if he forgets to get pistachio nuts...Players
are expected to arrive for games at 7:45 - it costs a nickel for every five minutes you are late -
and bring their own beer...The cards are almost always good to us after that."
River Pictures by Susan Zettell
A father dying in Cape Breton is the catalyst for a woman's return visit. There is sadness
in the occasion, of course, but also comfort -- she has such vivid memories of the place
and its spectacular natural beauty -- and eventually renewal.
Edward Biddle Takes on the World by Todd Downing
Edward Biddle, accountant, has nightmares like anyone else -
until he wakes one day and finds that the dreams are real,
and capable of destroying him. For this contemporary Walter Mitty,
lost in a frightening Twilight Zone of his imagination, there is a harsh
lesson to be learned: our own thoughts can be dangerous if we let them escape.
Old Lazarus by Todd Downing
An old Native speaks to a young man in the night, warning him of imminent peril.
The shadowy figure's concern is both mysterious and unrelenting -
until a fateful rendezvous leads to a showdown with evil itself,
and our young protagonist must make a terrifying choice.
The Ex-President's Orchid Garden by Mark Frutkin
An unnamed South American country is the setting for this short story by award-winning
novelist Mark Frutkin. A dictator living in exile, tending his orchid garden, is waiting
for the call to return to power. When Katherine, a North American journalist, visits
to learn the truth about the beguiling ex-President, she begins to wonder if she will be drawn
into his web of comfortable deceit.
In a Minor Key by Mark Frutkin
Every day Gilbert and Mary, two odd characters roaming the urban wasteland,
meet at a small park to watch kids play and to see The Senator arrive home from work.
They seem harmless enough at first. But when they kidnap The Senator and take him down to the river,
an ever-present darkness in the soul begins to surface.
The Ten-Minute Rise and Fall of a Band Called Hippo by Mark Frutkin
Hippo is an outrageous rock band (with three tubas and an oude!) led by the Big Lady,
Susie Gartner. When Hippo enters a talent show, they butt heads with the reptilian Mr Stinson,
a radio station manager. Mark Frutkin's delightful story includes the hit song by Hippo,
'Ocean, Ocean, I'm So Blue'.
eBook-of-the-Month selection!
Phil Jenkins set out to travel across Canada to meet the people who grow the food we eat,
and do so in the face of capricious weather, crippling interest rates, and callous bank policies.
With humour and insight, Jenkins provides a rare and delightful portrait of those who hold
a stubborn vision of fields as a living heritage.
In Search of Paradise by Susan Gabori This is the moving story of an Italian family which, having lived for generations in an isolated mountain town in Abruzzi, Italy, is forced by the Second World War and economic hardship to pull up roots and reestablish in Canada. Based on interviews she conducted with Italian immigrants and their families, Susan Gabori's award-winning chronicle presents an illuminating picture of people who, faced with a seemingly insensitive environment, find a way to survive without sacrificing their dignity and pride.
The Struggle Outside by Raymond Fraser An abandoned farmhouse, a cache of stolen arms, four revolutionaries awaiting their leader, and a comrade just escaped from custody -- a Popular Liberation Army is ready to stage the operation that will trigger the long-awaited revolution in New Brunswick. Raymond Fraser's wickedly funny first novel (originally published in 1975) has the hallmark of an old British Ealing Studios comedy -- except the setting, rough satirical edge, and oddball characters driven by earnest desperation, are distinctly Canadian -- and all the more entertaining for it.
The Black Horse Tavern by Raymond Fraser First published in 1973, Raymond Fraser's collection of short stories (set in Montreal and New Brunswick) won critical acclaim for its harsh honesty and humour. There is enough aimless boozing and coarse language to astonish the average reader, to be sure, and yet the characters are so vividly drawn, the dialogue so well captured, that the experience is irresistible. "Fraser is the best literary voice to come belling out of the Maritimes in decades," insisted Farley Mowat. "Visit his Black Horse Tavern...it's more than worth it."
The Bannonbridge Musicians by Raymond Fraser Nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1978, Raymond Fraser's relentlessly funny third novel tells the story of a group of young Maritimers forever dreaming of "goin' down the road" and making it big in Toronto. Their drinking bouts, their womanizing and their adventuring in rural New Brunswick somehow get in the way of their ambitions. This is a tale that is unforgivingly accurate, as well as outrageous.
A First Class Funeral by Sonia Birch-Jones In her first book-length work, Sonia Birch-Jones offers a collection of ten well crafted stories, each a fictional world created out of her childhood and adolescent years in Wales. Her stories are at once sad and comical, drawing not only a delightful portrait of a Welsh community, but also the relationships within a Jewish family. These are stories you are unlikely to forget.
Mrs Job by Victoria Branden "Original, irreverent, comic, wicked"...such were the adjectives used to describe Victoria Branden's novel when it was first published in New York in 1979. In telling the story of Meredith Doyle Poole Rideout (and why she never became Meredith Doyle Poole Harcourt), Branden's sparkling talent creates an original heroine, albeit one who feels so cursed she must turn to the Old Testament figure of Job as a point of comparison for her trials.
Flitterin' Judas by Victoria Branden It is 1947, and Edmund Richardson has been sent by the Canadian government to look into the suspected mismanagement of a construction company high in the mountains of British Columbia. But for Richardson -- an elegant fake, from his BBC accent to his ascot -- the assignment presents the opportunity of a lifetime: a goldmine in graft. This is the marvellously comic story of the relationship between a woman with a dream, and a man with a scheme.
Stanhope Mouse and the Magic Book by Tils Aviel Eleven children live alone in a village surrounded by acres of dark forest. When the village is attacked by Babalblab monsters seeking to steal the power of the Magic Book, the shy but feisty Stanhope Mouse heads for the great city of Battlin to get help. Based on the plot of the classic Japanese film, The Seven Samurai, this wonderful story opens a world of magic for youngsters between the ages of 6 and 11.
When Evils Were Most Free by George Gabori At sixteen, George Gabori, the son of a Jewish wine merchant, set himself on a course that became a lifelong struggle for personal and political freedom -- a struggle for which he was thrown into Nazi and Communist concentration camps. In a dramatic and moving memoir that evokes laughter, tears and horror, the author tells of a harsh "coming of age" in pre-revolutionary Hungary.
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