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When Sandy's daddy leaves for work in the morning, he blows Sandy a kiss. What follows is a wild adventure through the town, the countryside, the bogs and the marshes of the Land of Everywhere... to try to catch up to Daddy's kiss!

For the fan who already has the CD and the T-shirt. Inside Music Books is a new imprint from Napoleon & Company. IMB is pleased to introduce The Fan Lowdown series by acclaimed music journalist Karen Bliss. These books will offer the fan an enhanced experience. Produced in scrapbook style, Karen solicits stories from fans via the artist's message board and mailing list: concert or road trip stories, meeting the artist, making cookies for the b...

Alone, directionless, and 30-something in the big city, this is a story about loss, confusion, anger, vulnerability, resentment, jealousy, inadequacy, depression, and hopelessness. It is a love story. The Year She Left takes an irreverent, though not entirely unsympathetic, look at the question: When you discover that your life isn't going to work out as planned, how do you make plans for the rest of it? Those left to answer it are Stuart Lewi...

Michael Quinn, former rock star, turned his back on superstardom twenty-four years ago. He's spent his life since hiding from everything he'd been. When a woman chased by thugs jumps into his car, he tries to help. But this sets in motion a chain of events which turns his life upside down, when his best friend is murdered and the girl disappears.

Jade is a curious nine-year-old who likes to help out at her family's Chinese restaurant, The Fragrant Garden, after school. Though she is often allowed to help set tables or clean up, she longs to be part of the more exciting tasks such as helping in the kitchen or using the cash register.

This is a story of pioneering courage and compassion in the New World. Jeanne dreamed of devoting her life to caring for others. In 1641, she courageously gave up her comfortable middle-class life in France to journey to the French colonies, today's province of Quebec.

After four million votes were cast, Lethbridge, Alberta's Theo Tams emerged as the 2008 Canadian Idol winner, having captured the hearts of fans from coast to coast. Theo Tams: Inside the Music is a colourful, scrapbook-style look at Theo's Canadian Idol journey and the life experiences that led him to his victory.

This biography is the story of a child who took her love of childrens' books and found a way to share it with the world as she grew up. Her voice would be the first to carry the message of childrens' right to read across the world.

Willa has never known her father. In fact, her mother has refused to tell the eight-year-old anything at all about him. Willa dreams about what he might look like and who he might be. She often asks herself why her hair, which is "afro-crinkly", and her skin, which is dark, are so different from her mother's brown hair and pale skin. A substitute teacher's request that the class draw pictures of their dads for a Father's Day card launches Will...

Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of water and that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, the authors celebrate that most Canadian of locations: the ocean, lake, or river near you.

A seventeen year-old sets out to meet her secret lover by the cliffs of Ottawa's Hogs Back Falls. Three days later her nude body washes up in the shallows downstream. When no one comes forward and the autopsy reveals she was dead before she hit the water, the public fears a sexual predator is on the loose. But Inspector Green suspects a more personal connection. His search draws him into the manipulative world of elite young athletes, drugs an...

Yousuf Karsh emigrated to North America from Turkey in the 1920s, eventually settling in Ottawa. An early interest in photography inspired him to open his own studio. As he became known for the quality of his work, Karsh's close proximity to powerful leaders in Ottawa led to commissions of portraits of politicians. He became known as the worlds' finest portrait photographer for his gift of drawing out and capturing a subject's character in a p...

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Hollis Grant is in Toronto, hoping for a quiet summer of study. But the murder of her friends secretive stepson puts paid to those plans as the friend teeters on the edge of hysteria. Arson, a bomb, a sabotaged sailboatthe killer is closing in again. Who will be the next victim? Hollis races to solve the case.

Circumstances force Dag, a young snowboarder, to give up his sport and to find another way to live. He embarks on two paths, the first a subsistence job as a barista in a coffee megachain, where he works hard to be a worker extraordinaire. He also invents an online alter ego who pronounces his own brand of wisdom and rant, expressing what Dag can't in his role of coffee slave. Dag doesn't know who he is any more. Crapped out of his sport. Can ...

As a pioneer in Canada in the early 1800s, Catharine Parr Traill was one of the first writes to record the Ontario wilderness in literary and scientific detail, and her stories for young people became part of a new focus on young people. Her books on emigration encouraged other pioneers who struggled with life in a new country. Catharine was a natural storyteller who loved to write. This biography shows how an English girl called Katie became ...

Accident or suicide? That's the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction.

Violin virtuoso Victoria Morgan and her devoted piano accompanist are on yet another European tour. While playing to a full house in Vienna, Tory leaves the stage and disappears in the middle of this important concert, leaving behind a puzzled audience. Why would a seasoned professional do something so damaging?

She had a voice like an angel, smooth and complex as a twenty-year-old single malt, rich as thick cream. Everyone who heard Olivia sing felt as if she could see right into their souls, that her songs were meant for them alone... In earlier times, she would have been put to death as a witch. Andy Curran is a drummer in a struggling jazz trio. When a distinctly odd street person sings at an open mic night at the club where they work, it's clear ...

Ottawa Homicide Inspector Michael Green is absolutely obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage several times. When the biggest case of his career comes up, his position, his relationships and several lives are put into grave danger. A young graduate student and scion of a rich family is found expertly stabbed in the stacks of a university library, but no one seems to have the slightest idea why. But as Green prob...