From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
10 best books like From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (Minister Faust): Blood Price, Yiddish for Pirates, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Jitterbug Perfume, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Houdini: The Handcuff King, Kiss of the Vampire, Berlin, Vol. 2: City of Smoke, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?, Blood Pact
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493562 |
The Blood Books are now available in "Blood Ties" TV tie-in editions. View our TV tie-in feature page here here.Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto’s homicide unit and now a private detective, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks that are now plaguing the city of Toronto. As death follows unspeakable...
| Author | Gary Barwin |
| ISBN | 0345815513 |
Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion.
From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking...
It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers...
| Author | Tom Robbins |
| ISBN | 1842430351 |
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed...
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0813519772 |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation...
Houdini: The Handcuff King
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 0786839023 |
Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so 80 years after his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason...
| Author | Nancy Baker |
| ISBN | 0449149579 |
Dimitri Rozokov has awakened after a sleep of one hundred years. But for a fifteenth-century Russian aristocrat--and vampire--at large in modern-day Toronto, there is no safe haven.
Ardeth Alexander is leading the predictable life of a graduate student when she is grabbed off the street and...
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1897299532 |
The second installment of the epic historical trilogy
The second volume of Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists,...
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
| Author | Anita Rau Badami |
| ISBN | 0676976050 |
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.
The...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493597 |
It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs. Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they'd be waiting for her to arrive in...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493570 |
For centuries, the werewolves of Toronto have managed to live in peace and tranquility, hidden quietly away on their London, Ontario farm. But now, someone has learned their secret—and is systematically massacring this ancient race.
The only one they can turn to is Henry Fitzroy, Toronto-based...
Berlin, Vol. 3: City of Light
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1770463275 |
The conclusion to a masterful graphic novel trilogy that follows Berlin citizens as Nazism rises
The third and final act of Jason Lutes’s historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament,...
Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories
| Author | Claude Lalumière |
| ISBN | 0991836901 |
Thrilling adventures of Canadian superheroes... and villains! 75 years ago Canadian cartoonist Joe Shuster co-created the world's premier superhero: Superman. Over the decades the genre has gone from camp to counter-culture, from pop art to postmodern, from noir to new wave. Today's superheroes...
