New Releases by Christopher Moore

“One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure.” So begins Christopher Moore’s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, daring “father of New France.” Samuel de Champlain helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World; he established the village that eventually became the great city of Quebec; he was a skilled cartographer who gave us many of our first accurate maps of North America; he forged alliances with Native nations that laid the foundations for vast trading networks; and as governor, he set New France on the road to becoming a productive, self-sufficient, thriving colony. But Champlain was also a man who suffered his share of defeats and disappointments. That first permanent settlement was abandoned after a disastrous winter claimed the lives of half the colonists. His marriage to a child bride was unhappy and marked by long separations. Eventually Quebec had to be surrendered temporarily to the English in 1629. In this remarkable book, illustrated entirely with paintings, archival maps, and original artifacts, Christopher Moore brings to life this complex man and, through him, creates a portrait of Canada in its earliest days. Champlain is illustrated with archival maps and paintings. Additional artwork has been provided by Francis Back.

After reverently lambasting the most cherished rites and credos of virtually every one of the world''s major religions in his transcendently hilarious novel Lamb, the one and only Christopher Moore returns with a wild look at interspecies communication, adventure on the high seas, and an eons-old mystery. Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn is in love -- with the salt air and sun-drenched waters off Maui ... and especially with the majestic ocean-dwelling behemoths that have been bleeping and hooting their haunting music for more than twenty million years. But just why do the humpback whales sing? That''s the question that has Nate and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing any large marine mammal that crosses their path. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. No one on Nate''s team has ever seen such a thing; not his longtime partner, photographer Clay Demodocus, not their saucy young research assistant, Amy. Not even spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman, Kona (the former Preston Applebaum of New Jersey), could boast such a sighting in one of his dope-induced hallucinations. And when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and their research facility is summarily trashed -- Nate realizes that something very fishy indeed is going on. This, apparently, is big, involving dangerously interested other parties -- competitive researchers, the cutthroat tourist industry, perhaps even the military. The weirdness only gets weirder when a call comes in from Nate''s big-bucks benefactor saying that a whale has made contact -- by phone. And it''s asking for a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye. Suddenly the answer to the question that has daunted and driven Nate throughout his adult life is within his reach. But it''s waiting for him in the form of an amazing adventure beneath the waves, 623 feet down, somewhere off the coast of Chile. And it''s not what anyone would think. It must be said: Christopher Moore''s Fluke is a whale of a novel.

Le coyote, c''est le farceur de la cosmogonie indienne. Celui qui tire sur la couverture où les dieux ont soigneusement rangé les étoiles, donnant ainsi un léger côté pagaille su firmament. Autant dire que quand le coyote s''attaque à ce brave yuppie de Sam Hunter, sa vie devient un enfer... Mais un enfer revu par Tex Avery...

Provides information and photographs on Canada, exploring the history, politics, territories, and people that have formed this nation.

Un Gozilla qui n''aime pas le blues depuis que son bébé a été tué par Catfish, le bluesman. Un flic, fumeur de joints. Une schizophrène, ex-actrice de films de série Z post-apocalyptiques et une serveuse qui ferait pâlir d''envie " L''Homme qui valait trois milliards ". Un restaurateur qui porte les prénoms de Lovecraft et rêve " d''observer une indicible créature venue de la nuit des temps s''élever de ténébreuses profondeurs abyssales pour venir dévaster la civilisation et se repaître de chair humaine ". On reprend depuis le début ?

Little Joshua Barker is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old prays for Santa to come back from the dead. There''s an angel waiting in the wings, but he''s botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas chaos.

Eine Insel in der Südsee, Palmen, Strand, eine atemberaubende Blondine und ein paar Wilde: das Paradies auf Erden. Allerdings nicht für Pilot Tuck, den geborenen Verlierer. Die Eingeborenen entpuppen sich als Kannibalen, und die Sexbombe als pures Gift. Doch das ist noch nicht alles - ein skrupelloser Arzt missbraucht die Insulaner für seine Geschäfte. Zusammen mit einem verrückten Transvestiten und der Fledermaus Roberto plant Tuck die Rettung der Inselbewohner... Der ehemalige Journalist Christopher Moore arbeitete als Dachdecker, Kellner, Fotograf und Versicherungsvertreter, bevor er anfing, Romane zu schreiben. Seine Bücher haben in Amerika längst Kultstatus, und auch im deutschsprachigen Raum wächst die Fangemeinde beständig. Christopher Moore liebt - nach eigenen Angaben - den Ozean, Elefanten-Polo, Käsecracker, Acid Jazz und das Kraulen von Fischottern. Er mag aber weder Salmonellen noch Autoverkehr und erst recht nicht gemeine Menschen. Der Autor lebt in San Francisco, Kalifornien.

- More examples, taken from a range of technical and business settings. You''ll find examples of the kind of procedures you write- Chapters on flowcharts and logic tables. Guiding procedure users through the decision-making process can be among the most difficult tasks faced by the procedure writer. Flowcharts and logic tables present this information simply and intuitively- Essentializing--including only essential information in the procedure. The concept of essentializing is crucial to effective procedure writing- More on the procedure writing process. Many deficiencies in procedures stem from deficiencies in the process used to write the procedures. Compare your process to the process discussed in Chapter 3.

"In the 1860s, western alienation began at Yonge Street, and George Brown was the Preston Manning of the day." So begins Christopher Moore''s fascinating 1990s look at the messy, dramatic, crisis-ridden process that brought Canada into being - and at the politicians, no more lovable or united than our own, who, against all odds, managed to forge a deal that worked. From the first chapter, he turns a fresh, perceptive, and lucid eye on the people, the issues, and the political theories of Confederation - from John A. Macdonald''s canny handling of leadership to the invention of federalism and the Senate, from the Quebec question to the influence of political philosophers Edmund Burke and Walter Bagehot. This is a book for all Canadians who love their country - and fear for it after the failure of the constitution-making of the 1990s. Here is a clear, entertaining reintroduction to the ideas and processes that forged the nation.

By the end of the Revolutionary War there were a great number of Loyalists--people who could not support the Revolution. In 1783 and 1784, some 50,000 of these Loyalists headed north, forcing the British authorities in Halifax and Quebec to provide for the wave of refugees that far outnumbered the resident population. Those Loyalists went on to change the face of the Canadian colonies.