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Series: Unleash Different Achieving Business Success Through Disability Hardcover Rich Donovan 9781770414488 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 04, 2018

If you discovered a new market comprising 53% of the world’s population, would you act to invest in it? There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the disability market touches 53% of all consumers. It is the world’s largest emerging market. Unleash Different illustrates how companies like Google, PepsiCo, and Nordstrom are attracting people with disabilities as customers and as employees. Replacing “nice to do” with “return on investment” allows market forces to take ... + Read More
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Series: Death of the Territories Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever Paperback Tim Hornbaker 9781770413849 $23.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 18, 2018

For decades, distinct professional wrestling territories thrived across North America. Each regionally based promotion operated individually and offered a brand of localized wrestling that greatly appealed to area fans. Promoters routinely coordinated with associates in surrounding regions, and the cooperation displayed by members of the National Wrestling Alliance made it easy for wrestlers to traverse the landscape with the utmost freedom. Dozens of territories flourished between the 1950s and late ’70s. But by the early 1980s, the growth of... + Read More
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Series: Creating the Mania An Inside Look at How WrestleMania Comes to Life Hardcover Jon Robinson 9781770414501 $29.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 07, 2018

Creating the Mania takes fans backstage with an all-access pass to the behind-the-scenes stories of WrestleMania 34, which became the Mercedes-Benz Superdome’s highest grossing entertainment event at $14.1 million and a sold-out crowd of 78,133 fans. Follow the yearlong life cycle of WWE’s biggest event, from how the storylines were developed to how the host city was selected, from the logistics and planning behind hosting over 70,000 members of the WWE Universe to the rivalries and matches playing out inside the ring, in a book that chronicles... + Read More
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Series: Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics Paperback Rob Vollman 9781770414129 $23.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 18, 2018

With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how hockey is played and covered. Knowledge of the underlying numbers can help fans stretch their enjoyment of the game. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes — or maybe what they should be doing! Inspired by Bill James’s Baseball Abstract, Rob Vollman has written a timeless ... + Read More
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Series: Hockey Card Stories Hockey Card Stories 2 59 More True Tales from Your Favourite Players Paperback Ken Reid 9781770413504 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 02, 2018

A follow-up to the 2014 national bestseller Hockey Card Stories, Ken Reid’s new offering presents 59 more stories about your favorite hockey cards from the players themselves. Hockey Card Stories 2 will take you all the way back to the 1960s and right up to the Hockey Card Boom of the 1990s. How did Eric Lindros handle being at the center of the 1990s rookie-card craze? Ever wonder why one tough guy’s Upper Deck card looks more like a High School yearbook picture than a sports card? Of course, once again, there are glorious mullets, errors,... + Read More
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Series: Home Ice Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom Paperback Angie Abdou 9781770414457 $21.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 04, 2018

The author of the Canada Reads–nominated The Bone Cage tackles the ups and downs of amateur hockey, from a mother’s point of view Over 570,000 people are registered in Hockey Canada and over 600,000 in Hockey USA. It’s a national obsession. But what does that really mean when your child wants to play on a team? As a former varsity athlete and university instructor teaching sport literature, novelist Angie Abdou is no stranger to sport obsession, but she finds herself conflicted when faced with the reality of the struggles, joys, and strai... + Read More
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Series: Cap in Hand How Salary Caps are Killing Pro Sports and Why the Free Market Could Save Them Hardcover Bruce Dowbiggin 9781770413931 $32.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 11, 2018

Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a fraud … an exhibition masquerading as a contest.” Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of teams in MLB to protect parity, a free market was capable of sustaining many more franchises — hundreds, even — if we would just allow it to sort out the... + Read More
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Series: Best Seat in the House My Life in the Jeff Healey Band Paperback Tom Stephen 9781770414518 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 31, 2018

For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused. But few knew or understood Jeff Healey — a national icon and one of the world’s best blues guitarists — better. Funny and loyal, with a luminous mind and staggering talent, Healey was also provincial, stubborn, obnoxious, and antagonistic. This b... + Read More
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Series: Nobody Cares Essays Paperback Anne T. Donahue 9781770414235 $21.00 HUMOR Sep 18, 2018

“The internet’s best friend.” — Flare From the author of the popular newsletter That’s What She Said, Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties. As she shares her hard-won insights from screwing up, growing up, and trying to find her own path, Anne T. Donahue’s debut book offers all the honesty, laughs, and reassurance of a late-night phone call with your best friend. Whether she’s giving a signature pep talk, railing agai... + Read More
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Series: Ice Diaries An Antarctic Memoir Paperback Jean McNeil 9781770414464 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 06, 2018

Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2016, now in paperback.“Ice Diaries is stunningly written and should be on the shelf of anyone fascinated by the globe’s final geographic and psychic frontier.” — The New York Times“It's a discussion of the Antarctic as a physical landscape—its impact on the imagination—and an exploration of one person's inner world.” — The Chicago TribuneBritish Canadian novelist Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and f... + Read More
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Series: 18 Miles The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather Paperback Christopher Dewdney 9781770413467 $21.95 SCIENCE Oct 23, 2018

“With wit and a humbling sense of wonder, this is a book that can be shared and appreciated by a wide audience who now religiously check their phones for daily forecasts.” — Publishers Weekly Starred Review “This terrific, accessible, and exciting read helps us to better understand the aspects of weather and the atmosphere all around us.” —Library Journal Starred Review We live at the bottom of an ocean of air — 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth’s atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmi... + Read More
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Series: No Good Asking A Novel Paperback Fran Kimmel 9781770414389 $19.00 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another. Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows, stresses, and missed signals. With every passing day, Ellie’s hopes are buried deeper in the harsh winter snows. When Eric finds Hannah Finch, the girl across the road, wandering alone in the bitter cold, his rusty police instincts kick in, and he soon discov... + Read More
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Series: Refuge A Novel Paperback Merilyn Simonds 9781770414181 $21.00 FICTION Sep 04, 2018

To whom do we offer refuge — and why? After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, alone on her island, when a young Burmese woman contacts her, claiming to be kin. Curiosity, loneliness, and a slender filament of hope prompts the old woman to accept a visit. But Nang’s story of torture and flight provokes memories in Cass that peel back, layer by layer, the events that brought her to this moment — and forces her, against her will... + Read More
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Series: The Tildon Chronicles No Quarter A Novel Paperback John Jantunen 9781770412057 $19.00 FICTION Nov 06, 2018

In this blistering new novel from visionary author John Jantunen, three young men with a history of violence are on a collision course set against the idyllic backdrop of northern Ontario’s cottage country. Rene Descartes, a recently released ex-con, is living in a ramshackle trailer only a short distance from Hidden Cove, a secluded paradise where the country’s rich and famous relax in opulent gated summer retreats. A savage attack against Rene by the son of the fourth richest man in the country spurns a brutal act of revenge that will ... + Read More
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Series: Moon of the Crusted Snow A Novel Paperback Waubgeshig Rice 9781770414006 $17.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

Nominated for the 2019 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Shortlisted for the 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Shortlisted for the 2019/20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award 2019 Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads “This slow-burning thriller is also a powerful story of survival and will leave readers breathless.” — Publishers Weekly “Rice seamlessly injects Anishinaabe language into the dialogue and creates a beautiful rendering of the natural world… This title will appeal to fan... + Read More
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Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery Though the Heavens Fall A Collins-Burke Mystery Hardcover Anne Emery 9781770413863 $29.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2018

As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and “peace walls” segregating one community from the other. But the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it’s as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family. And it’s a good time for Brennan’s cousin Ronan to lay down arms and campaign for election in a future peacetime government. But the past is never past in Belfast, and it rises up to... + Read More
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Series: A Frank Yakabuski Mystery Cape Diamond A Frank Yakabuski Mystery Paperback Ron Corbett 9781770413955 $18.00 FICTION Oct 23, 2018

Cape Diamond, the second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, is atmospheric and action-packed. Set near the Northern Divide — as was the first installment, Edgar Award nominee (Best Paperback Original), Ragged Lake — the book opens with Yakabuski called to investigate a gruesome crime scene. A body has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence. On closer inspection, Yak finds a large diamond in the murder victim’s mouth. Two criminal gangs — the Shiners and the Travellers — are fighting with each other, and Yakabuski turns to his... + Read More
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Series: Poughkeepsie Shuffle A Crime Novel Paperback Dietrich Kalteis 9781770414013 $17.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2018

Jeff Nichols — a man strong of conviction but weak of character — is fresh out of the Don Jail, looking for work — any kind of work — and a way back into Ann Ryan’s good graces. She waited for his return from prison but is quickly running short on patience. An ex-inmate and friend gets Jeff a job at Ted Bracey’s used car lot, selling cars for commission only. But it’s not enough to keep him and Ann afloat in mid-80s Toronto, and the lure of easy money soon gets Jeff involved in smuggling guns from upstate New York. With that sweet Poughkeep... + Read More
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Series: The Ambassador of What Stories Paperback Adrian Michael Kelly 9781770414174 $19.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2018

Slogging through the miles of a city marathon, an 11-year-old boy encounters small miracles; about to marry one of her patients in a home for the elderly, a nurse asks her estranged son to come to the wedding and give her away; home from university, a young man has Christmas dinner with his hard-up dad in a bistro behind a rural gas bar. Men and boys and maleness, money and its lack, the long haunt of childhood, marriage and divorce — these lie at the heart of The Ambassador of What. Driven by an ear for how we talk, how we feel, how we fai... + Read More
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Series: Dead Kid Detective Agency Connect the Scotts The Dead Kid Detective Agency #4 Paperback Evan Munday 9781770413337 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 13 Oct 02, 2018

Is the fourth time a charm for October and her ghost detective friends? While investigating the cause of the long-dead Tabetha Scott’s death way back in the 1860s, October and the Dead Kids discover that Sticksville, Ontario, served as an endpoint for the Underground Railroad, the secret network by which enslaved people escaped to free states and Canada. But October Schwartz finds herself with more detective work than she can handle after some new musically inclined chums are incriminated in a robbery at a school concert. Fraudulent occult psyc... + Read More
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Series: The Realms of Ancient Scion of the Fox The Realms of Ancient, Book 1 Paperback S.M. Beiko 9781770414310 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 19 Sep 25, 2018

As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead … Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student — dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) — but she’s uncovering the depth of the secrets her family left behind. Saved from the grasp of Death itself by a powerful fox spirit named Sil, Roan must harness mysterious ancient power . . . and quickly. A snake-monster called Zabor lies in wa... + Read More
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Series: The Realms of Ancient Children of the Bloodlands The Realms of Ancient, Book 2 Hardcover S.M. Beiko 9781770413580 $22.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Sep 25, 2018

The dazzling second book in S.M. Beiko’s Realms of Ancient series Three months after the battle of Zabor, the five friends that came together to defeat her have been separated. Burdened with the Calamity Stone she acquired in Scion of the Fox, Roan has gone to Scotland to retrace her grandmother’s steps in an attempt to stop further evil from entering the world. Meanwhile, a wicked monster called Seela has risen from the ashy Bloodlands and is wreaking havoc on the world while children in Edinburgh are afflicted by a strange plague; Eli... + Read More
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Series: Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers Poems Paperback Jason Freure 9781770414532 $18.95 POETRY Sep 25, 2018

In the words of Margaret Thatcher, “A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.” Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers is about wandering Montreal’s streets, with an eye on the storefronts and alley cats, and one foot already in the nearest dive bar. From a series of poems about every station on the Metro to music venues long shut down, it’s sometimes fantastical, nostalgic, funny, and even joyful — a sucker for landmarks, always looking out for glimpses of the Farine Five Roses sign, the Jac... + Read More
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Series: Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy Poems Paperback Paul Vermeersch 9781770412231 $18.95 POETRY Sep 04, 2018

It is the Third Millennium. The 20th century is a memory. Humans no longer walk on the moon. Passenger planes no longer fly at supersonic speeds. Disinformation overwhelms the legitimate news. The signs of our civilization’s demise are all around us, but hope is not lost. In these poems, you will find a map through our dystopia and protection from all manner of monsters, both natural and human made. Only the products of our imaginations — buildings and movies, daydreams and wondrous machines — can show us how to transform our lives. Self-De... + Read More
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Series: Collins-Burke Mystery Series Lament for Bonnie A Collins-Burke Mystery Paperback Anne Emery 9781770414549 $17.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2018

The ninth mystery in a series that “gets better with every book” (Globe and Mail), now in paperback Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald — the beloved stepdancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton’s famed Clan Donnie band — vanishes after a family party. No one thinks Bonnie ran away. Maura MacNeil, cousin to Clan Donnie, offers her husband’s legal services to the family as the police search for the missing girl. But fame attracts some strange characters, and Clan Donnie has its groupies. So, it turns out, does lawyer and bluesman Monty Coll... + Read More
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Series: Life In Technicolor: A Celebration of Coldplay Hardcover Debs Wild 9781770414860 $29.95 MUSIC Oct 30, 2018

Coldplay’s unique sound has captured the hearts of the world time and time again. From melancholic, thoughtful melodies to energetic thumping bass lines, Coldplay’s musical range is a large part of their popularity, allowing them to appeal to all manner of fans, from young to old. Written by Debs Wild, the A&R executive who discovered Coldplay, and former music journalist Malcolm Croft, who have known and worked with the band intimately over twenty years, this book provides unparalleled access into the inner workings of the musicians’ world... + Read More
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Series: A Very Stable Genius Paperback Mike Luckovich 9781770414785 $24.95 HUMOR Sep 04, 2018

How do you poke fun at a man who’s so absurd he practically satirizes himself? Even two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich admits it’s been a challenge covering the Cheeto-in-Chief in his internationally syndicated political cartoons. But Mike rose to the challenge, pulling no punches and stripping down Trump and his cronies with his signature wit and style. Covering Trump’s antics from the 2016 election through to the Mueller investigation, the cartoons in A Very Stable Genius tackle key moments in Trump’s political career,... + Read More