1.
Series: Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak Novels
A Deadly Divide
A Mystery
Hardcover
Ausma Zehanat Khan
9781250298287
$36.50
FICTION
Feb 12, 2019
From the critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan,A Deadly Divide is the devastatingly powerful new thriller featuring beloved series detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty.In the aftermath of a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec, the local police apprehend Amadou Duchon—a young Muslim man at the scene helping the wounded—but release Etienne Roy, the local priest who was found with a weapon in his hands.The shooting looks like a hate crime, but detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty sense there is more to the story. Sent to liaise with...
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2.
Series:
A Reckoning
A Novel
Paperback
Linda Spalding
9780771098246
$22.00
FICTION
Feb 12, 2019
As the deeply moving and troubling account of a family's breakdown, A Reckoning is the perfect companion to Linda Spalding's bestselling, award-winning novel, The Purchase.It opens in the spring of 1855, when John Dickinson is involved in a shameful secret that will require a tragic decision. The family's resources have been wasted by a reckless brother who holds all of them hostage and, adding fuel to John's desperation, the enslaved workers have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist who pushes them to escape. Bry does, and his pursuit of fr...
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3.
Series:
Body & Soul
Stories for Skeptics and Seekers
Paperback
Susan Scott
9781987915938
$24.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Feb 06, 2019
Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers is a spiritual journey through experiences that can be liberating but also awkward and sometimes even dangerous, because women are so often excluded from conversations about spirituality. Liberation comes with breaking that age-old code of silence to talk about the messiness of faith, practice, religion and ceremony, to confess our sublimely unconventional modes of spiritual yearning. The writers in this volume, including Sharon Bala, Carleigh Baker, Eufemia Fantetti, Sue Goyette, K.D. Miller, Zarqa...
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4.
Series: Promise Falls Trilogy
Broken Promise
A Promise Falls Novel
Paperback
Linwood Barclay
9780385693141
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 26, 2019
From the New York Times--bestselling author of No Safe House comes the first novel in an explosive trilogy about the disturbing secrets of a quiet small town. After his wife's death and the collapse of his newspaper, David Harwood has no choice but to uproot his nine-year-old son and move back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, New York. David believes his life is in free fall, and he can't find a way to stop his descent. Then he comes across a family secret of epic proportions. A year after a devastating miscarriage, David's co...
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5.
Series:
Days by Moonlight
Paperback
Andre Alexis
9781552453797
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 19, 2019
Gulliver’s Travels meets The Underground Railroad: a road trip through the countryside – and the psyche – by the author of Fifteen Dogs. Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents’ friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language and towns that ...
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6.
Series:
Deep River Night
A Novel
Paperback
Patrick Lane
9780771048197
$21.00
FICTION
Feb 12, 2019
In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, Russell Banks, and Annie Proulx, the much-anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Red Dog, Red Dog is set over the course of 48 hours in a remote sawmill community where violence, complicity, and inaction run deep.World War Two vet Art Kenning is the alcoholic first-aid man in an isolated sawmill village in the interior of B.C., where he dreads the sound of the five whistles that summon him to the mill floor whenever a worker is hurt. Traumatized by an incident in Holland, when he stood by while m...
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7.
Series:
Divided Loyalties
Paperback
Nilofar Shidmehr
9781487006020
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 05, 2019
Acclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr’s debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.The stories begin in 1978, the year before the Iranian Revolution. In a neighbourhood in Tehran, a group of affluent girls play a Cinderella game with unexpected consequences. In the mid 1980s, women help their husbands and brothers survive war and political upheaval. In the early 1990s in Vancouver, Canada, a single-mother refugee is harassed by the men she meets on a telephone...
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8.
Series: Promise Falls Trilogy
Far From True
A Promise Falls Novel
Paperback
Linwood Barclay
9780385693158
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 26, 2019
From the Canadian king of suspense comes this edge-of-your-seat thriller with a startling twist, for fans of Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardner and Tami Hoag.New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers the second spine-chilling thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls. After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a break-in at her father's house. Cal discovers a hidden room wher...
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9.
Series:
Honey in the Carcase
Stories
Paperback
Josip Novakovich
9781945814471
$25.50
FICTION
Feb 22, 2019
Both absurd and melancholy,Honey in the Carcase, the newest collection from award-winning Josip Novakovich, moves from scenes as familiar as a dinner party to the brutal landscapes of war-torn Southeast Europe. A man tends bees amid the bombed-out husks of his village. A young girl takes revenge for the loss of a precious life. A Yugoslav drifter finds himself at dead ends in the American heartland. A marriage splinters over a suspicious scent. A cat and a dog enact ancient enmity in the midst of a warzone. An old debt is repaid. And a boy and ...
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10.
Series: First Voices, First Texts
Honouring the Strength of Indian Women
Plays, Stories, Poetry
Paperback
Vera Manuel
9780887558368
$24.95
DRAMA
May 10, 2019
This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada’s Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part...
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11.
Series:
Into That Fire
Paperback
M. J. Cates
9780735273764
$24.95
FICTION
Feb 19, 2019
Fans of Ian McEwan and Paula McLain will fall for this absorbing novel about love and madness, the toll of the First World War and family secrets, and an extraordinary woman's struggle to succeed in a man's world.Imogen is going to hurt Quentin, and she can't bear it. He has been her only friend and confidant during her time at medical school in Chicago, but he wants more than friendship and she doesn't. Unlike most well-brought-up young women in 1916, Imogen does not want to be a wife--she wants to become one of the country's first female psyc...
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12.
Series:
M Is Dead
a collaborative novel
Paperback
Brian Kaufman
9781772140309
$20.00
FICTION
Jan 15, 2021
"M" is Dead is a collaborative novella written by five writers (Brian Kaufman, Annette Lapointe, Mary Ann Saunders, Michael V. Smith, and Madeline Sonik) about a FTM (female to male) transsexual performance artist known only as "M". Through five voices we learn the story of M, beginning with posthumous reminiscences from five friends who knew M in an intimate, personal, or professional capacity. The friends only learn of each other, and hear one another's reflection of M, at a small, private service organized by M's friend and manager. P...
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13.
Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
Most of What Follows is True
Places Imagined and Real
Paperback
Michael Crummey
9781772124576
$11.99
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Feb 21, 2019
"In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business." In Most of What Follows Is True, Michael Crummey examines the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the “real world” and the stories we tell to explain it. Drawing on his own experience appropriating historical characters to fictional ends, he brings forward important questions about how writers use history and real-life figures to animate fictional stories....
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14.
Series:
Rest is Silence
Paperback
Paperback
Scott Fotheringham
9781773101217
$22.95
FICTION
Feb 26, 2019
Winner, H.R. (Bill) Percy Novel PrizeFinalist, Amazon.ca First Novel AwardFinalist, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book AwardFinalist, Ottawa Book AwardIn the backwoods of Nova Scotia, a man has decided to withdraw from the world and live off the land. Meanwhile, news reports begin to trickle in of a global environmental catastrophe. Someone has released a genetically modified strain of bacteria that devours plastic. The world will never again be the same.In this masterfully atmospheric novel, both apocalyptic in scope and intimate in setting, Scott Fot...
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15.
Series: A Dan Sharp Mystery
Shadow Puppet
A Dan Sharp Mystery
Paperback
Jeffrey Round
9781459740600
$16.99
FICTION
Feb 02, 2019
Private investigator Dan Sharp investigates the disappearance of three closeted gay men. When a serial killer stalks downtown Toronto, private investigator Dan Sharp finds an unexpected link between the missing men that even the police are reluctant to investigate. A meeting with the chief of police confirms his suspicions, but does nothing to resolve the problem. Obsessed with uncovering the truth, Dan enlists a small group of friends to delve into illicit goings-on in the local sex industry. It’s only when the next man disappears, however, th...
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16.
Series:
Skin House
Paperback
Michael Blouin
9781772141184
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 23, 2019
Oh my goodness. Did you ever get to thinking that "down on your luck" isn't just an expression? And that what we need here is a bigger statement? Something that adequately describes the scope of the situation? Like when your ex-wife spends all of her time angrier than a five-dollar pistol at everything on the planet, but mostly at you (well, really only at you, and she brings back your record collection, but she sets fire to it on your porch and the flames spread to your house and that just proves what you've said all along: that she is crazier...
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17.
Series:
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
Paperback
Megan Gail Coles
9781487001711
$22.95
FICTION
Feb 12, 2019
#1 National BestsellerFinalist, CBC Canada ReadsFinalist, Scotiabank Giller PrizeBy turns savage, biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, exposing class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.Valentine’s Day, the longest day of the year. A fierce blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off the city, while inside The Hazel restaurant a storm system of sex, betrayal, addiction, and hurt is breaking ...
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18.
Series:
Swimming with Horses
Paperback
Oakland Ross
9781459743540
$20.99
FICTION
Feb 09, 2019
An unlikely friendship between a Canadian teenager and a South African girl sparks a journey to untangle an unsolved murder. Eighteen-year-old Hilary Anson’s startling good looks and wanton ways scandalize the denizens of sleepy Kelso County, but young Sam Mitchell is instantly enthralled by his new friend. Over one sun-soaked summer, Hilary vastly improves Sam’s equestrian skills, while dropping inscrutable details about her past in apartheid-era South Africa. Mysteries mount until Hilary vanishes, leaving at least one unsolved murder in her w...
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19.
Series: A Russell and Leduc Mystery
The Birds That Stay: A Russell and Leduc Mystery
Paperback
Ann Lambert
9781772600919
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 19, 2019
"Ten Thrillers That Will Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat Until Summertime" - The Globe and Mail. In a small village in the Laurentians, north of Montreal, a reclusive older woman is found strangled outside her home. Roméo Leduc, Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years but reluctantly answers the call on the case. Marie Russell lives in the same small community. She did not know her elderly neighbour, and she does not expect to become embroiled in solving her murder. But when a startling new clue emerges,...
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20.
Series:
The Good Liar
Canadian Edition
Paperback
Catherine McKenzie
9781501178597
$10.99
FICTION
Feb 26, 2019
An instant national bestseller from author Catherine McKenzie about what lurks in the wake of tragedy.One explosion. Three women. Countless secrets. When Cecily sets off to meet her husband, Tom, in downtown Chicago, she’s unaware of the drastic turn her life is about to take. Before the morning is over, Tom is killed when a building explodes. In the months that follow, a photo of Cecily watching the horrifying scene brings her unwanted attention as the poster child of the tragic event—and she is desperately trying to hide something. Franny los...
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21.
Series:
The Homecoming
Paperback
Andrew Pyper
9781982108977
$24.99
FICTION
Feb 26, 2019
Instant National Bestseller Bestselling author Andrew Pyper returns with a riveting psychological thriller about how the people you’ve known your whole life can suddenly become strangers.What if everything you knew about the people you loved was a lie? After the death of their absentee father, Aaron and Bridge Quinlan travel to a vast rainforest property in the Pacific Northwest to hear the reading of his will. There, they meet up with their mother and troubled sister, Franny, and are shocked to discover the will’s terms: in order to claim thei...
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22.
Series: A Lighthouse Library Mystery
The Spook in the Stacks
A Lighthouse Library Mystery
Paperback
Eva Gates
9781683319214
$21.99
FICTION
Feb 12, 2019
Halloween in North Carolina’s Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly legends, Jay becomes one of the dearly departed in the rare books section. Now, it’s up to Lucy Ric...
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23.
Series: Promise Falls Trilogy
The Twenty-Three
A Promise Falls Novel
Paperback
Linwood Barclay
9780385693165
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 26, 2019
From New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes the third and final spine-chilling thriller in the Promise Falls trilogy.Everything has been leading to this. It's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd, and the small town of Promise Falls, New York, has found itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe. Hundreds of people are going to the hospital with similar symptoms--vomiting, dizziness, loss of consciousness--and dozens are dying. And those investigating the cause of the epidemic quickly zer...
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24.
Series:
Undercard
Paperback
David Albertyn
9781487004804
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 19, 2019
Set over the course of twenty-four exhilarating hours, Undercard is the story of four childhood friends, now in their early thirties, unexpectedly reunited by a high-profile prizefight in a Las Vegas casino… and an even higher-profile murder.When Tyron Shaw returns to his hometown of Las Vegas after eleven years in the Marines, he’s surprised to discover that two of his best friends from childhood are all anyone is talking about: Antoine Deco, three years out of prison, hasn’t lost a boxing match since his release, and tonightis fighting in the...
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25.
Series: City of the Lost
Watcher in the Woods
A Rockton Thriller (City of the Lost 4)
Paperback
Kelley Armstrong
9780385690683
$24.00
FICTION
Feb 12, 2019
In #1 New York Times–bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the town of Rockton—and her fans—are in for another hair-raising adventure.When you can't trust the people you're supposed to trust most, what do you do?The secret town of Rockton has seen some tough times lately; understandable considering its mix of criminals and victims fleeing society for refuge within its Yukon borders.Casey Duncan, the town's only detective on a police force of three, has already faced murder, arson and falling in love in the several months she's l...
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