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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... + Read More
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Series: A Reckoning A Novel Paperback Linda Spalding 9780771098246 $22.00 FICTION Feb 12, 2019

A perfect companion to The Purchase, Linda Spalding’s bestselling, award-winning novel, A Reckoning is the deeply moving and troubling account of a family’s breakdown.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 freedom... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 cousin Marla h... + Read More
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Series: Days by Moonlight Paperback Andre Alexis 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction; 2015 Giller Prize 9781552453797 $19.95 FICTION Feb 19, 2019

Almost a year to the date of his parents' death, botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents' friend Professor Morgan Bruno. Professor Bruno wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious and perhaps dead poet John Skennen. But Days by Moonlight is also a journey through an underworld that looks like southern Ontario, a journey taken during the "hour of the wolf," that time of day when the sun is setting and the traveller can't tell the difference between dog and wol... + Read More
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Series: Deep River Night A Novel Paperback Patrick Lane 9780771048197 $21.00 FICTION Feb 12, 2019

From bestselling author Patrick Lane: In the style of Cormac McCarthy, Russell Banks, and Annie Proulx, Deep River Night is set over the course of forty-eight hours in a remote sawmill community, where violence, complicity, and inaction run deep.World War II 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 members of his uni... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 the second installment in the bestselling Promise Falls Trilogy—an edge-of-your-seat thriller with a startling twist.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 w... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 psych... + Read More
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Series: M Is Dead a collaborative novel Paperback Brian Kaufman 9781772140309 $20.00 FICTION May 30, 2020

"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... + Read More
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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.... + Read More
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Series: Rest is Silence Paperback Scott Fotheringham 9781773101217 $22.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2019

FinalistAmazon.ca First Novel AwardJim Connors Dartmouth Book AwardOttawa Book AwardCorey Doctorow and William Gibson meet Margaret Atwood."A fascinating and complex plot. . . . Fotheringham holds the tension to the show-stopping end." — Chronicle HeraldIn the backwoods of Nova Scotia, a man has decided to withdraw from the world to simplify his life. He builds a cabin and plants a garden. He befriends the few people he can reach within biking distance — an old man living on the shore and a woman who may be as damaged as he is. In fits and star... + Read More
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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, t... + Read More
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Series: Skin House Paperback Michael Blouin 9781772141184 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 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... + Read More
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Series: Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club Paperback Megan Gail Coles 9781487001711 $22.95 FICTION Feb 12, 2019

February in Newfoundland is the longest month of the year. Another blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off downtown St. John’s, while inside The Hazel restaurant a storm system of sex, betrayal, addiction, and hurt is breaking overhead. Iris, a young hostess from around the bay, is forced to pull a double despite resolving to avoid the charming chef and his wealthy restaurateur wife. Just tables over, Damian, a hungover and self-loathing server, is trying to navigate a potential punch-up with a pair of lit customers who remain oblivious to ... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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Series: A Russell and Leduc Mystery The Birds That Stay Paperback Ann Lambert 9781772600919 $19.95 FICTION Feb 19, 2019

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, Marie becomes an inadvertent detective. As Marie and Roméo combine wits to find the killer, they a... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: The Homecoming Paperback Andrew Pyper 9781982108977 $24.99 FICTION Feb 26, 2019

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 their inheritance they must all ... + Read More
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Series: A Lighthouse Library Mystery The Spook in the Stacks A Lighthouse Library Mystery Paperback Eva Gates 9781683319214 $23.95 FICTION Feb 22, 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... + Read More
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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 zero in on... + Read More
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Series: Undercard Paperback David Albertyn 9781487004804 $19.95 FICTION Feb 19, 2019

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 tonight is fighting in the undercard to the fight of the decade; and Keenan Quinn, a police officer who killed an unarmed teenager and escaped punishment from the courts, is the subject of a protest tomorrow morning.Tyron has trouble reconciling either story with his... + Read More
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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.The secret town of Rockton has seen some rocky 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 less than the year that she’s lived there. Yet even she didn’t think it would be possible for an outsi... + Read More