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1.
The Kitchen A journey through time-and the homes of Julia Child, Georgia O'Keeffe, Elvis Presley and many others-in search of the perfect design Hardcover John Ota 9780525609896 $30.00 ARCHITECTURE Feb 25, 2020

A GLOBE & MAIL AND TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER.Explore landmark kitchens in the homes of Julia Child, Thomas Jefferson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Elvis Presley and many others.John Ota was a man on a mission--to put together the perfect kitchen. He and his wife had been making do with a room that was frankly no great advertisement for John's architectural expertise. It just about did the job but for a room that's supposed to be the beating heart of a home and a joy to cook in, the Otas' left a lot to be desired. And so John set out on a quest across North ... + Read More
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A Long Petal of the Sea A Novel Hardcover Isabel Allende 9781984820150 $37.00 FICTION Jan 21, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents, following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home.In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irrevers... + Read More
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The Jetsetters A Novel Hardcover Amanda Eyre Ward 9780399181894 $37.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Dysfunctional family goes away together on a Mediterranean cruise: What’s not to love? This novel fell squarely in my wheelhouse and I was delighted anew in every port. The Jetsetters is fun, sexy and engrossing.”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of ’69When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the “Become a Jetsetter” contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress;... + Read More
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Last Couple Standing A Novel Hardcover Matthew Norman 9781984821065 $36.00 FICTION Mar 17, 2020

A couple determined not to end up like their divorced friends try an open marriage—and get in way over their heads—in this hilarious, heartfelt novel from the author of We’re All Damaged.The Core Four have been friends since college: four men, four women, four couples. They got married around the same time, had kids around the same time, and now, fifteen years later, they’ve started getting divorced around the same time, too. With three of the Core Four unions crumbling to dust around them, Jessica and Mitch Butler take a long, hard look at the... + Read More
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In Pursuit of Disobedient Women A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away Hardcover Dionne Searcey 9780399179853 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 10, 2020

When a reporter for The New York Times uproots her family to move to West Africa, she manages her new role as breadwinner while finding women cleverly navigating extraordinary circumstances in a forgotten place for much of the Western world. In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper’s West Africa bureau ... + Read More
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The New Girl A Novel Paperback Harriet Walker 9781984819970 $23.00 FICTION May 19, 2020

How far would someone go to replace you? A new mother on maternity leave grows increasingly paranoid about her ambitious young temp in this Hitchcockian debut from the fashion editor at The Times (UK).Margot is the object of every woman’s envy: as an editor at Haute, she has a glamorous job, a beautiful new baby girl, a seemingly perfect life. But when Margot’s lifelong friend, Winnie, loses her own newborn boy, their shared dream of pushing strollers together turns to ash. And then there is the matter of Margot’s maternity temp: bright, plucky... + Read More
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Wildland A Novel Hardcover Rebecca Hodge 9781643852928 $35.99 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve comes an exhilarating debut novel of one woman’s courage in the face of catastrophe.She’ll do anything to save them.But what will she do to save herself?When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she’s counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice to make: face yet another round of chemotherapy or surrender gracefully. Self-reflection quickly proves ... + Read More
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The Vanished Birds A Novel Hardcover Simon Jimenez 9780593128985 $36.00 FICTION Jan 14, 2020

A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time.“This is when your life begins.”Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she... + Read More
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If I Had Your Face A Novel Hardcover Frances Cha 9780385694261 $32.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

A riveting, feminist debut about four women navigating contemporary South Korea, a world of strict social hierarchies, extreme plastic surgery and K-pop fan mania.“Even as a girl, I knew the only chance I had was to change my face. When I looked into the mirror, I knew everything in it had to change, even before a fortune-teller told me so.” This utterly compelling novel follows the interconnected lives of four young women balancing on the edge of survival in contemporary Seoul, Korea.Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won j... + Read More
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Forest Green Hardcover Kate Pullinger 9780385683043 $29.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler, a powerful, heartrending novel about a man on the run from himself, by Governor General’s Award-winning author Kate Pullinger.On a rain-soaked Vancouver sidewalk in 1995, a homeless man fights for breath. Forest Green is the story of how he ended up there.Arthur Lunn is a golden boy who spends long summer days roaming the hills and swimming in the lakes of the Okanagan Valley. But the Great Depression is destroying lives, even in Art’s remote and bucolic hometown. Soon, Art finds himself caught up... + Read More
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Series: A Jane Wunderly Mystery Murder at the Mena House Hardcover Erica Ruth Neubauer 9781496725851 $35.00 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

Well-heeled travelers from around the world flock to the Mena House Hotel—an exotic gem in the heart of Cairo where cocktails flow, adventure dispels the aftershocks of World War I, and deadly dangers wait in the shadows… A 2020 Agatha Award NomineeEgypt, 1926.Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won’t be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie’s best efforts, the young widow would rather gaze at the Great Pyramids of Giza than into the eyes of a dashing stranger. Yet Jane’s plans to remain ... + Read More
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Good Citizens Need Not Fear Hardcover Maria Reva 9780735278424 $29.95 FICTION Mar 10, 2020

FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZEA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Bang-on brilliant.”—Miriam Toews“Luminous”—Yann Martel“Outstanding.”—Anthony Doerr“Bright, funny, satirical and relevant…. A new talent to watch!”—Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine, heralds the arrival of a major new talent.A cast of unforgettable characters—citizens of the small industria... + Read More
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Useless Miracle Paperback Barry Schechter 9781612197913 $21.99 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

A classic, smart comedy in which a college professor attains mankind’s oldest dream: the ability to fly…sort of…George Entmen just turned forty, and he can’t complain. He is a respected hermeneutics professor, beloved by friends and family, and ready to drift quietly into tenured middle age. But then, he discovers he can fly.Sure, he can only fly very, very slowly, and he only flies three or four inches above the ground…But why does this nonetheless amazing phenomenon drive so many people into a rage? Why do he and his family find themselves do... + Read More
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Marrow and Bone Paperback Walter Kempowski 9781681374352 $22.95 FICTION Mar 24, 2020

A moving, darkly funny road trip novel about World War II, returning to one’s birthplace, and coming to terms with tragedy.West Germany, 1988, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall: Jonathan Fabrizius, a middle-aged erstwhile journalist, has a comfortable existence in Hamburg, bankrolled by his furniture-manufacturing uncle. He lives with his girlfriend Ulla in a grand, decrepit prewar house that just by chance escaped annihilation by the Allied bombers. One day Jonathan receives a package in the mail from the Santubara Company, a luxury car ... + Read More
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Siri, Who Am I? A Novel Paperback Sam Tschida 9781683691686 $21.99 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

“A wild ride…with endless turns and a happily-ever-after ending fit for a Friday night, feel-good rom-com movie.”—USA TodayA Los Angeles woman with amnesia uses her Instagram account to piece together her true identity in this irreverent and whip-smart mystery rom-com about finding yourself in the age of social media.The only thing worse than losing your memory? Finding out who you really are…Mia might look like a millennial but she was born yesterday. Emerging from a coma with short-term amnesia after an accident, Mia can’t remember her own na... + Read More
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Conjure Women A Novel Hardcover Afia Atakora 9780525511489 $36.00 FICTION Apr 07, 2020

A dazzling debut novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and the conjuring of curses.The intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides, during both slaverytime and freedomtime, are at the heart of this mesmerizing and surprising first novel.Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, Conju... + Read More
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Broken Glass Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece Hardcover Alex Beam 9780399592713 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture—and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art.In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time—unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The... + Read More
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Precious You A Novel Hardcover Helen Monks Takhar 9781984855961 $35.00 FICTION Mar 10, 2020

An obsessive power struggle between an editor and her millennial intern turns dangerous in this debut psychological thriller—for readers of Luckiest Girl Alive and You.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “Hypnotic . . . an addictive thriller.”—People Trusting you was my first mistake. To Katherine, twenty-four-year-old Lily Lunt is a typical “snowflake.” It seems like the privileged, politically correct millennial will do whatever she can to make it big as a writer, including leveraging her family’s connections. To Lily,... + Read More
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The Holdout A Novel Hardcover Graham Moore 9780399591778 $37.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and bestselling author of The Last Days of Night: a jury on a murder trial is deadlocked when a young woman manages to turn the tide to acquit; now, a decade later, she must face the consequences when a fellow juror is killed and she is the prime suspect.It’s the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock is the prime suspect after illicit text ... + Read More
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The Price of Peace Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Hardcover Zachary D. Carter 9780525509035 $47.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 19, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal WINNER OF THE HILLMAN PRIZE FOR BOOK JOURNALISM • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE... + Read More
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The Man in the Red Coat Hardcover Julian Barnes 9780735279940 $39.95 HISTORY Feb 18, 2020

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.IN THE SUMMER OF 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ shopping: a prince, a count and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives,... + Read More
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Hidden Valley Road Inside the Mind of an American Family Hardcover Robert Kolker 9780735274457 $32.95 PSYCHOLOGY Apr 07, 2020

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand—even cure—the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the dream. After World War II, Don’s work with the US Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years there was an established s... + Read More
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Shame on Me An Anatomy of Race and Belonging Paperback Tessa McWatt 9780735277434 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 24, 2020

FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONInterrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction.Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and “black bitch,” and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body—nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood—which holds up a mirror ... + Read More
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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida Hardcover Clarissa Goenawan 9781641291194 $32.00 FICTION Mar 10, 2020

From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy and dark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from?Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda who harbored unrequited feelings for Miwako, begs her best friend Chie to bring him to the remote village where she spent her final days. While they are away, his older sister, Fumi, wh... + Read More