1.
Series:
The Difference
Paperback
Marina Endicott
9780735276703
$22.00
FICTION
Aug 04, 2020
From one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the south pacific in 1912.Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world.At the heart...
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2.
Series:
The Expendables
How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization
Hardcover
Jeff Rubin
9780735279391
$32.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aug 18, 2020
From the #1 bestselling author of Why Your World Is About to Get A Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback—from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe—will change the developed world.Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the developed world, it is.Former CIB...
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3.
Series:
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...
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4.
Series:
The Certainties
Hardcover
Aislinn Hunter
9780735276871
$29.95
FICTION
Aug 04, 2020
A vivid, moving novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates of two very different refugees.In 1940, as the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, three mysterious travelers enter a village in Spain. They have the appearance of Parisian intellectuals, but the trio of two men and a woman are starving and exhausted from crossing illegally through the Pyrenees. Their story, told over a period of 48 tense hours, is narrated by one of the men, who slowly accepts his unthinkable fate. In a voice despairing and elega...
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5.
Series:
The Erratics
Hardcover
Vicki Laveau-Harvie
9780385695268
$29.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 25, 2020
In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humour and brutal honesty.When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents’ home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though their parents disowned them years before, the sisters now reassert themselves in the dysfunctional household: their father, undernourished and suffering fro...
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6.
Series:
Say Goodbye to Plastic
A Survival Guide for Plastic-Free Living
Hardcover
Sandra Ann Harris
9781578268603
$20.00
HOUSE & HOME
Oct 13, 2020
A simple and powerful book educating people about the epidemic of plastic use and solutions for a plastic-free future.If you’ve heard of the plastic-free lifestyle, but think you don’t have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be delightfully wrong. Say Goodbye to Plastic shows you how, whether you’re seeking to knock plastic out of your life or just try out a few novel eco-hacks in your kitchen, bathroom, office or dining room. Plastic pollution activist and entrepreneur Sandra Ann Harris invites us to say goodbye to plastic, room by room...
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7.
Series:
Maenam
A Fresh Approach to Thai Cooking
Hardcover
Angus An
9780147530943
$35.00
COOKING
Aug 04, 2020
More than 100 flavor-driven Thai recipes built on technique, balance, tradition, and innovation from award-winning chef Angus An.In Maenam, chef Angus An takes you on his ongoing journey of discovering Thai cuisine and shows how to blend traditional Thai flavors and cooking techniques with local, seasonal inspirations from the west coast. With Angus’s foolproof instructions, Maenam offers the foundation to modern Thai cuisine for adventurous cooks of all skill levels. Filled with over 100 of his signature recipes, each meal balances robust, int...
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8.
Series:
The Starless Sea
A Novel
Paperback
Erin Morgenstern
9780385686242
$22.00
FICTION
Aug 04, 2020
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus comes a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered and desperate to make sense of what he’s reading, Zac...
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9.
Series:
The Braver Thing
Paperback
Clifford Jackman
9780735280212
$24.95
FICTION
Aug 11, 2020
From the acclaimed author of The Winter Family, a swash-buckling adventure from piracy’s Golden Age and a deft political allegory for our troubled times. Treasure Island meets Lord of the Flies.In 1721, when the most notorious pirates are either dead or on the run, Jimmy Kavanagh, who sailed with Blackbeard, decides to pull together a “Company of Gentleman of Fortune” for one last “Adventuring Cruise” that will set them all up for life. All begins well: the pirates sail across the Atlantic and sack Cape Coast Castle, looting it of chests of gol...
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10.
Series:
Luster
Hardcover
Raven Leilani
9780385696005
$29.95
FICTION
Aug 04, 2020
Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else’s open marriage.Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She’s also, secretly, haltingly, figuring her way into life as an artist. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage—with rules. As if navi...
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11.
Series:
A Delhi Obsession
A Novel
Paperback
M.G. Vassanji
9780385692878
$21.00
FICTION
Aug 11, 2020
Two-time Giller Prize-winner M.G. Vassanji’s powerful novel about grief and second chances, tradition and rebellion, set in vibrant present-day Delhi.Munir Khan, a recent widower from Toronto, on a whim decides to visit Delhi, the city of his forbears. Born in Kenya, he has lost all family connections, and has never visited India before. While sitting in the bar of the Delhi Recreational Club where he’s staying, an attractive woman joins his table to await her husband. The two are from different worlds: Munir is a westernized agnostic of Muslim...
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12.
Series:
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom
Hardcover
John Boyne
9780385695855
$34.00
FICTION
Aug 11, 2020
From the award-winning author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies comes an epic tale of humanity that stretches across space and time.Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father’s violence in his blood. One with his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning.Their stories will in...
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13.
Series:
Livewired
The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
Hardcover
David Eagleman
9780385677301
$34.95
SCIENCE
Aug 25, 2020
From the bestselling author of Incognito and Sum, comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain based on the most recent scientific discoveries about how it unceasingly adapts, recreates and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in.The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it’s made of, but in the way those parts re-weave themselves in an electric, living fabric. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of tha...
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14.
Series:
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
A Memoir
Hardcover
Sara Seager
9780385692793
$34.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 18, 2020
Canadian MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love.Sara Seager has made it her life’s work to peer into the spaces around stars—looking for exoplanets outside our solar system, hoping to find the one-in-a-billion world enough like ours to sustain life. But with the unexpected death of her husband, her life became an empty, lightless space. Suddenly, she was the singl...
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15.
Series:
Cascade
Hardcover
Craig Davidson
9780735280120
$29.95
FICTION
Aug 18, 2020
From the bestselling author of The Saturday Night Ghost Club and Canada Reads-finalist Precious Cargo comes this supremely satisfying collection of stories.Reminiscent of Stephen King’s brilliantly cinematic short stories that went on to inspire films such as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, here’s a collection crackling with Craig Davidson’s superb craft and kinetic energy: in the visceral, crystalline, steel-tipped prose; in the psychological perspicacity; and in the endearing humour.Set in in the Niagara Falls of Davidson’s imaginat...
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