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Series: A History of My Brief Body Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237780 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 25, 2020

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexua... + Read More
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Series: Agent Running in the Field Paperback John le Carré 9780735238633 $22.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

New York Times BestsellerNational BestsellerA new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le CarréSet in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the new political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a very dangerous path. In his plot and characterization le Carré is as thrilling as ever and in the way he writes about our times he proves himself, once again, to be the greatest chronicler of our age.Publica... + Read More
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Series: Our House is on Fire Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis Paperback Greta Thunberg 9780241446744 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 04, 2020

The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg’s family back from the brink’Urgent, lucid, courageous…a must-read message of hope…It is a glimpse of a saner world’ David Mitchell, GuardianThis is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be the same again. Of two devoted parents plunged into a waking nightmare as their eleven-year-old daughter Greta stopped speaking and eating, and her younger sister struggled to cope.They desperately searched for answers, and began to see ho... + Read More
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Series: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead A Novel Paperback Olga Tokarczuk 9780525541349 $23.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

Brilliantly inventive noir from the winner of the Man Booker International Prize.In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts ... + Read More
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Series: Vesper Flights Hardcover Helen Macdonald 9780735235502 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 25, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of H is for Hawk, a brilliant and insightful work about our relationship to the natural worldOur world is a fascinating place, teeming not only with natural wonders that defy description, but complex interactions that create layers of meaning. Helen Macdonald is gifted with a special lens that seems to peer right through it all, and she shares her insights—at times startling, nostalgic, weighty, or simply entertaining—in this masterful collection of essays.From reflections on science fiction ... + Read More
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Series: Summer Hardcover Ali Smith 9780670070060 $32.00 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to Be Both, comes the last instalment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet.Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith’s celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.Series Overview: Summer is the fourth (and final) book in the Seasonal Quartet.
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Series: Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey A Novel Paperback Kathleen Rooney 9780143135425 $23.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

“Brilliant and surprising at every turn.”—Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great BelieversA heart-tugging and gorgeously written novel based on the incredible true story of a WWI messenger pigeon and the soldiers whose lives she forever altered, from the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk.From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whi... + Read More
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Series: Atomic Love Paperback Jennie Fields 9780593329030 $23.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

“A novel of science, love, espionage, beautiful writing, and a heroine who carves a strong path in the world of men. As far as I’m concerned there is nothing left to want.”—Ann Patchett, author The Dutch House“A highly-charged love story that reveals the dangerous energy at the heart of every real connection…Riveting.”—Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingLove. Desire. Betrayal. Her choice could save a nation.Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations—in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her pas... + Read More
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Series: A Room Called Earth A Novel Paperback Madeleine Ryan 9780143135456 $23.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young woman, whose radical perspective illuminates a new way of being in the worldAs a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young woman gets ready for a party. And what appears to be an ordinary night out is—through the prism of her singular perspective—extraordinary. As the evening unfolds, each encounter she has reveals the vast discrepancies between what she is thinking and feeling, and what she is able to say. And there’s so much she’d like to say. So when she meets a man and a genuine c... + Read More
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Series: Blonde Roots Paperback Bernardine Evaristo 9780141031521 $21.99 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 ’A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid’s Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.’ Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek wit... + Read More
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Series: An Exlibris Adventure Eighty Days to Elsewhere Paperback kc dyer 9780593102046 $22.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

“The Amazing Race” meets Around the World in 80 Days as a woman desperate to save her uncles’ bookstore falls for her competition.Born and raised in New York, Ramona Keene has never left the city, except for one school trip ages ago. She’s perfectly content working at her uncles’ quaint bookstore, reading all the books and drinking all the tea she wants—at least, that’s what she tells herself. In reality, Romy wants nothing more than to go to photography school and travel to Paris, the most charming,romantic city, full of rich history.When the ... + Read More
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Series: The Death of Vivek Oji A Novel Hardcover Akwaeke Emezi 9780525541608 $36.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? A dramatic and deeply moving novel by the internationally acclaimed author of FreshwaterThey burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understanda child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and a compassiona... + Read More
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Series: Blood in the Water A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes Paperback Silver Donald Cameron 9780735238053 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Aug 11, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA brutal murder in a small Maritime fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the nature of good and evil, in this masterfully told true story. In June 2013, three upstanding citizens of a small Cape Breton town cold-bloodedly murdered their neighbour, Phillip Boudreau, at sea. While out checking their lobster traps, two Landry cousins and skipper Dwayne Samson saw Boudreau in his boat, the Midnight Slider, about to vandalize their lobster traps. Like so many times before, Boudreau was about to c... + Read More
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Series: Sisters A Novel Hardcover Daisy Johnson 9780593188958 $35.00 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out. “One of her generation’s most intriguing authors” (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins.Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never ne... + Read More
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Series: Know My Name A Memoir Paperback Chanel Miller 9780735223721 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 18, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful.”—Washington PostUniversally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller’s breathtaking memoir “gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter.” (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: A Song of Ice and Fire Fire & Blood 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) Paperback George R. R. Martin 9781524796303 $29.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon. Now in trade paperback with five new illustrations exclusive to this edition!Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targar... + Read More
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Series: Dreyer's English An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style Paperback Benjamin Dreyer 9780812985719 $24.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Aug 04, 2020

The New York Times-bestselling, witty, informative guide to writing from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus—in the tradition of The Elements of Style.We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help.As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the standards of the legendary publisher for more than two decades. He is beloved by authors and editors alike—not to mention his followers on social media—for deconstr... + Read More
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Series: Songs for the End of the World A Novel Paperback Saleema Nawaz 9780771072574 $24.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

“In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn’t put it down.”—Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The WagersNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Named a Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, 49th Shelf, and a Book You Should Read by Maclean’s and Chatelaine. An immersive, deeply engaging, and hopeful novel about the power of human connection in a time of crisis, as the bonds of love, family, and duty ... + Read More
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Series: Greenwood A Novel Paperback Michael Christie 9780771024481 $22.00 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLER, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE, AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOREST OF READING’S EVERGREEN AWARD, THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE, AND THE RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZEA magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune—trees.They come for the trees. It’s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the ... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Dreams A Novel Paperback Nina George 9780525572541 $23.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

Warm, wise, and magical—the latest novel by the bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Little French Bistro is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death. When Henri ends up in a coma after rescuing a young girl from the Thames, his ex-girlfriend, Eddie, discovers that she is listed as Henri’s next-of-kin in his living will. While Henri lies in a hospital bed, he fitfully revisits the boyhood he spent with his beloved grandfather, who fed him a steady diet of Breton fish and fairy tales.Meanwhile, Sam, ... + Read More
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Series: little scratch a novel Paperback Rebecca Watson 9780771005831 $23.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

In the formally innovative tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport comes a dazzlingly original, shot-in-the-arm of a debut that reveals a young woman’s every thought over the course of one deceptively ordinary day.She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But underneath this monotony there’s something else going on: something under her skin.Relayed in interweaving columns that chart the feedback loop of memory, the senses, and modern distractions with wit and precision, our narrator becomes... + Read More
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Series: The Boat People Paperback Sharon Bala 9780771024313 $21.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

#1 National Bestseller and Winner of the Harper Lee PrizeInspired by a real incident, The Boat People is gripping, page-turning, and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada—only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father is overcome with relief: he and his six-year-old son can finally put Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war... + Read More
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Series: This Is Not the End of Me Lessons on Living from a Dying Man Paperback Dakshana Bascaramurty 9780771009631 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 18, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020CBC – The Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2020The Globe and Mail’s Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020Chatelaine’s 10 Best Books of 2020The Walrus’s Favourite Books of 2020For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son. i can’t make you feel what it’s like to be a young, dumb, naïve thirty-year-old sitting in t... + Read More
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Series: Caste (Oprah's Book Club) The Origins of Our Discontents Hardcover Isabel Wilkerson 9780593230251 $42.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 04, 2020

Oprah’s Book Club Pick! The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth Of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”In this brilliant book,... + Read More
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Series: The Vegucated Family Table Irresistible Vegan Recipes and Proven Tips for Feeding Plant-Powered Babies, Toddlers, and Kids Paperback Marisa Miller Wolfson 9781984857170 $33.99 COOKING Aug 25, 2020

Raise happy and healthy plant-powered children with more than 125 kid-friendly vegan recipes from the creator of the award-winning documentary, Vegucated.For both vegans and the veg-curious, The Vegucated Family Table answers the question every caregiver ponders on a daily basis: “What should I feed my child?” But this book goes a step further, showing parents how to navigate the early years of childhood as a vegan, giving not only recipes and meal advice but also tips for holidays, packed lunches, play dates, and more.Unlike other family-orien... + Read More
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Series: Home for Erring and Outcast Girls A Novel Paperback Julie Kibler 9780451499349 $23.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen” girls and inspired by historical eventsIn turn-of-the-twentieth-century Texas, “fallen” women—those whose birth, circumstances, or personal tragedies have resigned them to the dangerous poverty of the streets—have one hope: the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls. Built in 1903 in the dusty, tumbleweed outpost of Arlington, the progressive home for cast-out... + Read More
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Series: All the Flowers in Paris A Novel Paperback Sarah Jio 9781101885079 $23.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets sweeping from World War II to the present—for readers of Sarah’s Key and The Nightingale.When Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past, she’s confused to learn that for years she’s lived a sad, reclusive life in a sprawling apartment on the rue Cler. Slowly regaining vague memories of a man and a young child, she vows to piece her life back together—though she can’t help but feel she may be in danger. A budd... + Read More
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Series: Gentleman Death / Perpetual Motion Paperback Graeme Gibson 9780771057762 $25.00 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

Together in a single volume, two beloved works by the inimitable Graeme Gibson. Gentleman DeathNovelist Robert Fraser comes face-to-face with creativity, his mortality, and the deaths of his father and brother. Set mainly in Toronto, the novel also takes us to London, Scotland, Germany, and New York as we follow the escapades of two of Fraser’s fictional characters. There is Simpson, called into service as an anonymous sperm donor, and Dunbar, an enigmatic tourist in Berlin just before the Chernobyl disaster, where he meets the captivating Lena... + Read More
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Series: The Second Wife Paperback Rebecca Fleet 9780385691284 $22.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

A twisty new thriller from the acclaimed author of The House Swap.After the death of his first wife, Alex has been given a second lease on life with Natalie, to whom he is newly married. Living in Brighton with Alex’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Jade, the couple seem to be made for one another.But their idyllic domestic calm is soon shattered when Alex returns home one night to find that Jade and Natalie have narrowly escaped from a devastating house fire. Hospitalized and traumatized, Jade insists that she saw a man in their house on that fate... + Read More
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Series: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel A Dangerous Man Paperback Robert Crais 9780525535706 $12.99 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre, A Dangerous Man centers on Joe Pike’s most perilous case to date.Joe Pike didn’t expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to rest, the arrests are o... + Read More