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Series: Women of the Pandemic Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19 Paperback Lauren McKeon 9780771050398 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 27, 2021

The story of the pandemic is the story of women. This riveting narrative offers an account of COVID-19, reminding us of women’s leadership and resilience, reflecting back hope and humanity as we all figure out a new normal, together.Throughout history, men have fought, lost, and led us through the world’s defining crises. That all changed with COVID-19. In Canada, women’s presence in the response to the pandemic has been notable. Women are our nurses, doctors, PSWs. Our cashiers, long-haulers, cooks. In Canada, women are leading the fast-paced ... + Read More
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Series: Values Building a Better World for All Hardcover Mark Carney 9780771051555 $39.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values.Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems ... + Read More
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Series: Mayflies A Novel Hardcover Andrew O'Hagan 9780771018916 $29.95 FICTION May 18, 2021

An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the ... + Read More
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Series: Half Life Paperback Krista Foss 9780771036491 $24.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A raw, absorbing, tender, and witty novel about a woman’s long-overdue reckoning with memory, truth, and the multiverse of familial love.Elin Henriksen is a middle-aged single parent under pressure. Her formidable mother’s health is declining, her fearless teenage daughter wants to leave but won’t say where, and the new high school principal has problems with her unorthodox teaching of physics.And then there is the upcoming ceremony at the Art Museum. In ten days, a gallery will be named after her late father, Tig Henriksen, a modernist furnitu... + Read More
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Series: Satellite Love A Novel Paperback Genki Ferguson 9780771049873 $24.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human.On the eve of the new millennium, in a city in southern Japan that progress has forgotten, sixteen-year-old Anna Obata looks to the stars for solace. An outcast at school, and left to fend for herself and care for her increasingly senile grandfather at home, Anna copes with her loneliness by searching the night sky for answers. B... + Read More
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Series: Victoria Sees It Paperback Carrie Jenkins 9780771049279 $24.95 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

A queer psychological thriller from a beguiling, fresh new voice.Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she’s the only one who seems to care: there are clues all over Cambridge, but Deb is nowhere to be found—and the harder Victoria looks, the less she sees.Victoria is raised in a crumbling house in England by her working-class aunt and uncle, until her academic brilliance gains her entrance to Cambridge. There, she meets her first true friend, Deb, a spacey aristocrat, and the girls create their own tiny bubble within Cambridg... + Read More
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Series: Hooked Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Hardcover Michael Moss 9780771059599 $32.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 02, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Salt Sugar Fat, the troubling story of how food companies have exploited our most fundamental evolutionary instincts to get us hooked on processed foods.Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began sear... + Read More
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Series: Stampede Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike Hardcover Brian Castner 9780771018695 $35.00 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them (and their pack animals) died in the attempt.The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well-timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. Within weeks, tens of thousands of them ... + Read More
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Series: NISHGA Hardcover Jordan Abel 9780771007903 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada’s residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.As a Nisga’a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga’a language, Nisga’a community, and Nisga’a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerational survivor of residential school—both of his grandparents attended the same re... + Read More
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Series: All Black Everything Poems Paperback Shane Book 9780771009563 $19.95 POETRY Jul 06, 2021

Original, jarring, and unforgettable, here is the latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Shane Book.The author of the acclaimed 2014 collection, Congotronic, returns with urgent, forceful, and energetic new poems.Series Overview: McClelland & Stewart is committed to publishing work by Canadian poets whose work engages and excites, and who stand out because of the distinctiveness of their voices, their rigorous dedication to craft, and the scope of their imaginations.
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Series: It Doesn't Matter What We Meant Poems Paperback Rob Winger 9780771025396 $19.95 POETRY Mar 23, 2021

An astonishing new collection of poems that question perception, meaning, and context.How does private thinking align with public action? And what might it mean to intend something anyhow? To name our particulars? To translate from the personal to the communal, the pedestrian to the universal? In Rob Winger’s new collection of poetry, such questions are less a circulatory system—heart and lungs and blood—than a ribcage, a structure that protects the parts that matter most. “I’d like to think,” Winger writes, “it doesn’t matter / what we meant.”... + Read More
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Series: Letters in a Bruised Cosmos Paperback Liz Howard 9780771037573 $19.95 POETRY Jun 08, 2021

The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent.I have to believe my account will outpace its ending.The danger and necessity of living with each other is at the core of Liz Howard’s daring and intimate second collection. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos asks who do we become after the worst has happened? Invoking the knowledge histories of Western and Indigenous astrophysical science, Howard takes us on a breakneck river course of radiant and perilous survival in which we are invi... + Read More
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Series: sulphurtongue Paperback Rebecca Salazar 9780771094699 $19.95 POETRY Mar 23, 2021

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide.The poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant family scatters over a stolen continent. Oracles appear in public transit, and online. Bodies are transformed by nearby nickel mines. Doppelgangers, Catholic saints, and polyamorists alike pass on unusual inheritances. Deeply entangled in relations both emotional and ecological, this collection confronts the stor... + Read More
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Series: Not on My Watch How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon Hardcover Alexandra Morton 9780735279667 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called “the Jane Goodall of Canada” because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brain... + Read More
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Series: Can You Hear Me Now? How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live with Passion and Purpose Hardcover Celina Caesar-Chavannes 9780735279599 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

In Can You Hear Me Now?, Celina Caesar-Chavannes digs deep into her childhood and her life as a young Black woman entrepreneur and politician, and shows us that effective and humane leaders grow as much from their mistakes and vulnerabilities as from their strengths.Celina Caesar-Chavannes, already a breaker of boundaries as a Black woman in business, got into politics because she wanted to make a bigger difference in the world. But when she became the first Black person elected to represent the federal riding of Whitby, Ontario, she hadn’t rea... + Read More
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Series: Lookout Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest Hardcover Trina Moyles 9780735279919 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A page-turning memoir about a young woman’s grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers—strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. “I could never do it,” s... + Read More
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Series: My Own Blood A Memoir Hardcover Ashley Bristowe 9780735278165 $34.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 06, 2021

Mothering under normal circumstances takes all you have to give. But what happens when your child is disabled, and sacrificing all you’ve got and more is the only hope for a decent future? Full of rage and resilience, duty and love, Ashley Bristowe delivers a mother’s voice like no other we’ve heard. When their second child, Alexander, is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, doctors tell Ashley Bristowe and her husband that the boy won’t walk, or even talk—that he is profoundly disabled. Stunned and reeling, Ashley researches a disorder so n... + Read More
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Series: Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy Hardcover Gary Barwin 9780735279520 $32.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he’s lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world o... + Read More
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Series: The Centaur's Wife Paperback Amanda Leduc 9780735272859 $24.95 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

Amanda Leduc’s brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures.Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived.But the mountai... + Read More
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Series: A Funny Kind of Paradise Paperback Jo Owens 9780735278820 $22.95 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman’s end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed—she wasn’t always gentle or patient, but the business thrived and Chris and Angelina had food to eat. At nearly 70, she feels she’s earned a peaceful retirement. But when a massive stroke leaves her voiceless, partially paralyzed a... + Read More
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Series: Neglected No More The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic Paperback Andre Picard 9780735282247 $19.95 MEDICAL Mar 02, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIt took the coronavirus pandemic to open our eyes to the deplorable state of so many of the nation’s long-term care homes: the inhumane conditions, overworked and underpaid staff, and lack of oversight. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and offers an urgently needed prescription to fix a broken system.When COVID-19 spread through seniors’ residences across Canada, the impact was horrific. Along with widespread illness and a devastating death toll... + Read More
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Series: The Good Girls An Ordinary Killing Hardcover Sonia Faleiro 9780345816689 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 23, 2021

A shattering, utterly immersive work of investigative journalism, The Good Girls slips behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honour in a village in northern India to tell the real story behind the tragic deaths of two teenage girls and an epidemic of violence against women.In the early dawn one day in 2014, a man discovered the dead bodies of 14-year-old Lalli Shakya and 16-year-old Padma Shakya hanging from a mango tree on the edge of their village in Uttar Pradesh. When the inseparable cousins hadn’t returned from a walk to... + Read More
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Series: Family Law Paperback Gin Phillips 9780735280861 $23.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

When an ambitious female lawyer becomes the victim of harassment, she must decide what’s more important: her family’s safety or the rights she’s fighting for.Set in Alabama in the early ’80s, Family Law follows a young lawyer, Lucia, who is making a name for herself at a time when a woman in a courtroom is still a rarity. She’s been the recipient of threats and vandalism for her work extracting women from painful and sometimes dangerous marriages, but her own happy marriage has always felt sheltered from the work she does. When her mother’s pen... + Read More
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Series: The Wolfpack The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld Hardcover Peter Edwards 9780735275393 $32.00 TRUE CRIME Oct 26, 2021

Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveals would-be successors to Vito Rizzuto’s criminal dominance, a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival on Canada’s doorstep of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico.Following the death of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in 2013, a group of young criminals rose to fill the vacuum in power on his old turf. The newcomers ... + Read More
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Series: Natural Killer A Memoir Paperback Harriet Alida Lye 9780771049231 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 29, 2020

“I need people to know that I exist, that their experiment worked, that by some combination of luck and science, I’m alive.”In this harrowing and intimate memoir, Harriet Alida Lye explores how, at just fifteen years old, she was diagnosed with a form of leukemia called Natural Killer, named “the rarest and worst malignancy.” The average survival time of patients with this diagnosis is fifty-eight days. There are no known survivors. There were no known survivors.Fifteen years after Harriet’s diagnosis, she became pregnant, despite having been t... + Read More
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Series: The Wagers Paperback Sean Michaels 9780735278134 $21.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

Scotiabank Giller-winner Sean Michaels’ The Wagers is a deeply satisfying, wildly entertaining story of long odds, magical heists and the dizzying gamble of life. Where does luck come from? What is it worth? And how much of it do you need to be happy?After fifteen years of open mics, aspiring comedian Theo Poitiris is still waiting for his big break—bicycling to the comedy club at night, stacking plums and cheeses at his family’s grand and ramshackle supermarket by day. But when his girlfriend wanders halfway around the world searching for enli... + Read More
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Series: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. A Memoir Paperback Jenny Heijun Wills 9780771070914 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 16, 2021

Finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonfictionA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA CBC Best Canadian Non-Fiction Book of the YearA beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered.Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned to Seoul where she spent four months getting to know other adoptees, as well as her Korean mother, father, siblings, and extended family. At the gue... + Read More
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Series: Hidden Valley Road Inside the Mind of an American Family Paperback Robert Kolker 9780735274471 $23.00 PSYCHOLOGY Mar 02, 2021

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGLOBE AND MAIL and TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER“Hidden Valley Road is a riveting true story of an American family that reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness.”—Oprah WinfreyThe 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, ... + Read More
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Series: Actress A Novel Paperback Anne Enright 9780771005930 $21.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright’s brings readers a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths.This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O’Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But as Norah uncovers her mother’s secrets, she acquires a few of her ... + Read More
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Series: Sharks in the Time of Saviors Paperback Kawai Strong Washburn 9780771094477 $22.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First NovelFinalist for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga—a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his... + Read More
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Series: Unfinished A Memoir Hardcover Priyanka Chopra Jonas 9781984819215 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 09, 2021

In this thoughtful and revealing memoir, readers will accompany one of the world’s most recognizable women on her journey of self-discovery.“I have always felt that life is a solitary journey, that we are each on a train, riding through our hours, our days, our years. We get on alone, we leave alone, and the decisions we made as we travel on the train are our responsibility alone.”A remarkable life story rooted in two different worlds, Unfinished offers insights into Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s childhood in India; her formative teenage years in the... + Read More
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Series: Woolsey-Ferriday Sunflower Sisters A Novel Hardcover Martha Hall Kelly 9781524796402 $37.00 FICTION Mar 30, 2021

Lilac Girls, the 1.7-million-copy bestselling novel by Martha Hall Kelly, introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young girls released from Ravensbruck concentration camp. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the Civil War, and how her calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Ann-May Wilson, a southern plantation mistress whose husband en... + Read More
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Series: The Dictionary of Lost Words A Novel Hardcover Pip Williams 9780593160190 $37.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the “objectionable” words they omit.Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the “Scriptorium,” a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a sli... + Read More
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Series: The Kitchen Front A Novel Hardcover Jennifer Ryan 9780593158807 $37.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

Four women compete for a once-in-a-lifetime spot hosting a BBC cooking program during World War II in this vibrant historical novel from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir.Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest—and the grand prize is a job as the program’s first-ever female c... + Read More
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Series: Project Hail Mary A Novel Hardcover Andy Weir 9780593135204 $38.99 FICTION May 04, 2021

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions o... + Read More
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Series: The Sweet Taste of Muscadines A Novel Hardcover Pamela Terry 9780593158456 $36.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

In this intimate debut novel, written with deep compassion and sharp wit, a woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of a tragedy—only to find the past upended by stunning family secrets.Lila Bruce Breedlove never quite felt at home in Wesleyan, Georgia, especially after her father’s untimely demise when she was a child. Both Lila and her brother, Henry, fled north after high school, establishing fulfilling lives of their own. In contrast, their younger sister, Abigail, opted to remain behind to dote on their domineering, larger... + Read More
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Series: The Bookshop of Second Chances A Novel Paperback Jackie Fraser 9780593355657 $23.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

A woman desperate to turn a new page heads to the Scottish coast and finds herself locked in a battle of wills with an infuriatingly handsome bookseller in this utterly heartwarming debut, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over.Thea Mottram is having a bad month. She’s been let go from her office job with no notice—and to make matters even worse, her husband of nearly twenty years has decided to leave her for one of her friends. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn’t know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great uncle ... + Read More
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Series: The Soul of a Woman Hardcover Isabel Allende 9780593355626 $29.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2021

A passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea.“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have.As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of f... + Read More
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Series: The Children's Blizzard A Novel Hardcover Melanie Benjamin 9780399182280 $37.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren.The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats—leaving them unprepared when disaster struc... + Read More
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Series: The Affair A Novel Hardcover Danielle Steel 9781984821409 $38.99 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores a high-profile affair that reverberates throughout an entire family, from the wounded wife to her husband—torn between two women—to the wife’s close-knit sisters and their mother. When Rose McCarthy’s staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood’s hottest young actress, the actress’s sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose’s son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has be... + Read More
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Series: Finding Ashley A Novel Hardcover Danielle Steel 9781984821461 $38.99 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

In this blockbuster novel from Danielle Steel, two estranged sisters get the chance to connect again and right the wrongs of the past.Melissa Henderson is leading a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Victorian house nestled in the foothills of rural New England. Six years ago, she lost her young son to cancer, and her marriage dissolved. She stopped writing. It was only when she bought the old house that Melissa found a purpose, and came alive as she made it beautiful again.After a wildfire tha... + Read More
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Series: The Herd A Novel Paperback Andrea Bartz 9781984826381 $23.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

When an exclusive New York women’s workspace is rocked by the mysterious disappearance of its enigmatic founder, two sisters must uncover the haunting truth before they lose their friendships, their careers—maybe even their lives.The name of the elite, women-only coworking space stretches across the wall behind the check-in desk: THE HERD, the H-E-R always in purple. In-the-know New Yorkers crawl over each other to apply for membership to this community that prides itself on mentorship and empowerment. Among the hopefuls is Katie Bradley, who’s... + Read More
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Series: The Next Smart Step How to Overcome Gender Stereotypes and Build a Stronger Organization Hardcover Kelly Watson 9781623545383 $27.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 09, 2021

“A candid, readable, and useful book about how we can get past talking about gender bias and actually start doing something about it.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKE, and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeEmpowering women empowers everyone. Women with confidence, equal pay, and leadership opportunity enrich workplace culture and help the whole organization. The first step is understanding that gender balance is not a zero-sum game. The Next Smart Step is a clear, assured guide to understanding the... + Read More
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Series: A Lighthouse Library Mystery Deadly Ever After A Lighthouse Library Mystery Hardcover Eva Gates 9781643855882 $35.99 FICTION May 11, 2021

Librarian Lucy’s wedding is at stake when a murder interrupts her engagement celebrations. To make it down the aisle, she’ll have to find the killer to save the date in the 8th book in the Lighthouse Library mysteries. They’re getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy’s beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they’re packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie’s Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric ... + Read More
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Series: A Castle Bookshop Mystery A Deadly Chapter A Castle Bookshop Mystery Hardcover Essie Lang 9781643855769 $35.99 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

Thousand Islands bookseller Shelby Cox is caught between a lethal rock and a hardheaded newcomer in Essie Lang’s third Castle Bookshop mystery, a must-read for fans of Lorna Barrett and Vicki Delany.Wake up on a houseboat, moored in scenic Alexandria Bay, New York. Ride the gentle waves to work at quaint Bayside Books, where you spend your days supplying literature and conversation to the charming locals and seasonal tourists. Sounds pleasant, doesn’t it? Except bookseller Shelby Cox has already sleuthed two murders from Bayside Books’s home b... + Read More
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Series: The Unkindness of Ravens A Greer Hogan Mystery Hardcover M. E. Hilliard 9781643856940 $35.99 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

Librarian Greer Hogan matches wits with a deviously clever killer in M.E. Hilliard’s chilling series debut, ideal for fans of Louise Penny and Dorothy L. Sayers. Greer Hogan is a librarian and an avid reader of murder mysteries. She also has a habit of stumbling upon murdered bodies. The first was her husband’s, and the tragic loss led Greer to leave New York behind for a new start in the Village of Raven Hill. But her new home becomes less idyllic when she discovers her best friend sprawled dead on the floor of the library.Was her friend’s dem... + Read More
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Series: Slonim Woods 9 A Memoir Hardcover Daniel Barban Levin 9780593138854 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 07, 2021

A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult under conman Larry Ray and the horrifying costs paid by his young victims: his daughter’s college roommatesIn September 2010, at the beginning of the academic year at Sarah Lawrence College, a sophomore named Talia Ray asked her roommates if her father could stay with them for a while. No one objected. Her father, Larry Ray, was just released from prison, having spent three years behind bars after a conviction during a bitter custody dispute.Larry Ray arrived at the dorm, a communal ... + Read More
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Series: I Want You to Know We're Still Here A Post-Holocaust Memoir Paperback Esther Safran Foer 9780525575993 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A woman unearths family secrets and gives voice to things unspoken in this poignant memoir that traces her parents’ escape from the Holocaust.Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, E... + Read More
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Series: The Cult of We WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion Hardcover Eliot Brown 9780593237113 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 20, 2021

The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company’s epic unraveling exposes about Silicon Valley’s delusions and the financial system’s desperate hunger to cash in—from the Wall Street Journal reporters whose scoops hastened the company’s downfall.In 2001, Adam Neumann arrived in New York after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy. Just over fifteen years later, he had transformed himself into the charismatic CEO of a company worth $47 billion—at least on paper. With his long hair and feel-good mantras,... + Read More
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Series: Under a White Sky The Nature of the Future Hardcover Elizabeth Kolbert 9780593136270 $37.00 SCIENCE Feb 09, 2021

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we a... + Read More
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Series: Chatter The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It Hardcover Ethan Kross 9780525575238 $37.00 SELF-HELP Jan 26, 2021

An award-winning psychologist reveals how to overcome the negative voice in your head and go from inner critic to inner coach.Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you’re likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we’re facing a tough task, our inner coach can buoy us up: Focus—you can do this. But just as often, our inner critic sinks us entirely. I’m going to fail. They’ll al... + Read More
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Series: Malice A Novel Hardcover Heather Walter 9781984818652 $36.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this darkly magical retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” true love is more than a simple fairy tale.Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss.You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. The happily-ever-after.Utter nonsense.Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and ... + Read More
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Series: Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron Victory's Price (Star Wars) An Alphabet Squadron Novel Hardcover Alexander Freed 9781984820075 $38.99 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

The aces of the New Republic have one final chance to defeat the darkness of Shadow Wing in this thrilling conclusion to the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy!In the wake of Yrica Quell’s shocking decision—and one of the fiercest battles of their lives—the remnants of Alphabet Squadron seek answers and closure across a galaxy whose old war scars are threatening to reopen.Soran Keize has returned to the tip of Shadow Wing’s spear. Operation Cinder, the terrifying protocol of planetary extermination which began in the twilight of the Imperial ... + Read More
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Series: Goblin A Novel in Six Novellas Hardcover Josh Malerman 9780593237809 $37.00 FICTION May 18, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, a novella collection in which every story reveals a sinister secret about a mysterious small townGoblin seems like any other ordinary small town. But with the master storyteller Josh Malerman as your tour guide, you’ll discover the secrets that hide behind its closed doors. These six novellas tell the story of a place where the rain is always falling, nighttime is always near, and your darkest fears and desires await. Welcome to Goblin…A Man in Slices: A man proves his “legenda... + Read More
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Series: The Future Is Yours A Novel Hardcover Dan Frey 9780593158210 $36.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

Two best friends create a computer that can predict the future. But what they can’t predict is how it will tear their friendship—and society—apart.If you had the chance to look one year into the future, would you?For Ben Boyce and Adhi Chaudry, the answer is unequivocally yes. And they’re betting everything that you’ll say yes, too. Welcome to The Future: a computer that connects to the internet one year from now, so you can see who you’ll be dating, where you’ll be working, even whether or not you’ll be alive in the year to come. By forming a ... + Read More
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Series: A Hannah Swensen Mystery Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder An Entertaining & Delicious Cozy Mystery with Recipes Hardcover Joanne Fluke 9781496718921 $36.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

This fun new story from the Queen of Culinary Cozies is just the indulgence you need this winter! Cozy mystery fans know that a trip to The Cookie Jar—Hannah Swensen’s famous bakery—will always result in a delightfully page-turning whodunit… New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! “Fans will revel in another encounter with the familiar cast of characters, all the while relishing the baking frame and the delicious-sounding recipes.” – Booklist “Another sweet-tempered outing filled with tempting sweets.”— Kirkus Reviews Spring has sprung in La... + Read More
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Series: No Way Out A Gripping Novel of Suspense Hardcover Fern Michaels 9781496731180 $35.00 FICTION Mar 30, 2021

A riveting new read that will thrill you from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, perfect for fans of Nora Roberts, Rachel Caine, and J.D. Robb. Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety. With the proceeds of a video game she helped develop, Ellie starts over in rural Missouri, working from her cottage and trusting no one excep... + Read More
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Series: The Last Interview Series Fred Rogers: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Paperback Fred Rogers 9781612198958 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 09, 2021

Fred Rogers’s gentle spirit and passion for children’s television takes center stage in this collection of interviews spanning his nearly forty-year careerNearly twenty years after his death, Fred Rogers remains a source of comfort and fond memories for generations who grew up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Over the course of his career, Rogers revolutionized children’s television and changed the way experts thought about the educational power of media. But perhaps his most lasting legacy was demonstrating the power of simply being nice ... + Read More
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Series: U UP? Paperback Catie Disabato 9781612198910 $23.99 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

In the follow up to her smart debut, The Ghost Network, Catie Disabato creates a vivid portrait of a young woman investigating her best friend’s disappearance while navigating codependent friendships, toxic exes, and witchy ritualsEve has a carefully curated online life, works occasionally, and texts constantly with her best friend, Ezra. Basically, she is an archetypal L.A. millennial. She has also been carrying on a year-long conversation with her deceased friend Miggy over text. But when Ezra goes missing on the anniversary weekend of Miggy... + Read More
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Series: The Immortals of Tehran Paperback Ali Araghi 9781612199078 $23.99 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

“A highly recommended literary page-turner worth a second reading; fans of Gabriel García Márquez will delight in this fantastical—and fantastic novel.”—Library Journal, starred review“Impactful… Araghi’s skillful combination of revolutionary politics and magical realism will please fans of Alejo Carpentier.”—Publishers WeeklyA sweeping, multigenerational epic, this stunning debut heralds the arrival of a unique new literary voice.As a child living in his family’s apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfat... + Read More