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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Talking It Over Paperback Julian Barnes 9780394222981 $17.95 FICTION Oct 27, 1992

The ostentatious Oliver falls in love with quiet Gillian and wants to marry her. The problem? Gillian has already married Oliver's best and oldest friend, the somewhat stale but stable Stuart. Each character takes turns addressing the reader in this bright and funny "he said/she said/he said" novel.
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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: Astra A Novel Paperback Cedar Bowers 9780771012891 $24.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

If you could see yourself as others saw you, would you be any closer to the truth of who you really are? In the tradition of Olive Kitteridge and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Astra is a beguiling debut novel that reveals the different faces of one enigmatic woman, as seen through the eyes of ten people she encounters over a lifetime.Raised on a remote BC commune by a neglectful father, Astra Brine eventually leaves for Calgary, where she struggles to find her way in the world, her life becoming a study of the thin line between dependence a... + 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Fugitive Pieces Paperback Anne Michaels 9780771058820 $21.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2009

On its 25th anniversary arrives a new edition of Anne Michaels’s #1 internationally bestselling and celebrated novel—its message and importance remaining as relevant today as ever. Winner of many awards including the Orange Prize and the Guardian Fiction Award, Fugitive Pieces is not only still one of the most beloved and most critically acclaimed books of our time, but also a novel of rare vision that is at once lyrical, sensual, and profound.In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from ... + 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: 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: 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: 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: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird A Novel Paperback Josie Silver 9780593135914 $23.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December…“I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”—Jodi PicoultLydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident.So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors an... + Read More
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Series: The Jetsetters A Novel Paperback Amanda Eyre Ward 9780399181917 $23.00 FICTION Mar 30, 2021

The irresistible New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick—“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.” #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin HildenbrandWhen 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; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture ... + 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: A Long Petal of the Sea A Novel Paperback Isabel Allende 9780593157497 $23.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows 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 grips 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 intertwined with... + 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: Sunshine Girl An Unexpected Life Hardcover Julianna Margulies 9780525480259 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 04, 2021

Known for her outstanding performances on the groundbreaking television series The Good Wife and ER, Julianna Margulies deftly chronicles her life and her work in this deeply powerful memoir.As an apple-cheeked bubbly child, Julianna was bestowed with the family nickname “Sunshine Girl.” Shuttled back and forth between her divorced parents, often on different continents, she quickly learned how to be of value to her eccentric mother and her absent father. Raised in fairly unconventional ways in various homes in Paris, England, New York, and New... + 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: 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: 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: 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: Camino Camino Winds A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157770 $12.99 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

“In American icon John Grisham’s new novel, Camino Winds, an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane—the perfect crime scene. Since officials are preoccupied with the aftermath of the storm, the authors set out to solve the mystery themselves, in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.” Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingJust as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of best... + Read More
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Series: Camino Camino Winds A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157787 $24.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

“In American icon John Grisham’s new novel, Camino Winds, an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane—the perfect crime scene. Since officials are preoccupied with the aftermath of the storm, the authors set out to solve the mystery themselves, in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.” Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingJust as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of best... + Read More
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Series: Jack Reacher The Sentinel A Jack Reacher Novel Paperback Lee Child 9781984818492 $23.00 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child teams up with his brother—and fellow thriller writer—Andrew Child.It is close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in Nashville. Reacher is in no hurry. He has no appointments to keep. No people to see. No scores to settle. Not yet anyway.But in the early morning hours, under particular circumstances, a familiar thought will be snaking through his sharp, instin... + Read More
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Series: Devolution A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre Paperback Max Brooks 9781984826800 $23.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

This New York Times bestsellertakes on the Bigfoot legend with a tale that blurs the lines between human and beast—and asks what we are capable of in the face of the unimaginable.As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined…until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate... + 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: Blowout Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth Paperback Rachel Maddow 9780525575481 $27.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

In her #1 New York Times bestseller, Rachel Maddow unmasks Big Oil and Gas, making the case that the industry poses an existential threat to democracyIn 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the palace of their ousted presid... + Read More
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Series: Madhouse at the End of the Earth The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night Hardcover Julian Sancton 9781984824332 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 04, 2021

The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter—in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton SidesIn August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica.But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South P... + Read More
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Series: Broken Horses A Memoir Hardcover Brandi Carlile 9780593237243 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 06, 2021

The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, and five-time Grammy winner opens up about a life shaped by music in this candid, heartfelt, and intimate story.Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five, Brandi con... + 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: The Loneliest Polar Bear A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World Hardcover Kale Williams 9781984826336 $37.00 NATURE Mar 23, 2021

The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our ownSix days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and left her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny, squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn’t returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care f... + Read More
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Series: Don't Be Evil The Case Against Big Tech Paperback Rana Foroohar 9781984824004 $24.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 09, 2021

A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds, from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst.“Don’t be evil” was enshrined as Google’s corporate mantra back in its early days, when the company’s cheerful logo still conveyed the utopian vision for a future in which technology would inevitably make the world better, safer, and more prosperous.Unfortunately, it’s been quite a while since Google, or the majority of the Big Tech companies, lived... + Read More
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Series: Essentialism The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Paperback Greg McKeown 9780804137409 $24.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Dec 29, 2020

Learn how to achieve more by doing less: by focusing on the few things that really matter and eliminating everything else. Have you ever:Found yourself stretched too thin?Simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized?Felt busy but not productive?Feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for focuing on what is essential a... + Read More
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Series: Effortless Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most Hardcover Greg McKeown 9780593135648 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 27, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism comes a book devoted to a simple principle: getting great results doesn’t have to be so hard. Have you ever felt like:Things are so much harder than they need to be?You knew something was important, yet struggled to get it done?You’re running faster but not moving closer to your goals?You’re teetering right on the edge of burnout?We’ve been conditioned to believe that if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re n... + Read More
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Series: Remember The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting Hardcover Lisa Genova 9780593137956 $35.99 PSYCHOLOGY Mar 23, 2021

A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice.Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can’t for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you’re over forty, you’re probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sig... + Read More
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Series: Karma A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny Hardcover Sadhguru 9780593232019 $35.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Apr 27, 2021

A new perspective on the overused and misunderstood concept of “karma” that offers the key to happiness and enlightenment, from the New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned spiritual master Sadhguru.What is karma? Most people understand karma as a balance sheet of good and bad deeds, virtues and sins—the mechanism that decrees that we cannot evade the consequences of our own actions. In reality, karma has nothing to do with reward and punishment. Karma simply means action: your action, your responsibility. It isn’t some external sys... + Read More
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Series: Food Between Friends A Cookbook Hardcover Jesse Tyler Ferguson 9780593136539 $42.00 COOKING Mar 09, 2021

In best-friend duo Jesse and Julie’s debut cookbook, they pay homage to their hometowns as they whip up wholesome California food with rich Southern and Southwestern twists.If you follow Jesse Tyler Ferguson, star of Modern Family, on Instagram, you know that he loves to cook. He loves it so much that he co-founded a food blog, Julie & Jesse, with friend and culinary school-trained recipe developer Julie Tanous where they share their favorite recipes.In Food Between Friends, they bring the blog to life, cooking up all the delightful dishes they... + Read More
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Series: Cook This Book Techniques That Teach and Recipes to Repeat: A Cookbook Hardcover Molly Baz 9780593138274 $42.50 COOKING Apr 20, 2021

A thoroughly modern guide to becoming a smarter, faster, more creative cook from Molly Baz, featuring fun, flavorful recipes anyone can make.If you seek out, celebrate, and obsess over good food but lack the skills and confidence necessary to make it at home, you’ve just won a ticket to a life filled with supreme deliciousness. Cook This Book is a new kind of foundational cookbook from Molly Baz, who’s here to teach you absolutely everything she knows and equip you with the tools to become a better, more efficient cook.Molly breaks the essentia... + Read More