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Series: KlondikersDawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with HockeyPaperback
Tim Falconer9781770416079
$24.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 05, 2021
For readers of The Boys in the Boat and Against All Odds Join a ragtag group of misfits from Dawson City as they scrap to become the 1905 Stanley Cup champions and cement hockey as Canada’s national pastime An underdog hockey team traveled for three and a half weeks from Dawson City to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The Klondikers’ eagerness to make the journey, and the public’s enthusiastic response, revealed just how deeply, and how quickly, Canadians had fallen in love with hockey. After Governor General Stanley donate... + Read More
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Series: A Helluva Life in HockeyA MemoirPaperback
Brian McFarlane9781770415447
$24.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 12, 2021
A captivating memoir from Canada’s foremost hockey historian and a beloved NHL commentator It’s been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny pond. And then he discovered the joy of hockey. Ultimately, there would be grade school hockey, high school hockey, junior hockey, college hockey, and, miraculously, two decades with the NHL Oldtimers anchoring his life. He was the rank amateur playing on a line with the Big M and Norm Ullman, facing off against icons like Gordie Howe and Ted Lin... + Read More
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Series: Inexact ScienceThe Six Most Compelling Draft Years in NHL HistoryPaperback
Evan Dowbiggin9781770415300
$23.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 12, 2021
A fascinating in-depth analysis of six of the NHL’s most interesting drafts From Guy Lafleur to Sidney Crosby to Connor McDavid, the annual draft of hockey’s most talented young prospects has long been considered the best route to Stanley Cup glory. Inexact Science delivers the remarkable facts behind the six most captivating NHL Drafts ever staged and explores the lessons learned from guessing hockey horoscopes. How did it change the business of the sport? And where is the draft headed next? The authors answer intriguing questions like: ... + Read More
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Series: Once a Bitcoin MinerScandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild WestPaperback
Ethan Lou9781770415393
$22.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 19, 2021
“Lou himself is a rare commodity in that he understands cryptocurrency and knows how to write about it … This book stands out as a rare example of a readable snapshot of a world we all need to get more informed about.” — The Times Ethan Lou goes on an epic quest through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild West, through riches, absurdity, wonder, and woe. From investing in Bitcoin in university to his time writing for Reuters, and then mining the digital asset ? Lou meets a co-founder of Ethereum and Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX (before he ... + Read More
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Series: The “Mr. Big” StingThe Cases, the Killers, the Controversial ConfessionsPaperback
Mark Stobbe9781770416123
$24.95TRUE CRIME
Sep 28, 2021
How the police create an imaginary criminal gang to trick homicide suspects into a confession and a prison cell There are people in prison who got away with murder until they told the boss of a powerful criminal gang all about it. When the handcuffs were snapped on, the killers learned they’d been duped — that “Mr. Big” was actually an undercover police officer. These killers ended up with lots of time to think about how tricky police can be. In this captivating book, we learn why Mr. Big is so good at getting killers to confess — and w... + Read More
A story made all the more shocking because it’s true. In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys’ enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders. The surviving family members seek justice through the local courts but quickly learn that their enemies control the jury and the press. Two sensational trials follow that make national and international headlines as the Donnellys co... + Read More
A violent family living in violent times. In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own. The children are raised in an incredibly violent community and cultivate a devoted loyalty to their mother and siblings, which often leads to problems with the law and those outside of the family. The tensions between the fa... + Read More
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Series: How to Examine a WolverineMore Tales from the Accidental VeterinarianPaperback
Philipp Schott DVM9781770415881
$19.95PETS
Sep 28, 2021
Crammed with useful info, funny recollections, heartfelt anecdotes, and lots of cute furry creatures, a collection for all animal lovers! This collection of over 60 stories and essays, drawn from Dr. Schott’s 30 years in small animal practice, covers an astonishing breadth of experiences, emotions, and species. Schott has tales of creatures ranging from tiny honeybees to massive Burmese pythons, although the emphasis is on dogs and cats and the interesting, often quirky, people who love them. He also doles out advice on current topics suc... + Read More
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Series: Science Goes ViralCaptivating Accounts of Science in Everyday LifePaperback
Dr. Joe Schwarcz9781770416505
$24.95SCIENCE
Oct 26, 2021
Bestselling popular science author Dr. Joe Schwarcz breaks down the science of essential oils, placenta creams, intermittent fasting, and of course the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in this new collection from the master of demarcating non-science from science Science has gone viral! In more ways than one. Since we first heard rumblings about a novel type of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, terms like pandemic, spike protein, viral particles, variants, mRNA vaccines, antibodies, hydroxychloroquine, social distancing, immune response, conv... + Read More
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Series: Pop ClassicsExtra SaltyJennifer’s BodyPaperback
Frederick Blichert9781770415898
$18.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 05, 2021
Megan Fox, a diabolic indie rock band, toxic friendship, fluid sexuality, feminist reckoning, and a literal man-eater in the body of a high school cheerleader: Jennifer’s Body has it all Featuring an original interview with director Karyn Kusama What would be an easy sell in 2021 — women at the helm (screenwriter Diablo Cody, director Karyn Kusama), a bankable cast (Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried), and a deceptively complex skewering of gender politics — was a box office flop in 2009. In Extra Salty, Frederick Blichert flips the script on ... + Read More
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Series: The Way Between ThingsThe Art of Sandra MeigsPaperback
Sandra Meigs9781770415973
$35.00ART
Oct 12, 2021
A stunning full-colour art book and the first to explore the career of award-winning visual artist Sandra Meigs Part philosopher, part filmmaker, performer, writer, tinkerer, prankster, conjurer, naturalist, upholsterer, and teacher, Sandra Meigs has typically been referred to as a painter. But she engages whatever media or form she chooses to probe to the limits of the ideas circulating in her work. Meigs’s work has been presented across Canada, the U.S., and Europe; it is represented in major public and corporate collections; and, amo... + Read More
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Series: FearlessHow Canadian Entrepreneurs and Innovators Overcome Adversity and Change the WorldHardcover
Drew Kergommeaux9781770416352
$28.95 USDBUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jan 18, 2022
Advice and guidance for all entrepreneurs venturing out on their journey of brainstorm to breakthrough, Fearless is the essential manual for success for entrepreneurs in Canada Canada is a nation built on the hard work and ingenuity of individuals bold enough to brave harsh territories, huge distances, and stiff competition. Canadian innovators have been responsible for world-changing ideas like insulin and quantum computing, but also for more pedestrian, yet still ingenious ideas, like the paint roller, the light bulb, and wireless radio tra... + Read More
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Series: The Rule of 30A Better Way to Save for RetirementPaperback
Frederick Vettese9781770416178
$26.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 19, 2021
Consider the age-old question of how much you should save to enjoy a comfortable retirement: Are your knees knocking? Are you nervously biting your nails? In The Rule of 30 personal finance expert Frederick Vettese provides a surprising — and hopeful — answer. Through conversations between a young couple and their neighbor, a retired actuary, the couple and the reader discover: How they would have fared had they been saving over various periods in the past, and how the future investment climate will differ The problem with saving a... + Read More
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Series: NerveLessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went FirstHardcover
Martha Piper9781770416017
$36.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 14, 2021
Candid and insightful perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera had vastly different career paths on their way to becoming the first (and so far only) female presidents of two of Canada’s largest and most respected research universities and directors of some of the nation’s largest market cap companies, but what they had in common was their gender, their willingness to take risks when leadership opportunities presented themselves, and a work ethi... + Read More
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Series: The Environmentalist's DilemmaPromise and Peril in an Age of Climate CrisisPaperback
Arno Kopecky9781770416093
$24.95SCIENCE
Oct 19, 2021
Honorable Award Mention, The Rachel Carson Environment Book Award “Timely and relevant, this offers plenty to think about.” — Publishers Weekly From the winner of the 2014 Edna Staebler Award comes a lively, intelligent and nuanced discussion of climate change — a hopeful take on how to live knowing disaster is imminent A compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity In The Environmentalist’s Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the pla... + Read More
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Series: Field StudyMeditations on a Year at the HerbariumHardcover
Helen Humphreys9781770415348
$32.95NATURE
Sep 21, 2021
“[A] delightful mix of memoir and field study.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED review Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left — no matter how diminished Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people who amassed collections of plant specimens in the 19th and 20th ce... + Read More
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Series: Flower DiaryIn Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a DoorHardcover
Molly Peacock9781770416222
$39.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 14, 2021
“Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hie... + Read More
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Series: The Healing Power of SingingRaise Your Voice, Change Your Life (What Touring with David Bowie, Single Parenting and Ditching the Music Business Taught Me in 25 Easy Steps)Paperback
Emm Gryner9781770415522
$24.95MUSIC
Sep 28, 2021
Vocal health tips, stories from the tour bus, and action items to improve your voice and boost your self-confidence from an award-winning musician and life coach Performing with David Bowie, surviving the murky depths of the music business, enduring a painful divorce, and making the first music video in outer space, award-winning recording artist Emm Gryner has navigated through life’s highs and lows using a secret compass: singing. Her voice, and her desire to express herself in music, has been a constant: from the early days of playi... + Read More
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Series: The Light Streamed Beneath ItA Memoir of Grief and CelebrationPaperback
Shawn Hitchins9781770415614
$23.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 12, 2021
A Publishers Weekly Notable Book49th Shelf Recommended Read A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page. “This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery — raw, candid, and filled with a sense of awe at human resilience.” — Shelf Awareness “A timely story so human, so beautiful, so bravely told with heart and humour.” — Rosie O’Donnell A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two grea... + Read More
Poetry from beloved lead guitarist of the multi-platinum record selling legendary band Triumph Reinvention is a largely autobiographical collection of poetry — a project that followed on the heels of Rik Emmett retiring from a touring musician’s and college educator’s life in early 2019. Inside all of the slashes that define him — singer/songwriter/guitarist/rock star/teacher/columnist — writing has always been his strongest avocation, and the poetic style of “Ultra Talk,” in particular, offered a welcome spark for a songwriter’s freedom ... + Read More
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Series: Broken Dawn BlessingsPoemsPaperback
Adam Sol9781770416062
$19.95POETRY
Sep 21, 2021
Trillium Book Award–winning poet Adam Sol’s newest collection is made up of poems that are loosely linked to the traditional Jewish morning prayers, the Birkhot haShachar, which try to find moments of blessing in the midst of personal and public pain, shame, and worry How do we respond to others’ pain, both the pain of those we love and the larger global pain of those we don’t know? In a religious context, a witness can offer blessing when those in the midst of suffering cannot. Taking on the responsibility of blessing, then, is a way to ... + Read More
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Series: ProblematicaNew and Selected Poems 1995–2020Hardcover
George Murray9781770415331
$34.95POETRY
Sep 07, 2021
A best-of collection from one of Canada’s most ambitious poets Problematica — a scientific term used to describe species that defy classification. See unidentifiable. George Murray is a strange beast. Lauded as one of Canada’s leading poets, his work has been published around the world, but here at home, he has never really “fit in” with his contemporaries. By turns archly formal and thoughtful, insouciant and hilarious, each of his six books seems intent on staking out its own identity, standing alone in stark contrast to all others. ... + Read More
AURORA AWARD WINNER “This packs a punch.” — Publishers Weekly “One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction.” — Booklist “In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes the time and space to personalize apocalypse.” — STARRED review, Quill & Quire A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community The world is nothing like ... + Read More
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Series: Pull FocusA NovelPaperback
Helen Walsh9781770415799
$22.95FICTION
Sep 07, 2021
“Part Real Housewives, part grown-up Nancy Drew.” — Missy Marston, author of Bad Ideas When Jane’s partner goes missing she needs to find out if he’s in danger while also contending with the politics of a large international film festival: Hollywood power brokers, Russian oil speculators, Chinese propagandists, and a board chair who seemingly has it out for her. Jane has been appointed interim director of the Worldwide Toronto Film Festival after her boss has been removed for sexual harassment. Knives are out all around her, as factions... + Read More
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Series: Time SquaredA NovelPaperback
Lesley Krueger9781770415928
$22.95FICTION
Sep 28, 2021
A richly atmospheric portrait of women’s agency and the timelessness of love, Time Squared explores the enduring roles of rights, responsibility, and devotion throughout history The game will change when you remember who you are Robin and Eleanor meet in 1811 at the British estate of Eleanor’s rich aunt Clara. Robin is about to leave to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, and her aunt rules out a marriage between them. Everyone Eleanor knows, including Robin, believe they’ve always lived in these times. But Eleanor has strange glimpses of o... + Read More
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Series: An Ari Appleton NovelCracked PotsA NovelPaperback
Heather Tucker9781770415997
$24.95FICTION
Oct 05, 2021
“It is the voice of the characters, the kindness of strangers, and the ingenuity and determination of our protagonist against terrible forces that make this story sing.” — San Francisco Chronicle on Tucker’s debut, The Clay Girl From the author of the Indie Next List pick The Clay Girl comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of a remarkable young woman unraveling the mystery of a missing friend while struggling to grow past the trauma of her calamitous upbringing. From the waning flower-power ’60s in Toronto through her East Co... + Read More
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Series: Under an Outlaw MoonA NovelPaperback
Dietrich Kalteis9781770415478
$19.95FICTION
Nov 02, 2021
“Kalteis breathes life into these fearless, larger-than-life fugitives.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He’s reckless, she’s naive. Longing for freedom from tough times, they rob a bank, setting off a series of events that quickly spin out of their control Under an Outlaw Moon is based on the true story of Depression-era bank robbers Bennie and Stella Mae Dickson. She’s a teenage outsider longing to fit in. He’s a few years older and he’s trouble. They meet at a local skating rink an... + Read More
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Series: A Joanne Kilbourn MysteryAn Image in the LakeA Joanne Kilbourn MysteryHardcover
Gail Bowen9781770416130
$34.95FICTION
Sep 07, 2021
From Arthur Ellis Award–winning, Grand Master of Crime Writers, and “the queen of Canadian crime fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press) comes the 20th installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series A dark secret threatens the future of the Shreve family It’s August 24 and Joanne Shreve and her husband, Zack, are savoring the last lazy days of summer and looking forward to the birth of a new grandchild; involvement in the campaign of Ali Janvier, a gifted politician with a solid chance of becoming the province’s next premier; and the debut of Sisters... + Read More
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Series: The KeeningA Mystery of Gaelic IrelandHardcover
Anne Emery9781770415843
$32.95FICTION
Sep 21, 2021
The murdered body of Sorcha the prophetess is discovered following a lavish banquet at the Maguire castle in 16th-century Ireland. In the present day, a dig commences on the land, and not only is a body discovered, but a sheaf of prophecies. Who killed Sorcha? There has been a guesthouse on the Tierney land in County Fermanagh for hundreds of years. Now Tierney’s Hotel is faced with a development that will block the hotel’s best feature, its view of Enniskillen Castle. But the project can be stopped if there are important historical artif... + Read More
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Series: An Epitome Apartments MysteryWhat’s the Matter with Mary Jane?An Epitome Apartments MysteryPaperback
Candas Jane Dorsey9781770415560
$19.95FICTION
Oct 19, 2021
A wise-cracking, grammar-obsessed, pansexual amateur sleuth is thrust into the world of the uber-rich when her enigmatic, now-famous childhood friend breezes back into her life begging for help with a dangerous stalker Our nameless postmodern amateur sleuth is still recovering from her first dangerous foray into detective work when her old friend Priscilla Jane Gill breezes back into her life and begs for help. Pris, now a famous travel writer, fears she’s being stalked again after a nearly fatal attack by a deranged fan a year earlier. I... + Read More
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Series: The Truth You’re ToldA Crime NovelPaperback
Michael J. Clark9781770414044
$19.95FICTION
Nov 02, 2021
People die. Secrets don’t. Sam Hutchings was looking for a writing muse. She hoped that the family cabin at Bird Lake would spark her keyboard, a fire that had been smothered by self-loathing, cheap wine, and her daughter Meg’s summer vacation. An innocent stroll down memory lane begins to unravel the story Sam had heard about her father: What did he do for a living? How did he actually die? Those who know the truth are nearer than she imagines, and protecting their secrets is worth killing for. As the old family stories begin to disinteg... + Read More
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Series: An Arthur Beauchamp NovelKill All the JudgesAn Arthur Beauchamp NovelPaperback
William Deverell9781770416444
$26.95FICTION
Oct 26, 2021
Complex, fascinating, and fun … Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada’s best, and with good reason.” — Shelf Life Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Prize Is someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least one has been murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown. He finds himself chasing all kinds of leads, in... + Read More
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Series: An Arthur Beauchamp NovelSnow JobAn Arthur Beauchamp NovelPaperback
William Deverell9781770416475
$26.95FICTION
Oct 26, 2021
“Smart, beautifully written, and really, really, funny satire featuring Arthur Beauchamp.” –– The Globe and Mail Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award In this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhashyistan declares war on Canada after a limo bearing its visiting delegation is blown sky-high in snowy Ottawa. The suspected assassin, Abzal Erzhan, a Bhashyistani revolutionary, disappears. Was he kidnapped, was he murdered, or did he get away scot-free? Enter famed trial lawyer Arthur Beauchamp, drag... + Read More
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Series: An Arthur Beauchamp NovelI’ll See You in My DreamsAn Arthur Beauchamp NovelPaperback
William Deverell9781770416482
$26.95FICTION
Oct 26, 2021
Finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. “Deverell touches on the evils of the Native residential school system as this literate mystery builds to a surprising solution. Readers will hope they haven’t seen the last of the endearingly complex, fallible, and fascinating Beauchamp.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review Arthur Beauchamp, after a successful and much-lauded career at the criminal bar, is now retired to Garibaldi Island. His immediate desire is to win the Mabel Orfmeister Trophy for the Most Points in Fruits an... + Read More
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Series: Rush Across the DecadesLimelight: Rush in the ’80sPaperback
Martin Popoff9781770415690
$24.95MUSIC
Sep 21, 2021
Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North — covering Rush’s most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the studio In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the ’70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their persuasive power. Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of... + Read More
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