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Series: A Hero of Our Time A Novel Paperback Naben Ruthnum 9780771096501 $22.00 FICTION Jan 11, 2022

A wry comic novel with an acerbic wit, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity.Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinson’s quest for corporate domination at AAP, an edutech startup determined to automate higher education.Osman, obsessed by Olivia’s ability to successfully disguise ambition and self-interest as collectivist diversity politics, is bent on exposing her. Aided by his colleague turned comrade-in-arms Nena, who loathe... + Read More
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Series: A Wild River Novel Alaska Dreams Original Paperback Jennifer Snow 9781335639820 $11.99 FICTION Jan 25, 2022

Is she making the right decision…for her career and her heart?Following a near-death experience, Selena Hudson is finally going after the career she wants. And since casting directors won’t see her as anything but a rom-com queen, Selena signs on to produce and star in her own movie—an edgy psychological thriller. But just as the cast and crew arrive on location in Wild River, Alaska, the leading man drops out of the production.Reporter Gus Orosco is not hiding out in Wild River—he’s waiting for the dust to settle after his on-camera “overreact... + Read More
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Series: Except the Dying 25th Anniversary Edition Paperback Maureen Jennings 9780771000508 $21.00 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

The novel that sparked the hugely popular Murdoch Mysteries television series celebrates its 25th anniversary.Includes a new introduction and a previously unpublished short story featuring the young Detective Murdoch.In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman is found naked and frozen in a quiet laneway. Acting Detective William Murdoch, driven by pity for the girl and the desire to secure his promotion, is determined to pursue every lead and reveal the truth. Although influential people pressure the police to sol... + Read More
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Series: Her Last Goodbye A Novel Original Paperback Rick Mofina 9780778311720 $12.99 FICTION Jan 25, 2022

Family ties run deep. Family secrets run deeper. Perfect wife. Doting mom. Jennifer Griffin was loved by everyone, including the women in her suburban-neighborhood book club. Their meetings sometimes went late, but Jenn always came home. Until that night. When Greg Griffin wakes to find his wife is not in bed, his blood runs cold. Her book club friends say Jenn left for home hours ago. But she’s missing. Greg tells detectives their marriage is good, but his alibi is razor-thin. With their young son away at a sleepover, Greg had all night to co... + Read More
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Series: The Agents Paperback Grégoire Courtois 9781552454329 $21.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Squid Game, via The Office, in this boldly dystopian novel The agents don’t know what they’re agents of, but they’re very busy agenting, which means watching endless data feeds in their cubicles, cubicles that are piled one on top of another in a massive tower in which the agents both live and work. Empty floors serve as battlefields where different guilds of agents fight for territory. It seems that defenestration is the only way out, the ‘ballet of suicides.’ It is here we meet Theodore, who has amputated his own to... + Read More
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Series: The Colour of Glass Paperback David Starr 9781553806509 $21.95 FICTION Jun 03, 2022

A string of trade beads is passed from generation to generation, from Captain Cook at Nootka Sound to a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry hearing in Northern British Columbia. Through three hundred years of Canadian history, the beads bear witness to the story of a family who unwillingly play a central role in our collective record of assimilation, unbridled racism, colonialism, genocide-and of the ?rare acts of compassion and courage from the ?few settlers who saw injustice and risked the... + Read More
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Series: The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections A Novel Hardcover Eva Jurczyk 9781728246598 $38.99 FICTION Jan 25, 2022

"With its countless revelations about the dusty realms of rare books, a likable librarian sleuth who has just the right balance of compassion and wit, and a library setting that is teeming with secrets, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a rare treat for readers. I loved this book!"—Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas BookstoreAnxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soo... + Read More
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Series: Mave Michael The Hitman's Daughter Hardcover Carolyne Topdjian 9781951709587 $37.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

The ChÃ¢teau du Ciel was once the destination for the rich and famous to play, drink and ski—complete with a private railway to shuttle those desiring extra privacy—now, however, the guests are few and far between. The New Year’s Eve party was supposed to hoist the rundown hotel back to its former status, until a massive blizzard hits, trapping the guests who’ve come to celebrate the grand hotel’s last hurrah. The circumstances might even be romantic, if the hotel wasn't reputed to be haunted. When hotel employee Mave Michael finds the resi... + Read More
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Series: The Maid A Novel Paperback Nita Prose 9780735241336 $24.95 FICTION Jan 04, 2022

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • CITYLINE BOOK CLUB PICK • “A twist-and-turn whodunit, set in a five-star hotel, from the perspective of the maid who finds the body. Think Clue. Think page-turner.”—GlamourNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Glamour, W magazine, PopSugar, The Rumpus, Book Riot, CrimeReads, She Reads, Daily Hive, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Stylist, Canadian Living“An endearing debut…. The reader comes to understand Mol... + Read More
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Series: An Ava Lee Novel The Sultan of Sarawak An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years Paperback Ian Hamilton 9781487010157 $19.99 FICTION Jan 04, 2022

Ava Lee clashes with the most powerful family in Malaysian Borneo in this exhilarating new thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton. After a warehouse owned by the Three Sisters is destroyed under suspicious circumstances, Ava Lee travels to the Malaysian province of Sarawak to investigate. She quickly discovers that the powerful Chong family has a political and economic stranglehold on the province and is likely responsible for the warehouse. As Ava digs deeper into the Chongs, she is shocked to learn of their billion-dollar illegal log... + Read More
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Series: The Swells Paperback Will Aitken 9781487009694 $19.99 FICTION Jan 04, 2022

In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship. A boatload of white privilege, The Emerald Tranquility is the most luxurious cruise liner afloat, its passengers some of the richest people in the world. Meanwhile the ship’s crew, overworked and underpaid, live packed tightly together in airless below-deck cabins. The passengers encounter a great number of cataclysms at sea, but no matter the catastrophe, the great ship always sails on. Briony, a globetrotting luxury travel writer, e... + Read More
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Series: Tides A Novel Hardcover Sara Freeman 9780735241978 $29.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

“Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing.” —Emma ClineFrom an astounding new voice in Canadian literature comes an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside townAfter a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming in the night ocean. In her state of emotional extremis, the sea a... + Read More
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Series: Your Still Beating Heart Paperback Tyler Keevil 9781838386009 $17.50 FICTION Jan 08, 2022

From its show-stopping opening scene, Keevil’s tightly plotted page turner is full of momentum and unforgettable characters. Moving, profound and ultimately joyful, it turns on an exceptionally clever twist and is as revealing in its psychological acuity as it is in its portrait of organised crime. All it takes to change a life is a single moment. A random stabbing on a London bus leaves Eira stripped of a future that should have been hers and propels her into a life skewed out of all recognition. In Prague, the city where she and her ... + Read More