119.
Series:
Red Green's Beginner's Guide to Women
(For Men Who Don't Read Instructions)
Hardcover
Red Green
9780385677639
$29.95
HUMOR
Sep 17, 2013
Red Green is celebrated as one of the handiest men in North America. But as well as being a purveyor of inventive practical advice on, for example, making a jetpack from two propane tanks, a hybrid car from recycled golf carts and satellite dishes, and a kiddie ride from a bar stool attached to the agitator of a washing machine, Red Green is also noted for his insights into that most difficult of assembly jobs, human relationships. His previous bestselling tome, How to Do Everything, showed Red dipping his toe into the self-help genre with such...
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Series:
Rookie Yearbook Two
Paperback
Tavi Gevinson
9781770461482
$29.95
ART
Oct 01, 2013
The second book in the Rookie Yearbook series Rookie is an independent online magazine made by and for teenage girls. It was created by Tavi Gevinson in 2011, when she was just fourteen years old; today, about a third of the magazine's staff are teenage writers, photographers, and illustrators. Rookie launched in September 2011; six days after its dbut the site hit one million page views. One year after that, the online publication reimagined itself in deluxe print form with Rookie Yearbook One , an anthology o...
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Series:
Roots: 40 Years of Style
Hardcover
Suzanne Boyd
9781770894198
$39.95
DESIGN
Nov 01, 2013
To commemorate Roots Canada’s fortieth anniversary, Roots: Forty Years of Style celebrates the company’s rich history and brings together a curated collection of the best and most visually arresting photographs from the Roots archive — many of which have never been seen before. As one of Canada’s most iconic brand, Roots has a history that runs deep into the heart of this country. Founded in 1973 by Michael Budman and Don Green, with a goal of translating their affinity for the Canadian wilderness and sport into a distinctive and unique aesthe...
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Series:
Si-cology 1
Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle
Hardcover
Si Robertson
9781476745374
$26.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 03, 2013
As you read this book, there are a few things you have to understand: 95 percent of my stories are truthful. Every member of the Robertson family has the God- given gift of storytelling. Hey, when you’ve sat in a duck blind for more than half of your life, you have to figure out some way to pass the time! It’s better than looking at Willie and Jase for six hours! Many of the stories I like to tell happened when I was a young boy or when I was in Vietnam. At my age, a few of the details are cloudy, but I’ll recollect the coming stories as best I...
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Series:
Simple Dreams
A Musical Memoir
Hardcover
Linda Ronstadt
9781451668728
$29.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 17, 2013
Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ’70s. Linda Ronstadt was born into a musical family, and her childhood was filled with everything from Gilbert and Sullivan to Mexican folk music to jazz and opera. Her artistic curiosity blossomed early, and she and her siblings began performing their own mus...
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Series:
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Hardcover
Simon Singh
9781620402771
$27.50
ART
Oct 29, 2013
You may have watched hundreds of episodes ofThe Simpsons (and its sister showFuturama) without ever realizing that cleverly embedded in many plots are subtle references to mathematics, ranging from well-known equations to cutting-edge theorems and conjectures. That they exist, Simon Singh reveals, underscores the brilliance of the shows' writers, many of whom have advanced degrees in mathematics in addition to their unparalleled sense of humor. While recounting memorable episodes such as “Bart the Genius” and “Homer3,” Singh weaves in mathemat...
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Series:
Slimed!
An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age
Hardcover
Mathew Klickstein
9780142196854
$27.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 24, 2013
An Entertainment Weekly “Best Tell-All” Book One of Parade Magazine’s “Best Books About Movies/TV” Included in Publishers Weekly’s “Top Ten Social Science Books”Before the recent reboots, reunions, and renaissance of classic Nickelodeon nostalgia swept through the popular imagination, there was SLIMED!, the book that started it all. With hundreds of exclusive interviews and have-to-read-‘em-to-believe-‘em stories you won’t find anywhere else, SLIMED! is the first-ever full chronicle of classic Nick…told by those who made it all happen! Nicke...
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Series:
Smarter Than You Think
How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
Hardcover
Clive Thompson
9781594204456
$29.50
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 12, 2013
It's undeniable—technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and analysis. We learn more and retain it longer, write and think with global audiences, and even gain an ESP-like awareness of the world around us. Modern technology is making us smarter, better connected, and often deeper—both as individuals and as a society. In Smarter Than You Think Thomps...
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Series:
Spooky Sudbury
True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained
Paperback
Mark Leslie
9781459719231
$24.99
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Sep 21, 2013
The magnetic aura surrounding Sudbury, for both the living as well as the once-alive, is the backdrop for tales of mystery, wonder, and outright horror. "I tried to leave" is a common theme for those from the Sudbury region. People often vow to move away, but something about the Nickel City keeps luring them back. Whether it’s the taste of fresh air – or just the sulphur in the air – it’s hard to move beyond the black rocks, endless lakes, and great openness without longing to come home. Some are so attached to the northern community that they...
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Series:
Stats Canada
Satire On A National Scale
Paperback
Stats Canada
9780143189060
$18.00
HUMOR
Oct 29, 2013
Canada ’s funniest online sensation Canadians everywhere have been deeply confused by the irresponsible and wildly inaccurate data tweeted by Stats Canada since July 2012. While outrageously false, these hilarious “facts” unearth deep truths about Canadians and their culture. For the over 200,000 people already following on Twitter, @stats_canada is a daily source of the funniest Canadian parody. Now, in their first book, Stats Canada satirizes everything from history, culture, and language to sports, entertainment, politics, weather, and muc...
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Series:
Still Foolin' 'Em
Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?
Hardcover
Billy Crystal
9780805098204
$29.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 10, 2013
Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable careerBilly Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. In humorous chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby...
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Series:
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Hardcover
Ann Patchett
9780062236678
$34.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 05, 2013
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, an...
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Series:
This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me)
Billionaires in the Wild
Hardcover
Bruce McCall
9780771057113
$35.00
HUMOR
Nov 05, 2013
When it comes to the lifestyles of American Express Black Card holders, you'd never know we're in a recession. This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me) is a hilarious catalog of the absurdly extravagant lifestyles, impossibly glamorous escapes, and pet projects of North America's one percenters. From fiberglass Baobab tree houses in the foothills of the Rockies with machine-gun ports at every level, to a four-star open-air restaurant precariously balanced atop the leafy rainforests of the Amazon basin, longtime friends and mutual fans ...
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Series:
Time Now for the Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange
Hardcover
Stuart McLean
9780670064755
$32.00
HUMOR
Sep 17, 2013
For ten years, listeners of The Vinyl Cafe have shared their personal stories with Stuart McLean on The Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the segment, Stuart and his long-time radio producer, Jess Milton, have collected their favourites. The result is a wise, wonderful anthology of stories about rituals and romance, road trips and guitar licks, Saturday-night hockey games and Sunday morning pancakes. A story about an exploding outhouse sits right beside one about a lost love because that's just what happens in lif...
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Series:
The Ukulele Handbook
Paperback
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
9781620402207
$32.00
MUSIC
Nov 19, 2013
The definitive illustrated guide to the ukulele, from it's history to how to play, including a fantastic songbook.The ukulele has gone from strength to strength in recent years, undergoing a massive resurgence. You can hear the uke all over the place, from trendster indie rock to top ten pop songs, from unshakeable TV ads to YouTube megahits. And this obsession shows no sign of abating - all over the country people are picking up a ukulele and starting to strum, at home, in classes and down at the pub. Schools are even replacing the faithful re...
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Series:
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Weird Canada
Paperback
Bathroom Readers' Institute
9781607108917
$19.95
HUMOR
Sep 10, 2013
The Great White North is revealed as the Great Weird North in this entertaining tome from the best-selling Bathroom Reader series.Did you know that Canada was almost called Hochelaga? That’s just one of thousands of wacky facts awaiting readers in Uncle John’s quirky celebration of Earth’s second largest country. You’ll find page after page of bizarre history (like why the beaver was once classified as a fish), plus head-scratching news items (like the crook who returned to the Tim Hortons he’d just robbed to tip the workers), odd places to go ...
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Series:
The War on Science
Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada
Paperback
Chris Turner
9781771004312
$19.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 20, 2013
A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on science.In this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner argues that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science communication, environmental regulations, and the environmental NGO community is the most vicious assault ever waged by a Canadian government on the fundamental principles of the Enlightenment. From the closure of Arctic research stations as oil drilling begins in the High Arctic to slashed researc...
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Series:
The War That Ended Peace
The Road to 1914
Hardcover
Margaret MacMillan
9780670064045
$38.00
HISTORY
Oct 29, 2013
The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress, and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe's dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last moment—so why did it happen? Beginning in the early nineteenth century and ending with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, award-win...
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Series:
Week in a Day
Paperback
Rachael Ray
9781451659757
$28.99
COOKING
Oct 22, 2013
Wondering what to make for dinner tonight—and for the rest of the week? Here’s an easy way to prepare a week’s worth of meals, for yourself or the whole family, in just one day.Relax with a tasty meal after a busy day. Enjoy your evenings around the dinner table with your friends and family. Sound too good to be true? Not if you plan your Week in a Day. Rachael Ray’s Week in a Day, the companion book to her hit cooking show of the same name, offers more than two hundred recipes that will help you prepare five nights’ worth of meals in a single ...
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Series:
Well-Read Women
Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines
Hardcover
Samantha Hahn
9781452114156
$27.95
ART
Aug 27, 2013
A treasure of a gift for the well-read woman, this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits, in watercolor and in word, of literature's most well-read female characters. Anna Karenina, Clarissa Dalloway, Daisy Buchanan...each seems to live on the page through celebrated artist Samantha Hahn's evocative portraits and hand-lettered quotations, with the pairing of art and text capturing all the spirit of the character as she was originally written. The book itself evokes vintage grace reimagined for contemporary taste, with a cloth spine s...
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Series:
What If . . .
A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure
Hardcover
Shirley MacLaine
9781476728605
$27.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 12, 2013
Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a wealth of subjects from the mundane to the esoteric in this all-new collection of musings that begin with two simple words: What if…“Sometimes I think that speculation is more fun than knowledge. I just turn the answers into more questions anyway.” Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a host of intriguing topics from the everyday to the esoteric in this all-new collection of ideas and observations, each of which begins with two simple, powerf...
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Series:
What's So Funny?
My Hilarious Life
Hardcover
Tim Conway
9781476726502
$29.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 29, 2013
Six-time Emmy award-winning funny man Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnett Show, offers a straight-shooting and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor and comedian.Six-time Emmy Award–winning funnyman Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnett Show, offers a straight-shooting and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor and comedian. In television history, few entertainers have captured as many hearts and made as many people laugh as Tim Conway. There’s not...
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Series:
Wheelmen
Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
Hardcover
Reed Albergotti
9781592408481
$29.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 15, 2013
The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built on the back of fraud, and the greatest conspiracy in the history of sportsLance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international symbol of resilience and courage. In a sport constantly dogged by blood-doping scandals, he seemed above the fray. Then, in January 2013, the legend imploded. He admitted doping during the Tours and, in an interview with Oprah, described his "myth...
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Series:
Wonder Women
Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
Hardcover
Debora L. Spar
9780374298753
$31.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 17, 2013
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world?Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School and a mother of three, she swore to young women that they could have it all. "We thought we could just glide into the new era of equality, with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow," she writes. "We were wrong."Now she is the president of Barnard Colle...
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Series: The 39 Clues: Unstoppable
The 39 Clues: Unstoppable Book One: Nowhere to Run
Hardcover
Jude Watson
9780545521376
$14.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Oct 01, 2013
STRICT ON-SALE DATE: OCTOBER 1, 2013.The groundbreaking multimedia phenomenon continues with the third installment of The 39 Clues! The Cahill family has a secret. For five hundred years, they have guarded the 39 Clues — thirty-nine ingredients in a serum that transforms whomever takes it into the most powerful person on earth. If the serum got into the wrong hands, the disaster would rock the world. So certain Cahills have always made it their mission to keep the serum safe, buried, locked away. Until now. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and hi...
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Series: Divergent Series
Allegiant
Hardcover
Veronica Roth
9780062024060
$21.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Oct 22, 2013
The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent.One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?Told from a riveting dual perspective, this third installment in the series follows Tris and Tobias as they battle to comprehend the complexit...
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Series:
Audacious
Hardcover
Gabrielle Prendergast
9781459805309
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Grade (CAN) from 8 - 12
Oct 01, 2013
Sixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie city, Raphaelle wants to make a new start. Reborn as "Ella," she tries to fit in at her new school. She's drawn to Samir, a Muslim boy in her art class, and expresses her confused feelings in explicit art. When a classmate texts a photo of Ella's art to a younger friend, the fallout spreads throughout Ella's life, t...
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Series: Battling Boy
Battling Boy
Paperback
Paul Pope
9781596431454
$23.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 18
Oct 08, 2013
A New York Times bestsellerAn NPR Best Book of 2013The adventure begins in the new graphic novel by comics legend Paul Pope.Monsters roam through Arcopolis, swallowing children into the horrors of their shadowy underworld. Only one man is a match for them - the genius vigilante Haggard West.Unfortunately, Haggard West is dead.Arcopolis is desperate, but when its salvation comes in the form of a twelve-year-old demigod, nobody is more surprised than Battling Boy himself.IT'S TIME TO MEET AN ELECTRIFYING NEW HERO.
147.
Series: Big Nate
Big Nate: I Can't Take It!
Paperback
Lincoln Peirce
9781449429379
$11.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Oct 15, 2013
Big Nate. He thinks big. He talks big. He acts big. And the Big Nate: I Can't Take It, featuring our mischievous middle-school hero, is big fun.Life can be stressful for Nate Wright. At school, Mrs. Godfrey makes every day a nightmare. At home, he's stuck between Ellen, his incredibly annoying older sister, and Dad, perhaps the most clueless parent of all time. And don't get him started on Gina, the ultimate teacher's pet, or Artur, the unassuming exchange student who bests him at every turn. It's enough to make even a can-do kid like Nate ...
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Series: Binky Adventure, A
Binky: License to Scratch
Paperback
Ashley Spires
9781554539642
$8.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
Sep 01, 2013
Binky the space cat and his team of space pets are left at the vet's office while their humans are away. Binky plans an escape, only to stumble on a secret experiment that could give vicious aliens the upper hand! It's up to Binky and his friends to save the humans ... and themselves! Binky: License to Scratch is the final book in the Binky Adventure series, where dry humour and sci-fi slapstick are mixed with lots of heart.
149.
Series:
Camp X: Enigma
Paperback
Eric Walters
9780143187103
$14.00
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Oct 29, 2013
Having successfully foiled a Nazi plot to kidnap one of the British Royal Family, brothers Jack and George are on the move again—this time to England. The boys and their parents are travelling aboard a merchant ship that’s part of a convoy carrying supplies and troops to the battlefields of Europe at the request of the royal family, who wishes to thank them for rescuing Princess Louise. Crossing the Atlantic is challenging enough … but when the destroyers attached to their convoy torpedo a U-boat, events take another very surprising turn. T...
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Series: Stoker & Holmes
The Clockwork Scarab
A Stoker & Holmes Novel
Hardcover
Colleen Gleason,
9781452110707
$23.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Sep 17, 2013
Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood, so to speak. And when two young society girls disappear—one dead, one missing—there's no one more qualified to investigate.Now fierce Evaline and logical Mina must resolve their rivalry, navigate the advances of not just one but three mysterious gentlemen, and solve a murder with only one clue: a strange Egyptian scarab. The pressure is on and the stakes ...
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Series: The Dead Kid Detective Agency
Dial M for Morna
The Dead Kid Detective Agency #2
Paperback
Evan Munday
9781770410732
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Oct 01, 2013
The anticipated second volume in Munday’s Silver Birch-nominated series October Schwartz and her five deadest friends are back. The holiday season has descended upon the town of Sticksville like an eggnog rainstorm, but October has no time for candy canes or mistletoe. She’s busy dealing with an oddly pleasant new history teacher, her living friends’ new roles as high-school radio DJs, and two (!) new mysteries that need solving before the new year. October and her ghost friends are hot on the trail of the person (or persons) responsible for Mo...
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Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Hard Luck (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #8)
Hardcover
Jeff Kinney
9781419711329
$16.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Nov 05, 2013
Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?
153.
Series: Dork Diaries
Dork Diaries OMG!
All About Me Diary!
Hardcover
Rachel Renée Russell
9781442487710
$18.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 13
Oct 01, 2013
Narrate your very own Dork Diary with this write-in journal, filled with questions for every day and complete with art and quotes from Nikki Maxwell herself!As Nikki Maxwell knows, keeping a journal is a great way to get to know the most important person in your life: YOU! This special Dork Diaries guided journal features questions for every day of the year. If you could swap places with anyone for a day, who would it be and why? What song could you listen to 100 times? What TV show are you totally obsessed with right now and why? What’s the fi...
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Series:
Ella and the Balloons in the Sky
Hardcover
Danny Appleby
9781770495289
$17.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 9
Nov 12, 2013
"They'd just taken them somewhere she hadn't yet been, to magical places she hadn't yet seen." Ella comes down one morning to feed her pets and finds that they have disappeared. She discovers them floating away on balloons, high in the sky. Try as she might, she can't get them to come back. But although they are out of reach, Ella soon learns they are not truly gone as long as they remain in her heart and her memories. Written in gentle rhyming verse with light-hearted illustrations, Ella and the Balloons in the Sky is a story that tackles ...
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Series: Lorien Legacies
The Fall of Five
Hardcover
Pittacus Lore
9780061974618
$19.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Aug 27, 2013
The fourth book of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series!John Smith—Number Four—thought that things would change once he and Nine reunited with the others. But he was wrong. After facing off with the Mogadorian ruler and almost being killed, the Garde realize they are drastically unprepared. Now they're hiding out in Nine's Chicago penthouse, trying to figure out their next move.Even with the return of an old ally, these superpowered teens aren’t strong enough yet to take on an entire army. To defeat their enemy, the Garde m...
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Series: The Fantastic Family Whipple
The Fantastic Family Whipple
Hardcover
Matthew Ward
9781595146892
$18.00
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Aug 29, 2013
For every child who’s ever dreamed of being in the Guinness Book of World Records comes the story of eleven-year-old Arthur Whipple and his fantastic family of world record breakers . . . - Most Crème Brulée Eaten in One Minute- Highest Number of Matching Outfits Worn by a Stuffed Toy and Its Owner- Youngest Person to Summit the Third-Highest Mountain in the WorldThese are just three of the 49,521 records won by Arthur’s twelve brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, unlike his siblings, Arthur hasn’t broken a single, solitary world record! But wh...
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Series:
Flora and Ulysses
The Illuminated Adventures
Hardcover
Kate DiCamillo
9780763660406
$24.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Sep 24, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel)...
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Series:
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
Hardcover
Chip Kidd
9780761172192
$26.95
DESIGN
Oct 08, 2013
“An excellent introduction to graphic design through [the author’s] own excellent work. Anyone interested in the subject, including most practitioners, will find it delightful.”—Milton Glaser Kids love to express themselves, and are designers by nature—whether making posters for school, deciding what to hang in their rooms, or creating personalized notebook covers. Go, by the award-winning graphic designer Chip Kidd, is a stunning introduction to the ways in which a designer communicates his or her ideas to the world. It’s written and designed ...
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Series: The Heroes of Olympus
The Heroes of Olympus, Book Four The House of Hades
Hardcover
Rick Riordan
9781423146728
$19.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from 5 - 9
Oct 08, 2013
At the conclusion of The Mark of Athena, Annabeth and Percy tumble into a pit leading straight to the Underworld. The other five demigods have to put aside their grief and follow Percy's instructions to find the mortal side of the Doors of Death. If they can fight their way through the Gaea's forces, and Percy and Annabeth can survive the House of Hades, then the Seven will be able to seal the Doors from both sides and prevent the giants from raising Gaea. But, Leo wonders, if the Doors are sealed, how will Percy and Annabeth be able to escape?...
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Series: Ivy & Bean
Ivy and Bean Take the Case
Book 10
Hardcover
Annie Barrows
9781452106991
$20.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 24, 2013
Watch out, you diabolical masterminds! There's a new detective on Pancake Court: Bean! She laughs at danger! She solves even the most mysterious mysteries! What? There aren't any mysteries? Then Bean and her assistant, Ivy, will make some!
161.
Series:
Looks Like Daylight
Hardcover
Deborah Ellis
9781554981205
$15.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Grade (US) from 7
Sep 30, 2013
After her critically acclaimed books of interviews with Afghan, Iraqi, Israeli and Palestinian children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention closer to home. For two years she traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut — some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope. You’ll meet Tingo, who has sp...
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Series:
The Lord of Opium
Hardcover
Nancy Farmer
9781442482548
$19.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12 - 99
Sep 03, 2013
As the teenage ruler of his own country, Matt must cope with clones and cartels in this riveting sequel to the modern classic House of the Scorpion, winner of the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Printz Honor.Matt has always been nothing but a clone—grown from a strip of old El Patron’s skin. Now, at age fourteen, he finds himself suddenly thrust into the position of ruling over his own country. The Land of Opium is the largest territory of the Dope Confederacy, which ranges on the map like an intestine from the ruins of San Diego to...
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Mo's Mustache
Hardcover
Ben Clanton
9781770495388
$19.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Oct 08, 2013
Mo is a monster who just got a mustache. A big, black, beautiful mustache. Everybody likes Mo's mustache. Now Knot, Dot, Nib, Tutu, Bob, Bill, and Ben all have mustaches too. In fact, soon EVERYBODY has a mustache! Why is everyone copying Mo? And how will he (and his mustache) ever stand out? A wonderfully silly book about style and individuality, sure to grow on readers who don't have facial hair -- and even those who do!
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Series:
More Than This
Hardcover
Patrick Ness
9780763662585
$19.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Sep 10, 2013
From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town wh...
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Series: Recipe for Adventure
Naples! #1
Paperback
Giada De Laurentiis
9780448462561
$7.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
Sep 03, 2013
When Zia Donatella comes to live with the Bertolizzi family, little do Alfie and his older sister Emilia know what's in store for them. Zia Dontella is determined to show the kids how a home-cooked meal is better than even the best take-out pizza or burrito. And when Zia's plan actually transports Alfie and Emilia to famous food cities around the world, they learn first-hand how food can not only take you places but can also bring you back home. Alfie and Emilia find themselves transported to Naples, where they meet Marco, a young Italian boy o...
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Northwest Passage
Hardcover
Stan Rogers
9781554981533
$24.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Grade (US) from 1
Sep 01, 2013
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration Award-winning artist Matt James takes the iconic song "Northwest Passage" by legendary Canadian songwriter and singer Stan Rogers and tells the dramatic story of the search for the elusive route through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific, which for hundreds of years and once again today, nations, explorers and commercial interests have dreamt of conquering, often with tragic consequences. For hundreds of years explorers attempted to find the Northwest Passage - a route thr...
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Series:
Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl
Hardcover
Emily Pohl-weary
9780670066407
$18.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Sep 24, 2013
Eighteen-year-old rock star Sam Lee isn’t like other girls. She’s the super-talented bass player and songwriter for an all-girl indie band and an incurable loner. Then one night after a concert in Central Park, she’s attacked by a “wild dog.” Suddenly, this long-time vegetarian is craving meat—the bloodier, the better. Sam finds herself with an unbelievable secret and no one she trusts to share it with. So begin the endless lies to cover up the hairy truth. When a new girl gang appears in the city—with claws and paws—Sam suspects there’s ...
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Series:
On a Snowy Night
Hardcover
Jean Little
9781443113595
$19.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 7
Oct 01, 2013
A heartwarming wintertime tale about a bunny and her boy. When Brandon was first given his rabbit, Rosa, he thought she was better than perfect. He would stroke her and feed her bits of carrots and apples from his fingers. And Rosa felt happy. But as Brandon grew up, he became too busy to play. Rosa was hungry and lonely and worried that nobody loved her. One snowy day, Brandon takes Rosa outside to show her the snow . . . and then forgets her. With the help of some friendly woodland animals, she is able to find her way home - just as Brandon...
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Series:
Once Upon a Balloon
Hardcover
Bree Galbraith
9781459803244
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (CAN) from P - K
Oct 01, 2013
Theo is brokenhearted when he accidentally lets go of the string of his party balloon. As he watches it float out of sight, Theo wonders where his balloon might have gone. Luckily, his older brother Zeke knows everything about everything. Zeke explains that it is a little-known fact that all lost balloons end up in Chicago, the Windy City. Then he tells Theo about Frank, who is responsible for collecting all the balloons in the world. Theo is so touched by Frank’s story that he decides to send him a message of hope the only way he knows how. &n...
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Series: Raven Cycle
The Dream Thieves
Book 2 of The Raven Cycle
Hardcover
Maggie Stiefvater
9780545424943
$19.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 99
Sep 17, 2013
STRICT ON-SALE DATE: SEPTEMBER 17, 2013.The second installment in the all-new series from the masterful, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after . . .
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Series: Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition 2014
Hardcover
* Ripley's Entertainment In
9780545566476
$18.99
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Aug 27, 2013
Another year’s worth of wild and wacky information from Ripley’s Believe It or Not!The fascinating files of Robert Ripley prove there’s nothing stranger than the truth. Turn the pages, if you dare. But watch out! There are more creepy facts and crazy feats than ever before.
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Series: Scanimation
Santa!
A Scanimation Picture Book
Hardcover
Rufus Butler Seder
9780761177258
$22.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 24, 2013
Santa Claus is going to town! Marrying the magic of Scanimation with the universally beloved figure of Santa Claus, Santa! is a holiday book unlike any other.It presents a Santa that readers have never seen before—acrobatic, playful, a little mischievous, filled with joyful energy. Here’s Santa hula-hooping. Santa juggling. Santa doing cartwheels and Santa on a unicycle. Children, as they did with Gallop!, will want to imitate Santa’s irresistibly happy motions. The grown-ups will be unable to stop smiling—it’s hard to imagine a cooler characte...
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Series:
Sorrow's Knot
Hardcover
Erin Bow
9780545166669
$19.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 12 - 99
Oct 29, 2013
From the acclaimed author of Plain Kate, a new novel about what lurks in the shadows, and how to put it to rest . . . In the world of Sorrow's Knot, the dead do not rest easy. Every patch of shadow might be home to something hungry, something deadly. Most of the people of this world live on the sunlit, treeless prairies. But a few carve out an uneasy living in the forest towns, keeping the dead at bay with wards made from magically knotted cords. The women who tie these knots are called binders. And Otter's mother, Willow, is one of the greate...
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Series: Star Wars Jedi Academy
Star Wars: Jedi Academy #1
Hardcover
Jeffrey Brown
9780545505178
$16.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Aug 27, 2013
New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Jeffrey Brown takes readers to a middle school in a galaxy far, far away . . . . This incredible, original story captures all of the humour, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school - all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, doodles, and newspaper clippings. The setting? A galaxy far, far away . . . Roan's one dream is to leave home and attend Pilot Academy like his older brother, father, and grandfather. But just as Roan is mysteriously denied entrance to Pilot Scho...
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Series:
Sugarlump and the Unicorn
Illus by Lydia Monks
Hardcover
Julia Donaldson
9780230769885
$20.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 26, 2013
When Sugarlump the rocking horse wishes to see the world, a magical unicorn with a silver horn and sparkling blue eyes turns him into a real horse. But after trotting around the farm, galloping around a racetrack and even dancing at the circus, Sugarlump learns to be careful what he wishes for and realises how much he misses the children he left behind. Luckily the unicorn has one more wish to grant . . . Packed with brightly coloured glitter on every page, Sugarlump and the Unicorn is a beautiful book, full of sparkle and magic, from Julia Do...
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Series: Teardrop
Teardrop
Hardcover
Lauren Kate
9780385742658
$21.00
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Oct 22, 2013
An epic saga of heart-stopping romance, devastating secrets, and dark magic…a world where everything you love can be washed away. The first book in the new series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen seriesNever, ever cry…. Eureka Boudreaux’s mother drilled that rule into her daughter years ago. But now her mother is gone, and everywhere Eureka goes he is there: Ander, the tall, pale blond boy who seems to know things he shouldn’t, who tells Eureka she is in grave danger, who comes closer to making her cry than anyone has...
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Series: Ten Birds
Ten Birds Meet a Monster
Hardcover
Cybèle Young
9781554539550
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 11
Sep 01, 2013
After wandering down a hall and discovering a scattered assortment of clothes, ten birds were shocked to spot a scary monster! What were they to do? Grabbing a piece of clothing as a disguise, “the first bird, always inventive, became a Vicious Polka-dactyl. But the monster didn't budge.” So the second bird, then the third bird, and so on, followed in turn, each adding some clothing to the mix to devise a new, frightening creature. But no matter that the birds were “resourceful,” “attentive,” “creative” and “eager to participate,” or that they...
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