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Series: I Let You Go Paperback Clare Mackintosh 9780451488596 $24.00 FICTION May 03, 2016

The smash London Times bestseller, with over half a million copies sold….a twisty, psychological thriller with “an astonishing intensity that drags you in and never—ever—lets you go.” (Daily Mail, UK)On a rainy afternoon, a mother’s life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street…Jenna Gray moves to the remote Welsh coast, desperate to leave behind the heartbreak of the accident and heal from the loss of her child and her painful past. At the same time, a pair of police investigators tries to get to the bottom of this ... + Read More
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Series: Do Not Say We Have Nothing Hardcover Madeleine Thien 9780345810427 $35.00 FICTION May 31, 2016

Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of three musicians in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, s... + Read More
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Series: A Country Road, A Tree Hardcover Jo Baker 9780345816382 $32.00 FICTION May 17, 2016

Samuel Beckett is a young writer living in Paris--intoxicated by new friendships with James Joyce and the other writers and artists making the vibrant city their creative home--when war breaks out in 1939. He determines to stay and is swiftly drawn into the maelstrom, joining the Resistance. With him we experience the terrifying excitement yet stubborn vibrancy and camaraderie as the Parisians flee the Nazis and the Resistance goes underground; his friendships with the astonishing group of men and women who find themselves caught up in the Occu... + Read More
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Series: Everybody's Fool A novel Hardcover Richard Russo 9780307270641 $36.95 FICTION May 03, 2016

A New York Times 2016 Notable BookAn immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nobody’s Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere. Everybody’s Fool is classic Russo, filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you can’t help but love, possibly because their various faults make the... + Read More
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Series: The Noise of Time A Novel Hardcover Julian Barnes 9780345816573 $29.95 FICTION May 10, 2016

A masterful novel dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.The book begins in 1936, with Dmitri Shostakovich petrified at the age of thirty and fearing for his livelihood and even his life. His opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has just been denounced in Pravda in an article that certainly reflects the opinion of Joseph Stalin himself. Every night he waits on the landing outside his apartment, expecting NKVD agents to come and whisk him away. Shos... + Read More
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Series: Life Without a Recipe A Memoir Hardcover Diana Abu-Jaber 9780393249095 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 26, 2016

Full of life, warmth, hilarity, and sadness, a universal story of self-discovery.Self determination can be tricky for girls—especially those caught between cultures. Bullied with loving “advice” from a tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother (Grace) and a flamboyant, spice-obsessed Arab father (Bud), Diana Abu-Jaber spent years learning to ignore their contradictory prescriptions about food, work, marriage, and motherhood. Grace warned her away from children; Bud wanted her married above all, even if he had to provide the ring.Bu... + Read More
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Series: Passage Trilogy The City of Mirrors A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy) Hardcover Justin Cronin 9780385669559 $37.00 FICTION May 24, 2016

The wait is finally over for the third and final installment in The Passage trilogy, called "a The Stand-meets-The Road journey" by Entertainment Weekly.In the wake of the battle against The Twelve, Amy and her friends have gone in different directions. Peter has joined the settlement at Kerrville, Texas, ascending in its ranks despite his ambivalence about its ideals. Alicia has ventured into enemy territory, half-mad and on the hunt for the viral called Zero, who speaks to her in dreams. Amy has vanished without a trace. With The Twelve ... + Read More
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Series: Kincaid Strange Series, The The Voodoo Killings A Kincaid Strange Novel Paperback Kristi Charish 9780345815880 $24.00 FICTION May 10, 2016

Vintage Canada is thrilled to announce the debut of a new urban fantasy series. Kristi Charish's The Voodoo Killings introduces Kincaid Strange, not your average voodoo practitioner...For starters, she's only twenty-seven. Then there's the fact that she lives in rain-soaked Seattle, which is not exactly Haiti. And she's broke. With raising zombies outlawed throughout the continental USA, Kincaid has to eke out a living running seances for university students with more money than brains who are desperate for guitar lessons with the ghost of a Se... + Read More
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Series: Bad Singer The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music Hardcover Tim Falconer 9781770894457 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 14, 2016

In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness — and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we listen to music.Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,” always wanted to make music, but soon after he starts singing lessons, he discovers that he’s part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia — in other words, he is scientifically tone-deaf. Bad Singer chronicles h... + Read More
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Series: Not Working Hardcover Lisa Owens 9780385686006 $29.95 FICTION May 03, 2016

A laugh-out-loud, irreverent debut novel that forces you to imagine what might happen if you quit your job to find your true purpose.First there was Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones, then Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It and now Lisa Owens’ Not Working, capturing the point of view of a young generation trying not to have it all, but to figure out what it all means. Twenty-something Londoner Claire has just resigned from her job without a plan—and although she is pleased, her family and friends can’t seem to understand. Before too lo... + Read More