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Series: Heart of a Tiger Growing up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb Hardcover Herschel Cobb 9781770411302 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 01, 2013

Casey Award Winner: The Best Baseball Book of the Year “Elegantly written and genuinely moving.” — Publishers Weekly “An unforgettable story . . . that will alter how you feel about baseball’s most demonized star.” — Tom Stanton, author of Ty and the Babe The previously untold legacy of Ty Cobb, the greatest baseball player who ever lived Ty Cobb’s grandson Herschel saw a side of him that very few others did. While baseball fans were familiar with Cobb’s infamously cold competitive nature, his relationship with his own children was... + Read More
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Series: When Variety Was King Memoir of a TV Pioneer: Featuring Jackie Gleason, Sonny and Cher, Hee Haw, and More Paperback Frank Peppiatt 9781770410299 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2013

A television producer’s fascinating memoir of the golden age of the variety show “Full of behind-the-scenes stories . . . For fans of TV history, there’s a gold mine here.” — Booklist A humble Canadian boy who grew up to create iconic American TV shows featuring the Hollywood celebrities of the day, Frank Peppiatt made his breakthrough by developing the rock TV show Hullabuloo with his partner, John Aylesworth. That led to a writing gig for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé — and then to the long-running smash hit Hee Haw. In this autob... + Read More
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Series: When Variety Was King Memoir of a TV Pioneer: Featuring Jackie Gleason, Sonny and Cher, Hee Haw, and More Hardcover Frank Peppiatt 9781770411579 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2013

He created Hee Haw, the number-one show on TV. He wrote and produced variety shows for Jackie Gleason, Andy Williams, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Sonny and Cher, and Perry Como. He invented the rock TV show Hullabaloo. He was the most popular producer of his time — a time when variety television was king. With his writing/producing partner John Aylesworth, Frank Peppiatt developed dozens of TV shows but their career began on air in the initial days of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alongside other talented newcomers like Norman J... + Read More
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Series: Summers in Supino Becoming Italian Paperback Maria Coletta McLean 9781770411371 $17.95 TRAVEL Apr 01, 2013

An Italian Canadian woman recounts her annual summer trips with her husband to her ancestral village of Supino, Italy, in this heartwarming hybrid of travel guide and memoir. Written with humor and heart, it describes her process of adjusting to life in her father’s hometown, as well as the eccentricities of its people. Supino’s colorful landscapes and citizens make for vivid stories, from pizzerias in sheep pastures and fish restaurants hidden in the woods to village-wide celebrations of figs, watermelon, azaleas, and artichokes. The book goes... + Read More
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Series: Gambatte Generations of Perseverance and Politics, A Memoir Hardcover David Tsubouchi 9781770411319 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2013

”Gambatte” means do your best and never give up, and that spirit is at the heart of David Tsubouchi’s life story. This memoir of the former Ontario cabinet minister begins as his family strives for acceptance amid the imprisonment of Canadians of Japanese descent and the confiscation of their property, possessions, and businesses by the Mackenzie King Liberal government in 1941. Despite growing up on the outside looking in, Tsubouchi never felt disadvantaged because he had a good family and was taught to persevere. Gambatte outlines his unu... + Read More
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Series: Still Hunting A Memoir Paperback Martin Hunter 9781770411265 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2013

In the 1960s, Toronto was a city of shifting societal dynamics, and this engrossing memoir perfectly captures the essence of this exhilarating and tumultuous time. It begins with Martin Hunter returning to his birthplace, where he marries his teenage sweetheart, goes to work for the family paper company, fathers three children, and settles into a conventional life. But this comfortable bourgeois existence is disrupted with the arrival of the Swinging Sixties—and the wild parties and flamboyant characters that accompanied the famously iconoclast... + Read More
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Series: Midnight, Jesus & Me Misfit Memoirs of a Full Gospel, Rock & Roll Late Night Suicide Crisis Psychotherapist Paperback J. M. Blaine 9781770411081 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2013

This provocative, inspirational, and heartbreaking collection of true-life tales from megachurch counseling centers, drug rehabs, and graveyard shifts on the crisis-response team explores the toughest and darkest times of people’s lives. J. M. Blaine—a semiagnostic, evangelical absurdist, existential Christian, and licensed psychotherapist—writes with deep concern for the depressed, the discouraged, and the disillusioned in this gritty, ragged memoir of his time spent guiding those through messy lives. The personal insights, parables, and often... + Read More
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Series: Clearly Now, the Rain A Memoir of Love and Other Trips Paperback Eli Hastings 9781770410770 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2013

“A drug, romance, and adventure-filled exploration … a story that is both thoroughly of its time and timeless in theme.” — Seattle Times From ill-advised quests for narcotics to dramatic summer road trips, this memoir of a relationship with a self-destructive woman is “as elemental, lyrical, and cringe-inducing a love story as they come.” — Kirkus Reviews Suspenseful, darkly funny, and devastating, this is Eli Hastings’s true story of his troubled, decades-long relationship with his friend Serala. At family events, Serala wore demure s... + Read More
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Series: Letter from Brooklyn Paperback Jacob Scheier 9781770411340 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2013

In Letter from Brooklyn, Jacob Scheier examines love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of his new poems is the notion that we understand who we are by where we have been. Here, a confessional voice digs deep into a radical Jewish heritage rooted in New York City. Everything is at once political and poetic, inseparable from intimate experience and personal heartbreak. Scheier moves from the inner worlds of grief and love to form a poetic dialectic between the familial and the historical.Whether eating in a ... + Read More
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Series: The Ends of the Earth Paperback Jacqueline Turner 9781770411142 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2013

A poetic guide for Armageddon, this poetry collection moves through technological disasters, environmental nightmares, and broken relationships to find love cast away at the end of days. The urban settings are counterbalanced with the idea of escape, deserted islands, and ocean solitudes. In this assemblage of playful, challenging, and beautiful poems, Jacqueline Turner uses the interrobang—a question mark combined with an exclamation point, the excited question—as a symbol of our times to move the work through a host of genres. Like notes wash... + Read More
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Series: The Miracles of Ordinary Men Paperback Amanda Leduc 9781770411111 $18.95 FICTION May 01, 2013

This is the story of two unlikely dreamers: Sam, a man who wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, a woman who has lost her brother to the streets of Vancouver. Sam finds himself falling away from the world as he grows feathers from his back, while Lilah makes her own subtle and terrifying transformation as she seeks sexual penance under the harsh hand of her boss. Sam and Lilah fall deeper into their separate spiritual paths, and the two hurtle closer and closer to a dark, unknown destiny, one that changes all that they know... + Read More
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Series: BackLit Series The Stone Thrower Paperback Adam Marek 9781770411425 $14.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2013

Intelligent clothing, superhero dictators, contagion-carrying computer games, cross-species reproduction. Welcome to the strange and startling world of Adam Marek; a menagerie of futuristic technology, sinister traditions, and scientifically grounded superpowers — a place where the absurd and the mundane are not merely bedfellows, but interbreed. At the core of Adam Marek’s much-anticipated second short story collection is a single, unifying theme: a parent’s instinct to protect a particularly vulnerable child. Whether set amid unnerving vision... + Read More
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Series: A Peter Cammon Mystery The Drowned Man A Peter Cammon Mystery Paperback David Whellams 9781770410435 $14.95 FICTION May 01, 2013

“Tightly plotted and featuring a lead character who keeps us glued to the page, the book should definitely suit readers looking for an intriguing lead character and a solid mystery.” — Booklist A retired Scotland Yard detective is lured back to work in “a series to follow, particularly for Louise Penny fans and the Masterpiece Mystery set.” (Library Journal) Chief Inspector Peter Cammon is supposed to be retired, but he’s reluctantly agreed to travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered colleague. And once he’s involved, he can’... + Read More
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Series: A Peter Cammon Mystery The Drowned Man A Peter Cammon Mystery Hardcover David Whellams 9781770411487 $24.95 FICTION May 01, 2013

In this second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, the veteran detective is called out of retirement once again. His assignment appears simple: travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered Scotland Yard colleague. But Peter cannot resist delving into the oddities of the crime. His colleague was brutally attacked, run down by a car, and then dumped in a canal, yet the probable motive for the murder is bizarre: the theft of three letters from the U.S. Civil War era, one of them signed by the assassin John Wilkes Booth. Haun... + Read More
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Series: A Sullivan Mystery S.O.B. Paperback Mike Knowles 9781770411005 $12.95 FICTION May 01, 2013

Dark and gritty, this no-holds-barred novel introduces P. I. Frank Sullivan, a nasty S.O.B. with a sixth sense for the truth and escaping tricky situations. When Misty Olsen walks into his office, it’s clear she’s in trouble. She and her newborn baby girl are both HIV positive. The boyfriend who infected her was not who she thought he was; she never even knew his real name. The only things she knows for sure are that it was no accident that she was infected, that she wasn’t his only victim, and that he has to pay the consequences for what he di... + Read More
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Series: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel Death's Last Run A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel Paperback Robin Spano 9781550229974 $14.95 FICTION May 01, 2013

A young snowboarder turns up dead on the Blackcomb Glacier. The local police are calling it suicide, but the victim’s mother, a U.S. senator, is not convinced. At the senator’s request, the FBI sends in undercover agent Clare Vengel to infiltrate the world of ski bums and snow bunnies and find out what happened to Sacha. Clare soon discovers that not only was the victim involved in an LSD smuggling ring, but also the uncooperative top cop in town is in cahoots with the smugglers. With her cover dangerously close to being blown Clare must solve ... + Read More
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Series: The Lake and the Library Paperback S.M. Beiko 9781770410572 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 May 01, 2013

Wishing for something more than her adventureless life, 16-year-old Ash eagerly awaits the move she and her mother are taking from their dull, drab life in the prairie town of Treade. But as Ash counts the days, she finds her way into a mysterious, condemned building on the outskirts of town—one that has haunted her entire childhood with secrets and questions. What she finds inside is an untouched library, inhabited by an enchanting mute named Li. Brightened by Li’s charm and his indulgence in her dreams, Ash becomes locked in a world of dusty ... + Read More
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Series: Taylor Swift The Platinum Edition Paperback Liv Spencer 9781770411517 $12.95 MUSIC Jun 01, 2013

Taylor Swift: The Platinum Edition gets to the heart of this superstar with albums and singles that head straight to the top of the pop and country music charts, a shelf full of awards, and millions of fans around the world. Fans looking for Taylor’s complete story should look no further than this detailed biography, which chronicles her childhood in Pennsylvania where she was teased and bullied, to her early days trying to land a record deal by personally dropping off demos at Nashville record companies, to the performance that led Taylo... + Read More
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Series: Too Much Trouble A Very Oral History of Danko Jones Paperback Stuart Berman 9781770411357 $24.95 MUSIC Oct 01, 2012

Danko Jones may be a straight-forward rock band, but their story is anything but. They’re a band that has roots in many different music communities — the North American indie-rock scene, the Scandinavian garage-rock scene, the European metal scene — but belong to none of them. They’re the only band that’s toured with both Blonde Redhead and Nickelback, and they’re the only band whose biography could attract a cast of characters that includes Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead, Elijah Wood, Ralph Macchio, Peaches, Dizzy Reed of Guns N’ Roses, Dami... + Read More
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Series: The Origin of Feces What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society Paperback David Waltner-Toews 9781770411166 $16.95 SCIENCE May 01, 2013

The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone’s lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives — evolutionary, ecological, and cultural — The Origin of Feces shows us how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food produ... + Read More
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Series: Growing Marijuana Indoors A Foolproof Guide Paperback Jay Carter Brown 9781770411296 $9.95 GARDENING Jun 01, 2013

Whether it’s medical marijuana (cannabis indica) or recreational marijuana (cannabis sativa), a grower needs clear information and helpful tips presented in a straightforward way. Medical marijuana must be free of contaminants, which could prove harmful to patients using it, and so it’s usually grown indoors where the environment can be controlled. Temperature and humidity need to be carefully monitored, and the grower must watch out for and get rid of any insects, moulds, or fungi through the use of air filters and positive ventilation.... + Read More
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Series: After the Error Speaking Out About Patient Safety to Save Lives Paperback Susan B. McIver 9781770411104 $19.95 MEDICAL Apr 01, 2013

Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psychological, and financial expense. But their willingness to share their harrowing stories has helped to lay the foundation for numerous patient safety programs and continues to identify problems, provide solutions, and raise awareness. After the Error is a collection of true stories from across Canada, and the firs... + Read More
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Series: Along the Shore Rediscovering Toronto’s Waterfront Heritage Paperback Jane Fairburn 9781770410992 $32.95 HISTORY Jul 01, 2013

Along the Shore examines the Toronto waterfront, past and present, through the lens of four lakefront communities and districts — the Scarborough shore (including the Bluffs), the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore (New Toronto, Mimico, Humber Bay, and Long Branch). Each retains a direct and immediate connection with Lake Ontario and the natural world. Exploring the history, landscape, geography, and people of each of these waterfront areas reveals a rich heritage that has gone largely unrecognized and is for the most part forgotten. Th... + Read More
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Series: The Three Count My Life in Stripes as a WWE Referee Paperback Jimmy Korderas 9781770410848 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 01, 2013

The Three Count highlights the triumphs and tragedies Jimmy Korderas experienced over his storied career as a WWE ref, from humble beginnings with Jack Tunney in Toronto to being a part of the main event at WrestleMania. For the first time, Korderas talks about the harrowing experience of being in the ring during Owen Hart’s accident and about the horrific effects of the Chris Benoit tragedy — the most difficult moments of his life in wrestling. The book also includes untold stories from inside and outside the ring, highlighting the bonds... + Read More
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Series: The Hardcore Truth The Bob Holly Story Paperback Bob Holly 9781770411098 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 01, 2013

Long before he became “Hardcore Holly,” Robert Howard was a fighter. From humble beginnings — a boy dominated by his disciplinarian stepfather but fueled by an unquenchable passion for pro wrestling — Bob grew up struggling to make ends meet. As an adult with a family of his own to provide for, Bob fought in bars for money before finally following his dream of wrestling. From regional promotions all the way to the bright lights of the WWF, from false starts as Thurman “Sparky” Plugg and “Bombastic” Bob to fame as an internationally known ... + Read More
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Series: Power Through Presentations Tips and Tricks to Build a Better Slide Deck Paperback Andy Balser 9781550229509 $9.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 01, 2013

Power Through Presentations is a light-hearted but practical guide to overcome one of the most common challenges that faces millions of business professionals today: translating ideas into sleek presentations. Other books target presenters who are taking the stage to speak to a room full of people but most of us create a presentation deck that is then emailed or reviewed over the phone. There’s a massive underserved market of business professionals who need help to create effective PowerPoint® slides in their day-to-day work. Some common ... + Read More