1.
Series:
Mad Richard
Paperback
Lesley Krueger
9781770413566
$18.95
FICTION
Mar 14, 2017
A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J.M.W. Turner. Based on Dadd’s tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame — as he watc...
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2.
Series:
Sputnik’s Children
A Novel
Paperback
Terri Favro
9781770413412
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 11, 2017
A literary, genre-bending novel full of heart Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era–inspired superhero series, Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chick’s origin story. Debbie’s never had to make anything up before and she isn’t starting now. Sputnik Chick is based on Debbie’s own life in an altern...
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3.
Series:
The Dhow House
Paperback
Jean McNeil
9781770413498
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 11, 2017
A lushly imagined novel that asks, “When do we ever really know ourselves?” When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous embrace her attraction for her much younger cousin grows. But the gilded lives of her aunt Julia’s family and their fellow white Africans on the coast...
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4.
Series:
Berlin-Warszawa Express
Paperback
Eamon McGrath
9781770413283
$19.95
FICTION
May 09, 2017
Rollins’s Get in the Van meets Bidini’s On a Cold Road in an original fever dream While touring Europe, Eamon McGrath wrestled with one of the biggest questions on the mind of any touring artist: should you suffer for your art? The pain and heartache that goes along with a working musician’s lifestyle must serve as a means to some kind of cathartic end, McGrath argues — otherwise that torment served no purpose. In Berlin-Warszawa Express, McGrath fictionalizes experiences from his life and the lives of his peers to seek out meaning and signific...
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5.
Series:
Careergasm
Find Your Way to Feel-Good Work
Paperback
Sarah Vermunt
9781770413719
$18.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 14, 2017
Rousing, bullsh*t-free advice for aspiring career changers What is a careergasm? Does it feel as good as it sounds? You bet your ass it does. A Careergasm happens when your work feels good. Really good. Like a groovin’ Marvin Gaye song. Like you and your work belong together, and you can’t help coming back for more. But how do you get your mojo back when you’re in a passionless relationship with your job? In Careergasm, Sarah Vermunt leads the way. This playful, empowering book for wannabe career changers is a rally cry, a shot of courage, and ...
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6.
Series:
NXT
The Future Is Now
Hardcover
Jon Robinson
9781770413252
$32.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Apr 11, 2017
The first comprehensive book on WWE’s hottest brand NXT: The Future Is Now follows the rise of WWE’s popular NXT brand from its conception to the brink of taking over WWE with its own rabid following. For decades, sports-entertainment had no centralized system for recruiting and training talent. Recognizing this need, Paul Levesque — better known as 14-time World Champion Triple H — convinced Vince McMahon that WWE must reinvent itself. This book delivers the revealing story of Levesque’s vision and the revolutionary impact it has already had o...
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7.
Series:
Sisterhood of the Squared Circle
The History and Rise of Women’s Wrestling
Paperback
Pat Laprade
9781770413078
$24.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Apr 11, 2017
A behind-the-scenes look at over a century of female wrestling, with profiles and photos, documenting the rise of women’s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event “Sisterhood of the Squared Circle is absolutely a must read for most fans . . .” Wrestle Book Review From the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today’s main events, this book offers a look at the business of women’s wrestling with its backstage politics, real-life grudges, and incredible personalities. With more than one hundred profiles, you’ll learn about the careers of...
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8.
Series:
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
The Rise of Motörhead
Paperback
Martin Popoff
9781770413474
$22.95
MUSIC
May 09, 2017
“Motörhead, remember me now, Motörhead, alright!” Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers is the first book to celebrate the classic-era Motörhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, “Fast” Eddie Clarke, and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor. Through interviews with all of the principal troublemakers, Martin Popoff celebrates the formation of the band and the records that made them legends: Motörhead, Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, No Sleep ’til Hammersmith, and Iron Fist. An in-depth coda brings the story up to date with the shocking recent deaths of Taylor and K...
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9.
Series:
The Science of Orphan Black
The Official Companion
Paperback
Casey Griffin
9781770413801
$22.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Aug 22, 2017
An official guide to the crazy science of Orphan Black Delve deeper into the scientific terms and theories at the core of the Peabody-winning, cult favourite show. With exclusive insights from the show’s co-creator Graeme Manson and science consultant Cosima Herter, The Science of Orphan Black takes you behind the closed doors of the Dyad Institute and inside Neolution. Authors Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth decode the mysteries of Orphan Black — from the history of cloning, epigenetics, synthetic biology, chimerism, the real diseases on ...
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10.
Series:
Director’s Cut
My Life in Film
Hardcover
Ted Kotcheff
9781770413610
$29.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 14, 2017
From Weekend at Bernie’s to First Blood and Law & Order: SVU, the legendary director recounts his journey and wide-ranging career in this intimate memoir . . . with a foreword by Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Mariska Hargitay Publishers Weekly Starred Review “It is a fascinating, startling thing to look over the films Ted has made and realize that he never met a genre he couldn’t conquer.” — Richard Dreyfuss, Academy Award-winning actor “It is for such insights into the director’s craft that Ted Kotcheff’s digressi...
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11.
Series: Pop Classics
Gentlemen of the Shade
My Own Private Idaho
Paperback
Jen Sookfong Lee
9781770413139
$12.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 13, 2017
Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility. My Own Private Idaho — fragmented and saturated with colour and dirt and a ...
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12.
Series:
Eat the Beetles!
An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects
Paperback
David Waltner-Toews
9781770413146
$19.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 09, 2017
“Provides a sturdy literary exoskeleton to the field of human insectivory . . . it entertains as it enlightens.” — Daniella Martin, author of Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet Will eating insects change the world for the better? Meet the beetles: there are millions and millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us — mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy — people eating ins...
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13.
Series:
Gutenberg’s Fingerprint
Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Books
Hardcover
Merilyn Simonds
9781770413528
$29.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Apr 11, 2017
An intimate narrative exploring the past, present, and future of books Four seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization. Poised over this fourth transition, e-reader in one hand, perfect-bound book in the other, Merilyn Simonds — author, literary maven, and early adopter — asks herself: what is lost and what is gained as paper turns to pixel? Gutenberg’s Fingerprint trolls the past, present, and evolving future of the book in search of a...
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14.
Series:
In the Black
My Life
Hardcover
B. Denham Jolly
9781770413788
$29.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 14, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Toronto Book Award A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly’s personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where Black Canadians have faced systematic discrimination. He arrived from Jamaica to attend university in the mid-1950s and worked as a high school teacher before going into the nursing and retirement-home business. Though he was ultimately successful in his business ventures, Jolly faced both overt and covert discrimination, w...
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15.
Series:
The Barefoot Bingo Caller
A Memoir
Paperback
Antanas Sileika
9781770413429
$19.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 09, 2017
Witty, wide-ranging stories of one man’s adventures in the world “Filled with pleasures . . . I enjoyed it immensely.” — Meg Wolitzer, New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings In The Barefoot Bingo Caller, Antanas Sileika finds what’s funny and touching in the most unlikely places, from a bingo hall to the collapsing Soviet Union. He shares stories of his attempts to shake off his suburban, ethnic, folk-dancing childhood; his divided allegiance as a Lithuanian Canadian father; and such memorable characters as aging beat po...
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16.
Series:
Malignant Metaphor
Confronting Cancer Myths, a Memoir
Paperback
Alanna Mitchell
9781770413894
$18.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 11, 2017
“In addition to her clear medical explanations, Mitchell’s compassionate attitude will bring comfort to those readers and their loved ones facing a cancer diagnosis.” — Publishers Weekly Award-winning science writer Alanna Mitchell confronts cancer myths in this powerful and personal book, as she recounts her family’s experiences with the disease. When her beloved brother-in-law John is diagnosed with malignant melanoma, Mitchell throws herself into the latest clinical research, providing us with a clear description of what scientists know of c...
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17.
Series: A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery
Beneath the Wake
A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery
Hardcover
Ross Pennie
9781770412767
$29.95
FICTION
May 09, 2017
The eagerly anticipated fourth medical thriller in the award-winning series Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo hopes an extended cruise on the Indian Ocean with his girlfriend and his son will salve the wounds of the rough times they’ve been weathering at home. As they set sail coddled in unaccustomed luxury on the Coral Dynasty, things below deck are a little less sunny for the ship’s physician. Dr. Noah Ferguson reckons that bandaging the wounds of the crew’s seedy missteps is just part of a job that comes with a fair share of loneliness, bu...
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18.
Series:
Beneath the Wake
A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery
Paperback
Ross Pennie
9781770413733
$17.95
FICTION
May 09, 2017
The eagerly anticipated fourth medical thriller in the award-winning series Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo hopes an extended cruise on the Indian Ocean with his girlfriend and his son will salve the wounds of the rough times they’ve been weathering at home. As they set sail coddled in unaccustomed luxury on the Coral Dynasty, things below deck are a little less sunny for the ship’s physician. Dr. Noah Ferguson reckons that bandaging the wounds of the crew’s seedy missteps is just part of a job that comes with a fair share of loneliness, bu...
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19.
Series:
The Hell of It All
A T.J. Peterson Mystery
Paperback
Bob Kroll
9781770413382
$17.95
FICTION
Mar 14, 2017
“A stylish noir.” — The Globe and Mail on The Drop Zone Retired detective T.J. Peterson is working the table scraps that his former partner, Danny Little, sometimes throws his way. One of them has Peterson hearing from a snitch about a body buried 30 years ago, the same time a drug kingpin went MIA. Peterson is also ducking an ex-con with a grudge, a hitman who likes playing jack-in-the-box with a 12 gauge. Then a former lover re-enters Peterson’s life and begs him to find her daughter, an addict who knows too much about the local drug trade fo...
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20.
Series: A Wilson Mystery
Rocks Beat Paper
A Wilson Mystery
Paperback
Mike Knowles
9781770411012
$17.95
FICTION
May 09, 2017
A highly entertaining heist thriller that combines “the intense grit of Richard Stark’s Parker series with the amorality of Jim Thompson’s work” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) A phone call brought Wilson and nine other men to a job in New York. At first, he couldn’t see a way to make the heist work, but the score — millions of dollars in diamonds — motivated him to try. Wilson came up with a plan he knew would work . . . until the inside man got killed and took the job with him. With no way inside, the crew walks away without the d...
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21.
Series:
Bicycle Thieves
Poems
Paperback
Mary di Michele
9781770413702
$18.95
POETRY
Apr 11, 2017
A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self. The collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal — an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet “envisioning the passage of time under the ‘full and waning’...
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22.
Series:
Quick
Aphorisms
Paperback
George Murray
9781770413818
$16.95
POETRY
Apr 11, 2017
The highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular Glimpse Quick is George Murray’s second collection of aphorisms — a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He describes these pieces as “poetic essences” — sometimes even as “poems, without all the poetry getting in the way.” Some are deep, some clever, some funny, some all three. The best, he says, should read like common-sense statements that have never actually been expressed. Built out of more than 450 short statements, Quick is a series of thoughts...
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23.
Series:
Dazzle Ships
Poems
Paperback
Jamie Sharpe
9781770413696
$18.95
POETRY
Apr 11, 2017
Poems that challenge the depths of perception Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often containing thousands of soldiers, were done up in a confusing array of lines to perplex and distort the viewer’s perspective (in this case, German submarines). “Razzle dazzle” was art attempting to hide life. Jamie Sharpe’s Dazzle Ships is also concerned with art’s relationship to life. It questions how we build poems from the mate...
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24.
Series:
Father Bauer and the Great Experiment
The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey
Hardcover
Greg Oliver
9781770412491
$32.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Apr 11, 2017
A pioneering and beloved Canadian legend comes to life Father David Bauer changed lives — at the rink, in the classroom, and at the pulpit. Bauer’s dream created the first truly national Canadian hockey team. In 1963, that unique group represented Canada abroad and were committed to both country and to Father Bauer. Whether shepherding the hockey program at St. Michael’s College in Toronto or the men’s national team out of the University of British Columbia, Bauer was both spiritual leader and trailblazer. Through exhaustive research an...
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25.
Series:
An Enduring Wilderness
Toronto’s Natural Parklands
Hardcover
Robert Burley
9781770413795
$49.95
NATURE
May 09, 2017
Featuring tributes from award-winning writers In a city sometimes referred to as “The Big Smoke,” Toronto’s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. However, the last 25 years has seen these distinctive landscapes rediscovered and even embraced as great civic spaces. Commissioned by the City of Toronto to chronicle the wonders of these wilderness parks, renowned photographer Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from breathta...
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26.
Series:
Black Ice
The Val James Story
Paperback
Val James
9781770413634
$19.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Jan 10, 2017
The first Black American in the NHL tells his story — now in trade paper Val James received his first pair of skates for his 13th birthday and by 16, he left his home in New York to play in Canada, where he was the only black person on his junior team and, often, in the whole town. While popular for his tough play and winning personality, the teenager faced racist taunts at opposing arenas. The prejudice he encountered continued at all levels of the game. He became the first African American NHLer when he took to the ice with the Buffalo Sabres...
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