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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: Yiddish for PiratesHardcover
Gary Barwin9780345815514
$32.00FICTION
Apr 05, 2016
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot.Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. From a present-day Flo... + Read More
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Series: The ParcelHardcover
Anosh Irani9780345816740
$32.00FICTION
Sep 06, 2016
Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender. Anosh Irani's best novel yet, and his first with Knopf Canada.The Parcel's astonishing heart, soul and unforgettable voice is Madhu--born a boy, but a eunuch by choice--who has spent most of her life in a close-knit clan of transgender sex workers in K... + Read More
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE“Powerful. . . . Full of dark nostalgia.” —NATHAN ENGLANDER“A literary high-wire act, not for the faint of heart.” —ALISSA YORKAn unflinching and masterful collection of award-winning stories, Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush is a career-making debut. Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are populated by barkeeps, good men down on their luck, rebellious teens, lonely ... + Read More
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Series: The BreakPaperback
Katherena Vermette9781487001117
$23.99FICTION
Sep 17, 2016
Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.In... + Read More
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Series: CalvinPaperback
Martine Leavitt9781554987207
$14.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12
Nov 15, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — TextIn the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations.As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture.And so he decides to walk across Lake Erie. In January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold…The lake, it... + Read More
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Series: The UnquietHardcover
Mikaela Everett9780062381279
$21.99 Age (years) from 14
Sep 22, 2015
“Epic, desolate, rich, and breathtaking . . . The Unquiet is unforgettable.”—Ann Aguirre, New York Times–bestselling author of the Razorland trilogy“A slow-burn type of novel . . . fascinating.”—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s BooksThe Atlas Six meets Orphan Black in this complex, beautifully crafted debut about a sixteen-year-old girl who is forced to live—and kill—on a parallel Earth. Mikaela Everett’s The Unquiet is for readers of V. E. Schwab’s Vicious and anyone who loves dystopian thrillers.For as long as anyone can remember, there ... + Read More
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Series: A Thousand NightsHardcover
E. K. Johnston9781484722275
$19.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 99
Oct 06, 2015
"A story threaded with shimmering vibrance and beauty, A Thousand Nights will weave its spell over readers' hearts and leave them captivated long after the final tale has been told." -- Alexandra Bracken, New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds seriesA dazzling retelling of Arabian Nights, A THOUSAND NIGHTS is a tale of family, love and power that would not feel out of place if Scheherazade herself were telling it. And maybe she is...Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When s... + Read More
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Series: Once, in a Town Called MothHardcover
Trilby Kent9781101918111
$21.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12
Sep 06, 2016
The fish out of water story of a young Mennonite girl from Bolivia trying to find her way in a big city. A contemporary YA novel akin to Stephanie Oakes’s The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly.Ana is not your typical teenager. She grew up in a tiny Mennonite colony in Bolivia, and her mother fled the colony when Ana was a young girl. Now Ana and her father have also fled, and Ana doesn’t know why. She only knows that something was amiss in their tight-knit community. Arriving in Toronto, Ana has to fend for herself in this alien environment, completely... + Read More
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Series: The Emperor of Any PlaceHardcover
Tim Wynne-Jones9780763669737
$23.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14
Oct 13, 2015
The ghosts of war reverberate across the generations in a riveting, time-shifting story within a story from acclaimed thriller writer Tim Wynne-Jones.When Evan’s father dies suddenly, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk—a book his dad had been reading when he passed away. The book is the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a small Pacific island in WWII. Why was his father reading it? What is in this account that Evan’s grandfather, whom Evan has never met before, fears so much that he will do anything to prevent its being seen?... + Read More
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Series: Tokyo Digs a GardenHardcover
Jon-Erik Lappano9781554987986
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 01, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — Illustrated Books Tokyo lives in a small house between giant buildings with his family and his cat, Kevin. For years, highways and skyscrapers have been built up around the family’s house where once there were hills and trees. Will they ever experience the natural world again? One day, an old woman offers Tokyo seeds, telling him they will grow into whatever he wishes. Tokyo and his grandfather are astonished when the seeds grow into a forest so lush that it ta... + Read More
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Series: The White Cat and the MonkA Retelling of the Poem “Pangur Bán”Hardcover
Jo Ellen Bogart9781554987801
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8
Mar 01, 2016
A monk leads a simple life. He studies his books late into the evening and searches for truth in their pages. His cat, Pangur, leads a simple life, too, chasing prey in the darkness. As night turns to dawn, Pangur leads his companion to the truth he has been seeking.The White Cat and the Monk is a retelling of the classic Old Irish poem “Pangur Bán.” With Jo Ellen Bogart’s simple and elegant narration and Sydney Smith’s classically inspired images, this contemplative story pays tribute to the wisdom of animals and the wonders of the natural world.
“So smart and so cute and so dark all at the same time. Sheesh.” —Caldecott medal and honor winner, Jon Klassen. Once upon a time there was a hungry lion and a bunch of adorable animals…what do you think happened next?There once was a hungry lion, a penguin (Well he was just here…), a little calico kitten (I could have sworn I just saw him…), a brown mouse (Now wait a second…), a bunny with floppy ears and a bunny with un-floppy ears (Okay this is just getting ridiculous), a frog, a bat, a pig, a slightly bigger pig, a wooly sheep, a koala, a h... + Read More
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Series: Branch, TheHardcover
Mireille Messier9781771385640
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Sep 01, 2016
When an ice storm snaps a small girl's favorite branch from the tree in her yard, she's crestfallen. The girl's mom says it's just a branch. But not to her! “That was the branch I sat on, jumped from, played under. It was my castle, my spy base, my ship ...” Luckily, her neighbor Mr. Frank understands. He says the branch has “potential.” “What's potential?” she asks. “It means it's worth keeping.” And so, with imagination and spirit, and Mr. Frank's guidance and tools, the girl transforms the broken branch into something whole and new, giving i... + Read More
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Series: OokoHardcover
Esmé Shapiro9781101918449
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Jul 05, 2016
A hilarious, wonderfully illustrated tale of friendship from a talented new author-illustrator.Ooko has everything a fox could want: a stick, a leaf and a rock. Well, almost everything…Ooko wants someone to play with too! The foxes in town always seem to be playing with their two-legged friends, the Debbies. Maybe if he tries to look like the other foxes, one of the Debbies will play with him too. But when Ooko finally finds his very own Debbie, things don’t turn out quite as he had expected!A quirky, funny, charmingly illustrated story about f... + Read More
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Series: Pig GirlPaperback
Colleen Murphy9781770914469
$17.95DRAMA
Nov 01, 2015
At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her.
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Series: Kill Me NowPaperback
Brad Fraser9781770914384
$17.95DRAMA
Oct 06, 2015
When Joey enters puberty, his father Jake finds himself in a morally ambiguous position. Joey is severely disabled, but he still has the same sexual desires as any seventeen-year-old boy, only he can’t do anything to relieve the tension. Jake is a widower whose life is devoted to his son, but when he suddenly develops a serious medical condition, he becomes the one to rely on the people around him, including his sister Twyla, his friend Robyn, and Joey’s best friend Rowdy. As Jake’s condition worsens, an ethical dilemma troubles the household a... + Read More
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Series: A Man A FishPaperback
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard9781770914346
$17.95DRAMA
Oct 01, 2015
Prosper is a fisherman trying to get by in the face of everyday problems: there’s the spectre of the baby his wife desires, the ghost of his dead mistress, his wife’s secret admirer, and the overwhelming lure of the village bar. When a slippery eel salesman arrives in town peddling progress to the rural community, Prosper’s list of problems only increases. Faced with an invasive new species in his lake, his fortunes decline along with the fish population, and Prosper gets a lesson in gift horses and generosity. A Man A Fish is a part of the 54o... + Read More
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Series: Concord FloralPaperback
Jordan Tannahill9781770914957
$17.95DRAMA
Mar 07, 2016
Concord Floral is a one-million-square-foot abandoned greenhouse and a refuge for neighbourhood kids; a place all to themselves in which to dream, dare, and come of age. But hidden there is a secret no one wants to confront, and when two friends stumble upon it they set off an unstoppable chain of events, from shadows in parking lots to phone calls from the grave. It's time for the teens of Concord Floral to start talking.
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Series: RefugePaperback
Mary Vingoe9781927922163
$15.95DRAMA
Jul 20, 2015
Ayinom, a former soldier from Eritrea, has arrived in Canada without papers, and seeks refugee status. Seen through the eyes of the couple that take him in and the lawyer who represents him, the play lays bare some of the shortfalls of the refugee system as it exists in Canada today. Refuge combines verbatim text from CBC radio interviews with the fictional world of the characters to create a work with uncommon resonance and verisimilitude
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Series: The Waking Comes LatePaperback
Steven Heighton9781487000936
$19.99POETRY
Apr 09, 2016
2016 Governor General's Literary Award Winner2017 Raymond Souster Award FinalistGovernor General’s Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton returns with a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the p... + Read More
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Series: Regeneration MachinePaperback
Joe Denham9780889713178
$18.95POETRY
Oct 31, 2015
Twenty years ago Nevin Sample walked into a small bank in Deep Cove, robbed a teller at gunpoint and fled into the forest of Cates Park. After a lengthy pursuit, he hid behind a stump at the edge of a small clearing. The police called to him. He raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Nevin had a magnetism, an understated complexity: there were those who loved him, resented him, found him gregarious. To Joe Denham, he was an old, close friend. Regeneration Machine is a 100-stanza, 9,000-word letter-in-verse to Nevin's ghost--a requ... + Read More
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Series: Throaty WipesPaperback
Susan Holbrook9781552453285
$18.95POETRY
Apr 15, 2016
In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked 'What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose.' Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does 'chuffed' mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations of Adam had mothers? Through her signature fusion of formal innovation and lyricism, Holbrook delivers what we've been waiting for. 'Here is language that has a joyous physicality, reminding usthat language and, therefore, poetry is first and foremost a physical act involving the muscles of the lips, tongue an... + Read More
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Series: Prairie HarbourPaperback
Garry Thomas Morse9780889229402
$18.95POETRY
Sep 21, 2015
In this contrapuntal follow-up to Governor General’s Award finalist Discovery Passages, Garry Thomas Morse traces multiple lines of his mixed ancestry. These include the nomadic “pre-historical” movements of Wakashan speakers who were later to form various West Coast First Nations; the schismatic mindset of Jedidiah Morse, the “father of American geography”; and eternal struggles of European Jewish relations, artists, and close friends against perennial anti-Semitism. Set around the vigilantly maintained border/lines that mark the relatively “u... + Read More
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Series: Marry & BurnPaperback
Rachel Rose9781550177183
$18.95POETRY
Oct 10, 2015
The fourth collection from award-winning poet Rachel Rose, Marry & Burn is a journey through a troubled relationship and a troubled city, charting the territory of love and addiction, and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. Inspired by struggles both personal and global, these are not gentle poems--they probe deep into comforting personal and cultural myths, rending them to pieces even as they expose the beauty in the bright shards that remain. Although the language of blazing passion resonates throughout the discussion of love, l... + Read More
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Series: A World We Have LostSaskatchewan Before 1905Hardcover
Bill Waiser9781927083390
$70.00HISTORY
May 12, 2016
2016 Governor General's Literary Awards winner in the adult non-fiction categoryA World We Have Lost examines the early history of Saskatchewan through an Aboriginal and environmental lens. Indian and mixed-descent peoples played leading roles in the story, as did the land and climate. Despite the growing British and Canadian presence, the Saskatchewan country remained Aboriginal territory. The region's peoples had their own interests and needs and the fur trade was often peripheral to their lives. Indians and M�tis peoples wrangled over terr... + Read More
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Series: BrownWhat Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)Hardcover
Kamal Al-Solaylee9781443441438
$32.99
May 10, 2016
Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book AwardA Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books, Chatelaine, Hill Times, 49th Shelf and Writers’ Trust Best Book of the YearWith the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of J.D. Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) and the historical rigour of Carol Anderson (White Rage), Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the in-between space that brown peo... + Read More
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Series: In-Between DaysA Memoir About Living with CancerPaperback
Teva Harrison9781487001087
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 23, 2016
2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals. She struggles to reconcil... + Read More
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Series: FirewaterHow Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)Paperback
Harold R. Johnson9780889774377
$16.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 23, 2016
A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many names—booze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative “firewater.” Confronting the harmful stereotype of the “lazy, drunken Indian,” and rejecting medical, social, and psychological explanations of the roots of alcoholi... + Read More
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Series: MarconiThe Man Who Networked the WorldHardcover
Marc Raboy9780199313587
$49.50HISTORY
Jul 21, 2016
Nominated for the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award in Non-fiction. Longlisted for the 2017 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Behind so much of what we take for granted in the world of instantaneous communication towers Guglielmo Marconi. Thanks to his wireless system, which came into full use about a century ago, the cables that had constrained communication, slowing the exchange of news and information, disappeared. News and information could be transmitted almost everywhere, instantaneously. Ships could communicate with oth... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation SeriesThe Party WallPaperback
Catherine Leroux9781771960762
$19.95FICTION
May 10, 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 GILLER PRIZESELECTED FOR INDIES INTRODUCE SUMMER/FALL 2016WINNER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS FRANCE-QUEBEC PRIZENOMINATED FOR THE QUEBEC BOOKSELLER'S PRIZECatherine Leroux's The Party Wall shifts between and ties together stories about pairs joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she may not be the biological mother of her own son despite having given birth to him; a brother and sister unite, as their mother dies, to search for their long-lost father; two young sisters take a detour home, unaware of the tragedy that awai... + Read More
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Series: GuanoPaperback
Louis Carmain9781552453155
$19.95FICTION
Oct 19, 2015
Bartleby the Scrivener meets Catch-22 in this charmingly sardonic tale of love, war and fertilizer. WINNER OF THE PRIX DES COLLAGIENS Simon turned his thoughts to her daily. There were few enough of them, but each one lingered. He imagined their life together. Sometimes even their children’s lives. Sometimes he set his fantasies in Spain, sometimes America, less often Peru– so many settings, all of which turned into the bedroom, eventually. It's 1862, and Spain is a little rueful about letting Peru have their independence. Or, more importantly,... + Read More
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Series: The Goddess of FirefliesPaperback
Genevieve Pettersen9781550654370
$19.95FICTION
Mar 01, 2016
The year is 1996, and small-town life for 14-year-old Catherine is made up of punk rock, skaters, shoplifting, and the ghost of Kurt Cobain. Her parents are too busy divorcing to pay her headful of unspent angst much attention. But after she tries mess - a PCP variant - for the first time, her budding rebellion begins to spiral out of control. Universally acclaimed as the modern-day coming-of-age story for a generation of Québécois youth growing up in the 1990s, Géneviève Pettersen's award-winning debut novel both shocked and titillated read... + Read More
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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
Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — TextIn the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations.As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture.And so he decides to walk across Lake Erie. In January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold…The lake, it... + Read More
Once, in a Town Called Moth Hardcover 9781101918111 $21.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Sep 06, 2016
In-Between Days A Memoir About Living with Cancer Paperback 9781487001087 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 23, 2016
Firewater How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) Paperback 9780889774377 $16.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 23, 2016