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Series: Making Love with the Land Hardcover Joshua Whitehead 9780735278868 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONMuch-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed.In the last few years, following the publication of his debut novel Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead has emerged as one of the most exciting and important new voices on Turtle Island. Now, in this first non-fiction work, Whitehead brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land t... + Read More
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Series: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures Stories Paperback Vincent Lam 9781039005808 $22.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEAn astonishing literary debut centring around four students as they apply to medical school, qualify as doctors, and face the realities of working in medicine.“[A] masterly debut…. [Lam’s] incisive, clear prose [is] as faultless as a carefully stitched suture.” —The GuardianVincent Lam’s award-winning debut collection of intricate, interconnected stories initiates readers into the intense world of emergency rooms, evac missions, and terrifying new viruses as four young medical students and physicians—Ming, F... + Read More
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Series: Fight Night Paperback Miriam Toews 9780735282414 $22.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZENATIONAL BESTSELLERA funny, smart masterwork about wit, perseverance, loss, storytelling and love in an unusual family, from the bestselling author of Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindess.Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled fr... + Read More
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Series: NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY The Joy and Light Bus Company No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (22) Paperback Alexander McCall Smith 9780735281219 $21.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

In this installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is tempted to put the brakes on a business venture before it even gets rolling.Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni attends a course hosted by the local chamber of commerce entitled “Where Is Your Business Going?” But rather than feeling energized, he comes back in low spirits, unsure how to grow the already venerable and successful Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. Then an old friend from school approaches him about a new business venture that could be just the ticket. When it tu... + Read More
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Series: Fall on Your Knees Paperback Ann-Marie MacDonald 9780394281780 $24.95 FICTION Aug 26, 1997

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book * Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award * Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award * Winner of the CBA Libris People’s Choice Award * Winner of the CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the YearThe stunning debut novel that established Ann-Marie MacDonald as one of Canada’s foremost literary talents, Fall on Your Knees is a story of inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, and of miracles.Moving from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the b... + Read More
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Series: With Love from Wish & Co. A Novel Paperback Minnie Darke 9780385697132 $21.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

A professional gift buyer fights to protect her reputation—and keep things businesslike with the handsome son of her biggest client—in this charming novel from the author of Star-Crossed and The Lost Love Song.Two boxes, both alike in size and shape…Marnie Fairchild is the brains and talent behind Wish & Co., a boutique store that offers a bespoke gift-buying service to wealthy clients with complicated lives. Brian Charlesworth is Marnie’s most prized customer, and today she’s wrapping the perfect anniversary gift for his wife, Suzanne…and a bi... + Read More
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Series: The Housekeeper Paperback Joy Fielding 9780385695633 $24.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents—only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author called “an ingenious master of domestic suspense” (Samantha M. Bailey).In the end, I have only myself to blame. I’m the one who let her in.Jodi Bishop knows success. She’s the breadwinner, a top-notch real estate agent. Her husband, Harrison…not so much. Once, he had big dreams. But now, he’s a middling writer who resents his wife’s success.Jodi’s father, Vic, now sev... + Read More
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Series: Sharp Edges Paperback Leah Mol 9780385697224 $24.95 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

For readers of My Dark Vanessa and Lullabies for Little Criminals, this important, electrifying novel about the agony and exhilaration of being a teenage girl will challenge you, unsettle you and ask you to look at your own experiences with perversions of power.Katie is used to being let down. Her best friend abandoned her for a boy, her mom is a hypochondriac who spends most days on the couch, and the guys at school can do whatever they want while the girls are stuck following the rules.All Katie wants is to be seen. So when she finds an onlin... + Read More
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Series: Careering Paperback Daisy Buchanan 9780385684170 $23.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

Hilarious and unflinchingly honest, Careering takes a hard look at the often toxic relationship working women have with their dream jobs.careering (verb) 1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely2. moving in a way that feels out of controlImogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, Imogen dreams of any job. Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither fulfilling her creatively nor paying the bills.Harri might just be Imogen’s fairy godmother. She’s moving from the... + Read More
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Series: Carrie Soto Is Back A Novel Paperback Taylor Jenkins Reid 9780385695794 $24.95 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime—from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising.Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacri... + Read More
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Series: Harlem Shuffle A Novel Paperback Colson Whitehead 9780385694018 $23.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST FOR FICTION * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR FICTION * NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALIST FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK—FICTIONFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked….”To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a life for himself a... + Read More
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Series: The Skin We're In A Year of Black Resistance and Power Paperback Desmond Cole 9780385686365 $19.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 02, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER · WINNER OF THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD · FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGNESSY COHEN PRIZE · FINALIST FOR THE FOREST OF READING EVERGREEN AWARD · FINALIST FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE · BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (The Globe and Mail, NOW, CBC, Quill & Quire, Indigo) · A PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICKIn this bracing, revelatory work of award-winning journalism, celebrated writer and activist Desmond Cole punctures the naive assumptions of Canadians who believe we live in a post-racial nation.Chronicling just one year in ... + Read More
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Series: Once More, With Feeling Paperback Sophie McCreesh 9780385696197 $21.95 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

Calling to mind smart, deadpan and unrepentant novels such as The New Me and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Sophie McCreesh’s distinctive and arresting debut novel is about a young woman veering towards self-destruction.Once More, With Feeling follows Jane, an artist navigating her closest relationships while fixating on her own perceived failures and self-imposed isolation. When Jane receives a student grant to attend a workshop in London, England, she sees the opportunity to leave her tedious life behind and start anew, bringing along her ne... + Read More
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Series: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Paperback Bill Gates 9780735280465 $22.00 SCIENCE Aug 23, 2022

#1 NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid an irreversibleclimate catastrophe.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help and guidance of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide to certain en... + Read More
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Series: A Slow Fire Burning A Novel Paperback Paula Hawkins 9780385689687 $22.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

INSTANT NATIONAL AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder and revenge.Look what you started.When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women in particular. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is the grief-stricken aunt, already mourning another family member who died only wee... + Read More
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Series: Lunchbox 75+ Easy and Delicious Recipes for Lunches on the Go Hardcover Aviva Wittenberg 9780525611523 $30.00 COOKING Aug 16, 2022

A must-have cookbook of lunches you can look forward to all morning long! 75+ fail-safe recipes (and oodles of strategies and tips) for delicious lunchboxes and bowls your whole family can enjoy.Say goodbye to the same boring, limited lunch rotation, and hello to everyone’s new favorite meal of the day! Lunchbox has literally months’ worth of recipes for flavorful, filling, nutritious, and delicious meals—guaranteed to stay fresh until lunch. With chapters on Soups, Sandwiches, Salads, Warm Bowls, Cold Bowls, Handpies, and Brunch for Lunch—as w... + Read More
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Series: WHISTLER, THE The Judge's List A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157831 $12.99 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, s... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Kings A Novel Hardcover Tyrell Johnson 9780593466865 $36.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR “The plot folds into a brilliant twist.”—The New York Times “A novel in disguise. You could easily (and happily) mistake it for a stellar psychological thriller, bristling with surprises and packed with secrets; but listen closely and you’ll hear the beat of a dark, full heart, strong and loud. This is deeply moving fiction.” —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowTwins Jeanie and Jamie King are inseparable. Stuck in a cabin in rural Washington with their alcohol... + Read More
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Series: Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth A Novel Paperback Wole Soyinka 9780593314470 $24.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, combining “elements of a murder mystery, a searing political satire and an Alice in Wonderland-like modern allegory of power and deceit” (Los Angeles Times). In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka’s hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payn... + Read More
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Series: The Women of Troy A Novel Paperback Pat Barker 9780593311325 $23.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post).Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean.It does not come, because the gods are off... + Read More
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Series: Power Play Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century Paperback Tim Higgins 9781984898241 $24.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 30, 2022

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla’s bid to build the world’s greatest car—from award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins. “A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla’s wild ride.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book ReviewTesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the ... + Read More
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Series: The Rabbit Hutch A novel Hardcover Tess Gunty 9780593534663 $37.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about • “Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny.”—The GuardianA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, People Blandine isn’t like the other residents of her building.An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents — neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, ... + Read More
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Series: Babysitter A novel Hardcover Joyce Carol Oates 9780593535172 $40.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From one of America’s most renowned storytellers—the best-selling author of Blonde—comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a backdrop of shocking murders in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.“Hannah’s unreliable, elliptical narrative is seductive and compelling, like following someone into a fever dream…[Oates] is in no hurry to trigger the action, dropping tiny morsels of foreshadowing to keep us on our toes.” —The New York Times Book Review“Unsettling, mysterious, deft, sinister, eerily plausible.” —Margaret Atwood... + Read More
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Series: We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky Hardcover Emma Hooper 9780735232747 $32.95 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION*An epic, boundary-pushing tale of five young women rebelling against an era that relies on their submission, from the acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James.During the golden age of the Roman Empire, five girls enjoy a modest childhood in their small Portuguese village. They race each other through lemon orchards and pick fresh fruit for the commander who overlooks his people from a large house on the hill. Though the girls are all raised by different families, there is o... + Read More
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Series: Regenesis Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet Paperback George Monbiot 9780735240391 $23.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 02, 2022

* GEORGE MONBIOT IS THE WINNER OF THE 2022 ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION*What if there were a way to stop climate change and end global hunger at the same time?The way we feed ourselves is destroying the planet, and a collection of crises have brought the global food supply to its breaking point. But it doesn’t have to be this way. With technology that already exists, we could sustainably provide everyone on the planet with a healthy diet. By cultivating hydrogen-ea... + Read More
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Series: Escape from Manus Prison One Man's Daring Quest for Freedom Paperback Jaivet Ealom 9780735245198 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 02, 2022

The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia’s notorious offshore detention centre and his long journey to find home.In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar’s brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. Instead of finding refuge, he was transported to Australia’s infamous Manus Regional Processing Centre.Blistering hot days spent in shipping containers on the island melted into weeks, then years until, finally, facing eit... + Read More
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Series: Utopia A Novel Hardcover Heidi Sopinka 9780735243866 $32.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022Out of the explosive 1970s L.A. art scene comes a riveting novel about creativity, death, and reinvention that follows two artists—one dies mysteriously, and the other takes her placePaz, an ambitious young artist, is drawn to Romy, one of the only women to break into the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California. She is also drawn to Romy’s husband, Billy, an enigmatic art star. When Romy dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances, Billy is left unmoored, caring for their newborn.Leaving New York and grad... + Read More
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Series: We Are Still Here Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard Paperback Nahid Shahalimi 9780735246003 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 16, 2022

A collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the first anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan.After decades of significant progress, the prospects of women and girls in Afghanistan are once again dependent on radical Islamists who reject gender equality. When the United States announced the end of their twenty-year occupation and the Taliban seized control of the country on August 15th, 2021, so began a steep regression of social, political, and eco... + Read More
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Series: Acts of Love and War Paperback Maggie Brookes 9780735246072 $24.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

A remarkable story of love and sacrifice centred on three young English volunteers in the bloody Spanish Civil War, from the author of The Prisoner’s Wife.1936. Civil war is tearing Spain apart, and the world is on the brink of chaos… Twenty-one-year-old Lucy is frustrated with her constrained life in Hertfordshire, teaching and keeping house for her domineering father. But she is happy to be living next door to Tom and Jamie, two brothers she has known since childhood, and whom she loves equally.But everyone’s lives are turned upside down when... + Read More
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Series: Dark Music A Novel Paperback David Lagercrantz 9780735241480 $24.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, an exhilarating new thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl in the Spider’s Web—a murder investigation in which two unlikely allies race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy.Professor Hans Rekke is a world authority on interrogation techniques, capable of dizzying feats of logic and observation. He was born into wealth and power and has a picture-perfect wife and daughter. But he also has a fragile psyche that falls apart under pressure.Micaela Vargas is a street-smart police officer, daughter of C... + Read More
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Series: The Foghorn Echoes Hardcover Danny Ramadan 9780735242180 $32.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

*SHORTLISTED FOR A 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD*“A sweeping and mesmerizing story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly.” —Alan CummingA deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives.Syria, 2003. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. In an instant, the course of their lives is changed forever.Ten years later, Hussam and Wassim are still struggling t... + Read More
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Series: Run, Hide, Repeat A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood Paperback Pauline Dakin 9780735233249 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 09, 2022

Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction · Longlisted for British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 · Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award · Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award · Shortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors · A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year“Dakin’s childhood on the run has all the elements of a great thriller. There are last-minute cross-country escapes, a web of dark family secret... + Read More
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Series: The Strangers Paperback Katherena Vermette 9780735239630 $22.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR FICTION * NAMED #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY INDIGO * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD, MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION, AND MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE * A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOKThe Strangers, a staggering intergenerational saga from from the bestselling author of The Break, explores how connected we are, even when we’re no longer together—even when we’re force... + Read More
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Series: Life in the City of Dirty Water A Memoir of Healing Paperback Clayton Thomas-Muller 9780735240087 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 2022 CANADA READS FINALISTAn electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the str... + Read More
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Series: All's Well Paperback Mona Awad 9780735241220 $19.95 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Dear Readers: This is one wild book!” —Margaret Atwood via TwitterFrom the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theatre professor suffering with chronic pain who, in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeare’s most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers.Miranda is a theatre professor whose life is less than satisfactory. After falling during a performance early in her acting career, she finds herself in constant, seemingly incurable pain and struggles to even sit sti... + Read More
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Series: The Barcelona Complex Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club Paperback Simon Kuper 9780593297735 $24.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 16, 2022

"An outright joy. An instant classic.” —Bill Buford, author of Among the Thugs and HeatWith rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world—and how that era is now endingFC Barcelona is not just the world’s highest grossing sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organizations on the planet. At last count, it had approximately 214 million social media followers, and by one earlier mea... + Read More
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Series: A Map for the Missing A Novel Hardcover Belinda Huijuan Tang 9780593300664 $36.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behind“Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father—and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, A Map for the Missing explores the costs of choosing your own path, whether what’s left behind ca... + Read More
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Series: The Last White Man A Novel Hardcover Mohsin Hamid 9780593538814 $35.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change.One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them.Some see the... + Read More
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Series: Paul A Novel Hardcover Daisy Lafarge 9780593538845 $35.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

A sharp, timely debut about a young woman’s toxic relationship with an older man and her battle to free herself from the suffocating expectation to be “good.”When personal scandal forces her to leave Paris, Frances, a young British graduate student, travels to southern France one summer to volunteer on a farm. Almost as soon as she arrives, she is pulled into a relationship with the farm’s enigmatic owner, Paul, a well-traveled older artist. Alone in a foreign country, drawn into his orbit and eventually tangled up in his sheets, Frances starts... + Read More
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Series: All This Could Be Different A Novel Hardcover Sarah Thankam Mathews 9780593489123 $36.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

A Phenomenal Book Club Pick • A Vogue Book Club Pick • A The Rumpus Book Club Pick“All This Could Be Different is a bildungsroman, a gorgeous queer love story, and a musing on labor and immigration. But you’ll fall most in love with its wickedly sharp narrator, who’s funny, passionate, and complicated.” —The Cut“If you’ve ever wanted to read a love letter to friendship, this is it… Through exquisite observations, Sarah Thankam Mathews reflects on the gift of having people you can count on, who anchor you through new chapters.” —NPR’s “Books We ... + Read More
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Series: Fuzz When Nature Breaks the Law Paperback Mary Roach 9781324036128 $22.95 SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict sp... + Read More
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Series: Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club Paperback Roselle Lim 9780593335611 $23.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim.Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made difficult when she is revealed as a fraud: she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast.In dire search of cli... + Read More
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Series: Love on the Brain Paperback Ali Hazelwood 9780593336847 $23.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis—with explosive results.Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project—a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia—Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Ticket Paperback Freya Sampson 9780593201411 $23.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

Strangers aboard a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the author of The Last Chance Library.When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date at the National Gallery art museum, but Frank lost the bus ticket with her number on it. For the past si... + Read More
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Series: Radiant Fugitives A Novel Paperback Nawaaz Ahmed 9781640095533 $24.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONFINALIST FOR PUBLISHING TRIANGLE’S EDMUND WHITE DEBUT FICTION AWARDIn the last weeks of her pregnancy, a Muslim Indian lesbian living in San Francisco receives a visit from her estranged mother and sister that surfaces long held secrets and betrayals in this “sweeping family saga… with the beautiful specificity of real lives lived, loved, and fought for” (Entertainment Weekly)Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed... + Read More
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Series: Perish A Novel Hardcover LaToya Watkins 9780593185919 $36.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful and moving debut novel and sweeping family saga, PERISH, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intragenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed.Bear it or Perish. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateful night in her cousin’s outhouse that changes the trajectory of her life. Spanning decades, PERISH tracks the choices Helen Jean—the matriarch of the Turner family—makes and the way those choices have ... + Read More
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Series: Survive the Night A Novel Paperback Riley Sager 9780593183182 $23.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

Now in paperback, the fifth thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager.It’s November 1991. Nirvana’s in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of he... + Read More
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Series: Only Sisters Paperback Lilian Nattel 9780735277069 $24.95 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

One sister runs away and the other stays behind. But what happens when the dutiful sister has to impersonate the rebel? In her page-turning exploration of familial loyalty, resentment, secrets, and grief, Lilian Nattel explores the meaning and reach of family bonds.Joan has always done the right thing, both as a palliative care doctor and as a caregiver for her widowed mother, Sheila. Joan’s adventurous sister, Vivien, is a different story. She left home as soon as she was able—running from an insecure childhood troubled by an alcoholic father ... + Read More
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Series: Elizabeth Finch A novel Hardcover Julian Barnes 9781039004887 $32.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

From the Booker Award-winning writer, a swift narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man’s deeper examination of love, friendship and the mysteries of biography.“I’ll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I’ve met this year have faded.” —John Self, The Times (UK)This novel of unrequited platonic love takes aim at the singular character of the exacting Elizabeth Finch. When Neil, adrift in his 30s, takes her adult education class on Culture and Civilization, he becomes deep... + Read More
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Series: Jones Hardcover Neil Smith 9781039001923 $34.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From the award-winning author of Bang Crunch and Boo, Jones is the harrowing, funny, utterly unforgettable story of a pair of siblings attempting to survive the horror show of their family.Abi and Eli share a special bond. Eli looks up to his sister Abi, two years older, who knows how to inhabit the souls of animals, and sometimes even the soul of her brother. They share jokes, codes, and an obsession with impressive feats of word power—such are the survival tricks for growing up Jones. Pal, their alcoholic father, is haunted by demon... + Read More
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Series: Scenes from My Life A Memoir Hardcover Michael K. Williams 9780593240373 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back—from the late, iconic actor beloved for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft CountryWhen Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. From his star turn as Omar Little in The Wire to Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire to Emmy-nominated roles in HBO’s The Night Of and Lovecraft County, Williams created a slew of indel... + Read More
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Series: A Place in the World Finding the Meaning of Home Hardcover Frances Mayes 9780593443330 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home.While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on “home,” from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes, and even momentary homes that spark de... + Read More
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Series: The Series What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now Hardcover Ken Dryden 9780771001130 $34.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA new book by Hall of Fame goalie and bestselling author Ken Dryden celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit SeriesSEPTEMBER 2, 1972, MONTREAL FORUM, GAME ONE: The best against the best for the first time. Canada, the country that had created the game; the Soviet Union, having taken it up only twenty-six years earlier. On the line: more than the players, more than the fans, more than Canadians and Russians knew.So began an entirely improbable, near-month-long series of games that became more and more riveting, until... + Read More
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Series: Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems Hardcover Dionne Brand 9780771098468 $45.00 POETRY Aug 09, 2022

FINALIST for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeAn immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career—new and collected poetry from one of Canada’s most honoured and significant poets.Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand’s poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand’s ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and th... + Read More
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Series: Em Paperback Kim Thúy 9781039000858 $21.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZENOMINATED FOR THE 2021 GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTRÉALSHEILA FISCHMAN SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 COLE FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR TRANSLATIONKim Thúy’s Em is a virtuosic novel of profound power and sensitivity, and an enduring affirmation of the greatest act of resistance: love.In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle: an abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier. ... + Read More
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Series: Not on My Watch How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon Paperback Alexandra Morton 9780735279681 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called “the Jane Goodall of Canada” because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasit... + Read More
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Series: Operation Jubilee Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice Paperback Patrick Bishop 9780771096693 $26.00 HISTORY Aug 02, 2022

In the tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other bestselling World War Two historians, a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942.On the moonless night of August 18th, 1942, a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least twenty-four hours, showing the Soviets that the Allies are serious about a second front and to get experience ahead of a full-scale invasion. But confidence turned to carnage with nearly two thirds of the attackers d... + Read More
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Series: Such a Good Mother A Novel Paperback Helen Monks Takhar 9781984855992 $23.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

Some women would do anything for their children. This thrilling novel cuts straight to the dark heart of modern motherhood, privilege, and the lengths we’ll go to get ahead, from the author of the “addictive” (People), critically acclaimed thriller Precious You.Rose O’Connell is barely surviving. Her marriage is rocky; her son isn’t fitting in at his new school, the prestigious Woolf Academy; and their tiny apartment in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood can barely contain her family. As she struggles to make ends meet on her junior bank teller... + Read More
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Series: On Critical Race Theory Why It Matters & Why You Should Care Hardcover Victor Ray 9780593446447 $35.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 02, 2022

What exactly is Critical Race Theory? This concise and accessible exploration of CRT demystifies this important framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.As our institutions and systems creak under the pressure of entrenched racism, renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray explains how Critical Race Theory upholds truth amid misinformation to transcend backlash and uplift progress. On Critical Race Theory illustrates the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellect... + Read More
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Series: Mercury Pictures Presents A Novel Hardcover Anthony Marra 9780451495204 $38.99 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father’s arrest.Fifteen years later, on the... + Read More