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Series: MERCY THOMPSON NOVEL, A Soul Taken Hardcover Patricia Briggs 9780440001614 $37.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.The vampire Wulfe is missing. Since he’s deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of “fun” is stalking me, some may see it as no great loss. But, warned that his disappearance might bring down the carefully constructed alliances that keep our pack safe, my mate and I must find Wulfe—and hope he’s still alive. As alive as a vampire can be, anyway.But Wulfe isn’t the only one who has disappeared. And ... + Read More
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Series: GRAY MAN Sierra Six Paperback Mark Greaney 9780593099018 $23.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

The Gray Man’s first adventure leads to trouble for him in the present in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Before he was the Gray Man, Court Gentry was Sierra Six, the junior member of a CIA action team.In their first mission they took out a terrorist leader, at a terrible price— the life of a woman Court cared for. Ten years have passed. The Gray Man is on a simple mission when he sees a ghost: the long-dead terrorist, but he’s remarkably energetic for a dead man. A decade of time may have passed, but the Gray Man h... + Read More
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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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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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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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Dead-End Memories Stories Hardcover Banana Yoshimoto 9781640093690 $34.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

A New York Times Notable Book“This is a supremely hopeful book, one that feels important because it shows that happiness, while not always easy, is still a subject worthy of art.” —Brandon Taylor, The New York Times Book ReviewJapan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday lifeFirst published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the ... + Read More
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Series: GREEN RIDER Winterlight Paperback Kristen Britain 9780756418175 $27.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

Now in paperback—messenger, magic wielder, and knight Karigan G’ladheon fights to save king and country from dark magic and a looming war in this seventh novel of the New York Times bestselling Green Rider seriesAfter her capture at the hands of Grandmother and the Second Empire, Karigan G’ladheon is making halting progress towards recovery. Karigan takes on increasingly dangerous missions, haunted by the specter of her torturer, Nyssa, and sinking ever further into the mire of her recollections of the past and the losses she’s sustained.Meanwh... + Read More
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Moonology™ Diary 2023 Calendar Yasmin Boland 9781788176583 $22.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Aug 30, 2022

The highly popular MoonologyTM diary for 2023, packed with guidance and tips on how to work with the Moon-now with 24 new pages and a ribbon marker.Work with the powerful energies of the Moon to manifest your dreams!There is massive potential for personal transformation, healing and increased abundance in 2023. It’s a year to seek out positive solutions for the whole world, to throw out the dead wood from our lives, to move away from selfishness and to think about the greater good. A new era is dawning. This diary shows you how to tap into 2023... + Read More
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The End of Alzheimer's Program The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age Paperback Dale Bredesen 9780593541876 $24.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Sep 06, 2022

The instant New York Times bestsellerThe New York Times Best Selling author of The End of Alzheimer’s lays out a specific plan to help everyone prevent and reverse cognitive decline or simply maximize brainpower.In The End of Alzheimer’s Dale Bredesen laid out the science behind his revolutionary new program that is the first to both prevent and reverse symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Now he lays out the detailed program he uses with his own patients. Accessible and detailed, it can be tailored to anyone’s needs and will enhance cognitive abil... + Read More
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Unwinding Anxiety New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind Paperback Judson Brewer 9780593421406 $24.00 SELF-HELP Aug 30, 2022

Now in paperback. A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habitsWe are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. But in this timely book, Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to... + Read More
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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: JOE PICKETT NOVEL, A Shadows Reel Paperback C. J. Box 9780593331286 $23.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett’s job has many times put his wife and daughters in harm’s way. Now the tables turn as his wife discovers something that puts the Pickett family in a killer’s crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series.Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Marybeth Pickett finds an unmarked package at the front door of the library where she works. When she opens the package she finds a photo album that belonged to an infam... + Read More
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Series: DIRK PITT ADVENTURE Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea Paperback Dirk Cussler 9780593419663 $12.99 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler.When NUMA director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea, he unearths clues pointing to an invaluable Buddhist artifact that has been lost for decades. But soon, he will learn that he’s not the only one making earth-shattering discoveries. During a mission to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait... + Read More
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Series: KINGSBRIDGE The Evening and the Morning A Novel Paperback Ken Follett 9780451478023 $14.99 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth—set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages“Just as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth]…A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series.”—The Washington PostIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos re... + Read More
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Bonsai A Novel Paperback Alejandro Zambra 9780143136507 $22.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

“Taut and full of verve.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writers—now in a sparkling new translation by his longtime collaboratorWhen it was first published in 2006, then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, caused a sensation. “It was said,” according to Chile’s newspaper of record, El Mercurio, “that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation’s letters.” Zambra would go on to become a writer of international renow... + Read More
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Be Not Afraid of Love Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection Paperback Mimi Zhu 9780143137122 $23.00 SELF-HELP Aug 23, 2022

“Radical and revolutionary.” —Jonny Sun, New York Times bestselling author of Goodbye, AgainA collection of powerful interconnected essays and affirmations that follow Mimi Zhu’s journey toward embodying and re-learning love after a violent romantic relationship, a stunning and provocative book that will guide and inspire readers to lean into love with softnessIn their early twenties, Mimi Zhu was a survivor of intimate-partner abuse. This left them broken, in search of healing and ways to re-learn love. This work is a testament to the strength... + Read More
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Acceptance A Memoir Hardcover Emi Nietfeld 9780593489475 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 02, 2022

“Nietfeld’s gifts for capturing the fury of living at the mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the hero’s journey even while she tells it, make Acceptance a remarkable memoir.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, examining society’s fixation with resilience—and its costAs a homeless teenager writing college essays in her rusty Toyota Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that the Ivy League was the only escape from her dysfunctional childhood. But upwar... + Read More
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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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Burn After Writing (Skulls) Paperback Sharon Jones 9780593539538 $19.00 SELF-HELP Aug 30, 2022

The national bestseller.Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.“This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.”-TikTok user camrynbanksInstagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube…the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instea... + Read More
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Burn After Writing (Magic Stars) Paperback Sharon Jones 9780593543047 $19.00 SELF-HELP Aug 30, 2022

The national bestseller.Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.“This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.”-TikTok user camrynbanksInstagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube…the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instea... + Read More
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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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Existential Physics A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions Hardcover Sabine Hossenfelder 9781984879455 $37.00 SCIENCE Aug 09, 2022

A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human conditionNot only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that the universe itself is conscious is difficult to rule out entirely. According to Sabine Hossenfel... + Read More
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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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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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All's Well From the author of the TikTok phenomenon BUNNY 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Foghorn Echoes Hardcover Danny Ramadan 9780735242180 $32.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE**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... + Read More
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Everybody A Book about Freedom Paperback Olivia Laing 9781324022022 $23.95 PHILOSOPHY Aug 09, 2022

“Astute and consistently surprising critic” (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century.The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on... + Read More
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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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The Last Kids on Earth MIXED Backlist 18-copy Floor Display w/ Riser Max Brallier 9780525489535 $345.82 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Aug 23, 2022
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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In One Person Paperback John Irving 9780307361790 $23.00 FICTION Jan 29, 2013

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR BISEXUAL FICTION“[In One Person] reaffirms the centrality of Irving as the voice of social justice and compassion in contemporary American literature.”—The Globe and MailA compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting. It is an intimate portrait of the solitariness of the novel’s narrator and main character, Billy Abbott, a bisexual man who is dedicated to making hims... + Read More
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The World According to Garp A Novel Paperback John Irving 9780676973822 $24.95 FICTION Nov 07, 2000

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERJohn Irving’s tragicomic masterpiece, featuring an introduction by the author.“Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it…. Irving’s blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous…. Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast talent.” —The New RepublicJohn Irving’s breakout novel, The World According to Garp, became an international bestseller when it was published in the United States in 1978. It is now read in over forty countries, with over ten mil... + Read More
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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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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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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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Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems Hardcover Dionne Brand 9780771098468 $45.00 POETRY Aug 09, 2022

WINNER of the Los Angeles Times BookPrize for PoetryAn 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,... + Read More
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Em Paperback Kim Thúy 9781039000858 $21.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

SHORTLISTED 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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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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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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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