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The Myth of Normal Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture Hardcover Gabor Maté MD 9780735278363 $39.95 PSYCHOLOGY Sep 13, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental health.” —Bessel van der Kolk, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score“Wise, sophisticated, rigorous and creative: an intellectual and compassionate investigation of who we are and who we may become. Essential reading for anyone with a past and a future.” —Tara Westover, New York Times bestselling author of Educated“The Myth of Normal... + Read More
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The Whalebone Theatre A novel Hardcover Joanna Quinn 9780593321706 $39.00 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.“Absolute aces…Quinn’s imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.” —The New York Times “Utterly heartbreaking and joyous.” —Jo Baker, author of Longbourn One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the ... + Read More
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The Marriage Portrait Hardcover Maggie O'Farrell 9781039005631 $34.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

REESE’S BOOK CLUB DECEMBER PICKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club December ’22 Pick)“O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station…You may k... + Read More
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Thistlefoot A Novel Hardcover GennaRose Nethercott 9780593468838 $37.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.“A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness, survival, memory, and family that reads like a fairy tale godfathered by Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton in a wild America alive with wonders and devils alike. Thistlefoot shimmers with magic and mayhem and a thrilling emotional momentum.” —Libba Bray, be... + Read More
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Fayne A Novel Hardcover Ann-Marie MacDonald 9780735276635 $40.00 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love and identity.In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treachero... + Read More
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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm A Novel Hardcover Laura Warrell 9780593316443 $37.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

GMA BUZZ PICK • Passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, jazz and soul: a “gorgeously written debut” (Celeste Ng, best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere) about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, told by the women who love Circus Palmer—trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man—as they ultimately discover the power of their own voices.“A modern masterpiece.” —Jason Reynolds, best-selling author of Look Both WaysIt’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladi... + Read More
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Surrender 40 Songs, One Story Hardcover Bono 9780385695350 $45.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2022

Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. As one of the music world’s most iconic artists and the cofounder of organizations ONE and (RED), Bono’s career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has sh... + Read More
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Series: NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY A Song of Comfortable Chairs No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (23) Hardcover Alexander McCall Smith 9781039004382 $34.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe’s cleverness and generosity to resolve.Mma Grace Makutsi’s husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in profits. To make matters worse, they have a slick new advertising campaign that seems hard to be... + Read More
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Lessons A Novel Hardcover Ian McEwan 9781039004689 $37.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • THE NEW YORKER • THE GUARDIAN • VOX • THE WASHINGTON POST • BOOKPAGEBoth epic and intimate, the story of one man’s life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic—from #1 bestselling author Ian McEwan.When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his ... + Read More
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Jennie's Boy A Newfoundland Childhood Hardcover Wayne Johnston 9781039001664 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 20, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCConsummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had alre... + Read More
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Nights of Plague A Novel Hardcover Orhan Pamuk 9780735278769 $45.00 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE FINANCIAL TIMES • THE NEW YORKERA new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is... + Read More
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The Last Chairlift Hardcover John Irving 9780735276192 $45.00 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of the world’s greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year. TIME magazine describes his work as “epic and extraordinary and controversial and sexually brave.” Now Irving has written what he calls his last long novel—only short... + Read More
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A Book of Days Hardcover Patti Smith 9781039002074 $37.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 15, 2022

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith’s singular aesthetic—inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved Land camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids... + 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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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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Dreamland A Novel Hardcover Nicholas Sparks 9780385675253 $37.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream—and whether it’s possible to leave the past behind.Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-do... + Read More
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Shrines of Gaiety A Novel Hardcover Kate Atkinson 9780385694940 $36.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

The #1 internationally bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction and debts that have come due.1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters and girls sell dances for a shilling a time.The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless ... + Read More
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Strangers to Ourselves Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Hardcover Rachel Aviv 9780385684460 $33.00 PSYCHOLOGY Sep 13, 2022

The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are.Strangers to Ourselves poses fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Rachel Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an I... + Read More
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A Sliver of Darkness Stories Paperback C. J. Tudor 9780385684446 $23.00 FICTION Nov 08, 2022

The debut short story collection from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man, hailed as “Britain’s female Stephen King” (Daily Mail), featuring eleven bone-chilling and mind-bending tales.Time slips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies. C. J. Tudor’s novels are widely acclaimed for their dark, twisty suspense plots, but with A Sliver of Darkness, she pulls us even further into her dizzying imagination.In “The Lion at the Gate,” a strange piece of graffiti leads to a terrifying encounter for four school friends.In “Final Course,” the world has... + Read More
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The Tragedy of Eva Mott Hardcover David Adams Richards 9780385696296 $36.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

Literary legend David Adams Richards follows the epic Miramichi Trilogy with a startling standalone novel of concentrated power.The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society—asbestos. But now their mine is under close scientific scrutiny, with reports of serious illness linked to the place. The world is changing, no doubt for the better…But in the shadow of the mine, the values of a whole community are transforming, in more sinister ways. The Raskins’ nephew Byron, a war hero and... + Read More
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A Little Bit Broken A Memoir Hardcover Roz Weston 9780385658645 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 27, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIt never gets better, but it does get easier. That’s the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who’s fighting like hell, just hanging on or putting the pieces back together. When you’re broken, fixed becomes an obsession. Roz is a multi-platform entertainer and storyteller who hosts three shows a day and sleeps five hours a night. On The Roz & Mocha Show, ET Canada Live and Entertainment Tonight Canada Roz built an audience and turned them into family. But as with most families, there is just some shi... + Read More
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Novelist as a Vocation Hardcover Haruki Murakami 9780385689472 $34.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 08, 2022

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels, from the beloved and best-selling author of1Q84 and Norwegian Wood.In this engaging book, the internationallybest-selling author and famously private writer Haruki Murakami shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians. Here are the personal details of a life devoted to craft: the initial moment at a Yakult Swal... + Read More
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Every Family Has a Story How We Inherit Love and Loss Hardcover Julia Samuel 9780385684392 $33.00 SELF-HELP Nov 15, 2022

Why do some families thrive in adversity while others fragment? How can families weather difficult transitions together? Why do our families so often exasperate us? And how can even small changes greatly improve our relationships?In Every Family Has a Story, bestselling psychotherapist Julia Samuel turns from her acclaimed work with individuals to draw on her sessions with a wide varietyof families, across multiple generations. Through eight beautifully told and insightful case studies, she analyzes a range of common issues, from loss to leavin... + Read More
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True Reconciliation How to Be a Force for Change Hardcover Jody Wilson-Raybould 9780771004384 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 08, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling author of ’Indian’ in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada.There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? This has been true from her time as a leader of British Columbia’s First Nations, as a Member of Parliament, as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, within the business communities she interacts, and when having conversations with people around thei... + 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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Exculpatory Lilies Poems Paperback Susan Musgrave 9780771099007 $22.95 POETRY Sep 06, 2022

2023 Griffin Poetry Prize FinalistA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookFrom the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage, addiction, death, and heart-wrenching grief.If grief is the willingness to be claimed by a story bigger than ourselves, Susan Musgrave writes, “in that / tender wavering, I let grief in.” “Writing about grief or tragedy is tricky. Hard to meet it at a heart-level without being effusive; hard to meet it at a brain-level without bei... + Read More
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If I Survive You Hardcover Jonathan Escoffery 9780771001178 $32.95 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on first through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather tha... + Read More
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The Sea Between Two Shores A Novel Hardcover Tanis Rideout 9780771076381 $32.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

From the bestselling author of Above All Things and inspired by real events, this powerful novel follows two families brought together to reckon with what it means to make amends—for historic wrongs and the wrongs we commit against the ones we love.On a small island in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, the Tabés are a family mourning the death of their son in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone, while worrying over the looming departure of another. Desperate to find a way to change their fates, David Tabé places a phone call halfway aroun... + Read More
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Prisoners of the Castle An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison Hardcover Ben Macintyre 9780771001970 $36.00 HISTORY Sep 13, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history’s most famous prisons—and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried to relentlessly escape their Nazi captors.The myth of Colditz, the most infamous prison in history, has stood unchallenged for 70 years: prisoners of war, mustaches firmly set on stiff upper lips, defying the Nazis by tunnelling out of a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop. Like all legends, that story contains only part ... + Read More
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A Ballet of Lepers A Novel and Stories Hardcover Leonard Cohen 9780771018145 $34.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before “Hallelujah” and “So Long, Marianne” and “Famous Blue Raincoat,” the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning.Written between 1956 in Montreal, just a... + Read More
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Scars and Stars Poems Hardcover Jesse Thistle 9780771003509 $25.00 POETRY Oct 18, 2022

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes.Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout his bestselling memoir. In Scars & Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart.Charting his own history, the stories of people from his past, the burning intensity of new and unexpected love, the complex legacies of family and community, and the beauty o... + Read More
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All Roads Home A Life On and Off the Ice Hardcover Bryan Trottier 9780771084478 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 25, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada’s most decorated Indigenous athlete.Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. In 2017, he was name... + Read More
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Above the Fold A Personal History of the Toronto Star Hardcover John Honderich 9780771000201 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2022

A remarkable memoir and journalistic history of the Toronto Star, the newspaper that has shaped and continues to shape the issues most important to Canadians.Don’t let them ruin the newspaper…These were the dying words of Beland Honderich to his son, John. The newspaper was the Toronto Star, founded in 1892 by Joseph E. (Holy Joe) Atkinson and, to this day, one of the world’s leading and most respected socially liberal broadsheets. For the second half of its legendary—and sometimes controversial—history, both John and his father, as successive ... + Read More
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Dearly Poems Paperback Margaret Atwood 9780771000799 $24.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2022

The collection of a lifetime from the prodigious novelist and poet, now available as a paperback.By turns moving, playful, and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens, and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.Before she became one of the world’s most impo... + Read More
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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart A Memoir Paperback Jen Sookfong Lee 9780771025211 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 17, 2023

A TODAY Show Recommended Read, this beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman’s life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity, belonging, grief, and the power of female rage. Named a most anticipated book of the year by the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.For most of Jen Sookfong Lee’s life, pop culture was an escape from family tragedy and a means of fitting in with the larger culture around her. Anne of Green Gables promised her that, despite losing her father at the age of twelve, one ... + Read More
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Empathy Turning Compassion into Action Hardcover David Johnston 9780771049064 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 17, 2023

The 28th Governor General’s most personal and timely book to date: a passionate and practical guide for turning empathy into action.As the world stumbles through the most severe pandemic of the last century, threatened by teetering economies, torn by political division, separated by unequal access to resources, and wrestling with issues as diverse as racism, gender, cybercrime, and climate change, the nations that best adapt and prosper are those in which empathy is fully alive and widely active. Written for a post-pandemic world, Empathy is a ... + Read More
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The Journey Prize Stories 33 The Best of Canada's New Black Writers Paperback David Chariandy 9780771047381 $19.95 FICTION Feb 07, 2023

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada’s premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country’s best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada’s most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by celebrating the best emerging Black writers in the country, as selected by a jury comprising internationally acclaimed, award-winning writers David Chariandy... + Read More
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Motherthing A novel Paperback Ainslie Hogarth 9780771000614 $24.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.Abby Lamb has done it. She’s found the Great Good in her husband Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph’s mother Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the wa... + 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
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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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The Godmother Murder, Vengeance and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women Paperback Barbie Latza Nadeau 9780735280656 $23.00 TRUE CRIME Sep 06, 2022

The untold stories of the women who have risen to prominence and notoriety in Italy’s mafia—many more ruthless than the fathers and husbands they replaced—and the octogenarian murderer who decades ago blazed a bloody trail for them to follow.In 1955 in a public market outside Naples, Italy, a pregnant teenage widow named Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca encounters the man she believes to be her husband’s killer. Minutes later, police find the man dead, riddled with an astonishing 29 bullets. Pupetta is arrested and convicted for his death. “I killed f... + Read More
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Sideways The City Google Couldn't Buy Hardcover Josh O'Kane 9781039000780 $38.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 13, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company’s failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of everything.When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto, promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were stars... + Read More
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No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot My rise from a Jamaican plantation shack to the boardrooms of Bay Street Hardcover Wes Hall 9781039002371 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of Canada’s most successful business leaders, the founder of the BlackNorth Initiative and the newest and first Black Dragon in the Dragon’s Den comes a rags-to-riches story that also carries a profound message of hope and change.Wes Hall spent his early childhood in a zinc-roofed shack, one of several children supported by his grandmother. That was paradise compared to the two years he lived with his verbally abusive and violent mother; at thirteen, his mother threw him out, and he had to live by his wits for the ne... + Read More
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Act of Oblivion Paperback Robert Harris 9780735282124 $25.00 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen, charged in the killing of King Charles I, by the implacable foe on their trail—an epic journey into the wilds of seventeenth-century New England, and a chase like no other.“From what is it they run?”He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, “They killed the K... + Read More
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Mad Honey A novel Hardcover Jodi Picoult 9780735276932 $37.00 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKNATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She’s Not There.Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would e... + Read More
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Mussolini's Daughter The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Paperback Caroline Moorehead 9780735279742 $25.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe bestselling author of A Train in Winter returns with the definitive story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy, whose life had more twists and turns than a spy novel.Edda Mussolini was Benito’s favourite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. For much of the twenty-year period of Fascist rule, she was her father’s closest confidante.In 1930, at the age of nineteen, Edda marr... + Read More
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Playing the Long Game A Memoir Hardcover Christine Sinclair 9781039004603 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada’s greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women’s sport.Christine Sinclair is one of the world’s most respected and admired athletes. Not only is she the player who has scored ... + Read More
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The Movement Miracle The Essentrics Stretch Program to Increase Strength, Improve Mobility and Become Pain Free Hardcover Miranda Esmonde-White 9780735275256 $40.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 14, 2023

#1 Bestseller!From Canadian fitness pioneer, bestselling author and PBS star Miranda Esmonde-White, the definitive Essentrics stretching and strengthening book, designed to keep your body strong, mobile and pain-free whatever your age.Miranda Esmonde-White’s fitness revolution began with a simple insight: many exercise programs, including the ones she used to teach at her own studio, actually cause injury and prematurely age the body, bulking muscles and restricting joints. Throwing out the idea of “no pain, no gain,” she studied how we are act... + Read More
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How to Calm Your Mind Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times Hardcover Chris Bailey 9781039000070 $34.95 SELF-HELP Dec 27, 2022

A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies that reveal that the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, runs directly through calm.When Chris Bailey, productivity expert, discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard, he realized that he had no right to be giving advice on productivity without learning when and how to rein things in and take a break. Productivity advice works—and we need it now more than ever—but it’s just as important that we also develop our capacity f... + Read More
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Last Winter Paperback Carrie Mac 9781039005198 $24.95 FICTION Jan 24, 2023

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAs gripping and unforgettable as Fredrik Backman’s Bear Town and Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone, this haunting novel digs into the impact of a fatal avalanche on a small BC mountain town, as seen through the eyes of those who survive the tragedy.“Heart-rending and heart-stopping.” —Alix Ohlin, author of Dual Citizens“…lays bare the truths of mental illness…epically unforgettable.” —Jen Sookfong Lee, author of Superfan“Deeply raw…Insightful and unsparing, this is an important book.” —Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind ... + Read More
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Eatertainment Recipes and Ideas for Effortless Entertaining Hardcover Sebastien Centner 9780525611226 $40.00 COOKING Sep 13, 2022

Everything you need to make everyday entertaining a flawless reality!There are few moments in life as special as gathering around a table with friends and family. But for many people, the idea of planning a dinner party can bring on stress. There’s the menu, the seating plan, the drinks…it can lead a would-be-host to miss the point altogether: enjoying time with your guests. As the owners of a leading event management and catering company, Sebastien and Sheila Centner know that entertaining can be overwhelming. With their... + Read More
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Don't Worry, Just Cook Delicious, Timeless Recipes for Comfort and Connection Hardcover Bonnie Stern 9780525611585 $35.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

“I tell you not to worry because I’ve done all the worrying for you!”Bonnie Stern, beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author, wants nothing more than for you to feel like she’s in the kitchen cooking beside you.In her latest cookbook, Don’t Worry, Just Cook, written with her daughter Anna Rupert (who has, in fact, been in the kitchen cooking beside Bonnie her whole life!), Bonnie and Anna are here to help cooks of all experience foster comfort and connection through food.With her trademark encouraging style and attention to detail, Bonnie... + Read More
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More Mandy's More Recipes We Love Hardcover Mandy Wolfe 9780525610496 $35.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

They’re baaaaack…! The new #1 BESTSELLING cookbook from the sisters behind Mandy’s Gourmet Salads. This second sensational cookbook, following the runaway bestseller Mandy’s Gourmet Salads, is packed with even more salads, more smoothies, more sweets—and now morning fuel and soups too! Mor eis always more! Indulge in and be inspired by these heartwarming recipes for cold-weather meals, plus plenty of year-round favorites. Even in wintertime, there’s nothing a Mandy’s salad can’t fix.Mandy’s gourmet salads are a jewel of Montreal’s (jam-packed) ... + Read More
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Nose Dive A Field Guide to the World's Smells Paperback Harold McGee 9780385666480 $28.00 SCIENCE Oct 18, 2022

The ultimate guide to the smells of the universe—the ambrosial to the pungent, and everything in between—from the author of the acclaimed culinary guides On Food and Cooking and Keys to Good Cooking.From Harold McGee, James Beard Award-winning author and leading expert on the science of food and cooking, comes an extensive exploration of the awe-inspiring world of smell. In Nose Dive, McGee takes us on a sensory-filled adventure, from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the sweetly fragrant Tian Shan mountain range ... + Read More
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Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things Bold, vegetable-forward recipes plus homemade sauces, condiments, and more to build a flavor-packed pantry: A Cookbook Paperback Noor Murad 9780525611622 $37.50 COOKING Oct 18, 2022

The Globe and Mail bestselling author Yotam Ottolenghi and his superteam of chefs bring you the second installment in the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen series, delivering maximum-flavor recipes with cook-it-forward elements that can turn any dish into an Ottolenghi favorite.Just like Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love, Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things is all about bringing big flavor and flexibility to every meal, with pantry staples and freezer-friendly ingredients. This time, Yotam, Noor, and the rest of the test kitchen team bring you d... + Read More
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A Bartender's Guide to the World Cocktails and Stories from 75 Places Hardcover Lauren Mote 9780525611295 $35.00 COOKING Oct 25, 2022

Transport your glass around the globe with more than 75 cocktail recipes from one of the world’s premier bartenders.Grab your glass and let’s go!For over 20 years, Lauren Mote has tended bars and traveled the world, often as one of the only women in a male-dominated industry. She’s developed cocktail recipes, sought out new ingredients, and gathered stories along the way. Now, in her first book, Lauren is inviting readers and home bartenders to pack their suitcases and come with her on an international cocktail adventure.Few bartenders can matc... + Read More
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Little Critics What Canadian Chefs Cook for Kids (and Kids Will Actually Eat) Hardcover Joanna Fox 9780525611509 $35.00 COOKING Oct 25, 2022

Kid-approved! A cookbook of more than 100 fail-safe recipes that Canada’s chefs use to win over their toughest critics: KIDS.Feeding kids can often feel like climbing a mountain, and sometimes like an endless series of rejections and failures. With picky eating preferences changing at every turn, meals that were a mainstay one week are inexplicably pushed aside when they hit the table the next. Because kids don’t care about what they’re serving at the new It Restaurant, the food fads of the year or how long you spend in the kitchen—either they ... + Read More
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Smitten Kitchen Keepers New Classics for Your Forever Files: A Cookbook Hardcover Deb Perelman 9780525611431 $40.00 COOKING Nov 15, 2022

The long-awaited new book from the bestselling and beloved author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook—a collection of essential recipes for meals you’ll want to prepare again and again.Deb Perelman is the author of two bestselling cookbooks, the OG of the culinary blogosphere, the homegrown brand with more than a million Instagram followers, the self-taught cook who obsessively tests her recipes until they’re perfect.Here, in her third book, Perelman presents 100 new recipes (plus a few old favorites from her site) that aim to make shopping easier,... + Read More
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The Lemon Apron Cookbook Seasonal Recipes for the Curious Home Cook Hardcover Jennifer Emilson 9780525611219 $36.00 COOKING Nov 01, 2022

Fresh, modern, seasonal recipes to inspire home cooks all year-round, from the creator of the award-winning The Lemon Apron blog.Embrace the unique beauty each season brings with The Lemon Apron Cookbook. These approachable, rustic recipes from cook, baker, and blogger Jennifer Emilson are true comfort home cooking, highlighting the freshest produce any time of year.Drawing from many sources of inspiration—from her home base of Toronto and her German heritage, to her travels around the world—Jennifer’s varied influences come together in this th... + Read More