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Series: When in Rome A Novel Paperback Sarah Adams 9780593500781 $23.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

A burnt-out pop star stranded in small-town Kentucky can’t help falling for her unlikely knight in shining armor—the notoriously grumpy owner of the local pie shop—in this charming slice of romance from the author of the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet.Amelia Rose, known as Rae Rose to her adoring fans, is burned-out from years of maintaining her “princess of pop” image. Inspired by her favorite Audrey Hepburn film, Roman Holiday, she drives off in the middle of the night for a break in Rome…Rome, Kentucky, that is.When Noah Walker finds Ameli... + Read More
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Series: Spells for Forgetting A Novel Hardcover Adrienne Young 9780593358511 $37.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

“Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were HereFrom New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young comes a deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love.Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living... + Read More
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Series: Nadiya's Everyday Baking From Weeknight Dinners to Celebration Cakes, Let Your Oven Do the Work Hardcover Nadiya Hussain 9780593579053 $39.99 COOKING Oct 11, 2022

The beloved Netflix host and New York Times bestselling author of Nadiya Bakes and Time to Eat presents more than ninety sweet and savory recipes for every meal, occasion, or mood.Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Baking Show knows what we bake depends on the day of the week and what mood we’re in. In Nadiya’s Everyday Baking, Nadiya shares nearly 100 simple and achievable recipes for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and everything in between. Organized by situation and occasion, Nadiya’s recipes are designed to always provide for a delici... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: The People Immortal Paperback Vasily Grossman 9781681376783 $25.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

The first war novel by the author of Life and Fate and a stunningly accurate portrayal of soldierly life written at the beginning of World War II.Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second World War, each offering a distinct take on what a war novel can be, and each extraordinary. A common set of characters links Stalingrad and Life and Fate, but Stalingrad is not only a moving and exciting story of desperate defense and the turning tide of war, but also a monumental memorial for the countless war dead. Life and Fate, by contrast, is a... + Read More
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Series: They Called Me a Lioness A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom Hardcover Ahed Tamimi 9780593134580 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers shines a light on the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.“What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?”Ahed Tamimi’s father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family’s l... + Read More
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Series: Solito A Memoir Hardcover Javier Zamora 9780593498064 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir hailed as “the mythic journey of our era” (Sandra Cisneros)Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.” Javier’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to r... + Read More
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Series: Lucy by the Sea A Novel Hardcover Elizabeth Strout 9780593446065 $37.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a former couple in lockdown together—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.With her trademark spare, crystalline prose—a voice infused with “intimate, fragile, desperate humanness” (The Washington Post)—Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is ... + Read More
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Series: SCHOLOMANCE, THE The Golden Enclaves A Novel Hardcover Naomi Novik 9780593158357 $37.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it’s all we dream about, the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.And now th... + Read More
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Series: Sideways The City Google Couldn't Buy Hardcover Josh O'Kane 9781039000780 $38.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 13, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom 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 starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city’s woefully underdeveloped l... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4 Paperback Mo Xiang Tong Xiu 9781638583523 $24.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

FATES ALIGNED, BODIES INTERTWINEDThe Reverend of Empty Words, a monster that feeds off the fears of the fortunate, is hunting Xie Lian’s friend, the Wind Master Shi Qingxuan. Knowing that his abysmal luck inoculates him from the creature’s power, Xie Lian doesn’t hesitate to throw himself into harm’s way—to Hua Cheng’s horror and panic. But another one of the Four Calamities may be closer than anyone knows, and even a ghost as powerful as Hua Cheng can lose control under the right circumstances. With his inhibitions gone, will desire overtake h... + Read More
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Series: Firebrand A Tobacco Lawyer's Journey Hardcover Joshua Knelman 9780735243811 $34.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 06, 2022

“You’ll inhale this tell-all book about the tobacco industry and never look at a No Smoking sign the same way again!”—Margaret Atwood, via TwitterMad Men meets Bad Blood in this addictive, behind-the-scenes globe-trotting narrative of moral ambiguity, law, public policy, and big tobacco.“Given everything the lawyer knew up to that point about smoking, as far as he could tell, cigarettes shouldn’t even have been available as a mass market product…”It’s the start of the new millennium and a young lawyer is recruited to work for an unnamed m... + Read More
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Series: The Old Place Hardcover Bobby Finger 9780593422342 $37.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

One of Vanity Fair’s Best Books of the Year A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town.Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few months into her retirement—or, district mandated exile as she calls it—Mary Alice does not know how to fill her days. The annual picn... + Read More
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Series: Best of Friends A Novel Hardcover Kamila Shamsie 9780593421826 $37.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship and the forces that bring it to the breaking pointZahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though—or maybe because—they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future.Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a... + Read More
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Series: A Minor Chorus A Novel Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735242005 $27.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness.What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture o... + Read More
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Series: Black Dove Hardcover Colin McAdam 9780670066353 $34.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

“I have long been convinced that Colin McAdam is a literary genius. What’s extraordinary is that each of the books he writes is a totally distinct type of genius. Every time. He’s in a league of his own.” —Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with FeathersA deeply imaginative and thrilling novel about grief, single parenting, and the terrifying power of a child’s imagination, dancing on an edge between magical realism and horror, perfect for fans of Stranger ThingsIn a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-ol... + Read More
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Series: THURSDAY MURDER CLUB MYSTERY, The Bullet That Missed A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Hardcover Richard Osman 9780593299395 $37.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman. It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind—leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.Wh... + Read More
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Series: Where We End & Begin Paperback Jane Igharo 9780593440230 $23.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

Star-crossed lovers get a second chance at romance when they’re reunited at a wedding in Nigeria, in a heartfelt novel from the acclaimed author of The Sweetest Remedy.Dunni hasn’t seen her high school boyfriend, Obinna, since she left Nigeria to attend college in America. Before their devastating separation, they vowed to find their way back to each other one day.Twelve years later, and their vow is a thing of the past. Dunni works as a geneticist in Seattle and is engaged to a man she doesn’t love but one her parents approve of. Her future is... + Read More
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Series: Drunk on Love Paperback Jasmine Guillory 9780593100882 $23.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

An intoxicating and sparkling new romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.Margot Noble needs some relief from the stress of running the family winery with her brother. Enter Luke: sexy, charming, and best of all in the too-small world of Napa, a stranger. The chemistry between them is undeniable, and Margot is delighted that she lucked into the perfect one-night stand she’ll never have to see again. That is, until the winery’s newest hire, Luke, walks in the next morning. Margot is determined to keep things purely professi... + Read More
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Series: ICE PLANET BARBARIANS Barbarian Mine Paperback Ruby Dixon 9780593548974 $23.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

The fourth novel in the international publishing phenomenon the Ice Planet Barbarians series, now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue!Harlow receives the shock of her life when she wakes up to see Rukh, a stranger who has clearly been on his own his whole life, but she soon learns that there is much more to this gruff, barbaric alien than the savage he appears to be.The ice planet has given me a second lease on life, so I’m thrilled to be here. Sure, there are no cheeseburgers, but I’m healthy and ready to... + Read More
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Series: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War Hardcover Tim Cook 9780735242319 $36.95 HISTORY Sep 13, 2022

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 TEMPLER MEDAL FOR BEST BOOK*From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers.Medical care in almost all armies during the Great War, and especially in the Canadian med... + Read More
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Series: What If? 2 Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Hardcover Randall Munroe 9780525537113 $40.00 HUMOR Sep 13, 2022

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief int... + Read More
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Series: The Last Doctor Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying Hardcover Jean Marmoreo 9780735241077 $33.00 MEDICAL Sep 27, 2022

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY*An urgently important exploration of the human stories behind Canada’s evolving acceptance of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from one of its first and most thoughtful practitioners.Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when the Supreme Court of Canada gave the green light to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2016, she became one of a small group of doctors who chose to immediately train themselves in this new field. Over the course of ... + Read More
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Series: Belle & Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics Hardcover Stuart Murdoch 9780500296851 $33.95 MUSIC Sep 13, 2022

A beautiful collaboration between Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch and illustrator Pamela Tait, resulting in visual reinterpretations of the band’s most-loved songs. From the imagined lives of the passengers riding Glasgow buses in the early 1990s to questions raised about the status quo and musings on the meaning of religion, Stuart Murdoch, front man of Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian, has written some of the most captivating lyrics of the past two decades. Belle and Sebastian recorded their first critically acclaimed a... + Read More
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Series: Birds of Canada Paperback DK 9780744057874 $47.00 NATURE Sep 06, 2022

The ultimate photographic guide to over 600 bird species in Canada.Updated to reflect all the latest taxonomic data, Complete Birds of Canada is the complete photographic guide to 613 species of birds found in Canada, including the most common species, and rare and vagrant birds.Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes stunning full-color photographs revealing individual species with unrivaled clarity. The 436 most commonly seen birds are pictured with plumage variations, and information on similar bi... + Read More
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Series: A Drag Queen's Guide to Life Paperback Bimini Bon Boulash 9780241543580 $21.99 SELF-HELP Sep 27, 2022

THE BIMINI BON BESTSELLER (Sunday Times official!)A hilarious and inspiring guide to transforming your life through lessons from drag, by the UK’s favourite drag queen and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Bimini Bon Boulash.’MAGIC! A fun, fierce, honest origin story of how to drag yourself up out of trouble and become an icon’ Katherine Ryan ’A triumph for UK queer culture’ Travis Alabanza’Eye-opening, intelligent, thoughtful as well as sassy and surprising - a must read’ Lorraine Kelly_______________________________________Bimini Bon Boulash is ... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: OUTLANDER Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone Paperback Diana Gabaldon 9780385685566 $28.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale from Diana Gabaldon.Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of... + 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: Permanent Astonishment Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385696227 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * NOMINATED FOR THE EVERGREEN AWARD * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, AND CBCCapricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a... + 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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Series: More Mandy's More Recipes We Love Hardcover Mandy Wolfe 9780525610496 $35.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

We’re baaaaack…! From the sisters behind the bestselling cookbook Mandy’s Gourmet Salads—and the Montreal salad bars of the same name—comes More Mandy’s.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! 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.It wouldn’t be Mandy’s withou... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: Sacred Nature Restoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural World Hardcover Karen Armstrong 9780735282421 $32.95 RELIGION Sep 06, 2022

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature—and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life.Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear to awe to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: The Greatest Evil is War Hardcover Chris Hedges 9781644212936 $28.95 HISTORY Sep 20, 2022

An unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents.Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, this book looks at the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities and nations.In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to g... + Read More
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Series: Probably Ruby A Novel Paperback Lisa Bird-Wilson 9780385696708 $19.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A CBC BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARProbably Ruby is an audacious, brave, and beautiful book about an adopted woman’s search for her Indigenous identity, for readers of Tommy Orange’s There There and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries.Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and finally adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can’t afford to complain too loudly about Ruby’s Indigenous roots. But when her new parents’ marriage falls apart, Ruby finds herself vulnerable and in compromising situations... + Read More
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Series: The Morning Star Paperback Karl Ove Knausgaard 9780345811165 $28.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR“Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesThe Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don’t understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless.One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jos... + Read More