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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series The Party Wall Paperback Catherine Leroux 9781771960762 $19.95 FICTION May 10, 2016

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 GILLER PRIZESELECTED FOR INDIES INTRODUCE SUMMER/FALL 2016WINNER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS FRANCE-QUEBEC PRIZENOMINATED FOR THE QUEBEC BOOKSELLER'S PRIZECatherine Leroux's The Party Wall shifts between and ties together stories about pairs joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she may not be the biological mother of her own son despite having given birth to him; a brother and sister unite, as their mother dies, to search for their long-lost father; two young sisters take a detour home, unaware of the tragedy that awai... + Read More
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Series: The Lonely City Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Hardcover Olivia Laing 9781250039576 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 01, 2016

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism#1 Book of the Year from Brain PickingsNamed a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit HubA dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring.When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by ... + Read More
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Series: Bad Singer The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music Hardcover Tim Falconer 9781770894457 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 14, 2016

In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness — and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we listen to music.Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,” always wanted to make music, but soon after he starts singing lessons, he discovers that he’s part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia — in other words, he is scientifically tone-deaf. Bad Singer chronicles h... + Read More
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Series: In-Between Days A Memoir About Living with Cancer Paperback Teva Harrison 9781487001087 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 23, 2016

2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals. She struggles to reconcil... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Waiting On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood Paperback Belle Boggs 9781555977498 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2016

A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published inOrion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication inHarper's Magazine, an interview on NPR'sThe Diane Rehm Show, and a spot at the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" inNew York magazine's "Approval Matrix."In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her--the emer... + Read More
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Series: Carpet Sweeper Tales Paperback Julie Doucet 9781770462397 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 29, 2016

The iconic author of My New York Diary returns with a collection of dreamy, collaged photo comicsJulie Doucet is an artist who has mastered many voices and styles, from her landmark and medium-defining early work in comics with her comic book series Dirty Plotte and the classic graphic novel My New York Diary, to her linocut and collage work in Lady Pep and Long Time Relationship. Most recently, Doucet has focused primarily on collage, crafting impeccable zines, prints, and other ephemera. In Carpet Sweeper Tales, her first new book in almost a... + Read More
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Series: Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus Hardcover Chester Brown 9781770462342 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 12, 2016

The idiosyncratic master Chester Brown continues his thoughts on sex work“The Bible is Chester Brown’s holy harlot. He plumbs the mysteries of her depths while she schools him in the ways of love. Like all of Chester’s work, Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus is confounding, yet addictive, instantly re-readable, and expands with revelations in his hundred pages of notes. A work of passion, research, and elegant clarity. My new favourite.”—Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and Habibi“Chester Brown is both God’s and the devil’s gift to the world.”... + Read More
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Series: The Story of a Brief Marriage A Novel Hardcover Anuk Arudpragasam 9781250072405 $34.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize“Brave…Brilliant…This is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life.” —The New York Times Book Review"One of the best books I have read in years." —Colm ToibinTwo and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around... + Read More
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Series: Don't I Know You? Hardcover Marni Jackson 9781250089793 $32.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

What if some of the artists we feel as if we know—Meryl Streep, Neil Young, Bill Murray—turned up in the course of our daily lives?This is what happens to Rose McEwan, an ordinary woman who keeps having strange encounters with famous people. In this engrossing, original novel-in-stories, we follow her life from age 17, when she takes a summer writing course led by a young John Updike, through her first heartbreak (witnessed by Joni Mitchell) on the island of Crete, through her marriage, divorce, and a canoe trip with Taylor Swift, Leonard Cohen... + Read More
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Series: The Best Kind of People Paperback Zoe Whittall 9781770899421 $22.99 FICTION Aug 27, 2016

A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a national bestseller, Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People is a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family. George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual impropriety at a prestigious prep school. His wife, Joan, vaults between denial and rage as the community she loved turns on her. Their daughter, Sadie, a popular over-achieving high school senior, becomes a social pariah. Their son, Andrew, assists in his father’s defense... + Read More
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Series: The Break Paperback Katherena Vermette 9781487001117 $23.99 FICTION Sep 17, 2016

Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.In... + Read More
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Series: The Trap Paperback Melanie Raabe 9781487000776 $19.95 FICTION May 28, 2016

In this twisted debut thriller, a reclusive author sets the perfect trap for her sister’s murderer — but is he really the killer?For eleven years, the bestselling author Linda Conrads has mystified fans by never setting foot outside her home. Haunted by the unsolved murder of her younger sister — who she discovered in a pool of blood — and the face of the man she saw fleeing the scene, Linda’s hermit existence helps her cope with debilitating anxiety.But the sanctity of her oasis is shattered when she sees her sister’s murderer on television. H... + Read More
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Series: White Rage The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Hardcover Carol Anderson 9781632864123 $38.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 31, 2016

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum re... + Read More
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Series: The Moon Inside Hardcover Sandra V. Feder 9781554988235 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Sep 01, 2016

Yellow is Ella’s favorite color — she loves the bright, sunny daytime. But every night, as darkness falls, she becomes afraid. Yellow is Ella’s favorite color — she loves the bright, sunny daytime. But every night, as darkness falls, she becomes afraid. Her mother encourages her to look at the soft glow of the moon and fireflies dancing in the night. Ella listens to the chirping of crickets and the gentle rustling of the wind as she gradually realizes that nighttime can be something to look forward to rather than something to fear. With sweet, ... + Read More
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Series: School's First Day of School Hardcover Adam Rex 9781596439641 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Jun 28, 2016

A New York Times bestselling author (The True Meaning of Smekday) and illustrator (Last Stop on Market Street) team bring you a fresh look at the first day of school, this time from the school's perspective.It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him?The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he's not the only one goi... + Read More
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Series: The Best of Writers & Company Paperback Eleanor Wachtel 9781771960748 $22.95 LITERARY CRITICISM May 10, 2016

Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected and sought-after interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's twenty-five year anniversary, presents her conversations with legendary authors like Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, and J.M. Coetzee, who share their views on process, the writing life, and the hazards of literary fame.
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures The Return of History Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century Hardcover Jennifer Welsh 9781487001308 $24.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2016

In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoi... + Read More