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Series: Sleep No More Six Murderous Tales Hardcover P. D. James 9780735274389 $27.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2017

A holiday gift for all P. D. James fans to stand alongside her bestselling The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories: six previously uncollected stories from the beloved "Queen of Crime"--swift, cunning murder mysteries from throughout her extraordinary career.Put your feet up and enjoy a good read! Longtime P. D. James fans will devour these short tales of criminality and deception, each one a pleasure, evocative and engrossing. Including several stories originally published in magazines, this enchanting arrangement of memorable whodunits treats... + Read More
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Series: Sticky Fingers The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Hardcover Joe Hagan 9780345815057 $37.95 MUSIC Oct 24, 2017

A delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible, with candid look backs at the era from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and others. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone's founder, editor, and publisher, and the pioneering era he helped curate, is told here for the first time in glittering, glorious detail. Joe Hagan provides readers with a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-s... + Read More
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Series: 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos Hardcover Jordan B. Peterson 9780345816023 $39.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 23, 2018

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the stre... + Read More
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Series: Wakeland Novels, The Cut You Down A Wakeland Novel Paperback Sam Wiebe 9780345816290 $24.00 FICTION Feb 13, 2018

Cut You Down is prize-winning novelist Sam Wiebe’s second riveting Wakeland mystery.Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland returns, hot on the trail of a missing college student who may or may not have stolen half a million dollars. What starts as a straightforward runaway case soon gives way to a tangled mess of dirty money, betrayal, and murder, pitting the resourceful but over-his-head detective against suburban gangsters, a corrupt cop, and a contract killer with a fondness for blades—one of which seems destined for Wakeland’s throat…Sam Wiebe’s morall... + Read More
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Series: Mad Blood Stirring The Inner Lives of Violent Men Paperback Daemon Fairless 9780345812926 $26.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 06, 2018

With a rare clarity and fearless honesty, Daemon Fairless tackles the horrors and compulsions of male violence from the perspective of someone who struggles with violent impulses himself, creating a non-fiction masterpiece with the narrative power of novels such as Fight Club and A History of Violence.A man, no matter how civilized, is still an animal—and sometimes a dangerous one. Men are responsible for the lion’s share of assault, rape, murder and warfare. Conventional wisdom chalks this up to socialization, that men are taught to be violent... + Read More
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Series: A Long Way from Home A Novel Hardcover Peter Carey 9780735273863 $32.00 FICTION Feb 27, 2018

Over the course of his stellar writing life, Peter Carey has explored his homeland of Australia in such highly acclaimed novels as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang and Amnesia. Writing at the peak of his powers, Carey takes us on an unforgettable journey that maps his homeland's secrets in this extraordinary new novel.Wildly inventive, funny and profoundly moving, A Long Way from Home opens in 1953 with the arrival of the tiny, handsome Titch Bobs, his beautiful doll of a wife, Irene, and their two children in the small town of... + Read More
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Series: Hatching Series, The Zero Day The Hatching Series, Book 3 Paperback Ezekiel Boone 9780345816542 $24.00 FICTION Mar 13, 2018

The wildly entertaining, deeply satisfying finale to Ezekiel Boone’s near-apocalyptic monster-horror series.After a long-dormant species of carnivorous spiders hatches and overruns the globe, tens of millions of people have been killed and eaten, or worse…and US president Stephanie Pilgrim has had to order nuclear strikes on major American cities, roads and infrastructure to try to give the survivors a fighting chance. She and her close advisers, along with spider expert Melanie Guyer and her team of scientists, have retreated to a US Navy airc... + Read More
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Series: New Power How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You Hardcover Jeremy Heimans 9780345816443 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 03, 2018

From two influential and visionary thinkers comes a big idea that is changing the way movements catch fire and ideas spread in our highly connected world.For the vast majority of human history, power has been held by the few. "Old power" is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful spend it carefully, like currency. But the technological revolution of the past two decades has made possible a new form of power, one that operates differently, like a current. "New power" is made by many; it is ... + Read More
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Series: Wonderblood Paperback Julia Whicker 9780345814968 $24.95 FICTION Apr 03, 2018

“A stunning debut.” Margot Livesy, New York Times bestselling authorA dystopian fantasy about war, faith, and waiting for space shuttles.Set five hundred years in the future, Wonderblood is Julia Whicker’s fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called “Bent Head” has killed off millions. Those who remain worship the ruins of NASA’s space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is their Mecca. Medici... + Read More
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Series: Vi Hardcover Kim Thúy 9780735272798 $27.95 FICTION Apr 10, 2018

LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE: The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.The daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father who never had to grow up, Vi was the youngest of their four children and the only girl. They gave her a name that meant "precious, tiny one," destined to be cosseted and protected, the family's little treasure. Bu... + Read More
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Series: End of the Rope Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood Hardcover Jan Redford 9780345812315 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 03, 2018

In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, the gritty, funny, achingly honest story of a young climber's struggle to become whole by testing herself on mountains and life.As a young teenager Jan Redford runs away from a cottage where her father has just put her down for the zillionth time and throws herself against a 100-foot cliff face. Somewhere in that shaky, outraged kid is a bedrock belief in her right to exist, which carries her to the top. In that brief flash of victory, she sets her sights on becoming a climber.Falling in love with clim... + Read More
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Series: The Seasons Series Winter Hardcover Karl Ove Knausgaard 9780345811066 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 23, 2018

Winter, written to introduce his youngest daughter to the wonders of life, is one of the most profoundly moving and beautiful of Karl Ove Knausgaard's beloved works. While it stands alone for readers, it is also the exquisitely interwoven, second volume of the Seasons quartet--his new landmark literary project: written by a father to his unborn child.It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to ... + Read More
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Series: Lands of Lost Borders Out of Bounds on the Silk Road Hardcover Kate Harris 9780345816771 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 30, 2018

WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE "Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. To pass the time before she ... + Read More
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Series: The Monk of Mokha Hardcover Dave Eggers 9780735274495 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 30, 2018

From the bestselling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco, one of seven siblings brought up by Yemeni immigrants in a tiny apartment. At age twenty-four, unable to pay for college, he works as a doorman, until a statue of an Arab raising a cup of coffee awakens something in him. He sets out to learn the rich history ... + Read More
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Series: I Am, I Am, I Am Seventeen Brushes with Death Hardcover Maggie O'Farrell 9780735274112 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 06, 2018

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's bestselling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her in the hospital for nearly a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that near... + Read More
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Series: Floating City Hardcover Kerri Sakamoto 9780345809896 $29.95 FICTION Apr 17, 2018

Citizen Kane reimagined, a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong, from the author of the Commonwealth Prize-winning and Governor General's Literary Award-nominated The Electrical Field.Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the w... + Read More
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Series: The Rub of Time Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 Hardcover Martin Amis 9780735273771 $38.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 06, 2018

The definitive collection of essays and reportage written during the past thirty years from one of most provocative and widely read writers--with new commentary by the author.For more than thirty years, Martin Amis has turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics--politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. Now, at last, these incomparable essays have been gathered together. Here is Amis at the 2011 GOP Iowa Caucus, where, squeezed between "windbreakers and woolly hats," he pores ov... + Read More
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Series: The Wife's Tale A Personal History Hardcover Aida Edemariam 9780307361714 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 27, 2018

A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD: The true story of one indomitable woman caught in the tumult of an extraordinary century in Ethiopia, The Wife’s Tale has the sweep and lyrical power that captivated readers of Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone.A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a man two decades her senior, an ambitious poet-priest. Over her lifetime her world changed beyond recognition. She witnessed Fascist invasion and o... + Read More
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Series: The Sparsholt Affair Hardcover Alan Hollinghurst 9780345809728 $34.00 FICTION Mar 13, 2018

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a sweeping new novel that explores richly complex relationships between fathers and sons as it spans seven transformative decades in England, from the 1940s through the present.David Sparsholt is a man who commands attention. As a student at Oxford during the early days of World War II, he's handsome, powerful and alluring to all who meet him--both women and men. His two closest friends, Evert and Freddie, are aspiring artists who are quickly drawn into Sparsholt's magnetic fiel... + Read More
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Series: The Amateurs Hardcover Liz Harmer 9780345811240 $32.95 FICTION Apr 24, 2018

"Harmer takes cues from Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy in this sharp debut, a cautionary tale of tech gone astray." —Toronto LifeIn a time and place only slightly removed from now, PINA, the world’s largest tech company, has introduced society to a new product called “Port.” This irresistible space-time travel device is mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing: Step inside a Port and find yourself transported any place your heart desires, real or imagined. Earth’s population plummets when many who pass through its portal don’t come ba... + Read More
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Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Macbeth Hardcover Jo Nesbo 9780345809209 $32.00 FICTION Apr 10, 2018

He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They're all within reach. But a man like him won't get to the top.Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He's convinced he won't get what is rightfully his. Unless he kills for it.
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Series: Kings of the Yukon A River Journey in Search of the Chinook Hardcover Adam Weymouth 9780345811790 $32.00 NATURE May 15, 2018

A stunning new voice in nature writing makes an epic journey along the Yukon River to give us the stories of its people and its protagonist--the king salmon, or the Chinook--and the deepening threat to a singular way of life, in a lyrical, evocative and captivating narrative.The Yukon River is 3,190 kilometres long, flowing northwest from British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Every summer, millions of salmon migrate the distance of this river to their spawning ground, where they go to breed and then die. The... + Read More
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Series: White as Milk, Red as Blood The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth Hardcover Franz Xaver von Schonwerth 9780345812179 $29.95 FICTION Apr 24, 2018

“Ferocious. And funny, and moving, and delightful…Illustrated with wonderful freedom and zestful inventiveness.” —Philip Pullman from the ForewordThis striking, richly illustrated edition of long-lost German fairy tales is not a book for children. It is a book for adults. Or for adults to frighten children into behaving…whichever you prefer.In 2009, a trove of lost fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth—a 19th-century collector of Bavarian folk tales and contemporary of the Brothers Grimm—was unearthed in a municipal archive in Ger... + Read More
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Series: Sofie & Cecilia Hardcover Katherine Ashenburg 9780735272682 $32.00 FICTION Mar 27, 2018

A surprising, rich and beautiful first novel about women's friendship for readers of Paula McLain and Elena Ferrante, by a bestselling non-fiction author who has brilliantly turned her hand to fiction.In Sofie & Cecilia, beloved non-fiction author and journalist Katherine Ashenburg draws upon her formidable skill and maturity as a writer to craft an extraordinary and splendid debut novel. This is the story of a lifelong female friendship, set in the fascinating art world of Sweden between 1900 and 1940, just as modern art and the beginnings of ... + Read More
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Series: In Praise of Blood The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front Hardcover Judi Rever 9780345812094 $32.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 13, 2018

A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE: A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame.Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete history of the Rwandan genocide. Considered by the international community to be the saviours who... + Read More