1.
Series:
Moon of the Crusted Snow
A Novel
Paperback
Waubgeshig Rice
9781770414006
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 02, 2018
2023 Canada Reads Longlist Selection National Bestseller Winner of the 2019 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Shortlisted for the 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Shortlisted for the 2019/20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award 2020 Burlington Library Selection; 2020 Hamilton Reads One Book One Community Selection; 2020 Region of Waterloo One Book One Community Selection; 2019 Ontario Library Association Ontario Together We Read Program Selection; 2019 Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Re...
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2.
Series:
French Exit
Paperback
Patrick deWitt
9781487004835
$23.99
FICTION
Aug 28, 2018
Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and an international bestseller, Patrick deWitt’s brilliant and darkly comic novel is now a major motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer.Frances Price — tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature — is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral ...
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3.
Series:
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
A Novel
Hardcover
Craig Davidson
9780735274822
$27.00
FICTION
Aug 14, 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE: An infectious and heartbreaking novel from “one of this country’s great kinetic writers” (Globe and Mail)—Craig Davidson’s first new literary fiction since his bestselling, Giller-shortlisted Cataract CityWhen neurosurgeon Jake Baker operates, he knows he’s handling more than a patient’s delicate brain tissue—he’s altering their seat of consciousness, their golden vault of memory. And memory, Jake knows well, can be a tricky thing.When growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls, a.k.a. Cataract Ci...
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4.
Series:
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
A Novel
Paperback
Kim Fu
9781443453592
$22.99
FICTION
Feb 13, 2018
From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp—and the night that will shape their lives for decades to comeA group of young girls descends on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets and camp songs by the fire. Bursting with excitement and nervous energy, they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island. But before the night is over, they find themselves ...
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5.
Series:
Hysteria
A Novel
Paperback
Elisabeth de Mariaffi
9781443453400
$22.99
FICTION
Mar 06, 2018
One of The Globe and Mail’s “Favourite Books of the Year”The closer she gets to the truth, the faster it slips away.In the spring of 1945, fifteen year-old Heike circles in the mountains high above Switzerland. Pushed out the door by a worried mother, Heike and her little sister, Lena, have escaped Dresden only days ahead of the firebombs that will destroy that city, to cross a war-torn Germany on their own. But now, Lena is lost and Heike is alone, stalked by a feral dog.Eleven years later, Heike’s life looks very different: married to a promi...
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6.
Series:
All Things Consoled
A daughter's memoir
Hardcover
Elizabeth Hay
9780771039737
$32.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 18, 2018
From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton.Jean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable pair. Jean, a late-blooming artist with a marvellous sense of humour, was superlatively frugal; nothing got wasted, not even maggoty soup. Gordon was a proud and ambitious schoolteacher with a terrifying temper, a deep streak of melancholy, and a devotion...
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7.
Series:
Foe
Canadian Edition
Hardcover
Iain Reid
9781501103476
$26.99
FICTION
Aug 07, 2018
A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things.We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have. Junior and Hen are a quiet married couple. They live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with surprising news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Hen won’t ...
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8.
Series:
I'm Afraid of Men
Hardcover
Vivek Shraya
9780735235939
$17.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 28, 2018
“Cultural rocket fuel.”—Vanity Fair“Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I’m Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek’s heart and mind.”—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers and Milk and HoneyA trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl—and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century.Vivek Shraya has reason to b...
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9.
Series:
The Return of Kid Cooper
A Novel
Paperback
Brad Smith
9781948924535
$15.99
FICTION
Oct 01, 2018
In the style of Cormac McCarthy, a gritty tale of justice and revenge in the Wild West.The year is 1910.Nate Cooper is an old-school cowboy. He sees the change brought by the turn of the century—horses giving way to motorcars, his girlfriend marrying his best friend, and his nemesis running for governor—and reckons none of it to be good. The west is being tamed, and with progress, some things are lost. But people? They tend to stay the same. Even after spending nearly thirty years in a Montana prison for a wrongful murder conviction, ...
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10.
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...
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