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Series: Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Paperback Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 9781487007645 $22.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represent... + Read More
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Series: French Exit Paperback Patrick deWitt 9781487004835 $22.95 FICTION Aug 28, 2018

Finalist, Scotiabank Giller PrizeFinalist, Oregon Book Awards: Ken Kesey Award for FictionFinalist, Forest of Reading Evergreen AwardLonglist, International Dublin Literary AwardInternational BestsellerA Globe and Mail Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA Chatelaine Book of the YearA Now Magazine Book of the YearAn Amazon.com Best Book of the MonthA New York Public Library Best Book of the YearA Book of the YearFrances Price — tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature — is in dire straits, beset by scandal... + Read More
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Series: Reset Reclaiming Social Media for Civil Society Paperback Ronald Deibert 9781487008055 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 29, 2020

In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity.Digital technologies have given rise to a new machine-based civilization that is increasingly linked to a growing number of social and political maladies. Accountability is weak and insecurity is endemic, creating disturbing opportunities for exploitation.Drawing from the cutting-edge research of the Citizen Lab, the w... + Read More
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Series: Hollywood Eden Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise Hardcover Joel Selvin 9781487007218 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 06, 2021

From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream.From surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise. Central to the story is a ... + Read More
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Series: The Fall 2020 Munk Debate The Munk Debates Paperback Rudyard Griffiths 9781487008390 $14.95 Nov 03, 2020

The twenty-sixth semi-annual Munk Debate, North America’s premier public-policy event.Held semi-annually, the Munk Debates provide leading thinkers with a global forum to discuss the major public-policy issues facing the world. Participants in the Munk Debates have included Tony Blair, Stephen Fry, Newt Gingrich, Malcolm Gladwell, Christopher Hitchens, Garry Kasparov, Henry Kissinger, Paul Krugman, Steven Pinker, Samantha Power, and Fareed Zakaria.The Munk Debate series features the full text of the debates, along with interviews with the debat... + Read More
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Series: The Age of Creativity Art, Memory, My Father, and Me Paperback Emily Urquhart 9781487005313 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2020

A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes.“The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong to one age group or another. We all grow old. There is no us and them. There was only ever an us.” — from The Age of CreativityIt has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her fathe... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Spells Hardcover Jackie Morris 9781487007799 $31.00 POETRY Oct 27, 2020

Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults.The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers’ minds. Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning sp... + Read More
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Series: On Love and Tyranny The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt Paperback Dr. Ann Heberlein 9781487008116 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 05, 2021

In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of evil, totalitarianism, love, and exile prove essential amid the rise of the refugee crisis and authoritarian regimes around the world. What can we learn from the iconic political thinker Hannah Arendt? Well, the short answer may be: to love the world so much that we think change is possible.The life of Hannah Arendt spans a crucial chapter in the history... + Read More
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Series: The Conscious Creative Practical Ethics for Purposeful Work Paperback Kelly Small 9781487008024 $22.95 SELF-HELP Aug 04, 2020

An actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul.It can be difficult to live according to our values in a complicated world. At a time when capitalism seems most unforgiving but the need for paying work remains high, it is important to learn how we can be more mindful and intentional about our impact — personal, social, economic, and environmental.As designer and creative director Kelly Small had to do to navigate a crisis of ethics and burnout in their c... + Read More
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Series: A Family Affair Paperback Nadine Bismuth 9781487007027 $22.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships, A Family Affair confirms award-winning author Nadine Bismuth’s place as a remarkable chronicler of contemporary middle-class mores in the manner of Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, and Lorrie Moore.Award-winning novelist and screenwriter for film and television Nadine Bismuth has returned with an unsparing portrait of twenty-first century life. In A Family Affair, love is the first casualty and deceit — towards others, towards oneself — the norm.Kitchen designer Magalie is being cheated upon and ... + Read More
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Series: I Am Ariel Sharon Paperback Yara El-Ghadban 9781487007973 $22.95 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

An innovative and bold novel, I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister during his eight-year coma as he faces the spirits of the women closest to him.It is 2014, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel” and Minister of Defence during the Lebanon War and the Sabra and Shatila massacre, has lain comatose for eight years. As death approaches, he is addressed by the women in his life — his mother, Vera, and his wives, Lily and Gali. Appealing to the humanity in a man often considered a monster, ... + Read More
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Series: How to Be Happy Though Human New and Selected Poems Paperback Kate Camp 9781487008376 $21.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human introduces Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems is Kate Camp’s seventh book of poetry and the first to be published outside New Zealand. Incorporating a grouping of new, previously unpublished work and a selection of important poems from her six earlier collections, this volume introduces North American readers to ... + Read More
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Series: Fortune The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung Paperback Ian Hamilton 9781487004026 $19.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

International bestselling author Ian Hamilton returns with a riveting new novel featuring fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung, who is called upon to end a violent turf war between rival gangs and stop a new organized crime bureau of the Hong Kong Police from eliminating the triad societies once and for all.Hong Kong, 1995. Two years before Hong Kong is to be returned to the People’s Republic of China, the Communist government has its eye on the New Territories, and tensions are running high among the triads. A turf war breaks out in Macau and quickly... + Read More
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Series: The Shadow Paperback Melanie Raabe 9781487008635 $22.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

Ruth Ware meets Shari Lapena in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller about the inescapable pull of destiny and revenge.Norah Richter has recently moved from Berlin to Vienna, hoping to put her old life behind her. While walking to her new office one morning, Norah is approached by an elderly homeless woman who utters these chilling words:On the eleventh of February, you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm . . . With good reason. And of your own free will.Norah is unnerved — many years earlier, something terrible happened to h... + Read More
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Series: When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks Paperback Austin Clarke 9781487008420 $16.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Originally issued in 1971, Austin Clarke’s first published collection of eleven remarkable stories showcases his groundbreaking approach to chronicling the Caribbean diaspora experience in Canada. Characters move through the mire of working life, of establishing a home for themselves, of reconciling with what and who they left behind — all the while contending with a place in which their bone-chilling reception is both social and atmospheric. In lyrical, often racy, and wholly unforgettable prose, Clarke portrays a set of provocative, scintilla... + Read More
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Series: Museum of Bone and Water Paperback Nicole Brossard 9781487008093 $16.95 POETRY Mar 02, 2021

Originally published in English in 2003, Nicole Brossard’s Museum of Bone and Water delivers sensual and provocative investigations of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire — that pulse and surprise at every turn. In this collection, fingers, lips, fists, cheeks mingle in the palm trees of Dublin and Key West, the heat of Palermo and Madrid. With each dazzling turn and each “crazy” silence, Brossard speeds our breath and quickens our hearts, reminding us that poetry too is both a physical and spiritual reali... + Read More
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Series: Tamara Paperback John Krizanc 9781487008482 $16.95 DRAMA Mar 02, 2021

In the late twenties in Fascist Italy, the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d’Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and the meaning of complicity in an authortarian state, all directed by the reader. In this nonlinear play, it is the audience members who decide which characters to follow and which narratives to experience.John Krizanc’s dram... + Read More
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Series: Ideas to Postpone the End of the World Paperback Ailton Krenak 9781487008512 $16.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 06, 2020

From renowned Brazilian Indigenous activist and leader Ailton Krenak comes an urgent and necessary appeal to save the planet.Humanity is facing the greatest environmental disaster of our existence. Global pandemics, extreme weather events, and massive wildfires all define the era that many are now calling the Anthropocene.In the three lectures that comprise Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, renowned Indigenous activist and leader Ailton Krenak argues that the current environmental crisis is rooted in modern society’s flawed concept of “hu... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Words Magpie Puzzle Toy Robert Macfarlane 9781487009342 $28.95 ART Age (years) from 12 Oct 06, 2020

The perfect companion to the internationally bestselling collection of poems and illustrations The Lost Words, this 500-piece special-edition jigsaw puzzle brings to life Jackie Morris’s magical watercolour painting of magpies. Since its publication, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s stunning collection of poems and art The Lost Words has enchanted the lives of children and adults alike with its depictions of the beauty of the natural world. Through the magic of word and paint, the book celebrates the wonder and importance of everyday natur... + Read More