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1.
Series: Becoming Hardcover Michelle Obama 9781524763138 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 13, 2018

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African-American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families p... + Read More
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Series: Born a Crime Stories from a South African Childhood Paperback Trevor Noah 9780385689243 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 12, 2019

The beloved #1 international bestseller, this is Trevor Noah’s compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime coming of age story, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, is one of comedy’s brightest voices. A light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race, and identity, his jokes and insights draw from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life. Here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers a dee... + Read More
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Series: Life Will Be the Death of Me . . . and you too! Hardcover Chelsea Handler 9780525511779 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 09, 2019

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler’s year of self-discovery—featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants, and a lot of ediblesA SKIMM READS PICK • “This will be one of your favorite books of all time.”—Amy SchumerIn a haze of vape smoke on a rare windy night in L.A. in the fall of 2016, Chelsea Handler daydreams about what life will be like with a woman in the ... + Read More
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Series: The Beautiful Ones Hardcover Prince 9780399589652 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 29, 2019

The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic deathPrince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of “Uptown” to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to ... + Read More
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Series: We Have Always Been Here A Queer Muslim Memoir Paperback Samra Habib 9780735235007 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 04, 2019

CANADA READS 2020 WINNERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER ONE OF BOOK RIOT’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIMEHow do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don’t exist?How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don’t exist?Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, they faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the smal... + Read More
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Series: Love Lives Here A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family Paperback Amanda Jette Knox 9780735235175 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 30, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family—a family who shows what’s possible when you “lead with love.”All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes chaotic. At school, she was bullied mercilessly, and at the age of fourteen, she entered a counselling program for alcohol addiction and was successful.While still a teenager, she met the love of her life. ... + Read More
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Series: Daughter of Family G A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate Hardcover Ami McKay 9780345809469 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 24, 2019

Weaving together family history, genetic discovery, and scenes from her life, Ami McKay tells the compelling, true-science story of her own family’s unsettling legacy of hereditary cancer while exploring the challenges that come from carrying the mutation that not only killed many people you loved, but might also kill you.The story of Ami McKay’s connection to a genetic disorder called Lynch syndrome begins over seventy years before she was born and long before scientists discovered DNA. In 1895 her great-great aunt, Pauline Gross, a seamstress... + Read More
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Series: Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me Depression in the First Person Paperback Anna Mehler Paperny 9780735272828 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 06, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONAward-winning journalist Anna Mehler Paperny’s stunning memoir chronicles with courageous honesty and uncommon eloquence her experience of depression and her quest to explore what we know and don’t know about this disease that afflicts almost a fifth of the population—providing an invaluable guide to a system struggling to find solutions. As fascinating as it is heartrending, as outrageously funny as it is serious, it is a must-read for anyone impacted by de... + Read More
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Series: Mistakes to Run With A Memoir Paperback Yasuko Thanh 9780735234413 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A devastatingly frank memoir that tears open the past to examine how circumstances—and the choices we make—dictate the people we become.Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, from early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum to teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her emergence as an award-winning author. As a child, Thanh embraced evangelical religion, only to rebel against it and her equally rigid parents, cutting herself, smoking, and shoplifting. At fifteen, the h... + Read More
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Series: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. A Memoir Hardcover Jenny Heijun Wills 9780771070891 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 17, 2019

Finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonfictionA beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered.Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned to Seoul where she spent four months getting to know other adoptees, as well as her Korean mother, father, siblings, and extended family. At the guesthouse for transnational adoptees where she lived, alliances were troubled by violenc... + Read More
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Series: In the Dream House A Memoir Paperback Carmen Maria Machado 9780771094507 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 05, 2019

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original st... + Read More
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Series: Know My Name A Memoir Hardcover Chanel Miller 9780735223707 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 24, 2019

Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller’s breathtaking memoir “gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter.” (The Wrap).“I opened Know My Name with the intention to bear witness to the story of a survivor. Instead, I found myself falling into the hands of one of the great writers and thinkers of our time. Chanel Miller is a ph... + Read More
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Series: Life Undercover Coming of Age in the CIA Hardcover Amaryllis Fox 9780385692410 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 15, 2019

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while falling in love and giving birth to a daughter.Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying ancient languages and theoretical physics when her writing mentor, Daniel Pearl, was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, she applied to a Master's program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service,... + Read More
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Series: Year of the Monkey Hardcover Patti Smith 9780735279285 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 24, 2019

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and... + Read More
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Series: Super Attractor Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams Hardcover Gabrielle Bernstein 9781401957162 $34.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Sep 24, 2019

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** Ready to take the next step toward living in alignment with the Universe? The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you how.In Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential steps for living in alignment with the Universe--more fully than you've ever done before. "I've always known that there is a nonphysical presence beyond my visible sight," Gabby writes. "All my life I've intuitively tuned in to it and used it as a source for good. . . . What we call it is irre... + Read More
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Series: Dare to Lead Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. Hardcover Brené Brown 9780399592522 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 09, 2018

In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who holds themselves accountable for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the ri... + Read More
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Series: Atomic Habits An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Hardcover James Clear 9780735211292 $36.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 16, 2018

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 4 million copies sold!Tiny Changes, Remarkable ResultsNo matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again... + Read More
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Series: Start with Why How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Paperback Simon Sinek 9781591846444 $23.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Dec 27, 2011

The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHYDiscover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks... + Read More
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Series: The Ride of a Lifetime Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company Hardcover Robert Iger 9780399592096 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 23, 2019

A grand vision defined: The CEO of The Walt Disney Company shares the ideas and values he has used to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world, and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.In 2005, Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company during a difficult time. Competition was intense, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. “I knew there was nothing to be gained from arguing over the past,” Iger writes. “The only thing that mattered was the future, and I believed I had a cle... + Read More
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Series: The Age of Persuasion How Marketing Ate Our Culture Paperback Terry O'Reilly 9780307397324 $22.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 31, 2010

A witty, erudite and hugely entertaining look at the world of marketing from industry insiders Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant. Now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada.In The Age of Persuasion, the ad men behind the popular CBC Radio show combine lively social history and years of industry experience to demonstrate how the art of persuasion shapes our culture. Using their series as a starting point, Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant tell the fascinating story of how modern marketing came of age—from print ads of the nine... + Read More
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Series: This I Know Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence Paperback Terry O'Reilly 9780345810373 $22.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Dec 31, 2019

Canada’s most famous adman spills a career’s worth of marketing secrets, so anyone can compete with the best in their business—whatever that business might be.Big companies spend a fortune marketing their wares and services. Can yours? Invariably people ask advertising veteran and CBC Radio host Terry O’Reilly one question more than any other: How does a little business compete with the big guys? After decades at the helm of an award-winning advertising production company, and over a decade exploring the art and science of marketing for CBC Rad... + Read More
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Series: The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel) Hardcover Margaret Atwood 9780771006845 $29.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 26, 2019

Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid’s Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood’s modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before.“Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.”Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the ne... + Read More
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Series: The Umbrella Academy Volume 3: Hotel Oblivion Paperback Gerard Way 9781506711423 $25.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 17, 2019

The New York Times bestselling comics series that was the inspiration for The Umbrella Academy on Netflix, now on Season 3!Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007 hit, for the latest chapter in the bizarre lives of their former teen superhero team.Features an introduction by Eisner Award-winning creator Jeff Lemire!Faced with an increasing number of lunatics with superpowers eager to fight his own ... + Read More
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Series: Fraiche Food, Full Hearts A Collection of Recipes for Every Day and Casual Celebrations: A Cookbook Hardcover Jillian Harris 9780735234307 $40.00 COOKING Oct 01, 2019

TV host and lifestyle influencer Jillian Harris and registered dietitian Tori Wesszer invite you into their world full of family, food, and casual celebrations.Living a stone’s throw from each other, cousins Jillian and Tori grew up in a tight-knit family and were brought up like sisters. Fraiche Food, Full Hearts offers a peek into their lives and the recipes that have fed their families through the years. Instilled with a love of cooking at an early age by their granny, the kitchen is a place of fond memories and everyday home cooked meals. L... + Read More
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Series: OH SHE GLOWS The Oh She Glows Cookbook Vegan Recipes To Glow From The Inside Out Paperback Angela Liddon 9780143187226 $32.00 COOKING Mar 04, 2014

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERGlow from the inside out with fabulous vegan recipes from the creator of the award-winning blog Oh She Glows A self-trained chef and food photographer, Angela Liddon has spent years perfecting the art of plant-based cooking, creating inventive and delicious recipes that have brought her devoted fans from all over the world. After struggling for a decade with an eating disorder, Angela vowed to change her diet - and her life - once and for all. She traded the low-calorie, processed food she’d been living on for wh... + Read More
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Series: Oh She Glows Oh She Glows Every Day Quick and Simply Satisfying Plant-Based Recipes Paperback Angela Liddon 9780143196518 $32.00 COOKING Sep 03, 2016

Angela Liddon’s eagerly awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Oh She Glows Cookbook features more than 100 quick and easy whole-foods- and plant-based recipes to keep you glowing every day of the yearAngela Liddon’s irresistible and foolproof recipes have become the gold standard for plant-based cooking. Her phenomenally popular blog and New York Times-bestselling debut, The Oh She Glows Cookbook, have amassed millions of fans eager for her latest collection of creative and accessible recipes. Now, in this highly anticipated fo... + Read More
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Series: Ottolenghi Simple A Cookbook Hardcover Yotam Ottolenghi 9780449017036 $42.00 COOKING Oct 16, 2018

Ottolenghi for everyone: a long-awaited cookbook of 130 accessible and achievable recipes for every home cook, from powerhouse author, chef, and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi.Beloved for his innovative recipes that incorporate flavour-packed Middle Eastern ingredients, superstar chef Yotam Ottolenghi has become a household name the world over, and especially well-loved in Canada. And while countless home cooks have been inspired to integrate tahini, pomegranate molasses, za’atar and other Middle Eastern staples into their cooking, sometimes the... + Read More
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Series: On Boards Simple & Inspiring Recipe Ideas to Share at Every Gathering: A Cookbook Hardcover Lisa Dawn Bolton 9780147531148 $25.00 COOKING Oct 30, 2018

150,000+ COPIES SOLD! TRANSFORM SIMPLE FOODS INTO BEAUTIFUL BOARDS WITH 100+ EASY RECIPES AND IDEAS.Sharing food on boards is the perfect way to entertain family and friends. With minimum effort and maximum impact you can casually host in style, while focusing on spending time together, rather than being stuck in the kitchen. No cooking skills are required to make these boards (and you!) shine!In On Boards, food stylist Lisa Bolton has put together 50 ideas for instantly approachable boards, all with effortless entertaining in mind, as well as ... + Read More
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Series: Peace, Love and Fibre Over 100 Fibre-Rich Recipes for the Whole Family Paperback Mairlyn Smith 9780147530929 $29.95 COOKING May 07, 2019

“Mairlyn Smith’s hilarious approach to all foods nutritious and fibre-filled has made her a daytime television favourite. We live for her tasty recipes, her easy-to-digest prep advice, and, of course, her ability to never take herself too seriously.”—Tracy Moore, host of CitylineThe world’s funniest professional home economist and self-appointed Queen of Fibre is back with a beautiful cookbook and a guide to healthy living!Mairlyn Smith, media personality, professional home economist, and author of six bestselling cookbooks, has made it her mis... + Read More
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Series: Kitchen Party Effortless Recipes for Every Occasion: A Cookbook Hardcover Mary Berg 9780147531247 $32.00 COOKING Sep 10, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERMary Berg—winner of MasterChef Canada and star of Mary’s Kitchen Crush—shares her most delicious, stress-free recipes, grand enough for special celebrations and easy enough for a regular Tuesday night.Everyone knows that a good party always ends up in the kitchen, whether you’re grabbing a drink, tasting a dish, or just chatting with the host and other guests. That’s because the kitchen is the heart of every home, big or small. But sometimes entertaining (even casually) can feel daunting or overwhelming, with all the planning... + Read More
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Series: Vegetables First 120 Vibrant Vegetable-Forward Recipes: A Cookbook Hardcover Ricardo Larrivee 9780525610458 $32.00 COOKING Apr 23, 2019

120 fresh, flavourful recipes that put vegetables first!Welcome to a celebration of the tastes, textures, colours, and possibilities that vegetables have to offer. These easy-to-follow, triple-tested recipes put vegetables front and centre, and let meat and fish play a supporting role. Discover delicious, bright dishes popping with colour (tomato and ricotta tartlets), full of comfort (squash and roasted vegetable lasagne), and ready to celebrate (Beauty and the Beet cocktail). With each recipe, Ricardo reinvents what vegetables can mean for t... + Read More
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Series: Eat More Plants Over 100 Anti-Inflammatory, Plant-Based Recipes for Vibrant Living: A Cookbook Paperback Desiree Nielsen 9780735235717 $32.00 COOKING Aug 27, 2019

National BestsellerRestore and energize your health with this stunning collection of plant-based recipes chock-full of powerful, anti-inflammatory foods that heal.Revolutionize your approach to a healthy diet with the power of plant-based foods and follow one simple rule—eat more plants. Whether you are vegan, vegetarian, flexitarian, or meat-eater, we can all benefit from eating more plants for vibrant living. Eat More Plants shows you how to transform your diet with powerful anti-inflammatory, nutrient-dense plants, and to create delicious me... + Read More
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Series: The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook Recipes and Techniques for Every Hunter and Angler Hardcover Steven Rinella 9780399590078 $47.00 COOKING Nov 20, 2018

From the host of the television series and podcast MeatEater, the long-awaited definitive guide to cooking wild game, including fish and fowl, featuring more than 100 new recipes“As a MeatEater fan who loves to cook, I can tell you that this book is a must-have.”—Andrew Zimmern When Steven Rinella hears from fans of his MeatEater show and podcast, it’s often requests for more recipes. One of the most respected and beloved hunters in America, Rinella is also an accomplished wild game cook, and he offers recipes here that range from his takes on ... + Read More
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Series: Cravings: Hungry for More A Cookbook Hardcover Chrissy Teigen 9781524759728 $39.99 COOKING Sep 18, 2018

After the extraordinary success of Cravings, Chrissy Teigen comes back with more of her signature wit and take-no-prisoners flavor bombs.Cravings: Hungry for More takes us further into Chrissy’s kitchen…and life. It’s a life of pancakes that remind you of blueberry pie, eating onion dip with your glam squad, banana bread that breaks the internet, and a little something called Pad Thai Carbonara. After two years of parenthood, falling in love with different flavors, and relearning the healing power of comfort food, this book is like Chrissy’s ne... + Read More
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Series: Cook Like a Pro Recipes and Tips for Home Cooks: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook Hardcover Ina Garten 9780804187046 $47.00 COOKING Oct 23, 2018

In her new cookbook, Cook Like a Pro, Ina Garten shares a brand-new collection of recipes, tips, and techniques, so readers can cook with confidence no matter how much experience they have in the kitchen. As America’s most trusted and beloved cookbook author, Ina Garten—the Barefoot Contessa—has taught millions of people how to cook. A home cook at heart, Ina knows that cooking and entertaining can be difficult, so to make her recipes simple and streamlined, she tests and retests each recipe until it’s as straightforward and delicious as possib... + Read More
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Series: Love and Lemons Every Day Plant-Focused Meals to Enjoy Now or Make Ahead Hardcover Jeanine Donofrio 9780735234475 $35.00 COOKING Apr 02, 2019

The second cookbook from the award-winning blogger behind Love and Lemons—devoted to easy, seasonal, vegetarian recipes that make inspired everyday cooking attainable.Jeanine Donofrio, founder of the wildly popular Love and Lemons food blog, has redefined fresh vegetarian cooking with her inventive recipes using seasonal ingredients. Now in her second cookbook, Jeanine presents simple techniques for cooking bright, beautiful food every day. With more than 100 recipes for breakfasts, lunches, and easy suppers, as well as quick flavor charts for ... + Read More
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Series: Rocky Mountain Cooking Recipes to Bring Canada's Backcountry Home: A Cookbook Hardcover Katie Mitzel 9780147530981 $30.00 COOKING Oct 01, 2019

Embrace backcountry living at home with these delicious recipes inspired by life in the Rocky Mountains, from celebrated backcountry chef Katie Mitzel, bestselling author of The Skoki Cookbook.Nestled in and around the Rocky Mountains are a series of remote backcountry lodges offering the experience of a lifetime. Katie Mitzel has spent the last twenty years as a chef in these lodges, joyfully feeding hungry travelers who have journeyed hundreds of miles to have their own backcountry adventures. Whether you’re wilderness hiking, off-piste skiin... + Read More
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Series: Duchess at Home Sweet & Savoury Recipes from My Home to Yours: A Cookbook Hardcover Giselle Courteau 9780525610328 $35.00 COOKING Oct 15, 2019

A cookbook of delectable, comforting, French-inspired fare for home cooks and Francophiles everywhere, from the bestselling author of Duchess Bake Shop.TASTE CANADA AWARDS SILVER WINNERIn Duchess at Home—a beautiful new cookbook from the founder of Duchess Bake Shop—Giselle Courteau draws on her French and French Canadian heritage to share the food she loves to make most for her family at home. Warming soups and stews, hearty breads, and flavourful preserves fill the pages of this beautiful volume—plus, of course, plenty of recipes for her deli... + Read More
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Series: The Buddhist Chef 100 Simple, Feel-Good Vegan Recipes: A Cookbook Paperback Jean-Philippe Cyr 9780525610243 $29.95 COOKING Oct 29, 2019

100 simply delicious vegan recipes—good for the planet, and for you—from the chef and blogger behind The Buddhist Chef.A practicing Buddhist for over two decades, Jean-Philippe Cyr, aka The Buddhist Chef, believes that everyone has the power to make their vision of the world a reality—and that the most impactful way to do that is through the food we choose to make, eat, and share. This realization led him to veganism, which transformed his life and health. In this cookbook, he shares how to make classic dishes vegan, easy, and so delicious and ... + Read More
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Series: Nothing Fancy Unfussy Food for Having People Over Hardcover Alison Roman 9780451497017 $42.50 COOKING Oct 22, 2019

Feeding friends—and feeding yourself—is an unfussy affair with social media superstar and newly minted New York Times columnist Alison RomanJust as Martha Stewart introduced a generation to entertaining nearly forty years ago, so now Alison Roman reinvents the dinner party as a relaxed gathering for our current culture where dining out is increasingly expensive and everyone is craving down time connecting with friends. In Nothing Fancy, Alison brings her signature laid-back, approachable style and visually stunning recipes that are high on wow ... + Read More
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Series: Half Baked Harvest Super Simple More Than 125 Recipes for Instant, Overnight, Meal-Prepped, and Easy Comfort Foods: A Cookbook Hardcover Tieghan Gerard 9780525577072 $39.99 COOKING Oct 29, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • There’s something for everyone in these 125 easy, show-stopping recipes: fewer ingredients, foolproof meal-prepping, effortless entertaining, and everything in between, including vegan and vegetarian options!NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND FOOD NETWORK“Those indulgent, comfort food-esque dishes [Tieghan is] known for aren’t going anywhere. . . . You’ll be hard-pressed to decide which one to make first.”—Food & WineWe all want to make and serve our loved ones beautiful food—but we shouldn’t... + Read More
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Series: Tasty Every Day All of the Flavor, None of the Fuss (An Official Tasty Cookbook) Hardcover Tasty 9780525575887 $25.99 COOKING Nov 12, 2019

Buzzfeed’s wildly popular cooking vertical, Tasty, is known for their inventive yet easy-to-follow recipes. In this fourth official cookbook, they compile 75 options that are designed to be quick, easy, and perfect for everyday meals.With so many home cooks looking for fast meal solutions, “every day” is a hot-button topic at the dinner table. Who capitalizes on food trends better than media giant Tasty? Readers love Tasty not only for their brilliant, simple recipes, but also for their innovation and creativity where the internet is already ov... + Read More
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Series: Craft Cocktails Seasonally Inspired Drinks and Snacks from Our Sipping Room Paperback Geoff Dillon 9780735235298 $26.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2019

National Winner for Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2019 - Cocktails categoryFrom Geoff Dillon, founder of Dillon’s Small Batch Distillers and leader of the craft distilling movement, a collection of cocktails for every season and recipes for the perfect snacks to enjoy with them.Grounded in a belief in using fresh ingredients, this must-have collection of cocktails offers impressive yet simple modern cocktails with an elegant vintage feel. The 100 recipes, divided by season, range from the classics, like a warm-weather Whisky Sour and a cool-we... + Read More
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Series: Living High Off the Hog Over 100 Recipes and Techniques to Cook Pork Perfectly: A Cookbook Hardcover Michael Olson 9780147531162 $35.00 COOKING Sep 17, 2019

A carnivore’s love letter to one of the most versatile, affordable and tasty types of meat: pork.After 30 years as a professional chef, Michael Olson knows how to get the most out of his food. These days, he’s also a teacher and dinner-maker-in-chief, so he understands what home cooks are looking for when it’s time to eat.In Living High Off the Hog, Michael shares his wealth of knowledge and over 100 of his favorite pork recipes. First, he gives you a rundown on everything you need to know about pork—how to buy, store, butcher and prep various ... + Read More
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Series: The Joyous Cookbook Real Food, Nourishing Recipes for Everyday Living Paperback Joy McCarthy 9780735234857 $32.00 COOKING Dec 31, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning blogger and bestselling author Joy McCarthy comes 100 easy and delicious whole food recipes for a healthy diet.Joy McCarthy founder of the hugely popular Joyous Health blog shares her love of natural wellness and passion for simple cooking that’s healthful and tastes amazing—food you feel good about and want to make every day. Now, in this gorgeously designed new cookbook, Joy offers a collection of 100 whole food recipes for happy, healthy living.From easy-to-make breakfasts, hearty mains, and one-pot ... + Read More
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Series: The Hungover Cookbook Hardcover Milton Crawford 9780307886316 $11.00 COOKING May 31, 2011

Everything you need to know to assess, understand, and improve a hangover is here: dozens of comforting recipes, very clever graphic tests for analyzing your state of mind, and quizzes for tracking your progress. A good hangover brings its victim to a new state of mind—and one that, when looked at objectively, can be quite fascinating to its host: It can create an increased awareness of the body, a willingness to eat something usually off limits, and a fascination with the mind’s strange acrobatics. With P. G. Wodehouse’s six hangovers—The Br... + Read More
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Series: All Things Being Equal Why Math Is the Key to a Better World Hardcover John Mighton 9780735272897 $32.00 EDUCATION Jan 07, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning founder of JUMP Math, All Things Being Equal is a proven guide to succeeding in math, and a passionate argument for why this success can and must be available to the majority instead of the privileged few. For two decades, John Mighton has developed strategies for fostering intellectual potential in all children through learning math. Math, Mighton says, provides us with mental tools of incredible power. When we learn math we learn to see patterns, to think logically and systematically, to draw analogie... + Read More
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Series: Feeding My Mother Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with her Mom's Memory Loss Paperback Jann Arden 9780735273931 $21.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 05, 2019

This edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann’s diaries and her mother’s final days.When beloved singer and songwriter Jann Arden’s parents built a house just across the way from her, she thought they would be her refuge from the demands of her career. And for a time that was how it worked. But then her dad fell ill and died, and just days after his funeral, her mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.In Feeding My Mother, Jann shares what it is like for a daughter to become her mother’s caregiver—in her own frank and f... + Read More
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Series: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Movie Tie-In) Neighborly Words of Wisdom from Mister Rogers Media tie-in Paperback Fred Rogers 9780143135388 $22.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Nov 05, 2019

A tie-in edition to the highly anticipated Tom Hanks movie opening November 22nd, including the essay by Tom Junod that inspired the feature film and a collection of timeless life wisdom from Mister RogersTom Junod’s 1998 profile of Fred Rogers, “Can You Say…Hero”, has been hailed as a classic of magazine writing. Now, his moving story of meeting and observing the beloved host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the inspiration for the 2019 feature film, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. In this book, Junod’s classic essay appears alongside a ... + Read More
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Series: Medical Medium Celery Juice The Most Powerful Medicine of Our Time Healing Millions Worldwide Hardcover Anthony William 9781401957650 $25.99 HEALTH & FITNESS May 21, 2019

Celery juice is everywhere for a reason: because it’s saving lives as it restores people’s health one symptom at a time.From celebrities posting about their daily celery juice routines to people from all walks of life sharing pictures and testimonials of their dramatic recovery stories, celery juice is revealing itself to ignite healing when all odds seem against it. What began decades ago as a quiet movement has become a global healing revolution.In Celery Juice: The Most Powerful Medicine of Our Time Healing Millions Worldwide, Anthony Willia... + Read More
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Series: When the Body Says No The Cost of Hidden Stress Paperback Gabor Maté MD 9780676973129 $24.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Feb 03, 2004

From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.In this accessible and groundbreaking book—filled with the moving stories of real people—medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sc... + Read More
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Series: Healthy as F*ck The Habits You Need to Get Lean, Stay Healthy, and Kick Ass at Life Paperback Oonagh Duncan 9780735238268 $24.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Sep 17, 2019

#1 Globe and Mail BestsellerJoin the Movement. Ditch the Diet.Who’s ready to stop thinking about weight loss? To free their brain from thoughts about ketones, calories, and fasting? Who wants life to be more effortless, energetic, and empowered?Welcome to a refreshing and gloriously unapologetic conversation about health, fitness and habits. Award-winning trainer Oonagh Duncan cuts through the wellness clutter to drop some truth bombs: it might not be six-pack abs you’re looking for - it might be happiness, confidence, and acceptance. But if lo... + Read More
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Series: The Inflammation Spectrum Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System Hardcover Dr. Will Cole 9780735220089 $36.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Oct 15, 2019

From the international bestselling author of Ketotarian comes a revolutionary new plan to discover the foods your unique body loves, hates, and needs to feel great.In Dr. Will Cole’s game-changing new book, readers will discover how inflammation is at the core of most common health woes. What’s more, it exists on a continuum: from mild symptoms such as weight gain and fatigue on one end, to hormone imbalance and autoimmune conditions on the other. How you feel is being influenced by every meal. Every food you eat is either feeding inflammation ... + Read More
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Series: Forever Painless Lasting Relief Through Gentle Movement Paperback Miranda Esmonde-White 9780345816641 $24.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Dec 31, 2019

The Canadian fitness guru and public television star who has shown us how to slow—even reverse—aging in her international bestseller Aging Backwards, is back with a revolutionary way to cure chronic pain with movement. “Our bodies are designed to be pain-free through our lives,” says Miranda Esmonde-White, “but to achieve that, we have to move.”In her bestseller Forever Painless, Miranda Esmonde-White explains how pain functions in the body, and then leads her readers through a series of simple, gentle exercises designed to ease many types of m... + Read More
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Series: Fit Cities My Quest to Improve the World's Health and Wellness--Including Yours Hardcover Karen K. Lee 9780385685320 $32.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Jan 07, 2020

A public health pioneer is working to save our lives by changing our world.Karen Lee is a force for good around the world, secretly helping people to improve their diets, get in shape and live longer.In the vital but poorly understood world of public health, this Canadian woman is an international superstar. In the early 2000s, she went to the US to head a team of “health detectives” for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By then, smoking was in decline thanks in part to the CDC’s efforts and so its attention turned to the next big... + Read More
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Series: Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind Paperback Yuval Noah Harari 9780771038518 $23.00 HISTORY May 10, 2016

Destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens is a lively, groundbreaking history of humankind told from a unique perspective—and it is now available in paperback.100,000 years ago, at least six species of human inhabited the earth. Today there is just one: us. Homo Sapiens.How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations, and human rights; to trust money, books, and laws; and to be... + Read More
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Series: Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow Paperback Yuval Noah Harari 9780771038709 $23.00 HISTORY Oct 31, 2017

From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary folllow-up that explores the future of the human species. Now available as a trade paperback.Humans today enjoy unprecedented levels of power and an increasingly god-like status. The great epidemics of the past - famine, plague and war - no longer control our lives. We are the only species in history that has single-handedly changed the entire planet, and we can no longer blame a higher being for our fate.But as our gods take a back seat... + Read More
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Series: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Hardcover Yuval Noah Harari 9780771048852 $34.95 HISTORY Sep 04, 2018

New York Times BestsellerNational BestsellerWith Sapiens and Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari first explored the past, then the future of humankind, garnering the praise of no less than Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few, and selling millions of copies in the over 30 countries it was published. In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, he devotes himself to the present.21 Lessons For the 21st Century provides a kind of instruction manual for the present day to help readers find their way around the 21st century, to understand it... + Read More
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Series: The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Paperback Ben Macintyre 9780771060359 $22.00 HISTORY Aug 06, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe celebrated author of A Spy Among Friends and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Cold War-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union.If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation’s communism as both criminal and phi... + Read More
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Series: Beyond the Trees A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic Hardcover Adam Shoalts 9780735236837 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2019

National bestsellerA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from “Canada’s greatest living explorer.”In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America’s greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it’s still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being.Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies... + Read More