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Series: Sex and Vanity Hardcover Kevin Kwan 9780385695404 $34.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds—the WASP establishment of her father’s family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her ... + Read More
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Series: The End of Her Paperback Shari Lapena 9780385695022 $24.95 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Someone We Know.In upstate New York, Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. The girls are a handful, but Stephanie doesn’t mind being a stay-at-home mom, taking care of them while Patrick does the 9-5 to pay the bills.And when a woman from Patrick’s past drops in on them unexpectedly, raising questions about his late first wife, Stephanie supports her husband whol... + Read More
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Series: Luster Hardcover Raven Leilani 9780385696005 $29.95 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else’s open marriage.Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She’s also, secretly, haltingly, figuring her way into life as an artist. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage—with rules. As if navi... + Read More
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Series: A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom Hardcover John Boyne 9780385695855 $34.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

From the award-winning author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies comes an epic tale of humanity that stretches across space and time.Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father’s violence in his blood. One with his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning.Their stories will in... + Read More
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Series: The Smallest Lights in the Universe A Memoir Hardcover Sara Seager 9780385692793 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 18, 2020

Canadian MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love.Sara Seager has made it her life’s work to peer into the spaces around stars—looking for exoplanets outside our solar system, hoping to find the one-in-a-billion world enough like ours to sustain life. But with the unexpected death of her husband, her life became an empty, lightless space. Suddenly, she was the singl... + Read More
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Series: Transcendent Kingdom Hardcover Yaa Gyasi 9780385695176 $32.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University’s School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behaviour in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. ... + Read More
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Series: Forest Green Hardcover Kate Pullinger 9780385683043 $29.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler, a powerful, heartrending novel about a man on the run from himself, by Governor General’s Award-winning author Kate Pullinger.On a rain-soaked Vancouver sidewalk in 1995, a homeless man fights for breath. Forest Green is the story of how he ended up there.Arthur Lunn is a golden boy who spends long summer days roaming the hills and swimming in the lakes of the Okanagan Valley. But the Great Depression is destroying lives, even in Art’s remote and bucolic hometown. Soon, Art finds himself caught up... + Read More
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Series: Hope in the Balance A Newfoundland Doctor Meets a World in Crisis Hardcover Andrew Furey 9780385692618 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 13, 2020

How the caring spirit of Newfoundland was exported to a world in crisis.Dr. Andrew Furey, an orthopedic surgeon, was sitting by a large fireplace at home in St John’s, watching an even larger flat-screen TV, when dreadful images of the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti burst in on the cosy domestic scene. Human suffering on an epic scale was being documented in real time. Dr. Furey spent a sleepless night, and woke knowing he had to help in some way. In what has been a theme throughout Newfoundland and Labrador’s history, he found himself ans... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Love Song A Novel Paperback Minnie Darke 9780385696357 $17.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

Behind every great love song is a great love story.It’s been seven years and Diana is finally ready to marry her long-time fiancé, Arie; she’s even composing a beautiful love song for him, working on it in hotels and concert halls as she criss-crosses the world as a classical pianist. Before she can finish it, though, tragedy strikes—and Diana is lost to Arie forever.But her song might not be….In Australia, the world has gone quiet for Arie and he lives his life accordingly, struggling to cope with his loss. In Scotland, Evie is taking stock of... + Read More
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Series: The Company The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire Hardcover Stephen Bown 9780385694070 $37.00 HISTORY Oct 27, 2020

A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s origins.The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown’s exciting new telling.The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful... + Read More
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Series: Waiting for a Star to Fall A Novel Paperback Kerry Clare 9780385695473 $22.95 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

“A love story at its core, though one without an ending written in the stars…. Timely and insightful.”—Karma Brown, #1 bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect WifeFor fans of Joanne Ramos, Josie Silver, and Emily Giffin, a gripping and powerful story that asks: Just how much are you willing to forgive in the name of love? Brooke has long been caught in the orbit of Derek, a rising political superstar. First he was her boss, then they were friends and she became his confidant, the one person he shared everything with. And even though she had... + Read More
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Series: Close to the Bone A Memoir Paperback Lisa Ray 9780385695725 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 03, 2020

“A thrilling journey inwards as much as outwards…. A must-read.”—Freida Pinto“How fortunate a thing it is, when life alters you without warning.”Lisa Ray is one of India’s first supermodels. She’s also an actor, a cancer survivor, a mother of twins through surrogacy. She is a woman who has lived many lives. And this is her story.Close to the Bone is an unflinching, deeply moving account of Lisa Ray’s life, tracing her childhood in Canada as the biracial daughter of an Indian man and a Polish woman, her rise as a popular Bollywood star, and her ... + Read More
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Series: Metropolis A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention Hardcover Ben Wilson 9780385690966 $38.95 HISTORY Nov 10, 2020

From a brilliant young historian, a colourful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind’s greatest innovations.In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has allowed human culture to flourish. Beginning in 5,000 BC with Uruk, the world’s first city, immortalized in The Epi... + Read More
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Series: Miss Benson's Beetle Paperback Rachel Joyce 9780385681261 $24.95 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

This instant New York Times bestseller is the unforgettable, funny and charming story of a marvelous adventure and unexpected female friendship, from the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.It is 1950. In a moment of madness Margery Benson abandons her sensible job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may not exist. Enid Pretty, in pink hat and pompom sandals, is not the companion she had in mind. But together they ... + Read More
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Series: The Burning Girls Paperback C. J. Tudor 9780385694216 $22.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

An unconventional vicar must exorcise the dark past of a remote village haunted by death and disappearances in this explosive and unsettling thriller from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, Protestant martyrs were betrayed—then burned. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And a few weeks ago, the vicar of the local parish hanged himself in the nave of the church.Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy consci... + Read More
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Series: Creativity A Short and Cheerful Guide Hardcover John Cleese 9780385696753 $19.95 SELF-HELP Sep 08, 2020

“Many people have written about creativity, but although they were very, very clever, they weren’t actually creative. I like to think I’m writing about it from the inside.”—John CleeseCreativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in this short, immensely practical, and often very amusing guide he shows it’s a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer, he shares his insights into the nature of the creative process and offers advice on how to ... + Read More
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Series: All Together Now A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times Hardcover Alan Doyle 9780385696777 $27.00 HUMOR Nov 24, 2020

One of Newfoundland’s funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for coming to the rescue of those in need?At this time of Covid, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle is feeling everyone’s pain. Off the road and spending more days at home than he has since he was a child hawking cod tongues on the wharfs of Petty Harbour, he misses the crowds and companionship of performing across the country and beyon... + Read More