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Series: This Is Not the End of Me Lessons on Living from a Dying Man Paperback Dakshana Bascaramurty 9780771009631 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 18, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son. i can’t make you feel what it’s like to be a young, dumb, naïve thirty-year-old sitting in the back of a walk-in clinic waiting to be handed what is essentially a death sentence any more than i can show you what it feels like to have a husband or father or child who’s dying and kno... + Read More
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Series: Songs for the End of the World Paperback Saleema Nawaz 9780771072574 $24.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

“In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn’t put it down.”—Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The WagersINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER. An immersive, deeply engaging, and hopeful novel about the power of human connection in a time of crisis, as the bonds of love, family, and duty are tested by an impending pandemic. Named a “Book You Should Read This Summer” by Maclean’s and Chatelaine. How quickly he... + Read More
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Series: And Yet Poems Paperback John Steffler 9780771094521 $19.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

A former Poet Laureate of Canada and finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize returns with a wide-ranging new collection of poems.In John Steffler’s luminous collection, And Yet, dreams, memory and desire are forms of wilderness that burst into our daily lives, inspiring us to see ourselves and the world anew. Exuberant, powerful, even prescient, the poems confront the unknown and unexpected around and within us and call up our impulse to resist certainty and finality. The flimsiest shelter might seem best; a trail guide’s house is revealed as a f... + Read More
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Series: The Quiet Americans Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War -- a Tragedy in Three Acts Hardcover Scott Anderson 9780771009143 $37.00 HISTORY Sep 01, 2020

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA’s covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences which still affect the world todayAt the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing—seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union wasalready executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government’s strategy in re... + Read More
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Series: Through the Garden A Love Story (with Cats) Hardcover Lorna Crozier 9780771021183 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 08, 2020

A deeply affecting portrait of a long partnership and a clear-eyed account of the impact of a serious illness, writing as consolation, and the enduring significance of poetry from one of Canada’s most celebrated voices.When we ran off together in 1978, abandoning our marriages and leaving wreckage in our wake, I was a “promising writer,” Patrick had just won the Governor General’s Award. I was so happy for him, and I’ve continued to be every time an honour comes his way, but I knew if I didn’t grow, if I remained merely someone who showed poten... + Read More
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Series: Agent Sonya Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy Hardcover Ben Macintyre 9780771001949 $36.00 HISTORY Sep 15, 2020

The international bestselling author of A Spy and the Traitor and A Spy Among Friends reveals one of the last great untold spy stories of the twentieth century—the woman hidden in plain sight who set the stage for the Cold War.If you happened to be in the quiet English village of Great Rollright in 1942, you might have seen a thin, elegant woman emerging from a cottage and climbing onto her bicycle. Ursula Burton had three children and a husband named Len, who worked as a machinist nearby. She was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a... + Read More
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Series: The Journey Prize Stories 32 The Best of Canada's New Writers Paperback Amy Jones 9780771050992 $21.00 FICTION Sep 22, 2020

For more than three decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology and a who’s-who of up-and-coming writers. With settings ranging from a wildlife rescue centre to a Living Body exhibit, the thirteen stories in this collection represent the year’s best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging literary talents.On Sunday afternoons, a coven of teenagers gathers at The Lois Lanes bowling alley to discuss their shared obsession with the second hottest boy in school. A patient joins her thera... + Read More
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Series: One Game at a Time My Journey from Small-Town Alberta to Hockey's Biggest Stage Hardcover Harnarayan Singh 9780771073892 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 22, 2020

From the distinct and vibrant voice behind Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi comes the story of pursuing a dream and defying the odds, reminding us all of hockey’s power to unite.BoninoBoninoBonino!Ask a hockey fan if they have heard the wonderfully electric call of Nick Bonino’s overtime-winning goal from the 2016 Stanley Cup Final and they will almost surely answer with a resounding yes! That’s because video clips of the Hockey Night in Punjabi broadcast immediately went viral, amplifying the profile of Harnarayan Singh, the voice behind the cal... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes from a Pandemic A Journey Through a World Suspended Paperback Ethan Lou 9780771029974 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 29, 2020

Equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same.Visiting Beijing in January to see his dying grandfather, Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it.Lou argues that Coronavirus will have a far g... + Read More
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Series: Jack A Novel Hardcover Marilynne Robinson 9780771006036 $32.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

A new classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping.The long-awaited fourth and last of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels—one of the great works of contemporary literature.With Jack, Robinson takes her readers back to the small town of Gilead, Iowa, in 1956, to tell the story of John Ames Boughton, the godson of John Ames and the black sheep of his family. He’s a ne-er do well and the beloved prodigal son who falls in love with and marries Della, a beautiful and brilliant African-American teacher he meets in segrega... + Read More
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Series: Missing from the Village The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community Hardcover Justin Ling 9780771048647 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 29, 2020

The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men—the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur—from Toronto’s queer community.In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men—Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan—from Toronto’s gay village were, perhaps, linked. When the leads ran dry, the investigation was shut down, on paper classified as “open but suspended.” By 2015, investigative journalist Justin Ling had begun to retrace investigators’ steps, convinced there was evidence ... + Read More
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Series: Friends and Enemies A Memoir Hardcover Barbara Amiel 9780771006715 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 13, 2020

Barbara Amiel’s much-talked-about life has been a subject of endless fascination for the media, many unauthorized biographies, as well as screen depictions. An instinctive feminist and now a foe of feminism’s political correctness, she covers a formidable array of experiences—political, sexual, marital, and material—in these memoirs.Born in London during World War II’s Blitz, the only consistent strains in her life were a fi erce belief in her identity as a Jew, even as the Jewish community disowned her, and an unquestioned view that women were... + Read More
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Series: The Night Piece Collected Short Fiction Hardcover Andre Alexis 9780771006630 $34.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

A career-spanning collection of stories from the author of Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads.Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange. Drawing from Alexis’s acclaimed debut collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and the highly original Beauty and Sadness, and including previously uncollected stories, here is the surreal and brilliant short fiction of André Alexis—one... + Read More
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Series: Dearly Poems Hardcover Margaret Atwood 9780771000775 $32.95 POETRY Nov 10, 2020

The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet.By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.Before she became one of the world’s most important and loved novelists, Atwo... + Read More
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Series: How Did I Get Here? A Memoir Hardcover Bruce McCall 9780771057168 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 24, 2020

The definitive memoir of the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and former Saturday Night Live writer, tracing his creative and personal journey from his humble Canadian child- and early-adulthood to his “Mad Men” advertising days and New York City success.From his hardscrabble post-World War II childhood and coming of age in Ontario to Mad Men-era New York City and the creative pinnacle of advertising, to the hallowed halls of Saturday Night Live and The New Yorker, Bruce McCall’s personal and creative journey is stunningly honest, bittersweet, ... + Read More
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Series: Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch Combined volume Paperback Jeff VanderMeer 9780771093456 $29.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer comes the one-volume reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy: City of Saints and Madmen, Finch, and Shriek: An Afterword.Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: The Ambergris Trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Finch: An Afterword, and Shriek.
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Series: Joona Linna Lazarus Paperback Lars Kepler 9780771048135 $24.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER14 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEThe seventh gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna.Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, was shot and killed years ago. The police moved on and managed to forget the darkness that had tainted their lives.But now someone is leaving a trail of broken bodies across Sweden and the clues all point to Walter. Detective Joona Linna is convinced his worst nightmare is becoming a reality: the man who tore apart his family has returned to finish th... + Read More
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Series: Sapiens: A Graphic History The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) Paperback Yuval Noah Harari 9780771038747 $29.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 27, 2020

Volume one of the epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari’s internationally bestselling phenomenonIn a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. How can we see the big picture without getting caught up in an infinity of little details? One way is to step back, to look at the really big picture: the entire history of the human species. Sapiens: A Graphic History is the story of how an insignificant ape became the ruler of planet Earth, capable of splitting the atom, flying to the Mo... + Read More