1.
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 BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020CBC – The Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2020The Globe and Mail’s Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020Chatelaine’s 10 Best Books of 2020The Walrus’s Favourite Books of 2020For 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 t...
+ Read More
2.
Series:
Songs for the End of the World
A Novel
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 WagersNATIONAL 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 catastrophe. Named a Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, 49th Shelf, and a Book You S...
+ Read More
3.
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
4.
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
5.
Series:
Through the Garden
A Love Story (with Cats)
Hardcover
Lorna Crozier
9780771021183
$29.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 08, 2020
A Globe and Mail 100 Best Book Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonfictionA 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...
+ Read More
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom 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 Sing...
+ Read More
9.
Series:
Field Notes from a Pandemic
A Journey Through a World Suspended
Paperback
Ethan Lou
9780771029974
$22.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 29, 2020
A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the 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 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and—unwittingly—into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will foreve...
+ Read More
10.
Series:
Jack (Oprah's Book Club)
A Novel
Hardcover
Marilynne Robinson
9780771006036
$32.95
FICTION
Sep 29, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA 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 te...
+ Read More
11.
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
12.
Series:
Friends and Enemies
A Memoir
Hardcover
Barbara Amiel
9780771006715
$42.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 13, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERBarbara 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 v...
+ Read More
13.
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
14.
Series:
Dearly
Poems
Hardcover
Margaret Atwood
9780771000775
$32.95
POETRY
Nov 10, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe 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 lo...
+ Read More
15.
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
16.
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.
17.
Series: Killer Instinct
Lazarus
Paperback
Lars Kepler
9780771048135
$24.95
FICTION
Dec 01, 2020
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER15 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.Now, a mysterious killer is brutally murdering Europe’s most loathsome criminals. When police discover that two of the victims have connections to Detective Joona Linna, it’s clear that somebody is trying to send him a message. As the bod...
+ Read More
18.
Series:
Sapiens: A Graphic History
The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
Paperback
Yuval Noah Harari
9780771038747
$29.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 27, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERVolume 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 t...
+ Read More