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Series: Shared Universe New and Selected Poems 1995–2020 Hardcover Paul Vermeersch 9781770412248 $29.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

“An invaluable aid in this time of troubled spirits, muddled truths, and convoluted thinking.” — Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the “new and selected.” Bringing together the very best of his poetry from the last quarter century with new and never-before-published works, Shared Universe is a sprawling chronicle of the dawn of civilizations, the riddles of 21st-century existence, and any number of glorious, or menacing, futures. Selected poetry collections are traditionally organized according to the books in which t... + Read More
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Series: Thirst for Justice A Novel Paperback David R. Boyd 9781770412408 $22.95 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

“Fast and fierce” – Kirkus Reviews For readers of John Grisham and William Deverell comes a political thriller ripped from today’s headlines. Lawyer and environmental activist David R. Boyd writes a riveting thriller about the psychological toll of a humanitarian crisis. Filled with tension and courtroom drama, Thirst for Justice will have you questioning what you believe about right versus wrong. Michael MacDougall is a talented trauma surgeon whose life in Seattle is slowly unraveling. Frustrated as an ER doctor and with his marriage ... + Read More
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Series: The Beforelife Stories Afterlife Crisis Paperback Randal Graham 9781770414709 $22.95 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

For readers of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and P.G. Wodehouse, and fans of The Good Place – a tongue in cheek fantasy that imagines Isaac Newton in the afterlife. Where do you go after you die? Detroit. “Finally, a hitchhiker's guide to the hereafter.” — Corey Redekop, author of Husk Something’s rotten in the afterlife. At least that’s how it seems to Rhinnick Feynman, the one man who perceives that someone in the afterlife is tugging at history’s threads and retroactively unraveling the past. Doing his best to navigate a nethe... + Read More
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Series: A Sheriff Luke McWhorter Mystery One Good and Deadly Deed A Sheriff Luke McWhorter Mystery Paperback Dudley Lynch 9781770415003 $21.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Bodies are piling up in Flagler. For fans of Bones and Preacher comes a sharp supernatural police procedural set in the heart of Texas. It was not Luke McWhorter’s plan to become a law enforcement officer when he left for Yale Divinity School. But three generations of his family had worn the star, and after graduation, the needs of his community called him home to serve and protect. His theological training and his seventeen-year career as sheriff suddenly collide when bodies start piling up in Flagler, Texas. Two pilots are found brutal... + Read More
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Series: Memphis Mayhem A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World Paperback David A. Less 9781770415089 $21.95 MUSIC Oct 06, 2020

Memphis gave birth to music that changed the world — Memphis Mayhem is a fascinating history of how music and culture collided to change the state of music forever “David Less has captured the essence of the Memphis music experience on these pages in no uncertain terms. There’s truly no place like Memphis and this is the story of why that is. HAVE MERCY!” — Billy F Gibbons, ZZ Top Foreword by renowned music historian Peter Guralnick Memphis Mayhem weaves the tale of the racial collision that led to a cultural, sociological, and musica... + Read More
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Series: One to Remember Stories from 39 Members of the NHL’s One Goal Club Paperback Ken Reid 9781770415140 $21.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 22, 2020

From the national bestselling author of One Night Only come 39 new stories about what a big-league goal can mean to an NHLer Including interviews with Billy Smith, Chris Mason, Damian Rhodes, Christian Thomas, and Slap Shot’s Dave Hanson. This follow-up to Reid’s national bestseller One Night Only: Conversations with the NHL’s One-Game Wonders unearths the blood, sweat, tears, and laughs of the journey to and from a single big-league goal. If you’ve ever picked up a hockey stick, chances are you’ve dreamed of scoring in the National H... + Read More
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Series: Personal Account 25 Tales About Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal Hardcover Tony Comper 9781770415171 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Nov 03, 2020

After nearly four decades at Bank of Montreal, former President and CEO Tony Comper shares leadership lessons from his experience at the helm of one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Anthony “Tony” Comper likes to say that he can sum up his remarkable career in Canadian banking in 25 stories. In a business often filled with big personalities and memorable characters, Tony’s motto is Festina Lente — make haste slowly. In Personal Account: 25 Tales about Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal, Co... + Read More
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Series: Too Sweet Inside the Indie Wrestling Revolution Paperback Keith Elliot Greenberg 9781770415188 $23.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2020

As featured on SiriusXM Busted Open Radio Wrestling industry expert Keith Elliot Greenberg chronicles the growth of indie wrestling from school gyms to a viable alternative to WWE and speaks to those involved in the alternative wrestling league with remarkable candor, gaining behind-the-scenes knowledge of this growing enterprise. As COVID-19 utterly changed the world as we know it, only one sport was able to pivot and offer consistent, new, live programming on a weekly basis: professional wrestling. In 2017, after being told that no ... + Read More
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Series: Cradle of the Deep A Crime Novel Paperback Dietrich Kalteis 9781770415263 $19.95 FICTION Nov 03, 2020

From “the heir-apparent to Elmore Leonard” (Crime Syndicate Magazine) comes a caper novel full of twists, hitmen, and loads of stolen cash. Wanting to free herself from her boyfriend, aging gangster “Maddog” Palmieri, Bobbi Ricci concocts a misguided plan with Denny, Maddog’s ex-driver, a guy who’s bent on getting even with the gangster for the humiliating way in which he was sacked. Helping themselves to the gangster’s secret money stash, along with his Cadillac, Bobbi and Denny slip out of town, expecting to lay low for a while befor... + Read More
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Series: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery The Unlocking Season A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery Hardcover Gail Bowen 9781770415287 $32.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Arthur Ellis Award-winning author Grand Master Award of Crime Writers of Canada (2018) The “queen of Canadian crime fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press) returns with the 19th installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series that is perfect for readers of Louise Penny, Ruth Rendell, and Peter Robinson. On a Saturday bright with harbingers of spring, Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their family prepare to celebrate the season. Joanne’s life is full, and at 60, she has been given the chance to understand a part of her history that for ... + Read More
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Series: Saved by Science The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology Hardcover Mark J. Poznansky 9781770415355 $34.95 SCIENCE Sep 22, 2020

How can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when 12 million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in science in the last century, why are there still so many infectious diseases? Why haven’t we found cures for difficult cancers? Why hasn’t any major progress been made in the treatment of mental illness? And how do we intend to stop, and not only that but reverse, global warming and the climate crisis? In Saved by Science, scientist Mark Poznansky ... + Read More
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Series: Rush Across the Decades Limelight: Rush in the ’80s Hardcover Martin Popoff 9781770415362 $39.95 MUSIC Oct 13, 2020

Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North — covering Rush’s most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the studio In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the ’70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their persuasive power. Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of... + Read More
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Series: Once a Bitcoin Miner Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West Paperback Ethan Lou 9781770415393 $22.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 19, 2021

“Lou himself is a rare commodity in that he understands cryptocurrency and knows how to write about it … This book stands out as a rare example of a readable snapshot of a world we all need to get more informed about.” — The Times Ethan Lou goes on an epic quest through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild West, through riches, absurdity, wonder, and woe. From investing in Bitcoin in university to his time writing for Reuters, and then mining the digital asset ? Lou meets a co-founder of Ethereum and Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX (before he ... + Read More
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Series: A Good War Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency Paperback Seth Klein 9781770415454 $24.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

“This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for.” — Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine One of Canada’s top policy analysts provides the first full-scale blueprint for meeting our climate change commitments Contains the results of a national poll on Canadians’ attitudes to the climate crisis Shows that radical transformative climate action can be done, while producing jobs and reducing inequality as we retool how we live and wo... + Read More
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Series: Joetry Well-Selected Lyrix from Six Decades of Song Paperback Mendelson Joe 9781770415515 $24.95 POETRY Nov 09, 2020

“Fearless and direct, tender and loving — the marriage of these forces is electric. In Joetry, Mendelson Joe fixes his gaze on the beauty in people, nature, work, love, deeds, words, and accountability — the often unheralded, everyday stuff of life. He is casting a wide net, trying to reach us all, telling us clearly: appreciate what is good and beautiful, do the right things, stop doing the wrong things, laugh, create, speak up, sing, love, and respect the earth and one another. Oh, one more thing: revere women — they are our best hope for... + Read More
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Series: An Epitome Apartments Mystery The Adventures of Isabel An Epitome Apartments Mystery Paperback Candas Jane Dorsey 9781770415553 $19.95 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

Book one in a new playful and trope-bending mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective. “Candas Jane Dorsey’s terrific mysteries are what would happen if Raymond Chandler and Frank N. Furter collaborated on cozies and the heroine were a pansexual private detective with heart, smarts, and a T-shirt saying MASCARA IS THE NEW NOIR.” — Sarah Smith, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Vanished Child. Rescued from torpor and poverty by the need to help a good friend deal with the murder of her beloved granddaughter... + Read More
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Series: The Ultimate Road Trip All 89 Games with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ultimate Leafs Fan Paperback Mike Wilson 9781770415584 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 06, 2020

“If you like hockey and travel, you’ll love this book.” — Rick Vaive, Leafs captain and three-time 50-goal scorer The Ultimate Leafs Fan attended every Toronto Maple Leafs contest of the 2018–19 NHL season and in this lively account makes it his mission to figure out what makes fans bleed blue Through 89 games, from October to April, Mike Wilson, a retired Bay Street trader, traveled to 31 rinks to document stories of Leafs love. Mike took every conceivable mode of transport, stayed in team hotels and on the couches of family and friend... + Read More
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Series: Building Unity Leading a Non-Profit from Spark to Succession Paperback Michael ‘Piecez’ Prosserman 9781770415638 $26.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 15, 2020

Build an organization that is growth-minded, values-based, and innovative using the six steps to “responsible impact.” At age 16, Michael ‘Piecez’ Prosserman, a professional b-boy (breakdancer), completed a school project that would grow to become a hip-hop-inspired mental health charity with global reach. Through a process of continuous discovery and reflection, Prosserman and his team grew UNITY to the point where it benefitted over a quarter of a million young people. In Building Unity, Prosserman breaks down the six steps to discoveri... + Read More
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Series: The Role I Played Canada's Greatest Olympic Hockey Team Hardcover Sami Jo Small 9781770415652 $34.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 29, 2020

“Glimpses of her childhood and life outside of hockey come into view, but the main focus is the roller-coaster ride of striving to compete at the sport’s top level.” — Library Journal “Sami Jo has an energetic personality that shines through with every story in this book.” — Jennifer Botterill, four-time Olympian Two-time Olympic gold medalist offers insider access, writing with unflinching honesty about the triumphs of her greatest games and the anguish of difficult times with the Canadian National Women’s Hockey Team Men’s hocke... + Read More
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Series: Fight or Submit Standing Tall in Two Worlds Hardcover Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson 9781770415669 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

From the award-winning author of Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call and The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy comes an inspiring memoir of poverty, hard work, and incredible business success. In the opening to his memoir, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson says his “story is not a litany of complaints but a list of battles” that he has fought. And he promises he will not be overly pious in his telling of them. “As a businessman,” he writes, “I like to give the straight goods.” In Fight or Submit, Der... + Read More
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Series: Everything You Hold Dear Poems Paperback Jamie Sharpe 9781770415768 $19.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2020

“Brilliant lunatic assemblage.” — Today’s Book of Poetry on Cut-up Apologetic From 2007 to 2016, Jamie Sharpe led an itinerant life, throughout British Columbia and the Yukon, in Sechelt, Prince George, Dawson, Salmon Arm, Whitehorse, Galiano, and Texada Island. When family life solidified around a sedentary existence, old scattershot suggested new targets … By way of time’s amnesia, we’ve almost lost Sharpe entirely; only a few of his worm-eaten books remain in the musty libraries of literary perverts. The great record of Canadian lite... + Read More
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Series: Everybody’s Martyrology Paperback Frank Davey 9781770415775 $28.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 2020

Everybody’s Martyrology provides commentary and analysis for almost every page of bpNichol’s meandering nine-volume lifelong poem, The Martyrology — a poetic pondering of the inevitable extinction of the human species. Taken together, it became one of the five longest canonical poems in English. Like Caroll Terrell’s A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound or George Butterick’s A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson, Everybody’s Martyrology will attract students seeking information about particular passages, scholars interested in co... + Read More
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Series: Why Birds Sing A Novel Paperback Nina Berkhout 9781770415812 $22.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

After a very public onstage flameout, a disgraced opera singer is confronted with her crumbling marriage, a prickly and unexpected brother-in-law, and a cheeky parrot named Tulip — and she must learn to whistle her way through it all. From the author of Harper’s Bazaar Hottest Breakout Novel The Gallery of Lost Species comes a charming, lively, and deeply felt story that is perfect for readers of Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness and Amy Jones’s We’re All in this Together. When opera singer Dawn Woodward has an onstage flameout, all... + Read More
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Series: The Realms of Ancient The Brilliant Dark The Realms of Ancient, Book 3 Paperback S.M. Beiko 9781770414334 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Sep 08, 2020

“A storyline with twists aplenty.” — Kirkus Reviews The highly anticipated final installment in the action-packed fantasy series that New York Times #1 bestselling author Kelley Armstrong calls “a thrilling tale” Now in paperback! It’s been seven years since the Denizens, people with elemental powers, were unmasked, and seven years since Roan Harken and Eli Rathgar disappeared into the Brilliant Dark. Marked by Darklings and Death alike, Saskia is a mechanically minded Mundane, raised by Barton and Phae on daring stories about Roan ... + Read More
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Series: Here Goes Nothing A Novel Paperback Eamon McGrath 9781770414433 $19.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

Named a Fall 2020 Best Indie Read by the Globe and Mail From Eamon McGrath, award-winning musician and author of the widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, comes a smart and gritty novel that explores the lives of touring musicians Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath’s brave second offering and follow-up to 2017’s widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, once again explores the world of touring musicians — but this time McGrath expands his scope and perspective from the inner dialogue of a traveling songwriter into the wider range of ... + Read More
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Series: Canadarm and Collaboration How Canada’s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds Paperback Elizabeth Howell 9781770414426 $22.95 SCIENCE Oct 20, 2020

With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada’s involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present day Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program — a program that quickly let its people accumulate skill and prestige. Canadian astronauts have since commanded the International Space Station, flown as co-pilots on spacecraft, and even held senio... + Read More
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Series: The Call of the Rift The Call of the Rift: Veil Paperback Jae Waller 9781770415782 $15.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Sep 15, 2020

Return to Jae Waller’s wondrous and war-torn colonial world in this captivating second installment in the Call of the Rift series “Fans will be reengaged by Waller’s war-torn worldbuilding and original characterization . . . Adventurous, heartbreaking, and undoubtedly open-ended.” — Kirkus Reviews Now in paperback! The Blackbird Battle has left all sides devastated. The wind spirit Suriel has disappeared. A hard winter is coming, and famine stalks the land. Kateiko Rin returns to her people, ready at last to rejoin her community, but ... + Read More
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Series: Saved by Science The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology Paperback Mark J. Poznansky 9781770416031 $24.95 SCIENCE Sep 22, 2020

With all the advances in science in the last century, why are there still so many infectious diseases? Why haven’t we found cures for difficult cancers? Why hasn’t any major headway been made in the treatment of mental illness? Why did 36 million people die of hunger in 2019? How do we expect to feed the additional two to three billion people expected by 2050? And how do we intend to stop, and not only that but reverse, global warming and the climate crisis? In Saved by Science, scientist Mark Poznansky examines the many crises facing hum... + Read More
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Series: Retirement Income for Life Getting More without Saving More (Second Edition) Second Edition Paperback Frederick Vettese 9781770416024 $26.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 20, 2020

Canada’s #1 bestselling retirement income book is now completely revised and updated. Vettese will show you how to mitigate risk and secure your financial future in these unpredictable times. As COVID-19 rocks the economy in an unprecedented black swan event, retirees and those who are preparing to retire need answers to pressing questions about their financial futures. Originally published in 2018, the second edition of Retirement Income for Life, has been completely revised and updated, and now includes: New chapters on early retir... + Read More