1.
Series:
Can You Hear Me Now?
How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live with Passion and Purpose
Hardcover
Celina Caesar-Chavannes
9780735279599
$29.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 02, 2021
In Can You Hear Me Now?, Celina Caesar-Chavannes digs deep into her childhood and her life as a young Black woman entrepreneur and politician, and shows us that effective and humane leaders grow as much from their mistakes and vulnerabilities as from their strengths.Celina Caesar-Chavannes, already a breaker of boundaries as a Black woman in business, got into politics because she wanted to make a bigger difference in the world. But when she became the first Black person elected to represent the federal riding of Whitby, Ontario, she hadn’t rea...
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2.
Series:
The Centaur's Wife
Paperback
Amanda Leduc
9780735272859
$24.95
FICTION
Feb 16, 2021
Amanda Leduc’s brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures.Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived.But the mountai...
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3.
Series:
The Good Girls
An Ordinary Killing
Hardcover
Sonia Faleiro
9780345816689
$32.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 23, 2021
A shattering, utterly immersive work of investigative journalism, The Good Girls slips behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honour in a village in northern India to tell the real story behind the tragic deaths of two teenage girls and an epidemic of violence against women.In the early dawn one day in 2014, a man discovered the dead bodies of 14-year-old Lalli Shakya and 16-year-old Padma Shakya hanging from a mango tree on the edge of their village in Uttar Pradesh. When the inseparable cousins hadn’t returned from a walk to...
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4.
Series:
Beyond Order
12 More Rules for Life
Hardcover
Jordan B. Peterson
9780735278332
$39.95
PSYCHOLOGY
Mar 02, 2021
The highly anticipated sequel to the global bestseller 12 Rules for Life.In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world.Now in his long-awaited sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life’s meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever-transforming world. While an ex...
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5.
Series:
Neglected No More
The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic
Paperback
Andre Picard
9780735282247
$19.95
MEDICAL
Mar 02, 2021
It took the coronavirus pandemic to open our eyes to the deplorable state of so many of the nation’s long-term care homes: the inhumane conditions, overworked and underpaid staff, and lack of oversight. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and offers an urgently needed prescription to fix a broken system.When COVID-19 spread through seniors’ residences across Canada, the impact was horrific. Along with widespread illness and a devastating death toll, the situation exp...
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6.
Series:
A Funny Kind of Paradise
Paperback
Jo Owens
9780735278820
$22.95
FICTION
Mar 09, 2021
A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman’s end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed—she wasn’t always gentle or patient, but the business thrived and Chris and Angelina had food to eat. At nearly 70, she feels she’s earned a peaceful retirement. But when a massive stroke leaves her voiceless, partially paralyzed a...
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7.
Series:
Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy
Hardcover
Gary Barwin
9780735279520
$32.00
FICTION
Mar 09, 2021
A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he’s lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world o...
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8.
Series:
Not on My Watch
How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
Hardcover
Alexandra Morton
9780735279667
$35.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 23, 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called “the Jane Goodall of Canada” because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brain...
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9.
Series:
Lookout
Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
Hardcover
Trina Moyles
9780735279919
$32.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 30, 2021
A page-turning memoir about a young woman’s grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers—strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. “I could never do it,” s...
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10.
Series:
My Own Blood
A Memoir
Hardcover
Ashley Bristowe
9780735278165
$34.00
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Apr 06, 2021
Mothering under normal circumstances takes all you have to give. But what happens when your child is disabled, and sacrificing all you’ve got and more is the only hope for a decent future? Full of rage and resilience, duty and love, Ashley Bristowe delivers a mother’s voice like no other we’ve heard. When their second child, Alexander, is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, doctors tell Ashley Bristowe and her husband that the boy won’t walk, or even talk—that he is profoundly disabled. Stunned and reeling, Ashley researches a disorder so n...
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11.
Series:
Family Law
Paperback
Gin Phillips
9780735280861
$23.95
FICTION
May 04, 2021
When an ambitious female lawyer becomes the victim of harassment, she must decide what’s more important: her family’s safety or the rights she’s fighting for.Set in Alabama in the early ’80s, Family Law follows a young lawyer, Lucia, who is making a name for herself at a time when a woman in a courtroom is still a rarity. She’s been the recipient of threats and vandalism for her work extracting women from painful and sometimes dangerous marriages, but her own happy marriage has always felt sheltered from the work she does. When her mother’s pen...
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