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Series:
Natural Killer
A Memoir
Paperback
Harriet Alida Lye
9780771049231
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dec 29, 2020
“I need people to know that I exist, that their experiment worked, that by some combination of luck and science, I’m alive.”In this harrowing and intimate memoir, Harriet Alida Lye explores how, at just fifteen years old, she was diagnosed with a form of leukemia called Natural Killer, named “the rarest and worst malignancy.” The average survival time of patients with this diagnosis is fifty-eight days. There are no known survivors. There were no known survivors.Fifteen years after Harriet’s diagnosis, she became pregnant, despite having been t...
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Series:
Satellite Love
A Novel
Paperback
Genki Ferguson
9780771049873
$24.95
FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads and now a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. Named CBC Radio’s Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title, a Shelf Life Books Book of the Month, a Toronto Life and Nikkei Voice summer read recommendation, one of Daily Hive’s 10 Essential Reads to Cel...
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Series:
Half Life
Paperback
Krista Foss
9780771036491
$24.95
FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
A raw, absorbing, tender, and witty novel about a woman’s long-overdue reckoning with memory, truth, and the multiverse of familial love.Elin Henriksen is a middle-aged single parent under pressure. Her formidable mother’s health is declining, her fearless teenage daughter wants to leave but won’t say where, and the new high school principal has problems with her unorthodox teaching of physics.And then there is the upcoming ceremony at the Art Museum. In ten days, a gallery will be named after her late father, Tig Henriksen, a modernist furnitu...
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Series:
Hooked
Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
Hardcover
Michael Moss
9780771059599
$32.95
HEALTH & FITNESS
Mar 02, 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Salt Sugar Fat, the troubling story of how food companies have exploited our most fundamental evolutionary instincts to get us hooked on processed foods.Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began sear...
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5.
Series:
Values
Building a Better World for All
Hardcover
Mark Carney
9780771051555
$39.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 16, 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values.Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems ...
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Series:
It Doesn't Matter What We Meant
Poems
Paperback
Rob Winger
9780771025396
$19.95
POETRY
Mar 23, 2021
An astonishing new collection of poems that question perception, meaning, and context.How does private thinking align with public action? And what might it mean to intend something anyhow? To name our particulars? To translate from the personal to the communal, the pedestrian to the universal? In Rob Winger’s new collection of poetry, such questions are less a circulatory system—heart and lungs and blood—than a ribcage, a structure that protects the parts that matter most. “I’d like to think,” Winger writes, “it doesn’t matter / what we meant.”...
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Series:
sulphurtongue
Paperback
Rebecca Salazar
9780771094699
$19.95
POETRY
Mar 23, 2021
An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide.GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY, FINALIST PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD, SHORTLISTJ. M. ABRAHAM ATLANTIC POETRY AWARD, SHORTLIST GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD, LONGLISTThe poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant family scatters over a stolen continent. Oracles appear in public transit, and online. Bodies are transformed by nearby nickel mines. Do...
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Series:
Hummingbird Salamander
A Novel
Hardcover
Jeff VanderMeer
9780771094873
$34.95
FICTION
Apr 06, 2021
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things.Software manager Jane Smith receives an envelope containing a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and salamander. Alongside the key is a list of five other animals. The list is signed, “Love, Silvina.” Jane does not know a Silvina, and she wants nothing to do with the taxidermied animals. The hummingbird and salamander are, it turns out, two of the most endangered species in the world. Silvin...
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9.
Series:
Stampede
Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike
Hardcover
Brian Castner
9780771018695
$35.00
HISTORY
Apr 13, 2021
A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them (and their pack animals) died in the attempt.The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well-timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. Within weeks, tens of thousands of them ...
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Series:
Women of the Pandemic
Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19
Paperback
Lauren McKeon
9780771050398
$24.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 27, 2021
The story of the pandemic is the story of women. This riveting narrative offers an account of COVID-19, reminding us of women’s leadership and resilience, reflecting back hope and humanity as we all figure out a new normal, together.Throughout history, men have fought, lost, and led us through the world’s defining crises. That all changed with COVID-19. In Canada, women’s presence in the response to the pandemic has been notable. Women are our nurses, doctors, PSWs. Our cashiers, long-haulers, cooks. In Canada, women are leading the fast-paced ...
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11.
Series:
NISHGA
Hardcover
Jordan Abel
9780771007903
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 18, 2021
WINNER of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize at the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.As a Nisga'a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga'a language, Nisga'a community, and Nisga'a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerat...
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12.
Series:
Mayflies
A Novel
Hardcover
Andrew O'Hagan
9780771018916
$29.95
FICTION
May 18, 2021
An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the ...
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Astra
A Novel
Paperback
Cedar Bowers
9780771012891
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2021
What if you could see yourself as others see you? Astra is a beguiling debut novel that reveals the different faces of one woman, as seen through the eyes of ten people over a lifetime. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, Winnipeg Free Press, and CBC Books.Born and raised on a remote British Columbia commune, Astra Brine has long struggled to find her way in the world, her life becoming a study of the thin line between dependence and...
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Series:
All Black Everything
Poems
Paperback
Shane Book
9780771009563
$19.95
POETRY
Mar 25, 2025
Original, jarring, and unforgettable, here is the latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Shane Book.The author of the acclaimed 2014 collection, Congotronic, returns with urgent, forceful, and energetic new poems.
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Series:
Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
Paperback
Liz Howard
9780771037573
$19.95
POETRY
Jun 08, 2021
The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent.GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE, FINALISTTRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY, FINALISTI have to believe my account will outpace its ending.The danger and necessity of living with each other is at the core of Liz Howard’s daring and intimate second collection. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos asks who do we become after the worst has happened? Invoking the knowledge histories of Western and Indigenous astrophysical science, Howard takes us on a breakn...
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