1.
Series:
In Praise of Retreat
Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World
Paperback
Kirsteen MacLeod
9781770414730
$24.95
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Mar 30, 2021
For readers of Walden, Wild, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, A Book of Silence, A Gift from the Sea and other celebrations of the inner adventure. An utterly engaging dive into our modern ways of retreat — where we go, why we’re drawn, and how it’s urgent From pilgrim paths to forest cabins, and from rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation, In Praise of Retreat explores the pleasures and powers of this ancient practice for modern people. Kirsteen MacLeod draws on the history of retreat and personal experience...
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2.
Series:
Happily Ever Older
Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care
Paperback
Moira Welsh
9781770415218
$23.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 09, 2021
While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the dangerous stories. Not the accounts of falls or bedsores or overmedication, but of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. Stories...
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3.
Series:
The Murders That Made Us
How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
Paperback
Bob Calhoun
9781770415492
$24.95
TRUE CRIME
May 04, 2021
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city’s art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From its earliest days when vigilantes hung perps from downtown buildings to the Zodiac Killer and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, murder and mayhem have shaped the city into the political and economic force that she is today. The Great 1906 Earthquake shook a city that was alread...
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4.
Series:
Leadership Moments from NASA
Achieving the Impossible
Hardcover
Dr. Dave Williams
9781770416048
$29.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jul 06, 2021
The NASA way: lessons on leadership, teamwork, and corporate culture. How does NASA take on seemingly insurmountable challenges, recover from tragedy and continue to attract the best and brightest talent? Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the culture of the famed organization and examines the leadership styles and insights of NASA senior executives spanning five decades of human spaceflight to share the lessons they learne...
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5.
Series:
Shifting the Balance
How Top Organizations Beat the Competition by Combining Intuition with Data
Hardcover
Mark Schrutt
9781770415744
$39.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Apr 06, 2021
Digital transformation expert Mark Schrutt reveals how the world’s top companies are using vast amounts of data to inform their decisions, disrupt industries, and get closer to their customers. Businesses that continue to rely only on intuition do so at their peril. What if you had the data you always wanted and could tell what was truly an emerging trend that would forever change your industry? Shifting the Balance analyzes the turn towards data-driven decision-making and describes how best-in-class organizations use data to shift their ...
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6.
Series:
A Portrait of Canada’s Parliament
Billingual French and English edition
Hardcover
William McElligott
9781770415713
$60.00
ARCHITECTURE
May 04, 2021
A stunning visual exploration of Canada’s most recognized building accompanied by a comprehensive study of its history, in a coffee-table worthy volume. The Centre Block, the iconic parliament building that has come to be Canada’s foremost representation, was closed in 2018 and will remain closed for at least a decade for a complete renovation and restoration. During that time, hundreds of thousands of Canadians and visitors to Canada will miss the opportunity to tour the building and view its architecture and symbolic artwork. With or...
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7.
Series:
Train (Your Brain) Like an Olympian
Gold Medal Techniques to Unleash Your Potential at Work
Paperback
Jean François Ménard
9781770415904
$26.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jan 26, 2021
The global pandemic has completely disrupted how, where, and when we work and added tremendous pressure to individuals and their families. Learn how to refocus and achieve your full potential from one of the world’s top mental performance coaches. In Train (Your Brain) Like an Olympian, Jean François Ménard provides the skills necessary to: Remain focused in the face of distractions Overcome negative self-talk and replace it with a constructive mindset Recover quickly and learn from setbacks Be comfortable with the uncomfortabl...
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8.
Series:
Billion Dollar Start-Up
The True Story of How a Couple of 29-Year-Olds Turned $35,000 into a $1,000,000,000 Cannabis Company
Hardcover
Adam Miron
9781770415867
$29.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Feb 02, 2021
It only took five years for two brothers-in-law to create a billion-dollar, award-winning, take-no-prisoners cannabis company called HEXO. How did they do it? That’s the story. From early roadblocks and devastating personal and financial setbacks to explosive growth and some of the biggest cannabis deals in global history, Billion Dollar Start-Up not only recounts the HEXO story but the history of Canada’s momentous road to legalization. In this part fast-paced memoir, part high-octane business book, writer and journalist Julie Beun giv...
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9.
Series:
Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses
The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America’s Most Polarizing Band
Hardcover
Art Tavana
9781770415119
$32.95
MUSIC
Apr 13, 2021
Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses transports the reader into a mind-altering trip through the colors, scandals, nihilism, and mythology that make Guns N’ Roses so much more than another “hair metal” band. A valentine and a breakup letter to one of rock’s most controversial bands. Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses is a genre-rattling attempt to explain the appeal of America’s most divisive rock band. While it includes uncharted history and the self-lacerating connoisseurship of a Guns N’ Roses fetishist, it is not a recycled chronicle — this book is a decons...
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10.
Series: Rush Across the Decades
Driven: Rush in the ’90s and “In the End”
Hardcover
Martin Popoff
9781770415379
$39.95
MUSIC
Apr 27, 2021
The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North. Includes two full-colour photo inserts, with unearthed photos of the band. “Popoff’s long-time access to the three band members, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, and their associates continues to provide a phenomenal treasure trove of insight and detail.” — Library Journal In this conclusion to his trilogy of authoritative books on Canada’s most beloved and successful rock band, Martin Popoff takes us through three decades of “life at the top” ...
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11.
Series:
DeRo
My Life
Hardcover
Dwayne De Rosario
9781770415270
$34.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
May 11, 2021
Dwayne De Rosario is one of MLS’s 25 Greatest Players The autobiography of the best male soccer player to ever come out of Canada. Before Kaká, Rooney, and Zlatan, DeRo was the godfather of Major League Soccer. DeRo is the life story of one of the greatest athletes Canada has ever produced. Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Dwayne De Rosario wasn’t expected to make it out of high school, let alone to the top of soccer world. As part of a family of five, growing up in a one-bedroom apartment, he had to work for everything he had a...
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12.
Series:
The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers
The Masters of the Craft of Professional Wrestling
Paperback
Dan Murphy
9781770415539
$23.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Apr 27, 2021
A walk-through wrestling history, starting with the founding fathers such as Ed “Strangler” Lewis and the incomparable Lou Thesz, to modern-day masters such as Daniel Bryan and Kurt Angle. The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers spotlights elite performers and analyzes exactly what made them your favorite wrestler’s favorite wrestlers. Authors Dan Murphy and Brian Young interviewed more than 40 in-ring veterans, historians, referees, and promoters to get a unique insider’s look at the people who have made a lasting impact on the world of professional wr...
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13.
Series:
Mat Memories
My Wild Life in Pro Wrestling, Country Music, and with the Mets
Paperback
John “Alexander” Arezzi
9781770415645
$24.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Apr 06, 2021
A man with three different names ties together the stars of professional wrestling, country music, and the New York Mets. John Arezzi was a lifelong Mets fan who dreamed of a job in baseball. In 1981, he took a job with the Mets Class A team in North Carolina. But Arezzi had another love: professional wrestling. He ran a fan club for the villainous “Classy” Freddie Blassie as a teenager, then progressed to wrestling photographer, and finally even stepped into the ring himself as John Anthony. Eventually he escaped to pursue a new life in ...
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14.
Series:
Austin 3:16
316 Facts and Stories about Stone Cold Steve Austin
Paperback
Michael McAvennie
9781770416161
$14.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Mar 16, 2021
316 facts about WWE legend Stone Cold Steve Austin. What’s “3:16 Day”? It’s a day when someone gives you a load of crap, and you give it back with a certain one-fingered gesture. “3:16 Day” is a day when you can open up a can of whoop-ass on anybody you want. A day when four-letter words are acceptable and the speed limit is only a suggestion. “3:16 Day” is a day that epitomizes Stone Cold Steve Austin, the toughest S.O.B. ever to lace up a pair of boots. Austin launched WWE’s Attitude Era the moment he won the 1996 King of the Ring To...
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15.
Series:
This One Wild Life
A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir
Paperback
Angie Abdou
9781770416000
$21.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 13, 2021
“Through the story of facing her fears, Abdou shows us that we are much stronger than we think.” — Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom This personal memoir of self-discovery tackles the problems of modern parenting in a digital age Disillusioned with overly competitive organized sports and concerned about her lively daughter’s growing shyness, author Angie Abdou sets herself a challenge: to hike a peak a week over the summer holidays with Katie. They will bond in nature and discover the glories of outdoor activity. What could go wrong...
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16.
Series:
Unatoned
A Memoir
Paperback
Brent LaPorte
9781770415041
$19.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 01, 2021
For readers of Alan Cumming’s Not My Father’s Son comes a heart-wrenching memoir that interrogates an abusive father and his dark legacy. Children who experience physical, mental, and emotional trauma at the hands of a parent often grow into adults who suffer from mental illness and find it difficult to build lasting, healthy relationships. Some find it impossible to integrate into society and are constantly searching for the love and approval that they never received as a child. The abuse impacts all aspects of the survivor’s life. In ...
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17.
Series:
Savage Gerry
A Novel
Paperback
John Jantunen
9781770415607
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 13, 2021
“John Jantunen consistently zigs where other narratives would zag, creating a story that is far stranger and disturbing.” — Shelf Awareness A thrilling apocalyptic tale that rushes from the inside of a prison to a world that feels even more dangerous. The End couldn’t have come at a better time for Gerald Nichols. Dubbed “Savage Gerry” by the media, Gerald Nichols became a folk hero after he shot the men who’d killed his wife and then fled into the northern wilds with his thirteen-year-old son, Evers. Five years after his capture, he’s ...
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18.
Series:
The Willow Wren
A Novel
Paperback
Philipp Schott
9781770415737
$22.95
FICTION
Mar 23, 2021
The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy. Ludwig is an odd and introverted child, growing up in Hitler’s Germany. While Ludwig’s father, Wilhelm, is a senior Nazi and a true believer, Ludwig escapes the unfolding catastrophe by withdrawing into nature and books. Eventually, when the Allied bombing campaign intensifies, Ludwig is sent to a Hitler Youth camp, where his oddness makes him a target for bullying. As the war turns against Germany, the Hitler Youth camp ...
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19.
Series:
Day for Night
A Novel
Paperback
Jean McNeil
9781770415751
$19.95
FICTION
May 25, 2021
From the author of Ice Diaries, winner of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize, praised by the New York Times as “stunningly written” and a Guardian Best Book of 2018. An unflinching exploration of love and boundaries in Brexit-crazed London. Richard Cottar is a respected independent film writer and director; his wife, Joanna, is his increasingly successful and wealthy producer. Together they are about to embark on a film about the life of Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish intellectual who killed himself in northern Sp...
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20.
Series: A Helena Marsh Novel
Deceptions
A Helena Marsh Novel
Paperback
Anna Porter
9781770415386
$21.95
FICTION
Apr 06, 2021
A savvy art world thriller with a strong, independent heroine and the follow-up to The Appraisal, finalist for the 2018 Staunch Prize. Former Budapest cop Attila Feher would really like to see art expert Helena Marsh again, so he arranges a contract for her to determine whether a painting is a copy of a famous Artemisia Gentileschi canvas or the real thing. A simple appraisal becomes a dangerous assignment when usual eastern European gangsters show up and people start dying and the seething corruption that underlies the lost promise of po...
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21.
Series: The Call of the Rift
The Call of the Rift: Crest
Hardcover
Jae Waller
9781770414587
$23.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 17
May 18, 2021
Step through the portal into a world ravaged by chaotic spirits and corrupted magic in the third book of The Call of the Rift high fantasy series. Kateiko Rin lives a quiet life with her parents and her people in the coastal rainforest. Everything changes when her estranged uncle washes up on their shores, harried and half-dead, trailed by two blue-eyed children no one knew existed. To protect her family, Kateiko secrets away her young cousins. Caring for them includes hiding their ties to the Rúonbattai, a warlike cult trying to claim...
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22.
Series: The Offshore Novels
Arrow’s Rest
Paperback
Joel Scott
9781770415720
$18.95
FICTION
May 11, 2021
A nautical thriller for readers of Clive Cussler and Jack Higgins. Wooden sailboats shouldn’t play with steel yachts. When his lover’s sister is the latest victim in a series of sadistic assaults, Jared Kane sets out to find the guilty party. His search leads him into a tangled network of sex, power, and religion connecting high political office in the city to a secretive sect in the B.C. wilderness. The crimes seem connected to an exclusive yacht club in Vancouver’s West End, where Jared is able to moor his old wooden sailboat, Arrow...
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23.
Series: An Arthur Beauchamp Novel
Stung
An Arthur Beauchamp Novel
Hardcover
William Deverell
9781770415959
$32.95
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
Award–winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller. Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur’s West Coast island home, where he finds himself arrested for fighting his own environmental cause: the threatened destruction of a popular pa...
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24.
Series: A Gordon Stewart Mystery
Every City Is Every Other City
A Gordon Stewart Mystery
Paperback
John McFetridge
9781770415416
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2021
Behind the scenes, nothing is what it seems. Gord Stewart, 40 years old, single, moved back into his suburban childhood home to care for his widowed father. But his father no longer needs care and Gord is stuck in limbo. He’s been working in the movie business as a location scout for years, and when there isn’t much filming, as a private eye for a security company run by ex-cops, OBC. When a fellow crew member asks him to find her missing uncle, Gord reluctantly takes the job. The police say the uncle walked into some dense woods in Nort...
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25.
Series:
Mere Extinction
Poems
Paperback
Evie Christie
9781770415461
$19.95
POETRY
Apr 06, 2021
“Christie’s audacious writing pulses with life and, yes, movement.” — Globe and Mail In Evie Christie’s third book mothers nurse babies as the world comes to an end, fathers hustle or drift, the pastoral and the present collide, violence, love, and death gently fill the space and time they have been given. As surreal as they are domestic, Christie’s poems navigate the world they are in, struggle with history, the immediate, and what Richard Polt’s investigation of Heidegger would describe as “the emergency being.” Bog Girl After Seamu...
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26.
Series:
Is This Scary?
Poems
Paperback
Jacob Scheier
9781770416055
$19.95
POETRY
Apr 13, 2021
A challenging exploration of mental illness and disability from Governor General’s Award winner Jacob Scheier. Is This Scary? digs deep into internal landscapes of suffering, including depression and anxiety, chronic physical ailment, and rare neurological malady. With its many eccentric songs and odes to medications and medical procedures, this book is full of both levity and unapologetic lament. Pushing back against societal stigma, Is This Scary? unflinchingly addresses experiences of psychiatric institutionalization and suicidality, w...
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27.
Series:
Act
The Modern Actor’s Handbook
Paperback
David Rotenberg
9781770414686
$19.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Apr 20, 2021
“Simply put, I don’t think I would’ve found my voice as an actor without David.” — Scott Speedman, actor “Act has the roadmap for the most crucial task of an actor: getting present.” — Shawn Doyle, actor A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art of acting from a master teacher. Act: The Modern Actor’s Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America’s most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most talented screen actors. This is a full tour through the concepts at the heart of Rotenberg’s techni...
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