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Series: Salad Pizza Wine And Many More Good Things from Elena Hardcover Janice Tiefenbach 9780525611776 $37.50 COOKING May 23, 2023

A bright, bold and modern Italian cookbook packed with 115+ delicious mix-and-match recipes, plus a few goofs and somethoughts on creating a fuller life for yourself and the people around you.A different kind of cookbook, from a different kind of restaurant. The team behind the award-winning Montreal pizza joint Elena presents Salad Pizza Wine, delivering recipes for all of life’s good things, with fresh, delicious and easy-to-recreate takes on modern Italian dishes, including:Elena’s famous pizza If you could eat pizza every day and feel great... + Read More
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Series: Where the River Narrows Classic French & Nostalgic Québécois Recipes From St. Lawrence Restaurant Hardcover J-C Poirier 9780525611189 $45.00 COOKING Nov 08, 2022

From the acclaimed and multi award-winning chef J-C Poirier of St. Lawrence restaurant comes a stunning, lyrical cookbook with over 125 recipes that celebrate the classic dishes of Québec and France.WHERE THE RIVER NARROWS is a loving homage to Chef Jean-Christophe (J-C) Poirier’s home province, Québec—the phrase is a direct translation of the Algonquin word “kebec,” describing the area around Québec City where the St. Lawrence River is hemmed in by towering cliffs. Québec is where J-C’s love for the nostalgic beauty of French cooking began. In... + Read More
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Series: Little Critics What Canadian Chefs Cook for Kids (and Kids Will Actually Eat) Hardcover Joanna Fox 9780525611509 $35.00 COOKING Oct 25, 2022

Kid-approved! A cookbook of more than 100 fail-safe recipes that Canada’s chefs use to win over their toughest critics: KIDS.Feeding kids can often feel like climbing a mountain, and sometimes like an endless series of rejections and failures. With picky eating preferences changing at every turn, meals that were a mainstay one week are inexplicably pushed aside when they hit the table the next. Because kids don’t care about what they’re serving at the new It Restaurant, the food fads of the year or how long you spend in the kitchen—either they ... + Read More
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Series: More Mandy's More Recipes We Love Hardcover Mandy Wolfe 9780525610496 $35.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

We’re baaaaack…! From the sisters behind the bestselling cookbook Mandy’s Gourmet Salads—and the Montreal salad bars of the same name—comes More Mandy’s.This second sensational cookbook, following the runaway bestseller Mandy’s Gourmet Salads, is packed with even more salads, more smoothies, more sweets—and now morning fuel and soups too! Indulge in and be inspired by these heartwarming recipes for cold-weather meals, plus plenty of year-round favorites. Even in wintertime, there’s nothing a Mandy’s salad can’t fix.It wouldn’t be Mandy’s withou... + Read More
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Series: The Buddhist Chef's Vegan Comfort Cooking Easy, Feel-Good Recipes for Every Day Paperback Jean-Philippe Cyr 9780525611455 $29.95 COOKING Oct 12, 2021

75+ easy, comforting, and oh-so-delicious vegan recipes for every home cook—from the bestselling author of The Buddhist Chef.Jean-Philippe Cyr—vegan chef, blogger, and bestselling cookbook author—is back with even more delicious vegan recipes. Inspired by the comfort foods he enjoyed cooking with his grandmother while growing up, his classical culinary training, as well as his travels around the world, The Buddhist Chef’s Vegan Comfort Cooking will become your go-to vegan cookbook for every day of the week.Whether you are a long-time vegan or j... + Read More
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Series: Maman: The Cookbook All-Day Recipes to Warm Your Heart Hardcover Elisa Marshall 9780735240094 $40.00 COOKING Sep 28, 2021

*SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Taste Canada Award for General Cookbooks**SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Gourmand World Cookbook Award*Experience the sophisticated, rustic-chic charm of the celebrated, French-inspired Maman café right from homeElisa Marshall and Benjamin Sormonte opened maman to fill a void in their hearts. They wanted to create a warm, cozy place for people to come together and savor a freshly baked madeleine or slice of savory quiche with the comfort and familiarity of being in their own living room. This collection of 100 recipes spans ... + Read More
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Series: Goodbye Refined Sugar! Easy Recipes with No Added Sugar or Fat Paperback Madame Labriski 9780525610816 $26.95 COOKING Jul 06, 2021

Enjoy even more recipes made with Madame Labriski’s famous date puree! From breakfasts to desserts, drinks to snacks, these recipes are free of refined sugar, and there are vegan and dairy-, gluten-, and nut-free options throughout.Goodbye Refined Sugar! by Madame Labriski features the secret weapon to healthy, tasty, and fueling treats free of refined sugar: date puree—a naturally sweet fruit puree that is also rich in fiber. Enjoy fueling breakfasts and hearty loaves, snack on delicious cookies, muffins, donuts, and biscotti, and sip on prote... + Read More
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Series: Jam Bake Inspired Recipes for Creating and Baking with Preserves Hardcover Camilla Wynne 9780525611080 $32.00 COOKING Jun 01, 2021

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF 2021 BY FOOD52 TASTE CANADA GOLD AWARD-WINNERA one-of-a-kind preserving and baking book packed full of delicious jams and the delectable dessert that best showcase them, from pastry chef and Master Preserver Camilla Wynne.“What can I do with this jam besides put it on toast?” Master Preserver and pastry chef Camilla Wynne is constantly asked this question when teaching her popular preserving classes. Enter Jam Bake: a one-of-a-kind cookbook full of her jam, marmalade, fruit butter, and jelly concoctions, along... + Read More
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Series: Sheet Pan Everything Deliciously Simple One-Pan Recipes Hardcover Ricardo Larrivee 9780525610519 $30.00 COOKING Mar 16, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe simplest way to get a no-fuss delicious dinner on the table? The sheet pan!In the latest cookbook from Ricardo and team, you will find fuss-free, one-pan recipes the whole family will enjoy. Worried about what to make for dinner after a long busy workday? Take the stress out of cooking with these one-pan recipes! Lacking inspiration for flavorful meals the whole family will enjoy? Let the sheet pan be the hero of your every meal! Love cooking, but hate cleaning up? Sheet pan meals are easy to make, and even easier to cle... + Read More
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Series: Flavorbomb A Rogue Guide to Making Everything Taste Better Hardcover Bob Blumer 9780525610892 $35.00 COOKING Oct 27, 2020

GOLD WINNER 2021 - Taste Canada Awards - General CookbooksIf you live for wildly addictive, life-affirming taste sensations that knock you off your feet, but can’t figure out how to make them at home, you have just found your kindred cookbook spirit. Welcome to Flavorbomb.You keep a running list of restaurants you go to for your favorite flavorbombs—a vibrant, pungent Caesar salad, extra crispy garlic fries, or a spicy puttanesca pasta maybe. You might even be able to articulate exactly what it is about those dishes that you find so addictive. ... + Read More
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Series: Friuli Food and Wine Frasca Cooking from Northern Italy's Mountains, Vineyards, and Seaside Hardcover Bobby Stuckey 9780399580611 $66.00 COOKING Jul 07, 2020

An eye-opening exploration of a unique region of Italy that bridges the Alps and the Adriatic Sea, featuring 80 recipes and wine pairings from a master sommelier and James Beard Award-winning chef.Bordered by Austria, Slovenia, and the Adriatic Sea, the northeastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia is an area of immense cultural blending, geographical diversity, and idyllic beauty. This tiny sliver of land is home to one of the most refined food and wine cultures in the world and yet remains off the grid. The unique cuisine of Friuli is ... + Read More
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Series: Mandy's Gourmet Salads Recipes for Lettuce and Life Hardcover Mandy Wolfe 9780525610472 $35.00 COOKING Jul 07, 2020

#1 BESTSELLING COOKBOOK! An overwhelmingly gorgeous cookbook ideal for summer living, packed with simple and delicious recipes for salads and more!There’s nothing a Mandy’s salad can’t fix. Want an explosion of color, texture, flavor and fabulousness? Look no further. Inside the pages of this stunning cookbook (and the Mandy’s restaurants it’s named after) lies everything you need to take your salad game from a meh-maybe, to wooooah, baby!!Mandy’s gourmet salads are a jewel of Montreal’s (jam-packed) food scene. What started as a 3ft counter at... + Read More
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Series: The Buddhist Chef 100 Simple, Feel-Good Vegan Recipes: A Cookbook Paperback Jean-Philippe Cyr 9780525610243 $29.95 COOKING Oct 29, 2019

100 simply delicious vegan recipes—good for the planet, and for you—from the chef and blogger behind The Buddhist Chef.A practicing Buddhist for over two decades, Jean-Philippe Cyr, aka The Buddhist Chef, believes that everyone has the power to make their vision of the world a reality—and that the most impactful way to do that is through the food we choose to make, eat, and share. This realization led him to veganism, which transformed his life and health. In this cookbook, he shares how to make classic dishes vegan, easy, and so delicious and ... + Read More
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Series: Alpine Cooking Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops [A Cookbook] Hardcover Meredith Erickson 9781607748748 $66.00 COOKING Oct 15, 2019

A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among the alpine peaks of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and France.“A passionate exploration of all things Alpine . . . this one is a must-have for every ski bum foodie.”—VogueNAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWFrom the wintry peaks of Chamonix and the picturesque trails of Gstaad to the remote villages of the Gast... + Read More
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Series: Fuel Your Day! 100+ Seriously Addictive Energy Cookies, Bites, Bars and More: A Baking Book Paperback Madame Labriski 9780525610304 $24.95 COOKING Aug 13, 2019

Looking for a pre- or post-workout energy boost? A healthy snack to combat your mid-afternoon slump? How about a healthy treat for your child’s lunchbox, or a high-fiber breakfast on the go?In Fuel Your Day! enjoy over 100 healthy, energy-filled, and high-fiber treats with no added sugar or fat. Easy to make and seriously addictive, the secret is Madame Labriski’s magical date puree. Discover for yourself the delicious, family-friendly snacks that have fueled thousands of people’s days!
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Series: Vegetables First 120 Vibrant Vegetable-Forward Recipes: A Cookbook Hardcover Ricardo Larrivee 9780525610458 $32.00 COOKING Apr 23, 2019

120 fresh, flavourful recipes that put vegetables first!Welcome to a celebration of the tastes, textures, colours, and possibilities that vegetables have to offer. These easy-to-follow, triple-tested recipes put vegetables front and centre, and let meat and fish play a supporting role. Discover delicious, bright dishes popping with colour (tomato and ricotta tartlets), full of comfort (squash and roasted vegetable lasagne), and ready to celebrate (Beauty and the Beet cocktail). With each recipe, Ricardo reinvents what vegetables can mean for t... + Read More
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Series: Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers: A Cookbook Hardcover Kim Thúy 9780525610229 $32.00 COOKING Apr 02, 2019

A warm and welcoming introduction to a vibrant cuisine, with more than 50 easy to make recipes from internationally bestselling novelist Kim Thúy.Between careers as a lawyer and an acclaimed novelist, Kim Thúy ran a celebrated restaurant called Ru de Nam in Montreal. Now, in her first cookbook, Kim combines her beautiful storytelling style with simple and wonderful recipes that are full of flavour: surprising yet comforting, and easy enough for every day. Welcoming us into her close-knit circle, she introduces us to her mother and five aunts, e... + Read More
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Series: Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse Another Cookbook of Sorts Hardcover Frederic Morin 9780147530790 $50.00 COOKING Nov 27, 2018

Shortlisted for the 2019 Taste Canada AwardsIt’s the end of the world as we know it. Or not. Either way, you want Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse in your bunker and/or kitchen.In their much-loved first cookbook, Frederic Morin, David MacMillan, and Meredith Erickson introduced readers to the art of living the Joe Beef way. Now they’re back with another deeply personal, refreshingly unpretentious collection of 150 new recipes, some taken directly from the menus of Fred and Dave’s acclaimed Montreal restaurants, others from summers spent on La... + Read More
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Series: The Simple Bites Kitchen Nourishing Whole Food Recipes for Every Day: A Cookbook Paperback Aimee Wimbush-Bourque 9780143190516 $32.00 COOKING Oct 03, 2017

Saveur award winner and popular Simple Bites blogger shares a wildly delicious collection of wholesome family-friendly recipes.Toasty warm in the winter and cool in the summer, Aimée’s comfortable kitchen is a place where the family gathers, cooks together, and celebrates everyday life. In The Simple Bites Kitchen, she brings her love of whole foods to the table and shares heart-warming kitchen stories and recipes that are nutritious, fairly simple to make, and utterly delicious. Aimée knows the challenges that come with feeding a family and ta... + Read More
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Series: Seven Spoons My Favorite Recipes for Any and Every Day: A Cookbook Hardcover Tara O'Brady 9780449016305 $29.95 COOKING Apr 21, 2015

The much-anticipated debut from the author behind the popular food blog Seven Spoons, featuring distinctive, crowd-pleasing recipes; engaging, writerly essays; and the same stunning photography that has earned her website a devoted following.Tara O’Brady was one of the earliest food bloggers to enter the scene, and now, nearly ten years after she first started Seven Spoons, she has become one of the most highly regarded and unique voices in the culinary arena. In her debut cookbook, Seven Spoons, O’Brady shares stories and recipes from her Cana... + Read More
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Series: The Great Rotisserie Chicken Cookbook More than 100 Delicious Ways to Enjoy Storebought and Homecooked Chicken Paperback Eric Akis 9780449016404 $24.95 COOKING Mar 31, 2015

For those who love rotisserie chicken—fresh off the spit at home or hot from the supermarket—this value-priced book is a one-stop guide to delicious everyday meals. The Great Rotisserie Chicken Cookbook features not only tips on how to buy chicken and set up a rotisserie but also recipes for flavorful rubs and more than 120 quick and easy recipes to make and serve with roasted chicken.Rotisserie chicken has become a staple in supermarkets across the country, pre-cooked and ready to take home for a quick and healthy meal. The Great Rotisserie Ch... + Read More
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Series: Brown Eggs and Jam Jars Family Recipes from the Kitchen of Simple Bites: A Cookbook Paperback Aimee Wimbush-Bourque 9780143190509 $32.95 COOKING Feb 10, 2015

Aimée’s rural homestead upbringing, years working as a professional chef and everyday life as a busy mom led to the creation of the hugely popular blog Simple Bites . Raising three young children with husband Danny, Aimée traded her tongs and chef whites for a laptop and camera, married her two passions—mothering and cooking—and has since been creating recipes with an emphasis on whole foods for the family table, sharing stories and tips and inspiring readers to make the family– food connection on the Simple Bites blog. Brown Eggs ... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Living According to Joe Beef A Cookbook of Sorts Hardcover David McMillan 9781607740148 $40.00 COOKING Oct 11, 2011

The debut cookbook from one of the most celebrated restaurants in Canada, featuring inventive twists on French market cuisine, plus spirited anecdotes and lush photography.Earning rave reviews for their unforgettable approach, Joe Beef co-owners/chefs David McMillan and Frédéric Morin push the limits of traditional French cuisine with over 125 recipes (nearly all of them photographed) for hearty dishes infused with irreverent personality. Featuring lively stories and illustrations showcasing gangsters, oysters, Canadian railroad dining car food... + Read More
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Series: I Got a Name The Murder of Krystal Senyk Paperback Eliza Robertson 9780735240049 $26.95 TRUE CRIME May 23, 2023

A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fractures in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large.Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody wants: a reliable confidant, a handywoman of all trades, and an infectious creative with an adventurous spirit. Most importantly, she was tough as nails. So when her best friend needed support to leave her abusive husband, Ronald Bax, Krystal leapt into action.But soon Krystal became the new outlet for Bax’s rage.... + Read More
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Series: I Felt the End Before It Came Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness Hardcover Daniel Allen Cox 9780735242104 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 09, 2023

“I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah’s Witness—it’s one or the other.”Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him.But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his ... + Read More
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Series: DUBELLS, THE Aphrodite and the Duke A Novel Paperback J.J. McAvoy 9780593594537 $12.99 FICTION Apr 25, 2023

“Bridgerton lovers have found their next read…. J. J. McAvoy is a welcome new voice in historical romance.”—New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLeanSecond chances are even sweeter….Aphrodite Du Bell has always resented her name. While the members of the ton, and even the queen herself, praise her warm brown skin, perfect curls, and exquisite features, Aphrodite can’t help but think that living up to the literal goddess of beauty is asking a bit much. Her renowned loveliness certainly didn’t stop the love of her life from jilting her and ... + Read More
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Series: The North Star Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln Hardcover Julian Sher 9781039000292 $38.00 HISTORY Apr 25, 2023

A riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the unexpected ways Canadians were deeply involved in every aspect of the American Civil War.Canadians take pride in being on the “good side” of the American Civil War, serving as a haven for 30,000 escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. But dwelling in history’s shadow is the much darker role Canada played in supporting the slave South and in fomenting the many plots against Lincoln. The North Star weaves together the dif... + Read More
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Series: "Until You Are Dead" The Wrongful Conviction of Steven Truscott Paperback Julian Sher 9780676973815 $27.00 TRUE CRIME Apr 25, 2023

The national bestselling and award-winning investigation into one of the most notorious murder cases in Canadian history—and that helped the wrongfully convicted Truscott clear his name after decades in prison.Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Birks Family Foundation Award for BiographyFinalist for the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingIn 1959, a popular schoolboy, just fourteen years old, was convicted and sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of his twelve-year-old classmate. That summer, Canada lost its... + Read More
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Series: Desperada Hardcover Sofia Mostaghimi 9781039003392 $32.95 FICTION Apr 18, 2023

In Sofia Mostaghimi’s sensational debut novel, a young Iranian-Canadian woman quits her job after her younger sister dies, and then flees her family, seeking escape and possibly transformation in travel, sex and drugs.desperada (feminine desperado) in dire need of something; being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furiousKora can’t make it through the funeral for her little sister, Kimia, the bright star of her Iranian-Canadian family. She also can’t go on with her life as if nothing ... + Read More
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Series: DUBELLS, THE Verity and the Forbidden Suitor A Novel Paperback J.J. McAvoy 9780593500064 $23.00 FICTION Apr 11, 2023

“Bridgerton lovers have found their next read. J. J. McAvoy is a welcome new voice in historical romance.”—New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean, on Aphrodite and the DukeAn heiress and an outcast—a match made for scandal…With her brother, the Duke of Everely, married off to the beautiful and charming Aphrodite Du Bell, Verity Eagleman feels more alone than ever within the cold halls of the family estate. So when she’s invited to stay in the Du Bells’ clamorous, boisterous home, she leaps at the chance.When Verity crosses paths with T... + Read More
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Series: A Cruel Light A Novel Hardcover Cyndi MacMillan 9781639103256 $37.99 FICTION Apr 04, 2023

Hidden away and decaying for decades, a cryptic mural holds deadly clues in this intoxicating mix of art, murder, and buried secrets, perfect for fans of Simone St. James.It was a blood-curdling crime that rocked the town to its core, leaving some with permanent scars and others with deep regrets. A young girl had been brutally slain. Memories were beginning to fade, but during the renovation of the old parsonage, the murder rears its ugly head again when workers discover a time-ravaged portrait of the young victim. Conservator Annora Garde ... + Read More
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Series: Continent Poems Paperback Aaron Boothby 9780771004476 $22.95 POETRY Mar 21, 2023

“These poems buckle and drift in ways that reveal their continental scope. The I of these poems offers its critical lament, but it never overlooks beauty.”—Kaie KelloughThe poems in Continent ask to be done with presuming, knowing, and defining. They trace maps laid across lands and peoples by force, voiced by a speaker both engaged in attendingto this ongoing violence and unable to escape complicity with it. Urgent, visceral, emotionally striking, Aaron Boothby’s debut collection asks the question: how can we see, listen, and feel an ongoing c... + Read More
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Series: The Natural Hustle Poems Paperback Eva H.D. 9780771004674 $22.95 POETRY Mar 21, 2023

An astonishing, inventive new collection of poems from the author of Rotten Perfect Mouth.Includes the poem “Bonedog” featured in the film I’m Thinking of Ending ThingsDeeply attuned to the cadence of life, the poems in The Natural Hustle offer provocative, intimate snapshots. They explore the bewildering experience of living—precisely locating unexpected truths. Ingenious, original, surprising, here is a one-of-a-kind poetic voice.Story Locale: Contemporary North AmericaSeries Overview: McClelland & Stewart is committed to publishing work by C... + Read More
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Series: Halal Sex The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America Paperback Sheima Benembarek 9780735244221 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 21, 2023

An unprecedented glimpse into the sex lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living across Canada and the United States.In the Muslim world, sex is permissible (or halal) only within the confines of marriage. Outside of wedlock, the act is considered haram, a sin of the faith. Girls are taught to protect their virginity; their mothers, if not forgoing “the talk” altogether, obscure the facts with elliptical language and metaphors.So, what happens when immigrants and the children of immigrants set about pursuing an open and active sex life... + Read More
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Series: Stories I Might Regret Telling You A Memoir Paperback Martha Wainwright 9780345815095 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 07, 2023

The singer-songwriter’s internationally acclaimed memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more.“[O]ften hilarious and more candid than it should be.”—The Guardian“You won’t regret reading it.” The Irish Times“Her personal story reverberates.” The Globe and Mail“This entire memoir is a song.” Jann Arden“[W]arm rich writing…filled with humour, panache and gutsy feminism.” Heather O’NeillBorn into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrig... + Read More
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Series: The Movement Miracle The Essentrics Stretch Program to Increase Strength, Improve Mobility and Become Pain Free Hardcover Miranda Esmonde-White 9780735275256 $40.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 14, 2023

From Canadian fitness pioneer, bestselling author and PBS star Miranda Esmonde-White, the definitive Essentrics stretching and strengthening book, designed to keep your body strong, mobile and pain-free whatever your age.Miranda Esmonde-White’s fitness revolution began with a simple insight: many exercise programs, including the ones she used to teach at her own studio, actually cause injury and prematurely age the body, bulking muscles and restricting joints. Throwing out the idea of “no pain, no gain,” she studied how we are actually designed... + Read More
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Series: Stray Dogs And Other Stories Paperback Rawi Hage 9780735273634 $22.00 FICTION Mar 07, 2023

“[A] superb collection.”—Maclean’s“Compulsively readable (and re-readable)” —Montreal GazetteA captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories from the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society.In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic deliver... + Read More
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Series: Jamie MacGillivray The Renegade's Journey Hardcover John Sayles 9781612199887 $42.00 FICTION Feb 28, 2023

“John Sayles is a living master.” - Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith Spanning 13 years, two continents, several wars, and many smoke-filled and bloody battlefields, John Sayles’s thrilling historical and cinematic epic invites comparison with Diana Gabaldon, George R. R. Martin, Phillippa Gregory, and Charles Dickens.It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, the last desperate stand of the Stuart ‘pretender’ to the throne of the Three Kingdoms, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished ... + Read More
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Series: Home Truths Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Mavis Gallant 9780771004445 $22.00 FICTION Jan 24, 2023

WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FICTION.An incisive, darkly humorous, and compassionate collection of stories from one of Canada’s finest writers—Mavis Gallant.In Home Truths, Mavis Gallant draws us into the tricky labyrinth of human behaviour, while offering readers her unique, clear-eyed vision of Canadians both at home and abroad. Ranging in time and place from small-town Quebec during the Depression, to Geneva and Paris in the 1950s, to contemporary Vancouver Island, these stories explore the remorseless... + Read More
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Series: Tides A Novel Paperback Sara Freeman 9780735241992 $22.95 FICTION Jan 17, 2023

“Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing.” —Emma Cline“Irresistible…I read it in an afternoon but I’ll be thinking about it for a long time.” —Douglas StuartFrom an astounding new voice in Canadian literature comes an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside townAfter a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed e... + Read More
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Series: Fayne A Novel Hardcover Ann-Marie MacDonald 9780735276635 $40.00 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love and identity.In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treachero... + Read More
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Series: A Ballet of Lepers A Novel and Stories Hardcover Leonard Cohen 9780771018145 $34.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before “Hallelujah” and “So Long, Marianne” and “Famous Blue Raincoat,” the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning.Written between 1956 in Montreal, just a... + Read More
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Series: A Tale of Two Omars A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring Paperback Omar Sharif Jr 9781640095588 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 11, 2022

“A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery…Brimming with beautiful remembrances of his grandfather and terrifying stories of abuse and homophobia, this is an essential book that shines a much-needed light on the intersection of Arab and queer identity.” —Abdi Nazemian, Lambda Literary Award–winning author of Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor BookThe grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father’s side and Holocaust survivors on his mother’s, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the g... + Read More
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Series: Black Dove Hardcover Colin McAdam 9780670066353 $34.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

“I have long been convinced that Colin McAdam is a literary genius. What’s extraordinary is that each of the books he writes is a totally distinct type of genius. Every time. He’s in a league of his own.” —Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with FeathersA deeply imaginative and thrilling novel about grief, single parenting, and the terrifying power of a child’s imagination, dancing on an edge between magical realism and horror, perfect for fans of Stranger ThingsIn a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-ol... + Read More
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Series: The Art and Science of Arrival Hardcover Tanya Lapointe 9781789098464 $66.00 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 13, 2022

Official retrospective companion book to the Paramount film Arrival starring Amy Adams, Jereny Renner and Forest Whitaker, featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with key creative and scientific team members.Since its release in 2016, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, based on the Hugo-nominated short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, has embedded itself firmly in the minds of moviegoers around the world. The film garnered many accolades, including nine BAFTA nominations and eight Academy Award® nomination... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Astonishment Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385696227 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * NOMINATED FOR THE EVERGREEN AWARD * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, AND CBCCapricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a... + Read More
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Series: Em Paperback Kim Thúy 9781039000858 $21.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZENOMINEE FOR THE 2021 GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE MONTREAL SHEILA FISCHMAN SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 COLE FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR TRANSLATIONKim Thúy’s Em is a virtuosic novel of profound power and sensitivity, and an enduring affirmation of the greatest act of resistance: love.In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle: an abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier. Louis calls the baby em Hồng, em meaning “little ... + Read More
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Series: Only Sisters Paperback Lilian Nattel 9780735277069 $24.95 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

One sister runs away and the other stays behind. But what happens when the dutiful sister has to impersonate the rebel? In her page-turning exploration of familial loyalty, resentment, secrets, and grief, Lilian Nattel explores the meaning and reach of family bonds.Joan has always done the right thing, both as a palliative care doctor and as a caregiver for her widowed mother, Sheila. Joan’s adventurous sister, Vivien, is a different story. She left home as soon as she was able—running from an insecure childhood troubled by an alcoholic father ... + Read More
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Series: All's Well Paperback Mona Awad 9780735241220 $19.95 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Dear Readers: This is one wild book!” —Margaret Atwood via TwitterFrom the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theatre professor suffering with chronic pain who, in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeare’s most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers.Miranda is a theatre professor whose life is less than satisfactory. After falling during a performance early in her acting career, she finds herself in constant, seemingly incurable pain and struggles to even sit sti... + Read More
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Series: The Intimate Herbal A Beginner's Guide to Herbal Medicine for Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Hormonal Balance Paperback Marie White 9781623176631 $24.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Jun 14, 2022

All-natural reproductive wellness remedies for the modern herbalist: an inclusive guide to making herbal infusions, tinctures, oils, and powders to enhance pleasure and sexual health.In an empowering, accessible, and inclusive guide, herbalist Marie White shows readers of all genders how to enhance sexual and reproductive health through plant medicine. A must-have for those looking to revitalize intimacy with the special touch of medicinal herbs—and a few selected seaweed and fungi—The Intimate Herbal includes tried-and-tested protocols rooted ... + Read More
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Series: Runway Bird A Rock 'n' Roll Style Guide Hardcover Irina Lazareanu 9782080206961 $40.00 DESIGN Apr 19, 2022

Top model and musician Irina Lazareanu decrypts the essence of rock ’n’ roll chic, taking cues from her coterie of friends from the fashion and music worlds.If you could saunter down the runway and slip backstage on the heels of Irina Lazareanu, who would you meet, what antics would ensue, and what on earth would you wear? Irina—Karl Lagerfeld’s muse, Kate Moss’s BFF, and Peter Doherty’s former fiancée—introduces you to her inner circle—models, fashion designers, editors, Hollywood starlets, and rockers—to pilfer the secrets of their individual... + Read More
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Series: Stories I Might Regret Telling You A Memoir Hardcover Martha Wainwright 9780345815088 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 29, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe singer-songwriter’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more.Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly acclaimed, genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with incomparable musical legends—Anna McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Suzzy Roche, Richard and Linda Thompson, Emmylou Harris—and struggled to find her voice... + Read More
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Series: Stray Dogs And Other Stories Hardcover Rawi Hage 9780735273627 $29.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receiv... + Read More
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Series: My Stories, My Times, Volume 2 Hardcover Jean Chretien 9781039000971 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 26, 2021

Following on the heels of his bestselling collection of political reminiscences, former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien still has a few more stories to tell. With anecdotes and reflections both serious and light-hearted, My Stories, My Times, Volume 2 is a unique window on our country from one of its greatest statesmen and patriots.With a career that spanned decades and an active retirement after that, it should come as no surprise that Jean Chrétien’s illuminating, perceptive and often humorous stories could not be contained in just one ... + Read More
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Series: The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates Hardcover Stuart McLean 9780735242647 $34.00 FICTION Oct 12, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom Canada’s much-missed, nationally bestselling storyteller, a must-have collection featuring ten never-before-published stories and ten classic favourites, perfect for old fans and Vinyl Cafe newcomers alike.From the unforgettable Christmas classic “Dave Cooks the Turkey” to the tender tribute to ice-cream-loving, potato-sitting Arthur the dog in “Morte d’Arthur”; from the joys and challenges of marriage in “The Canoe Trip” to the celebration of childhood adventure in “The Waterslide.” From the beginning of life (the hilar... + Read More
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Series: Songs for the End of the World A Novel Paperback Saleema Nawaz 9780771072598 $19.95 FICTION Aug 24, 2021

An enthralling, hopeful novel about the power of human connection in a time of crisis, as the bonds of love, family, and duty are tested. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. How quickly he’d forgotten a fundamental truth: the closer you got to the heart of a calamity, the more resilience there was to be found.This is the story of a handful of people living through an unfolding catastrophe.Elliot is a first responder in New York, a man running from past failures and struggling to do the right thing. Emma is a pregnant singer preparing to headline a benefit con... + Read More
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Series: Kiss of the Fur Queen Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385697217 $22.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

Originally published in 1998, Kiss of the Fur Queen is a powerful and beautiful tale of siblings and tricksters, culture and trauma, and finding yourself in a world that tries to tell you who you are—and it’s now a Penguin Modern Classic.Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by pries... + Read More
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Series: The Wagers Paperback Sean Michaels 9780735278134 $21.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

Scotiabank Giller-winner Sean Michaels’ The Wagers is a deeply satisfying, wildly entertaining story of long odds, magical heists and the dizzying gamble of life. Where does luck come from? What is it worth? And how much of it do you need to be happy?After fifteen years of open mics, aspiring comedian Theo Poitiris is still waiting for his big break—bicycling to the comedy club at night, stacking plums and cheeses at his family’s grand and ramshackle supermarket by day. But when his girlfriend wanders halfway around the world searching for enli... + Read More
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Series: Missing Witches Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic Paperback Risa Dickens 9781623175726 $23.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 23, 2021

A guide to invocations, rituals, and histories at the intersection of magic and feminism, as informed by history’s witches—and the sociopolitical culture that gave rise to them.When you start looking for witches, you find them everywhere. As seekers and practitioners reclaim and restore magic to its rightful place among powerful forces for social, personal, and political transformation, more people than ever are claiming the identity of “Witch.” But our knowledge of witchcraft and magic has been marred by erasure, sensationalism, and sterilizat... + Read More
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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

A NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYIt 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. Alo... + Read More