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Series: Joni Mitchell In Her Own Words Hardcover Malka Marom 9781770411326 $32.95 MUSIC Sep 01, 2014

When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their most recent recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative process.In Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, Joni and Malka follow this thread through... + Read More
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Series: Far and Near On Days Like These Hardcover Neil Peart 9781770412576 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2014

Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers.Now Far and Near brings together reflections from another three years of an artist’s life as he celebrates seasons, landscapes, and characters, travels roads and trails, receives honors, climbs mountains, composes and performs music. With pass... + Read More
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Series: Young Neil The Sugar Mountain Years Paperback Sharry Wilson 9781770411869 $18.95 MUSIC Oct 01, 2014

“A supremely compelling chronicle of Young’s first 20 years.” — Rolling Stone “This is a book written by a true fan for true fans.” — Publishers Weekly Includes many previously unseen photos and set lists Exploring a time in this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s life that has yet to be documented with such depth of research, Young Neil is an exhaustive document of his “Sugar Mountain” years, from 1945 to 1966. From his birth in Toronto through his school years in Florida, Ontario, and Manitoba, the book examines the development of Young’... + Read More
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Series: Hotter Than a Match Head Life on the Run with The Lovin’ Spoonful Paperback Steve Boone 9781770411937 $22.95 MUSIC Aug 01, 2014

On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin’ Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes “Summer in the City” and “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice.”Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him... + Read More
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Series: Coming Ashore A Memoir Hardcover Catherine Gildiner 9781770412255 $27.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2014

Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London’s swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate.After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from the Hough Ghetto Riots. Not one to shy away from a challenge, she teaches at a high school where police escort teachers through the parking lot. There, she tries to engag... + Read More
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Series: After the Falls A Memoir Paperback Catherine Gildiner 9781770412262 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2014

In 1960, Cathy McClure, age 12, is thrown out of Catholic school. Her father’s drugstore, faced with a superhighway and encroaching chain stores, has fallen upon hard times. So the family decides to leave Lewiston, New York, for a fresh start in suburban Buffalo. But even as Cathy embraces the tumultuous sixties and throws herself into a new life as cheerleader, Hojo Hostess, and civil rights advocate, trouble — as usual — isn’t far behind. Fiesty and resolute as ever, Cathy soldiers on, but the one thing she can’t fight threatens to dissolve t... + Read More
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Series: The Bleaks A Memoir Hardcover Paul Illidge 9781550229851 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2014

The Bleaks is the true story of a harrowing nightmare into which writer Paul Illidge’s life is plunged one summer night, when a police drug-squad raids his suburban house, arrests him and his two teenage sons, and whisks them off to jail for growing some marijuana plants in their basement.Helpless against police harassment and abuse, tangled in a judicial system where the presumption of innocence is thrown out the window, Illidge is not only forbidden contact with his children, but forced by his estranged wife to sell their house before the gov... + Read More
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Series: Life Real Loud John Lefebvre, Neteller and the Revolution in Online Gambling Hardcover Bill Reynolds 9781550229417 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2014

At age 50, when some people start planning for retirement, John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode. Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling arenas, rocketed into the stock market. In its early years, Neteller had been a cowboy operation, narrowly averting disaster in creative ways. Co-founder Lefebvre, a gregarious hippie lawyer from Calgary, Alberta, had toked his way through his practice for decades, aspiring all the while to be a professional musician.With the profit from Netel... + Read More
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Series: Wait For It The Legendary Story of How I Met Your Mother Paperback Jesse McLean 9781770412200 $16.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 01, 2014

As the record-breaking run of the CBS hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother draws to an end, new fans of the epic romantic comedy are still appearing in droves, thanks to the joy of binge-watching on demand. What better way for old fans and new to reminisce about all the friendships and fun than by looking at the series as a whole in Jesse McLean’s Wait For It. With an entertaining examination of each of the nine seasons of the show, McLean not only looks at the characters and stories, but the making-of stories, the running gags, the lead actors, an... + Read More
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Series: The Vampire Diaries Companion Love You to Death — Season 5 The Unofficial Companion to The Vampire Diaries Paperback Crissy Calhoun 9781770412279 $14.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 01, 2014

With a foreword by co-creator Kevin Williamson, the fan-favorite Love You to Death series returns with an essential guide to the fifth season of The CW’s hit show The Vampire Diaries. As the series hits its 100th-episode milestone, this companion delves headlong into the twists and turns of each episode, exploring the layers of rich history, supernatural mythology, historical and pop culture references, and the complexities of the show’s memorable cast of characters. Add chapters on the making of the show, interviews with the people who bri... + Read More
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Series: Playing With Matches Paperback Suri Rosen 9781770411821 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) exact 13 Sep 01, 2014

When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she’s sent to live with her strict aunt — but Raina feels like she’s persona non grata no matter where she goes. Her sister, Leah, blames her for her broken engagement, and she’s a social pariah at her new school. In the tight-knit Jewish community, Raina finds she is good at one thing: matchmaking! As the anonymous “Match- Maven,” Raina sets up hopeless singles desperate to find the One.A cross between Jane Austen’s Emma, Dear Abby, and Yenta the matchmaker, Raina’s ... + Read More
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Series: A Pippa Greene Novel Depth of Field A Pippa Greene Novel Paperback Chantel Guertin 9781770411838 $9.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Aug 01, 2014

“With an upbeat tone, clever dialogue, and an artsy point of view, Depth of Field is one relatable teenage girl’s contemporary coming-of-age journey.” — School Library Journal “Amusingly honest . . . Frothy yet engaging romance with a snapshot of the photography world to add color.” — Kirkus Reviews “Tight plotting, vivid characters, and an underlying thread of photography know-how make Depth of Field a smart and stylish read.” — The National Reading Campaign “Guertin truly inhabits the world of a talented 16-year-old who, in spite of... + Read More
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Series: Project Superhero Hardcover E. Paul Zehr 9781770411807 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) exact 8 Sep 01, 2014

Join 13-year-old Jessie as she keeps a diary of her class’s yearlong research project on superheroes, which culminates in the Superhero Slam: a head-to-head debate battle! It’s shy, comics-obsessed Jessie’s dream come true . . . and worst nightmare. She decides to champion Batgirl, a regular person (albeit with major talent and training under her utility belt), and soon Jessie wonders what it would take to be Batgirl. Will she prove to her best friends, Cade and Audrey, that she’s more than a sidekick? Can she take down archenemy Dylan at the S... + Read More
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Series: Ice Gold Canada’s Curling Champions Paperback Ted Wyman 9781770412477 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 01, 2014

The women’s team, which hails from Winnipeg, and the men’s team, based in Sault Ste. Marie, dominated the Sochi Olympic curling events, setting records and capturing the hearts of millions of Canadians. Now Winnipeg Sun sports editor Ted Wyman shares the stories of Canada’s favourite curlers. With exclusive interviews and in-depth profiles, Ice Gold delves into each player’s beginnings in the sport, the formation of the teams, their road to the Olympics, and their gold-medal triumphs. Learn how Jennifer Jones and Jill Officer became an ins... + Read More
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Series: Death of WCW 10th Anniversary Edition of the Bestselling Classic — Revised and Expanded Hardcover R.D. Reynolds 9781770411760 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 01, 2014

In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. It was the number-one pro wrestling company in the world, and the highest-rated show on cable television. Each week, fans tuned in to Monday Nitro, flocked to sold-out arenas, and carried home truckloads of WCW merchandise. It seemed the company could do no wrong.But by 2001, however, everything had bottomed out. The company — having lost a whopping 95% of its audience — was sold for next to nothing to Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment. WCW was laid to rest.What went wrong? This ex... + Read More
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Series: The Death of WCW 10th Anniversary Edition of the Bestselling Classic — Revised and Expanded Paperback Randy Reynolds 9781770411753 $26.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 01, 2014

In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. It was the number-one pro wrestling company in the world, and the highest-rated show on cable television. Each week, fans tuned in to Monday Nitro, flocked to sold-out arenas, and carried home truckloads of WCW merchandise. It seemed the company could do no wrong.But by 2001, however, everything had bottomed out. The company — having lost a whopping 95% of its audience — was sold for next to nothing to Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment. WCW was laid to rest.What went wrong? Thi... + Read More
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Series: Hockey's Greatest The Goaltenders’ Union Hockey’s Greatest Puckstoppers, Acrobats, and Flakes Paperback Greg Oliver 9781770411494 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2014

In hockey, goalies have always been a contradiction — solitary men in a team game, the last line of defence and the stalwarts expected to save the day after any and every miscue and collapse from his teammates. It’s no wonder that anyone who played the position has had his sanity questioned; yet some of the biggest innovations in the game have come from its puckstoppers. In The Goaltenders’ Union, Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen talk to more than 60 keepers of yesterday and today, finding common threads to their stories, and in dozens of interv... + Read More
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Series: Changing the Game A History of NHL Expansion Paperback Stephen Laroche 9781770410794 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 01, 2014

Changing the Game: A History of NHL Expansion celebrates an often-overlooked aspect of hockey history. The book provides comprehensive coverage of the NHL’s spread across the North American market in the 1920s along with the memorable expansions that began in 1967.Relive some great and painful moments from the debut seasons of forgotten teams such as the Montreal Maroons and California Seals along with fan favorites like the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. Every first-year NHL roster is covered and nearly 100 players share their memories of... + Read More
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Series: Hockey Card Stories Hockey Card Stories True Tales from Your Favourite Players Paperback Ken Reid 9781770411975 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 01, 2014

Hockey Card Stories reveals what was really going on in your favourite old hockey cards through the eyes of the players depicted on them. Some of the cards are definitely worth a few bucks, some a few cents — but every story told here is priceless. Sportsnet’s Ken Reid presents the cards you loved and the airbrushed monstrosities that made you howl, the cards that have been packed away in boxes forever, and others you can’t believe ever existed. Whether it’s a case of mistaken identity or simply a great old photo, a fantastic 1970s haircut and ... + Read More
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Series: Written in Blue and White The Toronto Maple Leafs Contracts and Historical Documents from the Collection of Allan Stitt Hardcover Greg Oliver 9781770412156 $39.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 01, 2014

Who knew that paperwork could be so fascinating? In Written in Blue and White , author Greg Oliver explores the fascinating archives of Allan Stitt, one of hockey’s leading collectors, unearthing gem after gem that details the history of the Toronto Maple Leafs through the past century. Explore early contracts with players, and how the clauses evolved; read personal correspondence from Leaf players and management; find out what was behind Wally Stanowski’s 1945 fine for $100; see receipts from the 1935 Stanley Cup playoffs — and learn just how... + Read More
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Series: The Lost 10 Point Night Searching for My Hockey Hero . . . Jim Harrison Paperback David Ward 9781770411555 $17.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2014

Jim Harrison grew up on the prairies, played Junior in Saskatchewan, and pro with the Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, and Oilers. Three years before a former teammate equaled the mark, Harrison set one of the most enduring and seemingly unreachable records in professional hockey with three goals and seven helpers on January 30, 1973. And almost nobody remembers.This is Harrison’s story: the games he played, the agent who stole from him, the woman he mourned, the fights he fought, and the friends he made — and lost — including Bobby Orr and Darryl Sittler... + Read More
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Series: Interference A Novel Paperback Michelle Berry 9781770411982 $18.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2014

An immaculately constructed page-turner full of secrets and hardships “Michelle Berry’s uncanny fifth novel reminds us that even the most seemingly ordinary neighborhoods may be anything but . . . Berry successfully builds suspense and plays on the reader’s sense of paranoia by cleverly alluding to moments of potential disaster that never materialize.” — Quill & Quire The inhabitants of Edgewood Drive in the small Canadian town of Parkville seem to live simple, peaceful lives, but as the children attend elementary school and the senior ... + Read More
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Series: Phoebe’s Way Hardcover Pamela Ditchoff 9781770411951 $12.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2014

Phoebe’s Way is the story of a Saint John Ambulance therapy dog whose unsentimental lessons on aging propel this powerful work of fiction from author Pamela Ditchoff. Phoebe’s cross is carried throughout the rooms of Mersey House, a nursing home in Safe Harbour, Nova Scotia. Each chapter represents a station of the journey and an insight into the emotional weight born by the residents and those who care for them. Layered with symbolism in the precise and poetic language of Phoebe, this poignant story is for anyone who has felt the burden of ti... + Read More
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Series: The Bewdley Mayhem Hellmouths of Bewdley, Pontypool Changes Everything, Caesarea Paperback Tony Burgess 9781770412163 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2014

Three celebrated books — all of which harbour a twisted ambition to physically alter your imagination — together for the first time.The Hellmouths of Bewdley is a series of 16 stories hiding in a novel about a small town in Ontario’s cottage country. Navigating through drunk and dead men, prisons and suicides and mad doctors, these short stories act as a halfway house for literary delinquents.Pontypool Changes Everything is the terrifying story of a devastating virus. Caught through conversation, once it has you, it leads you into another world... + Read More
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Series: Cipher Paperback John Jantunen 9781770412002 $17.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

A high school football star who chooses a tour of duty in Afghanistan over a potentially lucrative career in the pros. A woman whose career as a nine-ball champion was cut short at the Nationals. A motorcycle accident that leaves a boy in a wheelchair. A gun containing a single bullet. Fires destroying homes throughout Regina. An elusive best friend who makes an incredible and awful sacrifice.And Ruby Yee’s spicy black bean balls.All of these factors come together when Curtis Mays, football star and local hero, returns home unexpectedly to find... + Read More
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Series: Intimate Letters The Invisible World Is in Decline, Book VII Paperback Bruce Whiteman 9781770412125 $18.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2014

Intimate Letters comprises the seventh book of an ongoing long poem in prose called The Invisible World Is in Decline. Its title borrows from a string quartet by Leo Jánacek, a profoundly emotional piece written late in the composer’s life when he had fallen in love with a younger woman. It also points towards the intimacy of letters themselves, the visible pieces that make up language. This collection begins with love poems, then moves to a section (“Wretched in This Alone”) dominated by loss. The “Invisible Ghazals” which follow take lang... + Read More
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Series: Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something Paperback Paul Vermeersch 9781770412224 $18.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2014

Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas, erasures, text collage, and other forms to imagine a post-apocalyptic literature built, or rebuilt, from the rubble of the texts that came before.