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Series: True Reconciliation How to Be a Force for Change Hardcover Jody Wilson-Raybould 9780771004384 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 08, 2022

From the #1 bestselling author of ’Indian’ in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada.There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? This has been true from her time as a leader of British Columbia’s First Nations, as a Member of Parliament, as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, within the business communities she interacts, and when having conversations with people around their kitchen tables. W... + Read More
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Series: Playing the Long Game A Memoir Hardcover Christine Sinclair 9781039004603 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2022

For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada’s greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women’s sport.Christine Sinclair is one of the world’s most respected and admired athletes. Not only is she the player who has scored the most goals on t... + Read More
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Series: Talking to Canadians A Memoir Paperback Rick Mercer 9780385696258 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2022

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERCanada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time.What is Rick Mercer going to do now? That was the question on everyone’s lips when the beloved comedian retired his hugely successful TV show after 15 seasons—and at the peak of its popularity. The answer came not long after, when he roared back in a new role as stand-up-comedian, playing to sold-out houses wherever he appeared.And then Covid-19 struck. And his legions of fans began asking again: What is Rick Mercer going to do now? Well, for one ... + Read More
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Series: Dearly Poems Paperback Margaret Atwood 9780771000799 $24.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2022

The collection of a lifetime from the prodigious novelist and poet, now available as a paperback.By turns moving, playful, and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens, and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.Before she became one of the world’s most impo... + Read More
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Series: Above the Fold A Personal History of the Toronto Star Hardcover John Honderich 9780771000201 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2022

A remarkable memoir and journalistic history of the Toronto Star, the newspaper that has shaped and continues to shape the issues most important to Canadians.Don’t let them ruin the newspaper…These were the dying words of Beland Honderich to his son, John. The newspaper was the Toronto Star, founded in 1892 by Joseph E. (Holy Joe) Atkinson and, to this day, one of the world’s leading and most respected socially liberal broadsheets. For the second half of its legendary—and sometimes controversial—history, both John and his father, as successive ... + Read More
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Series: All Roads Home A Life On and Off the Ice Hardcover Bryan Trottier 9780771084478 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 25, 2022

A poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada’s most decorated Indigenous athlete. Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. In 2017, he was named one of the NHL’s... + Read More
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Series: All Over the Map Rambles and Ruminations from the Canadian Road Paperback Ron James 9780385671156 $22.00 HUMOR Oct 25, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERCanada’s most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut—and he’s just as richly, uproariously funny on the page as on stage.His legion of fans—the ones who ensure his every show the length and breadth of Canada is a sell-out—recognize Ron James as one of the great stand-ups of his generation. His seemingly improvisational flights of fancy (no two shows are ever the same) are crammed with inventive phrase-making, feature a vocabulary Donald Trump could only fantasize about and put every word into the service of uproari... + Read More
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Series: Scars and Stars Poems Hardcover Jesse Thistle 9780771003509 $25.00 POETRY Oct 18, 2022

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes.Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout his bestselling memoir. In Scars & Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart.Charting his own history, the stories of people from his past, the burning intensity of new and unexpected love, the complex legacies of family and community, and the beauty o... + Read More
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Series: One Game at a Time My Journey from a Small Town to Hockey's Biggest Stage Paperback Harnarayan Singh 9780771073915 $23.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 18, 2022

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the distinct and vibrant voice behind Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi comes the story of pursuing a dream and defying the odds, reminding us all of hockey’s power to unite.BoninoBoninoBonino!Ask a hockey fan if they have heard the wonderfully electric call of Nick Bonino’s overtime-winning goal from the 2016 Stanley Cup Final and they will almost surely answer with a resounding yes! That’s because video clips of the Hockey Night in Punjabi broadcast immediately went viral, amplifying the profile of Harnarayan Sing... + 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

An 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 as Cohen was publish... + Read More
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Series: Over the Boards Lessons from the Ice Paperback Hayley Wickenheiser 9780735240520 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 11, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Hayley Wickenheiser is an incredible human being…this is what a billion hours of hard work looks like.” —Ryan ReynoldsThe greatest women’s hockey player of all time, Hayley Wickenheiser, shares the lessons that won her four Olympic gold medals and hard-earned wisdom distilled from moments when she fell short.13 World Championship appearances. 6 Olympic Games. Hockey Hall of Famer. All while raising a child, earning multiple university degrees, and not benefiting from the financial stability male professional athletes have. S... + Read More
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Series: Mind Over Matter Hard-Won Battles on the Road to Hope Hardcover Jordin Tootoo 9780735242265 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

Following on the bestselling success of the inspiring All the Way, pioneering Inuit NHLer Jordin Tootoo begins the process of healing in the wake of the suicide and violence that marked his family, only to discover the source of all that trauma in his father’s secret past.For some hockey players, retirement marks the moment when it’s all over. But Jordin Tootoo is not most hockey players.Having inspired millions when he first broke into the league, Tootoo continued to influence people throughout his career—not only through his very public trium... + Read More
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Series: The Audacity Why Being Too Much Is Exactly Enough Paperback Katherine Ryan 9780385696845 $24.00 HUMOR Oct 04, 2022

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE TIMES * AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe Audacity is a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction from the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess.“I’ve come to accept that being audacious is a gift I can’t escape.”People “know” my on-stage comedy persona or my scripted ballsy characters and wrongly assume that I must stomp around all day in designer dresses eviscerating those who dare to cross my path. But mostly, I’m just eating p... + Read More
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Series: Jennie's Boy A Newfoundland Childhood Hardcover Wayne Johnston 9781039001664 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 20, 2022

Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. To the neig... + Read More
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Series: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War Hardcover Tim Cook 9780735242319 $36.95 HISTORY Sep 13, 2022

From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers.Medical care in almost all armies, and especially in the Canadian medical services, was sophisticated and constantly evolving, with vastly more ... + Read More
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Series: Call Me Indian From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player Paperback Fred Sasakamoose 9780735240032 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 13, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF INDIGO’S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2021“Fred Sasakamoose is an icon… a must-read for Indigenous communities, hockey fans, and all Canadians.”—Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Crusted SnowTrailblazer. Residential school Survivor. First Treaty Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are true—but none of them tell the whole story.Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in ... + 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: Not on My Watch How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon Paperback Alexandra Morton 9780735279681 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called “the Jane Goodall of Canada” because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasit... + Read More
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Series: Birds of Canada Paperback DK 9780744057874 $47.00 NATURE Sep 06, 2022

The ultimate photographic guide to over 600 bird species in Canada.Updated to reflect all the latest taxonomic data, Complete Birds of Canada is the complete photographic guide to 613 species of birds found in Canada, including the most common species, and rare and vagrant birds.Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes stunning full-color photographs revealing individual species with unrivaled clarity. The 436 most commonly seen birds are pictured with plumage variations, and information on similar bi... + Read More
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Series: Making Love with the Land Hardcover Joshua Whitehead 9780735278868 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

Much-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed.In the last few years, following the publication of his debut novel Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead has emerged as one of the most exciting and important new voices on Turtle Island. Now, in this first non-fiction work, Whitehead brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, notes, confession). Making Love with the L... + Read More
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Series: Life in the City of Dirty Water A Memoir of Healing Paperback Clayton Thomas-Muller 9780735240087 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 2022 CANADA READS FINALISTAn electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the str... + Read More
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Series: The Series What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now Hardcover Ken Dryden 9780771001130 $34.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 23, 2022

A new book by Hall of Fame goalie and bestselling author Ken Dryden celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit SeriesSEPTEMBER 2, 1972, MONTREAL FORUM, GAME ONE: The best against the best for the first time. Canada, the country that had created the game; the Soviet Union, having taken it up only twenty-six years earlier. On the line: more than the players, more than the fans, more than Canadians and Russians knew.So began an entirely improbable, near-month-long series of games that became more and more riveting, until, for the eighth, a... + Read More
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Series: The Skin We're In A Year of Black Resistance and Power Paperback Desmond Cole 9780385686365 $19.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 02, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER · WINNER OF THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD · FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGNESSY COHEN PRIZE · FINALIST FOR THE FOREST OF READING EVERGREEN AWARD · FINALIST FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE · BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (The Globe and Mail, NOW, CBC, Quill & Quire, Indigo) · A PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICKIn this bracing, revelatory work of award-winning journalism, celebrated writer and activist Desmond Cole punctures the naive assumptions of Canadians who believe we live in a post-racial nation.Chronicling just one year in ... + Read More
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Series: Pocket Birds of Canada 2nd Edition Paperback David Bird 9781553633051 $18.99 NATURE Apr 07, 2020

Compact, easy-to-use, and fully updated, this pocket guide features 435 species of birds found in Canada and is the perfect field companion for bird enthusiasts of all ages and levels of experience.Pocket Birds of Canada is perfectly sized to carry along with you on a bird-watching expedition. Each half- or full-page profile features high-quality, close-up annotated photographs of each bird, showing differences between males and females or juveniles and adults, along with range maps and descriptive text explaining key information to aid in iden... + Read More
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Series: A History of Canada in Ten Maps Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land Paperback Adam Shoalts 9780143193982 $22.00 HISTORY May 15, 2018

Envisioning the mysterious land that would eventually be called “Canada” through the eyes of the explorers who first set foot on these shores, A History of Canada in Ten Maps brings our stories to life.Every map tells a story, and every map has a purpose: inviting us to go somewhere we’ve never been. It is an account of what we know, but also a trace of what we long for. Like a story, a map is never completely objective. It records special interests and agendas. It leaves important things unsaid even as it purports to lay things out clearly and... + Read More
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Series: Beyond the Trees A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic Paperback Adam Shoalts 9780735236851 $22.00 HISTORY May 05, 2020

National bestsellerA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from “Canada’s greatest living explorer.”In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America’s greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it’s still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being.Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies... + Read More
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Series: The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account of Native People in North America Paperback Thomas King 9780385664226 $22.00 HISTORY Aug 13, 2013

“Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must-read. For those who don’t wish to understand, it is even more so.”—Joseph BoydenRich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King’s critical and personal meditation on what it means to be “Indian” in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship betw... + Read More
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Series: All Together Now A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times Hardcover Alan Doyle 9780385696777 $27.00 HUMOR Nov 24, 2020

One of Newfoundland’s funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for coming to the rescue of those in need?At this time of Covid, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle is feeling everyone’s pain. Off the road and spending more days at home than he has since he was a child hawking cod tongues on the wharfs of Petty Harbour, he misses the crowds and companionship of performing across the country and beyon... + Read More
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Series: Hand Drawn Hand Drawn Vancouver Sketches of the City's Neighbourhoods, Buildings, and People Hardcover Emma FitzGerald 9780147531209 $24.95 TRAVEL Jun 23, 2020

Visitors and locals alike will love this book of whimsical sketches of Vancouver, British Columbia, accompanied by thoughtful observations and snippets of overheard conversations.Take a tour of Vancouver’s sights and sidewalks with Emma FitzGerald’s hand-drawn impressions of her hometown, a city filled with stories—funny, surprising, and sometimes dark—amidst the cherry blossoms, beaches, and forests. Included are more than 100 sketches completed on location that, together, capture the essence of Vancouver. From Stanley Park’s seawall to Kitsil... + Read More
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Series: The Canadian Backwoods Colouring Book Paperback Ketha Newman 9780385689793 $16.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Dec 20, 2016

The lush beauty of Canada's wildlife and landscape is brought to life in a colouring book along with excerpts from the country's greatest writers.Featuring 40 gorgeous illustrations paired with excerpts from some of Canada's most beloved poets and writers, The Canadian Backwoods Colouring Book will satisfy all your colouring needs throughout the year. Beginning in January, this book will take you through each month and season, exploring the wildlife and landscapes that define Canada.
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Series: Split Tooth Paperback Tanya Tagaq 9780143198055 $19.99 FICTION Sep 24, 2019

A fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you’ve ever read from the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before.Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them.A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents’ love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral pow... + Read More
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Series: Parking the Moose One American's Epic Quest to Uncover His Incredible Canadian Roots Paperback Dave Hill 9780385690065 $21.00 HUMOR Jun 16, 2020

A quarter-Canadian from Cleveland explores his roots—and melts your face with joy.Most American children are taught that their country is the “best.” But this idea never stuck with Dave Hill, despite being born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His grandfather, you see, was from Canada. And every Sunday at dinner he’d remind Dave and anyone else within earshot that it was in fact Canada, this magical and mysterious land just across the mighty Lake Erie, that was the “best.”So while Dave’s peers kept busy with football and baseball, Dave got into h... + Read More
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Series: Rez Rules My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples Hardcover Chief Clarence Louie 9780771048333 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 16, 2021

A common-sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like as told through the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader.In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four decades. The story of how the Osoyoos Indian Band—“The Miracle in the Desert”—transformed from a Rez that once struggled with poverty into an economically independent people is well-known. Guided by his y... + Read More
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Series: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground Paperback Alicia Elliott 9780385692403 $21.00 HISTORY Jun 02, 2020

Finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction#1 National BestsellerA bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and unde... + Read More
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Series: The Skin We're In A Year of Black Resistance and Power Hardcover Desmond Cole 9780385686341 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 28, 2020

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates, a bracing, provocative and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada’s most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We’re In will spark a national conversation, influence policy and inspire activists.In May 2015, the cover story of Toronto Life magazine shook Canada’s largest city to its core. Desmond Cole’s “The Skin I’m In” exposed the racist practices of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times Cole had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice... + 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: Canoe Country The Making of Canada Paperback Roy MacGregor 9780307361424 $24.00 HISTORY May 10, 2016

One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author’s family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country is Roy MacGregor’s celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadi... + Read More
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Series: The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated A Curious Account of Native People in North America Hardcover Thomas King 9780385690164 $45.00 HISTORY Oct 17, 2017

An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work.“Every Canadian should read [this] book.” —Toronto StarSince its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Native and Indigenous people in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. This new, provocatively illustrated editi... + Read More
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Series: The Company The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire Paperback Stephen Bown 9780385694094 $24.95 HISTORY Oct 26, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZEA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s origins.The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown’s exciting new telling.The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handf... + Read More
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Series: Son of a Critch A Childish Newfoundland Memoir Paperback Mark Critch 9780735235083 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 26, 2020

**Soon to be a TV series**From This Hour Has 22 Minutes anchor and “roving reporter” Mark Critch, a hilarious story of family, getting into trouble, and finding one’s place in the world.What could be better than growing up in the 1980s? How about growing up in 1980s Newfoundland, which—as Mark Critch will tell you—was more like the 1960s. Take a trip to where it all began in this funny and warm look back on his formative years.Here we find a young Mark trick-or-treating at a used car lot, getting locked out of school on a fourth-floor window le... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Wit, Wisdom & Humour The Complete Collection of Canadian Jokes, One-Liners & Witty Sayings Paperback Gerd De Ley 9781578267200 $15.00 HUMOR Dec 26, 2017

Canadian Wit, Wisdom & Humour collects the very best of humorous quotes, witty observations and funny one-liners from famous--and not-so-famous--Canadians. Collecting over 1000 of the wittiest remarks, deepest thoughts and side-splitting one-liners ever attributed to a Canuck, Canadian Wit, Wisdom & Humour features those writers, actors, comedians, politicians, and personalities that best represent the nation of Canada, including Margaret Atwood, Pierre Légaré, O.A. Battista, Norm McDonald, Mike Myers, Jim Carrey and many, many more!
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Series: An Embarrassment of Critch's Immature Stories From My Grown-Up Life Hardcover Mark Critch 9780735235090 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 05, 2021

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR*The heartfelt and hilarious story of beloved Canadian comedian Mark Critch’s journey from Newfoundland to the national stage—and back home again.One of Mark Critch’s earliest acting gigs was in a Newfoundland tourist production alongside a cast of displaced fishery workers. Since then, he’s found increasing opportunities to take his show on the road. In An Embarrassment of Critch’s, the star of CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes revisits some of his career’s—and the country’s—biggest moments... + Read More
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Series: Magnetic North Imagining Canada in Painting 1910—1940 Hardcover Martina Weinhart 9783791359946 $79.00 ART May 04, 2021

This book reveals the magnificent landscape paintings of the Group of Seven and their associates and explores how they contributed to Canada’s modern cultural identity.The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in British Columbia, desired to create a new painting vocabulary for the young nation coming into its own cultural identity. They turned a... + Read More
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Series: Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities Paperback Paul Seesequasis 9780735273313 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 22, 2019

A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs—a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis’s popular social media project.In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system. He sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother, herself a residential school survivor. Gradually, Paul realized that another, ... + Read More
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Series: The Flame Poems and Selections From Notebooks Paperback Leonard Cohen 9780771024443 $22.00 POETRY Nov 05, 2019

The instant #1 national bestselling final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada’s most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved throughout the world.The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen’s last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life. Featuring lyrics, prose pieces, and illustrations, the book also contains an extensive selection from Cohen’s notebooks, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look in... + Read More
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Series: Pocket Travel Guide DK Eyewitness Top 10 Vancouver and Vancouver Island Paperback DK Eyewitness 9780241566046 $19.99 TRAVEL Jul 19, 2022

Beautifully situated between the ocean and picturesque mountains, Vancouver offers the cultural vibrancy of a modern metropolis, and the opportunity to enjoy the breathtaking rugged coastline and wilderness of nearby Vancouver Island.Make the most of your trip to this coastal city with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Vancouver and Vancouver Island have to offer and ensuring that you don’t miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the p... + Read More
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Series: A History of My Brief Body Paperback Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237803 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 2021

Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Prize for NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That ProvokesFinalist for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction PrizeNATIONAL BESTSELLERA slim but electrifying debut memoir about the preciousness and precariousness of queer Indigenous life.Opening with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life on the Driftpile First Nation, Billy-Ray Belcourt delivers a searing account of Indigenous life that’s part love letter, part rallying cry.With the... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Healing Exploring Traditional Paths Paperback Rupert Ross 9780143191100 $24.00 HISTORY May 20, 2014

Imagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine seeing yourself not as a master of Creation, but as the most humble, dependent and vulnerable part. Rupert Ross explores this indigenous world view and the determination of indigenous thinkers to restore it to full prominence today. He comes to understand that an appreciation of this perspective is vital to understanding the destructive forces o... + Read More
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Series: Travel Guide DK Eyewitness Canada Paperback DK Eyewitness 9780241472156 $33.99 TRAVEL Jul 19, 2022

Unimaginably large, Canada’s untamed wilderness consists of shimmering glaciers, dramatic ocean vistas, and forests of fiery maple trees. Urban Canada also offers plenty to explore, from the dynamic buzz of Vancouver to the gleaming skyscrapers of Toronto.Whether you want to hike along exhilarating trails beneath snowy peaks, paddle a canoe on backcountry rivers, or head to the Arctic for the greatest light show on earth, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Canada has to offer. Our updated guide brings Canada to l... + Read More
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Series: Our Story Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past Paperback Thomas King 9780385660761 $21.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2005

Our Story is both a beautifully packaged and important contribution to the telling of Canadian history.Now in paperback, a collection of original stories written by some of the country’s most celebrated Aboriginal writers and inspired by pivotal events in the country’s history.
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Series: Forever Terry A Legacy in Letters Hardcover Darrell Fox 9780735240698 $29.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERTerry Fox defined perseverance and hope for a generation of Canadians. Forty years after Terry’s run ended, Forever Terry reflects what Terry’s legacy means to us now, and in the future.To mark the 40th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope, Forever Terry: A Legacy in Letters recounts the inspiration, dedication, and perseverance that Terry Fox embodied, and gives voice to an icon whose example spoke much louder than his words. Comprising 40 letters from 40 contributors, and edited by Terry’s younger brother Darrell on behalf o... + Read More
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Series: Original Highways Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada Paperback Roy MacGregor 9780307361394 $21.00 HISTORY May 08, 2018

Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Canada’s great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our country through the stories of its original highways, and how they sustain our spirit, identity and economy—past, present and future.No country is more blessed with fresh water than Canada. From the mouth of the Fraser River in BC, to the Bow in Alberta, the Red in Manitoba, the Gatineau, the Saint John and the most historic of all Canada’s rivers, the St. Lawrence, our beloved chronicler of C... + Read More
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Series: How To Do Everything (From the Man Who Should Know) Paperback Red Green 9780385667753 $22.00 HUMOR Sep 06, 2011

It may not be great literature—but at least it’s handy.It’s a DIY book. It’s a self-help book. It is completely and absolutely exhaustive. And its author is the mastemind behind and at the front of The Red Green Show. All in all, it’s going to change your life. You have been warned.
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Series: A Newfoundlander in Canada Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home Paperback Alan Doyle 9780385686211 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 16, 2018

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time.Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island.Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with bro... + Read More
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Series: A Short History of Canada Seventh Edition Paperback Desmond Morton 9780771060021 $25.00 HISTORY Aug 29, 2017

A fully updated edition of the Canadian classic.Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this expanded, seventh edition of A Short History of Canada, readers need look no further.Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most highly respected historians, is keenly aware of the ways in which our past informs the present, and in one compact and engrossing volume, he pulls off the remarkab... + Read More
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Series: The Fight for History 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War Paperback Tim Cook 9780735238374 $25.00 HISTORY Oct 05, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country’s emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of Ameri... + Read More
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Series: Peace and Good Order The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada Hardcover Harold R. Johnson 9780771048722 $25.00 HISTORY Sep 24, 2019

An urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson.“The night of the decision in the Gerald Stanley trial for the murder of Colten Boushie, I received a text message from a retired provincial court judge. He was feeling ashamed for his time in a system that was so badly tilted. I too feel this way about my time as both defence counsel and as a Crown prosecutor; that I didn’t have the courage to stand... + Read More
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Series: If I Knew Then Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging Paperback Jann Arden 9780735279995 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 15, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERJann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying t... + Read More
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Series: Rick Mercer Final Report Paperback Rick Mercer 9780385692496 $22.00 HUMOR Oct 22, 2019

Including even more rants, Canada’s pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in this #1 national bestseller.Rick Mercer can always be relied on to provoke a strong reaction—but what he said one fall day in 2017 truly shocked the nation. In a rant posted on social media, the great Canadian satirist announced loud and clear that the current, 15th season of the Rick Mercer Report—the nation’s best-watched and best-loved comedy show—would be the last. This volume brings together never-before-published ... + Read More
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Series: Ingenious How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier Hardcover David Johnston 9780771050916 $40.00 HISTORY Mar 28, 2017

To celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday, His Excellency David Johnston and Tom Jenkins have crafted a richly illustrated volume of brilliant Canadian innovations whose widespread adoption has made the world a better place. From Bovril to Blackberrys, lightbulbs to liquid helium, peanut butter to Pablum, this is a surprising and incredibly varied collection to make Canadians proud, and to our unique entrepreneurial spirit.Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces—insight, necessity, and simple luck. Ingenious moves th... + Read More