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Series: Ghosts A Novel Paperback Dolly Alderton 9780385697255 $23.95 FICTION Aug 03, 2021

A smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says “I love you.”Nina Dean is not especially bothered that she’s single. She owns her own apartment, she’s about to publish her second book, she has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. And when she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: she meets a great guy on her first date. Max is handsome and... + Read More
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Series: The Second History Paperback Rebecca Silver Slayter 9780385694445 $24.95 FICTION Aug 03, 2021

A novel of haunting beauty and ominous suspense, The Second History is a post-apocalyptic love story about a young couple embarking on a journey to understand, for the first time, what they’ve been hiding from all their lives.Born in a barren, altered future world, Eban has lived in hiding all his life without ever understanding why. After his mother’s death, he retreated into the northern Appalachians with Judy, the only other woman he has ever known.But as the years passed and Judy suffered multiple miscarriages, she began to wonder what happ... + Read More
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Series: Once More, With Feeling Hardcover Sophie McCreesh 9780385696173 $25.00 FICTION Aug 24, 2021

Calling to mind smart, deadpan and unrepentant novels such as The New Me and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Sophie McCreesh’s distinctive and arresting debut novel is about a young woman veering towards self-destruction.Once More, With Feeling follows Jane, an artist navigating her closest relationships while fixating on her own perceived failures and self-imposed isolation. When Jane receives a student grant to attend a workshop in London, England, she sees the opportunity to leave her tedious life behind and start anew, bringing along her ne... + Read More
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Series: A Slow Fire Burning A Novel Hardcover Paula Hawkins 9780385689663 $35.00 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder and revenge.Look what you started. When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women in particular. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is the grief-stricken aunt, already mourning another family member who died only weeks earlier. And Miriam is the nosy neighbour who... + Read More
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Series: The War for Gloria Hardcover Atticus Lish 9780385689878 $34.95 FICTION Sep 07, 2021

From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life—a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy’s struggle to become a man.Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother’s needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs—at any cost.But when his father Leonard re-enters the picture, Corey’s beliefs—about honour and love, duty and ... + Read More
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Series: Snow Country Hardcover Sebastian Faulks 9780385687331 $36.00 FICTION Sep 07, 2021

The spectacular, sweeping new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Birdsong and Human Traces.Looking back to the Vienna of Klimt and Freud and forward to the shadow that is starting to fall over Europe, Sebastian Faulks’s new novel is an intensely personal story that focuses on Lena, a spirited girl born with nothing, and Anton, a man of passion and self-doubt.Lena was born with nothing but her own strength of character to an alcoholic mother in a small town in southern Austria in 1906. Anton is the restless son of a bourgeois fam... + Read More
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Series: Harlem Shuffle A Novel Hardcover Colson Whitehead 9780385693998 $36.00 FICTION Sep 14, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked….”To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver’s Row don’t approve of him or their cramped apartment ac... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Astonishment Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Hardcover Tomson Highway 9780385696203 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 28, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERCapricious, 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 night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails, and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teena... + Read More
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Series: All Over the Map Rambles and Ruminations from the Canadian Road Hardcover Ron James 9780385671132 $29.95 HUMOR Sep 28, 2021

Canada’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 sold 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 uproarious comedy.He sounds li... + Read More
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Series: The Audacity Hardcover Katherine Ryan 9780385696838 $32.95 HUMOR Sep 28, 2021

From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction.“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 sat eating pickles and being nice to some dogs. Whatever strangers think of me is fine with me. How audacious is that? I ... + Read More
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Series: The Survivors A Novel Hardcover Alex Schulman 9780385697347 $29.95 FICTION Oct 05, 2021

In the vein of The Dinner and Atonement, an instant international sensation sold in over 30 countries, in which three brothers confront the shattering childhood event that changed the course of their lives.In the wake their mother’s death, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where, over two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family. There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn’t escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And then there is Benja... + Read More
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Series: A Key to All Mythologies Crossroads A Novel Hardcover Jonathan Franzen 9780385693745 $37.00 FICTION Oct 05, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe highly anticipated new novel from one of our greatest living writers.It’s December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen o... + Read More
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Series: I Love You, Call Me Back Paperback Sabrina Benaim 9780385698641 $22.95 POETRY Oct 19, 2021

From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a poetry collection exploring themes of loneliness, anxiety and longing, while also celebrating the gifts that come with being alone—the chance to live on your own terms, to learn to love yourself without any distractions, and to become your own biggest champion.Over the past few years, Sabrina Benaim toured nonstop across North America and beyond in support of her first book, Depression & Other Magic Tricks, performing, connecting with readers, and leading writing workshops. People con... + Read More
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Series: Mother of Invention How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men Hardcover Katrine Marcal 9780385696807 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 19, 2021

An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias has skewed innovation, technology, history and work.It all starts with a rolling suitcase.The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because “real men” carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the ’70s, but they were ma... + Read More
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Series: Talking to Canadians A Memoir Hardcover Rick Mercer 9780385696234 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 02, 2021

Canada’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 thing, he’s been writing a com... + Read More
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Series: 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows A Memoir Hardcover Ai Weiwei 9780385683197 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 02, 2021

In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei—one of the world’s most famous artists and activists—tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation’s most celebrated poet.Hailed as “the most important artist working today” by the Financial Times and as “an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom” by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last 100 years while illuminating his artisti... + Read More
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Series: Murakami T The T-Shirts I Love Hardcover Haruki Murakami 9780385663311 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 23, 2021

TARGET CONSUMER: Haruki Murakami’s millions of fans; readers of Murakami’s The Strange Library, Absolutely on Music, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running; fashion lovers (particularly streetwear and Japanese street fashion).The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered “the world’s most popular cult novelist” (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami has written ... + Read More
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Series: All We Want Building the Life We Cannot Buy Hardcover Michael Harris 9780385695206 $26.00 SELF-HELP Dec 28, 2021

Our endless consumption is untenable. (And it makes us miserable, too.) Can we reimagine “the good life”?All We Want reveals the origin of consumer culture—from the early ad men who learned to foment desire, to the politicians that promised endless material growth. Then, award-winning author Michael Harris reveals powerful alternatives to the consumer story: the enduring worlds of Craft, the Sublime, and Care.Called “this generation’s McLuhan” (The Province), Harris has written a deeply personal book that’s part meditation and part manifesto. T... + Read More
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Series: Lost & Found Hardcover Kathryn Schulz 9780385693868 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 11, 2022

A Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer tells the story of losing her father and finding the love of her life in this profound meditation on grief and joy.Eighteen months before her beloved father died, Kathryn met Casey, the woman who would become her wife. Lost & Found weaves together their love story with Kathryn’s story of losing her father in a brilliant exploration of the way families are lost and found and the ways life dispenses wretchedness and suffering, beauty and grandeur all at once. So much has been written about loss—and Schu... + Read More
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Series: Outlander Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone A Novel Hardcover Diana Gabaldon 9780385685542 $45.00 FICTION Nov 23, 2021

The author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale.The past may seem the safest place to be…. But it is the most dangerous time to be alive….Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Having the family ... + Read More
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Series: Drums of Autumn (25th Anniversary Edition) Hardcover Diana Gabaldon 9780385675604 $58.00 FICTION Nov 02, 2021

A gorgeously designed collector’s edition of the fourth book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon’s sensational Outlander series, featuring exclusive bonus material to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its original publication.What if you knew someone you loved was going to die? What if you thought you could save them? How much would you risk to try? Claire Randall has gone to find Jamie Fraser, the man she loved more than life, and has left half her heart behind with their daughter, Brianna. Claire gave up Jamie to sa... + Read More
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Series: A Slow Fire Burning CD-Audio Paula Hawkins 9780385674942 $35.00 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYears ago someone lit a match…Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous.Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes doesn’t mean Laura is a killer. Bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.Carla is reeling from the brutal murder of her nephew. She trusts no one and no thing: good people are capa... + Read More