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Series: Lurch Paperback Don McKay 9780771057854 $19.95 POETRY Aug 03, 2021

“[McKay’s] exuberantly musical and shrewd poems are ecological in the fullest sense of the word: they seek to elucidate our relationships with our fragile dwelling places both on the earth and in our own skins.”—New York Times Book ReviewAn extraordinary collection of poems from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Don McKay.Old joke: “What’s the difference between a lurch and a dance step?”“I don’t know.”“I didn’t think so. Let’s sit down.”These poems are what happens when you stay out on the dance floor instead, dancing the staggers. The full moon ris... + Read More
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Series: Missed Connections A Memoir in Letters Never Sent Paperback Brian Francis 9780771038143 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 17, 2021

An entertaining and moving memoir about coming out, looking inwards, and the search for connection, inspired by the responses to a personal ad. A Loan Stars Top 10 Pick of the Month and one of Daily Hive’s 10 Essential LGBTQ2+ Books to Celebrate Pride. In 1992, Brian Francis placed a personal ad in a local newspaper. He was a twenty-one-year-old university student, still very much in the closet, and looking for love. He received twenty-five responses, but there were thirteen letters that went unanswered and spent years tucked away, forgotten, i... + Read More
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Series: The Most Precious Substance on Earth Paperback Shashi Bhat 9780771094965 $24.95 FICTION Aug 24, 2021

A humorous coming-of-age novel and a sharp-edged look at how silence can shape a life, from the winner of the Journey Prize. A Chatelaine Summer Reads pick. Named one of the most anticipated books of the fall by CBC Books and 49th Shelf.“But wait, what happened to the girl?” “I don’t know,” I say. I don’t tell him that what will happen to her is what happens to every girl.Nina, a bright, hilarious, and sensitive 14-year-old, doesn’t say anything when her best friend begins to pull away, or when her crush on her English teacher intensifies. S... + Read More
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Series: Operation Angus A Novel Paperback Terry Fallis 9780771094729 $22.00 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

From bestselling author Terry Fallis comes the long-awaited follow-up to The Best Laid Plans and The High Road—a comic spy story that heralds the return of Angus McLintock.Angus McLintock, accidental Member of Parliament, has won re-election and is now the Minister of State for International Relations—or, in other words, he’s the junior global affairs minister. In this new post, he and his trusty Chief of Staff, Daniel Addison, are in London to meet with their international counterparts to discuss the upcoming G8 Summit in Washington. Unfortuna... + Read More
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Series: The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity Hardcover David Graeber 9780771049828 $39.95 HISTORY Oct 19, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRenowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of “the state,” political violence, and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either f... + Read More
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Series: On Freedom Four Songs of Care and Constraint Hardcover Maggie Nelson 9780771051234 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 07, 2021

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom’s long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.Drawing on a vast range of material, ... + Read More
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Series: August into Winter A Novel Hardcover Guy Vanderhaeghe 9780771070556 $34.95 FICTION Sep 14, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General’s Award‒winning author of The Last Crossing, August Into Winter is an epic story of crime and retribution, of war and its long shadow, and of the redemptive possibilities of love.You carried the past into the future on your back, its knees and arms hugging you tighter with every step.It is 1939, with the world on the brink of global war, when Constable Hotchkiss confronts the spoiled, narcissistic man-child Ernie Sickert about a rash of disturbing pranks ... + Read More
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Series: The Dark Remains A Novel Hardcover William McIlvanney 9780771025044 $32.95 FICTION Sep 21, 2021

In this scorching crime collaboration, bestselling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective.Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he’s dead and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful friends, Carter’s left behind his share of enemies. So, who dealt the fatal blow?DC Jack Laidlaw’s reputation precedes him. He’s not a team player, but he’s got a sixth sense for what’... + Read More
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Series: The Magician A Novel Hardcover Colm Toibin 9780771096174 $36.00 FICTION Sep 28, 2021

From the internationally bestselling author of Brooklyn and The Master comes the novel of a lifetime, Colm Tóibín’s most dazzling and ambitious book yet. When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, that had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his flawed vision will form the beginning of a dark and complex relationship with his homeland, and ... + Read More
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Series: Nothing But the Truth A Memoir Hardcover Marie Henein 9780771039348 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 28, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn intimate and no-holds-barred memoir by Canada’s top defence lawyer, Nothing But the Truth weaves Marie Henein’s personal story with her strongly held views on society’s most pressing issues, legal and otherwise.With Nothing But the Truth, Marie Henein, arguably the most sought-after lawyer in the country, has written a memoir that is at once raw, beautiful, and altogether unforgettable. Her story, as an immigrant from a tightknit Egyptian-Lebanese family, demonstrates the value of strong role models—from her mother and gra... + Read More
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Series: Operation Jubilee Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice Hardcover Patrick Bishop 9780771096662 $36.00 HISTORY Oct 19, 2021

In the tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other bestselling World War Two historians, a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942.On the moonless night of August 18th 1942 a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least twenty-four hours, showing the Soviets the Allies were serious about a second front and to get experience ahead of a full-scale invasion. But confidence turned to carnage with nearly two thirds of the attackers dead, w... + Read More
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Series: Winter Recipes from the Collective Hardcover Louise Gluck 9780771096709 $29.95 POETRY Oct 19, 2021

The dazzling new collection from the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.Louise Glück’s work consistently draws on her own experience, looking for the common threads in it that render it universal. Her poems are not confessional, they are mythic. In Winter Recipes from the Collective, she starts with the dying and death of a near relation to create an indelible group of characters who act in poems that touch on the family romance, loss, art, and immortality. Her poems are so powerful because her portrayal of experience reminds us so tr... + Read More
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Series: Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 The Pillars of Civilization Paperback Yuval Noah Harari 9780771000256 $29.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 26, 2021

Volume two of Sapiens: A Graphic History: the epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari’s internationally bestselling phenomenon.Twelve thousand years ago, we humans fell into a trap. Volume II of Sapiens: A Graphic History tells the story of how we took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition.Sound sombre? Not with this cast of entertaining characters, returnin... + Read More
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Series: Burning Boy The Life and Work of Stephen Crane Hardcover Paul Auster 9780771096921 $45.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 26, 2021

From Booker Prize–shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster, a landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Cr... + Read More
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Series: The Spirits Up A Novel Paperback Todd Babiak 9780771096242 $22.95 FICTION Oct 26, 2021

Warm, witty, and unsettling all at once, here is an unforgettable story of a family desperate for something to believe in.Benedict is an inventor whose life’s work is a clean energy machine. It has just made him an overnight sensation and his family is suddenly wealthy. Benedict’s wife, Karen, and his teenage daughters, Charlotte and Poppy, are proud of him. But there are problems Benedict is too busy to see: Karen is deeply unhappy in the marriage and contemplating an affair, Charlotte, who is dealing with a chronic illness, is growing more an... + Read More
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Series: Letters of Note Letters of Note: Dogs Paperback Shaun Usher 9780771049750 $14.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 02, 2021

A charming collection of letters celebrating our beloved companions curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name—an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II’s recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; ... + Read More
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Series: Letters of Note: Grief Paperback Shaun Usher 9780771099472 $14.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 08, 2022

An immensely moving collection of letters on the theme of Grief, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name—an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II’s recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; fro... + Read More
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Series: Letters of Note Letters of Note: Sex Paperback Shaun Usher 9780771049712 $14.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 02, 2021

A surprising and varied collection of letters on the subject of sex curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name—an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II’s recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; ... + Read More
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Series: Letters of Note Letters of Note: New York City Paperback Shaun Usher 9780771049699 $14.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 02, 2021

An illuminating and energetic collection of letters about New York City curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name—an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II’s recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhow... + Read More
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Series: Letters of Note Letters of Note: Space Paperback Shaun Usher 9780771049736 $14.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 02, 2021

An awe-inspiring collection of letters on the subject of outer space curated by the founder of the phenomenally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name—an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II’s recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenho... + 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: We A Novel Paperback Yevgeny Zamyatin 9780771050220 $22.00 FICTION Nov 16, 2021

A radical new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood.One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And Chief Engineer D-503 is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex, and freedom.A foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for ... + Read More
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Series: A Hero of Our Time A Novel Paperback Naben Ruthnum 9780771096501 $22.00 FICTION Jan 11, 2022

A wry comic novel with an acerbic wit, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity.Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinson’s quest for corporate domination at AAP, an edutech startup determined to automate higher education.Osman, obsessed by Olivia’s ability to successfully disguise ambition and self-interest as collectivist diversity politics, is bent on exposing her. Aided by his colleague turned comrade-in-arms Nena, who loathe... + Read More