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Series: Not on My Watch How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon Hardcover Alexandra Morton 9780735279667 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

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. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brain... + Read More
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Series: Lookout Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest Hardcover Trina Moyles 9780735279919 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A page-turning memoir about a young woman’s grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers—strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. “I could never do it,” s... + Read More
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Series: Values Building a Better World for All Hardcover Mark Carney 9780771051555 $39.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values.Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems ... + Read More
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Series: Food Between Friends A Cookbook Hardcover Jesse Tyler Ferguson 9780593136539 $42.00 COOKING Mar 09, 2021

In best-friend duo Jesse and Julie’s debut cookbook, they pay homage to their hometowns as they whip up wholesome California food with rich Southern and Southwestern twists.If you follow Jesse Tyler Ferguson, star of Modern Family, on Instagram, you know that he loves to cook. He loves it so much that he co-founded a food blog, Julie & Jesse, with friend and culinary school-trained recipe developer Julie Tanous where they share their favorite recipes.In Food Between Friends, they bring the blog to life, cooking up all the delightful dishes they... + Read More
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Series: The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes [A Cookbook] Paperback Sam Sifton 9781984858474 $37.00 COOKING Mar 16, 2021

The debut cookbook from the popular New York Times website and mobile app NYT Cooking, featuring 100 vividly photographed No-Recipe Recipes to make weeknight pantry cooking more inspired and delicious.Sam Sifton, an assistant managing editor of The New York Times and founding editor of NYT Cooking, has inspired millions of home cooks with his informal, improvisational No-Recipe Recipes, published in his beloved regular newsletter, “What to Cook.” Sifton’s argument is a simple one: Cooking with a freeform recipe is a kitchen skill every home coo... + Read More
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Series: Half Life Paperback Krista Foss 9780771036491 $24.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A raw, absorbing, tender, and witty novel about a woman’s long-overdue reckoning with memory, truth, and the multiverse of familial love.Elin Henriksen is a middle-aged single parent under pressure. Her formidable mother’s health is declining, her fearless teenage daughter wants to leave but won’t say where, and the new high school principal has problems with her unorthodox teaching of physics.And then there is the upcoming ceremony at the Art Museum. In ten days, a gallery will be named after her late father, Tig Henriksen, a modernist furnitu... + Read More
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Series: Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy Hardcover Gary Barwin 9780735279520 $32.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he’s lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world o... + Read More
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Series: Satellite Love A Novel Paperback Genki Ferguson 9780771049873 $24.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads and now a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. Named CBC Radio’s Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title, a Shelf Life Books Book of the Month, a Toronto Life and Nikkei Voice summer read recommendation, one of Daily Hive’s 10 Essential Reads to Cel... + Read More
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Series: How Beautiful We Were A Novel Hardcover Imbolo Mbue 9780593132425 $37.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.We should have known the end was near.So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promi... + Read More
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Series: A Funny Kind of Paradise Paperback Jo Owens 9780735278820 $22.95 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman’s end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed—she wasn’t always gentle or patient, but the business thrived and Chris and Angelina had food to eat. At nearly 70, she feels she’s earned a peaceful retirement. But when a massive stroke leaves her voiceless, partially paralyzed a... + Read More
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Series: Hooked Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Hardcover Michael Moss 9780771059599 $32.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 02, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Salt Sugar Fat, the troubling story of how food companies have exploited our most fundamental evolutionary instincts to get us hooked on processed foods.Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began sear... + Read More
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Series: Neglected No More The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic Paperback Andre Picard 9780735282247 $19.95 MEDICAL Mar 02, 2021

A NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYIt took the coronavirus pandemic to open our eyes to the deplorable state of so many of the nation’s long-term care homes: the inhumane conditions, overworked and underpaid staff, and lack of oversight. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and offers an urgently needed prescription to fix a broken system.When COVID-19 spread through seniors’ residences across Canada, the impact was horrific. Alo... + Read More
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Series: sulphurtongue Paperback Rebecca Salazar 9780771094699 $19.95 POETRY Mar 23, 2021

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide.GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY, FINALIST PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD, SHORTLISTJ. M. ABRAHAM ATLANTIC POETRY AWARD, SHORTLIST GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD, LONGLISTThe poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant family scatters over a stolen continent. Oracles appear in public transit, and online. Bodies are transformed by nearby nickel mines. Do... + Read More
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Series: Remember The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting Hardcover Lisa Genova 9780593137956 $35.99 PSYCHOLOGY Mar 23, 2021

A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice.Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can’t for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you’re over forty, you’re probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sig... + Read More
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Series: The Soul of a Woman Hardcover Isabel Allende 9780593355626 $29.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2021

A passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea.“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have.As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of f... + Read More
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Series: Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe Four Weeks that Shaped a Pandemic Hardcover Dr. Bonnie Henry 9780735241855 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 09, 2021

From the BC doctor who has become a household name for leading the response to the pandemic, a personal account of the first weeks of COVID, for readers of Sam Nutt’s Damned Nations and James Maskalyk’s Life on the Ground Floor.Dr. Bonnie Henry has been called “one of the most effective public health figures in the world” by The New York Times. She has been called “a calming voice in a sea of coronavirus madness,” and “our hero” in national newspapers. But in the waning days of 2019, when the first rumours of a strange respiratory ailment in Wu... + Read More
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Series: Recollections of My Nonexistence A Memoir Paperback Rebecca Solnit 9780593083345 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 09, 2021

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silentIn Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in ... + Read More
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Series: The Bright Side Twelve Months, Three Heartbreaks, and One (Maybe) Miracle Paperback Cathrin Bradbury 9780735239388 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

“Anyone who has had their life completely gutted and rewired will adore this family story. Bradbury’s dark humour and gloriously upbeat voice makes it the perfect antidote to a tough year. I loved it!”—Plum Johnson, author of They Left Us EverythingThe hilarious and moving story of how a modern woman’s life can change utterly in a single year—and how, even when life whacks you in the head, you can find yourself rewarded with grace.Cathrin Bradbury’s life imploded in the space of a few months. Her beloved parents died, her marriage limped to an ... + Read More
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Series: Spirit Run A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land Paperback Noe Alvarez 9781646220533 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

In this New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this “stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas” (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author of The Long Run).Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple–packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers condition... + Read More
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Series: hot for food all day easy recipes to level up your vegan meals [A Cookbook] Paperback Lauren Toyota 9780735239142 $29.95 COOKING Mar 16, 2021

More than 100 utterly simple, crazy-delicious vegan recipes that satisfy cravings all day, everyday, from vegan YouTube guru and bestselling author of Vegan Comfort Classics Lauren Toyota.Lauren Toyota’s hot for food has become the go-to source online for flavorful, vegan comfort food recipes like Cheeseburger Pasta Salad and Oyster Mushroom Calamari. But let’s face it—epic vegan food can take work. So in hot for food all day, Lauren collects her simplest, tastiest recipes, for the quickest weeknight meals, easy work lunches, and satisfying bre... + Read More
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Series: Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer A Novel Hardcover Jamie Figueroa 9781948226882 $33.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award A fableistic, “beautifully crafted, poetic” debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (The New York Times Book Review).In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother’s passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make en... + Read More
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Series: Cosmogony Stories Paperback Lucy Ives 9781593765996 $23.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

An energetic, witty collection of stories where the supernatural meets the anomalies of everyday life—deception, infidelity, lost cats, cute memes, amateur pornography, and more.There are analogies between being female and being left-handed, I think, or being an animal.A woman answers a Craigslist ad (to write erotic diaries for money). A woman walks onto a tennis court (from her home at the bottom of the ocean). A woman goes to the supermarket and meets a friend’s husband (who happens to be an immortal demon). A woman goes for a run (and accid... + Read More
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Series: My Heart A Novel Hardcover Semezdin Mehmedinovic 9781646220076 $35.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Intelligent, honest, and full of heart,” My Heart is an intimate work of autobiographical fiction by one of ex-Yugoslavia’s greatest writers about his family’s experience as refugees from the Bosnian war—a timeless story of love, memory, and the resilience of the human spirit that “has all the qualities one might seek in a friend” (Etgar Keret, author of The Seven Goods Years).“Today, it seems, was the day I was meant to die.” When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront... + Read More
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Series: Speak, Silence Hardcover Kim Echlin 9780735240612 $29.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

WINNER OF THE 2021 TORONTO BOOK AWARDNOMINATED FOR THE 2022 EVERGREEN AWARDFrom the internationally bestselling and Giller-shortlisted author of The Disappeared, an astounding, poetic novel about war and loss, suffering and courage, and the strength of women through it all.It’s been eleven years since Gota has seen Kosmos, yet she still finds herself fantasizing about their intimate year together in Paris. Now it’s 1999 and, working as a journalist, she hears about a film festival in Sarajevo, where she knows Kosmos will be with his theatre com... + Read More
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Series: The Performance A Novel Hardcover Claire Thomas 9780593329160 $35.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything.One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over.Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at ... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Longings A Novel Paperback Sue Monk Kidd 9780143111399 $23.00 FICTION Mar 23, 2021

An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of WingsIn her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engag... + Read More
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Series: Under the Rainbow A Novel Paperback Celia Laskey 9780525536178 $23.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel.Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values-or keeps their opinions to themselves. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr “the most homophobic town in the US” and sends in a task force of queer volunteers as an experiment-they’ll live and work in the community for two years in an attempt to broaden hearts and minds-no... + Read More
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Series: Dusk, Night, Dawn On Revival and Courage Hardcover Anne Lamott 9780593189696 $27.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 02, 2021

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.”—Chicago TribuneFrom the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives.In Dusk Night Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad newspiles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back…with our... + Read More
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Series: How to Be Animal A New History of What It Means to Be Human Paperback Melanie Challenger 9780735238121 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 23, 2021

What makes us human, and why are we so sure we’re different from other animals?Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal rewrites the remarkable human story and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal.Most of our effects on the planet are the consequences of technological improvements and advances in our understanding of natural mechanisms. But why did this cognitive and technologi... + Read More
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Series: We Are the Weather Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast Paperback Jonathan Safran Foer 9780735233096 $22.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2021

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES and THE GUARDIANIn We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t beli... + Read More
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Series: The Trickster trilogy Return of the Trickster Hardcover Eden Robinson 9780735273467 $32.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY CBC BOOKS AND THE GLOBE AND MAILIn the third book of her brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, Eden Robinson delivers an explosive, surprising and satisfying resolution to the story.All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom’s old... + Read More
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Series: Klara and the Sun Hardcover Kazuo Ishiguro 9780735281240 $34.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, THE GUARDIAN, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE TIMES (UK), VULTURE, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, AND BOOKRIOTON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LISTThe magnificent new novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.“The Sun always has ways to reach us.”From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observ... + Read More
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Series: Later Paperback Stephen King 9781789096491 $19.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

“Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” —The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn wha... + Read More
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Series: Hidden Valley Road Inside the Mind of an American Family Paperback Robert Kolker 9780735274471 $23.00 PSYCHOLOGY Mar 02, 2021

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGLOBE AND MAIL and TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER“Hidden Valley Road is a riveting true story of an American family that reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness.”—Oprah WinfreyThe heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand—even cure—the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the dream. After World War II, ... + Read More
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Series: The Relatives A Novel Hardcover Camilla Gibb 9780385678094 $29.95 FICTION Mar 23, 2021

From the renowned author of Sweetness in the Belly, The Beauty of Humanity Movement and This Is Happy, comes a bold, urgent and richly imagined novel about what it means to be a family in our modern world.Lila is on a long, painful journey toward motherhood. Tess and Emily are reeling after their ugly separation and fighting over ownership of the embryos that were supposed to grow their family together. And thousands of miles away, the unknown man who served as anonymous donor to them all is being held in captivity in Somalia. While his life re... + Read More
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Series: Dirt Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French cooking Paperback Bill Buford 9780525611264 $22.00 COOKING Mar 30, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA MACLEAN’S SUMMER READA highly obsessive, hilariously self-deprecating account of the world of French haute cuisine, from the author of the best-selling modern classic, Heat.In Dirt, Bill Buford—author of the bestselling, now-classic, Heat—moves his attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, determined that he can master the art of French cooking—or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered—Buford begins what will become a five-year odyssey by shadowing the revered French chef Mic... + Read More
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Series: Detective Varg Series The Talented Mr. Varg A Detective Varg Novel (2) Paperback Alexander McCall Smith 9780735280090 $21.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

In the second installment of the bestselling Detective Varg novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious philanderer—a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may be all bark and no bite.The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and insignificant cases, is always prepared to commit to an investigation, no matter how complex. So when the girlfriend of an infamous author decides her bad boy beau is being blackmailed, she approaches the department for help. The department’s lead detective Ulf Varg takes the case. H... + Read More
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Series: The Bedside Book of Birds An Avian Miscellany Hardcover Graeme Gibson 9780385696944 $48.00 NATURE Mar 30, 2021

In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson offers an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.From the Aztec plumed serpent to the Christian dove to Plato’s vision of the human soul growing wings, religion and philosophy use birds to represent our aspirational selves. Winged creatures appear in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as Ovid, Thoreau, and T. S. Eliot. They’ve been omens, allegories, and guides; they’ve been worshipped... + Read More
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Series: My Mother's Daughter A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph Hardcover Perdita Felicien 9780385689960 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together.Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation’s hopes: she carried her mother’s dreams.In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she’s also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it’s her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to b... + Read More
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Series: Before My Time A Memoir of Love and Fate Paperback Ami McKay 9780345809476 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE ROBBIE ROBERTSON DARTMOUTH BOOK AWARD and the EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARDPreviously published as Daughter of Family GWeaving together touching scenes from her family history and her own life, Ami McKay’s intimate and captivating memoir captures what it means to live fully even when you know your life may be cut short.In 1895, Ami McKay’s great-great aunt, a dressmaker named Pauline Gross, confided to a medical professor that she expected to die young, like many in her family before her. With her help, th... + Read More
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Series: The Beauty of Living Twice Hardcover Sharon Stone 9780525656760 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose. • “Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doe... + Read More
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Series: Sheet Pan Everything Deliciously Simple One-Pan Recipes Hardcover Ricardo Larrivee 9780525610519 $30.00 COOKING Mar 16, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe simplest way to get a no-fuss delicious dinner on the table? The sheet pan!In the latest cookbook from Ricardo and team, you will find fuss-free, one-pan recipes the whole family will enjoy. Worried about what to make for dinner after a long busy workday? Take the stress out of cooking with these one-pan recipes! Lacking inspiration for flavorful meals the whole family will enjoy? Let the sheet pan be the hero of your every meal! Love cooking, but hate cleaning up? Sheet pan meals are easy to make, and even easier to cle... + Read More
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Series: Fast Easy Cheap Vegan 101 Recipes You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less, for $10 or Less, and with 10 Ingredients or Less! Paperback Sam Turnbull 9780525610854 $29.95 COOKING Mar 30, 2021

From Sam Turnbull, the bestselling author of Fuss-Free Vegan, and creator of the blog It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken, comes her eagerly awaited second cookbook. She is cooking up even simpler vegan comfort food—on a budget, with fewer ingredients, and in 30 minutes or less!Some people think that a vegan diet can be too time-consuming, too much work, and too expensive! In Sam Turnbull’s Fast Easy Cheap Vegan, she’s busting those myths and showing us just how simple (with 10 ingredients or fewer), inexpensive (for $10 or less), and quick (in 30 mi... + Read More
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Series: Tyll A Novel Paperback Daniel Kehlmann 9780525562726 $22.95 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

From the internationally bestselling author of You Should Have Left and Measuring the World, a return to historical fiction in this transfixing retelling of the German myth of the trickster Tyll Eulenspiegel—a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to die.Daniel Kehlmann transposes the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century, weaving historical figures into an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a... + Read More
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Series: New Yorkers A City and Its People in Our Time Hardcover Craig Taylor 9780385681636 $39.95 HISTORY Mar 23, 2021

A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people—from the best-selling author of Londoners.In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city’s best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time—and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as “a peerless journalist... + Read More