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Series: Where We Ate A Field Guide to Canada's Restaurants, Past and Present Hardcover Gabby Peyton 9780525611660 $36.00 COOKING Jun 06, 2023

“You’ve heard (and probably asked) this question a million times: ‘Where did you go for dinner?’” A love letter to 150 Canadian restaurants, and the stories and people behind them—from pre-Confederation to present day, from Victoria to St. John’s—here’s where we ate.What is Canadian cuisine? While cookbook authors and historians have spent decades trying to answer this question, Canadian food isn’t summed up by one iconic dish, but rather a huge range of meals, flavours, and cultural influences. It’s about the people who make our food, who cook... + Read More
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Series: Castle Rock Kitchen Wicked Good Recipes from the World of Stephen King [A Cookbook] Hardcover Theresa Carle-Sanders 9781984860026 $47.00 COOKING Oct 04, 2022

Explore 80 classic and modern recipes inspired by Stephen King’s Maine, featuring dishes from the books set in Castle Rock, Derry, and other fictional towns—with a foreword from the legendary author himself.Castle Rock Kitchen is an immersive culinary experience from the mouthwatering to the macabre, with gorgeous, moody photographs to transport Stephen King fans to kitchen tables, diners, and picnic blankets across Maine. Recipes ranging from drinks to dessert (and every course in-between) are inspired by meals and gatherings from the more tha... + Read More
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Series: Cook More, Waste Less Zero-Waste Recipes to Use Up Groceries, Tackle Food Scraps, and Transform Leftovers Paperback Christine Tizzard 9780525610656 $29.95 COOKING Sep 07, 2021

An indispensable cookbook of delicious, flexible recipes, and easy, everyday solutions to reduce the amount of food waste you produce—for life.THE STATS ON FOOD WASTE ARE STAGGERING: currently one-third of all the food produced in the world is thrown away. Going zero-waste with food isn’t some-thing we’ll reach overnight, nor is it a hard and fast rule; but it’s something we should all be moving towards—to help the environment, and our own wallets too!Cook More, Waste Less uses recipe icons to guide you, and shows you how, for example, to co... + Read More
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Series: Farm, Fire & Feast Recipes from the Inn at Bay Fortune Hardcover Michael Smith 9780735233843 $40.00 COOKING May 04, 2021

Chef Michael Smith shares the culinary master he has created at the Inn at Bay Fortune in this stunning collection of recipes inspired by the ingredients of Prince Edward Island, his passion for farming, and cooking with fire.Famous for its miles of beaches, lighthouses, farmland, and sea-food, Prince Edward Island is a destination for travelers and food lovers alike. Nestled on forty-six acres of land overlooking the picturesque Fortune River near the eastern tip of Prince Edward Island, the Inn at Bay Fortune is a leading five-star country in... + Read More
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Series: A Rising Tide A Cookbook of Recipes and Stories from Canada's Atlantic Coast Hardcover DL Acken 9780525610670 $40.00 COOKING Apr 27, 2021

AN INSTANT GLOBE & MAIL BESTSELLER! A beautiful journey through Canada’s Atlantic Coast—from the pastorals of Prince Edward Island to the wilds of Newfoundland—celebrating the region’s rich culinary community, and the innovative chefs and producers who make it.A Rising Tide is a love letter to the culinary renaissance of Canada’s Atlantic Coast written by DL Acken and Emily Lycopolus—both of whom grew up eating classic Atlantic Canadian dishes and spent months in the region exploring its burgeoning food scene. Whether you are discovering the Ea... + Read More
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Series: Oh She Glows Oh She Glows for Dinner Nourishing Plant-Based Meals to Keep You Glowing Hardcover Angela Liddon 9780735238190 $40.00 COOKING Oct 13, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAngela Liddon, author of The New York Times bestselling Oh She Glows cookbooks, returns to offer readers nourishing plant-based dinners bursting with layers of flavor.For more than a decade, Angela Liddon has been one of the biggest names in the healthy cooking blogosphere. Famous for her flavourful, creative, and whole foods approach to plant-based cooking, Angela’s recipes are beloved by all, whether you are vegan, plant-based curious, or simply looking to add more energizing ingredients to your meals without sacrificing an... + Read More
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Series: Real Food, Real Good Eat Well With Over 100 of My Simple, Wholesome Recipes: A Cookbook Paperback Michael Smith 9780143192190 $32.00 COOKING Sep 06, 2016

Award-winning and bestselling author of Make Ahead Meals, Chef Michael Smith keeps cooking real with over 100 simple recipes packed with healthy, wholesome ingredientsReal food is easy to make, delicious, and good for you. Michael Smith, a passionate advocate for healthy homemade meals enjoyed around the kitchen table, knows what it takes to keep cooking simple and chock-full of natural, wholesome ingredients. In Real Food, Real Good, Michael shares more than 100 brand-new recipes with ingredients that are great choices for a healthy lifestyl... + Read More
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Series: Oh She Glows Oh She Glows Every Day Quick and Simply Satisfying Plant-Based Recipes Paperback Angela Liddon 9780143196518 $32.00 COOKING Sep 03, 2016

Angela Liddon’s eagerly awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Oh She Glows Cookbook features more than 100 quick and easy whole-foods- and plant-based recipes to keep you glowing every day of the yearAngela Liddon’s irresistible and foolproof recipes have become the gold standard for plant-based cooking. Her phenomenally popular blog and New York Times-bestselling debut, The Oh She Glows Cookbook, have amassed millions of fans eager for her latest collection of creative and accessible recipes. Now, in this highly anticipated fo... + Read More
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Series: Make Ahead Meals Over 100 Easy Time-Saving Recipes: A Cookbook Paperback Michael Smith 9780143192169 $32.00 COOKING Sep 01, 2015

Feeling the dinner-time crunch? Get a jump start on cooking with these easy, time-saving recipes.Life is busy and sometimes it’s a challenge to get a healthy home cooked meal on the table when you need it. Want to avoid the time pressure of cooking from scratch every day? Looking for fresh ways to save time in the kitchen and still turn out great-tasting meals? Michael Smith knows what you are up against and is here to help you keep time on your side in the kitchen! Make Ahead Meals is packed with over 100 time-saving recipes, including so... + Read More
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Series: Brown Eggs and Jam Jars Family Recipes from the Kitchen of Simple Bites: A Cookbook Paperback Aimee Wimbush-Bourque 9780143190509 $32.95 COOKING Feb 10, 2015

Aimée’s rural homestead upbringing, years working as a professional chef and everyday life as a busy mom led to the creation of the hugely popular blog Simple Bites . Raising three young children with husband Danny, Aimée traded her tongs and chef whites for a laptop and camera, married her two passions—mothering and cooking—and has since been creating recipes with an emphasis on whole foods for the family table, sharing stories and tips and inspiring readers to make the family– food connection on the Simple Bites blog. Brown Eggs ... + Read More
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Series: Oh She Glows The Oh She Glows Cookbook Vegan Recipes To Glow From The Inside Out Paperback Angela Liddon 9780143187226 $32.00 COOKING Mar 04, 2014

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERGlow from the inside out with fabulous vegan recipes from the creator of the award-winning blog Oh She Glows A self-trained chef and food photographer, Angela Liddon has spent years perfecting the art of plant-based cooking, creating inventive and delicious recipes that have brought her devoted fans from all over the world. After struggling for a decade with an eating disorder, Angela vowed to change her diet - and her life - once and for all. She traded the low-calorie, processed food she’d been living on for wh... + Read More
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Series: Back To Basics 100 Simple Classic Recipes With A Twist: A Cookbook Paperback Michael Smith 9780143184102 $32.00 COOKING Sep 03, 2013

Michael Smith goes back to basics with a twist! Michael Smith has been passionate about cooking simple, great-tasting food since his mom first introduced him to cooking at an early age. Since then, Michael has become one of Canada's most successful cookbook writers and a hugely popular celebrity chef on Food Network Canada. But, never far from his own home kitchen, it's the time-tested basic recipes that he regularly cooks for his family. In Back to Basics, Michael shares 100 sure-fire classic recipes, tips, and cooking techniques. And, in eve... + Read More
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Series: Message in a Bottle Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist Hardcover Holly Hogan 9780385696265 $32.95 NATURE Jun 06, 2023

From the heart of the Labrador Current to the furthest reaches of our global oceans, Message in a Bottle conjures an exquisite diversity of marine life and warns of a central threat to its survival: ocean plastic.The dovekie is a stocky seabird the size of a child’s heart that spends its winters on the coast of Newfoundland, thriving in one of the toughest climates on Earth. The polar bear is an apex predator, designed to persevere in the Arctic’s extreme conditions. The North Atlantic right whale outweighs the humpback by more than twenty tons... + Read More
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Series: Pebble & Dove A Novel Paperback Amy Jones 9780771099311 $24.95 FICTION May 30, 2023

In the tradition of Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, a once-famous but now-abandoned aquarium-in-a-ship in Florida is the captivating backdrop for a novel of family secrets and dysfunction, and the ways in which it can sometimes take an animal to remind us how to be human.This is the story of a family falling apart, only to be brought back together again by an unlikely champion—a 1,000-pound aquatic mammal named Pebble. Lauren’s life is a mess. She has a storage unit full of candles she can’t sell, a growing mountain of debt, and a teenage daughte... + Read More
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Series: Leaving Good Things Behind Photographs of Atlantic Canada Hardcover Darren Calabrese 9780771001154 $35.00 PHOTOGRAPHY May 30, 2023

A stunning and surprising collection of photographs and stories from Atlantic Canada, for those who love or live in those regions, as well as for fans of Humans of New York and photography books.Following an accident resulting in the tragic loss of his mother on their family property in Douglas Harbour, New Brunswick, photojournalist Darren Calabrese—a new father himself—knew it was time to move back to Atlantic Canada, the place both he and his wife called home. Living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, his tremendous sense of loss led him to reflect on... + Read More
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Series: Embodied Activism Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection--A Practical Handbook for Transformative Social Change Paperback Rae Johnson 9781623176990 $21.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 30, 2023

A radically different approach to social and environmental justice work for fans of adrienne maree brown and Bessel van der KolkInstead of thinking about social justice as a process that starts with changing people’s minds, Embodied Activism understands our bodies—how we feel in them and relate to others through them—as the sites of transformationHow do ordinary people with busy lives leverage our actions in support of liberation, justice, and authentic connection? How can activists and social change-makers avoid burning out? How does the body ... + Read More
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Series: Into the Mirror A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality Paperback Andy Karr 9781645471646 $28.95 PHILOSOPHY May 23, 2023

Into the Mirror examines the materialism of the modern world through the profound teachings of Mahayana Buddhism and offers an accessible and powerful method for investigating the way our minds construct our worlds.Into the Mirror combines contemporary Western inquiries into the nature of consciousness, with classical Buddhist investigations into the nature of mind, to offer deep insights into the nature of reality. Andy Karr invites the reader to make this a personal, experiential journey through study, contemplation, and meditation.The first ... + Read More
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Series: The Mystery of Right and Wrong Paperback Wayne Johnston 9780735281653 $24.00 FICTION May 16, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“An absolutely unforgettable novel.”—Ian WilliamsA masterwork from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that grapples with male violence, sexual abuse, and madness. Complusively readable and heartstopping.Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John’s, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.Rachel is the younges... + Read More
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Series: A Grandmother Begins the Story A Novel Hardcover Michelle Porter 9780735245372 $34.95 FICTION May 09, 2023

Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel.Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means.Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother.Lucie wants the granddaughter she’s never met... + Read More
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Series: Birds of Eastern Canada Paperback DK 9780744070712 $27.99 NATURE Apr 11, 2023

This definitive field guide uses beautiful close-up photography to showcase the wide variety of bird species in eastern CanadaThe ultimate photographic guide to over 350 bird species found in eastern Canada, ideal for bird watchers of all ages.Updated in this 3rd edition to reflect the latest taxonomic data, Birds of Eastern Canada is the complete guide to 354 species of birds found east of the 100th Meridian in Canada, including the most common species and rare birds.Perfect for both dedicated and casual bird watchers, this regional guide incl... + Read More
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Series: Animal Person Stories Paperback Alexander MacLeod 9780771029905 $20.00 FICTION Apr 04, 2023

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, CBC Books, and the Globe and Mail.From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill & Quire, and 49th Shelf, and a “must-read book” by Maclean’s. Featuring stories published in The New Yorker, Granta, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.Startling, suspenseful, deeply humane yet alert to the undertow of our darker instincts, the... + Read More
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Series: Jamie MacGillivray The Renegade's Journey Hardcover John Sayles 9781612199887 $42.00 FICTION Feb 28, 2023

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice ’It gets under the skin of this extraordinary time in a way that few historical novels do. Sayles writes superbly about the confusion of warfare and deals equally well with the horrors of the plantations…This is a first-rate historical novel told with wit, verve and a subtle understanding of the mechanics of the genre.’ - The New York Times Book Review “John Sayles is a living master.” - Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith Spanning 13 years, two continents, several wars, and many smoke-filled and blo... + Read More
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Series: Darkness Paperback David Adams Richards 9780385690225 $24.00 FICTION Feb 14, 2023

From literary legend David Adams Richards comes the breathtaking final instalment of his epic John Delano Trilogy.When John Delano is asked by the sister of Orville MacDurmot to investigate his violent death and the accusations of murder that haunted his final days, Delano embarks on a journey that will pull him deep into Miramichi’s shadowy history and the pasts of those who conspired against him.Bullied as a child for his meagre upbringing and blindness in one eye, Orville broke from his humble roots to become an internationally renowned arch... + Read More
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Series: Still, I Cannot Save You A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go Paperback Kelly S. Thompson 9780771051845 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 14, 2023

With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister, Meghan. Tested by addiction, abuse, and illness, the sisters’ relationship crumbles, only to be rebuilt into an everlasting bond.Kelly Thompson and her older sister, Meghan, are proof that sisterhood doesn’t always equate to friendship.Growing up within a military family, the girls were close despite being temperamental opposites—Kelly, anxious and studious, looked to her big sister for comfort, and Meghan, who battled kidne... + Read More
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Series: True North Rising My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North Paperback Whit Fraser 9781039005594 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 31, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada’s first Indigenous governor general.“This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on every level…. I couldn’t put it down.” —Elizabeth Hay, Scotiabank Giller prize-winning author of Late Nights on AirIn True North Rising, Whit Fraser ... + Read More
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Series: Where Beauty Survived A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia Paperback George Elliott Clarke 9780345812292 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 03, 2023

“Powerful.” —Toronto StarA vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia.As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished lineage on his paternal side—great-grandson to William Andrew White, the first Black officer (non-commissioned) in the British army—George felt called to live up to the famil... + Read More
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Series: An Embarrassment of Critch's Immature Stories From My Grown-Up Life Paperback Mark Critch 9780735235113 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 27, 2022

From the author and creator of Son of a Critch, 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, revealin... + 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 Nov 01, 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: The Tragedy of Eva Mott Hardcover David Adams Richards 9780385696296 $36.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

Literary legend David Adams Richards follows the epic Miramichi Trilogy with a startling standalone novel of concentrated power.The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society—asbestos. But now their mine is under close scientific scrutiny, with reports of serious illness linked to the place. The world is changing, no doubt for the better…But in the shadow of the mine, the values of a whole community are transforming, in more sinister ways. The Raskins’ nephew Byron, a war hero and... + Read More
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Series: How We Live Is How We Die Hardcover Pema Chodron 9781611809244 $32.95 RELIGION Oct 04, 2022

Discover newfound freedom in life’s ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Chödrön, beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall ApartAs much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a day, the end of a relationship, and ultimately the end of life. And accompanying each ending is a beginning, though it may be unclear what the beginning holds. In How We Live Is How We Die, Pema Chödrön shares her wisdom for working with this flow of life—learnin... + Read More
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Series: Sideways The City Google Couldn't Buy Hardcover Josh O'Kane 9781039000780 $38.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 13, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company’s failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of everything.When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto, promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city’s woefully underdeveloped l... + Read More
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Series: The Winter Wives A Novel Paperback Linden MacIntyre 9780735282070 $21.00 FICTION Jul 26, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA thrilling psychological drama from Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntrye, weaving threads of crime, disability and dementia together into a tale of unrequited love and delusion.Two old university friends get together for a weekend of golfing: worldly and rich Allan, once a football hero, and his quieter lawyer friend, nicknamed Byron, lame from a childhood injury, who never left home and has spent years caring for a mother with Alzheimer’s.During a long night of drinking, the fault lines between them start to show... + Read More
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Series: The Sister's Tale Paperback Beth Powning 9780735280045 $17.95 FICTION May 24, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold women together when life falls apart.With the trial of a murderer dominating the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the troubling case of a British home child. Mortified that she must purchase the beautiful teenager in a pauper auction to save her from lechery and abuse, Josephine Galloway finds herself exexpectedly the proprietor of a boarding house maintained by the sweat and tears of a curious collection of wo... + Read More
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Series: 22 Murders Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia Paperback Paul Palango 9781039001275 $26.95 TRUE CRIME Apr 12, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of dentu... + Read More
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Series: An Unthinkable Thing Paperback Nicole Lundrigan 9780735242678 $22.95 FICTION Apr 12, 2022

A tragedy brings a young boy into the home of a “perfect” family—one whose dark secrets begin closing in, until a horrifying moment changes everything.Tommie Ware’s life is turned upside down the summer of 1958, just after his eleventh birthday. When his beloved aunt—the woman who raised him—doesn’t return after her shift as a night nurse and is later found murdered, there is only one place left for Tommie to go: “home” to the mother who handed him over the day he was born.All is not as it seems behind the hedgerow surrounding the lavish Henneb... + Read More
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Series: Animal Person Stories Hardcover Alexander MacLeod 9780771029882 $28.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, CBC Books, and the Globe and Mail.From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill & Quire, and 49th Shelf, and a “must-read book” by Maclean’s. Featuring stories published in The New Yorker, Granta, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.Startling, suspenseful, deeply humane yet alert to the undertow of our darker instincts, the... + Read More
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Series: Knits From Northern Lands 20 Projects Inspired by Traditional Knitting Techniques from the Scottish Isles to Scandanavia Paperback Jenny Fennell 9780593331972 $34.00 CRAFTS & HOBBIES Nov 02, 2021

A fully illustrated guide to knitting scarves, hats, and more, inspired by rich Scandinavian folklore, tradition, and historyPulling inspiration from the Scandinavian, Nordic, and Celtic regions, this book contains 20 charming and modern projects, based on traditional knitting styles and techniques. Whether you’re drawn to the iconic colorwork of Fair Isle or Scandinavia, or the chunky cables of Aran knitting, the intricacies of Shetland lace knitting or the coziness of a Guernsey style pillowcase, you’ll soon be reaching for your needles.Jenny... + Read More
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Series: Willie The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player Paperback Willie O'Ree 9780735239760 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 19, 2021

An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them.On January 18, 1958 Willie O’Ree was finally called up to the NHL after years of toiling in the minors, joining the Boston Bruins. And when he stepped out onto the ice against the Montreal Canadiens, not only did he fulfil the childhood dream he shared with so many other Canadian kids, he did something that had never been done before: He broke hockey’s colour barrier—just as his hero, Jackie Robinson, had done for baseball.In that pioneerin... + Read More
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Series: The Mystery of Right and Wrong Hardcover Wayne Johnston 9780735281639 $36.00 FICTION Sep 21, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe Mystery of Right and Wrong is a masterwork from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that is both compulsively readable and heartstopping in the vital truth it unfolds. In a novel that grapples with sexual abuse, male violence and madness, Wayne Johnston reveals haunting family secrets he’s kept for more than thirty years.Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John’s, where he goes every day to absorb the great books o... + Read More
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Series: Pluck A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist Paperback Donna Morrissey 9780735239197 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 14, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE 2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS’ EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARDA deeply personal account of love’s restorative ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna Morrissey through mental illness, family death, and despair to becoming a writer—told with charm and inimitable humour.When Donna Morrissey left the only home she had ever known, an isolated Newfoundland settlement, at age 16, she was ready for adventure. She had grown up without television or telephones but had absorbed the tragic stories and comic yarns of... + 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: Darkness Hardcover David Adams Richards 9780385690201 $36.95 FICTION May 25, 2021

From literary legend David Adams Richards comes the breathtaking final instalment of his epic Miramichi Trilogy.When John Delano is asked by the sister of Orville MacDurmot to investigate his violent death and the accusations of murder that haunted his final days, Delano embarks on a journey that will pull him deep into Miramichi’s shadowy history and the pasts of those who conspired against him.Bullied as a child for his meagre upbringing and blindness in one eye, Orville broke from his humble roots to become an internationally renowned archeo... + 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: 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: Welcoming the Unwelcome Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World Paperback Pema Chodron 9781611808681 $22.95 RELIGION Oct 13, 2020

From the bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart, an open-hearted call for human connection, compassion, and learning to love the world just as it is during these most challenging times. In her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön offers a combination of wisdom, heartfelt reflections, and the signature mix of humor and insight that have made her a beloved figure to turn to during times of change. In an increasingly polarized world, Pema shows us how to strengthen our abilities to find common ground, even... + Read More
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Series: Hope in the Balance A Newfoundland Doctor Meets a World in Crisis Hardcover Andrew Furey 9780385692618 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 13, 2020

How the caring spirit of Newfoundland was exported to a world in crisis.Dr. Andrew Furey, an orthopedic surgeon, was sitting by a large fireplace at home in St John’s, watching an even larger flat-screen TV, when dreadful images of the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti burst in on the cosy domestic scene. Human suffering on an epic scale was being documented in real time. Dr. Furey spent a sleepless night, and woke knowing he had to help in some way. In what has been a theme throughout Newfoundland and Labrador’s history, he found himself ans... + Read More
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Series: The Innocents Paperback Michael Crummey 9780385685436 $21.00 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

FINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling, award-winning author Michael Crummey comes a sweeping, heart-wrenching, deeply immersive novel about a brother and sister alone in a small world.A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family’s boat and the little knowledge pa... + Read More
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Series: Blood in the Water A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes Paperback Silver Donald Cameron 9780735238053 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Aug 11, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2021 Atlantic Book Awards’ Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book AwardShortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book A brutal murder in a small Maritime fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the nature of good and evil, in this masterfully told true story. In June 2013, three upstanding citizens of a small Cape Breton town cold-bloodedly murdered their neighbour, Phillip Boudreau, at sea. While out checking their lobster traps, two... + 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: How to Pronounce Knife Stories Paperback Souvankham Thammavongsa 9780771094606 $24.95 FICTION Apr 07, 2020

WINNER OF THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, the PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD, and the DANUTA GLEED AWARD#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed one of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2020, and featuring stories that have appeared in Harper’s, Granta, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, this revelatory book of fiction from O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa establishes her as an essential new voice in Canadian and world literature. Told with compassion and wry ... + Read More
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Series: Eat Like a Fish My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change Paperback Bren Smith 9781101974322 $23.95 SCIENCE Mar 27, 2020

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER IACP Cookbook Award finalistIn the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here Bren Smith—pioneer of regenerative ocean agriculture—introduces the world to a groundbreaking solution to the global climate crisis. A genre-defining “climate memoir,” Eat Like a Fish interweaves Smith’s own life—from sailing the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers to developing new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the f... + Read More
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Series: Living Beautifully An Inspirational Journal Diary Pema Chodron 9781611808056 $22.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Nov 19, 2019

Embrace the beauty of each day--exactly as it is--with this inspirational journal of quotes from Buddhist teacher and best-selling author Pema Chödrön.This keepsake journal from revered Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön shares thoughtful quotes and offers inviting spaces that await your reflections, insights, and intentions. Find support for challenging times, guidance for uncertainty, and reminders of daily joy. A perfect space for personal reflection and spiritual exploration.
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Series: Who Do You Think You Are? A Journal That's All About You Paperback Siobhán Gallagher 9780143130666 $23.00 SELF-HELP Nov 05, 2019

Explore the ways that your past has affected the person you’ve grown into in this fully illustrated journal.You are who you are today because of a million tiny moments. It’s hard to say which moments are responsible for your tendency to cancel plans, what initiated a weird habit, or why your go-to comfort food as a kid was a ketchup-and-mustard sandwich, but sometimes you only need to spend a little time reflecting in order to unearth these connections between past and present.In this illustrated journal, artist Siobhan Gallagher will jog your ... + Read More
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Series: Most Valuable How Sidney Crosby Became the Best Player in Hockey's Greatest Era and Changed the Game Forever Hardcover Gare Joyce 9780735237926 $32.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 29, 2019

This hockey generation’s brightest talent has been plagued by concussions. Now, the very style of play that has brought Crosby such success may be heralding the end of his career.Sidney Crosby is arguably the best player ever to put on skates. You could argue that Bobby was better, or Wayne, or Gordie. But it would be hard to argue that any of those guys changed the game as much as Sid. No defenceman came along in Bobby’s wake to play like him. There will never be another 99. But in Crosby’s case, the entire league was re-made in his image.The... + 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: Murder And Other Essays Hardcover David Adams Richards 9780385666558 $32.95 NATURE Oct 22, 2019

A thrilling, revelatory collection from one of the most provocative and original literary voices in Canada today.David Adams Richards is one of Canada’s greatest writers, his place in the pantheon ensured by seventeen novels of consistent power and vision. He is also the author of four marvelous non-fiction ruminations on religious faith, hockey, hunting and fishing and their roles in his and the nation’s identities. His loyal readers may feel they know him well. But they also know that this is a writer who never fails to surprise. This new col... + Read More
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Series: Mary Cyr Paperback David Adams Richards 9780385682503 $22.00 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

From a coal mine in Mexico to a wealthy family in New Brunswick, this extraordinary novel revolves around a single mysterious woman: Mary Cyr.Mary Cyr opens in Mexico, just as a disaster strikes a small town: a coal-mine has collapsed, with thirteen men trapped inside. Less than forty-eight hours later, the authorities summarily decide to abandon all hope of finding survivors and seal up the mine entrance—willfully oblivious to the half-dozen souls still breathing below ground. Shortly after that, a thirteen-year-old Mexican boy, Victor, is dis... + Read More
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Series: Art and Rivalry The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt Hardcover Carol Bishop-Gwyn 9780345808424 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 08, 2019

The unauthorized biography of Canada’s most famous artist couple and the rivalry that drove them.She painted as if with pure light, radiant colours making quotidian kitchen scenes come alive with sublimated drama. He painted like clockwork, each stroke precise and measured with exquisite care, leaving no angle unchecked and no subtlety of tone unattended. Some would say Mary Pratt was fire and Christopher, ice. And yet Newfoundland’s Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (or Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner…) presented their marriage as a portrait of har... + Read More
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Series: Welcoming the Unwelcome Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World Hardcover Pema Chödrön 9781611805659 $33.95 RELIGION Oct 08, 2019

From the bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart, an open-hearted call for human connection, compassion, and learning to love the world just as it is during these most challenging times. In her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön offers a combination of wisdom, heartfelt reflections, and the signature mix of humor and insight that have made her a beloved figure to turn to during times of change. In an increasingly polarized world, Pema shows us how to strengthen our abilities to find common ground, even... + Read More
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Series: Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change Paperback Pema Chödrön 9781611806809 $22.95 RELIGION May 21, 2019

Instant bestseller: Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön shares life-changing practices for living with wisdom, confidence, and integrity amidst confusing situations and uncertain timesWe live in difficult times. Life so often seems like a turbulent river threatening to drown us and destroy our world. Why, then, shouldn’t we cling to the certainty of the comfortable—to our deep-seated habits and familiar ways? Because, Pema Chödrön teaches, that kind of fear-based clinging keeps us from the infinitely more powerful experience of being fully alive. The... + Read More