1.
Series:
Born to Walk
The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act
Hardcover
Dan Rubinstein
9781770411890
$27.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 01, 2015
The case for getting back on our feet The humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind. At a personal and professional crossroads, writer, editor, and obsessive walker Dan Rubinstein travelled throughout the U.S., U.K., and Canada to walk with people who saw the act not only as a form of transpo...
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2.
Series:
Love in the Elephant Tent
How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home
Hardcover
Kathleen Cremonesi
9781770412521
$25.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2015
If you live life without a net, what happens when you fall? Kathleen Cremonesi knew early on she wanted to be different. Determined to avoid following in her mother’s footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former administrative assistant with wanderlust took a job as a dancer in an Italian circus and, working her way up, became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl. Kathleen bonds with the exotic animals that could strike and kill at any moment, but instead bring h...
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3.
Series:
What Was I Thinking?
The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays
Paperback
Rick Salutin
9781770412606
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2015
A lifetime of engagement with religion, philosophy, and activism in a series of fascinating reflections. Brilliant, fractious, mordantly funny, playwright/novelist/essayist Rick Salutin has been Canadian journalism’s agent provocateur for over three decades. Whether needling governments and politicians, holding public policy to account, or decrying the shortfalls of activist thought and action, he has been one of the most outspoken commentators of his generation. In What Was I Thinking?, Salutin reveals his curiosity about both the world of t...
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4.
Series:
Sing a Worried Song
An Arthur Beauchamp Novel
Hardcover
William Deverell
9781770412453
$24.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2015
The sixth novel in the acclaimed Arthur Beauchamp series Everything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence lawyer that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch sides, just the once, and prosecute a young man charged with murdering a clown. Beauchamp is confident he can prove Randolph Skyler is guilty. Confident, but still worried and surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is — and, worse, to the fissures opening in his personal life. It’s a case Beaucha...
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5.
Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery
Ruined Abbey
A Collins-Burke Mystery
Hardcover
Anne Emery
9781770411678
$24.95
FICTION
May 01, 2015
From Arthur Ellis Award–winning author Anne Emery comes a “winning mystery [that stands] on its own.” — Booklist It’s 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister’s arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan’s cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come unde...
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6.
Series:
The Drop Zone
A T.J. Peterson Mystery
Paperback
Bob Kroll
9781770412446
$14.95
FICTION
May 01, 2015
A dark and suspenseful debut Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it’s not just how much he’s drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in church, apparently by a symbol of his faith, and an unidentified woman’s body had been found. He’s barely holding it together. When a deranged teenager, a possible witness, crosses his path, he is propelled into a sleazy, violent world of underage prostitution, sexual abuse, and human trafficking as he pursues a me...
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7.
Series:
Cauchemar
Paperback
Alexandra Grigorescu
9781770412347
$18.95
FICTION
Mar 01, 2015
An eerie and romantic Southern gothic drama Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of 20-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a Louisianan swamp after her adopted mother and protector dies. Hannah falls in love with Callum, an easy-going boat captain and part-time musician, but after her mysterious birth mother, outcast as a witch and rumoured to commune with the dead, comes back into Hannah’s life, she must confront what she’s been hiding from — the dead...
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8.
Series:
Boring Girls
A Novel
Paperback
Sara Taylor
9781770410169
$18.95
FICTION
Apr 01, 2015
A visceral story of friendship, music, and bloody revenge Rachel feels like she doesn’t fit in — until she finds heavy metal and meets Fern, a kindred spirit. The two form their own band, but the metal scene turns out to be no different than the misogynist world they want to change. Violent encounters escalate, and the friends decide there’s only one way forward . . . A bloodstained journey into the dark heart of the music industry, Boring Girls traces Rachel’s deadly coming of age, Fern at her side. As the madness deepens, their ...
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9.
Series:
A Free Man
Paperback
Michel Basilières
9781770412330
$18.95
FICTION
May 01, 2015
An unusual and remarkable dystopian novel A Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends getting reacquainted over one night. It’s also a boy-meets-girl story of the worst kind and a time travel story about a future where the world is ruled by robots and humans are vermin. When timelines cross, the world as we know it bends . . . Skid Roe is completely self-absorbed and delusional. His struggle to exercise free will is constantly hampered by the physical manifestation of his inner...
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10.
Series:
Cut-up Apologetic
Paperback
Jamie Sharpe
9781770412309
$18.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2015
Up-and-coming poet Jamie Sharpe presents a finely tuned second collection Cut-up Apologetic, Sharpe’s second collection, explores aging in a world where youth is terrible and something we desperately want back. These are poems about failing to leave our mark while marks are left on us — about the collective insatiability of emptying surroundings in an attempt to fill ourselves. At the same time, Cut-up Apologetic is naïve and playful even when examining fear expressed as discrimination or the ways restlessness transitions into an inertia spel...
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11.
Series:
The Pemmican Eaters
Paperback
Marilyn Dumont
9781770412415
$18.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2015
A picture of the Riel Resistance from one of Canada’s preeminent Métis poets With a title derived from John A. Macdonald’s moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont’s sense of history as the dynamic present. Combining free verse and metered poems, her latest collection aims to recreate a palpable sense of the Riel Resistance period and evoke the geographical, linguistic/cultural, and political situation of Batoche during this time through the eyes of those who experienced the battles, as well as through the eyes o...
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12.
Series:
Capitol Revolution
The Rise of the McMahon Wrestling Empire
Paperback
Tim Hornbaker
9781770411241
$19.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Mar 01, 2015
The definitive take on the McMahon family’s journey to wrestling domination For decades, the northeastern part of the United States, better known to insiders as the territory of the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, was considered the heart of the professional wrestling world. Capitol territory — from Boston southward to Washington, D.C. — enjoyed lucrative box-office receipts, and New York’s Madison Square Garden was centre stage. Three generations of McMahons have controlled wrestling in that storied building and have since created the most pow...
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13.
Series:
The Urban Cycling Survival Guide
Need-to-Know Skills and Strategies for Biking in the City
Paperback
Yvonne Bambrick
9781770412187
$16.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Mar 01, 2015
City cycling made simple North America’s cities have long been the domain of the car, but thanks to the undeniable benefits of active transport, bicycles have an increasing presence in the urban landscape. Yet our cities weren’t designed for bicycles, making for intimidating, and sometimes dangerous, environments for cyclists. The Urban Cycling Survival Guide is an accessible, straight-forward pocket guide that helps cyclists new to the urban environment negotiate all the challenges, obstacles, and rules — spoken and unspoken — that come with...
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14.
Series:
Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids and Rock Splitters
The Remarkable Survival Strategies of Plants
Paperback
Jesse Vernon Trail
9781770412088
$24.95
NATURE
Jun 01, 2015
A fascinating exploration of the world’s most unusual plants Whether it’s an arctic heather that can create subtropical conditions within its leaves or a dwarf mistletoe that can shoot its seeds up to 50 feet away, plants demonstrate remarkable strategies in coping with and surviving their environment. They are often exposed to bitter cold, relentless winds, intense heat, drought, fire, pollution, and many other adverse growing conditions. Yet they are still able to survive and often even thrive. Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids and Rock S...
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15.
Series:
Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules
Separating Fact from Fiction, and the Science of Everyday Life
Paperback
Dr. Joe Schwarcz
9781770411913
$17.95
SCIENCE
May 01, 2015
The bestselling popular science author “has made it his mission to tackle myths about science and the so-called experts who spread them” (CBC Radio) “A compendium of short articles on a variety of subjects, written in a humorous, accessible style, and larded with intriguing trivia . . . Dr. Joe skewers food myths, opposition to GMOs, Dr. Oz, and Vani Hari, aka the Food Babe.” — Science-Based Medicine The internet is a powerful beast when it comes to science; the answer to any query you may have is just a few keystrokes away. But when th...
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16.
Series:
The Science of TV’s the Big Bang Theory
Explanations Even Penny Would Understand
Paperback
Dave Zobel
9781770412170
$17.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Jun 01, 2015
Reveals the hard facts behind the laughter on TV’s most popular sitcom The highest-rated scripted show on TV, The Big Bang Theory often features Sheldon, Howard, Leonard, and Raj wisecracking about scientific principles as if Penny and the rest of us should know exactly what they’re talking about. The Science of TV’s The Big Bang Theory lets all of us in on the punchline by breaking down the show’s scientific conversations. From an explanation of why Sheldon would think 73 is the best number, to an experiment involving the physical stature of...
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17.
Series: Pop Classics
Elvis Is King
Costello's My Aim Is True
Paperback
Richard Crouse
9781770411883
$12.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 01, 2015
An explosive, groundbreaking album that crowned a new king of rock in just 33 minutes Before Elvis Costello was one of Rolling Stone’s greatest artists of all time, before he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he was Declan P. McManus, an office drone with a dull suburban life and a side gig in a pub rock band. In 1976, under the guidance of legendary label Stiff Records, he transformed himself into the snarling, spectacled artist who defied the musical status quo to blaze the trail for a new kind of rock star with his debu...
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18.
Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery
Blood on a Saint
A Mystery
Paperback
Anne Emery
9781770412699
$14.95
FICTION
May 01, 2015
Award Winning mystery author Anne Emery returns with another installment in the Collins-Burke mystery series “The writing bustles with energy, and with smart, wry dialogue and astute observations about crime and religion.” — Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Father Brennan Burke’s patience is tested to the limit when a young woman announces to the world that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her in his churchyard, and hordes of pilgrims, souvenir hawkers, and reporters converge on the scene. But, as unwelcome as these guests may be, they pale...
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