1.
Series:
Lost in the Valley of Death
A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Hardcover
Harley Rustad
9780735279469
$34.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 11, 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022For fans of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, the riveting story of the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India—one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley.For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or, in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wil...
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2.
Series:
Recitatif
A Story
Hardcover
Toni Morrison
9781039003613
$22.00
FICTION
Feb 01, 2022
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the relationships that shape us through life, with an introduction by Zadie Smith.Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable at the time, they lose touch as they grow older, only to find each other later at a diner, then at a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and in disagreement each tim...
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3.
Series:
They
Paperback
Kay Dick
9781039002289
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 08, 2022
“A masterwork of English pastoral horror.” —Claire-Louise Bennett“Creepily prescient…Insidiously horrifying!” —Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)“I’m pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.” —Lauren Groff“Lush, strange, hypnotic, compulsive.” —Eimear McBride“Crystalline…The signature of an enchantress.” —Edna O’Brien“A masterpiece of creeping dread.” —Emily St John MandelKay Dick’s radical dystopian masterpiece, lost for forty years—with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.Published to some acclaim in 1977 but swiftly forgo...
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4.
Series:
Pure Colour
Hardcover
Sheila Heti
9780735282452
$29.95
FICTION
Feb 15, 2022
“True and newly alive.” —Los Angeles Times“One-of-a-kind…. nothing less than vital.” —The GuardianA new novel about art, love, death and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?Named a most anticipated book of 2022 by The Globe and Mail ● CBC ● Esquire ● Entertainment Weekly ● BuzzFeed ● Publishers Weekly ● Vulture ● and many moreHere we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home...
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5.
Series:
Life Without Children
Paperback
Roddy Doyle
9781039001800
$22.95
FICTION
Feb 22, 2022
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending and uplifting short stories.Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.In these ten, beautifully moving short stories, Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles...
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6.
Series:
Scoundrel
How a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment and the courts to set him free
Hardcover
Sarah Weinman
9780735272767
$37.00
TRUE CRIME
Feb 22, 2022
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC AND ESQUIREA true-crime masterpiece, this is a story of wrongful exoneration about killer Edgar Smith and the prominent crusaders who fell prey to his charm.Having spent almost half his lifetime in California’s state penitentiary system, convicted killer Edgar Smith died in obscurity in 2017 at the age of eighty-three—a miracle, really, as he was meant to be executed nearly six decades earlier. Tried and convicted in the state of New Jersey for the 1957 murder of fifteen-year-old Victoria Zielinski, Smit...
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7.
Series:
Stray Dogs
And Other Stories
Hardcover
Rawi Hage
9780735273627
$29.95
FICTION
Mar 01, 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receiv...
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8.
Series:
We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal
Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9780735280205
$26.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mar 01, 2022
From the bestselling author and global feminist icon—an illustrated journal containing her most powerful and inspiring quotes, as well an introduction written expressly for this inspirational diary.From her award-winning novels, including Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, to her stirring calls to arms We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele; from her work with Beyoncé to sharing the stage with Michelle Obama, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the most empowering and iconic feminist figures of our time. Now, in this beautiful journal, A...
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9.
Series:
Young Mungo
A Novel
Hardcover
Douglas Stuart
9781039003705
$35.00
FICTION
Apr 05, 2022
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL • NPR • KIRKUS REVIEWS • TIME • AMAZON • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE TIMES (UK)• DAILY HIVE • THE TELEGRAPH • FINANCIAL TIMES • THE GUARDIAN • LITERARY HUB • THE HERALD (UK) • READER’S DIGEST • VANITY FAIR • LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS“Young Mungo seals it: Douglas Stuart is a genius.” —The Washington PostFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first l...
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10.
Series:
In a Time of Distance
and Other Poems
Hardcover
Alexander McCall Smith
9781039000186
$29.95
POETRY
Apr 12, 2022
From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series comes a beautiful and transporting volume of poems brimming with warmth and humanity.What matters most in life? For Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship, love, and travel— the themes found throughout his work that have made him a cherished writer the world over. This first collection of McCall Smith’s poems reflects on these topics with all his characteristic wit and charm.In this delightful work, McCall Smith takes us on a captivating journey from Africa to Greece, London...
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11.
Series:
My Face in the Light
Hardcover
Martha Schabas
9780735277632
$32.00
FICTION
Apr 12, 2022
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TORONTO BOOK AWARD“My mother is an artist and I am a liar. Or, if I scratch the surface, my mother is a sick woman and I am an actress…”Justine feels uneasy in her marriage, her theatre career and her relationship with her estranged mother, a famous painter. An intuitive and uncanny mimic, distinguished by a pronounced scar across her forehead (the result of a childhood accident), Justine has made acting the centre of her life since she was a teenager, but lately her outwardl...
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12.
Series:
Mansions of the Moon
Hardcover
Shyam Selvadurai
9780735280625
$36.00
FICTION
May 10, 2022
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts comes a breathtaking reimagining of ancient India through the extraordinary life of Yasodhara, the woman who married the Buddha.In this sweeping tale, at once epic and intimate, Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to Siddhartha Gautama—who will later become “the enlightened one,” or the Buddha—an unusually bright and politically astute young man settling into his upper-caste life as a newlywed to Yasodhara, a woman of great intelligence and spirit. Mansions of the M...
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13.
Series: 44 Scotland Street Series
Love in the Time of Bertie
A 44 Scotland Street Novel (15)
Paperback
Alexander McCall Smith
9781039004016
$22.00
FICTION
Feb 22, 2022
From the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends.Life for Bertie seems to be moving at a pace that is rather out of his control. In Drummond Place gardens it seems that Olive has their future together all planned out. Meanwhile, upstairs at 44 Scotland Street, Bertie’s father, Stuart, is powerless to stop over-bearing Irene and her motion for Bertie to travel to Aberdeen on a three-month secondment. And, further up in the New Town, while Bruce Anderson plots with old-school chum...
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