1.
Series:
Buffalo Wild!
Hardcover
Deidre Havrelock
9781773215334
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Oct 12, 2021
“A satisfying ending ensures this nighttime adventure will soothe even the wildest child.” Kirkus Reviews An exuberant celebration of the Buffalo’s return to the wild. Since Declan was born, his kokum has shared her love of Buffalo through stories and art. But Declan longs to see real Buffalo. Then one magical night, herds of the majestic creatures stampede down from the sky. That’s when things really get wild! Azby Whitecalf’s playful illustrations add to the joy and reverence in Deidre Havrelock’s picture book debut. A reprinting of the Buffa...
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2.
Series:
Living With Viola
Hardcover
Rosena Fung
9781773215488
$24.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 16, 2021
“Unforgettable . . . will shake middle grade readers to the core.”—School Library Journal, starred review “Beautifully illustrated, relatable, and genuine.” —Molly Brooks, creator of Sanity & Tallulah “Everyone needs to buy this book now. Seriously. Buy it, read it, share it.”—Colleen Nelson, author and teacher Honest and funny, this award-winning graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new gir...
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3.
Series:
Living With Viola
Paperback
Rosena Fung
9781773215495
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 16, 2021
“Unforgettable . . . will shake middle grade readers to the core.”—School Library Journal, starred review “Beautifully illustrated, relatable, and genuine.” —Molly Brooks, creator of Sanity & Tallulah “Everyone needs to buy this book now. Seriously. Buy it, read it, share it.”—Colleen Nelson, author and teacher Honest and funny, this award-winning graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new gir...
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4.
Series:
Welcome to the Cypher
Hardcover
Khodi Dill
9781773215631
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Nov 16, 2021
“WELCOME TO THE CYPHER is a delight to read—a story that will move every part of you to a wild and wonderful beat.” —Jael Richardson, Author and Executive Director, The Festival of Literary Diversity "WELCOME TO THE CYPHER is a beautiful, rhythmic exploration of the joy of language and self-expression. Our whole family loved how the bright illustrations and the bold words pulled us through this gorgeous book …We're HUGE fans!" —Bestselling authors, Alice Kuipers (the Polly Diamond series) & Yann Martel (Life of Pi) Words burn bright in this joy...
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5.
Series:
Thunder and the Noise Storms
Hardcover
Jeffrey Ansloos
9781773215587
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Nov 16, 2021
A Nov/Dec Loan Stars Jr Top Ten Pick 2021! A Blue Spruce Award nominee 2021! When the world gets too loud and chaotic, a young boy’s grandfather helps him listen with wonder instead. Kids laughing, sneakers squeaking, balls bouncing—for Thunder, the sounds of the school day often brew into overwhelming noise storms. But when Thunder’s mosom asks him what he hears on an urban nature walk, Thunder starts to understand how sounds like bird wings flapping and rushing water can help him feel calm and connected. Gentle, inviting illustrations by J...
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6.
Series:
Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats
Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities
Hardcover
Cylita Guy PhD
9781773215389
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 16, 2021
Gripping narrative non-fiction with STEM and social justice themes that proves cities can be surprisingly wild places—and why understanding urban nature matters. What can city bees tell us about climate change? How are we changing coyote behavior? And what the heck is a science bike? Featuring the work of a diverse group of eleven scientists—herself included!—Dr. Cylita Guy shows how studying urban wildlife can help us make cities around the world healthier for all of their inhabitants. In the process, Guy reveals how social injustices like rac...
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7.
Series:
Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats
Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities
Paperback
Cylita Guy PhD
9781773215396
$14.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 16, 2021
Gripping narrative non-fiction with STEM and social justice themes that proves cities can be surprisingly wild places—and why understanding urban nature matters. What can city bees tell us about climate change? How are we changing coyote behavior? And what the heck is a science bike? Featuring the work of a diverse group of eleven scientists—herself included!—Dr. Cylita Guy shows how studying urban wildlife can help us make cities around the world healthier for all of their inhabitants. In the process, Guy reveals how social injustices like rac...
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8.
Series:
Harvey and the Extraordinary
Hardcover
Eliza Martin
9781773215433
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 11
Nov 02, 2021
“A beautiful story that touches your heart…you will enjoy it if you are a fan of Kate DiCamillo’s novels.”? Rajiv’s Reviews, *starred review “Highly recommended”? CM Reviews Imaginative, self-confident, EXTRAORDINARY Mimi steps into the spotlight in this charming debut with an emotional heart. If you were to imagine an extraordinary moment of destiny, I bet you wouldn’t imagine it in a kitchen on a particularly ordinary Wednesday. I bet you wouldn’t imagine a plate of cheese and crackers or a replacement best friend—but this was my moment. Beca...
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9.
Series:
Harvey and the Extraordinary
Paperback
Eliza Martin
9781773215440
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 11
Nov 02, 2021
“A beautiful story that touches your heart…you will enjoy it if you are a fan of Kate DiCamillo’s novels.”? Rajiv’s Reviews, *starred review “Highly recommended”? CM Reviews Imaginative, self-confident, EXTRAORDINARY Mimi steps into the spotlight in this charming debut with an emotional heart. If you were to imagine an extraordinary moment of destiny, I bet you wouldn’t imagine it in a kitchen on a particularly ordinary Wednesday. I bet you wouldn’t imagine a plate of cheese and crackers or a replacement best friend—but this was my moment. Beca...
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10.
Series:
The Words in My Hands
Hardcover
Asphyxia
9781773215280
$24.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 16
Nov 16, 2021
“Exceptional . . . full of distilled knowledge of a marginalized community and awareness of the Deaf.” —Cheyenna Clearbrook, star of Deaf U Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens 2021 A Kirkus Best Book of 2021 Part coming of age, part call to action, this fast-paced #ownvoices novel about a Deaf teenager is a unique and inspiring exploration of what it means to belong. Smart, artistic, and independent, sixteen year old Piper is tired of trying to conform. Her mom wants her to be “normal,” to pass as hearing, to get a good job. But...
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11.
Series:
A Dream of a Woman
Paperback
Casey Plett
9781551528564
$21.95
FICTION
Sep 12, 2021
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and N...
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12.
Series:
Nowadays and Lonelier
Paperback
Carmella Gray-Cosgrove
9781551528717
$19.95
FICTION
Sep 12, 2021
A vibrant debut story collection about loneliness and love, privilege and poverty, addiction and isolation - the search for connection and meaning in a workaday world. For fans of Heather O'Neill's Daydreams of Angels, Otessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World, and Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties, Nowadays and Lonelier features a cascade of characters seeking connection in the darkest alleyways and meaning in the mundane. In these pages, a ballet dancer navigates complex family ties that are frayed by addiction; a young gi...
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13.
Series:
No Man's Land
Paperback
John Vigna
9781551528663
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 28, 2021
A sprawling saga set in the Canadian wilderness of the late 19th century, about a teenaged girl named Davey, a charismatic fraudster, and the unbearable weight of fate. In this powerful, panoramic novel set in the late 1890s, in a sliver of rugged British Columbia wilderness, a fourteen-year-old girl named Davey - too young to be given a chance at creating her own life - finds herself raised by a group of eccentric, hostile misfits who rescued her as an infant on a bloody battlefield. She roams the countryside with them, led by Reverend Brown,...
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14.
Series:
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future
Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis
Paperback
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
9781551528502
$27.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 05, 2021
An enthralling and incisive anthology of personal essays on the persistent impact of the AIDS crisis on queer lives. Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitu...
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15.
Series:
The Care We Dream Of
Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
Paperback
Zena Sharman
9781551528601
$22.95
HEALTH & FITNESS
Oct 05, 2021
What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honoured and valued queer and trans people's lives, bodies, and expertise? What if LGBTQ+ communities led and organized our own health care as a form of mutual aid? What if every aspect of our health care was rooted in a commitment to our healing, pleasure, and liberation? LGBTQ+ health care doesn't look like this today, but it could. This is the care we dream of. The Care We Dream Of is not quite an essay collec...
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16.
Series:
For Laika
The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars
Hardcover
Kai Cheng Thom
9781551528625
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 8
Oct 20, 2021
The heart-rending story of Laika, the brave canine space traveller. By two of the co-creators of the acclaimed children's book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea: the moving and beautifully told story of Laika, the dog who learned the names of the stars. Laika is an orphaned stray dog who lives in the streets of Moscow in the 1950s in the then Soviet Union. Although she is loved by her pack, Laika longs to one day learn the names of the stars, since she knows that all dogs become stars when they die - including her parents. One d...
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17.
A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas. When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day. Eleven years later, author and artist Gord Hill has revised and expanded the book, which is now available in colour for the first time. The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book powerfully...
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18.
Series:
Special Topics in Being a Human
A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring For People, Including Myself
Paperback
S. Bear Bergman
9781551528540
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 12, 2021
S. Bear Bergman's illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, among other things, a trans parent, with wit and aplomb. He also writes the advice column "Asking Bear," in which he answers crucial questions about how best to make our collective way through the world. Featuring disarming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson, Special Topics in Being a Human elaborates on "Asking Bear"'s premise: a gentle, wit...
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19.
Series:
This Is My Real Name
A Stripper's Memoir
Paperback
Cid V Brunet
9781551528588
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 18, 2021
The frank and bracing memoir of a woman who spent ten years as a stripper. This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years working as a dancer at strip clubs, using the name Michelle. From her very first lap dance in a small-town bar to her work at high-end clubs, Michelle learns she must follow the unspoken rules that will allow her to succeed in the competitive industry. Along the way, she and her co-workers encounter compelling clients and unreasonable bosses and navigate their own relationships to drugs and alcohol....
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20.
Series:
Vancouver Vice
Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End
Paperback
Aaron Chapman
9781551528694
$27.95
HISTORY
Dec 07, 2021
Aaron Chapman's latest Vancouver book explores the gritty history of the West End in the 1970s and '80s. Aaron Chapman, the two-time Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award-winning author of such bestselling Vancouver-themed books as Vancouver after Dark and The Last Gang in Town, turns his gaze toward the city's tumultuous West End in his latest opus. The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the w...
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21.
Series:
Crip Kinship
The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
Paperback
Shayda Kafai
9781551528649
$19.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 09, 2021
The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears. Crip Kinship explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming bodyminds of colour can do: how they can rewrit...
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22.
Series:
Dante's Indiana
Paperback
Randy Boyagoda
9781771964272
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 07, 2021
"A Divine Comedy of our times."—John Irving, author of The World According to Garp "This book is a miracle.”—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 Following Original Prin, a NYTBR Editor’s Choice and Globe and Mail Best Book, Dante’s Indiana is an extraordinary journey through the divine comedies and tragedies of our time. Middle-aged, married, but living on his own, Prin has lost his way. Desperate for money and purpose, he moves ...
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23.
Series:
Things Are Against Us
Hardcover
Lucy Ellmann
9781771964333
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 28, 2021
A Toronto Public Library Fall 2021 Pick An Independent Best Book of 2021 “It’s somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer so angry and intelligent.”—Patrick Ness, Guardian Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. As Yeats pointed out, things have a lot to answer for. These satirical essays jauntily tackle the obstinacy, incorrigibility, and recalcitrance of things, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s unimpressive descriptions of the construction of bobsleds and door latches, and the way we try to stand on our own two feet, put our best fo...
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24.
Series:
Householders
Paperback
Kate Cayley
9781771964296
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 14, 2021
Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters’ overlapping lives.A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. The linked stories in Householders move effortlessly from the commonplace to the fantastic, fro...
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25.
Series:
The Singing Forest
Paperback
Judith McCormack
9781771964319
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 21, 2021
In attempting to bring a suspected war criminal to justice, a lawyer wrestles with power, accountability, and her Jewish identity. In a quiet forest in Belarus, two boys make a gruesome find that reveals a long-kept secret: the mass grave where Stalin’s police buried thousands of murder victims in the 1930s. The results of the subsequent investigation—30,000 dead—has far-reaching effects, and across the Atlantic in Toronto, young lawyer Leah Jarvis finds herself tasked with an impossible case: the trial of elderly Stefan Drozd, a former me...
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26.
Series:
As You Were
Paperback
Elaine Feeney
9781771964432
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 05, 2021
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Winner of the 2021 Kate O'Brien Award • A Guardian Best Debut of 2020 •An Irish Times Best Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the 2020 Irish Book Awards Novel of the YearIn a run-down hospital ward, Sinead tries to keep her life together—and her terminal diagnosis secret—as her body falls apart.Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She ...
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27.
Series:
Multiculturalism
Paperback
Cecil Foster
9781771964418
$24.95
HISTORY
Feb 07, 2023
Transnationalist Cecil Foster explores the origins, legacy, and potential of Canadian multicultural policy. From the beginning of colonial settlement in the Americas, multiculturalism has symbolized a deeply held yearning by all humanity for freedom. It was at the heart of the Civil War and Canadian Confederation in 1867. But until the 1970s, this yearning for a socially just society was consistently suppressed. Peoples of colour were denied citizenship in the White Man’s Country, the highest achievement of the American Dream and a Manifes...
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28.
Series: Best Canadian
Best Canadian Essays 2021
Paperback
Bruce Whiteman
9781771964371
$22.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 19, 2021
A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. “The exceptional essay,” writes editor Bruce Whiteman, “derives from a passionate feeling, love and anger being perhaps its upper and lower limits, coexisting with a desire for truth, and it aims for the radiance of what is.” In the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Essays, Whiteman’s selections seek truth in all the places it may be found, from walks in brambled woods and ancient citie...
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29.
Series: Best Canadian
Best Canadian Poetry 2021
Paperback
Souvankham Thammavongsa
9781771964395
$22.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 19, 2021
“This is a book,” writes guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa, “about what I saw and read and loved, and want you to see and read and love.” Selected from work published by Canadian poets in magazines and journals in 2020, Best Canadian Poetry 2021 gathers the poems Thammavongsa loved most over a year’s worth of reading, and draws together voices that “got in and out quickly, that said unusual things, that were clear, spare, and plain, that made [her] laugh out loud … the voices that barely ever survive to make it onto the page.” From new work ...
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30.
Series:
Windsor: Then & Now
Paperback
Andrew Foot
9781771964661
$24.95
HISTORY
Oct 19, 2021
Windsor, Ontario: the City of Roses, the Automotive Capital of Canada, South Detroit. Whatever name you know it by, this is a city that has flourished and transfored over the years, growing and changing with its industrial nature. In Windsor: Then & Now, architectural specialist Andrew Foot partners with landscape photographer Ian Virtue to explore the life of this mid-sized, blue-collar town through photographs. By contrasting historic images, stretching from the turn of the century to the modernist 1970s, with photographs of today's Windsor, ...
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31.
Series:
Chemical Valley
Paperback
David Huebert
9781771964470
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 19, 2021
Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert’s stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world. From city-dwelling preppers to long term care nurses, dishwashers to professional hockey enforcers to refinery workers, Chemical Valley’s caring and carefully-wrought stories cultivate rich human emotional worlds in all the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and a sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world, Chemical...
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32.
Series:
Romantic
Paperback
Mark Callanan
9781771964456
$19.95
POETRY
Oct 12, 2021
A CBC Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2021 Drawing on Arthurian myth, the Romantic poets, the ill-fated "Great War" efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment, modern parenthood, 16-bit video games, and Major League Baseball, these poems examine the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, both as individuals and as communities, in order to explain how and why we are the way we are. At its heart, Romantic interrogates our western society's idealized, self-deluding personal and cultural perspectives.
33.
Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
The Doll's Ghost
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Paperback
F Marion Crawford
9781771964531
$9.50
FICTION
Oct 26, 2021
World-renowned and Giller-nominated cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When the Lady Gwendolen, age six, drops her doll down a staircase, her ladyship solemnly digs her fractured companion a grave. Luckily Mr Puckler, renowned doll doctor, thinks he can help—but when his daughter Else goes missing, he’s not sure whose voice he hears calling to him in the night.
34.
Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
Mr Jones
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Paperback
Edith Wharton
9781771964548
$9.50
FICTION
Oct 26, 2021
World-renowned and Giller-nominated cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she’ll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she hasn’t reckoned on the obstinate Mr Jones, the caretaker she’s told dislikes her changes, yet never seems able to be found.
35.
Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
An Eddy on the Floor
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Paperback
Bernard Capes
9781771964555
$9.50
FICTION
Oct 26, 2021
World-renowned and Giller-nominated cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.After attending a séance at an acquaintance’s home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from another guest: resident doctor at the prison he directs. But when a prisoner begs to have his cell moved, terrified of what’s behind the next door, the young doctor starts to question his luck.
36.
Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series
The World at My Back
Paperback
Thomas Melle
9781771964517
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 21, 2023
A wrenching, no-holds-barred confession by a celebrated German writer about his experiences with bipolar disorder. Thomas Melle, a successful young novelist and playwright, suddenly sells off his library without knowing why he's doing it. His personal life disintegrates as his behaviour becomes more irrational. Drunken frenzies, wild imaginings, fantasies about sex with stars, broken relationships, professional scandals, scuffles with the police, and enforced stays on psych wards. take over Melle's life. Possibly the most, precise, intense...
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37.
Series:
A Factotum in the Book Trade
Paperback
Marius Kociejowski
9781771964562
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 26, 2022
A lifelong antiquarian bookseller’s memoir describes the trade from the factotum’s perspective—and in doing so reveals its ticklish underbelly. A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves—and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the village jumble sale he bought poetry volumes for their pebbled-leather covers alone, to his all-but-acc...
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38.
Series:
Temerity & Gall
Paperback
John Metcalf
9781771964494
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 24, 2022
“[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”—Washington PostFor more than five decades, John Metcalf has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of Canadian literature and imagine its potential. A long-time editor of the Best Canadian Stories anthology; fiction editor at some of the preeminent literary presses in the country for more than forty years; and past editor of Canadian Notes and Queries, Canada’s longest-running independent journal of literary criticis...
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39.
Series: Best Canadian
Best Canadian Stories 2021
Paperback
Diane Schoemperlen
9781771964357
$22.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 19, 2021
Selected by guest editor Diane Schoemperlen, the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Stories continues not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. “The best short stories,” writes editor Diane Schoemperlen, “are disruptive in all the best ways, diverse in all senses of the word, always looking back and leading forward at the same time … they must be written in the world, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of more horrifying news every day.” Submitted and published by Canadian writers in 2020, Schoemperlen’s selections for Best Canadian...
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40.
Series:
The Power of Scenery
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks
Hardcover
Dennis Drabelle
9781496220776
$40.95
HISTORY
Nov 01, 2021
Featured in Wall Street Journal's 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide2021 Marfield Prize Finalist Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, a question naturally arises: where did the idea for a national park originate? The answer starts with a look at pre-Yellowstone America. With nothing to put up against Europe’s cultural pearls—its cathedrals, castles, and museums—Americans came to realize that their plentitude of natural wonders...
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41.
Series:
Enough is Enough
The Cure for Overweight and Obesity
Paperback
David Rives
9781878143198
$21.95
SELF-HELP
Jan 15, 2021
Take a quantum leap off the losing weight roller coaster! David Rives is dedicated to helping people trim down, slim down, and be more fit. In an engaging humorous discussion about the numerous ways our subconscious mind encourages unhealthy eating patterns, Whether our bad habits arose from how we were raised, product commercials, or popular culture, Rives helps us learn how to put misinformation aside. He introduces the concept of the normal eater and provides tips for how to embrace this new identify. By staying focused on one day at a time ...
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42.
Series:
Be Your Own Best Friend Forever!
Hardcover
Gary Robinson
9781939053343
$22.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from 9 - 12
Apr 28, 2021
A confidence-building book for young girls, particularly those from a diverse community or heritage. Be Your Own Best Friend FOREVER!Jayla, the inspiration for the book, is the niece of the author.
43.
Series:
Native Women Changing Their World
Paperback
Patricia Cutright
9781939053329
$14.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Apr 28, 2021
Native women have filled their communities with strength and leadership, both historically and as modern-day warriors. The 12 Indigenous women who are featured in this book overcame unimaginable hardships such as racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism.Such determination and courage reflect the essence of the traditional Cheyenne saying: "A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground." The impres...
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44.
Series:
Worlds of Light & Darkness
Paperback
Scot Noel
9781949671247
$16.95
FICTION
May 25, 2021
A haunted father who discovers a place where incomplete things?and people?are made whole. A mischievous satyr who hatches a plan to set loose chaos on a global scale. A workaholic witch in search of her kitty companion. Invasive technology to rewrite the human brain. Dragon slayers. Zombies. Time travelers. Ice skaters. These twenty short stories stretch across multiple universes and beyond death?and yet, they remain intimate, personal, emotional. They demonstrate the strength of the human spirit to find hope and seek a better tomorrow in even ...
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45.
Series: The Scryers Trilogy
Foretold
Paperback
Violet Lumani
9781949671216
$16.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Jul 20, 2021
Cassandra sees death and devastation all around her. In vivid detail. It?s the price of living with her OCD and extreme anxiety. In every situation, Cass imagines the worst possible fate for everyone in her life. Her dad in a pool of blood after a break-in. Her beloved older neighbor, homeless. A splinter in her finger turned to gangrene. But this time, it?s not her imagination. The boy next door, Colin, is destined to die. Cass has foretold a real death before; she knows this is a true vision.
46.
Series: Planetary Solutions
Making Waves
Saving Our Ocean
Paperback
Albert Bates
9781939053336
$18.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Grade (US) from 9 - 12
Aug 05, 2021
Renowned environmentalist Albert Bates provides children with an educational and engaging look at the interdependent relationship between the oceans and ourselves and what is needed to protect the ocean?s ecosystems. They gain an understanding of the ocean?s biodiversity and learn how human activities have resulted in significant changes in ocean temperature, oxygen levels, acidity, ice, sea levels, and sea life populations. Clear explanations show how this will have a consequential effect not just on the oceans themselves but humans on land as...
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47.
Series:
Urgent!
Paperback
Captain Paul Watson
9781570674037
$16.95
SCIENCE
Aug 15, 2021
A Pandora?s box of environmental disasters has been opened, threatening the ability of the natural world to recover and humanity to survive. From devastating fires and storms to the emergence of deadly new viruses, it?s become impossible to deny the terrifying reality of climate change. URGENT! explains the apocalyptic scenario that is our future if we don?t act now. Humans are among the many species facing extinction, and our lifestyles are to blame. Governments, corporations, and the media have been negligent and reckless in their response ...
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48.
Series:
Simply Plant Based
Fabulous Food for a Healthy Life
Paperback
Vanita Rahman, MD
9781570674044
$28.95
COOKING
Aug 15, 2021
The simplest and most health-promoting diet is built on whole, plant-based foods that are low in fat, sugar, and sodium and high in fiber and nutrients. But more than a diet, this is a lifestyle. And to be sustainable, the food must be delicious, interesting, and fun to eat. Simply Plant Based offers a smorgasbord of satisfying options. Choose from Savory Kale Scones or Chocolate Chip Crepes for breakfast, Asian Noodle Soup or Chipotle Black Bean burgers for lunch, or Fettuccine Alfredo with Mushrooms or Veggie Lasagna for dinner. Or select f...
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49.
Series: Asperfell
The Forest Kingdom
Paperback
Jamie Thomas
9781949671285
$18.50
FICTION
Aug 24, 2021
After escaping the otherworldly prison of Asperfell, Briony races through an enchanted forest in search of a magical gate that will bring her back home with the true heir to the throne. But she?ll soon discover the path is guarded by an impossible kingdom and haunted by an ancient goddess.
50.
Series:
Land of the Great Turtles
Paperback
Brad Wagnon
9781939053350
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from 4 - 7
Aug 25, 2021
The Land of Great Turtles is a Cherokee origin story that introduces the reader to Cherokee beliefs and values. The Creator gave the Cherokee people a beautiful island with everything they could ever need. It came with only one rule: they must take care of the land and the animals living there. But what happens when the children decide to paly with the turtles instead of taking care of their responsibilities?Written in both Cherokee and English, readers become familiar with the Cherokee syllabary and the Cherokee language.
51.
Series:
How the World Was Made
Paperback
Brad Wagnon
9781939053374
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from 4 - 7
Aug 25, 2021
This traditional Cherokee creation story takes place during a time when animals did many of the things that people can do. When the earth was young, the animals lived on a rock above it, and the earth was covered in water. The animals needed more room, but where could they find it? This book retells the delightful Cherokee tale of how the earth was created while teaching the invaluable lesson that even the smallest creature can make a difference. Written in both Cherokee and English, the book will familiarize readers with the syllabary and the...
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52.
Series:
Own Your Health
How to Live Long & Avoid Chronic Illness
Paperback
Glen Merzer
9798670357029
$25.95
HEALTH & FITNESS
Sep 01, 2021
In down-to-earth language with a hearty helping of humor, Glen Merzer uses personal experience, real-life stories, and case studies to illustrate what science has repeatedly confirmed: plant-based diets prevent chronic disease. With clarity and humor, he presents a convincing case for how a plant-based diet can help us take charge of our health and avoid doctors, hospitals, and medicine. From the overall lack of nutritional knowledge among western health-care providers to the impact of animal farming on climate change to how our bodies are phys...
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53.
Series: The Cupids Trilogy
Such Miracles and Mischiefs
Paperback
Trudy J. Morgan-Cole
9781550819021
$21.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2021
Colonists come face to face with Indigenous Americans, enslaved Africans, and pirates as they struggle to build a life in North America. Such Miracles and Mischiefs, the second book in the Cupids trilogy, adventures across the first three English colonies in the Americas—Newfoundland, Virginia, and Bermuda—and highlights women’s colonial experience. After pirates attack the Guy family’s plantation near Cupids, Nancy Ellis needs all her ingenuity to survive in the hands of lawless men. Ned Perry crosses the ocean to find her, while Nancy’s emplo...
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54.
Series:
Salt Beef Buckets
A Love Story
Paperback
Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman
9781550819052
$24.95
COOKING
Nov 15, 2021
Recipes and essays exploring the stories and culinary traditions of Newfoundland. Three facts: 1. The culinary history of Newfoundland is unique and diverse. 2. Anyone can cook anything and make it delicious, so long as they prioritize local and seasonal ingredients. 3. Food tastes better when it is connected to stories and memory. These are the core beliefs of Salt Beef Buckets: A Love Story, an affectionate tribute to the land, the people, and their meals.
55.
Series:
The Love Olympics
Paperback
Claire Wilkshire
9781550819083
$21.95
FICTION
Oct 10, 2021
***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: ALISTAIR MACLEOD PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – FINALIST*** Warm, funny, and stylistically savvy, these stories follow an interlocking set of characters and the people they love. Characters weave their way in and out of The Love Olympics, a collection of short fiction set in St. John’s. The book is about various forms of love—the ways love grips us, shakes us, releases or envelops us. The stories are smart, witty, funny, warm, and surprising; they capture the preoccupations o...
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56.
Series:
The Blue Moth Motel
Paperback
Olivia Robinson
9781550819113
$21.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2021
***2022 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND BOOK AWARD: FICTION – WINNER*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST*** A haunting and evocative exploration of the meaning of family and home. Ingrid and Norah have an unconventional upbringing—growing up in a motel, raised by their mother and her female partner. The girls’ grandmother, Ada, who owns the Blue Moth, has always kept them at a distance. But when she buys a piano for the motel, that all changes. Years later in England, training to be a soloist, Ingrid loses her voice and must decide what to do. She...
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57.
Series: The Sebastian Synard Mystery Series
Three for Trinity
Paperback
Kevin Major
9781550819144
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2021
***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA - SHORTLIST*** When Sebastian goes undercover in the theatre to find a killer, things get… dramatic. In Three for Trinity, the third book in the Sebastian Synard Mystery series, offbeat humour meets suspense as a nefarious crime unfolds. Trying to run a tour business in COVID times is tough, especially when you’re home- schooling a teenager. But with the creation of the Atlantic bubble, Sebastian can offer a tour of the scenic, historic Bonavista peninsula to a small group. On the l...
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58.
Series: The Rock Paper Sex Series
Rock Paper Sex Volume 2
Trigger Warning
Paperback
Kerri Cull
9781550819175
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 31, 2021
This follow-up to the bestselling Rock Paper Sex provides a space for the varied voices of individual sex workers, massage parlour owners, and community organizations, in a startling and compelling investigation of the industry. Rock Paper Sex Volume 2: Trigger Warning is timely, compassionate, and enlightening. The stories presented in this sequel offer a wide range of perspectives from the sex industry in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. As new voices are introduced and others from Rock Paper Sex are revisited, key themes related to sex...
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59.
Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections
Ancestors
Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs
Paperback
Sarah Carter
9781551954547
$39.95
PHOTOGRAPHY
Dec 02, 2021
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, humour, artwork, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs....
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60.
Series:
Hockey With Dad
Hardcover
Willie Sellars
9781987915808
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 10, 2021
The highly anticipated follow-up to Willie Sellars' award-winning Dipnetting with Dad, in Hockey with Dad, Sellars continues the adventures of Little Brother as he grows and learns about the importance of hockey to his Secwépemc community.She shoots, she scores! Big Sister’s hockey team has worked hard toward the most important game of the season. When the team goalie gets injured, Little Brother excitedly steps onto the ice to play in the Championship game. He always wanted to be part of the lineup, where Big Sister is the ace forward. The clo...
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