1.
Series:
Happily Ever Older
Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care
Paperback
Moira Welsh
9781770415218
$23.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 09, 2021
While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the dangerous stories. Not the accounts of falls or bedsores or overmedication, but of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. Stories...
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2.
Series:
The Willow Wren
A Novel
Paperback
Philipp Schott
9781770415737
$22.95
FICTION
Mar 23, 2021
The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy. Ludwig is an odd and introverted child, growing up in Hitler’s Germany. While Ludwig’s father, Wilhelm, is a senior Nazi and a true believer, Ludwig escapes the unfolding catastrophe by withdrawing into nature and books. Eventually, when the Allied bombing campaign intensifies, Ludwig is sent to a Hitler Youth camp, where his oddness makes him a target for bullying. As the war turns against Germany, the Hitler Youth camp ...
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3.
Series: A Helena Marsh Novel
Deceptions
A Helena Marsh Novel
Paperback
Anna Porter
9781770415386
$21.95
FICTION
Apr 06, 2021
A savvy art world thriller with a strong, independent heroine and the follow-up to The Appraisal, finalist for the 2018 Staunch Prize. Former Budapest cop Attila Feher would really like to see art expert Helena Marsh again, so he arranges a contract for her to determine whether a painting is a copy of a famous Artemisia Gentileschi canvas or the real thing. A simple appraisal becomes a dangerous assignment when usual eastern European gangsters show up and people start dying and the seething corruption that underlies the lost promise of po...
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4.
Series:
The Murders That Made Us
How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
Paperback
Bob Calhoun
9781770415492
$24.95
TRUE CRIME
May 04, 2021
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city’s art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From its earliest days when vigilantes hung perps from downtown buildings to the Zodiac Killer and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, murder and mayhem have shaped the city into the political and economic force that she is today. The Great 1906 Earthquake shook a city that was alread...
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5.
Series:
Moon of the Crusted Snow
A Novel
Paperback
Waubgeshig Rice
9781770414006
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 02, 2018
National Bestseller Winner of the 2019 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Shortlisted for the 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Shortlisted for the 2019/20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award 2020 Burlington Library Selection; 2020 Hamilton Reads One Book One Community Selection; 2020 Region of Waterloo One Book One Community Selection; 2019 Ontario Library Association Ontario Together We Read Program Selection; 2019 Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads; 2019 Amnesty International Book Cl...
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6.
Series:
Uncle
Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty
Paperback
Cheryl Thompson
9781552454107
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 16, 2021
From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s...
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7.
Series:
Seconds Out
Women and Fighting
Paperback
Alison Dean
9781552454190
$21.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
May 18, 2021
Kicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence. Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a p...
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8.
Series:
Exhibitionist
Paperback
Molly Cross-Blanchard
9781552454220
$21.95
POETRY
Apr 13, 2021
Shortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry Award Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. One minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she’s asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of Exhibitionist oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard’s poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to...
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9.
Series:
And Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Paperback
Jocelyne Saucier
9781552454213
$21.95
FICTION
Jun 15, 2021
Away From Her meets Strangers on a Train in this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained Down After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman’s disappearance. Gladys might look old and frail, but she is determined to finish her life on her own terms. And so, one September morning, she leaves Swastika, her home of the past fifty years, and hops on the Northlander train, eager to put thousands of mil...
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10.
Series:
The Crash Palace
Paperback
Andrew Wedderburn
9781552454053
$22.95
FICTION
Jan 12, 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RELIT 2022 NOVEL AWARD A joy ride set on a crash course with the past. Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a family sedan, the SUV she was paid to drive around the oil fields. From the second she learned to drive, she’s always found a way to hit the road. Years ago, when she abandoned her oil field job, she found herself chauffeuring around the Lever Men, a B-list band relegated to playing empty dive bars in far-flung towns. That’s how she found herself at the Crash P...
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11.
Series:
A Ghost in the Throat
Paperback
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
9781771964111
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 01, 2021
An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Guardian Best Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize • Winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize • A New York Times New & Noteworthy Title • Longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize • A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 • A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 • An NPR Best Book of 2021 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A Wi...
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12.
Series: Untold Lives
Driven
The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers
Paperback
Marcello Di Cintio
9781771963848
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 04, 2021
Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occu...
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13.
Series:
Murder on the Inside
The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary
Paperback
Catherine Fogarty
9781771964012
$24.95
TRUE CRIME
Apr 13, 2021
Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days, the prisoners held the guards hostage while their leaders negotiated with a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers, drawing attention to the dehumanizing realities of their incarceration, including over...
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14.
Series:
Lucia
Paperback
Alex Pheby
9781771964234
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 15, 2021
A GLOBE & MAIL RECOMMENDED SUMMER 2021 READ "A writer possessed of unusual indeed, extraordinary powers... Read [Lucia] with your eyes wide open."—The Guardian She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently. . .[she] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger over nothing when she is confined to a straightjacket, writes James Joyce in one of the few surviving documents concerning his daughter. A gifted dancer, Beckett’s lover, an aspiring writer—what little we know about Lucia Joyce effectively ends with a diagnosis of schizophren...
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15.
Series: The Barrøy Chronicles
White Shadow
Paperback
Roy Jacobsen
9781771964036
$22.95
FICTION
Apr 06, 2021
The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The Unseen No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid can’t know that one will not only be alive, but could be the answer to a lifetime of loneliness—nor can she imagine what sufferi...
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16.
Series:
Bonnie Jack
A Novel
Paperback
Ian Hamilton
9781487007089
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 01, 2021
From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee novels, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre. Now living in the United States and facing his impending retirement, Jack and his wife Anne travel to Scotland to track down his long-lost sister. Their journey takes them from their home in a quiet Boston suburb to the impoverished mill towns of Ayrshire, the gray cobbled streets of Glasgow, and...
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17.
Series:
This Eden
Paperback
Ed O’Loughlin
9781487005696
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 08, 2021
“This Eden is a delight, a rollicking ride that never lets up, with a surprising — and emotionally rich — ending.” — Quill & Quire (Starred Review) Michael Atarian is out of his depth. The closest he ever came to working in tech was when he rode a delivery bike for a food app in Vancouver. Yet when his coder girlfriend dies, he is inexplicably headhunted by a sinister tech mogul and transplanted to Silicon Valley. There, a reluctant spy named Aoife lures him into the hands of an enigmatic war-gamer who tricks them both into joining his quest to...
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18.
Series:
The Sniper
Paperback
Kuo-Li Chang
9781487008574
$19.95
FICTION
May 04, 2021
Jason Bourne meets John McClane in this electrifying thriller about a special-forces sniper and a seasoned homicide detective who get caught up in a criminal conspiracy that involves the highest levels of power. Twelve days before retirement, Taipei police detective Wu is handed a curious case: a naval officer has been found dead in his hotel room. While it is immediately apparent to Wu that the officer has been murdered, the military insist it was suicide and want the case closed with no questions asked. Soon, however, more high-ranking offi...
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19.
Series:
The Speed of Mercy
Paperback
Christy Ann Conlin
9781487003401
$24.95
FICTION
Mar 23, 2021
“Dark family secrets, the lore of the sea, and a tender, protective friendship between women all converge in The Speed of Mercy, an unusual and surprising story set in idyllic rural Nova Scotia. With subtle humour, Conlin picks the locks on the long-closed doors of two families and bares the ugly, painful skeletons everyone knew were there but chose to hide.” — Sylvia D. Hamilton, author of And I Alone Escaped To Tell You The Speed of Mercy captures the unbearable cost of childhood betrayal and what happens when history is suppressed, our past...
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20.
Series:
Unsettled Ground
Paperback
Claire Fuller
9781487009403
$22.95
FICTION
May 18, 2021
From bestselling author Claire Fuller comes a portrait of life on the fringes of society, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back? Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At fifty-one years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sa...
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21.
Series: ThinkCities
City of Water
Hardcover
Andrea Curtis
9781773061443
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
May 01, 2021
The second book in the ThinkCities series explores water as a precious, finite resource, tracing its journey from source, through the city, and back again. Living in cities where water flows effortlessly from our taps and fountains, it’s easy to take it for granted. City of Water, the second book in the ThinkCities series, shines a light on the water system that is vital for our health and well-being. The narrative traces the journey of water from the forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and wetlands that form the watershed, through pipes and tre...
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22.
Series:
The Day the Rain Moved In
Hardcover
Éléonore Douspis BA
9781773064819
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Apr 01, 2021
In this beautiful picture book, the wondrous merges with the ordinary when it starts to rain … inside the house! One day, it starts to rain in Pauline and Louis’s house. The whole family looks for the source of the rain, but nothing can be found! Dad tries to mop up the puddles that form on the floor, Mom holds an umbrella over her head to read, and Pauline and Louis wear their raincoats. Everyone tries to pretend that nothing is wrong. Pauline and Louis are embarrassed and try to keep their rainy house a secret from the other kids at school, e...
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23.
Series: I Have the Right
I Have the Right to Save My Planet
Hardcover
Alain Serres
9781773064871
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 2021
From the author and illustrator duo who created the award-winning I Have the Right to Be a Child comes this beautifully illustrated picture book about a child’s right to advocate for the environment they live in. All children have the right to learn about the world, to celebrate the water, air and sunshine, and to be curious about the animals and plants that live on our planet. All children also have the right to learn about endangered species, to be concerned about plastic in the ocean, and to understand what a changing climate means for our E...
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24.
Series:
My Body in Pieces
Hardcover
Marie-Noëlle Hébert
9781773064840
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Apr 01, 2021
A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman’s struggles with self-esteem and body image issues.All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn’t make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn’t call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn’t fall with...
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25.
Series: Travels with My Family
Travels in Cuba
Hardcover
Marie-Louise Gay
9781773063478
$15.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
May 01, 2021
Even for an experienced traveler like Charlie, Cuba is a place unlike any he has visited before — an island full of surprises, secrets and puzzling contradictions. When Charlie’s artist mother is invited to visit a school in Cuba, the whole family goes along on the trip. But the island they discover is a far cry from the all-inclusive resorts that Charlie has heard his friends talk about. Charlie has never visited a country as strange and puzzling as Cuba — a country where he often feels like a time traveler. Where Havana’s grand Hotel Nacional...
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26.
Series:
Why Does My Shadow Follow Me?
More Science Questions from Real Kids
Hardcover
Kira Vermond
9781773215013
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 11
Mar 09, 2021
Science starts with a question in this fascinating compendium for curious kids. The team behind the acclaimed Why Don’t Cars Run on Apple Juice? is back to tackle more kid questions like “Are birds really dinosaurs?” and “Why do we have butts?” With help from Ontario Science Centre experts, Kira Vermond packs mind-boggling facts into answers that encourage further inquiry, covering topics over five sections: animals, the human body, planet Earth, tech and innovation, and outer space. From glowing scorpions and prehistoric sharks to stem cells ...
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27.
Series:
The Bare Naked Book
Hardcover
Kathy Stinson
9781773214726
$21.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 5
Mar 09, 2021
“A joyous celebration of all bodies.”—STARRED review, Kirkus ReviewsWINNER: 2022 ALA Rainbow Book ListBodies, bodies! Big and small, short and tall, young and old—Every BODY is different!The Bare Naked Book has been a beloved fixture in libraries, classrooms, and at-home story times since its original publication in 1986. Now, this revised edition is ready to meet a new generation of readers.The text has been updated to reflect current understandings of gender and inclusion, which are alsoshowcased in the brand-new, vibrant illustrations by Mel...
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28.
Series:
The Power of Style
How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures
Paperback
Christian Allaire
9781773214917
$14.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 12
Apr 27, 2021
Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly...
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29.
Series:
Treaty Words
For As Long As the Rivers Flow
Hardcover
Aimée Craft
9781773214962
$16.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 10
Mar 09, 2021
The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis’s home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen—to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties—the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Accompanied by beautiful illustr...
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30.
Series:
Wild Outside
Around the World with Survivorman
Paperback
Les Stroud
9781773215075
$22.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Mar 09, 2021
Join TV’s Survivorman on twelve edge-of-your-seat adventures as he proves anyone can be an outdoor explorer.From surviving a frigid night in northern Canada to munching on grubs in the Australian Outback, Les Stroud’s passion for the outdoors has driven him to some of the planet’s most remote and beautiful locations. In Wild Outside, he invites readers into his world of wilderness adventures with fast-pacedstories, nature facts, and practical advice for spending time outside. Featuring kid-friendly activities and tips like how to safely observe...
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