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Series: Clockwork DestinyHardcover
Kevin J. Anderson9781770416512
$49.95FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
The final volume in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning steampunk trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart In Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, readers met the optimistic young hero Owen Hardy, as well as the more reluctant adventurer Marinda Peake, in an amazing world of airships and alchemy, fantastic carnivals and lost cities. Now Owen Hardy, retired and content in his quiet, perfect life with the beautiful Francesca, is pulled into one last adventure with his eager grandson Alain. This final mis... + Read More
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Series: The Sisters SputnikA NovelPaperback
Terri Favro9781770416086
$24.95FICTION
May 17, 2022
“It does what readers ask of a Storyteller: keeps things fast-moving and entertaining. It’s a breezy joy.” — Publishers Weekly “Together, the Sisters Sputnik are the badassest kickass duo since Tank Girl and Jet Girl. If you like your speculative fiction sardonic, weird, sprightly, and intelligent, you will love this splendid book.” — Candas Jane Dorsey, author of Black Wine and Ice and Other Stories An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytell... + Read More
For readers of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World War II ends, 20-year-old Sam is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the colony. But the Indonesian independence movement is far ahead of the Dutch, and Sam is thrown into a guerilla war, his loyalties challenged when his squad commits atrocities reminiscent of those he s... + Read More
A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern era After video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide. Help! I’m Alive explores the aftermath through the eyes of four people all suddenly confronted with who they have been and how they should be in t... + Read More
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Series: The Tildon ChroniclesIn for a DimeA NovelPaperback
John Jantunen9781770416154
$24.95FICTION
May 31, 2022
The post-apocalyptic love child of Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy Ten years after the calamitous events set in motion by Dylan Cleary in his attempt to bring George Cleary’s last novel to life, Deacon Riis has settled back into the rather sedate life of a small-town reporter. That is, until he’s invited to a New Year’s Eve Party by Dylan’s sister Crystal, who’s now a successful writer/producer behind a wildly popular horror movie franchise and for her next big budget slasher flick she’s chosen to adapt one of her grandfather’s apocalypt... + Read More
For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father’s greatest regret and path to redemption Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life and family. After the war, Delaney odd-jobs his way up the American east coast and catches a schooner ... + Read More
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Series: MeccaPaperback
William Deverell9781770416468
$26.95FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
Arthur Ellis award–winning William Deverell’s 1983 bestseller An extremist warlord is about to unleash the world’s deadliest shock troops. The Rotkommando — an army of expert terrorists, political fanatics, and psychotic killers — is armed with a failsafe masterplan. Codeword … Mecca. Now the Rotkommando is poised on the brink of a crazed kamikaze mission to nuke Israel and ignite World War III. Only three people on Earth have the power to stop them: a burned-out poet with delusions of grandeur, a devout nymphomaniac with a taste for bl... + Read More
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Series: Mind GamesPaperback
William Deverell9781770416451
$26.95FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
Arthur Ellis award–winning William Deverell’s 2003 bestseller In Mind Games, William Deverell returns to the intriguing territory of the law and lawyers and of human psychology and motivation, and he does so in familiar Deverell surroundings: the streets, courtrooms, and waters of Vancouver. Dr. Tim Dare is a forensic psychiatrist whose life is in a mess: his wife has just left him to find herself; his mother is being sued for libel by a small-town mayor over a mystery novel; he’s been made the monitor of a man just out of psychiatric ... + Read More
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Series: A Dr. Bannerman Vet MysteryFifty-Four PigsA Dr. Bannerman Vet MysteryPaperback
Philipp Schott9781770416147
$22.95FICTION
Apr 19, 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Original, well-constructed, with a cast of interesting characters.” — Ian Hamilton, author of the Ava Lee series “A delicious read.” — Iona Whishaw, author of the Lane Winslow mystery series “A charming mystery.” — Publishers Weekly A swine barn explodes near a lakeside town, putting veterinarian Dr. Peter Bannerman on a collision course with murder and a startling conspiracy. Peter is an odd duck, obsessed with logic and measurable facts, an obsession he puts to good use in his veterinary practice. When a mur... + Read More
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Series: Nobody from SomewhereA Crime NovelPaperback
Dietrich Kalteis9781770416116
$24.95FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
In this action-packed caper novel, a long-retired cop gets wrapped up with a girl on the run Long-retired cop Fitch Henry Haut is terminally ill and living out his final years alone. As he sits in his favorite diner enjoying the meatloaf special, he watches as a young girl steps in and spots two rough-looking men at the counter. When they see her, she runs off and they give chase. His cop instincts kick in and Fitch follows, catching up with them in the parking lot. As the two men try to force her into their vehicle, Fitch manages to ge... + Read More
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Series: Inside the Montreal MafiaThe Confessions of Andrew ScoppaPaperback
Félix Séguin9781770416673
$24.95TRUE CRIME
Jun 07, 2022
National Bestseller “Inside the Montreal Mafia is an entertaining, illuminating, and often sobering look at the downfall of the Rizzuto crime family … Highly readable and engaging.” — Montreal Review of Books A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto family For the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by talking to journalists. From October 2014 to October 2019, Félix Séguin and Eric Thibault held multiple secret meetings with Andrew Scoppa,... + Read More
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Series: Play It RightThe Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall StreetHardcover
Kamal Gupta9781770416604
$36.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 10, 2022
A real-life underdog tale of one man turning the tables on the casinos and Wall Street without selling his soul to the devil All around the world, the words “Wall Street” conjure up a powerful image. For some, it is the center of America’s capitalist system and the engine of its economic growth. For others, it is the home of rapacious bankers and reckless traders whose greed would lead to a global financial crisis. For an Indian-born blackjack player, Wall Street represented something else entirely — a chance for him to play in the larges... + Read More
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Series: Change for GoodAn Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World's Most Urgent Social ProblemsHardcover
Paul Klein9781770416314
$36.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Mar 15, 2022
“I wish we had this book forty years ago!” — Ben Cohen, co-founder, Ben & Jerry’s An action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world’s most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so. More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and shareholder value are no longer the primary metric of business success. Customers, shareholders, and communities are demanding that companies do good, do more, and do better. In Change for Good, Paul Klein shows how companies must move beyond what he calls “corporate social responsibili... + Read More
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Series: Still HopefulLessons from a Lifetime of ActivismPaperback
Maude Barlow9781770416321
$21.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Mar 08, 2022
“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC “It’s time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world.” — CNN In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism. She has been a linchpin in three major movements in her life: second-wave feminism, the battle against free trade and globalization, and the global fight for water justice. From each of these she draws her lessons of hope, emphasizing that effective activism i... + Read More
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Series: Woman, WatchingLouise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi BayPaperback
Merilyn Simonds9781770416598
$28.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 24, 2022
From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds. 2022 Foreword Indies Award Winner for the Editor’s Choice Prize, non fiction “[A] lyrical, passionate, and deeply researched portrait.” — Margaret Atwood “This brilliant account does justice to a pioneering figure who merits wider recognition.” — Publishers Weekly, starred r... + Read More
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Series: Lost FeastCulinary Extinction and the Future of FoodPaperback
Lenore Newman9781770416727
$28.95NATURE
Apr 05, 2022
“Edifying and entertaining.” — Foreword Reviews, starred review Taste Canada Silver Award Winner and Finalist for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Award A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to deat... + Read More
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Series: Fishing With TardelliA Memoir of Family in Time LostPaperback
Neil Besner9781770416345
$21.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 24, 2022
A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. The various homes become part of Besner’s internal geography; memory, dream, story, fable become permeable layers folded over bald facts baldly s... + Read More
Winner of the 2023 Trillium Book Award A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves and what it means to go on living in the face of an enormous accumulation of loss. Written during the second wave of the... + Read More
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Series: This Is Your Captain SpeakingStories from the Flight DeckPaperback
Doug Morris9781770415850
$22.95TRANSPORTATION
Apr 05, 2022
For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travelers, Captain Doug Morris tells you everything you want (and need!) to know about flight Captain Doug Morris has been writing for his airline’s in-flight magazine for 24 years and has answered a gamut of questions. This Is Your Captain Speaking will draw from his extensive experience and explain everything you ever wanted to know about airline travel: whether airliners have keys, why the bumps, what aircrew get up to on layovers, what’s the deal with “mile-h... + Read More
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Series: Blood and FireThe Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling’s Original SheikPaperback
Brian R. Solomon9781770415805
$26.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Apr 12, 2022
The captivating story of how The Sheik captured the imagination of a generation, conquered the wrestling business, and lost it all in a blaze of flame and glory He was the most vicious, bloodthirsty, reviled villain in the history of the ring. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, he drew record crowds everywhere he went and left a trail of burned and bloody opponents in his wake. He was The Sheik: the mysterious and terrifying madman from Syria whose wanton destruction and mayhem are the stuff of wrestling legend. But what those legions of... + Read More
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Series: The Eighth Wonder of the WorldThe True Story of André the GiantPaperback
Bertrand Hébert9781770416758
$24.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Nov 30, 2021
From field producer for HBO’s André the Giant Pat Laprade and renowned wrestling historian Bertrand Hébert comes a definitive and exhaustive biography of André the Giant … now in paperback! “The gold standard for wrestling biographies.” — Wrestling Observer Is there a way to find truth in the stuff of legend? You may think you know André the Giant — but who was André Roussimoff? Through exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with family and friends, The Eighth Wonder of the World offers a comprehensive exploration of André’s am... + Read More
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Series: Team Chemistry30 Elements for Coaches to Foster Cohesion, Strengthen Communication Skills, and Create a Healthy Sport CulturePaperback
André Lachance9781770416406
$26.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Apr 19, 2022
“A must-read!” — Derek Johnson, Director of Pitching, Cincinnati Reds, MLB What is different about teams that are consistent winners, those teams that always seem to bring their A-game when the stakes are highest? A positive team culture is likely the answer. We’ve all seen it happen: the team that looks great on paper, or has a league-leading regular season, but can’t pull out the wins or give their top performance when everything is on the line. As coaches and sport leaders what can we do to ensure that we maximize the potential of ou... + Read More
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Series: The Meaning of MetallicaRide the LyricsPaperback
William Irwin9781770416185
$22.95MUSIC
Apr 19, 2022
A serious look at the lyrics of metal’s biggest band, disentangling double meanings, explaining stories, uncovering sources, and illuminating themes such as hope, despair, rage, resilience, power, liberty, justice, love, death, and insanity. More than 40 years since their formation, and 125 million album sales later, Metallica is as relevant as ever. Much has been written about the band, but The Meaning of Metallica is the first book to focus exclusively on their lyrics. Their mighty guitar riffs and pounding drums are legendary, but Me... + Read More
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Series: Hearts on FireSix Years that Changed Canadian Music 2000–2005Hardcover
Michael Barclay9781770415874
$39.95MUSIC
Apr 26, 2022
An authoritative, unprecedented account of how in the early 2000s Canadian music finally became cool Hearts on Fire is about the creative explosion in Canadian music of the early 2000s, which captured the world’s attention in entirely new ways. The Canadian wave didn’t just sweep over one genre or one city, it stretched from coast to coast, affecting large bands and solo performers, rock bands and DJs, and it connected to international scenes by capitalizing on new technology and old-school DIY methods. Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black ... + Read More
“Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition. During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long po... + Read More
The stunning conclusion to a 40-year poetic project In the tradition of earlier modernist long poems like Ezra Pound’s Cantos and bp Nichol’s The Martyrology, The Invisible World Is in Decline: Book IX is full of startling poetic music and imagery while addressing concerns to which every reader will respond: the life of the heart as well as life during COVID-19, love as well as death, philosophy as well as emotion. The poems are deeply responsive to what an epigraph from Virgil calls “vows and prayers,” i.e., those things that we desire a... + Read More
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Series: Bon: The Last HighwayThe Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black, Updated Edition of the Definitive BiographyPaperback
Jesse Fink9781770414969
$29.95MUSIC
May 31, 2022
An affectionate, honest tribute now updated with new revelations about the rock and roll icon who helped make AC/DC an international sensation The second edition of Bon: The Last Highway includes a brand new 16-page introduction. Fink examines… New information from French media that changes what we know about who was with Bon Scott the night he died The London drug-dealing connections of the late Alistair Kinnear A possible heroin link involving the late Yes bassist Chris Squire Revised theories on how Bon died With unpre... + Read More
The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North…now in paperback! Includes two full-colour photo inserts, with unearthed photos of the band. “Popoff’s long-time access to the three band members, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, and their associates continues to provide a phenomenal treasure trove of insight and detail.” — Library Journal In this conclusion to his trilogy of authoritative books on Canada’s most beloved and successful rock band, Martin Popoff takes us through three decades of ... + Read More
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