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1.
The Expendables How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization Paperback Jeff Rubin 9780735279414 $21.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Globe and Mail Favourite Book of 2020From the #1 bestselling author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback—from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe—will change the developed world.Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class ... + Read More
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Can You Hear Me Now? How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live with Passion and Purpose Paperback Celina Caesar-Chavannes 9780735279612 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 12, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING AND THE 2021 SPEAKER’S BOOK AWARDIn Can You Hear Me Now?, Celina Caesar-Chavannes digs deep into her childhood and her life as a young Black woman entrepreneur and politician, and shows us that effective and humane leaders grow as much from their mistakes and vulnerabilities as from their strengths.Celina Caesar-Chavannes, already a breaker of boundaries as a Black woman in business, got into politics because she wanted to make a bigger difference in the w... + Read More
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Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy Paperback Gary Barwin 9780735279544 $21.00 FICTION Mar 08, 2022

WINNER OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION“There are few voices in Canadian writing as original as Barwin’s.” Toronto StarA wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he’s lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in ... + Read More
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If I Knew Then Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging Paperback Jann Arden 9780735279995 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 15, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERJann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying t... + Read More
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Family Law Paperback Gin Phillips 9780735280885 $17.95 FICTION May 03, 2022

When an ambitious female lawyer becomes the victim of harassment, she must decide what’s more important: her family’s safety or the rights she’s fighting for?Set in Alabama in the early ’80s, Family Law follows a young lawyer, Lucia, who is making a name for herself at a time when a woman in a courtroom is still a rarity. She’s been the recipient of threats and vandalism for her work extracting women from painful and sometimes dangerous marriages, but her own happy marriage has always felt sheltered from the work she does. When her mother’s pen... + Read More
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The Day the World Stops Shopping Paperback J.B. Mackinnon 9780735275553 $21.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 03, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“FASCINATING.”—Maclean’sConsuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.The planet says we consume too much: in North America, we burn the earth’s resources at a rate five times faster than they can regenerate. And despite our efforts to “green” our consumption—by recycling, increasing energy efficiency, or using solar power—we have yet to see a decline in glob... + Read More
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Wish You Were Here A Murdered Girl, a Brother's Quest and the Hunt for a Canadian Serial Killer Paperback John Allore 9781039003262 $17.00 TRUE CRIME May 03, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAs compelling as Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark or James Ellroy’s My Dark Places, this is the story of a brother’s lifelong determination to find the truth about his sister’s death, a police force that was ignoring the cases of missing and murdered women, and, to the surprise of everyone involved, a previously undiscovered serial killer.In the fall of 1978 teenager Theresa Allore went missing near Sherbrooke, Quebec. She wasn’t seen again until the spring thaw revealed her body in a creek only a few kilometers a... + Read More
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The Wolfpack The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld Paperback Peter Edwards 9780735275416 $22.00 TRUE CRIME May 31, 2022

Award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera and leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveal would-be successors to Vito Rizzuto’s criminal dominance: a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival on Canada’s doorstep of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations—the drug cartels of Mexico.Following the death of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in 2013, a group of young criminals rose to fill the vacuum in power on his old turf. The newcomers were noth... + Read More
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Through the Garden A Love Story (with Cats) Paperback Lorna Crozier 9780771021244 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 04, 2022

A Globe and Mail 100 Best Book Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonfictionA deeply affecting portrait of a long partnership and a clear-eyed account of the impact of a serious illness, writing as consolation, and the enduring significance of poetry from one of Canada’s most celebrated voices.When Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane met at a poetry workshop in 1976, they had no idea that they would go on to write more than forty books between them, balancing their careers with their devotion to each other, and to their beloved ... + Read More
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Except the Dying 25th Anniversary Edition Paperback Maureen Jennings 9780771000508 $21.00 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

The novel that sparked the hugely popular Murdoch Mysteries television series celebrates its 25th anniversary.Includes a new introduction and a previously unpublished short story featuring the young Detective Murdoch.In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman is found naked and frozen in a quiet laneway. Acting Detective William Murdoch, driven by pity for the girl and the desire to secure his promotion, is determined to pursue every lead and reveal the truth. Although influential people pressure the police to sol... + Read More
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Hooked Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Paperback Michael Moss 9780771059605 $22.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Feb 08, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe troubling story of how food companies have exploited our most fundamental evolutionary instincts to get us hooked on processed foods, from the #1 bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Salt Sugar Fat.Motivated by these questions such as Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? and Are the decisions we make about food beyond our control?, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began searching for answers.In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncov... + Read More
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Cereus Blooms at Night Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Shani Mootoo 9780771001109 $21.00 FICTION Feb 15, 2022

FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEBold and lyrical, sensual and highly charged, Cereus Blooms at Night is the beautifully written, sensational first novel by Shani Mootoo—and it’s now in the Penguin Modern Classics collection.Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Night unveils the mystery surrounding Mala Ramchandin and the tempestuous history of her family. At the heart of this bold and seductive novel is an alleged crime committed ma... + Read More
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Missing from the Village The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community Paperback Justin Ling 9780771048661 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 03, 2022

A Globe and Mail Top 100 BookShortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book AwardsAn Indigo Best Book of 2020Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book (Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence)The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men—the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur—from Toronto’s queer community.In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men—Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan—from Toronto’s gay village were, perhaps, linked. When the... + Read More
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Series: INSPECTOR ALAN BANKS Not Dark Yet Paperback Peter Robinson 9780771029493 $22.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

The twenty-seventh installment of the #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series by “the grand master of the genre” (Literary Review), Peter Robinson.NATIONAL BESTSELLER The gruesome double-murder at an Eastvale property developer’s luxury home should be an open-and-shut case for Superintendent Alan Banks and his team of detectives. There’s a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia, men who left the country suspiciously soon after the murder. When Banks and his team find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house, the investigation p... + Read More
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To Paradise A Novel Hardcover Hanya Yanagihara 9780771017889 $39.95 FICTION Jan 11, 2022

From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a y... + Read More
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Series: The Joona Linna Series The Mirror Man Joona Linna Series: #8 Paperback Lars Kepler 9780771072659 $22.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER15 MILLION COPIES OF THE SERIES SOLD WORLDWIDEThe eighth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna.Sixteen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape…and once caught, they rarely survive their punishment.Five years later, Jenny is found dead in a public park, and the ... + Read More
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Letters of Note: Grief Paperback Shaun Usher 9780771099472 $14.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 08, 2022

An immensely moving collection of letters on the theme of Grief, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name—an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II’s recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; fro... + Read More
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Burning Questions Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021 Hardcover Margaret Atwood 9780771096402 $36.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 01, 2022

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes an brilliant collection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?How can we live on our planet?Is it true? And is it fair?What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster... + Read More
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Fast Commute A Poem Paperback Laurie D. Graham 9780771051975 $19.95 POETRY Mar 22, 2022

Apowerful book-length poem on environmental destruction and the violences of colonial nation-states from the acclaimed author of Settler Education. Here is a lament for places in flux, where industrial, commercial, or suburban development encroaches or invades. From Highway 401 to Refinery Row east of Edmonton, from Lake Ontario to the Fraser River, this long poemtakes aim at the structures that support ecological injustice and attempts new forms of expression grounded in respect for flora, fauna, water, land, and air. It also wrestles with the... + Read More
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Parasitic Oscillations Poems Paperback Madhur Anand 9780771099410 $19.95 POETRY Mar 22, 2022

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book“Anand’s attention to and ability to evoke explicit, exponential beauty in scientific and natural form are simply stunning…. Anand’s debut is in every measure a triumph.” –Publishers WeeklyA stunning new collection of poems that examine various aspects of living and practicing as both a poet and scientist in the Anthropocene during a time of unravelling.The poems in Madhur Anand’s second collection interrogate the inevitability of undesired cyclic variation caused by feedback in the amplifying devices of both poetry... + Read More
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Each One a Furnace Poems Paperback Tolu Oloruntoba 9780771051586 $19.95 POETRY Mar 22, 2022

From the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is abrilliant new collection of poems—a burning chronicle of passage and stillness and restlessness.Each One a Furnace explores (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches. The often-migratory birds in these poems typify the unrest, and inability to rest, that animate the lives of billions in the modern world. Out of the register of ornithology, themes of difficulty, adversity, and migrancy, urban ennui, and the psychic stru... + Read More
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Waking Occupations Poems Paperback Phoebe Wang 9780771099397 $19.95 POETRY Mar 22, 2022

The second collection from the acclaimed author of Admission Requirements.This astonishing new collection of poems contemplates our obligations to live in a creative, generative, and revolutionary way amid a cascade of global contingencies.In a four-part meditation on what it means to live on occupied land and in colonial time, the subject of these poems has moved beyond arriving and departing and wakes each day to meet her commitments and to heal from complicities, exclusions, difficult truths and the pandemic of forgetting. It follows the fig... + Read More
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Who By Fire War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen Hardcover Matti Friedman 9780771096266 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 29, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe incredible never-before-told story of Leonard Cohen’s 1973 tour of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.“Who by Fire is a stunning resurrection of a moment in the life of Leonard Cohen and the history of Israel. It’s the story of a young artist in crisis and a young country at war, and the powerful resonance of the chord struck between them. A beautiful, haunting book full of feeling.” —Nicole Krauss, author of To Be a ManIn October, 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen – 39 years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative de... + Read More
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Unprecedented Canada's Top CEOs on Leadership During Covid-19 Hardcover Steve Mayer 9780771002137 $42.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 12, 2022

A remarkable collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from 29 chief executives at iconic Canadian companies.Unprecedented is an extraordinary business book for extraordinary times: a collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from twenty-nine chief executives at Canada’s most iconic and largest companies. These are unforgettable accounts from senior leaders at companies on the front lines during the pandemic—nursing homes, grocery stores, airlines, hot... + Read More
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Modern Whore A Memoir Hardcover Andrea Werhun 9780771098413 $45.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 03, 2022

Oh, the places a whore will go: Strip clubs, four-star hotels, stinking basement apartments, luxury cottages. A striking memoir by Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea’s sex work career in lush photography and powerful words—in all its slippery, sexy, silly and sometimes heartbreaking glory. Andrea Werhun’s sex work career gave her money, freedom, joy, and a lot of dick. A natural performer, she revelled in the opportunity to invent Mary Ann, her escort counterpart, and introduce her to men all over the city. She whores, she learns,... + Read More
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Animal Person Stories Hardcover Alexander MacLeod 9780771029882 $28.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, CBC Books, and the Globe and Mail.From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill & Quire, and 49th Shelf, and a “must-read book” by Maclean’s. Featuring stories published in The New Yorker, Granta, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.Startling, suspenseful, deeply humane yet alert to the undertow of our darker instincts, the... + Read More
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Pure Life A Novel Hardcover Eugene Marten 9780771051760 $29.95 FICTION May 03, 2022

A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic, from one of the great writers of his generation.Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner’s daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he assumes will be the promised afterlife of days on the golf course, celebrity endorsements, and cushy real estate investments. But markets tank, family disintegrates, fame fades, and the holes in his mind and memory from a career of punishment on the field be... + Read More
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Such Big Dreams A Novel Paperback Reema Patel 9780771073717 $23.00 FICTION May 10, 2022

A savvy former street child working at a human rights law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival. Named a Loan Stars Top Ten Pick, a CBC Canadian Fiction title to watch, one of Audible’s Best Debuts of 2022, and an Amazon Best Book of 2022.With a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, Rakhi Kumar is nobody’s fool. Though she lives alone in a Mumbai slum and works as a lowly office assistant for the renowned lawyer, Gauri Verma, who gave he... + Read More
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Kiss the Red Stairs The Holocaust, Once Removed Hardcover Marsha Lederman 9780771049378 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’ Holocaust stories in the wake of her own divorce, investigating how trauma migrates through generations with empathy, humour, and resilience.Marsha was five when a simple question led to a horrifying answer. Sitting in her kitchen, she asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. Her mother told her the truth: ... + Read More
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What We Both Know A Novel Paperback Fawn Parker 9780771096730 $20.00 FICTION May 03, 2022

2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize LonglistFor readers of My Dark Vanessa, a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman’s role in preserving—or destroying—her famous father’s legacy.In front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me. He will obliterate what is there, replace it, deny I ever wrote a word. But, he cannot take the words I write on my own.Hillary Greene’s father, once a celebrated author and public figure, is now losing his memory and, with it, his ability to write. As her father’s pr... + Read More
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The Red Arrow A novel Hardcover William Brewer 9780771096341 $32.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

A brilliant, utterly contemporary debut novel about a ghostwriter in search of his subject—a famous physicist who has vanished—only to discover their lives align perfectly within the riddles of time and space.When a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist’s memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt, he’s grown distant from his wife—a successful A.I. designer—and is haunted by an overwhelming dread he describes as “The Mist.” Then, things get worse: the physicist disappears, leaving everything in ... + Read More
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Son of Elsewhere A Memoir in Pieces Hardcover Elamin Abdelmahmoud 9780771002229 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 17, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of the most beloved media personalities of his generation comes a one-of-a-kind reflection on Blackness, faith, language, pop culture, and the challenges and rewards of finding your way in the world.Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario’s endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal—for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many thr... + Read More
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Damn Shame A Memoir of Desire, Defiance, and Show Tunes Paperback David Pevsner 9781039000506 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 11, 2022

A funny, daring, bawdy and incredibly honest memoir from the anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sex advocate and erotic provocateur.Over the course of his 40-year career in show business, David Pevsner has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and on numerous TV network shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family and Criminal Minds.As he continues his career in entertainment, Pevsner has also dedicated himself to exploring his deepest sexual fantasies. In his late 30s he became a mature male escort and over ... + Read More
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Free Love Paperback Tessa Hadley 9781039003057 $22.95 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

As 1960s London comes alive with the new youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations.1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy.But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and... + Read More
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Toufah The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement Paperback Toufah Jallow 9780735282322 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 01, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“This powerful story shouldn’t be missed.” Publishers Weekly (starred)“A fiercely readable, potent memoir of a survivor who refuses to be silenced…. An inspirational page-turner." Kirkus Reviews (starred)An incandescent and inspiring memoir from a courageous young woman who, after she was forced to flee to Canada from her home in The Gambia, became the first woman to publicly call the country’s dictator to account for sexual assault—launching an unprecedented protest movement in West Africa.In 2015, Toufah Jallow was a ninete... + Read More
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The Tenth Nerve A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him Hardcover Dr. Chris Honey 9781039001169 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 08, 2022

Riveting and dramatic, The Tenth Nerve offers a rare window into the world of a pre-eminent neurosurgeon and the seven exceptional patients that made him a better person.“The scalpel can only go so deep, and technical skill can only take one so far.” In this absorbing narrative, Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, weaves his personal journey together with case studies that reflect the thrill of scientific discovery and the limitations of medicine. Operating on a terminally ill child amid an Ebola outbrea... + Read More
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Daughters of the Deer Paperback Danielle Daniel 9780735282087 $24.00 FICTION Mar 08, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family’s ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers.1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their English allies if they are to survive. When her chief be... + Read More
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Best Young Woman Job Book A Memoir Hardcover Emma Healey 9780735275003 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 22, 2022

Wry, inventive, and relentlessly honest, a memoir of trying to make a living without compromising your truth.Emma Healey just wants to be a writer, but that’s more a journey than a job, and the journey isn’t free. As a teenager, she begins her adventures in precarious employment when introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of “standardized patient,” performing illness as a living training dummy for medical students. In university, she joins a creative writing program, cultivating a poet’s interest in language while learning lesson... + Read More
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Stories I Might Regret Telling You A Memoir Hardcover Martha Wainwright 9780345815088 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 29, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe singer-songwriter’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more.Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly acclaimed, genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with incomparable musical legends—Anna McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Suzzy Roche, Richard and Linda Thompson, Emmylou Harris—and struggled to find her voice... + Read More
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22 Murders Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia Paperback Paul Palango 9781039001275 $26.95 TRUE CRIME Apr 12, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of dentu... + Read More
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The Unsinkable Greta James A Novel Paperback Jennifer E. Smith 9780593499092 $24.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

An indie musician reeling from tragedy reconnects with her estranged father on a week-long cruise in this “pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places” (Rebecca Serle).Just after the death of her mother—her first and most devoted fan—and weeks before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy—the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted.Months later, Greta—still heartbroken a... + Read More
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Violeta [English Edition] A Novel Hardcover Isabel Allende 9780593496206 $37.00 FICTION Jan 25, 2022

This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland al... + Read More
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Dilettante True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster Hardcover Dana Brown 9780593158487 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 22, 2022

A witty, insightful, and delightfully snarky blend of pop culture meets memoir meets real-life Devil Wears Prada as readers learn the stories behind twenty-five years at Vanity Fair from the magazine’s former deputy editorDana Brown was a twenty-one-year-old college dropout playing in punk bands and partying his way through downtown New York’s early ‘90s milieu when he first encountered Graydon Carter, the legendary editor of Vanity Fair, while bartending at Carter’s favorite power-lunch haunt, Forty Four. After the two had a handful of brief i... + Read More
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Black Cake A Novel Hardcover Charmaine Wilkerson 9780593358337 $37.00 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a hea... + Read More
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What My Bones Know A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma Hardcover Stephanie Foo 9780593238103 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 22, 2022

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life.“Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. I want to have words for what my bones know.”By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door s... + Read More
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The Paradox Hotel A Novel Hardcover Rob Hart 9781984820648 $37.00 FICTION Feb 22, 2022

A locked-room murder mystery set at a hotel for timetravelers—in which a detective must solve an impossiblecrime even as her own sanity crumbles—from the authorof The WarehouseJanuary Cole’s job just got a whole lot harder. Not that running security at the Paradox was ever really easy. Nothing’s simple at a hotel where the ultra-wealthy tourists arrive costumed for a dozen different time periods, all eagerly waiting to catch their “flights” to the past.Or where proximity to the timeport makes the clocks run backwards on occasion—and, rumor has... + Read More
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The Other Dr. Gilmer Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice Hardcover Benjamin Gilmer 9780593355169 $37.00 TRUE CRIME Mar 01, 2022

A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system—a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time.When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name. His predecessor, Dr. Vince Gilmer, was beloved by his patients and community—right up until the shocki... + Read More
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The Orchard A Novel Hardcover Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry 9780593356012 $37.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2022

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.“Spectacular…intensely evocative and gorgeously written…will fill readers’ eyes with tears and wonder.”—Minneapolis Star TribuneComing of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya’s dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orc... + Read More
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The Lifeguards A Novel Hardcover Amanda Eyre Ward 9780593159446 $37.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

In sunny Austin, Texas, the bonds between three picture-perfect—but viciously protective—mothers and their close-knit sons are tested during one unforgettable summer in The Lifeguards, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters.Austin’s Zilker Park neighborhood is a wonderland of greenbelt trails, live music, and moms who drink a few too many margaritas. Whitney, Annette, and Liza have grown thick as thieves as they have raised their children together for fifteen years, believing that they can shelter their children from an in... + Read More
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Series: DANIEL PITT Three Debts Paid A Daniel Pitt Novel Hardcover Anne Perry 9780593358733 $37.00 FICTION Apr 12, 2022

A serial killer is on the loose, targeting victims with a mysterious connection that young barrister Daniel Pitt must deduce before more bodies pile up, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne PerryA serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt’s university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders happen on rainy nights, but Ian knows the victims must have something in common beyond the weather. He turns to Miriam fford Croft, Daniel’s good friend and now o... + Read More
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Out of the Corner A Memoir Hardcover Jennifer Grey 9780593356708 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2022

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found—from the star of the iconic film Dirty Dancing In this beautiful, close-to-the bone account, Jennifer Grey takes readers on a vivid tour of the experiences that have shaped her, from her childhood as the daughter of Broadway and film legend Joel Grey, to starring in the surprise hit Dirty Dancing, and becoming America’s sweetheart overnight, to her inspiring season eleven win on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.Throughout this intimate narrative, Grey richly evokes places ... + Read More
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Series: WOOLSEY-FERRIDAY Sunflower Sisters A Novel Paperback Martha Hall Kelly 9781524796426 $23.00 FICTION Dec 28, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists.“An exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them.” —Lisa Wingate, #1 ... + Read More
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With Love from London A Novel Paperback Sarah Jio 9781101885086 $23.00 FICTION Feb 08, 2022

When a woman inherits her estrangedmother’s bookstore in London’s Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story—hers—filled with long-held family secrets, the possibility of new love, and, perhaps, the single greatest challenge of her life.When Valentina Baker was only eleven years old, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own in California. Now a librarian in her thirties, fresh out of a failed marriage and still at odds with her mother’s abandonment, Val feels ... + Read More
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The Kitchen Front A Novel Paperback Jennifer Ryan 9780593158814 $24.95 FICTION Feb 22, 2022

Four women compete for a once-in-a-lifetime spot hosting a BBC cooking program during World War II in this vibrant historical novel from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir.Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest—and the grand prize is a job as the program’s first-ever female c... + Read More
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One Night on the Island A Novel Paperback Josie Silver 9781984820631 $23.00 FICTION Feb 15, 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December…When a double-booking at a remote one-room cabin accidentally throws two solace-seekers together, it feels like a cruel twist of fate. But what if it’s fate of a different kind?Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo Wilder wanted, but she is going on a solo retreat—at the insistence of her boss—in the name of re-energizing herself and adding a new perspective to her column. The remote Irish island she’s booked is a far cry from London, ... + Read More
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Series: DANIEL PITT Death with a Double Edge A Daniel Pitt Novel Paperback Anne Perry 9780593159354 $23.00 FICTION Apr 12, 2022

Daniel Pitt’s investigation into his colleague’s murder leads him through London’s teeming underbelly to one of the Royal Navy’s most powerful shipbuilders in a thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.When junior barrister Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, he knows only that the victim is a senior barrister from the same firm. To Daniel’s relief, it is not his close friend Toby Kitteridge, but the question remains: What was this respected colleague doing in such ... + Read More
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The Dictionary of Lost Words A Novel Paperback Pip Williams 9781984820747 $23.00 FICTION May 03, 2022

In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the “objectionable” words they omit.“Delightful…[a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded”—The New York Times Book Review“A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of People of the BookEsme is born into a world of words. Motherless an... + Read More
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Sunshine Girl An Unexpected Life Paperback Julianna Margulies 9780525480341 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2022

Known for her outstanding performances on the groundbreaking television series The Good Wife and ER, Julianna Margulies deftly chronicles her life and her work in this deeply powerful memoir.“At once a tender coming-of-age story and a deeply personal look at a young woman making sense of the world against a chaotic and peripatetic childhood.”—Katie CouricAs an apple-cheeked bubbly child, Julianna was bestowed with the family nickname “Sunshine Girl.” Shuttled back and forth between her divorced parents, often on different continents, she quickl... + Read More
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Series: SIX TUDOR QUEENS Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife A Novel Paperback Alison Weir 9781101966655 $27.00 FICTION May 10, 2022

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife, who manages to survive him and remarry, only to be thrown into a romantic intrigue that threatens the very throne of England.Having sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixes his lonely eyes on a more mature woman, thirty-year-old, twice-widowed Katharine Parr. She, however, is in love with Sir Thomas Seymour, brother to the late Qu... + Read More
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Series: JACK REACHER Better Off Dead A Jack Reacher Novel Paperback Lee Child 9781984818522 $24.00 FICTION Apr 26, 2022

Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel.Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. M... + Read More