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Series: Mansions of the Moon Hardcover Shyam Selvadurai 9780735280625 $36.00 FICTION May 10, 2022

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts comes a breathtaking reimagining of ancient India through the extraordinary life of Yasodhara, the woman who married the Buddha.In this sweeping tale, at once epic and intimate, Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to Siddhartha Gautama—who will later become “the enlightened one,” or the Buddha—an unusually bright and politically astute young man settling into his upper-caste life as a newlywed to Yasodhara, a woman of great intelligence and spirit. Mansions of the M... + Read More
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Series: Yawd Modern Afro-Caribbean Recipes Hardcover Adrian Forte 9780525611561 $35.00 COOKING Jun 07, 2022

The ONLY cookbook you need this summer! Dive into this bold, flavor-filled cookbook, packed with recipes to bring sun-filled island vibes to your home.Yawd = comfort food that sticks to your ribs! In his first cookbook, star chef Adrian Forte shares more than 100 of his inspiring recipes to get you fired up in the kitchen.Try new riffs on Caribbean classics like Coconut Fried Chicken, Spiced Steamed Fish, Rasta Pasta, and Pepper Shrimp PaellaIncorporate more African ancestral ingredients with Ackee & Saltfish Fritters or Okra PilafTry the dish... + Read More
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Series: The Fortune Men A novel Hardcover Nadifa Mohamed 9780593534366 $36.00 FICTION Dec 14, 2021

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart…about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress).In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and a petty thief, but he is no murderer.... + Read More
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Series: Lost in the Valley of Death A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas Hardcover Harley Rustad 9780735279469 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 11, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022For fans of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, the riveting story of the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India—one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley.For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or, in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wil... + Read More
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Series: Peak Season 12 Months of Recipes Celebrating Ontario's Freshest Ingredients Hardcover Deirdre Buryk 9780525611691 $35.00 COOKING May 17, 2022

Packed with 101 enticing and accessible recipes, Peak Season showcases how to make the most of seasonal Ontario produce when it’s freshest!In Peak Season, Deirdre Buryk explores this simple idea and celebrates Ontario’s seasonal bounty as she guides you through each month of the year. While cooking your way through this beautiful collection of 101 recipes, you’ll learn how to perfectly prepare fiddleheads in April, to then add to a Garlic Mushroom Fiddlehead Frittata; or peel what looks to be an intimidating, knobby celeriac on the coldest Dec... + Read More
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Series: Buster Keaton A Filmmaker's Life Hardcover James Curtis 9780385354219 $54.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 15, 2022

**One of Literary Hub’s Five “Most Critically Acclaimed” Biographies of 2022**From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis—a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern—and irresistible—today as they were when they beguiled audiences almost a century ago.“It is brilliant—I was totally absorbed, couldn’t stop reading it and was very sorry when it ended.”—Kevin Brownlow I... + Read More
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Series: The Turning Point 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World Hardcover Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 9780525655947 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 01, 2022

A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer—immersing us in one year of his life—from the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice.The year is 1851. It’s a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty, and disease. It is also a turbulent year in the private life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart. But this formative year... + Read More
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Series: Moon Witch, Spider King Hardcover Marlon James 9780385690355 $37.00 FICTION Feb 15, 2022

From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, comes the second book in the Dark Star trilogy.In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes centre stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. It’s also the story of a centur... + Read More
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Series: When We Were Birds Hardcover Ayanna Lloyd Banwo 9780385697071 $34.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2022

A mythic love story set in Trinidad & Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead.In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide’s mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: one St. Bernard woman in every generation must shepherd the city’s souls into the afterlife. But after years of suffering her mother’s neglect and bitterness, Yejide is looking for a way out.Raised in the countryside by a devout R... + Read More
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Series: Lessons in Chemistry Paperback Bonnie Garmus 9780385697378 $24.95 FICTION Mar 29, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA delight for readers of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show.Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific vi... + Read More
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Series: The Pages A novel Hardcover Hugo Hamilton 9780593320662 $37.00 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

An entirely original novel in which a book—Joseph Roth’s masterpiece Rebellion—narrates its own astonishing life story, from 1930s Germany to the present day, at the heart of a gripping mystery. “A powerful, powerful piece of work.” —Colum McCann, best-selling author of ApeirogonOne old copy of the novel Rebellion sits in Lena Knecht’s tote bag, about to accompany her on a journey from New York to Berlin in search of a clue to the hand-drawn map on its last page. It is the brilliantly captivating voice of this novel—a first edition nearly burn... + Read More
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Series: The Violin Conspiracy A Novel Hardcover Brendan Slocumb 9780593315415 $37.00 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.“I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing... + Read More
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Series: Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories Foreword by Alice Waters Paperback Fanny Singer 9780147530851 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 22, 2022

A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life.In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother—and herself—Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colorful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary co... + Read More
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Series: The Sweetapolita Bakebook 75 Fanciful Cakes, Cookies & More to Make & Decorate Paperback Rosie Alyea 9780525612230 $29.95 COOKING Apr 04, 2022

Paint, doodle, and sprinkle your way to stunning one-of-a-kind sweets. The world of Sweetapolita is sparkly and sprinkly and charming as can be, with 75 recipes for everything from pretty homemade cookies to decadent layer cakes. But what really sets these treats apart are interactive designs that let everyone in on the fun of decorating: Painted Mini Cakes are served with edible “paint” for guests to personalize at the table, the fondant-covered tiered Chalk-a-Lot cake is paired with homemade edible “chalk,” and Rainbow Doodle cookies are mad... + Read More
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Caesar Country is a love letter to Canada by way of one cocktail—our cocktail—the Caesar.In this stunning book, Aaron Harowitz and Zack Silverman—co-founders of Walter Craft Caesar—take you on a deep and detailed dive through the art and science of Caesar making. They share a compelling collection of cocktail and food recipes, including contributions from some of Canada’s top bartenders and chefs, showcasing the countless ways to reinterpret the classic Caesar. Caesar Country is inspired by travels across Canada—the people met, places seen, dri... + Read More
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Series: Green Fire Extraordinary Ways to Grill Fruits and Vegetables, from the Master of Live-Fire Cooking Hardcover Francis Mallmann 9780525612001 $50.00 COOKING May 10, 2022

A stunning cookbook celebrating the art of cooking over fire and vegetarian cuisine by world-renowned chef Francis Mallmann.In Green Fire, explore the flavourful potential of cooking vegetables—caramelized, charred, smoked, and always delicious—using chef Francis Mallmann’s acclaimed live-fire cooking method. Divided seasonally, each of the more than 80 vegetarian dishes will become your main meal and not the side. Enjoy also Mallmann’s impressive seasonings, sauces, and finishings with Argentine influences. Spring artichoke and fava salad, sal... + Read More
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Series: Recitatif A Story Hardcover Toni Morrison 9781039003613 $22.00 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the relationships that shape us through life, with an introduction by Zadie Smith.Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable at the time, they lose touch as they grow older, only to find each other later at a diner, then at a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and in disagreement each tim... + Read More
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“A masterwork of English pastoral horror.” —Claire-Louise Bennett“Creepily prescient…Insidiously horrifying!” —Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)“I’m pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.” —Lauren Groff“Lush, strange, hypnotic, compulsive.” —Eimear McBride“Crystalline…The signature of an enchantress.” —Edna O’Brien“A masterpiece of creeping dread.” —Emily St John MandelKay Dick’s radical dystopian masterpiece, lost for forty years—with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.Published to some acclaim in 1977 but swiftly forgo... + Read More
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Series: Pure Colour Hardcover Sheila Heti 9780735282452 $29.95 FICTION Feb 15, 2022

“True and newly alive.” —Los Angeles Times“One-of-a-kind…. nothing less than vital.” —The GuardianA new novel about art, love, death and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?Named a most anticipated book of 2022 by The Globe and Mail ● CBC ● Esquire ● Entertainment Weekly ● BuzzFeed ● Publishers Weekly ● Vulture ● and many moreHere we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home... + Read More
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Series: Life Without Children Paperback Roddy Doyle 9781039001800 $22.95 FICTION Feb 22, 2022

A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending and uplifting short stories.Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.In these ten, beautifully moving short stories, Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles... + Read More
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Series: Scoundrel How a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment and the courts to set him free Hardcover Sarah Weinman 9780735272767 $37.00 TRUE CRIME Feb 22, 2022

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC AND ESQUIREA true-crime masterpiece, this is a story of wrongful exoneration about killer Edgar Smith and the prominent crusaders who fell prey to his charm.Having spent almost half his lifetime in California’s state penitentiary system, convicted killer Edgar Smith died in obscurity in 2017 at the age of eighty-three—a miracle, really, as he was meant to be executed nearly six decades earlier. Tried and convicted in the state of New Jersey for the 1957 murder of fifteen-year-old Victoria Zielinski, Smit... + Read More
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Series: Stray Dogs And Other Stories Hardcover Rawi Hage 9780735273627 $29.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receiv... + Read More
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Series: We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal Hardcover Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780735280205 $26.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2022

From the bestselling author and global feminist icon—an illustrated journal containing her most powerful and inspiring quotes, as well an introduction written expressly for this inspirational diary.From her award-winning novels, including Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, to her stirring calls to arms We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele; from her work with Beyoncé to sharing the stage with Michelle Obama, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the most empowering and iconic feminist figures of our time. Now, in this beautiful journal, A... + Read More
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Series: Young Mungo A Novel Hardcover Douglas Stuart 9781039003705 $35.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL • NPR • KIRKUS REVIEWS • TIME • AMAZON • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE TIMES (UK)• DAILY HIVE • THE TELEGRAPH • FINANCIAL TIMES • THE GUARDIAN • LITERARY HUB • THE HERALD (UK) • READER’S DIGEST • VANITY FAIR • LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS“Young Mungo seals it: Douglas Stuart is a genius.” —The Washington PostFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first l... + Read More
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Series: In a Time of Distance and Other Poems Hardcover Alexander McCall Smith 9781039000186 $29.95 POETRY Apr 12, 2022

From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series comes a beautiful and transporting volume of poems brimming with warmth and humanity.What matters most in life? For Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship, love, and travel— the themes found throughout his work that have made him a cherished writer the world over. This first collection of McCall Smith’s poems reflects on these topics with all his characteristic wit and charm.In this delightful work, McCall Smith takes us on a captivating journey from Africa to Greece, London... + Read More
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Series: My Face in the Light Hardcover Martha Schabas 9780735277632 $32.00 FICTION Apr 12, 2022

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TORONTO BOOK AWARD“My mother is an artist and I am a liar. Or, if I scratch the surface, my mother is a sick woman and I am an actress…”Justine feels uneasy in her marriage, her theatre career and her relationship with her estranged mother, a famous painter. An intuitive and uncanny mimic, distinguished by a pronounced scar across her forehead (the result of a childhood accident), Justine has made acting the centre of her life since she was a teenager, but lately her outwardl... + Read More
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Series: Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? Paperback Lizzie Damilola Blackburn 9780385696951 $22.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

“Modern and fresh…I adore Yinka” Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on VacationMeet Yinka: a thirty-something Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman whose mother’s constant refrain is “Yinka, where is your huzband?”Yinka’s Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she’s too traditional, her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life…well, that’s a whole other story. But Yinka herself has always believed that true love will find ... + Read More
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Series: The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love Paperback Haley McGee 9780385694766 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 01, 2022

In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Haley McGee sets out to calculate—with mathematical precision—the exact cost of love, and whether all of her former relationships were worth it.Haley McGee is in debt. The solution? A yard sale of gifts from her ex-boyfriends.But when it comes to pricing, she gets stuck. Surely the ways we invest in our romantic relationships should be reflected in the price. But how? Is the mixtape from your first love worth more than the vintage typewriter from a philanderer? Does sitting on an X-Acto knife wedged betwe... + Read More
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Series: The School of Mirrors Paperback Eva Stachniak 9780385692946 $23.00 FICTION Feb 22, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom #1 internationally bestselling author Eva Stachniak comes this rich, engrossing tale of love, deception and scandal in eighteenth-century France.During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the King’s favourite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained as potential courtesans for the King. When the time is right, each girl is smuggled into the palace of Versailles, with its legendary Hall of Mirrors. ... + Read More
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Series: French Braid A novel Hardcover Anne Tyler 9780385698696 $32.95 FICTION Mar 22, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERA funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family’s foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present.The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. ... + Read More
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Series: Be a Triangle How I Went from Being Lost to Getting My Life into Shape Hardcover Lilly Singh 9780385697637 $24.95 SELF-HELP Apr 05, 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Bawse comes an “insightful and charmingly funny” (Rupi Kaur) primer on learning to come home to your truest and happiest self.“I love Lilly’s honest and helpful advice about achieving happiness.”—Mindy Kaling, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?“It’s time to flip right side up. It’s time for this book title to make sense. It’s time to be a triangle.”Everyone—even world-famous actress, author and creator Lilly Singh—knows that sometimes life just sucks. In this book, Singh... + Read More
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Series: Uncertain Kin Hardcover Janice Lynn Mather 9780385697156 $29.95 FICTION Apr 26, 2022

From Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Janice Lynn Mather comes this mesmerizing collection of linked stories that explores the beauty and brutality of being alive.SET AGAINST THE VIVID backdrop of The Bahamas, these eighteen luminous and haunting stories introduce us to women and girls searching for certainty and belonging as they navigate profound upheaval. The characters are bold and big-hearted, complex and intimately familiar. They grapple with the bonds of kinship and the responsibilities of parenthood, with grief, longing, betra... + Read More
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Series: Some of My Best Friends Essays on Lip Service Hardcover Tajja Isen 9780385697316 $32.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 03, 2022

A fearless and darkly comic essay collection about race, justice and the limits of good intentions from the editor in chief of Catapult.In this stunning debut collection, award-winning voice actor and cultural critic Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that has grown fluent in the language of social justice but doesn’t always follow through.These nine daring essays explore the sometimes troubling and often awkward nature of that discord. Some of My Best Friends takes on subjects including the cartoon industry’s pivot away fro... + Read More
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Series: First Time for Everything A Novel Paperback Henry Fry 9780385697590 $22.95 FICTION May 10, 2022

An honest and heartfelt debut about a down-on-his-luck gay man working out how he fits into the world, making up for lost time and opening himself up to life’s possibilities.Danny Scudd is absolutely fine. He always dreamed of escaping smalltown life and becoming a journalist. And, after five years in London, his career isn’t exactly awful, and his relationship with pretentious Tobbs isn’t exactly unfulfilling. But his world is flipped upside down when a visit to the local clinic reveals that Tobbs might not have been exactly faithful. In fact,... + Read More
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Series: The Rising Tide Paperback Sam Lloyd 9780385668996 $23.00 FICTION May 24, 2022

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, the beautifully written, evocative and pulse-pounding new novel from Sam Lloyd. A family pushed to its limits, set against the backdrop of the most unforgiving of landscapes.The news doesn’t strike cleanly, like a guillotine’s blade. Nothing so merciful. This news is a slovenly traveller, dragging its feet, gradually revealing its horrors. And it announces itself first with violence—the urgent hammering of fists on the front door.Life can change in a heartbeat.Lucy has everything she could wish for: a beautiful ... + Read More
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Series: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Close Encounters with Addiction Paperback Gabor Maté MD 9780676977417 $24.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 06, 2009

From #1 bestselling author Dr. Gabor Maté, the essential resource for understanding the roots and behaviours of addiction—now with an added introduction by the author.Dr. Gabor Maté is one of the world’s most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. His radical findings—based on decades of work with patients challenged by catastrophic drug addiction and mental illness—are reframing how we view all human development.In this award-winning modern classic, through first-person accounts, riveting case studies, pioneering research and compass... + Read More
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Series: When the Body Says No The Cost of Hidden Stress Paperback Gabor Maté MD 9780676973129 $24.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Feb 03, 2004

From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.In this accessible and groundbreaking book—filled with the moving stories of real people—medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sc... + Read More
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Series: Scattered Minds The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder Paperback Gabor Maté MD 9780676972597 $24.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 30, 2000

From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) as genetically based—and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition.Dr. Gabor Maté is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology—and has himself been diagnosed with ADD. With wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds is a must-read for parents and for anyone interested in how experiences in infancy shape ... + Read More
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Series: Hold On to Your Kids Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Paperback Gordon Neufeld 9780307361967 $24.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Aug 13, 2013

This parenting classic—as relevant today as it was when it was first published—shines a light on one of the most misunderstood trends of our time: peers, social media and video game culture replacing parents in the lives of children, and what parents can do about it.Children take their lead from their friends: being ‘cool’ matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity and codes of behaviour, peer groups are often far more influential than parents.But this situation is far from natural, and it can be dangerous—it undermines family co... + Read More
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Series: Klara and the Sun Paperback Kazuo Ishiguro 9780735281264 $21.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

INTERNATIONAL, #1 NATIONAL, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEThe magnificent novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day.Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look... + Read More
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Series: That Old Country Music Stories Paperback Kevin Barry 9780345810700 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

From the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, a New York Times “Top 10” book of 2019, here are stories of contemporary Ireland: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport... + Read More
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Series: Inside Story Paperback Martin Amis 9780735281325 $24.00 FICTION Feb 22, 2022

Martin Amis’s dazzling autobiographical novel of a unique literary life seen through the lens of friendships, family, sex and love, is wise, warm, heartbreaking and funny: the heart-to-heart testimony of an incomparable writer.This is the portrait of an extraordinary life lived by a great writer. Martin Amis leads us through boisterous romantic entanglements and literary friendships, the encompassing ties of family to generously revealing details about how to write (from the master of prose style), and finally to the intimate sorrow of... + Read More
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Series: Empire of Pain The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Paperback Patrick Radden Keefe 9780385697569 $24.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 18, 2022

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and EDITORS’ CHOICE * WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR NON-FICTION * J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * A BARACK OBAMA FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEARA devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, whose fortune was built on Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan... + Read More
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Series: The Bookseller of Florence Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance Paperback Ross King 9780385692991 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2022

The Bookseller of Florence captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance amid the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread, from the bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling.The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of the dazzling handiwork of the city’s skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thou... + Read More
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Series: My Mother's Daughter A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph Paperback Perdita Felicien 9780385689984 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 29, 2022

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together.Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation’s hopes: she carried her mother’s dreams.In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she’s also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it’s her chance. They ... + Read More
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Series: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Paperback Bill Gates 9780735280465 $22.00 SCIENCE Aug 23, 2022

#1 NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid an irreversibleclimate catastrophe.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help and guidance of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide to certain en... + Read More
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Series: TRICKSTER TRILOGY, THE Return of the Trickster Paperback Eden Robinson 9780735273474 $21.00 FICTION Mar 29, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“The last book in Eden Robinson’s lauded Trickster Trilogy is everything at once, in a good way. It’s a page-turner dense with history and lore: gruesome…then suddenly hilarious.” —Toronto StarA deeply satisfying, explosive, surprising and satisfying resolution to the trilogy by one of Canada’s most gifted and beloved storytellers.All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life an... + Read More
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Series: Whereabouts Paperback Jhumpa Lahiri 9780735281486 $19.95 FICTION Mar 29, 2022

INTERNATIONAL and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA captivating novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade.Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. Lahiri’s narrator, a woman questioning her place in the world, wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor—traversing the streets around h... + Read More
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Series: China The Novel Paperback Edward Rutherfurd 9780385682039 $24.95 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

An engrossing story of the epic, century-spanning clash of East and West, from the internationally bestselling author of Paris and New York.Edward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of people with his grand, sweeping sagas that tell the multigenerational history of an iconic place. Now, in China: The Novel, Rutherfurd takes readers into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom, dramatizing the epoch when the colonial greed of Western powers shattered the stability of the two-thousand-year-old empire, and the Chinese learned to... + Read More
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Series: First Person Singular Paperback Haruki Murakami 9780385696166 $21.00 FICTION Apr 12, 2022

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & EDITORS’ CHOICEA riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.These eight stories, all told in the first person, showcase Haruki Murakami’s reality-bending skills at their very finest. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios and imaginary jazz albums, together these tales challenge the boundary between the mind and the real world. Here we encounter men having a beer with a talking monkey... + Read More
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Series: What You Are Short Stories Paperback M.G. Vassanji 9780385692908 $21.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

A finely crafted collection of short fiction that explores the tensions between remembering past homes and belonging in new ones, from M.G. Vassanji, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award.Weaving between wistful memories of youthful ambition and the compromises and comforts of age, travelling between the streets of Dar es Salaam and Toronto, the characters in these stories must negotiate distance—between here and there; between lives imagined and lives lived; between expectation and disappoi... + Read More
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Series: The Sister's Tale Paperback Beth Powning 9780735280045 $17.95 FICTION May 24, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold women together when life falls apart.With the trial of a murderer dominating the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the troubling case of a British home child. Mortified that she must purchase the beautiful teenager in a pauper auction to save her from lechery and abuse, Josephine Galloway finds herself exexpectedly the proprietor of a boarding house maintained by the sweat and tears of a curious collection of wo... + Read More
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Series: Commanding Hope The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril Paperback Thomas Homer-Dixon 9780307363176 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even The Lord of the Rings, renowned thought leader Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink.For three decades, Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and The Upside of Down, has examined the threats to our future security—predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social instability and wide political violence if humankind continued on its current course. He was called The Doom Me... + Read More
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Series: The Hard Sell Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Hardcover Evan Hughes 9780385544900 $37.95 TRUE CRIME Jan 18, 2022

The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers—until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. • SOON TO BE THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PAIN HUSTLERS STARRING EMILY BLUNT AND CHRIS EVANS “Unfolds with the velocity and verve of a Scorsese film…A tour de force.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing John Kapoor had already amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he founded Insys Therapeutics. ... + Read More
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Series: Price Wars How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World Hardcover Rupert Russell 9780385545853 $39.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 01, 2022

A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabilized societies all over the world, leaving the most vulnerable at the mercy of hunger, chaos, and war.For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cages on the U.S. border. In Price Wars, he sets out on a worldwide journey to investigate what caused the wave of chaos that consumed the world in the 2010s.Rus... + Read More
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Series: Speaking in Thumbs A Psychiatrist Decodes Your Relationship Texts So You Don't Have To Hardcover Mimi Winsberg M.D. 9780385546966 $36.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 08, 2022

An essential look at the love language of texts, helping you decipher the personalities of online daters, the subtle signals from your romantic partner, and the red flags hiding in plain sight. “Don’t even think of swiping right again until you read this book.” (Christie Tate, author of Group)When it comes to modern relationships, our thumbs do the talking. We swipe right into a stranger’s life, flirt inside text bubbles, spill our hearts onto the screen, use emojis to convey desire, frustration, rage. Where once we pored over love letters, no... + Read More
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Series: ALICE VEGA NOVEL, AN Hideout An Alice Vega Novel Hardcover Louisa Luna 9780385545532 $36.00 FICTION Mar 08, 2022

In this powerful new thriller, Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero.“Alice Vega is sensational—I want to see lots more of her.” —Lee Child, #1 New York Times best-selling authorAlice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she’s never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing for thirty years. It was 1984, and the big Cal-Stanford football game was tied with seconds left on the clock. Zeb Williams gr... + Read More
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Series: In On the Joke The Original Queens of Standup Comedy Hardcover Shawn Levy 9780385545785 $40.00 PERFORMING ARTS Apr 05, 2022

“A sensitive and vivid study of early female stand-ups… [Levy is a] painstaking, knowledgeable guide.” —New York Times Book Review A hilarious and moving account of the trailblazing women of stand-up comedy who broke down walls so they could stand before the mic—perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and HacksToday, women are ascendant in stand-up comedy, even preeminent. They make headlines, fill arenas, spawn blockbuster movies. But before Amy Schumer slayed, Tiffany Haddish killed, and Ali Wong drew roars, the very idea of a female ... + Read More
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Series: What the Ermine Saw The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait Hardcover Eden Collinsworth 9780385546119 $36.00 ART May 24, 2022

The remarkable true story behind one of history’s most enigmatic portraits—“a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palazzos of Europe” (Amanda Foreman, New York Times best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza wa... + Read More
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Series: EML POCKET POETS SERIES No Place Like Home Poems Hardcover Jane Holloway 9780593321294 $21.95 POETRY Feb 01, 2022

Poets from around the world celebrate the universal appeal of the comforts of home in this unique anthology.Whether inhabited or remembered, whether solitary or teeming with family, whether a refuge from the world or a connection to a community, home is essential to the self. The poems in this anthology invite us into urban apartments and cozy cottages, stately mansions and hermits’ huts. We watch a medieval housewife explain how she has spent her day; we join with Robert Herrick as he gives thanks for his “humble roof…weatherproof”; we peep in... + Read More