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Series: Alias GracePaperback
Margaret Atwood9780771008825
$23.00FICTION
Oct 05, 2010
In this astonishing, Giller Prize-winning tour de force, Margaret Atwood takes the reader back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. In 1843, at the age of sixteen, servant girl Grace Marks was convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders. As Dr. Simon Jordan—an expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness—tri... + Read More
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Series: WenjackPaperback
Joseph Boyden9780735233386
$14.00FICTION
Oct 18, 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 OLSN Northern Lit AwardAn Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School, not realizing just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a type of comfort on his difficult journey back to the place he was so brutally removed from. Written by Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author Joseph Boyden and beautifully illustrated by acclaimed artist Kent Monkman, Wenjack is a powerful and poignant look int... + Read More
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Series: The Trickster trilogySon of a TricksterPaperback
Eden Robinson9780345810793
$21.00FICTION
Mar 13, 2018
CANADA READS 2020 FINALISTNATIONAL BESTSELLERMore than ten years after her Giller-shortlisted title Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which everyday teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics and cannibalistic river otters.Meet Jared Martin: sixteen-year-old pot cookie dealer, smoker, drinker and son with the scariest mom ever. But Jared's the pot dealer with a heart of gold--really. Compassionate, caring, and nurturing by nature, Jared's determined to help hold his famil... + Read More
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Series: Canoe LakePaperback
Roy MacGregor9780771054600
$22.00FICTION
Mar 12, 2002
A troubled American woman travels to a small Ontario town, determined to find the mother she has never known. As she searches through dusty records and stirs up old memories among those around her, three young people emerge from the mists of the past . . . a beautiful woman named Jenny, a shy local boy named Russell, and a dark-eyed painter named Tom, who changes the course of Jenny and Russell’s lives. Historical reality and conjecture are skilfully interwoven with intrigue and suspense as these three move unwittingly toward tragedy.
Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeWinner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in EnglishWinner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose FictionLonglisted for the 2019 Sunburst AwardFrom the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.F... + Read More
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Series: ObasanPenguin Modern Classics EditionPaperback
Joy Kogawa9780735233706
$19.95FICTION
May 02, 2017
Winner of the American Book AwardBased on the author’s own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.
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Series: Monkey BeachPaperback
Eden Robinson9780676973228
$21.00FICTION
Jan 09, 2001
“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional world, a hidden universe of premonition, pain and power.” --Thomas KingTragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach—a shore famed for its sasquatch sighti... + Read More
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Series: StarlightPaperback
Richard Wagamese9780771070877
$19.95FICTION
May 21, 2019
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the beloved, bestselling author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese’s final novel is a rapturous and profoundly moving story of love, compassion, mercy, and the consolations to be found in the natural world.Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, occasionally venturing into the unbroken country around his property to photograph the wild animals who thrive there. His contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, a woman on the run who has commi... + Read More
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Series: Beautiful LosersPaperback
Leonard Cohen9780771022005
$21.00FICTION
Apr 08, 2003
His most provocative and experimental work of the sixties, Beautiful Losers affirms Leonard Cohen as a visionary songwriter and novelist.Beautiful Losers is a novel of stunning prose that is equal parts vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty. At the center of the story are three individuals, united by their sexual obsessions and mutual fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, a seventeenth-century Mohawk saint. A bereaved narrator reconstructs his relationship with his deceased wife and best friend - a love triangle of two men and a woman with a ... + Read More
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Series: Medicine WalkPaperback
Richard Wagamese9780771089213
$19.95FICTION
Mar 03, 2015
“One of the finest novels of the year.” (Vancouver Sun) By the celebrated author of Canada Reads finalist Indian Horse, this is an unforgettable journey of a father and son, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. For male and female readers equally, for readers of Joseph Boyden, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas King, Russell Banks and general literary fiction.Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He’s sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they’ve shared haunt and trouble... + Read More
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Series: The Handmaid's TalePaperback
Margaret Atwood9780771008795
$19.95FICTION
Sep 06, 2011
The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the award-winning television series, The Handmaid’s Tale.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can re... + Read More
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Series: Ami McKay's WitchesThe Witches of New YorkPaperback
Ami McKay9780676979596
$22.00FICTION
Jul 04, 2017
The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth House and The Virgin Cure is back with her most beguiling novel yet, luring us deep inside the lives of a trio of remarkable young women navigating the glitz and grotesqueries of Gilded-Age New York by any means possible, including witchcraft…The year is 1880. Two hundred years after the trials in Salem, Adelaide Thom (Moth from The Virgin Cure) has left her life in the sideshow to open a tea shop with another young woman who feels it’s finally safe enough to describe herself as a witch: a former med... + Read More
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Series: An Unwanted GuestPaperback
Shari Lapena9780385690812
$21.00FICTION
Jan 05, 2021
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA remote lodge in upstate New York is the perfect winter wonderland getaway…until the bodies start piling up.It’s winter in the Catskills and Mitchell’s Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing—maybe even romantic—weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery.So when the weather takes a... + Read More
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Series: Women TalkingA NovelPaperback
Miriam Toews9780735273979
$22.00FICTION
Sep 03, 2019
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARDThe internationally bestselling novel based on real events—by the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.Now a major motion picture starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley—adapted and directed by Sarah Polley.For several years, girls and women in the remote Mennonite colony of Molotschna have reported assaults in the night by what some in the community claim are ghosts or demons. Others blame “wild female imaginati... + Read More
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Series: The Trickster trilogyTrickster DriftPaperback
Eden Robinson9780735273443
$21.00FICTION
Jun 18, 2019
Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, a national bestseller and the second book in Eden Robinson’s captivating Trickster trilogy.Jared Martin, seventeen, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: the temptation to slip is constant (thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom, Maggie). He’s being stalked by David, his mom’s ex—a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And Maggie, a witch as well as a badass, can’t protect him like she used to because h... + Read More
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Series: SweetlandPaperback
Michael Crummey9780385663175
$22.00FICTION
Jun 30, 2015
“Crummey has written one hell of a book…. It’s an enthralling read, hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, populated by characters who seem, on first glimpse, to be wilfully eccentric, but emerge as realistic and grounded, taking what control they can of their lives…. Sweetland is a thing of beauty, one of the finest novels we are likely to encounter this year. It demonstrates, as the best fiction does (and as Crummey’s novels always have) that the past is always with us, and that contemporary events are history embodied and in motion.”—Vancouve... + Read More
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Series: THE INFLUENCER SERIESExes and O'sPaperback
Amy Lea9780593336595
$23.00FICTION
Jan 10, 2023
A romance novel-obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love in this romantic comedy from the author of Set On You.Romance book connoisseur Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times by ten different men—all of whom dumped her because of her “stage-five clinger” tendencies. Nevertheless, Tara is determined to find The One. The only problem? Classic meet-cutes are dead, thanks to modern dating apps. So Tara decides to revisit her exes in hopes of securing her very own trope-worthy second-chance romance.Boston fi... + Read More
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Series: How to Pronounce KnifeStoriesPaperback
Souvankham Thammavongsa9780771094606
$24.95FICTION
Apr 07, 2020
WINNER OF THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, the PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD, and the DANUTA GLEED AWARD#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed one of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2020, and featuring stories that have appeared in Harper’s, Granta, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, this revelatory book of fiction from O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa establishes her as an essential new voice in Canadian and world literature. Told with compassion and wry ... + Read More
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Series: Ami McKay's WitchesHalf Spent Was the NightA Witches' YuletideHardcover
Ami McKay9780735275669
$20.00FICTION
Oct 16, 2018
Beloved author Ami McKay is back, bringing us a magical follow-up in the tradition of Victorian winter tales to her mesmerizing bestseller, The Witches of New York. During the nights between Christmas and New Year’s, the witches of New York—Adelaide Thom, Eleanor St. Clair and the youngest, Beatrice Dunn—gather before the fire to tell ghost stories and perform traditional Yuletide divinations. (Did you know that roasting chestnuts was once used to foretell one’s fate?)As the witches roast chestnuts and melt lead to see their fate, a series of o... + Read More
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Series: Our StoryAboriginal Voices on Canada's PastPaperback
Thomas King9780385660761
$21.00FICTION
Sep 20, 2005
Our Story is both a beautifully packaged and important contribution to the telling of Canadian history.Now in paperback, a collection of original stories written by some of the country’s most celebrated Aboriginal writers and inspired by pivotal events in the country’s history.
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Series: THE INFLUENCER SERIESSet on YouPaperback
Amy Lea9780593336571
$22.00FICTION
May 10, 2022
A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy.Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym – her place of power and positivity.Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. But after a series of escalating ja... + Read More
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Series: The TestamentsA NovelPaperback
Margaret Atwood9780771009457
$22.00FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEMargaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes?Story Locale: Gilead
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Series: WarlightA novelPaperback
Michael Ondaatje9780771073809
$22.00FICTION
Apr 02, 2019
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself – shadowed and luminous at once – we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when ... + Read More
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Series: The Favourite GamePaperback
Leonard Cohen9780771022012
$21.00FICTION
Sep 01, 2000
The much-loved first novel from one of Canada’s most celebrated artists.Lawrence Breavman belongs to the upper echelons of Montreal’s Jewish community, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family. His childhood is shaped by motion-picture memories—of his father’s death, of experiments with hypnotism, and of days spent alongside his friend and confidant, Krantz. As Breavman enters into adulthood, his quest to understand the world and himself takes him from acclaimed poet to repentant labourer, before ultimately seeking sanctuary in New York. And tho... + Read More
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Series: Keeper'n MePenguin Modern Classics EditionPaperback
Richard Wagamese9780385693257
$21.00FICTION
Oct 02, 2018
By turns funny, poignant and mystical, Keeper’n Me casts fresh light on the redemptive power of one’s community and tradition.At three years old, Garnet Raven is taken from his home on an Ojibway reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. In his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city, trying to avoid its bleak underbelly.By age twenty, Garnet is in jail. While there, he receives an unexpected letter from his long-forgotten native family, and the sudden commun... + Read More
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom Canada’s much-missed, nationally bestselling storyteller, a must-have collection featuring ten never-before-published stories and ten classic favourites, perfect for old fans and Vinyl Cafe newcomers alike.From the unforgettable Christmas classic “Dave Cooks the Turkey” to the tender tribute to ice-cream-loving, potato-sitting Arthur the dog in “Morte d’Arthur”; from the joys and challenges of marriage in “The Canoe Trip” to the celebration of childhood adventure in “The Waterslide.” From the beginning of life (the hilar... + Read More
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Series: BrotherPaperback
David Chariandy9780771023330
$19.95FICTION
May 01, 2018
Winner of the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, David Chariandy’s Brother is his intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, and tightly constructed second novel, exploring questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared an... + Read More
A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim.Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made difficult when she is revealed as a fraud: she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast.In dire search of cli... + Read More
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Series: A Ballet of LepersA Novel and StoriesHardcover
Leonard Cohen9780771018145
$34.95FICTION
Oct 11, 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before “Hallelujah” and “So Long, Marianne” and “Famous Blue Raincoat,” the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning.Written between 1956 in Montreal, just a... + Read More
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Series: GreenwoodA NovelPaperback
Michael Christie9780771024481
$22.00FICTION
Aug 25, 2020
A 2023 CANADA READS FINALISTINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOREST OF READING’S EVERGREEN AWARD, THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE, AND THE RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE, AND WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD AND LE PRIX DU LIVRE DE SQYA magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune—trees.They come for the trees. It’s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyte... + Read More
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Series: Empire of WildPaperback
Cherie Dimaline9780735277205
$21.00FICTION
Sep 15, 2020
INDIGO’S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2019NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Ripping, roaring, fur-flying, and more!” says Margaret Atwood about this captivating novel from the author of The Marrow Thieves, the #1 national bestseller, multi-award winner, and Canada Reads finalist“Wildly entertaining and profound and essential.” —Tommy Orange, The New York TimesBroken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year—ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a li... + Read More
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Series: The InnocentsPaperback
Michael Crummey9780385685436
$21.00FICTION
Sep 29, 2020
FINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling, award-winning author Michael Crummey comes a sweeping, heart-wrenching, deeply immersive novel about a brother and sister alone in a small world.A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family’s boat and the little knowledge pa... + Read More
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Series: Probably RubyA NovelHardcover
Lisa Bird-Wilson9780385696685
$29.95FICTION
Aug 24, 2021
For readers of Tommy Orange’s There There and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, Probably Ruby is an audacious, brave and beautiful book about an adopted woman’s search for her Indigenous identity.Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and finally adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can’t afford to complain too loudly about Ruby’s Indigenous roots. But when her new parents’ marriage falls apart, Ruby finds herself vulnerable and in compromising situations that lead her to search, in the unlikeliest ... + Read More
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Series: A Quality of LightPaperback
Richard Wagamese9780385694629
$21.00FICTION
Jul 16, 2019
From the beloved, bestselling author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese’s novel is a moving story of friendship, loyalty, compassion, and justice.Joshua Kane, an Ojibway, has lived since infancy with his white adoptive parents. Johnny Gebhardt is white, and from a young age has had a fascination with Indigenous culture, craving the spirituality and strength he knows are a part of a life sorely lacking in his own. Happily, the two boys meet and form a deep bond through their “invention” of baseball, the warrior identities they b... + Read More
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Series: New Canadian LibraryThe Stone AngelPenguin Modern Classics EditionPaperback
Margaret Laurence9780735252844
$19.95FICTION
May 16, 2017
Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer of extraordinary craft and profound insight into the workings of the human heart.Margaret Laurence’s most celebrated novel introduced readers to one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Hagar Shipley is stubborn, querulous, self-reliant, and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her, she makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence.As her story unfolds, we are drawn i... + Read More
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Series: Mexican GothicHardcover
Silvia Moreno-Garcia9780525620785
$37.99FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian IN DEVELOPMENT AS A HULU ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES PRODUCED BY KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Marie Claire, Vox, Mashable, Men’s Health, Library Journal, Book Riot, LibraryReads An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic ari... + Read More
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Series: Motorcycles & SweetgrassPenguin Modern Classics EditionPaperback
Drew Hayden Taylor9781039000612
$22.00FICTION
Jun 01, 2021
A beloved story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger, and a band of marauding raccoons—now as a Penguin Modern Classic.Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, has been struggling with her responsibilities in the community and as a mother to her aloof teenage son, Virgil, after the death of her own mother and the loss of their last connection the old ways of life.Then John, a mysterious white man, pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle and turns Otter Lake upside down. Maggie get... + Read More
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Series: Life of PiRevised editionPaperback
Yann Martel9780676973778
$21.00FICTION
Oct 10, 2002
We’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of this contemporary classic and #1 international bestseller with a special edition paperback, featuring original art designed by a fan of the book.One boy. One boat. One tiger.After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and beloved wo... + Read More
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Series: The MaddAddam TrilogyOryx and CrakePaperback
Margaret Atwood9780307398482
$22.00FICTION
Jul 28, 2009
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey—with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake—through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an unco... + Read More
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Series: Ragged CompanyPaperback
Richard Wagamese9780385256940
$22.00FICTION
Oct 06, 2009
Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and ... + Read More
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Series: Daughters of the DeerPaperback
Danielle Daniel9780735282087
$24.00FICTION
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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Series: Every Summer AfterPaperback
Carley Fortune9780735243750
$24.95FICTION
May 10, 2022
Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish apartment in Toronto, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.Until Percy receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thou... + Read More
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Series: The PushPaperback
Ashley Audrain9780735239890
$24.95FICTION
Jan 05, 2021
*WINNER OF THE 2022 CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA’S BEST CRIME FIRST NOVEL AWARD**SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize*A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, and about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for, and everything she feared.Blythe Connor is determined to be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby, Violet, that she never had.But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe doesn’t find the connection with her daughter s... + Read More
Newly reissued alongside The Custodian of Paradise and the paperback debut of First Snow, Last Light.A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. In this widely acclaimed novel, Johnston has created two of the most memorable and irreversibly intertwined characters in modern fiction: Joey Smallwood, who claws his way up from poverty to become New Foundland’s first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding, who renou... + Read More
Madeleine Thien’s internationally acclaimed, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel now available in a beautiful trade paperback. Madeleine Thien’s new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations—those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most impor... + Read More
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Series: The Apollo MurdersPaperback
Chris Hadfield9780735282377
$24.00FICTION
Nov 01, 2022
#1 INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE TIMES (LONDON) THRILLER OF THE YEAR PICKAN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Exciting.” —Andy Weir, author of The Martian“Nail-biting.” —James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar and Titanic“Not to be missed.” —Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the JackalAn exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race, by astronaut and bestselling author Chris Hadfield.1973. A final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million mile... + Read More
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Series: The MaidA NovelPaperback
Nita Prose9780735241336
$24.95FICTION
Jan 04, 2022
INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • CITYLINE BOOK CLUB PICK • “A twist-and-turn whodunit, set in a five-star hotel, from the perspective of the maid who finds the body. Think Clue. Think page-turner.”—GlamourNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Glamour, W magazine, PopSugar, The Rumpus, Book Riot, CrimeReads, She Reads, Daily Hive, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Stylist, Canadian Living“An endearing debut…. The reader comes to understand Mol... + Read More
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Series: The Second HistoryPaperback
Rebecca Silver Slayter9780385694445
$24.95FICTION
Aug 03, 2021
A novel of haunting beauty and ominous suspense, The Second History is a post-apocalyptic love story about a young couple embarking on a journey to understand, for the first time, what they’ve been hiding from all their lives.Born in a barren, altered future world, Eban has lived in hiding all his life without ever understanding why. After his mother’s death, he retreated into the northern Appalachians with Judy, the only other woman he has ever known.But as the years passed and Judy suffered multiple miscarriages, she began to wonder what happ... + Read More
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Series: The Boat PeoplePaperback
Sharon Bala9780771024290
$24.95FICTION
Jan 02, 2018
By the winner of the 2017 Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is gripping, morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada—only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father is overcome with relief: he and his 6-year-old son can finally put Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war behind them and begin new lives... + Read More
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Series: Girl at the Edge of SkyPaperback
Lilian Nattel9780735277045
$24.95FICTION
Aug 27, 2019
NATIONAL BESTSELLERGirl at the Edge of Sky is a unique, thrilling, sometimes terrifying novel based on the life and death of Lily Litvyak, a female Soviet flying ace and fighter pilot shot down behind German lines in the Second World War. From the bestselling author of Web of Angels and The River Midnight. Lily Litvyak is no one's idea of a fighter pilot: a tiny, dimpled teenager with golden curls who lied about her age in order to fly. But in the crucible of the air war against the German invaders, she becomes that rare thing—a flying ace, glo... + Read More
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