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Series: Sick MoneyThe Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical IndustryMainHardcover
Billy Kenber9781838850258
$42.95MEDICAL
May 03, 2022
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system that was designed to drive innovation and patient care has been relentlessly distorted to drive up profits.Medicines have become nothing more than financial assets. The focus of drug research, how drugs are priced and who has access to them is now dictated by sharehold... + Read More
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Series: The Second CutMainHardcover
Louise Welsh9781838850869
$33.95FICTION
May 03, 2022
'I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermid'Compelling, immersive and brimming with life' Graeme Macrae BurnetAuctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead.Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs - is that the reason the police won't investigate? And if Rilke doesn't find out what happened to ... + Read More
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Series: The CowardA BBC Two Between the Covers pickMainHardcover
Jarred McGinnis9781838851538
$37.95FICTION
Apr 12, 2022
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKQuestion: What's worse than being in a wheelchair?Answer: Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair.After a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job. Worse still, he's forced to live back home with the father he hasn't spoken to in ten years.Add in a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and the fact that total strangers now treat him like he's an idiot, it's a recipe for self-destruction. How can he stop himsel... + Read More
2022 QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furnitureDistraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And she’ll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan’s wish come true.Soon Ülle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have... + Read More
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Series: The ReservoirHardcover
David Duchovny9781636140445
$29.95FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
A former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness—or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate."A lonely ex-financier stuck in his apartment during the Covid-19 pandemic becomes obsessed with the Central Park Reservoir and slowly goes mad."—New York Times Book Review"[Duchovny’s] novella The Reservoir, set in New York City, probes how pandemic isolation has changed us."—The Boston Globe"A new, pandemic-inspired, Rear Window–esque thriller."—Village Voice“Evocative, chilly prose that wouldn’t be out of plac... + Read More
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Series: The Quaking of AmericaAn Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial ReckoningHardcover
Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, SEP9781949481662
$51.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 22, 2022
The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands surveys America's deteriorating democracy and offers embodied practices to help us protect ourselves and our country. "All of us need to read this book—and then act on it.”—Angela Rye, NPR political analyst and former CNN commentator". . . a volume our country, our bodies, and our humanity desperately need."—Michael Eric Dyson, author of Entertaining Race and Long Time ComingIn The Quaking of America, therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem takes readers through somatic proc... + Read More
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Series: Now Lila KnowsHardcover
Elizabeth Nunez9781636140247
$40.50FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
Caribbean professor Lila Bonnard arrives in Vermont for a short-term teaching position and is forced to confront the terrible legacy of American (in)justice"The racial politics of a small town in Vermont, as seen through Lila’s eyes, provides an illuminating counterplay between Caribbean and American Blackness."—Publishers Weekly"As a portrait of Lila's political and racial awakening, the novel is a grand success."—Kirkus Reviews"I fell deep, hard and fast into this book. The very first sentence slices clean and that energy continues throughout... + Read More
FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction A BEST BOOK OF 2022Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers Weekly・Lit Hub Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to for... + Read More
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Series: ThreeHardcover
Valerie Perrin9781609457556
$41.95FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
A June 2022 Indie Next List Pick From the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers, a beautifully told and suspenseful story about the ties that bind us and the choices that make us who we are. 1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and quickly become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part. 2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past repo... + Read More
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Series: The Dolphin HouseHardcover
Audrey Schulman9781609457846
$40.50FICTION
Apr 15, 2022
Based on the true story of the 1965 “dolphin house” experiment, this spellbinding novel captures the tenor of the social experiments of the 1960s in award-winning author Audrey Schulman’s tightly paced and evocative style. It is 1965, and Cora, a young, hearing impaired woman, buys a one-way ticket to the island of St. Thomas, where she discovers four dolphins held in captivity as part of an experiment led by the obsessive Dr. Blum. Drawn by a strong connection to the dolphins, Cora falls in with the scientists and discovers her need to protect... + Read More
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Series: Belle GreeneHardcover
Alexandra Lapierre9781609457587
$41.95FICTION
Jun 24, 2022
Based on the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman who defied all odds to carve out a destiny of her own choosing, this is a richly imagined novel bursting with atmosphere, lush period detail, and many unforgettable characters. New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of the country’s most prestigious private libraries. It belongs to the magnate J. P. Morgan,darling of the international aristocracy and one of the city’s richest men. Flamboyant, brilliant, beautiful, Bel... + Read More
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Series: Also a PoetFrank O'Hara, My Father, and MeHardcover
Ada Calhoun9780802159786
$40.50BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 24, 2022
A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O’Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O’Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy,... + Read More
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Series: The MenHardcover
Sandra Newman9780802159663
$40.50FICTION
Jun 24, 2022
From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mindbending novel in which all people with a Y chromosome mysteriously disappear from the face of the earthDeep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surger... + Read More
From the finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize and NYPL Young Lions Award, an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam fatherIn 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and share a bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island’s most diverse and underserved neighborhoods. The three boys are an inseparable trio, but conspi... + Read More
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Series: Life CeremonyStoriesHardcover
Sayaka Murata9780802159588
$37.50FICTION
Jul 15, 2022
The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.In these twelve stories, Murata mixes a... + Read More
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Series: Cat BrushingHardcover
Jane Campbell9780802160027
$38.95FICTION
Aug 26, 2022
A rousing and original debut story collection that probes the erotic, emotional, and intellectual lives of elder women, CAT BRUSHING will be published in the author’s 80th year. CAT BRUSHING, the provocative debut by Jane Campbell, vigorously explores the sensual worlds of thirteen older women, unearthing their passions, libidinal appetites, integrity, and sense of self as they fight against prevalent misconceptions and stereotypes of the aging.Written in spikey, incisive prose, this alluring cast of characters overcomes the notion that elder ... + Read More
Celebrated by the Boston Globe as “a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs,” the deliciously weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the secret lives of the polished Connecticut haven that got us all hooked on NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, and jolts us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide“Acampora’s prose has a seductive, pearlescent allure.”—TIME Magazine Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her affluent hometown of Nearwater, Connecticut, where she’s... + Read More
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Series: The Wild IsleThe Last SummerThe Wild Isle, Book OneHardcover
Karen Swan9781529084368
$32.99FICTION
May 02, 2022
A GLOBE AND MAIL AND TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER An epic, sweeping historical novel from Canadian bestseller Karen Swan, The Last Summer is set on the Scottish island of St Kilda, and is the first novel in a brand-new series. When the residents of St Kilda ask to be evacuated from their remote island home in the summer of 1930, it's in search of a better life on the mainland rather than the scratch existence on their mountain in the sea. For 18-year-old Effie Gillies, it's a bittersweet departure. She's the best young climber on the island, as... + Read More
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Series: One Good ThingHardcover
Alexandra Potter9781529022858
$33.99FICTION
Jul 01, 2022
A heartwarming and hilarious alternative love story from Alexandra Potter, bestselling author of Confessions of a Forty-Something. In life, nothing is certain. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something can happen to change the course of everything. Liv Brooks is still in shock. Newly divorced and facing an uncertain future, she impulsively swaps her London life for the sweeping hills of the Yorkshire Dales, determined to make a fresh start. But fresh starts are harder than they look. Feeling lost and lonely she decides to ado... + Read More
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Series: Single Bald FemaleHardcover
Laura Price9781529074246
$34.99FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
An extraordinary, uplifting novel of courage, friendship and fearlessly embracing life, by debut author Laura Price. At thirty-one, Jessica Jackson has it all - the career she's worked so hard for, the loving boyfriend and a cosy London flat they share with their cat. But a shock diagnosis turns Jess's world upside down, and her contented life implodes with it. As Jess juggles her career with chemo, and learns that her perfect boyfriend isn't quite so perfect after all, her friends' lives continue to follow the script - the 'I said yes' Faceb... + Read More
A novel about sibling love, family secrets, birds, and coming home. What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life? On a sunny morning in March 1987, four-year-old Stephen Nelson welcomes his new baby sister, Emily. Holding her for the first time, he vows to love and protect her, and to keep her safe forever. Nearly thirty years later, the two have lost touch and Stephen is homeless. Emily, however, has never given up hope of finding her brother, and when he arrives at the council office where she works, her wis... + Read More
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Series: The ExhibitionistHardcover
Charlotte Mendelson9781529052749
$38.99FICTION
May 31, 2022
The Times 2022 Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction Nominated for the 2022/23 Comedy Women in Print Prize The Exhibitionist is the luminous fifth novel from Man Booker-longlisted and twice-longlisted Women's Prize author Charlotte Mendelson. The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes. Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious egoist Ray Hanrahan prepares for a new exhibition of his art - the first in many decades - and one he is sure will burnish his reputa... + Read More
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Series: The MidwifeHardcover
Tricia Cresswell9781529066869
$38.99FICTION
Apr 05, 2022
A haunting and moving book club read with an unforgettable twist, this debut is perfect for fans of The Familiars by Stacey Halls and Bridget Collins' The Binding. 1830. After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked and near death, on the Northumberland moors. She has no memory of who she is or how she got there. But she can remember how to help a woman in labour and how to expertly dress a wound, and can speak fluent French. With the odds against her, a penniless single woman, she starts to build her life from scratch, using her sk... + Read More
A twisting, page-turning tour-de-force from the beloved, multimillion copy selling sensation, Lucinda Riley. The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen's - a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk - is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine 'Jazz' Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, but reluct... + Read More
An Esquire "Best Book of Spring 2022" selectionA Publishers Weekly “Best Book of Summer 2022”A Kirkus “Best Book of May 2022”A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" selectionA San Francisco Chronicle "Most Anticipated Novel of 2022" selectionFrom “an important writer in every sense” (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America’s young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world.One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repa... + Read More
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Series: Seeing StrangersHardcover
Sebastian J. Plata9781951709792
$40.50FICTION
Oct 28, 2022
NAMED ONE OF CRIMEREADS' MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME NOVELS OF 2022 NAMED TO THE MOST ANTICIPATED ADULT FICTION OF 2022 BY LGBTQ READS NAMED BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR, NOTABLE SELECTION, CRIMEREADS A stylish novel of obsession and social satire set in a world where sex is just a swipe away. Life is going well for Greg Kelly. He’s married to the handsome and kind Cristian, a Spanish-born artist who is also a talented cook. Greg’s work as a translator for an IT startup allows them to live comfortably in a stylish Bushwick two bedroom and enjoy just a... + Read More
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Series: Murder on the Spanish SeasHardcover
Wendy Church9781951709853
$40.50FICTION Age (years) from 18 - 99
Oct 21, 2022
Jesse O'Hara is profane, introverted, and not frequently sober – and has just lost another job. “A million-dollar brain and a ten-cent personality,” her last employer said. With nothing better to do, Jesse reluctantly accepts the gift of a luxury cruise around the Iberian Peninsula. She’s not sure she can drink enough to keep her boredom at bay, but that's the least of her problems. From the very first moment of the cruise, it's clear to Jesse that something is very wrong. Aided by her near-photographic memory, Jesse investigates a series of st... + Read More
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Series: Let's Do ItThe Birth of PopMainHardcover
Bob Stanley9780571320257
$56.50MUSIC
Jul 12, 2022
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. 'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock'n'roll. Fascinating. I can't recommend it enough.'CAITLIN MORAN'An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating and often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the Twentieth Century.'NEIL TENNANT'A perfect guidebook, fi... + Read More
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Series: At Last CountPaperback
Claire Ross Dunn9781988784953
$20.95FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022AS FEATURED IN TORONTO STAR, ZOOMER MAGAZINE, AND ON CBC'S ONTARIO MORNING AND GLOBAL TVFor readers who love Mark Haddon, Miriam Toews, and Sally RooneyPaisley Ratchford is trying to keep it together, but in eight weeks, the Toronto apartment building she lives in will be demolished. A last-ditch effort to reclaim her abandoned childhood home on Amherst Island plunges Paisley into memories of growing up in the tight-knit community, and into the obsessive compulsive disorder that has only ever offered a semblanc... + Read More
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Series: BibliophonicTegan and SaraModern HeartthrobsPaperback
Melody Lau9781778430046
$17.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 16, 2022
A guide to the music and multifaceted career of Canadian artists and songwriters Tegan and Sara. Through interviews with Tegan and Sara, their collaborators, journalists, and fans, this book explores the multifaceted career of one of music’s most celebrated sister duos, from their start as Neil Young’s protégés to Canadian indie-rock purveyors and, making their riskiest transformation yet, into mainstream pop breakouts. Coming up as grunge-loving musicians in the late '90s and early 2000s, Tegan and Sara found themselves awkwardly pushed into c... + Read More
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Series: Out of HidingHolocaust Literature of British ColumbiaPaperback
Alan Twigg9781553806622
$24.95HISTORY
Apr 07, 2022
A thorough collection and examination of stories and perspectives from the Holocaust-related books of British Columbia authors, including nearly 100 black and white photographs.Holocaust witnesses will soon cease to exist. As Tolstoy famously put it, what is to be done? One answer is Out of Hiding, a cross-section of stories collected from one region of the globe, British Columbia, Canada, examining 85 authors and 160 books.Out of Hiding is both inspiring and chilling. The outstanding characters include the heroic whistleblower, Rudolf Vrba, cr... + Read More
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Series: This Is How We LoveHardcover
Lisa Moore9781487001193
$32.99FICTION
May 03, 2022
From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love? As the snowstorm of the century rages, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St. John’s to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage — and of what she can’t qu... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow TungFinaleThe Lost Decades of Uncle Chow TungPaperback
Ian Hamilton9781487010188
$19.99FICTION
Jul 05, 2022
The fourth and final installment in Ian Hamilton’s exhilarating Ava Lee spin-off series The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung. Following a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Uncle begins preparing for his inevitable death. As he sets his affairs in order, he recalls the moments in his life that meant the most to him — including his first encounter with the talented forensic accountant Ava Lee and the origins of their life-changing partnership.
The eagerly awaited new novel by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Narinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree) is an extraordinary tale of one young Omani woman building a life for herself in Britain and reflecting on the relationships that have made her. Zuhur, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts to form friendships and assimilate in Britain, she can’t help but ruminate on the relationships that have been central to her life. Most prominent is her strong emotional bond wi... + Read More
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Series: All the Shining PeoplePaperback
Kathy Friedman9781487010409
$22.99FICTION
Apr 05, 2022
Finalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Daunta Gleed Award Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All the Shining People explores migration, diaspora, and belonging within Toronto’s Jewish South African community, as individuals come to terms with the oppressive hierarchies that separate, and the connections that bind. Seeking a place to belong, the book’s characters — including a life-drawing model searching the streets for her lover; a ... + Read More
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Series: No Stars in the SkyPaperback
Martha Bátiz9781487010027
$22.99FICTION
May 03, 2022
“Profoundly moving and beautifully written . . . each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters’ joy and pain.” — Amy Stuart The nineteen stories in No Stars in the Sky feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis. Tormented by personal conflicts and oppressive regimes that treat the female body like a trophy of war, the women in No Stars in the Sky face life-altering circumstances that either shatter or make them stronger, albeit at a very high price. True to her Latin American roots, Bátiz shines ... + Read More
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Series: Our Voice of FireA Memoir of a Warrior RisingPaperback
Brandi Morin9781487010577
$22.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 02, 2022
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous Peoples. Brandi Morin is known for her clear-eyed and empathetic reporting on Indigenous oppression in North America. She is also a survivor of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls crisis and uses her experience to tell the stories of those who did not survive the rampant violence. From her time as a foster kid and runaway who fell victim to predatory men and an oppressive syste... + Read More
From Ed O’Loughlin, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Minds of Winter, a pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, and the life events that have shaped his identity. Soon, the lockdown would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony. Charlotte’s death would be washed away, the first drop in a downpour. Nobody knew it then, but hers would be the last good funeral of the year. It was February 2020 when Ed O’Loughlin unexpectedly heard that Charlotte, a friend from the old days, had just died young and b... + Read More
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Series: Know It AllFinding the Impossible CountryHardcover
James H. Marsh9781988824840
$38.50BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 05, 2022
In Know It All: Finding the Impossible Country James Marsh tells of his evolution from a troubled childhood to a long career in Canadian publishing that culminated in the creation of The Canadian Encyclopedia — what one reviewer called “the intellectual equivalent of the building of the CPR.” Through friendships, curiosity, the insights of a charismatic psychiatrist, his passion for books, and the intimate encounters with the authors he met, he championed a diverse and inclusive view of Canada, which was used to draw the great minds of an impos... + Read More
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