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Series: Time Is a Mother Hardcover Ocean Vuong 9780593300237 $32.00 POETRY Apr 05, 2022

The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean VuongHow else do we return to ourselves but to foldThe page so it points to the good partIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and th... + 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: 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: Great Circle A novel Paperback Maggie Shipstead 9781984897701 $24.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an “epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood—and you’ll relish every minute” (People).After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There—after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town ... + Read More
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Series: Again, Rachel Paperback Marian Keyes 9780385675376 $24.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

From internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes comes the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachel’s Holiday.Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess.But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor, she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive sneakers.But with the sudden reappearance of a man she’d once loved, her life wobbles.She’d thought she was settled. Fixed forever. Is she about to discover that no ... + Read More
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Series: Northern Spy A Novel Paperback Flynn Berry 9780735225015 $23.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

From the author of Under the Harrow, a “thrillingly good” (Washington Post) novel about two sisters who become entangled with the IRAA producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground in the two decades since the Good Friday Agreement, but they never really went away, and lately bomb threats, security checkpoints, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the news reporter requests t... + Read More
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Series: The Music of Bees A Novel Paperback Eileen Garvin 9780593183939 $23.00 FICTION Apr 26, 2022

NOW IN PAPERBACK: A GMA Buzz pick, Indie Next pick, LibraryReads pick, and PNBA regional bestseller, this heartwarming debut novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine follows three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life’s curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing—and maybe even a second chance—just when they least expect it.Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead end job, bereft of family, and now... + 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: The Palace Papers Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil Hardcover Tina Brown 9780385695145 $42.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 26, 2022

The gripping inside story of the British Royal Family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises.“Never again” became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Princess Diana’s death. More specifically, there could never be “another Diana”—a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy.Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the Royal Family reinvented i... + 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: 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: An Unthinkable Thing Paperback Nicole Lundrigan 9780735242678 $22.95 FICTION Apr 12, 2022

A tragedy brings a young boy into the home of a “perfect” family—one whose dark secrets begin closing in, until a horrifying moment changes everything.Tommie Ware’s life is turned upside down the summer of 1958, just after his eleventh birthday. When his beloved aunt—the woman who raised him—doesn’t return after her shift as a night nurse and is later found murdered, there is only one place left for Tommie to go: “home” to the mother who handed him over the day he was born.All is not as it seems behind the hedgerow surrounding the lavish Henneb... + Read More
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Series: My Ackee Tree A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen Hardcover Suzanne Barr 9780735239500 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 05, 2022

For fans of The Measure of My Powers and Notes from a Young Black Chef, a memoir about food, family, and the recipes that brought one woman home when she needed it the most.Suzanne Barr’s journey to become a chef started when she was 30. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer and she moved home to Florida to take care of her. Suzanne escorted her mother to doctor’s appointments, bathed her, and kept her company, but the hardest part of the experience was that she didn’t know how to cook for her. She didn’t even know where to begin.Fast-forward to... + Read More
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Series: Don't Worry 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk Hardcover Shunmyo Masuno 9780143136705 $29.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Apr 05, 2022

Discover why 90% of your worries won’t come true in this highly practical, internationally bestselling guide by the renowned Zen Buddhist author of The Art of Simple Living.Think of a time when you were worried about something, but then you suddenly realized how insignificant it was. Isn’t it amazing how much lighter you felt? The key is to focus only on the here and now. By doing so, you free yourself from unnecessary anxiety, and your mind will be at peace. In Don’t Worry, you will learn to:Lesson #1: stop comparing yourself to others—90% of ... + Read More
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Series: Cake & Loaf Satisfy Your Cravings with Over 85 Recipes for Everyday Baking and Sweet Treats Paperback Nickey Miller 9780735239838 $29.95 COOKING Apr 19, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn Irresistible Bakery Cookbook with Over 85 Baking Recipes.Cake & Loaf, a cozy from-scratch neighbourhood bakery, started with a dream shared over coffee between college friends and business partners, Nickey Miller and Josie Rudderham. Genuinely passionate about food, sustainability, and community, they wanted to create a bakery with a dynamic atmosphere that fosters creativity and equality.Today, a living-wage employer, Cake & Loaf is beloved for its stand-out baked goods.Full of flavour and homespun comfort, the recipes ra... + Read More
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Series: I Was the President's Mistress!! Hardcover Miguel Syjuco 9780670063949 $36.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

“A super-typhoon of a novel. A Babel of rogues, survivors, and shape-shifters. A polemic against corruption and greed. A sassy, swerving mini-series, touched by grace and beauty. A Filipino Bonfire of the Vanities for our beleaguered times. An uncompromising work of art.” —David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue “It’s a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, amazement at its author’s reach and skill, and desolation at the world it spreads out before you…[A] raging protest of a book.” —The New York Times B... + Read More
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Series: When We Fell Apart A Novel Paperback Soon Wiley 9780735241633 $23.95 FICTION May 03, 2022

A smart, debut thriller in which the death of a young woman in Seoul sets her boyfriend on a quest to find out why she died—one that becomes a soul-searching exploration of his own identity as a Korean-American.When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he’s sure it can’t be true. She was successful, ambitious, happy, just on the cusp of graduating from university and claiming the future she’d always dreamed of. Min, on the other hand, born to an American father and Korean mother, has never felt quite the... + 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: The Investigator Hardcover John Sandford 9780593328682 $39.00 FICTION Apr 12, 2022

Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford.“Sandford fans rejoice! Davenport next generation has arrived and Letty is exactly the kind of cool-eyed, smart-mouthed, lethally dangerous heroine we’ve been waiting for.” —Lisa Gardner, author of One Step Too FarBy age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a m... + Read More
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Series: GUNCLE, THE The Guncle Paperback Steven Rowley 9780525542308 $23.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

National Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerAn NPR Book of the YearFinalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorFinalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice AwardsFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time ... + Read More
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Series: QUEER IDEAS/QUEER ACTION Reclaiming Two-Spirits Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America Hardcover Gregory D. Smithers 9780807003466 $39.95 HISTORY Apr 26, 2022

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them.Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people... + 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: Blood and Ruins The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 Hardcover Richard Overy 9780670025169 $56.00 HISTORY Apr 05, 2022

“Monumental… [A] vast and detailed study that is surely the finest single-volume history of World War II. Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire.” – The Wall Street JournalA thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain’s leading military historianA New York Times bestsellerRichard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. As one of Britain’s most decorate... + Read More
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Series: The Premonition A Pandemic Story Paperback Michael Lewis 9781324035534 $23.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 05, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-1... + Read More
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Series: What Comes After A Novel Paperback JoAnne Tompkins 9780593086001 $23.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2021“JoAnne Tompkins writes about the people in this small town with wisdom and grace.” —Ann Napolitano, New York Times- bestselling author of Dear Edward"An American Tana French, Tompkins is a writer to watch.” —O, The Oprah MagazineAfter the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys’ families—a moving and hopeful novel about forgiveness and human connectio... + Read More
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Series: The Paper Palace A Novel Paperback Miranda Cowley Heller 9780593329832 $24.00 FICTION Apr 19, 2022

“This house, this place, knows all my secrets.”A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades.It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each othe... + Read More
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Series: Bird, New Edition Revised edition Hardcover DK 9780744039580 $66.00 NATURE Apr 05, 2022

The diversity and drama of the bird world brought to breathtaking life in an encyclopedic new editionUnrivaled in scope for a single-volume reference work, this photographic guide to every bird order and family profiles more than 1,400 species, pictured in their native environment by photographers around the globe. Authoritative, comprehensive, and completely up to date, this reference was produced and revised by a team of expert contributors and in partnership with the leading avian authorities Birdlife International and Audubon.Bird’s photogr... + Read More
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Series: The Return of Faraz Ali A Novel Hardcover Aamina Ahmad 9780593330180 $36.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

Sent back to his birthplace – Lahore’s notorious red-light district – to hush up the murder of a child prostitute, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past.Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, in Lahore’s walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, ... + Read More
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Series: Neil Gaiman's Chivalry Hardcover Neil Gaiman 9781506719115 $25.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 05, 2022

Another delightfully humorous and sweet fantasy graphic novel adaptation of a Neil Gaiman short story, brought to you by the Eisner award-winning creative team behind Troll Bridge and Snow, Glass, Apples: Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran!An elderly British widow buys what turns out to be the Holy Grail from a second-hand shop, setting her off on an epic visit from an ancient knight who lures her with ancient relics in hope for winning the cup. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award–winning, and New York Times bestselling wr... + 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: The Cheat Sheet A Novel Paperback Sarah Adams 9780593500767 $23.00 FICTION Apr 26, 2022

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Discover the heartwarming friends to lovers romance that became a sensation on TikTok—now an expanded edition with an exclusive chapter and a Q&A with the author!The friend zone is not the end zone for Bree Camden, who is helplessly in love with her long time best friend, extremely hot NFL legend, Nathan Donelson. The only problem—she can’t admit her true feelings because he clearly sees her as a best friend with no romantic potential, and the last thing Bree wants is to ruin their relationship. But... + Read More
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Series: Shaq's Family Style Championship Recipes for Feeding Family and Friends [A Cookbook] Hardcover Shaquille O'Neal 9781984860064 $39.99 COOKING Apr 05, 2022

A celebration of cultural icon Shaquille O’Neal’s love of food, family, and fun, with 80 low-stress comfort food recipes for busy families.Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal loves food. A lot. In fact, fans of Inside the NBA know they’ll most likely hear Shaq tell his co-hosts all about what he ate for dinner while they analyze the action in the paint.Shaq’s love of food, eating, and family cooking began in his childhood home, where his mom cooked for him and his three siblings. With his own family, he carries on the commitment to creati... + Read More
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Series: Brazen My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie Hardcover Julia Haart 9780593239162 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 12, 2022

A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman’s escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World GroupEver since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart’s life—what she wore, what she ate, what she thought—was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely knew. For the next twenty-three years, her marriage would rule he... + Read More
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Series: Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club) How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole Hardcover Susan Cain 9780451499783 $37.00 PSYCHOLOGY Apr 05, 2022

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet outlook on life, and why we’ve been so blind to its value.With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leaders... + Read More
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Series: THE WIND-UP GARDEN SERIES In a Garden Burning Gold Book One of the Wind-up Garden series Hardcover Rory Power 9780593354971 $36.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe—even if it tears the siblings apart—in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years, they’ve been each other’s only ally, defending each other and their younger siblings against th... + Read More
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Series: Kiss the Red Stairs The Holocaust, Once Removed Hardcover Marsha Lederman 9780771049378 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’ Holocaust stories in the wake of her own divorce, investigating how trauma migrates through generations with empathy, humour, and resilience.Marsha was five when a simple question led to a horrifying answer. Sitting in her kitchen, she asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. Her mother told her the truth: ... + Read More
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Series: Such Big Dreams A Novel Paperback Reema Patel 9780771073717 $23.00 FICTION May 10, 2022

A savvy former street child working at a human rights law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival. Named a Loan Stars Top Ten Pick, a CBC Canadian Fiction title to watch, one of Audible’s Best Debuts of 2022, and an Amazon Best Book of 2022.With a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, Rakhi Kumar is nobody’s fool. Though she lives alone in a Mumbai slum and works as a lowly office assistant for the renowned lawyer, Gauri Verma, who gave he... + Read More
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Series: Animal Person Stories Hardcover Alexander MacLeod 9780771029882 $28.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

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

A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic, from one of the great writers of his generation.Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner’s daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he assumes will be the promised afterlife of days on the golf course, celebrity endorsements, and cushy real estate investments. But markets tank, family disintegrates, fame fades, and the holes in his mind and memory from a career of punishment on the field be... + Read More
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Series: Modern Whore A Memoir Hardcover Andrea Werhun 9780771098413 $45.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 03, 2022

Oh, the places a whore will go: Strip clubs, four-star hotels, stinking basement apartments, luxury cottages. A striking memoir by Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea’s sex work career in lush photography and powerful words—in all its slippery, sexy, silly and sometimes heartbreaking glory. Andrea Werhun’s sex work career gave her money, freedom, joy, and a lot of dick. A natural performer, she revelled in the opportunity to invent Mary Ann, her escort counterpart, and introduce her to men all over the city. She whores, she learns,... + Read More
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Series: Arrival Stories Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers Hardcover Amy Schumer 9780593230282 $37.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 05, 2022

A wide range of women—actors, athletes, academics, CEOs, writers, small-business owners, birth workers, physicians, and activists—share their experiences of becoming mothers in this multifaceted, moving, and revealing collection.Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. The primal scream of a woman pushing through her thirty-fifth hour of labor. The moment a still-wet newborn is placed in his mother’s open arms after an unexpected C-section. The bottomless love reflected in the eyes of a father seeing his daughter for the first time. The moment a bab... + Read More
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Series: True Biz A Novel Hardcover Sara Novic 9780593241509 $37.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

A transporting novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at WarTrue biz (adj/exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the ha... + Read More
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Series: Memphis A Novel Hardcover Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593230480 $36.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2022

A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s violence, seeking refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis. This wasn’t the first time violence ... + Read More
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Series: 22 Murders Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia Paperback Paul Palango 9781039001275 $26.95 TRUE CRIME Apr 12, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of dentu... + Read More
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Series: The Puzzler One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life Hardcover A.J. Jacobs 9780593136713 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 26, 2022

A rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our worldWhat makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A. J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and night... + Read More