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A Very Prairie Christmas Bakebook Cookies, Candies, Cakes & More: Vintage Baking to Celebrate the Festive Season Hardcover Karlynn Johnston 9780525611486 $37.50 COOKING Oct 31, 2023

The quintessential vintage holiday baking book, with over 120 festive and classic recipes to celebrate the Christmas baker in all of us!A Very Prairie Christmas Bakebook is the only cookbook you will need this festive season. Take it from Karlynn Johnston, the queen of vintage Prairie baking (and someone who owns SIX Christmas trees), these goodies are sure to keep your Christmas spirit going all season long. Inside, you’ll find over 120 of the best of the best recipes for filling your family’s homes and bellies with festive cheer. The delights... + Read More
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Prairie Seasonal, Farm-Fresh Recipes Celebrating the Canadian Prairies Hardcover Dan Clapson 9780525611929 $37.50 COOKING Aug 29, 2023

Over 100 Proud-to-be-Prairie recipes showcasing the seasons, produce, flavours, and traditions of one of Canada’s most exciting culinary regions.Dan Clapson and Twyla Campbell take us on a grand tour of the many faces and places that make up the Canadian Prairies. With over 100 delectable recipes, Prairie draws inspiration from the beauty of the changing seasons as well as the many different ingredients and cultures that make the Prairies such a culinary hotspot. The book is filled withTried-and-true seasonal recipes that will introduce Prairie... + Read More
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The Prairie Table Suppers, Potlucks & Socials: Crowd-Pleasing Recipes to Bring People Together: A Cookbook Hardcover Karlynn Johnston 9780147531100 $32.00 COOKING May 21, 2019

Celebrate prairie life with this delicious combination of more than 100 recipes from Karlynn Johnston, bestselling author of Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky. Discover new and nostalgic prairie favorites, perfect for family dinners, potluck parties, picnic lunches, and gatherings of all kinds.Karlynn Johnston, beloved blogger behind The Kitchen Magpie, knows first-hand that meals made with love—cooked with comfort in mind, and filled with real ingredients—are greeted with the biggest smiles. In The Prairie Table, she captures the magic of fam... + Read More
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Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky A Modern Baker's Guide to Old-Fashioned Desserts: A Baking Book Hardcover Karlynn Johnston 9780449016954 $32.95 COOKING Oct 25, 2016

Old-fashioned favorites are paired alongside modern reimaginings in this nostalgic debut baking book from Karlynn Johnston of The Kitchen Magpie. Suitable for bakers of all skill levels and featuring over 120 delicious recipes, Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky is destined to become a much-loved addition to any family kitchen.This timeless collection of sweet treats combines long-forgotten classics with deliciously revamped recipes. Learn how to bake time-honored desserts like Saskatoon Berry Pie, Grandma Marion’s Honey Cookies, and No-Bowl Ch... + Read More
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Jenna Rae Cakes and Sweet Treats Over 100 Recipes for the Modern Baker Hardcover Ashley Kosowan 9780735236745 $35.00 COOKING Oct 06, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERBeloved family-owned Canadian bakery Jenna Rae Cakes shares over 100 recipes for its most delectable—and most beautiful—sweet treats.Jenna Hutchinson was in the middle of applying to dental school when she saw an episode of Cake Boss and thought, I can do that! Little did she know, that moment would set her life off in a new direction, and she and her twin sister Ashley would go on to own one of Canada’s most successful and celebrated bakeries, Jenna Rae Cakes.Now, in Jenna Rae Cakes and Sweet Treats, Jenna and Ashley reveal ... + Read More
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Buck Naked Kitchen Radiant and Nourishing Recipes to Fuel Your Health Journey Hardcover Kirsten Buck 9780735236813 $35.00 COOKING Apr 07, 2020

Beautiful and delicious gluten-free, grain-free, and dairy-free recipes, fully endorsed by Whole30.As millions of people know, one of the toughest things about completing the Whole30 is figuring out what to eat the other 335 days of the year. Kirsten Buck, creator of Buck Naked Kitchen, struggled with her weight and chronic eczema for years before she transformed her life through food. She adopted a mostly paleo way of eating—gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, healthy fats, no refined sugars—and experienced dramatic weight loss. Soon after sh... + Read More
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Occasionally Eggs Simple Vegetarian Recipes for Every Season Hardcover Alexandra Daum 9780525611011 $35.00 COOKING Apr 20, 2021

From the creator of the popular blog, Occasionally Eggs, comes a beautiful debut cookbook exploring the bounty of the seasons, filled with more than 110 simple vegetarian recipes.Alexandra Daum loves nothing more than harvesting her garden throughout the year, and creating satisfying, seasonally-driven recipes. In her first cookbook, Occasionally Eggs, she shows us how simple it can be to cook healthy(ish) vegetarian meals with local fruits and vegetables, and pantry staples, like grains and legumes. Hard-to-find ingredients are kept to a minim... + Read More
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Series: SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOKSHOP MYSTE The Game is a Footnote Paperback Vicki Delany 9781639105373 $25.99 FICTION Dec 05, 2023

Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are back on the case when a body is discovered in a haunted museum in bestselling author Vicki Delany’s eighth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery.Scarlet House, now a historical re-enactment museum, is the oldest building in West London, Massachusetts. When things start moving around on their own, board members suggest that Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, might be able to get to the bottom of it. Gemma doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she agrees to ‘eliminate the impossible’. But when G... + Read More
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The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2 A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island Hardcover Kent Monkman 9780771006470 $44.00 ART Nov 28, 2023

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his longtime collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years, and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story... + Read More
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The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1 A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island Hardcover Kent Monkman 9780771061226 $48.00 ART Nov 07, 2023

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear ... + Read More
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Swim The World's Best Beach Clubs, Pools and Wild Spots for a Dip Hardcover Tyler Brule 9780500978573 $60.00 TRAVEL Oct 10, 2023

The Monocle team dips its toe into the world of swimming, revealing one hundred beautiful and inspiring places to take the plunge.Swimming is excellent exercise of course, but it’s so much more than that: it can be a transcendental experience, offering us space to reflect and to escape. It’s an antidote to screens and all-encompassing technology. Perhaps it’s the shedding of inhibitions that come with a dip, or could it be that getting somewhere under our own steam is an act that’s health-giving, refreshing and life-affirming? Whatever it means... + Read More
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Spain The Monocle Handbook Hardcover Tyler Brûlé 9780500978672 $66.00 TRAVEL Sep 26, 2023

Discover Monocle’s favorite places to stay, eat, shop, and visit across Spain.Hot on the heels of Portugal: The Monocle Handbook, Monocle’s latest title turns its focus to sunny Spain in the next of its country-specific books. This practical guide will steer you from the streets of Seville to the mountains of Mallorca, introducing Monocle’s favorite places to stay, eat, shop, and visit across the country. Discover the sleekest beachside boltholes in the Costa Brava, the family-run restaurants plating up the tastiest tapas in Andalucía, and the ... + Read More
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Series: YEAR-ROUND CHRISTMAS MYSTERY Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas Hardcover Vicki Delany 9781639104635 $39.99 FICTION Sep 19, 2023

It’s beginning to look a lot like murder in the sixth installment of this charming cozy mystery series, perfect for fans of Donna Andrews and Jacqueline Frost.It’s the beginning of December in Rudolph, New York, America’s Christmas Town, and business is brisk at Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, a gift and décor shop owned by Merry Wilkinson. The local amateur dramatic society is intensely preparing a special musical production of A Christmas Carol. But it’s not a happy set, as rivalries between cast and crew threaten the production.Tensions come to a he... + Read More
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The Circle Hardcover katherena vermette 9780735239654 $32.00 FICTION Sep 05, 2023

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant and unwavering epic told from a constellation of Métis voices that consider the fallout when the person who connects them all goes missing.The concept was simple. You sit a bunch of people in a circle—everyone who hurt, everyone who got hurt, all affected—and let them share. Some people, it helped them heal, for sure. Others went in angry and left a different kind of angry. Learned how the blame belonged on the system, the history, the colonizer, th... + Read More
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Series: WITCHES' BREW MYSTERY , A Death by a Thousand Sips Hardcover Gretchen Rue 9781639104536 $39.99 FICTION Sep 05, 2023

Phoebe Winchester is back on the case in Raven Creek when a body is discovered at an estate sale in Gretchen Rue’s second book in the Witches’ Brew mystery series, perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Cleo Coyle.Ever since she moved to Raven Creek, Washington, Phoebe Winchester knew she would have to grow accustomed to having a lot on her plate. She’s beginning to make the Victorian manor she inherited from her dear and adventurous Aunt Eudora feel more like home, successfully running the bookstore and tea shop, The Earl’s Study, and learning t... + Read More
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Style for Everybody A Guide to Curating Your Essential Wardrobe Hardcover Kim Appelt 9780525612216 $26.00 DESIGN Aug 29, 2023

The go-to fashion roadmap sharing the secrets to building a capsule wardrobe for all body shapes and personal styles.We’ve all felt that defeat: thumbing through blouse after blouse in your closet, feeling like you have absolutely nothing to wear. Or at least, nothing you feel good in. That’s where Style for Everybody comes in. Kim Appelt is a stylist to the stars, and while her chic looks dazzle at award shows and beyond, she knows life’s not all about being red carpet ready. Building on the fun, approachable style wisdom from her popular YouT... + Read More
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The Prophet's Camel Bell Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780771007408 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 08, 2023

Part travelogue, part autobiography, part celebration of human nature, The Prophet’s Camel Bell is essential reading for anyone who has ever been a stranger in a strange land—and it’s now a Penguin Modern Classic.When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures. Yet she came to know the skilled orators, poets and craftsmen of the country, and to share the vision of a people’s struggle for survival in a barren land.Full of ... + Read More
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Crackpot Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Adele Wiseman 9780771005480 $24.00 FICTION Jul 11, 2023

A radiant novel resonant with myth and superstition, Crackpot is a joyous celebration of life and the mystery that is at the heart of all experience.Hoda is earthy, bawdy, vulnerable, big-hearted, and the daughter of an impoverished Jewish couple who emigrated from Russia to Canada to escape persecution. Growing up in a low-income area of Winnipeg, she transitions from a tumultuous childhood to a life of prostitution. In the neighborhood, she is considered a crackpot and worse; she experiences cruelty and bigotry early and fights back with humo... + Read More
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The Stone Diaries Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Carol Shields 9781039007222 $23.00 FICTION Apr 25, 2023

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of it original publication, Carol Shields’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel—a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman—is now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman’s life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of the twentieth century.Born in 1905, on the kitchen floor of a stonemason’s cottage, Daisy Goodwill drifts through childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, a second widowhood and old age. Bewildered by her... + Read More
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The Spirit Contemporary Life Unleashing the Miraculous in Your Everyday World Paperback Leon Fontaine 9781601428707 $21.99 RELIGION Aug 01, 2017

The popular pastoral host of The Leon Show details his incredible early experiences as an EMT and offers practical advice on how to have a relationship with God that is life changing, now in a convenient trade paper.Long before Leon Fontaine became a pastor, he was a first responder-EMT who wanted desperately to offer both medical and spiritual care and healing to the broken people he encountered. But how could he bring the miraculous, healing power of God from inside church walls to the roadsides where accident victims lay bleeding? As he admi... + Read More
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Women Talking A Novel Paperback Miriam Toews 9780735273979 $22.00 FICTION 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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The Monocle Book of Gentle Living A guide to slowing down, enjoying more and being happy Hardcover Tyler Brule 9780500971109 $66.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Jan 05, 2021

A timely handbook helping readers think about how to slow down, reconnect, and live a gentler life.Monocle has always been a champion of taking it slow. Past issues have encouraged readers to dive into a lake and go for a run. To sleep well. To eat food made with love. Even today, in a tense moment in history, the magazine has done its bit to argue for a new modern etiquette where communities are generous with their time, hospitality, and forgiveness. Now its editors and correspondents have brought all of this together into one volume with The ... + Read More
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The Reason You Walk A Memoir Paperback Wab Kinew 9780143193555 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2017

The multi-award-winning and nationally bestselling memoir, with new material, now in paperback!When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. The Reason You Walk spans the year 2012, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future.As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his f... + Read More
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Series: New Canadian Library The Stone Angel Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780735252844 $19.95 FICTION 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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Permanent Astonishment Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385696227 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * NOMINATED FOR THE EVERGREEN AWARD * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, AND CBC Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath ... + Read More
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The Diviners Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780735252813 $22.00 FICTION May 16, 2017

The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process—putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right—relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Agai... + Read More
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The Monocle Book of the Home Hardcover Tyler Brule 9780500971147 $86.00 ARCHITECTURE Aug 17, 2021

From the team at Monocle, a look at some of the coziest and most creative homes around the world. Good homes are places where lives unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, and friends share meals. They’re also spaces to find some solitude—a quiet corner to read a book or have a Saturday afternoon nap. Homes need to do it all—they sustain you, inspire you, and tell your story through architecture, design, and collections. Monocle has always celebrated everything that makes a space a home when covering residences—whether featuring a city hi... + Read More
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The Vagina Bible The vulva and the vagina--separating the myth from the medicine Paperback Dr. Jen Gunter 9780735277373 $26.95 MEDICAL Aug 20, 2019

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom Canadian OB/GYN, women’s health advocate and New York Times columnist Dr. Jen Gunter: The Vagina Bible is a comprehensive, accessible antidote to the maelstrom of misinformation around female sexual health, and the ultimate guide to everything a person needs to know about the vagina and vulva.We are well into the twenty-first century and have access to more information than ever before, yet many people don’t know that a vagina is self-cleaning, condoms should be used with a lubricant, eating sugar doesn’t cause a yeas... + Read More
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Everything Happens for a Reason And Other Lies I've Loved Paperback Kate Bowler 9780399592089 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 04, 2019

New York Times bestseller. “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy KalanithiThirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke and, after years of trying, had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer.As ... + Read More
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The Menopause Manifesto Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism Paperback Dr. Jen Gunter 9780735280786 $29.95 MEDICAL May 25, 2021

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn her follow-up to the #1 bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, Canadian OB/GYN and the internet's most fearless advocate for women's health, brings us empowerment through knowledge by countering stubborn myths and misunderstandings about menopause with hard facts, real science, fascinating historical perspective, and expert advice.The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no w... + Read More
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Forever Terry A Legacy in Letters Hardcover Darrell Fox 9780735240698 $29.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERTerry Fox defined perseverance and hope for a generation of Canadians. Forty years after Terry’s run ended, Forever Terry reflects what Terry’s legacy means to us now, and in the future.To mark the 40th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope, Forever Terry: A Legacy in Letters recounts the inspiration, dedication, and perseverance that Terry Fox embodied, and gives voice to an icon whose example spoke much louder than his words. Comprising 40 letters from 40 contributors, and edited by Terry’s younger brother Darrell on behalf o... + Read More
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Life in the City of Dirty Water A Memoir of Healing Paperback Clayton Thomas-Muller 9780735240087 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 2022 CANADA READS FINALISTAn electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the str... + Read More
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Making Love with the Land Hardcover Joshua Whitehead 9780735278868 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONMuch-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed.“Thrillingly cerebral…. Delivered with virtuoso aplomb.” —The New York TimesIn the last few years, following the publication of his debut novel Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead has emerged as one of the most exciting and important new voices on Turtle Island. Now, in this first non-fiction work, Whitehead brilliantly explores Ind... + Read More
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The Monocle Book of Entrepreneurs How to run your own business and find a better quality of life Hardcover Tyler Brule 9780500971185 $66.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 29, 2022

At a time of unprecedented change in the way we work, the editors of Monocle are here to help us envision, create, and make a success of a new business or reboot an existing one.As we face a world that is undergoing unparalleled change, no area is more dynamic than business. To help us understand, navigate, and succeed in this new world, the team at Monocle brings together its unique knowledge of culture, politics, economics, and business. Featuring stories of people running enterprises on every scale, the inspirational tales in this book... + Read More
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Kiss of the Fur Queen Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385697217 $22.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

Originally published in 1998, Kiss of the Fur Queen is a powerful and beautiful tale of siblings and tricksters, culture and trauma, and finding yourself in a world that tries to tell you who you are—and it’s now a Penguin Modern Classic.Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by pries... + Read More
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Portugal The Monocle Handbook Hardcover Tyler Brule 9780500978542 $66.00 TRAVEL Feb 07, 2023

From the team at Monocle, this is a practical travel guide to Portugal, featuring unique insights and stunning images throughout.Following in the footsteps of the hugely successful The Monocle Book of Italy and The Monocle Book of the Nordics, Monocle’s latest title turns its focus to Portugal in an exciting new series of country-specific books. A handbook in feel and tone, this practical guide will transport you to the sun-dappled hills of Lisbon and the winding streets of Porto as well as lesser-known locales ranging from the Alentejo region,... + Read More
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A Complicated Kindness Paperback Miriam Toews 9780735273955 $21.00 FICTION Apr 25, 2017

The PHENOMENAL bestseller is available in a stunning new package.Nomi Nickel, a heartbreakingly bewildered and wry young woman, is growing up trapped in a small Mennonite town that seeks to set her on the path to righteousness and smother her at the same time. Left alone with her father when half her family disappears, Nomi is trying to avoid a career at the local chicken abattoir, while dreaming of life elsewhere and—soon enough—finding herself on a collision course with the only community she has ever known.A work of fierce originality and br... + Read More
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The Strangers Paperback katherena vermette 9780735239630 $22.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR FICTION * NAMED #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY INDIGO * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD, MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION, AND MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE * A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOKThe Strangers, a staggering intergenerational saga from from the bestselling author of The Break, explores how connected we are, even when we’re no longer together—even when we’re force... + Read More
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A Jest of God Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780735236035 $21.00 FICTION Aug 07, 2018

NOW A PENGUIN MODERN CLASSIC: In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world. Living alone with only her aging mother for company, thirty-something retiring schoolteacher Rachel Cameron feels trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness--her own and that of others. She longs for love and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit, and when she has a summer affair with f... + Read More
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The Tin Flute Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Gabrielle Roy 9780735236004 $22.00 FICTION Aug 07, 2018

NOW A PENGUIN MODERN CLASSIC: An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival, The Tin Flute is imbued with Roy's unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding. The first among her repertoire of award-winning novels, The Tin Flute is Gabrielle Roy's sympathetic novel about a family's struggle to survive the Montreal slums of Saint-Henri, overcome poverty, and find love--all amidst the mounting tensions of the Second World War.
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The Monocle Book of the Nordics Hardcover Tyler Brule 9780500971215 $86.00 TRAVEL Apr 12, 2022

The Monocle team heads north in this celebration of all things Nordic.This heavily illustrated book from Monocle is a celebration of the Nordic region, featuring some surprises, quirks—and maybe a sauna or two— along the way. Monocle’s journalists, editors, and photographers have returned time and again to all corners of northern Europe for insights, inspiration, and ideas for living better. This book isn’t about hammering the overhyped hygge trend or fussing over foamy food. Much the opposite—it’s about a shared but distinct set of values that... + Read More
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A Bird in the House Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780735252820 $19.95 FICTION May 16, 2017

One of Canada's most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod--a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl's growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, com... + Read More
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All My Puny Sorrows Paperback Miriam Toews 9780735272958 $22.00 FICTION Apr 03, 2018

A beautifully redesigned edition of Miriam Toews’s #1 national bestseller about two unforgettable sisters and and a love that illuminates life.Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters leading very different lives. Elfreida is a renowned pianist, wealthy, and happily married. Her younger sister Yolandi is a writer, divorced, broke, and forever chasing after the wrong men in her search for true love. But Elf is struggling with her demons, and Yoli doesn’t know what to do. Elf wants to die and wants Yoli to help her. Yoli desperately wants her s... + Read More
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The LEGO® Engineer Combined volume Hardcover Jeff Friesen 9781718502505 $33.99 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Nov 01, 2022

LEGO® bricks meet The Way Things Work in this fun, informative tour of the world of engineering, from the creative mind of expert LEGO® builder Jeff Friesen.In The LEGO® Engineer, you’ll explore how some of humanity’s greatest feats of engineering work, from towering skyscrapers to powerful rockets to speeding bullet trains. Then follow step-by-step instructions to build these marvels with LEGO® bricks as you experience the world of engineering in a fun new way.How do diesel and electric engines work together to drive massive freight trains? Ho... + Read More
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No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) Paperback Kate Bowler 9780593230794 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn’t choose?“Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth. This book will pen minds and warm hearts.”—Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 NYT Bestseller UntamedIt’s hard to give up on the feeling that the life you want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are he... + Read More
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The Monocle Book of Italy Hardcover Tyler Brule 9780500971130 $86.00 TRAVEL Jun 22, 2021

A celebration of the endlessly fascinating and culturally rich country of Italy, this book from the Monocle team features unique insights and stunning photography throughout.Following the success of The Monocle Book of Japan, this volume is a celebration of all things Italian. Few countries pack a punch like Italy. Energetic, enigmatic, and effortlessly cool, it’s a country of chic beach clubs, tradition-steeped hilltop towns, and cities full of charm. Its cuisine is celebrated around the world, its design aesthetic has become synonymous with b... + Read More
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Seeking the Fabled City The Canadian Jewish Experience Hardcover Allan Levine 9780771048050 $45.00 HISTORY Oct 30, 2018

In this definitive and meticulously researched account of the Jewish experience in Canada, award-winning and critically acclaimed author Allan Levine documents a story that is rich, accessible, often surprising, and epic in its scope. Relying on an abundance of primary sources and first-hand documentation and interviews, Seeking the Fabled City chronicles the successes and failures, the obstacles overcome and those not conquered, of a historic journey and the people who travelled it.Seeking the Fabled City is a story that unfolds over 250 years... + Read More
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The Fire-Dwellers Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780735252837 $19.95 FICTION May 16, 2017

The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.Stacey MacAindra burns--to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past. Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine--human, compelling, full of poetry, irony, and humour. In the telling of her life, S... + Read More
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All the Seas of the World Paperback Guy Gavriel Kay 9780735244726 $24.00 FICTION Apr 18, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“This is an immersive reading experience; readers will taste the dust in their mouths, see the high seas from the deck of a merchant ship, feel the bustle of the city market. What results is necessary sustenance for the starving reader. A masterpiece from a master of the craft.” —Booklist (starred review)Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature ‘quarter turn to the fanta... + Read More
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The LEGO Castle Book Build Your Own Mini Medieval World Hardcover Jeff Friesen 9781718500167 $33.95 CRAFTS & HOBBIES Aug 27, 2019

Filled with stunning photos, step-by-step instructions, and creative ideas for customization, The LEGO Castle Book shows you how to build mini castles complete with moats, drawbridges, gatehouses, and more! Build a castle using basic bricks or make one of the six master builds. Create your own medieval village with windmills, taverns, and chapels. Travel through the history of castle architecture and learn how to build walls, towers, gates, and keeps.Whether your goal is to add realistic details like crenellations, turrets, and parapets to your... + Read More
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Swing Low A Life Paperback Miriam Toews 9780735274570 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 05, 2017

From the bestselling author of A Complicated Kindness comes an extraordinary memoir about her father and his struggle with manic depression. Now in a stunning new package.One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church, and immensely popular school teacher, he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggle, he could no longer face the darkness of manic depression. In Swing Low, his daughter Miriam recounts Mel... + Read More
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Ysabel A Novel Paperback Guy Gavriel Kay 9780143194095 $24.00 FICTION Oct 04, 2016

An ethereal tale set in an illustrious and ancient corner of the world, Ysabel is a remarkable achievement by one of Canada’s most celebrated storytellers.The Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur of Aix-en-Provence is from a bygone age. Complex and full of secrets, it is the perfect monument for a celebrated photographer to shoot. For his teenaged son, Ned Marriner, it is a fascinating place to explore, but he soon discovers that the cathedral stands upon ancient ground. Long ago, when the roads of Provence were walked by Celtic tribes and Roman legions,... + Read More
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The Monocle Book of Photography Reportage from Places Less Explored Hardcover Tyler Brule 9780500978511 $105.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Dec 27, 2022

The best photo assignments from the Monocle archive, published to mark the magazine’s fifteenth anniversary. The first issues of Monocle magazine hit newsstands around the globe in 2007. At the magazine’s core was a pledge to commission all original photography—capturing the world on film, on the ground, and in the moment. The cover of that first issue featured a Japanese helicopter pilot from the country’s defense force, taken as part of a ten-day reportage assignment for both photographer and writer. In the years since, Monocle has continued ... + Read More
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Midnight Hockey All About Beer, the Boys, and the Real Canadian Game Paperback Bill Gaston 9780385661911 $25.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 25, 2007

From Giller-shortlisted author and life-long hockey player, Midnight Hockey is a Bill Bryson-esque look behind the dressing-room doors of the nation’s rinks.Beer-league hockey is played by tens of thousands of Canadian men. This is tolerated by tens of thousands of Canadian women. Funny, sometimes lewd, every once in a while a little wistful, this book is for these men to be bought by these women.
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How the World Really Works The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going Hardcover Vaclav Smil 9780593297063 $37.00 SCIENCE May 10, 2022

“Vaclav Smil is my favorite author.”—Bill GatesAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist’s investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our ... + Read More
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A Brightness Long Ago Paperback Guy Gavriel Kay 9780143192633 $22.00 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

Internationally bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay’s latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition, now in paperback.In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra’s intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count—and soon learned wh... + Read More
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Duchamp's Pipe A Chess Romance--Marcel Duchamp and George Koltanowski Paperback Celia Rabinovitch 9781623173562 $25.95 ART Feb 25, 2020

Shortlisted for the 2021 Vine Awards Art, chess, and an $87,000 pipe frame an inside look at the relationship between Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp and chess Grandmaster George KoltanowskiSpanning three decades, two continents, two world wars, and the international art and chess scenes of the mid twentieth century, Duchamp’s Pipe explores the remarkable friendship between art world enfant terrible Marcel Duchamp and blindfold chess champion George Koltanowski. Artist and cultural historian Celia Rabinovitch describes each man’s rise to prominen... + Read More
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Series: Sarantine Mosaic Lord of Emperors Book Two of the Sarantine Mosaic Paperback Guy Gavriel Kay 9780143194026 $25.00 FICTION Oct 04, 2016

In this concluding volume of the two-part Sarantine Mosaic, Guy Gavriel Kay brilliantly merges his dramatic homage to Byzantine with a moving meditation on art and power, and the eternal human struggle to leave a legacy.Sarantium is the golden city: holy to the faithful, jewel of the world. The western mosaicist Crispin has arrived in the glittering capital to begin work inside a grand sanctuary. Confronting the challenges of his art high on the scaffolding of destiny, he discovers that no one can withdraw from the dangerous affairs of court an... + Read More
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Tigana Paperback Guy Gavriel Kay 9780143194071 $25.00 FICTION May 10, 2016

Guy Gavriel Kay's masterful novel about the road to rebellion is an epic filled with intensely realized characters and powerful emotions. An enduring classic of Canadian literature, Tigana is a powerful exploration of memory and lost identity, tyranny and freedom.Two rival conquerors have divided the Peninsula of the Palm. As the provinces in the peninsula were falling one by one, the sorcerer Brandin made a fateful decision, sending his beloved son to capture the last one. But when that son is killed on the battlefield, Brandin, blinded by gri... + Read More
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