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Series: A Bit Much Hardcover Sarah Jackson 9780735242159 $27.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complexity of friendships, the agony of insecurity, and the beautiful and embarrassing nature of loving someone.Alice is twenty-four and falling apart. She’s lost her job, her appetite, her ability to sleep. And now she’s worried she’s going to lose Mia, her closest friend, who’s being treated for a serious illness. On the days Alice can get herself out of bed, she visits Mia at the hospital. While they sink into familiar patterns—Alice makes Mia laugh... + Read More
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Series: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting A Novel Paperback Clare Pooley 9780735238459 $22.95 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It’s a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting.Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Constant-Reader and Terribly-Lonely-Tee... + Read More
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Series: Local Gone Missing Paperback Fiona Barton 9780735237636 $22.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

Detective Elise King investigates a man’s disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other, in this suspenseful new novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Widow.Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective. Or she was, before a medical leave left her unsure if she’d ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing: the weekenders renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes. Elise can only g... + Read More
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Series: Finding the Mother Tree Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Paperback Suzanne Simard 9780735237773 $23.00 SCIENCE Jun 21, 2022

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA world-leading expert shares her amazing story of discovering the communication that exists between trees, and shares her own story of family and grief. Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence who has been compared to Rachel Carson, and whose work has influenced James Cameron and Richard Powers.In Finding the Mother Tree, Simard brings us into her world and shows us that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Form and Emptiness Paperback Ruth Ozeki 9780143199052 $23.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Inventive, vivid, and propelled by a sense of wonder.” —TIMEA boy who hears the voices of objects all around him; a mother drowning in her possessions; and a Book that might hold the secret to saving them both—the brilliantly inventive new novel from the Booker Prize-finalist Ruth OzekiOne year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny d... + Read More
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Series: Unreconciled Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance Paperback Jesse Wente 9780735235755 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERPart memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples.Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian—a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente’s understanding of what it means to be... + Read More
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Series: Raising Raffi The First Five Years Hardcover Keith Gessen 9780593300442 $36.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 07, 2022

“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic“An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, RomperNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONSAn unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life“I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew.”Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn’t given much thought to the idea of being a father. He... + Read More
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Series: Horse A Novel Hardcover Geraldine Brooks 9780399562969 $37.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American historyKentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a p... + Read More
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Series: Lapvona A Novel Hardcover Ottessa Moshfegh 9780593300268 $36.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community’s faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yetLittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother—his father told him she died in childbirth. One of Marek’s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did many of the village’s children. Ina’s ... + Read More
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Series: Dear Senthuran A Black Spirit Memoir Paperback Akwaeke Emezi 9780593329207 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

“A once-in-a-generation voice.” –Vulture“One of our greatest living writers.” –Shondaland“Emezi is changing the world.” –The Paris ReviewOne of the year’s most powerful and talked-about books: a full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author and Time Magazine Next Generation LeaderIn three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memo... + Read More
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Series: Filthy Animals Paperback Brandon Taylor 9780525538929 $22.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and more: The much-talked-about, deeply satisfying group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, from the “modern E. M. Forster” (Vulture) and Booker Prize finalist.One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as “a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.” With Filthy Animals he renews and expands o... + Read More
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Series: Lucie Yi Is Not a Romantic Paperback Lauren Ho 9780593422267 $23.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

An ambitious career woman signs up for a co-parenting website only to find a match she never expected, in this unflinchingly funny and honest novel from the author of Last Tang Standing.Management consultant Lucie Yi is done waiting for Mr. Right. After a harrowing breakup foiled her plans for children—and drove her to a meltdown in a Tribeca baby store—she’s ready to take matters into her own hands. She signs up for an elective co-parenting website to find a suitable partner with whom to procreate—as platonic as family planning can be.Collin R... + Read More
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Series: Where the Crawdads Sing (Movie Tie-In) Media tie-in Paperback Delia Owens 9780593540350 $12.99 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation and Business Insider “Defining Book of the Decade”—now a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine.“I can’t even express how much I love this book! I didn’t want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book ReviewFor years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-... + Read More
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Series: HARLEM RENAISSANCE MYSTERY, A Harlem Sunset Paperback Nekesa Afia 9780593199121 $22.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home…Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of the Dove, a club owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise meets Nora Davies, one of the girls she was kidnapped with a decade ago. The two women—along with Rafael and his sister, Louise’s girlfriend, Rosa Maria—spend the night at the Dove, drinking and talki... + Read More
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Series: The World As We Knew It Dispatches From a Changing Climate Paperback Amy Brady 9781646220304 $23.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 14, 2022

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and moreIn this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Sa... + Read More
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Series: Hell of a Book A Novel Paperback Jason Mott 9780593330982 $23.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

Now in paperback, the 2021 National Book Award winner and national bestseller: An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author, always deeply honest and at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole.In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives the novel and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since the ... + Read More
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Series: The House Across the Lake A Novel Paperback Riley Sager 9780593472019 $25.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager (“a master of the twist and the turn”*) is back with his most unexpected thriller yet.*Rolling StoneCasey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is rich, and a forme... + Read More
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Series: Islands of Abandonment Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape Paperback Cal Flyn 9781984878212 $24.00 NATURE Jun 14, 2022

A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absenceSome of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula’s narrow DMZ.Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visi... + Read More
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Series: The Woman in the Purple Skirt A Novel Paperback Natsuko Imamura 9780143136033 $23.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

“A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession.” —Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train“[It] will keep you firmly in its grip.” —Oyinkan Braithwaite, bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer“The love child of Eugene Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith.” —Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get in TroubleA bestselling, prizewinning novel by one of Japan’s most acclaimed young writers, for fans of Convenience Store Woman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, and the movies Parasite and Rear ... + Read More
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Series: Letters to a Young Athlete Paperback Chris Bosh 9781984881809 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2022

A legendary NBA player and beloved teammate shares his hard-earned wisdom about finding your true purpose and mastering your inner game, whatever that game might be.Chris Bosh is on any list of the Top 100 NBA players of all time—an eleven-time All Star, two-time Finals winner, Olympic gold medalist, and currently the league’s Global Ambassador. Always an uncommonly philosophical NBA star, he found himself needing all the mindfulness he could muster in 2017, when his career was cut short at its prime by a freak medical condition. Suddenly, he w... + Read More
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Series: We Are What We Eat A Slow Food Manifesto Paperback Alice Waters 9780525561552 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 07, 2022

From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eatsIn We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients, to the dishes made by hand, and to the welcoming hospitality that i... + Read More
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Series: Never A Novel Paperback Ken Follett 9780593300039 $27.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Now in paperback, the must-read epic from master writer Ken Follett: an action-packed, globe-spanning spy thriller about brinkmanship, impossible decisions, and the unforeseen consequences that could lead to the next world war“When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions—logical, moderate decisions—each of which took us a small step closer to... + Read More
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Series: One Day I Shall Astonish the World Hardcover Nina Stibbe 9780241451168 $25.99 FICTION Jul 19, 2022

From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime’A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer’ Meg Mason’Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else’ Caitlin Moran’Stibbe has an extraordinary gift’ Marian Keyes’Nina Stibbe makes being funny look easy, but that’s just because she’s very, very good at it’ Clare Chambers________________________________________________... + Read More
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Series: Rachel's Holiday Paperback Marian Keyes 9780241958438 $19.99 FICTION Jun 27, 2017

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***A MUST-READ FOR FANS OLD AND NEW, THIS STUNNING 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION IS THE PERFECT WAY TO REDISCOVER THE 1.5 MILLION COPY, NO. 1 BESTSELLING PHENOMENON'Fleet-footed, bracingly honest, funny, sexy, heart-breaking' JOJO MOYES'A huge international phenomenon' BBC RADIO 4 BOOKCLUB'Irresistible. Pitch-perfect, bitingly funny' DAISY BUCHANAN'The voice of a generation' DAILY MIRROR'Extraordinary' IAN RANKIN'A true modern classic' NINA STIBBEFEATURING INTRODUCTIONS FROM LISA ... + Read More
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Series: Mrs. March A Novel Paperback Virginia Feito 9781324091967 $22.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

George March’s latest novel is a smash. No one could be prouder than his dutiful wife, Mrs. March, who revels in his accolades. A careful creature of routine and decorum, she lives a precariously controlled existence on the Upper East Side until one morning, when the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that her husband’s latest protagonist—a detestable character named Johanna—is based on Mrs. March herself. Clutching her ostrich leather pocketbook and mint-colored gloves, she flees the shop. What could have merited this humiliation? ... + Read More
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Series: The Maker of Swans Hardcover Paraic O'Donnell 9781953534200 $36.95 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

A New York Times BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER A CrimeReads & Book and Film Globe BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A Tor.com BEST BOOK OF JUNE “Truly bewitching.” —David Mitchell It is no small matter, after all, to create something—to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle. In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman—his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe—and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lyin... + Read More
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Series: One's Company A Novel Paperback Ashley Hutson 9780393866643 $22.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed’s Must-Read Summer Books For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Mona Awad, this fearless debut chronicles one woman’s escape into a world of obsessive imagination. Bonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the ghosts of some devastating losses, and unwind in front of the nostalgic, golden glow of her favorite TV show, Three’s Company. When Bonnie wins the lottery, a more grandiose vision—to completely shuck off her own troublesome identity—takes shap... + Read More
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Series: Floaters Poems Paperback Martín Espada 9781324021810 $21.95 POETRY May 31, 2022

Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief and love. Martín Espada is a poet who “stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness,” says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry. Floaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem respond... + Read More
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Series: DK GROW Grow Herbs Essential Know-how And Expert Advice For Gardening Success Paperback Stephanie Mahon 9780744048131 $17.50 GARDENING Jun 28, 2022

Discover a wide variety of herbs you can grow successfully at home. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Herbs contains everything you need to know to grow a wide variety of perennial and annual herbs. Learn how to sow, grow, harvest, and propagate your plants, with advice on caring for home-grown herbs as well as tips on making the most of store-bought pots. Explore a huge variety of herbs available to home gardeners with a wide-ranging directory, including popular herbs such as mint, basil, and sage as well as lesser-grown options like shiso ... + Read More
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Series: We Go High How 30 Women of Colour Achieved Greatness against all Odds Hardcover Nicole Ellis 9780744050356 $25.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 28, 2022

Follow the life lessons of 30 remarkable women of colour who are making their mark on society and culture.“When you are struggling and you start thinking about giving up, I want you to remember something … and that is the power of hope.” —Michelle Obama (White House speech, 2017) We Go High brings together the inspiring stories, motivational quotes, and personal philosophies of 30 influential women of color who have sought to overcome challenges in their lives.From activists to scientists, artists to sporting icons, each woman’s story is differ... + Read More
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Series: Rehearsals for Living Hardcover Robyn Maynard 9781039000650 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE CBC’S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022A revolutionary collaboration about the world we’re living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection i... + Read More
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Series: An Immense World How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Hardcover Ed Yong 9781039003903 $38.00 NATURE Jun 21, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong“One of this year’s finest works of narrative nonfiction.”—Oprah DailyONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, People, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Publishers Weekly, BookPageONE OF THE BEST BO... + Read More
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Series: Rogues True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks Hardcover Patrick Radden Keefe 9780385675451 $35.00 TRUE CRIME Jun 28, 2022

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of misbehavior and skullduggery by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.“I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it…. He’s a national treasure.”—Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller BlowoutPatrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell... + Read More
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Series: Caesar Country Cocktails, Clams & Canada Hardcover Aaron Harowitz 9780525611370 $40.00 COOKING Jun 07, 2022

Caesar Country is a love letter to Canada by way of one cocktail—our cocktail—the Caesar.In this stunning book, Aaron Harowitz and Zack Silverman—co-founders of Walter Craft Caesar—take you on a deep and detailed dive through the art and science of Caesar making. They share a compelling collection of cocktail and food recipes, including contributions from some of Canada’s top bartenders and chefs, showcasing the countless ways to reinterpret the classic Caesar. Caesar Country is inspired by travels across Canada—the people met, places seen, dri... + Read More
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Series: Yawd Modern Afro-Caribbean Recipes Hardcover Adrian Forte 9780525611561 $35.00 COOKING Jun 07, 2022

The ONLY cookbook you need this summer! Dive into this bold, flavor-filled cookbook, packed with recipes to bring sun-filled island vibes to your home.Yawd = comfort food that sticks to your ribs! In his first cookbook, star chef Adrian Forte shares more than 100 of his inspiring recipes to get you fired up in the kitchen.Try new riffs on Caribbean classics like Coconut Fried Chicken, Spiced Steamed Fish, Rasta Pasta, and Pepper Shrimp PaellaIncorporate more African ancestral ingredients with Ackee & Saltfish Fritters or Okra PilafTry the dish... + Read More
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Series: Earls The Cookbook (Anniversary Edition) Eat a Little. Eat a Lot. Over 120 of Your Favourite Recipes Hardcover Jim Sutherland 9780525612087 $35.00 COOKING Jun 14, 2022

CANADA’S MOST BELOVED RESTAURANT GROUP TURNS 40 WITH THIS SPECIALLY UPDATED EDITION OF THEIR BESTSELLING COOKBOOK, CONTINUING TO CELEBRATE LIFE’S MOMENTS—BIG, SMALL AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.Since 1982, Earls has been redefining and revolutionizing casual dining for friends and families across North America. The restaurant has offered four decades of guests a unique, charming, unforgettable and—of course—delicious dining experience,while their national bestselling cookbook satisfied those cravings at home.Now, for Earls’s 40th anniversary, this... + Read More
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Series: Commanding Hope The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril Paperback Thomas Homer-Dixon 9780307363176 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even The Lord of the Rings, renowned thought leader Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink.For three decades, Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and The Upside of Down, has examined the threats to our future security—predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social instability and wide political violence if humankind continued on its current course. He was called The Doom Me... + Read More
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Series: Someone We Know A Novel Paperback Shari Lapena 9780385690843 $19.95 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMaybe you don’t know your neighbours as well as you thought you did…“I’m so sorry. My son has been getting into people’s houses. He’s broken into yours.” In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses—and into the owners’ computers as well. Learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too.Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? As whispers start to circulate, suspicion mounts. And when a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension... + Read More
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Series: DETECTIVE VARG SERIES The Man with the Silver Saab A Detective Varg Novel (3) Paperback Alexander McCall Smith 9781039000179 $21.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

In this hilarious new novel in the bestselling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the Department of Sensitive Crimes are on the case.Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes and quite familiar with the art scene in Malmö. So when art historian Anders Kindgren visits the Department of Sensitive Crimes to report a series of bizarre acts that have been committed against him, Ulf and his team swing into action. Fish stuffed into the vents of Kindgren’s car an... + Read More
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Series: The War for Gloria Paperback Atticus Lish 9780385689892 $22.95 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

A searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy’s struggle to become a man, from the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life. Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother’s needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs—at any cost.But when his father Leonard re-enters the picture, Corey’s beliefs—about honour and love, duty an... + Read More
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Series: A Town Called Solace Paperback Mary Lawson 9780735281295 $21.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZENew York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the “wilderness of the human heart,” is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work.A Town Called Solace opens on a family in crisis. Sixteen-year-old Rose is missing. Angry and rebellious, she had a row with her mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Left behind is seven-year-old Clara, Rose’s adoring little sister. Her sol... + Read More
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Series: New Yorkers A City and Its People in Our Time Paperback Craig Taylor 9780385681650 $24.95 HISTORY Jun 21, 2022

A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people—from the best-selling author of Londoners.In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, bestselling author Craig Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor’s growing engagement with the city.Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day—bodega ... + Read More
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Series: Grown Ups A Novel Paperback Marian Keyes 9780385697248 $19.95 FICTION Jun 29, 2021

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life, a page-turning, hilarious, and charismatic family drama.They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together—birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they’re a happy family. Johnny’s wife, Jessie—who has the most money—insists on it.Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people c... + Read More
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Series: Beautiful World, Where Are You A Novel Paperback Sally Rooney 9780735281813 $22.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

#1 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKONE OF TIME’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, KIRKUS REVIEWS AND FINANCIAL TIMES The radiant new novel, “funny and smart, full of sex and love,” with a bonus short story from the acclaimed author of bestselling sensations Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting... + Read More
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Series: The Lifestyle A Novel Hardcover Taylor Hahn 9780593316351 $36.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

A heartwarming and hilarious novel about swinging, marriage, and complexities of the heart.“This book is fun as hell. Hilarious, addictive, moving, and sexy. I lost track of time reading it, and I couldn’t get enough!” —Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of While We Were DatingGeorgina Wagman has it all—a great marriage, a great job at a prestigious law firm, and great friends. She’s living the life she always wanted, and everything is perfect. Until, that is, she walks in on her husband Nathan in a compromising position with a junior associa... + Read More
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Series: The Lunar Housewife A Novel Hardcover Caroline Woods 9780385547833 $37.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine—inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters.“Sly and delightful… the book is the equivalent of a flinty, modern dame holding her own in a room full of condescending men.” —The New York Times Book ReviewNew York City, 1953: Louise Leithauser’s star is on the rise. She’s filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe’s br... + Read More
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Series: The Whistler The Judge's List A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157848 $24.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, s... + Read More
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Series: Songs in Ursa Major A novel Paperback Emma Brodie 9780593312377 $23.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings of fame.Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother who wrote songs for famous musicians, Jane Quinn is singing in her own band before she’s old enough to even read music. When folk legend Jesse Reid hears about Jane’s performance at the island’s music festival, a star is born—and so is a passionate love affair: they become inseparable when her band joins his on tour. Wary of being cast as his ... + Read More
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Series: Dele Weds Destiny A novel Hardcover Tomi Obaro 9780593320297 $36.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years—a sparkling novel about the extraordinary resilience of female friendship. “A story rendered with so much heart.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, best-selling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from he... + Read More
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Series: The Echo Chamber Paperback John Boyne 9781529176742 $21.99 FICTION Jul 26, 2022

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a ’national treasure’ (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she ... + Read More
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Series: Nightcrawling A novel Hardcover Leila Mottley 9780771050411 $32.95 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A NEW YORK TIMES WRITER TO WATCH • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system—the debut of a blazingly original voice and “a soul-searching portrait of survival and hope” (Oprah Winfrey)Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prisonBut while Marcus clings to his dream of rap s... + Read More
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Series: Minique A Novel Paperback Anna Maxymiw 9780771096815 $22.95 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

A fierce outsider narrative about the so-called “witch in the woods,” a feminist fable, a haunting survival story, and a turbulent romance.Minique is loosely based on the lives of real 17th-century figures—including Anne Lamarque, a Montréal woman who was accused of witchcraft in 1682.The buzzing in her head gets louder, like there are more bees, and the itching on the top of her mouth is everywhere now, all across her tongue and teeth and the inside of her cheeks, hot, hot, hot. She takes a breath and she sees these men in the forest, sees the... + Read More
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Series: TALENTS, THE Ordinary Monsters A Novel Hardcover J. M. Miro 9780771000027 $39.95 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

A stunning new work of historical fantasy, J. M. Miro’s Ordinary Monsters introduces readers to the dark, labyrinthine world of the Talents.England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness—a man made of smoke.Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn’t have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded fe... + Read More
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Series: What Strange Paradise A Novel Paperback Omar El Akkad 9780771050329 $21.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEA beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child’s eyes, from the widely acclaimed author of American War.More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. ... + Read More
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Series: Hummingbird Salamander A Novel Paperback Jeff VanderMeer 9780771094897 $22.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

A brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things, from the author of Annihilation.Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control.Soon,... + Read More
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Series: Wish You Were Here A Novel Paperback Jodi Picoult 9780735276987 $22.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

#1 New York Times Bestseller and a national and international bestsellerA deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis.Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galapagos—days before her thirtie... + Read More
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Series: LAST INTERVIEW SERIES, THE Joan Didion:The Last Interview and Other Conversations Paperback MELVILLE HOUSE 9781685890117 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 28, 2022

The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more.Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her nonfiction collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and she quickly became the writer who captured the zeitgeist of the washed-out, acid hangover of the 60s. But as a bicoastal writer of fiction and nonfiction whose writing ranged from personal essays and... + Read More
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Series: We Sold Our Souls A Novel Paperback Grady Hendrix 9781683693406 $22.99 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a hard-rocking, spine-tingling horror novel about a washed-up guitarist of a ’90s heavy metal band who embarks on an epic road-trip across America and deep into the web of a sinister conspiracy.Every morning, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead guitarist of Dürt Würk, a heavy-metal band on the brink of breakout success until lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom, leaving his bandmates to... + Read More
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Series: Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty A Novel Paperback Lauren Weisberger 9781984855589 $24.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

From the #1 bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada comes a highly entertaining, sharply observed novel about two sisters, their perfect lives…and their perfect lies.“Goes down like an ice-cold guilty pleasure on a hot beach-reading day.” —USA TodayA seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, thanks in part to her flawless blond highlights and Botox-smoothed skin. An adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. She has it all.Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-ho... + Read More
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Series: How to Raise an Antiracist Hardcover Ibram X. Kendi 9780593242537 $37.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Jun 14, 2022

The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistThe tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While we work to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antir... + Read More