1.
Series:
Colour Matters: An artist's book by Allen Jones
Paperback
Allen Jones
9781912165407
$54.95
ART
Sep 06, 2022
In this beautifully executed, concertina-fold book, Allen Jones RA explores the human form and how painting on a figure is a vastly different process, and has vastly different results, to painting from a figure. The first half of the book features detail photography of the artist's sculpture series Waiting on Table. The second half concertinas out to reveal the front and back of one of Jones's most prominent sculptures, A Muse, which can also be displayed as a wall hanging. For many years as a student, Jones had to draw from casts of Greek an...
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2.
Series:
On the Road: Parking Markings. An Artist's Book by Allen Jones
Paperback
Allen Jones
9781912165438
$37.95
ART
Sep 06, 2022
Allen Jones RA's 52-page book On the Road: Parking Markings takes the reader on a graphic visual journey by road. Since roads were first bisected by a white line, a pictorial language has evolved that, in classic parlance, is the first or Primitive phase in ever-developing visual vocabulary, says Jones. Parking markings were introduced during my final years as a student. Produced with stencils, these marks are enlivened by human error and chance. Because of increasing traffic during the 1960s a change was needed. Yellow represented a new and Cl...
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3.
Series:
Shadows: An artist's book by Allen Jones
Paperback
Allen Jones
9781912165421
$37.95
ART
Sep 06, 2022
This book features exclusive photography by the renowned artist Allen Jones RA. These images enable the shadows of his celebrated sculptures to become works of art in their own right, revealing a viewpoint previously unseen or unnoticed. Intermingled with views of the Jones's own home and household objects, Shadows is an intimate, beautiful and playful 60-page publication featuring previously unseen work by the artist. Light can transform a solid object into an insubstantial shadow, not a copy but a unique slant on the real thing, says Jones. D...
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4.
Series:
Written English: An artist's book by Allen Jones
Paperback
Allen Jones
9781912165414
$39.95
ART
Sep 06, 2022
Taking the form of a composition book, a classic style of American notebook. Written English is an Allen Jones RA artwork in book form. Over 40 pages, Jones playfully explores the English language, and its use? and misuse. Conquest and trade allowed the English language to become the World's lingua franca, perhaps because its phonetic and grammatical structure is more pliable than most languages, says Jones. Global, popular culture, advertising and newspapers have shown a creativity that has enriched and extended our English usage.? Jones was ...
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5.
Series:
Federico Solmi: Escape Into The Metaverse
Hardcover
Federico Solmi
9781912165476
$39.95
ART
Sep 13, 2022
Federico Solmi: Escape Into The Metaverse examines the work of Federico Solmi, a leading practitioner in the genre of new media art. As a narrative and figurative artist, Solmi utilises lurid colours and satire to portray a dystopian vision of contemporary society, highlighting the contradictions and fallibilities that characterize our time. Employing video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound and digital game design, he creates a carnivalesque virtual reality with historical and present-day world leaders animated by computer script and motion ...
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6.
Series:
Edinburgh: An Architectural Portrait. Photography by James Reid
Hardcover
James Reid
9781912165452
$54.95
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sep 06, 2022
Edinburgh: An Architectural Portrait features an inspiring portfolio of imagery created over a ten-year period by the photographer and visual artist James Reid. Documenting the City of Edinburgh using digital, analogue and polaroid formats, the book captures the city's main conservation areas, with an emphasis on key architects, listed buildings and distinct aspects of the cityscape. Presented as a beautiful collection of black-and-white images, along with a handful of colour works, the book's digital images are a mixture of full-frame capture...
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7.
Series:
Leon Polk Smith: Big Form, Big Space
Hardcover
Nigel Prince
9781912165445
$44.95
ART
Sep 06, 2022
Leon Polk Smith: Big Form, Big Space accompanies the recent exhibition of the same name at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver (2021) and its extended presentation at Palm Springs Art Museum, California (2022), focusing on paintings and works on paper that chart a key moment in Smith?s career. Born outside Chickasha, in what would become Oklahoma, Smith grew up in a farming community among the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations. During the 1950s, his work moved away from the Eurocentric impulses of his formative years to introduce and conn...
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8.
Series:
Marianne Eigenheer: A Lifelong Search Along the Lines
Paperback
Marianne Eigenheer
9781912165377
$49.95
ART
Feb 21, 2023
A fascinating and long-overdue study of the artistss work spanning five decades of her diverse practice, this comprehensive and thought-provoking book provides an overview of Marianness oeuvre. It also creates dialogues between different periods of her work by presenting them alongside one another ? many shown this way for the first time in print. From her spontaneous, gesturally abstract drawings of the 1970s, to her bolder, more defined, large-scale drawings that gained public attention at the 1980 Venice Biennale, to her lesser-known sculptu...
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9.
Series:
The Experience Book: For Designers, Thinkers & Makers
Paperback
Adam Scott
9781912165384
$44.95
DESIGN
Sep 27, 2022
Contrary to what one might imagine, there is no such thing as an experience designer. At least not in the sense that we might talk of an individual recognized as such. To make experiences is to be human. Shaman, architect, food engineer, you name it, they are all experience designers. Informed by an understanding of people's needs and wants, our stories, our rituals, our myths, the beautifully designed experience has the power to transform lives. The Experience Book is an ode to that power. Essentially, it is a book about time and how we use i...
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10.
Series:
Projecting Urbanity: Architecture for and against the city
Hardcover
David Leatherbarrow
9781911339502
$44.95
ARCHITECTURE
Mar 14, 2023
Existing histories of modern architecture typically give their highest praise to private houses and their most severe condemnation to architect-authored urban plans, often neglecting the built works that are no smaller than a single building and possibly as large as an urban block, the middle or institutional scale, where culturally significant urban transformation actually takes place. Urban architecture is a timely topic as today cities worldwide are suffering accelerated urbanization, which is often dehumanizing and destructive, especially ...
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11.
Series:
Share: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture ? The Nordic Countries
Hardcover
Todd Saunders
9781911339496
$54.95
ARCHITECTURE
Oct 11, 2022
Share: Conversations about Contemporary Architecture The Nordic Countries is the first book in a new global series of investigative interviews about the modern architectural process. Initiated and undertaken by the Norway-based Canadian architect Todd Saunders, the Nordic Countries edition features interviews with 30 architectural practices from Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland. With more than 25 years of professional practice behind him, Saunders has always been fascinated by the role of creativity in everyday practice and the pot...
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12.
Series:
Shadow Life
Paperback
Michael Decter
9781770866676
$24.95
FICTION
Oct 22, 2022
In one minute, delivering a not guilty verdict at the end of the trial for a disturbing murder of a child, Matthew Rice’s life begins to unravel. The very structures his life is built upon start to collapse. Matthew retreats to Quarry Island in Georgian Bay, where he loses his wallet in a boating mishap. Among the pieces of identification he needs to replace is his birth certificate, but he’s informed it’s not on file. His birth certificate was a forgery. Not only have the foundations of his life given way, his very identity is shattered. Matt...
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13.
Series:
Sins of the Daughter
Paperback
Carolyn Huizinga Mills
9781770865945
$24.95
FICTION
Aug 27, 2022
Danah Calsely was only nine when her mother abandoned her. Years later, as a promising Sociology PhD candidate, Danah appears largely unaffected by this traumatic loss — until she finds a letter that she’s convinced is from her missing mother. The truth about Jane Lily and her disappearance is wrapped in a long history of silence, and Danah’s grandmother, Edith, has no interest in rehashing the past. Danah becomes obsessed with the letter and the secrets she believes Edith is keeping from her. Edith is convinced she’s only protecting her grand...
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14.
Series: Paradise Cafe
Cold Snap
Paperback
Maureen Jennings
9781770866577
$24.95
FICTION
Dec 06, 2022
November’s rain in Toronto 1936 has turned into December’s cold snap. Charlotte Frayne escapes being hit by a mud-splattered car racing round the corner at Queen and Spadina. The stranger who saves her turns out to be the man her boss, Mr. Gilmore, has helped to escape Germany and is now a refugee in need of shelter. In a world still recovering from the War to End All Wars and the Spanish Influenza pandemic that killed fifty million people worldwide, and still in the throes of the Great Depression, Stephen Lucas is not just any refugee from the...
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15.
Series:
The Great Goldbergs
Paperback
Daniel Goodwin
9781770866591
$24.95
FICTION
Apr 22, 2023
How far would you go to be accepted? When Sean McFall encounters golden-haired David Goldberg and his larger-than-life father, Saul, he is dazzled by the family’s riches, power, and ease in social situations. The bright lives of the Goldbergs are profoundly different from those of Sean’s working-class parents. But as Sean grows up and is pulled closer to the centre of the Goldberg family by the gravitational force of their wealth and position, he discovers a tyrannical and abusive patriarch, an estranged relative bent on revenge, and dark famil...
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16.
Series:
Some Unfinished Business
Paperback
Antanas Sileika
9781770866737
$24.95
FICTION
Feb 25, 2023
“Some Unfinished Business is a powerful, moving, and page-turning examination of loyalty, betrayal, retribution and ultimately, love, written by an acclaimed author at the height of his powers.” — Gary Barwin, Governor General’s- and Giller-shortlisted author of Yiddish for Pirates and Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted Is love more compelling than justice? A wife pleads for love. Her husband longs for revenge. Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a young man who is determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resi...
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17.
Series:
Lost Dogs
Paperback
Lucie Pagé
9781770866690
$24.95
FICTION
Mar 11, 2023
Sessional English prof and aspiring writer, Brent, looks for his missing pit bull. His girlfriend, Katherine, an aspiring actress, refuses to help. Their relationship may not survive. Triggered by Brent’s lost dog posters, fourteen-year-old Becca clamours for help. Her mother, Caroline, is too caught up with herself to notice her daughter is coming apart at the seams. To punish Becca for her attention-seeking behaviour, Caroline inadvertently thrusts her daughter into harm’s way. Pagé weaves together narratives that speak of people lost in a t...
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18.
Series:
Radio Jet Lag
Paperback
Gregor Craigie
9781770866713
$24.95
FICTION
Mar 25, 2023
All the coffee in the world can’t keep Stephen Millburn from floundering at his new job as an early-morning radio host. With a new baby at home and an irate boss at work, Stephen is barely holding it together. Trying to balance his parental duties with his work schedule leaves Stephen falling asleep in the most inconvenient of places and makes him late for just about everything. Already at risk of losing his job, Stephen finds himself pursuing a story about a homeless encampment against his boss’s wishes. As much as he may struggle to stay awak...
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19.
Series:
The Shortest History of War
From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers — A Retelling for Our Times
Paperback
Gwynne Dyer
9781770866812
$22.95
HISTORY
Aug 02, 2022
War has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have been contested, we’ve gone to battle. Acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer illuminates our many martial clashes in this brisk account, tracing warfare from prehistory to the world’s first cities — and on to the thousand-year “classical age” of combat, which ended when the firearm changed everything. He examines the brief interlude of “limited war” before eighteenth-century revolution ushered in “total war”— and how the ...
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20.
Series:
In Defence of Copyright
Paperback
Hugh Stephens
9781770866799
$19.95
LAW
Feb 19, 2023
Copyright is one of the cornerstones of western civilization; it is as relevant today, if not more so, than it was when the first formal copyright laws were enacted in the eighteenth century. This is something that seems to have been forgotten — at the political level, where one federal government weakened Canada’s copyright legislation to the point of falling out-of-line with other western democracies, and the subsequent government has failed to address the issue. With the rise of the Digital Age, new challenges have been brought to the frontl...
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21.
Series:
Uncoupling
The Ugly Truth about Divorce and Finances
Paperback
Lisa van de Geyn
9781770866775
$22.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 26, 2022
Anyone going through separation and divorce can agree that it’s an emotional and financial rollercoaster. There is so much to understand, prepare, read, gather, and act on that it’s an incredibly draining process. Uncoupling: The Ugly Truth about Divorce and Finances is here to help. This book has everything from the basics to the nitty-gritty when it comes to separation and divorce, with an emphasis, of course, on finances. Along with the stories of people going through their own separations and divorces are the voices of experts covering eve...
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22.
Series:
The Last Act
Closing the Book on Your Finances
Paperback
Kimberley Short
9781770866751
$22.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Nov 26, 2022
Many people of all ages procrastinate when it comes to writing their wills, and organizing things, complicating the process of settling their estate for their children, loved ones, and beneficiaries. The Last Act is the book that addresses this situation, as it provides easy-to-follow steps to make the process as easy and as seamless as possible. Trust and Estate Planner Kimberley Short and Accountant Larry Short combine their years of knowledge and experience to explain how to write a will, settle an estate, create a trust, and more while help...
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23.
Series:
Made 4 You
Paperback
Eric Walters
9781770866614
$15.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Sep 24, 2022
Becky James lives in a small town where nothing ever changes. But there’s something very different about the new student, Gene Newman. Brilliant, talented, and socially awkward, Gene is like nobody else Becky has ever known. Little does she know just how different he actually is. Gene confides in Becky that he has a secret. More than that, he is a secret. And, apparently, it’s a secret worth killing for.
24.
Series:
The Book of Us
Paperback
Shane Peacock
9781770866553
$15.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Oct 01, 2022
It’s the summer before grade twelve, and sixteen-year-old Noah Greene is in the relationship of a lifetime with his brilliant and book-smart girlfriend, Miranda Owens. But when Miranda overhears his private conversation with another girl, what he says destroys everything they’ve built, shattering Noah’s world. Determined to make amends, Noah sets out to truly understand the harm his words have caused and maybe become worthy enough for Miranda in time for prom. Along the way, he’s been turning his journey into a manuscript called The Book of Us ...
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25.
Series: The Children of Oculum
Oculum Echo
Paperback
Philippa Dowding
9781770866652
$13.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Oct 01, 2022
The explosions come in the night. Miranda1, Mannfred, Grannie, and the one thousand children of Oculum must flee their farm, chased by the UnRuly. But there is hope: an old friend sends word of a book that may hold the secret to their survival. Just as they begin their journey through the wasteland, Echo1 wakes from an eighty-three-year sleep and is given a mission to find the four domes of the children of Oculum, and to find the First One, whatever the cost.
26.
Series:
Mortimer
Rat Race to Space
Paperback
Joan Marie Galat
9781770866539
$13.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Sep 24, 2022
“Details about the space station come alive as the story unfolds. A fun read and the 27 chapters move along at a quick pace. A perfect addition to the middle grade shelves.” — Greg Pattridge, Always in the Middle… A spot on the International Space Station (ISS) has opened up, and Mortimer, is not about to miss his chance to become an intergalactic space rat. And that’s just the first step in his master plan to prove that rats are much better suited than humans for a future mission to Mars. He packs his camera and prepares to take to the interne...
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27.
Series:
Luna
Paperback
Loraine Kemp
9781989724156
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from 3 - 5
Aug 30, 2022
Luna, a cougar cub, lives comfortably in a den with her mother and brothers until a fall down a steep hillside and into a river separates her from her family. Luna has never hunted by herself before, and alone in the forest, she must call on all of her instincts to survive. Her long journey home is filled with danger. She is stalked by a wolf. She gets in between a mother elk and her calf, and she is discovered by humans. But Luna perseveres and learns how to take advantage of everything in her environment. Young readers will thrill at Luna's a...
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28.
Series: The Seer Trilogy
The Sorcerer's Revenge
Paperback
Kristin Butcher
9781989724170
$10.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from 4 - 6
Oct 04, 2022
In this final book in the Seer Trilogy, Maeve is in the final stages of her apprenticeship as a seer. She must learn mind-talking from the dragon, Riasc Tiarna. And, more importantly, she must learn to control her thoughts and emotions to reach her full potential as a seer. Her teacher, Bradan, will not be able to counsel the king much longer and Maeve needs to be ready to take over when that happens. Her chance to test her skills comes soon enough, and Maeve is sent to counsel the king. At the same time she is grappling with her personal hist...
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29.
Series:
A Spartan at Sea
Paperback
James McCann
9781989724163
$10.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from 4 - 6
Oct 18, 2022
In this sequel to The Three Spartans, Art is all set to spend the last few weeks of summer in Birch Bay with his best friend Lea. But his plans change when he learns his nemesis Zeke is involved in a plot to tear down Finn Slough. His aunt and her girlfriend, Jordana, live in Finn Slough, a unique community near Stevenston, B.C. made up of wood homes on stilts. Art goes to Finn Slough to convince the local dragon boat hero to enter the race, only to discover his mission is close to impossible. The dragon boat hero, Teejay, has no interest in co...
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30.
Series:
Jade Is a Twisted Green
Paperback
Tanya Turton
9781459748606
$22.99
FICTION
Sep 13, 2022
For readers of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life’s pleasures after loss.Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is following the mysterious death of her twin sister.Grappling with her grief, Jade seeks solace in lovers and friends during an array of hilarious and heartbreaking adventures. As she investigates some of life’s most frustrating paradoxes,...
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31.
Series:
Possessed
Paperback
Jowita Bydlowska
9781459748071
$23.99
FICTION
Oct 04, 2022
“Equal parts Harlequin romance, Gothic horror story and Camusian moral tale.” — GLOBE AND MAILFrom the bestselling author of Drunk Mom, comes a story of romantic obsession, mental illness, and self-discovery as one woman travels to a haunted quarantine island.Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed — by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn’t promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is workin...
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32.
Series: The Mildly Catastrophic Misadventures of Tony Vicar
The Vicar's Knickers
Paperback
Vince R. Ditrich
9781459747289
$19.99
FICTION
Sep 06, 2022
Tony Vicar is setting his sights on new (mis)adventures in this laugh-out-loud follow-up to The Liquor Vicar.Tony Vicar, now an internationally known celebrity — due to greatly exaggerated news reports of his nearly miraculous powers — has turned his attention to renovating his recently inherited crumbling old hotel in the wacky town of Tyee Lagoon. It’s a good thing his level-headed girlfriend, Jacquie O, is on board to temper his more outlandish ideas, because the pair plan to turn the hotel’s dumpy old beer parlour into the Vicar’s Knickers ...
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33.
Series: An Inspector Green Mystery
Do or Die
An Inspector Green Mystery
2nd edition
Paperback
Barbara Fradkin
9781459751026
$21.99
FICTION
Sep 06, 2022
NEW PAPERBACK REISSUEFans of Louise Penny and Michael Connelly, meet exasperating homicide detective Michael Green in this gripping police procedural.Ottawa homicide inspector Michael Green is absolutely obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage several times. When the biggest case of his career comes up, his position, his relationships and several lives are put into grave danger. A young graduate student and scion of a rich family is found expertly stabbed in the stacks of a university library, but no one seems to...
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34.
Series: An Inspector Green Mystery
Once Upon a Time
An Inspector Green Mystery
2nd edition
Paperback
Barbara Fradkin
9781459751033
$21.99
FICTION
Sep 06, 2022
NEW PAPERBACK REISSUEIn this second tightly paced police procedural in the award-winning series, Inspector Green is drawn into a case with a suspicious link to the past.When an old man dies a seemingly natural death in a parking lot, only Inspector Michael Green finds it suspicious. A search of the deceased's isolated house turns up an old tool box with a hidden compartment containing a German ID card from World War II. As well, his family seems to be harbouring secrets and withholding valuable information from the police.Was the victim a Jewis...
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35.
Series: An Inspector Green Mystery
Mist Walker
An Inspector Green Mystery
2nd edition
Paperback
Barbara Fradkin
9781459751040
$21.99
FICTION
Sep 06, 2022
NEW PAPERBACK REISSUEIn third book in a gripping mystery series for fans of Louise Penny and Michael Connelly, Ottawa homicide inspector Michael Green becomes obsessed with a former teacher’s mysterious disappearance.Innocent scapegoat or monster manipulator? Matthew Fraser was an idealistic young teacher accused of molesting a young schoolgirl and acquitted in a sensational case that left the truth hidden and the young teacher’s life in tatters. Ten years later, his distraught confidante walks into Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green’s offic...
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36.
Series: An Inspector Green Mystery
Fifth Son
An Inspector Green Mystery
2nd edition
Paperback
Barbara Fradkin
9781459751057
$21.99
FICTION
Sep 06, 2022
NEW PAPERBACK REISSUEIn the fourth book in this gripping series — which won a Crime Writers of Canada award — Inspector Green probes for family secrets that someone wants to keep buried...no matter the cost.Accident or suicide? That’s the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out be a long lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness and death, Green...
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37.
Series: An Inspector Green Mystery
Honour Among Men
An Inspector Green Mystery
2nd edition
Paperback
Barbara Fradkin
9781459751064
$21.99
FICTION
Sep 06, 2022
NEW PAPERBACK REISSUEThe fifth mystery in this gripping series won a Crime Writers of Canada award. While investigating a drowning, Inspector Green uncovers a decade-old military secret someone is desperate to keep hidden.Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, Green finds himse...
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38.
Series:
Eve's Rib
Paperback
C.S. O'Cinneide
9781459749801
$21.99
FICTION
Sep 20, 2022
“Timely and tantalizing, C.S. O’Cinneide masterfully blends domestic suspense with a touch of black magic in this bewitching thriller” — Erin Ruddy, author of Tell Me My NameAfter losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil.The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result.After Abbey’s younger brot...
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39.
Series:
The Polished Hoe
20th Anniversary Edition
20th Anniversary Edition
Paperback
Austin Clarke
9781459750975
$25.99
FICTION
Sep 27, 2022
A special 20th anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Rinaldo Walcott.When an elderly woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a shattering all-night vigil bringing together elements of the African diaspora in one epic sweep. Set on the post-colonial West Indian island of Bimshire in 1952, the novel unravels over the course of twenty-four hours but spans the lifetime of one woman and the collective experience of a society informed by slavery.As the novel opens, Mary Mathilda is giving confession to Sargeant, a police of...
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40.
Series:
Blood Atonement
Paperback
S.M. Freedman
9781459750241
$22.99
FICTION
Oct 18, 2022
A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF 2022“Freedman grips right out of the gate with dual timeline narratives that weave together more and more tightly until they meld into a mind-bending twist of a climax.” — LORETH ANNE WHITE, bestselling author of The Patient’s SecretIn a riveting psychological thriller for readers of Lisa Unger and Karin Slaughter, Grace’s healing solitude is shattered when she becomes a suspect in a gruesome series of murders. Grace DeRoche escaped the fundamentalist Mormon compound of Brigham and worked to prosecute its ...
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41.
Series:
The Strange Grave of Mikey Dunbar
and Other Stories to Make You Poop Your Pants
Paperback
Jeremy John
9781459751071
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 04, 2022
A creepy collection of spooky short stories perfect for reading out loud any time you want the fun of a good fright.Boo! See, scared you already. This collection of short, spooky stories is perfect for reading out loud on Halloween night, at a sleepover, or around the campfire. Jeremy John takes you on a frightening trip to the past, where Wild West criminals meet the hangman and brave knights battle monsters in the forest, through to today, where young vampires find victims through dating apps and spirits possess smart speakers.Turn out the li...
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42.
Series:
The Ghosts That Haunt Me
Memories of a Homicide Detective
Paperback
Steve Ryan
9781459749733
$22.99
TRUE CRIME
Sep 13, 2022
After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will never forget.Retired detective Steve Ryan worked in Toronto’s homicide squad for over a decade. For Ryan, the stories of Toronto’s most infamous crimes were more than just a headline read over morning coffee — they were his everyday life. After investigating over one hundred homicides, Ryan can never forget the tragedies and the victims, even after his retirement from the police force. In The Ghosts That Haunt Me, he reflects on six of the many c...
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43.
Series:
Your Place or Mine?
Practical Advice for Developing a Co-Parenting Arrangement After Separation
Paperback
Charlotte Schwartz
9781459750050
$22.99
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Sep 27, 2022
Navigate the challenges of co-parenting with practical advice and legal tips.So you did it. You separated. And now the kids that you always planned to raise together are being raised apart. Most people don’t start a family expecting not to see their children every day, and yet roughly half of us end up in that scenario. From there, it’s a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure — and there are many choices you can make.Your Place or Mine? is a detailed resource for separating parents. It will help you navigate the legal system, including negotiating a settle...
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44.
Series:
The Voyageurs
The Canadian Men’s Soccer Team's Quest to Reach the World Cup
Paperback
Joshua Kloke
9781459750456
$24.99
SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 04, 2022
Tracing Canadian men’s soccer’s emergence from global obscurity to international powerhouse, featuring insight from star players like Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David and manager John Herdman.The last time Canada qualified for a men’s World Cup was in 1986. For a generation afterwards, the Canadian national men’s soccer team struggled in obscurity, an afterthought in a country that was not yet soccer-mad. The twenty-first century brought a wave of soccer passion and expertise to this frozen country — and a crop of new superstar players who li...
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45.
Series:
The Burden of Exile
A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship
Paperback
Aaron Berhane
9781459748545
$23.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 11, 2022
In the strict dictatorship of Eritrea, a young reporter co-founds the first independent newspaper, publishes stories that anger the president, and then has to escape to save his life and his loved ones.An idealistic journalist with a young family starts the first independent newspaper in the notorious police state of Eritrea — one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. When the paper is shut down, he flees arrest and begins a dangerous journey to freedom, first across a desert, at night, into Sudan, pursued by Eritrean secret police, th...
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46.
Series:
Deadly Triangle
The Famous Architect, His Wife, Their Chauffeur, and Murder Most Foul
Paperback
Susan Goldenberg
9781459750302
$23.99
TRUE CRIME
Oct 11, 2022
Glamorous young wife Alma Rattenbury takes her chauffeur as a lover and their scandalous relationship leads to a murder most foul.The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his 30-years-younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, riveted people.Francis and Alma had moved to Bournemouth, England, after the City of Victoria had ostracized them for their sc...
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47.
Series:
An Unrecognized Contribution
Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto
Paperback
Elizabeth Gillan Muir
9781459750029
$24.99
HISTORY
Oct 18, 2022
A treasure trove of incredible lives lived.— RICK MERCER, comedian and authorMuir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.— WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisherEmphasizes the enormously influential role women had in laying the groundwork for life in the city today.— DR. ROSE A. DYSON, author of Mind Abuse: Media Violence and Its Threat to DemocracyWomen in nineteenth-century Toronto were integral to the life of the growing city. They contributed to the city’s commerce an...
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48.
Series:
Carbon Change
Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization
Paperback
Dennis McConaghy
9781459750517
$24.99
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 25, 2022
An investigation into the scale and costs of transitioning our energy systems to achieve net-zero emissions.Canada and the rest of the developed world have committed to decarbonizing basic energy systems, but do this country’s citizens and governments truly understand the sacrifices ahead and are we willing to accept those sacrifices in the name of reducing the impact of climate change? Will the rest of the developed world take on the necessary costs, and will Canada forge ahead with decarbonization, even if other countries do not? Carbon Chang...
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49.
Series:
Home Safe
A Memoir of End-of-Life Care During Covid-19
Paperback
Mitchell Consky
9781459750272
$21.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 01, 2022
During a pandemic lockdown full of pyjama dance parties, life talks, and final goodbyes, a family helps a father die with dignity.In April 2020, journalist Mitchell Consky received bad news: his father was diagnosed with a rare and terminal cancer, with less than two months to live. Suddenly, he and his extended family — many of them healthcare workers — were tasked with reconciling the social distancing required by the Covid-19 pandemic with a family-based approach to end-of-life care. The result was a home hospice during the first lockdown. S...
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50.
Series:
A Very Canadian Coup
The Rise and Demise of Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell, 1894–1896
Paperback
Ted Glenn
9781459750180
$24.99
HISTORY
Nov 08, 2022
A fresh take on the Manitoba schools question and the Conservative Coup that toppled Canada’s fifth prime minister.When Mackenzie Bowell became Canada’s fifth prime minister in December 1894, everyone — including Bowell — expected the job would involve nothing more than keeping the wheels on the Conservative wagon until a spring election.Plans for a quiet caretakership were dashed in January 1895 when the courts ruled that the Manitoba government had violated Roman Catholics’ constitutional rights by abolishing the provincial separate school sy...
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51.
Series:
Workday Warrior
A Proven Path to Reclaiming Your Time
Paperback
Ann Gomez
9781459749597
$22.99
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Dec 13, 2022
Reclaim control of your workday with a proven time-saving method.Life is busier than ever before. We are working longer hours to keep up with longer to-do lists. Yet we’re experiencing more stress and seem to fall further and further behind. Our so-called leisure time is punctuated with interruptions, constantly pulling us back to work. We are led to believe we can prioritize our way out of this, but prioritization is broken.In Workday Warrior, productivity expert Ann Gomez presents a fresh approach that smashes today’s time challenges: too man...
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52.
This humorous and heartfelt collection of Christmas tales reflects on the best of the holiday: family, tradition, binge drinking, divorce, and poop. Robert’s Hill (or The Time I Pooped My Snowsuit) and Other Christmas Stories is the perfect collection for Christmas in the real world. No talking snowman or cute woodland animal who saves Christmas (actually, there is a pigeon who steps in and saves the big day). This selection of heart-warming tales is about the true magic of the season: receiving the ultimate gift only to break it immediately; p...
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53.
Series:
Day Boy
Hardcover
Trent Jamieson
9781645660262
$34.95
FICTION
Aug 23, 2022
The Masters, dreadful and severe, rule the Red City and the lands far beyond it. By night, they politic and feast, drinking from townsfolk resigned to their fates. By day, the Masters must rely on their human servants, their Day Boys, to fulfill their every need and carry out their will. Mark is a Day Boy, practically raised by his Master, Dain. It’s grueling, often dangerous work, but Mark neither knows nor wants any other life. And, if a Day Boy proves himself worthy, the nightmarish, all-seeing Council of Teeth may choose to offer him a rare...
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54.
Series: MECHANISTS, THE
Fall of the Iron Gods
Hardcover
Olivia Chadha
9781645660279
$24.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Apr 30, 2024
The sequel to the Colorado Book Award winning Rise of the Red Hand, a searing portrayal of the future of climate change in South Asia. After inflicting a devastating blow on the autocratic provincial government, Ashiva, Synch, and their remaining allies must infiltrate the planetary government before it can exterminate the Red Hand and everything they stand for.Despite hard-won victories, the revolutionary forces known as the Red Hand are more endangered than ever: the Planetary Alliance Commission—the PAC—has branded them public enemy number o...
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55.
Series:
The Nightland Express
Hardcover
J. M. Lee
9781645660033
$24.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Oct 11, 2022
When bright, brash Jessamine Murphy finds a recruitment poster for the Pony Express, her tomboy heart skips a beat: not only for adventure, but for the chance to track down her wayward father in California. Eager to reunite her fractured family, Jessamine cuts her hair, dons a pair of trousers, and steps into the world as Jesse.With a bit of trickery, Jesse wins a special assignment—as does Ben Foley, a quiet but determined boy who guards secrets as closely as Jesse does. The two are to transport unusual cargo along an unusual route: the Nightl...
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56.
Series:
Desert Creatures
Hardcover
Kay Chronister
9781645660521
$35.95
FICTION
Nov 08, 2022
Eleven-year-old Magdala and her father have been exiled from their home; they flee through the harsh landscape of the American West, searching for refuge. As violence pursues them, they join a handful of survivors on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Las Vegas, where it is said that vigilante saints reside, bright with neon power. Magdala, born with a clubfoot, is going to be healed. But when faced with the strange horrors of the Sonoran Desert, one by one the pilgrims fall victim to a hideous sickness—leaving Magdala to fend for herself.After s...
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57.
Series: SCAPEGRACERS, THE
The Scratch Daughters
Hardcover
H. A. Clarke
9781645660170
$24.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Oct 25, 2022
Sideways Pike is desperate. It turns out that Madeline Kline didn’t want to make out with her; infinitely worse, she was only flirting to get access to Sideways’ specter. Madeline has ripped the magical soul out of Sideways’ throat, and with it, everything that makes a witch feel whole. Madeline would know: the Chantry boys took hers, and she’s going to use Sideways’ specter to hunt them down and get it back.Sideways Pike, lesbian witch extraordinaire, isn’t going to let little things like a treacherous crush or a brutal family of creepy witch ...
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58.
Series:
The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson Forgeries
Hardcover
Jon S. Dellandrea
9781773102535
$45.00
Oct 18, 2022
In May 2016, Jon S. Dellandrea came into possession of a box of the last effects of an obscure artist, William Firth MacGregor. The contents of the box chronicled a major, and long forgotten, trial involving forgeries of the art of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case takes readers back to 1962, a time when forgeries were turning up on gallery walls, in auction houses, and (unwittingly) being hung in the homes of luminaries across Canada. Inspector James Erskine, enlisting the help of A.J. Casson, the youngest li...
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59.
Series:
Shadows and Light
A Physician's Lens on COVID
Hardcover
Heather Patterson MD
9781773102740
$40.00
HEALTH & FITNESS
Sep 06, 2022
When the pandemic began in March 2020, Calgary emergency physician Heather Patterson was already feeling burnt out. Photography had always been a way of unwinding for her, and as the pandemic gathered speed, Patterson decided to begin chronicling it. Shadows and Light presents a selection of Patterson’s images, taking readers to the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic and giving them an illuminating, behind-the-scenes view of the real impact of the virus and the heroic front-line workers who have been fighting it for over two years.Patterson’s ...
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60.
Series:
Some Hellish
Paperback
Nicholas Herring
9781773102559
$24.95
FICTION
Sep 13, 2022
Winner, Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeHerring is a hapless lobster fisher lost in an unexceptional life, bored of thinking the same old thoughts. One December day, following a hunch, he cuts a hole in the living room floor and installs a hoist, altering the course of everything in his life. His wife Euna leaves with their children. He buries the family dog in a frozen grave on Christmas Eve. He and his friend Gerry crash his truck into a field, only to be rescued by a passing group of Tibetan monks.During the spring lobster season, ...
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