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Series: Crying for the MoonA NovelPaperback
Mary Walsh9781443410373
$21.99
Oct 03, 2017
“A page-turner with an indelible heroine.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald Canadian actor, comedian and social activist Mary Walsh explodes onto the literary scene with this unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age in late 1960s NewfoundlandRaised on tough love in St. John’s, Maureen is the second-youngest daughter of a bitter and angry mother and a beaten-down father who tells the best stories (but only when he’s drunk). If life at home is difficult, then school is torture, with the nuns watching every move she makes. But Maureen wants a bigger... + Read More
**A Times (London) Best Book of the Year**Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias. One of history’s most notorious families comes to life in this riveting bestseller, as the House of Borgia crosses paths with a young diplomat named Niccolò Machiavelli.“Full to the brim with vivid historical details both gory and beautiful.” —Library Journal It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two—al... + Read More
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Series: Little SisterA NovelPaperback
Barbara Gowdy9781554688623
$18.99
Oct 03, 2017
The farthest place you can go is closer than you can imagine. Rose is a sensible woman, thirty-four years old. Together with her widowed mother, Fiona, she runs a small repertory cinema in a big city. Fiona is in the early stages of dementia and is beginning to make painful references to Rose’s sister, Ava, who died young in an accident.It is high summer, and a band of storms, unusual for their frequency and heavy downpour, is rolling across the city. Something unusual is also happening to Rose. As the storms break overhead, she loses conscious... + Read More
Jamie keeps it super-simpleCooking doesn't have to be complicated - that's why Jamie's 5 Ingredients - Quick & Easy Food is sure to become your new best friend in the kitchen.It's all about making the journey to good food very, very simple. Every recipe uses just five key ingredients, ensuring you can get a meal together fast, whether it's finished and on the table in a flash, or after minimal hands-on prep, you've let the oven do the hard work for you. It’s about spending a little time to deliver a lot of flavour.Each recipe has been tried and... + Read More
Simple and timeless tools for success and happinessFor more than eighty years, millions of people from Warren Buffett to Oprah Winfrey have benefited from the remarkable wisdom of Dale Carnegie. Intended as a basic sales primer, How to Win Friends and Influence People quickly exploded into an overnight success—selling more than fifteen million copies worldwide and becoming one of the most influential books of all time. With an enduring grasp of human nature, Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People shows you how to be more persua... + Read More
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Series: The Healthy BrainOptimize Brain Power at Any AgePaperback
Aileen Burford-Mason9781443447782
$22.99
Dec 19, 2017
The Healthy Brain makes the compelling case that most people’s brains are underperforming because they are undernourished. As the most metabolically active organ of the body, the brain’s nutritional needs are ten times higher than those of any other organ. That means the brain is the first organ to falter when it is improperly fed.Well respected for her ability to take complex nutritional research and translate it into clear, evidence-based guidelines for the safe, effective use of supplements, Dr. Burford-Mason offers step-by-step guidance on ... + Read More
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Series: How to Have a Great CareerFind Your Passion, Achieve Your Goals, Love What You DoPaperback
Larry Smith9781443445207
$17.99
Dec 19, 2017
Whether you are just starting out or are reinventing yourself, Larry Smith will show you how to turn what you love into what you doFor the past three decades, Professor Larry Smith has become something of a “career whisperer” for his students at the University of Waterloo. His guidance has helped steer more than twenty-five thousand students to careers they love at companies like Facebook, Amazon, Tesla and Google, to name just a few. But most of us are left to figure out one of the biggest decisions of our lives on our own. Each year, millions... + Read More
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Series: Instant FavouritesOver 125 easy recipes for your electric pressure cookerPaperback
Mia Bachmaier9781443454926
$29.99
Jan 09, 2018
Fast, no-fuss (and quick clean-up) recipes for the millions of people who are obsessed with the new pressure cooker that Bon Appetit says “will change your life—no joke” Pioneered in Canada, new programmable electric pressure cookers, like the Instant Pot, are safe, easy to use and so popular that they are quickly becoming a staple in kitchens around the world. Food cooks more quickly—soups are ready in minutes, not hours, and still have that long-simmered flavour. One-pot meals are a breeze and weeknight dinners are fast and simple without the... + Read More
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Series: Worry-Free MoneyThe guilt-free approach to managing your money and your lifePaperback
Shannon Lee Simmons9781443454452
$21.99
Dec 19, 2017
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fresh way to think about your money." David Chilton, author of The Wealthy Barber Stop budgeting. Start living. Managing your money can be frustrating and confusing. Life is expensive. Whether you make $30,000 or $130,000 a year, it can feel like you’re constantly broke. Can you afford that new car, that vacation, that night out? You think so, but it feels impossible to know. And rigid budgets that force you to spend your money in unrealistic ways (like $9.50 per week for pants) don’t make things any clearer.But what if t... + Read More
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Series: How To Stop TimePaperback
Matt Haig9781443451383
$22.99
Feb 06, 2018
The first rule is don't fall in loveTom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but because of a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From performing with Shakespeare, to exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, to sharing cocktails with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom has seen a lot. But now, after over 400 years of reinventing himself to escape detection, he just wants an ordinary life. The only rule he has to follow is Don’t fall in love.When Tom catches the eye of a captivating woman named Camille at th... + Read More
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Series: The Missing InformantA NovelPaperback
Anders de la Motte9781443454834
$21.99
Feb 06, 2018
Before I Go to Sleep meets Law & Order in an epic, thrilling crime story reminiscent of Memento, Breaking Bad and L.A. ConfidentialDavid Sarac wakes up behind the wheel of a car after suffering a momentary stress-induced stroke. He has crashed violently inside a tunnel and awakens to find his whole world changed. David works in intelligence for the Stockholm police, recruiting and handling secret informants who help the police in the battle against organized crime. And David is very good at what he does: manipulation, bribes and threats—anythin... + Read More
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Series: Truth and LiesWhat People Are Really ThinkingPaperback
Mark Bowden9781443452090
$23.99
Feb 06, 2018
National bestsellerA fresh, insightful guide to reading body language in the post-digital age Whether you’re at a job interview or a cocktail party, searching LinkedIn or swiping right on a dating site, you want (no—need) to understand what people are really thinking, regardless of what they’re saying. Understanding what others are trying to tell you with their posture, hand gestures, eye contact (or lack thereof) or incessant fiddling with their iPhone might all be even more important than what you’re projecting yourself. Do they plan on makin... + Read More
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Series: EducatedHardcover
Tara Westover9781443452472
$34.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 20, 2018
For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future#1 International BestsellerTara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school.Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ai... + Read More
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Series: EducatedPaperback
Tara Westover9781443452489
$24.99
Feb 20, 2018
For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future#1 International BestsellerTara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school.Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ai... + Read More
From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp—and the night that will shape their lives for decades to comeA group of young girls descends on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets and camp songs by the fire. Bursting with excitement and nervous energy, they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island. But before the night is over, they find themselves ... + Read More
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Series: HysteriaA NovelPaperback
Elisabeth de Mariaffi9781443453400
$22.99FICTION
Mar 06, 2018
One of The Globe and Mail’s “Favourite Books of the Year”The closer she gets to the truth, the faster it slips away.In the spring of 1945, fifteen year-old Heike circles in the mountains high above Switzerland. Pushed out the door by a worried mother, Heike and her little sister, Lena, have escaped Dresden only days ahead of the firebombs that will destroy that city, to cross a war-torn Germany on their own. But now, Lena is lost and Heike is alone, stalked by a feral dog.Eleven years later, Heike’s life looks very different: married to a promi... + Read More
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Series: The StormA NovelPaperback
Arif Anwar9781443454216
$22.99
Mar 13, 2018
Inspired by the 1970 Bhola Cyclone, in which half a million people perished overnight, The Storm seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle fifty years of Bangladeshi history. Shahryar, a recent Ph.D. graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. As father and daughter spend their last remaining weeks together, Shahryar tells Anna the history of his country, beginning in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his Hindu wife, who converted to Islam out of love for... + Read More
For readers of quirky Scandinavian fiction comes this charming and witty debut novel by Emmy Abrahamson—perfect for fans of Jonas JonassonLove stinks. Or maybe it just needs a shower . . . Vienna: famous for Mozart, waltzes, and pastry; less famous for Julia, a Swedish transplant who spends her days teaching English to unemployed Austrians and her evenings watching Netflix with her cat or club hopping with a frenemy. An aspiring novelist, Julia’s full of ideas for future bestsellers: A writer moves his family to a deserted hotel in the dead of ... + Read More
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Series: Two Steps ForwardA NovelPaperback
Graeme Simsion9781443455633
$22.99
Mar 20, 2018
A story of mid-life and second chances from Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, and his wife Anne BuistSoon to be a film produced by Ellen DeGeneresTwo misfits walk 2,000 kilometres along the Camino de Santiago to find themselves and, perhaps, each other along the way.Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past—for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce. Look... + Read More
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Series: That Time I Loved YouPaperback
Carrianne Leung9781443452861
$22.99
Mar 27, 2018
Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary AwardFinalist for the Toronto Book AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada ReadsLife is never as perfect as it seems.Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up, in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Award—shortlisted The Wondrous WooThe suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth—new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not ... + Read More
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Series: Why Young MenRage, Race and the Crisis of IdentityHardcover
Jamil Jivani9781443453196
$32.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 03, 2018
Longlisted for the Toronto Book AwardThe day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men responsible were familiar to him. He didn’t know them, but the communities they grew up in and the challenges they faced mirrored the circumstances of his own life. Jivani travelled to Belgium in February 2016 to better understand the roots of jihadi radicalization. Less than two months later, Brussels fell victim to a terrorist attack carried out by young men who lived in the sa... + Read More
"Sloane Crosley does the impossible. She stays consistently funny and delivers a book that is alive and jumping." ? Steve MartinOne of Esquire's best books of 2018 so farFrom New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really.Fans of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know ... + Read More
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Series: Out of Thin AirA True Story of Impossible Murder in IcelandPaperback
Anthony Adeane9781443454360
$22.99
Apr 03, 2018
In 1974, two men vanished without a trace under suspicious circumstances, shocking the people of Iceland, where serious crime is almost non-existent. More than a year later there seemed to be a breakthrough when a small-time crook named Erla Bolladottir described a dream to police that they interpreted as a sign of trauma related to the men’s disappearance. After lengthy interrogations, investigations and courtroom dramas, Erla and five acquaintances confessed to killing both men and were given prison sentences ranging from three years to life.... + Read More
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Series: The Dutch WifeA NovelPaperback
Ellen Keith9781443454254
$22.99
Apr 24, 2018
Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labour camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel.On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Müller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. But faced with a brut... + Read More
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Series: HeartbreakerPaperback
Claudia Dey9781554685509
$22.99
Aug 21, 2018
A poignant new novel that combines humour and heartache, from the brilliant mind of Governor General’s Award finalist Claudia DeySeventeen years after falling from a stolen car into a remote northern town, Billie Jean Fontaine is still an outsider. She may follow the stifling rules of this odd place, but no one will forget that she came from elsewhere. When Billie Jean vanishes one cold October night in her bare feet and track suit with only her truck keys, those closest to her begin a frantic search. Her daughter, Pony, a girl struggling again... + Read More
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Series: The Last HoursA NovelHardcover
Minette Walters9781443455312
$34.99
Apr 17, 2018
For most, the Black Death is the end. For a brave few, it heralds a new beginning.Widowed by her husband’s death from the pestilence, Lady Anne assumes control of his people’s future—200 bonded serfs without rights of ownership to land. Strong, compassionate and resourceful—qualities she kept hidden from the husband she loathed and despised—Lady Anne chooses a bastard slave, Thaddeus Thurkell, to act as her steward. Together, they decide to quarantine Develish by bringing the serfs inside a defendable moat and sharing the available food amongst... + Read More
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Series: The Last HoursA NovelPaperback
Minette Walters9781443454988
$24.99
Apr 17, 2018
For most, the Black Death is the end. For a brave few, it heralds a new beginning.Widowed by her husband’s death from the pestilence, Lady Anne assumes control of his people’s future—200 bonded serfs without rights of ownership to land. Strong, compassionate and resourceful—qualities she kept hidden from the husband she loathed and despised—Lady Anne chooses a bastard slave, Thaddeus Thurkell, to act as her steward. Together, they decide to quarantine Develish by bringing the serfs inside a defendable moat and sharing the available food amongst... + Read More
When is a debt ever fully paid?Penny and Hattie are sisters in a small town, bound tight to the point of knots. They share a secret they cannot escape, even while it pulls them apart. One night, a match is lit, and Penny’s terrible husband is killed – a marriage going up in flames, and offering the potential of a new life. The sisters retreat into their family home – a house of secrets and memories – and try to live in the shadow of what they put in motion. But Penny’s husband is not the only thing they are hiding, from the outside world and fr... + Read More
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Series: What It TakesTo Live And Lead with Purpose, Laughter, and StrengthHardcover
Zahra Al-harazi9781443443081
$32.99
Jan 21, 2020
A NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe trajectory of Zahra Al-harazi’s life defies expectations. In this electrifying book that travels from a small village in Yemen to a small town in Minnesota to a Calgary suburb, Al-harazi describes surviving two civil wars; her years as a young, stay-at-home immigrant mother with little education; and how she became one of Canada’s most successful businesswomen. Navigating two worlds, Al-harazi has struggled to find her own way between East and West, religion and belief, freedom and obligation, family and desire, love an... + Read More
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Series: The Power of KindnessWhy Empathy Is Essential in Everyday LifeHardcover
Dr. Brian Goldman9781443451062
$32.99
Apr 24, 2018
As a veteran emergency room physician, Dr. Brian Goldman has a successful career setting broken bones, curing pneumonia, and otherwise pulling people back from the brink of medical emergency. He always believed that caring came naturally to physicians. But time, stress, errors, and heavy expectations left him wondering if he might not be the same caring doctor he thought he was at the beginning of his career. He wondered what kindness truly looks like—in himself and in others.In The Power of Kindness, Goldman leaves the comfortable, familiar su... + Read More
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Series: Steak RevolutionAll Cuts, All Ways—Perfect Every TimeHardcover
Rob Firing9781443451840
$32.99COOKING
Apr 24, 2018
WINNER—GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDSSteak isn’t what it used to be!Take backyard and cottage steak grilling to a whole new dimension. With expert tips and tricks on butchering, trimming and grilling basics, as well as details about different kinds of steak including butcher’s cuts, you’ll cook a perfect, juicy steak exactly right, every time. Steak Revolution is a journey into the sublime: whole bone-in rib-eye cooked with chili paste and its own rendered fat, hanger steak with cheater’s tzatziki, wood-grilled flat iron, Brazilian-style skewer... + Read More
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Series: BoysWhat It Means to Become a ManHardcover
Rachel Giese9781443442909
$32.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 01, 2018
The successes of feminism have led to greater opportunities for girls, by challenging stifling stereotypes about femininity and broadening the understanding of what it means to be female. While boys have travelled alongside this transformation, narrow definitions of masculinity and manliness haven’t faced the same degree of scrutiny. Whether they’re being urged to “man up” or warned that “boys don’t cry,” young men are subjected to damaging messages about manliness: they must muzzle their emotions and never show weakness, dominate girls and com... + Read More
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Series: Money TalksWhen To Say Yes And How To Say NoPaperback
Gail Vaz-Oxlade9781443434089
$19.99BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Dec 12, 2017
Take on your toughest money problem: the people you love.Gail Vaz-Oxlade gets hundreds of letters every month from people who can’t figure out how to get their sister off their couch, their mother to stop hitting them up for money, or their mates to recognize that saving is part of having a solid financial foundation. The letters have a common theme: Gail, how do I get through to them?Money Talks is Gail’s answer to that tough—and common—problem that sits at the heart of money and relationships: how to tell your mate, your father, your best fri... + Read More
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Series: Slumdog MillionairePaperback
Vikas Swarup9781443455015
$18.99
Dec 19, 2017
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe prize-winning novel that inspired the acclaimed film Slumdog Millionaire: winner of eight Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplayRam Mohammad Thomas has been arrested on suspicion of fraud for answering all twelve questions correctly on TV’s Who Will Win a Billion? Ram has never gone to school. He has never read a newspaper. There is no way a poor orphan from Jimmy’s Bar could know the names of the planets or the plays of Shakespeare . . . unless he has cheated. Rescued from his police cell ... + Read More
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Series: Will PiperBook of SoulsWill Piper #2Paperback
Glenn Cooper9781443454599
$12.50
Dec 26, 2017
Book of Souls picks up the action where the international sensation Library of the Dead left off. Will Piper’s life has been forever changed by the astonishing secret he discovered at the government’s clandestine installation deep under the Nevada desert. His uneasy retirement from the FBI is interrupted when a long-missing book surfaces at an auction house in London. A group of ex–Area 51 employees recruits Will to assist them in obtaining the book and in helping them solve a mystery that will affect the fate of all mankind. As government oper... + Read More
For readers of Jill Shalvis and Susan Mallery, a Full Hearts novel about taking a chance on loveWealthy Luc Chevalier is a satisfied man—or so he thinks. His businesses are thriving, and he has all the excitement, money and beautiful women any man could want. He dines at the best restaurants and stays at the most luxurious hotels as he makes his way around the globe. So why does he suddenly find himself so restless?Megan Sullivan is a single mom with an ordinary life. She is comfortable with things just the way they are. She has a six-year-old ... + Read More
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Series: History of WolvesA NovelPaperback
Emily Fridlund9781443453769
$19.99FICTION
Sep 15, 2019
**A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book of the Year; An O magazine Book to Pick Up; A USA Today Notable Book; An Amazon.com Best Book of the Month; A People Best New Book** Garnering rave reviews from around the world, History of Wolves is novelist Emily Fridlund’s darkly shimmering debut “Literary fiction’s newest golden girl.” —National PostFourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as the last vestige of a lost counterculture wo... + Read More
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Series: Dragon Springs RoadPaperback
Janie Chang9781443439381
$18.99
Jan 16, 2018
“Filled with enchantment and intrigue” (Toronto Star) and “a great choice for a book club” (The Huffington Post), Dragon Springs Road takes readers on an evocative journey a century in the past and half a world away.In early-twentieth-century Shanghai, an ancient imperial dynasty collapses, a new government struggles to life and two girls are bound together in a friendship that will be tested by duty, honour and love.Abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate outside Shanghai, seven-year-old Jialing learns she is zazhong—Eurasian—and th... + Read More
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Series: TransitA NovelPaperback
Rachel Cusk9781443447133
$18.99FICTION
Dec 31, 2030
**FINALIST for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; FINALIST for the Goldsmiths Prize; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year; A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**“A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.” —The New York Times“Brave and uncompromising. . . . A work of cut-glass brilliance.” —Financial Times“Cusk’s writing feels, exhilaratingly, unlike any other fiction being written.” —Toronto StarInternationally acclaimed author and Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Rachel Cusk returns with Transit, a powerful novel that cap... + Read More
The acclaimed bestseller, now a major motion picture from Alex Garland (Ex Machina), starring Natalie Portman“Once you start this book you will not be able to stop.” —The Globe and MailArea X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of an Edenic landscape, the second ended in mass suicide and the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as short-lived... + Read More
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Series: A Harvest of ThornsA NovelPaperback
Corban Addison9781443451970
$19.99FICTION
Jan 23, 2018
Bestselling author Corban Addison returns with another tale ripped straight from the headlines, intertwining unforgettable characters and gripping action with the global labour issues of sweatshops and workers’ rightsA beloved American corporation with an explosive secret.A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption.A corporate executive with nothing left to lose.In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers. Amid the rubble, a bystander captures a heart-stopping photograph—a teen... + Read More
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Series: Steal Away HomeOne Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom - And Her Long Road Back to the SouthPaperback
Karolyn Smardz Frost9781554682522
$18.99
Jan 23, 2018
For readers of The Underground Railroad, The Known World, Bound for Canaan and The Book of Negroes comes the harrowing story of fifteen-year-old escaped slave Cecelia Reynolds, who slips away to freedom in Canada only to return to her childhood home as a free woman many years later.“Karolyn Smardz Frost deftly situates Cecelia in history. Her evocative descriptions of landscapes and cityscapes capture the various times and places of Cecelia’s story.” —Winnipeg Free PressIn this compelling work of narrative non-fiction, Governor General’s Award ... + Read More
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Series: The 3rd WomanA NovelPaperback
Jonathan Freedland9781443454605
$12.50FICTION
Jan 30, 2018
A chilling high-concept thriller featuring a brilliant, insomniac female investigative reporter who ends up fighting for her life while she battles to uncover the truth—perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Terry HayesThe United States and China have struck a shocking bargain: in return for forgiving trillions in debt, the People’s Republic of China—now the world’s dominant global superpower—has established a permanent military presence on US soil. Years of decline have left America economically vulnerable, and evidence of China’s cultural and p... + Read More
National bestseller"Kelly Oxford's writing is hillarious and fearless. She's the badass Canadian sister I never had." —Mindy Kaling One of The Globe and Mail’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2017” * One of InStyle’s “5 Totally Brilliant Books You Need to Read in April 2017” * One of Newsweek’s “The Best New Book Releases for April 18, 2017” * One of LadyGang’s “The 10 Books I Read on Vacation (and 9 You Should Read!)” * One of BookBub’s “18 of the Funniest Books Coming Out This Spring” * One of PureWow’s “5 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in April” * ... + Read More
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Series: The Lonely Hearts HotelA NovelPaperback
Heather O'Neill9781443435871
$22.99FICTION
Oct 17, 2017
NATIONAL BESTSELLERLonglisted for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for FictionA Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Book A NOW Magazine Book You Have to Read A Toronto Star Book We Can’t Wait to Read “Heather O’Neill is just getting better and better.” —The Globe and Mail“It would be hard to overstate here just how the good the writing is in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. For it is stunningly, stunningly good.” —Toronto Star“By the end I was a gasping, tearful mess.” —Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and No One Belongs Here More Than You“O’Neill i... + Read More
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Series: Nearly NormalSurviving the Wilderness, My Family and MyselfPaperback
Cea Sunrise Person9781443449069
$21.99
Feb 06, 2018
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowing story of a past that won’t let go, and one woman’s attempt to put her life back together after everything falls apartIn her bestselling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood—her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of thirteen to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reve... + Read More
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Series: UnboundFinding Myself on Top of the WorldPaperback
Steph Jagger9781443446594
$19.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 15, 2019
In the tradition of Wild and Eat, Pray, Love comes an epic, inspiring new story about one woman’s triumph of spirit as she follows winter across five continentsSteph Jagger had seen the ski-lift sign thousands of times—Raise Restraining Device, it read—but one day she took it personally as a rallying cry to shake off the life she had for the life she wanted. She had always been a force of nature, so why was she still holding herself back? Dissatisfied with the passive, limited roles she had seen for women when she was growing up, Steph emulated... + Read More
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Series: YoungerA Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock 10 YearsPaperback
Sara Gottfried9781443431347
$19.99HEALTH & FITNESS
Feb 13, 2018
Age is a number, aging is a choiceThe scientific reality is that ninety per cent of the signs of aging and disease are caused by lifestyle choices, not genes. Why then do so many of us still feel destined for cellulite, saddle bags and belly fat? Why do we worry about the long line of Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease in our families? Why do we tolerate sagging skin, flagging energy and lowered libido as we grow older, writing them off as inevitable? We are not victims of our age. Our symptoms are both controllable and avoidable. There is a... + Read More
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAnother bestselling, hilarious crime caper featuring the League of Pensioners from the author of the #1 bestselling The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules. This time, the gang has their sights set on Saint-Tropez . . . Nothing can stop the League of Pensioners. They have a plan, and it’s going to need money. Lots of money. Sure, another bank robbery could finance their endeavour, but they’re going to need a lot more than a few million dollars for what they have in mind.So Martha and her friends set out to catch the bigge... + Read More
NATIONAL BESTSELLERMartha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary old-age home in Stockholm and are headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas. This is their chance at a new lease on life, and they plan to make the most of it. Before long they are up to their old tricks, plotting to outwit the security system at one of the city’s biggest casinos. However, they aren’t the only ones planning to steal bucketloads of cash, and soon they find themselves pitted against a gang of dangerous criminals.Can the group of elderly... + Read More
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Series: The Storms of WarA NovelPaperback
Kate Williams9781443454612
$12.50
Feb 27, 2018
“The queen of historical fiction.” —The GuardianFor fans of Downton Abbey, Atonement and Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong, the powerful first novel in a series about a privileged British family whose idyllic world is shattered during the First World War “Hard to put down. . . . Gripping, thoughtful, heartbreaking, and, above all, human.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning their daughter Emmeline’s wedding, while their eldest son, Arthur, is studying... + Read More
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Series: The Midnight SunA NovelPaperback
Cecilia Ekbäck9781443452069
$18.99
Mar 06, 2018
A chilling new historical crime novel from the author of the international bestseller Wolf Winter An orphaned boy brought up to serve the state as a man. A rich young woman incapable of living by the conventions of society. Neither is prepared for the journey into the heat, mystery, violence and disorienting perpetual daylight of the far north.Sweden, 1856. The minister of justice has received a disturbing message. There’s been a massacre on one of Lapland’s mountains: a priest, a law enforcement officer and a local settler have been slaughtere... + Read More
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Series: The Unmade BedThe Messy Truth about Men and Women in the Twenty-first CenturyPaperback
Stephen Marche9781443434843
$19.99
Mar 06, 2018
In one of the most talked about books of the year, provocative cultural commentator Stephen Marche examines the state of male-female relations in the 21st century, with commentary from his wife, Toronto Life editor-in-chief Sarah Fulford.On a warm spring morning in New York City, Stephen Marche, then a new father and tenure-track professor, got the call: his wife had been offered her dream job . . . in Toronto. Their mutual decision to move home, prioritizing her career over his, shed new light on the gender roles in their marriage. It also pro... + Read More
For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Nadia Hashimi, a powerful, vivid story of a family’s search for home and belonging, set against a brutal dictatorship and the promise of refuge in Canada.Raju is drawn to Uganda by the desire for a better life. Over two generations, Raju and his family carve a niche for themselves and form a deep connection to the land in the midst of a racially stratified colonial and post-colonial society.Their world is thrown into upheaval when brutal dictator Idi Amin comes to power. The family struggles to carry on until,... + Read More
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Series: Magpie MurdersMagpie MurdersA NovelPaperback
Anthony Horowitz9781443452571
$21.00
Mar 27, 2018
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original, modern-day mysteryWhen editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. Having worked with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy Engli... + Read More
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Series: MoriartyA NovelPaperback
Anthony Horowitz9781443454551
$12.50
Mar 27, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happened after Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty went over the Reichenbach Falls? Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz (creator of TV’s Foyle’s War and Midsomer Murders) once again takes on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this razor-sharp thriller“Anything but elementary, this clever thriller is sure to please.” —People“Infernally clever.” —The New York Times Book ReviewSherlock Holmes is dead.Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Professor James Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Fr... + Read More
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Series: The Baker's SecretA NovelPaperback
Stephen P. Kiernan9781443438902
$18.99
Apr 03, 2018
From the critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II—a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small village in Normandy on the eve of D-DayOn June 5, 1944, as dawn rises over a small town on France’s Normandy coast, Emmanuelle is baking the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers in the dark days since the Germans invaded her country. Only twenty-two, Emma learned to bake at the side of a master, Ezra Kuchen. Apprentic... + Read More
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Series: The Beauty of DiscomfortHow What We Avoid Is What We NeedPaperback
Amanda Lang9781443449854
$19.99
Apr 03, 2018
Why do some people drive change while others are blindsided by it? Why are some people able to adapt and thrive?How can we make change easier?Truly successful people don’t merely tolerate discomfort—they embrace it and seek it out again and again. Business founders and university students, top athletes and couch potatoes, meditation gurus and military leaders all have very different ways of coping with discomfort, but the most successful among them believe that withstanding discomfort is a skill that has helped them in hugely positive ways. Som... + Read More
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Series: The Hard Way OutMy Life with the Hells Angels and Why I Turned Against ThemPaperback
Jerry Langton9781443450393
$21.99
Apr 10, 2018
The shocking true story of a Canadian biker turned informant, in the vein of Gangland Undercover and Under and Alone, now a national bestsellerDave Atwell was a regular suburban Canadian kid who rose to the heights of society, rubbing elbows with billionaires as a personal security specialist before getting involved with some of the country’s most notorious gangsters as a member of first the Para-Dice Riders and then the Hells Angels. He was sergeant-at-arms for Toronto’s notorious Downtown chapter of the Hells Angels, and he saw it all: the dr... + Read More
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Series: Hot DetoxA 21-Day Anti-Inflammatory Program to Heal Your Gut and Cleanse Your BodyPaperback
Julie Daniluk9781443450683
$22.99
Apr 10, 2018
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERSpark your digestion, safely cleanse your body and speed up healingHot Detox unifies soothing cooking techniques, scientific rigour and Eastern food wisdom to create a revolutionary breakthrough in how you can fire up your digestive power and cleanse and heal your body. You’ll discover how · warming food and drink can dramatically increase the digestibility of a meal and the absorption of vital nutrients· chopping or blending foods such as broccoli can make them more detoxifying· cooking and dressin... + Read More
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