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1.
The High Mountains of Portugal A Novel Hardcover Yann Martel 9780345809438 $32.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2016

With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor ca... + Read More
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Cold Fire Kennedy's Northern Front Hardcover John Boyko 9780345808936 $35.00 HISTORY Feb 02, 2016

Forget all you think you know about the Kennedy years. With narrative flair and sparkling storytelling, acclaimed historian John Boyko explores the crucial period when America and its allies were fighting the Cold War’s most treacherous battles, Canadians were trading sovereignty for security, and everyone feared a nuclear holocaust.At the centre of this story are three leaders. President John F. Kennedy pledged to pay any price to advance his vision for America’s defence and needed Canada to step smartly in line. Fighting him at every turn was... + Read More
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In Other Words Hardcover Jhumpa Lahiri 9780345810090 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 09, 2016

From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful and eloquent non-fiction debut.In Other Words is at heart a love story--of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. And although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery had always eluded her. So in 2012, seeking full immersion, she decided to move to Rome with her f... + Read More
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Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Shylock Is My Name The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) Hardcover Howard Jacobson 9780345809230 $29.95 FICTION Feb 09, 2016

The second book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series heralds the full-on 2016 anniversary celebration of Shakespeare: Man Booker Prize winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life retells the powerful, controversial story of Shylock.In The Merchant of Venice, the merchant Antonio borrows from the Jewish moneylender Shylock, whom he openly despises, to help fund his friend Bassanio's wooing of the beautiful, prized Portia. Shylock agrees--but on the condition that Antonio promise in return a pound of flesh should he be unable to repay the debt. W... + Read More
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Arcadia A novel Hardcover Iain Pears 9780345810847 $36.95 FICTION Feb 09, 2016

In a major suspense novel set to surpass the internationally bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost comes a dazzling story of youth, love and murderous ambition--a novel of time travel spanning three beautifully detailed worlds: the intellectual spires of Oxford in 1960, an ancient Arcadian world, and a dystopian future.In 1960, Henry Lytten is an Oxford don who dabbles in espionage and fiction writing. Rosie Wilson is the quick-witted, curious 15-year-old girl who feeds Professor Lytten's cat. Several hundred years in the future, living in ... + Read More
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At the Existentialist Café Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails Hardcover Sarah Bakewell 9780345810953 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 01, 2016

Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and their circle, who loved and hated, drank and debated with each other--and forever changed the way we think about thinking.At the Existentialist Café is a thrilling look at the famous group of post-war thinkers who became known as the Existentialists: Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger, and their circle. Starting with Paris after the devastation of the Second... + Read More
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Charlotte Brontë A Fiery Heart Hardcover Claire Harman 9780307363190 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 01, 2016

A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre.Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in which loss and heartache existed alongside rebellion and fierce ambition. Harman seizes on a crucial moment in the 1840s when Charlotte worked at a girls' ... + Read More
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The Year of the Runaways A novel Hardcover Sunjeev Sahota 9780345810151 $34.00 FICTION Sep 25, 2015

Nominated for the Man Booker Prize. One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists in 2013 gives us a sweeping, urgent, contemporary epic about a year in the life of a group of young illegal immigrants living and working together in the north of England.Three young men from very different backgrounds come together in a journey from India to England, where they hope to begin something new. To support their families; where they can, to build their future; to show their worth; to escape the past. They have almost no idea of what awaits them.In a dil... + Read More
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The End of Protest A New Playbook for Revolution Paperback Micah White 9780345810045 $25.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 15, 2016

From the co-creator of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a refreshing manifesto that inaugurates the future of social activism and the end of protest as you know it. Intellectually ambitious and spiritually compelling, The End of Protest will be the most talked-about non-fiction book in 2016.Is protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Disruptive tactics have failed to halt the rise of Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election. Movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to environmentalism are leaving a... + Read More
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Some Rain Must Fall My Struggle 5 Hardcover Karl Ove Knausgaard 9780345815545 $37.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2016

The fifth installment in the epic six-volume My Struggle cycle is here, highly anticipated by Karl Ove Knausgaard's dedicated fan club--and the first in the cycle to be published separately in Canada.The young Karl Ove moves to Bergen to attend the Writing Academy. It turns out to be a huge disappointment: he wants so much, knows so little, and achieves nothing. His contemporaries have their manuscripts accepted and make their debuts while he begins to feel the best he can do is to write about literature. With no apparent reason to feel hopeful... + Read More
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Lab Girl Hardcover Hope Jahren 9780345809865 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 05, 2016

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a long-time collaboration, in work and in life; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see and think about the natural world.Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes ... + Read More
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The Translation of Love Hardcover Lynne Kutsukake 9780345809377 $29.95 FICTION Apr 05, 2016

An emotionally gripping portrait of postwar Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a classmate find her missing sisterAfter spending the war years in a Canadian internment camp, thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura and her father are faced with a gut-wrenching choice: move east of the Rocky Mountains or go “back” to Japan. Barred from returning home to the West Coast and bitterly grieving the loss of Aya’s mother during internment, Aya’s father signs a form that enables the government to deport them. But war-devastated Tokyo is not muc... + Read More
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Testimony A Memoir Hardcover Robbie Robertson 9780307401397 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 15, 2016

On the fortieth anniversary of The Band’s legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century. Robbie Robertson’s singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” and “Up on Cripple Creek,” he and his partner... + Read More
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The Cruelest Gift Inherited Disease in the Age of DNA Hardcover Clark Blaise 9780345809346 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 02, 2080

Revered Canadian fiction and non-fiction author Clark Blaise takes us on a deeply personal journey into the medical world of inherited diseases in this moving, revelatory memoir--by turns tragic, touching and inspiring--of a father and son, the love that binds them, the dark genetic heritage that may be embedded in family trees, and the hopes and dilemmas of today's latest scientific discoveries.What do you do when you learn your child has a degenerative disease? When you learn that this disease is hereditary--that, unbeknownst to you, you have... + Read More
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The Banker and the Blackfoot A Memoir of My Grandfather in Chinook Country Hardcover J. Edward Chamberlin 9780345810014 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 30, 2016

From one of our most beloved, respected writers on Canada’s past: a visionary yet rip-roaringly entertaining tale of the last years of the Canadian West.In 1885 in what we now call Canada, two significant things happened: the last spike was driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway and Louis Riel, Metis leader, was executed for treason. Today, these events are seen as defining the early development of the “Dominion”—and indeed they were signs that Canada was beginning its settlement of First Nations territory, forever altering the Canadian West.... + Read More
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The Sport of Kings Hardcover C.E. Morgan 9780307397355 $36.95 FICTION May 03, 2016

The daring, inventive novel (a sprawling family saga set in Kentucky that combines southern gothic with the drama of horse racing) from a brilliant young author named one of The New Yorker's "20 Best Writers Under 40."Here is the ambitious, strikingly original, and dazzling new novel from a young writer whose first novel, All the Living, received passionate praise and rave reviews, and earned her one of the highly coveted spots on The New Yorker's list of the "20 Best Writers Under 40" alongside such peers as Karen Russell, Wells Tower, Téa Obr... + Read More
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From the bestselling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us.Everyone knows his or her favourite colour, the foods we most enjoy, and which season of The Sopranos deserves the most stars on Netflix. But what does it really mean when we like something? How do we decide what's good? Is it something biological? What is the role of our personal experiences in shaping our tastes? And how do businesses make use of this information to develop and sell... + Read More
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Precious Cargo My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 Paperback Craig Davidson 9780345810519 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 12, 2016

For readers of Kristine Barnett’s The Spark, Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree and Ian Brown’s The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surprising memoir about one year spent driving a bus full of children with special needs.With his last novel, Cataract City, Craig Davidson established himself as one of our most talented novelists. But before writing that novel and before his previous work, Rust and Bone, was made into a Golden Globe-nominated film, Davidson experienced a period of poverty, apparent failure and despair. In this new... + Read More
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Aging Backwards Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day Paperback Miranda Esmonde-White 9780345816672 $24.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Apr 03, 2018

Revised and updated: the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller from the star of PBS’s Classical Stretch. This groundbreaking guide to reversing the effects of aging through gentle, scientifically designed exercises has been updated with a new chapter about the emerging research on the importance of healthy connective tissue—which reinforces the wisdom and science behind Miranda’s pioneeing approach to exercise. Our paperback release is timed to a new PBS pledge-break special, Aging Backwards 2: The New Connection, which will begin airing... + Read More
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City of Thorns Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Hardcover Ben Rawlence 9780345815149 $34.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 05, 2016

To charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it's a "nursery for terrorists"; to the western media, it's a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, in the midst of the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a fir... + Read More
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The Crooked Heart of Mercy Hardcover Billie Livingston 9780345815385 $29.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2016

From award-winning author Billie Livingston, a novel brimming with hope that explores—intimately, fearlessly, lovingly—how a family rebuilds itself after an unthinkable tragedy. Her best book yet.The Crooked Heart of Mercy is a brave, funny and heartbreaking novel about faith and family, love and forgiveness, and how people survive unimaginable loss. It features an indelible trio of characters who could only come from the imagination of Billie Livingston. There’s Ben, whose world we enter on the first page: he’s a limo driver who, after he lose... + Read More
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The Productivity Project Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy Hardcover Chris Bailey 9780345815774 $32.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jan 05, 2016

A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives. Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and ... + Read More
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Red Star Tattoo My Life as a Girl Revolutionary Hardcover Sonja Larsen 9780345815279 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 12, 2016

Winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Red Star Tattoo is Sonja Larsen's unforgettable memoir of a young life spent on the move, from hardscrabble Milwaukee to dreamy Hawaii, from turbulent Montreal to free-spirited California. At the age of 16, Sonja joins a cult-like communist organization in Brooklyn--unaware of the dark nature of what awaits her.A small, skinny 8-year-old girl holding a teddy bear stands by the side of a country road with a young man s... + Read More
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The Name Therapist How Growing Up with My Odd Name Taught Me Everything You Need to Know about Yours Hardcover Duana Taha 9780345815309 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 05, 2016

What’s a “stripper” name? For that matter, what’s a high-class name? How do you tell the difference? Why does everyone call them “baby” names when they follow us through our whole lives? And can your name determine your destiny? From a television screenwriter and contributor on the LaineyGossip.com blog comes a book about what names really mean, how we use them, and why they matter. A child of Irish and Egyptian immigrants to Canada, Duana Taha became fascinated by names, not least because hers felt awkward at best and impossible at ... + Read More
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Yiddish for Pirates Hardcover Gary Barwin 9780345815514 $32.00 FICTION Apr 05, 2016

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot.Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. From a present-day Flo... + Read More
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Mexican Hooker #1 And My Other Roles Since the Revolution Hardcover Carmen Aguirre 9780345813848 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 12, 2016

A stunning follow-up to Carmen Aguirre's bestselling and Canada Reads-winning first book, Something Fierce. Mexican Hooker #1 is a powerful, heartfelt and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and one's voice as an artist, and of developing the strength to confront and overcome a childhood trauma.Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she couldn'... + Read More
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The Naturalist Hardcover Alissa York 9780345814999 $32.00 FICTION Apr 12, 2016

1867, Philadelphia. Amateur naturalist Walter Ash is on the brink of setting off to travel up his beloved Amazon when fate intervenes, obliging his only son to take his place. More at ease among his books than in the field, Paul Ash takes a reluctant leave of absence from Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology to accompany his grieving stepmother and her young companion to the fabled River Sea. Paul holds no memory of the place, though he was born there; he was still an infant when his father carried him out of the jungle and away from the mix... + Read More
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Startle and Illuminate Carol Shields on Writing Hardcover Carol Shields 9780345815941 $29.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Apr 26, 2016

In the course of her extraordinary career, which included the novels The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party, The Republic of Love and Unless, as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Shields was unfailingly encouraging of other writers. She read and commented on her friends' manuscripts. She taught writing classes and she spoke and wrote on the craft of writing. Her own discipline rarely faltered. Her daily practice was to write a new page, then edit the page written the day before, then repeat, until, after a year or so, her book... + Read More
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Mothering Sunday A Romance Hardcover Graham Swift 9780345816603 $25.00 FICTION Apr 19, 2016

Jane Fairchild, orphaned at birth, has worked as a maid at an English country estate since she was sixteen. And for almost all of those years, she has been the secret lover of Paul Sheringham, the scion of the estate next door. On an unseasonably warm March afternoon, when all the servants have been let off work for the day in order to pay their annual visits to their families, Jane and Paul will make love for the last time in Paul's own bedroom--though not, as Jane believes, because Paul is about to be married. The events of the day will ... + Read More
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A Country Road, A Tree Hardcover Jo Baker 9780345816382 $32.00 FICTION May 17, 2016

Samuel Beckett is a young writer living in Paris--intoxicated by new friendships with James Joyce and the other writers and artists making the vibrant city their creative home--when war breaks out in 1939. He determines to stay and is swiftly drawn into the maelstrom, joining the Resistance. With him we experience the terrifying excitement yet stubborn vibrancy and camaraderie as the Parisians flee the Nazis and the Resistance goes underground; his friendships with the astonishing group of men and women who find themselves caught up in the Occu... + Read More
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For the Glory Olympic Legend Eric Liddell's Journey of Faith and Survival Hardcover Duncan Hamilton 9780345814562 $32.00 SPORTS & RECREATION May 10, 2016

Most people will know Eric Liddell as an Olympic gold medalist and a focal character in Chariots of Fire. Famously, the Scot would not run on Sunday, leading to ridicule and, some might say, his teammate winning the 100 metres in the 1924 Paris Olympics. But for Liddell, running was always second to his true calling, his faith. After surprisingly winning the 400-metre gold in Paris, he dedicated himself to missionary work. He and his family settled in one of the poorest provinces in China. When he saw war with Japan on the horizon, Liddell put ... + Read More