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Series: Lost Feast Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food Hardcover Lenore Newman 9781770414358 $32.95 NATURE Oct 08, 2019

An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick Taste Canada Silver Award Winner Finalist for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Award Nominated for the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Literature Award “Edifying and entertaining.” — Foreword Reviews, starred review A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pige... + Read More
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Series: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? Taking Water Protection into Public Hands Paperback Maude Barlow 9781770414303 $19.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 03, 2019

“Maude Barlow is one of our planet’s greatest water defenders.” — Naomi Klein, bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine “This book is a blueprint for communities around the world to take back that responsibility and maintain water as a human right.” — David Suzuki “This is a must-read.” — Jane Fonda A call to action from former Senior Advisor on Water to the U.N., honorary chairperson of the Council of Canadians, chair of Washing-based Food and Water Watch, and councillor with the Hamburg-based World Futur... + Read More
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Series: A Grain of Salt The Science and Pseudoscience of What We Eat Paperback Dr. Joe Schwarcz 9781770414754 $22.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Oct 08, 2019

“This enlightening collection offers every reader something new to learn and marvel over.” — Booklist Bestselling popular science author Dr. Joe Schwarcz debunks the baloney and serves up the raw facts in this appetizing collection about the things we eat Eating has become a confusing experience. Should we follow a keto diet? Is sugar the next tobacco? Does fermented cabbage juice cure disease? Are lectins toxic? Is drinking poppy seed tea risky? What’s with probiotics? Can packaging contaminate food? Should our nuts be activated? What ... + Read More
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Series: A Fly in a Pail of Milk The Herb Carnegie Story Paperback Herb Carnegie 9781770414952 $19.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 08, 2019

Revised and updated with commentary from Bernice Carnegie, Herb’s daughter, and life lessons passed from father to daughter Herbert Carnegie was the complete hockey package in the 1940s and 1950s. Though his contributions to society both in sport and education have been referenced and profiled in books, documentaries, and thousands of articles, this is Carnegie’s own account of striving to break the glass ceiling, starting with his career as a professional hockey player on all-white teams. In 1978, noted hockey journalist Stan Fischler w... + Read More
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Series: The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame The Storytellers (From the Terrible Turk to Twitter) Paperback Greg Oliver 9781770415027 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 06, 2019

The legendary storytellers worthy of a spot in the pro wrestling hall of fame You can’t escape pro wrestling today, even if you want to. Its stars are ubiquitous in movies, TV shows, product endorsements, swag, and social media to the point that they are as much celebrities as they are athletes. Pro wrestling has morphed from the fringes of acceptability to a global $1 billion industry that plays an everyday role in 21st-century pop culture. In this latest addition to the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame series, Greg Oliver and Steven Johns... + Read More
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Series: Life Is Short and So Am I My Life Inside, Outside, and Under the Wrestling Ring Paperback Dylan Postl 9781770414846 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 10, 2019

Heart, determination, and triumph This is the story of a boy who fell in love with wrestling before he was able to walk. Born with achondroplasia, a condition that causes disproportionate dwarfism, Dylan Postl had endured multiple surgeries by the age of 12. And yet, he held on to the dream that he would one day become a professional wrestler. Ignoring the naysayers and against doctors’ recommendations, Postl began training in his teens, and he soon began appearing on local independent shows. Before he turned 20, he was signed by WWE to p... + Read More
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Series: Soulman The Rocky Johnson Story Hardcover Rocky Johnson 9781770414938 $0.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 15, 2019

A memoir from wrestling legend and ground-breaking Black athlete, Rocky Johnson. At 14, Rocky Johnson left Nova Scotia to seek fortune and make professional wrestling his career. An incredibly agile and talented wrestler for a man his size, he soon became a featured main-eventer in every territory he worked — from Los Angeles to New York, and all points in between. He also appeared in wrestling arenas worldwide, including in Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Samoa, and Puerto Rico. In Soulman, Johnson not only explores his career accomplishm... + Read More
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Series: There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Kid How I Went from Stereotype to Prototype Hardcover Titus O’Neil 9781770414921 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 06, 2019

An inspiring story from a humanitarian role model and WWE superstar, known to fans as Titus O’Neil One caring person can change the course of a child’s life — Titus O’Neil knows that first-hand. Growing up, he was repeatedly confronted with negativity. By the time he was a teenager, he figured that he was the bad kid everyone said he was — until an adult looked him in the eye and said, “There is no such thing as a bad kid.” Unfortunately, many children across North America are labeled “bad.” They may have short attention spans, unstable h... + Read More
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Series: The Forest City Killer A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice Paperback Vanessa Brown 9781770415034 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Oct 04, 2019

Recently featured in: The New York Times Bustle Quill & Quire Booklist Publishers Weekly CBC Toronto Star A My Favorite Murder recommended read “A must for true crime fans.” – Booklist “A truly impressive account of this dark chapter in [Ontario’s] history . . . Not just a sharp work of investigative journalism, The Forest City Killer is a poignant portrait of children and young people whose lives were cut short in horrific circumstances and a clarion call for long overdue justice. It is destined to become a clas... + Read More
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Series: Midlife Action Figure Poems Paperback Chris Banks 9781770415058 $18.95 POETRY Sep 24, 2019

Banks’s stunning new collection, exploring bold frontiers “Midlife Action Figure delivers surprise, delight, and sense.” – Quill & Quire, starred review “Poetry is an act of mischief,” Theodore Roethke famously once said, and Chris Banks takes this as his credo in Midlife Action Figure. His subject matter ranges from the familiar to the surreal, taking readers through poems that are both wondrous and strange, heartfelt and humorous, controlled and impatient. Whether calling a tree “an anthology of leaves” or describing time as “a Fisher... + Read More
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Series: Honey A Novel Paperback Brenda Brooks 9781770414976 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

“Sinuous and captivating.”— Foreword Reviews Shortlisted for the 2019 Staunch Book Prize For readers of Sharp Objects comes a thrilling modern noir with a fresh narrative voice that explores coming of age, desire, and the lengths we’ll go to for love When 24-year-old Nicole Hewett’s beloved childhood friend, Honey, returns to their small northern town after an unexplained six-year absence, Nicole realizes how her life had stalled without her. But the prodigal returns with troubling secrets, and before long Nicole is drawn into a high-... + Read More
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Series: The Realms of Ancient The Brilliant Dark The Realms of Ancient, Book 3 Hardcover S.M. Beiko 9781770413597 $22.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Sep 24, 2019

“A storyline with twists aplenty.” — Kirkus Reviews The highly anticipated final installment in the intricately plotted, action-packed, animal-based fantasy series that New York Times #1 bestselling author Kelly Armstrong calls “A thrilling tale.” It’s been seven years since the Denizens, people with elemental powers, were unmasked, and seven years since Roan Harken and Eli Rathgar disappeared into the Brilliant Dark. Marked by Darklings and Death alike, Saskia is a mechanically minded Mundane, raised by Barton and Phae on daring stor... + Read More
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Series: The Call of the Rift The Call of the Rift: Veil Hardcover Jae Waller 9781770414570 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Oct 08, 2019

Return to Jae Waller’s wondrous and war-torn colonial world in this captivating second instalment in The Call of the Rift series “[A] stunning debut . . . An intricately lush and well-crafted new fantasy that deserves (and demands) a sequel.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review of The Call of the Rift: Flight The Blackbird Battle has left all sides devastated. The wind spirit Suriel has disappeared. A hard winter is coming, and famine stalks the land. Kateiko Rin returns to her people, ready at last to rejoin her community, but the danger... + Read More
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Series: A Sheriff Luke McWhorter Mystery A Fragment Too Far A Sheriff Luke McWhorter Mystery Paperback Dudley Lynch 9781770414990 $19.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2019

True Detective meets X-Files in the first installment of the Luke McWhorter series Nine physicists are dead. The medical examiner has determined that the victims died from drinking coffee laced with rat poison. The owner of the house, Professor Thaddeus Huntgardner, isn’t suspected, but his claim that a piece of the debris from Roswell’s 1947 UFO crash was hidden in Flagler might be true. Enter Luther “Luke” Stephens McWhorter, a Yale Divinity School–educated West Texas sheriff with all the right questions. Is the fragment real? If so,... + Read More
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Series: Call Down the Thunder A Crime Novel Paperback Dietrich Kalteis 9781770414792 $17.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

“A sharp-witted, affecting noir.” — Kirkus Reviews “Fans of historical crime fiction won’t want to miss this one.” — Publishers Weekly Desperate times call for desperate measures in Kalteis’s lightning fast crime caper story Sonny and Clara Myers struggle on their Kansas farm in the late 1930s, a time the Lord gave up on: their land’s gone dry, barren, and worthless; the bankers are greedy and hungry, trying to squeeze them and other farmers out of their homes; and, on top of that, their marriage is in trouble. The couple can struggle... + Read More
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Series: A T.J. Peterson Mystery Fire Trap A T.J. Peterson Mystery Paperback Bob Kroll 9781770414891 $17.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

“If you like urban grit and slick action, you won’t want to miss this one.” — Globe and Mail The third and final installment of the T.J. Peterson mysteries Things have gone from bad to worse for T.J. Peterson. The cops have kicked him off the force, his girlfriend called it quits, his best friend and former partner won’t speak to him, and his estranged 20-year-old daughter, Katy, continues to torment him with photos of the hellholes she is living in. Add in a shrink’s diagnosis of PTSD, and Peterson is barely holding it together. When... + Read More
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Series: Flourish Paperback Jacqueline Turner 9781770415065 $18.95 POETRY Sep 17, 2019

“Smart, clear-eyed… Turner’s gift is for beautiful concision.” — Georgia Straight on The Ends of the Earth Jacqueline Turner’s Flourish moves between philosophy, literary criticism, biography, and poetry. Both personal and experimental, her writing becomes transformative as it explores memories of growing up in a small town, parenting a set of adventurous sons, traveling, and reading. At times her poems act like micro essays, at other times they are miniature memoirs or precise manifestos, and throughout the collection’s exploration of co... + Read More
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Series: The Greatest, Weirdest, Most Amazing NHL Debuts of All Time Paperback Andrew Podnieks 9781770415157 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 08, 2019

Hit the ice in the NHL for the first time with over 300 hockey stars From Hall of Famers to lesser-known players, every one of the more than 7,700 NHLers skated in a first game. Many of these debuts are noteworthy because of a record that is plain amazing (Al Hill’s five points), a record most dubious (David Koci’s 42 penalty minutes), or an achievement never likely to be replicated (Larry Hillman gets his name on the Stanley Cup after just one shift). Prolific sports writer Andrew Podnieks’s comprehensive new book features more than 300 ... + Read More
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Series: The Godmother A Crime Novel Paperback Hannelore Cayre 9781770415430 $19.95 FICTION Sep 03, 2019

A New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2019” Inspiration for the major motion picture Mama Weed Translated from the international bestseller La Daronne Winner of the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s most prestigious prize for crime fiction “Exuberant… Maybe crime doesn’t pay, but the guile and guts — and humour — with which Patience approaches this extreme solution to her desperate situation, right under the noses of law enforcement, is admirable, as are her survival instincts. Read... + Read More
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Series: An Arthur Beauchamp Novel Whipped An Arthur Beauchamp Novel Paperback William Deverell 9781770415102 $17.95 FICTION Oct 08, 2019

Now in paperback! Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare bottom of a high-ranking federal cabinet minister. It’s the scoop of the century, but too hot a potato — if Lou breaks the story, he risks exposing himself to the mercies of the Mafia. Instead, he shows the video to Green Party leader Margaret Blake. The video is leaked, and Margaret is sue... + Read More
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Series: The Call of the Rift The Call of the Rift: Flight Paperback Jae Waller 9781770415096 $15.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Oct 08, 2019

Now in paperback! An intricately lush and well-crafted new fantasy that deserves (and demands) a sequel.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A mature choice for those who love high fantasy and magical realism.” — School Library Journal A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller’s stunning debut fantasy “Waller’s world-building is impressive . . . While the magical and romantic elements of Waller’s story are most likely to hook teen readers, it’s the commentary on colonized cultures that really sets t... + Read More
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Series: The Realms of Ancient Children of the Bloodlands The Realms of Ancient, Book 2 Paperback S.M. Beiko 9781770414327 $15.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Sep 24, 2019

Now in paperback! “This action-packed Canadian animal fantasy trilogy is recommended for its unique mythology and diverse characters.” — School Library Journal Three months after the battle of Zabor, the five friends that came together to defeat her have been separated. Burdened with the Calamity Stone she acquired in Scion of the Fox, Roan has gone to Scotland to retrace her grandmother’s steps in an attempt to stop further evil from entering the world. Meanwhile, a wicked monster called Seela has risen from the ashy Bloodlands and ... + Read More