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The Great Goldbergs Paperback Daniel Goodwin 9781770866591 $24.95 FICTION Sep 02, 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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Lost Dogs Paperback Lucie Pagé 9781770866690 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2023

In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives. A university English sessional teacher searches for his missing blind pit bull, not entirely aware that his relationship is coming unravelled. Katherine, his girlfriend, pays far more attention to her walk-on role in an alternative theatre production. Fourteen-year-old Becca struggles to get her mother’s attention, while her mother provides calorie-wise snacking and fashion advice and dates Becca’s psychologist. Kar... + Read More
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Radio Jet Lag Paperback Gregor Craigie 9781770866713 $24.95 FICTION Jun 17, 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... + Read More
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Double Karma Paperback Daniel Gawthrop 9781770866836 $24.95 FICTION Apr 22, 2023

Curiosity about his father’s homeland sends American photographer Min Lin to Burma to immerse himself in its culture and build his portfolio. But it’s 1988 and pro-democracy activists are trying to overthrow the military regime. Min gets caught up in the movement after falling in love with one of its leaders. When she’s arrested, Min flees to the jungle and, joining the rebels, comes face-to-face on the battlefield with a Burmese army captain who looks exactly like him. After an explosion kills his double, Min awakes in a hospital misidentified... + Read More
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Autokrator Paperback Emily A. Weedon 9781770866850 $24.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2024

Born nameless, in a rigid, autocratic society that has relegated all women to non-person status — Unmales — two women fight against their invisibility. The disappearance of yet another Domestic means Cera must take on extra duties and tend the rooms of The Cratorling, the young successor to the autocracy. Face-to-face with him, Cera realizes he is her son, taken from her at birth. She vows to make herself known to him, no matter the cost. Driven by a Machiavellian mind and ego, Tiresius has successfully hidden her Unmale status in plain sight ... + Read More
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Standing on Neptune Paperback Valerie Sherrard 9781770866874 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Apr 15, 2023

Am I pregnant? This question shatters the peace of seventeen-year-old Brooke Palinder’s life one Monday morning when she realizes her period is late. Although shaken, she’s determined to hide her feelings and go about her daily routine as though nothing is wrong. Brooke’s boyfriend Ryan handles the news poorly, and she can’t bring herself to confide in anyone else, not even her best friend. In an effort to distract herself, Brooke throws herself into a school project about Neptune, which leads her to some startling discoveries and a surprising ... + Read More
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Swept Away Ruth Mornay and the Unwanted Clues Paperback Natalie Hyde 9781770866898 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 01, 2023

Eleven-year-old Ruth’s friend and neighbor, Bea, has just died — an accidental drowning. Or so they say. Ruth’s not so sure. Bea was sixty-four and knew the area better than anyone. She was much too careful to get swept away by the flooded Teeswater River. And now Bea’s godson, Saul, says his godmother had premonitions that she would be murdered. She even left behind a box of clues to help Ruth figure out what happened. Accident or murder? That’s the case Ruth, Saul, and Ruth’s wayward pet chicken, Dorcas, have to crack.
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What Remains of Elsie Jane Paperback Chelsea Wakelyn 9781459750845 $24.99 FICTION Jan 31, 2023

“A poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, weird, and heartbreaking window into being bereft and being in love… a striking reminder that there can be beauty in devastation.” — EMILY AUSTIN, author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be DeadA heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of a woman unravelling in the wake of tragedy.Sam is dead, which means that Elsie Jane has just lost the brilliant, sensitive man she planned to grow old with. The early days of grief are a fog of work and single parenting. Too restless to sleep, Elsie pores over Sam’s old ... + Read More
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Suite as Sugar and Other Stories Paperback Camille Hernández-Ramdwar 9781459750715 $24.99 FICTION Apr 25, 2023

Suite as Sugar is a testimony to the unseen forces, always vigilant, ever ready, imbuing the characters in this collection with both resilience and trauma.From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, reflecting legacies of abandonment and loss. The veil between the living and the dead is obscured, chaos becomes panacea, and characters take drastic measures into the... + Read More
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Series: An Amanda Doucette Mystery Wreck Bay An Amanda Doucette Mystery Paperback Barbara Fradkin 9781459743878 $21.99 FICTION Jan 24, 2023

Amanda Doucette pursues the connection between a reclusive artist and the wealthy surfer who turned up dead on a remote island in Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim in a wilderness-infused mystery perfect for fans of Jane Harper or Louise Penny.While exploring the rugged landscape of Vancouver Island’s Pacific Rim, Amanda Doucette is drawn to a reclusive old artist known only as Luke, who lives off the grid on a remote island. His vivid paintings hint at a traumatic secret from his past that brings to mind her own struggles with PTSD, and she begin... + Read More
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Series: The Walking Shadows Dark All Day Paperback Brenden Carlson 9781459745858 $19.99 FICTION Feb 14, 2023

In an alternate 1933, a sleuth and his robot partner are caught in the middle of a legal battle that will decide the fate of the world’s machine population.Carlson does a good job populating his gritty, split-level world with dodgy mobsters, deadly dames, and killer machines. — Publishers Weekly, for Night Call Two months after an investigation that nearly put Elias Roche behind bars, the former cop turned mob enforcer has endeavoured to separate himself from his past by going straight. Now working as a private investigator, his attempts to bui... + Read More
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Chasing the Black Eagle Paperback Bruce Geddes 9781459750593 $23.99 FICTION Apr 11, 2023

Against a backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia, a young man tails Hubert Julian — a pilot, inventor, adventurer, charlatan, and possible threat to America.Facing an attempted murder charge, seventeen-year-old Arthur Tormes is in no position to refuse when a federal agent named Riley Triggs offers him a deal: all charges get dropped and Arthur goes free if he agrees to help the Bureau with a problem.That problem is Hubert Julian, a.k.a. the Black Eagle of Harlem: inventor, pilot, parachutist, daredevil, charlatan, and... + Read More
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Bullshift How Optimism Bias Threatens Your Finances Paperback John J. De Goey 9781459750906 $25.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jan 03, 2023

People are unwittingly taking risks with their investments by entrusting them to advisers who are biased but don’t know it.Does your financial adviser tell you to hold on and never sell? That markets recover in the long run? Does your adviser seem to always have an optimistic disposition? Do they tell you not to worry, no matter what is going on in the outside world?In Bullshift, John J. De Goey explores the hidden relationship between bias and financial markets. He makes clear that investors and financial advisers are not the rational decision... + Read More
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The Canadian Guide to Creative Writing and Publishing Paperback Patricia Westerhof 9781459750081 $26.99 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Jan 17, 2023

The essential guide for Canadian writers seeking to have their work published today.How do you get your writing published in Canada? What are the industry standards for publishable work and how do you reach them? This lively, practical guide shows you how to think more creatively, cultivate a strong writing voice, and make your sentences powerful. It explains the elements of style and offers writing prompts to help you apply what you learn. It gives strategies for finding critique partners and beta readers and for getting useful feedback before... + Read More
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Warriors and Warships Conflict on the Great Lakes and the Legacy of Point Frederick Hardcover Robert D. Banks 9781459750777 $59.99 HISTORY Jan 24, 2023

The untold story of Point Frederick, where early nineteenth-century Canadians built warships that stopped invasion and brought peace.Warriors and Warships brings to life a much neglected part of Canada’s military history, covering the warships and the people who built them at Point Frederick from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. Opposite Kingston, Point Frederick was the 1789 dockyard home of the Provincial Marine on Lake Ontario and the headquarters of Britain’s Royal Navy from 1813 to 1853. Today, it is the home of t... + Read More
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The Wild Boy of Waubamik A Memoir Paperback Thom Ernst 9781459750876 $25.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 31, 2023

“An inspiring story of resilience, told with a vivid sense of character and humour.” —RICHARD CROUSE, CTV host and film criticFilm critic, writer, and broadcaster Thom Ernst chronicles his life growing up with an abusive father in rural Ontario.The residents of Waubamik know about the Wild Boy, a somewhat feral child, standing nearly naked in a rusty playground of weeds and discarded metal, clutching a headless doll. They know the boy has been plucked from poverty and resettled into a middle-class family. But they don’t know that something wors... + Read More
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Reasonable Cause to Suspect A Mother's Ordeal to Free Her Son from a Kurdish Prison Paperback Sally Lane 9781459750944 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 07, 2023

In a story of deceit, betrayal, and injustice, two parents are tried as terrorists for attempting to rescue their son from a Syrian war zone.On September 2, 2014, Jack Letts, an idealistic eighteen-year-old British Canadian, phoned his mother saying, “Mum, I’m in Syria.” Those chilling words from a raging war zone set in train his family’s eight-year-long battle to rescue Jack from his disastrous mistake.When an unscrupulous journalist invented the term “Jihadi Jack,” a false image of Jack spread throughout the world. Sally and John, Jack’s par... + Read More
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Lost in Cabbagetown A Memoir of Surviving Boyhood in 1960s Toronto Paperback Terry Burke 9781459750784 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 14, 2023

A poignant memoir of a rough-and-tumble boyhood on the streets of Toronto’s Cabbagetown.When the Burke family left Ireland, in 1959, they thought they were leaving the trials and tribulations of the Dublin slums behind. Instead, Molly, Bill, and their nine children found the same poverty and hardship awaiting them in the east end of Toronto.For their sixth-born son, Terry, growing up in Cabbagetown was a daily struggle to survive. Whether it was the bullies on the street or the gangs in Regent Park, fights were an everyday occurrence. School sh... + Read More
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Forbidden Knowledge A Self-Advocate's Guide to Managing Your Prescription Drugs Paperback Terence H. Young 9781459750685 $25.99 MEDICAL Feb 21, 2023

Terence Young exposes the pharmaceutical industry secrets and cultural myths that thwart our safe use of prescription drugs.… Everyone should read it before their next visit to a doctor. — DR. NANCY OLIVIERI, MD, physician and professor When it comes to drug safety, Big Pharma holds all the power, and it’s time for patients to take it back.Tens of millions of patients in North America take prescription drugs, but the safety of these drugs is often based on medical myths. We are led to believe that if a medication isn’t safe, the government woul... + Read More
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Against the Seas Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters Paperback Mary Soderstrom 9781459750487 $26.99 SCIENCE Feb 28, 2023

An incredible read.… While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. — MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism. What can we learn about coping with rising sea levels from ancient times?The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a metre or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due to climate change. Large parts of our coastal cities will be flooded, the basic outline of our world wil... + Read More
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British Columbiana A Millennial in a Gold Rush Town Paperback Josie Teed 9781459750210 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 28, 2023

A job as a heritage interpreter at a remote gold rush site propels an insecure and anxious twenty-four-year-old to find what she truly desires from life.“By turns deadpan and wryly candid, Teed has a keen observational eye and a talent for characterization. An excellent debut.” — ANDRÉ FORGET, author of In the City of PigsUnsure of her next steps after graduation, twenty-something Josie Teed accepts a position at Barkerville, a remote heritage site in British Columbia showcasing the nineteenth-century gold rush. She lives in the adjacent villag... + Read More
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Bones of Belonging Finding Wholeness in a White World Paperback Annahid Dashtgard 9781459750623 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 18, 2023

Sharp, funny, and poignant stories of what it’s like to be a Brown woman working for change in a white world.I take a deep breath, check my lipstick one last time on my phone camera, and turn on my mic. It’s about ten steps, two metres, and one lifetime to the front of the room. “Hello,” I repeat. “My name is Annahid — pronounced Ah-nah-heed — and shit’s about to get real!”In a series of deft interlocking stories, Annahid Dashtgard shares her experiences searching for, and teaching about, belonging in our deeply divided world. A critically accl... + Read More
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This Is the House That Luke Built Paperback Violet Browne 9781773102832 $22.95 FICTION Feb 07, 2023

Muscle sinew bone.Luke Tremblett is one of five fishermen lost at sea off the coast of Newfoundland. Rose is left to pick up the pieces and learn to live with his sudden absence. And then there are three children, including two-month-old Emily, struggling to face an unbearable loss that has engulfed them.This sharp, hard-edged novel begins two years after Luke’s disappearance, at the moment that Rose takes her first step through the wall of the house Luke was building when he died. Her body vibrating, she enters a space where Luke waits f... + Read More
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Wanda's War An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal Paperback Marsha Faubert 9781773102757 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 21, 2023

What does it mean to be exiled? For the landmarks of your past to disappear?In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans awaiting resettlement. Unwilling to return to then-Soviet-occupied Poland, Wanda became one of 100 young Polish women brought to Canada in 1947 to address a labour shortage at a Québec textile mill. But rather than arriving to long-awaited freedom, the women found themselves captiv... + Read More
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Arctic/Amazon Networks of Global Indigeneity Hardcover Gerald McMaster 9781773102993 $60.00 ART Apr 18, 2023

“Our hunting culture is dependent on a frozen North. We Inuit cannot have choice if we don’t have the right to be cold.” — Sheila Watt-Cloutier“We have a strong relationship with the moon. Not just the moon, but the whole nature, the waters, the forest. . . . We have this direct relationship with the forest.” — Yube HunikuinArctic / Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environmental upheaval. Both regions ar... + Read More
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Mercy Gene The Man-Made Making of a Mad Woman Paperback JD Derbyshire 9781773102948 $22.95 FICTION Mar 14, 2023

Think Maggie Nelson meets Hannah Gadsby.Told in kaleidoscopic bursts of erratic recollections, daydreams, poetry, and lists, Mercy Gene is the powerful, genre-smashing debut work of auto-fiction by acclaimed writer, playwright, and comedian JD Derbyshire. Inspired by Derbyshire’s critically acclaimed and award-winning stage play, Certified, and anchored by protagonist Janice/Jan/JD, Mercy Gene is a beautiful, humorous, and brutal look at queerness, gender confusion, institutionalization, addiction, and abuse.Through flashes of memory and ... + Read More
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A thin fire runs through me Paperback Kim Trainor 9781773102252 $19.95 POETRY Mar 28, 2023

How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in.Each line a strip of skin torn from me.In A thin fire runs through me, Kim Trainor interrogates what it means to exist, to navigate the quotidian amidst the constant drip-feed of political and ecological disasters.Written over an intense nine-month period in 2016 and 2017 amidst the stresses of heartbreak, depression, and the progression of a new love, Trainor’s exquisite sequence of short poems each offer a meditation on a different hexagram in the I Ching, or Book of Chan... + Read More
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Entre Rive and Shore Paperback Dominique Bernier-Cormier 9781773102870 $19.95 POETRY Mar 28, 2023

“I used to think this was a book about a disguise,but now I know that it’s a book about translation.”According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison the night before the Acadian Deportation by disguising himself in a dress. In the invigorating, transliterative Entre Rive and Shore, Dominique Bernier-Cormier uses his ancestor’s escape to ponder what it means to live between two languages. Writing in a blend of English and French that evokes Chiac, “a living thing, growing gills, a voice from the future, prophetic and c... + Read More
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Atlantic Salmon Treasury, 75th Anniversary Edition An Anthology of Selections from the Atlantic Salmon Journal, 1975-2020 Hardcover Charles Gaines 9781773103013 $45.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 04, 2023

“Few fish have captured the souls and minds of men and women quite like wild Atlantic salmon.” — Bill Taylor, President, Atlantic Salmon FederationCelebrating 75 years of conservation, the Atlantic Salmon Treasury works as a “best of” for the influential Atlantic Salmon Journal. This fascinating volume includes a curated selection of articles and essays by some of North America’s best sport writers on the art and lore of the wild Atlantic salmon.Beginning in 1948, the Atlantic Salmon Journal began publishing ... + Read More
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Exclusive Memory A Perceptual History of the Future Paperback Tom Sherman 9781773103006 $29.95 ART Apr 11, 2023

Exclusive Memory: A Perceptual History of the Future is a compendium of descriptive, speculative prose and text-images by the Governor General’s Award-winning artist, Tom Sherman. Its contents sweep across five decades, describing radically different periods and environments — from Sherman’s early experiments in Toronto in the 1970s to his recent explorations of text and image in Nova Scotia’s South Shore. At the core of this volume is “The Faraday Cage,” a text that delivers a vivid cascade of images of the art scene in Toronto at the onset of... + Read More
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Gerard Collins Fifty Years of Painting Paperback Robert Barriault 9781773103075 $40.00 ART Apr 25, 2023

The art of Gerard Collins resists categorisation. Over a 50-year career, Collins ’s conceptual imagination and dizzying array of influences has produced a body of work as eclectic as it is stimulating. His oeuvre, ranging from still lifes to landscapes, from realism to neo-conceptualism, remains undeniably embedded in Saint John, while partaking in — and pushing against — national and international conversations about art and theory.Featuring over 75 reproductions of Collins’s work, including examples from his famous Wom... + Read More
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Moving the Museum Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO Hardcover Wanda Nanibush 9781773102023 $45.00 ART Jan 17, 2023

Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO’s Indigenous art collection. The volume reflects the nation-to-nation treaty relationship that is the foundation of Canada, asking questions, discovering truths, and leading conversations that address the weight of history and colonialism.Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 reproductions, Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO features the work of First Nations artists — including Carl Beam, Rebe... + Read More
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The Curious World of Bacteria Hardcover Ludger Wess 9781771648257 $29.95 SCIENCE Feb 07, 2023

Bacteria were the first life on Earth. But what do we really know about them? In this captivating, science-driven book, you'll learn everything you need to know about these often misunderstood—and incredibly interesting—microbes. In this engagingly written and scientifically rigorous book, author and scientist Ludger Wess introduces an eclectic collection of impressive, useful, weird, and dangerous bacterial species. Wess reveals everything he knows about bacteria, including their ability to survive almost anywhere, to "sleep" for millions of y... + Read More
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Of Cockroaches and Crickets Learning to Love Creatures That Skitter and Jump Hardcover Frank Nischk 9781771648721 $32.95 NATURE Feb 28, 2023

This deep dive into the wonderful world of insects teaches us to love the tiny, seemingly terrifying creatures all around us. For many people, cockroaches are the most pesky of pests. Not so for entomologist Frank Nischk. In this funny and fascinating book, Frank reveals his love and admiration for so-called "nasty" creatures like cockroaches, crickets, and more. He shows us that even seemingly terrifying insects are beautiful in their own way—and essential to all life on Earth. Frank never planned to study cockroaches. But when researching hum... + Read More
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Pandexicon How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality Hardcover Wayne Grady 9781778400391 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 07, 2023

Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.—Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality When the pandemic struck in early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and phrases that arose from our shared global experience. Some, such as "uptick" and "pivot," had existed ... + Read More
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In Search of Sleep An Insomniac's Quest to Understand the Science, Psychology, and Culture of Sleeplessness Hardcover Bregje Hofstede 9781778400162 $34.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 14, 2023

"Bregje Hofstede is an extraordinary writer."—Rutger Bregmans, author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful HistoryJenny Odell's How to Do Nothing meets Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep in this fascinating deep-dive into the science and history of sleep. In Search of Sleep is both a self-help manual for insomniacs, and a sweeping critique of the hustle culture that blinds us to the real reasons we lie awake at night: from politics to pandemics to poverty. Amsterdam-based writer Bregje Hofstede struggled with insomnia for 10 years, but ad... + Read More
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Spring Rain A Life Lived in Gardens Hardcover Marc Hamer 9781778400278 $34.95 NATURE Apr 04, 2023

"Marc Hamer knows how to live—simply, sparely, reverently, abundantly. Spring Rain is a tonic for the soul."—Sy Montgomery, author of How to Be A Good Creature From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of gardens. Best enjoyed in a single sitting under the shade of a tree, this inventive and curative book captures the moment when an adventurous young boy who traveled the world in his mind meets the old man he becomes. Together, they build a n... + Read More
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The Key to Creativity The Science Behind Ideas and How Daydreaming Can Change the World Hardcover Hilde Østby 9781771648301 $34.95 PSYCHOLOGY Apr 11, 2023

Readers of Stolen Focus and Quiet will appreciate this wide-ranging and passionate investigation into creativity: Why and when it strikes us, and how to transform workplaces, classrooms, and societies for creativity to flourish. After a cycling crash leaves her head spinning, journalist Hilde Østby finds herself suddenly bursting with creative energy―which makes her wonder: What's the secret to human creativity? Where do ideas come from? And most importantly: in a society that praises productivity and pace, how can we nurture, rather than suppr... + Read More
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Train Beyond the Mountains Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer Hardcover Rick Antonson 9781771644860 $34.95 TRAVEL Apr 18, 2023

A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five countries—but almost everything he thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his ten-year-old grandson, Riley. As they wind over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of trac... + Read More
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Secret Life of the City How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild Hardcover Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas 9781771649353 $34.95 NATURE Apr 25, 2023

Come along on an informative, whirlwind tour of urban species—from intelligent crows to backyard lichens—and discover that you are surrounded by wild nature, even in your own backyard. When biologist Hanna Bjørgaas spots a fairy cup lichen in Antarctica, she is surprised to recognize it from her own backyard in Oslo. When she returns home, she embarks on a journey into urban nature, visiting city parks, cemeteries, and concrete rooftops to investigate the species that live in urban spaces. Along the way, she meets corvids, songbirds, ants, pige... + Read More
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A Tulip in Winter A Story About Folk Artist Maud Lewis Hardcover Kathy Stinson 9781771649513 $22.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 07, 2023

A celebration of a beloved folk artist, and her artistic expression of joy and beauty. Known for her vibrant and cheerful paintings of landscapes, plants, and animals, Maud Lewis' iconic folk art is celebrated around the world. Despite her beautiful art, she spent much of her life living in poverty with rheumatoid arthritis. In this stunning picture book, author Kathy Stinson and illustrator Lauren Soloy bring Maud's world to life: how she captured in her art what she loved most, while navigating the mobility issues caused by her condition. Fr... + Read More
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Super Small Miniature Marvels of the Natural World Hardcover Tiffany Stone 9781771646567 $22.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Apr 11, 2023

From a bestselling illustrator, this utterly unique comic-style book for kids 4 to 8 explores super-small creatures with astounding abilities. Did you know that some of the smallest creatures on Earth have real-life superpowers? The minute oribatid mite can lift more than 1,000 times its own weight. A tiny type of salamander (called an axolotl) can regrow body parts. And the almost microscopic tardigrade? It can survive practically anywhere, even in outer space! Acclaimed author Tiffany Stone combines comic panels and poems to share incredibl... + Read More
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Welcome, Rain! Hardcover Sheryl McFarlane 9781771646956 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 6 Mar 28, 2023

We all love rain—until we are ready for some sun! This joyful ode to rain for kids 2 to 6 explores a child's many emotions when it comes to wet weather. In this charming picture book, a young child's conversation with the rain poetically captures the ever-shifting feelings we have when it comes to drizzles and downpours. She thanks the rain for helping the strawberries and carrot seeds to grow, and delights in splashing in the puddles with her little brother. Then, she asks the rain if it could take a vacation so she can play in the park and go... + Read More
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What's Wild Outside Your Door? Discovering Nature in the City Hardcover Peter Wohlleben 9781771648950 $24.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Apr 18, 2023

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees and Can You Hear the Trees Talking? comes a guide to finding nature in the city for kids 8-12. Features STEM activities, fun facts, quizzes, photographs, and more. You might think cities are the last place to find nature. But nature is actually right outside your door—you just need to know where to look. From the roofs of apartments to parking lots, cities are bursting with plants and animals. In this fascinating and interactive guide, kids will learn about how birds buil... + Read More
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Wings, Waves & Webs Patterns in Nature Hardcover Robin Mitchell Cranfield 9781771646765 $22.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 2 - 6 Apr 18, 2023

A visually stunning introduction to patterns found in nature. Perfect for early STEM learning in preschool and kindergarten. From the dots on a ladybug to the spiral on a snail, patterns in nature can be found anywhere. This simple and playful concept book introduces the littlest of readers to both math and nature while engaging their creative potential. By the end, kids will be able to identify: Spots and stripes Spirals and symmetry Waves and honeycombs And more After learning about key patterns, the book's final page—a striking sunfl... + Read More
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Greater than the Sum of Our Parts Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine Paperback Nada Elia 9780745347479 $27.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 20, 2023

'An inspiring call to action that deconstructs the many oppressive systems we currently find ourselves struggling against' - Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all? In this bold book, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism, from its militarism to its prisons, its environmental devastation and gendered violence. She insists that Palestine’s fate is linked through bonds of solidarit... + Read More
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Hostile Homelands The New Alliance Between India and Israel Paperback Azad Essa 9780745345017 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 20, 2023

'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with its trajectory towards authoritarianism and a 'Hindu Rashtra' (Hindu State), little attention has been paid to the linkages between Modi's India and the governments from which it has drawn inspiration, as well as military and technical support. India once called Zionism racism, but, as Azad Essa argues, the state of Israel has increasingly become a cornerstone of India’s foreign policy. Looking to re... + Read More
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The Left in China A Political Cartography Paperback Ralf Ruckus 9780745342955 $32.95 HISTORY Feb 20, 2023

'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and oppositional forces in the People’s Republic of China over the last seventy years, Ralf Ruckus pulls back the curtain on Chinese politics. He looks at the labour strikes in the 1950s, the rebel uprising during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, the democracy movements in the 1970s and 1980s, the stru... + Read More
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Mussolini's Grandchildren Fascism in Contemporary Italy Paperback David Broder 9780745348025 $33.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 20, 2023

The fastest-rising force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging to prominence in recent years, it has waged a fierce culture war against the Left, polarised political debate around World War II, and emerged as the only major force opposing Mario Draghi's government. Eighty years after the fall of Mussolini, his heirs and admirers are again on the brink of taking power. So how exactly has this situation come about?Mussolini's Grandchildren delves into Italy'... + Read More
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Nuclear Flashpoint The War Over Kashmir 1st edition Paperback Farhan Chak 9780745346168 $36.95 HISTORY Nov 20, 2023

An alternative account of the Kashmir conflict centering the voices of the KashmirisThe territory of Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most politically contested and heavily militarized spaces on the planet. It has long been presented as an 'internal dispute', mainly by India, in attempts to sustain power through the project of settler colonialism. In this context, Kashmiri voices are rarely heard and so the conflict remains little understood, with a resolution nowhere in sight.In Nuclear Flashpoint, Farhan Chak reveals how the history, cult... + Read More
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Radical Intimacy Paperback Sophie K Rosa 9780745345161 $24.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 20, 2023

Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heteronormative, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do not want to achieve all or any of these life goals. Instead, we are left feeling atomized, exhausted, and disempowered.Radical Intimacy shows that it ... + Read More
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One State The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel Paperback Ghada Karmi 9780745348315 $27.95 HISTORY Apr 20, 2023

'An intelligent, sensitive writer' - Financial Times Palestine has been under attack for three quarters of a century. The 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as masking the expansion of Israel's apartheid regime. 75 years ago, Ghada Karmi and her family in Jerusalem were among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were exiled during the Nakba. She has since become one of the most vocal proponents of the single democratic state in Palestine-Israel. In t... + Read More
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Private Worlds Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain Paperback Jeremy Seabrook 9780745348421 $27.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 20, 2023

'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning – the merging of senseless subjectivities.' In 1950s suburban England, a friendship bloomed between Jeremy Seabrook and Michael O’Neill - both gay men coming of age during a time when homosexuality was still a crime. Their relationship was inflected by secrecy and fear; the shadows that had distorted their adolescent years were never wholly dispelled, ... + Read More
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Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Prostate Cancer Expert Advice for Helping Your Loved One Paperback Neil H. Baum 9781421446004 $25.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Grade (US) from 17 May 23, 2023

An illuminating guide for those newly diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as their partners and caregivers—one filled with extensive details about diagnosis, treatments, and tips for thriving.The second leading cause of cancer death for men, prostate cancer affects more than a quarter of a million individuals in the United States each year. Most men with prostate cancer will go through the journey from diagnosis through treatment and beyond with a partner and family members by their side. But there are few resources available that address th... + Read More
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Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Winning with Diabetes Inspiring Stories from Athletes to Help You Thrive Paperback Mark D. Corriere 9781421445588 $28.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Grade (US) from 17 Apr 11, 2023

Don't let diabetes send you to the bench. These motivational stories of top athletes with diabetes will inspire you to live your best life.An ultra-marathoner, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, a major league pitcher, and an NFL star. What do these elite athletes have in common? They reached the top of their field—all while living with diabetes. Essential reading for people who have diabetes and their families, Winning with Diabetes highlights the challenges, perseverance, and successes of sixteen elite athletes living with the disease. From ... + Read More
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The Killer Whale Journals Our Love and Fear of Orcas Hardcover Hanne Strager 9781421446226 $38.95 NATURE Grade (US) from 17 Apr 11, 2023

Experience the hauntingly beautiful world of orcas, and discover the stories that unfold when humans enter oceans alongside them.When intrepid biology student Hanne Strager volunteered to be the cook on a small research vessel in Norway's Lofoten Islands, the trip inspired a decades-long journey into the lives of killer whales—and an exploration of people's complex relationships with the biggest predators on earth. The Killer Whale Journals chronicles the now internationally renowned science writer's fascinating adventures around the world, doc... + Read More
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Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Living Well with a Serious Illness A Guide to Palliative Care for Mind, Body, and Spirit Paperback Robin Bennett Kanarek 9781421445984 $25.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Grade (US) from 17 Apr 04, 2023

A practical guide for understanding how palliative care can improve quality of life for patients and their caregivers.Robin Bennett Kanarek was a registered nurse working with patients suffering from chronic medical conditions when her ten-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia. As her son endured grueling treatments, Robin realized how often medical professionals overlook critical psychological, emotional, and spiritual support for people with life-threatening illnesses. Living Well with a Serious Illness is the culmination of decades of Rob... + Read More
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Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Never Too Late Your Guide to Safer Sex after 60 Paperback Shannon Dowler 9781421446349 $25.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Grade (US) from 17 Feb 14, 2023

The ultimate—and fun!—guide to maintaining vibrant sexual health with aging.In Never Too Late, Shannon Dowler, MD, a family physician who is also an expert on sexually transmitted diseases (STD), provides a refreshing overview of sexual education for people over 55. With the advent of dating apps, vibrant 55+ retirement communities, and sexual enhancement drugs, adults are sexually active well into their golden years. Unfortunately, the rates of STDs are dramatically increasing in older adults. In entertaining, accessible language, Dr. Dowler p... + Read More
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Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book Dementia Prevention Using Your Head to Save Your Brain Paperback Emily Clionsky 9781421446257 $32.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Grade (US) from 17 Apr 04, 2023

Worried about memory loss and dementia risk? This new book will show you easy-to-follow steps to keep your brain healthy.Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, are a physician and neuropsychologist couple who have cared for their own parents with dementia, created a test used by doctors to measure cognitive function, and treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment. In Dementia Prevention, they combine the most current scientific findings about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias with their experience to present a pr... + Read More