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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures In Search of A Better World A Human Rights Odyssey Paperback Payam Akhavan PhD 9781487002008 $22.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 09, 2017

A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bahá’ís that ... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Therefore Choose Life The Found Massey Lectures Paperback George Wald 9781487003203 $16.95 PHILOSOPHY Sep 09, 2017

This recently discovered and very timely 1970 Massey Lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, now in print for the first time ever.Where did we come from, who are we, and what is to become of us — these questions have never been more urgent. Then, as now, the world is facing major political and social upheaval, from overpopulation to nuclear warfare to environmental degradation and the uses and abuses of technology. Using scientific fact as metaphor, Nobel Prize–winning scientist George Wald meditates on our place, and role, on Ea... + Read More
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Series: Seven Fallen Feathers Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City Paperback Tanya Talaga 9781487002268 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 30, 2017

The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrati... + Read More
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Series: Arrival The Story of CanLit Hardcover Nick Mount 3M National Teaching Fellowship 9781770892217 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 02, 2017

“The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature… Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.” — Winnipeg Free PressA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookNational Post 99 Best Books of the YearIn the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed wri... + Read More
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Series: Munk Debates Is This the End of the Liberal International Order? The Munk Debate on Geopolitics Paperback Niall Ferguson 9781487003357 $14.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 04, 2017

The twentieth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Niall Ferguson against Fareed Zakaria to debate the end of the liberal international order.Since the end of World War II, global affairs have been shaped by the increasing free movement of people and goods, international rules setting, and a broad appreciation of the mutual benefits of a more interdependent world. Together these factors defined the liberal international order and sustained an era of rising global prosperity and declining international conflict. But now, for the first time in a generati... + Read More
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Series: McMafia A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld Media tie-in Paperback Misha Glenny 9781487003494 $22.95 TRUE CRIME Feb 20, 2018

Now a major television series starring James Norton (War & Peace, Happy Valley) and created by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and film director Hossein Amini (Drive) and James Watkins (The Woman in Black), co-produced by BBC, AMC, and Cuba Pictures. In this powerful and groundbreaking work, award-winning author and journalist Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organized crime. Tracing the history of the shadow economy, Glenny exposes the nexus of crime, politics, and money that has come to shape and inform t... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures The Return of History Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century Paperback Jennifer Welsh 9781487002428 $19.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 19, 2017

In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoi... + Read More
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Series: Bad Singer The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music Paperback Tim Falconer 9781487002305 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 18, 2017

In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness — and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we listen to music.Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,” always wanted to make music, but soon after he starts singing lessons, he discovers that he’s part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia — in other words, he is scientifically tone-deaf. Bad Singer chronicles h... + Read More
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Series: The Last Wave Paperback Gillian Best 9781487002930 $22.95 FICTION Aug 26, 2017

Gillian Best, winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction, weaves a striking literary debut centred on one woman’s relationship to the sea in this sweeping intergenerational family saga.A beautifully rendered family drama set in Dover, England, between the 1940s and the present day, The Last Wave follows the life of Martha, a woman who has swum the English Channel ten times, and the complex relationships she has with her husband, her children, and her close friends. The one constant in Martha’s life is the sea, from her first accident... + Read More
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Series: Once More with Feeling Paperback Méira Cook 9781487002961 $22.95 FICTION Sep 23, 2017

From award-winning author Méira Cook comes a novel exploring the intricacies and interconnected lives of one community in a small and colourful prairie city. After twenty years Max Binder is still in love with his fiery wife, Maggie, and is determined to get her the perfect fortieth birthday gift. But Max’s singular desire — to make his wife happy — leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family’s life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city.Set over the course of a single year, Once More With Feeling t... + Read More
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Series: Things Are Good Now Paperback Djamila Ibrahim 9781487001889 $19.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2018

Set in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S., Things Are Good Now examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. In Djamila Ibrahim’s powerful story collection, women, men, and children who’ve crossed continents in search of a better life find themselves struggling with the chaos of displacement and the religious and cultural clashes they face in their new homes. A maid who travelled to the Middle East lured by the prospect of a well-paying job is trapped in the Syrian war. A female ex-freedom fighter immigrates... + Read More
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Series: Glorious & Free The Canadians Hardcover Rita Field-Marsham 9781487003524 $50.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Jul 29, 2017

33 personal stories that redefine how Canadians see themselves.We are more than just landscapes, polar bears, Mounties, and canoes. More than just “thank yous,” “sorrys,” hot prime ministers, and doughnut shops. We are also tattoo artists who have discovered the secret to cheating death. Designers hell-bent on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Super soldiers who take “live vests” off suicide bombers. Freethinkers who refuse to be tamed. We are global-village visionaries, world record setters, ambassadors of the imagination, and conquerors of the R... + Read More
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Series: Three Times a Day: Simple and Stylish Hardcover Marilou 9781487002442 $34.95 COOKING Oct 07, 2017

After the extraordinary success of Three Times a Day, Marilou and Alexandre Champagne are back with a beautiful second volume featuring more than 100 brand new recipes.Marilou and Alexandre Champagne are back with Three Times a Day: Simple and Stylish. Featuring more than 100 brand new recipes themed around practical categories like Indulgence, Entertaining, Quick & Easy, Gluten Free, Lactose Free, Vegetarian, and His Choice, this new volume is illustrated with more than 300 pages of delicious recipes and beautiful colour photography throughout.
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Series: Authenticity A Guide to Living in Harmony with Your True Self Paperback Dr. David Posen MD 9781487002770 $19.95 SELF-HELP Jan 06, 2018

From Dr. David Posen, the bestselling author of Is Work Killing You? and The Little Book of Stress Relief, comes a book about listening to your body, understanding your mind, and making better choices in your life.For over thirty years, Dr. David Posen has counselled patients suffering from severe stress, anxiety, and depression. Over that time, he noticed a pattern. As our lives have become faster and increasingly fragmented, many of us have become disconnected from our true selves. Using a holistic approach that combines elements of physiolog... + Read More
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Series: An Ava Lee Novel The Imam of Tawi-Tawi An Ava Lee Novel: Book 10 Paperback Ian Hamilton 9781487002749 $19.95 FICTION Jan 06, 2018

In the most explosive novel in the Ava Lee series to date, Ava partners with a CIA agent to investigate a college on a Philippine island that is suspected of training terrorists — what she discovers is brutal and shocking. Ava has spent two nights luxuriating in a hotel in Yunnan Province with the actress Pang Fai, with whom she has begun a secret relationship. She receives an urgent phone call from Chang Wang, the right hand to the billionaire Tommy Ordonez and one of Uncle’s oldest friends. Chang asks Ava to fly to Manila to meet with his fri... + Read More
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Series: Fabian Risk Eighteen Below Paperback Stefan Ahnhem 9781770899193 $19.95 FICTION Jan 13, 2018

Gritty and chilling, Eighteen Below is the third stand-alone thriller in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series.A high-speed chase ends in tragedy when a car crashes into Helsingborg harbour. In the front seat is one of Sweden’s most affluent IT entrepreneurs. Initially all signs point to an accident, but a closer examination of the body shows that it has been frozen. Stranger yet is the time of death: two months before the crash.Two years have passed since the events of Victim Without a Face. Fabian Risk has taken advantage of the ... + Read More
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Series: Fear Paperback Dirk Kurbjuweit 9781487002831 $19.95 FICTION Oct 21, 2017

A masterpiece of psychological suspense for fans of The Dinner and We Need to Talk About Kevin.Randolph Tiefenthaler insists he had a normal childhood, though he grew up with a father who kept thirty loaded guns in the house. A modestly successful architect with an attractive, intelligent wife, Rebecca, and two children, Randolph finds his life turned upside down when his father, a man he loves yet has always feared, is imprisoned for murder.… Fear is the story of the twisted events leading up to his father’s incarceration. It begins when Rando... + Read More
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Series: Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada A List Edition Paperback Mark Satin 9781487002893 $14.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 26, 2017

In print for the first time since 1971, Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada has once again become relevant in a time of major political upheaval in the United States of America.First published in 1968 by House of Anansi Press, the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada was a handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada. Conceived as a practical guide with information on the process, the Manual also features information on aspects of Canadian society, touching on t... + Read More
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Series: Passing Ceremony A List Edition Paperback Helen Weinzweig 9781487002602 $14.95 FICTION Aug 26, 2017

The brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of Basic Black With Pearls.In Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.Like a piece of music, Passing Ceremony is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined... + Read More
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Series: Mermaids and Ikons A Greek Summer A List Edition Paperback Gwendolyn MacEwen 9781487002633 $14.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 26, 2017

Award-winning poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen explores her strongly personal responses to the landscape, culture, and people of Greece in this exquisitely written travel diary, which was originally published in 1978.Originally published in 1978, beloved poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen’s first work of nonfiction explores her strongly personal responses to a complex civilization. Partly written during a trip to Greece in 1971, MacEwen moves from the urban tumult of Athens to the radiant simplicity of an island in the Aegean. In this intim... + Read More
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Series: A List The Bush Garden Essays on the Canadian Imagination A List Edition Paperback Northrop Frye 9781487002664 $14.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Aug 26, 2017

Originally published in 1971,The Bush Garden features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on Canadian literature and painting, and an introduction by bestselling author Lisa Moore.In this cogent collection of essays written between 1943 and 1969, formidable literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye explores the Canadian imagination through the lens of the country’s artistic output: prose, poetry, and paintings. Frye offers insightful commentary on the works that shaped a “Canadian sensibility,” and includes a comprehensive survey of the landscape ... + Read More
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Series: Made for Happiness Discovering the Meaning of Life with Aristotle A List Edition Paperback Jean Vanier 9781487002572 $16.95 PHILOSOPHY Aug 26, 2017

This bestselling work is an uplifting and practical look at philosophy and how it can be applied in our everyday lives from the author of the international bestseller, Becoming Human.In Made for Happiness, Jean Vanier examines the basis for modern moral philosophy and its role in our lives today. Having discovered through his work with the intellectually disabled the degree to which our society is divided, and our values misplaced, Vanier invites us to read with fresh eyes theories of happiness written 2,400 years ago.The book follows the links... + Read More
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Series: Norma Paperback Sofi Oksanen 9781487001742 $19.95 FICTION Sep 02, 2017

From the international bestselling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared comes a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood — and the moods of those around her — corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her... + Read More
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Series: Fire Sermon Paperback Jamie Quatro 9781487002992 $19.95 FICTION Jan 16, 2018

From the critically acclaimed author of I Want to Show You More comes an unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.Married twenty years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children, Maggie is drawn ineluctably into a passionate affair while still fiercely committed to her husband and family. What begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between writer Maggie and poet James gradually transforms into an emotional and erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie’s sense... + Read More
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Series: Fever Paperback Deon Meyer 9781487003074 $22.95 FICTION Sep 02, 2017

An epic story of survival and betrayal for fans of Station Eleven and The Road.Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa to have survived a devastating virus that wiped out over 90 percent of the world’s population.Willem, a thinker and a leader, has a vision for a new community rebuilt from the ruins of the old world. And so Amanzi is formed of a disparate group of survivors: there’s Melinda Swanevelder, rescued from brutal thugs; Hennie Flaai, with his vital Cessna plane; Be... + Read More
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Series: Swearing Is Good For You The Amazing Science of Bad Language Paperback Dr. Emma Byrne PhD 9781487001773 $19.95 PSYCHOLOGY Nov 25, 2017

In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.Did you know that chimpanzees can swear? Or that we do most of our swearing in our first language? Have you ever noticed that swearing is an excellent painkiller? In delightfully fun and accessible language, backed by riveting historical case studies and the latest cutting-edge research, Dr. Emma Byrne explores the science behind swearing and why bad language might actually be good for us. Swearing, it turns out, is socially... + Read More
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Series: The Tobacconist Paperback Robert Seethaler 9781487002510 $19.95 FICTION Sep 09, 2017

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex i... + Read More