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Series: Best Canadian Fifty Years of Best Canadian Stories Paperback John Metcalf 9781771963749 $26.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 16, 2021

A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian Stories Now in its fiftieth year, the Best Canadian Stories series has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Cana... + Read More
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Series: We Want What We Want Paperback Alix Ohlin 9781487004897 $22.95 FICTION Jul 27, 2021

Thirteen glittering and darkly funny stories of women testing boundaries, from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin.Alix Ohlin delivers a masterclass in the short story with We Want What We Want, populated by bad parents, burned potential, and inescapable old flames. In the mordantly funny “Money, Geography, Youth,” Vanessa arrives home after volunteering in Ghana, only to discover that her father is engaged to her childhood best friend. In the subversive “The Brooks Brothers Guru,” Amanda drives to Upstate New York to rescue he... + Read More
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Series: Bonnie Jack A Novel Paperback Ian Hamilton 9781487007089 $22.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee novels, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre. Now living in the United States and facing his impending retirement, Jack and his wife Anne travel to Scotland to track down his long-lost sister. Their journey takes them from their home in a quiet Boston suburb to the impoverished mill towns of Ayrshire, the gray cobbled streets of Glasgow, and... + Read More
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Series: Soft Zipper Objects, Food, Rooms Paperback George Bowering 9781554201723 $19.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 25, 2021

This engaging memoir relates stories about George Bowering's small-town BC upbringing and his parents — his father long dead and his mother more recently passed on at the age of 100 — while at the same time honouring the author's other "parents": Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, and Roland Barthes.Borrowing a structure and some precepts about writing from Stein, Bowering remains true to his inimitable self, relating his recollections and observations, his ever-curious mind travelling across the decades as he recounts some of the objects, food, ro... + Read More
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Series: The Speed of Mercy Paperback Christy Ann Conlin 9781487003401 $24.95 FICTION Mar 23, 2021

“Dark family secrets, the lore of the sea, and a tender, protective friendship between women all converge in The Speed of Mercy, an unusual and surprising story set in idyllic rural Nova Scotia. With subtle humour, Conlin picks the locks on the long-closed doors of two families and bares the ugly, painful skeletons everyone knew were there but chose to hide.” — Sylvia D. Hamilton, author of And I Alone Escaped To Tell You The Speed of Mercy captures the unbearable cost of childhood betrayal and what happens when history is suppressed, our past... + Read More
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Series: Fortune The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung Paperback Ian Hamilton 9781487004026 $19.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

International bestselling author Ian Hamilton returns with a riveting new novel featuring fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung, who is called upon to end a violent turf war between rival gangs and stop a new organized-crime bureau of the Hong Kong Police from eliminating the triad societies once and for all.Hong Kong, 1995. Two years before Hong Kong is to be returned to the People’s Republic of China, the Communist government has its eye on the New Territories, and tensions are running high among the triads. A turf war breaks out in Macau and quickly... + Read More
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Series: Dirty Birds Paperback Morgan Murray 9781550818079 $22.95 FICTION Jul 31, 2020

***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021*** ***STEPHEN LEACOCK MEADAL FOR HUMOUR: SHORTLIST*** ***APMA BEST ATLANTIC PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD: SHORTLIST*** ***THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST*** ***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: SHORTLIST*** ***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD FINALIST*** ***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** ***2021 RELIT AWARD: LONG SHORTLIST*** In late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario – not to be... + Read More
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Series: Foresight The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung: Book 2 Paperback Ian Hamilton 9781487003999 $19.95 FICTION Jan 21, 2020

The second book in the gripping Ava Lee spin-off series features fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung and his ascendancy to the head of the Triad gang in Fanling.1980: A pivotal year in modern Chinese history as Premier Deng Xiaoping begins what he intends to be the transformation of China into an economic superpower. The most visible evidence of Deng’s policy is the creation of Special Economic Zones, and one has been set up in Shenzhen, next door to Hong Kong and on Fanling’s doorstep. Among Triad leaders, Uncle is the only one who recognizes that D... + Read More
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Series: Watching You Without Me Paperback Lynn Coady 9781487006884 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

The highly anticipated new literary suspense novel from Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author Lynn Coady.After her mother’s sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability, Karen begins to feel consumed by the isolation of her new role. On top of that, she’s weighed down with guilt over her years spent keeping Kelli and their indep... + Read More
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Series: Here I Am! Paperback Pauline Holdstock 9781771963091 $21.95 FICTION Sep 24, 2019

A 49th Shelf Editors’ Pick MyMum said sometimes refugees don’t eat anything for days and days. Sometimes weeks and months so I am really lucky. I think she exaggerates. But I think she is right about the lucky bit. Or maybe not. Sometimes I forget that MyMum is dead. But that is probably better than remembering. When Frankie’s mother dies, he tells his teacher, of course. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the... + Read More
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Series: Watermark Paperback Christy Ann Conlin 9781487003432 $19.95 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

From Christy Ann Conlin, the critically acclaimed and award winning author of Heave, comes a breathtaking and unforgettable collection about how the briefest moment can shape us forever.In these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, life, and death. An insomniac on Halifax’s moonlit streets. A runaway bride. A young woman accused of a brutal murder. A man who must live in exile if he is to live at all. A woman coming to terms with her eccentric childhood in a cult on the Bay of Fundy shore. A m... + Read More
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Series: The Mountain Master of Sha Tin An Ava Lee Novel: Book 12 Paperback Ian Hamilton 9781487002039 $19.95 FICTION Jul 02, 2019

In the latest installment of the Ava Lee novels, Ava becomes embroiled in a violent war between feuding gangs vying for control of the Wanchai territory in Hong Kong.Ava is in Shanghai visiting her ailing friend, the Mountain Master Xu, when a triad war breaks out in Hong Kong. Sammy Wing, an old enemy of Ava’s who has twice tried to kill her, has enlisted the aid of his nephew Carter — the new Mountain Master of Sha Tin — to reclaim control of his old territory, Wanchai, from Xu’s men.There is nothing subtle about the Wings’ methods. Xu’s most... + Read More
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Series: Avant Canada Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries Paperback Gregory Betts 9781771123525 $39.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Jan 10, 2019

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field. The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: “Concrete Poetics,” which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; “Language Writing,” which challenges the interconnection betwe... + Read More
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Series: Mamaskatch A Cree Coming of Age Hardcover Darrel J. McLeod 9781771622004 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2018

Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family’s history. In shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha, shared narratives of their culture, their family and the cruelty that she and her sisters endured in residential school. McLeod was comforted by her presence and that of his many siblings and cousins, the smells of moose stew and wild peppermint tea, and his deep love of the landscape. Bertha taught him to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that would... + Read More
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Series: Dear Evelyn Paperback Kathy Page 9781771962094 $19.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2018

WINNER OF THE 2018 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE • A 2018 KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 • A TORONTO STAR TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOK OF 2018 Inspired by the author’s family history, this forthright love story unflinchingly portrays the trials and tensions of a lifelong marriage. Born between the wars on a working-class street in London, Harry Miles wins a scholarship to an ... + Read More
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Series: French Exit Paperback Patrick deWitt 9781487004835 $22.95 FICTION Aug 28, 2018

Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and an international bestseller, Patrick deWitt’s brilliant and darkly comic novel is now a major motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer.Frances Price — tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature — is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral ... + Read More
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Series: Seven Fallen Feathers Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City Paperback Tanya Talaga 9781487002268 $22.95 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: Minds of Winter Paperback Ed O’Loughlin 9781487002343 $22.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2017

A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Minds of Winter is a mesmerizing novel about the chance meeting of two present-day travellers who expose one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search of answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, and Fay for her vanished grandfather. Driving Fay into town from the airport on a freezing January night, Nelson reveals a ... + Read More
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Series: The Break Paperback Katherena Vermette 9781487001117 $22.95 FICTION Sep 17, 2016

Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.In... + Read More
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Series: The Best Kind of People Paperback Zoe Whittall 9781770899421 $22.95 FICTION Aug 27, 2016

A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a national bestseller, Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People is a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family. George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual impropriety at a prestigious prep school. His wife, Joan, vaults between denial and rage as the community she loved turns on her. Their daughter, Sadie, a popular over-achieving high school senior, becomes a social pariah. Their son, Andrew, assists in his father’s defense... + Read More
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Series: Company Town Hardcover Madeline Ashby 9780765382900 $34.99 FICTION May 17, 2016

2017 Winner of the Sunburst Award Society's Copper Cylinder Adult Award2017 Canada Reads Finalist2017 Locus Award Finalist for Science Fiction Novel Category2017 Sunburst Award Finalist for Adult Fiction2017 Aurora Awards Finalist for Best NovelMadeline Ashby'sCompany Town is a brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself."Elegant, cruel, and brutally perfect,Company Town is a prize of a novel." —Mira Grant,New York Times Bestselling and Hugo-Award nominated author of ... + Read More
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Series: Caught Paperback Lisa Moore 9781770894532 $19.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2014

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. Now available in paperback, internationally acclaimed author Lisa Moore offers us a remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.It’s June, 1978, and David Slaney can be sure of only one thing. He can’t get caught; not this time. He’s escaped from prison and has got to make good on the heist that we... + Read More
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Series: Hellgoing Paperback Lynn Coady 9781770893085 $19.95 FICTION Jul 27, 2013

Winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe's Top 10 Books of 2013. With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last. A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond bet... + Read More
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Series: Word Cloud Classics Anne of Green Gables 1st Edition Paperback Lucy Maud Montgomery 9781607107286 $19.99 FICTION Apr 01, 2013

Anne of Green Gables has been one of the world's most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century.Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more than a hundred years. Published as a children's novel, the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan, was inspired by the author's childhood adventures on rural Prince Edward Island. It follows Anne's journey as she moves to a farm on Prince Edward Island to live with a middle-aged brother and sister wh... + Read More
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Series: Inside Paperback Alix Ohlin 9781770892064 $22.95 FICTION Jun 16, 2012

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book When Grace, a highly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man in the snowy woods who has failed to hang himself, her instinct to help immediately kicks in. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward. At the same time, her troubled teen... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club Editions The Sisters Brothers Anansi Book Club edition Paperback Patrick deWitt 9781770890329 $22.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2011

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and the Stephen Leacock Medal. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die: Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his brother’s penchant for whiskey and killing, he’s never known anything else. On the road to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside San Francisco — and from the back of his long-sufferi... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club Editions Annabel Anansi Book Club edition Paperback Kathleen Winter 9780887842900 $19.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2011

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood wit... + Read More