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Have fun learning the names for animal groups of the West Coast with a sturdy board book featuring the illustrations of Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers.Bright blocks of colour and tactile embossed pages bring the natural world of the wild West Coast to life. Accompanied by a rhythmic, rhyming text, this board book will entertain babies, toddlers, and adults alike as they discover that orcas leap and dive in a pod, a bunch of sea lions are called a bob, geese make up a wedge, a swamp full of croaking frogs form a chorus, a jumble of jellies ... + Read More
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Series: 9781250322289
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Series: 9781250879103
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Series: Best CanadianBest Canadian Stories 2024Paperback
Lisa Moore9781771965668
$23.95FICTION
Nov 14, 2023
Selected by editor Lisa Moore, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2022. Featuring: Madhur Anand • Sharon Bala • Gary Barwin • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Xaiver Michael Campbell • Corinna Chong • Beth Downey • Allison Graves • Joel Thomas Hynes • Elise Levine • Sourayan Mookerjea • Lue Palmer • Michelle Porter • Sara Power • Ryan Turner • Ian Williams
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Series: Another OrderSelected WorksPaperback
Judith Copithorne9781772015539
$29.95POETRY Nov 14, 2023
Another Order: The Selected Works gathers the dynamic and previously inaccessible works of Judith Copithorne, the boundary-pushing writer, artist, community worker, and outspoken feminist who has been a key figure in Vancouver’s literary scene since the 1960s. Including poetry, fiction, visual art, comics, and life writing, Another Order captures Copithorne’s “embodied approach to text” and her tireless experiments with media – from typewriters and pens to computer software – in texts that engage issues of gender, sexuality, desire, subjectivit... + Read More
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Series: 9781250906410
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Series: Gorgeous Gruesome FacesHardcover
Linda Cheng9781250864994
$26.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18
Nov 07, 2023
"A glittering, gory page-turner, Gorgeous Gruesome Faces is your next obsession." ―Gina Chen, New York Times-bestselling author of Violet Made of ThornsYellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this spine-tingling sapphic thriller that follows a disgraced teen idol who comes face to face with the demons of her past in a glittering, cutthroat K-pop competition."So perfectly titled. Gorgeous Gruesome Faces has found the sweetest spot between horror and romance, hitting the mark in every manner." ―Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling autho... + Read More
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Series: 9781728283272
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Series: 9781250908674
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Series: 9781250836526
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Series: The Sebastian Synard Mystery SeriesFive for ForteauPaperback
Kevin Major9781550819922
$22.95FICTION
Oct 30, 2023
Award recognition for Two for the Tablelands: ***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 2021 - SHORTLIST*** ***ATLANTIC BOOKS TODAY STAFF PICK 2021 - SHORTLIST*** Award Recognition for Three for Trinity: ***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 2022 - SHORTLIST*** The fifth book in the Sebastian Synard mystery series takes our intrepid tour guide/private detective on a jaunt across Newfoundland and into Labrador, in pursuit of those towers of intrigue—lighthouses! The final stop on Synard’s lighthouse to... + Read More
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Series: 9780374390228
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Series: Curious SoundsA Dialogue in Three MovementsHardcover
Roger Mooking9781551529295
$24.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 24, 2023
A collaborative, multi-faceted book by two extraordinary Black artists about finding beauty in the chaos.Roger Mooking is well known as a celebrity chef and the host of such television shows as the Cooking Channel’s Man Fire Food and Everyday Exotic; he is also a recording artist with five albums to his credit and a visual artist who creates immersive experiences that merge the visual, sonic, and culinary arts. francesca ekwuyasi is a writer and filmmaker who won wide acclaim for her award-winning, bestselling debut novel, Butter Honey Pig Brea... + Read More
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Series: 9781738818242
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Series: 9781250823700
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Series: The Cupids TrilogyA Company of RoguesPaperback
Trudy J. Morgan-Cole9781550819908
$22.95FICTION
Oct 17, 2023
Award recognition for book one of the Cupids trilogy, A Roll of the Bones ***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***SILVER, THE MIRAMICHI READER'S THE VERY BEST! COVER ART/DESIGN AWARD*** This dramatic conclusion to a trilogy foregrounds the experiences of women settlers in North America as they grapple with notions of homeland, colonization, and sense of belonging. A Company of Rogues completes the Cupids trilogy, moving the action back to the New Found Land seven years after John Guy’s colonists first settled Cupids Cove. After their wanderings ac... + Read More
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Series: 9781770466616
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Series: 9780374607852
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Series: 9781250843463
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Series: 9781250846808
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Series: Munsch Funny Pack5 Tremendously Silly Munsch StoriesHardcover
Robert Munsch9781773218175
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Oct 10, 2023
Five tremendously silly and utterly timeless Munsch stories—all in one hilarious collection!This affordable treasury is a valuable resource for any shelf, full of empowering stories where kids rule and each predicament is more outrageous than the last.5 Tremendously Silly Munsch Stories includes:The Paper Bag PrincessAngela's AirplaneThomas' SnowsuitStephanie's PonytailShow and TellPlus! Get the inside scoop on the real life kids who inspired each main character and how Munsch’s original super silly stories came to be!Along with Michael Martche... + Read More
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Series: Finding LarkspurA Return to Village LifePaperback
Dan Needles9781771623704
$22.95HUMOR
Oct 07, 2023
Bestselling chronicler of village life Dan Needles (author of the Wingfield Farm stage plays) leads an insightful and laugh-out-loud tour through the quirks and customs of today’s Canadian small town. Modern literature has not been kind to village life. For almost two centuries, small towns have been portrayed as backward, insular places needing to be escaped. But anthropologists tell us that the human species has spent more than 100,00 years living in villages of 100 to 150 people. This is where the oldest part of our brain, the limbic system... + Read More
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Series: 9781250838728
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Series: Speak-Up CultureWhen Leaders Truly Listen, People Step UpPaperback
Stephen Shedletzky9781774582848
$24.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 03, 2023
If you listen, they will speakWe know the impacts of poor leadership: lackluster performance, missed opportunities, deleterious cultures, and, in some cases, disaster. While these issues are all too common, leaders also possess an immense opportunity. They can create a speak-up culture, one in which people feel it is both safe and worth it to share their ideas, concerns, disagreements, and even mistakes - all for the betterment of the organization. Speak-Up Culture is for leaders at all levels- from senior executives who believe in putti... + Read More
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Series: Actor Needs Restraint!Three One-Man Stage ShowsPaperback
Andy Jones9781550819793
$21.95DRAMA
May 21, 2024
Three plays from the repertoire of iconic Newfoundland and Labrador playwright, actor, and member of the groundbreaking Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO, Andy Jones. Based on Jones' well-known epistolary radio series, An Evening with Uncle Val is a set of comic reportages from the perspective of a retired outport-dweller now living with his family in St. John's. Uncle Val is sometimes bemused, sometimes outraged by modern life; he has charmed readers over the decades with his stalwart heart concealed in a curmudgeon's exterior. Out of the Bin a... + Read More
John Alexander MacNeil is back with another astonishing adventure. The ninety-year-old still lives alone on the blessed isle of Cape Breton. He still sometimes makes tea for his wife, who died decades ago. He accepts his lonely life, ignoring the world changing around him. But one night, he feels his heart stop. After willing himself back to life with sheer stubbornness, John Alex finds Death himself sitting at his kitchen table, perplexed and intrigued by his victim’s recovery. What follows is a tale on the edge of reality, full of love, d... + Read More
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Series: Wondrous TransformationsA Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender RevolutionHardcover
Alison Li9781469674858
$40.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 26, 2023
Harry Benjamin (1885–1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to transgender pioneers such as Christine Jorgensen, the 1950s "Ex-GI" turned "Blonde Beauty" media sensation, and in turn, she and other collaborators helped to shape Benjamin's influential 1966 book, The Transsexual Phenomenon. Alison Li's much-needed biography of Benjamin chronicles his passion for hormones and his lifelong interest in sexology. Drawing from extensive research in archival documents, sec... + Read More
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Series: My IndianSulieweyThe Sequel to My IndianPaperback
Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe9781550819885
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 14
Sep 15, 2023
Award recognition for My Indian ***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA – SILVER*** Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian continues the story of Mi’kmaw guide Sylvester Joe, whose traditional name is Suliewey, as he seeks out the last remaining Beothuk community. In My Indian, Sylvester was hired by William Cormack in 1822 to guide him across Newfou... + Read More
take the harp, take / the Fitbit and the Band-Aid box. Fold the whole / grey sheet of sky, lumpy and unalluring / into your rucksack. A strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. In a sense, every poem is itself a journey – into the past or the present, or toward what we hope and fear for the future. Poems can be journeys of repair and recovery, adventure and discovery. However, even in pandemic times when our journeying is curtailed, or at least confined, when we are abiding in one physical location with chafing and restive... + Read More
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Series: Cone DogHardcover
Sarah Howden9781771475143
$21.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Sep 15, 2023
A pesky cone becomes a doggie dream come true in this canine companion to Cone Cat One day, Emma the dog leaves the vet with a giant plastic lampshade on her head. It cuts off her corners, dulls her digging, and makes Garson the greyhound gawk. One thing is clear—the cone is not good, and the only thing left to do is sulk. When Emma’s human tries to cheer her up with a game of fetch, Emma discovers that the cone miraculously catches every ball she fumbles! Emma realizes the cone has other surprising advantages too, from serving as a helmet duri... + Read More
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Series: NocturnePoems to Linger OverHardcover
Marilyn Lightstone9781738898206
$24.95POETRY
Oct 15, 2023
And “What (you may ask) is a poem to an actress like yourself?’ And I would reply, “Why a mini drama, of course!” Seven nights a week, listeners tune in to Nocturne on the New Classical FM, hosted by Marilyn Lightstone ’ for two hours of poetry selected and read by Ms. Lightstone, interwoven with classical music. Inspired by the many fans who have written to her about the poetry, Ms. Lightstone has gathered some of the poems she read on the radio program into a stunning poetry collection of classic to contemporary poems by renowned and lesser... + Read More
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Series: 9781770464339
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Series: 9781250284198
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Series: 9781250322104
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Series: City CooksOkanagan EatsSignature Chefs' Recipes from British Columbia's Wine ValleysHardcover
Dawn Postnikoff9781773271804
$38.95COOKING
Sep 05, 2023
A collection of more than 70 signature recipes from the Okanagan Valley's best chefs, restaurants, cafes, bakeries and wineries.The Okanagan, Similkameen and Thompson Valleys in British Columbia are known to produce some of the most outstanding wines in the world. But the region is also emerging as an exciting culinary scene. Inspired by the Interior's organic farming and sustainable agriculture, the region's chefs are quietly bringing world-class techniques to the table, taking the golden beets, tomatillos, wild mushrooms, haskap berries and e... + Read More
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Series: More than WordsSo Many Ways to Say What We MeanHardcover
Roz MacLean9781250864505
$24.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 05, 2023
In the tradition of All Are Welcome and The Day You Begin comes a touching picture book about the many unique ways we communicate, and how we can better listen to and respect these different modes of expression. Nathan doesn't say much. He sure has a lot on his mind, though.At school, Nathan quietly observes the ways his peers communicate. Even when they’re not talking, they’re expressing themselves in all sorts of ways! By witnessing the beauty of communication diversity, Nathan learns and shows his classmates the essential lesson: Not only do... + Read More
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Series: ExadelicHardcover
Jon Evans9781250877734
$39.99FICTION
Sep 05, 2023
When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence.Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a threat. His predicament seems hopeless; his future, nonexistent. But when he investigates the AI and ... + Read More
A masterful new collection from award-winning poet Russell Thornton. With intense lyricism, Thornton records his imaginative movement between the element of water, waking to “the aloneness of water,” and the phenomenon of light, comprehending “light” as “fate” and “love” as “memory of light.” In the process, Thornton highlights how hard lives can manifest beauty and affirmation. A mother transcends degrading circumstances through laughter. A long-lost father’s drafting set case is a “coffin,” its tools a “skeleton;” his “ashes are buried” in t... + Read More
Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction.These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told 'round the campfire, each one-upping the next. Tales about a car that drives herself, ever loyal to her owner. Tales about an impossible moose hunt. Tales about the Real Santa(TM) mashed up with the book of Genesis, alongside SPAM stew and bedroom sets from IKEA.G.A. Grisenthwaite's writing is electric and in... + Read More
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Series: The Definition of BeautifulA MemoirPaperback
Charlotte Bellows9781990601460
$21.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 01, 2023
A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the time of COVID.Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, in the wake of lockdown and in recovery from anorexia. In the tradition of Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar and Françoise Sagan in Bonjour Tristesse, Bellows writes with deceptively straightforward urgency, pushing through society's constraints on the bodies and minds of girls and women to offer a story both achingly familiar and devastatingly new... + Read More
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Series: Human Rights and Social Justice SeriesLaughing Back at EmpireThe Grassroots Activism of The Asianadian Magazine, 1978–1985Paperback
Angie Wong9781772840292
$27.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2023
Asian Canadian activism, resistance, and art of the 1970s and 80sLaughing Back at Empire is a groundbreaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic magazines. Over the course of its seven-year run, the small but mighty magazine led a nation-wide dialogue for all Canadians on the struggles and social issues that concerned Asians in Canada.The Asianadian established a national platform for then-emerging Asian-Canadian writers, artists, musicians, activists, and s... + Read More
A prison escape, a bear on the loose, botched lyrics. What more could go wrong with Crow Valley’s most anticipated night of the year?A year after forest fires ravaged the town of Crow Valley and claimed the life of Dale Jepson—karaoke legend, local prison guard, and all-around good guy—the community hosts a high-stakes karaoke competition. But when a convicted murderer escapes from nearby Crow Valley Correctional, residents discover there’s more on the line than local, perhaps even national, karaoke fame. In this darkly comedic, fast-paced ride... + Read More
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Series: Avalon BayThe Summer GirlAn Avalon Bay NovelPaperback
Elle Kennedy9781250863874
$24.00FICTION
Jul 18, 2023
Elle Kennedy's next spicy and emotional romance in the blockbuster Avalon Bay series. College student Cassie Soul hasn’t spent an entire summer in Avalon Bay in years, not since her parents divorced and her mother spitefully whisked her away to Boston. Now that her grandmother is selling the boardwalk hotel that’s been in their family for five decades, Cassie returns to the quaint beach town to spend time with family, ring in her twenty-first birthday…and maybe find herself a summer fling.On her first night in town, she finds the perfect candi... + Read More
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Series: 9781990778360
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Series: Many Mothers, Seven SkiesScenes for TomorrowPaperback
Joan Crate9781990601521
$16.95DRAMA
Jul 01, 2023
A diverse group of seven writers comes together to create seven tender scenes about their hopes for the future."The seven of us, a diverse group of elders, have endured, loved, lost and celebrated life in our own ways. Now, we decided, we would write a production for the stage, voicing our different experiences and what we came to realize are similar concerns about the future of our families, our planet, its peoples and its incredible network of flora and fauna."The Many Mothers Collective came together during the pandemic, hoping to make sense... + Read More
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Series: Munsch Funny Pack 5 Tremendously Silly Munsch Stories Hardcover 9781773218175 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 10, 2023
