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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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Series: Dutch Feast Hardcover Emily Wight 9781551526874 $32.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2017

Taste Canada Award finalist A modern take on Dutch cuisine that highlights the ways that simple meals bring joy and comfort. In the same way that British, Scandinavian, and German food have undergone a renaissance in recent years, Dutch cuisine is going to be the next big thing, according to writer and blogger Emily Wight. Her new cookbook reimagines traditional Dutch cooking, which has always been known for its thriftiness and practicality, with an emphasis on the ways that simple meals bring joy and comfort to the people who share them. I... + Read More
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Series: Body Music Paperback Jul Maroh 9781551526928 $28.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 01, 2017

From the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color: a beautiful, bittersweet graphic novel on the complexities of love. Jul Maroh's first book, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was a graphic novel phenomenon; it was a New York Times bestseller, and the controversial film adaptation by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Maroh's latest book, Body Music, marks her return to the kind of soft, warm palette and impressionistic sensibility that made their debut book so sensational. Set in the languid, Eur... + Read More
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Series: Saigon Calling London 1963-75 Paperback Marcelino Truong 9781551526898 $28.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 01, 2017

A sequel to the acclaimed Such a Lovely Little War: growing up Vietnamese in swinging London as the Vietnam war intensifies. Marcelino Truong's first book about the early years of the Vietnam war, the graphic memoir Such a Lovely Little War (2016), received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews and was named "one the season's best graphic novels" by the New York Times. In this sequel, young Marco and his family move from Saigon to London in order to escape the war following the assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem... + Read More
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Series: Robin's Egg Books What I Think Happened An Underresearched History of the Western World Paperback Evany Rosen 9781551526959 $17.95 HUMOR Oct 01, 2017

A wickedly funny book in which the author recasts historical events and personalities from her own feminist perspective. What I Think Happened, the debut book by comedian Evany Rosen, is really two books: a savvy, no-holds-barred romp through the history of the western world, and the personal story of a self-described "failed academic" who recasts historiography from a feminist perspective--albeit an underqualified and overconfident one. In these wide-ranging comic essays, Evany explores numerous historical events and personalities that hav... + Read More
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Series: Dead Reckoning How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Paperback Carys Cragg 9781551526973 $19.95 TRUE CRIME Sep 12, 2017

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) When Carys Cragg was eleven, her father, a respected doctor, was brutally murdered in his own home by an intruder. Twenty years later, and despite the reservations of her family and friends, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and the two correspond for a period of two years. She learns of his horrific childhood, and the reasons he lied about the murder; in turn, he learns about the ... + Read More
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Series: Fighting for Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Paperback Travis Lupick 9781551527123 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2017

Winner, George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature Finalist, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prizes) Finalist, Vancouver Book Award North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick's Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city's response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city trea... + Read More
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Series: Liquor, Lust, and the Law The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub (New and Revised) Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551527147 $26.95 HISTORY Oct 15, 2017

A new edition of the colourful history of Vancouver's Penthouse Nightclub, which celebrates its seventieth anniversary in 2017. The after-hours watering hole for the famous and infamous, the Penthouse was opened in 1947 by brothers Joe, Ross, Mickey, and Jimmy Filippone and soon became the place to see and be seen in Vancouver in the 1950s and '60s. Acts like Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, and Duke Ellington regularly performed on the Penthouse stage, and audiences often included visiting stars such as Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper,... + Read More
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Series: From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea Hardcover Kai Cheng Thom 9781551527093 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 8 Oct 01, 2017

A magical gender variant child brings transformation and change to the world around them thanks to their mother's enduring love. In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a hill. And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape they can imagine. The only problem is they can't decide what to be: a boy or a girl? A bird or a fish? A flower or a shooting star? At school, though, they must endure inquisitive looks and difficult questio... + Read More
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Series: Oracle Bone Paperback Lydia Kwa 9781551526997 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2017

A magic-realist novel set in seventh-century China featuring ghosts, martial arts, and the transformative oracle bone. Life in seventh-century China teems with magic, fox spirits, and demons; there is a fervent belief that the extraordinary resides within the lives of both commoners and royalty. During the years when the empress Wu Zhao gains ascendancy in the Tang court, her evil-minded lover Xie becomes obsessed with finding and possessing the oracle bone, a magical object that will bestow immortal powers on him. Standing in his way is Qilan... + Read More
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Series: Don't Tell Me What to Do Paperback Dina Del Bucchia 9781551527017 $17.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2017

An offbeat story collection about strange, imperfect people doing strange, imperfect things. In poet Dina Del Bucchia's debut story collection, an older woman becomes obsessed with the state of her lawn, a pet architect jeopardizes her relationship with her wife over a wild bird, a cement mixer helps a woman fulfill her dreams, a former model becomes a cult leader through social media, a teenaged girl is preoccupied with making shopping-haul videos, and a young woman goes on a crime spree thanks to a basement containing $35,000 in coins. The... + Read More
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Series: In Case I Go Paperback Angie Abdou 9781551527031 $17.95 FICTION Sep 10, 2017

The latest by Angie Abdou: young Eli invokes the spirit, and the mistakes, of his great-great-grandfather. In Canada Reads finalist Angie Abdou's fifth work of fiction, Eli and his parents have returned to their ancestral family home in a small mountain town; the parents hope that by escaping their hectic city lives, they will restore calm and stability to their marriage. But Young Eli unexpectedly finds himself answering for the mistakes of the house's first owner, his great-great grandfather and namesake Elijah Mountain. He meets Mary, an en... + Read More
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Series: Tarry This Night Paperback Kristyn Dunnion 9781551527055 $16.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2017

A powerful dystopian novel set during a new American civil war, about a polygamist cult leader and his followers. In this eerily relevant, cautionary novel, a civil war is brewing in America. Below ground, a cult led by the deluded and narcissistic Father Ernst is ensconced in an underground bunker, waiting out the conflict. When the "Family" runs out of food, Ruth, coming of age and terrified of serving as Ernst's next wife, must choose between obeying her faith and fighting for survival. Cousin Paul, sent topside to scavenge for food, may re... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Manila by Night Paperback Joel David 9781551527079 $18.95 PERFORMING ARTS Dec 01, 2017

A Queer Film Classic on a controversial 1980 film by queer Filipino filmmaker Ishmael Bernal. A Queer Film Classic on Ishmael Bernal's 1980 film that follows a dozen characters, all denizens of Manila's sordid yet exuberant underworld, as they pursue life, love, and pleasure. Bernal cited Robert Altman's Nashville as one of the influences on his epic, multi-narrative approach to cinema, and Manila by Night ultimately won the Best Picture award from the Filipino Film Critics. But upon completion, the film was banned in the Philippines by the ty... + Read More