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Series: Lands of Lost BordersOut of Bounds on the Silk RoadPaperback
Kate Harris9780345816788
$21.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 07, 2019
NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. It’s a modern classic.”—Pico IyerA brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road—an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the car... + Read More
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Series: Hogarth ShakespeareMacbethPaperback
Jo Nesbo9780345809216
$22.00FICTION
Jan 08, 2019
From the bestselling author of The Snowman comes a gripping new thriller reimagining one of Shakespeare’s most compelling tragedies.Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth centers on a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom—a master of manipulation named Hecate—has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to... + Read More
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$21.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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$21.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 26, 2019
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Jan 22, 2019
The definitive collection of essays and reportage written during the past thirty years from one of most provocative and widely read writers—with new commentary by the author.For more than thirty years, Martin Amis has turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics—politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. Now, at last, these incomparable essays have been gathered together. Here is Amis at the 2011 GOP Iowa Caucus, where, squeezed between “windbreakers and woolly hats,” he pores over... + Read More
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Series: A Long Way from HomeA NovelPaperback
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$21.00FICTION
Feb 05, 2019
Peter Carey has explored his homeland of Australia in such highly acclaimed novels as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang and Amnesia. Now, in this extraordinary novel, Carey takes us on an unforgettable journey that maps his homeland's secrets.Wildly inventive, funny and deeply moving, A Long Way from Home opens in 1953 with the arrival of the tiny, handsome Titch Bobs, his beautiful doll of a wife, Irene, and their two children in the small town of Bacchus Marsh. Titch is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Irene lo... + Read More
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Series: The Sparsholt AffairPaperback
Alan Hollinghurst9780345809735
$22.00FICTION
Feb 05, 2019
From the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Line of Beauty comes a sweeping novel that explores richly complex relationships between fathers and sons as it spans seven transformative decades in England, from the 1940s through the present.Alan Hollinghurst’s sweeping novel evokes across three generations the intimate relationships of a group of friends brought together by art, literature and love. In 1940, the handsome, athletic, charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford University to study engineering, unaware of his eff... + Read More
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Series: Promise Falls TrilogyFar From TrueA Promise Falls NovelPaperback
Linwood Barclay9780385693158
$19.95FICTION
Feb 26, 2019
From the Canadian king of suspense comes the second installment in the bestselling Promise Falls Trilogy—an edge-of-your-seat thriller with a startling twist.New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers the second spine-chilling thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls.After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a break-in at her father’s house. Cal discovers a hidden room w... + Read More
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Series: New PowerHow Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for YouPaperback
Jeremy Heimans9780345816450
$21.00BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Feb 26, 2019
In this indispensable guide to navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways in which “new power” is reshaping politics, business, and life. And also how to make new power work for you.What is new power? It’s Black Lives Matter, it’s the Ice Bucket Challenge, it’s Airbnb, it’s Uber and Lyft. As they did in their immensely influential TED talk, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms show the strength of new power and contrast it to “old power,” the foundations of which are rapidly crumbling in the face of technol... + Read More
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Series: The Italian TeacherPaperback
Tom Rachman9780385689625
$19.95FICTION
Mar 05, 2019
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Series: The Only StoryA NovelPaperback
Julian Barnes9780735274754
$19.95FICTION
Mar 05, 2019
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Naoki Higashida9780345809766
$19.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Mar 26, 2019
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Brent Preston9780345811868
$22.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mar 26, 2019
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Series: MotherhoodPaperback
Sheila Heti9780345810557
$21.00FICTION
Mar 13, 2019
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Jann Arden9780735273931
$21.00FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Mar 05, 2019
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Series: The AmateursPaperback
Liz Harmer9780345811257
$19.95FICTION
Apr 02, 2019
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$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 02, 2019
A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us.Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbours began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were “thunder.” In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, findin... + Read More
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Series: ViPaperback
Kim Thúy9780735272804
$18.95FICTION
Apr 02, 2019
The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.The youngest of four children and the only girl, Vi was given a name that meant “precious, tiny one,” destined to be cosseted and protected, the family’s little treasure.Daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father who never had to grow up, the Vietnam War destroys the life they’ve known. Vi, along with her m... + Read More
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Series: Shadow CreekPaperback
Joy Fielding9780385677387
$19.95FICTION
May 07, 2019
From New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding—a chilling psychological thriller that explores the depths of psychopathic behaviour and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her daughter.When an innocent group of campers ventures to the Adirondacks for a trip, they are followed by a murderous pair….A group of unlikely travelling companions—a woman, her two oddball friends, her teenage daughter, and her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s new fiancee—find themselves on a camping trip at the same time that a pair of teenage killers is terrori... + Read More
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Series: Kings of the YukonA River Journey in Search of the ChinookPaperback
Adam Weymouth9780345811806
$21.00NATURE
May 07, 2019
“Travel writing? Climate change? Here’s a book that does it all…. [Weymouth] writes like Annie Dillard, Bruce Chatwin and Jack London combined: suspenseful and sensitive storytelling and sumptuous descriptions.”—National ObserverThe Yukon River is 3,190 kilometres long, flowing northwest from British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Every summer, millions of salmon migrate the distance of this river to their spawning ground, where they go to breed and then die. The Chinook is the most highly prized among the fi... + Read More
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Series: Love and RuinA NovelPaperback
Paula McLain9780385691802
$21.00FICTION
Jan 15, 2019
The internationally bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the timeless subject of Ernest Hemingway in this story of his passionate, volatile third marriage to Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious, fiercely independent, beautiful blonde who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century.In 1937, nervous but determined to succeed, Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in devastating conflict. She also find... + Read More
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Series: The Language of KindnessA Nurse's Stories of Life, Death,and HopePaperback
Christie Watson9780385690287
$21.00MEDICAL
Apr 09, 2019
An internationally bestselling, moving, lyrical, beautifully written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched.Christie Watson spent twenty years working as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and the patients who are unforgettable.In the smallest of actions, the most undervalued of professions provides the most vital care and kindness. All of us will touch illness in our lifet... + Read More
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Series: See What Can Be DoneEssays, Criticism, and CommentaryPaperback
Lorrie Moore9780385693950
$21.00LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Mar 05, 2019
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America’s most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays and cultural commentary—appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine and elsewhere—have been parsing the political, artistic and media idiom for the last three decades.From Lorrie Moore’s earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on E... + Read More
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Series: Sofie & CeciliaPaperback
Katherine Ashenburg9780735274679
$22.00FICTION
Feb 05, 2019
This national bestseller is a surprising, rich and beautiful story about women’s friendship for readers of Paula McLain and Elena Ferrante, by a bestselling non-fiction author who has brilliantly turned her hand to fiction.Layered with insight into the nuances of female friendship as it stretches, changes, and deepens in unexpected ways over a lifetime, this book is set in the fascinating art world of Sweden between 1900 and 1940, loosely based on the lives of celebrated artists Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn (“Nils Olsson” and “Lars Vogt” in the... + Read More
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Series: Passage TrilogyThe Passage (TV Tie-in)A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)Media tie-inPaperback
Justin Cronin9780385693707
$21.00FICTION
Dec 31, 2018
The first book of the blockbuster trilogy is the basis for the buzzed-about Fox TV series, The Passage, set to premiere in Canada in early 2019.An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy--abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes n... + Read More
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The Rub of Time Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 Paperback 9780735273788 $21.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jan 22, 2019
Series: Promise Falls Trilogy Broken Promise A Promise Falls Novel Paperback 9780385693141 $19.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2019
Series: Promise Falls Trilogy Far From True A Promise Falls Novel Paperback 9780385693158 $19.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2019
Series: Promise Falls Trilogy The Twenty-Three A Promise Falls Novel Paperback 9780385693165 $19.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2019
New Power How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You Paperback 9780345816450 $21.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 26, 2019
Feeding My Mother Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with her Mom's Memory Loss Paperback 9780735273931 $21.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 05, 2019
Series: Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Box Set 9780385684125 $63.00 FICTION Oct 23, 2018
See What Can Be Done Essays, Criticism, and Commentary Paperback 9780385693950 $21.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 05, 2019
Series: Passage Trilogy The Passage (TV Tie-in) A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy) Media tie-in Paperback 9780385693707 $21.00 FICTION Dec 31, 2018
The Aftermath (Movie Tie-In Edition) Media tie-in Paperback 9780735278707 $21.00 FICTION Mar 05, 2019