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Series: Hack AttackThe Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert MurdochHardcover
Nick Davies9781770891821
$29.95TRUE CRIME
Aug 12, 2014
Since 2006, award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies has worked tirelessly — determined, driven, brilliant — to uncover the truth about the goings on behind the scenes at the News of the World and News International. This book brings us the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal.In Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch, Nick Davies reveals how he worked with a network of lawyers, politicians, and celebrities to expose the facts and to stand up to Rupert Murdoch, arguably one of the most po... + Read More
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Series: The Four Walls of My FreedomNew editionPaperback
Donna Thomson9781770894792
$19.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Jan 18, 2014
A riveting and redemptive family memoir, The Four Walls of My Freedom is Donna Thomson’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.”Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with cerebral palsy. A former actor, director, and teacher, Donna became his primary caregiver and embarked on a second career as a disability activist, author, and consultant.Thomson vividly describes her experience in treading delicately through daily care, emergencies... + Read More
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Series: The Munk DebatesAre Men Obsolete?The Munk Debate on GenderPaperback
Hanna Rosin9781770894518
$14.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 08, 2014
For the first time in history, will it be better to be a woman than a man in the upcoming century? The twelfth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Hanna Rosin and Maureen Dowd against Caitlin Moran and Camille Paglia to debate one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time — the relative decline of the power and status of men in the workplace, in the family, and society at large.Men have traditionally been the dominant sex. But now, for the first time, a host of indicators suggests that women not only are achieving equality with men, but are ... + Read More
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Series: Birding with YeatsA Mother's MemoirPaperback
Lynn Thomson9781770893894
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 03, 2014
A delicately rendered memoir on motherhood, family, and the beauty of the natural world.In fall 2007, Lynn Thomson experiences a huge life shift. Her teenage son, Yeats, is just beginning high school. Yeats has always struggled against the system, against the pressure to conform. He is a poet at heart: acutely sensitive, highly intelligent, and solitary by nature. Lynn and Yeats have always been close, but after fourteen years as a stay-at-home mom Lynn is going back to work for her husband, Ben, who has just opened his own bookstore.When Lynn ... + Read More
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Series: Every Object Has a StoryExtraordinary Canadians Celebrate the Royal Ontario MuseumHardcover
The Royal Ontario Museum9781770894860
$29.95ART
Apr 12, 2014
For the past 99 years, the Royal Ontario Museum has introduced its visitors to objects from all corners of the globe. In celebration of the Museum’s centennial, twenty-one Canadian writers, painters, filmmakers — even an astronaut — share their personal connections with a unique object from the Museum’s collection in this extraordinary volume.Read bestselling author and anthropologist Wade Davis’s insights about the Hudson Strait Kayak, the presence of the Shiva Nataraja in award-winning filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s household, or astronaut Chris Had... + Read More
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Series: Lucky DogHow Being a Veterinarian Saved My LifePaperback
Sarah Boston9781770893511
$18.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 07, 2014
Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets.What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s term: cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the moment she uses her husband’s portable ultrasound machine to investigate her lump — he’s a vet, too — it’s clear this will not be your typical cancer memoi... + Read More
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Series: Beyond IntelligenceSecrets for Raising Happily Productive KidsPaperback
Dr. Dona Matthews9781770894778
$19.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Jun 27, 2014
From two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond.What is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition, as we’ve been led to believe? Are some children just destined to fall behind? Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster answer those questions with a resounding “No!” In Beyond Intelligence, they demonstrate that every child has the ability to succeed — with the r... + Read More
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Series: El NiñoPaperback
Nadia Bozak9781770893252
$22.95FICTION
May 03, 2014
Inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, El Niño tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man’s-land of a remote southwestern desert.Honey hasn’t seen her mother, Marianne, in more than two years. She drives deep into the once-prosperous border region of the Oro Desert for a surprise visit, only to discover that Marianne has vanished.Alone in an unforgiving environment populated with hostile locals, she meets Chávez, a young “coyote” or human trafficker, who convinces Honey he knows her moth... + Read More
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Series: Based on a True StoryPaperback
Elizabeth Renzetti9781770893139
$19.95FICTION
Jun 14, 2014
A delectable satirical novel about celebrity culture, journalism, truth, lies, consequences — about the fictions we tell ourselves and the fictions we tell others.Augusta Price (not her real name) is famous in England for playing a slatternly barmaid on a nighttime soap opera and for falling down drunk in public. Now, she has no job, no relationship with her long-lost son, and a sad shortage of tranquilizers — but she has had an improbable hit with her memoir (which is based on a true story, but only very loosely).But when Frances Bleeker — an ... + Read More
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Series: InsidePaperback
Alix Ohlin9781770898066
$14.95FICTION
Jun 07, 2014
A finalist 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, Inside is now available as a book club edition.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 strai... + Read More
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Series: All the RagePaperback
A.L. Kennedy9781770894631
$19.95FICTION
Feb 08, 2014
A dozen stories: a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love. Over five previous collections, A. L. Kennedy has shown herself to be a master of the short form, with a perfect way with sentences and a voice so distinct as to be instantly recognizable.Here, as before, lies the battlefield of the heart, where characters who have suffered disaffection, alienation, or emotional damage somehow emerge — haltingly, awkwardly — into the astonishment of intimacy. And here, too, are the ones who will not shake off the hurt and the loss, who will ... + Read More
In the latest installment in her award-winning series, Marie-Claire Blais reintroduces us to Petites Cendres, familiar from other books in the cycle, and lets us into the lives of two other unforgettable characters. She shows us, once again, how creativity and hope and suffering and exclusion intersect.There is the writer who is stranded in an airport of the South Island, he is held captive because of a delayed flight. And a teenage musician, a former child prodigy living on the streets with his dog, wonders where he will get his next meal. The... + Read More
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Series: The Full RidiculousPaperback
Mark Lamprell9781770894549
$19.95FICTION
Mar 08, 2014
A funny, compelling novel about love, family, and the precarious business of being a man.Michael O’Dell is hit by a car. When he doesn’t die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can’t seem to move from the crash position. In fact, the accident is just the first in a series of family crises: His wife Wendy is heroically supportive, but when his daughter Rosie punches out a vindictive schoolmate, all hell breaks loose. His son Declan is found with a stash of illicit drugs. A strange policeman starts harassing the family and ordinary mishaps take ... + Read More
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Series: Mirrors and MiragesPaperback
Monia Mazigh9781770893597
$22.95FICTION
Jul 11, 2014
In the spirit of Amy Tan’s international bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters.In Mirrors and Mirages, Monia Mazigh lets us into the lives of six women. They are immigrant mothers — Emma, Samia, and Fauzia — guardians of tradition who want their daughters to enjoy freedom in Western society. They are daughters — Lama, Sally, and Louise, a young woman who converted to Islam for love — university students who are clever and computer s... + Read More
Set in the Orthodox Jewish community in North West London, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman is the poignant and humorous story of nineteen-year-old Chani Kaufman and the lead-up to her wedding night.Nineteen-year-old Chani lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, but is bound to marry a stranger. The rabbi’s wife teaches her what it means to be a Jewish wife, but Rivka has her own questions to answer. Soon buried secrets, fear, and sexual desire bubble to the surface in a sto... + Read More
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Series: MonaPaperback
Dan Sehlberg9781770893931
$19.95FICTION
May 17, 2014
A suspenseful and highly original technothriller based on breathtaking developments in the field of thought-controlled systems and cyber warfare.Eric Söderqvist, professor of computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has invented Mind Surf: a thought-controlled system that allows people with disabilities to browse the web.Samir Mustaf is a former MIT professor whose daughter Mona was killed by an Israeli cluster bomb five years earlier. He has just developed the most sophisticated computer virus the world has ever seen... + Read More
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Series: A Lars Winkler NovelThe House That Jack BuiltPaperback
Jakob Melander9781770894396
$19.95FICTION
Jul 05, 2014
The first book in the crime series featuring Lars Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter, and drug addict — and the most dedicated detective in Copenhagen.A young prostitute is found murdered at the common in Copenhagen. The woman’s body has been preserved and her eyes removed with surgical precision. Not long after, another body is discovered treated in the exact same manner. The press quickly names the spectacular case the Sandman Killings.Detective Inspector Lars Winkler is put on the case. With an addiction to classical rock music and the odd... + Read More
Meet Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salandar — in the first installment of the wildly popular Ava Lee novels. Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant, who specializes in recovering massive debts and works for an elderly Hong Kong–based “Uncle,” who may or may not have ties to the triads. At 115 lbs., she hardly seems a threat. But her razor-sharp intelligence and unorthodox rules of engagements allow her to succeed where traditional methods have failed.In The Water Rat... + Read More
Garth Martens’ debut, Prologue for the Age of Consequence, is about the tar sands and industrial projects of Alberta, and the men who work in them. But to describe it as such restricts the book to its physical concerns, when in fact these are poems of great philosophical ambition, and startling ethical and psychological reach.Martens has made an elemental world both beautiful and severe, and on his stage, characters assume a collective status both emphatically human and radically mythic. He is interested in endurance, in addiction, loss, abuse... + Read More
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Series: For TamaraPaperback
Sarah Lang9781770893672
$19.95POETRY
Apr 19, 2014
Arranged as a mother’s survival guide to her daughter, For Tamara is a touching and inventive long poem about surviving and thriving from the author of The Work of Days. It seems simple: a long letter, from a mother to a daughter, relaying the information needed to survive on this earth. But as Sarah Lang’s second book, For Tamara, unfolds, it becomes a roughly-hewn, genre-bending, post-apocalyptic survival guide. The world with which we are familiar has ended, and in its wake are the countless dead and survivors who are little more than scaven... + Read More
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Series: The QuietPaperback
Anne-Marie Turza9781770894433
$19.95POETRY
Apr 19, 2014
Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.These poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, "Here one can live at any dark system's edge." The Quiet is sinister and aerial.
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Series: Directing Herbert WhitePaperback
James Franco9781770894570
$19.95POETRY
Apr 19, 2014
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James FrancoI’m a nocturnal creature,And I’m here to cheat time.You can see time and exhaustionTaking pay from my face—In fifty yearsMy sleep will be death,I’ll go like the rest,But I’ll have playedAll the games and all the roles. —from “Nocturnal”
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Series: Sun BearPaperback
Matthew Zapruder9781770894594
$19.95POETRY
Apr 19, 2014
The fourth collection from the celebrated American poet and editor, Matthew Zapruder.Matthew Zapruder’s poems begin in the faint inkling, in the bloom of thought, and then unfold into wide-reaching meditations on what it means to live in the contemporary moment, among plastic, statistics, and diet soda. Written in a direct, conversational style, the poems in Sun Bear display full-force why Zapruder is one of the most popular poets in America.From “I Drink Bronze Light”:Great American summer lakes right now I am flying above youthrough a rare cl... + Read More
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Series: Griffin Poetry Prize AnthologyThe Griffin Poetry Prize 2014 AnthologyA Seletion of the ShortlistPaperback
Robert Bringhurst9781770894495
$19.95POETRY
Jun 02, 2014
The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry.Each year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordi... + Read More
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Series: Great Canadian LivesA Cultural History of Modern Canada Through the Art of the ObitPaperback
Sandra Martin9781770894488
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 21, 2014
Award-winning Globe and Mail journalist Sandra Martin captures the life and times of 50 extraordinary Canadians, whose achievements, follies, and dreams have shaped the country we call home.Martin’s witty essays on the cult and craft of obituary writing, from the ancient Greeks to a wired up 24/7 world, explode the myths and celebrate the art of our oldest biographical form.Great Canadian Lives tells the political, social, and cultural history of modern Canada from WW1 to the Charter, from Pierre Trudeau to Jack Layton — one fascinating life at... + Read More
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Series: Tecumseh and BrockThe War of 1812Paperback
James Laxer9781770893283
$19.95HISTORY
Jun 14, 2014
Now available in paperback, Tecumseh and Brock is a powerful and compelling new work on the War of 1812, from bestselling author, historian, political scientist, and scholar James Laxer.At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of thi... + Read More
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Series: CaughtPaperback
Lisa Moore9781770894532
$19.95FICTION
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. "In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. Caught is a propulsive and harrowing read."—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers Internationally acclaimed author Lisa Moore offers us a remarkable new novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-sm... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club EditionsHolding Still for as Long as PossibleAnansi Book Club editionPaperback
Zoe Whittall9781770898073
$14.95FICTION
Apr 05, 2014
A dazzling portrait of twenty-somethings who grew up on text-messaging and the war on terror.In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation — the twenty-five-year olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private.Holding Still explores an unusual love triangle involving Billy, a former teen idol, now an anxiety-ridden agoraphobic; Josh, a shy transgendered parame... + Read More
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Series: Granta: The Magazine of New WritingGranta 126do you rememberPaperback
Sigrid Rausing9781905881796
$16.99 USDLITERARY COLLECTIONS
Jan 23, 2014
'The weekend her father left -- left the house, the town, the country, everything, packing so lightly I believed he would come back -- he said 'You can raise Nickie by yourself. You'll be good at it. And I had said, 'Are you on crack?' And he replied, continuing to fold a blue twill jacket, ""Yes, a little."" --Lorrie Moore 'Hey,' Paul yelled out. 'Why's everybody talking behind the patient's back?' 'Shut up, we're having sex,' she called back. She poured a cup for herself. 'He seems pretty chipper this morning.' 'Yeah, I don't ... + Read More
Everyone knows this country and no one knows it. This issue presents twenty new Japans by its writers and artists, and by residents and visitors and neighbours. A special edition of Granta published simultaneously in Japanese and English.
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Series: The French IntifadaThe Long War Between France and Its ArabsHardcover
Andrew Hussey9781847081476
$29.95HISTORY
Mar 06, 2014
Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of ‘liberty, equality and fraternity’ conceals a bitter history of domination, oppression and brutality. This war began in the early 1800s, with Napoleon’s aggressive lust for all things Oriental, and led to the armed colonisation of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, and decades of bloody conflict, all in the name of... + Read More
Against the background of austere and beautiful Aberdeen, Woolfson observes the seasons, the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year. She considers the geographic, atmospheric and environmental elements which bring diverse life forms together in close proximity, and in absorbing prose writes of the animals among us: the birds, the rats and squirrels, the spiders and the insects. Her close examination of the natural world leads her to question our prevailing attitudes to urban and non-urban wildlife, and to look again ... + Read More
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Series: The Letter BearerPaperback
Robert Allison9781847088246
$19.95FICTION
May 03, 2014
The Rider has no memory of who he is, or how he came to be lying – dying – in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his post bag. The Letter Bearer is unlike any other novel of World War Two. It asks profound questions about trauma, warfare and the experience of desertion. This gripping story asks us to consider how men build hope when they have nothing left – not even a name.
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Series: SecrecyPaperback
Rupert Thomson9781847084828
$15.99
Jan 02, 2014
Zummo - a 17th-century prodigy and creator of figures so realistic they look as though they might draw breath - has spent his life fleeing his past. Summoned to the Medici court by the Grand Duke, a man of holy devotions and hidden longings, Zummo finds himself in a city riddled with hypocrisy and contradictions, where adulterers are publicly flogged, while within the palace walls members of the court indulge their nefarious pleasures. Commissioned by the Grand Duke to sculpt a life-size Venus from wax, Zummo scours the streets for inspiration.... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club Editions Holding Still for as Long as Possible Anansi Book Club edition Paperback 9781770898073 $14.95 FICTION Apr 05, 2014