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Series: The Vampire Diaries Companion Love You to Death — Season 2 The Unofficial Companion to The Vampire Diaries Paperback Crissy Calhoun 9781770410565 $17.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 01, 2011

Go deep into the heart of Mystic Falls with this episode-by-episode look at the second season of The Vampire Diaries. This next volume in a series School Library Journal called “well written and thoroughly detailed,” Love You to Death: The Unofficial Companion to The Vampire Diaries — Season 2 is the essential guide to the show, featuring insightful explorations of each episode with information on the rich history, supernatural mythology, film references, character development, and much more; chapters on the vampire, werewolf, and doppelgän... + Read More
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Series: TV Goes to Hell An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural Paperback David Lavery 9781770410206 $16.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 01, 2011

As a natural heir to the long-running television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural has risen to prominence with a strong cult following, and this collection of essays from contributors around the globe investigates the genre-bending series’ cultural footprint both in North America and abroad.The book explores topics such as folklore, religion, gender and sexuality, comedy, music, and much more, and offers a brief guide to all the episodes as well.Supernatural follows brothers Dean and Sam Winchester as they encounter and battle ... + Read More
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Series: Into the Looking Glass Exploring the Worlds of Fringe Paperback Sarah Stuart 9781770410510 $16.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 01, 2011

Offering a holistic approach to television criticism, this analytical companion to the popular show Fringe examines the drama’s mythology and unveils its mysteries while exposing significant cultural issues addressed in each episode. With a strong basis in science fiction, Fringe has all of the archetypal characters and themes of the genre, from the covert mastermind and the mad scientist to dangerous advances in technology, parallel worlds, and man-made monsters. Along with many other post–9/11 television shows aired in the West, Fringe ... + Read More
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Series: Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenomenon Paperback Caseen Gaines 9781550229981 $22.95 PERFORMING ARTS Nov 01, 2011

Between 1986 and 1991, nearly ten million people a week watched Pee-wee’s Playhouse, the critically acclaimed and widely successful children’s program broadcast on CBS. Now, on the 25th anniversary of the show, the complete behind-the-scenes story is being told for the first time by those who experienced it. Complete with an episode guide, biographical information about the cast and key members of the show’s creative team, never-before-told anecdotes, and previously unpublished photos, Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse takes the first in-depth l... + Read More
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Series: Starmaker Life as a Hollywood Publicist with Farrah, The Rat Pack & 600 More Stars Who Fired Me Paperback Jay Bernstein 9781770410121 $18.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 01, 2011

His women were tens, his guns were .38s, and his collection of jewel-encrusted walking canes numbered in the hundreds. For nearly 50 years, Jay Bernstein was a Hollywood fixture, owning one of the most powerful PR firms in Hollywood, making stars of Farrah Fawcett and Suzanne Somers, and producing dozens of television films and series. Future Hollywood insider Jay Bernstein was born outside – way outside – Tinseltown, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on June 7, 1937. But Bernstein, helped by his pals the Rat Pack, eventually found his way from... + Read More
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Series: Where There's Smoke... Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man Paperback William B Davis 9781770410527 $19.95 USD BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2011

One of the most iconic villains in the history of television, the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man fascinated legions of fans of the 1990s’ hit TV series, The X-Files. Best known as ?Cancerman,” he was voted Television’s Favourite Villain by the readers of TV Guide. The man behind the villain, William B. Davis, is a Canadian actor and director, whose revelations in this memoir will entertain and intrigue the millions of X-Files aficionados worldwide. But there is more to Davis’s story than just The X-Files. Davis’s extensive acting experien... + Read More
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Series: Stories about Storytellers Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others Hardcover Douglas Gibson 9781770410688 $32.95 USD BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2011

?I’ll kill him!” said Mavis Gallant. Pierre Trudeau almost did, leading him (?Run!”) into a whizzing stream of traffic that almost crushed both of them. Alistair MacLeod accused him of a ?home invasion” to grab the manuscript of No Great Mischief. And Paul Martin denounced him to a laughing Ottawa crowd, saying, ?If Shakespeare had had Doug Gibson as an editor, there would be no Shakespeare!” On the other hand, Alice Munro credits him with keeping her writing short stories when the world demanded novels. Robertson Davies, with a nod to Dicken... + Read More
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Series: Far and Away A Prize Every Time Paperback Neil Peart 9781770410596 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2011

Following in the tradition of Ghost Rider and Traveling Music, Rush drummer Neil Peart lets us ride with him along the backroads of North America, Europe, and South America, sharing his experiences in personal reflections and full-color photos. Spanning almost four years, these twenty-two stories are open letters that recount adventures both personal and universal — from the challenges and accomplishments in the professional life of an artist to the birth of a child. These popular stories, originally posted on Neil’s website, are now collec... + Read More
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Series: Fresh at Twenty The Oral History of Mint Records Paperback Kaitlin Fontana 9781770410046 $22.95 MUSIC Oct 01, 2011

Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records is first and foremost the story of an independent record label and the people who helped build it. But it’s also the story of a place and time in popular music — Vancouver through the 1990s and 2000s. Mint helped launch the careers of the New Pornographers, Neko Case, the Evaporators, the Smugglers, the Sadies, the Pack A.D. and countless other acts. In doing so, Mint not only shaped the sound of Vancouver at the end of the 20th century, but helped usher in a golden age of Canadian popular m... + Read More
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Series: Treat Me Like Dirt An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond 1977-1981 Paperback Liz Worth 9781770410671 $22.95 MUSIC Oct 01, 2011

Treat Me Like Dirt captures the personalities that drove the original Toronto punk scene. This is the first book to document the histories of the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head, along with other bands (B-Girls, Curse, Demics, Dishes, Forgotten Rebels, Johnny & the G-Rays, the Mods, the Poles, Simply Saucer, the Ugly and more) and fans that brought the punk scene to life in Toronto. This book is a punk rock road map, full of chaos, betrayal, pain, disappointments, failure, success, and the pure rock ’n’ roll energy that frames this lay... + Read More
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Series: This Sweater Is for You! Celebrating the Creative Process in Film and Art with the Animator and Illustrator of "The Hockey Sweater" Paperback Sheldon Cohen 9781550229608 $29.95 USD PERFORMING ARTS Feb 01, 2012

The Sweater is one of the most beloved animated films of all time. Based on Roch Carrier’s short story, also known as ?The Hockey Sweater,” the film recounts the most horrifying moment of the author’s childhood. Sheldon Cohen adapted the story into animation and created a film that is as much about childhood emotions and the desire to fit in, as it is about hockey, the clash of cultures, and a harkening to bygone times. Now 30 years later, Sheldon delves into his notebooks, photographs, and memories to recreate the process he undertook to make... + Read More
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Series: A Season of Loss, A Lifetime of Forgiveness The Dan Snyder and Dany Heatley Story Paperback John Manasso 9781770410602 $14.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2011

Dan Snyder narrowly escaped being cut from his junior hockey team for two years in a row. That’s hardly the stuff that nhl careers are made of. But Snyder earned his spot on the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers roster through sheer force of will and strength of character, even though scouts thought the odds were against him.Those who knew Snyder describe him as the kind of person others naturally gravitated towards. One of those people was Dany Heatley, college star, All-Star, and marked one of the nhl’s next great players.On September 29, 2003, whi... + Read More
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Series: Sack Exchange The Definitive Oral History of the 1980s New York Jets Paperback Greg Prato 9781770410039 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2011

Comprised of all-new, exclusive interviews with Jets players, head coaches, and those closest to the organization, Sack Exchange is not only an eye-opening account of the Jets from this time, but also of the National Football League as a whole. The New York Sack Exchange was the nickname given to the New York Jets defensive line of the early 1980s, consisting of Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons, and Abdul Salaam. Examined are such topics as the beginning of the Jets-Dolphons rivalry, the controversial firing of head coach W... + Read More
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Series: Wrestling Reality The Life and Mind of Chris Kanyon, Wrestling's Gay Superstar Paperback Chris Kanyon 9781770410282 $18.95 USD BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2011

A rare glimpse not only into the life of a professional wrestler, but the life of a gay man in a straight world, this tragic memoir is told in Chris Kanyon’s own words, with the help of journalist Ryan Clark. One of the most popular wrestlers of the late 1990s, Kanyon kept his personal life private from his fans until finally revealing his biggest secret in 2004: he was gay. Going through the various roles that Kanyon played, both in the ring and out of it, as well as his battle with manic depression, this book explores the factors that led to... + Read More
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Series: Gatekeeper The Fighting Life of Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge Paperback Gary Goodridge 9781550229936 $21.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 01, 2012

The biography of a pioneer in the mixed martial arts (MMA) scene, this work takes readers through Gary “Big Daddy” Goodridge’s entire career — from his rollercoaster formative years and his emergence as a world champion athlete to his role as a loving father struggling to find work. With humble beginnings as an immigrant in a small city in Canada, Goodridge endured bullying as a child and honed his natural strength, athleticism, work ethic, and charisma while fighting on the streets and as a bouncer in clubs. Eventually learning to cha... + Read More
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Series: Mad Like Tesla Underdog Inventors and their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy Paperback Tyler Hamilton 9781770410084 $16.95 SCIENCE Sep 01, 2011

Climate change solutions so crazy they just might work! A search for the contemporary Nikola Tesla — considered a mad scientist by his society for predicting global warming more than 100 years ago — fuels this analysis of climate issues, which introduces thinkers and inventors who are working to find possible ways out of the energy crisis. From Louis Michaud, a retired refinery engineer who claims we can harness the energy of man-made tornadoes, to a professor and a businessman who are running a company that genetically modifies algae so ... + Read More
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Series: The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat And Other Gruesome Medical Tales Paperback Rob Myers 9781770410619 $14.95 USD MEDICAL Oct 01, 2011

Join Dr. Myers in his quest for unusual case studies as he unravels medical mysteries. ? Depressed and lonely, a man decides that pills and alcohol are too gentle an exit. How did he end up in the driver’s seat without his head? ? Drunken neighbours decide that beautifying the hedges on their property can be easily accomplished without hedge clippers. Removing the handlebars of a lawnmower, they lift the mower and its whirring gas powered blades, and quickly lose their buzz. ? A teenager, obsessed with self-stimulation, elects to use uncooke... + Read More
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Series: Encyclopedia Gothica Hardcover Liisa Ladouceur 9781770410244 $22.95 REFERENCE Oct 31, 2011

Encyclopedia Gothica is a guide through that shadowiest of subcultures: modern Goths. It collects and defines more than 600 words and phrases used by these children of the night so that you too can engage in conversations about deathhawks and rivetheads and who is more u¨bergoth: Bela Lugosi or Robert Smith. Compiled by acclaimed Goth journalist and poet Liisa Ladouceur, it gives readers insight into the unique vernacular of this fascinating community, describing in detail and with black humour the fashion, music, and lifestyle as well as... + Read More
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Series: The Dead Kid Detective Agency Paperback Evan Munday 9781550229714 $9.95 USD JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 13 Sep 01, 2011

Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town; she spends her free time in the Sticksville Cemetery and it isn't long before she befriends the ghosts of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. They form the Dead Kid Detective Agency, a group committed to solving Sticksville's most mysterious mysteries.
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Series: Death Plays Poker What You Think You Know Is Wrong Hardcover Robin Spano 9781550229943 $24.95 USD FICTION Oct 01, 2011

"World class poker players are being strangled in their hotel rooms, and undercover cop Clare is given her second big assignment: to pose as a poker player in a major televised tournament, befriend the suspects, and find the killer in their midst."--P. [4] of jacket.
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Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery Death at Christy Burke’s A Mystery Hardcover Anne Emery 9781550229882 $26.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2011

"Halifax lawyer Anne Emery’s terrific series featuring lawyer Monty Collins and priest Brennan Burke gets better with every book." — Globe and Mail There’s a killer on the premises of Christy Burke’s pub in Dublin, according to graffiti spray-painted on the wall. Father Brennan Burke, Christy’s grandson, is asked to investigate the vandalism. Brennan has been tending the bar a bit himself and is not all that keen on probing into the lives of his clientele. But he has little choice once a body is found and the property investigation become... + Read More
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Series: Savage Rage Hardcover Brent Pilkey 9781550229684 $24.95 USD FICTION Oct 01, 2011

?Canadian policeman Pilkey writes from firsthand experience in his gritty procedural debut . . . ” ? Publishers Weekly on Lethal Rage Transferred to 53 Division ? known as the ?Sleepy Hollow of Toronto” ? after the murder of his partner, officer Jack Warren yearns to return to 51 Division, where his former colleagues are busy pursuing a criminal mastermind. Randall Kayne has been committing violent, bloody crimes that are hitting close to home in 51 Division, yet he manages to stay just one step ahead of the police. Although Jack’s wife wants... + Read More
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Series: The Toronto Series Tumblin’ Dice A Mystery Hardcover John McFetridge 9781550229776 $26.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2012

The Toronto Series hits the casino tour circuit, as rockers turn robbers in search of revenge The High had a couple of hit songs in the late ’70s and now they’re back playing the nostalgia circuit at casinos. The bass player, Barry, and the lead singer, Cliff, have found a way to make the tour worthwhile: rob the drug dealers and the shylocks that work every casino. Their old manager, Frank, now works one of their tour stops, and the guys decide to go for one big score and get the millions he swindled from them.But extracting old debts isn’... + Read More
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Series: Children in the Morning Paperback Anne Emery 9781770410459 $14.95 USD FICTION Oct 01, 2011

Shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, 2011 ?By having Normie tell the story, Arthur Ellis Award?winning Emery allows readers to walk beside the girl as she deals with her second sight, the abuse of other children, and the anguish she feels when the peace of her home life is threatened. Not since Robert K. Tannenbaum's Lucy Karp, a young woman who talks with saints, have we seen a more poignant rendering of a female child with unusual powers.” ? Library Journal
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Series: Lethal Rage A Mystery Paperback Brent Pilkey 9781770410466 $14.95 USD FICTION Oct 01, 2011

Lethal Rage follows the journey of Jack Warren, a young Toronto police officer, as he enters the dangerous streets of downtown’s 51 Division. Accustomed to the white-bread policing of his previous division, Jack is staggered when he first arrives at his new job. No TV show or movie prepared him for the reality of 51, where the officers wade through the filth of humanity on a daily ? hourly ? basis. Warren is immediately thrown into a war between the cops of 51 and a new crack cocaine dealer intent on taking over the downtown drug trade. No o... + Read More
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Series: The Bloodlight Chronicles: Retribution Paperback Steve Stanton 9781550229899 $14.95 USD FICTION Oct 01, 2011

In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected ?Eternals” into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that ?revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters” (Library Journal), Zakariah Davis and his wife Mia successfully procured an activated sample o... + Read More
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Series: Workbook Memos & Dispatches on Writing Paperback Steven Heighton 9781550229370 $16.95 USD LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Oct 01, 2011

Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of ?The Afterword,” Steven Heighton’s memos and dispatches to himself ? a writer’s pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work of writing ? have been tweeted and retweeted, discussed and tacked to bulletin boards everywhere. Coalesced, completed, and collected here for the first time, a wholly new kind of book has emerged, one that’s as much about creative process as it is about created product, at once about living life and the writing life. ?I stick to ... + Read More
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Series: Girl in Shades Paperback Allison Baggio 9781770410503 $16.95 USD FICTION Oct 01, 2011

Eleven-year-old Maya Devine has grown up with a warped view of reality. For one, she sees colour around people’s bodies and can sometimes hear what’s going on inside their heads. These insights make everyone a bit more interesting, but the one person she’ll never figure out is her mother. Marigold has never been like other moms, but still, Maya sometimes feels like she is all she has. When Marigold is diagnosed with cancer and vows to spend her final days in the teepee she’s set up in the backyard, Maya’s life quickly becomes unbearable. Neigh... + Read More
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Series: BackLit Insights for Readers Joyland How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, and Values Paperback Emily Schultz 9781770410336 $14.95 USD FICTION Sep 01, 2011

?Like a Reagan-era Ice Storm, Emily Schultz’s novel Joyland captures the confusion of adolescent sexuality in a tangle of pixelated icons via the video-game generation. Set in the summer of 1984, this book will have you thinking twice about the video-game generation and the power of pining and Pac-Man.” ? Flare BackLit bonus material includes an alternate ending and an author interview.
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Series: The Carnivore Paperback Mark Sinnett 9781770410343 $16.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2011

Winner of the 2010 Toronto Book Award “Sinnett, also an award-winning poet and story writer, has done his homework in preparing for The Carnivore, and he’s executed it with a palpable relish: Toronto circa 1954 is evoked with pungent immediacy.” — The Toronto Star The Carnivore is a historical novel of disaster and betrayal, set in the Toronto of both 1954 and 2004. In the aftermath of Hurricane Hazel, a young cop, Ray Townes, emerges as a hero. There are numerous accounts of his bravery, of the way he battled all night to save those ... + Read More
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Series: Entitlement Paperback Jonathan Bennett 9781770410350 $16.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2011

“Bennett demonstrates a real talent for evoking the affectless, indulgent ‘eccentricities’ of the surpassingly (and perpetually) wealthy … Bennett manages it all deftly. He can weave a tale and has the chops to keep it all in a literary vein … this is a good book with a crackerjack ending.” — The Globe and Mail “Bennett’s storytelling is effortless in its pace and time shifts, and his dialogue glints like a sharpened knife.” — The Walrus BackLit bonus material includes an author interview, discussion questions, and recommended reading.
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Series: BackLit Insights for Readers A Week of This A Novel in Seven Days Paperback Nathan Whitlock 9781770410367 $14.95 USD FICTION Sep 01, 2011

?Whitlock possesses a strong command of language and an easiness with metaphor; his characters are drawn evocatively, even when they act predictably.” ? Booklist ?The overlaying of the blandness of the town, the grayness of the weather, and the gradual eroding of people’s dreams lead not to the depressive work one would think but to an acceptance of the ongoing routine of life. In the end, there is a calm resolution suggesting that this is what life has dealt you; keep on going. Recommended.” ? Library Journal BackLit bonus material includes ... + Read More
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Series: Winter Cranes Paperback Chris Banks 9781770410183 $18.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2011

In Asian folklore cranes symbolize longevity, immortality, and good fortune. In Winter Cranes, his third collection, award–winning poet Chris Banks conjures these birds when he sees herons near his home towards the end of a long and difficult winter. For the poet, cranes as a dominant image represent the gaps that exist between what we see and what we feel. His poems explore the impermanence of our modern lives — how our identities are shaped by the past and the present, memory and experience, the physical and the metaphysical. Winter ... + Read More
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Series: The Flower of Youth The Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems Paperback Mary di Michele 9781770410480 $18.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2011

The poems in The Flower of Youth depict the coming of age and into sexual difference of the great writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern Italy. Unlike his younger brother, Guido, who took up arms to fight in the resistance, Pasolini chose to help his mother set up a school for the boys, mostly sons of farmers, too young to fight or be conscripted. The situation ignited an internal war that nearly eclipsed the historical moment for the young Pasolini, a bat... + Read More