1.
Series:
Watching You Without Me
Paperback
Lynn Coady
9781487006884
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2019
The highly anticipated new literary suspense novel from Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author Lynn Coady.After her mother’s sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability, Karen begins to feel consumed by the isolation of her new role. On top of that, she’s weighed down with guilt over her years spent keeping Kelli and their indep...
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2.
Series:
NDN Coping Mechanisms
Notes from the Field
Paperback
Billy-Ray Belcourt
9781487005771
$19.99
POETRY
Sep 03, 2019
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses the modes of accusation and interrogation. He aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of...
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3.
Series:
Watermark
Paperback
Christy Ann Conlin
9781487003432
$19.95
FICTION
Aug 13, 2019
From Christy Ann Conlin, the critically acclaimed and award winning author of Heave, comes a breathtaking and unforgettable collection about how the briefest moment can shape us forever.In these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, life, and death. An insomniac on Halifax’s moonlit streets. A runaway bride. A young woman accused of a brutal murder. A man who must live in exile if he is to live at all. A woman coming to terms with her eccentric childhood in a cult on the Bay of Fundy shore. A m...
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4.
Series:
Pallbearing
Stories
Paperback
Michael Melgaard
9781487006150
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 04, 2020
An honest and unaffected collection of human experiences that deftly tackles themes of grief, loss, missed opportunities, and the pain of letting go. The stories in Michael Melgaard’s poignant debut collection, Pallbearing, offer candid snapshots of life in a small town, where the struggle to make ends meet forces people into desperate choices. In “Little to Lose,” a son confronts his mother over the crushing prison of debt created by her gambling addiction. The aging divorcee in “Coming and Going” spends her days in paranoid pursuit of evidenc...
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5.
Series:
Benediction
Paperback
Olivier Dufault
9781487005993
$24.95
FICTION
Sep 24, 2019
Based on the true story of North America’s most unlikely cowboy, Benediction is a gritty, trenchantly observed tale of fraud and reinvention in the Old West.In 1907, the fifteen-year-old French-Canadian Ernest Dufault left his home in Quebec for Montana, where he was promptly arrested as a cattle thief and, as a prisoner of the state of Nevada, passed himself off as an American cowboy named Will James. Over the next few decades, Dufault, a.k.a. James, would flourish as a cowboy and horsebreaker and go on to become an artist, a soldier, a Hollyw...
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6.
Series: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung
Foresight
The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung: Book 2
Paperback
Ian Hamilton
9781487003999
$19.95
FICTION
Jan 21, 2020
The second book in the gripping Ava Lee spin-off series features fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung and his ascendancy to the head of the Triad gang in Fanling.1980: A pivotal year in modern Chinese history as Premier Deng Xiaoping begins what he intends to be the transformation of China into an economic superpower. The most visible evidence of Deng’s policy is the creation of Special Economic Zones, and one has been set up in Shenzhen, next door to Hong Kong and on Fanling’s doorstep. Among Triad leaders, Uncle is the only one who recognizes that D...
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7.
Series:
No Friend but the Mountains
Writing from Manus Prison
Paperback
Behrouz Boochani
9781487006839
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 04, 2019
Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the ...
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8.
Series:
Is There Still Sex in the City?
Paperback
Candace Bushnell
9781487006938
$24.95
FICTION
Aug 06, 2019
Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly-on-the-wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? gathers Bushnell’s signature short, sharp, satirical commentaries on the love and dating habits of middle-aged men and women as they...
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9.
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures
Power Shift
The Longest Revolution
Paperback
Sally Armstrong
9781487006792
$19.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 17, 2019
Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise of equality still eludes half the world’s population.In her 2019 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author, jo...
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10.
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures
A Short History of Progress
Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
2nd edition
Paperback
Ronald Wright
9781487006983
$19.99
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 03, 2019
Now more relevant than ever, Ronald Wright’s #1 national bestseller, A Short History of Progress. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.Each time history repeats itself, so it’s said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first cent...
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11.
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures
Payback
New edition
Paperback
Margaret Atwood
9781487006976
$19.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 03, 2019
Available in a new edition and with an introduction by Margaret Atwood, Payback delivers a surprising look at the topic of “debt” — a subject that continues to be timely.Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of “debt” — a subject that continues to be timely during this current period of economic upheaval. In her intelligent and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes that “debt” is like air — something we take for granted and never think about until things go wrong.This is no...
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12.
Series:
Breaking the Ocean
A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation
Paperback
Annahid Dashtgard
9781487006471
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 20, 2019
In Breaking the Ocean, diversity and inclusion specialist Annahid Dashtgard addresses the long-term impacts of exile, immigration, and racism by offering a vulnerable, deeply personal account of her life and work.Annahid Dashtgard was born into a supportive mixed-race family in 1970s Iran. Then came the 1979 Revolution, which ushered in a powerful and orthodox religious regime. Her family was forced to flee their homeland, immigrating to a small town in Alberta, Canada. As a young girl, Dashtgard was bullied, shunned, and ostracized both by her...
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13.
Series:
Surrender
The Call of the American West
Paperback
Joanna Pocock
9781487007249
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 24, 2019
In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in response to the increasingly urgent climate crisis.Blending personal memoir with insightful reportage and vivid nature writing, award-winning author and essayist Joanna Pocock investigates the changing landscape of the West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in the Mountain States. She witnesses the annual tribal bison hunt near Yellows...
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14.
Series: Munk Debates
China and the West
The Munk Debates
Paperback
H. R. McMaster
9781487007188
$15.99
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nov 05, 2019
The twenty-fourth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on May 9, 2019, pits former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs H. R. McMaster and Director for Chinese Strategy at the D.C.-based Hudson Institute think tank Michael Pillsbury against former President of the United Nations Security Council Kishore Mahbubani and president of one of China’s top independent think tanks, the Center for China Globalization, Huiyao Wang to debate the threat of China to the liberal international order.Increasingly in the West, China is being charact...
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15.
Series:
tawâw
Progressive Indigenous Cuisine
Hardcover
Shane M. Chartrand
9781487005122
$34.95
COOKING
Oct 01, 2019
tawâw [pronounced ta-WOW]: Come in, you’re welcome, there’s room. Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine and what it means to cook, eat, and share food in our homes and communities. Born to Cree parents and raised by a Métis father and Mi’kmaw-Irish mother, Shane M. Chartrand has spent the past ten years learning about his history, visiting with other First Nations peoples, gathering and sharing knowledge and stories, and creating dishes that combine his interests and express his person...
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16.
Series:
Not One of These Poems Is About You
Paperback
Teva Harrison
9781487006921
$21.95
POETRY
Jan 07, 2020
From Teva Harrison, the award-winning author and illustrator of In-Between Days, comes a powerful work of poetry and art in which she continues to explore what it means to live with metastatic breast cancer.In this remarkable, frank, and gut-wrenching mix of words and images, Teva continues on her journey, grappling with what it means to live with metastatic breast cancer. She plunges deep into her inner world, shadowing the progression of the disease. Reality takes on sharp edges: the swell of cancer and its retreat with chemo. Her inner corpo...
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17.
Series: A List
Moving Targets
Writing with Intent 1982–2004
Paperback
Margaret Atwood
9781487006969
$18.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Aug 06, 2019
The companion volume to the recently reissued Second Words, Moving Targets is an essential collection of critical prose by Margaret Atwood, now available in a handsome new A List edition. The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood’s work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid’s Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood’s fertile and curious mind in action over the y...
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18.
Series: A List
Thunder and Light
Paperback
Marie-Claire Blais
9781487004255
$16.95
FICTION
Aug 06, 2019
The second volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition.Originally published in 2001, Thunder and Light is the second volume in Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning Soifs series, hailed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. Powered by its characters’ gripping exploration of the world’s dark corners, the novel is a teeming microcosm in which boundaries collapse and the extremes an...
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19.
Series: A List
Technology and Justice
Paperback
George Grant
9781487006679
$16.95
PHILOSOPHY
Aug 06, 2019
Six magnificent and stimulating essays examining the role of technology in shaping how we live, by one of Canada’s most influential philosophers, now reissued in a handsome A List edition.Originally published in 1986, the six essays that comprise Technology and Justice offer absorbing reflections on the extent to which technology has shaped the way we live now. George Grant explores the fate of traditional values in modern education, social behaviour, and religion, and offers his insights into some of the most contentious ethical deliberations ...
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20.
Series: A List
Rochdale
The Runaway College
Paperback
David Sharpe
9781487006648
$16.95
HISTORY
Aug 06, 2019
The fascinating story of Toronto’s experimental Rochdale College’s rise and fall, now reissued in a handsome A List edition.Toronto’s Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbol of the flower-child sixties, a financial and social controversy. In his well-researched and entertaining account, David Sharpe tells the fascinating story of the college’s seven-year rise and fall.Sharpe examines the contradictions of the Age of Aquarius squeezed into one stark skyscraper on Bloor Street in Toronto. He looks at ...
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21.
Series:
Celestial Bodies
Paperback
Jokha Alharthi
9781487007904
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Celestial Bodies is a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades. In the village of al-Awafi, in Oman, two families are joined by marriage: Mayya, the eldest of three sisters, marries Abdallah, son of a wealthy merchant, after suffering her first heartbreak. Abdallah’s passionate love for his wife goes unrequited; she regards him with a mixture of tolerance and mild amusement. Yet he cannot contend solely with the cares and concerns of a husband and fath...
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22.
Series:
The Lost Words Otter Puzzle
Jigsaw
Robert Macfarlane
9781487007607
$28.95
ART
Age (years) from 12
Oct 01, 2019
This 1000-piece special-edition jigsaw puzzle is based on The Lost Words, the internationally bestselling collection of poems and illustrations by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these “lost words” included acorn, adder, bluebell, dandelion, fern, heron, kin...
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