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Series: The Woo-WooHow I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese FamilyPaperback
Lindsay Wong9781551527369
$21.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2018
2019 CANADA READS FINALIST Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when they should really be on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo" -- Chinese ghosts who come to visi... + Read More
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Series: MamaskatchA Cree Coming of AgeHardcover
Darrel J. McLeod9781771622004
$29.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 15, 2018
Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family’s history. In shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha, shared narratives of their culture, their family and the cruelty that she and her sisters endured in residential school. McLeod was comforted by her presence and that of his many siblings and cousins, the smells of moose stew and wild peppermint tea, and his deep love of the landscape. Bertha taught him to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that would... + Read More
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Series: SabrinaHardcover
Nick Drnaso9781770463165
$32.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 16
May 22, 2018
THE FIRST EVER GRAPHIC NOVEL NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK! ON 20 BEST OF 2018 LISTS INCLUDING THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, NEWSWEEK, AND THE GUARDIAN!“Sabrina is the intimate story of one man’s suffering, but it also captures the political nihilism of the social-media era—a time when a President can dismiss the murder of a journalist by saying of the perpetrator, “Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t.”"—DT Max, The New YorkerConspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right—until it isn’tWhen Sab... + Read More
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Series: Shit is RealPaperback
Aisha Franz9781770463158
$34.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 16
Jul 10, 2018
Included on Best of 2018 lists from the New York Public Library and the Globe & Mail!“Depression and loneliness and how people cope are aptly explored through Aisha Franz’s often surreal pencil drawings.”—The Globe & Mail’s Best 100 Books of 2018A broken-hearted woman drifts into depression as she occupies her traveling neighbor’s apartmentAfter an unexpected breakup, a young woman named Selma experiences a series of reveries and emotional setbacks. Struggling to relate to her friends and accomplish even the simplest tasks like using a modern l... + Read More
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Series: Dirty PlotteThe Complete Julie DoucetMultiple copy pack
Julie Doucet9781770463233
$149.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 16
Oct 23, 2018
An enduring collection of revolutionary comics from a genre-transforming and critically acclaimed cartoonistJulie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. Her comic book series Dirty Plotte was visionary both for the medium and for storytelling. Her stories are candid, funny and intimate, plumbing the depths of the female psyche while charting the fragility of the men around her. Her artwork is dense and confident, never wavering in the wit and humour of its owner. Doucet was active in comics for fifteen years before ... + Read More
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Series: BerlinBerlinHardcover
Jason Lutes9781770463264
$59.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 16
Sep 04, 2018
Best of 2018 nods from the Washington Post, New York Public Library, Globe and Mail, the Guardian, and more!"The magic in Berlin is in the way Lutes conjures, out of old newspapers and photographs, a city so remote from him in time and space... [Berlin has] an ending so electrifying that I gasped."—New York Times Book ReviewDuring the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compass... + Read More
2021 CANADA READS WINNER WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve. "You're gonna need a rock ... + Read More
WINNER OF THE 2018 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE • A 2018 KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 • A TORONTO STAR TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOK OF 2018 Inspired by the author’s family history, this forthright love story unflinchingly portrays the trials and tensions of a lifelong marriage. Born between the wars on a working-class street in London, Harry Miles wins a scholarship to an ... + Read More
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Series: Original PrinPaperback
Randy Boyagoda9781771962452
$19.95FICTION
Sep 25, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Eight months before he became a suicide bomber, Prin went to the zoo with his family. Following a cancer diagnosis, forty-year old Prin vows to become a better man and a better Catholic. He’s going to spend more time with his kids and better time with his wife, care for his recently divorced and aging parents, and also expand his cutting-edge research into the symbolism of the seahorse in Canadian literature. But when his historic college in downtown Toronto fac... + Read More
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Series: MARRY, BANG, KILLPaperback
Andrew Battershill9781773100029
$22.95FICTION
Mar 06, 2018
Winner, 2019 Relit Award (Novel Category)For a guy who mugs people for their laptops, Tommy Marlo isn’t such a bad guy. He can’t help trying to make the people he meets — even those he mugs — feel better about their situation. Unfortunately for Tommy, he rips off the daughter of a psychotic, high-ranking member of a notorious motorcycle gang. Even worse, the laptop that he pilfered contains proof of a few gruesome murders and the location of a huge stash of money. Flat broke and marked for death, his only shot at surviving is to rob the motorcy... + Read More
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Series: Something for EveryonePaperback
Lisa Moore9781487001162
$22.95FICTION
Sep 04, 2018
Winner, Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardWinner, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short FictionLonglisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize“Lisa Moore’s work is passionate, gritty, lucid, and beautiful. She has a great gift.” — Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Gathering Internationally celebrated as one of literature’s most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives.Internationally celebrated as one of lite... + Read More
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Series: ZolitudePaperback
Paige Cooper9781771962179
$19.95FICTION
Mar 01, 2018
WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh—these are the women in Paige Cooper’s debut short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who won’t arrive. They a... + Read More
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Series: Little FishPaperback
Casey Plett9781551527208
$21.95FICTION
Apr 01, 2018
Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Flett's latest, in which a trans woman learns her grandfather may have been trans himself. In this debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg who comes across evidence that her late grandfather--a devout Mennonite farmer--might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, having other problems at hand, but as she and her friends struggle to cope with the challenges of t... + Read More
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Series: Twin StudiesPaperback
Keith Maillard9781988298313
$24.95FICTION
Sep 11, 2018
An engrossing, timely, and contemporary novel about the bonds between twins, about sexuality and gender fluidity, and about the messy complexities of modern family life ? the much-anticipated new novel in more than a decade by acclaimed writer Keith Maillard. Dr. Erica Bauer ? an identical twin ? studies twins at the university in Vancouver. Through the course of her research, she meets a set of preteen twins who are evidently fraternal, but who insist emphatically that they are identical. Their mother, Karen Oxley, is a West Van single mum wh... + Read More
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Series: Sodom Road ExitPaperback
Amber Dawn9781551527161
$21.95FICTION
Mar 01, 2018
Lambda Literary Award and Sunburst Award finalist; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year It's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt. But an economic downturn, mother-daughter drama, and Generation X disillusionment soon prove to be the least of Starla's troubles: a my... + Read More
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Series: AfricvilleHardcover
Shauntay Grant9781773060439
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2018
Winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in IllustrationFinalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated BooksFinalist for a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Books AwardWhen a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like —the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bou... + Read More
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Series: Grandmother’s VisitHardcover
Betty Quan9781554989546
$17.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2018
Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in this touching book about love and loss.Grandmother lives with Grace’s family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day.Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. Father comes home early to make dinner, but the rice bowl... + Read More
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Series: The FuneralHardcover
Matt James9781554989089
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 2018
A New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s BookNew York Public Library Best Books for KidsEzra Jack Keats Award Honor WinnerNorma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank’s funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals and ideas that have never occurred to her before. While not all questions can be answered, when the day is over Norma is certain of one thing — Uncle Frank would ... + Read More
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Series: Big Lonely DougThe Story of One of Canada’s Last Great TreesPaperback
Harley Rustad9781487003111
$22.99NATURE
Sep 04, 2018
Finalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist, BC Book Prize Globe and Mail best books of 2018 CBC best Canadian non-fiction of 2018 In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada. On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir th... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesAll Our RelationsFinding the Path ForwardPaperback
Tanya Talaga9781487005733
$24.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 16, 2018
Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples — youth suicide.“Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. She brings each story to life, skillfully weaving the stories of the youths’ lives, deaths, and families together with sharp analysis… The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*“Talaga has c... + Read More
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Series: The Prince and the DressmakerPaperback
Jen Wang9781626723634
$24.50YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18
Feb 13, 2018
A fairy tale for any age, Jen Wang's The Prince and the Dressmaker will steal your heart. Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride—or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia—the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!Sebastian’s secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances—one of only two people who know the truth:... + Read More
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Series: Market of MonstersNot Even BonesHardcover
Rebecca Schaeffer9781328863546
$21.99 Age (years) from 14
Sep 04, 2018
"Twisty, grisly, genre-bending and immersive, Not Even Bones will grab you by the throat and drag you along as it gleefully tramples all of your expectations." —Sara Holland, New York Times best-selling author of Everless Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market—until she’s betrayed.Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet—her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” Until her mom brings home a l... + Read More
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Series: Nice Try, Jane SinnerHardcover
Lianne Oelke9780544867857
$25.99 Age (years) from 14
Jan 09, 2018
"Jane Sinner snarked her way into my heart, and she's never leaving. Prepare to fall hard for this hilarious, heartfelt gem of a book."—Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens AgendaIt’s Kind of a Funny Story meets Daria in the darkly hilarious tale of a teen’s attempt to remake her public image and restore inner peace through reality TV. The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she’s going nowhere fast. Jane’s well-meaning paren... + Read More
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Series: A Girl Like ThatHardcover
Tanaz Bhathena9780374305444
$23.50YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18
Feb 27, 2018
A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Book of 2018A Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Book of 2018An Ontario Library Association White Pine Award Shortlist PickA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for TeensA New York Public Library Notable Best Book for TeensA Times of India Best Fiction Title of 2018A timeless exploration of high-stakes romance, self-discovery, and the lengths we go to love and be loved. “Fascinating and disturbing.” —Jodi Pi... + Read More
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Series: SadieA NovelHardcover
Courtney Summers9781250105714
$24.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18
Sep 04, 2018
Available now: I'M THE GIRL, the new "brutally captivating" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) queer thriller from Courtney Summers, based loosely on The Epstein case and "not for the faint of heart" (The New York Times)"Sadie: a novel for readers of any age, and a character as indelible as a scar. Flat-out dazzling." —A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window A New York Times bestseller! An Edgar Award Winner! Appearing on over 30 Best Book of 2018 lists including The Boston Globe, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Globe and... + Read More
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Series: The Mushroom Fan ClubHardcover
Elise Gravel9781770463226
$19.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 99
May 08, 2018
Appeared on Best of 2018 lists from Quill & Quire and the Globe and Mail!“Although the fungi are anthropomorphized with cartoon eyes and goofy grins, the research behind the book is real.”—The Globe & Mail 100 Best Books of 2018“Gravel turns adventures in mushroom hunting into scintillating reading material.”—Quill & Quire Best Kids’ Books of 2018Elise Gravel is back with a whimsical look at one of her family’s most beloved pastimes: mushroom hunting! Combining her love of exploring nature with her talent for anthropomorphizing everything, she ... + Read More
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The Woo-Woo How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family Paperback 9781551527369 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2018
Big Lonely Doug The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees Paperback 9781487003111 $22.99 NATURE Sep 04, 2018
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures All Our Relations Finding the Path Forward Paperback 9781487005733 $24.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 16, 2018