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Series: Star Wars Be More Lando How to Get What You Want (and Look Good Doing It) Hardcover Christian Blauvelt 9781465478986 $12.99 HUMOR Oct 01, 2019

A humorous take on how to get what you want (and how to look good doing it) with the help of Lando CalrissianPacked with witty career advice for budding entrepreneurs, this Star Wars self-help book is full of brilliant business advice and funny quotes from Lando Calrissian and other Star Wars characters.As the galaxy’s resident wheeler-dealer, Lando has lots of useful advice for the business novice. If you’re setting up a start-up and want to know how to win over investors, when to back away from a deal, or how to gamble away the fastest starsh... + Read More
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Series: Star Wars Be More Leia Find Your Rebel Voice And Fight The System Hardcover Christian Blauvelt 9781465478979 $12.99 HUMOR Oct 01, 2019

A humorous take on how to be yourself and fight the system with the help of Princess LeiaThis novelty Star Wars book is full of wise words and sage advice from the galaxy’s leading rebel, Princess Leia, and many other brave, confident and radical characters. Full of Star Wars quotes, witty advice and stills from the iconic films, this book will help with everything from starting a revolution to succeeding at life in a galaxy of mindless stormtroopers.General. Senator. Princess. Rebel. Feminist icon. Leia Organa is a legendary Star Wars symbol o... + Read More
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Series: Ultimate Sticker Collection Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Amazing Sticker Adventures Paperback DK 9781465479044 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 7 Oct 04, 2019

This fun-filled Star Wars sticker book contains more than 500 colorful stickers, and is packed full of fun facts from the new Star Wars movie, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Kids will love joining Rey, Poe, Finn, and the Resistance for many thrilling adventures. Meet many new Star Wars characters, complete fun sticker jigsaws, and create amazing sticker scenes of your own. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Amazing Sticker Adventures is illustrated with action-packed images from the movie, accompanied by fun, easy-to-read reference text. Join... + Read More
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Series: Where To Go When Unforgettable Trips for Every Month Hardcover DK Eyewitness 9781465494092 $39.00 TRAVEL Oct 15, 2019

Dreaming of your next adventure? Showcasing the most amazing places in the world and the best time of year to visit them, this simply stunning book will have you reaching for your passport in seconds.Combining an inspiring narrative with sumptuous photography, Where to Go When brings to life over 100 destinations across the globe—discover when to explore Costa Rica’s rainforests, journey into the clouds in Nepal, sail between Croatia’s cypress-clad islands, or gaze at the saw-toothed crags of Canada’s Rocky Mountains. With a chapter dedicated t... + Read More
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Series: Bootstraps Need Boots One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada Hardcover Hugh Segal 9780774890458 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2019

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self-described Red Tory warrior who disdains “bootstrap” approaches to poverty, he has always promoted policies, especially a basic annual income, to help the most economically vulnerable. Why would a life-long Tory support something so radical? In this revealing memoir, Segal shares how his life and experiences brought him to this most unlikely of places, beginning with his childhood in a poor immigrant family in Montreal to his t... + Read More
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Series: A Cure for Hate A Former White Supremacist's Journey From Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion Paperback Tony McAleer 9781551527697 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2019

How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi groups in Canada and the United States? The Cure for Hate paints a very human picture of a young man who craved attention, acceptance, and approval and the dark place he would go to get it. Tony McAleer found an outlet for his teenage rage in the street violence of the skinhead scene. He then grew deeply involved in the White Aryan Resistance (WAR... + Read More
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Series: I Promise Hardcover Catherine Hernandez 9781551527796 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 8 Oct 01, 2019

Catherine Hernandez's literary career exploded with the 2017 publication of her award-winning novel Scarborough. Her latest, I Promise, marks her delightful return to children's literature, having published her first children's book, M Is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book, in 2015. Featuring tender-hearted illustrations by renowned artist Syrus Marcus Ware, I Promise captures with love and honesty the intimate moments of parenting in all their messy glory - from dealing with a kid who doesn't want to brush their teeth to looking under the bed for... + Read More
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Series: Rebent Sinner Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551527734 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 25, 2019

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, and longlisted for Canada Reads. In their latest, Ivan takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling a... + Read More
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Series: The Way Home Paperback David A. Neel 9780774890410 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2019

David Neel was an infant when his father, a traditional Kwakiutl artist, returned to the ancestors, triggering a series of events that would separate David from his homeland and its rich cultural traditions for twenty-five years. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum, the encounter inspired him to return home and follow in his father’s footsteps. Drawing on memory, legend, and his own art, Neel recounts his struggle to reconnect with his culture and become an accomplished Kwakwa_ka_’wakw artist. His m... + Read More
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Series: The Regina Collection Angry Queer Somali Boy A Complicated Memoir Hardcover Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali 9780889776593 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 05, 2019

“A tour de force.” —Omayra Issa, Radio-Canada Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia’s societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin alienating forces of Somali tradition and Western culture, Mohamed must forge his own queer coming of age. What follows in this fierce and unrelenting account is a story of one young man’s nascent sexuality fused with the violence wrought by displacement. “Heartbreaking.” —Quill & Quir... + Read More
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Series: Firestorm How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future Paperback Edward Struzik 9781610919975 $24.95 NATURE Oct 05, 2019

For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.” It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it’s not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. In Firestorm, Edward Struzik confronts this new reality, offering a deftly woven tale of science, economics, politics, and human determination. It’s possible for us to flourish in the coming ag... + Read More
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Series: Death and the Seaside Paperback Alison Moore 9781771962759 $19.95 FICTION Oct 08, 2019

A Guardian Book of the DayNearing thirty, with an abandoned degree and half-hearted dreams of becoming a writer, Bonnie Falls finally moves out of her parents’ home and into a shabby flat. When her enigmatic landlady takes an interest in her—and one of her unfinished stories—Bonnie’s aspirations are rekindled, and she’s quickly persuaded by the older woman’s suggestion that they go on holiday to a seaside town like the one in the story. A tense exploration of power and vulnerability, obsession and manipulation, Death and the Seaside is ... + Read More
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Series: The Oracle of Cumae Paperback Melissa Hardy 9781772601145 $19.95 FICTION Oct 08, 2019

Mariuccia Umbellino is a young woman living in the remote mountain village of Montemonaco, Italy, in the early years of the 19th century. Nearby, the secret recesses of the Grotto of the Fates—home to an ancient oracle of Apollo—are about to be invaded and destroyed, on orders from the Pope. But the men sent to do the dirty work don’t know who (or what) they’re dealing with. This oracle and this girl won’t be messed with. In the dark of night, Mariuccia and her mother set out to rescue their revered oracle. In the adventure that ensues, th... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC Things That Art A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity Hardcover Lochlann Jain 9781487570552 $29.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 27, 2019

Lochlann Jain’s debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between words and images, Jain’s whimsical compositions may seem straightforward. Upon closer inspection, however, the drawings reveal profound and startling paradoxes at the heart of how we make sense of the world. Commentaries by architect and theorist Maria McVarish, poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, musician and English Professor Drew Daniel, and the author offer further insight into the drawings ... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Apple Tree, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Daphne du Maurier 9781771963176 $8.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

A widower has a secret he’ll admit only to himself: Midge’s death from pneumonia comes as a relief. Yet now that he’s free of her hectoring demeanor, somehow he still feels her presence. Does he feel guilty? Or does that weather-beaten apple tree in the orchard bear an uncanny resemblance to her hunched and beaten posture?About the Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories SeriesHalloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but H.R. Wakefield, Walter de la Mare, and Daphne du Maurier felt otherwise. They were among the many authors who set their s... + Read More
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Series: The Clothesline Hardcover Orbie 9781771473903 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Oct 15, 2019

A comical story about a boy stuck on a clothesline, trying to reverse his fortunesThis is a story about a little boy who lives above a convenience store with his mom. When he goes to spend his pocket money on candy—only when Mom’s not looking—he gives the knot on the clothesline by the outdoor stairs a good yank (it makes the best sound). One day, he tugs a little too hard, and takes the stairs a little too fast, and—whiiiiiz!—gets stuck hanging smack in the middle of the clothesline. He cries for help, but Mom doesn’t hear. He waits for some... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Old Nurse's Story, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback Elizabeth Gaskell 9781771963152 $8.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

After her parents pass away, young Rosamond is raised by her nurse in the ancestral home of her aunt, Miss Furnivall. One day the two uncover an exceptionally beautiful old portrait. A relative, distant or close? And is that the strange sound of a distant organ, or simply the wind?About the Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories SeriesHalloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but H.R. Wakefield, Walter de la Mare, and Daphne du Maurier felt otherwise. They were among the many authors who set their scariest stories during the dark and shiver... + Read More
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Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Sundial, The A Ghost Story for Christmas Paperback R.H. Malden 9781771963138 $8.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

When he returns to England from the Civil Service, a man takes up residence in an old country home. Enchanted by midsummer days in the garden, he decides to install a sundial. As he waits for it to be delivered, the days grow shorter and his dreams grow dark—and when the sundial finally arrives, it isn’t alone.About the Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories SeriesHalloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but H.R. Wakefield, Walter de la Mare, and Daphne du Maurier felt otherwise. They were among the many authors who set their scariest stor... + Read More
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Series: Brewed in the North A History of Labatt's Hardcover Matthew J. Bellamy 9780773559158 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 10, 2019

For decades, the name Labatt was synonymous with beer in Canada, but no longer. Brewed in the North traces the birth, growth, and demise of one of the nation's oldest and most successful breweries. Opening a window into Canada's complicated relationship with beer, Matthew Bellamy examines the strategic decisions taken by a long line of Labatt family members and professional managers from the 1840s, when John Kinder Labatt entered the business of brewing in the Upper Canadian town of London, to the globalization of the industry in the 1990s. Sp... + Read More
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Series: Jacintha Paperback Lorraine Davies 9781459744554 $21.99 FICTION Oct 26, 2019

Some kinds of love can only be endured. Richard Wilson, a professor of English literature, and his wife, Carol, are injured in a landslide that destroys their home and takes the life of their student boarder. Richard heals from the injuries caused by the accident, but, emotionally traumatized, he withdraws into his own world, threatening his marriage. When the beautiful, intriguing Jacintha enrols in his seminar on The Tempest, Richard gradually falls under her spell. But on the verge of succumbing to his desire, he receives information that ... + Read More
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Series: The Flyer Vault 150 Years of Toronto Concert History Paperback Daniel Tate 9781459745421 $35.00 MUSIC Oct 26, 2019

A visual tour de force showcasing Toronto’s vast concert history. “Not sure there’s ever been anything like this...The graphics are fascinating, the script is comprehensive. It’s staggering what’s been unleashed from the Vault.” — Gary Topp, promoter, half of the legendary duo the Garys “These pages will take you on a musical magical mystery tour of Toronto’s important place in concert history. Reading The Flyer Vault gives you a rush, just like the one you get when the house lights go down!” — Dan Kanter, multi-platinum-selling songwriter/prod... + Read More
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Series: Almost Feral Paperback Gemma Hickey 9781550817775 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 31, 2019

***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***IPPY AWARDS SILVER MEDAL, CANADA-EAST BEST REGIONAL NONFICTION CATEGORY** ***BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD FINALIST*** ***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD - NON-FICTION FINALIST*** On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse. Almost Feral celebrates the community of support that gathered around this journey and recounts Hickey’s remarkable story ... + Read More
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Series: Dirty Birds Paperback Morgan Murray 9781550818079 $22.95 FICTION Jul 08, 2020

In late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario – not to be confused with Milton, Ontario – leaves his parents’ basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Euro-lite electric sexuality of Montreal; to bask in the endless twenty-something Millennial adolescence of the Plateau; to escape the infinite flatness of Saskatchewan and find his messiah – Leonard Cohen. Hilariously ironic and irreverent, in Dirty B... + Read More