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Series: The Alchemists’ Council The Amber Garden The Alchemists’ Council, Book 3 Paperback Cynthea Masson 9781770412750 $19.95 FICTION Mar 24, 2020

The stunning and beautifully crafted conclusion to The Alchemists’ Council series In Book Three of The Alchemists’ Council trilogy, eternal conflicts between the Council and Rebel Branch escalate. Secrets about time-travel manipulation are revealed, uncomfortable truths about alchemical children are discovered, and Council dimension itself begins to disintegrate. Amidst this fallout, the Amber Garden dissolves, conjoined pairs suffer torturous separation, alchemists die in the process, and Cedar is banished to the outside world where she ... + Read More
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Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery Postmark Berlin A Mystery Hardcover Anne Emery 9781770413870 $32.95 FICTION May 19, 2020

From two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award comes a new mystery that will keep readers guessing along with Collins and Burke. From Halifax, Nova Scotia all the way to Berlin, Germany, Father Brennan Burke searches for answers in the murder of a parishioner and finds that she was a woman with many secrets in her past. Father Brennan Burke is coming off a rough stint in Belfast and he’s been trying to obliterate those memories with drink ever since. His troubles intensify when the body of one of his parishioners washes up on the beach in... + Read More
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Series: A Frank Yakabuski Mystery Mission Road A Frank Yakabuski Mystery Paperback Ron Corbett 9781770413962 $19.95 FICTION Jun 09, 2020

From the Edgar Award– and Arthur Ellis Award– nominated author of Ragged Lake comes the third installment in the Frank Yakabuski series In the final scene of Cape Diamond, millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds went missing, which is where Ron Corbett’s latest novel begins. When rumors spread that they were buried on Mission Road, an old logging trail outside the town, people swarm to the area, setting up temporary camps and searching for fortune. But when a known murderer shows up, the real mystery begins. Detective Frank Yakabuski mus... + Read More
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Series: Who Is The Doctor Who Is The Doctor 2 The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who — The Modern Series Paperback Graeme Burk 9781770414150 $24.95 PERFORMING ARTS Mar 17, 2020

Travel with the Doctor in this essential companion for the modern Doctor Who era Since its return to British television in 2005, through its 50th anniversary in 2013, to its historic casting of actress Jodie Whittaker in the title role, Doctor Who continues to be one of the most popular series in Britain and all over the world. Who Is The Doctor 2 is a guide to the new series of Doctor Who starring Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and Jodie Whittaker. Every episode in series 7 to 11, as well as the 50th anniversary specials, is examined, anal... + Read More
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Series: A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery Bitter Paradise A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery Paperback Ross Pennie 9781770414655 $19.95 FICTION May 26, 2020

Fans of Bones and Coroner will love Dr. Zol Szabo, a doctor who is out to solve medical mysteries before it’s too late After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria’s secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel for a barber’s humble clippers. Though he aches to regain his once- prominent surgical career... + Read More
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Series: The Eighth Wonder of the World The True Story of André the Giant Hardcover Bertrand Hébert 9781770414662 $34.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 14, 2020

From field producer for HBO’s André the Giant Pat Laprade and renowned wrestling historian Bertrand Hébert comes a definitive and exhaustive biography of André the Giant. “The gold standard for wrestling biographies.” — Wrestling Observer Is there a way to find truth in the stuff of legend? You may think you know André the Giant — but who was André Roussimoff? Through exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with family and friends, The Eighth Wonder of the World offers a comprehensive exploration of André’s amazing wrestling career... + Read More
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Series: Ted Templeman A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music Paperback Templeman Ted 9781770414839 $24.95 MUSIC Apr 21, 2020

Crafting smash hits with Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Nicolette Larson, and Van Morrison, legendary music producer Ted Templeman changed the course of rock history This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templeman’s remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the ’70s and ’80s. Along the way, Ted details his late ’60s stint as an unlikely star with the sunshine pop outfit Harpers Bizarre and his grind-it-out days as a Warner Bros. tape listener, in... + Read More
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Series: Gideon’s Bible A Father & Son Discuss God, the Bible and Life Hardcover Rick Salutin 9781770414853 $29.95 RELIGION May 05, 2020

A singular exploration of the Hebrew Bible, playfully illustrated by renowned cartoonist and illustrator Duan Petricic Gideon’s Bible is a conversation between Rick Salutin, and his son, Gideon. It begins with Gideon as a child, asking why he was given his name. Rick says it’s from the Bible and Gideon asks, “What’s the Bible?” Although the conversations portrayed in the book span all the years of Gideon’s life, most of them occurred during his more recent years in high school. The book consists of 64 wildly illustrated colour pages. It... + Read More
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Series: From Hire to Inspire How to Become the Best Boss Hardcover David Lahey 9781770414877 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 10, 2020

A blueprint for becoming the best boss you can be North Americans work 90,000 hours in their lifetime. Wouldn’t they enjoy working in a job they love, with a boss who energizes them? David Lahey’s From Hire to Inspire can help make that happen. With advice for all types of companies, From Hire to Inspire is a road map to becoming a better boss — maybe even the best boss — and to helping your employees achieve their potential. Using a new set of behavioral science analytics, Lahey shows you how to determine what types of work different p... + Read More
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Series: Toe Blake Winning Is Everything Paperback Paul Logothetis 9781770414907 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 24, 2020

The first ever biography of Toe Blake — Hockey Hall of Famer and eleven-time Stanley Cup winner “Holy Dirty Dora!” Hector “Toe” Blake would bark while pacing behind the Montreal Canadiens bench, hands thrust into his pockets, jawing at chewing gum before intentionally banging his forehead into the glass that separates players and fans. No lead was safe or sufficient for the lifelong hockey man at the helm of the greatest dynasty in NHL history. As a player, Toe won a Stanley Cup with the Montreal Maroons before captaining a stumbling Cana... + Read More
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Series: Take Back the Tray Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions Paperback Joshna Maharaj 9781770414914 $23.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 05, 2020

A beloved chef takes on institutional food and sparks a revolution with this manifesto, memoir from the trenches, and blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines. “With hard-won insights and deep commitment, Joshna Maharaj takes us on a mouthwatering tour of what our collective food future might be.” ? Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability ... + Read More
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Series: Misconduct of the Heart A Novel Paperback Cordelia Strube 9781770414945 $22.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

Toronto Book Award Winner Cordelia Strube is back with another caustic, subversive, and darkly humorous book Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged five-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter. In the tight grip of... + Read More
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Series: Music Lessons Paperback Bob Wiseman 9781770415126 $22.95 MUSIC Jul 06, 2020

Bob Wiseman believes most things in life are universal or, as Lauryn Hill says, everything is everything. Bearing in mind that advice, Wiseman writes about finding the link between music and daily life, like what is common between Mary Margaret O’Hara, hiding around the corner with the lights turned off in order to record herself and his 5-year-old insisting he stop hurrying to her dance lesson and marvel at the fluff ball she is blowing toward the ceiling. Each entry is unique and compellingly written, but the themes throughout — on improv... + Read More
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Series: Moments of Glad Grace A Memoir Paperback Alison Wearing 9781770415133 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 07, 2020

“Beautifully written and perfectly executed from first to last sentence.” — Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi “A richly layered journey, charmingly told.” — Plum Johnson, author of They Left Us Everything A moving and witty memoir about a daughter’s evolving relationship with her aging father and their shared journey to belonging. The story begins as a trip from Canada to Ireland in search of genealogical data and documents. Being 80 and in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, Joe invites his daughter Alison to come along as his r... + Read More
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Series: Artistic Glass One Studio and Fifty Years of Stained Glass Paperback Cloe Joël Aigner 9781770415164 $55.00 ART Jan 15, 2020

Celebrating 50 years of a master craftsman Arts and crafts help define a culture; they reflect people’s values, beliefs, and the things they hold dear. Artistic Glass: One Studio and Fifty Years of Stained Glass is the first of its kind: a full-color large format art book contextualizing the history of stained glass in Canada and showcasing the life and work of Josef Aigner, an artist and master craftsman whose 50-year career has had a lasting impact on the Canadian art landscape. Written and photographed by the artist’s daughter, Cloe ... + Read More
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Series: Running from the Dead A Crime Novel Paperback Mike Knowles 9781770415195 $19.95 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

For fans of Don Winslow and readers of noir comes Running from the Dead, critically acclaimed and award winning author Mike Knowles’s newest crime novel THREE STARRED REVIEWS “The best private detective novel I’ve read in some time … This one deserves an award.” — Bay Observer After his six-year search for a kidnapped boy ends in a suspicious murder, private detective Sam Jones is forced to take matters into his own hands: he must track down a missing girl and clear his name before the police track him down. Private detective Sam Jo... + Read More
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Series: Rush Across the Decades Anthem: Rush in the ’70s Hardcover Martin Popoff 9781770415201 $39.95 MUSIC May 12, 2020

The definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the early days of the band on tour and in the studio With extensive, first-hand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends, and fellow musicians, Anthem: Rush in the ’70s is a detailed portrait of Canada’s greatest rock ambassadors. The first of three volumes, Anthem puts the band’s catalog, from their self-titled debut to 1978’s Hemispheres (the next volume resumes with ... + Read More
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Series: Miscreations Poems Paperback Grant Loveys 9781770415225 $19.95 POETRY Apr 07, 2020

Winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters Award and the Cuffer Prize for Fiction Miscreations, the second collection by Grant Loveys, mulls over the metaphorical concept of miscreation — how people, objects, and relationships are imperfectly designed by their various creators — through the use of direct, visceral language, and frank, sometimes shocking, imagery. Unconcerned with aesthetic imperfections, Miscreations focuses instead on how people and situations can be created from unstable, often opposing, elements and exami... + Read More
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Series: The Case for Climate Capitalism Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis Hardcover Tom Rand 9781770415232 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 03, 2020

Tom Rand's climate change treatise is a rallying call to put aside our differences, reclaim capitalism, force profits to align with the planet, and transition to a low-carbon, clean-energy economy. Publishers Weekly hails it as “[a] strong, well-reasoned argument for the left and right to work together for the common good.” “A necessarily provocative take-down of economic, political and climate change orthodoxies paired with a radically practical plan for finally getting serious about saving ourselves.” — Tim Gray, Executive Director, Env... + Read More
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Series: Riven Poems Paperback Catherine Owen 9781770415249 $19.95 POETRY Apr 14, 2020

Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry In 2010, Catherine Owen’s 29-year-old spouse died of a drug addiction. A year later, she relocated to an apartment by the Fraser River in Vancouver, B.C. As she moved beyond the initial shock, the river became her focus: a natural, damaged space that both intensifies emotion and symbolizes healing. In a sequence of aubades, or dawn poems, Owen records the practice of walking by or watching the river every morning, a routine that helps her engage in the tough work of mourning. Riven (a ... + Read More
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Series: The Subtweet A Novel Paperback Vivek Shraya 9781770415256 $21.95 FICTION Apr 07, 2020

2021 Dublin Literary Award Finalist 2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist for Transgender Fiction 2020 Toronto Book Awards Finalist “The Subtweet is affecting, unnerving, empowering, and often truly LOL.” — Foreword Reviews, starred review “A beautifully crafted novel about race, music, and social media.” — Booklist Includes an exclusive free soundtrack Celebrated multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya’s second novel is a no-holds-barred examination of the music industry, social media, and making art in the modern era, shining a... + Read More
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Series: The Proximity Paradox How to Create Distance from Business as Usual and Do Something Truly Innovative Paperback Kiirsten May 9781770415324 $23.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 24, 2020

The Proximity Paradox will show you how to step back from your business to focus your creativity and meet your clients’ needs “Innovative … It’s a much-needed perspective on how to escape inside-the-box thinking.” — Publishers Weekly Traditional business structures love stability and predictability. Yet many organizations believe the two essential ingredients for long-term success are creativity and innovation. Kiirsten May and Alex Varricchio, founders of the marketing agency UpHouse, call the relationship between these two opposing ex... + Read More
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Series: Kill All the Lawyers A Mystery Paperback William Deverell 9781770419964 $19.95 FICTION Apr 14, 2020

“A bitingly funny whodunit.” — Maclean’s Arthur P. Besterman, criminal lawyer and reformed alcoholic, was the first to go. Counsel to Vancouver’s assorted shifters and grifters, Besterman almost always lost his cases. But a recent victory defending a low-life client might be a clue as to why he was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat. Then when someone takes a pot shot at philandering lawyer Brian Pomeroy after he successfully defended a group of controversial eco- terrorists, people start to take notice. All of a sudden, lawyers whos... + Read More
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Series: A Collins-Burke Mystery Though the Heavens Fall A Mystery Paperback Anne Emery 9781770415294 $19.95 FICTION May 19, 2020

Winner of the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel “Emery populates 1995 Belfast so conscientiously and evokes its atmosphere so faithfully …” — Kirkus Reviews As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and “peace walls” segregating one community from another. But the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it’s as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family. And it’s a goo... + Read More
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Series: Artistic Glass One Studio and Fifty Years of Stained Glass Hardcover Cloe Joël Aigner 9781770415591 $55.00 ART Jan 15, 2020

Celebrating 50 years of a master craftsman Arts and crafts help define a culture; they reflect people’s values, beliefs, and the things they hold dear. Artistic Glass: One Studio and Fifty Years of Stained Glass is the first of its kind: a full-color large format art book contextualizing the history of stained glass in Canada and showcasing the life and work of Josef Aigner, an artist and master craftsman whose 50-year career has had a lasting impact on the Canadian art landscape. Written and photographed by the artist’s daughter, Cloe ... + Read More