BNC CataList - On-Sale Date Changes

Are you sure you want to remove your recommendation for

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

William Holt

Thank you for your recommendation

You are recommending:

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

#/1000 characters

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You are recommending:

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You recommended this title on September 12 2019

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You recommended this title on September 12 2019

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

This is a really great book that really opens your eyes to the use of hokey-pokey snakeoil based teething pain treatments that aren't Tylenol or Motrin based. Or then something else entirely that has nothing to do

0/1000 characters

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

Request a reading copy

You are requesting an advance reading copy of by

This request will be submitted to

I prefer:

Digital Print Any format

Mailing Address* required*

Requested by
Job title *required*

Please provide any additional information you would like the publisher to know that would support your request

# of 250 characters left

Reading copies are not available for all forthcoming titles, and are supplied at the sole discretion of the publisher.

* missing required field

Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate contact at

You will receive a copy of the email request. Any questions about the status of your request should be directed to the publisher contact.

Request a reading copy

You have already requested a reading copy of by

The request was made on . Any questions about the status of your request should be directed to the publisher contact:

You are exporting:

This order will be exported using the default fund codes assigned to each branch, and

Override the fund code defaults for the export

User fund code

Close this order after export

On-Sale Date Changes - Canadian Publishers

Create Template

Give your template a name Please provide a name.

Choose a base template
Single

List

Tile
- Default PDFs
  Single
  List
  Tile

DRAFT

1.
Series: Diala's Kitchen Plant-Forward and Pescatarian Recipes Inspired by Home and Travel Hardcover Diala Canelo 9780735234932 $38.00 COOKING Aug 04, 2020

Food and travel writer Diala Canelo shares 100 healthy, vegetable-forward recipes inspired by her international travel.On any given day, you’ll find Diala Canelo travelling around the world, walking the streets of her favourite cities—including Barcelona, Paris, Melbourne, Mexico City, Florence, and Santo Domingo, where she grew up near the sea—places that inspire her flavourful and nourishing cooking. Influenced by local flavours, fresh ingredients, and a passion for healthy meals made from scratch, Diala’s recipes embrace the beauty in simply... + Read More
2.
Series: NISHGA Hardcover Jordan Abel 9780771007903 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada’s residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.As a Nisga’a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga’a language, Nisga’a community, and Nisga’a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerational survivor of residential school—both of his grandparents attended the same re... + Read More
3.
Series: Magdalena River of Dreams Hardcover Wade Davis 9780735278929 $39.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2020

A captivating new book from Wade Davis—award-winning, bestselling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade—that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia’s complex past, present, and futureTravelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterful new book, the bestselling author tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nat... + Read More
4.
Series: Planet Canada How Our Expats Are Shaping the Future Hardcover John Stackhouse 9780345815804 $35.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 06, 2020

A leading thinker on Canada’s place in the world contends that our country’s greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don’t live here.Entrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province’s worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won’t. But what they all share is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world sorely in need of them. And to act as ambassadors for Canada in industries and societies where diplomatic efforts find little traction. Surely a count... + Read More
5.
Series: My Mother's Daughter A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph Hardcover Perdita Felicien 9780385689960 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together.Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation’s hopes: she carried her mother’s dreams.In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she’s also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it’s her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to b... + Read More
6.
Series: Lucy Crisp and the Vanishing House Hardcover Janet Hill 9781770499249 $21.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 14, 2020

After moving to a seemingly quaint and quiet new town, Lucy faces a new reality in which fairies exist, weather can be bottled and witches hold grudges. Accompanied by gorgeous color paintings, this novel is perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, The Hazel Wood and Gregory Maguire.It has been a year since Lucy Crisp graduated from high school and she still hasn’t found her calling. That is, until she discovers an exclusive arts college called Ladywyck Lodge. On a whim, she applies and is thrilled to be accepted into th... + Read More
7.
Series: Relax, Dammit! A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety Hardcover Timothy Caulfield 9780735236325 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2020

WINNER of the 2021 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book AwardWINNER of the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards’ Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction“Will vaccinate you against misinformation!”—Dr. Jen Gunter, renowned gynecologist and author of The Vagina BibleAn entertaining and practical guide to getting through the day with less stress and better health, from the host of the hit TV series A User’s Guide to Cheating Death.We make a ridiculous number of decisions every day—possibly even thousands. We make decisions about when to wake up... + Read More
8.
Series: The BC Wine Lover's Cookbook Recipes & Stories from Wineries Across British Columbia Hardcover Jennifer Schell 9780525610366 $35.00 COOKING Jun 23, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERDiscover the vineyards, valleys, islands, deserts—and kitchens—of BC’s Wine Country in this collection of recipes, tour ideas, menus and more.Take a tour through beautiful British Columbia with award-winning cookbook author and winemaker Jennifer Schell. The BC Wine Lover’s Cookbook shares family stories and recipes from 53 top wineries located across the province—from the verdant, rolling fields of the Okanagan and Fraser Valley, to the misty coastlines of Vancouver Island, and beyond.Meet the winemakers of BC wine country a... + Read More
9.
Series: Falastin A Cookbook Hardcover Sami Tamimi 9780525610151 $45.00 COOKING Jun 16, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFalastin is a soulful tour of Palestinian cookery today from Ottolenghi’s Executive Chef Sami Tamimi, with 120 highly cookable recipes contextualized by his personal narrative of the Palestine he grew up in.The story of Palestine’s food is really the story of its people. When the events of 1948 forced people from all the regions of Palestine together into one compressed land, recipes that were once closely guarded family secrets were shared and passed between different groups in an effort to ensure that they were not lost for... + Read More
10.
Series: Forest Green Hardcover Kate Pullinger 9780385683043 $29.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler, a powerful, heartrending novel about a man on the run from himself, by Governor General’s Award-winning author Kate Pullinger.On a rain-soaked Vancouver sidewalk in 1995, a homeless man fights for breath. Forest Green is the story of how he ended up there.Arthur Lunn is a golden boy who spends long summer days roaming the hills and swimming in the lakes of the Okanagan Valley. But the Great Depression is destroying lives, even in Art’s remote and bucolic hometown. Soon, Art finds himself caught up... + Read More
11.
Series: The Expendables How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization Hardcover Jeff Rubin 9780735279391 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 18, 2020

From the #1 bestselling author of Why Your World Is About to Get A Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback—from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe—will change the developed world.Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the developed world, it is.Former CIB... + Read More
12.
Series: Maenam A Fresh Approach to Thai Cooking Hardcover Angus An 9780147530943 $35.00 COOKING Aug 04, 2020

More than 100 flavor-driven Thai recipes built on technique, balance, tradition, and innovation from award-winning chef Angus An.In Maenam, chef Angus An takes you on his ongoing journey of discovering Thai cuisine and shows how to blend traditional Thai flavors and cooking techniques with local, seasonal inspirations from the west coast. With Angus’s foolproof instructions, Maenam offers the foundation to modern Thai cuisine for adventurous cooks of all skill levels. Filled with over 100 of his signature recipes, each meal balances robust, int... + Read More
13.
Series: Utopia Avenue A novel Hardcover David Mitchell 9780345809810 $36.00 FICTION Jul 14, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe hotly anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas.Utopia Avenue may be the most extraordinary British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the Top 10; to Amsterdam, Rome and a fateful Ame... + Read More
14.
Series: Hand Drawn Hand Drawn Vancouver Sketches of the City's Neighbourhoods, Buildings, and People Hardcover Emma FitzGerald 9780147531209 $24.95 TRAVEL Jun 23, 2020

Visitors and locals alike will love this book of whimsical sketches of Vancouver, British Columbia, accompanied by thoughtful observations and snippets of overheard conversations.Take a tour of Vancouver’s sights and sidewalks with Emma FitzGerald’s hand-drawn impressions of her hometown, a city filled with stories—funny, surprising, and sometimes dark—amidst the cherry blossoms, beaches, and forests. Included are more than 100 sketches completed on location that, together, capture the essence of Vancouver. From Stanley Park’s seawall to Kitsil... + Read More
15.
Series: Growing Young How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 Paperback Marta Zaraska 9780525610182 $22.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jun 16, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA smart, research-driven case for why optimism, kindness, and strong social networks will help us live to 100.From the day her daughter was born, science journalist Marta Zaraska fretted about what she and her family were eating. She fasted, considered adopting the keto diet, and ran a half-marathon. She bought goji berries and chia seeds and ate organic food.But then her research brought her to read countless scientific papers and to interview dozens of experts in various fields of study, including molecular biochemistry, ep... + Read More
16.
Series: Food to Grow On The Ultimate Guide to Childhood Nutrition--From Pregnancy to Packed Lunches Paperback Sarah Remmer RD 9780525609995 $29.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 13, 2021

The definitive guide to childhood nutrition, packed with practical advice to support you through pregnancy, and up until your little one starts school. Food to Grow On gives you the tools to confidently nourish your growing child, and set them up with a positive relationship with food for life.From the moment you know a baby is on the way, you want what’s best for your child. Enter Food to Grow On to coach you through every stage of feeding your child in their early years of life. Laid out in an easy-to- navigate question and answer style, this... + Read More
17.
Series: Every Step She Takes Paperback K.L. Armstrong 9780385693677 $22.00 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

A gripping new thriller by the author of the instant bestseller Wherever She Goes.Sometimes there’s no use running from your past….Genevieve has secrets that no one knows. In Rome she can be whoever she wants to be. Her neighbours aren’t nosy; her Italian is passable; the shopkeepers and restaurant owners now see her as a local, and they let her be. It’s exactly what she wants.One morning, after getting groceries, she returns to her 500-year-old Trastevere apartment. She climbs to the very top of the staircase, the stairs narrowing the higher s... + Read More
18.
Series: Kill the Mall Paperback Pasha Malla 9780735273498 $25.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“Pasha Malla writes like a reincarnated Kafka.” —Ian Williams, winner of the Giller Prize for ReproductionDouglas Adams meets David Lynch in this ingenious, witty fable about one of North America’s most surreal inventions—the local mall.After writing a letter in praise of malls, our eccentric narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for several weeks, splitting his time between “making work” and “engaging the public,” all while chronicling his adventures in weekly progress reports.Bef... + Read More
19.
Series: The Certainties Hardcover Aislinn Hunter 9780735276871 $29.95 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

A vivid, moving novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates of two very different refugees.In 1940, as the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, three mysterious travelers enter a village in Spain. They have the appearance of Parisian intellectuals, but the trio of two men and a woman are starving and exhausted from crossing illegally through the Pyrenees. Their story, told over a period of 48 tense hours, is narrated by one of the men, who slowly accepts his unthinkable fate. In a voice despairing and elega... + Read More
20.
Series: The Devil's Trick How Canada Fought the Vietnam War Hardcover John Boyko 9780735278004 $32.00 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

Forty-five years after the fall of Saigon, John Boyko brings to light the little-known story of Canada’s involvement in the American War in Vietnam.Through the lens of six remarkable people, some well-known, others obscure, bestselling historian John Boyko recounts Canada’s often-overlooked involvement in that conflict as peacemaker, combatant, and provider of weapons and sanctuary.When Brigadier General Sherwood Lett arrived in Vietnam over a decade before American troops, he and the Canadians under his command risked their lives trying to enf... + Read More
21.
Series: Love Paperback Roddy Doyle 9780735279889 $24.95 FICTION Jun 23, 2020

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of confidences—some planned, some spontaneous—in this captivating new book from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.Old friends meet up on a summer’s evening at a Dublin restaurant. Both are now married with grown-up children, and their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in stor... + Read More
22.
Series: Hamnet and Judith A novel Paperback Maggie O'Farrell 9780735280175 $24.95 FICTION Jul 21, 2020

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“[An] exceptional winner…. It expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring.”—Martha Lane Fox, Chair of The Women’s Prize for Fiction judgesTWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A PLAGUE THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.England, 1580. A young Latin tutor—penniless, bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an eccentric young wom... + Read More
23.
Series: The Testaments A Novel Paperback Margaret Atwood 9780771009457 $22.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEMargaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes?Story Locale: Gilead
24.
Series: Children of My Heart Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Gabrielle Roy 9780771057663 $19.95 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

A Canadian classic, Children of My Heart is a profound and compassionate testimony to the indomitable human spirit. Set in the prairies of the 1930s, and rich with the author’s own memories of her time there as a young woman, Children of My Heart is the powerful story of an impressionable and passionate teenaged teacher and the children whose lives she touched.From immigrant families now living in unforgiving surroundings, many of the students have been wounded by poverty and misfortune. Most memorable is Médéric, a seemingly hostile boy who op... + Read More
25.
Series: This Side Jordan Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780771057748 $21.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

A major work of lasting significance, This Side Jordan creates echoes in the mind of the reader as resonant as the drums of Ghana.Best known for her novels about the Canadian prairie, Margaret Laurence began her career writing about West Africa. Based on her experience living with her husband on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in the years just before independence, This Side Jordan confronts issues of race relations, sexism, and colonial exploitation.This lyrical, vivid novel addresses all of the tensions of the time: the excitement, anticipation, a... + Read More
26.
Series: The Tomorrow-Tamer Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780771057755 $21.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom.With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brill... + Read More
27.
Series: Strange Hotel Paperback Eimear McBride 9780771062148 $23.00 FICTION May 26, 2020

From the multi-award-winning author of the literary phenomenon A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, an exquisitely rendered and emotionally devastating meditation on love, loneliness, grief, and the possibilities for renewal.A nameless woman enters a non-descript hotel room she’s been in once before, many years ago. Though the room hasn’t changed, she has, as have the dimensions of her life. As she goes on to occupy a series of hotel rooms around the world—each of which reflects back some aspect of herself—we begin to piece together the details of wh... + Read More
28.
Series: Natural Killer A Memoir Paperback Harriet Alida Lye 9780771049231 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 29, 2020

“I need people to know that I exist, that their experiment worked, that by some combination of luck and science, I’m alive.”In this harrowing and intimate memoir, Harriet Alida Lye explores how, at just fifteen years old, she was diagnosed with a form of leukemia called Natural Killer, named “the rarest and worst malignancy.” The average survival time of patients with this diagnosis is fifty-eight days. There are no known survivors. There were no known survivors.Fifteen years after Harriet’s diagnosis, she became pregnant, despite having been t... + Read More
29.
Series: The Fabled Stables The Fabled Stables: Willa the Wisp Hardcover Jonathan Auxier 9780735267725 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Oct 20, 2020

The first book in a magical chapter-book adventure series by the Governor General Award-winning author of Sweep.Auggie Pound is eight years old and has the greatest job of all time: he cares for all the animals in the Fabled Stables. The Fabled Stables house the rarest creatures in existence—all of them one-of-a-kind. Auggie’s job is to care for these creatures, as well as track down and safely capture endangered magical beasts in the wild. Some mornings, he arrives to find an empty stall with the name of a new creature to rescue. One day, the ... + Read More
30.
Series: Here We Are Hardcover Graham Swift 9780735279797 $25.00 FICTION Sep 22, 2020

One of the best writers at work today, author of the internationally acclaimed Mothering Sunday, brings us another superbly conceived novel that, with astonishing economy, touches depths and evokes wonders—not least because its central theme is magic.In the summer of 1959, at the pier theatre in Brighton, England, a variety show unfurls every night, held together by Jack Robinson, its master of ceremonies. At 28, already a veteran of the stage, he introduces the performers with some showmanship of his own, and he knows how to send the audience ... + Read More
31.
Series: End of the Rope Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood Paperback Jan Redford 9780345812322 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 04, 2020

In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, the gritty, funny, achingly honest story of a young climber’s struggle to become whole by testing herself on mountains and life.As a young teenager Jan Redford runs away from a cottage and her abusive father and throws herself against a 100-foot cliff face. Somewhere in that shaky, outraged kid is a bedrock belief in her right to exist, which carries her to the top. In that brief flash of victory, she sets her sights on becoming a climber.Falling in love with climbing eventually leads to falling in lov... + Read More
32.
Series: The Braver Thing Paperback Clifford Jackman 9780735280212 $24.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

From the acclaimed author of The Winter Family, a swash-buckling adventure from piracy’s Golden Age and a deft political allegory for our troubled times. Treasure Island meets Lord of the Flies.In 1721, when the most notorious pirates are either dead or on the run, Jimmy Kavanagh, who sailed with Blackbeard, decides to pull together a “Company of Gentleman of Fortune” for one last “Adventuring Cruise” that will set them all up for life. All begins well: the pirates sail across the Atlantic and sack Cape Coast Castle, looting it of chests of gol... + Read More
33.
Series: Memoirs and Misinformation A novel Hardcover Jim Carrey 9780735280595 $32.00 FICTION Jul 07, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“None of this is real and all of it is true.”—Jim CarreyFrom movie star Jim Carrey and novelist Dana Vachon, a fearless and semi-autobiographical novel about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, destruction of persona, our “one big soul,” Canada, and apocalypses within and without.Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege—but he’s also lonely. Maybe past h... + Read More
34.
Series: To Hell and Back An Autobiography Hardcover Niki Lauda 9781529106794 $35.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 21, 2020

Niki Lauda drove a car for sport, but crossed the line between life and death and fought back to even greater glory. Even people who know nothing of Formula One have heard of his crash at Nurburgring in 1976, when we was dragged from the inferno of his Ferrari so badly injured he was given the last rites. Within 33 days, he was racing again at Monza. His wounds bled, he had no eyelids. He was terrified. A year later, he reclaimed his World Championship title.In To Hell and Back he reveals how he battled fear to stage a comeback that seemed beyo... + Read More
35.
Series: Innocent Heroes Stories of animals in the First World War Paperback Sigmund Brouwer 9780735267978 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 May 19, 2020

A unique celebration of the important role animals play in war, and an insightful look at the taking of Vimy Ridge from the perspective of 3 soldiers in a Canadian platoon.Never before have the stories of animal war heroes been collected in such a special way. This book consists of eight connected fictional stories about a Canadian platoon in WWI. The Storming Normans have help from some very memorable animals: we meet a dog who warns soldiers in the trench of a gas attack, a donkey whose stubbornness saves the day, a cat who saves soldiers fro... + Read More
36.
Series: The Fight for History 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War Hardcover Tim Cook 9780735238336 $35.00 HISTORY Sep 08, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSA masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country’s emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian n... + Read More
37.
Series: A History of My Brief Body Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237780 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 25, 2020

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexua... + Read More
38.
Series: Eating Out Loud Bold Middle Eastern Flavors for All Day, Every Day Hardcover Eden Grinshpan 9780735238695 $35.00 COOKING Sep 01, 2020

Discover a playful new take on Middle Eastern cuisine with more than 100 fresh, flavorful recipes.“Finally! Eden Grinshpan is letting us in on her secrets of her healthful and deliriously delicious cooking.”—Bobby FlayEden Grinshpan’s accessible cooking is full of bright tastes and textures that reflect her Israeli heritage and laid-back but thoughtful style. In Eating Out Loud, Eden introduces readers to a whirlwind of exciting flavors, mixing and matching simple, traditional ingredients in new ways: roasted whole heads of broccoli topped with... + Read More
39.
Series: This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart A Memoir in Halves Paperback Madhur Anand 9780771007774 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 2020

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…. This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual tour de force.”—Jane UrquhartAn experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma using the imagined voices of the past and the vital authority of the present.We begin before the red line is draw... + Read More
40.
Series: Rockbound Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Frank Parker Day 9780735239708 $21.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

The timeless novel of Nova Scotia’s South ShoreA dreamy, optimistic, and youthful David Jung comes to claim his small share of the harsh domain of Rockbound, an island currently governed by the righteous and rapacious Uriah Jung. As David tries to find his way in a narrow and controlled world, he struggles for survival against his many conflicts and enemies: the sea, his own behavior, his best friend Gershom Born, the secret love he has for his teacher Mary Dauphiny, and—inevitably—his Jung relatives and their greedy ambitions for money and pow... + Read More
41.
Series: Jackson Brodie Big Sky Paperback Kate Atkinson 9780385691574 $22.00 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

New York Times BestsellerInternational BestsellerIconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel by the brilliant Kate Atkinson about secrets, sex, and lies.Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It’s picturesque, but there’s something darker lurking behind the scenes.Jackson’s current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard is... + Read More
42.
Series: This Little Light Paperback Lori Lansens 9780735276444 $21.00 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis brilliant novel is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. By the bestselling author of The Girls and The Mountain Story.Taking place over 48 hours in the year 2024, this is the story of Rory Anne Miller, on the run with her best friend because they are accused of bombing their posh Californian high school during an American Virtue Ball. There’s a bounty on their heads, and... + Read More
43.
Series: A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom Hardcover John Boyne 9780385695855 $34.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

From the award-winning author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies comes an epic tale of humanity that stretches across space and time.Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father’s violence in his blood. One with his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning.Their stories will in... + Read More
44.
Series: Catch 22 My Battles, in Hockey and Life Hardcover Rick Vaive 9780735280298 $32.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 17, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWas one of the most unheralded captains of the Toronto Maple Leafs also one of the greatest players in the history of hockey’s most popular team? In telling his story of turmoil in Toronto’s Ballard years (and with Don Cherry’s Mississauga Ice Dogs), growing up in an environment filled with alcohol and alcoholism, and his own struggles and battles, Rick Vaive finally sets the record straight.In the storied history of the Toronto Maple Leafs, no player scored fifty goals in a season until Rick Vaive in 1981-82. He did it three... + Read More
45.
Series: Commanding Hope The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril Hardcover Thomas Homer-Dixon 9780307363169 $36.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

From the #1 BESTSELLING thought leader: Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even Lord of the Rings, Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink.For three decades, the renowned author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, and The Ingenuity Gap: Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?, has examined the threats to our future security—predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social insta... + Read More