1.
Series:
How to Lose Everything
A Memoir
Hardcover
Christa Couture
9781771622622
$26.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 19, 2020
Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion. From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician, How to Lose Everything delves into the heart of loss. Couture bears wit...
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2.
Series:
Blue Sky Kingdom
An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
Hardcover
Bruce Kirkby
9781771622691
$34.95
TRAVEL
Aug 29, 2020
One morning at breakfast, while gawking at his phone and feeling increasingly disconnected from family and everything else of importance in his world, it strikes writer Bruce Kirkby: this isn’t how he wants to live. Within days, plans begin to take shape. Bruce, his wife Christine, and their two children—seven-year-old Bodi and three-year-old Taj—will cross the Pacific by container ship, then travel onward through South Korea, China, India and Nepal aboard bus, riverboat and train, eventually traversing the Himalaya by foot. Their destination: ...
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3.
Series:
It's a Mitig!
Hardcover
Bridget George
9781771622738
$22.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 5
Sep 19, 2020
Giizis—the sun—rises. What’s hiding in the trees? It’s a Mitig! guides young readers through the forest while introducing them to Ojibwe words for nature. From sunup to sundown, encounter an amik playing with sticks and swimming in the river, a prickly gaag hiding in the bushes and a big, bark-covered mitig. Featuring vibrant and playful artwork, an illustrated Ojibwe-to-English glossary and a simple introduction to the double-vowel pronunciation system, plus accompanying online recordings, It’s a Mitig! is one of the first books of its kind. I...
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4.
Series:
Rise of Real-Life Superheroes
and the Fall of Everything Else
Paperback
Peter Nowak
9781771622509
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 12, 2020
Meanwhile, back in the darkened alleys of a city near you… trouble is brewing. A fight breaks out. A mugger shakes down an innocent tourist. Inequality is on the rise. Enter our heroes. Dark Guardian chases off an angry drug dealer in Manhattan. Mr. Xtreme charges in and breaks up a San Diego bar brawl. T.O. Ronin hugs a homeless man on the snowy streets of Toronto. These aren’t the big-screen or comic-book heroes that have been increasingly dominating pop culture. They’re real-life superheroes: individuals who take on masked personae to fight ...
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5.
Series:
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder
A Memoir
Paperback
Julia Zarankin
9781771622486
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 12, 2020
When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled on birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes and discuss the finer points of optics with disturbing fervour. What she never could have predicted was that she would become one of them. Not only would she come to identify proudly as a birder, b...
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6.
Series:
That Wasn't the Plan
A Memoir
Paperback
Reg Sherren
9781771622547
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 03, 2020
Many Canadians will remember Reg Sherren as host of the popular CBC TV program Country Canada, when he criss-crossed the nation sniffing out amazing but little-known stories of life in small towns and rural areas. Others will recall his many years as feature reporter for CBC’s flagship news program, The National, collecting stories like that of Montreal inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru magically soaring above the earth on his home-made hoverboard to set a new Guinness World Record. In the course of his eventful career, Sherren did everything fro...
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7.
Series:
Primary Obsessions
Paperback
Charles Demers
9781771622561
$18.95
FICTION
Sep 26, 2020
The endearing and unflappable Dr. Annick Boudreau regularly confronts a myriad of mental health issues in her psychology practice at the West Coast Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia. But even Annick is stunned when Sanjay, a young patient who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, is arrested for the brutal murder of his roommate. While Sanjay is tortured by repeated violent thoughts, everything Annick knows about her patient and his illness has her convinced that he’s innocent. But the police and prosecut...
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