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Series: A Creature X Mystery Umboi Island A Creature X Mystery Paperback J.J. Dupuis 9781459746510 $17.99 FICTION Mar 08, 2022

The Creature X team travels to Papua New Guinea to investigate sightings of a surviving pterosaur.Laura Reagan, host of Creature X, wants to leave North America behind and step out from the shadow of her father’s cryptozoological research. She leads her team to Umboi Island, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, to shoot a cryptozoological documentary about the mysterious ropen, a bioluminescent pterosaur-like creature that has somehow survived extinction. They’re sharing a camp with a U.K.-based team of scientists, and not all of their hosts ar... + Read More
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Series: Gone but Still Here A Novel Paperback Jennifer Dance 9781459748774 $21.99 FICTION Apr 19, 2022

As her recent memories fade, Mary lives increasingly in the past — returning to the secrets of her turbulent interracial love story. Coming to terms with advancing dementia, Mary has no choice other than move into her daughter’s home, but Kayla, caught between her cognitively impaired mother and her belligerent teenage son, soon finds caregiving is more challenging than she imagined. Sage, the family’s golden retriever, offers comfort and unconditional love, but she has her own problems when it comes to dealing with Mary’s cat.Throughout it all... + Read More
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Series: Money Like You Mean It Personal Finance Tactics for the Real World Paperback Erica Alini 9781459748675 $21.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jan 04, 2022

Wrestle debt to the ground. Figure out whether you should rent or buy. And determine if a side hustle is really worth the hassle. Get a job, buy a house, spend less than you make, and retire at sixty-five. That’s advice for a world that has largely disappeared. Even good jobs today often have no guarantee of stability. Home prices have reached the stratosphere. Meanwhile, student debt drags you down just as you're trying to take off in life. To survive and thrive in today’s reality, you need a whole new personal finance toolkit. Global News mon... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Prime Ministers Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper Paperback Michael Hill 9781459749320 $24.99 HISTORY Feb 22, 2022

After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years. From 1891 to 1896, between John A. Macdonald’s and Wilfrid Laurier’s tenures, four lesser-known men took on the mantle of leadership. Tory prime ministers John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell, and Charles Tupper headed the government of this country in rapid succession. Each came to the job with qualifications and limitations, and each left after unexpectedly short terms. Yet these reluctant prim... + Read More
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Series: Dancing With Robots The 29 Strategies for Success In the Age of AI and Automation Paperback Bill Bishop 9781459749023 $24.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 15, 2022

Survive and thrive in a world being taken over by robots and other advanced technology. Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. Algorithms. Blockchains. The Internet of Things. Big data analytics. 5G networks. Self-driving cars. Robotics. 3D printing. In the coming years, these technologies, and others to follow, will have a profound and dramatically disruptive impact on how we work and live. Whether we like it or not, we need to develop a good working relationship with these technologies. We need to know how to “dance” with robots. In Danc... + Read More
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Series: Di-bayn-di-zi-win (To Own Ourselves) Embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe Ways Paperback Jerry Fontaine 9781459748996 $22.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 22, 2022

An indigenized, de-colonized world view for Indigenous leaders and academics seeking a path to reconciliation. Indigenization within the academy and the idea of truth and reconciliation within Canada have been seen as the remedy to correct the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadian society. While honourable, these actions are difficult to achieve given the Western nature of institutions in Canada and the collective memory of its citizens, and the burden of proof has always been the responsibility of Anishinabeg. Authors makwa og... + Read More
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Series: The Running-Shaped Hole A memoir Paperback Robert Earl Stewart 9781459749054 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 22, 2022

A poignant, self-deprecating memoir of an overweight man who reverses his bad habits through running.When Robert Earl Stewart sees his own pants, laying freshly laundered across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag draped over a coffin — his coffin. At thirty-eight years old he weighs 368 pounds and is slowly eating himself to death. To deal with the fear and shame, he is compelled to eat until he is sick. But one day, following a terrifying doctor’s appointment, he goes for a walk — an act that sets The Running-Shaped Hole in motion. ... + Read More
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Series: Bad Trips How I Went from VICE Reporter to International Drug Smuggler Paperback Slava Pastuk 9781459749252 $22.99 TRUE CRIME Apr 05, 2022

The memoir of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the magazine had ever had — by becoming an international drug smuggler. In 2019, Canadian music reporter Slava P., an editor for VICE media, was sentenced to nine years in prison for recruiting friends into a scheme to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. into Australia. Five of them were already in jail. Immediately, Slava P. was internationally infamous. Was he a victim of pressure to commit extreme acts for the sake of a good story? A product of a drug-obsessed work envi... + Read More
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Series: Ontario Wildlife Photography Hardcover Noah Cole 9781459749504 $34.99 NATURE Nov 30, 2021

This stunning collection of wildlife photography features moose, turtles, dragonflies, shorebirds, hawks, and songbirds from the marshlands of Point Pelee to the wilderness north of Lake Superior.Explore parks and trails where colourful birds and turtles live. Behold wetlands where moose browse. Delight in vibrant butterflies and bumblebees that pollinate wildflowers. Discover all this and so much more as you travel across the province through the pages of Ontario Wildlife Photography. From the Ottawa Valley and the Frontenac Arch in the east t... + Read More
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Series: Autonomy Paperback Victoria Hetherington 9781459748477 $23.99 FICTION Feb 08, 2022

In a near future ravaged by illness, one woman and her AI companion enter a dangerous bubble of the superrich.In 2035, a fledging synthetic consciousness “wakes up” in a lab. Jenny, the lead developer, determined to nurture this synthetic being like a child, trains it for work with people at the border of the American Protectorate of Canada. She names it Julian. Two years later, Slaton, a therapist at a university, is framed by a student for arranging an illegal abortion. She follows the student to America and is detained at the border, where s... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Malcolm My Son's Life with Schizophrenia Paperback Fraser Sutherland 9781459749566 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 18, 2022

A father reflects on the rich life of his son, who died suddenly at twenty-six after living with schizophrenia. On the morning of Boxing Day 2009, the poet Fraser Sutherland and his wife, Alison, found their son, Malcolm, dead in his bedroom in their house. He was twenty-six and had died from a seizure of unknown cause. Malcolm had been living with schizophrenia since the age of seventeen.Fraser’s respectful narration of his son’s life — the boy’s happiness as well as his sufferings, his heroic efforts to calm his troubled mind, his readings, h... + Read More
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Series: Aquariums Paperback J.D. Kurtness 9781459747760 $21.99 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

An intimate yet wide-sweeping story of a marine biologist working to save ocean ecosystems from climate change.With the world’s oceans ravaged by climate change, Émeraude, a young marine biologist, works to preserve aquatic ecosystems by recreating them for zoos. When her work earns her a spot aboard a research vessel with an extended mission in the arctic, it is the inescapable draw of the ocean that will save her when the world she leaves behind is irrevocably changed.Stories of Émeraude’s ancestors — a young sailor abandoned at birth, a conj... + Read More
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Series: Celia, Misoka, I Paperback Xue Yiwei 9781459748040 $24.99 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

A meditation on the meaning of life in an increasingly global world, from acclaimed Chinese-Canadian author Xue Yiwei. Set in modern-day Montreal, Celia, Misoka, I is the poignant story of a middle-aged Chinese man who has been living in the city for fifteen years. After the death of his wife, he begins to reflect on his past and how he has ended up alone in Canada, a solitary member of the Chinese diaspora. It is in this period of angst and uncertainty, during the most unusual of winters, that he meets two women by Beaver Lake, on Montreal’s M... + Read More
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Series: Like Animals A Novel Paperback Eve Lemieux 9781459747821 $21.99 FICTION Apr 12, 2022

Too much sex in the city: a young woman goes into a self-destructive spiral after becoming obsessed with a downtown Montreal hipster.Reality, that speedy bitch, is catching up to me.In downtown Montreal, everyone is in a band or making a movie. Philomena Flynn and her best friend, Tania, are living fast and hard: There is sex when and where they want it, as well as drugs of all kinds. Not enough work, but lots of parties. Cute boys or nice boys, but rarely both at once. Philomena has no idea how to protect herself from her roaring feelings and ... + Read More
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Series: Secrets of the Sands The Oracle of Avaris The Secrets of the Sands series Paperback Alisha Sevigny 9781459744356 $13.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 9 - 12 Jan 18, 2022

A search for answers from a mysterious Oracle has Sesha and her friends navigating intrigue and danger in this thrilling conclusion to the Secrets of the Sands series.Leaving the oasis, Sesha and her friends set sail for Avaris, intent on stopping the Hyksos Chieftain from claiming the throne and declaring war on Thebes. On the journey, Sesha learns that she and the scroll are at the centre of a pair of prophecies made by a famed Oracle — prophecies with staggering implications for both her and the Hyksos people. But when the crew arrives in th... + Read More
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Series: Mountain Runaways Paperback Pam Withers 9781459748316 $14.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 12 - 15 Jan 25, 2022

Will their wilderness skills be enough to survive the dangerous Rocky Mountains? First a Canadian Rockies avalanche kills their parents. Then Children’s Services threatens to separate them. That’s when the three Gunnarsson kids decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until the oldest turns eighteen and becomes their legal guardian. Not many would dare. But Jon, Korka, and Aron’s parents ran a survival school.Turns out their plan is full of holes. When food and equipment go missing and illness and injury strike, things get ... + Read More
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Series: Funny Gyal My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica Paperback Angeline Jackson 9781459749191 $15.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 14 - 18 Jun 07, 2022

The inspiring story of Angeline Jackson, who stood up to Jamaica’s oppression of queer youth to demand recognition and justice. When Angeline Jackson was a child, she wondered if there was something wrong with her for wanting to kiss the other girls. But as her sexuality blossomed in her teens, she knew she wouldn’t “grow out of it” and that her attraction to girls wasn’t against God. In fact, she discovered that same-sex relationships were depicted in the Bible, which she read devoutly, even if the tight-knit evangelical Christian community s... + Read More
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Series: The Underground Railroad Next Stop, Toronto! 4th edition Paperback Adrienne Shadd 9781459748965 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 12 - 15 Feb 01, 2022

Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home.“An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s.” — Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The IllegalThe Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! is a richly illustrated book that explores Toronto’s role as a destination for thousands of freedom-seekers before the American Civil War. This newly revised edition traces pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made the trip north in search of liberty,... + Read More
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Series: With Faith and Goodwill Chronicling the Canada-U.S. Friendship 2nd edition Hardcover Arthur Milnes 9781459749986 $75.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2022

Canada and the United States share something truly unique. Canada and the United States share common ground and an uncommon partnership. But what most distinguishes the Canada-U.S. relationship is neither geographic nor commercial — it’s personal. Our special relationship is the product of shared values, countless cross-border connections, and generations of combined experience. Our two countries have grown into more than just friends. We are family. And our family ties have been tested in the years since this book was first published to commem... + Read More