1.
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.In a stroke of luck, Laura and her team see a mysterious purple light above the trees. Could ...
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2.
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 to move into her daughter’s home. Her daughter, 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, especially when it comes to dealing with Mar...
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3.
Series:
Money Like You Mean It
Personal Finance Tactics for the Real World
Paperback
Erica Alini
9781459748675
$21.99
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Dec 09, 2021
“The first personal finance book for the 2020s: expensive housing, BNPL, side hustles, negotiating a raise, and much more. Erica Alini is one of Canada’s top personal finance pros, and this book shows it.” —ROB CARRICKWrestle 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 ...
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4.
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 Canada in rapid succession. Each came to the job with qualifications and limitations, and each left after unexpectedly short terms. Yet these reluctant prime mini...
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5.
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 Danci...
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6.
Series:
Di-bayn-di-zi-win (To Own Ourselves)
Embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe Ways
Paperback
Jerry Fontaine
9781459748996
$24.99
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...
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7.
Series:
The Running-Shaped Hole
A memoir
Paperback
Robert Earl Stewart
9781459749054
$23.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 22, 2022
A searching, self-deprecating memoir of a man on his way to eating himself to death before discovering the anxiety and fulfillment of distance running.“Uplifting, emotional, and just plain hilarious, The Running-Shaped Hole may even inspire you to put down your fork and pick up those running shoes.” — JAY ONRAIT, TSN host and broadcasterWhen Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying 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 t...
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8.
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 true story of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the company had ever had — by becoming an international drug smuggler. In 2019, 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 environment? ...
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9.
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...
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10.
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.It's 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 to 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...
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11.
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 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 Malcolm’s life — his happiness as well as his sufferings, his heroic efforts to calm his troubled mind, his readings, his writings, hi...
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12.
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...
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13.
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 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 Mount Roya...
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14.
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 ...
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15.
Series: Secrets of the Sands
The Oracle of Avaris
The Secrets of the Sands series
Paperback
Alisha Sevigny
9781459744356
$13.99
JUVENILE FICTION
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 series finale.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 — ones with staggering implications for both her and the Hyksos people.But when the crew arrives in the bustling port city, they are stunned ...
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16.
Series:
Mountain Runaways
Paperback
Pam Withers
9781459748316
$14.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
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 s...
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17.
Series:
Funny Gyal
My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica
Paperback
Angeline Jackson
9781459749191
$15.99
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Jun 07, 2022
“Instead of remaining silent, she chose to speak out … That’s the power of one person.” — Barack ObamaThe 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 depi...
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18.
Series:
The Underground Railroad
Next Stop, Toronto!
4th edition
Paperback
Adrienne Shadd
9781459748965
$19.99
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
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! explores Toronto’s role as a destination for thousands of freedom seekers before the American Civil War. This new edition traces pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made the trip north in search of liberty and offers new biographies, images, and info...
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19.
Series:
With Faith and Goodwill
Chronicling the Canada-U.S. Friendship
Second 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 commemo...
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