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1.
How to Own the Room Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking Paperback Viv Groskop 9781443459426 $18.99 Mar 19, 2019

A powerful guide for every woman looking to find—or amplify—her voiceMost books about public speaking don’t tell you what to do when you open your mouth and nothing comes out. And they don’t tell you how to get over the performance anxiety that most people naturally have. They don’t tell you what to do in the moments when you are made, as a woman, to feel small. They don’t tell you how to own the room. This book does.From the way Michelle Obama projects “happy high status,” and the power of J.K.Rowling’s understated speaking style, to Virginia ... + Read More
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Rush to Danger Medics in the Line of Fire Hardcover Ted Barris 9781443447928 $32.99 Aug 20, 2019

Noted military historian Ted Barris once asked his father, Alex, “What did you do in the war?” What the former US Army medic then told his son forms the thrust of Barris’s latest historic journey—an exploration of his father’s wartime experiences as a medic leading up to the Battle of the Bulge in 1944–45, along with stories of other medics in combat throughout history. Barris’s research reveals that this bloodiest of WWII battles was shouldered largely by military medics. Like his father, Alex, medics in combat evacuated the wounded on foot,... + Read More
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The Wake The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami Hardcover Linden MacIntyre 9781443452021 $32.99 Aug 27, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” —Postmedia A Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the Year In the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writers On November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up to three storeys high hit the coast at a hundred kilometres per hour, flooding dozens of communities and washing entire houses out to sea. The most... + Read More
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Five Wives A Novel Paperback Joan Thomas 9781443458542 $24.99 Sep 03, 2019

WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONA GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC BOOKS, APPLE BOOKS, AND NOW TORONTO BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible and State of Wonder, a novel set in the rainforest of Ecuador about five women left behind when their missionary husbands are killed. Based on the shocking real-life eventsIn 1956, a small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the ou... + Read More
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Worry A Novel Paperback Jessica Westhead 9781443458856 $22.99 Sep 03, 2019

A CBC BOOKS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting novel about a mother’s all-consuming worry for her child over forty-eight hours at a remote cottage with old friends and a mysterious neighbour, for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Truly Madly GuiltyRuth is the fiercely protective mother of almost-four-year-old Fern. Together they visit a remote family cottage belonging to Stef, the woman who has been Ruth’s best friend—and Ruth's husband’s best friend—for years. Stef is everything Ruth is not—confident, loud, carefree—and someone Ruth can... + Read More
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Akin A Novel Hardcover Emma Donoghue 9781443458948 $32.99 Sep 03, 2019

In her first contemporary novel since Room, bestselling author Emma Donoghue returns with a brilliant tale of love, loss and family. The life of a retired New York professor is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera in the hopes of uncovering his own mother’s wartime secrets.Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when he receives an unexpected request. A social worker is looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Although he has never met the ... + Read More
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Flight of the Highlanders The Making of Canada Hardcover Ken McGoogan 9781443452595 $32.99 Sep 17, 2019

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in coffin ships, where they would battle hardship, hunger and even murderous persecution.After the Scottish Highlanders were decimated at the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the British government banned kilts and bagpipes and set out to destroy a clan system that for centuries had sustained a culture, a language and a unique way of life. The Clearances, or forcible evictions, began when landlords—among ... + Read More
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The North-West Is Our Mother The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation Hardcover Jean Teillet 9781443450126 $36.99 Sep 17, 2019

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts. The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian ... + Read More
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Crow Winter A Novel Paperback Karen McBride 9781443459679 $24.99 Sep 17, 2019

Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or aluminum foil on a metal filling.Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker with the power to do great things, only he doesn’t want to put in the work.Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he’s here to help her, save her. From what, exactly? Sure, her dad’s been dead for almost two years and she hasn’t quite reconciled that grief, but is that worth t... + Read More
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77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin Paperback Thomas King 9781443459440 $19.99 Sep 24, 2019

Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptionalSeventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.
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Murdered Midas A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise Hardcover Charlotte Gray 9781443449342 $33.99 Sep 24, 2019

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearIn this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime writing” (The Globe and Mail).On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to... + Read More
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Things No One Else Can Teach Us Hardcover Humble the Poet 9781443457927 $24.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 15, 2019

From the international bestselling author of Unlearn, Humble the Poet speaks new truths about how we can create silver linings from our most difficult moments.Every one of us endures setbacks, disappointments, and failures that can beat us down. But we don’t have to let them. Instead, we can use them as opportunities for growth. In Things No One Else Can Teach Us, Humble the Poet goes against conventional wisdom for happiness and success, showing us how our most painful experiences can be our greatest teachers.Humble shares raw, honest stories ... + Read More
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The Shape of Family A Novel Hardcover Shilpi Somaya Gowda 9781443458979 $34.99 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

A NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family’s growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedyThe Olanders embody a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured daughter of an Indian diplomat, and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and make a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children... + Read More
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The Shape of Family A Novel Paperback Shilpi Somaya Gowda 9781443458986 $24.99 Oct 15, 2019

A NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family’s growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedyThe Olanders embody a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured daughter of an Indian diplomat, and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and make a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children... + Read More
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Ultimate Veg Easy & Delicious Meals for Everyone Hardcover Jamie Oliver 9781443459266 $42.00 COOKING Oct 22, 2019

Jamie Oliver is back with brilliantly easy, flavour-packed, and accessible veg recipes.'It's all about celebrating really good, tasty food that just happens to be meat-free' Jamie OliverFrom simple suppers and family favourites, to weekend dishes for sharing with friends, this book is packed full of phenomenal food - pure and simple. Whether it's embracing a meat-free day or two each week, living a vegetarian lifestyle, or just wanting to try some brilliant new flavour combinations, this book ticks all the boxes.Sharing simple tips and tricks t... + Read More
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My Life Hardcover Teemu Selanne 9781443460170 $33.99 Oct 22, 2019

Teemu Selanne may have been anointed “The Finnish Flash,” but his career was anything but fleeting. Few professional hockey players will ever approach the staying power or success that Selanne achieved in all facets of the sport, from helping Finland win four Olympic medals and two World Championship medals to finally capturing, in his words, the Holy Grail—the Stanley Cup—after fourteen seasons.Drafted by the Winnipeg Jets, Selanne made his NHL debut on October 6, 1992, and his career quickly took flight. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy as t... + Read More
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Seven Days in Hell Canada's Battle for Normandy and the Rise of the Black Watch Snipers Hardcover David O'Keefe 9781443454773 $34.99 Oct 29, 2019

A riveting tour de force by Canada’s leading military historian about the heroic Black Watch’s fight for survival at Verrières Ridge Centred around one of Canada’s most storied regiments, Seven Days in Hell tells the epic tale of the bloody battle for Verrières Ridge, a dramatic saga that unfolded just weeks after one of Canada’s greatest military triumphs of the Second World War. O’Keefe takes us on a heart-pounding journey at the sharp end of combat during the infamous Normandy campaign, when more than 300 Black Watch Highlanders from across... + Read More
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The World's Dumbest Criminals Outrageously True Stories of Criminals Committing Stupid Crimes Paperback HarperCollins Publishers Canada 9781443459396 $22.99 Nov 10, 2020

Two men in England photographed each other stealing thousands of dollars from gambling machines. An armed man successfully robbed a pharmacy and was captured after he boasted about it on social media. A burglar spent some time cleaning the house he was robbing, and even restocked some groceries, before he was discovered fast asleep in the homeowner’s bed. (“He did burn an old saucepan, but that happens!” reported the homeowner.) Two drunken louts stole a penguin from an aquarium and tried to release him into a canal when they were sober (he was... + Read More
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Dam Busters Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany Paperback Ted Barris 9781443455459 $19.99 Aug 20, 2019

National BestsellerForeword by Peter Mansbridge“Barris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.” —The Globe and Mail It was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr River took years to plan, involved an untried bomb and included the best aircrewmen RAF Bomber Command could muster—many of them Canadian. The attack marked the first time the Allies tactically took the war inside Nazi Germany. It was a military operation that became legendary.On May 16, 1943... + Read More
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Small Fry Paperback Lisa Brennan-Jobs 9781443457118 $19.99 Aug 20, 2019

A Top Ten Book of the YearThe New York Times, The New Yorker, People, San Francisco ChronicleA Best Book of the YearPublishers Weekly, NPR, GQ, The Week, Vogue UK, Los Angeles Times“Brennan-Jobs is a deeply gifted writer. . . . Beautiful, literary and devastating.” —The New York Times Book Review“A masterly Silicon Valley gothic.” —VogueBorn on a farm and named in a field by her parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs—Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa’s father was a myth... + Read More
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The Outline Trilogy Outline, Transit and Kudos Paperback Rachel Cusk 9781443458313 $29.99 Aug 20, 2019

“These novels are among the most important written in this century so far.” —The Globe and MailRachel Cusk’s ambitious Outline trilogy has received acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Outline (2015) was a finalist for both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Transit (2017), has been called “dreamlike” (Toronto Star), “extraordinary” (The Daily Telegraph) and “a work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality” (The New York Times Book Review). And Kudos (2018) has been called “intelle... + Read More
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Machine Without Horses A Novel Paperback Helen Humphreys 9781443432504 $19.99 Sep 03, 2019

“One of the best—and most wonderfully experimental—historical fiction titles of the year. . . . Truly spectacular.” —Toronto StarWhat is an ordinary life worth?A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is sparked. The brief words of memoriam describe a woman who was both extraordinary—eccentric, revered in her field, a renowned expert—but also utterly ordinary. How does a writer, intrigued by all that isn’t said, create a story, or capture an unknowable woman and all the secret passions, choices and compromises that make up ... + Read More
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Knock on Wood Luck, Chance, and the Meaning of Everything Paperback Jeffrey S. Rosenthal 9781443453080 $22.99 Oct 01, 2019

Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, author of the bestseller Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, was born on Friday the thirteenth, a fact that he discovered long after he had become one of the world’s pre-eminent statisticians. Had he been living ignorantly and innocently under an unlucky cloud for all those years? Or is thirteen just another number? As a scientist and a man of reason, Rosenthal has long considered the value of luck, good and bad, seeking to measure chance and hope in formulas scratched out on chalkboards.In Knock on Wo... + Read More
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The Ravenmaster My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London Paperback Christopher Skaife 9781443455954 $18.99 Oct 08, 2019

For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that—legend has it that if the ravens should ever leave, the Tower will crumble into dust and great harm will befall the kingdom.The responsibility for ensuring that such a disaster never comes to pass falls to one man: the Ravenmaster. The current holder of the position is Yeoman W... + Read More
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Bower A Legendary Life Paperback Dan Robson 9781443457286 $19.99 Oct 22, 2019

Johnny Bower came to be known as one of the greatest Toronto Maple Leafs of all time, but he started from humble beginnings. He taught himself to play hockey on the frozen rivers of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, using a tree branch his father had sharpened into a stick and a cut-up old mattress for goalie pads. He’d spend hours in the frigid air, learning to catch the puck in mittened hands, never dreaming he would one day share the same ice as his Saturday-night idols. But share it he did, dominating the Leafs net for four Stanley Cup victories... + Read More
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Forever and a Day A James Bond Novel Paperback Anthony Horowitz 9781443457446 $19.99 Nov 05, 2019

The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began.The story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his identity.The sea keeps its secrets. But not this time.One body. Three bullets. 007 floats in the waters of Marseilles, killed by an unknown hand.It’s time for a new agent to step up. Time for a new weapon in the war against orga... + Read More
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Hungover The Morning After and One Man's Quest for a Cure Paperback Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall 9781443426244 $19.99 Nov 26, 2019

“A rip-roaring adventure story.” —Tabatha Southey“Highly knowledgeable and ridiculously enjoyable.” —Stacey May Fowles, author of Baseball Life Advice“Brilliantly balancing humour and horror.” —National Post“A world tour of a party, with a raucous cast of winos and experts.” —Shelf Awareness “Unabashedly droll.” —The New Yorker“You turn the pages thinking, ‘Thank God I don’t feel like that right now.’ Or maybe, ‘Thank God I’m not this guy.’” —The New York Times Book ReviewAs long as there have been hangovers, there have been attempts to get rid... + Read More
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Grit: Young Reader's Edition Paperback Angela Duckworth 9781443459709 $19.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Jul 15, 2021
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Boxitects Hardcover Kim Smith 9781443456111 $23.99 Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 03, 2019

New York Times–bestselling illustrator Kim Smith’s author-illustrator debutNothing’s better than building with boxes!Meg is a brilliant and creative boxitect. She loves building extraordinary things out of ordinary cardboard boxes and impressing her classmates with what she creates. But then a new kid comes to Maker School: Simone. Simone is good at everything. Worst of all, she’s a boxitect too! Will Meg and Simone find a way to push past their rivalry and join creative forces?
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Break in Case of Emergency A Novel Hardcover Brian Francis 9781443457705 $22.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Sep 10, 2019

Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature–Text Dads can be such a drag Life has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicide five years ago, and her father left their small town before Toby was born. Now a teenager living on her grandparents’ dairy farm, Toby has trouble letting people in. She keeps even her closest friend, the brash but endearing Trisha, at arm’s length, and recently ended her first relationship, with Trisha’s burnout brother, Mike. Convinced that she is destined to fol... + Read More
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Winnie's Great War Paperback Lindsay Mattick 9781443457002 $12.99 Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 17, 2019

From the creative team behind the bestselling Finding Winnie, winner of the Caldecott Medal, comes an extraordinary wartime adventure seen through the eyes of the world’s most beloved bearHere is a heartwarming reimagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. Follow Winnie’s war adventure—from her early days with her mother in the Canadian forest, to her remarkable travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, and all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robi... + Read More
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5-Minute Amazing Animal Stories Hardcover Sarah Howden 9781443458139 $17.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 15, 2019

Meet real-life animal heroes!5-Minute Amazing Animal Stories features daring rescues, surprising friendships and unlikely heroes. Each heartwarming story of brave animals from around the world is the perfect length for reading aloud in five minutes—ideal for animal-lovers of all ages!
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The Lotterys More or Less Paperback Emma Donoghue 9781443445610 $12.99 Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 24, 2019

Sumac Lottery is the fifth of seven siblings who share a big house with their four parents, one grandfather and five pets. At age nine, she’s the keeper of her family’s traditions—always making sure the Lotterys’ celebrations go off without a hitch.But this winter all of Sumac’s plans go wrong when a terrible ice storm hits the city, causing chaos. The emergency means that one of her dads and her favourite brother can’t make it home from India in time for the holidays. Their visitor from Brazil gets injured and the Lotterys have to look after h... + Read More
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Wicked Nix Paperback Lena Coakley 9781443454704 $12.99 Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 08, 2019

Mischievous woodland fairy Nix is up to no good. His beloved fairy queen has gone away, leaving him with a very important job: protecting the forest from a most dangerous enemy—humans.When a determined invader trespasses on his territory, Nix’s skills are put to the test as he invents several wicked tricks to chase the sorry fellow away. But when his efforts don’t go quite according to plan, it becomes clear that this intruder—and this sprite—may not be at all what they seem.This gorgeous new fairy tale by acclaimed author Lena Coakley, with il... + Read More