1.
Series:
Clockwork Lives
Hardcover
Kevin J. Anderson
9781770412941
$27.95
FICTION
Sep 15, 2015
Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics. In Clockwork Angels, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life, and his nemesis, the ruthless and violent Anarchist who wanted to destroy it all. Anderson and Pear...
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2.
Series:
The River
Hardcover
Helen Humphreys
9781770412552
$24.95
HISTORY
Oct 01, 2015
A breathtaking mix of observation, prose, natural history, and art We tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on its own terms, freed from our expectations and assumptions? This is what celebrated writer Helen Humphreys sets out to do in this beautiful, groundbreaking examination of place. For more than a decade Humphreys has owned a small waterside property on a section of the Napanee River in Ontario. In the watch...
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3.
Series:
The Optimistic Environmentalist
Progressing Toward a Greener Future
Paperback
David R. Boyd
9781770412385
$19.95
NATURE
Aug 01, 2015
A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others. The Optimistic Environmentalist chronicles these remarkable success stories. Endangered species — from bald eagles to gray whales — pulled back from the precipice of extinction....
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4.
Series:
Malignant Metaphor
Confronting Cancer Myths
Hardcover
Alanna Mitchell
9781770412682
$27.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 15, 2015
“In addition to her clear medical explanations, Mitchell’s compassionate attitude will bring comfort to those readers and their loved ones facing a cancer diagnosis.” — Publishers Weekly Award-winning science writer Alanna Mitchell confronts cancer myths in this powerful and personal book, as she recounts her family’s experiences with the disease. When her beloved brother-in-law John is diagnosed with malignant melanoma, Mitchell throws herself into the latest clinical research, providing us with a clear description of what scientists know of c...
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5.
Series:
Once They Were Hats
In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Paperback
Frances Backhouse
9781770412071
$18.95
NATURE
Oct 01, 2015
Finalist for the 2015 Lane Anderson Award and the 2016 Butler Book Prize Discover deeper truths and quirky facts that cast new light on this keystone species Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra. Wherever there was wood and water, there were beav...
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6.
Series:
Heal
The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures
Paperback
Arlene Weintraub
9781770412705
$19.95
MEDICAL
Oct 01, 2015
Man’s best friend could help cure man’s greatest scourge Drawn from extensive research, on-the-ground reporting, and personal experience, this book explores the fascinating role dogs are playing in the search for cures for cancer. Learn how veterinarians and oncologists are working together to discover new treatments — cutting-edge therapies designed to help both dogs and people suffering from cancer. Heal introduces readers to the field of comparative oncology by describing several research projects aimed at finding new therapies for cancers...
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7.
Series:
Is Wrestling Fixed? I Didn’t Know It Was Broken
From Photo Shoots and Sensational Stories to the WWE Network — Bill Apter’s Incredible Pro Wrestling Journey
Paperback
Bill Apter
9781770411548
$19.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 01, 2015
The anticipated memoir from a sports entertainment fandom legend As a kid growing up in New York in the late ’50s, Bill Apter fell in love with professional wrestling, and it wasn’t long before he was rubbing shoulders with the greats as a young reporter and photographer. He’s since become the world’s best-known wrestling magazine personality, and he’s had professional and personal relationships with a who’s-who of the business, like Triple H, Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Sting, and Ric Flair. In his fun-loving memoir, Bill Apter takes us from the d...
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8.
Series:
Golden Oldies
Stories of Hockey’s Heroes
Paperback
Brian McFarlane
9781770412507
$19.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 01, 2015
A heartfelt addition to McFarlane’s epic canon of hockey writing From its moving introductory homage to the late Jean Béliveau, to its subtle, remarkable considerations of how the sport was shaped by legends like Newsy Lalonde, Gordie Howe, Dick Irvin Sr., Ted Kennedy, and Hobey Baker, to its poignant lament for the untimely death of American hockey hero “Badger” Bob Johnson, Golden Oldies is the product of a lifetime love of hockey and a career in the game that spans six decades. Golden Oldies explores the life of Sprague Cleghorn, a p...
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9.
Series:
Diversion
Paperback
George Murray
9781770412484
$18.95
POETRY
Sep 01, 2015
New poems from one of Canada’s best-known poets Where most poetry seeks contemplative quiet, as in Wordsworth’s “emotion recollected in tranquility,” Diversion asks: What happens to poetry if one stops trying to block the incoming cacophony and instead embraces the multiple streams of data that bombard the contemporary thought process? What poetry comes from the multitude of channels — ambient office radio, TVs at the gym, rampant social media alerts, eavesdropped conversations within crowds, 24-hour-news cycles, texts, telephone and voicemail...
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10.
Series:
Decline of the Animal Kingdom
Paperback
Laura Clarke
9781770412828
$18.95
POETRY
Oct 01, 2015
A debut collection with a fresh approach Decline of the Animal Kingdom investigates modern constructs of domesticity, freedom, wilderness, and artificiality to paint a portrait of what it means to be human, animal, or both in a society saturated with dog boutiques, trophy hunting, retro taxidermy, and eco-tourism. With brief forays into Algonquin Park and the heart of the 1980s jungle, the book largely draws its energy from the urban landscape, where the animals that interact with the environment have permanent effects on the land and ...
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11.
Series: The Dead Kid Detective Agency
Loyalist to a Fault
The Dead Kid Detective Agency #3
Paperback
Evan Munday
9781770410749
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 01, 2015
October Schwartz and her five deadest pals are back for another crime-solving caper When October Schwartz raises her five dead friends to investigate the cause of Cyril Cooper’s death way back in 1783, she expects a dull research-based journey into the lives of Canada’s earliest British settlers, the United Empire Loyalists. You’d think our favourite teen detective would have the hang of this solving-mysteries thing by now, but when a ghost pirate appears on the scene, October may be in over her head. The ghost pirate — or someone in a very c...
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12.
Series:
Leading Lines
A Pippa Greene Novel
Paperback
Chantel Guertin
9781770412323
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 01, 2015
“You’ll fall in love with this genuine young heroine.” — Best Health After two drama-filled weeks in Manhattan, Pippa Greene is back. Despite a romantic reunion with boyfriend Dylan, she can’t seem to shake the emotional aftermath of New York. As she navigates parental drama at home and her charged dynamic with Ben Baxter at school, Pippa finds that Dylan is more wrapped up in his post-high-school life of bands, shows, and new friends than in their relationship. Will it survive? Written with the same humour and heart that made Chantel Guertin...
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13.
Series:
Overqualifieder
Paperback
Joey Comeau
9781770412859
$14.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2015
A collection of bitterly hilarious job application letters. Applying for a job is stupid. It is a demeaning, humiliating exercise in learning to grovel in front of faceless strangers. Everyone who has ever sent a job application letter has felt the urge, the temptation to say what they really think. To say something completely insane, or to be brutally honest. With 2007’s Overqualified, Joey Comeau acted on those urges and delivered a book collecting his cover letters. “It’s sad and fragmented and, in places, funny,” the L.A. Times said. But e...
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14.
Series:
Waiting for the Man
Paperback
Arjun Basu
9781770412835
$16.95
FICTION
Aug 01, 2015
Giller-longlisted fiction — now in trade paper Joe, a 36-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency, feels disillusioned with his life. He starts dreaming of a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, and hearing his voice. Joe decides to listen to the Man and so he waits on his stoop, day and night, for instructions. A local reporter takes notice, and soon Joe has become a media sensation, the centre of a storm. When the Man tells Joe to “go west,” he does, in search of meaning. A surreal journey of a man who is searc...
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15.
Series: A Peter Cammon Mystery
The Verdict on Each Man Dead
A Peter Cammon Mystery
Paperback
David Whellams
9781770410442
$14.95
FICTION
Aug 01, 2015
The fast-paced third volume in the series Peter Cammon, now retired from New Scotland Yard, is drawn into a confrontation with evil in a most unlikely setting. The former chief inspector finds himself in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah, chasing a depraved man who may have deep terrorist connections. When a killer attacks on tranquil Hollis Street, the neighbours seem apathetic — silent to the point of complicity. A resident has been beheaded, her husband has disappeared, and there is no obvious perpetrator. A drug dealer? A terroris...
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16.
Series: A Peter Cammon Mystery
The Verdict on Each Man Dead
A Peter Cammon Mystery
Hardcover
David Whellams
9781770412958
$24.95
FICTION
Aug 01, 2015
The fast-paced third volume in the series Peter Cammon, now retired from New Scotland Yard, is drawn into a confrontation with evil in a most unlikely setting. The former chief inspector finds himself in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah, chasing a depraved man who may have deep terrorist connections. When a killer attacks on tranquil Hollis Street, the neighbours seem apathetic — silent to the point of complicity. A resident has been beheaded, her husband has disappeared, and there is no obvious perpetrator. A drug dealer? A terroris...
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17.
Series:
A Little More Free
An Eddie Dougherty Mystery
Paperback
John McFetridge
9781770412644
$14.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2015
Constable Eddie Dougherty returns in this gripping police procedural Montreal, Labour Day weekend, 1972. The city is getting ready to host the first game in the legendary Summit Series between Canada and the USSR. Three men set fire to a nightclub and Constable Eddie Dougherty witnesses the deaths of 37 people. The Museum of Fine Arts is robbed and two million dollars’ worth of paintings are stolen. Against the backdrop of these historic events, Dougherty discovers the body of a murdered young man on Mount Royal. As he tries to prove he has th...
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18.
Series:
The Deadbeat Club
A Crime Novel
Paperback
Dietrich Kalteis
9781770411524
$14.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2015
A fast and powerful crime novel full of action, vengeance, twists, and dark humour Grey Stevens took over the family business after his uncle passed away, and now he grows the best pot in Whistler. It’s called Eight Miles High and the word on the street is it rivals anything on the planet. Happy to fly under the radar in this mountain playground, Grey just wants to take life easy and snowboard the cold months and bike the hot ones. But demand for his pot among the locals and tourists keeps growing. Everybody wants to get their hands on it...
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19.
Series:
Across Canada by Story
A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure
Paperback
Douglas Gibson
9781770412538
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2015
More adventures from one of Canada’s premier editors and storytellers Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers. Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played almost 100 times, in all ten provinces, from coast to coast. As a literary touri...
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20.
Series:
Far and Near
On Days Like These
Paperback
Neil Peart
9781770412675
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 01, 2015
Now in trade paper Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers. Now Far and Near brings together reflections from another three years of an artist’s life as he celebrates seasons, landscapes, and characters; travels roads and trails; receives honours; climbs mountains; compose...
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21.
Series:
Coming Ashore
A Memoir
Paperback
Catherine Gildiner
9781770412569
$18.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 01, 2015
Now in trade paper Written with the same spirit and wit as the bestselling Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, Coming Ashore is the third and final volume of Catherine Gildiner’s memoir series. Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Cathy whisks through seven years and three countries. Whether reciting verse in the classrooms of the University of Oxford, arranging a date with Jimi Hendrix, teaching inner city kids literature, rooming with a major drug dealer, falling in love, or working in a psychiatric hospital, Cathy determ...
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22.
Series:
Investigating Sherlock
An Unofficial Guide
Paperback
Nikki Stafford
9781770412620
$18.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Sep 01, 2015
An essential companion to the hit BBC show He’s been depicted as a serious thinker, a master of deduction, a hopeless addict, a bare-knuckle fighter. His companion is a bumbler, a sympathetic equal, someone helpless in the face of his friend’s social inadequacies. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson remain the most-adapted fictional characters of all time. In 2010, when Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman stepped into the roles, they managed to meld many previous incarnations into two glorious performances. Over Sherlock’s first three seasons,...
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23.
Series:
The Doctors Are In
The Essential and Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who's Greatest Time Lord
Paperback
Graeme Burk
9781770412545
$22.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Sep 01, 2015
Get acquainted with the eccentric alien known as the Doctor From his beginnings as a crotchety, anti-heroic scientist in 1963 to his current place in British pop culture as the mad and dangerous monster-fighting savior of the universe, the titular character of Doctor Who has metamorphosed in his 50 years on television. And yet the questions about him remain the same: Who is he? Why does he act the way he does? What motivates him to fight evil across space and time? Series experts, and authors of Who’s 50 and Who Is The Doctor, Graeme B...
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24.
Series:
You Should Be Dancing
My Life with the Bee Gees
Paperback
Dennis Bryon
9781770412422
$21.95
MUSIC
Aug 01, 2015
From behind the drumkit to the top of the charts: the backstage story of the Bee Gees With worldwide sales of over 220 million records, the Bee Gees are the sixth-best-selling music artists in history. Dennis Bryon’s story of how he became the Bee Gees’ drummer during their peak period offers many never-before-told tales about such infectious hits as “Stayin’ Alive,” “How Deep Is Your Love,” and “Night Fever.” From Dennis’s beginnings in a Welsh band to his crucial role in the superstar group, You Should Be Dancing reveals unforgettable storie...
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25.
Series:
Van Halen Rising
How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
Paperback
Greg Renoff
9781770412637
$21.95
MUSIC
Oct 01, 2015
The bestselling, vivid and energetic history of Van Halen’s legendary early years featuring 230 original interviews — including with former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and power players like Pete Angelus, Marshall Berle, Donn Landee, Ted Templeman, and Neil Zlozower “Fascinating (even for non-VH fans) … A book almost anthropological in its level of detail.” — Vulture “It’s the tale of hardworking kids with nothing in common learning to fuse pop and heavy metal into a new sound that completely changed the music world. It also vivid...
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26.
Series: Pop Classics
National Treasure
Nicolas Cage
Paperback
Lindsay Gibb
9781770412361
$12.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Oct 01, 2015
A celebration of Nicolas Cage — the man and the meme Nicolas Cage: leading man or character actor? Action hero or goofball comedian? Internet joke or one of the greatest actors of his generation? Beyond the gif bait and easy punchline, Nicolas Cage continually frustrates easy categorization or understanding. In National Treasure, pop culture writer Lindsay Gibb studies Nicolas Cage’s acting style and makes sense of the trajectory of his eclectic career. In the process, Gibb debunks the common claim that Cage makes bad choices. While his...
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27.
Series:
The Canadian in America, Revised
Real-Life Tax and Financial Insights into Moving to and Living in the U.S.
Paperback
Brian D. Wruk
9781770410886
$24.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 01, 2015
The definitive guide to crossing the border and calling America home — revised and updated with even more timely tax tips Hundreds of thousands of ex-Canadians live south of the border. The similarity in culture can lead Canadians to mistakenly think that the U.S.’s taxes, laws, and customs are also the same. The Canadian in America is an invaluable resource for anyone either contemplating a move or already living in the U.S. Revised and updated, this edition of The Canadian in America focuses on the areas of taxation, investments, health car...
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