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Paperback | $17.99 The Showrunner Fiction Dundurn Kim Moritsugu

Jun 2, 2018 The hiring of a new assistant triggers a power struggle between an aging TV show creator and her former protégée. Ctn Qty: 40 304 pages 5.50" x 8.50" x 1.00" Rising-star showrunner Stacey McCreedy has one goal: to leave behind her nerd-girl origins and become a power player — like Ann Dalloni, her former mentor and current producing partner. Ann, meanwhile, is feeling her age and losing her mind. But she’ll be damned if she cedes control of their hit primetime TV show to 9781459740976 Stacey. ... [more] After Ann hires Jenna, a young actress hoping to restart her stalled career, as an assistant, the relationship between Ann and Stacey deteriorates into a blood feud. Soon, Jenna must choose whom to support and whom to betray to achieve her own ends. And Stacey will find out if she possesses the killer instinct that’s needed to Paperback | $26.99 stayBeing on Prime top. Minister History Dundurn J D M Stewart

Jun 16, 2018 Behind the politics, discover the lives of Canada's leaders. Ctn Qty: 40 304 pages “What a life it is to be prime minister!” — John Diefenbaker 6.00" x 9.00" x 1.00"

9781459738485 Canada has had twenty-three prime ministers, all with views and policies that have differed as widely as the ages in which they lived. But what were they like as people? Being Prime Minister takes you behind the scenes to tell the story of Canada’s leaders and the job they do as it has never been told before. ... [more]

Paperback | $19.95 FromPlaythings John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau, readers get a glimpse of the prime ministers as they travelled, dealt with invasions of privacy, met with celebrities, and managed the stress of the nation’s top job. Humorous Fiction and hard working, vain and vulnerable, Canada leaders are revealed as they truly were. Biblioasis Alex Pheby A hallucinatory, fragmentary, and tragic fictional telling of one of the most famous psychotherapy cases in Apr 24, 2018 history, Alex Pheby’s Playthings offers a visceral and darkly comic portrait of paranoid schizophrenia. Based on Ctn Qty: 1 the true story of nineteenth-century German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Playthings artfully shows the 248 pages disorienting human tragedy of Schreber’s psychosis, in vertiginous prose that blurs the lines between madness 5.00" x 8.00" x 0.50" and sanity.

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Paperback | $19.95 The Pre-War House: and Other Stories Fiction Biblioasis Alison Moore From the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Lighthouse comes this uncanny collection of short fiction about Jun 12, 2018 the unhomeliness of home: fractured families, domestic claustrophobia, and the unseen menace of the Ctn Qty: 1 everyday. Alison Moore moves deftly from flash fictions to novella, from insightful realism to chilling gothic 288 pages horror. With the same emotional tension and tightly controlled prose that garnered her first novel such 5.00" x 7.75" x 0.52" accolades, Moore once again shines a light into the darkest corners of the human heart and stares unflinchingly at the horrors found there.

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Paperback | $19.99 Why Indigenous Literatures Matter Social Science Indigenous Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Daniel Heath Justice Press Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, Feb 28, 2018 and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections between literature and lived Ctn Qty: 1 experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the heart of Indigenous kinship traditions: How do we 260 pages learn to be human? How do we become good relatives? How do we become good ancestors? How do we learn to live together? Blending personal narrative and broader historical and cultural analysis with close readings of 5.25" x 8.00" x 0.50" key creative and critical texts, Justice argues that Indigenous writers engage with these questions in part to 9781771121767 challenge settler-colonial policies and practices that have targeted Indigenous connections to land, history, family, and self. More importantly, Indigenous writers imaginatively engage the many ways that communities and individuals have sought to nurture these relationships and project them into the future. ... [more]

This provocative volume challenges readers to critically consider and rethink their assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics while never forgetting the emotional connections of our shared humanity and the power of story to effect personal and social change. Written with a generalist reader firmly in mind, but addressing issues of interest to specialists in the field, this book welcomes new audiences to Indigenous literary studies while offering more seasoned readers a renewed appreciation Page for these 1 transformative literary traditions. Ampersand Dewey Divas Adult Spring 2018 December 19th, 2017

Paperback | $34.95 Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership Political Science University of Toronto Linda Trimble Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Ms. Prime Minister offers both solace and words of caution for women politicians. After closely analyzing the media coverage of former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell; two former Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark; and Australia’s 27th Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, Linda Trimble concludes that Jan 11, 2018 reporting both reinforces and contests unfair gender norms. News about female leaders gives undue attention Ctn Qty: to their gender identities, bodies and family lives. Yet equivalent men are also treated to evaluations of their 328 pages gendered personas. And, as Trimble finds, some media accounts expose sexism and authenticate women's 6.00" x 9.00" performances of leadership. Ms. Prime Minister provides important insight into the news frameworks that work 9781442613638 to deny or confer political legitimacy. It concludes with advice designed to inform the gender strategies of women who aspire to political leadership roles and the reporting techniques of the journalists who cover them.

Paperback | $19.95 Homes: A Refugee Story Biography & Autobiography Abu Bakr al Rabeeah , Winnie Yeung Freehand Books In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria - just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence May 1, 2018 began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Ctn Qty: Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated 190 pages by normalcy - soccer, cousins, video games, friends. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy 5.00" x 7.50" emerged from a war zone - and found safety in Canada - with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening in Syria. As told to her by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, writer Winnie Yeung has crafted 9781988298283 a heartbreaking, hopeful, and urgently necessary book that provides a window into understanding Syria.

Hardcover | $28.00 Life and Soul: How to Live a Long and Healthy Life Biography & Autobiography William Roache Hay House In his first memoir,Soul on the Street, Britain’s most beloved actor William Roache shared his spiritual beliefs and experiences with the public for the first time. These included his ability to see spirits, his interest in May 1, 2018 astrology and druid philosophy, and his belief in reincarnation, past lives, and the afterlife. Ctn Qty: 12 5.50" x 8.50" His first memoir was an open letter to his fans, who had often written to him not knowing where else to turn for information regarding life’s deepest questions. Now, inLife and Soul, William shares his most recent life experiences and the wisdom gained through these. Recent years have seen William live through extremely 9781781809778 challenging events, such as the death of his wife and of a close friend, and a harrowing court case for alleged abuse. This book is a searingly honest account of these events, but most importantly, it is a unique insight into how William was able to live through these challenges with strength, hope, and dignity. ... [more]

William will teach readers about the power of gratitude, forgiveness, kindness, and positive thinking. He shares the lifestyle habits that keep him healthy at the age of 85, and about the importance of taking responsibility for your health, your wealth, and your happiness. Hardcover | $39.00 Robin Biography & William hopes that the lessons he learned in during these recent years of life will help many others on their Autobiography Davejourney. Itzkoff Henry Holt and Co. FromNew York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a compelling portrait of one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers. May 15, 2018 Ctn Qty: 16 From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role inMork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning 544 pages performance inGood Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations – all 6.12" x 9.25" with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning 9781627794244 speed.But as Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’s comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films likeDead Poets Society;Good Morning, Vietnam;The Fisher King;Aladdin; andMrs. Doubtfire, where he showcased his... limit [more]less gift for improvisation to bring to life a wide range of characters. And inGood Will Huntinghe gave an intense and controlled performance that revealed the true range of his talent.Itzkoff also shows how Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression – topics he discussed openly while performing and during interviews – and with a debilitating condition at the end of his life that affected him in ways his fans never knew. Drawing on Paperback | $19.95 moreDepression than a the hundred Comedy original: A Tale interviews of Perseverance with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as extensive archival Biography & research,Robin is a fresh and original look at a man whose work touched so many lives. Autobiography Jessica Holmes Page Two Books, Inc. In her upcoming book, Holmes takes readers on her journey—sometimes laugh out loud, sometimes cringe- worthy—from successful performer to basically living the life of a house cat. She covers marriage counselling, Apr 24, 2018 where jokes come from, the chicken and the egg of depression and comedy, surrounding the sofa with junk Ctn Qty: 1 food so it looks like a tornado hit a 7-Eleven, her kids’ take on the perks of having a depressed mom (“We don’t 192 pages have to clean up anything. Yesterday the cat barfed and mom just put a cushion on it and went back to playing 5.50" x 8.25" on the iPad!”), and the obnoxiousness of anti-depressant commercials (“I never noticed the ocean before!”). Whether you have suffered from depression a little (“I get sad every January”) or a lot (“My psychiatrist doesn’t 9780995266544 have a name for what I’ve got”), of maybe you just think real life calls for levity and understanding, this book is for you.

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Hardcover | $37.00 The Unpunished Vice : A Life of Reading Biography & Autobiography Edmund White Bloomsbury A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, Jun 26, 2018 each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust'sRemembrance of Things Past, which opened Ctn Qty: 1 up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound 240 pages poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. But it wasn't until heart surgery in 2014, when he temporarily lost his desire to read, that White realized 5.51" x 8.25" the key role that reading played in his life: forming his tastes, shaping his memories, and amusing him through 9781635571172 the best and worst life had to offer.Blending memoir and literary criticism,The Unpunished Viceis a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. His larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved... cultural [more] figures. With characteristic wit and candor, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice and phone calls at eight o'clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov--who once said that White was his favorite American writer.Featuring writing that has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Paris Review, among others,The Unpunished Viceis a wickedly smart and insightful account of a life in Hardcover | $37.00 literature.Because I Come from a Crazy Family : The Making of a Psychiatrist Biography & Autobiography Edward M Hallowell Bloomsbury From the bestselling author of the classic book on ADD,Driven to Distraction, a memoir of the strange upbringing that shaped Dr. Edward M. Hallowell's celebrated career.When Edward M. Hallowell was eleven, a Jun 12, 2018 voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would Ctn Qty: 1 have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what 416 pages "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, alcoholic mother, abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behavior from those around him, and to a mind he 6.12" x 9.25" felt he couldn't always control.The voice turned out to be right. Now, decades later, Hallowell is a leading expert 9781632868589 on attention disorders and the author of twenty books, includingDriven to Distraction, the work that introduced ADD to the world. InBecause I Come from a Crazy Family, he tells the often strange story of a childhood marked by what he calls the "WASP triad" of alcoholism, mental illness, and politeness, and explores... t he [more] wild wish, surging beneath his incredible ambition, that he could have saved his own family of drunk, crazy, and well-intentioned eccentrics, and himself.Because I Come from a Crazy Family is an affecting, at times harrowing, ultimately moving memoir about crazy families and where they can lead, about being called to the mental health profession, and about the unending joys and challenges that come with helping people celebrate Hardcover | $27.95 whoSabrina they are. Comics & Graphic Novels Nick Drnaso Drawn & Quarterly Video games, conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything's gonna be all right-until it isn't Ages 16+ May 22, 2018 How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your Ctn Qty: 1 stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression or thoughts of suicide? Is there 204 pages anything in your personal life that is affecting your duty? 7.75" x 9.50" When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, 9781770463165 and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and the boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina's grieving sister, Sandra, struggles to fill her days as she waits in purgatory. After a videotape... surfaces, [more] we see devastation shown through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives.

The follow-up to Nick Drnaso's Beverly, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Sabrina depicts a modern Hardcover | $36.00 worldVisible devoid Empire of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through Fiction glowing computer screens. Presenting an indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt aHannah fake-news Pittard climate. Timely and articulate, Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster. From a writer who “deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction”* comes an epic Jun 5, 2018 novel—based on true events—of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that Ctn Qty: 12 left no one unchanged (*Washington Post) 288 pages It’s a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight 007, which had 5.50" x 8.25" been chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta’s cultural leaders following a luxurious arts- oriented tour of Europe, crashed shortly after takeoff in Paris. In one fell swoop, most of the city’s wealthiest residents perished. 9780544748064 Left behind were children, spouses, lovers, friends, and a city on the cusp of great change: the Civil Rights movement was at its peak, the hedonism of the 60s was at its doorstep. In Hannah Pittard’s dazzling... a nd [more] most ambitious novel yet, she gives us the journeys of those who must now rebuild this place and their lives.

Mayor Ivan Allen is tasked with the job of keeping the city moving forward. Nineteen-year-old Piedmont Dobbs, who had been denied admission to an integrated school, senses a moment of opportunity. Robert, a Hardcover | $33.99 Mynewspaper Ex-Life editor, must decide if he can reconnect with his beloved but estranged wife, Lily, who has learned Fiction that her wealthy parents left her penniless. Flatiron Books Stephen McCauley Visible Empire is the story of a single sweltering summer, and of the promise and hope that remains in the David Hedges is having an unusual midlife crisis. His boyfriend, Soren, has left him for an older man, May 8, 2018 wake of crisis. It’s the story of a husband and wife—Robert and Lily—who don’t truly come to understand each albeitother and a successful their love, surgeon.until their His city’s job-helping chaos driv thees them spoiled to clarity. children of San Francisco's elite get into college-is Ctn Qty: 20 exasperating. As his life reaches new lows, his weight reaches new highs. The only good thing he has is his 336 pages under-market-value apartment that has a view so stunning he is the envy of all of San Francisco. But when the 6.12" x 9.25" landlord finally decides to sell-to Soren and the surgeon courtesy of his supposed realtor friend-David hits rock bottom.

9781250122438 Across the country, Julie Fiske isn't having a much better time herself. Carol, the woman (younger, of course) that Henry, her second husband, left her for, is downright likable-more likeable than Henry was. The bills that she files by throwing into the back seat of her car keep piling up-so much so that she has turned her... rambling [more] home into an illegal B&B in the seaside tourist town where she lives. Her sullen teen daughter adamantly refused to apply to college (as David says, " I'm always drawn to sadness in teenagers, which I take to be a sign of intelligence. What teenager with half a brain looking at the condition of the planet they would inherit wouldn't be sad?"). And Julie can't seem to quit smoking weed (Why should she? It's the one good thing she has). Page 3 Henry lays down an ultimatum-if Mandy doesn't start applying to college, she's going to come live with him and Carol. And then Mandy surprises Henry, and stuns Julie, by saying she's been working with David Hedges, Mom's first husband from long ago. It's a lie, but a good one, and, Julie thinks, not a bad idea. So when Julie calls David up out of the blue and asks if he'll help Mandy, he says of course. And when Mandy tells David he should come visit them and stay in one of their B&B rooms, he surprises everyone, including himself, by accepting. Ampersand Dewey Divas Adult Spring 2018 December 19th, 2017

Hardcover | $36.50 The Family Tabor: A Novel Fiction Flatiron Books Cherise Wolas Harry Tabor is about to receive the Man of the Decade award. As he enters his twilight years, this Jul 17, 2018 distinction seems like the culmination to a life well lived. A perfect life. A life spent helping Jewish refugees from Ctn Qty: 16 all over the globe find a better life in America. Giving them a second chance. 400 pages 6.25" x 9.25" And Harry knows all about second chances. He has the perfect marriage–his wife, Roma, is a distinguished, eminent child psychologist, and they tell each other almost everything. His three grown children, Phoebe, Camille, and Simon, are all accomplished. But his life could have very well taken a different turn if, seemingly a 9781250081452 different lifetime ago, he hadn't uprooted everyone from their life in Connecticut and brought them out to the desert, literally, where they knew no one and he could start again. ... [more] I n The Family Tabor, Cherise Wolas examines the five members of the Tabor family as they prepare to celebrate Harry. Through each of their points of view, we see family members whose lives are built on lies, both to themselves and to others, and how these all come crashing down during a twenty-four-hour period. Hardcover | $35.00 Number One Chinese Restaurant : A Novel Fiction Henry Holt and Co. Lillian Li An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people Jun 19, 2018 working in everyone’s favorite Chinese restaurant. Ctn Qty: 20 304 pages The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and 6.12" x 9.25" celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.Owner Jimmy Han hopes 9781250141293 to leave his late father’s homespun establishment for a fancier one. Jimmy’s older brother, Johnny, and Johnny’s daughter, Annie, ache to return to a time before a father’s absence and a teenager’s silence pushed them apart. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck House employees, are tempted to turn their thirty-year ...frie ndship[more] into something else, even as Nan’s son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble. And when Pat and Annie, caught in a mix of youthful lust and boredom, find themselves in a dangerous game that implicates them in the Duck House tragedy, their families must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to help their children.Generous in spirit, unaffected in its intelligence, multi-voiced, poignant, and darkly funny,Number One Chinese Restaurant Hardcover | $34.99 looksA Gathering beyond of red Secrets tablecloths: A Kate and Burkholder silkscreen Novel murals to share an unforgettable story about youth and aging, Fiction parentsKate Burkholder and children, #10 and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive. Minotaur Linda Castillo A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in theNew York Timesbestselling Jul 10, 2018 series.When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is Ctn Qty: 20 called in to investigate. At first it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich 320 pages is found inside—burned alive—Kate suspects murder. But who would want a well-liked, hardworking Amish 6.12" x 9.25" man dead? Kate delves into the investigation and discovers Daniel had a dark side. He was a sexual predator. His victims were mainly Amish women, too afraid to come forward, and he’s been getting away with it for far too long. Now someone has stopped him, but who? The women he victimized? Their boyfriends? Their parents?As 9781250121318 Kate wades through a sea of suspects, she’s confronted by her own violent past and an unthinkable possibility.

Hardcover | $36.00 The Dark Angel Fiction Ruth Galloway Mysteries Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Elly Griffiths In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—“a captivating amateur sleuth” (Louise Penny)— May 15, 2018 and DCI Nelson investigate a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as Ctn Qty: 12 bones. 352 pages 5.50" x 8.25" It’s not every day that you’re summoned to the Italian countryside on business, so when archaeologist Angelo Morelli asks for Ruth Galloway’s help identifying bones found in the tiny hilltop town of Fontana Liri, she jumps at the chance to go, bringing her daughter along with her for a working vacation. Upon arriving, she begins to 9780544750326 hear murmurs of Fontana Liri’s strong resistance movement during World War II and senses the townspeople are dancing around a deeply buried secret. But how could that be connected to the ancient remains she’s been studying? ... [more]

Ruth is just beginning to get her footing in the dig when she’s thrown off-guard by the appearance of DCI Nelson. And when Ruth’s findings lead them to a modern-day murder, their holidays are both turned upside down, and they race to find out what darkness is lurking in this seemingly picturesque town. Hardcover | $33.99 Ball Lightning Fiction Tor/Forge Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen "Wildly imaginative." —Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyA new standalone military Aug 14, 2018 science fiction adventure from theNew York Timesbestselling and award-winning author of the Three-Body Ctn Qty: 20 Trilogy.When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to 384 pages cracking the secret of mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an 6.12" x 9.25" experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station.The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier in particle physics. Although Chen’s quest provides a purpose for his lonely life, his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers 9780765394071 and scientists who have motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge. ... [more]

Ball Lightning, by award-winning Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu, is a fast-paced story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.Tor books by Cixin LiuThe Remembrance of Earth's Past The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Page 4 Death's End Ampersand Dewey Divas Adult Spring 2018 December 19th, 2017

Hardcover | $33.99 Jar of Hearts Fiction Minotaur Jennifer Hillier

Jun 12, 2018 "Jar of Hearts grabs you by the throat! The perfect blend of riveting characters, chilling details, and gasping twists.” —Lisa Gardner,New York Timesbestselling author ofRight Behind YouA compelling story of Ctn Qty: 20 murder, betrayal, and the secrets of the past…Georgina, known as Geo, is a 30-year-old rising executive when 320 pages her world comes crashing down. Her high school boyfriend has been identified and arrested for a series of 6.12" x 9.25" serial murders, including Angela, Geo's best friend in high school. Angela disappeared without a trace at 16 and her body has just been found. Now Geo is under arrest for helping her then-boyfriend cover it up. And it's one of her other close friends from high school, Kaiser Brody, who arrests her.While Geo is sent to prison for 9781250154194 her part, Calvin escapes from custody and is on the run. Geo, now thirty-five, is about to be released from prison to try and start over. But someone has started killing people and dumping their bodies in her old neighborhood, with some of the markers of the missing Sweetbay Strangler—her old boyfriend Calvin.... Is [more] these killings some kind of message from Calvin? Are they some of revenge? Is she herself now in danger?Everything turns on what really happened that tragic night back when Geo and Angela were high schoolers. Everyone thinks they know the truth, but there are dark secrets buried deep within other secrets, and it may be too late for Hardcover | $34.00 Ouranyone Kind to ofsurvive Cruelty the: Atruth.Jar Novel of Hearts is a compelling edge-of-your-seat thriller that grabs readers from the very beginning and holds them rapt, as the truth of both the past and the present is skillfully unfolded, until the Fiction very last page. Farrar Straus & Giroux Araminta Hall "This is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short: I loved it, right down May 8, 2018 to the utterly chilling final line." —Gillian FlynnThis is a love story.Mike’s love story.Mike Hayes fought his way Ctn Qty: 20 out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely life, before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, 288 pages and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. He’s found the perfect home, the perfect job, 6.00" x 9.00" he’s sculpted himself into the physical ideal V has always wanted. He knows they’ll be blissfully happy together.It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t been returning his emails or phone calls. It doesn’t matter that she says she’s marrying Angus.It’s all just part of the secret game they used to play. If 9780374228194 Mike watches V closely, he’ll see the signs. If he keeps track of her every move he’ll know just when to come to her rescue…A spellbinding, darkly twisted novel about desire and obsession, and the complicated lines between truth and perception,Our Kind of Cruelty introduces Araminta Hall, a chilling new voice in psychological suspense.

Hardcover | $33.99 The Lost for Words Bookshop : A Novel Fiction St. Martin's Press Stephanie Butland The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending novel, perfect for fans ofThe Jun 19, 2018 Storied Life of AJ Fikryand The Little Paris Bookshop. Ctn Qty: 20 368 pages "TheLost for WordsBookshop pushes all my bookish buttons."—Red(Books to Read)"Quirky, clever and 5.38" x 8.25" unputdownable."—Katie Fforde"Burns fiercely with love and hurt. A rare and beautiful novel."—Linda Green, bestselling author ofWhile MyEyes Were ClosedLoveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things 9781250124531 Loveday will never, ever show you.Into her hiding place - the bookstore where she works - come a poet, a lover, and three suspicious deliveries.Someone has found out about her mysterious past. Will Loveday survive her own heartbreaking secrets?

Hardcover | $36.50 How Hard Can It Be? Fiction St. Martin's Press Allison Pearson Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel,I Don't Know How She Does It,was aNew York Timesbestseller Jun 5, 2018 with four million copies sold around the world. Called "the definitive social comedy of working motherhood" (The Ctn Qty: 20 Washington Post) and "a hysterical look—in both the laughing and crying senses of the world—at the life of 352 pages Supermom" (The New York Times),I Don't Know How She Does It introduced Kate Reddy, a woman as sharp 6.12" x 9.25" as she was funny. As Oprah Winfrey put it, Kate's story became "the national anthem for working mothers."Seven years later, Kate Reddy is facing her 50th birthday. Her children have turned into impossible teenagers; her mother and in-laws are in precarious health; and her husband is having a midlife crisis that 9781250086082 leaves her desperate to restart her career after years away from the workplace. Once again, Kate is scrambling to keep all the balls in the air in a juggling act that an early review from theU.K. Express hailed as "sparkling, funny, and poignant...a triumphant return for Pearson."Will Kate reclaim her rightful place at the ver...y hedge[more] fund she founded, or will she strangle in her new “shaping” underwear? Will she rekindle an old flame, or will her house burn to the ground when a rowdy mob shows up for her daughter’s surprise (to her parents) Christmas party? Surely it will all work out in the end. After all, how hard can it be? Paperback | $19.95 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act : Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous History Peoples a Reality Page Two Books, Inc. Bob Joseph Apr 17, 2018 Ctn Qty: 1 Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a 160 pages leading cultural sensitivity trainer. 5.00" x 8.00" Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has shaped, controlled, and constrained the lives and opportunities of 9780995266520 Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph’s book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo. Joseph explains how Indigenous Peoples can step out from under the Indian Act and return to self- government, self-determination, and self-reliance—and why doing so would result in a better country for every Canadian. He dissects the complex issues around truth and reconciliation, and clearly demonstrates... [more] why learning about the Indian Act’s cruel, enduring legacy is essential for the country to move toward true reconciliation.

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Hardcover | $36.50 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Psychology Flatiron Books Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Ola Rosling Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting Apr 3, 2018 facts.When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in Ctn Qty: 20 poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the 320 pages answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, 5.38" x 8.25" journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.InFactfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offersa radical new explanation of why this happens. They revealthe ten instincts that distortour perspective—from our 9781250107817 tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version ofus andthem) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious... [more] and predictable biases.It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories,Factfulnessis an urgent and Hardcover | $38.00 Humanessential Errors book : thatA Panorama will change of Our the Glitches, way you From see thePointless world Bones and empower to Broken you Genes to respond to the crises and Science opportunities of the future.---“This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance… Houghton Mifflin Harcourt NathanPreviously H Lents I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February An2017. illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA—that May 1, 2018 make us human Ctn Qty: 12 We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest 256 pages creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times more 6.00" x 9.00" often than a dog? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are wereallysupposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there’s been some kind of mistake. 9781328974693 As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not alitanyof mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body,... perhaps [more] evolution’s greatest creation, is one big pile of compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we are very, very good at getting around them.

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Hardcover | $45.00 The Story of Food : An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat Cooking DK Dk The stories and history behind the individual foods we eat--from salt to sushi and rice to salami-- May 1, 2018 beginning with the early efforts of humans in their quest for sustenance and culminating in today's diverse Ctn Qty: 8 culinary landscape. 360 pages 8.37" x 10.06" This glorious visual celebration of food in all its forms reveals the extraordinary cultural impact of the foods we eat, explores the early efforts of humans in their quest for sustenance, and tells the fascinating stories behind individual foods. With profiles of the most culturally and historically interesting foods of all types, from nuts and 9781465473363 grains, fruits and vegetables, and meat and fish, to herbs and spices, this fascinating culinary historical reference provides the facts on all aspects of each food's unique story. Feature spreads shine a spotlight on influential international cuisines and the local foods that built them. The Story of Food explains how foods... [more] have become the cornerstone of our culture, from their origins to how they are eaten and their place in world cuisine.

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Hardcover | $20.99 Less: A Visual Guide to Minimalism House & Home Alpha Rachel Aust Simplify life and amplify living by mastering the fundamentals of minimalism through this visual guide Jun 12, 2018 to embracing a minimalist lifestyle Ctn Qty: 1 144 pages How can living with less contribute to a greater sense of fulfillment? It seems contradictory, yet the minimalist 5.87" x 7.68" lifestyle, which focuses on scaling back your possessions and simplifying your life to just the essentials, achieves just that. Adopt minimal living, and you'll find that less is more:

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Using decision trees, flow charts, icons, and other graphics, Less shows how minimalism can be applied to any Hardcover | $34.95 areaBack of to life--including Beer ... and Hockeyhome, wardrobe,: The Story decor, of Eric cook Molsoning, cleaning, finances, and organizing your time--and how it Biography & can be adapted to suit your own goals and help you achieve your version of happiness. Autobiography Helen Antoniou McGill-Queen's University To most Canadians, the Molson name is part of the very fabric of Canada. Since 1786, when John Press Molson founded his first brewery in Montreal, it has become synonymous with beer, hockey, and philanthropy. Few realize, however, how close the family came in recent years to losing control of the enterprise. Back to Apr 30, 2018 Beer...and Hockey offers intimate details of the life and work of Eric Molson, who not only saved the company, Ctn Qty: but positioned it to thrive as a global brewery into the twenty-first century. With unprecedented access to the Molson family, Helen Antoniou traces Eric Molson's evolution from a young brewmaster captivated by the 456 pages chemistry of beer-making to chairman of Molson. Quiet by nature, he had to confront big egos, navigate 6.25" x 9.25" 9780773552876 complex boardroom politics, and even battle a disruptive cousin who tried to push him out of the way. Antoniou's carefully researched account details how the introverted Eric overcame his aversion to conflict to take the company from a failing conglomerate back to its core business of beer, eventually turning it into... [more]one of the world's leading brewers. Today, he has passed the torch to his sons, the seventh generation, but his steadfast vision prevails. An absorbing account of one man's struggle at the helm of an international brewing giant, Back to Beer...and Hockey shows how Eric Molson's guiding principles influenced the future of Molson - both the enterprise and the family. Paperback | $21.95 The Figgs Fiction Freehand Books Ali Bryan

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Paperback | $38.99 Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island Fiction Indigenous Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Sophie McCall , Deanna Reder , David Gaertner Press “Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.” —Thomas King, in this volume Read, Listen, Tell brings together an May 26, 2017 extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America). From short fiction to as- Ctn Qty: 1 told-to narratives, from illustrated stories to personal essays, these stories celebrate the strength of heritage 410 pages and the liveliness of innovation. Ranging in tone from humorous to defiant to triumphant, the stories explore 6.00" x 9.00" x 1.00" core concepts in Indigenous literary expression, such as the relations between land, language, and community, the variety of narrative forms, and the continuities between oral and written forms of expression. Rich in insight 9781771123006 and bold in execution, the stories proclaim the diversity, vitality, and depth of Indigenous writing. Building on two decades of scholarly work to centre Indigenous knowledges and perspectives, the book transforms literary method while respecting and honouring Indigenous histories and peoples of these lands. It includes ...sto ries[more] by acclaimed writers like Thomas King, Sherman Alexie, Paula Gunn Allen, and Eden Robinson, a new generation of emergent writers, and writers and storytellers who have often been excluded from the canon, such as French- and Spanish-language Indigenous authors, Indigenous authors from Mexico, Chicana/o authors, Indigenous-language authors, works in translation, and “lost“ or underappreciated texts. In a place and time when Indigenous people often have to contend with representations that marginalize or devalue their intellectual and cultural heritage, this collection is a testament to Indigenous resilience and creativity. It shows that the ways in which we read, listen, and tell play key roles in how we establish relationships with one another, and how we might share knowledges across cultures, languages, and social spaces.

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