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2 Gifts for Bibliophiles Revenge of the Librarians

Bedside Companion for Book Lovers

TOM GAULD

Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist’s signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. $29.95 HC Drawn & Quarterly Publications

An Anthology of Literary Delights for Every Night of the Year

JANE MCMORLAND HUNTER

A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year. Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays, and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The perfect gift for the bibliophile in your life. $32.99 HC Batsford

Remainders of the Day

Novelist as a Vocation

SHAUN BYTHELL

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

A Bookshop Diary

New from the author of Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, another hilariously grumpy year behind the counter at The Bookshop. Though diaries of daily life, Shaun Bythell has created an endearing and cozy world for booklovers, a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books

$34.00 HC Doubleday Canada

$36.99 HC David R. Godine

Great Short Books

Ex Libris

KENNETH C DAVIS

MICHIKO KAKUTANI

A Year of Reading-Briefly

A delightful, entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time from a bestselling historian, author, and lifelong reader. Fall back into the joys of literature with an extraordinary book for book lovers: a compulsively readable, deeply engaging list of great short novels.

50 Postcards

Send and receive gorgeous literary postcards featuring book recommendations from Pulitzer Prize– winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani and stunning original cover art from illustrator Dana Tanamachi. $23.99 stationery Clarkson Potter

$37.00 HC Scribner

Balvi Bookends – Support for books, fun for readers.

BALVI

PRACTICAL. Ideal to keep books organized on a shelf or desk and prevent them from falling.

DECORATIVE. Its original design will give your spaces a fun touch. RESISTANT. Made of metal for greater strength and durability.

It has silicone at the base to avoid slides.

PERFECT GIFT. Original gift idea for animal and book lovers, students and children. From $22.99 ea.

Recharge Book Light MIGHTY BRIGHT

No need for batteries means you save money and put less hazardous waste into landfills. We believe this is the best book light on the market today! 20" micro USB charging cable included (USB charging block not included).

2-10 LUMENS | 3000K | 10" x 1" x 1" Available in 5 colours $39.99, ea.

Puffin in Bloom Series Socks OUT OF PRINT

Each purchase helps to fund literacy programs and book donations to communities in need. Part of the Puffin in Bloom collection - illustrations by Anna Bond. Unisex style in small and large, 75% cotton, 20% polyester, 5% spandex $16.99 ea.

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With the participation of the Government of Canada

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Bookseller Picks 3

Bookmark’s booksellers are passionate book people and an eclectic group of readers with wide ranging interests. We collectively read hundreds of books a year, talk about hundreds and hundreds more within our community of readers, and love to be asked the question, ‘What are you reading?’

For us, it is quite a thrill to share a favourite book and see others fall in love with it. We believe that these very human-to-human interactions and recommendations will beat a computer-to-human algorithm generated recommendation every time! So, we are excited to share our 2022 list of favourite books as well as some of our perennial favourites. You can find all of these titles on the shelves at Bookmark.

Caitlin's Picks

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

BEST OF 2022

FRAN LEBOWITZ

Paradais

FERNANDA MELCHOR

Witches A Novel

BRENDA LOZANO

Told through the perspective of two women in Mexico. One is a journalist and the other is a famed healer. The similarities and differences of their stories are profoundly fascinating. This book is rivetingly good.

The writing of Fernanda Melchor is singular. This intense, fast-paced novel just builds and builds and you know what is coming at the end but you just cannot stop reading. And when you are done you just think, wow.

Woman Running in the Mountains YŪKO TSUSHIMA

Beautifully written about the struggles of finding your place. The main character of this book is someone you want to root for. The novel makes you experience what the protagonist is going through.

Heartbreakingly good.

Here Be Icebergs KATYA ADAUI

Here Be Icebergs consists of several short stories about the relationships between family members. The stories are vignettes of moments in these family lives. The writing is concise and biting.

So great.

Weasels in the Attic HIROKO OYAMADA

Girl, Woman, Other

A Childhood

A Novel BERNARDINE EVARISTO

The Biography of a Place HARRY CREWS

The Aosawa Murders RIKU ONDA

Hangsaman

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden JOANNE GREENBERG

The Journalist and the Murderer

SHIRLEY JACKSON

JANET MALCOLM

The Rooftop

FERNANDA TRIAS

Hurricane Season FERNANDA MELCHOR

The Factory

HIROKO OYAMADA

PAST FAVOURITES

Hiroko Oyamada writes these amazing surrealistic novellas. In this interconnected short story collection, she continues exploring the bizarre while making clever comments about the society we live in.

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4 Bookseller Picks

Ben's Picks

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.

Books are well written, or badly written.

OSCAR WILDE

BEST OF 2022

Ducks

Two Years in the Oil Sands

KATE BEATON

Either/Or ELIF BATUMAN

One of the funniest books I’ve read all year. Sardonic, humorous in a bone-dry way, and incredibly succinct in its descriptions of the transition between childhood and adult life that university represents.

The best graphic novel of the year: hilarious, gutwrenching, and so deeply true to the experience of an artist forced to compromise their dreams for the realities of life in the 21st century.

Vox Machina: Kith and Kin Critical Role Series

MARIEKE NIJKAMP

The storytelling here is so lived-in and confident.

World-building, character, plot - The author balances it all expertly and makes the siblings at the centre of the narrative feel like fully fleshed out, grounded people despite the high fantasy setting.

The Candy House A Novel

JENNIFER EGAN

Intensely revealing about the state of society’s obsession with social media. Egan is a master of dialogue and character, and the people in this book will stay with you for weeks after you’ve read it.

100 Poems SEAMUS HEANEY

I never used to understand poetry- before I was introduced to Seamus Heaney, that is. An entire career’s worth of revelations brought out in smallscale imagery, this collection is simply a must for any fan of Irish poetry..

PAST FAVOURITES

Daisy Jones & The Six

Exciting Times

A Novel TAYLOR JENKINS REID

Fortune of Wolves

RYAN GRIFFITH

Fleabag

A Novel NAOISE DOLAN

The Scriptures PHOEBE WALLERBRIDGE

High Fidelity NICK HORNBY

Normal People A Novel SALLY ROONEY

Writers & Lovers

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A Novel LILY KING

(Collins Classics) OSCAR WILDE

The Only Story A Novel JULIAN BARNES

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The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards A Novel KRISTOPHER JANSMA

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Aaron's Picks

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

BEST OF 2022

They Say Blue JILLIAN TAMAKI

Fantastic pictures paired with the bounceanywhere musings of a child's mind.

The Nineties A Book

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Klosterman's early hit Sex Drugs And Cocoa Puffs burned with "Angry Young Man" rage, but he's changed a lot since then and this collection of essays looks at the decade with cool remove.

Stay True A Memoir

HUA HSU

More about the 90s! Hsu writes criticism at The New Yorker that leaves me wanting more. It has arrived in this memoir about his years as a misfit at Berkeley and a charismatic friend who changes the course of Hsu's life.

We Don't Know Ourselves

A Personal History Of Modern Ireland

Animal Person

FINTAN O'TOOLE

The way O'Toole connects the many details in We Don't Know Ourselves to his own life is brilliant. As entertaining as it is huge.

Stories

ALEXANDER MACLEOD

There's something chilling about this new collection from MacLeod, even the one set in California can't escape it. Beautiful stories from one of the best in the Maritimes.

A Surfing Life WILLIAM FINNEGAN

Homage to Catalonia

Fahrenheit 451 A Novel RAY BRADBURY

Fishing With John EDITH IGLAUER

On Writing A Memoir of the Craft STEPHEN KING

GEORGE ORWELL

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Sellout

Out of Sheer Rage

In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence GEOFF DYER

A Novel PAUL BEATTY

RICHARD FLANAGAN

Transit

A Novel RACHEL CUSK

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

PAST FAVOURITES

Barbarian Days

DAVID SEDARIS

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6 Bookseller Picks

Erica's Picks

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

GARRISON KEILLOR

BEST OF 2022

Shelterbelts JONATHON DYCK

An important graphic novel for Canadians interested in issues of religion, Indigenous land rights, LGBTQ+ inclusion and the history of Mennonite pacifism in Southern Manitoba.

Ducks

Two Years in the Oil Sands

KATE BEATON

Stunningly honest and beautifully illustrated. You MUST read this!

Bliss Montage Stories

LING MA

Ling Ma's short stories focusing on cultural identity and womanhood are both elegant and tragic.

The Doloriad A Novel

MISSOURI WILLIAMS

Reminiscent of Geek Love and The Road, this grotesque and depraved literary debut tells the story of a postapocalyptic family dynamic that is utterly unforgettable.

Nothing Could Be Further From the Truth CHRISTOPHER EVANS

Uncanny stories that were so weird but plausible, I couldn't put this one down.

Coraline

Eileen

PAST FAVOURITES

Into Thin Air

A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster JON KRAKAUER

Four Thousand Weeks

A Novel OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

NEIL GAIMAN

No One Belongs Here More Than You Stories MIRANDA JULY

Time Management for Mortals OLIVER BURKEMAN

Outer Dark

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Doors of Perception

and Heaven and Hell ALDOUS HUXLEY

The Night Always Comes A Novel WILLY VLAUTIN

Touching The Void JOE SIMPSON

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Wintering

The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times KATHERINE MAY

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Lori's Picks

A good book has no ending.

R. D. CUMMING

BEST OF 2022 The Marriage Portrait MAGGIE O’FARRELL

Shrines of Gaiety KATE ATKINSON

Prepare to be emersed in the underworld of London in the Roaring 20s! Set in London after the Great War, loyalty is demanded and debts repaid. Who is really in control?

O’Farrell is such a wonderful author for many reasons but I particularly love how she sets tone and place.

I basically read this in one sitting, at the edge of my seat, absolutely absorbed in Lucrezia’s world. As with Hamnet, I kept hoping, from what we know from the historic accounts of this character, that history might be changed.

The Bullet That Missed RICHARD OSMAN

I absolutely love this series! There’s always a dark side to the mystery the friends are solving but it’s quirky, funny, and heartwarming at the same time. I want to live there!

The Night Ship JESS KIDD

Another book I loved that is based on a true story. Jess Kidd is a wonderful storyteller and you get emersed in both worlds of this novel — with Mayken aboard the Batvia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age and with Gil, on a small island outport off the West coast of Australia.

The Rabbit Hole MARK BILLINGHAM

This is my type of mystery! Who’s good? Who’s bad? What’s real? This was the first Billingham I’ve read but now will go down the proverbial “rabbit hole” to get all his backlist.

Haven

A Novel EMMA DONOGHUE

MARIAN KEYES

Lessons in Chemistry

BONNIE GARMUS

Jennie's Boy

A Newfoundland Childhood WAYNE JOHNSTON

Rogues

True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

Small Things Like These CLAIRE KEEGAN

The Long Call Two Rivers #1 ANN CLEEVES

The Strangers KATHERENA VERMETTE

Trespasses

A Novel LOUISE KENNEDY

Young Mungo

PAST FAVOURITES

Again, Rachel

A Novel DOUGLAS STUART

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8 Bookseller Picks

Leslie's Picks Books, for me, are a home.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

BEST OF 2022

All the Seas of the World GUY GAVRIEL KAY

Three

VALERIE PERRIN

For anyone who loved Fresh Water For Flowers – Perrin’s new novel doesn’t disappoint.

3 friends growing up in rural France, dreaming of a life together in Paris. Complications ensue. I couldn’t put it down.

I haven’t been reading much fantasy in the last few years, and I’m so glad I went back to it with this wonderful book. Kay’s writing is so beautiful, the characters are incredibly interesting and the world-building is fantastic.

The Marriage Portrait MAGGIE O’FARRELL

Does anyone else get nervous about reading a follow up to a book you loved? What if it’s not as good? No need to worry – this is wonderful.

Renaissance Italy comes alive, and I really didn’t want it to end.

Pandora's Jar Women in the Greek Myths

NATALIE HAYNES

I’m always excited for a new Natalie Haynes. This time it’s non-fiction, centering the chapters on the women involved in some of the best known stories in Greek mythology. Haynes is a comedian as well as a classicist, and her humour comes through loud and clear.

Off With Her Head Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

ELEANOR HERMAN

Why is it that women with power are treated differently? This book does a wonderful job of covering the historic misogyny faced by women who dare to seek it.

Bad Feminist

Crusaders

PAST FAVOURITES

Essays ROXANE GAY

Happiness

The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands DAN JONES

WILL FERGUSON

Mamushka

Lavinia

URSULA K LE GUIN

A Cookbook OLIA HERCULES

People of the Book

A Novel GERALDINE BROOKS

Possession

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

A S BYATT

JULIAN BARNES

The Radiant Way MARGARET DRABBLE

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Women & Power A Manifesto MARY BEARD

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Dan's Picks

Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.

WENDELL BERRY, JAYBER CROW

BEST OF 2022 Off the Record PETER MANSBRIDGE

This is the perfect gift for avid CBC listeners. Peter is a great storyteller. Bob Rae says, ‘Peter is a warm and thoughtful man’ and through these anecdotes offers a way to live responsibly in our fractured world.

In Praise of Good Bookstores JEFF DEUTSCH

What makes a good bookstore? This is an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores and the attributes that contribute to successful ones.

The Flag and the Cross White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

PHILIP S GORSKI SAMUEL L PERRY JEMAR TISBY

New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. This is an important book that will help you understand the very real forces that imperil American democracy.

Freezing Order

A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

BILL BROWDER

A financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate plea for justice. Chronicles how Browder became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.

The History of Rain STEPHENS GERARD MALONE

This literary historical fiction is the perfect gift for reader who likes gardening.

Five Little Indians

Letterpress Books & Broadsides Printed at Gaspereau Press, 1997-2017 ANDREW STEEVES

Orban

Hungary's Strongman PAUL LENDVAI

Hard Bargain Road

A Novel MICHELLE GOOD

Shrubs and Vines for Atlantic Canada

Choose the best plants for your location BOLAND TODD

Wildland

The Road to Unfreedom

The Making of America's Fury EVAN OSNOS

SUSAN HALDANE

The Cat Who Saved Books A Novel SOSUKE NATSUKAWA

Russia, Europe, America TIMOTHY SNYDER

Treepedia To Cook a Bear A Novel MIKAEL NIEMI

PAST FAVOURITES

Sixty Over Twenty

A Brief Compendium of Arboreal Lore JOAN MALOOF

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10 Kids Board Books They Say Blue

Hats Are Not for Cats!

JILLIAN TAMAKI

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books Caldecott and Printz Honor-winning illustrator Jillian Tamaki brings us a poetic exploration of colour and nature from a young child’s point of view.

JACQUELINE K RAYNER

Are hats for cats?! A big, bossy dog and a determined cat disagree. This funny rhyming romp—with a large cast of cats and hats—leads readers to the perfect conclusion: hats are for everyone! $10.99 BB HarperCollins

$14.99 BB Groundwood Books

The Joyful Book TODD PARR

Whether it's celebrating a holiday, sharing a meal, or learning new things, The Joyful Book inspires readers of all ages to spread the joy near and far, to loved ones and friends. $11.99 BB Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

My Promise JILLIAN ROBERTS ILLUSTRATED BY SLAVKA KOLESAR

A stunning board book that shows little ones they will be loved unconditionally and empowers parents and caregivers to raise wellrounded, resilient individuals. $10.95 BB Orca Book Publishing

Hat On, Hat Off

Snowmen at Work

Toddlers will delight in choosing their own hats after sharing charming story, now available in sturdy board book format. A simple, rhythmic text that reflects the everyday challenge of getting a busy toddler ready to go out. $13.95 BB Pajama Press

If you were a snowman, what job would you choose? This fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Snowmen series is a gleeful, goofy delight. Kids will love spotting the silly details in each illustration, and the hidden pictures too.

THEO HERAS ILLUSTRATIONS BY RENNE BENOIT

My First Moomin: Goodnight Moomin TOVE JANSSON

The first book in a brand new read-aloud board book series for the youngest Moomin fans! With gorgeous illustrations and a soothing story, this is the perfect book for bedtime. $16.99 BB Penguin UK

CAROLYN BUEHNE ILLUSTRATED BY MARK BUEHNER

$11.99 BB Penguin Young Readers

When Winter Comes

AIMEE BISSONETTE ILLUSTRATED BY ERIN HOURIGAN A sweet poetic board book celebrating the vibrancy of wildlife and families in the outdoors in winter. Though a forest may be blanketed in snow or a lake frozen over, families who enjoy the outdoors in winter, happily bundled up to play in the energizing weather, know that wildlife is still teeming there. $10.99 BB Sasquatch Books

We Love Books!

Bookscape Board Books

INGELA P ARRHENIUS

Simple text and jubilant illustrations introduce babies and toddlers to a word of books and usher in an early appreciation for reading! Delightfully petite, Bookscape Board Books' chunkiness and unique layers give them a tactile, toylike quality that begs to be picked up. $13.50 BB Chronicle Books

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Bear Can’t Sleep KARMA WILSON ILLUSTRATED BY JANE CHAPMAN

It’s winter and deep in the forest, Bear should be fast asleep. But when his friends come by to check on him, they realize that Bear is still awake! $11.99 BB Little Simon

11 Title

Kids Non-fiction 11 Braiding Sweetgrass

More Than Money

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants

How Economic Inequality Affects Everything

HADLEY DYER AND MITCHELL BERNARD ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL GILL

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER ADAPTED BY MONIQUE GRAY SMITH ILLUSTRATED BY NICOLE NEIDHARDT

With vivid, energetic illustrations and tips for how to investigate topics of interest, readers learn the most important issues and ideas in economics.

Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrates how all living things provide us with gifts and lessons every day. $19.99 PB Lerner Publishing

$14.95 PB Annick Press

The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers

Little People, Big Dream: Terry Fox

A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits

MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ VEGARA ILLUSTRATED BY T. CONNOR

RACHEL POLIQUIN ILLUSTRATED BY CLAYTON HANMER

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Terry Fox, the legendary Canadian who ran the Marathon of Hope.

$24.95 HC Greystone Books

$19.99 HC Frances Lincoln Children’s Books

Welcome to the weirdest museum you’ll ever explore—the one inside your body.

The Late, Great Endlings

Stories of the Last Survivors

DEBORAH KERBEL ILLUSTRATED BY AIMEE VAN DRIMMELEN

Unstoppable Us Volume 1 YUVAL NOAH HARARI ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD ZAPLANA RUIZ

The Late, Great Endlings pays homage to some of the more well-known endlings of the past century with rhyming stanzas that accompany watercolor illustrations and factual descriptions of each animal.

From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, brand-new illustrated book for middle-grade readers that looks at the epic true story of humankind.

$21.95 HC Orca Book Publishers

$29.99 HC Tundra Book Group

An Anthology of Aquatic Life SAM HUME

An Anthology of Aquatic Life is a stunning ocean encyclopedia for young readers to explore with reference pages packed with fascinating information. Little learners will be captivated as they discover the facts, stories, and myths behind their favourite sea-life animals. $28.99 HC DK Children

Kids Can Cook Anything!

The Complete How-to Cookbook for Young Chefs

AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN KIDS

Have you ever wondered about the best way to chop an onion or separate an egg? Or even how to make fancy-looking Chocolate Pastry Puffs for breakfast and Oven-Baked Chicken with Teriyaki Sauce for dinner? This book answers all those questions and more. $29.99 HC America’s Test Kitchen

The Reading Adventure

100 Books to Check Out Before You’re 12

The Moon

Discover the Mysteries of Earth’s Closest Neighbor

CURATED BY WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS

SANLYN BUXNER PAMELA GAY GEORGIANA KRAMER

$25.99 HC DK

$19.99 HC DK

Packed with reviews, recommendations, and exclusive author interviews, The Reading Adventure: 100 Books To Check Out Before You're 12 will inspire young readers to discover a diverse range of books beyond the curriculum.

This fascinating guide introduces 7-9-year-olds to the moon’s past, present, and future. Packed with mind-blowing facts, this incredible book of the moon is perfect for space lovers everywhere.

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12 Kids Picture Books An Elephant & Piggie Biggie!

Hey, Bruce!

MO WILLEMS

In Hey, Bruce!, Bruce the bear experiences . . . well, whatever readers want him to. Bruce's life is what YOU, the reader, make it in this special interactive addition to the award-winning Mother Bruce series.

An Interactive Book

Volume 5

RYAN HIGGINS

This BIGGIE bind-up of Elephant & Piggie adventures will make readers want to celebrate! This bind-up includes the titles: I Am Invited to a Party!; I Will Surprise My Friend!; Happy Pig Day!; Waiting Is Not Easy!; and The Thank You Book.

$22.99 HC Disney-Hyperion

$22.99 HC Hyperion Books for Children

I's the B'y

Farmhouse

LAUREN SOLOY

This glorious new picture book is as lavish and moving a tribute to a storied, beloved place as Hello Lighthouse. Join the awardwinning, best-selling Sophie Blackall as she takes readers on an enchanting visit to a farmhouse across time, to a place that echoes with stories.

The Beloved Folk Song In this gorgeous picture book, Maritime artist and children’s writer Lauren Soloy honors the song and its birthplace with rich, captivating illustrations of bobbing boats, leaping humpback whales, violinplaying fish, dancing people, starry skies, and stormy seas. $22.95 HC Illustrations Greystone Books

SOPHIE BLACKALL

$23.99 HC Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Still This Love Goes On

A brilliantly crafted, hilarious twist on the beloved classic, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, from renowned, award-winning, and New York Times bestselling duo and picture book pioneers Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen!

Based on Sainte-Marie’s song of the same name, Still This Love Goes On combines Flett’s breathtaking art with vivid lyrics to craft a stunning portrait of a Cree worldview. At the heart of this picture book is a gentle message about missing our loved ones, and the promise of seeing each other again.

MAC BARNETT AND JON KLASSEN

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE ILLUSTRATED BY JULIE FLETT

$24.99 HC full-colour illustrations Scholastic Inc.

$22.95 HC Greystone Books

The Most Magnificent Idea ASHLEY SPIRES

Award-winning and bestselling author-illustrator Ashley Spires ingeniously captures the ups and downs of the creative process in this delightful picture book starring the beloved characters from The Most Magnificent Thing. $21.99 HC Kids Can Press

Night Lunch ERIC FAN ILLUSTRATED BY DENA SEIFERLING

This dreamlike picture book is a magical ode to Victorian lunch wagons. Evoking the sounds, sights, smells, and tastes of the city at night, Night Lunch reveals how empathy and kindness as well as dignity and gratitude can be found in the most unexpected places. $24.99 HC Tundra Books

Green is for Christmas DREW DAYWALT OLIVER JEFFERS

In this Christmas story starring the crayons from the #1 New York Times bestseller The Day The Crayons Quit, Green Crayon is certain that he is the only Christmas color in the box. Of course, Red, White, Silver and even Tan have something to say about that... $13.99 HC Penguin Young Readers

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How to Teach Your Cat a Trick In Five Easy Steps

NICOLA WINSTANLEY ZOE SI

In this hilarious and clever followup to How to Give Your Cat a Bath, a boy, a dog, and a know-it-all narrator are thwarted by a cat who refuses to learn a trick. $21.99 HC Tundra Books

13 Title

Kids Chapter Books 13 Yasmin Figures It Out!

Keeper of Lost Cities: Stellarlune

SAADIA FARUQI ILLUSTRATED BY HATEM ALY

SHANNON MESSENGER

In this stunning ninth book in the bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie and her friends discover the true meaning of power—and evil.

Join Yasmin in four new adventures that put her courage and problem-solving skills to the test! No matter the challenge, puzzle, or mystery, Yasmin gives her all to figure it out!

$29.99 HC Aladdin

$7.95 PB Capstone

Spy School Project X

One More Mountain

In the tenth book in the Spy School series, Ben Ripley’s longtime nemesis, Murray Hill, has put a price on Ben’s head and accused him of being at the center of a conspiracy on the internet.

Now Ben finds himself in his greatest danger yet, on the run from both assassins and conspiracy theorists.

DEBORAH ELLIS

STUART GIBBS

Breadwinner Series #5 It’s 2021, and the Taliban have regained power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy. $18.99 HC Groundwood Books

$21.99 HC Simon and Schuster

Apartment 713

The Stars Did Wander Darkling

KEVIN SYLVESTER

Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork, and unlikely friends—welcome to the Regency, where even time moves in surprising ways!

COLIN MELOY

A suspenseful and atmospheric horror set in 1980s Oregon, perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Neil Gaiman, and Margaret Peterson Haddix, from New York Times bestselling author and the Decemberists’ lead singer/songwriter, Colin Meloy.

$21.99 HC HarperCollins

$21.99 HC HarperCollins

Pages and Company

The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams

ANNA JAMES MARCO GUADALUPI

This moving story about a magical bookstore explores the way war can shape a family and is perfect for book lovers everywhere, especially fans of Pages & Co., Pax, and Wolf Hollow.

The Treehouse Library The fifth and penultimate book in the bestselling Bookwandering series.

As Tilly and Milo hurtle towards their final showdown with the Alchemist, the stakes are higher than ever – though there is always time for hot chocolate!

MINDY THOMPSON

$12.49 PB Penguin

$21.99 HC HarperCollins

The Undercover Book List

Children of the Fox: Thieves of Shadow

He's known as the class troublemaker.

She's known as the bookworm. But when every note they send is anonymous, identity is suddenly what they make it.

KEVIN SANDS

COLLEEN NELSON

$15.95 PB Pajama Press

Book One

From the bestselling author of The Blackthorn Key series comes a thrilling Ocean's Eleven-like heist story for young readers. Five kids with unusual talents are brought together to commit an impossible crime. Failure is unacceptable . . . but success could be deadly. $11.99 PB Tundra Book Group

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14 Kids Graphic Novels The Wolf Suit

The Greatest in the World!

SID SHARP

A hilarious and touching graphic novel about the pressures of conformity and conquering fear by finding community.

With humor, darkness, and insight reminiscent of Jon Klassen and Edward Gorey, Sharp turns the idiom “wolf in sheep’s clothing” on its head. The perfect contemporary folktale to press into the hands of anyone who has felt they need to pretend to be someone else.

BEN CLANTON

Two spud siblings face off in a series of epic challenges in this first installment of a new and hilariously silly graphic novel chapter book series from the bestselling creator of the Narwhal and Jelly books. $15.99 HC Illustrations Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

$22.99 HC Annick Press

Speak Up!

Enemies

For fans of Click and Brave, this touching coming-of-age middle grade graphic novel debut follows an autistic girl who finds friendship where she least expects it and learns to express her true self in a world where everyone defines her by her differences.

Felicity’s sure she’s going to do something big. Exactly what is still a mystery, but she’ll figure it out. Her sister, Letty, teases Felicity that she never finishes stuff, but that’s just because Letty is so perfect.

REBECCA BURGESS

$16.99 PB HarperCollins

SVETLANA CHMAKOVA

$17.00 PB Yen Press

Narwhalicorn and Jelly

My Aunt Is a Monster REIMENA YEE

Safia thought that being blind meant she would only get to go on adventures through her audiobooks. This all changes when she goes to live with a distant and mysterious aunt, Lady Whimsy, who takes Safia on the journey of a lifetime!

A Narwhal and Jelly Book 7

BEN CLANTON

In the hilarious seventh book of this blockbuster graphic novel series, Narwhal wishes to see a unicorn — and actually becomes one!

$18.99 PB Random House Children’s Books

$16.99 HC Tundra Books

Paws

Unicornado

NATHAN FAIRBAIRN MICHELE ASSARASAKORN

DANA SIMPSON

Mindy Makes Some Space Your favorite dog-walkers are back with even more cute animals— and even more friendship and family drama—in this funny and heartwarming story perfect for fans of Real Friends, Roller Girl, and Allergic! $17.99 PB Penguin Young Readers

Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure A new school year means many things for nine-year-old Phoebe Howell and her unicorn best friend, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils. They prepare for a school dance (lame!), meet new friends (ghosts and gnomes and goblins, OH MY!), and even experience a rare supernatural phenomenon called a Unicornado! $15.99 PB Andrews McMeel Publishing

The Shattered Shore

Rover and Speck

JORDAN QUINN

JONATHAN ROTH

Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly #8 In the eighth installment of the exciting Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel chapter book series, Ruskin and his friends travel to a distant island. $12.99 PB Little Simon

This Planet Rocks In this one-of-a-kind graphic novel, two mismatched rovers meet on a distant planet and discover that space exploration is not what they expected! A perfect space adventure for aspiring (and armchair) astronauts everywhere! $16.99 HC Kids Can Press

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15 Title

Fiction 15 This Is How We Love

Rafael Has Pretty Eyes

From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love? A tour de force of storytelling and craft, This is How We Love brings us a cast of characters so rich and true they could only have been written by Lisa Moore.

Smart, compassionate, and often hilarious, McCluskey's short stories explore the absurdity and interconnectedness of life in the Maritimes. These characters will stick with you.

LISA MOORE

ELAINE MCCLUSKEY

$22.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

$32.99 HC House of Anansi Press Inc

Less Is Lost

Liberation Day

ANDREW SEAN GREER

GEORGE SAUNDERS

The Arthur Less Books #2 With all of the irrepressible wit and musicality that made Less a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning, must-read breakout book, Less Is Lost is a profound and joyous novel about the enigma of life in America, the riddle of love, and the stories we tell along the way. $37.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

Stories

The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise. $37.99 HC Random House

We Spread

The Sleeping Car Porter

IAIN REID

At once compassionate and uncanny, told in spare, hypnotic prose, Iain Reid’s genre-defying third novel explores questions of conformity, art, productivity, relationships, and what, ultimately, it means to grow old.

SUZETTE MAYR

Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair.

$29.99 HC Simon & Schuster

$23.95 PB Coach House Books

A Single Rose

Euphoria

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life.

MURIEL BARBERY TRANSLATED BY ALISON ANDERSON

$23.95 PB Europa Editions

ELIN CULLHED TRANSLATED BY JENNIFER HAYASHIDA

$37.95 HC Canongate Books

All the Broken Places JOHN BOYNE

From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery. $36.95 HC Doubleday Canada

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16 Fiction Some Hellish

Where the Silver River Ends

NICHOLAS HERRING

Sharp, devilishly funny, and unforgettable.

Some Hellish tells the story of Herring, a lobster fisherman who, in the face of a near-death experience, decides to confront the things he fears most.

Winner, Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. $24.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

A Novel

ANNA QUON

At the crossroads of youthful hope and the startling magic of coincidence, Where the Silver River Ends delves deep into mixed-race identity, systemic oppression, family reconciliation, and what happens when we gather the courage to slip out of the current and make our own way in the world. $22.95 PB Invisible Publishing

Shrines of Gaiety

Fayne

KATE ATKINSON

ANN-MARIE MACDONALD

A Novel

A Novel

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson gives us a window in a vanished world.

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition.

$36.00 HC Doubleday Canada

$40.00 HC Knopf Canada

The Marriage Portrait

The Winners

From the author of the breakout bestseller Hamnet—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize—an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici.

A breathtaking new novel from the author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown for a story about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes.

A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN

MAGGIE O’FARRELL

$26.99 PB Simon & Schuster

$34.00 HC Knopf Canada

Demon Copperhead

Foster

CLAIRE KEEGAN

A Novel

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind. $26.99 PB HarperCollins

An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in North America. $29.50 HC Grove Atlantic

The Tragedy of Eva Mott DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS

The Tragedy of Eva Mott has all the power and brilliance--and many flashes of wry humour--of David Adams Richards at the very top of his form. It will attract controversy, but its fierce authenticity cannot be denied. $36.95 HC Doubleday Canada

A Minor Chorus BILLY-RAY BELCOURT

Populated by characters as alive and vast as the boreal forest, and culminating in a breathtaking crescendo, A Minor Chorus is a novel about how deeply entangled the sayable and unsayable can become—and about how ordinary life, when pressed, can produce hauntingly beautiful music. $27.95 HC Hamish Hamilton

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17 Title

Fiction 17 Jade Is a Twisted Green

The Light Pirate LILY BROOKS-DALTON

For readers of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman’s lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world.

TANYA TURTON

For readers of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life’s pleasures after loss. $22.99 PB Dundurn Press / Rare Machines Imprint

$35.00 HC Grand Central Publishing

Fairy Tale

The White Hare

A spellbinding novel about a boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.

For fans of Alice Hoffman and Kate Morton, The White Hare is a spellbinding novel about mothers and daughters finding a new home for themselves, the secrets they try to bury, and the local legends that may change their lives.

STEPHEN KING

$39.99 HC Scribner

JANE JOHNSON

$24.99 PB Simon & Schuster

Mr. Wilder and Me

Lessons

In a novel that is at once a tender coming-of-age story and an intimate portrait of one of cinema’s most intriguing figures, Jonathan Coe turns his gaze on the nature of time and fame, of family and the treacherous lure of nostalgia.

Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times—a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one man’s lifetime.

A Novel

IAN MCEWAN

JONATHAN COE

$37.00 HC Knopf

$38.50 HC Europa Editions

The Theory of Crows

Lucy by the Sea

DAVID A. ROBERTSON

Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire.

At the heart of this story are the deep human connections that unite us even when we’re apart.

A Novel

A Novel

ELIZABETH STROUT

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land. When a troubled father and his estranged teenage daughter head out onto the land in search of the family trapline, they find their way back to themselves, and to each other.

$37.00 HC Random House

$24.99 PB HarperCollins

The Last Chairlift JOHN IRVING

If you’ve never read a John Irving novel, you’ll be captivated by storytelling that is tragic and comic, embodied by characters you’ll remember long after you’ve finished their story. If you have read John Irving before, you’ll rediscover the themes that made him a bard of alternative families—a visionary voice on the subject of sexual freedom. $45.00 HC Knopf Canada

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18 Mystery The Crooked Knife

Do or Die

Distraught by the murder of a popular teacher on a First Nations reserve in Labrador, Constable Nell Munro battles deception and prejudice in this gripping Canadian northern noir.

Fans of Louise Penny and Michael Connelly, meet Ottawa homicide detective Michael Green in the first book of this gripping police procedural series.

JAN MORRISON

BARBARA FRADKIN

$22.95 PB Boulder Books

The Twist of the Knife

$17.99 PB Dundurn Press

The Ink Black Heart

A Novel

ROBERT GALBRAITH

ANTHONY HOROWITZ

In Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne. $24.99 PB HarperCollins

The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tourde-force. $40.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

The Murder Book

1989

Tom Thorne has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. He finally has a love life worth a damn and is happy in the job to which he has devoted his life... Tom Thorne has it all.... to lose.

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestselling author Val McDermid delivers a propulsive new thriller that finds journalist Allie Burns has become an editor, and as the Cold War and AIDS crisis deliver a nonstop tide of news, most of it bad, a story falls into her lap. And then there’s a murder.

An Allie Burns Novel #2

VAL MCDERMID

MARK BILLINGHAM

$26.99 PB Little, Brown Group

The Garden of Angels

$39.50 HC Grove Atlantic

No Less the Devil STUART MACBRIDE

DAVID HEWSON

When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father.

It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. $24.99 PB Transworld

$23.95 PB Canongate Books

A World of Curiosities

A Dangerous Business

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It’s spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should re-emerge. But something has.

JANE SMILEY

LOUISE PENNY

$39.99 HC St Martin’s Publishing Group

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A Novel

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. $37.99 HC Knopf

19 Title

Mystery 19 Cold Edge of Heaven

Cold Snap

Abandoned at a desolate Arctic outpost and haunted by memories of forbidden desire, Constable Will Grant investigates the mysterious murders of two Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers.

P.I. Charlotte Frayne is dealing with a dangerous international plot, the reappearance of her estranged mother, and trouble brewing at the Paradise Café. With Charlotte's beloved grandfather in the mix, there’s no telling whether things will end in good tidings or tyranny.

A Paradise Café Mystery

MAUREEN JENNINGS

WHIT FRASER

$22.95 PB Boulder Books

$24.95 PB Cormorant Books

Fenian Street

Desert Star

A Mystery

A Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel

ANNE EMERY

Shay Rynne has always toyed with the idea of joining the Garda Síochána, the Irish police. But in the early 1970s, young fellows from the tenements of Dublin have not been welcomed in the police force. When his friend Rosaleen is killed, Shay decides to put on the uniform and sets out to find the killer.

MICHAEL CONNELLY

In what may be his most gripping and profoundly moving book yet, Michael Connelly shows once again why he has been dubbed “one of the greatest crime writers of all time” (Ryan Steck, Crimereads). $37.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

$24.95 PB ECW Press

Suspect

A Heart Full of Headstones

SCOTT TUROW

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal.

IAN RANKIN

John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Although it's not the first time the legendary detective has taken the law into his own hands, it might be the last. What drove a good man to cross the line? Or have times changed, and the rules with them?

$37.00 HC Grand Central Publishing

$34.99 HC Orion Publishing Group

The Bullet That Missed A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

RICHARD OSMAN

It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.

Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case ­— their favorite kind — leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. $37.00 HC Penguin Publishing

A Corruption of Blood

A Raven and Fisher Mystery

AMBROSE PARRY

Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from. $19.95 PB Canongate

A Foreboding of Petrels STEVE BURROWS

The seventh Birder Murder Mystery.

On suspension and unable to work, DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained death at an Antarctic research base. Meanwhile, DS Danny Maik investigates a string of arson attacks in Norfolk. $19.99 PB Point Blank

Standing by the Wall

The Collected Slough House Novellas

MICK HERRON

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the neverbefore-published Christmas interlude Standing by the Wall. For fans new and old, Standing by the Wall is an excellent introduction to the extended literary universe of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses. $22.95 PB Soho Press

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20 Speculative Fiction Before Your Memory Fades

Galatea

TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI

MADELINE MILLER

A Short Story

A Novel

An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, now in hardcover for the first time, featuring a new afterword

by Miller.

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. With his signature heartwarming characters and immersive storytelling.

$15.00 HC HarperCollins

$24.99 HC Hanover Square Press

Ithaca

CLAIRE NORTH

From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . . $35.00 HC Orbit Redhook

The World We Make A Novel

N K JEMISIN

N.K. Jemisin’s Great Cities Duology, which began with The City We Became and concludes with The World We Make, is a masterpiece of speculative fiction from one of the most important writers of her generation. $38.00 HC Orbit

Heart of the Sun Warrior

Our Missing Hearts

SUE LYNN TAN

Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power—and limitations—of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.

A Novel

A Novel

CELESTE NG

The stunning sequel to Daughter of the Moon Goddess delves deeper into beloved Chinese mythology, concluding the epic story of Xingyin as she battles a grave new threat to the realm, in this powerful tale of love, sacrifice, and hope.

$36.00 HC Penguin Canada

$23.99 PB HarperCollins

The Golden Enclaves

Illuminations

NAOMI NOVIK

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover — and in some cases even make and unmake — the various uncharted parts of existence.

Stories

ALAN MOORE

A Novel

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. $37.99 HC Random House Worlds

$40.00 HC Bloomsbury USA

Truth of the Divine

Nona the Ninth

LINDSAY ELLIS

TAMSYN MUIR

A Novel

With a voice completely her own, Lindsay Ellis deepens her realistic exploration of the reality of a planet faced with the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, probing the essential questions of humanity and decency, and the boundaries of the human mind. $24.99 PB St. Martin’s Publishing Group

The Locked Tomb #3

In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. $38.99 HC Tor

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21 Title

Young Adult 21 Anne of Greenville

The Summer Between Us

MARIKO TAMAKI

In this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, Anne is an ABBA-loving singer/actor/writer of disco-operas, queer, Japanese-American who longs to be understood for her artistic genius.

ANDRE FENTON

This coming-of-age story follows eighteen-year-old Adrian Carter as he graduates from high school and confronts difficult decisions about his future, all while dealing with the stress and pressure he feels to please those closest to him.

$23.99 HC Disney-Hyperion

$14.95 PB Formac Publishing

Kingdom of the Feared KERRI MANISCALCO

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kerri Maniscalco delivers sizzling romance, sexy secrets, and unexpected twists in this unforgettable conclusion to the Kingdom of the Wicked series. $24.99 HC Little, Brown and Company Suggested for ages 16 and up.

Suck It In and Smile

LAURENCE BEAUDOIN-MASSE TRANSLATED BY SHELLEY TANAKA

A funny, touching look at the life of a social media influencer who starts to question the #goals life she has created for herself. Suck it In and Smile is an intimate exploration of our obsession with appearances and the hypocrisies that appear when you must craft the perfect online life. $17.99 PB Groundwood

The First to Die at the End

The Door of No Return

In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls.

Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. 11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets… you are only fine, until you are not.

ADAM SILVERA

KWAME ALEXANDER

$24.99 HC HarperCollins

Seasparrow KRISTIN CASHORE

Make the harrowing journey home with Queen Bitterblue's sister and spy, in the fifth novel in the bestselling Graceling Realm series. $29.99 HC Dutton Books for Young Readers

$22.99 HC Little, Brown and Company

Scattered Showers

RAINBOW ROWELL

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes her first short-story collection, Scattered Showers. It’s a feast of irresistible characters, hilarious dialogue, and masterful storytelling—in short, everything you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell book. $32.99 HC St. Martin’s Publishing Group

Gleanings

Stories from the Arc of a Scythe

NEAL SHUSTERMAN

The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with thrilling stories that span the timeline.

Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge! $24.99 HC Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

The Heartstopper Yearbook & Official Coloring Book ALICE OSEMAN

A full-colour companion yearbook for fans of Alice Oseman's bestselling Heartstopper series. $29.99 HC full-colour illustrations Scholastic Inc.

A unique colouring book with stunning artwork from the bestselling Heartstopper series. $21.99 PB black and white illustrations Scholastic Inc.

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22 Author Title Profile

A message from

Bren Simmers

Our 2022 Bookmark Charlottetown Ambassador

Indie bookstores are sites of discovery. There’s nothing like picking up a book that you feel drawn to and devouring the first page. Due to the careful curation in an independent bookstore, the likelihood of having an encounter with a book that you need to read is much higher.

Independent bookstores like Bookmark are staffed by readers, for readers. Their shelves are ever-changing as they respond to the curiosity of the community and reflect the unique tastes of the people who work there. I often head straight to the staff picks section to check out what Lori and Dan and Marlene are reading, and in the process, I discover new authors like Colson Whitehead and Colum McCann.

Indie bookstores also support local authors and publishers. They face out our books on shelves and put them in ever-changing window displays. They host visiting authors and sell books at launches. This kind of support is key to a thriving cultural sector. For readers, writers, and publishers, indie bookstores are your best friend.

Walking through the front door, I am often greeted by name. Bookmark is my Cheers, which I guess makes me Norm and books my after-work beer? (I’ll leave it to you to extrapolate who is Sam, Diane, Woody, Coach, Cliff, and Carla in this analogy, lest I get into trouble.) At Bookmark, there’s a sense of welcome and discovery that keeps me coming back again and again to see what’s new, to say hi to friends, and to feed my mind. Like all cultural institutions, it’s best to visit often.

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23Bren Title recommends..............

These are some of Bren’s recent favourite books.

Bewilderment

Apeirogon

A heartbreaking novel about raising a neurodivergent child in a world ravaged by climate change.

Two fathers, one Palestinian and the other Israeli, form an unlikely friendship after losing their daughters to the conflict.

RICHARD POWER

COLUM MCCANN

Still Life

SARAH WINMAN

Having and Being Had

Beautiful prose meets unforgettable characters steeped in the backdrop of London and Tuscany.

EULA BLISS

Underworld Lit

Short thoughtful essays that examine art, work, and capitalism.

Apricots of Donbas

LYUBA YAKIMCHUK

A bilingual collection by one of Ukraine’s leading poets, Yakimchuk writes about war and the 2014 invasion of her home in the Donbas region.

SRIKANTH REDDY

Laugh out loud funny, this poetry collection about mortality and the afterlife reads like a novel.

Underland

ROBERT MACFARLANE

Savor this dive into the caves and catacombs of the earth. Each chapter offers an adventure and food for the mind.

Books by Bren..............

Pivot Point

If, When

A lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia.

The poems in If, When link the author’s contemporary experiences while living in Squamish, British Columbia, with those of her great-grandparents, who lived in the nearby mining town of Britannia a century earlier.

BREN SIMMERS

BREN SIMMERS

$24.95 Gaspereau Press

$19.95 Gaspereau Press

Night Gears BREN SIMMERS

Simmers' first collection, her lines demand the reader's attention, whether she is cataloguing roadkill on a trip to the arctic, revelling in the intensity of a thunderstorm at a fire lookout, or unfolding the silent pain of smalltown life.

Hastings-Sunrise BREN SIMMERS

A love letter to a fleeting place and time. Simmers' second collection captures her old East Vancouver neighbourhood in the midst of upheaval. $18.95 Nightwood Editions

$17.00 Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.

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24 The Cows Are Out!

Safe Harbour

ADRIAN MCNALLY SMITH

The pandemic was an unprecedented time of stress for Islanders. The Island was locked down at the border, and Islanders were cut off from family and friends everywhere. This collection of mediations comes out of Adrian’s work to save his own mental health with the hope that he can help others through difficult times.

More Stories from my Childhood

DALE MCISAAC

Dale McIsaac is back with his follow-up to the bestselling book The Porridge is Up! Packed with more funny and heartwarming stories of a family of ten kids growing up on a PEI farm.

McIsaac's childhood becomes fodder for heartwarming and hilarious tales.

$24.95 HC Acorn Press

$22.95 PB Acorn Press

Beautiful Sadness A Novel

LINDA STEWART

In this new world of terrorism and catastrophic events beyond our control, Beautiful Sadness provides what audiences an uplifting and inspiring story that gives them a sense that there is still love and hope and goodness in the world. The novel is a fictional, inspirational romance, that captures the idiosyncrasies and historical aspects of Prince Edward Island.

Memories of Christmas MARLENE CAMPBELL

Memories of Christmas is a collection of nostalgic stories that recalls Christmas celebrations of a different era, transporting readers to the bygone days of rural Prince Edward Island. $19.95 PB Acorn Press

$22.95 PB Acorn Press

Crescent Moon Friends

Truck!

DORETTA GROENENDYK

It's pedal to the metal reading fun with this vibrantly illustrated, road-tripping adventure story. When the school bus is late, no need to panic, just hop on a truck. Vehicle loving children will fill up their tanks reading this zany, ride-along tale.

WADIA SAMADI, MO DUFFY COBB, LISA LYPOWY

Crescent Moon Friends introduces the reader to two best friends Amelia and Aisha. While the pair is from Canada and Afghanistan, the girls reconcile their differences through exploration of the values they share.

$13.95 PB Acorn Press

$22.95 HC Acorn Press

Jasper’s Road SUSAN WHITE

Jasper's Road is the follow up to Susan White's popular novels Ten Thousand Truths and Waiting for Still Water. Life on the Walton Lake Road changes for Jasper Williams when Jake Turner moves to the farm to be fostered by Rachel and Ryan. $13.95 PB Acorn Press

More Bygone Days

Moonshine, Dancin’ and Romancin’

REGINALD “DUTCH” THOMPSON

Dutch Thompson is back with More Bygone Days. This second collection includes stories from moonshiner and horse whisperer Ralph Gallant and Maisie Adams, Canada's first female lighthouse keeper. $22.95 PB Acorn Press

Coming Home

Living Full Circle

In this collection, Fiona Steele writes about the journey of coming home — to P.E.I. after moving away and to the Island identity she is rooted in.

JENENE WOOLDRIDGE

FIONA STEELE

$17.95 PB Acorn Press

Living With Balance and Intention Inspired by Medicine Wheel Teachings

In this planner, author Jenene Wooldridge shares her insights and personal experience on how she incorporates teachings of the medicine wheel around balance and living with purpose to live her life and achieve success. $29.95 HC Acorn Publishing

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25 Title

Humour 25 Brit Happens

The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

Or Living the Canadian Dream

JAMES MULLINGER

JERRY SEINFELD

From the highs and lows of London to beginning anew in Atlantic Canada, James Mullinger's gut-busting stories of success, failure, and stand-up comedy will leave you in stitches.

A behind-the-scenes look at Jerry Seinfeld’s groundbreaking streaming series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Featuring never-beforeseen production photos, this book is essential for comedy lovers, car aficionados, coffee connoisseurs, and Seinfeld fans. $45.00 HC Simon & Schuster

$24.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

Dinosaur Philosophy

What If? 2

Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

JAMES STEWART K ROMEY

RANDALL MUNROE

A comic book about dinosaurs finding meaning, together.

Unfazed by absurdity, Munroe consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airliner catapult–design to answer his readers’ questions, clearly and concisely, with illuminating and occasionally terrifying illustrations.

$18.99 HC HarperCollins

$40.00 HC Penguin Publishing

Number One is Walking

Rejected Books The Most Unpublishable Books of All Times

My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions

GRAHAM JOHNSON ROB HIBBERT

STEVE MARTIN DRAWINGS BY HARRY BLISS

Have you ever had a great idea for a book but then thought, “nobody would ever read that”? Well . . . you’re probably right. But you’re not alone! Enter Rejected Books, a rollicking collection of the best book covers for books that were never meant to be.

With gorgeously illustrated cartoons and single-panel “diversions”, this book is full of the everyday moments that make up a movie star’s life, capturing Steve Martin’s singular humour and acclaimed career in film.

$21.99 HC Clarkson Potter

$40.00 HC Celadon Books

Is There Bacon in Heaven?

Solutions and Other Problems

ALI HASSAN

For fans of Russell Peters, Trevor Noah, and Mark Critch comes a hilarious debut memoir about family, pursuing our passions, and figuring out who we are, by stand-up comedian and popular CBC host, Ali Hassan.

Allie Brosh—beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half—returns with a longawaited collection of “hilarious and slyly poignant” (People), autobiographical, illustrated essays.

$24.99 PB Simon and Schuster Canada

$29.99 PB Gallery Books

A Memoir

ALLIE BROSH

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Ravensburger is one of the world’s biggest puzzle brands who have been making high quality puzzles since 1891.

We carry an extensive selection of kids and adult puzzles from 24 pieces up to 4,000 pieces Also available puzzle mats, storage cases, sorters and glue.

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26 Graphic Novels Ducks

Shuna’s Journey HAYAO MIYAZAKI TRANSLATED BY ALEX DUDOK DEWIT

Two Years in the Oil Sands

KATE BEATON

Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of Cape Breton. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush.

From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes Shuna's Journey, a new manga classic about a prince on a quest for a golden grain that would save his land, never before published in English! $36.99 HC First Second

$39.95 HC Drawn & Quarterly Press

Lore Olympus

Banksy

RACHEL SMYTHE

FRANCESCO MATTEUZZI MARCO MARAGGI

Volume Three

A Graphic Novel

Witness what the gods do after dark in the third volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, featuring a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe.

While readers may not learn Banksy’s true identity, this uniquely graphic form of storytelling communicates the artist’s belief that art is for everyone, speaks to everyone, and is owned by everyone.

$28.00 PB Random House Worlds

$33.95 HC Prestel Publishing

It’s So Magic LYNDA BARRY

Narrated by Maybonne, Marlys, and Freddy, It’s So Magic captures Lynda Barry’s unparalleled ability to depict the magic of youth experiencing firsts in a world that contains as much humour as it does hardship. $24.95 HC Drawn & Quarterly

Rivers of London

Deadly Ever After

BEN AARONOVITCH

CSI meets Harry Potter in this graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch - writer of the bestselling Rivers of London supernatural police procedural crime novel series, Andrew Cartmel author of The Vinyl Detective and Celeste Bronfman. $23.99 PB Titan Comics

New Games Bananagrams Signature Edition BANANAGRAMS

Hive

For the Bananagram fanatics out there come the BANANAGRAMS Signature Edition which combines premium packaging and deluxe components with all the fun and excitement of BANANAGRAMS gameplay. The game features ten “Luxe” tiles for an added twist, and unique sewn in fabric rules— all in a premium printed fabric pouch. $39.99 ea.

Exit

The Lord of the Rings: Shadows Over Middle-Earth (Level 2)

KOSMOS

Middle-Earth is in grave danger. Frodo and the Fellowship are on their way to Mordor to destroy the One Ring. But they need your help! Make haste and carry out Gandalf’s secret assignments. Can you buy Frodo enough time to reach Mount Doom? Also available: other games in the Exit series. $26.99 ea.

SMART ZONE GAMES

Keeping one eye on the Hive and the other on your opponent's reserves, the tension builds as one wrong move will see your Queen Bee quickly engulfed. Choose the best tactics to place the right piece wisely and be the first to block the Queen Bee in the Hive. Each tile has a unique way of moving (like in chess) and resembles the movement of the insect depicted on the tile. A decorative storage bag makes it easy to carry, store and play anywhere. Hive is a board-less, strategic game for 2 players ages 8 and up. $49.99 ea.

Lobster Mobster

A game of ever-changing rules!

GINGERFOX

Flip a card and do what it says, but watch out for Keep cards, which add new rules to the game.

Break the rules by getting caught using your thumbs or checking your phone and you’ll face the Lobster Mobster! The first player to collect five fishbone tokens "sleeps with the fishes" and the game is over! $25.99

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27 Title

Armchair Travel 27 Around England With a Dog

The Art of Misadventure

The Outtakes and Mistakes of an Adventurous Photographer

LESLEY CHOYCE

DAVE BROSHA, CURTIS JONES

The story of two seasoned and intrepid Canadian travellers, Lesley and Linda Choyce, who embark on a new adventure with their West Highland terrier, Kelty.

Join Canadian photographer, explorer, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, father, and writer Dave Brosha as he lays out a touching recollection of a life off the beaten track with a dash of adventure, a dash of determination, a dash of humour, a dash of self-deprecation, and two dashes of ridiculous.

$25.00 PB Rocky Mountain Books

$25.00 PB Rocky Mountain Books

Tones of Grace

The Ethical Traveller

100 Black and White Images from Planet Earth

100 Ways to Roam the World (Without Ruining It!)

DAVE BROSHA VIKTORIA HAACK

IMOGEN LEPERE

Brosha is a storyteller at heart, and he constructs in this remarkable collection a visual narrative that will bring the viewer to lands near and far, and make you think about light, shadow, shape, and subject in ways you might have never considered. $50.00 HC B&W photographs Rocky Mountain Books

Kinfolk Islands JOHN BURNS

Believing that travel is as much a state of mind as an action or itinerary, Kinfolk Islands celebrates a way of exploring our world that not only fosters thoughtful perspectives on the places we visit but also deepens our relationship with home once the journey is over. $57.00 HC Artisan

This book offers 100 tips to help protect the planet, support communities, and plan trips that are more mindful for anyone who wants to explore the world while conserving everything that makes it so special. $22.95 HC Rizzoli

The Halifax Public Gardens

The Creation, Destruction, and Restoration of North America’s Finest Victorian Public Gardens

ROBERT PACE ROBERT SALAH PETER L. TWOHIG

The Halifax Public Gardens are the oldest and finest Victorian public gardens outside the United Kingdom. $34.95 PB Formac Publishing

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28 Poetry Naturalism

Passengers

MICHAEL GOODFELLOW

Crummey is noted for the immediacy and emotional impact of his poetry and fiction and for his ability to raise the vernacular to planes of “exquisite beauty.” Part travelogue, part archeological dig, Passengers is an eccentric guide to the wild geography, folklore, and misbegotten history of the human heart.

MICHAEL CRUMMEY

An Annotated Bibliography These poems survey the totemic elements of rural life, a world where wells go dry, rains flood brooks and basements, and maintenance only ever slows the inevitable decline. But there’s resilience as well, in garlic scapes, rosehips, winter birds, old houses and books, and love.

$19.99 PB House of Anansi Press

$19.95 PB Gaspereau Press Ltd

Icarus, Falling of Birds

Monoculture SUE GOYETTE

In Monoculture, Sue Goyette imagines that Nova Scotia’s last surviving stand of intact forest has been preserved for the enjoyment of the public—a premise that seems more like an inevitability than a speculation.

HARRY THUSTON THADDEUS HOLOWNIA

Pairing Harry Thurston’s poetry with the photographs of Thaddeus Holownia, this intimate collection memorializes the thousands of migratory songbirds who perished in 2013 after being lured to a hundred-foot-high flare at the Canaport Liquefied Natural Gas plant.

$24.95 PB Gaspereau Press

$35.00 PB Illustrations Anchorage Press

Scars and Stars

Orlam

Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart.

A simply breathtaking long-form poem written in the Dorset dialect, Orlam is a mesmerising coming-ofage tale from acclaimed songwriter and musician PJ Harvey.

JESSE THISTLE

PJ HARVEY

$37.99 HC Pan MacMillan

$25.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

Trinity

Tribute Sequences, for Robert Graves

SEAN HOWARD

Trinity uses experimental techniques such as collage, cut-up, erasure, and the (re)mixing of texts to explore three landmark works by the poet, novelist, and iconoclastic scholar Robert Graves.

Tender

SYLVIA D. HAMILTON

The poems in Tender chronicle the experiences of Black people, especially of Black women, in their quest for self-determination and their desire to live full, complex, unencumbered lives. $22.95 PB Gaspereau Press

$23.95 PB Gaspereau Press

Assorted Mugs

Poetry for Neanderthals

14 oz. ceramic mug.

Dishwasher safe $19.99 and up

Poetry for Neanderthals is a competitive word-guessing game where you can only give clues by speaking in single syllables. So, instead of saying "broccoli," you'd say something like "green thing you eat for live long and have good health." If you mess up and use a big word, such as "vegetable," you get bopped on the head with a NO! Stick. It's a game that forces you to explain complicated ideas using simple vocabulary. Fun for both grownups and children, it takes a few minutes to learn and about 20 minutes to play.

It's a hilarious, cutthroat, challenging game for those who consider themselves mighty wordsmiths.

Includes 220 cards, 1 inflatable NO! Stick, 1 sand timer and 2 point slates. $34.99 ea.

GINGER FOX

EXPLODING KITTENS

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29 Title

Arts & Letters 29 The Philosophy of Modern Song

A Friend Sails in on a Poem

BOB DYLAN

Essays on Friendship, Freedom, and Poetic Form

In Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since Chronicles: Volume One, he offers his extraordinary insight on popular music. Over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, from Hank Williams to Nina Simone to Elvis Costello.

MOLLY PEACOCK

A charming, psychologically wise, and metaphorically piquant look at navigating craft and creativity. This is a book both for serious poets as well as for anyone who wants a deep dive into the impact of friendship on art itself.

$55.00 HC Simon & Schuster

The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings

GEOFF DYER

Blending criticism, memoir and repartee into something entirely new, this is a summation of Dyer's passions and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work. $39.95 HC Canongate Books

$19.95 PB Palimpsest Press

A Private Spy

The Letters of John le Carré

JOHN LE CARRÉ DAVID CORNWELL TIM CORNWELL

An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré. The never-before-seen correspondence of one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. $50.00 HC Penguin Canada

A Book of Days

Dickens and Prince

PATTI SMITH

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith’s singular aesthetic— inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.

A Particular Kind of Genius

NICK HORNBY

A short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. $24.95 HC Riverhead Books

$37.00 HC Knopf Canada

Essays Two

On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles

LYDIA DAVIS

A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis. $29.00 PB Picador

How to Say No

An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism

DIOGENES

A delightful collection of brief ancient writings about Cynicism that captures all the outrageousness, wit, and wisdom of its remarkable cast of characters—from Diogenes in the fourth century BCE to Symeon Stylites in late antiquity. $25.99 HC Princeton University Press

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30 Biography Saxophone Colossus

Like a Rolling Stone

The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

AIDAN LEVY

A Memoir

The story of Sonny Rollins is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny’s own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians’ own words, part chronicle of one man’s quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.

JANN S WENNER

Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll. Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.” $44.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

$44.00 HC Hachette Books

Landlines RAYNOR WINN

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . .Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk? $42.95 HC Penguin UK

Running Down a Dream A Memoir

CANDY PALMATER

A powerful, often funny, always inspiring memoir from a beloved comedian, professional orator, actor, entertainer, gone all too soon. The world lost Candy in late 2021, and yet she left us with this gift -- a memoir and a message that will inspire us for years to come. $32.99 HC HarperCollins

The Queen

If Walls Could Speak

ANDREW MORTON

MOSHE SAFDIE

Her Life

My Life in Architecture

#1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive, most comprehensive account of Queen Elizabeth II's legendary reign.

One of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built—from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore—and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in society.

$38.00 HC Grand Central Publishing

$49.50 HC Grove Atlantic

Manifesto

Jennie’s Boy

On Never Giving Up

BERNARDINE EVARISTO

From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism.

A Newfoundland Childhood Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood. $34.95 HC Knopf

$37.95 HC Grove Atlantic

Boldly Go

Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder

WILLIAM SHATNER JOSHUA BRANDON

The beloved star of Star Trek, recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration in this inspiring, revelatory, and exhilarating collection of essays. $34.99 HC Atria Books

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Cleopatra

Her History, Her Myth

FRANCINE PROSE

Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film, to challenge past narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offer a new interpretation of Cleopatra’s history through the lens of our current era. $36.95 HC Yale University Press

31 Title

Business 31 The Soul of an Entrepreneur

Don McDougall

Business: Get It Done Have Some Fun

Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth

GARY MACDOUGALL

DAVID SAX

Don McDougall shook the baseball and business worlds when he brought a Major League Baseball franchise to Toronto. That team, the Toronto Blue Jays, has hit many home runs over the decades- and so has Don.

$22.99 PB PublicAffairs

$39.95 HC Retromedia

An award-winning business writer dismantles the myths of entrepreneurship, replacing them with an essential story about the experience of real business owners in the modern economy.

Salmon Wars

The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish

CATHERINE COLLINS DOUGLAS FRANTZ

Just as Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet.

How to Invest Masters on the Craft

DAVID M RUBENSTEIN

With unprecedented access to global leaders in finance, Rubenstein has assembled the most authoritative book of its kind. How to Invest reveals the thinking of the most successful investors in the world, many of whom rarely speak publicly. $39.99 HC Simon and Schuster

$39.99 HC Henry Holt and Co

How We Live is How We Die

Personal Growth The Myth of Normal

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Discover newfound freedom in life’s ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Chödrön, beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart.

GABOR MATE DANIEL MATE

From our most trusted and compassionate authority on stress, trauma, and mental wellbeing—a ground-breaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

$32.95 HC Shambhala

$39.95 HC Knopf Canada

Lighter

Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

YUNG PUEBLO

A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clarity & Connection. $32.00 HC Harmony

Why We Meditate The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion

DANIEL GOLEMAN TSOKNYI RINPOCHE

A practical and soul-stirring guide to meditation that offers a much-needed antidote to the forces of stress that overwhelm so many of us, Why We Meditate effortlessly helps you embrace and understand meditation as never before.

How We Heal

Uncover Your Power and Set Yourself Free

ALEXANDRA ELLE

Brimming with encouragement and delivered with Alex Elle's signature warmth and candor, How We Heal is a must-have companion for anyone that wants to unlock their inner wisdom and confidence to heal on their own. $34.95 HC Chronicle Books

How to Calm Your Mind

Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times

CHRIS BAILEY

A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies that reveal that the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, runs directly through calm. $34.95 HC Random House of Canada

$36.99 HC Atria Books

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32 Cookbooks The Golden Girls Cookbook

One

Simple One-Pan Wonders

JAMIE OLIVER

Cheesecakes and Cocktails! Desserts and Drinks to Enjoy on the Lanai with Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia

Jamie Oliver will guide you through over 120 recipes for tasty, fuss-free and satisfying dishes cooked in just one pan. What’s better: each recipe has just eight ingredients or fewer, meaning minimal prep (and washing up) and offering maximum convenience.

CHRISTOPHER STYLER ANDREW SCRIVANI

Containing over forty new dessert and drink recipes from this follow-up to the first The Golden Girls Cookbook will make you feel like you’re relaxing on the lanai or getting set to win the Shady Pines bake-off.

$45.00 HC HarperCollins

$28.99 HC Hyperion Avenue

What’s for Dessert

Smitten Kitchen Keepers

CLAIRE SAFFITZ

DEB PERLMAN

Simple Recipes for Dessert People: A Baking Book Claire Saffitz returns with 100 recipes for all dessert people— whether you’re into impressive-yeteasy molten lava cakes, comforting rice pudding, or decadent chestnut brownies. $50.00 HC Clarkson Potter

New Classics for Your Forever Files: A Cookbook The long-awaited new book from the bestselling and beloved author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook—a collection of essential recipes for meals you'll want to prepare again and again. $40.00 HC Appetite

Evergreen Kitchen

The Miracle of Salt

BRI BEAUDOIN

NAOMI DUGUID

Recipes and Techniques to Preserve, Ferment, and Transform Your Food

Weeknight Vegetarian Dinners for Everyone

Learn age-old techniques for making sauerkraut, miso, butter, prosciutto, kimchi, salt-fermented pickles, basturma, saltpreserved lemons, brined eggs, and much more. Create a vibrant “salt pantry” filled with enticing blends of salt and spices, and with easy condiments and preserves.

The ultimate cookbook filled with over 110 wildly delicious vegetablepacked recipes for weeknight meals that will satisfy everyone from the creator of the popular blog Evergreen Kitchen. $38.00 HC Penguin Canada

New Indian Basics

100 Traditional and Modern Recipes from Arvinda’s Family Kitchen

PREENA CHAUHAN ARVINDA CHAUHAN

Welcome Arvinda and Preena, the mother-daughter duo behind Arvinda’s premium Indian spice blends, into your kitchen with their decades of experience, vibrant recipes, and cooking wisdom! $35.00 HC Appetite

$57.00 HC Artisan

Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Extra Good Things

YOTAM OTTOLENGHI NOOR MURAD

The Globe and Mail bestselling author Yotam Ottolenghi and his superteam of chefs bring you the second installment in the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen series, delivering maximum-flavor recipes with cook-itforward elements.. $37.50 PB Appetite

Canada’s Food Island

A Collection of Stories and Recipes from Prince Edward Island

Make Every Dish Delicious

STEPHEN HARRIS STUART HICKOX FARMERS AND FISHERS OF PEI

Modern Classics and Essential Tips for Total Kitchen Confidence

$38.95 HC Figure 1 Publishing

Stop searching the web for what to cook for dinner. From the best roast chicken to the most sumptuous brownie, Lesley Chesterman’s perfected recipes have you covered— tonight, and always.

Canada's Food Island combines nearly 100 inspired seasonal recipes with homegrown stories and beautiful photographs to capture the essence of the island's unique food culture - a blend of people, place and locally sourced fresh natural ingredients.

LESLEY CHESTERMAN

$40.00 HC Simon and Schuster

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33 Title Gardening & Homesteading 33 Hardy Apples

Pots

BOB OSBORNE PHOTOGRAPHS BY BETH POWNING

HARRIET RYCROFT

Fill Your Containers with Plants, Tend to Their Needs, Watch Them Flourish

Growing Apples in Cold Climates

Gardening in containers is versatile, exciting, and rewarding for both you and the wildlife around you, so whether your plot is a courtyard, balcony, patio, or simply a window box, Pots can inspire you to transform it with vibrant planting.

Both a practical guide and a loving tribute to the wonderful abundance and diversity of apple cultivars available to the northern gardener and orchardist.

With over 200 exquisite photographs and illustrations, it is an elegant, educational, and entertaining reference.

$23.00 PB Frances Lincoln

$39.95 HC Firefly Books

Bloom

Hortus Curious

Flowering Plants for Indoors and Balconies You don’t need a sprawling garden to brighten your life with flowers.

Bloom will show you how any space, no matter how small, can be transformed into a colorful oasis with flowering plants.

Discover the World’s Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and Fungi

MICHAEL PERRY AARON APSLEY

Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world. Hortus Curious delivers a different way to view the plant world and enjoy it for its bonkers and bizarre.

$55.00 HC Rizzoli

$28.99 HC DK

A Plant for Every Day of the Year

No Dig

Nurture Your Soil to Grow Better Veg with Less Effort

PHILIP CLAYTON A plant a day brings beauty your way.

So why not make the most of your garden with 365 of the very best plant varieties – one for every day of the year!

CHARLES DOWDING JONATHAN BUCKLEY

Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy plants and bumper crops - without back-breaking effort! Have you ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden? Well, now you can!

$40.00 HC DK

$54.00 HC DK

The Complete Book of Ground Covers 4,000 Plants that Reduce Maintenance, Control Erosion, and Beautify the Landscape

GARY LEWIS

No matter what kinds of conditions you’re facing, there’s a ground cover that will thrive and beautify your garden. This indispensable volume belongs on the shelf of every designer, landscape architect, and serious gardener. $63.00 HC Timber Press

THEMED PUZZLES

CAVALLINI & CO.

All Cavallini puzzles come packaged in a 10” puzzle tube and a handy muslin bag to keep all the pieces together. The plastic-free packaging is just another reason you’ll love these challenging 1,000-piece puzzles.

Beautiful packaging, high quality and a choice of over 30 vintage designs make these the perfect gift — for a friend or yourself! Finished puzzle measures 20” x 28”. $30.00 ea.

Backyard Homesteader

How to Save Water, Keep Bees, Eat From Your Garden and Live a More Sustainable Life

ALISON CANDLIN

The essential beginner's manual on living a greener, healthier, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. $43.00 HC Gibbs Smith

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34 Indigenous Our Voice of Fire

Laughing With the Trickster

BRANDI MORIN

Brandi Morin is known for her clear-eyed and empathetic reporting on Indigenous oppression in North America. She is also a survivor of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls crisis and uses her experience to tell the stories of those who did not survive the rampant violence. This compelling, honest book is full of self-compassion and the purifying fire of a pursuit for justice.

On Sex, Death, and Accordions CBC Massey Lecture (series)

TOMSON HIGHWAY

Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition..

Laugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward.

$22.99 PB House of Anansi Press Inc

We Were Not the Savages

First Nations History, 4th edition: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations

DANIEL N. PAUL

The fourth edition of the history of settler colonialism and the European invasion of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral, unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.

$22.99 PB HOUSE OF ANANSI PRESS INC

This House Is Not a Home KATŁIÀ

A gripping land back story based on real historical events when the housing system dispossessed Indigenous Peoples across the north. $24.00 PB Roseway Publishing

$32.00 PB Fernwood Publishing

Resilience

Fresh, Local and Delicious

Honouring the Children of Residential Schools

Dishes from Mi’kma’ki and Around the World from Kiju’s Restaurant in Membertou

JACKIE TRAVERSE

SHAUN ZWARUN

Anishnaabe artist Jackie Traverse’s third colouring book honours the Indigenous Peoples who were colonized by and endured the violence of Canada’s child-stealing systems.

Kiju’s Restaurant in Membertou, Cape Breton, has been recognized as a dining destination for many years. In this collection of more than 50 recipes, traditional Indigenous ingredients and local artisanal products and suppliers are given pride of place.

$24.00 PB 40 b/w illustrations to colour Roseway Publishing

Mi'kmaw Moons The Seasons in Mi’kma’ki

CATHY LEBLAC DAVID CHAPMAN ILLUSTRATED BY LORETTA GOULD

Alongside this presentation of the Mi’kmaw time-keeping traditions, this book offers a brief history of the modern Western calendar, and some basic astronomy facts about the moon’s phases and why the seasons change. This two-eyed seeing approach takes young readers on a journey through one full year in Mi’kma’ki. $24.95 PB Formac Publishing

$29.95 PB Formac Publishing

Wabanaki Modern

The Artistic Legacy of the 1960s “Micmac Indian Craftsmen”

EMMA HASSENCAHL-PERLEY JOHN LEROUX

A beautiful hardcover book on the “Micmac Indian Craftsmen” of Elsipogtog, a groundbreaking co-operative who were among the first modern Indigenous artists in Atlantic Canada. Featuring archival photographs, stunning full-colour images, and essays on the history of this vibrant art workshop. $45.00 HC Illustrations Goose Lane Editions with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Valley of the Birdtail An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

ANDREW STOBO SNIDERMAN DOUGLAS SANDERSON

This book follows multiple generations of two families, one white and one Indigenous, and weaves their lives into the larger story of Canada. It is a story of villains and heroes, irony and idealism, racism and reconciliation.

Valley of the Birdtail has the ambition to change the way we think about our past and show a path to a better future. $36.99 HC HarperCollins

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True Reconciliation

How to Be a Force for Change

JODY WILSON-RAYBOULD

There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? True Reconciliation is broken down into three core practices— Learn, Understand, and Act—that can be applied by individuals, communities, organiza­tions, and governments. $32.95 HC McClelland & Stewart

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History 35

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

Dead in Halifax

Stories of Adventure, Scandal, Heartbreak and Heroism

CRAIG FERGUSON

SHEILA FITZPATRICK

In this book, author Craig Ferguson recounts the life stories of fascinating characters as well as ordinary people with extraordinary experiences who are buried in downtown Halifax’s historic cemeteries— from scoundrels to heroes, children to generals, fire chiefs to pilots, and everything in between.

This book is a lively and authoritative distillation of a complex history, told with vivid details, a grand sweep, and wry wit. Sheila Fitzpatrick chronicles the Soviet Age—its rise, reign, and fall, as well as its afterlife in today’s Russia. $32.99 PB Columbia University Press

$24.95 PB Formac Publishing

The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson Forgeries

JON S. DELLANDREA

Taking readers back to a time when forgeries were turning up in galleries, auction houses, and homes across Canada, Jon S. Dellandrea uncovers the masterminds behind these forgeries in this scandalous art-world mystery. $47.50 HC Illustrations Goose Lane Editions

Battle of the Atlantic Gauntlet to Victory

TED BARRIS

The story of Canada’s naval awakening from the dark, bloody winters of 1939–1942, to be “ready, aye, ready” to challenge the U-boats and drive them to defeat, is a Canadian wartime saga for the ages. The Battle of the Atlantic proved Canada’s gauntlet to victory and a nation-building milestone. $36.99 HC HarperCollins

The Horde

How the Mongols Changed the World

MARIE FAVEREAU

An eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire that has long been too little understood, The Horde challenges our assumptions that nomads are peripheral to history and makes it clear that we live in a world shaped by Mongols. $26.95 PB 21 Photos, 15 Maps Harvard University Press

Caught in a Changing Society St Dunstan’s University 1950-1969

LEONARD CUSACK

Caught in a Changing Society captures the debate that led to the closure of the 114-year-old St. Dunstan's University and the resolve that allowed the institution to evolve into a charitable foundation that has invested more than 32 million dollars into education, infrastructure, and the diocese of St. Dunstan’s. $34.95 PB Island Studies Press

Prisoners of the Castle

An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison

BEN MACINTYRE

From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history's most famous prisons--and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried to relentlessly escape their Nazi captors. $36.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

A Brief History of the Atlantic JEREMY BLACK

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world. $22.99 PB Little, Brown Book Group

The Summer Trade A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island

ALAN MACEACHERN EDWARD MACDONALD

Lavishly illustrated with postcards, tourist guides, and memorabilia, The Summer Trade presents a history of Prince Edward Island in cameo that tracks cultural, economic, political, and environmental developments and tensions. $49.95 HC Full colour photographs McGill-Queens

North of America

Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution

JEFFERS LENNOX

Historian Jeffers Lennox looks north, as so many Americans at that time did, and describes how Loyalists and Indigenous leaders frustrated Patriot ambitions, defended their territory, and acted as midwives to the birth of the United States while restricting and redirecting its continental aspirations. $48.95 HC Yale University Press

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36 Current Events Has Populism Won?

Frequently Asked White Questions

The War on Liberal Democracy

DANIEL DRACHE MARC D. FROESE

Filled with original research, political scientists Drache and Froese have written a chilling, compelling analysis of the rise of populism, and reveal what it will take to douse the flames. This is an essential read for anyone concerned about the encroachments on freedom and the rule of law around the world.

AJAY PARASRAM ALEX KHASNABISH

With humour and compassion, this book offers relatable advice and a practical entry point into conversations about race. $18.00 PB Fernwood Publishing

$24.95 PB ECW PRESS

The End of the World is Just the Beginning

The Chaos Machine The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

MAX FISHER

Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it’s too late.

PETER ZEIHAN

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence.

$37.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

$43.50 HC HarperCollins

Confidence Man

Killer in the Kremlin

The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

JOHN SWEENEY

MAGGIE HABERMAN

In this revelatory and newsmaking book, Haberman brings together the events of Donald Trump’s life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of one of the most normsshattering and consequential eras in American political history.

In Killer in the Kremlin, awardwinning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia, to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. $35.99 HC Transworld

$42.00 HC Penguin Publishing

The Middle Out

The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity

Chokepoint Capitalism

MICHAEL TOMASKY

How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back

$37.99 HC Knopf Doubleday

Scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others.

Political journalist Michael Tomasky tracks an exciting change among progressive economists who are overturning decades of conservative dogma and offering an alternative version of capitalism that can serve broadly shared prosperity to all.

REBECCA GIBLIN CORY DOCTEROW

$35.95 HC Beacon Press

The Connected Community Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods

CORMAC RUSSELL, JOHN MCKNIGHT, PARKER J. PALMER

Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community.

It takes a village! $29.95 PB Berrett-Koehler

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The Power of Geography

Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of our World

TIM MARSHALL

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future. $25.99 PB Scribner

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Current Events 37 Abolitionist Intimacies

The Future is Analog How to Create a More Human World

EL JONES

DAVID SAX

Abolition is not only a political movement to end prisons; it is also an intimate one deeply motivated by love.

For many people, the best parts of quarantine have been the least digital ones: baking bread, playing board games, going hiking.

We used our hands and hugged our children and breathed fresh air. This book suggests that if we want a healthy future, we need to choose not convenience but community, not technology but humanity.

$26.00 PB Fernwood Publishing

$37.00 HC PublicAffairs

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Imagine a Country

MARIA RESSA

VAL MCDERMID JO SHARP

The Fight for Our Future

Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late. It is a book for anyone who might take democracy for granted, written by someone who never would. $36.99 HC HarperCollins

How to Win the War on Truth

Ideas For a Better Future

Imagine a Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians. Edited, curated, and introduced by bestselling author Val McDermid and geographer Jo Sharp, it is a collection of ideas, dreams, and ambitions, aiming to inspire change, hope and imagination. $22.50 PB Canongate Books

On Lying and Politics

An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality

A Library of America Special Publication

HANNAH ARENDT, INTRODUCTION

BY DAVID BROMWICH

SAMUEL C. SPITALE

More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich “No one,” Hannah Arendt observed, “has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue.”

Filled with cleverly illustrated realworld examples of propaganda in all its forms, How to Win the War on Truth will help you see the world with clear eyes for the first time. Because when it comes to preserving democracy and fighting for our rights, it’s essential that we do.

$16.50 PB Library of America

$33.99 PB Quirk Books

Greed is Dead

Politics After Individualism

PAUL COLLIER JOHN KAY

Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity. Collier and Kay show how a reaffirmation of the values of mutuality could refresh and restore politics, business and the environments in which people live. $21.99 PB Penguin UK

WORLD GLOBES REPLOGLE

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Gifts for Everyone 39 Recording IconsCreative Spaces

Saltwater Socks

The Creative World of Mark Howard

Mittens, Caps, and More from the Island of Newfoundland

MARK HOWARD WITH CHRISTOPHER HOWARD

CHRISTINE LEGROW SHIRLEY A SCOTT

With Saltwater Socks, fourth in the Saltwater Knits series, readers discover Newfoundland’s traditional knitting patterns, while highlighting the island’s culture through innovative photography, anecdotes, and stories. $29.95 PB Boulder Books

An exclusive backstage pass featuring 200 full-color photographs of the unique spaces where some of the world’s most iconic musicians recorded. $49.95 PB 200 full color photographs ECW Press

Generations

305 Lost Buildings of Canada

The Sobey Family and Canadian Art

SARAH MILROY

The ultimate gift for any art lover.

Featuring more than 200 full-colour images, this stunningly beautiful book tells the story of the visionary Sobey family and their engagement with Canadian and Indigenous art.

RAYMOND BIESINGER ALEX BOZIKOVIC

The legacies of Canada’s most iconic lost buildings — torn down, burned down, and otherwise lost — are uncovered in this illustrated architectural walking tour. The perfect gift for any history buff.

$55.00 HC Illustrations Goose Lane Editions with McMichael Canadian Art Collection

The Story of Architecture

$22.95 PB Illustrations Goose Lane Editions

Our Book of Awesome

WITOLD RYBCZNSKI

A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together

NEIL PASRICHA

In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around us... if only we take a moment to see them. $29.99 HC Simon & Schuster

Engaging and accessible, this is a coherent story of architecture’s physical manifestation of the universal aspiration to celebrate, honor, and commemorate, and an exploration of the ways that each building is a unique product of individual patrons, architects, and builders. $40.00 HC Yale University Press

Literary Charades

Assorted Book Trivia

From the best-selling Games Room Trivia series, this beautifully–packaged party game comes with 140 cards, each with 5 literary categories to choose from, including Classics, Bestsellers, Nonfiction, Book to Film, and Children’s books. Simply act out the titles of the latestand-greatest books—without speaking a word—for your team to guess. $18.00 ea.

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Choose from Fantasy Book Trivia, Classic Book Trivia or Crime, Thriller & Mystery Trivia.

80 card sets $8.99 ea.

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Papercuts

A Party Game for the Rude and Well-Read (A Card Game for Book Lovers)

LITERATURE ELECTRIC

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40 Religion Untrustworthy

Celebrities for Jesus

The Knowledge Crisis Breaking our Brains, Polluting our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community

How Personas, Platforms, and Profits are Hurting the Church

KATELYN BEATY

Award-winning journalist Katelyn Beaty explores the ways fame has reshaped the American church, explains how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical movement, and identifies many ways fame has gone awry in recent years.

BONNIE KRISTIAN, FOREWORD BY DAVID FRENCH

Life and politics are suffering from a raging knowledge crisis, and the church is no exception. In Untrustworthy, Bonnie Kristian unpacks this crisis and explores ways to combat it in our own lives, families, and church communities.

$30.99 HC Brazos Press

$30.99 HC Brazos Press

What’s the Point of Theology?

Wisdom, Wellbeing, and Wonder

ALISTER E MCGRATH

Ideal for new and seasoned Christians who want to engage more deeply with their faith, as well as those who are puzzled by spiritual matters and curious to find out more, What's the Point of Theology? will open your eyes to all that theology has to offer. $23.99 PB Zondervan

A Hole in the World

Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing

AMANDA HELD OPELT

Opelt explores the history of human grief practices and how previous generations have journeyed through periods of suffering, exploring grief rituals and customs from various cultures. $34.00 HC Worthy Books

Fount of Heaven

Forgive

ROBERT ELMER SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

TIMOTHY KELLER

Prayers of the Early Church

Why Should I and How Can I? Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller outlines the reasons why forgiveness has to be a central part of everyone’s lives. In Forgive, Keller shows readers why it is so important and how to do it, explaining in detail the steps you need to take in order to move on without sacrificing justice or your humanity.

Christians today have a lot to learn from the devotional life of the early church. In Fount of Heaven, a collection of carefully selected prayers from the first six centuries of the church, we can pray with our spiritual forefathers.

$37.00HC Penguin Publishing

$33.49 HC Lexham Press

You Are the Beloved

365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional

HENRI J M NOUWEN GABRIELLE EARNSHAW

“We are the Beloved,” Henri Nouwen famously wrote. This profound collection of daily readings will appeal to those who know and love Nouwen’s work as well as to new readers seeking deeper awareness of their identity as a child of God. $27.99 HC The Crown Publishing Group

Knowledge for the Love of God Why Your Heart Needs Your Mind

TIMOTHY PICKAVANCE LEE STROBEL

Pickavance relates a compelling vision of how cultivating the intellect strengthens our Christian worldview, helps us gain freedom in Christ, and enables us to love God with our whole being. $25.95 PB Wm B Eerdmans Publishing

Hope

A User’s Manual

MARYANN MCKIBBEN DANA

What hope is, what hope isn’t, and how to find it in hopeless times. After exploring what hope isn’t and then what it is, MaryAnn McKibben Dana reflects on the surprising place where hope is often found—in the messiness of our imperfect, flawed, beautiful human bodies. $22.95 HC Wm B Eerdmans Publishing

Agrarian Spirit

Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land

NORMAN WIRZBA

This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today’s most pressing social and ecological concerns. Scholars and students of theology, ecotheology, and spirituality, as well as readers interested in agrarian and environmental studies, will gain much from this book. $39.95 HC University of Notre Dame

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Science 41 The Botany of Beer

Quack, Quack

The Threat of Pseudoscience

DR JOE SCHWARCZ

An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing

We are in a crisis. A tsunami of misinformation and disinformation is threatening to engulf evidence-based science. While quackery — loosely defined as the spread of false “knowledge,” often accompanied by various versions of “snake oil” — is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat to public health as today.

GIUSEPPE CARUSO

Will provide valuable information for homebrewers and professional beer makers alike. It reveals how botanical knowledge can open new possibilities for today’s and tomorrow’s brewers. $46.99 HC Illustrations Columbia University Press

Weather

A Force of Nature

THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

A collection of unforgettable images of dramatic weather events around the world. With depictions of rare weather events and common ones that most of us can't explain, this book will thrill weather enthusiasts and inform people curious about weather events everywhere. $35.00 PB Full colour photography Firefly Books

$24.95 PB ECW Press

Taxi From Another Planet

Conversations with Drivers About Life in the Universe

CHARLES COCKELL

A shrewd and entertaining foray into the most fundamental mysteries, Taxi from Another Planet brings together the wisdom of scientific experts and their fellow citizens of Earth, the better to understand how life might unfold elsewhere. $37.95 HC 18 Illustrations Harvard University Press

Starry Messenger

How Far the Light Reaches

Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

SABRINA IMBLER

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.

Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, this is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live.

$38.99 HC Henry Holt and Co

$34.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

The Song of the Cell

Wired for Music

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies comes an exploration of our radical new ability to manipulate cells.

Rich with stories of scientists, doctors, and their patients, The Song of the Cell explores of what it means to be human. $39.99 HC Scribner

A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound

ADRIANA BARTON

In this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist explores music as a source of health, resilience, connection, and joy.

In the right doses, it can double as a mild antidepressant, painkiller, sleeping pill, memory aid, and enhance athletic performance while supporting healthy aging. $32.95 HC Greystone Books

The Future is Now

Solving the Climate Crisis with Today’s Technologies

BOB MCDONALD

In this book, Bob McDonald turns his focus to global energy sources, and shows how the global shutdowns may have been exactly what we needed to show us that a greener future is achievable. This is an exploration of the incredible technologies that our species can use to get out of the mess we’ve made for ourselves. $32.95 Penguin Canada

2023 Night Sky Almanac

A Month-by-Month Guide to North America’s Skies from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

NICOLE MORTILLARO

The ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada, with all the advice, information, and data that enthusiasts need to understand and enjoy the wonders of the night sky. $14.95 PB Firefly Books

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42 Nature What You Won’t Do for Love

Lives of Birches, Ironwood and Maples

A Conversation

DAVID SUZUKI, TARA CULLIS, MIRIAM FERNANDES

A Comparative Account of the Trees Indigenous in Much of Northeastern North America

What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another?

Revealing David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in an affable, conversational, and often comedic light, What You Won’t Do for Love asks if we can love our planet the same way we love one another.

GRAHAM R POWELL

Powell's approach offers readers unique overviews of the complex and dynamic features of tree growth, reproduction, and physical development. $80.00 HC Illustrations Fitzhenry and Whiteside

$20.95 PB Coach House Books

Earthkeeping

Love Notes for Tough Times

GARY SAUNDERS

An evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of essays ruminating on the necessity of love and earthkeeping, on our relationship with nature, and with each other. Lovingly illustrated with Saunders’s own drawings. $24.95 PB Illustrations Goose Lane Editions

Elderflora

A Modern History of Ancient Trees

JARED FARMER

Farmer surveys the complex history of the world’s oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old. $44.00 HC Basic Books

How to Speak Whale

Beaverland

How One Weird Rodent Made America

A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication

LEILA PHILIP

An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver— the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future.

TOM MUSTILL

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak—asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication.

$38.00 HC Grand Central

$37.00 HC Grand Central Publishing

The Foghorn’s Lament

The Disappearing Music of the Coast

JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN

When Jennifer Lucy Allan hears the foghorn's colossal bellow for the first time, it marks the beginning of an obsession and a journey deep into the history of a sound that has carved out the identity and the landscape of coastlines around the world, from Scotland to San Francisco. $22.99 PB Orion Publishing

The Secret Network of Nature Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things: Stories from Science and Observation

PETER WOHLLEBEN JANE BILLINGHURST

One of the world’s most famous foresters shows us how to recapture our sense of awe so we can see the world around us with completely new eyes. $22.95 PB Greystone Books

The Instant AMY LIPTROT

The Instant is an unapologetic look at the addictive power of love and lust. It is also an exploration of the cycles of the moon, the flight paths of migratory birds, the mesmerising power of Neolithic stonework and the trails followed by a generation who exist online. $33.95 HC Canongate Books

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Sacred Nature

Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

KAREN ARMSTRONG

A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature—and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life. In this deeply powerful book, the bestselling historian of religion Karen Armstrong re-sacralizes nature for modern times. $32.95 HC Knopf Canada

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Nature 43 Fen, Bog & Swamp

Gardening Trivia GIFT REPUBLIC

A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Do you know your roots from your shoots and what would turn a blue hydrangea pink? Put this knowledge to use! Amaze your friends and let your gardening know-how bloom with our new Gardening Trivia. This is the perfect gift with 100 unique questions that would challenge Capability Brown himself! $10.99 ea.

The Open-Air Life

ANNIE PROULX

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx— whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth—comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet. $32.00 HC Scribner

Animal Lovers Trivia CHRONICLE BOOKS From the best-selling Games Room Trivia series, In a striking and portable box, these 140 questions are a fun trivia challenge wherever you want to play! These multiplechoice questions cover the entire animal kingdom—from marine life to land dwellers. $18.00 ea.

Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day

LINDA AKESON MCGURK

A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with nature. An essential guide to slowing down in this modern, fast-paced society and connecting with the natural world. $27.95 HC Penguin Publishing

Herb Care Card and House Plant Care Card

Slow Birding

The ultimate guides to growing and getting the most out of your herbs and house plants! Boxed gift set containing 32- 35 cards packed full of easy-to-follow advice and top tips for becoming a successful botanist. $19.99 ea.

Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or “exotic” birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann introduces readers to the joys of birding right where they are.

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Weather Permitting

Twenty-Five Years of Ice Storms, Hurricanes, Wildfires, and Extreme Climate Change in Canada

CHRIS ST CLAIR

From the longtime host of The Weather Network comes a behind-the-scenes look at Canada’s biggest weather events and climate phenomena. $24.99 PB Simon & Schuster

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World Essays

BARRY LOPEZ REBECCA SOLNIT

At once a cri de coeur and a memoir of both pain and wonder, this remarkable collection of essays adds indelibly to Lopez’s legacy, and includes previously unpublished works, some written in the months before his death. $37.00 HC Random House Publishing

The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard

JOAN E STRASSMANN

$37.00 HC Penguin Publishing

Plant Words

250 Terms for Plant Lovers

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW

The perfect gift for connoisseur and beginner botanists alike, Plant Words is beautifully illustrated with over 80 images from Kew's collection. $19.99 HC Welbeck Publishing Group

Tree Vision

30 Cards to Cure Your Tree Blindness

TONY KIRKHAM HOLLY EXLEY

Tree Vision is the ultimate card set to help you learn all about trees, their leaves, seeds, flowers and so much more! This is a perfect gift and a boxed reference set for nature lovers, including interesting facts about the trees featured, supported by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London, UK. $29.99 Laurence King Publishing

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44 Author Title Profile A message from

Stephens Gerard Malone Our 2022 Bookmark Halifax Ambassador

When I dreamed of being a writer, I imagined milestones along the way, and while writing and publishing has changed so much, one milestone never has: seeing the fruit of solitary, tortured hours in the window of a bookstore. Nor does it ever get old to see although nowadays, the gesture means so much more.

Why? Because in an online world of meaningless likes, a book in the window of an indie bookstore is an achievement that actually means something.

At Bookmark, units don’t drop from robotic arms into mail pouches while an algorithm routinely informs you that people who purchased this unit also bought that brand of toilet paper. (If technology, not fire, destroyed books in Fahrenheit 451.) No, through these doors is a temple to a creative community, celebrating those who labour long hours, agonizingly piecing the right words together, carefully curated by unsung editors, walls a gallery of designer cover art. The scent of newly printed books! Where an author can walk through the door and be told, hey, you sold this many copies.

But most importantly, this is sacred ground for people who love books, celebrate all types of voices, happy to put in your hand your next zip line thrill across a gorge or love’s labours lost because they’ve actually read it! Then happily set up tables at launches and festivals, bringing together writers and Nova Scotia. The sort of place that when Bookmark’s canyons and hilltops of lore and poetry and truth were threatened by a pandemic of change, we as community knew we had to do the equivalent of sandbagging during a flood.

So we can continue to see books in windows. An achievement. A show of support. An act of defiance. If you’re a writer, hang onto the dream. Being here is the award that counts. If you’re a reader, hopefully, there will always be these cathedrals in which to dream.

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45 Title recommends ..............

Stephens You Won’t Always Be This Sad

The Promise

SHEREE FITCH

DAMON GALGUT

Between a broken promise casting long shadows over decades and funerals, Galgut expertly dissects cancerous white privilege in this sparingly written family saga set against a shifting balance of power in South Africa. At turns dark and brutally honest, it’s a timely novel of few pages that defines epic.

Echoing Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Fitch spins personal despair and anguish, when days crush under sorrow, into a poetic golden tour de force resonating with hope and light and joy. Every.

Word. Lived.

Mayflies

ANDREW O’HAGAN

Mayflies is not only a rollicking homage to boisterous youth, Manchester in the 80s, music festivals, boozy nights, and crash landings, but also, if a life well-lived and well-loved, the burdens that come with friendship.

My Policeman

BETHAN ROBERTS

Yes, I read this one because of the movie with what’s-his-name, but I was enthralled by Robert’s love triangle unravelling in the subtly Orwellian Brighton of the 1950s, when following your heart could be a crime. This novel reads like an exquisitely unstoppable train wreck, ripping out a little piece of your heart along the way.

The Heart’s Invisible Furies JOHN BOYNE

Long winter nights are made for sprawling, Dickensian page turners. Toss in Ireland convulsing amid the throes of social and religious upheaval and the poignant, ever hopeful Cyril Avery.

If you’re not gutted by the last few pages, check your pulse.

Young Mungo

A

Shuggie Bain may have won Stuart the Booker but rough and tumble Mungo and James, fumbling in a dovecote, crooked smiles against the toxically masculine underbelly of Glasgow gasping on the fumes of Thatcherism, is the long sigh masterpiece you don’t want to end.

By

DOUGLAS STUART

Len & Cub

Queer History

MEREDITH J. BLATT DUSTY GREEN

By the dictates of the time, these remarkably defiant photos should never have been taken. Shouldn’t survive. Only by chance they do. And it’s true, rural New Brunswick, WW1, a story like this can have no happy ending, but thanks to skillful archivists Blatt and Green, now we remember Leonard Keith and Joseph Coates and that which dare not speak its name.

Books by Stephens ..............

The History of Rain

Big Town

Literary historical fiction set in a war-torn Europe and glamourous Old Hollywood, following a lonely landscape gardener. A sprawling story written in stunning, spare language, this novel is a lyrical, magical, and starkly realist meditation on the dissonant worlds that emerge from the conflict, and the lengths we'll go to chase the illusion of love.

STEPHENS GERARD MALONE

STEPHENS GERARD MALONE

A Novel of Africville Big Town is an unforgettable account of a community in crisis and the remarkable spirit that persists in the face of adversity. $18.95 Nimbus Publishing

$21.95 Nimbus Publishing

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46 If You Could Be Anything

Nosy Parker LESLEY CREWE

Lesley Crewe's new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal & features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother. Author Lesley Crewe — who has so often captured Cape Breton perfectly on the page — turns her incisive observations for the first time to the NDG of the 1960s where she grew up.

JENNIFER BRITTON ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRIANA CORR SCOTT

A gentle lullaby celebrating the abundant nature of the East Coast.

With gentle, rhyming text and dreamy oil illustrations, If You Could Be Anything is the perfect story to send little ones off to dreamland, and older ones off on new adventures.

$24.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

$22.95 HC Illustrated Nimbus Publishing

Low Road Forever

The Twelve Days of Christmas

TARA THORNE

BRIANA CORR SCOTT

Essays

With the cranky forthrightness of Fran Lebowitz in Pretend It's a City, Thorne's voice is both self-assured and deeply self-effacing as she exposes the light haze of misogyny that hangs over us all to find what's funny, what's true, and what needs to be said. $22.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

A Celebration of Nature

A boldly illustrated gift edition of the beloved English Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" — with an artful twist. East Coast artist Briana Corr Scott brings her naturalist's eye to the classic holiday song, pairing the original lyrics with bold and whimsical illustrations that celebrate flora and fauna. $19.95 HC Illustrated Nimbus Publishing

Heartbreak Homes

Precious Little

A gripping locked-door YA murder mystery told from multiple perspectives from Governor General's Award – and Crime Writers of Canada Award – nominated author of The Grey Sisters and Blood Will Out. Narrated from multiple perspectives, Heartbreak Homes is about what compels us to kill – and the true face of justice.

An extraordinary literary fiction debut from an award-winning writer and activist, set in the remote Labrador Innu community of Utshimassits, exploring grief, trauma, unlearning, and healing.

JO TREGGIARI

CAMILLE FOUILLARD

$22.95 PB Vagrant Press

$16.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

This Is It, Lark Harnish

Stephen McNeil

A historical middle-grade novel following a plucky thirteen-year-old hired girl in rural 1919 Nova Scotia, exploring grief and love, poverty and privilege, and family in all its forms, from the award-winning author of The Cammie Turple series.

In Stephen McNeil: Principle and Politics, award-winning journalist and author Dan Leger argues that McNeil's name should be there when we talk about premiers of consequence.

Principles and Politics

DAN LEGER

LAURA BEST

$26.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

$13.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

Buddy the Bluenose Reindeer

Contested Waters

BRUCE NUNN ILLUSTRATED BY BRENDA JONES

RICHARD WILLIAMS FRED WIEN

and the Christmas Dinner Rescue The third installment in the bestselling series of illustrated early readers, this thrilling seasonal romp will instantly become a holiday tradition. Features bold, vibrant artwork by celebrated artist Brenda Jones. $15.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

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The Struggle for Rights and Reconcilliation in the Atlantic Fishery A timely anthology featuring diverse perspectives – Indigenous and nonIndigenous – on the right to fish in the Atlantic, with the goal of creating dialogue and solutions. $22.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

47 Title

Sports 47

Winning Golf

Hockey Moms

The Mental Game: Creating the Focus, Feeling, and Confidence to Play Consistently Well

The Heart of the Game

THERESA BAILEY TERRY MARCOTTE A celebration of the unsung heroes behind the game, including first-hand stories from moms of the NHL’s biggest stars.

Hockey Moms features untold stories of the highs and the lows, the challenges and the triumphs, from the women who are the heart of the game. A perfect gift for the more than 600,000 hockey moms in Canada.

SAUL L. MILLER

Dr. Saul L. Miller, one of the world’s leading sport psychologists, describes eight of the most common problems limiting golfing performance and gives readers powerful, practical techniques to overcome these challenges. $24.95 PB ECW Press

$33.99 HC HarperCollins

The Greatest Comeback

Playing the Long Game

How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and Reinvented Hockey

A Memoir

CHRISTINE SINCLAIR

JOHN U. BACON

For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures.

A universal story about overcoming bitter feuds to forge a hard-earned team spirit and inspire heroics against long odds and almost inhuman pressure—an experience that every member of Team Canada considers those eight games to be the highlight of their storied careers.

$34.00 HC Random House Canada

$34.99 HC HarperCollins

All Roads Lead Home

The Series

BRYAN TROTTIER STEPHEN BRUNT JESSE THISTLE

KEN DRYDEN

A Life On and Off the Ice

A poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete.

What I Remember, What It Felt Like, What It Feels Like Now A new book by Hall of Fame goalie and bestselling author Ken Dryden celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series. It is a story long told, often told. But never like this. $34.95 HC McClelland and Stewart

$35.00 HC McClelland and Stewart

Quiddler and Five Crowns

Best-Selling Games

SET ENTERPRISE GAMES

Quiddler is easy to learn and has tons of replay value. It’s a great family game where kids can compete with adults. The play: 8 rounds per game, players draw and discard until someone forms their hand into words using two or more cards per word. Five Crowns is a five suited rummy style game with a rotating wild card Easy to learn, Fun for kids and adults, ages 10 to adult, 1-7 players. Quick favourite for both avid and casual card players. Winner of over 10 Best Game Awards. $17.99 ea.

Sushi Go!

GAMEWRIGHT

Sushi Go! takes the card-drafting mechanism of Fairy Tale and 7 Wonders and distills it into a twenty-minute game that anyone can play. The dynamics of "draft and pass" are brought to the fore, while keeping the rules to a minimum. 2–5 Players, 15 minutes, ages 8+ $24.99 ea.

Codenames CZECH GAMES

Codenames is a word game for people who suck at word games.

2-8+ player (in two teams) 15 minutes playtime. $32.99 ea.

Dutch Blitz Card Game DUTCH BLITZ GAMES CO.

Be the first to play all of your cards in this fast-paced solitaire style game.

2–4 Players, 1–15 minutes, ages 8+ $19.99 ea. Expansion packs also available

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48 Stationery NEW Preppy Limited Edition WA Preppy Fountain Pens

Plaisir Fountain Pen PLATINUM

PLATINUM

The iconic Preppy fountain pen in a limited edition series. These are the new Series 2 Japan themed pens with new patterns. Limited quantities. $7.99 ea.

Century 3776 Fountain Pen

A perfect starter fountain pen at a price that won’t break the bank. The Plaisir has a colourful aluminum body with a steel nib. A unique "Slip & Seal" cap keeps the fountain pens from drying out, allowing you to leave the pen filled for long periods of time. Available in 10 colours and medium and fine nibs. Great quality for a budget price. $27.00 ea.

PLATINUM

With Platinum's latest technology and innovative cap design, the "Slip & Seal" mechanism in this #3776 Century model prevents the ink from drying out for up to 12 months. Available in a variety of colourful resins, accented by gold trim and features a 14k gold nib. It accepts proprietary Platinum cartridges or a Platinum converter (sold separately) for use with bottled ink.

Available in M, F, EF and SF $270.00 BONUS A FREE bottle of any colour of Private Reserve Fountain Pen Ink with the purchase of any Century 3776 fountain pen.

Ambition Fountain Pen FABER CASTELL

A perfect starter fountain pen at a price that won’t break the bank. The Plaisir has a colourful aluminum body with a steel nib. A unique "Slip & Seal" cap keeps the fountain pens from drying out, allowing you to leave the pen filled for long periods of time.

Available in 10 colours and medium and fine nibs. Great quality for a budget price.\ $27.00 ea.

NEW Mirage Mythos Fountain Pen VISCONTI

A brand new collection with a "divine" look. This is a new Mirage with innovations that distinguish it at first glance from the basic model, such as the large steel nib (yellow gold plated), the central section made of brass instead of resin, but above all the central ring, on which is engraved the inscription MYTHOS and the V, similar to a stylised Mount Olympus. $295.00 ea.

BONUS A FREE bottle of any colour of Private Reserve Fountain Pen Ink with the purchase of any Visconti Mirage Mythos fountain pen.

Aero Fountain Pens DIPLOMAT

This is a favourite pen at Bookmark.

An aluminum fountain pens with a streamlined Zeppelin-inspired body.

Made in Germany. It has a satisfying, exclusive soft sliding click cap that posts securely onto the barrel when writing. It features a smooth writing #6 JoWo stainless steel nib, a gunmetal grip and trim, and fills via standard international cartridge/converter (both are included).

Choose from 12 colours. $190.00 ea.

BONUS Receive a FREE bottle of Private Reserve ink with the purchase of a Diplomat Aero Fountain pen.

Safari Special Edition 2022

Strawberry and Cream Fountain Pens

LAMY

Each year LAMY features a special Edition “Color of the Year”.

The 2022 LAMY Safari Strawberry and Cream pens are a fantastic edition that are sure to catch your eye. $40.00 ea.

BONUS Free converter with each pen purchased.

Fine writing brands available at Bookmark * Some brands are special order at Halifax location

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Private Reserve Inks YAFABRANDS

The Private Reserve Ink collection includes 36 beautiful colors from the famous Vampire Red to the Avocado and the Electric DC Blue to name a few. All Private Reserve Inks are vibrant, rich and highest quality. 60 ml bottle. $19.00 ea.

49 Title

Stationery 49 Pigeon Letter Writing

Profolio Oasis Notebook

PIGEON POSTED

Write. Fold. Send. A more satisfying way to communicate. Inspired by origami, Pigeon, is a beautifully crafted combination of letter and envelope.

A more satisfying alternative to the always-on, instant-gratification tools we all use to communicate with each other every day. Because even with all our hi-tech wizardry, nobody has managed to recreate the magic and joy of the handwritten letter. $14.99 ea.

Paperblank Journals PAPERBLANKS

A beautiful line of journals made to inspire creativity, empower expression and celebrate special moments. An homage to art and culture, this line of journals sparks the imagination by offering a connection to artists and cultural movements from all eras and regions.

From $16.95

ITOYA

Its new proprietary paper pattern, a combination of dots, grids, and lines as well as their light application makes this notebook ideal for handwriting, bullet journaling, and even drawing straight lines without the necessity of a ruler.

Soft Japanese paper is magically both thin and fountain-pen friendly.

Available in sizes A5, A6, and B5 and five colors - avocado, brick, charcoal, sky, and wintergreen.

80 sheets. From $7.99 ea.

Label, Sticker & Tape Books PEPIN PRESS

Contains 32 sheets of high-quality sticker paper with a total of about 250 labels, stickers and strips of sticker tape per volume. The stylish designs come in various shapes and sizes and allow you to label, decorate and seal your envelopes, packages and many other items. The sticker paper is uncoated and easy to write on with pen, pencil or felt marker. Choose from 10 designs. $22.99 ea.

Writing Sets PEPIN PRESS

For the serious letter writer with an appreciation for quality and design. Each box contains 10 sheets of 4 different designs (printed on one side), making up 40 sheets of A5 writing paper (150x210mm/6”x8¼”).

Included are 20 matching envelopes (10 x 2 designs), 8 greeting cards (2 x 4 designs) and 30 assorted stickers and labels.

Choose from 10 different styles. $46.99 ea.

120G Edition Notebooks LEUCHTTURM1917

The 120G Edition notebooks are the perfect choice for anyone who loves to combine writing with sketching and drawing. By adding the right filler, the paper has a very low transparency. Writing and drawings are not visible from the back. $24.95 until December 31

Letter Sets MIDORI

MD Notebook MIDORI

Made in Japan, this simple notebook was designed to create a writing experience that you will enjoy. The high-quality Midori Diary (MD) paper inside was developed in 1960 and has been continuously improved on ever since. The paper is bleed-resistant, feather-resistant, and fountain-pen friendly, giving the user a pleasant writing experience. Available in a variety of sizes and formats. From $12.99 ea.

Letter set with 5 sizes of shaping envelopes. Perfect for a different envelope every time or when you want to send more people at once. Lined underlayment allows you to write a note in plain color and balance. Stationery Notes 8.7" x 6.7"; 20 sheets; unruled MD paper: cream; envelopes: 5 types x 2: 10 sheets. $11.99 ea. We have many other styles of Midori letter sets, writing paper and envelopes available.

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50 Stationery Metallics Marker Set

Pencil Pouch

Decorate light, dark or colourful paper or even smooth surfaces, such as plastic, foil, porcelain, glass and metal, with a premium metallic effect. You can even make wood or rocks look shiny. After drying, Metallics are resistant to both smudging and water splashes.

Cardboard wallet of six. $15.99 ea.

Cavallini zippered pouches are made from 100% natural cotton and feature a high quality YKK zipper, a leather zipper pull, and dark navy cotton lining. These stylish pouches are perfect for your small items and pair perfectly with the Vintage Tote.

Available in mini and regular sizes. From $16.99 ea.

FABER CASTELL

Goldfaber Aqua Watercolour Pencils

CAVALLINI & CO.

Waterproof Blackliners MOLOTOW

The perfect waterproof fineliner with archival ink. The ink is resistant to chemicals, faderesistant and wipe-proof in combination with water and alcohol-based inks. Perfectly suitable for sketches, outlines, finelines and precise illustrations. Tips starting from 0.05 mm - 1 mm as well as Chisel, Round, Brush S and Calligraphy $4.99 ea.

FABER CASTELL

The fully water soluble lead of the Goldfaber Aqua watercolour pencil was produced with the most innovative production technology and impresses with its excellent lightfastness.

Tin of 12 pencils $17.99 ea.

Black Edition Colour Pencils Set

OLEeNU Shield Mechanical Pencil

The Black Edition colour pencils have a wonderfully soft and vibrant colour laydown thanks to their SuperSoft lead.

The high pigmentation of the lead makes them ideal for painting and drawing techniques on light, coloured and dark paper. The ergonomic triangular shape of the pencils automatically ensures the correct grip position and optimum comfort when drawing and painting.

Cardboard box of 24 $15.99 ea.

Amazing technology. Conventional mechanical pencils are only able to clutch the lead core until the last 10 mm, at which point the lead becomes unstable and falls out. The Platinum OLEeNU can clutch a lead core until the very last 0.5 mm—a 95% reduction in waste that gives you almost 20% more writing out of a typical 60 mm long lead!

5 mm only $4.99 ea.

FABER CASTELL

Watercolour Pads

PLATINUM

PuniLabo Stand Up Pen Case LIHIT LAB

SM-LT ART

SM∙LT Art is an open, independent & socially responsible brand with unique attitude to products, people and business. Choose from an array of formats including A4 in folder, A5, stitched album, square lay flat album, and round.

From $9.99 ea.

Pen case with a cute animal inspired design.

Made of silicone, soft smooth touch and easy to clean. Holds up to 15 pens.

Transforms into a pen stand by pressing down on the bottom.

Available in 5 styles. $24.99 ea.

Assorted Authentic Art Pads SM-LT ART

SM∙LT Art is an open, independent & socially responsible brand with unique attitude to products, people and business. A5 size. Choose from Mixed Media, Marker Sketch, Drawing, Black paper and Painting pads. From $8.99 ea.

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Zippered Pouches EXACOMPTA

These are a favourite at Bookmark for holding pens, cables and more.

Available in 4 sizes A4, A5, A6 and 8x18.

From $4.99 ea.

51 Title

Foraging 51 In Search of Mycotopia

Fungarium Postcards TEMPLAR PUBLISHING

Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms

This collection of 50 postcards features Katie Scott's stunning fungal illustrations. Each image vividly captures the beauty and complexity of fungi. Together they make a stylish collection, perfect for sending to friends, using as notecards, or simply framing on your wall.

50 pages $28.99 ea.

The Mycocultural Revolution Transforming Our World with Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

DOUG BIEREND

From ecology to fermentation, in pop culture and in medicine—mushrooms are everywhere.

With an explorer’s eye, author Doug Bierend guides readers through the weird, wonderful world of fungi and the amazing mycological movement. $26.95 PB Chelsea Green Publishing

Mushroom Enamel Mug and Socks Gift Set GIFT REPUBLIC

PETER MCCOY, FOREWORD

BY ROBERT ROGERS

Looking for a really good gift set for the fungi or girl in your life? The mushroom enamel mug and socks gift set is great for long walks through the woods foraging for mushrooms. $34.99 set Mug only $17.99 ea.

Discover the glorious world of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi, as described by Peter McCoy, one of today’s foremost experts in the field. $24.50 HC Microcosm Publishing

Assorted Mushroom Notebooks

Mushroom Logbook MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS

The Mushroom Logbook includes space to collect important data points, such as cap and stalk characteristics, nearby plants and wildlife, habitat, weather, and other notes. $16.50 Stationery Mountaineers Books

DENIK

Water resistant and velvety smooth to the touch, these notebooks will hold up over time and always feel like magic in your hands. Lay flat A5 size lined and dot grid. 144 pages.

From $22.99

Urban Foraging

Foraging

Find, Gather, and Cook 50 Wild Plants

Explore Nature’s Bounty and Turn Your Foraged Finds into Flavorful Feasts

Expert forager Lisa M. Rose shares all the basics necessary for a successful harvest: clear photos that aid identification, tips for ethical and safe gathering, details on culinary uses, and simple recipes will help you make truly fresh, nutritious meals.

Chock full of tips on finding and identifying fruits, flowers, roots, shoots, nuts, foliage, and more, this helpful guide shows you how to find and enjoy wild edibles safely and successfully.

LISA M. ROSE MIRIAM DOAN

$26.00 HC Timber Press

MARK VORDERBRUGGEN

$28.99 PB DK

A Taste of the Wild

Recipes for 40 Common Foraged Plants from Across Canada

BLANCHE POWNALL GARRETT

Offering a wonderful array of cooking possibilities, this book includes more than 160 recipes using forty common, wild and edible plants, found from coast to coast.

Navy Mushroom Notebook Pouch DENIK

Tired of losing your favourite pen? This elastic Navy Mushrooms notebook pouch keeps writing accessories up to 6 inches long secure. It's also great for charging cords, jump drives, erasers, paper clips, lip balm, gum... You get the idea! $24.99 ea.

$29.95 PB Formac Publishing

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52 Classics The Penguin English Library

Beautiful hardcover editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. $31.99 HC

$35.99 HC

$29.99 HC

Chiltern Publishing

Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers will look striking on any shelf.

$32.99 HC

$34.99 HC

$34.99 HC

Rock Point Timeless Classics

$37.00 HC

$37.00 HC

The Timeless Classics series brings together the works of classic authors from around the world. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed gift editions feature luxe, patterned endpapers, $37.00 ribbon markers, and foil and deboss details on vibrantly HC colored cases.

Puffin Clothbound Classics

Puffin Clothbound classics feature the full unabridged texts of each book as originally published, full cloth covers with generous gilt accents and bound-in satin ribbon bookmarks.

$26.95 HC

$26.95 HC

$26.95 HC

Harper Muse

Exclusive collector's editions, featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.

$39.99 HC

$39.99 HC

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$39.99 HC

53 Title

Bookseller Picks 53

Mike's Picks

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. LEWIS

BEST OF 2022

Here Goes Nothing STEVE TOLTZ

Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution

Yes, this book is set in the midst of a global pandemic but don’t let that deter you. Those of us who adored Toltz’s acclaimed A Fraction of the Whole have had to wait for a long time for a new novel and this one’s a blast. Dante for the 21st century.

ERIC DUPONT

One of the premier Canadian writers of magic realism, Dupont’s tale of a young woman from Gaspésie who travels to la grande ville to help her community is wondrous, belly-laugh funny, sweet, politically astute and a joy I will surely revisit. A 2007 hit in Québec, this is the book’s English language debut.

A Love Story

NICOLAS MATTHIEU

For those who know me, the finest novellas often go unnoticed since I like books thick as bricks.

However, I will never allow anything written by Matthieu to pass my attention. This story has some noirish tones that delight but it was the ending’s sucker punch that landed most.

IAN MCEWAN

My second favourite McEwan after ‘Saturday’, this examination of a man’s life from schoolboy to octogenarian is a sumptuous meal. In particular, the novel’s coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the troubled integration of two philosophies of life has informed me more than all the news coverage I have ever watched. This book has given colour to events, worldly and personal, that were previously only black and white to me.

The Empire of Dirt A Novel

FRANCESCA MANFREDI

A coming-of-age story in the Italian countryside of 1996, Manfredi borrows a line from Nine Inch Nails song Hurt for the novel’s title. It’s an apt choice as a young girl’s family undergoes a barrage of natural plagues that mirror the tumult of her unsettled life. The author’s sparse but beautiful writing style is a smart contrast to the main character’s emotional growing pains of youth.

The Tin Flute

Don Quixote

Penguin Modern Classics Edition GABRIELLE ROY

Alden Nowlan Selected Poems ALDEN NOWLAN

The Wasp Factory

Deluxe Edition MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Charlotte's Web E B WHITE

The Book Of Strange New Things

Bedsit Disco Queen

IAIN BANKS

The Devil's Teeth

A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks SUSAN CASEY

How I grew up and tried to be a pop star TRACEY THORN

MICHEL FABER

Geek Love

A Novel KATHERINE DUNN

Monty Python's Flying Circus

PAST FAVOURITES

Lessons

Rose Royal

Complete and Annotated . . . All the Bits GRAHAM CHAPMAN

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54 Bookseller Picks

Joseph's Picks

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

E.B. WHITE

BEST OF 2022

What If? 2

Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Spine Poems

RANDALL MUNROE

An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers

You’ve probably never wondered what would happen if the solar system was filled with soup, but if you’re the sort of person who would really like to know now, then this book is for you. Using science, eccentric stick-figure cartoons, and an infectious sense of child-like curiosity, Randall Munroe sensibly answers the strangest questions in the world, teaching us about physics, logic, and saliva along the way.

ANNETTE DAUPHIN SIMON

I think I’ve finally found it: the perfect coffee table book for literature lovers. By carefully stacking unique assortments of books together and then photographing them, Annette Dauphin Simon has created a beautiful collection of artistic poems. Interspersed with an eclectic assortment of quotes, commentary, and trivia, this book is a conversation starter, a thought-provoker, and a piece of literary art.

100 Poets

A Little Anthology

JOHN CAREY

The sheer number of poems and poets can easily feel overwhelming, but this book offers an accessible and tantalizing introduction. From Homer to Oscar Wilde to Maya Angelou, editor John Carey whets the appetite with crisp commentary and a charcuterie board of carefully-chosen poems.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

GEORGE SAUNDERS

Booker prize-winning author, George Saunders, introduces us to seven of his favourite Russian short stories, offering kind and insightful commentary along the way. His expertise and enthusiasm result in a transformative masterclass in writing and reading that will endlessly deepen your appreciation of the stories within, and the beauty to be found in all great literature.

Rembrandt Is in the Wind Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

RUSS RAMSEY

This book introduces readers to some of the most beautiful pieces of art the world has ever known, and the oftentimes messy individuals behind them. Guided by the wise insight of Russ Ramsey, we learn what their stories have to teach us about our own lives, the Christian faith, and humanity’s wondrous capacity to create beauty out of chaos.

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Every Moment Holy

Till We Have Faces

Volume 1 DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY

The Complete Stories

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

A Myth Retold C S LEWIS

The Penderwicks

A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy JEANNE BIRDSALL

Boy

Tales of Childhood ROALD DAHL

Selected Poems of Robert Frost

Illustrated Edition ROBERT FROST

The Complete Maus

Long Way Down

A Survivor's Tale ART SPIEGELMAN

JASON REYNOLDS

The God of the Garden Whale Day

And Other Poems BILLY COLLINS

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Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom ANDREW PETERSON

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Journey's Picks

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

BEST OF 2022

The World We Make

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

An absolutely phenomenal author returns with the conclusion to The Great Cities Duology. N.K. Jemisin is a masterful writer who knows how to capture an audience and always manages to build such incredible worlds with beautifully interwoven magics and histories. This book is no different and will leave you satisfied with how the story ended, but reaching for another of her books.

BECKY CHAMBERS

A beautiful and cozy read that instantly makes you breathe easier and release those little things in your life you hadn't even realized were stressing you out.

The friendship between monk and robot in this tale is sweet, caring and so full of love and laughter that it makes it extremely hard to put back down, and I should know, I breezed through both books in the series on a single flight.

N.K. JEMISIN

Ordinary Monsters J.M. MIRO

A brilliantly dark historical fantasy following two kids, each with magical gifts of their own, and the detective assigned to keep them safe from the man made of smoke who hunts them. J.M. Miro somehow manages to write such a massive book where not once do you feel bored or lost. The excellent attention to detail and beautiful writing makes every page belong and will find you flying through the book faster than you thought possible.

Other Birds A Novel

SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

A magical mystery that is just as beautiful and curious as the turquoise Dellawisps that grace the front cover.

The characters hidden within these pages are wonderful, complex, haunted individuals who each have their own pasts to reconcile with.

While it is a death in the apartment complex that kickstarts the tale, the story becomes one of not only loss , grief and regret, but also of trust and learning how we can let some things go, and open ourselves up to loving others.

The Fifth Season

SAMANTHA SHANNON

JULIA ARMFIELD

Julia Armfield weaves this tale in a way that ensures a slow creeping suspense is constantly building and paints us a painfully haunting portrait of two women in love who now find a chasm between them growing larger and larger by the day. With each chilling description we find ourselves being pulled deeper and deeper into the cold, dark ocean alongside Leah.

All Systems Red The Murderbot Diaries MARTHA WELLS

N K JEMISIN

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Our Wives Under the Sea

Strange Beasts of China YAN GE

Under the Whispering Door TJ KLUNE

Gideon the Ninth TAMSYN MUIR

Good Omens

The Silent Patient

TERRY PRATCHETT

ALEX MICHAELIDES

The Ruins of Gorlan Wicked Plants

The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities AMY STEWART

Book One JOHN FLANAGAN

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A Monk and Robot Book

A Novel

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Lorna's Picks

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C. S. LEWIS

BEST OF 2022

Under Lock & Skeleton Key

A Secret Staircase Mystery

GIGI PANDIAN

The Weight of Sand

This is my kind of mystery book, with hidden rooms, magic tricks, clues and suspects galore. It is a delightful read that keeps you guessing to the end.

My 450 Days Held Hostage in the Sahara

EDITH BLAIS

Edith Blais and her boyfriend Luca, were taken hostage by armed Islamic terrorists in the African desert, in this moving story of hopelessness and courage. The poetry she wrote to maintain her sanity is a beautiful addition, making it a mesmerizing read from start to finish.

The Thursday Murder Club A Novel

RICHARD OSMAN

This murder mystery was a delightful surprise with humor and unexpected twists throughout the book. These seniors were far more resourceful and manipulative than I expected.

All the Seas of the World GUY GAVRIEL KAY

Cure for Wereduck

Guy Gavriel Kay is an impeccable storyteller. He transports you to this world of assassination, power and love wherein the characters are as captivating as the story.

Book 2 of the Wereduck Series

DAVE ATKINSON

Book two of the Wereduck series is as creative, hilarious and suspenseful as the first book. Dave Atkinson is a brilliant writer.

And regardless of my age, I love this series of children's books.

PAST FAVOURITES

The Girl Who Died

Listening Still A Novel ANNE GRIFFIN

A Thriller RAGNAR JONASSON

The Lost Apothecary A Novel SARAH PENNER

On Writing

A Boy Called Christmas

A Memoir of the Craft STEPHEN KING

MATT HAIG

The Diamond Eye A Novel KATE QUINN

Everyday Sketching and Drawing

Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit STEVEN B REDDY

Man's Search for Meaning VIKTOR E FRANKL

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Atomic Habits

An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones JAMES CLEAR

Tuesdays with Morrie An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson MITCH ALBOM

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Neil's Picks

To own books without reading them is like having a painting of a bowl of fruit.

DIOGENES

BEST OF 2022 The Perfect Golden Circle BENJAMIN MYERS

One of my favourite books of the year, The Perfect Golden Circle combines crop circles, 1980s England and the quiet comedy of The Detectorists. This was the perfect summer read, especially if your idea of the perfect summer is tromping through English country fields late at night.

Farmhouse SOPHIE BLACKALL

Sophie Blackall has created another future classic with Farmhouse, a touching portrait of the family who once inhabited a now-abandoned farmhouse. The exquisite illustrations are a marvel to behold. You and any little ones you know will love this book!

The Puffin Keeper MICHAEL MORPURGO

Michael Morpurgo's story of Allen Lane, the founder of Puffin Books, is a terrific tale of friendship, war, art, a lighthouse keeper and a lost puffin. Beautifully illustrated by Benji Davies, this has all the makings of a classic book, enjoyed by young and old.

A Year Unfolding

A Printmaker's View

ANGELA HARDING

Fifty Forgotten Books

This is a gorgeous collection of Angela Harding's work and a guide to the British countryside through the seasons. Every page is stunning to look at and Angela's prose is a joy to read.

R.B. RUSSELL

If there was ever a book that felt true to the eccentric spirit of indie bookshops and bibliophiles everywhere, it is this one. Russell, publisher of Tartarus Press, has created both an enthralling memoir and an incredible list of overlooked gems that you will want to seek out right away.

Burning Your Boats

A Novel ULRICH ALEXANDER BOSCHWITZ

The Collected Short Stories ANGELA CARTER

The Magic Box Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window ROB YOUNG

The Offing

BENJAMIN MYERS

The Howling Miller

ARTO PAASILINNA

The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories SAKI

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories Selected Stories TOVE JANSSON

Haunted Air OSSIAN BROWN

Sunless Solstice Little Witch Hazel A Year in the Forest PHOEBE WAHL

Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights TANYA KIRK

PAST FAVOURITES

The Passenger

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Marguerite's Picks

If a book is well written, I find it too short.

JANE AUSTIN

BEST OF 2022

Six of Crows LEIGH BARDUGO

Six outcasts and one impossible heist, Six of Crows follows unlikely friendships and bone-chilling pasts.

All of Us Villains

AMANDA FOODY | C L HERMAN For fans of The Hunger Games and the magic of Harry Potter. All of us Villains immerses you into a magical yet dark world, where seven champions fight for their life, as only one will survive.

Seven Days in June TIA WILLIAMS

Two thriving authors find themselves reunited after seven days spent together several years ago. The authors struggle to rekindle their connection, all the while jumping back into their past to figure out what went wrong.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo A Novel

TAYLOR JENKINS REID

A breathtakingly painful romance that is set throughout a series of interviews and flashbacks to Evelyn Hugo’s life as an actress. During these interviews, Evelyn tells the story of why she married these men, and what drove her to leave these men.

Heartstopper #1 A Graphic Novel

ALICE OSEMAN

A graphic novel that centres around the romance of two young boys. Heartstopper follows Nick and Charlie as they navigate their way through love, loss, bullying, and, worst of all, high school.

His Dark Materials

Daughter of the Pirate King

The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass

PAST FAVOURITES

TRICIA LEVENSELLER

Carrie Soto Is Back

A Novel TAYLOR JENKINS REID

PHILIP PULLMAN The Raven Boys

A Little Life

HANYA YANAGIHARA

The Raven Cycle Book 1 MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Sirens & Muses A Novel ANTONIA ANGRESS

The Station Cat A Story of Kindness and Hope STEPHEN HOGTUN

The Song of Achilles A Novel MADELINE MILLER

The Hobbit J R R TOLKIEN

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings A 21st Century Bestiary CASPAR HENDERSON

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Rebecca's Picks

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.

BEST OF 2022

JAMES BALDWIN

Animal Person Stories

ALEXANDER MACLEOD

Ducks

Two Years in the Oil Sands

KATE BEATON

Any new release about the obscenely neglected topic of mental health challenges faced by men and women working in the oil sands would have been a valuable addition to our culture — but on top of providing this service, Beaton’s astutely funny visual style and her tender, nuanced portrayal of every character make Ducks a new masterpiece of Canadian literature.

The stories in Animal Person are rich with sorrow, humor, insight and wonder. MacLeod approaches the short fiction form with respect and care, each story offering a unique vantage point to observe profound, common human moments.

Hello Molly!

A Memoir

MOLLY SHANNON

The popularity of Molly Shannon’s comedic characters can be attested to how fully she committed to each character’s emotional honesty, no matter how embarrassing or silly. Her memoir is an inspiring story of how she approached any conflict in her life with empathy, curiosity and humor, exemplifying how this leads to visceral and resonant comedy.

Lapvona A Novel

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

Those with a sour and deranged sensibility tend to be out of their element over the holidays, but luckily Lapvona, written in Moshfegh’s customary addictive prose, can provide an alternative form of good cheer through its sadistically vivid imagery and laugh-out-loud dialogue.

A Hero of Our Time A Novel

NABEN RUTHNUM

Two Serious Ladies

In Youth is Pleasure

A Novel JANE BOWLES

DENTON WELCH

The Screwtape Letters

The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy JAMES PURDY

Against Nature A Novel JORIS-KARL HUY MANS

C S LEWIS

For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down

Sexual Personae

Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson CAMILLE PAGLIA

Chicken Rising

DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS

D BOYD

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Mary Page Marlowe

PAST FAVOURITES

Ruthnum’s satirical novel about the absurdities of tech culture and the corporate adoption of identity politics manages to provide humor as dry and bleak as the universe it’s set in, while simultaneously instilling the existential terror of a dystopian horror.

TRACY LETTS

Essays MARY GAITSKILL

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Sophie's Picks

I guess there are never enough books.

JOHN STEINBECK

Every Summer After

BEST OF 2022

CARLEY FORTUNE

Summer might be over, but this Canadian story will have readers yearning to return to the lake. Sam and Percy met as children and after an incident as teenagers, they parted ways. A decade later, a funeral brings Percy home again. As Percy seeks forgiveness in the present day, the author intertwines moments of the past leading up to the mistake. Imagine, Jenny Han’s The Summer I turned Pretty, ten years later.

Family of Liars The Prequel to We Were Liars

E LOCKHART

After the sudden death of a child the year before, Carrie and her family spend the summer on their private island off the coast of Massachusetts, hiding from the ghosts of the past. Despite their wealth and privilege, secrets begin to unravel that will destroy their relationships forever. And in true E. Lockhart fashion, the story ends in an unexpected twist. This is the prequel to the YA novel We Were Liars but can be read as a standalone story.

The Comet JOE TODD-STANTON

Nyla must leave her country home to live in the big city, when her dad gets a new job. Suddenly he has no time for her and she starts to miss all that she left behind - especially the stars. This picture book is beautifully illustrated with vibrant images as Nyla’s imagination allows her to embrace her new experiences.

Such a Pretty Girl

Wish You Were Here

T GREENWOOD

Jumping between the 1970’s New York and now, Ryan explores the bohemian life she led as a child star.

In the wake of a media frenzy, and told through an adult’s eyes, Ryan re-examines her unusual childhood and fraught relationship with her mother. The story will appeal to fans of Jodi Picoult and those interested in Jennette McCurdy’s memoir.

A Novel

JODI PICOULT

It’s all too familiar; plans are made for the future, vacations booked. Then Covid hits and all those plans are put on hold. But not for Diana. she leaves behind her stressful job in New York and her boyfriend, and goes on vacation to Costa Rica. It was meant to be a short break, but when planes are grounded, her vacation becomes a chance for her to slow down and reassess. But not everything is as it seems in her new life.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

You'll Be the Death of Me KAREN M MCMANUS

PAST FAVOURITES

JENNY HAN

The Secret Life of Bees SUE MONK KIDD

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

This Is Ruby

Essays and Other Stuff RACHEL BLOOM

SARA O'LEARY

ADAM SILVERA

The Inheritance Games

JENNIFER LYNN BARNES

They Both Die at the End

Love & Gelato

JENNA EVANS WELCH

Sapiens

The Secret History DONNA TARTT

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A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind YUVAL NOAH HARARI

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Olivia's Picks

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

This Is How We Love LISA MOORE

Our Wives Under the Sea A Novel

JULIA ARMFIELD

A claustrophobic, eerie, magically written novel about Miri and Leah, a writer and marine biologist, who have to deal with the aftermath when Leah returns from a submarine expedition months later than planned with no explanation. As Leah develops strange symptoms, like the insatiable desire to be submerged in water, their relationship becomes strained. This novel is a beautiful portrayal of the lengths people will go for love.

I read everything Lisa Moore writes, so I was very excited when she released her latest novel. The stunning painting on the cover was done by Moore herself! Set during the snowstorm of the century in St. John’s, Newfoundland, the novel follows the story of Xavier, Jules, and Trinity as they deal with the aftermath of a horrific event. Moore’s writing is lyrical and full of tension. One of my top reads of the year.

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise DAN GEMEINHART

Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf SINA QUEYRAS

This non-fiction book feels like it was written for me. I first read Queyras’ work during university, so they’re a writer I always have on my radar.

This book discusses Woolf’s idea of a room of one’s own and how important it is for a writer to have their own space. Interspersed with experiences from Queyras’ life, this book expands on the idea and takes it to new heights.

Still Life

SARAH WINMAN

I’ve read this novel twice so far, once last year and again this year, and I’ve been hand-selling it to everyone! It spans from WWII to the 1980s and follows an unforgettable cast of characters (including a parrot!) from a London pub to the Florence piazzas and Tuscan countryside. It made me laugh and cry, which is the hallmark of a great read in my opinion.

Tin Man

Virginia Wolf

SARAH WINMAN

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

75th Anniversary Ed BETTY SMITH

This novel contains so many important themes: loss, grief, found family, acceptance, and love. A young girl, Coyote, who lost her mother and two sisters, lives with her father on an old school bus. They’ve been driving around the country for five years and all Coyote wants is to go home. The book starts with Coyote finding a kitten at a gas station, so I was instantly invested in this story.

We, Jane

KYO MACLEAR

AIMEE WALL

Little Witch Hazel A Year in the Forest PHOEBE WAHL

To the Lighthouse

VIRGINIA WOOLF

The Soul of an Octopus

These Precious Days

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness SY MONTGOMERY

Essays ANN PATCHETT

Pages & Co.

Tilly and the Bookwanderers Book 1 ANNA JAMES

House of Dreams

The Life of L. M. Montgomery LIZ ROSENBERG

PAST FAVOURITES

BEST OF 2022

VIRGINIA WOOLF

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Trina's Picks

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

COLSON WHITEHEAD

Small Pleasures A Novel

BEST OF 2022

CLARE CHAMBERS

Sacred Nature

Restoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

KAREN ARMSTRONG

Books on the nature spirituality enjoy a wide readership and I would suggest this newest title by Karen Armstrong will be no different. If you enjoy Robin Wall Kimmerer, or Diana Beresford-Kroeger, you may want to read this. If you are concerned for the threat of climate change and look to renew and rediscover a respect for nature, this may be the book for you. If forest bathing and quiet sitting are already part of your routine, I encourage you to explore this well-researched book on deepening your connection with nature.

The Draw of the Sea

Small Pleasures is a satisfying read, set in the suburbs of London in 1957. Post-war austerity is still relevant and there are many reminders observed throughout the narrative. The main character, Jean Swinney, is a features editor for a local paper.

The article in question “Men no longer needed for reproduction” sets off a firestorm, and an examination of Jean’s life, and those of a number of the characters with whom she interacts.

Farmhouse SOPHIE BLACKALL

An absolutely delightful picture book for 4-8 year olds but a pleasure for all ages. This is the story of a farmhouse and the imagined family who lived and loved there, gently told in sing-song rhyme. Each double page spread will invite endless examination for the fine detail and varied illustration techniques.

The captivating endpapers tell a story of their own, with a lovely author’s note at the back providing the backstory and photographs.

The Three Bears and Goldilocks

WYL MENMUIR

Growing up in Manchester but resident in Cornwall since 2013, the author describes the healing power of the sea, our fascination with it, and describes the allure for those surrounded by it.

While the sea, in his case, refers to that around the UK, it is no less relevant to those of us on the east coast of Canada.

We too, are beachcombers and sea glass hunters. We know its moods and respect its strength.

BEE WAELAND

This picture book flips the Goldilocks and the three bears story so Goldilocks is now the menace intruding on a law-abiding family of bears. According to the author the book “was designed with lots of bold shapes, textures and colours to appeal to young children.” Since the book is also without words, it allows both reader or listener to shape the story, adding and taking away elements as time and mood permit. Daily routines are infused with bright colours and there is lots of scope for humour in the telling.

PAST FAVOURITES

Sea Soul Journeys Oracle Cards

To Bless the Space Between Us

Connect with the Healing Power of the Ocean PIPPA BEST

Hour of the Witch

Small Things Like These

A Book of Blessings

JOHN O'DONOHUE

CLAIRE KEEGAN

The Exiles

A Novel CHRIS BOHJALIAN

A Novel CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE

Hid From Our Eyes A Clare Fergusson/ Russ Van Alstyne Mystery JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING

Things to Look Forward To

52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Every Day SOPHIE BLACKALL

The Natural Cozy Cottage

100 styling ideas to create a warm and welcoming home CHRISTIANE BELLSTEDT MYERS

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Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Expanded Edition PATTI CALLAHAN

One House

SARAH MACNEILL

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Some of these things are true and some of them are lies.

But they are all good stories.

HILARY MANTEL, WOLF HALL

BEST OF 2022

Bomb Shelter

Love, Time, and Other Explosives

MARY LAURA PHILPOTT

The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza MAC BARNETT SHAWN HARRIS

Prepare for a serious case of the giggles. Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris teamed up during early lockdowns to produce something entirely fun and new – live comics!

This book is the hilarious result of their collaboration.

Mary Laura Philpott writes the best mom memoirs (momoirs?) I’ve read. Each essay has humor, honesty and heart. Bomb Shelter deals with teen children, aging parents, and work/life balance and is handled with so much love and grace. I would recommend it to any parent who needs a dose of truth with a spoonful of giggles.

The History of Science Fiction A Graphic Novel Adventure

DJIBRIL MORISSETTE-PHAN XAVIER DOLLO This is a must read for any sci-fi fan! It covers origins of science fiction in books, films, magazines, pulps and comics. The format is fun and the information is very well researched and quite in depth.

Cloud Cuckoo Land A Novel

ANTHONY DOERR

This book contains so many of my favorite elements; multiple stories being told by many characters simultaneously, time jumps galore, and a book as a central point. I could not put it down. This would be perfect for fans of Cloud Atlas and Shadow of the Wind.

Booth

KAREN JOY FOWLER

Fowler weaves a story of the famous Booths; the actor father who hides his family away, the children raised on a steady diet of Shakespeare, and the son who kills the president. This sibling story was long-listed for the Booker prize and would be perfect for fans of literary historical fiction.

Open Water

A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks SIMON GARFIELD

The Seeds of Time

CALEB AZUMAH NELSON

Cold War Correspondent

(Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #11) A Korean War Tale NATHAN HALE

The Anomaly A Novel HERVE LE TELLIER

JOHN WYNDHAM

Recursion

A Novel BLAKE CROUCH

Sapiens

A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind YUVAL NOAH HARARI

Happy-Go-Lucky DAVID SEDARIS

The Snow Child The Cat's Table

PAST FAVOURITES

On the Map

EOWYN IVEY

MICHAEL ONDAATJE

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Celebrating 50 years of locally owned, independent bookselling

Bookmark Charlottetown is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, having opened in Charlottetown in December 1972. Over 50 years, Bookmark has established itself as a local institution known for its curation of PEI books, its friendly and knowledgeable staff, its author events, and its commitment to the Island literary community.

This is a celebration of not just a local institution but, more especially, the community of readers that have supported and sustained it over these 50 years through thick and thin, through good times, dark times, slow times, successful times; through location changes, staff changes, ownership changes, industry changes, and more. It takes a community who knows the value of books and reading and whose loyalty to a local bookshop is sustained by values over convenience, or indifference, or the flashiness on offer in other places. Our Island community has supported Bookmark for 50 years and it has survived and thrived.

Thank you Bookmark readers everywhere!