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Kim’s Picks

“I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.”

- JORGE LUIS BORGES

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

BEST OF 2024

HELEN SIMONSON

Find yourself immersed in the changing world of post WWI England where gender roles are in flux and people are healing from the trauma of war. The striped umbrellas of the seaside and a heady cloud of exhaust beckon readers to the thrill of a motorcycle ride in a bygone era. Wonderfully in keeping with Simonson’s other novels.

A Letter to the Luminous Deep

Bohème Cooking

I admit—I picked this up for the cover. And then I read the premise—a book of correspondence within a world entirely under water.

With one eyebrow raised, I began.

And I wept and cheered, I smiled and sighed. It absolutely works and is a unique delight.

It took but one recipe to know that this cookbook was going to be a regular for me. Unfussy French cooking at its earthy best. I could taste each ingredient separately and had a sense of the whole all at the same time. Easy to find items and well composed recipes.

CARRIE SOLOMON

SYLVIE CATHRALL

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

Flavorama

ARIELLE JOHNSON RENÉ REDZEPI

Ever wonder how to know what foods/spices/flavours play nicely with each other? This book is a guide! For the cook who enjoys adding knowledge and science to their bank of culinary tools. The userfriendly design of the book adds much to its appeal.

Past Favourites

Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion JULIE SATOW

Fashion maven I am not—but oh how I love the history of NYC! And that history is inextricably twined with the rise of iconic department stores and the women behind them. A smooth read, this is for fans of women’s history, NYC of the 1930’s-1960’s, and those interested in the rise of popular fashion.

Last Call at the Nightingale: A Mystery KATHARINE SCHELLMAN

Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: SOHLA EL-WAYLLY

The Dictionary People: The Once Upon a Tome: Unsung Heroes Who Created the The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Oxford English Dictionary OLIVER DARKSHIRE SARAH OGILVIE

The Elegance of the Hedgehog MURIEL BARBERY

Conversations with Birds PRIYANKA KUMAR

National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home ANYA VON BREMZEN

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Still Life SARAH WINMAN

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA

The Hexologists JOSIAH BANCROFT

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Nick’s Picks

“Someone has scrawled ‘5 a.m.’ on the side of the page and on the bottom ‘Already tomorrow is here’ with a bunch of green and blue marks she can’t remember making.”

- ANNE CARSON, Flaubert Again

The Heart in Winter

BEST OF 2024

KEVIN BARRY

Late to the party, but glad I picked up Kevin Barry’s latest, a Western, where I immediately fell in love with the immaculately vulgar, high-style heartbeat with which he renders his down and out protagonists. Three novels into my latest literary crush, his plots are simple and similar, but all his prose dances, glints like a fully stocked bar, drips that good mixture of sugar and blood.

Hi, It's Me A Novel

We Are Definitely Human

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The fourth novel by Fredericton’s new Poet Laureate and the host of our store’s monthly reading series.

Sprawling and adventurous in front of a narrowing channel of grief, this novel feels alive with the potential of fiction itself, with the many ways stories refract and surprise and sustain us.

X FANG

A new kid’s classic for our intolerant and polarizing times.

Anyone who plays sports ball, makes business, or wears a hat will love this tale by X Fang, so skillfully does it affiliate its humour with being kind.

Parade

Kiss the Eyes of Peace

RACHEL CUSK

TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN BRIAN HENRY

Selected Poems 1964-2014

A Novel

Cusk’s latest sees her in total command of her signature style, taking her eraser to action-driven characterization and plot, exteriorizing interior monologues as they dine alongside one another late into the night. Profound things are said and given room to air out at the table, a long way from wordy descriptions of who and where and why.

Past Favourites

The Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun is one of those poets that’s hard to make sense of. Is he too profane?

Is he too pious? Is he too funny to be taken seriously? This careerspanning selected volume makes sense of him: he wrote like writing poetry was as natural as drinking water. Spring water. Bubbly water.

Dirty water that makes our stomachs hurt.

Midway: Poems KAYLA CZAGA

Minor Detail ADANIA SHIBLI

Western Lake CHETNA MAROO

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles SAMUEL GRAYDON

The Unfortunate Life of Worms NOEMI VOLA

Sonnets From A Cell BRADLEY PETERS

Alphabetical Diaries SHEILA HETI

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension HANIF ABDURRAQIB

The Bee Sting PAUL MURRAY

Wrong Norma ANNE CARSON

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4 Bookseller Picks

Ben’s Picks

“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at people” - CHARLES BUKOWSKI

The Wendy Award WALTER SCOTT

This deeply satirical graphic novel was a late-in-the-year contender for me. It’s about so many things: the effects of COVID isolation during lockdown, the feeling of realizing that you're a lot older than you thought you were, the ridiculousness of being an artist in contemporary Canada. Above all though, it’s about the intense vulnerability required to truly share a part of yourself, and how ill-equipped we all are, at some level, to deal with life afterwards. Artist or not, you'll get a lot of laughs out of this one.

BEST OF 2024

Intermezzo A Novel

Good Material A Novel

This book is exquisite. The story of two brothers in the immediate aftermath of their father’s death, Rooney so minutely and carefully depicts acts of love and intimacy - both platonic and romantic that always seem heightened in both necessity and impact during a time of immense loss. It is a distinct step forward both stylistically and focally for one of my favourite authors.

Never has a book about depression and grief made me laugh this hard. The story of a moderately successful stand-up comedian trying to move on (and salvage some of his dignity) after being dumped unceremoniously by his long-term girlfriend, Alderton had me absolutely seething with second-hand embarrassment on every page. I mean this in the best possible way, I promise.

SALLY ROONEY

The Art Thief A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession MICHAEL FINKEL

A rare foray into nonfiction for me this year, this book is an absolute non-stop thrill-ride.

Love? Check. Obsession?

Check. High octane crime?

Check. Through copious amounts of research and sparkling prose, Finkel writes about a true story as though it's Ocean’s 11. I defy you to put it down once you've picked it up.

Past Favourites

DOLLY ALDERTON

The Happy Couple A Novel

NAOISE DOLAN

Naoise Dolan is an expert at creating characters you root for, only to get halfway through the story and realise that you don’t actually like any of them.

This book shows love and humanity in all of its challenges and foibles while turning the typically romantic setting into a pressure cooker of tension, deceit and miscommunication. If you’ve ever wondered about humanity’s capacity to look for happiness in all the wrong places and somehow still manage to find it, this one’s for you.

Lost At Sea BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

Sky Breaker KENNETH OPPEL

One Day DAVID NICHOLLS

The Divine Ryans WAYNE JOHNSTON

Tempest-Tost ROBERTSON DAVIES

The Creative Act: A Way of Being RICK RUBIN

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 SUE TOWNSEND

The Rachel Incident CAROLINE O’DONOGHUE

The Dutch House ANN PATCHET

The House of the Scorpion NANCY FARMER

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Camila’s Picks

“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.”

- SYLVIA PLATH

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

BEST OF 2024

GINA STARBLANKET

As with other social issues, it is important to learn from Indigenous perspectives on how to bring about a future of equality and mutual respect. This book focuses on thinking about feminism through the lens of Indigenous anti-colonial theory. I think this book is necessary in the discussion of feminist issues, as it considers queer lenses to decolonization and intergenerational systems of Indigenous knowledge to contemporary debates about gender issues.

Bird Suit

Sometimes I Feel Like an Oak

SYDNEY HEGELE

In a town full of peaches, babies that are left on lakeside cliffs go missing mysteriously, rumoured to become Birds. I have not stopped thinking about the echoes of the traditional fairy tales, spiritual quandary, and self-discovery themes since I finished this book!

Zong!

M NOURBESE PHILIP SETAEY ADAMU BOATENG KATHERINE MCKITTRICK

This experimental poetry collection reclaims the history and voices of the African slaves who died in the 1781 Zong ship massacre. This book is very special because it forms a chorus of voices that, when read out loud, reveal mourning, resilience and community through sound and silence.

Past Favourites

Dead Blondes and Bad Vampires Never Get Mothers: Monstrosity, Old: Tales with Fresh Bite ZORAIDA CÓRDO Patriarchy, and the Fear of NATALIE C PARKER Female Power SADY DOYLE

Bunny MONA AWAD

The Poppy War R F KUANG

DANIELLE DANIEL JACKIE TRAVERSE

According to the author's Algonquin ancestors, trees are wise sentient beings. This book contains twelve lyrical poems that describe how a child is able to reflect on their emotions by observing the changing seasons and ecosystems. Not only can children learn about the nature around them, but also about mindfulness and emotional awareness within oneself.

I'm the Girl

COURTNEY SUMMERS

From the author of my favourite YA thriller (Sadie), a lower-class teenage girl named Georgia gets involved working in a resort for the elite where a 13-year-old girl is found murdered. The story follows Georgia on a dangerous journey unfolding the links of her friend's killer.

There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities INGRID R G WALDRON

I Sang You Down from the Stars TASHA SPILLETT

Alone With You in the Ether: A Love Story OLIVIE BLAKE

One Last Stop CASEY MCQUISTON

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel RIVKA GALCHEN

Furyborn CLAIRE LEGRAND

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6 Bookseller Picks

Kristen’s Picks

“I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”

-TAHEREH MAFI

Once Upon a Prime

BEST OF 2024

The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature SARAH HART

Who knew math and literature had so much in common?

Aside from the spellbinding content, Once Upon A Prime has the best reading list I’ve encountered in years. Where else can you find Jurassic Park, The Canterbury Tales and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on the same list?

Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Quilt Recipes

CAT BOHANNON

This book is educational, enlightening, witty and important. Bohannon asks (and answers) questions scientists should have been asking for years. It’s a must read.

Cascade Failure A Novel

L M SAGAS

I devoured this gritty, foundfamily, debut novel. The second in the series is just as good!

Murderbot readers will love this one.

Past Favourites

JEN KINGWELL

Quilt patterns and dessert recipes all nestled together in one book make for a very cozy gift!

The Other Valley A Novel

SCOTT ALEXANDER HOWARD Imaginative world-building and lyrical writing made this one of my favourite reads of the year. It is a masterfully spun tale; perfect for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore ROBIN SLOAN

The Sixth Extinction (10th Anniversary Edition): An Unnatural History ELIZABETH KOLBERT

Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape CAL FLYN

Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance JOHNATHAN STRAHAN

Witch Hat Atelier: Volume 1 KAMOME SHIRAHAMA

Wool HUGH HOWEY

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law MARY ROACH

Spellbinders: The Not-So-Chosen One ANDREW AUSEON

To Be Taught, If Fortunate BECKY CHAMBERS

The Sleeping Car Porter SUZETTE MAYR

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Caitlin’s Picks

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

- SALMAN RUSHDIE

The Empusium

BEST OF 2024

A Health Resort Horror Story OLGA TOKARCZUK ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES

Olga Olga Olga. Personally, I believe it was a crime that her books were not on the New York Times list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. She should be widely read. This book is so clever it hurts. I even read the acknowledgements because I wanted to absorb everything little drop of her writing.

Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 1

The Farm Table

KRIS BERTIN ALEXANDER FORBES JASON FISCHER-KOUHI

Ever have a fantasy of buying a farm in the English countryside and then writing a book about cooking seasonally? Well, this guy did! His introduction is well worth the read. It really changed my thinking of how to cook.

A Cookbook

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JULIUS ROBERTS

Scrumpdiddlyumptious. Illustrations, amazing. Story, weird and wonderful.

It is everything. Don't take my word for it. Read it. Just read it.

Godfather Death

The Last Logging Show

SALLY NICHOLLS JÚLIA SARDÀ

A Forestry Family at the End of an Era

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Full disclosure. I know the guy. But he has writing chops, this book is told through Aaron's personal experience however, it is also very informative. Very proud of my pal.

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This reimaging of a Grimm's fairytale is beautifully dark. For all you macabre children out there, this something you have to have. Júlia Sardà is TALENT. Sally Nicholls' writing is more than a nod to tales of the past that did not shy away from darker topics.

Past Favourites

Clock Without Hands CARSON MCCULLERS

Nightwood DJUNA BARNES

An Orphan World GIUSEPPE CAPUTO SOPHIE HUGES JUANA ADCOCK

The Girls John Bowen

The Discomfort of Evening: A Novel LUCAN RIJNEVELD

A Green Equinox ELIZABETH MAYOR

Black Leopard, Red Wolf MARLON JAMES

We Think the World of You J R ACKERLEY

Before Night Falls: A Memoir REINALDO ARENAS

Prisoner Of Love JEAN GENET

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Todd’s Picks

"Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music."

- CHARLES DE LINT

The Demon of Unrest

A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

BEST OF 2024

ERIK LARSON

Larson's new book on the leadup to the U.S. civil war and the early days of Lincoln's presidency is another home run of style and substance. It is a treat how fluid the author is with frequently complicated subject matter, and how his work reads like the best type of fiction, but is the best type of non-fiction! Fascinating reading, given the variety of viewpoints Larson gives in his diligent research on this book.

Home and Away

What I Ate in One Year (and related thoughts) STANLEY TUCCI

Mr. Tucci serves up (sorry) an enjoyable romp through cooking and life formatted as a diary of what he did, and ate, in one year. Enjoyable, and a quick read with morsels(sorry) of biographical details interspersed with full recipes (of course) and a braising (sorry, I've gone too far, my pretension alarm just went off) of wit and charm from the author. Tasty!

MATS SUNDIN | AMY STUART

Maple Leaf fans can rejoice in this solid read from Mats Sundin, with help from Amy Stuart.

Easygoing style and affable ramble through an idyllic, rustic childhood in Sweden, morphing into a terrific, hall of fame hockey career. An integral part of good Leaf teams, but sadly, no Stanley Cup (not since 1967, as all non-Leaf fans love to taunt us with). Sundin gave us lots to cheer for and obtained most of the Leaf all time player's records in the process. A nice reminder that not all hockey players are grumpy Nova Scotians who play for Boston.

The Endless Refrain

The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.

DAVID ROWELL

PETER AMES CARLIN

Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music

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A comprehensive, and epic, stroll through the storied career of the band R.E.M.. Carlin does a wonderful job here, with the tacit, and occasionally direct, help of the original band members, as well as numerous friends and workmates. A hefty book, but does not read like one - I compulsively burned through this one in no time. I've not read another R.E.M. biography, but I'm hard pressed not to call this a definitive one, it would be extremely hard to top! Terrific stuff.

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"Do we even want new music anymore?" are the fighting words author David Rowell starts the book with - after the steam stopped coming out of my ears, I had to heavily ponder that statement - but given the author's sharp thoughts and inquisitive nature, I simmered down and burrowed through this with gusto. Lots to think about here, and I'm certain us music obsessives will reread this and chew on it some more.

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Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir MARK CRITCH

The Ten Thousand Doors of January ALIX E HARROW

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell DAVID YAFFE

Crimes Against My Brother DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS

Remembrance: Selected Correspondence RAY BRADBURY

Find You First LINWOOD BARCLAY

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories RAYMOND CARVER

Greenood MICHAEL CHRISTIE

The Confessions SAINT AUGUSTINE HENRY CHADWICK

Anna and the Swallow Man GAVRIEL SAVIT

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Emma A’s Picks

“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”

- ANNE LAMOTT

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I’m a proud friend, and a shameless fan. Her newest collection is an act of devotion, starting with a poem about the intimacy of writing a private journal for a grade school teacher in a cut-in-half cahier—an image so strong and familiar I can feel the paper in my hands. It continues, addressing first communions, Sinéad O’Connor, purposely giving the wrong name at Starbucks, and so much more.

Annick’s book is like a beautiful mosaic: a controlled craft that reveals fine detail the more you look. Buy it for everyone you love.

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BEST OF 2024

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Moonbound A Novel

The Gulf

ROBIN SLOAN

ADAM DE SOUZA

This book is for fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and T. H. White. Set 11,000 years in the future, it’s a very abstract, self-referential rendition of the story of King Arthur that’s narrated by a sentient organic machine. Still with me? There are wizards and dragons, but the wizards are mechanics and the dragons have no physical form. This is a book that will make you feel like you’re stuck in a lucid dream.

Some graphic novels are for kids, some are definitely not, but others still feel like an age limit would be completely arbitrary.

The Gulf fits into this third category. An adventure story about three high school almost-graduates running away to join a commune somewhere on BC’s Gulf Islands, it asks some big questions about work, community, and societal expectations. Pick it up for De Souza’s stunning artwork and stay for the rest of it; every piece of this book is great.

Hair for Men A Novel

Beautyland A Novel

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Did someone claim once that Canadian literature can’t be punk? I don’t think anyone has ever said it out loud, but if they had, Hair for Men would be my rebuttal. It’s a powerfully feminist story about a woman who works as a barber in Toronto (and, later, as a dockmaster in Saint John) navigating men’s behaviour and emotions and her feelings about them—good and bad. This one is for the tender Canadian punks in your life.

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The best books are the ones that make you say: this is me! Beautyland is about a suburban alien. Or is she just a strange person? Marie-Helene Bertino walks the balance beam between these two realities throughout the story, which concerns Adina the alien/girl trying to connect with her home planet. It’s funny and heartbreaking, almost always at the exact same time.

Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays PETER COULTER

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World NAOMI KLEIN

Juliette or, the Ghosts Return in the Spring CAMILLE JOURDY

Glaciers: A Novel ALEXIS M SMITH

Ripley Underground PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir AARON WILLIAMS

Brutes: A Novel DIZZ TATE

Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?

CHRIS OLIVEROS

Bliss Montage: Stories LING MA

On The Ravine: A Novel VINCENT LAM

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10 Bookseller Picks

Heather’s Picks “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip” – DIANE DUANE

Waiting for the Long Night Moon

BEST OF 2024

Stories

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FERDIA LENNON

A Novel

A body has been found in the snow which sets a detective obsessed with fox spirits and a woman bent on revenge on a collision course.

An adventure, rooted in Chinese mythology, which is ultimately about the importance of second chances.

Someone Like Us DINAW MENGESTU

A family trip home for Christmas devolves into a cross-country trip to uncover family secrets. The seemingly simple story starts to become more complicated as Mamushia tries to deal with grief, addiction and what he uncovers.

Once I started it, I couldn’t put it down.

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I love a great collection of short stories and Amanda Peters really delivers a moving collection. Written before The Berry Pickers, the seventeen stories explore the Indigenous experience from the arrival of the Europeans to the fight for clean water.

I loved Ferdia Lennon’s inventive first novel - think ancient Greece but with a contemporary Irish dialect. Two slightly hapless unemployed potters living in Syracuse in 412 BC decide to stage Medea with some of the Athenian prisoners being held in the local quarry.

What could possibly go wrong?

Becoming Earth

How Our Planet Came to Life FERRIS JABR

This is one of my favourite science books in some time. Ferris Jabr’s beautifully written book ask the question what if life doesn’t just adapt to its surroundings but changes it as well? Becoming Earth looks at how life on earth, from microbes to mammoths to man, has changed the way the planet evolved.

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The Book of Rain: A Novel THOMAS WHARTON

The City of Brass: A Novel SA CHAKRABORTY

Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism GEORGE MONBIOT PETER HUTCHISON

Life After Life KATE ATKINSON

In the Upper Country: A Novel KAI THOMAS

The Mysteries BILL WATTERSON JOHN KASCHT

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Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse ALAN MACEACHERN

The Magician: A Novel COLM TÓIBÍN

These Deathless Shores P H LOW

Last Woman: Stories CARLEIGH BAKER

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Marguerite’s Picks

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

- JANE AUSTEN, Northanger Abbey

The Fury

BEST OF 2024

ALEX MICHAELIDES

Alex Michaelides is one of my favourite authors, so I could not wait to pick up this book—and it did not disappoint! The narrator in this story is Elliot, and we follow him and his romantic interest to a private Greek island where details about Elliot’s and Lana’s murder plan come to light. This book kept me guessing until the very end, and when I thought I had figured it out, Michaelides would once again flip the script.

Zodiac Academy 1

Leave the World Behind

CAROLINE PECKHAM SUSANNE VALENT

RUMAAN ALAM

The Awakening

A Novel

Following a family of four on a spontaneous vacation as they navigate what they believe to be a nationwide blackout. This story is very realistic, posing many questions, but at the utmost, this novel asks us how we will react in a crisis: Would we come together or turn on one another?

This is one of my all-time favourite series! The Zodiac Academy follows twin sisters as they discover their magical powers in a new school. Both sisters face bullies and question whether these new abilities are worth the trouble.

Powerless

Under the Whispering Door

This was a very refreshing YA read with a dystopian setting, magic, and a dish of romance! Paedyn Gray is ordinary in a world where ordinary people—people without powers—are killed. She has survived by pretending to be a psychic, which is effective until she saves the life of the future enforcer, landing herself in deadly trials against people with lethal powers. Her only goal is to survive.

TJ Klune is a phenomenal writer. He describes real-world problems his readers can relate to while also setting the story in a beautiful land full of love, hope, and found family.

This particular novel follows Wallace after his death, where he enters a tea shop that acts as a stop between life and the afterlife. Wallace finds he has been living to work and realizes that only after his death is he truly beginning to live.

LAUREN ROBERTS

Past Favourites

TJ KLUNE

Fourth Wing REBECCA YARROS

Pride and Prejudice JANE AUSTEN

Farmhouse SOPHIE BLACKALL

Assassin's Apprentice ROBIN HOBB

I Want My Hat Back JON KLASSEN

Storm and Fury JENNIFER L ARMENTROUT

Mushrooms: An Illustrated Field Guide NIKO SUMMERS JAREN LEE

Bear’s Big Dreaming MICHAEL ROSEN DANIEL EGNEUS

This Summer Will Be Different CARLEY FORTUNE

Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy BRYNNE WEAVER

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Sophie’s Picks

"Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading."

- LENA DUNHAM

BEST OF 2024

Past Present Future RACHEL LYNN SOLOMON

A teen romance dealing with separation. Rowan and Neil must grapple with living in different cities as they navigate college and their long-distance romance. A great gift for teens looking for their next romance novel, a popular genre this year!

Ahoy!

This Summer Will Be Different

Sophie Blackall’s latest picture book brings to life a child’s imagination.

Witness, through bold and colourful illustrations, the voyage of a couch as it surges through rough seas. Perfect for 3-6 year olds.

The hot book of the summer, and for the rest of the year, follows Lucy as she embarks on a life-changing romance with her off-limits friend. The novel captures summers in PEI perfectly, and offers an escape, if just through your imagination, from the long winter months.

CARLEY FORTUNE

SOPHIE BLACKALL

Sense and Sensibility

The Only Lonely Fairy

This witty classic is well known and loved. Rifle Paper Company has beautifully redesigned three book covers of Jane Austen’s classic novels. You’ll want to complete the set for your bookshelves!

Three to five year olds (and adults) will appreciate the message in this picture book. Leah loves playing fairies but no one else wants to. She thinks she is alone with her interests and has decided to be unhappy about it. That is until she meets a girl just like her…

JANE AUSTEN ANNA BOND

LANA BUTTON PEGGY COLLINS

Past Favourites

The Secret History DONNA TARTT

All the Bright Places JENNIFER NIVEN

The Hating Game: A Novel SALLY THORNE

Let It Snow: Sunny Side Up: Three Holiday Romances A Graphic Novel JOHN GREEN | MAUREEN JENNIFER L HOLM MATTHEW HOLM JOHNSON | LAUREN MYRACLE

Dear Edward: A Novel ANN NAPOLITANO

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I Capture the Castle DODIE SMITH

Legend MARIE LU

Real Friends SHANNON HALE LEUYEN PHAM

The Beginning of Everything ROBYN SCHNEIDER

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Trina’s Picks

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”

- JORGE LUIS BORGES

The Book of Wild Flowers Reflections on Favorite Plants

ANGIE LEWIN | CHRISTOPHER STOCKS

BEST OF 2024

While this book is focussed on British wildflowers, many of those featured also grow in this part of the world. Christopher Stocks provides information on the history, science, identification and habitat of the wildflowers, which are accompanied by some of printmaker and watercolourist Angie Lewin’s favourite drawings and prints. I appreciate that plants are included because they are favourites of the artist and not for any specific horticultural or artistic reason.

The Side Gardener

The Glassmaker A Novel

Recipes & Notes from My Garden ROSIE DAYKIN

TRACY CHEVALIER

I’ve been enjoying popping in and out of this beautifully photographed book of interest to both cooks and gardeners. Filled with the benefits of growing a home garden and celebrating home-grown produce with a variety of delicious recipes, the book is a sensory delight and I can’t wait to pull it out through deepest winter.

The Laundryman's Boy A Novel EDWARD Y C LEE

I love this first novel which relates a period of Canadian history with which I was not particularly familiar. Hoi Wing is a young Chinese immigrant sent to work in a Chinese laundry in 1913 St. Catharines, Ontario. It’s both a coming of age story and a newcomer’s story as well as an account of the reception of new immigrants to this country at a specific time in our history.

Past Favourites

Tracy Chevalier is a must-read author for me and I was delighted with her latest historical fiction. I love the framing device she used to create her story of the Rosso family on the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon beginning in the 15th century. I loved the characters she created, Orsola and her family of glassmakers, the challenges and the opulence of Venetian life and the splendid descriptions of glass blowing and creating beautiful fragile works of art as well as everyday pieces. I highly recommend this title to lovers of well-written historical fiction.

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club A Novel HELEN SIMONSON

I have a particular fondness for books set between the wars in Britain and on the Continent and reading this latest from Helen Simonson did not disappoint. I’m not sure if it’s the adjustments to a new normal following the war that attracts me, or the descriptions of the myriad changes experienced by so many amid the challenges brought back to civilian life. A comedy of manners which detailed the changes for women during a most tumultuous time, this fast-paced and nicely plotted story made for a lovely start to my reading year in 2024.

Case Histories KATE ATKINSON

Heidi JOHANNA SPYRI

The Children of Gods and Fighting Men SHAUNA LAWLESS

Maisie Dobbs JAQUELINE WINSPEAR

Our Strangers: Stories LYDIA DAVIS

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont ELIZABETH TAYLOR

A Killing of Innocents: A Novel DEBORAH CROMBIE

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Novellas JOANNE HARRIS

A Month in the Country J L CARR

The Summer Before the War: A Novel HELEN SIMONSON

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14 Bookseller Picks

Brittany’s Picks

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

- URSULA K. LEGUIN

Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 2

BEST OF 2024

The Cursed Hermit

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Letters to the Purple Satin Killer

Downtrodden and with little means to break free of poverty, Mary's mother-in-law conceives of a hoax to propel themselves beyond the limitations of their current circumstances. This humanising telling of the story of famed rabbit-birther, Mary Toft, presents her not as a case study, but rather as a complex woman enduring a great deal of indignity and suffering.

I judged this book by it's striking cover, and it's contents, thankfully, did not disappoint. This epistolary novel is composed entirely of letters sent to its imprisoned main character by people who have been affected by his crimes.

Disquieting in its realism, it is a uniquely written serial killer story unlike any other.

NOÉMI KISS-DEÁKI

Circles of Stone

JOSHUA CHAPLINSKY

Medieval Horizons

Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites

Why the Middle Ages Matter

British Library Publishing has released a new anthology for those of us captivated by weird fiction and esoteric tales. This recent addition to their Tales of the Weird series is brimming with beloved writers and their stories of ancient relics and haunted historic sites.

Ian Mortimer offers an engaging and approachable journey through the Middle Ages, suitable for those just delving into medieval history, while still enjoyable for those more well-versed. Medieval Horizons seeks to dispel many of the common misconceptions by calling attention to the often overlooked cultural and societal changes that took place in the years 1000 through 1599.

KATY SOAR

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The Dream and the Underworld JAMES HILLMAN

My Death LISA TUTTLE

The Snake Pit MARY JANE WARD

Night Shift STEPHEN KING

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IAN MORTIMER

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction GRADY HENDRIX

The Cipher KATHE KOJA

The Power of Myth JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes MAX MILLER

Geek Love: A Novel KATHERINE DUNN

Off Season JACK KETCHUM

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Bookseller Picks 15

Lori’s Picks

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it” - OSCAR WILDE

Time of the Child

BEST OF 2024

NIALL WILLIAMS

Full disclosure. I hadn’t read this book by the time we needed to get our staff picks ready for the catalogue. There are three whole months of reading left before you see this! I have loved every book by Niall Williams since I first read Four Letters of Love close to 30 years ago. I have no doubt that I will love this one as well and will try to get it into as many of your hands and on wish-lists as I can.

Death at the Sign of the Rook

Long Island

KATE ATKINSON

I’m sure we’ve all had those moments of ‘what if” in our lives. Twenty years after Brooklyn, Long Island takes us back to Eilis, Tony and Jim. We catch up with the town and characters we loved from his other books (my favourite, Nora Webster). Tóibín is a master of weaving a story that makes your heart break for the characters who should be together, if only…

A Novel

A Novel

COLM TÓIBÍN

I love a good who-dunnit and Atkinson doesn’t disappoint with this Jackson Brodie caper, set in an old English manor. Reminiscent of Agatha Christie mysteries, you can almost see the chess pieces being moved as the case is solved.

My Favourite Mistake

In Winter I Get Up at Night

Another favourite book that revisits familiar characters! Keyes makes me laugh as well as cry for the Walsh family.

Covering pretty serious topics, all with her trademark Irish charm and wit is a special gift she has in abundance.

JANE URQUHART

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Brooklyn: A Novel COLM TÓIBÍN

Thin Places KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death MAGGIE O’FARRELL

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The Night in Question: A Novel SUSAN FLETCHER

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The wait between Urquhart’s novels is well worth it. Set in Saskatchewan between the World Wars, In Winter I Get Up at Night takes us through devastating events in Canadian history. Extreme weather events, racism, religious tensions, suspicion of newcomers and those who speak other languages is all the more horrific as we see history repeating itself today.

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16 Gifts For Bibliophiles Assorted

The Mythmakers The

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Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien A Graphic Novel

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Choose from the Academia Collection, Vintage Collection, Literary Collection or Magnetic Mini Marks Collection. Lots of options for every booklover. $6.99 ea

JOHN HENDRIX

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator John Hendrix comes The Mythmakers, a graphic novel biography of two literary lions—C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien—following the remarkable story of their friendship and creative fellowship, and how each came to write their masterworks. $31.99 HC Abrams

The World in Books 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction KENNETH C DAVIS

A delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time—from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion—chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don’t Know Much About History. $40.99 HC Scribner

Recharge Book Light MIGHTY BRIGHT

Battery free, the best-selling Recharge book light provides warm, natural-tone light that is easy on the eyes. Its dimmable LEDs are rated for 100,000 hours and its battery charges fully in one hour. It provides up to 60 hours of illumination at its lowest setting and 10 hours at its highest—this is our longest-lasting book light. Constructed of flexible and durable silicone and ABS plastic. $39.99 ea.

Assorted Socks

Book Nooks Inspired Ideas

Unisex 75% cotton, 20% polyester, 5% spandex Small Shoe Sizes 5.5-9/Sock: 9-11 Large Shoe Sizes: 8.5-12/Sock: 10-13 $16.50 PR

VANESSA DINA | CLAIRE GILHULY ANTONIS ACHILLEOS

for Cozy Reading Corners and Stylish Book Displays

OUT OF PRINT

Organized by type of book nook—from cookbook nooks to kid nooks, gardener nooks to neutral nooks—and featuring a range of home aesthetics, including colourful, contemporary, cozy, and whimsical, there is plenty of inspiration here for all readers. $39.95 HC Chronicle Books

Literary Trivia CHRONICLE BOOKS

Bibliophiles, rejoice! It’s time to uncover your book smarts. This eye-catching portable box holds 140 multiple-choice questions covering a range of classic and contemporary literature from around the world, including fun facts about authors, characters, plot points, adaptations, and more! $18.00 Game Chronicle

100 Books That Changed the World COLIN SALTER SCOTT CHRISTIANSON

This elegantly designed book, first published in 2018 but updated with an exciting new cover, offers a chronological timeline of three millennia of human thought distilled in print, from the earliest illuminated manuscripts to the age of eBooks and audiobooks. $37.95 HC Rizolli

A Book Lover’s Box Paper Goodies to Celebrate Your Inner Bookworm LOUISE PRETZEL

Celebrate the joy of reading with this unique stationery box filled with delightful treasures designed exclusively for people who love books. Featuring artist Louise Pretzel's whimsical, cheerful illustrations, each item in this stationery box was carefully and thoughtfully curated with readers in mind. $45.00 Workman

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Assorted Coffee Mugs

UNEMPLOYED PHILOSOPHERS GUILD

The Unemployed Philosophers Guild makes both heattransforming and traditional mugs because, as philosophers, we're all about tradition, beauty, wisdom, love, justice, coffee mugs that are color-changing, being, Being, apophasis, paralipsis, paralepsis, where was...? Ah, yes, each UPG mug comes in its own gift box.

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Gifts For Everyone 17 Aesop’s Fables

Baggu Reusable Bags

A New Translation AESOP ROBIN WATERFIELD

BAGGU

Check out our new patterns and save the environment.

Regular size holds up to 50lbs, folds into its own flat 5" × 5" pouch, recycled ripstop nylon, machine washable. Available in baby and regular sizes.

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Newly translated and annotated by renowned scholar Robin Waterfield, this definitive translation shines a new light on four hundred of Aesop’s most enduring fables. $40.00 HC Basic Books

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An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets

Pocket Notebooks

UNEMPLOYED PHILOSOPHERS GUILD The Unemployed Philosophers Guild makes dozens of original little notebooks to hold your big ideas—compositions (musical and the other kind), cartoons, scientific observations, fantastical recipes for new kinds of crêpes... Each one features facts and formats to capture your thoughts. Keep your inspiration within reach - as close as your pocket! Your ideas deserve better than a boring white pad - so give them a launch pad! $5.99 ea.

TIM BROOKES

A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. $45.99 HC Mobius

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Gilmore Girls

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge The

Official Guide to All the Books ERIKA BERLIN

CAVALLINI PAPERS & CO.

Heavyweight tote bags. Made of 100% natural cotton canvas 13" x 16" (33 cm x 40.5 cm). Featuring sturdy flat-bottom design with interior pocket. $26.99 EA.

Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's guide to the Gilmore Girls universe and all 339 books referenced in the series. $29.99 HC Running Press

Stickertopium

We Will Rest

DESIGN EYE

TRICIA HERSEY

Enchanted Christmas Celebrate the festive season, with over 400 vintage art stickers, perfect for decorating, scrapbooking, crafting, and collecting. Stuffed full of stunning vintage art, Stickertopium: Enchanted Christmas is the perfect gift for any craft lover at Christmas. $24.99 HC Design Eye

Mini Escape Room Games PROFESSOR PUZZLE

Choose from Escape from the Museum, Escape from the Movie Theatre or Escape from the Space Station. Great family fun! $11.99 ea.

The Art of Escape A beautifully illustrated “modern sacred object” of a book—inspired by vintage hymnals, prayer books, and abolitionist pamphlets— helping readers escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems, by the New York Times bestselling author of Rest Is Resistance. $35.00 HC Little, Brown Spark

Alfred Hitchcock All the Films The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

BERNARD BENOLIEL | GILLES ESPOSITO | MURIELLE JOUDET

Alfred Hitchcock All the Films draws upon years of research to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of how each project was conceived, cast, and produced, down to the creation of the costumes, the search for perfect locations, and of course, the direction of some of cinema's most memorable scenes. $75.00 HC Black Dog & Leventhal

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18 Board Books Awake, Asleep

Winter Light

Follow a day in the life of three diverse families and their little ones, as everyday moments like sharing breakfast and exploring the park are rendered full of love, exploration, joy, and wonder. $10.99 BB Scholastic

With jewellike die-cuts revealing the colours of the season against soft painterly backgrounds, Caldecott Honoree Aaron Becker captures the light of winter skies and lengthening days, the glow of candle and hearth, and the heart’s yearning for spring’s return. $23.99 BB Candlewick Studios

AARON BECKER

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Where’s the Reindeer?

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From the celebrated creator of Mermaid Lullaby comes another gentle, soothing baby board book for bedtime reading. With short, rhyming refrains, Seaside Lullaby will also help baby learn to count, from one wild island / underneath the moon all the way up to ten fuzzy seal pups / wishing you goodnight. $14.95 BB Nimbus Publishing

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One Wild Christmas

Mi’kmaw Moons

Best friends the bear, the moose and the beaver have been so busy getting ready for Christmas, they have forgotten the most important decoration of all—the Christmas tree! $11.99 BB KidsCanPress

This board book presents the months of the Mi’kmaw lunar calendar to very young children and their parents.

Mi’kmaw artist Loretta Gould’s art illustrates each of the 12 Mi’kmaw moons through the changing seasons in Mi’kma’ki. $16.95 BB Formac Publishing

A First Lunar Calendar

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Animals at Play in Mi’kma’ki

Little Night Songs

Mi’kmaw artist Mel Beaulieu’s lively modern take on traditional beadwork brings these animals to life.

Mi’kma’ki’s most iconic animals are portrayed in this colourful and whimsical book. Mi’kmaw names (and pronunciation guides) make this a great introduction to contemporary Mi’kma’ki for very young children. $16.95 BB Formac Publishing

Read and sing along with this adorable sound book that plays FIVE quick little night songs for sleepy kids, by the one and only Sandra Boynton! $19.99 BB Boynton Bookworks

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We Found a Hat

Knuffle Bunny

Two turtles have found a hat.

The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles. And there is only one hat. With a delicious buildup that takes an unexpected turn, this deadpan cap to the celebrated hat trilogy is certain to please. $14.99 BB Candlewick

MO WILLEMS

JON KLASSEN

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A Cautionary Tale

Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind. . . . $13.99 BB Disney Publishing

Kids Non-Fiction 19 Who Would Win?

Dog Man Youth Socks 7-10 Years

Monstrous Mammals JERRY PALLOTTA ROB BOLSTER

OUT OF PRINT

Which dangerous animals would win in a fight? Find out in this awesome bind-up of four books in the popular Who Would Win? series. The collection features a range of mammal battles to satisfy all kinds of animal fans, including Coyote vs. Dingo, Lion vs. Tiger, Rhino vs. Hippo, and Walrus vs. Elephant Seal. $14.99 PB Scholastic

Step into adventure with these mismatched Dog Man youth socks featuring Dog Man and Cat Kid! Unisex 75% cotton, 20% polyester, 5% spandex $16.50 PR.

She is Hope for Wildlife The Story

Have You Ever Heard a Whale Exhale?

WANDA BAXTER LEAH BOUDREAU

In this splash of a tale, author Caroline Woodward and illustrator Claire Watson take us on an exploratory journey from sun-warmed rocks to crackling campfires, from below the waves to up in the sky. The book will have readers leaping with the dolphins and barking with the sea lions. $24.95 HC Pownal Street Press

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Lost at Windy River A

We Celebrate the Light

True Story of Survival

Beloved author Jane Yolen and daughter, author Heidi Stemple, have crafted a loving and poignant story with true reverence for our shared traditions of celebrating light, love, food, and family. An empowering, informative, and inclusive holiday book for families of all traditions. $24.99 HC Penguin

It takes courage and bravery to survive in the barrens. In 1944, thirteen-year-old Ilse Schweder got lost in a snowstorm while checking her family's trapline in northern Canada. This is the harrowing story of how a young girl defied the odds and endured nine days alone in the unforgiving barrens. $19.95 PB Orca

JANE YOLEN | HEIDI E Y STEMPLE | JIETING CHEN

TRINA RATHGEBER | ALINA PETE | JILLIAN DOLAN

Mother Aspen A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Communicate

5-Minute Hockey Stories All Star Edition

ANNETTE LEBOX CRYSTAL SMITH

PETER NORMAN CHELSEA CHARLES

A lyrical story of an aspen grove through the seasons, inspired by the ground-breaking work of Dr. Suzanne Simard on how trees and fungi talk to each other. This story of symbiosis, richly illustrated by Crystal Smith, shows how the forest inhabitants thrive by working together. $22.99 HC Groundwood

5-Minute Hockey Stories: All-Star Edition is packed with a dozen stories about hockey’s biggest stars, including Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Nick Suzuki, Mitch Marner, Marie-Philip Poulin and Sarah Nurse. Each story is the perfect length for reading aloud in five minutes—ideal for young fans and future stars! $21.00 HC Collins

Guinness World Records 2025

An Anthology of Exquisite Birds

To mark GWR’s 70th birthday, they’re throwing a party, starting off with a feast of retro features in the opening chapter that look back over their last seven decades. Of course, they’re also highlighting the very best of record breaking from the past 12 months… $36.95 HC Guinness World Records

An Anthology of Exquisite Birds pairs photography with storybook descriptions that will captivate young readers, whether it's finding out about condors and cuckoos or swans and starlings.

Features on eggs, feathers, nests, and other key topics explore the enormous variety of avian adaptations. $33.99 HC DK

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS CRAIG GLENDAY

BEN HOARE

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20 Kids Picture Books Ups and Downs

I am a Courageous Cub

NANCY MACNAIRN DORUNTINA BEQIRAJ

SHOSHANA CHAIM LORI JOY SMITH

I Am a Courageous Cub teaches kids how to be mindful, giving them control over their minds and bodies—an essential, easy-to-learn life skill. $23.95 HC full colour illustrations Greystone Kids A

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Will it be an UP night? Or a DOWN day? A young girl weathers the highs and lows of daily life with her mother, who has Bipolar Disorder. But she never doubts her mother’s love for a second. $21.95 HC Second Story Press n a di

One Box

Gordie’s Skate

ANDI VICENTE ALLAN MICHAEL MATUDIO

BILL WAISER LEANNE FRANSON

One Box is a children’s counting story about a migrant worker sending a box of gifts and supplies to their loved ones in the Philippines. Also known as Balikbayan boxes, these are typically filled with things like canned goods, clothing and snacks.

But in One Box there’s more than just stuff—it’s full of promises. $24.95 HC Roseway Publishing

Set in Saskatchewan during the Great Depression, this is the story of hockey legend Gordie Howe and his first experience with skating. $14.95 PB Thistledown Press

The Book Witch, the Wee White Dog, and the Little Free Library

Cocoa Magic SANDRA BRADLEY

In a cozy 1920s chocolate shop in Charlottetown, the special ingredients in each perfect treat are empathy, generosity, and thoughtful acts of kindness. $14.95 PB Pajama Press

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A sweet, magical story of a Book Witch and her dog, desperate to find a solution to that most common bookish problem: too many books!

With whimsical, colourful illustrations, this delightful story captures the unique kind of magic that little libraries can inspire in communities everywhere. $14.95 PB Nimbus n a di

Come, Read with Me MARGRIET RUURS CHRISTINE WEL

This read-aloud pays homage to classic children's literature.

Readers of all ages will love searching among the pages for characters they recognize from fairy tales and beloved picture books.

Little ones will want to cuddle closer and settle in for a delightful journey before drifting off to sleep. $14.95 PB Orca

Knight Owl and Early Bird The Knight Owl #2

CHRISTOPHER DENISE

In this exciting adventure and follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Honor award-winning classic, Knight Owl makes an unlikely friend in the over-zealous Early Bird—who hopes to be a brave knight, too. $24.99 HC Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Light Keeper

SHEILA BASLAW | KAREN LEVINE | ALICE PRIESTLEY If the flick of a switch can bring light, what other miracles might be possible? A gentle tale of bravery where an enterprising boy helps bring light to his shtetl and help his family in 1900s Eastern Europe. $21.95 HC Second Story Press

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One Christmas in Lunenburg

AMY BENNET | DON KILBY

As Christmas draws closer, siblings Rachel and Nathan are caught up in the excitement of the season. Amy Bennet’s story embraces sign language as Rachel and Nathan ask the adults in their life about the old story of animals speaking on Christmas eve. $16.95 PB Formac Publishing

Kids Chapter Books 21 Spy School Goes Wild STUART GIBBS

In the twelfth book in Stuart Gibbs’s New York Times bestselling Spy School series, superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley gets lost on a perilous mission with one of his greatest enemies. $23.99 HC Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science

A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall JASMINE WARGA

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Home comes an extraordinary story about two friends, a ghost, a missing painting, and a turtle named Agatha. The perfect next read for fans of The Swifts, Kate DiCamillo, and Erin Entrada Kelly. $24.99 HC HarperCollins

The Bad Guys in One Last Thing Bad Guys #20 AARON BLABEY

They may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series.

The LAST installment in the hilarious Bad Guys series! $8.99 PB Scholastic Inc

KATE MCKINNON

So, you want to be a young mad scientist.

Congratulations! Admitting it is the first step. The second step is reading the (definitely true) tale of the Porch sisters.

From beloved Saturday Night Live alum Kate McKinnon comes a madcap new adventure about three sisters, a ravenous worm, and a mysterious mad scientist. $23.99 HC Little, Brown and Company

Impossible Creatures

Mouse and His Dog

The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. Katherine Rundell’s story crackles and roars with energy and delight. It is brought vividly to life with more than 60 illustrations, including a map and a bestiary of magical creatures. $26.99 HC Knopf Books

Mouse lives in Dogtown, a shelter for real dogs and robot dogs, where the kibble is plentiful, and the rafters hide a secret community of mice. His unlikely best friend is Buster, a big-hearted real dog who attracts trouble like a burr to fur. $23.99 HC Feiwel & Friends

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KATHERINE RUNDELL ASHLEY MACKENZIE

KATHERINE APPLEGATE GENNIFER CHOLDENKO WALLACE WEST

When We Fly Away A Novel of Anne

The Wild Robot

ALICE HOFFMAN

This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive—and live—in the wilderness.

Includes 8 pages of full color stills from the DreamWorks movie. $12.99 PB Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Frank Before the Diary

Critically acclaimed author Alice Hoffman weaves a lyrical and heart-wrenching story of the way the world closes in on the Frank family from the moment the Nazis invade the Netherlands until they are forced into hiding, bringing Anne to bold, vivid life.

Based on extensive research and published in cooperation with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, When We Flew Away is an extraordinary and moving tour de force. $26.99 HC Scholastic Inc

PETER BROWN

Out of My Dreams

Chronicles of Weatherwhy

Melody flies to London to speak at a convention about differently abled kids in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novels Out of My Mind and Out of My Heart. $24.99 HC Antheneum

ANNA JAMES | DAVID WYATT

SHARON M DRAPER

The Age of Enchantment

First in a brand-new fantasy series from acclaimed author Anna James, filled with seasonal magic and irresistible adventure.

In Whetherwhy, everyone has magic inside them—grown from the changing seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. But a rare few are Enchanters: people born with magic in their bones, who can wield all four seasons of magic. $24.99 HC HarperCollins

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22 Kids Graphic Unicorn Time Machine Phoebe and

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DANA SIMPSON

DING DING DING!! Is that the school bell, or is it three million readers ringing in the return of V.E.S.T.wearing case-busting secret agents Mango and Brash for another hilarious adventure? (It’s the latter, we’ll solve that mystery for free.) $16.99 HC First Second

InvestiGators #8

Her Unicorn #20

JOHN PATRICK GREEN

In this exciting new collection of Phoebe and Her Unicorn comics, 10-year-old Phoebe Howell and her magical unicorn best friend, Marigold, enjoy a series of fantastical adventures. $16.99 PB Andrews McMeel Publishing

Happy Narwhalidays

Big Jim Begins Dog Man #13 DAV PILKEY

In Dog Man: Big Jim Begins, discover the origin of our beloved characters from the Dog Man series as they join forces to stop the Space Cuties from destroying the city. Will the past predict the future for Dog Man and his friends? Will goodness and bravery prevail? Can anything happen if you truly believe? $19.99 HC Graphix

Narwhal and Jelly Book 5 BEN CLANTON

Dive into three new stories about Narwhal's favorite time of the year!

It's the festive season in the world wide waters, and Narwhal is looking forward to cozying up with a good book, singing and partying with pod pals and enjoying some warm waffle pudding. $10.99 PB Tundra Books

Sunset of the Sabertooth Magic

Boy vs Shark PAUL GILLIGAN

In the summer of 1975, 10-year-old Paul Gilligan doesn't have a whole lot to worry about other than keeping his comic books untarnished, getting tennis balls off roofs and keeping up with the increasingly bold stunts of his best friend, David.

And then Jaws comes to town. $19.99 PB Tundra Books

Treehouse Graphic Novel

MARY POPE OSBOURNE | JENNY LAIRD | KELLY MATTHEWS

Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked away to the Ice Age on a frozen adventure with brother-and-sister team Jack and Annie in the #1 bestselling chapter book series, now available as graphic novels! $13.99 PB Random House Books for Young Readers

The First Cat in Space

Hot Mess Diary of a

MAC BARNETT | SHAWN HARRIS

JEFF KINNEY

And the Wrath of the Paperclip Award-winning creators Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris are back with the third volume in the bestselling The First Cat in Space graphic novel series! Prepare to meet an evil paperclip, space dinos, and another adorable bunny. Mac & Shawn also reveal their tried-and-true method of scoring free dessert at restaurants. $21.00 HC HarperCollins

Wimpy Kids Book 19

The pressure is building for Greg Heffley, who discovers that when you mix heaps of family, a tiny beach house, and sweltering heat, it’s a recipe for disaster. This sidesplittingly relatable summer story is the funniest Wimpy Kid book yet! $17.99 HC Amulet Books

Into the Hidden World

Bog Myrtle

ROAN BLACK

Bog Myrtle is a witty modern folktale touching on themes of capitalism, environmentalism, and being a nice person, through a thought-provoking story of two sisters, cheerful Beatrice and grumpy Magnolia, who live in an old house with some helpful spiders. $22.99 HC Illustrated Annick Press

Guardians of Horsa #5

The Guardians never dreamed that there was more to Horsa than their four realms.

But when a hidden world reveals itself on the back of the map, they are thrown into a strange land filled with Ice Horses, Gem Horses, and mountains that move. Can the Guardians face the whole new world that has been hiding right under their hooves? $12.99 PB Little Simon

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Family Games 23 Researcher’s First Murder A New Cain’s

Word Traveler OFFICE DOG GAMES

Jawbone Puzzle

In Word Traveler, you are a tourist checking out the sights of a new city, but you only know a few words of the local language... The locals (other players) will do their best to interpret your clues to help get you where you want to go—without getting lost in translation! Age 14+ Number of players 2 – 5 Time 30-45 minutes $59.99 EA.

JOHN FINNEMORE

In next challenge for fans of Cain's Jawbone—TikTok sensation and international bestseller—readers must rearrange postcards containing puzzling text and cryptic images to identify the murderer, victims, and locations for ten different deaths. $45.95 Boxset illustrations throughout Unbound

Murdle The School of Mystery: 50 Seriously Sinister Logic Puzzles

Wing It The Game

The runaway bestselling Murdle puzzle series is back to test your wits in 50 murder mystery logic puzzles set at the dark and mysterious Deduction College.

Can you crack these cases before the final bell? $24.00 PB St Martin’s

Wing It: The Game of Extreme Storytelling is a creative storytelling and problem-solving game. In Wing It, players use 3 of their random, amusing Resources to come up with a story about how they’ll get out of a ridiculous situation. Players then pitch their stories to a rotating judge. Stories can be as logical or as outlandish as the players wish, and hilarity ensues. Ages 12+ Number of Players 4-7 Playing Time 30-60 minutes $44.99 EA.

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FLYING LEAP GAMES

Good Words A Trivia Game for Word Lovers: Card Game

NEW Tree Society NEXT MOVE GAMES

Deep in the forest, the Tree Society is a prospering community that wants to expand the neighborhood to welcome newcomers. Players are asked to help various guilds follow the blueprints designed to construct new buildings.

Everyone around the table works together to help the Tree Society, but only one can climb to the top and claim victory! This gateway game is highly addictive, and the replayability with the different effects the guild cards offer will be a delight for players. Ages 8+ Number of players 2-4 Time 45-60 minutes. $49.99 EA.

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EXPLODING KITTENS

These travel ready versions of the wildly popular card games from Exploding Kittens are ready for you to toss it your bag for impromptu gaming sessions wherever your adventures take you— from the backseat on family road trips to waiting at your favorite restaurant. Choose from Really Loud Librarians, Poetry for Neanderthals and Exploding Kittens. Age 7+ Number of players 2+ Time < 15 minutes $17.99 EA.

MOON LLC TIN

Prove that you’re the ultimate language buff in this delightful card game that will always help you have the last good word, featuring a booklet with instructions and alternate ways to play. $26.99 Game Clarkson Potter

Jane Austen Trivia 400 Questions and Answers for Every Austenite: A Trivia Game POTTER GIFTS

Test your knowledge of Jane Austen and her classic novels with the 400 questions in the Jane Austen Trivia card game and make it a truth universally acknowledged that you are the ultimate fan, featuring an instructional booklet outlining different ways to play. $34.00 Game Clarkson Potter

Forest Shuffle LOOKOUT GAMES

A beautifully illustrated, strategic card game for nature lovers and set collection enthusiasts. During the game, players compete to plant the most valuable trees and provide an environment where wildlife will flourish, creating an ecologically balanced habitat. Age 10+ Number of players 2-5 Time 30-45 minutes $39.99 EA.

NEW The Lord of The Rings Duel For Middle-Earth REPOS PRODUCTION GAMES

A dark rumour rises from Mordor. The Eye turns to Middle-Earth. The hour has come.

The Fellowship is reunited. The Heroes prepare for battle. In Duel for Middle-Earth, you’ll have to choose sides. Play as the Fellowship of the Ring, prevent the Enemy from gaining ground and destroy the One Ring. Or play as Sauron and send your Nazgûls after Sam and Frodo, spreading your hordes over enemy cities. The fate of Middle-Earth is in your hands! $49.99 EA.

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2024 Bookstore Ambassador I seek out local and independent bookstores

whenever I travel to a new place. They are priceless gems that can provide insight into a community's cultural and literary pulse.

As a writer, I'm keen on better understanding the spaces I occupy, and local bookstores can be wonderful tools to map out that kind of understanding.

Bookmark, for example, has been a lovely companion of mine during my time in Halifax; I've shown up requesting my old favourites and been met with kindness and enthusiasm. I've wasted time perusing the aisles for new favourites and been offered incredible recommendations. I've found that there really is no comparison between the intention, care, expertise, and excitement that local and independent bookstores pour into their space and relationships with both clientele and writers. I'm a massive fan.

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Author Profile 25

Read francesca’s Books Butter Honey Pig Bread

Curious Sounds

Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of tlant queer love, of friendship, n a di faith, and above all, family.

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada); Longlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award. $22.95 PB

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A dialogue between two artists across various mediums, Curious Sounds uses Mooking's most recent album, SoundBites, as scaffolding for the artists' conversations on creativity, Blackness, family, grief, and tlant more. Composed of ekwuyasi's n a di essays reflecting on artmaking, storytelling, and creative expression and Mooking's multimedia visual art, micro stories, music, and lyrics, this book is a collage of ideas about making meaning through life's rhythms. $24.95 HC ic

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If you liked Butter Honey Pig Bread, you might like…

Our 2024 Bookstore Ambassador, francesca ekwuyasi, brought to readers a vibrant new voice with the celebrated, bestselling novel Butter Honey Pig Bread. In this ‘intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women … food, family and forgiveness’ opened windows on a land and culture many of us may have never experienced. Here are several titles that may excite, entertain and educate us as well as francesca did with her debut.

Like Water for Chocolate A Novel in

The Son of the House

Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

CHELUCHI ONYEMELUKWEONUOBIA

The lives of two Nigerian women divided by class and social inequality intersect when they're kidnapped, held captive, and forced to await their fate together.

LAURA ESQUIVEL

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes.

Americanah

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

Small by Small

A searing novel, at once sweeping and intimate, by the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun: a story of love and race centered around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together—until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart.

A Nigerian Doctor's Story IKE ANYA

Small by Small is a deeply intimate memoir imbued with determination, compassion and a love of storytelling.

Jonny Appleseed

Blessings A Novel

A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve.

A powerful portrait of sexual awakening and self-acceptance set in a Nigeria on the brink of criminalizing same-sex relationships.

JOSHUA WHITEHEAD

CHUKWUEBUKA IBEH

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26 Fiction The Majestic Sisters

the nowhere places

JESSICA ILSE

Dual-timeline historical fiction following the lives of two estranged sisters, once the most famous performers in Halifax, who now must come together to save their beloved theatre from ruin. Suffused with backstage gossip and cinematic history, and written in the style of a tell-all Old Hollywood autobiography, The Majestic Sisters is an authentic and stirring portrait of sibling rivalry during the Golden Age of Cinema and an impeccably drawn portrait of mid-century Halifax. $24.95 PB Nimbus A

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It is the winter of 1956 in rural Prince Edward Island with snow protecting the fallow land, and ice confining the waterways. But the season of rest is anything but restful for young Daniel MacDougall, who is juggling many roles, as he strives to fulfill his dream of providing a home and livelihood for his young family, while leading his hockey team to a much sought after championship. $22.95 PB Acorn Press

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The shameful legacy of forced and coerced adoption in Eastern Canada is brought to life in this sweeping sequel to Ashes of My Dreams. Thrust into the foster care system from an early age, Apple moves from house to house on Prince Edward Island without finding a home until she's a teenager and taken in by a couple who never managed to have children themselves. When she falls pregnant, her foster parents are keen to raise the baby with Apple still in the house—to live as a family. $24.95 PB Acorn Press

The Children of Jocasta A Novel NATALIE HAYNES

The New York Times bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind returns with a powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked. $23.99 PB HarperCollins

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The Life Impossible

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When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a run-down house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza from a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. Grace arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning. $25.99 PB HarperCollins

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Twenty-seven-year-old Emily doesn’t have a lot going well in her life right now. What Emily does have is a 300+ day streak on the New York Times Wordle. But one day, with only one guess left and no clue what the answer is, she’s forced to turn to one of her irritating, car-obsessed coworkers, John, for help—and in doing so, realizes that he might not be so irritating after all. $23.99 PB HarperCollins

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Harriet, an elderly poet whose eccentricities have been compounded by years of living alone, must sell her beloved house. Having been recently diagnosed with dementia, she is being moved into a care facility against her wishes. When stagers Eleanor and Jacob are hired for the job, they quickly find themselves immersed in Harriet's brimming and mysterious world, but as they struggle to help her, their own lives are unravelling. $23.99 PB House of Anansi

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The Capital of Dreams

HEATHER O’NEILL

A breathtaking tale of survival and betrayal from the vivid imagination of Heather O’Neill.

In this stunning dark fairy tale of a novel, O’Neill reveals once again her mastery of language that is as delicious as cake and as serious as a gunshot. $34.99 HC HarperCollins

Fiction 27 When the World Fell Silent

By Any Other Name

1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nora Crowell wants more than her sister’s life as a wife and mother. As WWI rages across the Atlantic, she becomes a lieutenant in the Canadian Army Nursing Corps. But trouble is looming, and it won’t be long before a truth comes to light. $25.99 PB HarperCollins

Told in dual intertwining timelines, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage and desire centres two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. $40.00 HC Random

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“Cat o’ nine tails or overboard, McDonough.” Set during the American Civil War, Kessler’s Darwin’s Hornpipe is loosely based on her great-grandfather’s actual whaling ship experience: he, too, was wrongly accused of mutiny and thrown overboard near one of the islands in the Galápagos archipelago. $19.95 PB Penumbra Press

VAL McDERMID

DEIRDRE KESSLER

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A radical, rip-roaring counternarrative from international bestseller Val McDermid, Britain’s reigning “Queen of Crime.” Blending history and fiction, Queen Macbeth delivers an illuminating portrait of Shakespeare’s most famous villain, and the treacherous pursuit of power that made her legendary. $33.50 HC Grove/Atlantic

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Creation Lake A Novel

The disappearance of her cousin prompts Harriett Swim to investigate, launching a rollicking journey of self-discovery, mystery, a UFO-ologist, and quirky characters whose stories are not quite what they seem. This is vintage Elaine McCluskey: laugh-out-loud humour with a touch of tenderness. $24.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of the most gifted authors of her generation” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humour. $39.99 HC Scribner

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There Are Rivers in the Sky

A cross-continent road trip about two misunderstood outsiders brought together by their shared love of music, The Lightning Bottles is both a love letter to the 90s and a searing portrait of the cost of fame. $26.99 PB Simon & Schuster

A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time, Elif Shafak's There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains and waterdrops.

It asks who gets to control memory. And it tells a powerful story about the cost of forgetting. $36.00 HC Knopf Canada

MARISSA STAPLEY

ELIF SHAFAK

Where the Forest Meets the River

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Shannon Bowring, acclaimed author of The Road to Dalton, draws another stunningly human portrait of small-town life in this poignant and satisfying return to Dalton, Maine. Perfect for fans of Ann Patchett, Elizabeth Strout, and Marilynne Robinson. $27.50 PB Europa Editions

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity. $35.00 HC Hamish Hamilton

SHANNON BOWRING

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28 Fiction The Voyage Home

Hi, It’s Me A Novel

PAT BARKER

Women Talking meets Study for Obedience in this stunning depiction of fresh grief by Fawn Parker, the Giller Prize– longlisted author of What We Both Know. This mesmerizing, devastating novel asks: Why must it be this way? $24.95 PB McClelland & Stewart

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy comes the powerful third installment to the Women of Troy series. Pat Barker has crafted the latest in a brilliant reimagining of Greek mythology, and The Voyage Home is the work of a writer at the height of her powers. $39.00 HC Doubleday

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The Heartbeat Library A Novel

The "lucid, funny and darkly alive" (Daisy Lafarge) debut novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Giller Prize-winning author of Study for Obedience. A penetrating portrait of feminine vulnerability and cruelty, Sarah Bernstein’s extraordinary debut is intelligent, brutal, sure, and devastatingly funny. $25.00 PB Knopf

The Heartbeat Library is a tender, contemplative, and uplifting novel about grief, friendship, and the many ways we heal, by the internationally bestselling author of The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World. $34.00 HC Overlook Press

LAURA IMAI MESSINA

SARAH BERNSTEIN

In Winter I Get Up at Night A Novel

How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?

JANE URQUHART

A Novel

From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable life. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century—colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. $36.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

Entitlement A Novel

Oil People

Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession.

It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination. $39.99 HC Riverhead Books

DAVID HUEBERT

For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip. $24.99 PB HarperCollins

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Tell Me Everything

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each other—except they're definitely not. $27.00 PB St Martin’s Press

ELIZABETH STROUT

CASEY MCQUISTON

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A Novel

Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. $26.00 PB Random House

Books in Translation 29 We’ll Prescribe You a Cat

Mina’s Matchbook

Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats. $34.00 HC Berkley

From the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Memory Police comes a hypnotic tale of friendship, family secrets, and coming of age set in 1970s Japan. $35.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

A Novel

SYOU ISHIDA E MADISON SHIMODA

YOKA OGAWA STEPHEN B SNYDER

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Before We Forget Kindness Before the

HARUKI MURAKAMI PHILIP GABRIEL

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Coffee Gets Cold #5

A Novel

Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi. In Before we Forget Kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future. $26.99 HC Hanover Square Press

A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers. $42.00 HC Doubleday Canada

The Little Sparrow Murders Detective

Herscht 07769 A Novel

SEISHI YOKOMIZO BRYAN KARETNYK

After faithfully attending Herr Köhler’s classes in physics, Florian Herscht becomes convinced that disaster is imminent. Thus, he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the destruction of all physical matter. $25.95 PB New Directions

Kindichi Mysteries

As several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses echoing the lyrics of a children's song, the quirky, endearing Japanese detective must string together the clues to solve this fiendish puzzle. $22.99 PB Steerforth Press

LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI OTTILIE MULZET

The Last Dream

The Full Moon Coffee Shop

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR FRANK WYNNE

MAI MOCHIZUKI JESSE KIRKWOOD

Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction. $32.00 HC HarperCollins

In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they’ll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. $30.99 HC Ballantine Books

The Beggar Student

Suggested in the Stars

With echoes of Dazai’s bestselling novel No Longer Human and settings straight out of the popular anime Bungo Stray Dogs, this biting novella, published for the first time in English, captures the infamous Japanese writer at his mordant best. $22.95 PB New Directions Publishing

The highly anticipated sequel to Scattered All Over the Earth, the touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change, which The New Yorker called “strange and exquisite.” Yoko Tawada delivers new delights, and exploits even more poignant and shambolic. $25.95 PB New Directions

OSAMU DAZAI | SAM BETT

YOKO TAWADA MARGARET MITSUTANI

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30 Mystery We Solve Murders

Window of Tolerance A Novel

A Novel

For twenty-six-year-old Marta, life in Halifax revolves around her dead-end job as a janitor and her serious vocation of smoking weed.

Group counseling is just a distraction; she’s been living with depression, numbness and apathy for years. In a rare act of engagement, she helps Thomas, a fellow patient and when Thomas mysteriously disappears, Marta feels compelled to find the person nobody else seems to care about. $24.95 PB Tidewater Press

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From the #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Series. A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo.

And a thrilling new murder to solve. $39.99 HC Pamela Dorman Books

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The Treasure Hunters’ Club

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Set against the brooding landscape of the Hebrides, Peter May returns to the territory of his bestselling Lewis Trilogy, and his much-loved detective, Fin Macleod. The Black Loch takes us on a journey through family ties, hidden relationships and unforgiving landscapes, where suspense, violent revenge and revelation converge in the shadow of the Black Loch. $36.00 HC Mobius

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A rollicking mystery about a secret society, nautical charts, cryptic clues, and a fabulous treasure to die for—perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Benjamin Stevenson. $24.99 PB Simon & Schuster n a di

Death at the Sign of the Rook A Novel

The Dark Wives

Welcome to Rook Hall. The Stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed.

Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson’s signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodie’s most outrageous and memorable case yet. $38.00 HC Doubleday Canada

New York Times bestselling author of the Two Rivers and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves, returns with the eleventh novel starring Vera Stanhope, following on from The Rising Tide. “Everything Ann Cleeves writes is magnificent.”

—Winnipeg Free Press $25.99 PB Pan Macmillan

A Vera Stanhope Novel ANN CLEEVES

KATE ATKINSON

Proof

Past Lying

BEVERLEY MCLACHLIN

VAL McDERMID

A Jilly Truitt Novel #3 From the former Chief Justice of Canada and #1 bestselling author of Full Disclosure comes a razor-sharp thriller featuring defense attorney Jilly Truitt as she defends a high-profile mother accused of kidnapping her own child. $24.99 PB Simon & Schuster

A Karen Pirie Novel In the long-awaited seventh novel of Val McDermid’s masterful crime series, DCI Karen Pirie returns in a propulsive thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against the disquiet of a global pandemic. $27.50 PB Grove/Atlantic

Counted Among the Dead A Mystery

Barcelona Red Metallic

The students at Father Brennan Burke’s choir school have written a two-act play about the Halifax Explosion of 1917. The last thing Burke expects is a series of threats against his school and his students, designed to make sure they never perform act two. $26.95 PB ECW Press

How far would you go to protect those you love? In this literary mystery, a grandmother struggles with how far she'll go to protect her family after a hit and run kills a child in her small community. $22.95 PB Second Story Press

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What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust

CHELSEA BIEKER

Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she’s landed the life of her dreams. But when she receives a letter from a women’s prison in California, her past comes screeching into the present, entangling her in a dangerous game with memory and the people she thought she had outrun. $24.99 PB Little, Brown and Company

ALAN BRADLEY

Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers secrets that bring the greatest shock of her life. $35.95 HC Doubleday Canada

The Boyfriend

The Grey Wolf A Novel Chief Inspector Gamache #19

FREIDA MCFADDEN

A new, twisting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Teacher and The Housemaid! She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim. A dark story about obsession and the things we'll do for love, Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiest. $26.99 PB Poisoned Pen Press

LOUISE PENNY

A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching. $40.00 HC Minotaur Books

The Wrong Hands

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret

Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands. $34.99 HC Little, Brown UK

BENJAMIN STEVENSON

MARK BILLINGHAM

A Festive Mystery

Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe. $24.99 PB HC Mariner Books

To Die For

The Waiting

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train. $39.00 HC Grand Central Publishing

MICHAEL CONNELLY

A Ballard and Bosch Novel

DAVID BALDACCI

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter. Complex, satisfying, and full of dexterous twists, The Waiting demonstrates once more that “you can’t do better than Michael Connelly” (Forbes). $39.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

Midnight and Blue

Black Ice

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's joined them. As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his head. That is, until a murder at midnight in a locked cell presents a new mystery. They say old habits die hard. $34.99 HC Orion

THOMAS KING

IAN RANKIN

A DreadfulWater Mystery Thumps DreadfulWater has a lot on his plate. With Duke out of commission following his wife’s tragic death, Thumps is appointed temporary deputy sheriff. He finds himself knee-deep in a complicated web of deceit spun by a nefarious collective known as Black Ice. His job? To sort through the lies. $25.99 PB HarperCollins

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32 Short Stories Waiting for the Long Night Moon

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

At times sad, sometimes disturbing, but always redemptive, the stories in Waiting for the Long Night Moon will remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, most importantly, there is power. $24.99 PB HarperCollins

Written in Cho Nam-Joo's masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows brings together the lives of eight Korean women, aged ten to eighty. Contained in each of these sensational stories is a microcosm of contemporary Korea, and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age. $24.99 PB Anansi International

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We’re Not Rich Stories

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A stunning debut collection of linked short stories exploring the promises and disappointments of modern life, edited by award-winning author Alexander MacLeod. Packing the punch of a novel, these thirteen deftly interwoven stories scrutinize the lives of everyday people with surgical precision, while finding connection and community in the unlikeliest of places. $22.95 PB Vagrant Press tlant

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A Spring That Did Not Blossom

The Man in Black

NEJMEH KHALIL HABIB | SAMAR HABIB

ELLY GRIFFITHS

And Other Stories

Palestinian Short Stories

From the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, an eclectic, thrilling collection of short stories, featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love. $35.00 HC Mariner Books

Stories of Palestinian refugee lives during the Lebanese Civil War. Marked by a storytelling style that is concise yet unconfined, Habib’s mastery of craft allows her to dive boldly into her characters’ depths and say what has not been said, revealing their hidden worlds with illuminating transparency that honors their unrequited longings for spring. $22.00 PB Interlink Books

Safe Enough

And Other Stories

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

These twenty intriguing, thrilling, and rapid-fire fictions are intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst, sure to please new and longtime fans of Child and to illuminate a side of the author’s work unknown to Reacher devotees. the collection stands as the first book written entirely by Child in four years. $38.99 HC Mysterious Press

An enchanting collection of stories from Susanna Clarke, set in the same world as the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories invites readers into a world where charm is always tempered by eerieness, and picaresque comedy is always darkened by the disturbing shadow of Faerie. $23.99 PB Bloomsbury

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SUSANNA CLARKE

She’s Always Hungry Stories

A Stroke of the Pen The Lost Stories

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection. Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger. $21.99 PB Harper Perennial

A truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated collection of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett: award-winning and bestselling author, and creator of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. $21.99 PB Transworld

ELIZA CLARK

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Speculative Fiction 33 The Wood at Midwinter

Voyage of the Damned

SUSANNA CLARKE

A Fantasy Novel

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting, beautifully illustrated short story.

Featuring gorgeous illustrations truly worthy of the magic of this story and an afterword by Susanna Clarke explaining how she came to write it, this is a mesmerizing, must-have addition to any fantasy reader's bookshelf. $22.99 HC Bloomsbury

Thyme Travellers

FRANCES WHITE

The Tiktok sensation from the UK has come to North America! A mind-blowing murder mystery on a ship full of magical passengers. If Agatha Christie wrote fantasy, this would be it! $37.00 HC Mira

The Ghost Cat

An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

A Novel

ALEX HOWARD

SONIA SULAIMAN

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and meeting its inhabitants over centuries. $26.99 HC Hanover Square Press

In the first anthology of its kind Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures. $24.00 PB Roseway Publishing

Playground

Wind and Truth

RICHARD POWERS

Stormlight Archive Book 5

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Overstory comes an epic tale of love, friendship and humanity’s next great adventure. Playground brings to light the systems of competition, cooperation, commerce, exploration and love that tie the fates of unlikely humans together, in Richard Powers’ most transporting work of fiction yet. $38.00 HC Random House

BRANDON SANDERSON

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive—the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. $52.99 HC Tor Books

Lady MacBeth

Bringer of Dust

AVA REID

In the highly anticipated second book of the Talents Trilogy, the world of the dead is closer than you think.

Agrigento, Sicily, 1883. With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished.

His only hope of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine—long-hidden, thought lost—which might not even exist. $39.99 HC McClelland & Stewart

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A Novel

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a “masterful reimagining” (Publishers Weekly) of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her. $38.99 HC Del Rey

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Buried Deep

Hope is the thing with feathers. And hope is the thing with fire.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. $38.99 HC Tor Books

A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance trilogy, including a sneak peek at the land where her next novel will be set. $39.99 HC Del Rey

TJ KLUNE

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34 Horror Maeve Fly

Tales Accursed

A provocative and unforgettable debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains, Maeve Fly will thrill fans of slashers and the macabre. $23.99 PB Tor

RICHARD WELLS

A Folk Horror Anthology

CJ LEEDE

A bold follow-up to the very popular Damnable Tales. Full of thrillingly chilling tales from Shirley Jackson, M. R. James, William Croft Dickinson and many more. $45.95 HC Unbound

A Sunny Place for Shady People Stories

The September House

MARIANA ENRIQUEZ MEGAN MCDOWELL

CARISSA ORLANDO

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. $25.99 PB Berkley

Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.” $37.99 HC Random House

Night Side of the River Ghost Stories

The House on the Borderland

In this delightfully chilling collection Jeanette Winterson, “one of the most gifted writers working today” (The New York Times), turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. $27.50 PB Grove/Atlantic

With a new introduction by Ann VanderMeer exploring why Hodgson’s tale is the ‘perfect embodiment of a weird novel’, this edition of the 1908 cult classic still thrums with the visionary energy which influenced countless writers including H. P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett. $22.99 PB British Library

WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON ANN VANDERMEER

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Queen

Atlantic Ghosts

NICK CUTTER

BEE STANTON

This captivating collection of twenty-four pen-and-ink drawings from Nova Scotia artist Bee Stanton accompanies short tales of hauntings, strange sightings, forerunners, and other supernatural folklore from Atlantic Canada. $24.95 HC Nimbus Publishing

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“One of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth. $36.99 HC Gallery Books

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Frightful Folklore of North America

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up alongside her family's farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology. $39.00 HC St Martin’s Press

MIKE BASS | V CASTRO

KAILEE PEDERSEN

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Illustrated Folk Horror

Tapping into the resurgence of interest in horror and folklore and illustrated with 75 linocut-style artworks, this contemporary, cool and highly desirable collection of scary North American legends has standout visual appeal. $33.95 HC Watkins Media

Irish Authors 35 The Women Behind the Door A Novel

Time of the Child NIALL WILLIAMS

Set over the course of one December in the same village as Williams' beloved This Is Happiness, Time of the Child is a tender return to Faha for readers who know its charms, and a heartwarming welcome to new readers entering for the very first time. $38.99 HC Bloomsbury

RODDY DOYLE

Booker Prize–winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom he originated in the groundbreaking The Woman Who Walked Into Doors and its follow-up, Paula Spencer. $34.00 HC Knopf Canada

Prophet Song

Intermezzo A Novel

PAUL LYNCH

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon, Sally Rooney. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking. $38.00 HC Knopf Canada

SALLY ROONEY

A Novel

Winner of the 2023 Booker Prize.

Now available in paperback, Lynch’s critically acclaimed international bestseller is a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a moving portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together. $27.50 PB Grove/ Atlantic

The Heart in Winter

The Amendments

A savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana, from award-winning writer Kevin Barry.

In this love story for the ages—lyrical, profane, and propulsive, Barry has once again demonstrated himself to be a master stylist, an unrivalled humourist, and a true poet of the human heart. $32.95 HC Knopf

One of Ireland’s most anticipated novels of the year, this sweeping family saga tells the story of three generations of Irish women and their struggle to find love, meaning, and freedom against the backdrop of enormous social and cultural change. $37.99 HC Pan MacMillan

KEVIN BARRY

NIAMH MULVEY

Quickly, While They Still Have Horses Stories

The Drowned

Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses offer a fresh, irreverent look at life in post-conflict Northern Ireland. From first loves to strained relationships, the thrills and terrors of growing up to the dangers and challenges of parenthood, Carson infuses all her stories with empathy, dark wit, and a surreal edge. $24.99 PB Scribner

JOHN BANVILLE

A Novel Stafford and Quirke #4

JAN CARSON

From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmospheric new mystery about a woman’s sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland, where nothing is as it seems. $35.99 HC Hanover Square Press

Blood Like Mine

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

In LA Times Book Prizewinner Stuart Neville’s daring foray into horror fiction, a mother takes desperate measures to protect her daughter in a sinister, blood-chilling highway pursuit across the Southwest. $39.95 HC Soho Press

In this wonderful selection, spanning fifty years of Seamus Heaney’s correspondence, we are given access as never before to the life and poetic development of a literary titan – from his early days in Belfast, through his controversial decision to settle in the Republic, to the gradual broadening of horizons that culminated in the award of a Nobel Prize and the years of international acclaim that kept him heroically busy until his death. $38.50 PB Faber & Faber

STUART NEVILLE

SEAMUS HEANEY | CHRISTOPHER REID

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36 Arts & Letters Letters

The Universe in Verse 15 Portals to

OLIVER SACKS KATE EDGAR

Wonder through Science & Poetry

The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time. $50.00 HC Knopf Canada

ALESSANDRA MATTANZA

Donald Andrus The Shape of Desire

IHOR HOLUBIZKY PAN WENDT ROSLYN ROSENFELD

The perfect gift for any art lover. Over 70 full-colour images of paintings and sketches spanning the entire career of Donald Andrus, one of Canada’s most prolific abstractionists, beautifully bound in one stunning book. $45.00 HC Goose Lane Editions

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This vibrant 3-volume set explores Banksy’s iconic works through the lens of some of his most powerful symbols—rats, monkeys, and children. Whether he’s protesting war, challenging societal norms, or sending up political and economic systems with his scathing critiques, Banksy’s strategic and inventive use of symbolism is one of his most effective tools. $47.00 Boxed Prestel

In this book of illustrated essays, Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry. $29.99 HC Storey Publishing

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Salvage Readings

Also available in French: Les lieux de plaisance de Sarah Maloney Enter the playfully disruptive world of Sarah Maloney artwork, where embroidery, bronze, and a feminist lens are used to challenge ideas on craft, artistic labour, and “women’s work.”

Three major essays accompany 70 full-colour images of Maloney’s work. $45.00 HC Goose Lane Editions with Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Art Windsor-Essex

In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of non-fiction since her classic A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed poet and novelist offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and of what remains in the wreck of empire. $36.00 HC Knopf

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Line and Wash in the Urban Landscape Sketching with Watercolour and Ink NEIL WHITEHEAD

Whether you are a complete beginner looking to take the plunge into drawing outdoors, or a more experienced urban sketcher looking to loosen up your style and use watercolour paints in a whole new way, renowned urban landscape artist Neil Whitehead will help you to bring your favourite places to life on paper. $23.95 PB Search Press

The Position of Spoons

And Other Intimacies DEBORAH LEVY

From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the muses that have shaped her life, to the streets of Paris. $34.95 HC Hamish Hamilton

Memories of Distant Mountains Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022

ORHAN PAMUK | EKIN OKLAP

Memories of Distant Mountains collects images and text from the renowned writer’s travel notebooks, each page capturing his sketches and thoughts in Istanbul, Urbino, Mumbai, Goa, Granada, Venice, New York, Paris, and Los Angeles. He records the events of the day, notes his thoughts on current events, books in progress, dialogues with the characters of his novels. $50.00 HC Knopf Canada

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Poetry 37 Another Day

Forest of Noise Poems

Sabbath Poems 2013-2023

MOSAB ABU TOHA

Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely livable occupation, Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination —even as it is watched live. Searing and beautiful, it brings us indelible art in a time of terrible suffering. $29.99 HC Knopf

WENDELL BERRY

A new collection of poems and the companion volume to the popular bestseller This Day, Wendell Berry's Another Day is another stunning contribution to the poetry canon from one of America's most beloved writers. $35.00 HC Catapult

She Falls Again

The Work

Cree poet and CBC broadcaster Rosanna Deerchild brings readers a manifesto to the female self and a powerful call to resistance in this important and daring poetry collection. $23.95 PB Includes black & white illustrations Coach House Books

Finalist for the 2025 Governor General Award for Poetry, the poems in The Work engage with the work of love and loss and the hope that we might somehow learn to carry our portion of grief. Simmers writes of churning in an accumulation of losses and of the work of slowly making wholeness out of brokenness. $23.95 PB Gaspereau

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New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023

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Colloquial, humourous, exuberant, shot through with reverie, these poems are carefully crafted oratory, love songs for a vibrant heritage. $23.95 PB Gaspereau

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The sixth full-length collection from acclaimed Nova Scotia poet Alice Burdick. Sharp and clever, Ox Lost, Snow Deep consists of fourteen long poems, ranging from confessional narrative, collage, and surrealism, which explore representations of history, both public and personal. $20.00 PB Anvil Press

of a feather is the third book in a trilogy that includes Ova Aves and Icarus, Falling of Birds. Conceived as a tribute to the teacher, naturalist, and ornithologist Gay Hansen—Holownia’s late partner and Thurston’s long-time friend, the collection combines Thaddeus Holownia’s photography of bird feathers with the poetry of Harry Thurston. $45.00 PB Anchorage Press

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A Skeptic in Springtime

Joseph Sherman was a poet of great verbal vigour and wide-ranging empathy. Rooted in his Jewish heritage and his Maritime roots, his poems offer unforgettable images of family life, natural settings and moments in history. They include both fine-tuned miniatures and expansive, multi-part poems.

The time is ripe for Sherman's majestic accomplishment in poetry to reach new readers. $19.95 PB Acorn Press

MacLaine’s sixth poetry collection wrestles with uncertainty and aging, hurricanes, gravity, and particle theory. Amid all the unknowns, “Still, the white-throated sparrow cries I’m here, here, here, here.” $18.95 PB Island Studies Press an

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38 Young Adult Games Untold

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Beloved storyteller Sabaa Tahir interweaves the lives of three young people as they grapple with power, treachery, love, and the devastating consequences of unchecked greed, on a journey that may cost them their lives—and their hearts. Literally. $29.99 HC GP Putnam and Sons

SABAA TAHIR

The Inheritance Games #5 Romance, luxury, and secrets abound in this thrilling new collection that takes readers deeper into the world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series. $24.99 HC Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Glass Girl

Sunderworld, Vol 1 The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

KATHLEEN GLASGOW

Gorgeously written and deeply compassionate, Kathleen Glasgow’s The Glass Girl is a candid exploration of the forces pushing young women toward addiction—and what it really takes to help them get better. $29.99 HC Delacorte Press

RANSOM RIGGS

Weaving the familiar with the peculiar, this stunning tale of loss, triumph, friendship and magic, will remind readers everywhere that true heroes are made, not born—and when you’re never the chosen one, sometimes you have to choose yourself. $29.99 HC Dutton Books for Young Readers

Such Charming Liars

When the World Tips Over

The newest mystery from the author of One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! When motherdaughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal. $28.99 HC Delacorte Press

With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family’s complicated past and present.

And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures. $29.99 HC Dial Books

JANDY NELSON

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Stranger Skies

Nightbane

PASCALE LACELLE

ALEX ASTER

The Drowned God Trilogy Ninth House meets The Hazel Wood in this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling dark academia fantasy Curious Tides, following Emory, Baz, Romie, and Kai on their desperate quests through space and time! $25.99 HC Margaret K McElderry Books

The Lightlark Series Book 2 The seductive and action-packed follow-up to Alex Aster’s instant #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and internationally bestselling novel, Lightlark—now in paperback!

Isla Crown has secured the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that plagued the six realms for centuries, but few know the true origins of her powers. $17.99 PB Amulet

Heavenly Tyrant

Rez Ball

XIRAN JAY ZHAO

This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be. $19.99 PB Heartdrum

Iron Widow Book 2

Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow. After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her world is not as it seems. $28.99 HC Tundra Books

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Young Adult 39 Wisteria Belladonna #3

The Unfinished

#1 New York Times bestselling author Adalyn Grace delivers a sensational conclusion to the deathly and decadent Belladonna trilogy, with dramatic twists and a seductive new romance that will set readers' hearts ablaze. $25.99 HC Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged. An unmissable horror novel for readers who devoured Trang Thanh Tran’s She Is a Haunting or Claire Legrand’s Sawkill Girls! $24.99 HC Heartdrum

CHERYL ISAACS

ADALYN GRACE

This Winter

Ash’s Cabin

ALICE OSEMAN

From New York Times–bestselling author and illustrator Jen Wang comes a singularly affecting story about self-discovery, self-reliance, and the choice to live when it feels like you have no place in the world. $23.99 PB First Second

A Heartstopper Novella

JEN WANG

With special bonus content – a “Twelve Days of Nick and Charlie” holiday sequence of illustrations by Alice Oseman. A short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman’s acclaimed debut novel Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series. $16.99 PB Harper

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now….

Skyshade

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ALEX ASTER

The Lightlark Saga Book 3

A Love Story

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds tackles it—you know…it—from the guy’s perspective in this unfiltered and undeniably sweet stream of consciousness story of a teen boy about to experience a huge first. $25.99 HC Atheneum

Tegan and Sara Crush

Nothing Like the Movies

TEGAN QUIN | SARA QUIN | TILLIE WALDEN

LYNN PAINTER

From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara and Eisner Award-winner Tillie Walden comes the second book in their bestselling contemporary middle grade graphic novel duology, all about crushes, crushing it, and being crushed by life in junior high—perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Sisters and Sweet Valley Twins. $19.99 PB Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling Better Than the Movies, Wes and Liz struggle to balance their feelings for each other with the growing pains of being a college student. $24.99 HC Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

A Constellation of Minor Bears JEN FERGUSON

The pulse-pounding third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Lightlark Saga, by acclaimed author and #BookTok sensation Alex Aster. $28.99 HC Amulet Books

Award-winning author Jen Ferguson has written a powerful story about teens grappling with balancing resentment with enduring friendship—and how to move forward with a life that’s not what they’d imagined. $24.99 HC Heartdrum

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40 Graphic Novels Into the Uncut Grass

Lore Olympus

In the tradition of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a gorgeously illustrated fable about a young child’s journey into the world beyond the shadow of home, a magical landscape where he discovers the secrets of solidarity, connection, and finding peace with the people we love. $34.95 HC Doubleday Canada

RACHEL SMYTHE

Volume Seven

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Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?

CHRIS OLIVEROS

The critically acclaimed graphic novel about Quebec’s contentious history by the founder of D+Q is now in paperback. At times humorous, other times dramatic, and always informative, Are You Willing To Die For The Cause? shines a light on how just little it takes to organize dissent and who people trust to overthrow the government. $29.95 PB Drawn & Quarterly

This edition of Smythe’s original Eisner Award–winning webcomic Lore Olympus features a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe and brings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel. $28.00 PB Inklore

The Road A Graphic Novel Adaptation CORMAC MCCARTHY MANU LARCENET

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize– winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet. $33.99 HC Abrams

Lord of the Flies The

The Dog Who Followed the Moon

Graphic Novel

From the international bestselling author and illustrator of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon and The Cat Who Taught Zen comes a beautifully illustrated adult fable of a lost young puppy, the old wolf who rescues her, and their journey to follow the moon—with meditations on friendship, connection, and sacrifice. $31.00 HC HarperCollins

Before The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies. William Golding’s modern masterpiece is brilliantly reimagined in the world’s first graphic novel adaptation of his bestselling classic. $38.95 HC Full-colour illustrations throughout Faber & Faber

WILLIAM GOLDING AIMÉE de JONGH

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The Hidden Life of Trees

Adulthood is a Gift! A Celebration of

A Graphic Adaptation

Sarah’s Scribbles

Featuring 240 pages of full-colour illustrations and text covering the entirety of The Hidden Life of Trees, this adaptation honours the spirit of the original book by seeking to change the way the world looks at trees and will inspire generations of readers to celebrate the natural world and protect our last remaining forests before it’s too late. $45.00 HC Greystone Books

With 100 comics, 15 essays, and dozens of photos and sketches, the fifth Sarah's Scribbles book offers a rare look behind the creative process of one of the most original and beloved comic artists of a generation. $24.99 PB Andrews McMeel Publishing

PETER WOHLLEBEN | FRED BERNARD | BENJAMIN FLAO

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Final Cut

CHARLES BURNS

From the beloved and award-winning author of Black Hole, comes the haunting and visually arresting story of an artist's obsessions, and the value and cost of pushing the boundaries of creativity. A master of the form at his finest, Final Cut is an astonishing look at what it means to truly express oneself through art. $45.00 HC Pantheon

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The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 3 BILL WATTERSON

The third set of books collecting Bill Watterson's timeless Calvin and Hobbes comics in a new portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers. Featuring nearly 500 comics presented chronologically from June 1988 to November 1989. $28.99 PB Andrews McMeel Publishing

Armchair Travel 41 Writers’ Journeys That Shaped Our World In the Footsteps

Hiking Trails of Mainland Nova Scotia

TRAVIS ELBOROUGH

The ultimate guide to hiking in Nova Scotia. Featuring 60 of the province’s most picturesque trails, this newly updated, portable, full-colour edition of Nova Scotia’s most popular trail guide offers a dizzying array of hiking challenges and spectacular views. Maps included! $29.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

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Captain Solitude One Surfer's

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Search for the World's Greatest Sailor

Part travelogue, part ghost hunt, Shaw’s uproarious adventure will take you by bike, surfboard, and surprise as he cycles across Nova Scotia in search of the first man to sail alone around the globe. The quintessential Maritime book. $22.95 PB Goose Lane Editions A

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Adventure awaits in this new visual odyssey from Accidentally Wes Anderson, taking readers on stunning trips to every continent and sharing oddly moving human tales along the way.

Authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself, Accidentally Wes Anderson Adventures reminds us that the world is ours to explore. $57.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis combines stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and myth, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness. $24.95 PB Canongate Books

Bedside Companion for Travel Lovers An Anthology of Intrepid Journeys

True North Travels in Arctic Europe

JANE MCMORLAND HUNTER

Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers to the Vikings to modern polar adventurers, he travels through history and legend to find out why— and how—we are drawn to the North. $24.95 PB Canongate Books

for Every Night of the Year

Journey through different eras, continents, and points of view, with one entry for each day of the year.

Whether you’re in need of inspiration, you want to manifest your dream trip, or you just need a break, climb aboard and let some of the best travel writers of all time whisk you away to intriguing new lands. $40.00 HC Rizzoli

Returning Light

Thirty Years in the Island of Skellig Michael ROBERT L HARRIS

A beautiful and evocative work of nature writing, Returning Light is an extraordinary memoir about the profound effect a place can have on us, and how a remote location can bring with it a great sense of belonging. $23.99 PB Mariner Books

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A globe is both a source of wonder and a way to help people make sense of the world. Replogle, the world’s largest globe manufacturer has been manufacturing the finest quality globes since 1930.

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A message from

LYNN DAVIES

2024 Bookstore Ambassador Many years ago my first paid job was in my parent’s bookstore,

Bookmark Ltd., the first independent bookstore in Moncton. I was a quiet teenager but quickly learned how easy it is to talk to strangers about books!

Later in life I worked part-time at Westminster-Bookmark in Fredericton.

The staff and the customers, all committed bookworms, introduced me to their favourite authors.

I’ve spent countless pleasurable hours in indie bookshops exploring what’s new on the shelves for myself, my family and friends. The staff promote local authors and publishers, often showing me books I didn’t know existed but ones I suddenly knew I needed. Independent bookstores often host readings, book launches, writing workshops and all kinds of booky celebrations. Whenever I travel and am lodging away from home, I head for the indie bookstore. Just the sight and smell of books arranged on shelves and tables grounds me. No two stores are ever the same. I find books curated for a particular community and a staff that knows their customers so well they greet the frequent bibliophiles by name. If I visit often enough over a few days they start calling me by name too! Independent bookstores reflect the communities they serve and always feel like home to me.

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In poem after poem, Davies's powerful imagination blends observation and fancy, passion and playfulness, producing strikingly fresh metaphors. Squirrels paddle away on twig-rafts; giant horses take to the sky. Some poems give simple weight to the details of everyday life; others evoke an imaginative world inhabited by giant beavers, elf-thugs, and the great caw-dragon. $19.95 PB

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The Girl of His Dreams

KATE CAYLEY

Loved this book of poems about the art of praise written with understated humour by a mother of three children. Read it and you’ll receive the gradual, humble wisdom of a thoughtful stranger.

DONNA LEON

Commissario Guido Brunetti walks the streets of Venice to unravel the death of a child found floating in a canal. I’m not a mystery fan but I’ve read many of the books in this series and Leon never lets me down.

Night Walk

Walking Home

When a child can’t sleep, her father takes her for a walk through the night streets of their city. A story of connections and warmth, accompanied by starry and streetlight-lit illustrations. I’ve read it out loud to myself during bouts of insomnia.

A few years ago the current Poet Laureate of England walked the Pennine Way giving poetry readings at every evening stop. I devour books about walking and this is one of the best.

SARA O’LEARY

SIMON ARMITAGE

Breadsong KITTY & AL TAIT

Joyful Noise

A creative and pragmatic book about dealing with severe depression and opening a bakery. Kitty’s description of her despair, along with her father’s concern and point of view, are sobering, informative, and in the end, delightful. Included are quirky photographs and some of the Tait’s straightforward bread recipes.

PAUL FLEISCHMAN

Poems about insects (including book lice) written for two voices for children. A truly original book! The black and white pencil illustrations by Eric Beddows are informative, playful, and downright stunning.

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44 Biography Men Have Called Her Crazy

Sonny Boy

ANNA MARIE TENDLER

Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due. The book’s golden thread is the spirit of love and purpose. $48.00 HC Penguin Publishing Group

A Memoir

A Memoir

AL PACINO

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.

This stunning literary self-portrait examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century. $39.99 HC Simon & Schuster

A Most Extraordinary Ride

Citizen

MARC GARNEAU

BILL CLINTON

My Life After the White House

Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream

In this highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling My Life, Clinton pens an illuminating account of American democracy on a global stage, offering a frank reflection on the past and, with it, a fearless embrace of our future. $51.00 HC Knopf

In A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream, Garneau chronicles his once-improbable ascent from a mischievous teenager and rebellious naval midshipman to a decorated astronaut and statesman who represented Canada on the world stage. $40.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

What I Ate in One Year

Didion & Babitz

STANLEY TUCCI

Didion, in spite of her confessional style, is so little known or understood. She’s remained opaque, elusive. Until now. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz’s brilliance of observation, Babitz’s incisive intelligence, and, most of all, Babitz’s diary-like letters as the key to unlocking Didion. $39.99 HC Scribner

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LILI ANOLIK

From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals.

What I Ate in One Year is a funny, poignant, heartfelt, and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives. $45.00 HC Gallery Books

Treat Them Where They Lie Pioneering a Revolution in

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

Modern Emergency Medicine

A Memoir

RONALD STEWART | JIM MEEK

In Treat Them Where They Lie, the late Ron Stewart and co-author Jim Meek tell a captivating story of passion and determination while exploring the highs and lows of a life well lived. This riveting memoir offers readers an unvarnished look at a man who played a key role in the development of modern emergency medicine. $26.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

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Patriot A Memoir

Jack Whalen’s Tireless Fight for Justice

ALEXEI NAVALNY

Patriot is Navalny’s final letter to the world: a moving account of his last years spent in the most brutal prison on earth; a reminder of why the principles of individual freedom matter so deeply; and a rousing call to continue the work for which he sacrificed his life. $48.00 HC Knopf Doubleday tlant

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Based on the shocking true story of a teenaged boy who endured abuse and solitary confinement at a reform school in Newfoundland. As much as it is about an abusive system preying on children, it is also a tender tale of love between Jack and his wife Glennis, who saw the good man inside a damaged person and believed in him. $35.95 HC Knopf

Music 45 Cher The Memoir, Part One

This Is Our Life THE TRAGICALLY HIP

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The definitive account of The Tragically Hip’s incredible journey, drawn from countless hours of interviews with the band, fellow musicians, producers, and crew. This official anthology includes rare and previously unpublished photographs, handwritten lyrics, vintage posters, artwork, and much more. $79.95 HC 1200 Illustrations and Photos Genesis Publications

The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself. After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. $45.00 HC Dey Street

Times’s Echo Music, Memory, and the Second World War

Nova Scotia’s Stars of Song Portia White,

As the living memory of the Second World War fades, Time’s Echo proposes new ways of listening to history and learning to hear between its notes the resonances of what another era has written, heard, dreamed, hoped, and mourned. $25.99 PB Vintage

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Leonard Cohen The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

From Here to the Great Unknown A Memoir

After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light. $39.95 PB ECW PRESS

This extraordinary book is written in both Lisa Marie’s and Riley’s voices, a mother and daughter communicating— from this world to the one beyond—as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other—the last words of the only child of an American icon. $42.00 HC Random House

CHRISTOPHE LEBOLD

LISA MARIE PRESLEY RILEY KEOUGH

Cocaine and Rhinestones A History of George

Brothers

TYLER MAHAN COE | WAYNE WHITE

In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. $39.50 HC HarperCollins

Jones and Tammy Wynette

From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music’s legendary royal couple— George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

Illustrated throughout, Cocaine & Rhinestones is an unprecedented look at the lives of two indelible country icons, reframing their careers within country music as well as modern history itself. $47.00 HC Simon & Schuster

Dreams The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac MARK BLAKE

An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac— the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures— Dreams evokes the band's entire musical catalogue as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story. $39.95 HC Pegasus Books

ALEX VAN HALEN

Heartbreak is the National Anthem How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music ROB SHEFFIELD

An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield. Heartbreak Is the National Anthem will inform and delight a legion of fans who hang on every word from Taylor and every word Rob writes on her. $34.99 HC Dey Street

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46 Cookbooks My Egypt

Matty Matheson

Cooking from My Roots

Soups, Salads, Sandwiches MATTY MATHESON

The acclaimed chef, New York Times bestselling author, and executive producer and actor on The Bear redefines cooking’s iconic trinity: soups, salads, and sandwiches. Packed with character, personal stories, scrumptious recipes, and vivid photographs of a day-in-the-life with Matty and his family, Soups, Salads, Sandwiches will have you fearlessly whipping up your own combinations in the kitchen. $48.00 HC Appetite

MICHAEL MINA

A bold return to the cuisine of celebrated chef Michael Mina’s heritage—with a lifetime of recipes that capture the flavour and energy of Egypt. $50.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

JENNA HUTCHINSON ASHLEY KOSOWAN

Ashley and Jenna have written recipes for all the home bakers out there, looking for ways to transform everyday moments and simple desserts from run of the mill to inspired, sweet favourites you’ll find yourself returning to again and again. Take a look inside...you won’t be disappointed! $45.00 HC Penguin

Old-Fashioned East Coast Cookies, Cakes, Pies, and Sweets ALICE BURDICK

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Each recipe, tested and updated for today’s home cooks, will bring readers back to the kitchens of their mothers and grandmothers —or be a delicious souvenir of time spent on the East Coast. $19.95 PB Formac Publishing

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from the Heart

Fast & Simple Food

In a career spanning fame and activism, Pamela Anderson has ventured from a humble upbringing to the forefront of Hollywood—and has always been a passionate cook and gardener. Now, she invites you into her kitchen to share 80 delicious recipes that nourish the soul. $45.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

Simply Jamie exists to inspire you to get cooking – it’s full of delicious, achievable recipes you’ll love to make. Whatever your needs, you can trust that these tried and tested recipes will slot right into the rhythms of your week—from 20-minute-to-table dishes and no-time-to-shop pantry rescues to weekend wins that create smart leftover ideas, meaning mealtimes are simple in the days that follow. $45.00 HC Appetite

Spend with Pennies Everyday Comfort Family Dinner Recipes from

The Artful Way to Plant-Based Cooking Nourishing Recipes and

HOLLY NILSSON

CHLOE CRANE-LEROUX TRUDY CRANE

Fresh to Cozy

Bring easy, home-cooked comfort to your table every night of the week with over 120 "recipes for real life" from the creator of the beloved food blog Spend with Pennies. These are recipes you can turn to when you're uninspired and getting dinner on the table feels like a chore. Reclaim dinnertime and celebrate the love and comfort of a family meal. $42.00 HC DK

Heartfelt Moments

These 80 recipes are not only good for you — they’re good for the planet, too! The love this mother and daughter have for each other —and for sharing vegan food with others—shines through in their recipes and is sure to be a joy for everyone. $47.00 HC Simon Element

Ottolenghi Comfort

Half Baked Harvest Quick and Cozy A Cookbook

YOTAM OTTOLENGHI

Relying on basic ingredients and Tieghan’s signature knack for making sauces and dressings that you’ll want to double to keep on hand at all times, these recipes will make your meals feel like a warm hug. If you’ve ever needed a belly full of comfort and a plate bursting with fresh, unexpected flavours—and wanted it all right now—Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy is for you. $44.00 HC Clarkson Potter

A Cookbook

Yotam Ottolenghi—the beloved chef who has captured the hearts of homecooks looking for inspiration and great-tasting cooking—is back.

In Ottolenghi Comfort, he brings his inspiring, flavourforward cooking to comfort dishes. $45.00 HC Appetite

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Garden & Home 47 The Botanists’ Library The Most Important Botanical Book in History CAROLYN FRY

Whether you are a seasoned botanist, a budding enthusiast, or simply someone with an insatiable curiosity about the natural world, The Botanist's Library offers a comprehensive reference that will enrich your understanding of botany and its evolution. $50.00 HC Ivy Press

Compost Transform Waste into New Life CHARLES DOWDING JONATHAN GIBBS

Charles Dowding puts feeding the soil at the heart of his No Dig method of growing. He explains how to use your kitchen and garden waste to make homemade compost so that your plants can truly flourish. $26.99 HC DK

Big Splash Knits Mittens, Hats, Socks, and More from Atlantic Canada

The Seed Farmer A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Selling Your Own Seeds

Presenting 20 new & original outerwear knitting products. Each pattern is accompanied by clear written instructions and full-color photos.

Helpful tips and colorful stories also included. $32.95 PB Full color photos Boulder Books

Whether you're interested in growing your own seeds for on-farm use, or scaling up for retail or commercial sales, this comprehensive manual will help you protect yourself from supply chain disruptions while ensuring reliable access to quality seed stock adapted to your own climate and bioregion. $44.99 PB New Society Publishers

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Microfarms Organic Market Gardening on a Human Scale

ROBERT ASHTON

Microfarms is a comprehensive guide to establishing and maintaining profitable small-scale vegetable farms, utilizing organic, low-tech, and highly effective crop production methods that are grounded in ecological principles and lifestyle considerations. $39.99 PB New Society Publishers

How Traditions from the Past Can Shape Our Future

JEAN-MARTIN FORTIER AURELIE SECHERET

Part memoir, part social history, and part ode to rural life, charting traditions of the past, Robert Ashton’s thoughtprovoking book is a manifesto for why, against all odds, we need to step back in order to progress. $34.95 HC Illustrations: Black and white line drawings Unbound

A Year in Bloom

Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location

Flowering Bulbs for Every Season

An Expert Guide to More than 3,000 Plants

In A Year in Bloom, award-winning garden writer Lucy Bellamy showcases a wide-ranging selection of more than 150 bulbs, each presented with informative text, expert planting advice, and vibrant photography. $49.95 HC Phaidon Press

Whether you have a small urban garden or sprawling acres of land, this gardening guide will help you every step of the way to create your garden masterpiece! You’ll discover a wealth of information on sections like which plants thrive in shady spots or whittle away in bright sunny areas, or "Special Effects" themes like Asian or Greek-inspired garden designs. $54.00 HC DK

LUCY BELLAMY JASON INGRAM

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Flower Press

Packaged in a 10" tube, with handsewn muslin bag inside. Featuring images from the Cavallini archives. 22" x 28" (55 cm x 70 cm) $39.99 EA.

This well-sized flower press allows you to preserve the flowers and leaves you find while out on your wanders. The press comes complete with 5 sheets of corrugated card and 8 of sugar paper to give ample space to press flowers. Nuts and bolts are supplied in an envelope with an A7 folded leaflet explaining how to assemble the press and begin pressing flora. Printed in England. $46.99 ea.

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48 Political Science How to Lose a Country

On Freedom

The Seven Steps from Democracy to Fascism

TIMOTHY SNYDER

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival —by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny. $42.00 HC Crown

ECE TEMELKURAN

An urgent call to action and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe from an award-winning journalist and acclaimed political thinker. How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into government; they creep. $22.99 PB Simon & Schuster

Dangerous Memory Coming of Age

Autocracy Inc The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

in the Decade of Greed

CHARLIE ANGUS

A bold book of rage, hope, and challenge exposing how the political decisions of the 1980s continue to haunt us today. In Dangerous Memory, renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus undertakes a major rethink of the cultural and political shifts of the 1980s, an era that unleashed an unprecedented looting of the economy, the environment, and the common good that continues to haunt us today. $26.99 PB House of Anansi

ANNE APPLEBAUM

From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. $35.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

Rethinking Free Speech PETER IVES

Rethinking Free Speech will change the way you think about the politics of speech and its relationship to the future of freedom and democracy in the age of social media. Political theorist Peter Ives offers a new way of thinking about the increasingly contentious debates around the politics of speech. Moving past simplistic binaries this essential guide shows the perils and possibilities of communication for democracy and justice. $25.00 PB Fernwood Publishing

The Myth of American Idealism

Home Truths Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis CAROLYN WHITZMAN

In Home Truths, housing expert Carolyn Whitzman explores Canada’s crisis from all sides, including defining what adequate housing looks like, explaining why nonmarket housing is crucial for Canada, and outlining how and why to tackle ever-growing wealth disparities between renters and those who own. $29.95 PB On Point Press

Something Lost, Something Gained

How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World

Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers, an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity’s future as well as a sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it. $42.00 HC Penguin Press

In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. This book is a testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal, providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better. $39.99 HC Simon & Schuster

NOAM CHOMSKY NATHAN J ROBINSON

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

Punishing Putin Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia STEPHANIE BAKER

Filled with propulsive, fly-on-the-wall details, Punishing Putin takes us into the frantic backroom deliberations that led to a whole new era of carefully calculated “economic statecraft” and shows how these new strategies are already radically rearranging global alliances that will influence the world order today, and for generations to come. $39.99 HC Scribner

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War

BOB WOODWARD

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency. War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. $43.00 HC Simon & Schuster

Social Science 49 Wise Women Myths and

What She Said

SHARON BLACKIE WITH ANGHARAD WYNNE

ELIZABETH RENZETTI

Conversations About Equality

Stories for Midlife and Beyond

A passionate advocate for gender equity, and one of our most respected journalists, explores the most pressing issues facing women in Canada today with humour and heart. $34.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

A stunning collection of stories from European myth and folklore that celebrate women in the second half of life—women who outwit monsters, embody the seasons, and almost always have the last laugh— retold by award-winning author Sharon Blackie. $30.50 PB New World Library

What Works in Community News Media Startups, News Deserts,

The Message TA-NEHISI COATES

and the Future of the Fourth Estate

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities. $39.99 HC One World

ELLEN CLEGG | DAN KENNEDY

Local news is essential to democracy. Meaningful participation in civic life is impossible without it.

However, local news is in crisis. According to one widely cited study, some 2,500 newspapers have closed over the last generation. And it is often marginalized communities of colour who have been left without the day-to-day journalism they need to govern themselves in a democracy. $25.95 PB Beacon Press

Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World

Revenge of the Tipping Point

The Alchemy Lectures 2023

Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

PHOEBE BOSWELL | SAIDIYA HARTMAN | JANAINA OLIVEIRA

The Alchemists—agile thinkers and practitioners working across a range of disciplines and geographies— discuss their radical visions of the beautiful world, and the manifestos that may help to guide us there. Their treatises have been captured and luminously expanded in the pages of this book. $34.00 HC Knopf Canada

MALCOLM GLADWELL

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light. $41.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

What I Mean to Say Remaking

Nexus A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

IAN WILLIAMS

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. Information is not the raw material of truth, nor is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity. $45.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

Conversation in Our Time THE CBC MASSEY LECTURE With What I Mean to Say, awardwinning novelist and poet Ian Williams seeks to ignite a conversation about conversation, to confront the deterioration of civic and civil discourse, and to reconsider the act of conversing as the sincere, open exchange of thoughts and feelings. $24.99 PB House of Anansi

YUVAL NOAH HARARI

Framed Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

Unlike the Rest

John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system. $39.95 HC Doubleday

In this personal story of becoming, belonging and being seen, a psychiatry resident pulls back the curtain on the journey to becoming a doctor. If you’ve ever doubted that you belong or struggled to find your voice, Unlike the Rest will inspire you to stay true to yourself and fight for what you believe in. $34.99 HC HarperCollins

JOHN GRISHAM | JIM MCCLOSKEY

A Doctor’s Story

CHIKA STACY ORIUWA

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50 History Ocean A History of the

The Forbidden Garden The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

Atlantic Before Columbus

JOHN HAYWOOD

A magisterial cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, ranging from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens to the story of shipbuilding, navigation, maritime exploration, slavery, and nascent European imperialism. $47.00 HC Pegasus Books

SIMON PARKIN

From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life’s work to help end world hunger? $39.99 HC Scribner

Becoming Green Gables The Diary of

The Siege A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World

Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse ALAN MACEACHERN

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gables, the novel written by Myrtle’s cousin Lucy Maud Montgomery and published to international acclaim a year earlier. $29.95 PB 48 illustrations McGill-Queen's University Press

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Lost in the Crowd Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War

This book features the resistances, uprisings, struggles, and solidarities of the majority against those seeking to dominate. The result is a fresh and challenging interpretation of the history of our species, one that casts a new light on the true nature of humans. $25.95 PB James Lorimer & Company Ltd

During WWI, over a thousand Acadians answered the call to military service. Although largely forgotten because their unit was later disbanded and most members relegated to the Canadian Forestry Corps, this important contribution from a French-speaking minority group deserves attention as important piece of a more inclusive history of Canada’s First World War. $39.95 PB 28 illustrations McGill-Queen's University Press

Humans

GREGORY M. W. KENNEDY

ALVIN FINKEL

Oak Island’s First Visitors Irish Monks,

Graphic War Navy The Secret Naval Drawings and Illustrations of World War II

DOUG SYMONS

Prepare to embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of naval warfare during World War II with Graphic War Navy. Following the success of Graphic War, Donald Nijboer unveils a treasure trove of top-secret drawings that have remained unpublished until now. $49.95 HC Illustrated Firefly Books

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Newly discovered artifacts found on Oak Island prove a European presence on Oak Island hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. $29.95 PB Formac Publishing

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The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and intervention, order and conflict. From ancient civilizations to modern-day metropolises, maps have played a crucial role in urban progress. $50.00 HC Illustrated, HarperCollins

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Arise, England Six Kings and the Making of the English State

CAROLINE BURT RICHARD PARTINGTON

A sweeping history of the Plantagenets and England’s emerging statehood. Citing original accounts and arresting new research, Arise, England draws resonances between government, international relations, and the abilities, egos, and ambitions of political actors, then and now. $56.60 HC Faber & Faber

History 51 The Secrets of the Titanic

The Driving Machine

PAUL-HENRI NARGEOLET LAURA HAYDON Through the incredible story of his expeditions, Paul-Henri Nargeolet brings to life the Titanic, that of its passengers and its crew, and offers a unique point of view on this maritime disaster. $19.99 PB Harper

A Design History of the Car WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI

In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski—hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly—tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who created them. $39.99 HC WW Norton and Company

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Tappan Adney From Birchbark Canoes to Indigenous Rights

We see notebooks everywhere we go.

But where did these indispensable implements come from? In an age of AI and digital overload, the humble notebook is more relevant than ever.

The everyday act of moving a pen across paper can have profound consequences, changing the way we think and feel: making us more creative, more productive—and maybe even happier. $26.95 PB Biblioasis

An essential and utterly fascinating biography of the remarkable life of Tappan Adney, a true polymath whose multifaceted legacy includes his documenting of the Klondike Gold Rush, Indigenous birchbark and skin canoe techniques, and of Wəlastəkwey history and culture. $27.95 PB Goose Lane Editions with Chapel Street Editions

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The Dawn of Language

The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution

The Story of How We Came to Talk

CHRISTIAN JENNINGS

SVERKER JOHANSSON

Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. $24.99 PB Quercus Publishing

The Good Allies How Canada

A Nation’s Paper The Globe and Mail

and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War

in the Life of Canada

JOHN IBBITSON

From Canada's newspaper of record for 180 years, here are thirty-one brilliant and provocative essays by a diverse selection of their writers on how The Globe and Mail covered and influenced major events and issues from the paper’s founding to the latest file. $45.00 HC McClelland & Stewart

TIM COOK

From our country's most important war historian, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and bound by an alliance that has lasted to this day. $40.00 HC Penguin Canada

How the World Made the West

The Last Tsar

A 4,000 Year History JOSEPHINE QUINN

The first dedicated study of the cat-and-mouse struggle between a British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, and an Austrian SS officer responsible for the mass killings of thousands of Russian and Polish Jews. The account of how Nigel de Grey cracked the Enigma-coded signals of SS Major Hermann Höfle is one of the greatest untold stories of the Second World War. $36.99 HC HarperCollins

In lively prose and with bracing clarity, as well as through vivid maps and color illustrations, How the World Made the West challenges the stories the West continues to tell about itself. It redefines our understanding of the Western self and civilization in the cosmopolitan world of today. $51.00 HC Random House

The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs TSUYOSHI HASEGAWA

Definitive and engrossing, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution, taking his family, the Romanov dynasty, and the whole Russian Empire down with him. $46.00 HC Basic Books

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52 Indigenous i heard a crow before i was born

The Serviceberry

In this stunning testament to the power of storytelling—to help us grieve and help us survive—Delorme tells the story of his spirit walk as he embraces the contradictions of his identity. As he writes, “i heard a crow before i was born is a man looking back, and dreaming back, and seeing that life, in whatever form it takes, however harsh it might seem, is beautiful.” $22.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER JOSEPH BURGOYNE

Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

JULES DELORME

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. $25.00 HC Scribner

Who We Are Four Questions for a Life

The Creator’s Plan

MURRAY SINCLAIR SARA SINCLAIR NIIGAAN SINCLAIR

As a Mi'kmaq child, Richard Pellissier-Lush grew looking different than other the other Indigenous children. He didn't feel he fit in with the non-Indigenous or the Indigenous children he knew. But his mother continually reminding him that he was part of the Creator's plan empowered him to embrace his culture no matter what he looked like. $14.95 PB Acorn Press

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The Knowing TANYA TALAGA

Protecting Mi’kmaw Burial Sites

From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family’s story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada. Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today. $39.99 HC HarperCollins

For over twenty years, Mi’kmaw Elder Ellen Hunt has been identifying, researching and fighting to protect Mi’kmaw burial sites in Nova Scotia which have long been forgotten, neglected and destroyed. $24.95 PB Formac Publishing

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The Animal People Choose a Leader

JODY WILSON-RAYBOULD ROSHAN DANESH

Accompanied by awardwinning illustrator Bridget George’s luminous artwork, this tradition-steeped story from renowned author Richard Wagamese meditates on the unifying powers of wisdom, kindness and respect with all the visionary clarity of our most essential legends. $24.95 HC Douglas & MacIntyre

A Story of Canada

From the #1 national bestselling author of ‘Indian' in the Cabinet and True Reconciliation, a truly unique history of our land—powerful, devastating, remarkable—as told through the voices of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. $39.95 HC McClelland & Stewart

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Sacred Though

Beothuk How Story Made

ELDER GEORGE PAUL

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a People (Almost) Disappear

Rigorous and compelling, Beothuk demonstrates the enduring power of stories to shape our understanding of the past and the impossibility of writing Indigenous history without Indigenous storytellers. $44.95 HC illustrated McGill-Queen's University Press

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54 Religion The Mystics Would Like a Word Six Women Who Met God

and Found a Spirituality for Today

SHANNON K EVANS

In The Mystics Would Like a Word, readers will discover the story of Christian faith and spirituality as told by these extraordinary and wise women, one that speaks directly to today’s unique experiences, and leads to wholeness, healing, and spiritual vitality. $36.00 HC Convergent Books

The Road to Wisdom On Truth,

God Has a Name

FRANCIS S COLLINS

JOHN MARK COMER

The Bible

A Global History BRUCE GORDON

Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible tells the story of this sacred book through the stories of its many and diverse human encounters, revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force. $45.00 HC Basic Books

Science, Faith, and Trust

What You Believe About God Will Shape Who You Become

In The Road to Wisdom, Francis Collins reminds us of the four core sources of judgement and clear thinking: truth, science, faith, and trust. This is a book that will repay many readings, and resolve dilemmas that we all face every day. $39.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light--focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. This one shift has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way. $31.99 HC Thomas Nelson

The Jesuit Disrupter A

Personal Portrait of Pope Francis

MICHAEL W HIGGINS

In his determination to reform the Vatican and ensure the Catholic faith evolves in a way that is relevant to the 21st century, Francis is very much carrying on the tradition of the Jesuits, an order known for their work in education, humanitarian missions, and social justice. A deep understanding of the Jesuit order informs Michael W. Higgins's approach in this novel reading of a papacy unlike any other. $26.99 PB House of Anansi Press

Everything Could Be a Prayer One

Hundred Portraits of Saints and Mystics KREG YINGST

Pray and meditate along with mystics and saints through this luminous collection of more than one hundred block prints by artist Kreg Yingst, curator of the beloved Instagram account @psalmprayers. $39.99 HC Broadleaf Books

Go Forward in Love A Year of Daily

A Whole Life in Twelve Movies

TIMOTHY KELLER

KATHLEEN NORRIS | GARETH HIGGINS | JAMES SJ MARTIN

Readings from Timothy Keller

The perfect 365-day devotional for both new and longtime admirers of Timothy Keller's writing, Go Forward in Love features deep insights, profound truths, and biblical wisdom on topics such as prayer, forgiveness, loving our neighbours, the importance of work, and the hope of the resurrection. $33.50 HC Zondervan

A Cinematic Journey to a Deeper Spirituality Come to the movies with two celebrated spirituality writers--American poet and author Kathleen Norris and Irish storyteller and peace activist Gareth Higgins. In A Whole Life in Twelve Movies, Norris and Higgins invite readers along as they discuss acclaimed movies that can help us better understand our lives--from before birth to death and beyond. $26.49 PB Brazos Press

Gifts and Gratitudes

Embracing Hope

ANN VOSKAMP

VIKTOR E FRANKL ALEXANDER VESELY-FRANKL

A Year of One Thousand Gifts (A Journal)

Gifts and Gratitudes is a daily companion that urges you to savour every moment by recognizing and listing only three things you are grateful for each day. This life-altering practice will allow you to record and reflect upon more than one thousand gifts of blessing throughout the year. $28.50 HC Thomas Nelson

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On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life Whether you're a devoted follower of Frankl's work or a newcomer seeking to enrich your understanding of life's purpose, this book promises a captivating journey that will leave you pondering its teachings long after you've turned the final page. $28.95 HC Beacon Press

Science 55 Weathering

What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate

RUTH ALLEN

Outdoor psychotherapist and geologist Ruth Allen takes us on a journey through deep time and ancient landscapes, showing how geology—which has formed the bedrock of her own adult life and approach to therapy—can offer us a new way of thinking about our own grief, change and boundaries. $41.00 HC Ebury Press

Futures

AYANA ELIZABETH JOHNSON

If you haven’t yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world—or to see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it—this book is for you. If you haven’t yet found your role in shaping this new world or you’re not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you. $45.00 HC One World

Determined A Science of Life Without Free Will

Daydreaming in the Solar System Surfing

Saturn’s Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space Exploration

ROBERT M SAPOLSKY

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decisionmaking to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences. $28.00 PB Penguin Books

JOHN E MOORES | JESSE ROGERSON | ROBERT J SAWYER

With data gathered over the decades by our robotic spacecraft, Moores and Rogerson boldly take you where no living being has gone before, along the way giving an engaging and accurate explanation of the science. Undertaking this interplanetary journey powered by hard science, there is no limit to where your daydreams can take you. $43.95 HC MIT Press

The Elements of Marie Curie How the

The Science of Last Things Essays on Deep

Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Time and the Boundaries of the Self ELLEN WAYLAND-SMITH

DAVA SOBEL

At once intimate and expansive, The Science of Last Things peels back layers of human thought and behavior, breaking down our modern conceptions of individuality and reframing us as participants in a world of astounding elegance and mystery. $27.50 PB Milkweed Editions

New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer finalist Dava Sobel crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of Marie Curie, and the untold story of the women who trained in her laboratory, launching stellar scientific careers of their own. $45.95 HC Grove/Atlantic

Category Five

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

Superstorms and the Warming Oceans that Feed Them

Music as Medicine DANIEL J LEVITIN

PORTER FOX

Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing. $42.50 HC Allen Lane

Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox’s urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms. $39.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 BILL MCKIBBEN JAIME GREEN

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. $23.99 PB Mariner Books

Invention and Innovation A Brief History of Hype and Failure VACLAV SMIL

The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. $25.95 PB MIT Press

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56 Nature Notes from an Island

Foraging as a Way of Life A Year-Round Field Guide to Wild Plants

TOVE JANSSON ALEXANDER CHEE

MIKAELA CANNON NANCY J TURNER

From a renowned artist and writer, a deeply personal nature journal about the island that informed her many works, with paintings from her longtime partner, artist Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä. $36.00 HC Timber

Nourish your family from nature’s pantry.

Foraging as a Way of Life documents twelve months of wildcrafting, featuring five different plants each month for a full year of abundant, local, and seasonal eating. $39.99 PB Full-Colour Throughout New Society Publishers

The Tree Collectors Tales of Arboreal Obsession

AMY STEWART

Fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees— written and charmingly illustrated by the New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist. $42.00 HC Random House

Heart of the Hive

Inside the Mind of the Honey Bee and the Incredible Life Force of the Colony HILARY KEARNEY ERIC TOURNERET

Expert beekeeper and swarm-catcher Hilary Kearney offers a unique window into the social lives and biology of these remarkable creatures, accompanied by the photos of world-renowned bee photographer Eric Tourneret. $36.00 HC Storey Publishing

Vanishing Treasures

Raising Hare The

KATHERINE RUNDELL

CHLOE DALTON

A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. $36.00 HC Doubleday

Our Green Heart The

Soul and Science of Forests

DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER

In this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them. $34.00 HC Random House Canada

The uplifting true story of a woman who finds an injured newborn hare and is compelled to give it a chance at survival. “Written with tenderness and lyricism from someone who has reconnected to nature... A beautiful book.” —Angelina Jolie $34.95 HC B&W illustrations throughout Canongate Books

Atlas Obscura Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders CARA GIAIMO | JOSHUA FOER | ATLAS OBSCURA

From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It's more than a field guide—it's an adventure. $50.00 HC Workman

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What the Chicken Knows

A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird SY MONTGOMERY

For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery— whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist—has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. With a winning combination of personal narrative and science, What the Chicken Knows is exactly the kind of book that has made Sy Montgomery such a beloved and popular author. $26.99 HC Atria Books

Nature 57 The Owl A Biography

The Lambing Season Stories of Life on an Irish Family Farm

STEPHEN MOSS

Uncover the life of owls through this beautiful guide to these secretive and charismatic birds from the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren, and The Swan. With beautiful illustrations throughout, and expert birdwatching tips, this eye-opening biography reveals the hidden secrets of one of the world's most famous and beloved birds. $31.99 HC Random House UK

A Natural History of Empty Lots

JOHN CONNELL

A hymn to the rituals of farming life from the bestselling Irish author of The Farmer's Son. Like the flock that he shepherds, this book is both simple and profound, a meditation on the rituals of farming life and a primer on the lessons that nature can teach us. $36.95 HC Pegasus

The Miraculous from the Material Understanding the

Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

Wonders of Nature ALAN LIGHTMAN

CHRISTOPHER BROWN

A gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena—from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxies, and more. $48.00 HC Pantheon

A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genredefying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect.

Beautifully written and philosophically hardhitting, it offers a new lens on human disruption and nature, offering a sense of hope among the edgelands. $39.00 HC Timber Press

The Lost World of the Dinosaurs Uncovering the

Something in the Woods Loves You

ARMIN SCHMITT

An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health. Something in the Woods Loves You tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young person’s life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every turn. $39.00 HC Timber Press

Secrets of the Prehistoric Age An enrapturing tale of the age of the dinosaurs, tracing their earliest origins, their astounding two-hundred-million-year reign and their infamous demise. The Lost World of the Dinosaurs is an all-encompassing exploration traveling back in time into the world of the primeval giants, perfect for anyone interested in the largest land creatures that ever inhabited Earth. $41.00 HC Hanover Square Press

Ornithography

Weeds

An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism

NINA EDWARDS

Sprinkled with personal anecdotes and loads of useful information, Weeds sketches history after history of the fashions and attitudes that have shaped our gardens, showing us that it is just as important what we keep out of them as what we put in, and that just because we despise one species does not mean that there haven’t been others whose very lives have depended on it. $33.50 PB Reaktion Books

JESSICA ROUX

The perfect gift for birdwatchers, gardeners, and history buffs, as well as all readers who appreciate nature, mythology, and art, Ornithography is as intriguing and playful as the feathered muses that fill its pages. $29.99 HC Andrews McMeel Publishing

An Insect a Day DOMINIC COUZENS GAIL ASHTON

JAROD K ANDERSON

Treekeepers The Race for a Forested Future

Entomologists Dominic Couzens and Gail Ashton present an insect for every day of the year in this beautifully produced guide.

Readers are invited on a captivating journey through insect behavior, migration, fascinating protection mechanisms, folklore, history, and literature. $40.00 HC Rizzoli

LAUREN E OAKES

In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent “doing something good for the planet.” Many companies commit to planting a tree with every purchase. But who plants those trees and where? Will they flourish and offer the benefits that people expect?

Can all the individual efforts around the world help remedy the ever-looming climate crisis? $40.00 HC Basic Books

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A message from

NICHOLAS HERRING

2024 Bookstore Ambassador Ever since I was a young kid I’ve been lucky to have some

vague sense regarding the power of literature… A book really is unlike any other human thing, in that it can put you in the mind of just about any person across any measure of distance or time. And as we grow up and become somewhat immune to the power of life and beauty and invention and people, books are the antidote to all of this habituated unseeing. The act and life of each book on that shelf before you are intricacies of love and will, and we would all do well to remember this as best we can: a good book can cure the common cold; a great book can change history, and often does.

When a person walks into a bookstore—especially an independent, such as Bookmark—they cast a vote in favour of knowledge and fraternity and community: we become civil servants of the highest order when we even consider the presence of a book.

And so, every time a book is written and ends up being held in the hands of a reader, the world is kept alive, both for you and by you, and I really can’t think of any human thing more noble or more necessary.

The act of reading is an act of spirit, and places like Bookmark—one of the greatest bookstores in the country (the greater diamond set right next to a jewelry store)—are beautiful and poignant, and should be loved and celebrated.

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Read Nicholas’s Book Some Hellish NICHOLAS HERRING

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Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

BENJAMIN LABATUT

Another remarkable book from the Chilean about Austrian physicists, game theory, and AI; a stark reminder that reality has been supplanted by the matrix.

SARAH BAKEWELL

This book ought to be required reading; it thrums with magic and generosity and nearly every page has some anecdote that reminds you of the majesty and wonder of life.

The Life of Tu Fu ELIOT WEINBERGER

A kind of fictional autobiography that can be read in about twenty minutes and that is as profound as anything in the canon.

JOAN ACOCELLA

A perfect collection of essays about art and life (among many other things); Acocella is always an immense joy to read.

Where the World Was

Burn Man

Top-notch writing about the places that a devotion to art will take a person; her piece on Havana is sublime.

These stories are so unbelievably good and so shockingly unique they're a bit like drunkenly stumbling into a bonfire.

MARK ANTHONY JARMAN

ROSEMARY SULLIVAN

The Free World Art and Thought in the Cold War

The Book of Embraces

LOUIS MENAND

EDUARDO GALEANO

Another gobsmacking work of history that shows how and why people thought what they did (his other book, The Metaphysical Club, is another of my all-time favourites); like Acocella, just a real pleasure to read.

A writer (like Jarman) who writes so well and with such a kind of mysticism that you think, well, there's just no point in me trying; he moves and weaves history like he's working at MacAusland's.

Ghost Wars The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

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Some Hellish is a story about anguish and salvation, the quiet grace and patience of transformation, the powers of addiction and fear, the plausibility of forgiveness, and the immense capacity of friendship and of love. $24.95 PB

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Winner, Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Herring is a hapless lobster fisher lost in an unexceptional life, bored of thinking the same old thoughts. One December day, following a hunch, he cuts a hole in the living room floor and installs a hoist, altering the course of everything in his life. His wife Euna leaves with their children. He buries the family dog in a frozen grave on Christmas Eve. He and his friend Gerry crash his truck into a field, only to be rescued by a passing group of Tibetan monks.

One of the most beautiful and tender books about suicide I've ever come across; this, too, ought to be mandatory.

STEVE COLL

A book ostensibly about oil and ideology; if you think you understand central Asia, you're wrong; one of my all-time favourites.

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60 Humour Lifeform

Moons of Stupider

Hilarious Gaffes, Fails, and Blunders

JENNY SLATE

SEAN SINCLAIR-DAY

For millennia, people have been doing stupid things. Darwin might have thought we would evolve past our foolish ways, but boy, have we proved him wrong! Moons of Stupider is filled with dozens upon dozens of stories of life gone sideways, all written to amuse, delight and entertain. $24.99 PB Harper

This Books is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Cats Who are Plotting to Kill You

The World’s Wildest Cons Incredible True Tales of Hustles, Frauds, and Swindles

SMITH STREET BOOKS

The only thing cuter than a fluffy animal is a fluffy animal that looks as though it might want to murder you. This book of fabulous plotting kitties will have you feeling simultaneously judged and loved—a mighty combination that can propel you out of any rut. $21.95 HC Rizzoli

DUNCAN MCKENZIE

Con artists all have one thing in common: the audacity. From funny to stupid to diabolical, The World’s Wildest Cons will captivate you—because when it comes to a con artist, we just can’t look away. $24.99 PB Collins

What If?

10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions RANDALL MUNROE

A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask. $43.50 HC Dey Street Books

Cat People A Comic Collection HANNAH HILLAM

The first collection from comic artist Hannah Hillam poses the question: What if our cats were responsible for taking care of us for a change? $23.00 HC Running Press

Laugh More

Stories from an Unexpected Life DEBBIE TRAVIS

Lifestyle pioneer and bestselling author Debbie Travis is back with a book of ridiculously funny, touching and true stories drawn from her own life and dedicated to everyone in desperate need of a good laugh. $36.00 HC Random House Canada

And So This is Christmas 51 Seasonally

Adjusted Poems BRIAN BILSTON

With his signature wit and playful style, the inimitable Brian Bilston returns with a charming and heartening collection of poems celebrating the joys of bizarre family festive traditions, the horrors of the office Christmas party and the impossible art of gift-giving. $28.99 HC Picador

Assorted Playing Cards

Assorted

This brand new collection of Playing Cards make a great design-led gift option. Each pack comprises a beautifully printed protective slip case box, with a quality, colour-customised playing deck inside. $12.99 ea.

HYGGE GAMES

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds, Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you’ve never seen it before. $38.00 HC Little, Brown and Company

Trivia Games Hygge (pronounced hue-guh) is a Danish word for enjoying the good things in life, and there’s nothing more hygge than spending quality time with friends and family; and there’s nothing quite like a good game to connect people. Why not be inspired by the Scandinavians and bring a little more hygge into your life? We carry a wide assortment of these fun trivia games. $27.99 ea.

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Sports 61 Above the Noise My

Home and Away

DEMAR DEROZEN DAVE ZARUM GREGG POPOVICH

In one of the last great remaining untold stories in all of sports, the Hall of Fame Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin shares for the first time an unfiltered look at playing hockey in Sweden and across North America as part of the sport’s most fabled franchises. $39.99 HC Simon & Schuster

Story of Chasing Calm

MATS SUNDIN | AMY STUART

From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbreaking and remarkable memoir chronicling a very public struggle with depression, in the hopes that other people will not suffer alone. $33.99 HC HarperCollins

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Illustrated History of Formula 1

Remarkable Story of a Horse Racing Dynasty

This is the story of one family's journey from their little corner of the woods to the top of the thoroughbred racing world. Each Turcotte found outstanding success, collectively winning a staggering 8,251 races for purse earnings just shy of $60 million. $24.95 PB Illustrated Firefly Books

A thrilling illustrated history of Formula 1 racing, from its fascinating origins and inner workings to the top drivers of the twentieth century and today, by a celebrated motorsports broadcaster and star of Formula 1: Drive to Survive. $39.99 HC Ten Speed Press

The Beautiful Dream

Turk One of the NHL’s Great

ATIBA HUTCHINSON DAN ROBSON

FRED MACDONALD

A Memoir

The Prince Edward Island-born Turk Gallant has had an extraordinary hockey career. He led Team Canada to a gold medal at the IIHF World Championship in Riga, Latvia, in 2021.

Before that, in 2017-18, he led the Vegas Golden Knights, in their inaugural season, to the Stanley Cup finals. That year, he also won the Jack Adams Award. $24.95 PB Acorn Press

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Hockey Hall of Fame True Stories 2

An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality. $36.00 HC Viking

In this follow up to his bestseller, hockey historian and writer Eric Zweig opens the doors to the Hockey Hall of Fame, revealing a treasure trove of untold tales, bizarre incidents and captivating trivia that will leave even the most devoted puck head astounded. $29.95 PB 100 color and black-and- white photographs Firefly Books

NAZEM KADRI

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Hockey Rants and Raves

Iron Mike My Life

The hottest takes and biggest beefs about hockey from the wildly popular podcaster and YouTuber.

From one of the most unique voices in hockey, Hockey Rants and Raves is packed with passionate, honest and often humorous takes on all things hockey—required reading for all fans of the game. $34.99 HC Harper

In the fraternity of NHL coaches, some stand out for their winning records, some for their big personalities and some for their unprecedented methods. Mike Keenan stands out on all these counts, and more. $36.00 HC Random House Canada

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Behind the Bench

MIKE KEENAN SCOTT MORRISON

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62 Stationery New Colours 2025 Notebooks

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A favourite notebook brand for notes and journalling in new colours. Fountain Pen friendly!

Medium (A5) size, available in hardcover and softcover formats, numbered pages (251, Hardcover; 123, Softcover), 80 g/sm paper, 2 page markers, blank table of contents, gusseted pocket. From $30.95

NEW Grip Finepens FABER CASTELL

Faber-Castell Grip Finepens harmoniously blend precision, comfort and style to enhance your writing experience.

Whether you’re note-taking, sketching or crafting intricate designs—these fineliner pens deliver! With a long, metal-encased 0.4mm tip, the Grip Finepens are ideally suitable for creating thin lines, shading and drawing with a ruler or stencils.

Grip Fine Pen Pastel 5’s $5.99 EA. Grip Fine Pens Neon 5’s $5.99 EA. Grip Fine Pens Office 10’s $10.99 EA.

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Say goodbye to hand fatigue with this pens ergonomic design. The triangular ribbed grip section and the non-slip, soft-touch surface ensure a relaxed and enjoyable writing experience, making it an ideal companion for both short notes and lengthy writing sessions.

Poquito Stylus Pen Transition from note taking with the ballpoint, to typing on your phone with the stylus. The soft rubber is as responsive as your finger, but offers improved accuracy and prevents fingerprints. Utilize it on-the-go for a variety of screens from ATMs to airport kiosks and e-readers. Choose from a stunning array of colors to suit any taste. New colours include classic brown, classic blue, classic green, gradient pink/mint, gradient blue, and gradient violet/beige. $13.99 EA.

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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.

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Stationery 63 NEW Procyon Fountain Pen Colours

Pelikano Fountain Pen PELIKAN

The absolute Classic fountain pen manufactured in Germany since 1960. The best selling student fountain pen in Germany for over 6 decades.

Available in 3 colours – blue, red, and black. Medium nib. $14.99 EA.

The long awaited new colours “Shadow Mica” and “Carmine Red” are now available. These new colours are the familiar black and red but have been treated with a special coating that gives them a particle-like shine and a smooth feel. Procyon is equipped with a “slip and seal mechanism” that allows you to write smoothly at any time. Available in medium and fine nibs. $79.00 EA.

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NEW Viper Fountain Pen DIPLOMAT

Metal body with guilloche and satin colours for a very modern effect, hooded nib, magnetic cap, comes with a converter.

Available with a fine nib. SPECIAL $110 EA.

HOLIDAY SPECIAL

Lamy Roller Ball Notebook Gift Box

The Special Edition Copper Rose Gold offers a perfect balance between timeless aesthetics and subtle sophistication. The M200 Classic Copper Rose Gold fountain pen combines a distinctive colour tone with stylish elegance.

Exclusively available as a piston fountain pen and promises the highest quality and a special writing experience. Every writing instrument is assembled by hand and carefully checked to meet the strictest quality standards. $270.00

LAMY

Includes a matching Lamy roller ball pen and A5 softcover notebook in a gift box. Available in green, blue and umbra $69.00 EA.

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Neo Slim Marshmallow Fountain Pen Particularly slim barrel made of cream white-lacquered metal, spring loaded metal clip, gold coloured tip, end bottom and clip. High quality stainless steel nib equipped with a cartridge/ converter system, fitted with a cartridge. Available in medium, fine and extra fine nibs. $97.00 EA.

Neo Slim Rainforest Fountain Pen Particularly slim barrel made of dark green-lacquered metal, spring loaded metal clip, gold coloured tip, end bottom and clip.

High quality stainless steel nib equipped with a cartridge/ converter system, fitted with a cartridge. Available in medium, fine and extra fine nibs. $97.00 EA.

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A5 size, ivory paper, ultra-smooth paper sheets encased in a “soft-touch” coated cover - 70 detachable microperforated (not punched) sheets, grey ruled, cardboard backed. $6.49 ea.

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Septcouleur Notebooks MARUMAN

Named for the colours of the rainbow, Maruman Septcouleur notebooks are as pleasant to look at as they are to use. This notebook's cover is soft to the touch and can resist water for a short time, letting you wipe off spills before they soak in. Inside, it features luxuriously smooth Maruman paper.

Features 100 sheets (200 pages) of smooth 80 gsm paper, 3 mm graph sheet style.

Durable twin-ring binding with a rose gold finish. Available in A5 and A6 sizes and a variety of popular colours. From $14.99 ea.

Cobble Hill Puzzles 65 COBBLE HILL PUZZLES

Cobble Hill Puzzles was founded in 2005 with a desire to bring quality puzzles with a loving, whimsical, nostalgic feel to jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts around the world! Their finely crafted jigsaw puzzles have been described as nostalgic, lively, endearing, sweet, and durable. Its high-quality linen paper reduces glare and makes it the perfect piece to frame as art in your home. Prices from $21.99

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66 Personal Growth Women Living Deliciously

The Joy of Connections 100 Ways to Beat Loneliness and Live a Happier and More Meaningful Life

FLORENCE GIVEN

In this bold, illustrated guide, bestselling author and podcaster Florence Given encourages women to rediscover their joy, reject toxic wellness culture, and redefine feminism for themselves. $33.99 HC Simon Element

I Decided to Live as Me

An Illustrated Checklist for How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself KIM SUHYUN | ANTON HUR The million-copy internationally bestselling illustrated life guide about how to stop comparing yourself to others—especially on social media—and how to find the strength to be yourself. $37.99 HC Penguin

RUTH K WESTHEIMER | ALLISON GILBERT | PIERRE LEHU

In Dr. Ruth’s final book, the iconic therapist offers an urgent guide to combating loneliness with 100 ways to increase connectivity right now, based on insights from her life story and her unparalleled career. $33.99 HC Rodale Books

The Inner Clock Living in Sync with our

Circadian Rhythms LYNNE PEEPLES

How the groundbreaking science of circadian rhythms can help you sleep better, feel happier, and improve your overall health. Science journalist Lynne Peeples seeks out the scientists, astronauts, athletes, and patients at the forefront of a growing movement.

Along the way, she deciphers what makes our internal clocks tick and how we can reset them for the better. $39.99 HC Riverhead Books

Hope for Cynics

Meditations for Mortals Four Weeks to

The Surprising Science of Human Goodness

Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

JAMIL ZAKI

Cynical thinking deepens social problems: when we expect the worst in people, we often bring it out of them. We don’t have to remain stuck in this cynicism trap.

Through science and storytelling, Jamil Zaki imparts the secret for beating back cynicism: hopeful skepticism—thinking critically about people and our problems, while honouring and encouraging our strengths. $39.00 HC Grand Central

OLIVER BURKEMAN

A map for a liberating journey toward a more meaningful life―a journey that begins where we actually find ourselves, not with a fantasy of where we’d like to be― from the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks. $36.00 HC Penguin Canada

How to Let Things Go 99 Tips from a Zen

Cherished Belonging The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times

SHUNMYO MASUNO ALLISON MARKIN POWELL

At a time when society is more fractured than ever before, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle invites us to see the world through a new lens of connection and build the loving community that we long to live in—a perfect message for readers of Anne Lamott, Mary Oliver, and Richard Rohr. $39.99 HC Simon & Schuster

Buddhist Monk to Relinquish Control and Free Yourself Up for What Matters

Amid the relentless cycle of news, social media, emails, and texts, it can be hard to know when, if ever, you can take a break from everything clamoring for your attention.

The internationally bestselling Buddhist monk Shunmyo Masuno offers a radical message: You can leave it all be, and, indeed, sometimes the best thing you can learn is how to do nothing. $36.00 HC Penguin

GREGORY BOYLE

How to Winter

Why We Meditate The

KARL LEIBOWITZ

DANIEL GOLEMAN TSOKNYL RINPOCHE

Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days A blend of mindset science, original research, and cultural insights for cultivating a positive “wintertime mindset,” to vanquish winter blues and find joy and comfort in dark times year-round. $39.99 HC Penguin Life

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Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion

Based on groundbreaking neuroscience, Why We Meditate is a guidebook that will help you not only break free from negative patterns of thought and behavior but radically embrace your very being. Revolutionize your health, relationships, and soul with this book that is perfect for both serious meditators and those new to the practice. $25.99 PB Atria Books

Business 67 Beyond the Hammer A Fresh

The Power of Culture

Bringing Values to Life at Work

Approach to Leadership, Culture, and Building High Performance Teams

LAURA HAMILL

A revelatory new book showing how organizations need to be proactive about their culture—and how they can achieve that vital goal. All organizations have a culture, whether they acknowledge it or not—and whether it's helping or hindering them. $36.95 HC Pegasus Books

On the Edge The Art

BRIAN GOTTLIEB

Written for managers and leaders alike, Beyond the Hammer offers a simple yet powerful approach to creating a team where everyone is aligned, and properly positioned to win. $38.99 HC ForbesBooks

The Shopify Story

of Risking Everything

How a Startup Rocketed to E-Commerce Giant by Empowering Millions of Entrepreneurs

NATE SILVER

Taking us behind the scenes from casinos to venture capital firms, and from the FTX inner sanctum to meetings of the effective altruism movement, On the Edge is a deeply reported, all-access journey into a hidden world of power brokers and risk-takers. $48.00 HC Penguin Press

LARRY MACDONALD

In The Shopify Story, economist and business journalist Larry MacDonald investigates the factors behind Shopify’s growth and shares lessons for entrepreneurs, business managers, employees, programmers, policymakers, and investors. $29.95 PB ECW Press

To Do 41 Tools to Start, Stick With, and Finish Things

10 to 25 The Science of

Every day we begin new projects and try to find pleasure in our work, all while chipping away at our long-term goals. To Do is a powerful asset for productivity that’s perfect for creative thinkers. $23.99 HC WW Norton & Company

DAVID YEAGER

Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generationand Making Your Own Life Easier

MIKAEL KROGERUS ROMAN TSCHÄPPELER

This is Strategy Make Better Plans

SETH GODIN

With Godin's trademark clarity and insight, This is Strategy provides a framework for effective and elegant strategic thinking, offering essential building blocks to turn vision into reality. It’s a rallying cry for doing work that matters. $39.00 PB Authors Equity

Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the new science of motivating young people ages ten through twenty-five in this groundbreaking book that is a must-read for managers, parents, educators, coaches, and mentors everywhere. $39.99 HC Avid Reader Press

Mother/ Founder

68 Women on the Trials and Triumphs of Starting a Business and Raising a Family AMANDA JANE JONES JENNIFER FERNANDEZ

Starting a business can be daunting, scary, and exciting, all at once; so too can starting a family. But they can coexist—as the incredible roster of women in this book demonstrate, entrepreneurship can be both a sustainable and fulfilling model for working motherhood. $45.00 HC Artisan

Money

For the Culture

A Story of Humanity DAVID MCWILLIAMS

Renowned global economist David McWilliams unlocks the mysteries and the awesome power of money: what it is, how it works, and why it matters. The story of money is the story of earth’s most inventive, destructive, and dangerous animal: Homo sapiens. It is our story. $36.99 HC Simon & Schuster

The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be MARCUS COLLINS

In For the Culture, Marcus Collins argues that true cultural engagement is the most powerful vehicle for influencing behavior. If you want to get people to move, you must first understand the underlying cultural forces that make them tick. $25.99 PB PublicAffairs

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Lorna’s Picks

“A child. A book. A read. A chat. This is the way the mind grows. Not with a test but a tale.”

- MICHAEL ROSEN

Rage the Night A Novel

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This story grabbed me from the start with Donna Morrissey’s beautiful writing style, and it never let go throughout Roan’s search for answers about a family he never thought he had.

Morrissey’s ability to convey both the emotions and the reality of the situation left me feeling like I was on the ice flows off Newfoundland with “the b’yes”.

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The Curse of Eelgrass Bog

The heroine in this continuing story of Brooklyn, Eilis, is faced with an overwhelming situation and retreats back to her homeland of Ireland to visit family. This story is full of Irish charm and half-told truths as Eilis explores a relationship with a previous beau. This is a book that I could not put down.

Kess and her new friend, Lilou, set out to break a mysterious curse, but it leads them directly to the eelgrass bog, the last place anyone would want to go. This chapter book is just creepy enough with a twisting plot and loads of enjoyment. Did I mention Jim, the shrunken head in a jar? I loved this book.

MARY AVERLING

COLM TÓIBÍN

Tress of the Emerald Sea

The Last Devil to Die

BRANDON SANDERSON

RICHARD OSMAN

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

A Cosmere Novel

This is a true sci-fi fairytale, where Tress sets off across the seas (not seas made of water, but spores) to rescue her love, Charlie. As Tress faces challenges, we watch her grow as a person and as a pirate. It is a fun story and an enjoyable read.

The books of the Thursday Murder Club series keep getting better and therefore they continue to make my top five list. As usual, there is a lot going on in this murder case and these seniors are two steps ahead of the police, but this time there is an emotional element which wraps it all up to one enjoyable read.

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The Creative Act: A Way of Being RICK RUBIN

Recipe for a Good Life LESLEY CREWE

Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel VALÉRIE PERRIN

Le Code De Katharina JORN LIER HORST

Legendborn TRACY DEONN

The Phoenix Crown: A Novel KATE QUINN JANIE CHANG

The Mountain Is You: Transforming SelfSabotage Into Self-Mastery BRIANNA WIEST

The Emperor's Soul: 10th Anniversary Special Edition BRANDON SANDERSON

L'Enfant, La Taupe, Le Renard Et Le Cheval CHARLIE MACKESY

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries HEATHER FAWCETT

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Brittney’s Picks

"Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you."

- CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN, The Shadow of the Wind

Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets

BEST OF 2024

RYAN T HIGGINS

Another hilarious and beautifully illustrated children’s book by Ryan Higgins! This book shows the difficulties and responsibilities, but mostly the love that comes with owning a pet and how at the end of the day it’s all worth having that best friend that is always by your side.

The Ministry of Time A Novel

The Other Valley A Novel SCOTT ALEXANDER HOWARD

Scott Alexander Howard's debut novel follows a young girl living in a valley wedged between two others: one twenty years back in time, one twenty years into the future.

16-year-old Odile is living in "present" time when she witnesses a mourning crossing of the border, which are all strictly controlled by the Counseil. This sighting may have changed the entire course of her future.This coming-of-age novel is a great way to dip your toes into sci-fi.

KALIANE BRADLEY

A genre-crossing debut novel intertwining aspects of sci-fi, romance, and comedy; one of the most captivating novels I’ve ever read, you’ll struggle to put it down! On multiple “best book” lists this past summer, including Barack Obama’s and The Washington Post’s.

A Way to Be Happy CAROLINE ADDERSON

Written by award-winning author Caroline Adderson, this short story collection follows individuals from all walks of life: from addicts to a Russian hitman and nearly everyone that falls in-between. These stories are all individually engaging, but when seen together they show how we can all find our way to happiness even in the most mundane ways.

Past Favourites

The Dallergut Dream Department Store A Novel

MIYE LEE | SANDY JOOSUN LEE

At Dallergut’s, dreams are sold like any material item; customers of all different species simply walk in, purchase a dream, and are off on their next subconscious journey. A magical and light read for anyone who loves a twist of fantasy. This book is perfect for those who enjoyed Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop.

Eleanor & Park: A Novel RAINBOW ROWELL

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood MARJANE SATRAPI

Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel LEWIS HANCOX

The "I Don't Want to Cook" Book ALYSSA BRANTLEY

For Every One JASON REYNOLDS

Be Quiet!

RYAN T HIGGINS

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder HOLLY JACKSON

I Kissed Shara Wheeler: A Novel CASEY MCQUISTON

Adulthood Is a Myth: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection SARAH ANDERSEN

Murdle: Volume 2 G T KARBER

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Leslie’s Picks

"You might say that I can't find meaning in life without books."

- YOKO OGAWA

Forgotten on Sunday

VALÉRIE PERRIN | HILDEGARDE SERLE

Perrin's first novel, published in French in 2015, has finally been published in English in North America. The story of a very young woman, Justine, working with the very old, and the story of one woman in particular. Helene seems to only remember the past and her life with a man named Lucien. It is also the story of Justine's family and the mystery of the death of her parents when she was 4. Poignant, sometimes sad, at many times delightful - this is so wonderfully written and engaging.

Perrin is now a must-read author for me.

BEST OF 2024

Shakespeare

What I Ate in One Year

JUDI DENCH BRENDAN O'HEA

STANLEY TUCCI

The Man Who Pays the Rent

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The title says it all - this book describes many of Tucci's meals over the course of a year. It's filled with film sets, personal travel and time at home with his family. It highlights the joy he takes in all of these things and is extremely entertaining. Also, there are recipes.

What a fun read, perfect for anyone who loves Shakespeare, live theatre or Judi Dench in anything.

The conversation is charming, funny and full of insight into the iconic roles that have defined a career.

Hera

The Bright Sword

JENNIFER SAINT

LEV GROSSMAN

A Novel

A Novel of King Arthur

My lIst wouldn't be complete without a Greek myth retelling. Jennifer Saint is one of my favorite authors of the genre and her latest is her first with an immortal main character. Hera goddess of marriage, daughter of Kronos, sister/wife of Zeus, mother of Ares. This novel gives us Hera herself, not defined by these men.

Absolutely wonderful.

The Arthurian legend is something I've read a lot about over many years.

I was a little reluctant to read another version, but I enjoyed Grossman's Magicians trilogy so much that I decided to trust his ability. This is a very worthy entry, a unique take, an expansion of little-explored characters, and enough action to keep it moving at a good pace.

Past Favourites

Arcadia: A Novel LAUREN GROFF

A Suitable Boy: A Novel VIKRAM SETH

The Interestings: A Novel MEG WOLITZER

Kindred OCTAVIA E BUTLER

My Name is Asher Lev CHAIM POTOK

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home TEMBI LOCKE

I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections NORA EPHRON

How to Eat: Vintage Classics Anniversary Edition NIGELLA LAWSON

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus MARGARET ATWOOD

Not Wanted On the Voyage TIMOTHY FINDLEY

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“The power of literature lies in its ability to transport us to different worlds.”

- COLM TÓIBÍN

The Way of the Hermit

My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness

BEST OF 2024

KEN SMITH | WILL MILLARD

This book moved me and made me laugh in equal measure. Ken has spent the last 40 years living an ‘0ff grid’ existence in the Scottish wilderness. He has lived a full and varied life and it shines through in this beautiful memoir. Filled with interesting stories and information (I may try homemade wine brewing now), it is a gem of a book. It’s a five star from me.

Shelterwood A Novel

Long Island A Novel

I fell in love with the main character Olive Augusta Radley from the get go. Smart and tenacious this 11 year old girl is joined by two younger Choctaw girls when they make the perilous journey to the Winding stair mountains as they escape outlaws and an abusive stepfather. Shelterwood explores issues around women pioneers, the plight of the Chocktaw nation and the break up of tribal lands. Another historical fiction favourite, it was a page turner for me.

Colm Tóibín is a great storyteller.

Set in the 1970s it follows the lives of Eilish, Tony, Jim and Nancy now twenty years on from when we first met them in the award winning book Brooklyn. Their fates are intertwined which leads to troubling family secrets and big decisions.

Tóibín describes small town life so well and delves deep into the emotional lives of his characters.

LISA WINGATE

COLM TÓIBÍN

Knife Meditations After an

The Marriage Portrait

SALMAN RUSHDIE

I love historical fiction. This book is inspired by the true story of Lucrezia De Medici who was forced to marry Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara at the age of 15. It follows her demise after her entrance into courtly life with her new husband.

O’Farrell breathes life into a teenage girl from the 16th century, illustrating the constraints and challenges faced by women in a patriarchal society. The writing is incredibly rich in description, vivid and poetic and I found myself rereading some passages to savour once more.

Attempted Murder

This is a powerful and intimate account of the recent assassination attempt on the authors life. It delves into his past, the devastating impact of the fatwa, and the physical and emotional suffering following the knife attack that left him blind in one eye.

Not sparing in its grisly details, it is thought provoking on matters such as freedom of speech.

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MAGGIE O'FARRELL

Me Before You: A Novel JOJO MOYES

The Sea JOHN BANVILLE

Small Things Like These CLAIRE KEEGAN

Normal People: A Novel SALLY ROONEY

H is for Hawk HELEN MACDONALD

The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel KEN FOLLETT

Demon Copperhead BARBARA KINGSOLVER

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings JOHN O’DONOHUE

Death of a Naturalist SEAMUS HEANY

Thin Places KERRI NI DOCHARTAIGH

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"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."

– JOHN WATERS

Mina's Matchbox A Novel

BEST OF 2024

YOKO OGAWA | STEPHEN B SNYDER

Reading Mina’s Matchbox reminded me why I so cherish A Prayer for Owen Meaney. Mina is a fragile young girl living in a grand house in 1970s Japan. She is limited physically but lives expansively writing stories constructed from matchbox illustrations. Her visiting cousin is invited to share Mina’s creative excursions and the girls, from such different social backgrounds, form a bond that is both practical and inspirational. Like Owen, Mina is both our fixed self and our infinite self.

Ghost Mountain

The Silver Bone A Novel

Dublin author of the beloved Leonard and Hungry Paul has dazzled again. Excited as a kid at the fairground, I grabbed Ronan Hession’s new novel, Ghost Mountain, with gusto the minute I saw it. With a few months left, I am still sure it will be my favourite book of 2024.

Considered by many as Ukraine’s greatest contemporary novelist, Andre Kurkov is one of the few writers I will read no matter where he decides to take me. In The Silver Bone, Kurkov employs the structure of the mystery novel to tell this tale of eastern Europe just after the end of WWI. Not a regular reader of the traditional mystery, I enjoyed that angle of Kurkov’s story but revelled in his powerful characterizations, his deftness in sifting through political and bureaucratic inanities and his skill in finding joy and humour in dark times.

RONAN HESSION

ANDREY KURKOV

Long Island A Novel

Come to the Window

The story of Eilish Lacey continues in Long Island, a very welcome companion to 2009’s stellar Brooklyn.

Toibin has the rare ability to make the commonplace almost exotic, the sedate, breathtaking. Toibin, in his mastery, shows us that sometimes, settling and safety can be as dangerous as the allure of the ephemeral.

HOWARD NORMAN

COLM TÓIBÍN

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A Novel

The works of Howard Norman often feature the lives of Nova Scotians challenged by historical events and familial intrigue. Come to the Window continues that tradition with a novel set in 1918 as the war rumbles in Europe.

Norman’s quiet strength as storyteller and wordsmith only left me wishing this book were twice, thrice as long. Sequel, please.

Kamouraska ANNE HÉBERT

Winter’s Tale MARK HELPRIN

Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story DANIEL RACHEL

The Stone Carvers JANE URQUHART

Amsterdam Stories NESCIO

Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks ANDY BURNS

Orlando: A Biography VIRGINIA WOOLF

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz MORDECAI RICHLER

A Fine Balance ROHINTON MISTRY

Not Wanted On the Voyage TIMOTHY FINDLAY

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“I do think the purpose of fiction is to reanimate our lives, re-enchant ourselves, and turn us back into the irreducible complexity of the smallest, simplest day.”

- RICHARD POWERS

Miss May Does Not Exist The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius

BEST OF 2024

CARRIE COUROGEN

As someone who has spent the past couple years reading any content I could find (not much!) on the elusive director/writer/comedian Elaine May, I was caught off guard and elated when I found out about this biography's imminent release. Courogen has constructed a nuanced and loving portrait of a great mind and tells the riveting, frustrating production tales of each of May’s films, supplying lots of useful details for any aspiring filmmaker.

Ordinary Human Failings A Novel

Cocaine & Rhinestones A History of George Jones & Tammy Wynette

TYLER MAHAN COE | WAYNE WHITE

Initially a podcast series, Coe’s incredible dedication to his subject matter is beautifully presented (complete with evocative illustrations by Wayne White) and preserved in this book. Coe’s reverence for and knowledge of the country music genre and industry affords him the clarity to place each supporting character (producers, musicians, friends), each deceivingly irrelevant historic event and – especially – each vocal performance into its proper context and significance.

The Wendy Award WALTER SCOTT

Walter Scott has outdone himself with the sharp and devastating pacing, satire and facial expressions in the newest installment of the Wendy books. As always, the heart, insight and comedic timing of this graphic novel series establishes it as no less than a millennial, Montreal-based Simpsons.

Past Favourites

Love That Bunch ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB

The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels EDWARD ST AUBYN

The Easter Parade: A Novel RICHARD YATES

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion JOHNATHAN HAIDT

MEGAN NOLAN

Nolan's novel is a disarmingly astute, tender and memorable portrayal of the Greens, an Irish family living in London in the 1990's, and the explosive tragedy that befalls them. I was very taken with Nolan's writing and started underlining sentences by the second page – finding that concepts I've always struggled to describe were articulated perfectly and with ease.

The Dirty Tricks Department Stanley Lovell,

the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare JOHN LISLE

Lisle's history of the OSS is a fascinating collection of successes, failures and unpredictable tales – abundant throughout the development of covert devices, weapons and psychological, and the lives of the many wild characters.

Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us JESSE BERING

Antkind: A Novel CHARLIE KAUFMAN

Beauty KERASCOET HUBERT

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government DAVID TALBOT

Liar’s Club: A Memoir MARY KARR

Confessions of a Mask YUKIO MISHIMA

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"I do, I'm afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people.

Books are so easy to get along with."

- KATHERINE RUNDELL, The Rooftoppers

Full of Myself

BEST OF 2024

A Graphic Memoir About Body Image SIOBHAN GALLAGHER

In addition to being a great friend and one of the sweetest and funniest people I know, Siobhan has also written my favourite book of the year. Insightful, relatable, nakedly honest and often hilarious, Siobhan's graphic memoir stands alongside such greats as Alison Bechdel, Kate Beaton and Julie Doucet.

The Treasury of Folklore

You Are Here

DEE DEE CHAINEY | WILLOW WINSHAM | JOE MCLAREN If accursed tales are not your thing, I urge you to seek out this richly illustrated compendium of legends, myths and traditions of the natural world. Even a cursory dip into this enthralling collection will enrich and entertain you.

A Novel

DAVID NICHOLLS

David Nicholls's sparkling brilliance and clever wit is on full display in You Are Here. A hard-won romance set against a rather ill-advised hike along the English countryside makes for an immensely likable blend of heart and humour.

Tales Accursed Impossible Creatures KATHERINE RUNDELL

Reading Impossible Creatures transported me back to childhood, when the best novels contained adventure, magic, energy, impeccable pacing and boundless imagination. This book contains all of that and then some. This is storytelling at its finest.

Past Favourites

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times KATHERINE MAY

The Railway Children EDITH NESBITT

A Folk Horror Anthology RICHARD WELLS

It's that time of year again, when the days get shorter, darkness and cold set in on all sides and we seek comfort in ancient horrors, creeping wilderness and ritual sacrifice. Yes, I'm still referring to December.

Richard Wells's prints are the perfect accompaniment to this follow-up of folk horror favourite Damnable Tales. Find it before it finds you.

The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for midwinter NIGEL SLATER

The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil AL RIDENOUR

Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature JOHN MCMURTRIE

Two for Joy: The myriad ways to enjoy the countryside ADAM HENSON

Mouse on the River: A Journey Through Nature ALICE MELVIN

Wild Trails to the Sea PENELOPE JACKSON

A Fine and Private Place PETER S BEAGLE

Oscar’s Lion ADAM BARON

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“Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.”

- VIRGINIA WOOLF

The Push

ASHLEY AUDRAIN

BEST OF 2024

Blythe Connor is a new mother to her daughter Violet and is determined to be the best she can be. In the early days of motherhood, with a lack of connection, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with Violet. Her husband, Fox, becomes irritated, forcing Blythe to question herself and her instincts. When Blythe gives birth to her son Sam, she feels an immediate connection that she never felt with Violet. When life changes for the family in a devastating instant, Blythe faces the uncomfortable truth.

No Country for Old Men

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Llewellyn Moss, a young Vietnam veteran, is on a hunting trip near the Texas-Mexico border when he comes across what remains of a cartel shootout; among the debris is a load of heroin and two million dollars in cash. Llewellyn makes a heat-of-the-moment decision and takes the money, running home with it. The following chain reaction impacts him, his loved ones, and anyone else who gets in the way.

SANGU MANDANNA

Mika Moon is one of the few witches in Britain. She was born with powers that make her unique and connect her to a secret society of other irregular individuals. Forced to be alone and follow strict rules that protect her, Mika finds freedom online, where she posts content that she believes no one will take seriously, until someone does.

1922

The Lathe Of Heaven

Wilfred James and his wife, Arlette own adjoining farmland properties in Nebraska, on which they have raised their son, Henry. When Arlette threatens to sell her portion of the land to move to the city, Wilfred develops a daring plan, which may work if he can persuade Henry to help him. In his confession, Wilfred details his crime and all the awful things that occur afterwards.

George Orr lives in a future world plagued by violence, social unrest, and environmental catastrophes.

Although he appears completely normal, he can alter reality through his dreams. Seeking help to control his abilities, George begins to attend sessions with a psychiatrist, Dr. Haber. Soon enough, Dr. Haber grasps George‘s power, manipulating it to his will. George must find a way to protect his power and reality.

STEPHEN KING

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URSULA K LE GUIN

Grimm’s Fairy Tales JACOB & WILHELM GRIMM

Snoop Dogg Presents: Goon with the Spoon SNOOP DOGG EARL E-40 STEVENS

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties TOM O’NEILL

Amazing Art: Extreme Color-by-Number Pictures to Reveal LAUREN FARNSWORTH

The Yellow Wallpaper CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

The Exorcist WILLIAM PETER BLATTY

Puffin MARTIN JENKINS JENNI DESMOND

Eastern Canada Birds: Pocket Guide KRISTA KAGUME GREGORY KENNEDY

A Bird Lover's Sticker Book LEANA FISCHER

Pet Sematary STEPHEN KING

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"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

- TERRY PRATCHETT in Guards! Guards!

Dungeons & Dragons

The Fallbacks: Bound for Ruin

BEST OF 2024

JALEIGH JOHNSON

Do you know a fan of Dungeons and Dragons who you're struggling to find a gift for as you've already bought them too many dice? Well first off, too many dice is never an issue, the more the better in fact. But if you are searching for a great novel to scratch that particular itch, then this one is the way to go. It nails the absurdity and fun of an actual home game and will definitely satisfy the D&D craving for any fan.

Cascade Failure A Novel

A Sweet Sting of Salt

The galaxy's in some serious trouble and a conspiracy to annihilate entire planets is starting to look less and less like fiction with each passing minute, but hey at least the universe's best is on it, right?

Erm well I suppose Captain Eoan's crew will have to do for now. A wildly entertaining ride with hands down one of the best crews of lovable outlaws and misfits that I've read in a long time.

ROSE SUTHERLAND

A Novel

L M SAGAS

For those who love a good myth or folklore re-imagined, take a chance on this tenderly written, beautifully queer take on The Selkie Wife. A slow-burning but powerful love story between two women, both secluded from society because of who they are, and neither truly by their own choice. Truly a beautiful tale.

Grey Dog

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

This wonderfully gothic tale set in the early 1900s and eerily crafted by one of Halifax's own is really not a book to miss. The unhinging of Ada Byrd's journal entries as the story unfolds and a madness, seemingly stirred on by the titular Grey Dog, surrounds the once quiet town, is delightfully thrilling to read.

TJ KLUNE

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Patricia Wants to Cuddle: A Novel SAMANTHA ALLEN

The Song of Achilles: A Novel MADELINE MILLER

On the Origin of Species and Other Stories BO-YOUNG KIM

Storm Front JIM BUTCHER

The House in the Cerulean Sea was an absolutely delightful tale with characters so beautifully written that it was impossible not to care for them within moments of meeting them on the page. So when the story came to a close it was a rather bittersweet farewell.

Lucky for us that wasn't truly where this tale ends and we can now return to the Marsyas Island Orphanage in the newest novel which will surely be just as lovingly crafted and heartwarming as the last.

Leech HIRON ENNES

The Penguin Book of Dragons SCOTT G BRUCE

Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D DAVID KUSHNER KOREN SHADMI

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The Pariah ANTHONY RYAN

Her Body Among Animals PAOLA FERRANTE

The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer MARTHA WELLS

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“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

- LENA DUNHAM

And Then, Boom!

BEST OF 2024

LISA FIPPS

This is a fantastic novel-in-verse that will grab your heart, and attention and not let go until the end. Little Joe Oak is one of those characters that you won’t soon forget.

Although the story deals with some challenging, and timely issues it is ultimately hopeful, complete with an amazing grandmother, and cute puppies! This is my favourite middle grade read of the year.

This Summer Will Be Different

All the Colors of the Dark

CARLEY FORTUNE

When you are searching for something light and easy to read, This Summer Will Be Different fits the bill.

Lucy and Felix’s love story, spanning five summers, will draw you in, but the incredible setting of PEI is the real star here. Start the car, we’re heading to the Island!

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Butt or Face?

KARI LAVELLE

Olivetti ALLIE MILLINGTON

Done in One: Perfect Recipes in One Pot, Pan or Skillet EMILY RICHARDS SYLVIA KONG

Simply AI DK

Barkley: A Biography TIMOTHY BELLA

You Are Here: A Novel DAVID NICHOLLS

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Another excellent offering from the talented Atlantic author, Lesley Crewe. This one explores widowhood, and is wildly entertaining.

It is filled with quirky, flawed, and funny characters, and is set in New Brunswick!

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A highly entertaining , intergalactic picture book where a flying saucer crash lands in a farmer’s field at midnight. The aliens try to convince the owners that they are human. The owners welcome the aliens, and offer their help with the spaceship. A funny and (and cleverly disguised) story of kindness and acceptance. Super great for the young, and young at heart.

When the World Tips Over JANDY NELSON

A superb, brick of a crime novel that is exquisitely written with achingly real characters who will burrow into your heart and live there indefinitely. A top shelf read.

Death & Other Inconveniences

We Are Definitely Human

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men CLAIRE KEEGAN

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir MATTHEW PERRY

The Artivist NIKKOLAS SMITH

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“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”

- JORGE LUIS BORGES

The Curve of Time New, Expanded Edition

M WYLIE BLANCHET | EDITH IGLAUER | MICHAEL BLANCHET

BEST OF 2024

I've long meant to read this classic about a widowed mother of five who takes her kids boating up the coast of B.C. Raising five kids on a boat is a great hook, while reading I kept thinking "how is she doing this?" The ending takes an odd turn too, Blanchet winds it up with a parable-like tale her and her kids conjured up about an Orca trapped in a lagoon; strange and sweet.

Hell of a Ride Chasing Home and Survival on a Bicycle Voyage Across Canada MARTIN BAUMAN

It's a safe bet that a reporter (a rare job title these days) who decides to write a book will not waste your time. All that familiarity with research, writing on a deadline and limited word counts pays off in Bauman's memoir of riding his bike across Canada to raise money for men's mental health. The journey is a grind mentally and physically. Bauman gives the reader a taste of that but doesn't dwell on it too much, using his reporter's instincts to whisk the narrative along as if we had e-assist.

Captain Solitude

One Surfer's Search for the World's Greatest Sailor

RC SHAW Another bike book and definitely no e-assistance here, pedals or otherwise. In Captain Solitude RC Shaw abandons his phone and labours his way around Nova Scotia's South Shore wrapping back into the Bay Of Fundy on a month-long quest to find out more about his hero - bluenoser and great 19th century sailor Joshua Slocum. Keeping it light, informative and keying in on a few memorable characters along the way made this book a great, sunny read.

Asterisms Poems

Water, Water Poems

From a droplet of water to the James Webb space telescope Donna Kane's Asterisms considers life on Earth and the cosmos with humour and wonder. The whole collection is strong but the poems that throw in unexpected facts, like the location of the metal cylinder that represents a kilogram, delight in a way that reminds me of being a child and obsessed with those sorts of oddities.

At 83 years old, Collins's writing has become infused with that late life urgency that blesses poets and seems to curse writers working in different formats. It didn't hurt that the second poem in this collection captured how much I was enjoying another book I happened to be reading at the same time: "I'm having a swell time reading Lonesome Dove, glad I still have 400 pages to go." I had to settle for only 119 more pages of Collins.

DONNA KANE

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On Class DEBORAH DUNDAS

Pachinko MIN JIN LEE

Demon Copperhead: A Novel BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me ADA CALHOUN

BILLY COLLINS

Lonesome Dove: A Novel LARRY MCMURTRY

Gratitude OLIVER SACKS

But What If We're Pictures at a Revolution: Wrong?: Thinking About the Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood Present As If It Were the Past CHUCK KLOSTERMAN MARK HARRIS

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Late Nights on Air ELIZABETH HAY

The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings GEOFF DYER

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Dan’s Picks

“Reading is not solely an exercise to feed one’s inner life. Rather, eating the book – not just nibbling at it, or having a little taste here and there, but eating it wholesale – produces a changed person, an empowered person, a different kind of person, and changed people mean social and political change, too, not just personal change.”

-DANIEL COLEMAN

BEST OF 2024

Democracy and Solidarity On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis JAMES DAVISON HUNTER

I am still working my way through this important book.

Hunter’s solid reputation as a leading cultural historian led me to read this over some of the other titles on this topic. I am finding the concept of solidarity fascinating and relevant.

Another Day Sabbath Poems 2013-2023

The Secret Hours

The publication of a new book by Wendell Berry is cause for celebration. Berry, who just turned 90, is contrarian, prophetic and sage. His words and example are worth following. A favourite author and highly recommended.

Yes, there was a book series before the TV series! And, as much as I like Gary Oldman in his role as Jackson Lamb, the books are still better. I would describe this as the prequel to the Slough House book series and it’s my favourite Mick Herron to date.

MICK HERRON

WENDELL BERRY

Darwin's Hornpipe

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

DEIRDRE KESSLER

The Glass Hotel: A Novel EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind ALAN JACOBS

Standing by Words: Essays WENDELL BERRY

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I think anyone who read, David Grann’s The Wager, will enjoy Deirdre’s novel, Darwin’s Hornpipe. Loosely based on Deirdre’s great grandfather’s whaling ship experiences, this also reminds me of my father’s early love for books on sea adventures. Beautifully published by Penumbra Press.

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Tim Alberta lays bare the scammers and con artists, the farcical, the division and the abuse of power that is wrecking what should be a movement for good. “An astonishingly clear-eyed look at a murky movement.” - Los Angeles Times

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy NATHAN THRALL

Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath BILL BROWDER

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities REBECCA SOLNIT

Prophet Song: A Novel PAUL LYNCH

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury EVAN OSNOS

Jack: A Novel MARILYNNE ROBINSON

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