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New and Noteworthy

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How Fiction Works - hardcover
By James Wood - $26.50 - add to cart

What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay ...

 

In Search of April Raintree (25th Anniversary Edition) - trade paperback
By Beatrice Mosionier - $18.00 - add to cart

Two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless to change their fortunes, they are separated, and each put into different foster homes. Yet over the years, the bond between them g...

 

In Spite of Myself: A Memoir - hardcover
By Christopher Plummer - $37.00 - add to cart

Canada’s most celebrated and acclaimed actor lets loose in a magnificent memoir that will delight and enchant readers across the country. A rollicking, rich self-portrait written by one of today...

 

The Indian Clerk: A Novel - trade paperback
By David Leavitt - $16.00 - add to cart

Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk tak...

 

Indignation - hardcover
By Philip Roth - $30.00 - add to cart

Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding...

 

The Journal of Jules Renard - trade paperback
By Jules Renard - $18.50 - add to cart

Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by wri...

 

A Lion's Tale - mass market paperback
By Chris Jericho - $9.50 - add to cart

Chris Jericho is the first undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the WWE and WCW, and has been called one of the fifty greatest wrestlers of all time. Now retired, he is writing his memoir, telling th...

 

A Long Way Gone - trade paperback
By Ishmael Beah - $14.00 - add to cart

It is estimated that in the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now in his...

 

The Marriage Benefit: The Surprising Rewards of Staying Together - hardcover
By Mark O'connell - $26.99 - add to cart

Baby boomers' expectations for their marriages are often unrealistic. When their relationship comes up short on romance and sex, but seems long on disagreements and strife, many boomers choose to l...

 

The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood - trade paperback
By Mark Kurzem - $17.50 - add to cart

When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freezing Russian forest until he was picked up by a group of Latvian SS soldiers....

 

Missing Sarah - trade paperback
By Maggie De Vries - $18.00 - add to cart

On April 14, 1998, Sarah de Vries disappeared from her usual spot on the corner of Princess and Hastings in Vancouver. She became one of the many women who had vanished from the Downtown Eastside--...

 

The Montreal Canadiens: 100 Years of Glory - hardcover
By D'arcy Jenish - $35.00 - add to cart

The definitive history of the Montreal Canadiens–to coincide with their Centenary in 2009 Before there were slapshots, Foster Hewitt, or even an NHL, there were the Canadiens. Founded on Decembe...

 

More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers - trade paperback
By Cbc - $24.95 - add to cart

A broadcasting fixture for more than 45 years and Canada’s preeminent public lecture series, the CBC's Massey Lectures feature provocative talks on pressing topics by major contemporary thinkers. S...

 

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - trade paperback - discounted
By Oliver Sacks - $13.97 - add to cart

What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capabl...

 

My Years as Prime Minister - trade paperback
By Jean Chretien - $22.00 - add to cart

My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime minister. By the time he left office, Jean ...

 

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