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  • Elle

    A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor General’s Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on what might be a true story, the novel chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Wanderlust

    A Social History of Travel

    Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne Paquet delves into the social history of travel. Now a multi-billion dollar industry, travel is also one of the world's oldest. Paquet follows hypochondriac Greeks to the Oracle of Delphi, checks out the ... Read more

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  • The Science of Shakespeare

    A New Look at the Playwright's Universe

    by Dan Falk ...
    William Shakespeare lived at a time when the medieval world — a world of magic, astrology, witchcraft, and superstition of all kinds — was just beginning to give way to more modern ways of thinking. Shakespeare and Galileo were born in the same year, and new ideas about the human body, the earth, and the universe at large were just starting to transform Western thought. Shakespeare was not a ... Read more

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  • The Mongolian Chronicles

    A Story of Eagles, Demons, and Empires

    by Allen Smutylo ...
    The Mongolia you never knew existed.Mongolia beyond Genghis Khan.In the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting not with traps or guns, but on horseback with golden eagles.The Mongolian Chronicles recounts a story of this untamed world, seen ... Read more

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  • Blaze Island

    A Globe and Mail Top 100 SelectionHamilton Reads 2021 SelectionA Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book of the YearA 49th Shelf Books of the Year (Fiction) SelectionOne of "20 books you need to read this winter," Maclean'sFor those who loved Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed, Shakespeare-inspired novel from bestselling author Catherine Bush.The time is now or an alternate ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Northern Light

    Power, Land, and the Memory of Water

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Winner, Banff Mountain Book Award for Environmental LiteratureFinalist, Lambda Literary Award (LGBTQ Nonfiction)"It begins to rain as we fly, falling in solid sheets, water from sky to earth — a free system of exchange."Kazim Ali’s earliest memories are of Jenpeg, a temporary town in the forests of northern Manitoba where his immigrant father worked on the construction of a hydroelectric dam. As a ... Read more

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  • The Book of Letters I Didn't Know Where to Send

    Steve Patterson's The Book of Letters I Didn't Know Where to Send is a collection of — wait for it — letters, written by award-winning stand-up comedian — you guessed it — Steve Patterson.The host of CBC Radio's The Debaters since 2007, Steve Patterson has become a household name, with more than 700,000 listeners tuning in each week. He has performed at several of the Just for Laughs prestigious ... Read more

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  • Walls

    Travels Along the Barricades

    In this ambitious blend of travel and reportage, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world’s most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire and answer the question: What does it mean to live against the walls? Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco’s desert wall. He meets with illegal Punjabi migrants who have circumvented the fencing around ... Read more

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  • Too Dumb for Democracy?

    Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones

    by David Moscrop ...
    Bad decisions down to a science.D'oh-mocracy at its finest.Brexit. Trump. Ford Nation. In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age.In an era overshadowed by income inequality, environmental catastrophes, terrorism at home and abroad, and the decline of democracy, Moscrop argues that ... Read more

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  • Down Inside

    Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service

    by Robert Clark ...
    A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada’s most dangerous and notorious prisoners, including Paul Bernardo and Tyrone Conn. He dealt with escapes, lockdowns, prisoner murders, ... Read more

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  • D-Day to Carpiquet

    The North Shore Regiment and the Liberation of Europe

    by Marc Milner ...
    Series Book 12 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    The brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. On June 6, 1944, the soldiers landed on the coast of France as part of the first wave of the D-Day invasion. After securing the eastern flank of the Canadian landing along Juno Beach, the Regiment was in constant contact with the enemy ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Captured Hearts

    New Brunswick's War Brides

    Series Book 12 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you’ve ever known behind — your family, friends, and way of life — to begin a new life in Canada. This is the story of hundreds of women who made their way to New Brunswick at the end of the ... Read more

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