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A Place for Everything

The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

JUDITH FLANDERS

The story of alphabetical order has been shaped

by some of history’s most compelling characters.

And yet, while the order of the alphabet

now rules, it has remained curiously invisible.

$38.00 HC Basic Books

Burning the Books

A History of the Deliberate Destruction of

Knowledge

RICHARD OVENDEN

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford

narrates the global history of the willful destruction—

and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge.

$42.50 HC 16 Illustrations Harvard University Press

Classic Paperbacks

Memory Game

RICHARD BAKER

Richard Baker’s remarkable paintings of vintage

paperback books capture these intimate details.

The book portraits “feature titles by some of the

most iconic writers of the modern era.”

$ 29.95 Princeton Architectural Press

Classic Paperbacks

Notecards & Envelopes

RICHARD BAKER

Brooklyn-based still-life painter Richard Baker

scours used bookstores in search of appropriately

careworn paperbacks to immortalize in his 12-by-

10.5-inch gouache portraits.

$24.95 Stationery Princeton Architectural Press

EX LIBRIS

100+ Books to Read and Reread

MICHIKO KAKUTANI

One hundred personal, thought-provoking essays

of the life-changing books she wouldn’t

want you to miss—beautifully illustrated

throughout. $34.00 HC Clarkson Potter

Librarian Tales

Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches

from the Stacks

WILLIAM OTTENS

An insider’s look at one of the most prevalent, yet

commonly misunderstood institutions!

$22.99 PB Skyhorse

The Call Me Ishmael

Phone Book

An Interactive Guide to Life-Changing Books

LOGAN SMALLEY | STEPHANIE KENT

A quirky and entertaining interactive guide to

reading, featuring voicemails, literary Easter eggs,

checklists, and more, from the creators of the

popular multimedia project.

$27.00 PB ILLUSTRATIONS Avid Reader Press

The Look of the Book

Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edge of Literature

PETER MENDELSUND, DAVID J. ALWORTH

Fusing word and image, this captivating investigation

goes behind the scenes of the cover design process

to answer this question and more.

$66.00 HC Ten Speed Press

OUT OF PRINT Literary Themed Products

Each purchase helps to fund literacy programs and book

donations to communities in need.

Assorted Cozy

Reading Socks

OUT OF PRINT

Cooler days and longer nights

mean more time to curl up

with a book. Choose from

Let it Poe, Season’s Reading,

Bookshelf or Winter Reading.

Unisex. 97% polyester, 3%

spandex. Small: Shoe Sizes:

5.5-9/Sock: 9-11, Large: Shoe

Sizes: 8.5-12/Sock: 10-13.

Made in the USA. $19.99

Assorted

Literary Face

Masks

OUT OF PRINT

Non-medical adult face mask.

Outer layer: 100% polyester,

inner layer: 95% cotton/5%

lycra. Stretch polyester ear

loops. Oversized design for

full coverage. Works with

inserts (not included).

Made in the USA. $16.99 ea

Assorted

Stephen King

Socks

OUT OF PRINT

Choose from IT, The Shining,

Cujo or Carrie. 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.

Made in the USA. $16.99

STET!

Dreyer’s English: A Game for Language Lovers, Grammar

Geeks, and Bibliophiles

BENJAMIN DREYER

Start having fun while improving your grammar with this witty and

informative card game for language lovers--based on the New York

Times bestseller Dreyer’s English. $25.99 Clarkson Potter

The Writer’s Library

The Authors You Love on the Books That

Changed Their Lives

NANCY PEARL, JEFF SCHWAGER

An insightful collection of conversations

with today’s living literary legends about the

books that changed their lives.

$34.99 HC Illustrations HarperOne

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Emma’s Picks

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

BEST OF 2020

BOOKSELLER PICKS

Bookmark’s booksellers are passionate book people and an eclectic group of readers with wide

ranging interests. We collectively read hundreds of books a year, talk about hundreds and

hundreds more within our community of readers, and love to be asked the question, ‘What are

you reading?’

For us, it is quite a thrill to share a favourite book and see others fall in love with it. We believe

that these very human-to-human recommendations will beat a computer-to-human, algorithmgenerated

recommendation every time! So, we excited to share our 2020 list of favourite books

as well as some of our perennial favourites. You can find all of these on the shelves at Bookmark.

Is This Anything?

JERRY SEINFELD

Jerry Seinfeld has decided to release a book

filled with decades of his comic material, and

it does not disappoint! His written dialogue

makes for an easy and very enjoyable read.

Margaret’s Unicorn

BRIONY MAY SMITH

This is a beautiful story showing the power

of friendship and finding a place that feels

like home. Readers of all ages will enjoy the

beautiful illustrations and experience the

warm feeling of making a new friend.

J K ROWLING

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The Home Edit Life

The No-Guilt Guide to Owning What You

Want and Organizing Everything

CLEA SHEARER | JOANNA TEPLIN

Clea and Joanna show that by providing an

easy guide to managing your home, work, and

personal life, while also meeting you where

you’re at. We all have to start somewhere!

Midnight Sun

STEPHENIE MEYER

Twilight fans everywhere have the chance

to hear the story from Edward’s perspective.

Experience the story in a new dark-light as

Edward struggles with his love for Bella, and

his inner monster that longs for her blood.

If I Never Met You

A NOVEL

MHAIRI MCFARLANE

Their fake relationship provides what each

needs, but can only last as long as their story

is convincing. How long can they keep this up

before they become too emotionally involved?

Thread Folk

A Modern Makers Book of

Embroidery Projects and

Artist Collaborations

LIBBY MOORE | TATE CO

PAIGE

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Mastering the Elements of Good

Cooking

SAMIN NOSRAT

WENDY MACNAUGHTON

Harry Potter and

the Goblet of Fire

Illustrated Edition

J K ROWLING | JIM KAY

You Are

Special

MAX LUCADO

SERGIO MARTINEZ

PAST

FAVOURITES

100 Days to Brave

Devotions for Unlocking Your

Most Courageous Self

ANNIE F DOWNS

Rhythms of

Renewal

Trading Stress and Anxiety for a

Life of Peace and Purpose

REBEKAH LYONS

The Maze Runner

Book One

JAMES DASHNER

The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Book One

RICK RIORDAN

The Balloon

Tree

PHOEBE GILMAN

Holes

LOUIS SACHAR

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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

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BEST OF 2020

The Little Library Year

Recipes and Reading to Suit Each Season

KATE YOUNG

Reading The Little Library Year was like finding

a new, dear friend who is equally passionate

about books and seasonal cooking. Like The

Little Library Cookbook and The Little Library

Christmas, the recipes, the photography and

the reading recommendations are impeccable.

I would love to give this book to everyone

I know.

Starve Acre

ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY

Chilling, unsettling and unforgettable, Starve

Acre is a haunting study of a couple’s grief

and guilt in a rural English village. Steeped

in English folklore and folk horror, Starve

Acre was tremendously gripping and deeply

affecting.

Folk

ZOE GILBERT

A captivatingly dark tapestry of tales about

the remote island village of Neverness where

superstition, ritual and folklore hold sway

over its inhabitants. Timeless, magical and

macabre, Folk is one I will want to revisit

again and again.

City Moon

RACHAEL COLE

In this perfect bedtime book, a little boy and

his mother take an evening walk through

their neighbourhood to look for the moon.

Charmingly illustrated, City Moon is gentle,

sweet and comforting. Highly recommended

to the young and the young at heart.

Ghostland

In Search of a Haunted Country

EDWARD PARNELL

Ghostland is both a deeply moving memoir of

personal grief and an exploration of literature

and film shaped and haunted by the British

landscape. It is also easily one of the best

books I have read in many years.

PAST FAVOURITES

Electric Eden

Unearthing Britain’s

Visionary Music

ROB YOUNG

One Day

DAVID NICHOLLS

I Served the

King of England

BOHUMIL HRABAL

PAUL WILSON

Tales from

Moominvalley

TOVE JANSSON

The

Neverending

Story

MICHAEL ENDE

The Good Mayor

ANDREW NICOLL

Love in the Time of

Cholera

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

The Complete Tales

of Winnie-the-Pooh

A A MILNE

The Melancholy

of Resistance

LASZLO KRASZNAHORKAI

James and

the Giant

Peach

ROALD DAHL


Karla’s Picks

BOOKSELLER PICKS

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Read lots of books. Read books from foreign countries. Forget yourself. Get lost

in it. Give yourself over. Look up from your book and see that it is dark now and

everything has changed.

BEST OF 2020

LISA MOORE

10 Minutes 38 Seconds

in This Strange World

ELIF SHAFAK

Elif Shafak is the most widely read female writer in

Turkey. An advocate for women’s rights and freedom

of speech, it is no surprise that she has written a

book about the trauma women’s minds and bodies

are subjected to in Istanbul. Although Leila’s (the

main character) life is infused with tragedy, the novel

focuses on the joy she found in it during her last 10

minutes of life.

Actress

ANNE ENRIGHT

Actress is the latest novel from Irish writer Anne

Enright and is about a woman writing her mother’s

biography when she is 58 years old, which is how

old her mother was when she died. Norah’s mother

was Katherine O’Dell, a famous actress known for her

red-hair and for shooting an Irish film producer in the

foot. Norah grows up loving her sophisticated mother

but never really understanding her.

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Migrations: A Novel

CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY

Propelled by a narrator as fierce and fragile

as the Arctic terns she is following on the

boat Saghani, Migration is part mystery,

part love story set in a future where birds

have disappeared, fish are scarce and wild

creatures no longer roam the Earth . It is a sad

and beautiful book with an unforgettable main

character in Franny Stone, who has always

been a “wanderer.”

The Witch Elm: A Novel

TANA FRENCH

Tana French is at her suspenseful best in this

slow-burning, character-driven story in which

a young Irishman, who’s always considered

himself a lucky person, has to reassess his

past when a gruesome find on the grounds

of his beloved uncle’s house dredges up

unpleasant skeletons. Family secrets are

revealed and hearts will be broken!

Dual Citizens

ALIX OHLIN

Ohlin weaves a beautiful tale of two half-sisters

as they grow up in Montreal with little

help from their mentally ill and temperamental

mother, Marianne. It celebrates the triumphs

and disappointments of their young lives and

stayed with me for a long time.

PAST FAVOURITES

February

LISA MOORE

In the Skin of a Lion

MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Fugitive Pieces

ANNE MICHAELS

The Wreckage

MICHAEL CRUMMEY

Olive

Kitteridge

ELIZABETH

STROUT

Phantom

JO NESBO

Smiley’s People

JOHN LE CARRE

Life after Life

KATE ATKINSON

The Elements of

Style

Illustrated

WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

AND E. B. WHITE

Disappearing

Earth

JULIA PHILLIPS


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Fairy

Kristen’s Picks

tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but

because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

BEST OF 2020

The Pull of the Stars

EMMA DONOGHUE

This fast-paced novel takes place over three

days in an Irish maternity ward. It is set in 1918,

in the middle of a war and a pandemic. We

follow a nurse that is thrust into a position of

authority, and a young volunteer who proves

to be invaluable. Donoghue, author of Room,

began working on this novel around the 100th

anniversary of the 1918 pandemic. It was

published in July of this year and offers insights

and parallels to our current situation.

Utopia Avenue: A Novel

DAVID MITCHELL

Utopia Avenue is an excellent jumping off point

for readers new to the author. Set in England

during the Swinging Sixties, the novel follows an

up-and-coming rock group who manage to encounter

nearly every cultural icon from the era.

Fans of Mitchell will be delighted by cameos of

past characters, and some further clarification of

his overarching story. That being said, this reads

as an independent novel of music, stardom and

revolution.

NEIL GAIMAN

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The Splendid and the Vile

A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance

During the Blitz

ERIK LARSON

The Splendid and the Vile is an account of the first

year of Churchill’s role as Prime Minister. Through

the raids and shortages, his power and charisma

builds as he becomes the leader we think of today.

This extensively researched book is accessible

and often humorous. It would be a great gift for

anyone who enjoys biographies or history.

We’re Not From Here

GEOFF RODKEY

This middle grade novel was a family favorite

this year. Humans have had to flee Earth and are

looking for a new home planet. One family is invited

to come to Choom on a trial basis and must act as

ambassadors for their whole species. The children

go to Choom school with its three different species.

The family learns to navigate cultural differences

and advocate for the few humans left.

Eye Spy

Wild Ways Animals See the World

GUILLAUME DUPRAT

This clever nonfiction picture book shows us what

other animals see. Each page shows how different

species would see the same scene. For example,

some animals do not see the color red, while others

can see ultraviolet light. Some animals have nearly

360 degree vision. The large format, beautiful

illustrations and exciting information would make it

a great gift for kids ages 5-10.

PAST FAVOURITES

Wolf Hall

HILARY MANTEL

Bel Canto

ANN PATCHETT

The Martian

ANDY WEIR

1Q82

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Zeitoun

DAVE EGGERS

Tenth of December

GEORGE SAUNDERS

Circe

MADELEINE MILLER

The Amazing

Adventures of

Kavalier and Clay

A Novel

MICHAEL CHABON

French Exit

PATRICK DEWITT

Washington

A Life

RON CHERNOW


Mike’s Picks

“

War is what happens when language fails.

MARGARET ATWOOD

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BEST OF 2020

And Their Children

After Them

A Novel

NICOLAS MATHIEU

A revelation. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this

depiction of teenagers struggling to find their

own maturity in the rust belt of 1990s France

is as scintillating as the sun and familial

pressures beating down upon them. Easily

one of the best novels I’ve read in decades.

The Pine Islands

MARION POSCHMANN

A German man, unsettled in his marriage,

takes an impulsive trip to Japan and finds

himself travelling in the steps of Basho. Along

the way, he thwarts the efforts of a young,

suicidal student who joins him on a journey of

self-discovery. Through the author’s economy

of words, the forests and hills of Japan are still

calling out to me.

Follow Me to Ground

A Novel

SUE RAINSFORD

The narrative is as mysterious and otherworldly

as the strangest-looking fungi. Soil

absorbs and regenerates in this fable of a

father, a daughter and their powers to heal.

Truly unique.

Dirt Music

TIM WINTON

Reading only my second Winton book, I still

ask myself, ‘Why have I taken so long!?’. A

master of Australian fiction, here he tells the

story of a good man leading a solitary life

because of a tragedy he has witnessed. Winton

has the character further isolate himself

on a west coast island that, at one point, is

devastated by a storm. It is a piece of writing

that stands as one of the most exhilarating I

have ever read.

Death in Her Hands

A Novel

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

What admiration I have for Ottessa Moshfegh.

I was captivated by My Year of Rest and Relaxation

when upon finishing, I knew I was going

to read everything she had or will ever write.

Her new novel is as singular as all the rest, to

the point that Moshfegh could write a book in

any genre and reinvent it.

PAST FAVOURITES

One Flew Over

The Cuckoo’s

Nest

KEN KESEY

Enchanted Broccoli

Forest

MOLLIE KATZEN

Fifth Business

ROBERTSON DAVIES

Une Saison dans

la vie d’Emmanuel

MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS

Alice’s

Adventures in

Wonderland

LEWIS CARROLL

In Cold Blood

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Different Seasons

Four Novellas

STEPHEN KING

No One Here

Gets Out Alive

JERRY HOPKINS &

DANNY SUGERMAN

The Atlantic

Coast

A Natural History

HARRY THURSTON

Surfacing

MARGARET ATWOOD


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I’ve

Marlene’s Picks

been reading Pride and Prejudice on and off all my life and

it doesn’t wear out a bit.

BEST OF 2020

A Siege of Bitterns

A Birder Murder Mystery

STEVE BURROWS

A delightful, old-fashioned mystery, first in

a series. Won the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for

Best First Novel.

Magnolia Table

Volume Two: A Collection of Recipes for

Gathering

JOANNA GAINES

From breakfast to dinner, plus breads,

soups, and sides, Magnolia Table, Volume 2

is beautifully photographed and filled with

dishes you’ll want to try for your own family.

C.S. LEWIS

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Miss Graham’s Cold

War Cookbook

A Novel

CELIA REES

A beautifully crafted historical novel about an

ordinary young British woman sent to uncover

a network of spies and war criminals in postwar

Germany. A gripping novel about daring,

betrayal, and female friendship.

Miss Austen

A Novel

GILL HORNBY

A delightful and persuasive re-imagining,

Miss Austen is the untold story of the most

important person in Jane Austen’s life. With

extraordinary empathy, emotional complexity,

and wit, Gill Hornby finally gives Cassandra

her due, bringing to life a woman as captivating

as any Austen heroine.

The Brilliant Life of

Eudora Honeysett

A Novel

ANNIE LYONS

“An exquisitely poignant tale of life, friendship

and facing death . . . heart-breaking yet

ultimately uplifting. Everyone should read

this book.” — Ruth Hogan, author of Queenie

Malone’s Paradise Hotel

PAST FAVOURITES

Swallows and

Amazons

ARTHUR RANSOME

The Railway

Children

E. Nesbitt

The Prisoner of

Zenda

ANTHONY HOPE

A Simple Path

MOTHER TERESA

Christy

CATHERINE

MARSHALL

One Thousand Gifts

A Dare to Live Fully Right

Where You Are

ANN VOSKAMP

Dissolution

A Shardlake Novel

CJ SANSOM

The Midwife of

Venice

ROBERT A RICH

I Captured the

Castle

DODIE SMITH

A Tree

Grows in

Brooklyn

BETTY SMITH


Difficult Light

TOMAS GONZALEZ

An intimate portrait of a father’s grief and

his way through it through the art of writing.

I demarcate inspirational quotes with little

Post-Its and this one was chock full of them

when I was through. Gonzalez’s wisdom and

awareness around mortality left me feeling

transformed.

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Danielle’s Picks

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May your shell, like the snail’s, be strong enough to make tenderness possible.

TOMAS GONZALES

Lost Children Archive

A Novel

VALERIA LUISELLI

BEST OF 2020

Absolutely stunning. Luisselli’s writing is so

familiar it hurts. Lost Children Archive is an

unparalleled story of families being torn apart

by U.S./Mexican border restrictions, but it’s

about so much more. It’s the kind of book that

made my heart grow two sizes!

“

Cruise of Shadows

Haunted Stories of Land and Sea

JEAN RAY

Ooh so spooky! Nautically-themed cosmic

horror that is perfect for a foggy, cold winter

night. Jean Ray has a way of bending your

brain and getting under your skin all at the

same time.

The Hole

HIROKO OYAMADA | DAVID BOYD

An Alice in Wonderland-ish world for a new

generation. Oyamada chronicles several

months in the life of a woman relegated to

leave her job and stay home by an absentee

husband. Her insularity is familiar in these

COVID times, and as her time gets blurred,

so does her reality. A must for fans of Lewis

Carroll, David Lynch, and surrealism.

10 minutes 38 seconds

in this Strange World

ELIF SHAFAK

Once upon a time, in my 20s, I lived in Istanbul

for a year. This book is everything to me

about that place—the paradoxes of light and

dark, abject poverty and the wealth of deep

connection, death and the life that must

endure despite it.

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The Body Keeps

the Score

Brain, Mind, and Body in the

Healing of Trauma

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK

Pleasure Activism

The Politics of Feeling Good

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN

Trauma and

Recovery

The Aftermath of Violence,

From Domestic Abuse to

Political Terror

JUDITH HERMAN

The Mindful Way

Through Depression

Freeing Yourself from Chronic

Unhappiness

MARK WILLIAMS | JOHN

TEASDALE | ZINDEL V. SEGAL

The Gift of

Therapy

An Open Letter to a

New Generation of

Therapists and Their

Patients

IRVIN D. YALOM

On Being A Therapist

JEFFREY KOTTLER

This Is Your Brain on Music

Science of a Human Obsession

DANIEL J. LEVITIN

Musicophilia

Tales of Music and

the Brain

OLIVER SACKS

The Soundscape

Our Sonic Environment

and the Tuning of the

World

R. MURRAY SCHAFER

Area X

The Southern Reach

Trilogy: Annihilation;

Authority; Acceptance

JEFF VANDERMEER


KIDS GRAPHIC

CLASS ACT

JERRY CRAFT

Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying

“You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.”

His grandmother has reminded him his entire life.

But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t

afforded the same opportunities that his privileged

classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School

take for granted?

$15.99 PB Quill Tree Books

Vera Vance

Comics Star

CLAUDIA MILLS ILLUSTRATOR GRACE ZONG

Vera loves all things comic books, so she can’t wait

for the comics after-school class to start--even

though her mother wonders whether it’s educational

enough. But Vera is determined to participate and

starts developing her own comic about Big Spoon

and Little Spoon with the encouragement of her enthusiastic

friend Nixie and instruction from teachers

who are accomplished cartoonists themselves.

$10.99 PB Holiday House

Max Meow

Book One: Cat Crusader

JOHN GALLAGHER

Max is just a regular cat in Kittyopolis, trying to

make it big as a podcaster UNTIL he accidentally

takes a bite of a RADIOACTIVE SPACE MEATBALL

at his best friend, scientist Mindy’s, SECRET LAB.

Then before you can say MEOWZA, Max becomes...

(drum roll!) THE CAT CRUSADER!

$17.99 HC Random House Children’s Books

Cat Kid Comic Club

DAV PILKEY

Readers of all ages will be inspired to dream

up their own stories and unleash their own

creativity as they dive into this new graphic novel

adventure from Dav Pilkey and his heartfelt,

humorous, and amazing cast of characters.

$15.99 HC Full-colour illustrations Scholastic Inc.

Planet Hockey

First Star of the Game

J. TORRES & TIM LEVINS

Isaac may be the G.O.A.T hockey video game

player, but he’s an epic fail on actual ice. Find out

what happens when Isaac gets beamed up to

star in an interstellar hockey tournament in this

action-packed, laugh-out-loud graphic novel!

$14.99 PB Full-colour graphic novel

Scholastic Canada Ltd.

Long Way Down

The Graphic Novel

JASON REYNOLDS

ILLUSTRATOR DANICA NOVGORODOFF

Jason Reynolds’s Newbery Honor, Printz Honor,

and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning, #1 New

York Times bestselling novel Long Way Down is

now a gripping, galvanizing graphic novel, with

haunting artwork by Danica Novgorodoff.

$24.99 HC Atheneum

KIDS PICTURE BOOKS

Bears Make the Best

Science Buddies

CARMEN OLIVER

ILLUSTRATOR JEAN CLAUDE

It’s time for the first science lab, and nobody

can agree on an experiment. But why pick

just one when Bear is around? Bears makes

the best science buddies, and Bear proves

it by helping each group use the scientific

method for its special experiment. This fourth

picture book in Carmen Oliver’s series will

bring the excitement of science to a new

level. $25.50 HC Capstone

The Couch Potato

JORY JOHN ILLUSTRATOR PETE OSWALD

The newest, laughter- and thoughtprovoking,

installment in the bestselling

Bad Seed Universe! The Couch Potato

has everything he needs within reach of

his sunken couch cushion. But when the

electricity goes out, Couch Potato is forced

to peel himself away from the comforts of his

living room and venture outside. And when

he does, he realizes fresh air and sunshine

could be just the things he needs...

$23.99 HC HarperCollins

No Reading Allowed

The Worst Read-Aloud Book Ever

RAJ HALDAR ILLUSTRATORS CHRIS

CARPENTER & BRYCE GLAD-

FELLER

From the #1 NEW YORK TIMES

bestselling authors of P IS FOR

PTERODACTYL comes another hilarious,

fresh look at the English language!

You can’t believe everything you

hear! A single word can have many

different meanings. And sometimes two

words that sound alike can be spelled

completely differently.

$24.99 HC full colour illustrations

throughout

The Farmer and

the Monkey

MARLA FRAZEE

The farmer has another unexpected

visitor from the nearby circus in

this humorous and tender follow-up

to The Farmer and the Clown by

two-time Caldecott Honor–winning

Marla Frazee.

$23.99 HC Beach Lane Books


KIDS BOARD BOOKS

Rocket’s

Christmas Surprise

TAD HILLS

Rocket, the star of Tad Hills’s New York

Times-bestselling picture books, returns in a

brand-new, original board book to celebrate

Christmas with his friends!

$11.99 BB Random House Books for Young

Readers

The Little Happy

Dreamer

PETER H REYNOLDS

An inspirational celebration of little happy

dreamers everywhere that is perfect for the

youngest readers, from bestselling picture

book creator Peter H. Reynolds!

$11.99 BB Scholastic

The Hockey Sweater

ROCH CARRIER | SHELDEN COHEN

SHEILA FISCHMAN

In the days of Roch’s childhood, winters were

long. Life centered around school, church, and

the hockey rink, and every boy’s hero was

Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Maurice

Richard. When Roch outgrows his cherished

Canadiens sweater, his mother writes away for

a new one. Much to Roch’s horror, he is sent

the blue and white sweater of the rival Toronto

Maple Leafs, dreaded and hated foes to his

beloved team.

$12.99 BB Tundra Books

Christmas Parade

SANDRA BOYNTON

A delightful Christmas board book filled with

hilarious characters and dynamic art from the

one and only Sandra Boynton! BOOM biddy

BOOM biddy BOOM BOOM BOOM! What’s that

noise filling the room?

$10.99 BB Little Simon

Antiracist Baby

IBRAM X KENDI

ASHLEY LUKASHEVSKY

With bold art and thoughtful yet playful text,

Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest

readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the

concept and power of antiracism. Providing

the language necessary to begin critical

conversations at the earliest age, Antiracist

Baby is the perfect gift for readers of all ages

dedicated to forming a just society.

$11.99 BB Penguin Young Readers Group

Why?

LAURA VACCARO SEEGER

Bear just wants to water his flowers, but

Rabbit needs to know: why? Bear is looking

forward to a peaceful night of stargazing, but

all Rabbit cares about is: why? This simple

story is a reminder that even when there are

no answers for our questions, we can count

on trust and love—and sometimes, that’s more

than enough.

$10.99 BB Holiday House

KIDS PICTURE BOOKS

Two Drops of Brown

in a Cloud of White

SAUMIYA BALASUBRAMANIAM

ILLUSTRATOR EVA CAMPBELL

A child’s joy on a snowy day helps

her mother feel at home in their new

country and find the magic in new

experiences.

$18.95 HC Full-colour illustration

throughout Groundwood Books

The Three Brothers

MARIE-LOUISE GAY

From world-renowned author and

illustrator Marie-Louise Gay, a story

about three brothers who set off in

search of wild animals in a changing

climate.

$19.95 HC Full-colour illustration

throughout Groundwood Books

Arlo

The Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep

CATHERINE RAYNER

Arlo the lion is exhausted. He just

can’t drop off, no matter what he tries.

It’s either too hot, or too cold, too loud

or too quiet, and his wriggly family

aren’t helping either! Will poor Arlo

ever get some rest? Perhaps his new

friend Owl will have some good ideas

to help him fall asleep.

$25.99 HC Pan MacMillan

Snow Doves

NANCY HARTY

ILLUSTRATOR GABRIELLE

GRIMARD

Sami has just arrived in a new

country. The snow piled up outside

his window is a mysterious and,

frankly, chilly surprise! Joy, his

new neighbor, does not speak his

language, but that does not stop

them from communicating as Joy

helps Sami discover the wonders

of winter.

$18.95 HC Fully illustrated

Second Story Press


KIDS CHAPTER

Yara’s Spring

JAMAL SAEED AND SHARON E. MCKAY

When the Arab Spring arrives in Aleppo, it is violent

and deadly, and it separates Yara from her family.

With danger around every corner, Yara is pushed to

her limits to discover how far she’ll go for her loved

ones—and for a chance for freedom.

$18.95 HC $12.95 PB Annick Press

Skunk and Badger

AMY TIMBERLAKE

ILLUSTRATAOR JOHN KLASSEN

Analytical and set in his ways, Badger is taken

aback when jolly, easygoing Skunk rings the doorbell

to announce he’s Badger’s new roommate. But

as Badger begrudgingly opens up his home—and

heart—to Skunk and his unconventional ways, the

two characters become irrevocably changed by

each other.

$16.99 HC Illustrations HarperCollins Canada

Hatch

KENNETH OPPEL

The second action-packed title in the explosive

new trilogy from beloved Canadian author

Kenneth Oppel. Oppel expertly escalates the

threats and ratchets up the tension in this can’tread-it-fast-enough

adventure with an alien twist.

Readers will be gasping for the next book as soon

as they turn the last page.

$21.99 HC HarperCollins Canada

The Princess in Black

and the Bathtime Battle

SHANNON HALE | DEAN HALE

LEUYEN PHAM

Something smells like trouble! Can five princess

heroes and one Goat Avenger pool their talents to

vanquish a monstrous stink?

$9.50 PB Candlewick

The Ickabog

J.K. ROWLING

From J.K. Rowling, a warm, funny original fairy

tale of a fearsome monster, and hope against

all odds. Includes 34 illustrations from kids in

Canada and the US!

$36.99 HC Scholastic

The Good Thieves

KATHARINE RUNDELL

From award-winning author Katherine Rundell

comes a fast-paced and utterly thrilling adventure

driven by the loyalty and love between a

grandfather and his granddaughter.

$10.99 PB S&S Books for Young Readers

Don’t Stand So Close

to Me

ERIC WALTERS

Thirteen-year-old Quinn and her friends can’t

believe their luck when spring break is extended

an extra two weeks—even if it’s because of some

virus. But when the impact of the worldwide

COVID-19 pandemic becomes apparent, everyone,

not just the students, has to learn to adjust to

their new reality. In an effort to find some good in

all this uncertainty, Quinn comes up with an idea

that she hopes will bring the entire community

together.

$10.95 PB Orca

Like the Willow Tree

LOIS LOWRY

Newbery medalist Lois Lowry’s poignant story of a

girl living through the Spanish Influenza pandemic

sadly seems more resonant than ever before. In

the face of COVID-19, readers are sure to draw

comfort from Lydia’s sense of hopefulness. Now,

with a brand new introduction from the author!

$9.99 PB Scholastic

Pine Island Home

POLLY HORVATH

From Newbery Honor—and National Book Award—

winning author Polly Horvath comes a story of

four sisters searching for home.

$19.99 HC Puffin Canada

Before the Ever After

JACQUELINE WOODSON

For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been

everyone’s hero. As a charming, talented pro

football star, he’s as beloved to the neighborhood

kids he plays with as he is to his millions of

adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ’s house is

anything but charming. As ZJ contemplates his

new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on

tight to family traditions and recollections of the

glory days.

$23.99 HC GP Putnam’s Sons


FICTION

Daughter of Black Lake

CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN

When a remote, ancient settlement is threatened,

it is up to one girl to save her family and her

community. Immersing readers in a lost world

of pagan traditions, Daughter of Black Lake is a

transporting story of love, family, survival, and

the sublime power of the natural world from the

bestselling author of The Painted Girls.

$24.99 PB HarperCollins Publishers

The Midnight Library

MATT HAIG

Between death and life there is a library. When Nora

Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has

a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life

has been full of misery and regret. She feels she

has let everyone down, including herself. But things

are about to change. From the bestselling author of

Reasons to Stay Alive.

$21.99 PB HarperAvenue

Indians on Vacation

THOMAS KING

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel

from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired

by a handful of old postcards sent by Uncle

Leroy nearly a hundred years earlier, Bird and

Mimi attempt to trace Mimi’s long-lost uncle and

the family medicine bundle he took with him to

Europe. Shortlisted for the 2020 Writer’s Trust

Fiction Prize.

$32.99 HC HarperCollins Publishers

Dirty Birds

MORGAN MURRAY

Hilariously ironic and irreverent, Dirty Birds is a

quest novel for the twenty-first century—a comingof-age,

rom-com, crime-farce thriller—where a

hero’s greatest foe is his own crippling mediocrity,

and getting out of bed before noon.

$22.95 PB Roughly 100 black & white line drawings

Breakwater Books

The Hush Sisters

GERARD COLLINS

In The Hush Sisters, Gerard Collins weaves

psychological suspense with elements of the

fantastic to craft a contemporary urban gothic

that will keep readers spellbound until the novel

whispers its startling secrets.

$22.95 PB Breakwater Books

Written in Stone

PETER UNWIN

With startling clarity and skill, Peter Unwin tells

the story of a couple’s travels to the aboriginal

rock paintings deep in the Canadian shield,

drawn into a history that seems to offer a

meaningful alternative to a world gone wrong.

$24.95 PB Cormorant Books Inc.

One Single Hour

A Novel

HARVEY SAWLER

The possibility that the events of one single

hour can affect the rest of one’s life, and a true

occurrence - the peacetime foundering of HMS

Raleigh on August 8, 1922, at Point Amour in the

Labrador Straits - inspired Harvey Sawler to write

a novel of human defeat, personal discovery, and,

one hundred years later, love.

$19.95 PB General Store Publishing House

Homeland Elegies

A Novel

AYAD AHKTAR

A deeply personal work about identity and

belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams,

Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell

an epic story of longing and dispossession in

the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part

social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it

is the story of a father, a son, and the country they

both call home.

$35.00 HC Little Brown and Company

The Neil Gaiman Reader

Selected Fiction

NEIL GAIMAN

An outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of

selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning,

#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman,

curated by his readers around the world, and introduced

with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning

author Marlon James.

$50.00 HC William Morrow

The Lying Life of Adults

ELENA FERRANTE | ANN GOLDSTEIN

Elena Ferrante has become one of the world’s

most read and beloved writers. With this new

novel about the transition from childhood to

adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante proves once

again that she deserves her many accolades.

In The Lying Life of Adults, readers will discover

another gripping, highly addictive, and totally

unforgettable Neapolitan story.

$38.95 HC Europa Editions


FICTION

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Kira Navarez dreamed of life on new worlds.

Now she’s awakened a nightmare. To Sleep in a Sea

of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York

Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher

Paolini. Now a New York Times and USA Today

bestseller!

$35.99 HC TOR

Just Like You

NICK HORNBY

Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but

also brutally funny new novel that gets to the

heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and

headlong in love with the best possible person--

someone you didn’t see coming.

$36.00 HC Riverhead Books

Piranesi

SUSANNA CLARKE

From the New York Times bestselling author of

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating,

hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative

reality. Piranesi introduces an astonishing new

world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images

and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the

clouds.

$36.50 HC Bloomsbury

The Evening and the

Morning

KEN FOLLETT

Follett’s masterful new prequel The Evening and

the Morning takes us on an epic journey into a

historical past rich with ambition and rivalry, death

and birth, love and hate, that will end where The

Pillars of the Earth begins.

$48.00 HC Viking

Hidden in Plain Sight

JEFFREY ARCHER

Jeffrey Archer’s Hidden in Plain Sight is the second

novel featuring Detective William Warwick, by

the master storyteller and #1 New York Times

bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles.

William Warwick has been promoted to Detective

Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along

with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to

the Drugs Squad.

$34.99 HC St. Martin’s Press

The Shadow King

MAAZA MENISTE

Ethiopia. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini’s army

looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to

adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer,

Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie’s army,

rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the

Italians invade. The Shadow King is a gorgeously

crafted and unputdownable exploration of female

power, and what it means to be a woman at war.

$23.95 PB Canongate Books

Cilka’s Journey

HEATHER MORRIS

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller

The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel

based on a riveting true story of love and resilience.

Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942.

Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners,

Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly

taken, equals survival.

$22.99 PB St. Martin’s Press

Children of Ruin

ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY

In this powerful sci-fi thriller, a human outpost lies

derelict in space until a scout ship discovers it,

and a planet best left unexplored. From the author

of the hugely acclaimed Children of Time, winner

of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Children of Ruin

is set in the same universe, with a new cast of

characters and a thrilling new narrative.

$19.99 PB Pan MacMillan

Jack

MARILYNNE ROBINSON

With Jack, Robinson takes her readers back to the

small town of Gilead, Iowa, in 1956, to tell the story

of John Ames Boughton, the godson of John Ames

and the black sheep of his family. He’s a ne-er do

well and the beloved prodigal son who falls in love

with and marries Della, a beautiful and brilliant

African-American teacher he meets in segregated

St. Louis. Their fraught, beautiful romance is one of

Robinson’s greatest achievements.

$32.95 HC McClelland & Stewart

Earthlings

A Novel

SAYAKA MURATA

GINNY TAPLEY TAMEMORI

From the beloved author of cult sensation

Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold

more than one million copies worldwide and has

been translated into thirty-three languages, comes

a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a

woman who believes she is an alien.

$38.95 HC Grove Atlantic


FICTION

The Finder

A Novel

WILL FERGUSON

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novelist

of 419, The Finder is a beguiling and wildly original

tale about the people, places, and things that are

lost and found in our world. Both an epic literary

adventure and an escape into a darkly thrilling

world of deceit and its rewards, this novel asks: how

far would you be willing to go to recover the things

you’ve left behind?

$24.99 TP Simon & Schuster Canada

Anxious People

FREDERIK BACKMAN

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of

A Man Called Ove comes a poignant comedy about

a crime that never took place, a would-be bank

robber who disappears into thin air, and eight

extremely anxious strangers who find they have

more in common than they ever imagined.

$24.99 TP Simon & Schuster Canada

D (A Tale of Two Worlds)

MICHAEL FABER

Set between England and the wintry land of

Liminus, a world enslaved by the monstrous Gamp

and populated by fearsome, enchanting creatures,

D (A Tale of Two Worlds) is told with simple beauty

and warmth. Its celebration of moral courage and

freethinking is a powerful reminder of our human

capacity for strength, hope and justice.

$34.99 HC Hanover Square Press

What Are You

Going Through

SIGRID NUNEZ

In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings

wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human

connection and the changing nature of relationships

in our times. A surprising story about empathy and

the unusual ways one person can help another

through hardship, her book offers a moving and

provocative portrait of the way we live now.

$35.00 HC Riverhead

The Historians

CECELIA EKBACK

It is 1943 and Sweden’s neutrality in the war is

under pressure. Laura Dahlgren, a bright young

historian who is the right hand of the chief

negotiator with Germany, is privy to ongoing

discussions about the transport of German

soldiers to occupied Norway and German access

to Swedish iron ore. When her former best

friend and fellow classmate, Britta, is discovered

tortured and murdered, Laura is determined to

find her killer.

$22.99 PB HarperCollins

The Arrest

JONATHAN LETHIN

From the award-winning author of The Feral

Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an

utterly original post-collapse yarn about two

siblings, the man that came between them,

and a nuclear-powered super car. Written with

unrepentant joy and shot through with just the

right amount of contemporary dread, The Arrest is

speculative fiction at its absolute finest.


Ready Player 2

ERNEST CLINE

The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved

worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the nearfuture

adventure that inspired the blockbuster

Steven Spielberg film. AN UNEXPECTED QUEST.

TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY? Days

after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s

contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that

changes everything.

$38.99 HC Ballantine

The Night Piece

Collected Short Fiction

ANDRE ALEXIS

Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments

of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece

reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange.

Drawing from Alexis’s acclaimed debut

collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa,

and the highly original Beauty and Sadness, and

including previously uncollected stories, here

is the surreal and brilliant short fiction of André

Alexis--one of Canada’s most extraordinary

writers.

$34.95 HC McClelland and Stewart

The Archer

PAULO COELHO | MARGARET CULL COSTA |

CHRISTOPH NIEMANN

From the #1 best-selling author of The Alchemist

comes an inspiring story about a young man

seeking wisdom from an elder, and the practical

lessons imparted along the way. With the wisdom,

generosity, simplicity, and grace that have made

him an international best seller, Paulo Coelho

provides the framework for a rewarding life:

hard work, passion, purpose, thoughtfulness,

the willingness to fail, and the urge to make a

difference.

$28.00 HC Alfred A Knopf

LETTER WRITING SETS

PETER PAUPER PRESS

Enjoy the fine art of letter-writing and add flair

to your correspondence—take pen in hand and

compose a letter to a friend or family member,

using these pretty stationery sheets! Board box

with clear acetate lid contains 30 sheets and 24

matching envelopes.

Sheet size: 5-3/4”w x 7-3/4 “h. $14.99 ea.


PUBLISHER FOCUS

BOOKS FROM ACORN PUBLISHING CHARLOTTETOWN

SUPPORT LOCAL AUTHORS & PUBLISHERS

Bygone Days:

Folklore, Traditions

& Toenails

REGINALD “DUTCH” THOMPSON

From CBC Radio to the pages of this

book, you’ll hear Dutch encouraging

these poignant and hilarious stories

from the hearts of Maritimers born

between 1895 and 1925, almost as if

they were still here to tell them to you.

$22.95 PB Acorn Press

Here and There

RODERICK MACDONALD

Inspired by the places, people

and sounds around his

hometown of Morell, Prince

Edward Island, Roderick

MacDonald pens lyrical poetry

that nourishes his reflective

nature.


When the Hill

Came Down

SUSAN WHITE

Keefe lives a childhood of neglect

and disconnect. When Summer

moves to the community she

gives him an opportunity to claim

his true identity.


Broken Crayons

PATSY DINGWELL

ILLUSTRATOR MARLA LESAGE

Based on a true story that never

grows old and carries a message for

all, no matter your age.


Mi’kmaq Campfire

Stories of

Prince Edward Island

JULIE PELLISSIER-LUSH

Art by LAURIE MARTIN

Here we present to you just a couple of stories that

were passed down from generation to generation.

Hear them, learn from them, experience them, but

most of all enjoy them!

$13.95 PB Illustrations throughout Acorn Press

Kira’s Secret

Kira’s Quest

Kira’s Crossing

ORYSIA DAWYDIAK

This series will capture the imagination of young

readers who are drawn to the myths and legends

of the sea.

$12.95–$14.95 PB Acorn Press

A Reluctant Search for

Spiritual Truths

Finding Forgiveness

ADRIAN MCNALLY SMITH

“Life will push us towards experiences to heal

our souls if we make ourselves available.” When

writing his memoir Finding Forgiveness, Smith

was struck by the number of times he had spiritual

encounters. This reluctant search changed his

life and sparked a whole new awareness of

spirituality.

$21.95–$22.95 PB Acorn Press

The Keto Solution

A Practical Guide for Living You Low

Carbohydrate Life

ANGELA DOUCETTE

Packed with recipes and helpful hints, The Keto

Solution is the only book you need for switching to

a Keto lifestyle.


What If?

DORETTA GROENENDYK

A humour-filled, edgy, tender picture book

that portrays what it feels like to have

anxiety and responds to it with the potential

of whimsy and joy.

$22.95 HC with Illustrations Acorn Press


MYSTERY

November Rain

MAUREEN JENNINGS

From the author of the Murdoch Mysteries series

is a new detective novel set in the Paradise Café

universe. PI Charlotte Frayne struggles to solve two

mysteries at the same time — until they intersect

unexpectedly.


Moonflower Murders

ANTHONY HOROWITZ

From New York Times–bestselling author Anthony

Horowitz comes a new novel featuring ex-editor

hero Susan Ryeland, set to solve another murder

mystery. Masterfully intriguing, brilliantly clever, and

relentlessly suspenseful, Moonflower Murders is a

deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction

in which the reader becomes the detective.

$24.99 PB HarperCollins Publishers

The Kingdom

JO NESBO | ROBERT FERGUSON

Jo Nesbo, author of the bestselling Harry Hole

crime series, is back with a vivid psychological

thriller about the bond between orphaned

brothers. How far would you go to be your

brother’s keeper? As psychologically acute as it is

disturbing, with plot twists you never see coming,

Jo Nesbo’s new novel is the work of a master of

noir at the top of his game.

$34.00 HC Random House Canada

All the Devils are Here

LOUISE PENNY

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny

finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté

du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of

Light. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web

of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache

will have to decide whether he can trust his friends,

his colleagues, his instincts, his own past, his

own family. For even the City of Light casts long

shadows. And in that darkness devils hide.

$36.99 HC Minotaur

Troubled Blood

ROBERT GALBRAITH

A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, Troubled Blood

is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most

gripping and satisfying yet. Private Detective

Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall

when he is approached by a woman asking for

help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough –

who went missing in mysterious circumstances

in 1974.


How the Dead Speak

VAL MCDERMID

Val McDermid is an award-winning, crimewriting

powerhouse, and now she returns to her

explosive, thrilling series featuring psychological

profiler Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan in her

latest How The Dead Speak. With Tony behind

bars and Carol finally out of road as a cop, he’s

finding unexpected outlets for his talents in jail

and she’s joined forces with a small informal

group of lawyers and forensics experts looking

into suspected miscarriages of justice.

$23.95 PB Grove Atlantic

Darkest Evening

ANN CLEEVES

The ninth novel in the Vera Stanhope series from

the Sunday Times bestseller Ann Cleeves, now a

major TV series from ITV. A classic country house

mystery with a contemporary twist, Ann Cleeves

returns with a brilliant new novel to savour.

$25.99 PB Grove Atlantic

The Searcher

TANA FRENCH

Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic

Irish village would be the perfect escape. After

twenty-five years in the Chicago police force

and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a

new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where

nothing much happens. But when a local kid

whose brother has gone missing arm-twists

him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of

darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and

starts to realize that even small towns shelter

dangerous secrets.

$36.00 HC Viking

The Thursday

Murder Club

RICHARD OSMAN

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely

friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to

discuss unsolved crimes; together they call

themselves The Thursday Murder Club. When a

local developer is found dead with a mysterious

photograph left next to the body, the Thursday

Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the

middle of their first live case.

$35.00 HC Viking

The Sicilian Method

ANDREA CAMILLERI

STEPHEN SARTARELLI

In the new novel in the transporting New York

Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery

series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder

in a theatrical play.

$22.00 PB Penguin Books


YOUNG ADULT

The Ballad of Songbirds

and Snakes

A Hunger Games Novel

SUZANNE COLLINS

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off

the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol,

eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for

his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games.

$36.99 HC Scholastic Inc

The Memory of Babel

Book Three in the

Mirror Visitor Quartet

CHRISTELLE DABOS

In this gripping third volume of the Christelle

Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling

heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel

guarding a secret that may provide a key both to

the past and the future.

$29.95 HC Europa Editions

The Left-Handed

Booksellers of London

GARTH NIX

A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an

extended family of magical fighting booksellers

who police the mythical Old World of England

when it intrudes on the modern world. From the

bestselling master of teen fantasy, Garth Nix.

$24.99 HC Katherine Tegen Books

The Fountains of Silence

RUTA SEPETYS

Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys once again shines

light into one of history’s darkest corners in this

epic, heart-wrenching novel about identity, unforgettable

love, repercussions of war, and the hidden

violence of silence--inspired by the true postwar

struggles of Spain.


Dear Justyce

NIC STONE

The stunning sequel to the #1 New York Times

bestseller Dear Martin. Incarcerated teen Quan

writes letters to Justyce about his experiences in

the American juvenile justice system. Perfect for

fans of Jason Reynolds and Angie Thomas.

$24.99 HC Crown Books for Young Readers

Breathless

JENNIFER NIVEN

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author

of All the Bright Places comes a compulsively

readable novel about a young woman determined

to write her own story--sex, heartbreak, family

dramas, and all.

$24.99 HC Knopf Books for Young Readers

The Cousins

KAREN MCMANUS

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author

of One of Us Is Lying comes your next obsession.

You’ll never feel the same about family

again. The entire Story family has secrets.

Whatever pulled them apart years ago isn’t

over—and this summer, the cousins will learn

everything.

$24.99 HC Delacorte Press

The Toll

Arc of the Scythe #3

NEIL SCHUSTERMAN

In the highly anticipated finale to the New York

Times bestselling trilogy, dictators, prophets,

and tensions rise. In a world that has conquered

death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by

the immortal beings it created?

$18.99 PB Simon and Schuster Books for Young

Readers

Charming as a Verb

BEN PHILIPPE

From the award-winning author of The Field

Guide to the North American Teenager comes

a whip-smart and layered romantic comedy. Perfect

for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han. This

is a sharply funny and insightful novel about the

countless hustles we have to keep from doing

the hardest thing: being ourselves.

$23.99 HC Balzer + Bray

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An homage to art and culture, the Paperblanks

line of journals sparks the imagination by

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Expression has no limits with Paperblanks.

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SUE GOYETTE

ARTIST PROFILE

Current Poet Laureate of Halifax and past recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

Masterworks Arts Award, Sue Goyette has made an astonishing impact on the literary & cultural

scene of her home city, the country and beyond. From the magic of Montreal to the wild allure

of the Atlantic, Sue has been an acute observer and emotional guide on the paths of her life and

world. Along the way, accolades have followed, including the Pat Lowther, Atlantic

Poetry, Earle Birney and Bliss Carmen Awards. Seven poetry collections, a novel

and several poetry anthologies edited, Sue has accomplished much. However,

her greatest achievements may be the devotion of her creative writing students

at Dalhousie University, and the gratitude and adoration of her readers.

Your favourite occupation

I love writing. I love putting words together and creating sequences and collisions

that startle me out of my understanding of those words and how they work.

I love writing on the edge of my knowing and getting a glimpse of a silence

that is shimmering and waiting and is patient. I love sculpting what I’m

seeing into words that convey that galactic mystery we live with.

What you appreciate the most in your friends

My friends are fierce, brilliant, funny, real. I love how they keep me

grounded and are furnaces for when the world feels cold. They also

understand the importance of snacks. And good music. And how both those

things belong in the same room.

What you consider your greatest achievement

I can plank for longer than a minute without the terror of falling on my face. Also, I

can finally make a pretty good pizza crust.

Your favourite painters and composers

Agnes Martin. Paul Klee. Cy Twombly. Mary Pratt. Firelei Báez. Kenojuak Ashevak.

Quvianaqtuk Pudlat. I’ve been listening to Bach and Phoebe Bridgers.

Your favourite colour and flower

Turner’s orange and that intense dahlia pink that’s like no other. Dahlias, zinnias,

anemones, hibiscus (the wide as a plate ones), the first tulips of the season,

magnolias, lilacs, the audacious agave.

Your favourite prose authors/Your favourite poets

Can I say anyone who needs to write? Anyone who uses poems or prose to

make sense of themselves? They’re my people.

GASPEREAU PRESS

LOCALLY OWNED PUBLISHER & PRINTER BASED IN NOVA SCOTIA


Anthesis: A Memoir

SUE GOYETTE

This work of poetry reclaims both a

childhood trauma and a fictionalized

telling of that experience. Retrospectively

gleaning bits from an autobiographical novel

published early in her career, Sue Goyette’s

process of “inverted redaction” extracts

emotive words and images and gathers them

into a new and freer account.

$19.95 PB Gaspereau Press

Waking Ground

SHALAN JOUDRY

Attuned to language, landscape, and legacy,

Shalan Joudry’s insightful and candid

poems bring forward stories that speak to

the resilience of Mi’kmaw culture and the

collective work of healing and reconciliation

that lies before us all.


Murmurations

ANNICK MCASKILL

Populating her poems with birdsong and murmurings

of the natural world, MacAskill highlights how poets

and lovers share much with birders on the twitch,

how even keen observation and intense passion can

fail us as we pursue our beloved across distances

and through time. Yet when we do finally find love it

often seems, like a rare bird, “at once / singular and

improbable / because of how clearly it appeared to us.”


All New Animals Act

DON MCKAY

Collecting his recent essays with a few new poems and

‘stretchers’, Don McKay builds upon his decades-long

exploration of poetry and its relationship to the world.

McKay’s wily notion of poetry resists the anthropoid

urge to name or map with certainty the things we

pursue, reinvigorating our capacity for wonder.



GRAPHIC NOVELS

Jack Kirby

The Epic Life of the King of Comics

TOM SCIOLI

Told in vivid graphic novel form by a groundbreaking

Eisner-nominated comics creator, the long-overdue

biography of the legend who co-created Captain

America, Iron Man, Black Panther, the Fantastic Four,

the X-Men, and many more superhero favorites.

$38.99 HC Ten Speed Press

The Loneliness of the

Long-Distance Cartooonist

ADRIAN TOM

What happens when a childhood hobby grows into

a lifelong career? Adrian Tomine’s funniest and most

revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of

unexpected answers. Designed as a sketchbook complete

with placeholder ribbon and an elastic band,

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist shows

an acclaimed artist at the peak of his career.

$34.95 HC Drawn & Quarterly Publications

The League of Super

Feminists

MIRION MALLE | ALESHIA JENSEN

The League of Super Feminists articulates with

both poise and clarity how unconscious biases

and problematic thought processes can have

tragic results. Why does feminism matter? Are

feminists man-haters? How do race and feminism

intersect? Malle answers these questions for

young readers, in a comic that is as playful and

hilarious as it is necessary.

$18.95 HC Drawn & Quarterly Publications

Barely Functioning Adult

It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

MEICHI NG

A never-before-seen collection of incriminating

short stories about exes, murder, friendship,

therapy, anxiety, Hufflepuff, sucking at things,

freaking out about things, calming down

momentarily, melodrama, wrinkles, pettiness, and

other wonderful delights.


Sapiens: A Graphic

History

The Birth of Humankind Vol 1

YUVAL NOAH HARARI

DAVID VANDERMEULEN | DANIEL CASANAVE

Sapiens: A Graphic History is a radical, and radically

fun, retelling of the story of humankind, bursting

with wit, humor, and colorful characters. If you want

to know why we are all trapped inside the dreams

of dead people—read this book.

$29.99 PB McClelland and Stewart

The Book Tour

ANDI WATSON

In his first book for adults in many years, acclaimed

cartoonist Andi Watson evokes all the anxieties

felt by every writer and compresses them into a

comedic gem of a book. Witty, surreal, and sharply

observant, The Book Tour offers a captivating lesson

in letting go.

$33.99 PB Top Shelf Productions

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The steel nib is available in extra-fine, fine, and

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ARMCHAIR TRAVEL

Geology of New

Brunswick and Prince

Edward Island

Touring Through 44 Scenic Sites

MARTHA HICKMAN | SANDRA M BARR

Maps, GPS waypoints, and travel directions make

it easy for anyone to visit breathtaking, informative

locations both on and off the beaten path. Together,

these sites reveal the geological history of the two

provinces. Colour photographs and accompanying

descriptions. $34.95 PB Boulder Publications

Old World Italian

Recipes and Secrets from our Travels in Italy

MIMI THORISSON

Mimi explores the beautiful coasts and countrysides

of Italy in this lavishly photographed cookbook

featuring simple, authentic recipes inspired by the

country’s devoted producers and rich food heritage.

Full of local colour, history, and culture, and sumptuous

photography. $45.00 HC Appetite

The Seine

The River that Made Paris

CLAIRE SCIOLINO

A “storyteller at heart” (June Sawyers, Chicago

Tribune) with a “sumptuous eye for detail” (Sinclair

McKay, Daily Telegraph), Sciolino braids memoir,

travelogue, and history through the Seine’s

winding route. The Seine offers a love letter to

Paris, the most romantic river in the world, and

invites readers to explore its magic for themselves.

$23.95 PB WW Norton

Experiments in Reality

The Last Essays

TIM ROBINSON

Long recognized as perhaps the greatest nonfiction

writer at work in Ireland, Tim Robinson was

also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range

across the globe. In Experiments on Reality, he

shines the light of his intelligence on his own life

and on some of the most fascinating questions in

science and culture. $21.99 PB Penguin UK

Elsewhere

A Journey into Our Age of Islands

ALASTAIR BONNETT

A thought-provoking tour of fascinating islands,

from those built by humans, to those disappearing,

from Hong Kong, to the Isles of Sicily. Along the

way, Bonnett addresses climate change, economic

inequality, and shifting world power as reflected in

the fates of islands.

$35.00 HC 33 color plates, 19 halftones University of

Chicago Press

Gone Viking

A Travel Saga

BILL ARNOTT

With a small pack and weatherproof journal,

Bill explores and writes with a journalist’s eye,

songwriter’s prose, poet’s perspective, and a

comedian’s take on everything else. Prepare yourself

for an armchair adventure like no other!

$25.00 PB Rocky Mountain Books

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UK EDITIONS

Diary of a Young Naturalist

DARA MCANULTY

Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a

Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara

McAnulty’s world, from spring to summer, autumn

to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild

and in his head. With a sense of awe and wonder,

Dara describes in meticulous detail encounters in

his garden and the wild, with blackbirds, whooper

swans, red kites, hen harriers, frogs, dandelions,

skylarks, bats, Irish hares and many more species.

$39.00 HC Little Toller Books

English Pastoral

An Inheritance

JAMES REBANKS

As a boy, James Rebanks’s grandfather taught him

to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the

Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural

landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of

pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming

with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited

the farm, it was barely recognisable.

$39.00 HC Allen Lane

How to Stay Sane in an

Age of Division

ELIF SHAFAK

It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we

keep hold of our optimism? In this beautifully written

and illuminating polemic, Booker Prize nominee

Elif Shafak reflects on our age of pessimism, when

emotions guide and misguide our politics, and

misinformation and fear are the norm. A tender,

uplifting plea for optimism. $14.00 PB Profile Books

Pine

FRANCINE TOON

“It’s both eerie and thrilling at once and had

me under its spell until the end,” says Sophie

Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure. In a place

that can feel like the edge of the word, Toon unites

the chill of the modern gothic with the pulse of a

thriller. It is the perfect novel for our haunted times.

“Hugely atmospheric, exquisitely written and utterly

gripping,” says Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting

Party. $23.99 PB Black Swan

Some Kids I Taught and

What They Taught Me

KATE CLANCHY

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020. ‘The best book on

teachers and children and writing that I’ve ever read. No-one has said

better so much of what so badly needs saying’ - Philip Pullman. Kate

Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent

place to do it. $25.00 PB Picador

The Fire of Joy

Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and

Say Aloud

CLIVE JAMES

Clive James read, learned and recited poetry

aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed

before just before his death, he offers a

selection of his favourite poems and a personal

commentary on each. In the last months of his

life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to

read, Clive James explored the treasure-house of

his mind: the poems he knew best, so good that

he didn’t just remember them, he found them

impossible to forget. $49.00 HC Picador

The Madman’s Library

The Greatest Curiosities of Literature

EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHING

“Anybody who loves the printed word will be

bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful

book about books. It is in every way a triumph.

One of the loveliest books to have been published

for many, many years,” says Alexander McCall

Smith. An utterly joyous journey into the deepest

eccentricities of the human mind.

$48.00 HC Simon & Schuster Ltd

Who They Was

GABRIEL KRAUZE

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. “A literary

rendering of the Top Boy generation... I cannot

conjure another work which captures this

culture in such depth - or with such brutal

honesty - as only lived experience can tell,” says

Graeme Armstrong, author of The Young Team.

“An astonishingly powerful book,” says Cathy

Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love. This

life is like being in an ocean. Some people keep

swimming towards the bottom.

$37.00 HC Fourth Estate Ltd

Why the Germans Do it

Better

Notes from a Grown-Up Country

JOHN KAMPFNER

The Sunday Times bestseller. “Excellent and

provocative... a passionate, timely book,” says

the Sunday Times. “A fine new book... thoughtful,

deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.”

A rich guide to modern Germany.

$42.00 HC Atlantic Books

TEN POEMS

SERIES

CANDLESTICK PRESS

Instead of a Card poetry pamphlets make

perfect presents – unusual, beautiful,

worthwhile and definitely not for throwing away.

They come with an envelope and bookmark

left blank for your message. Interesting and

enjoyable to read, they make an excellent

introduction to the work of contemporary and

historical poets.

$11.99 PB Candlestick Press


ARTS & LETTERS

The Encyclopedia of

New York

THE EDITORS OF NEW YORK MAGAZINE

The must-have guide to pop culture, history, and

world-changing ideas that started in New York City,

from the magazine at the center of it all. Since its

founding in 1624, New York City has been a place

that creates things. Whether you are a lifelong

resident, a curious newcomer, or an armchair

traveler, this is the guidebook you need, straight

from the people who know New York best.

$47.00 HC Avid Reader Press

Be Scared of Everything

Horror Essays

PETER COUNTER

Slinging ectoplasm, tombstones, and chainsaws

with aplomb, Be Scared of Everything is a frighteningly

smart celebration of horror culture that will

appeal to both horror aficionados and casual fans.

This is a book that shows us everything is terrifying—from

Pokemon to PTSD—and that horror can be

just as honest, vulnerable, and funny as it is scary.

$20.95 PB Invisible Publishing

Intimations

Six Essays

ZADIE SMITH

Crafted with the sharp intelligence, wit, and style

that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and

suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness

in response to these unprecedented times,

Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of

connection, and an act of love--an essential book

in extraordinary times.

$18.00 PB Hamish Hamilton

The Bookseller’s Tale

MARTIN LATHAM

Part cultural history, part literary love letter and part

reluctant memoir, this is the tale of one bookseller

and many, many books.

$31.99 HC Particular Books

On Seamus Heaney

ROY FOSTER

A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s

greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian

and literary biographer.

$27.95 HC Princeton University Press

For Now

Why I Write

EILEEN MYLES

In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an

intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With

erudition and wit, Myles recounts her early years

as an awakening writer; existential struggles

with landlords; storied moments with neighbors,

friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities

of cities and the country that reveal the nature of

writing as presence in time.

$25.00 HC Yale University Press

Tragedy

TERRY EAGLESON

In this compelling account, eminent literary critic

Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy

in Western culture—from literature and politics

to philosophy and theater. Eagleton covers a vast

array of thinkers and practitioners, including

Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, and Slavoj Žižek, as

well as key figures in theater, from Sophocles and

Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Ibsen.

$37.00 HC Yale University Press

Mantel Pieces

Royal Bodies and Other Writing From the

London Review of Books

HILARY MANTEL

From the twice Booker Prize winner and

internationally bestselling Hilary Mantel, a

collection of writing—essays, book reviews,

memoir—from over thirty years.

$32.99 HC Fourth Estate

The Walker

On Losing and Finding Your Way in

the Modern City

MATTHEW BEAUMONT

Moving around the modern city becomes

more than from getting from A to B, but

a way of understanding who and where

you are. In a series of riveting intellectual

rambles, Matthew Beaumont retraces a

history of the walker.

$39.95 HC Verso

The Lost Words

CARD GAME

GALILEO PUBLISHERS

The Lost Words, the extraordinary book which

brought to life some of the species that had

become unfamiliar to a modern generation,

has been made into a beautiful card game. The

stunning artwork and interactive game play will

make this interpretation of Robert Macfarlane

and Jackie Morris’s best-selling book a must for

all ages. $29.99


BIOGRAPHY

Princeton

A Love Story

TERRY FONG

Two friends... One a dog diagnosed with a

life-threatening disease, the other his human

companion, and their unwavering commitment to

each other.

$24.95 PB Photographs Corner Tree Press

One Man Grand Band

The Lyric Life of Ron Hynes

HARVEY SAWLER

Sawler captures the spirit of an artist whose stockin-trade

was authenticity over mere commercial

acceptability, providing rare insights into the life of

the man who penned some of the country’s bestloved

music. Sawler guides us through the dark

times of addiction to the triumphs of songs such as

“Sonny’s Dream” and “Atlantic Blue”.

$19.99 PB Breakwater Books

Pluck and Luck

The Tragedies and Triumphs of a Free

Canadian

HARVEY SAWLER

The authorized biography of Toronto-born

impresario, promoter, and thoroughbred horseman

John Uren, whose ‘theatrical’ life was rich with

drama and comedy, always at happenings and

constantly in the company of celebrity: sporting

greats, Joni Mitchell, Marlene Dietrich and

Shakespearean stars. Always in the background: a

symphony of tragedy that had shattered his uppermiddle-class

family.

$25.00 PB Burnstown Publishing

Put Your Hand In My Hand

The Spiritual and Musical Connections of

Catherine and Gene MacLellan

HARVEY SAWLER

Put Your Hand in My Hand is the personal, lyrical

story of the relationship between one of Canada’s

most beloved singer-songwriters and his daughter,

the next-generation artist whose personal and

musical journey is one of the most emotive and

remarkable in Canadian music history.

$19.95 PB Nimbus

Ghostland

In Search of a Haunted Country

EDWARD PARNELL

Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of

what has haunted our writers and artists – and

what is haunting him. It is a unique and elegiac

meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of

the redemptive power of stories and nature.

$22.99 PB William Collins

If I Knew Then

Finding Wisdom in Failure and

Power in Aging

JANN ARDEN

Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and

her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring

account of how she has surprised herself, in her

fifties, by at last becoming completely her own

person.


No Time Like the Future

An Optimist Considers Mortality

MICHAEL J FOX

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and

mortality, and how these things resonate in our

lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox.

$37.99 HC Flatiron Books

How I Learned to

Understand the World

A Memoir

HANS ROSLING

How I Learned to Understand the World is

Hans Rosling’s own story of how he became

a revolutionary thinker and takes us from the

swelter of an emergency clinic in Mozambique, to

the World Economic Forum at Davos. It was facts

that helped him explain how the world works. But

it was curiosity and commitment that made the

late Hans Rosling the most popular researcher of

our time.

$37.99 HC Flatiron Books

Leonard Cohen, Untold

Stories

The Early Years

MICHAEL POSNER

The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest

music and literary icons, in the words of those

who knew him best. Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories

chronicles the full breadth of his extraordinary

life. The first of three volumes—The Early Years—

follows him from his boyhood in Montreal to

university, and his burgeoning literary career

to the world of music, culminating with his first

international tour in 1970.

$40.00 HC Simon and Shuster Canada

Extraordinary Canadians

Stories From the Heart of Our Nation

PETER MANSBRIDGE

From Peter Mansbridge, the beloved former

anchor of CBC’s The National, and Mark Bulgutch,

former CBC producer, comes a collection of firstperson

stories about remarkable Canadians who

embody the values of our great nation—kindness,

compassion, courage, and freedom—and inspire

us to do the same.

$36.99 HC Simon and Schuster Canada


PUBLISHER FOCUS

BOOKS FROM FORMAC PUBLISHING HALIFAX


The Ultimate Nova Scotia

Quiz Book

KARA TURNER

ILLUSTRATOR KYLE SEABRIDGETT

This laugh-out-loud quiz book is packed with

over 250 entertaining questions and 50 colour

illustrations. Loaded with legends, landmarks,

sporting triumphs, funny sayings, jokes and much

more, the book includes a map of the province,

a spread on lobster lore and Nova Scotia record

breakers.

$14.95 PB Over 50 colour images Formac

Rebuilding Halifax

A History of the Halifax Relief Commission

BARRY CAHILL

Barry Cahill describes the complex activities of an

almost-unaccountable agency that took the place

of municipal, provincial and federal governments

in addressing the needs of the citizens and

the city after the Explosion. He provides new

insight into the pioneering town planning and

construction of the Hydrostone neighbourhood

in Halifax.

$27.95 PB Formac

The Nova Scotia

Bucket List

25 Unforgettable Experiences,

Adventures, and Destinations

DALE DUNLOP | ALISON SCOTT

Travel writers Dale Dunlop and Alison Scott

have selected 25 of the very best activities

Nova Scotia has to offer. They offer guidance

on what each has to offer — and point to how

to make a visit to a well-known attraction an

experience of a lifetime.

$24.95 PB colour photos Formac

NANCY DREW

Collector Game

OUTSET MEDIA

It’s the premier auction of vintage Nancy

Drew books! And you are there to complete

your collection. Contains illustrated cards

featuring vintage Nancy Drew covers from

1930-1979. Ages 8+ 2-4 players $19.99

SUPER SLOW SLOTHS

GINGERFOX

Snooze, sabotage and saunter your way to victory in a

riotous reverse race in which lethargy, laziness, dawdling

and daydreaming are the passports to sloth success – the

last player to lumber over the finish line wins. $29.99

How Government Really

Works

A Field Guide to Bureaucracies in Canada

JANE ALT | ANGELA POIRIER

This book exposes the inherent complexities and

challenges found in government environments

and offers insights to help bureaucrats, and those

working alongside bureaucrats, better understand

the dynamics of provincial government in Canada.

$22.95 PB Formac

Black Loyalists in New

Brunswick

The Lives of Eight African Americans in

Colonial New Brunswick 1783-1834

STEPHEN DAVIDSON

The stories of New Brunswick’s Black Loyalists

are captured in the brief biographies of eight

individuals — men, women and youths presented

by author Stephen Davidson. Through their

experiences a picture emerges of the narrow

limits to the freedom which the Black Loyalists

were able to experience in a predominantly white

and highly racist colony.

$24.95 PB Formac

Grandma’s Cookies,

Cakes, Pies & Sweets

The Best of Canada’s East Coast

ALICE BURDICK

Among the recipes in this book are a few

traditional classics that remain favourites — like

blueberry grunt and Scottish shortbread. But most

of these recipes are almost forgotten, yet they offer

tempting and delicious ideas that home cooks will

want to try. Recipes like old-fashioned molasses

candy, sweet black cherry pudding and Acadian

lemon buttermilk pie. $24.95 PB Formac

SIDELINKS

OUTSET MEDIA

The game of creative word connections.

Players take turns playing tiles, trying

to make links between words. The more

connections you can make, the more you

score! Ages 8+ 2-8 players $26.99

ASSORTED SET GAMES

QUIDDLER – A short word game that attracts

non-word-game players. FIVE CROWNS - The best

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award winning game challenges players to race to

find as many sets as they can!

Ages 8+ $17.99 each


BUSINESS

Twenty-First Century Irvings

Revised

HARVEY SAWLER

Three generations after the Irving family arrived in

Canada from Scotland, K. C. Irving emerged as one of the

richest men in the world and arguably the most powerful

businessperson in Canada. But there is much more to this

story. Author Harvey Sawler examines both the family

foundations upon which this empire was built and the

individuals who, in the 21st century, continue to constitute

the future of this important business family.

$16.95 PB Nimbus

How I Built This

The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s

Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

GUY RAZ

This book offers priceless insights and inspiration from

the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch,

and build a successful venture.Award-winning journalist

and NPR host Guy Raz has interviewed more than 200

highly successful entrepreneurs to uncover amazing true

stories like these. $40.00 HC Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Practice

Shipping Creative Work

SETH GODIN

From the bestselling author of Linchpin,

Tribes, and The Dip comes an elegant little

book that will inspire artists, writers, and

entrepreneurs to stretch and commit to

putting their best work out into the world.

$32.00 HC Portfolio

Uncharted

How to Navigate the Future

MARGARET HEFFERNAN

From former CEO and popular TED speaker

Margaret Heffernan comes a timely and

enlightening book that equips you with

the tools you need to face the future with

confidence and courage.

$39.99 HC Avid Reader

PERSONAL GROWTH

Didn’t See That Coming

Putting Life Back Together When Your World

Falls Apart

RACHEL HOLLIS

Fear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. #1 bestselling author

of Girl, Wash Your Face Rachel Hollis takes you to

the other side. To Rachel, a life well-lived is one

of purpose, focused only on the essentials. This

is a small book about big feelings: inspirational,

aspirational, and an anchor that shows that

darkness can co-exist with the beautiful.

$25.00 HC Dey Street Books

Nothing Much Happens

Calming Stories to Ease Your Mind and

Help You Sleep

KATHRYN NICOLAI | LEA LE PIVERT

Using her decades of experience as a meditation

and yoga teacher, Kathryn Nicolai creates

a world for you to slip into, one rich in sensory

experience that teaches mindfulness and

self-compassion, soothes frayed nerves, and

builds habits for nurturing sleep.

$26.95 HC Penguin Canada

The Wild Silence

RAYNOR WINN

The incredible follow-up to one of the most

talked about books of the decade - the

phenomenon, Costa Award shortlisted, The

Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for

Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking

630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the

windswept and wild English coastline now

feels like their home. And despite Moth’s

terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds,

he seems revitalized in nature - outside, they

discover that anything is possible.

$29.95 HC Penguin UK

How to Give

An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving

SENECA

Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude

from the great Roman Stoic philosopher

Seneca. Complete with the original Latin on

facing pages.

$24.00 HC Princeton University Press

Stop Reading the News

A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer,

and Wiser Life

ROLF DOBELLI

From the author of the bestselling The Art of

Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli’s book offers the

reader guidance about how to live without

news, and the many potential gains to be had:

less disruption, more time, less anxiety, more

insights. In a world of increasing disruption

and division, Stop Reading the News is a

welcome voice of calm and wisdom.

$26.99 HC Hodder

A Field Guide to a

Happy Life

53 Brief Lessons for Living

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

In A Field Guide to a Happy Life, philosopher

Massimo Pigliucci offers a renewed Stoicism

that reflects modern science and sensibilities.

Pigliucci embraces the joyful bonds of

affection, the satisfactions of a job well done,

and the grief that attends loss. In his hands,

Stoicism isn’t about feats of indifference,

but about enduring pain without being

overwhelmed, while enjoying pleasures

without losing our heads.



COOKBOOKS

Ottolenghi Flavor

A Cookbook

YOTAM OTTOLENGHI | IXTA BELFARGE

Yotam Ottolenghi--the chef who captured the

hearts of home cooks looking for inspiration

and delicious, plant-based food for weeknight

cooking--is back with another collection of

instant-hit recipes, with 60 percent of them

ideal for the growing vegan market.

$45.00 HC Appetite by Random House

Matty Matheson

Home Style Cookery

MATTY MATHESON

Matty returns with 135 of his absolute favorite

recipes to cook at home for his family and

friends, so you can cook them for the people

you love. Home Style Cookery is his definitive

guide to mastering your kitchen, covering

everything from pantry staples (breads,

stocks, and pickles) to party favorites (dips,

fried foods, and grilled meats), to weeknight

go-tos (stews, pastas, salads), and special

occasion show-stoppers (roasts, smoked

meats, and desserts).

$40.00 HC Harry N Abrams

The Artisan Kitchen

The Science, Practice, and Possibilities

JAMES STRAWBRIDGE

Reconnect with a more mindful way of cooking

and spark your creativity. Giving a modern twist

to age-old techniques, this book shows how

to master 25 different cooking and preserving

processes, from fermenting to cheese making, hot

smoking to sourdough baking. Embark on your

next culinary adventure and revolutionize your

enjoyment of food. Escape to The Artisan Kitchen.

$39.00 HC DK

Oh She Glows For Dinner

Nourishing Plant Based Meals to

Keep you Glowing

ANGELA LIDDON

In Oh She Glows for Dinner, Angela shares her

Glow Getters meal prep plans, helpful makeahead

tips, and favorite seasonal and holiday

menus, as well as recipes for one-pot and

on-the-glow meals that will help streamline your

busy week.


Golden Girls Cookbook

More than 90 Delectable Recipes From

Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia

CHRISTOPHER STYLER

A cookbook for fans of the Golden Girls, the recipes

and photos included bring back the fun, humor,

and delight of the hit show and the beloved

characters. Filled with innovative recipes by

renowned chef Christopher Styler, and beautiful

photos by New York Times food photographer

Andrew Scrivani, plus fun quotes, info, and

photographs from the show!

$32.99 HC Kingswell

Modern Comfort Food

A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

INA GARTEN

In Modern Comfort Food, Ina Garten shares

85 new recipes that will feed your deepest

cravings. Many of these dishes are inspired by

childhood favorites—but with the volume turned

way up, such as Cheddar and Chutney Grilled

Cheese sandwiches, Smashed Hamburgers

with Caramelized Onions, and the crispiest hash

browns that are actually made in a waffle iron!

$47.00 HC Clarkson Potter

Jenna Rae Cakes and

Sweet Treats

Over 100 Recipes for the Modern Baker

JENNA HUTCHINSON | ASHLEY KOSOWAN

Jenna Hutchinson was in the middle of applying

to dental school when she saw an episode of

Cake Boss and thought, I can do that! Little did

she know, that moment would set her life off in a

new direction, and she and her twin sister Ashley

would go on to own one of Canada’s most successful

and celebrated bakeries, Jenna Rae Cakes.


The Classics Veganized

Over 120 Favourite Comfort Food Recipes for

a Vegan Lifestyle

DOUG MCNISH

Vegan cuisine is exploding in popularity around

the world, and now more than ever, people are

adopting a plant-based diet or vegan lifestyle. Not

only can you thrive eating a healthy plant-based

diet, but also you can now enjoy all those familiar

comfort food dishes that you have been craving.

$32.00 PB Penguin Canada

7 Ways

Easy Ideas for Every Day of the Week

JAMIE OLIVER

Jamie shares seven achievable, exciting, and tasty

ways to cook our favourite ingredients. Across

the book, at least 70% of the recipes are everyday

options from both an ease and nutritional point of

view, meaning you’re covered for every day of the

week. The most reader-focused cookbook Jamie

has ever written.


Baking Day With Anna

Olsen

Recipes to Bake Together

ANNA OLSON

Canada’s baking sweetheart, Anna Olson, returns

with an essential guide to baking for and with

those you love. Baking Day is the book we have

all been waiting for. In this new cookbook, Anna

Olson encourages you to spend time with your

loved ones, baking along with her easy-to-follow,

delicious recipes for all your favourite treats.

$40.00 HC Appetite by Random House


GARDENING & HOMESTEADING

Complete Container Herb

Gardening Design and Grow Beautiful,

Bountiful Herb-Filled Pots

SUE GOETZ

Whether you grow on a suburban patio, an urban

rooftop, a condo balcony, or on the front porch of

your duplex, Complete Container Herb Gardening is

the ideal roadmap for success, even for brand-new

gardeners. $35.99 PB Cool Springs Press

Growing Under Cover

Techniques for a More Productive, Weather-Resistant,

Pest-Free Vegetable Garden

NIKI JABBOUR

Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and

pest infestations are challenging today’s vegetable

gardeners. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows

how to use row covers, shade cloth, low tunnels,

cold frames, hoophouses, and other protective

structures to create controlled growing spaces for

vegetables to thrive. $33.95 PB Storey Publishing

How to Attract Birds to

Your Garden

Foods They Like, Plants They Love, Shelter

They Need

DAN ROUSE

Help reverse the decline in bird numbers by

creating a haven in which they will thrive. It’s a

win-win. Provide the best shelter, feeding, and

nesting opportunities for them and then you can

reap the rewards as they sing and entertain.

$32.00 HC DK

Plantopedia

The Definitive Guide to Houseplants

LAUREN CAMILLERI | SOPHIA KAPLAN

The definitive text for potting, maintaining,

and loving your houseplants. It features

detailed care information including tips and

tricks to ensure that houseplants thrive, and

plants for all levels of indoor gardeners, from

novices to green thumbs and beyond.

$55.00 HC Smith Street Books

The Kinfolk Garden

How to Live With Nature

JOHN BURNS

The next book in the highly successful Kinfolk

series, The Kinfolk Garden invites readers inside 30

spaces that blur the lines between indoors and out,

from jungle-like rooftops to sprawling backyards.

$55.00 HC 350 colour photographs Artisan

Storey’s Curious

Compendium of Practical

and Obscure Skills

214 Things You Can Actually Learn How to Do

HOW-TO EXPERTS AT STOREY PUBLISHING

This visual volume gathers entertaining and

practical step-by-step knowledge from Storey

Publishing’s wide-ranging library, covering topics

from gardening and animal husbandry to wilderness

survival skills, home repair and improvement,

cooking, and self-care.

$39.95 HC Storey Publishing

Saving Seeds

A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving

Plant Biodiversity

DAN JASON

A clear and winsome introduction to the essentials of

seed saving, from seed selection criteria to harvest

and storage tips. It also addresses the role of seedsaving

communities: local swaps, seed companies,

friends and neighbours and even how the internet

can support this time-honoured practice.

$14.95 PB Harbour Publishing

Smithsonian Makers

Workshop

Fascinating History & Essential How-Tos:

Gardening, Crafting, Decorating & Food

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Perfect for hobbyists interested in the historical

context of what they create for their homes, this

beautifully illustrated book contains fifty DIY

projects that all offer satisfying ways to bring

history and culture to life.

$36.00 PB full color Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

RAVENSBURGER

PUZZLES

Making the finest puzzles since 1891,

Ravensburger is one of the world’s

biggest puzzle brands. We carry an

extensive selection of kids and adult

puzzles from 24 pieces right up to 4,000

pieces. Please note that due to Covid-19

we are experiencing some supply

issues on this product. We recommend

shopping early for best selection.

From $12.00 ea.

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ACCESSORIES

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For the puzzle pro in your

household, we carry mats, storage

cases and puzzle glue. From $13.00


PUBLISHER FOCUS

BOOKS FROM GOOSE LANE PUBLISHING FREDERICTON


Acadian Driftwood

Government House

One Family and the Great Expulsion

Halifax

TYLER LEBLANC

A Place of History and Gathering

Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of Joseph LeBlanc,

CHRISTOPHER MCCREERY

Joseph’s ten siblings, and their families. With

Beginning with its construction in 1800 and

descendants scattered across modern-day Nova

continuing through its extensive renovations in

Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the LeBlancs

2009, this sumptuous book tells the story of the

provide a window into the diverse fates that

building’s royal residents, the household staff, and

awaited the Acadians when they were expelled

the momentous — and occasionally amusing —

from their homeland.

events which have transpired within its walls.

$19.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

$45 HC Illustrated Goose Lane Editions

Peace By Chocolate

The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey

from Syria to Canada

JON TATTRIE

This remarkable book tells the extraordinary

story of the Hadhad family and the founding of

the chocolatier, Peace by Chocolate. From the

devastation of the Syrian civil war, through their

life as refugees in Lebanon, to their arrival in a

small town in Atlantic Canada, this is the story of

one family. $22.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

Unicorn in the Woods

How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers

Are Changing the Game

GORDON PITTS

Pitts tells a story of two remarkable

companies and the legacies that continue to

this day. But theirs was not a simple tale of

overnight success; there were sellouts and

firings, comebacks and vindication, and still

unfulfilled promise.

$29.95 HC Goose Lane Editions

A Like Vision

Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven

IAN A.C. DEJARDIN

The definitive book on the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson with over 300 full-colour

images, celebrating the centenary of the Group’s first exhibition.

$60 HC Illustrated Goose Lane Edition with McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Blaze Island

CATHERINE BUSH

In this climate-themed, Shakespeare-inspired

novel from bestselling author Catherine Bush,

the time is now or an alternate near now, the

world close to our own. A category five hurricane

sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America,

leaving devastation in its wake, its outer wings

brushing over tiny Blaze Island. During this wild

night, a stranger washes up on the doorstep of the

isolated house where Milan Wells lives with his

daughter Miranda.

$24.95 PB Goose Lane Editions

Christmas with Maud

Lewis

LANCE WOOLAVER | BOB BROOKS

Originally issued in 1997 and now available in this

updated edition, Christmas with Maud Lewis paints

a portrait of how this spirited woman celebrated

the season in her life and art. Maud’s vision of

Christmas embraces skaters sliding every which

way, passengers leaning over the box of a horsedrawn

sleigh, smiling oxen in their best harness,

and bluebirds beside their snow-covered house.

$24.95 HC Illustrated Goose Lane Editions

CAVALLINI VINTAGE PRODUCTS

Authentic vintage imagery and producing the highest

quality products, Cavallini is a favourite in our stores.

MINI

POUCHES

4” x 9” Zippered Pouch. Lined interior with leather

zipper pull. Made of 100% cotton. Assorted images

$16.99

TOTE BAGS

13” x 17” tote bag with interior

pocket. Made of 100% natural

cotton canvas. Assorted images.

$19.99

PUZZLES

The super-coveted

1000-piece puzzle.

Beautiful packaging

including muslin bag with

drawstring. High quality.

$28.00


HISTORY

The Invention of Medicine

From Homer to Hippocrates

ROBIN LANE FOX

A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of

medicine. Medical thinking and observation were

radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their

great legacies to the world. Elegantly written and

remarkably learned, The Invention of Medicine is a

groundbreaking reassessment of many aspects of

Greek culture and city life.


1945

The Year That Made Modern Canada

KEN CUTHBERTSON

Ken Cuthbertson has written a highly readable

narrative that commemorates the seventy-fifth

anniversary of the end of WWII and chronicles

the events and personalities of a critical year that

reshaped Canada. 1945: The Year That Made Modern

Canada showcases the stories of people—some

celebrated, some ordinary—who left their mark on

the nation and helped create the Canada of today.

$34.99 HC Illustrations Patrick Crean Editions

Agent Sonya

Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy

BEN MACINTYRE

Ben Macintyre’s latest true-life spy story is a

masterpiece about the woman code-named

“Sonya,” one of the most important female spies

in history. Hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese,

the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI, she evaded

all of them, and survived as well the brutal

Soviet purges that left many of her friends and

colleagues dead.

$36.00 HC Signal

First Canadian Army

Victory in Europe 1944–45

SIMON FORTY

This book is a pictorial history of the First Canadian

Army in northwest Europe during the final year of

the war. The illustrations include battle, landing and

assault maps; photographs of soldiers in action and

resting, aerial photographs of key sites of action

then and now; battlefield survivors such as Sherman

tanks; memorials to individuals and units; and,

of course, the cemeteries of Canadian, Polish and

British soldiers.

$35.00 HC 350 illustrations and maps Firefly Books

North American Gaels

Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora

NATASHA SUMNER | AIDAN DOYLE

A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third

most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish

was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people

in the United States. Staking a claim for Gaelic

studies on this continent, North American Gaels

shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish

Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech,

story, and song.

$45.95 PB McGill-Queen’s University Press

Philip and Alexander

Kings and Conquerors

ADRIAN GOLDWORTHY

In Philip and Alexander, classical historian Adrian

Goldsworthy shows that without the work and

influence of his father, Alexander could not have

achieved so much. This is the groundbreaking

biography of two men who together conquered

the world.


The Ship of Dreams

The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the

Edwardian Era

GARETH RUSSELL

This original and “meticulously researched retelling

of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise

Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses

the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which

to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the

seismic shift modernity brought to the Western

world. “While there are many Titanic books, this is

one readers will consider a favorite.” (Voyage)

$25.00 PB Illustrations Atria

The Company

The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay

Empire

STEPHEN BROWN

The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic

and adventurous and complex, is the story of

modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been

told in a book for over thirty years, and never in

such depth and detail before.

$37.00 HC Doubleday Canada

War

How Conflict Shaped Us

MARGARET MACMILLAN

MacMillan’s new book contains many revelations,

such as war has often been good for science and

innovation and in the 20th century it did much

for the position of women in many societies. But

throughout, it forces the reader to reflect on the

ways in which war is so intertwined with society,

and the myriad reasons we fight.

$35.00 HC Allen Lane

The Art of Innovation

From Enlightenment to Dark Matter

IAN BLATCHFORD | TILLY BLYTH

This illustrated modern history of the

connections between science and art reveals a

new perspective on what that relationship has

contributed to the world around us.

$53.95 HC Bantam Press


INDIGENOUS

Swift Fox All Along

REBECCA THOMAS

ILLUSTRATOR MAYA MCKIBBEN

Swift Fox goes to visit her family, but she

is worried that she won’t belong. What

does it mean to be Mi’kmaq? Swift Fox All

Along is a poignant story about identity

and belonging that is personal and

universally resonant.

$21.95 HC Annick Press

Spirit Bear

Echoes of the Past

CINDY BLACKSTOCK

ILLUSTRATOR SPOTTED FAWN

PRODUCTIONS

Based on a true story. Spirit Bear and his

family set out for Songhees and Esquimalt

territories for their holiday! They learn how

we can learn from all parts of history to

make better decisions now and for future

generations of Indigenous kids.

$15.00 PB First Nations Child & Family

Caring Society

Warrior Life

Indigenous Resistance and Resurgance

PAMELA PALMETER

From one of the most important, inspiring

and fearless voices in Indigenous rights,

decolonization, Canadian politics, social justice,

earth justice and beyond, Warrior Life is an

unflinching critique of the colonial project that is

Canada and a rallying cry for Indigenous peoples

and allies alike to forge a path toward a decolonial

future through resistance and resurgence.

$22.00 PB Fernwood

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and

the Teachings of Plants

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and

as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living

beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and

squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer

us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to

hear their voices.

$26.95 PB Milkweed Editions

The Inconvenient Indian

A Curious Account of Native People in

North America

THOMAS KING

This is a book both timeless and timely, burnished

with anger but tempered by wit, and ultimately

a hard-won offering of hope--a sometimes

inconvenient but nonetheless indispensable

account for all of us, Indian and non-Indian alike,

seeking to understand how we might tell a new

story for the future.

$22.00 PB Doubleday Canada

21 Things You May Not

Know About the

Indian Act

Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with

Indigenous Peoples a Reality

BOB JOSEPH

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not

Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide

to understanding the legal document and its

repercussion on generations of Indigenous

peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity

trainer.

$19.95 PB Page Two Books

Paying the Land

JOE SACCO

From the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman”

(Economist), a masterful work of comics

journalism about indigenous North America,

resource extraction, and our debt to the natural

world. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that

dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an

ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, to

tell a sweeping story about money, dependency,

loss, and culture—recounted in stunning visual

detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive.

$39.99 HC Henry Holt & Co

Moonshot

The Indigenous Comics Collection

HOPE NICHOLSON

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection

brings together dozens of creators from North

America to contribute comic book stories

showcasing the rich heritage and identity of

indigenous storytelling. From traditional stories to

exciting new visions of the future, this collection

presents some of the finest comic book and

graphic novel work on the continent.

$19.99 PB Inhabit Education Books Inc

Genocidal Love

Life After Residential School

BEVANN FOX

How can we heal in the face of trauma? How can

we transform intergenerational pain into a passion

for community and healing? This is the story of

Myrtle battling to recover her voice. Genocidal

Love is a powerful confirmation of the long-lasting

consequences of residential school violence —and

a moving story of finding a path towards healing.

$21.95 PB University of Regina Press

History of My Brief Body

BILLY-RAE BELCOURT

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize

mines his own personal history to reconcile the

world he was born into with the world that could

be. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with

a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his

early life. What emerges is not only a profound

meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and

ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. A

History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and

over again the power of words to both devastate

and console us.

$25.00 HC Hamish Hamilton


CURRENT EVENTS

Restoring Democracy in

an Age of Populists and

Pestilence

JONATHAN MANTHORPE

In this fast gallop over heavy ground, the author of

the bestseller Claws of the Panda outlines what is

eroding democracies — from foreign influences to

internal pressures such as income disparity — and

concrete ways each of us can help.


Bland Fanatics

Liberals, Race, and Empire

PANKAJ MISHRA

A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical

essays on the political mania plaguing the West by

one of the most important public intellectuals of

our time.

$36.50 HC Farrar Straus & Giroux

Mediocre

The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

IJEOMA OLUA

From the author of the New York Times bestseller

So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history

of white male American identity. What happens

to a country that tells generation after generation

of white men that they deserve power? What

happens when success is defined by status over

women and people of color, instead of by actual

accomplishments?


Missing From the Village

The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the

Search for Justice, and the System That Failed

Toronto’s Queer Community

JUSTIN LING

This extraordinary book tells the complete story

of the McArthur murders. Based on more than five

years of in-depth reporting, this is also a story of police

failure, of how the queer community responded,

and the story of the eight men who went missing

and the lives they left behind.

$32.95 HC McClelland and Stewart

Morality

Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

JONATHAN SACKS

In Morality, respected faith leader and public

intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today’s crisis

to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our

elevation of self-interest over the common good.

We have outsourced morality to the market and

the state, but neither is capable of showing us how

to live.


Our Malady

Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

TIMOTHY SNYDER

From the author of the #1 New York Times

bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned

condemnation of America’s coronavirus response

and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom.

In examining some of the darkest moments of

recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds

hope and principles that could lead us out of our

current malaise.

$16.00 TP Crown

Reset

Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society: CBC

Massey Lecture

RONALD J DEIBERT

In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling

author and renowned technology and security

expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing

influence and impact of the internet on politics,

the economy, the environment, and humanity.

$22.95 PB House of Anansi Press

Ten Lessons for a Post

Pandemic World

FAREED ZAKARIA

Lenin once said, “There are decades when

nothing happens and weeks when decades

happen.” This is one of those times when history

has sped up. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic

World speaks to past, present, and future, and,

while urgent and timely, is sure to become an

enduring reflection on life in the early twentyfirst

century.

$35.95 HC WW Norton

The American Crisis

What Went Wrong, How We Recover

WRITERS OF THE ATLANTIC

JEFFREY GOLDBERG | ANNE APPLEBAUM

Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers

offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this

collection of timely, often prophetic articles from

The Atlantic. The American Crisis is a broad and

essential look at the condition of America today—

and at the qualities of national character that may

yet offer hope.

$27.00 PB Simon & Schuster

The Upswing

How America Came Together a Century Ago

and How We Can Do It Again

ROBERT D PUTNAM

An eminent political scientist’s brilliant analysis of

economic, social, and political trends over the past

century demonstrating how we have gone from an

individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian

“We” society and then back again.

$44.00 HC CHARTS/GRAPHS/CARTOONS

THROUGHOUT Simon & Schuster


CURRENT EVENTS

Planet Earth

How Our Expats are Shaping the Future

JOHN STACKHOUSE

A leading thinker on Canada’s place in the world

contends that our country’s greatest untapped

resource may be the three million Canadians

who don’t live here. Entrepreneurs, educators,

humanitarians: an entire province’s worth of

Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will

return, others won’t. But what they all share is the

ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian

values to a world sorely in need of them.


A Good War

Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency

SETH KLEIN

Klein demonstrates how wartime thinking and

community efforts can be repurposed today for

Canada’s own Green New Deal. He shares how we

can create jobs and reduce inequality while tackling

our climate obligations for a climate neutral—or

even climate zero—future.

$24.95 PB ECW

A Small Farm Future

Making the Case for a Society Built Around

Local Economies, Self-Provisioning,

Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth

CHRIS SMAJE

In a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social

scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing

society around small-scale farming offers the

soundest, sanest and most reasonable response

to climate change and other crises of civilization—

and will yield humanity’s best chance at survival.

$32.95 PB Chelsea Green

All We Can Save

Truth, Courage, and Solutions for

the Climate Crisis

AYANA ELIZABETH JOHNSON

KATHARINE K WILKINSON

Provocative and illuminating essays from women

at the forefront of the climate movement who are

harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead

humanity forward.

$39.00 HC OneWorld

Anti-Social

Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the

Hijacking of the American Conversation

ANDREW MARANTZ

From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply

immersive chronicle of how the optimistic

entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create

a free and democratic internet--and how the

cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited

that freedom to propel the extreme into the

mainstream.


Having and Being Had

EULA BISS

Described by The New York Times as a writer who

“advances from all sides, like a chess player,” Biss

offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply

revealing new portrait of work and luxury, of

accumulation and consumption, of the value of

time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to

Beyoncé to Pokemon, Biss asks, of both herself

and her class, “In what have we invested?”

$35.00 HC Riverhead

The Democracy of Suffering

Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy

in the Anthropocene

TODD DUFRESNE

In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd

Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration

of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the

Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises

of reason and capital have dramatically remade

the essential conditions for life itself.

$29.95 PB McGill-Queens University Press

The Good Ancestor

A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

ROMAN KRZNARIC

The most important question we must ask

ourselves is, “Are we being good ancestors?” So

said Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine

in 1953 but refused to patent it—forgoing profit

so that more lives could be saved. In The Good

Ancestor, Krznaric reveals six practical ways we

can retrain our brains to think of the long view.

$33.95 HC The Experiment

The Light That Failed

A Reckoning

IVAN KRASTEV | STEPHEN HOLMES

Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize

Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years,

Kratstev and Holmes show that the most powerful

force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that

began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at

the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized.

Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging

the East/West divide, The Light that Failed is a

landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary

history of our Age of Imitation.

$21.99 PB Penguin UK

The Tyranny of Merit

What’s Become of the Common Good

MICHAEL J SANDEL

World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel

argues that to overcome the crises that are

upending our world, we must rethink the

attitudes toward success and failure that have

accompanied globalization and rising inequality.

The Tyranny of Merit points us toward a hopeful

vision of a new politics of the common good.

$38.00 HC Farrar, Straus, and Giroux


BLACK LIVES MATTER

Black Matters

AFUA COOPER | WILFRED RAUSSERT

Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and

photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in

this book of poems and photographs focused

on everyday Black experiences. This visual and

textual conversation honours the multiple layers

of Blackness in the African diaspora around North

America and Europe. The result is a work that

amplifies black beauty and offers audible resistance.

$20.00 PB Fernwood

The Skin We’re In

A Year of Black Resistance and Power

DESMOND COLE

A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting

book from one of Canada’s most celebrated and

uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin

We’re In will spark a national conversation, influence

policy, and inspire activists.

$29.95 HC Doubleday Canada

White Fragility

Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk

About Racism

ROBIN DIANGELO | MICHAEL ERIC DUPON

In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael

Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly

illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and

“allows us to understand racism as a practice not

restricted to ‘bad people’ “(Claudia Rankine).

$22.00 PB Beacon Press

Between the World

and Me

TA-NEHISI COATES

Beautifully woven from personal narrative,

reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally

charged reportage, Between the World and Me

clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts

our present, and offers a transcendent vision for

a way forward.

$35.00 HC Random House Publishing

How to Be an Anti-Racist

IBRAM X KENDU

Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of

ethics, history, law, and science with his own

personal story of awakening to antiracism. This

is an essential work for anyone who wants to

go beyond the awareness of racism to the next

step: contributing to the formation of a just and

equitable society.

$36.00 HC Random House Publishing

“

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign.

But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity

of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

Me and White

Supremacy

Combat Racism, Change the World, and

Become a Good Ancestor

LAYLA F SAAD | ROBIN J DIANGELO

Based on the viral Instagram challenge that

captivated participants worldwide, Me and

White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day

journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the

necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead

to improving race relations.

$37.99 HC Sourcebooks

Race

Vintage Minis

TONI MORRISON

An exploration of race from one of the twentieth

century’s primary chroniclers of the African-

American experience. Is who we are really only

skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book,

Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of

those debased and dehumanized because of it.

$7.99 PB Vintage

The Cure for Hate

A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from

Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion

TONY MCALEER

At a period in history when instances of racial

violence are on the upswing, The Cure for Hate

demonstrates that in a society frighteningly

divided by hate and in need of healing, perhaps

atonement, forgiveness, and most importantly,

radical compassion are the cure.

$22.95 PB Arsenal Pulp Press

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of

Colorblindness

MICHELLE ALEXANDER

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle

Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Now, ten years

after it was first published, The New Press is proud

to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new

preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses

the impact the book has had and the state of the

criminal justice reform movement today.

$28.50 PB The New Press

“


PUBLISHER FOCUS

BOOKS FROM NIMBUS PUBLISHING HALIFAX


Because We Love,

We Cry

SHEREE FITCH

The poem that captured the nation’s attention

after the tragic events in Portapique, Nova

Scotia, in April 2020, is now available as a

hardcover keepsake book.

$17.95 HC 24 colour line drawings Nimbus

Publishing

Stay the Blazes Home

Dispatches from Nova Scotia during

the COVID-19 Pandemic

LEN WAGG

A photo-filled compilation of stories about

Nova Scotians’ resilience during the

COVID-19 pandemic, from the awardwinning

photographer of Then & Now.

$19.95 PB 100 colour photographs Nimbus

Publishing

Medicinal Herbs of

Eastern Canada

A Pictorial Manual

BRENDA JONES

A guide to healing herbs that can be found in

the backyards of eastern Canada, complete with

detailed, full-colour illustrations and accessible

tips, facts, and recipes.

$22.95 PB 73 colour illustrations Nimbus

Publishing

I Place You in the Fire

REBECCA THOMAS

The incisive and vital first poetry collection from

the Mi’kmaw spoken-word poet and former Poet

Laureate of Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Rebecca Thomas.

$18.95 PB Nimbus Publishing

Brighten the Corner

Where you Are

A Novel Inspired by the Life of

Maud Lewis

CAROL BRUNEAU

From the award-winning author of A Bird

on Every Tree and A Circle on the Surface

comes a brilliant reimagining of the life of

Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis.

$24.95 PB Vagrant Press

The Spoon Stealer

LESLEY CREWE

Lesley Crewe’s newest novel brings readers

from WWI England to 1960s Nova Scotia,

following a spoon-stealing memoirist who

inherits the family farm—and the family.

$24.95 PB Vagrant Press

“Thanks For the Business”

K. C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of

Irving Oil

DONALD J SAVOIE

A comprehensive business profile and detailed

history of the iconic Irving Oil Limited, from

Donner Prize-winning author Donald J. Savoie.

$29.95 HC 10 B/W photographs Nimbus Publishing

Mi’kmaw Daily Drum

Mi’kmaw Culture for Every Day of

the Week

ALAN SYLIBOY

A baby board book from the bestselling artist

behind Mi’kmaw Animals that teaches young

readers Mi’kmaw concepts and the Mi’kmaw

word for each day of the week.

$14.95 BB 10 colour illustrations Nimbus

Publishing

Nova Scotia and

the Great Influenza

Pandemic, 1918-1920

A Remembrance of the Dead and an

Archive for the Living

RUTH HOLMES WHITEHEAD

The definitive academic resource on the Great

Influenza by the celebrated historian behind

Black Loyalists, in time for the pandemic’s

centenary.

$32.95 PB 20 B/W photographs Nimbus

Publishing

ASSORTED

MUGS

GINGERFOX

We carry a wide selection of these fun,

beautifully designed mugs from a favourite UK

based supplier, GingerFox. What’s better than

a good book and a mug of tea?

From $19.99


GIFTS FOR EVERYONE

“

The Best of Me

DAVID SEDARIS

Taken together, the stories in The Best of Me

reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes

in the surprises life brings him. No experience,

he sees, is quite as he expected—it’s often

harder, more fraught, and certainly weirder—but

sometimes it is also much richer and more

wonderful.


Forever Terry

A Legacy in Letters

DARRELL FOX

Terry Fox defined perseverance and hope

for a generation of Canadians. Forty

years after Terry’s run ended, Forever

Terry reflects what Terry’s legacy means

to us now, and in the future. Contributors

include Douglas Coupland, Wayne

Gretzky, Michael Bublé.

$29.95 HC Viking

I Want to be Where

the Normal People Are

RACHEL BLOOM

From the charming and wickedly funny

co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,

a collection of hilarious personal essays,

poems and even amusement park maps

on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety,

and much more.

$35.00 HC Grand Central Publishing

Saltwater Gifts

from the Island of

Newfoundland

More Than 25 Fashion and Home

Styles to Knit

CHRISTINE LEGROW | SHIRLEY SCOTT

Knitted gifts are treasured in Newfoundland,

whatever the season. Designs unique to

this storied island are made to keep loved

ones warm all year long, even during early

summer when icebergs chill the air.

$29.95 PB Boulder Books

Is This Anything?

JERRY SEINFELD

The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry

Seinfeld features his best work across five

decades in comedy.

$40.00 HC Simon and Schuster

Strange Plant

Existence Chronicle

NATHAN W PYLE

Based on the smash #1 New York Times

bestselling series Strange Planet, this

charming must-have guided journal features

the fascinating inhabitants of Nathan W. Pyle’s

colorful world.

$18.50 HC Illustrations Morrow Gift

Off the Walls

Inspired Re-Creations of Iconic Artworks

GETTY

While locked down by COVID-19, people around

the globe raided toy chests and pantries, and

enlisted family, roommates, and animals to recreate

famous works of art. Astonishing in their

wit and ingenuity, these creations remind us of

art’s power to unite us and bring us joy during

troubled times.

PB $19.50 405 illustrations Getty

The 99% Invisible City

A Field Guide to the Hidden World of

Everyday Design

ROMAN MARS

A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed

yet essential elements of our cities, from

the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible

podcast

$43.00 HC Illustrations Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

PUBLISHER FOCUS

BOOKS FROM ISLAND STUDIES PRESS CHARLOTTETOWN


Home is Where the

Water Is

HUNG-MIN CHIANG

Born and raised in tumultuous times in East

Asia, Hung-Min Chiang survived earthquakes,

wars, foreign occupation, dictatorship, and

illness before making his way to PEI, where he

taught humanistic psychology.

$27.95 PB Island Studies Press

An Introduction to

Island Studies

JAMES E RANDALL

A bottom-up guide to this interdisciplinary field

— from islands as biodiversity hotspots, their

settlement, human migration, and occupation

through to the place of islands in the popular

imagination.

$39.95 PB ISP/R&L (Roman & Littlefield)


DEIRDRE KESSLER

AUTHOR PROFILE

Poet, historian, and biographer. Young adult and children’s author. Teacher of creative writing

and children’s literature at UPEI. Reviewer and broadcaster for CBC Radio and Television.

Book editor, mentor, and writing workshop facilitator. Playwright and script writer.… sixth

poet laureate of Prince Edward Island. A former poet laureate for Prince Edward Island, Deirdre

champions the value of poetry in our society to young and old alike. She initiates projects to

bring poetry to new audiences, she makes poetry fun through events like ‘Poetry

while you wait’ and she is a tireless promoter of PEI poetry. As a Lucy Maud

Montgomery scholar, Deirdre has been a promoter of Montgomery’s work and

appreciated by young students and aspiring writers for her role in mentoring

and encouraging.

Your favourite poets

William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Louise Glück (who just won a Nobel Prize in

Literature), Walt Whitman, and our own John Smith (whom we now imagine reading

poetry, as he once put it, “…to a benevolent audience in the Mother Ship”).

Your favourite heroes in fiction

Deirdre of the Sorrows (of Irish legend, after whom I am named), and a

character from Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang, Seldom Seen Smith (whose

motto is, “You can never go wrong cuttin’ fence.”)

If not yourself, who would you be?

Even for an afternoon I would like to be John Smith (1927-2018), P.E.I.’s first poet laureate.

Your idea of happiness

Sitting on the floor with a litter of four-week-old kittens or walking the Greenwich trails

in summer or fall at sunrise.

Your favourite painters or composers

Georgia O’Keeffe and Vincent van Gogh

Your most treasured possession

Aside from the childhood panda who may still patrol the perimeter while I sleep,

I treasure my guitar, an old Martin I bought decades ago from Joady Guthrie, son of

Woody (Arlo’s younger brother).

Your favourite virtue

It’s the first yama or virtue in the study of yoga: ahimsa, non-harming.

What do you appreciate the most in your friends

Kindness and humour.

POETRY

The Lost Spells

ROBERT MACFARLANE

ILLUSTRATOR JACKIE MORRIS

The follow-up to the internationally

bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The

Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems

and illustrations that evokes the magic of the

everyday natural world.

$31.00 HC Full-colour illustration throughout

House of Anansi Press

And Yet: Poems

JOHN STEFFLER

In John Steffler’s luminous collection, And

Yet, dreams, memory and desire are forms

of wilderness that burst into our daily lives,

inspiring us to see ourselves and the world

anew.

$19.95 PB McClelland & Stewart

Dearly: Poems

MARGARET ATWOOD

By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems

gathered in Dearly are about absences and

endings, ageing and retrospection, but also

about gifts and renewals. It is a pure delight,

and fans will treasure its insight, empathy and

humour.

$32.95 HC McClelland & Stewart

Devotions

MARY OLIVER

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver’s

personal selection of her best work, in this

definitive collection spanning more than five

decades of her esteemed literary career.



RELIGION

Broken Signposts

How Christianity Makes Sense

N.T. WRIGHT

In this thoughtful follow-up to Simply Christian,

today’s leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and

acclaimed author uses the Gospel of John to reveal

how Christianity presents a compelling and relevant

explanation for our world.

$34.99 HC HarperOne

Christ in Crisis?

Reclaiming Jesus in a Time of Fear,

Hate, and Violence

JIM WALLIS

New York Times bestselling author and Christian

activist Jim Wallis calls America to return to Jesus

once again as the means to save us from the evils of

our polarized and angry tribal nation.

$21.99 PB HarperOne

Live Not By Lies

A Manual for Christian Dissidents

ROD DREHER

The New York Times bestselling author of The

Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian

survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American

Christians of approaching dangers.

$36.00 HC Sentinel

Born To Wonder

Exploring our Deepest Questions-Why are

we here and Why Does it Matter?

ALISTER MCGRATH

In Born to Wonder, Alister McGrath, a prolific

Oxford scholar, scientist, and theologian, explores

the deepest mystery at the heart of life itself. We

never asked to be born. Yet here we are, living

in this strange world of space and time. What

is the point of life? Why are we here? And what

is it about us that makes us want to ask these

questions? $23.99 PB Tyndale House

Do It Afraid

Embracing Courage in the Face of Fear

JOYCE MEYER

Recognize, confront, and conquer the fears

holding you back from living boldly and freely with

renowned Bible teacher and New York Times bestselling

author, Joyce Meyer. In Do It Afraid, Joyce

Meyer explains that fear is everywhere and affects

everyone. It rules many people, but it doesn’t have

to rule you any longer.

$33.00 HC Faithwords

Everything Is Spiritual

Who We Are and What We’re Doing

ROB BELL

Part memoir, part confession, part extended riff on

the endlessly evolving nature of reality, Everything

Is Spiritual is an invitation to see what you’ve been

a part of this whole time.

$37.99 HC St Martin’s Publishing

CLASSICS

The Hobbit & The

Lord of the Rings

Boxed Set

J R R TOLKIEN

ALAN LEE

An absolutely stunning boxed gift set

of Tolkien’s classic masterpieces, fully

illustrated throughout in watercolour by

the acclaimed and award-winning artist,

Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter

Jackson’s THE HOBBIT films.

$160.00 Illustrated HC HarperCollins

Unfinished Tales

J R R TOLKIEN

CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN

ALAN LEE

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the first

ever illustrated edition of this collection

of tales which takes readers further into

the stories told in The Hobbit, The Lord of

the Rings and The Silmarillion, featuring

18 full-colour paintings depicting scenes

from the First, Second and Third Ages of

Middle-earth.

$49.99 Illustrated HC HarperCollins

Timeless Classics

Series

ROCK POINT

Complete and unabridged, these

elegantly designed gift editions feature

luxe, patterned endpapers, ribbon

markers, and foil and deboss details

on vibrantly colored cases. Celebrate

these beloved works of literature as

true standouts in your personal library

collection. The series include: The Complete

Grimm’s Fairy Tales, The Complete

Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Tales &

Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete

Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, and The Complete

Works of William Shakespeare.

From $37.00 HC Quarto

“

It is a good rule, after reading a new

book, never to allow yourself another

new one till you have read an

old one in between.

C.S. LEWIS

“


SPORTS

Burke’s Law

A Life in Hockey

BRIAN BURKE | STEPHEN BRUNT

The gruffest man in hockey opens up about the

challenges, the feuds, and the tragedies he’s fought

through. Burke’s Law is an unforgettable account

of old beefs and old friendships, scores settled and

differences forgiven, and many lessons learned the

hard way. $35.00 HC Penguin Canada

Catch 22

My Battles, in Hockey and Life

RICK VAIVE | SCOTT MORRISON

In telling his story of turmoil in Toronto’s Ballard

years (and with Don Cherry’s Mississauga Ice Dogs),

growing up in an environment filled with alcohol

and alcoholism, and his own struggles and battles,

Rick Vaive finally sets the record straight.

$32.95 HC Knopf Random Vintage Canada

Memories of Low Tide

CHANTAL THOMAS | NATASHA LEHRER

A memoir of childhood, the mother-daughter

bond and the transformative power of swimming,

by multi-award-winning French author Chantal

Thomas. Thomas combs the beaches of her

childhood for memories, recalling the sensory

pleasures of the sands, the first sharp touch of

cold water, and discovering the multitude of ways

in which she is still her mother’s daughter.

$22.95 PB Steerforth Press

One Game at a Time

My Journey from Small Town Alberta to

Hockey’s Biggest Stage

HARNARAYAN SINGH

One Game at a Time is the incredible and inspiring

story of how Harnarayan Singh broke through the

longstanding barriers and biases of the sport he

loves. Harnarayan blends his unabashed love of

hockey with a refreshing and necessary positive

message about what it means to be a Canadian

in the world. $32.00 HC McClelland and Stewart

We the North

25 Years of the Toronto Raptors

DOUG SMITH | VINCE CARTER

We the North: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors

tells the story of Canada’s most exciting team,

charting their rise from a sporting oddity in a

hockey-mad country to the status they hold today

as the reigning NBA champions and national

heroes. $32.00 HC Penguin Canada

Willie

The Game-Changing Story of the NHL’S

First Black Player

WILLIE O’REE | MICHAEL MCKINLEY

JAROME IGINLA

Inspiring, frank, and shot through with the kind

of understated courage and decency required

to change the world, Willie is a story for anyone

willing to persevere for a dream.


CLASSICS

The Seasons Editions

THOMAS NELSON

A selection of fine edition classics that have

been cultivated because of the season in

which the book takes place. A limited-edition

collection with only one print run, all books will

be first editions and numbered out of 10,000.

The book jacket will be stark white with an

innovative laser-cut design. The hardcover book

exterior will have a printed texture in a solid

color with gold foil stamping on the front cover,

spine, and back cover.

From $36.99 HC HarperCollins

Leather-Bound Classics

CANTERBURY CLASSICS

Elegant, leather-bound editions from

Canterbury Classics will captivate and inspire

readers and brighten bookshelves. Choose

from 32 different classic titles.

$33.99 HC Canterbury Classics

Penguin

Clothbound

Classics Series

PENGUIN CLASSICS

Beautiful hardcover editions of

beloved classic literature. Featuring

custom patterns inspired by each

work stamped on linen cases, colored

endpapers, and ribbon markers,

these are gift-worthy editions of

more than sixty titles including Great

Expectations, Far from the Madding

Crowd, and Wuthering Heights.

From $30.00 HC Penguin

Word Cloud

Fiction Series

CANTERBURY CLASSICS

Over 50 titles are available in this

series of modern editions of classic

literature, bound in flexible imitation

leather with colorful designs

(featuring “word clouds” taken from

the books) that will look fantastic on

the shelf.

From $19.99 PB Canterbury Classics


SCIENCE & NATURE

Seaweed

An Enchanting Miscellany

MIEK ZWAMBORN | MICHELE HUTCHISON

A beautifully illustrated ode to the most sensuous

family of water plants. In this exquisitely illustrated

portrait, poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares

discoveries of seaweed’s history, culture, and

science.

$26.95 HC 53 colour illustrations Greystone Books

The Book of Eels

Their Lives, Secrets, and Myths

Tom Fort

The Book of Eels, which combines social commentary,

biography and natural history, is also a fascinating

and witty account of Tom Fort’s obsession

with the eel, his journeying to discover the eel in all

its habitats, and the people he meets in his pursuit.

$19.95 PB HarperCollins

Great Adaptations

Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other

Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved

KENNETH CATANIA

Catania sheds light on the mysteries behind the

behaviours of tentacled snakes, tiny shrews,

zombie-making wasps, and more, while weaving

through it all an account of his biological detective

work.

$39.00 HC Illustrations Princeton University Press

A Life on Our Planet

My Witness Statement and a Vision for the

Future

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

JONNIE HUGHES

See the world. Then make it better. We have

one final chance to create the perfect home for

ourselves and restore the wonderful world we

inherited. All we need is the will to do so.

$33.00 HC Grand Central Publishing

A Walk Around the Block

Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels,

Manhole Mysteries, and Other Stuff You See

Every Day (And Know Nothing About)

SPIKE CARLSON

A simple walk around the block set journalist

Spike Carlsen, bestselling author of A Splintered

History of Wood, off to investigate everything he

could about everything we take for granted in our

normal life—from manhole covers and recycling

bins to bike lanes and stoplights.


Growth

From Microorganisms to Megacities

VACLAV SMIL

In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers a

systematic investigation of growth in nature

and society, the prioritization of boundless

development on a finite and limited planet.

$25.95 PB The MIT Press

The Swallow

STEPHEN MOSS

From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren

and The Twelve Birds of Christmas. With beautiful

illustrations throughout, this captivating year-inthe-life

biography reveals the hidden secrets of

this iconic bird that lives right on our doorstep.

$27.99 HC Square Peg

The Fragile Earth

Writing from the New Yorker on Climate

Change

DAVID REMNICK | HENRY FINDER

A collection of the New Yorker’s groundbreaking

reporting from the front lines of climate change—

including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth

Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more.

The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate

change—its past, present, and future—taking

readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and

into both laboratories and rain forests.


The Practical Astronomer

Explore the Wonders of the Night Sky

WILL GATER

Discover the wonders of the Universe with this complete

introduction to observing and understanding the night sky.

Accessible, inspirational, and authoritative, The Practical

Astronomer will enthuse and inform anyone who wants to

expand their knowledge of the night sky.

$31.99 PB DK

WORLD GLOBES

REPLOGLE

A globe is both a source of wonder and a

way to help people make sense of the world.

Replogle has been manufacturing the finest

quality globes since 1930.

FROM $18.99


COBBLE HILL PUZZLES

We carry a vast

selection of Cobble

Hill puzzles in 275,

500, 1,000 and 2,000

piece counts.

Please note that due to

COVID-19 we are experiencing

some supply issues on this

product. We recommend shopping

early for best selection.

From $19.99


BOOKSELLER PICKS

Trina’s Picks

“

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. But they are shapes,

they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,

they paint watercolours of perception.

DIANE ACKERMAN

BEST OF 2020

A Single Thread

A Novel

TRACY CHEVALIER

Violet Speedwell is one of the women, the

generation after WWI, often referred to as surplus

women, having lost husbands, fiancés, many male

relatives, during the war. Tracy Chevalier once

again focuses on an overlooked area of women’s

history, bringing Violet to life as she grieves her

fiancé’s death in the war, and learns to look to her

life and her future. Finely researched, the stitches

of the women thread in and out amongst the

friendships and relationships which flourish and

give meaning to their lives.

If You Come to Earth

SOPHIE BLACKALL

Two time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall

presents a child’s eye view of earth as they

address a “visitor from Outer Space” but really

addressing those of us on this planet in all our

many complexities. The artwork is stunning and

supports the diverse population and many worlds

depicted in this beautiful book.

“

Modern Comfort Food

A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

INA GARTEN

In the year of the pandemic there is nothing more

apt than a cookbook offering comfort food but with

new twists and hearty flavours. When so many of us

have turned to the kitchen in this year of isolating,

this is a perfect accompaniment. Simple and

delicious, what more could you want in the kitchen?

All the Devils Are Here

A Novel

LOUISE PENNY

I have always suggested starting with the first in

the series but now I’m happy to say read All the

Devils are Here, then go back to the beginning. As

with other books in the series, this one deals with

the struggle between good and evil, one with which

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is intimately

familiar. Add French ambiance, history , culture, and

crisp plotting for a gripping read once again from

Louise Penny.

Maud and Grand-Maud

SARA O’LEARY | KENARD PAK

Maud recounts stories of special nights, sleeping

over with Grand-Maud, relating the usual things

they do, their routines and the comfort of being

together. This is a lovely book illustrating the

connection between grandmother and grandchild

and the links between their worlds as they create

memories to last a lifetime.

PAST FAVOURITES

When All is Said

A Novel

ANNE GRIFFIN

Garden Spells

A Novel

SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

Here We Are

Notes for Living on Planet Earth

OLIVER JEFFERS

A Bitter Feast

A Novel

DEBORAH CROMBIE

Planting the

Natural Garden

PIET OUDOLF

HENK GERRITSEN

Mending Life

A Handbook for Repairing

Clothes and Hearts

NINA MONTENEGRO

SONYA MONTENEGRO

Winter Living

Style

Bring hygge into

your home with this

inspirational guide to

decorating for Winter

SELINA LAKE

Tiny Stitches

Buttons, Badges, Patches,

and Pins to Embroider

IREM YAZICI

Never Home Alone

From Microbes to Millipedes,

Camel Crickets, and Honeybees,

the Natural History of

Where We Live

ROB DUNN

The Life As We

Knew it

Collection

SUSAN BETH PFEFFER


“

I

Caitlin’s Picks

find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set,

I go into the other room, and read a good book.

GROUCHO MARX

BOOKSELLER PICKS

“

BEST OF 2020

Shuggie Bain

A Novel

DOUGLAS STUART

The sense of time and place is magnificently

portrayed in this Scottish novel.

The Adventures of

China Iron

GABRIELA CABEZON CAMARA

Fast, brutal, an incredible feat of

literary prowess.

The Discomfort of

Evening

A Novel

MARIEKE LUCAS RIJNEVELD

Winner of the International Booker

Prize, this novel builds a sense of

devastation and foreboding that will

impact the reader powerfully.

The Abstainer

A Novel

IAN MCGUIRE

For anyone who loved reading his previous

novel The North Water, this one will not

disappoint.

The Shadow King

MAAZA MENGISTE

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2020, this

novel is a compulsive read.

PAST FAVOURITES

Catch-22

JOSEPH HELLER

The Heart is a Lonely

Hunter

CARSON MCCULLERS

A Brief History of

Seven Killings

A NOVEL

MARLON JAMES

Fall on Your Knees

ANN-MARIE MACDONALD

The Seas

SAMANTHA HUNT

Tell Them of Battles,

Kings, and Elephants

MATHIAS ENARD

Homegoing

YAA GYASI

The Memory

Police

A Novel

YOGO OGAWA

The Emissary

YOKO TAWADA

Hard Rain

Falling

DON CARPENTER

GEORGE PELECANOS


BOOKSELLER PICKS

“

All

Erica’s Picks

water has a perfect memory and is forever trying

to get back to where it was.

TONI MORRISON

“

BEST OF 2020

Be Scared of Everything

Horror Essays

PETER COUNTER

I found this book profoundly relatable. Counter

combines non-fiction, pop-culture, and

anecdotal personal stories that hit so hard to

home it hurts in the best possible way.

Hidden Valley Road

Inside the Mind of an American Family

ROBERT KOLKER

A fascinating look into family dynamics and

severe mental health during post-war America.

Kolker’s account of this devastatingly

true story is a masterpiece.

Summerwater

SARAH MOSS

Sarah Moss is my favourite author to read on

bad-weather days. These short overlapping

stories form an overarching narrative of a

summer in rainy Scotland.

Little Eyes

A Novel

SAMANTHA SCHWEBLIN

Similar to our current climate of digital

meet-ups and social media, Schweblin calls

into question the prevalent and possibly

dangerous use of webcams in our society. This

book begs you to question who’s really on the

other side of the camera.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the

Golden State Killer

MICHELLE MCNAMARA

Hugely popular! Caused a sensation! I didn’t

sleep for weeks after reading this book, I was

so scared.

PAST FAVOURITES

Voracious

A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way

through Great Books

CARA NICOLETTI

MARION BOLOGNESE

Chop Suey Nation

The Legion Cafe and Other Stories

from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants

ANN HUI

Relish

My Life in the Kitchen

LUCY KNISLEY

What I Talk About

When I Talk About

Running

A Memoir

HARUKI MURAKAMI

I Know Why

the Caged Bird

Sings

MAYA ANGELOU

Radium

Girls

KATE MOORE

Marshmallow

CLARE TURLAY NEWBERRY

Holes

LOUIS SACHAR

Factory Girls

From Village to City in a

Changing China

LESLIE T CHANG

The Devil All

The TIme

DONALD RAY

POLLACK


“

With

Dan’s Picks

the spirit of the age I am in complete disagreement because it is

filled with a disdain for thinking.

BEST OF 2020

Apeirogon

A Novel

COLUM MCCANN

Set in occupied Palestine and Israel, a highly

original and inventive hybrid novel that

weaves together elements of speculation,

memory, fact and imagination. This was a

favourite of multiple Bookmark booksellers.

Highly recommended.

Middle England

A Novel

JONATHON COE

Middle England is a piercing and provocative

novel about a country in crisis. Wonderful

characterization and captivating narrative.

Winner of the Costa Novel Award.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

BOOKSELLER PICKS

“

Surviving Autocracy

MASHA GEESEN

Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy

of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the

resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Gessen has

a sixth sense for signs of autocracy—and the unique

cross-cultural fluency to delineate its emergence

to Americans. An essential guide to understanding,

resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our

tumultuous times. Gessen is a staff writer at The

New Yorker and the author of several books, among

them the National Book Award-winning The Future is

History which I also recommend.

Breaking Bread with

the Dead

A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

ALAN JACOBS

From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures

of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary guide

to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane

in the present. Jacobs encourages us to build our

‘personal density’ by engaging with dead authors.

A House in Memory

Last Poems

DAVID HELWIG

A selection of the late PEI poet David Helwig’s last

poems assembled into this beautiful collection by

his daughter, Maggie. As Maggie Helwig says of her

father, “he could not cease to be a poet as long as he

had breath in this world.”

PAST FAVOURITES

Jayber Crow

A Novel

WENDELL BERRY

Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

BRYAN STEVENSON

Educated

TARA WESTOVER

America,

the Farewell Tour

CHRIS HEDGES

The Future Is

History

How Totalitarianism

Reclaimed Russia

MASHA GEESEN

Go, Went, Gone

JENNY ERPENBECK

Eating Wild in Eastern

Canada

A Guide to Foraging the Forests, Fields,

and Shorelines

JAMIE SIMPSON

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific

Knowledge and the Teachings

of Plants

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

Starlight

RICHARD WAGAMESE

The Overstory

A Novel

RICHARD POWERS


BOOKSELLER PICKS

Adam’s Picks

“

The pen keeps scribbling: this is hell! To scribble, am I now condemned?

I boldly reach for my inkwell, And let the ink flow forth again.

The quantity’s considerable, And everything goes brilliantly,

But while it’s not quite legible - Who cares? What I write, no one reads!

FREDRICH NIETZSCHE

“

BEST OF 2020

Metal Hurlant

Selected Works

GEOFF JOHNS | KURT BUSIEK

RYAN SOOK

The legacy of the French magazine

Metal Hurlant is celebrated through

these unique science fiction and fantasy

stories. This anthology highlights the

talent of many American and European

comic creators.

The Woman in

the Dunes

KOBO ABE

A classic existential tale about a man

trapped at the bottom of a sand dune

with a woman. Sand gets on everything.

Why I Am Not a Buddhist

EVAN THOMPSON

An interesting critique of what the author calls

‘Buddhist exceptionalism.’ A look at the West’s

habit of adopting practices from Buddhism while

abandoning all of the religious ritual that ties it

together.

Starship Troopers

ROBERT HEINLEIN

One of the most influential books in all of science

fiction. At its core you have a compelling

tale of pride, duty, and honor.

Man of Peace

The Illustrated Story of the Dalai Lama

of Tibet

WILLIAM MEYERS | ROBERT THURMAN

MICHAEL G BURBANK

This is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel

telling the story of the 14th Dalai Lama and

China’s occupation of Tibet. Heart-wrenching but

rewarding.

PAST FAVOURITES

Flowers for

Algernon

DANIEL KEYES

Louis Riel

A Comic-Strip Biography

CHESTER BROWN

The Great Treatise on

the Stages to the Path

to Enlightenment (VOL 1)

TSONG-KHA-PA | CHENMO TRANS-

LATION COMMITTEE LAMRIM

The Ego and

His Own

The Case Of The Individual

Against Authority

MAX STIRNER

On the Beach

NEVIL SHUTE

A Boy Called

Christmas

MATT HAIG

The Complete Stories

FRANZ KAFKA

The Way of the

Bodhisattva

SHANTIDEVA | PADMAKARA

TRANSLATION GROUP

Slaughterhouse

Five

A Novel

KURT VONNEGUT

Sin City

A Dame to Kill For

FRANK MILLER

LYNN VARLEY


Lori’s Picks

BOOKSELLER PICKS

“

Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.

MASON COOLEY

“

BEST OF 2020

A Song for the

Dark Times

IAN RANKIN

Retired and with his health in decline, John

Rebus is still very much in the middle of the

action. His daughter Samantha is in trouble

so he is determined to help here-whether

she wants him to or not.

Pull of the Stars

A Novel

EMMA DONOGHUE

Set during the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, this

novel shows us just how much history repeats

itself, especially as it was finished long

before any of us were aware of the COVID-19

Pandemic.

The Cutting Place

JANE CASEY

This is is one of my favourite police procedural

series right now. In this 9th book, Maeve and

Derwent investigate the dark underbelly of

high society.

Strange Flowers

DONAL RYAN

In my opinion, Donal Ryan is one of the

best authors out there. I’m reminded of the

great Alistair MacLeod where every word is

necessary and place is as much a part of the

story as the people.

Leonard and

Hungry Paul

RONAN HESSION

A warm-hearted story of two overlooked

people who are simply living life as best they

can. A good reminder to look around us and

see those who may simply be falling through

the cracks.

PAST FAVOURITES

Little Women

150th Anniversary Edition

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

J COURTNEY SULLIVAN

SHREYA GUPTA

Bridge to Terabithia

KATHERINE PATERSON

DONNA DIAMOND

The Book of

Negroes

A Novel

LAWRENCE HILL

Reservoir 13

JON MCGREGOR

The Cider

House Rules

A Novel

JOHN IRVING

Island

ALISTAIR MACLEOD

Three Day Road

JOSEPH BOYDEN

The Heart’s

Invisible

Furies

JOHN BOYNE

From a Low and

Quiet Sea

A Novel

DONAL RYAN

The North

Shore of Home

FRANK LEDWELL

FLOYD TRAINOR


Thank you for shopping at your local bookshop

HERE’S WHAT YOU JUST DID

1

You embraced what

makes us unique.

You kept dollars

in our economy.

An independent bookstore

recirculates 28% of its money

locally, whereas Amazon only

recirculates 4%.

2

You wouldn’t want your house to

look like everyone else’s in

Canada. So why would you want your

community to look that way?

5

3

You created

local jobs.

Local businesses are

better at creating

higher-paying jobs for

our neighbors.

4

7

You helped the

environment.

Buying from local businesses

conserves fuel for

transportation, requires less

packaging, and means you

get products you know are

safe and well-made, because

we stand behind them.

8

You nurtured

community.

We know you, and you know

us. Studies have shown that

local businesses donate to

community causes at more

than twice the rate of chains

and online retailers.

You took advantage

of our expertise.

You are our friends and neighbours,

and we have a vested interest in

knowing how to serve you. We’re

passionate about what we do. Why

not take advantage of it?

6

You conserved

your tax dollars.

Shopping in a local business district

means less infrastructure, less

maintenance, and more money

available to beautify our community.

Also, spending locally instead of online

ensures that your sales taxes are

reinvested where they belong—right

here in your community!

9

You created

more choice.

We pick the items we sell based on

what we know you like and want.

Local businesses carry a wider array

of unique products because we buy

for our own individual market.

10

You made us a

destination.

The more interesting and unique

we are as a community, the more

we will attract new neighbours and

You invested in

entrepreneurship.

Creativity and entrepreneurship

are what the Canadian economy

is founded upon. Nurturing

local business ensures a strong

community.

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