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Antiquarian
Sticker Book
Bibliophilia
ODD DOT
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Here, quotes from classic pieces of literature are
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authentic historical prints from the ornate Victorian
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wrapping, or create an amazing collage.
$34.99 HC Illustrations Odd Dot
Library of
Misremembered Books
MARINA LUZ
How do you find a book when you can't recall the
title or the author? This homage to a common
reader's dilemma is a gift the booklover in your life
won't soon forget.
$18.95 HC 65 full colour illustrations Chronicle Books
The New York Times
Book Review
THE NEW YORK TIMES
From the longest-running, most influential book
review in America, here is its best, funniest,
strangest, and most memorable coverage over
the past 125 years.
$66.00 HC Clarkson Potter
The Last Bookseller
A Life in the Rare Book Trade
GARY GOODMAN
As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and
book scouts, criminals and collectors, Goodman
offers an ultimately poignant account of the used
and rare book business during its final Golden Age.
$27.99 HC 18 b&w illustrations University of Minnesota Press
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Books Do Furnish
a Room
Organize, Display, Store
LESLIE GEDDES BROWN
In this beautifully illustrated guide – now published
in paperback for the first time – the self-confessed
bibliophile Leslie Geddes-Brown offers inspirational
yet practical ideas about how to make the most
of books in every room and forgotten nook of
the house.
$41.99 PB Merrell Publishers
Writers’ Retreats
Literary Cabins, Creative
Hideaways, and Favorite Writing
Spaces of Iconic Authors
NEIL BURKEY
Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden
Pond, James Baldwin's 'Welcome Table' in Provence,
Roald Dahl's garden hut and Toni Morrison's sunriselit
couch at dawn — Writers' Retreats reveals the
sometimes curious places where literary magic has
happened. Each location is brought to life through
illustration and the writer's own words.
$27.99 HC Charlesbridge
Around the World in 80
Books
DAVID DAMROSCH
David Damrosch set out to counter a pandemic’s
restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional
books from around the globe. Around the World
in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond
ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our
world and its literature in new ways.
$40.00 HC Penguin Press
The Library
A Fragile History
ANDREW PETTEGREE
ARTHUR DER WEDUWEN
The history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed
full of incident. Beautifully written and deeply
researched, The Library is essential reading for
booklovers, collectors, and anyone who has ever
gotten blissfully lost in the stacks.
$44.00 HC Basic Books
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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're excited to share our 2021 list of favourite books
as well as some of our perennial favourites. You can find all of these on the shelves at Bookmark.
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Summer Brother
JAAP ROBBEN
Written in a crisp and unsentimental tone, this
award-nominated novel reminded me of the best
cinema of the Dardennes brothers. A young man
tries valiantly to care for his challenged brother as
an on-the-make father only wants them reunited in
their impoverished home for state compensation.
Revelatory and uplifting.
Undersong
KATHLEEN WINTER
When someone has written a book as singular and
impactful as 2010’s Annabel. a contemporary classic,
what’s an author to do? Change topical gears, but
once again use her skill to write an exquisitely wellcrafted
novel. Dorothy Wordsworth has now become
a literary icon of mine due to Kathleen Winter’s pen.
A Light That Never
Goes Out
The Enduring Saga of the
Smiths
TONY FLETCHER
Mike’s Picks
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
BEST OF 2021
PAST FAVOURITES
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Kamouraska
ANNE HÉBERT
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To Cook a Bear
A Novel
MIKAEL NIEMI
"Popular music from Vittula" was one of the best
coming of age stories I've ever read. In this novel,
Niemi combines a love of nature, the landscape
of northern Scandinavia, a truly memorable
mentor-student relationship and an examination
of the importance of literacy. What remains with
me most is Niemi’s portrayal of someone who is
lost and impoverished being saved by kindness
and reading.
Mayflies
A Novel
ANDREW O’HAGAN
I love the 1980s music of Northern Britain. I love
the way O’Hagan presents male friendship where
affection can be expressed with such ease, during
moments of trauma or simply enjoying a band.
I loved this novel and will revisit it often.
Miss Iceland
AUOUR AVA OLAFSDOTTIR
I read the flap of this novel several times before I
realized I shouldn’t let a cover I didn’t particularly
like influence me this time.” Not only will I follow this
author anywhere now, this has become my favourite
book this year…. so far! A young woman from rural
Iceland establishes herself in 1960s Reykjavik to find
a life that fulfills her emotionally and professionally.
Stunning in its understated power.
In Patagonia
Vintage Voyages
BRUCE CHATWIN
Diary of a
Young Girl
ANNE FRANK
Hangman’s Beach
THOMAS H. RADDALL
Pinocchio
CARLO COLLODI
Who Has Seen the Wind
W.O. MITCHELL
The Penguin Book of
Dutch Short Stories
EDITED BY JOOST ZWAGERMAN
Last Chance
to See
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Interview
with the
Vampire
ANNE RICE
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BEST OF 2021
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox
and the Horse
CHARLIE MACKESY
Published a little over 2 years ago, this best-selling
book continues to provide comfort and kindness
in a world still upended by a global pandemic. Its
wisdom is simple and timeless, accompanied by the
thoughtful illustrations and uncomplicated dialogue
between the four title characters. I do not hesitate to
recommend this book to any age or for any reason.
It can be read straight through from first page to the
last, or opened at random for a thoughtful moment
of encouragement.
A Shameful Murder
CORA HARRISON
I love to discover a new mystery series, and Cora
Harrison’s Reverend Mother Mysteries, set in Cork,
Ireland in the 1920s fits the bill nicely. This first
volume in the series opens with the discovery of
a body by the Reverend Mother of the convent at
St. Mary’s of the Isle, the introduction of two of her
former students, and the arrival of the convent’s
longtime doctor. A persistent amateur sleuth,
Reverend Mother Aquinas will not let the girl’s
death go unnoticed, nor the conditions of Cork’s
poor be disregarded.
PAST FAVOURITES
Trina’s Picks
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
The Madness
of Crowds
A Novel
LOUISE PENNY
JOAN DIDION
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The Land Beyond the Sea
SHARON KAY PENMAN
Sharon Kay Penman, who died earlier this year,
was the author of meticulously researched
historical fiction and medieval mysteries.
Penman’s research was legendary and her style
was both gripping and immensely readable. She
brings an immediacy and a vibrancy to the land
of the Crusades, the land of King Baldwin IV and
the fabled Saladin, and the conflict between East
and West. It is to Penman’s credit that she has
crafted tales that can be read again and again for
their captivating storytelling and gripping plot.
Sufferance
A Novel
THOMAS KING
I am a Thomas King fan. His fiction, his mysteries,
his drama, and his interviews. I appreciate his sly,
sometimes dark, often laugh-aloud humour. I was
reading Sufferance in early summer when reports
of the discoveries of the remains of Indigenous
children on the grounds of residential schools
made news across the country and beyond.
The parallels between the two were stark and
personal and gave reading Sufferance a particular
poignancy.
A Ghost in the Throat
DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA
"This is a female text, "Ní Ghríofa begins the book.
“This is a female text, composed while folding
someone else’s clothes. My mind holds it close,
and it grows, tender and slow, while my hands
perform innumerable chores. This is a female text
borne of guilt and desire, stitched to a soundtrack
of cartoon nursery rhymes.” This is my absolute
favourite book to read this year, and now, as I
listen to the audio version from Libro.fm, I find
myself unable to decide which version I prefer.
You cannot go wrong with either one!
Hamnet and Judith
A Novel
MAGGIE O’FARRELL
The Dream
Weavers
BARBARA ERSKINE
The Friend
A Novel
SIGRID NUNEZ
Walking with
Ghosts
A Memoir
GABRIEL BYRNE
The Gunners
A Novel
REBECCA KAUFFMAN
The Bookwoman of
Troublesome Creek
A Novel
KIM MICHELE RICHARDSON
Home for the Soul
Sustainable and Thoughtful
Decorating and Design
SARA BIRD
Curate
Inspiration for an
Individual Home
LYNDA GARDENER
The Maine
House
MAURA MCEVOY, BASHA
BURRELL, KATHLEEN
HACKETT
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BEST OF 2021
We Want What We Want
ALIX OHLIN
This is latest collection of short stories from
Vancouver based writer Ohlin, whose previous
novels were finalists for the Scotiabank Giller
Prize. The 13 stories sparkle with dark humour,
pain, and beauty.
Ghosts
A Novel
DOLLY ALDERTON
Smart and funny, this book chronicles one year
in the life of 31 year old cookbook writer Nina
Dean. Her dad’s dementia is getting worse, her
mom has different views on coping with it, her
absent best friend is busy having babies and her
“perfect” boyfriend ghosts her! This novel stands
out in its modern portrayal of female friendships.
This one made me laugh and it made me cry.
PAST FAVOURITES
Karla’s Picks
BOOKSELLER PICKS
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier Spy
JOHN LECARRE
LISA MOORE
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Chemical Valley
DAVID HUEBERT
His lyrical second collection of short stories
displays a heartfelt and compassionate view
of a society that most often values the wrong
things. I was looking forward to this one and
it did not disappoint. Huebert is a fantastic
writer who gets into the skin of his diverse
characters. He can write about hockey players
in one story and dishwashers in the next!
The Dark Remains
A Novel
WILLIAMS MCILVANNEY AND IAN
RANKIN
When McIlvanney died in 2015, he left half a
handwritten manuscript of the first DC Jack
Laidlaw story. Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin
was asked to finish the book and this is the
result. In The Dark Remains, the two authors
together seamlessly bring to life the criminal
world of 1970s Glasgow. Rebus fans will enjoy
this one.
Snowflake
A Novel
LOUISE NEALON
Sharp debut novel by Irish writer Nealon, 18-
year-old Debbie is raised on her family’s dairy
farm outside of Dublin by an unstable mother
and an alcoholic uncle before she begins her
first year at Trinity University. Life is changing
and the family must come part and back
together in this raw novel which balances
humour and tragedy beautifully. This is a
family you will not soon forget. I loved it.
My Name is Lucy Barton
A Novel
ELIZABETH STROUT
A Pure Heart
A Novel
RAJIA HASSIB
Strange Flowers
A Novel
DONAL RYAN
Original Prin
RANDY BOYAGODA
Spring
A Novel
ALI SMITH
The Lamplighters
A Novel
EMMA STONEX
Dinner
Changing the Game:
A Cookbook
MELISSA CLARK
ERIC WOLFINGER
All Adults Here
A Novel
EMMA STRAUB
The Witch
Elm
A Novel
TANA FRENCH
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Lorna’s Picks
Peter swept aside yogi tea and harmony herbal blend, though he hesitated
for a second over camomile. But no... violent death demanded earl grey.
LOUISE PENNY
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BEST OF 2021
Where the Crawdads Sing
DELIA OWENS
Delia Owens lures you into this story with her
intimate descriptions of the marsh and of Kya,
a young girl abandoned and growing up on her
own. Woven beautifully throughout the story is
the murder investigation of a young and revered
athlete from town. This is a compelling read
from start to finish, and my personal favourite
this year.
Still Life
A Chief Inspector Gamache
Mystery, Book 1
LOUISE PENNY
Chief Inspector Gamache is thoughtful, listening
and continuously moving forward on the
suspicious death of Miss Jane Neal while we
meet and learn about the characters of the rural
village. Louise Penny is methodical in crafting
her story and her characters. This book, set
south of Montreal, is a highly enjoyable read.
PAST FAVOURITES
City of the Lost
A Rockton Thriller
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
A secret and secluded town in the middle of the
wilderness where criminals and victims alike go to
hide out. But who is murdering the town people?
Is the killer in the woods surrounding the town or
is it one of their own? The suspense is constant,
and the twists and turns unexpected.
The Fairy-Tale Detectives
The Sisters Grimm #1
MICHAEL BUCKLEY
Orphaned sisters are sent to live with their
grandmother in a small town full of fairy tale
characters in this children’s book. The oddities
abound while the suspense builds in the mystery of
who set the giant loose and why. It is a book full of
action which kept me reading until the very end.
The Coming Storm
REGINA M. HANSEN
Regina Hansen builds intrigue and maintains
suspense throughout this story where ghost
sightings and eerie characters lead Beatrice
MacNeill to investigation the death of her cousin
Gerry in this children’s book set in Prince Edward
Island. This is an Island ghost story that will not
disappoint the curious or young at heart.
A Man Called Ove
FREDRIK BACKMAN
Twisted Twenty-six
JANET EVANOVICH
How to Raise an
Elephant
ALEXANDER MCCALL
SMITH
The House in the
Cerulean Sea
TJ KLUNE
Wereduck
DAVE ATKINSON
The Creative License
Giving Yourself Permission to
be the Artist You Truly Are
DANNY GREGORY
Writing as a Sacred Path
A Practical Guide to Writing with
Passion Path
JILL JEPSON
Danny the
Champion of
the World
ROALD DAHL
Creating Textured
Landscapes
with Pen, Ink and
Watercolor
CLAUDIA NICE
The Bullet
Journal Method
Track the Past, Order
the Present, Design
the Future
RYDER CARROLL
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Leslie’s Picks
BOOKSELLER PICKS
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone,
and they were alone with each other.
A.S. BYATT
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BEST OF 2021
Great Circle
A Novel
MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
Maggie Shipstead is incredible at drawing
you in and making you care about the
characters and their world. Plus, it has a dual
timeline, which I really enjoy.
Simply Julia
110 Easy Recipes for Healthy
Comfort Food
JULIA TURSHEN
This is more than just a cookbook — the
essays that are included are fantastic. I have
enjoyed every recipe I’ve tried — my favorite
is the Jalapeno Popper-Stuffed Chicken.
A Thousand Ships
A Novel
NATALIE HAYNES
I love a retelling of the Greek myths and
Natalie Haynes does it brilliantly. Every
character’s voice is so clear. My favorite book
of this year.
The Office of Historical
Corrections
A Novella and Stories
DANIELLE EVANS
The title novella is unforgettable — I don’t
often re-read books but I will definitely be
re-reading this.
Between Two Kingdoms
A Memoir of a Life
Interrupted
SULEIKA JAOUAD
Both touching and well written, this book has
stayed with me months after I finished it.
PAST FAVOURITES
The Yellow
House
A Memoir
SARAH M. BROOM
What’s Bred in
the Bone
ROBERTSON DAVIES
A Manual for
Cleaning Women
Selected Stories
LUCIA BERLIN
Wild Swans
Three Daughters
of China
JUNG CHANG
Nobody Will Tell
You This But Me
A True (As Told
to Me) Story
BESS KALB
The Future is
History
How Totalitarianism
Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN
Wolf Hall
HILARY MANTEL
S.P.Q.R.
A History of
Ancient Rome
MARY BEARD
The Hanging of
Angelique
AFUA COOPER
Ghost Wall
A Novel
SARAH MOSS
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BOOKSELLER PICKS
Joseph’s Picks
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of
individuality … in reading great literature I become
a thousand men and yet remain myself.
C.S. LEWIS
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BEST OF 2021
The Anthropocene
Reviewed
Essays on a Human-Centered
Planet
JOHN GREEN
A captivating collection of essays, in which
John Green reviews everything from sunsets
to scratch ‘n’ sniff stickers. Simultaneously
hilarious and heartbreaking; you will never look
at Diet Dr Pepper the same way again.
The Rock from the Sky
JON KLASSEN
Every picture book Jon Klassen creates is a
miniature masterpiece and The Rock from
the Sky is no exception. The illustrations are
delightful, the dialogue is dying to be read
aloud, and the ending is as perfect as it is
unexpected.
PAST FAVOURITES
Piranesi
SUSANNA CLARKE
Unlike anything I’ve ever read, this novel
is undefinable, a beautiful blend of
fantasy, poetry, philosophy, and suspense.
As mysterious and mesmerizing as the
labyrinthine world our main character
calls home.
Deeper
Real Change for Real Sinners
DANE ORTLUND
In Deeper, Dane Ortlund, bestselling author
of Gentle and Lowly, reminds us that spiritual
growth occurs, not by fixating on oneself, but
by focusing on and enjoying fellowship with
Christ; by being immersed in the wonder of
His glorious gospel. A profound and practical
guide to Christian living.
Poison for Breakfast
LEMONY SNICKET
Lemony Snicket discovers he has eaten poison
for breakfast. The result is a 160-page
meditation on bread, bewilderment and, of
course, death. Weird, wise, and wonderfully
witty, this book is as dark and delicious as that
chocolate you only buy on special occasions.
In Defense of Sanity
The Best Essays of G.K.
Chesterton
G.K. CHESTERTON
Adorning the Dark
Thoughts on Community, Calling,
and the Mystery of Making
ANDREW PETERSON
Cry, the Beloved
Country
ALAN PATON
Jane Eyre
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jayber Crow
A Novel
WENDELL BERRY
The Fate of Fausto
A PAINTED FABLE OLIVER
JEFFERS
Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival,
Resilience, and Redemption
LAURA HILLENBRAND
Things Fall Apart
A Novel
CHINUA ACHEBE
The Good Earth
PEARL S. BUCK
The Abolition
of Man
C.S. LEWIS
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KIDS GRAPHIC NOVELS
Living With Viola
ROSENA FUNG
A graphic novel about mental health, cultural
differences, and the trials of middle school brimming
humour and heart. “One of the best debuts I
have ever seen.” —Jeffrey Canton, Children’s Book
columnist, The Globe and Mail
$19.95 PB Full Colour Annick Press
Kristy and the Snobs
The Babysitters Club Graphix
#10
ANN M MARTIN CHAN CHAU
Kristy’s mom got remarried and their family
moved to the ritzy neighborhood across town.
The other members of The Babysitters Club think
it’s a good opportunity to get some new business,
but the kids who live nearby aren’t very friendly.
These kids are total snobs! But if anyone can put
them in their place, it’s The Baby-sitters Club!
$16.99 PB Scholastic
Big Shot
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 16
JEFF KINNEY
In Big Shot, Greg Heffley and sports just don’t mix.
After a disastrous field day competition at school,
Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic
career, he’s officially retired. But after his mom urges
him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly
agrees to sign up for basketball.
$17.99 HC Amulet Books
Treasure in the Lake
JASON PAMMENT
Grand adventures stories often begin where you
least expect them. In Jason Pamment’s middle
grade graphic novel debut, perfect for fans of Hilda
and This Was Our Pact, can Iris and Sam uncover
the truth in time to keep their own friendship
afloat, or will history repeat itself and pull them
apart forever?
$15.99 PB Harper Collins
Narwhal’s School of
Awesomeness
BEN CLANTON
Narwhal and Jelly become the coolest teachers in
the world-wide waters in the hilarious sixth book of
this blockbuster graphic novel series!
$16.99 HC Tundra Books
Perspectives
Cat Kid Comic Club 2
DAV PILKEY
Cat Kid Comic Club is back in session in this
groundbreaking graphic novel narrative by Dav
Pilkey, the worldwide bestselling and awardwinning
author and illustrator of Dog Man.
$15.99 HC Scholastic
The Awakening Storm
A Graphic Novel
City of Dragons #1
JAIMAL YOGIS VIVIAN TROUNG
Grace and her friends must protect a newly
hatched dragon from mysterious evildoers. Now
it’s up to Grace and her school friends to uncover
the sinister plot threatening the entire city!
$16.99 PB Scholastic
Sunny Makes a Splash
JENNIFER L. HOLM MATTHEW HOLM
The latest in the New York Times bestselling Sunny
series brings Sunny into a sink-or-swim summer,
where she needs to float her first job and dive into
her first maybe-flirtation.
$16.99 PB Scholastic
The Brightest Night
Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #5
TUI T SUTHERLAND MIKE HOLMES
Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy
very seriously. If Pyrrhia’s dragons need her, Clay,
Tsunami, Glory, and Starflight to end the war, she’s
ready to try. She even has some good ideas how to
do it, if anyone would listen to her.
$16.99 PB Scholastic
Unicorn Playlist
Another Phoebe and her
Unicorn Adventure
SANA SIMPSON
Best friends Phoebe Howell and Marigold
Heavenly Nostrils march to their own beat, but
life isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. With so many
problems in the world and drama at school,
Phoebe wonders why unicorns aren’t in charge
instead of humans.
$15.99 PB Andrews and McMeel Publishing
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KIDS BOARD BOOKS
Woodland Dance
SANDRA BOYNTON
The moose plays the cello. The deer, violin.
And it’s ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three, time
to begin! Destined to be a read-aloud favorite,
Woodland Dance is a mystical, waltzing story
from beloved author and illustrator Sandra
Boynton, and a magical book to share with a
magical child.
$10.95 BB Workman Publishing
What Do You See?
SARAH N HARVEY JANE HEINRICHS
What’s it like to see the world through the
eyes of a child? This beautifully illustrated
board book celebrates the point of view of
children who are too small to tell you what
they see but not too small to experience
the joy of small things such as a colourful
mobile, a favorite teddy, an older brother’s
Lego castle or a trip to the park.
$10.95 BB Orca Board Books
The Night is Deep
and Wide
GILLIAN SZE SUE TODD
Rich imagery, gentle rhythm and soothing
repetition will lull your little one to sleep as the
tulips close for the night, one by one. In this
bedtime story written as an Italian villanelle,
poet Gillian Sze makes use of the poetic forms
of cyclic pattern and rhyme scheme to create a
melodious lullaby.
$10.95 BB Orca Board Books
Windy Days
DEBORAH KERBEL MIKO SATO
In Windy Days, author Deborah Kerbel captures
the magic of early childhood awe and wonder
with rhyming couplets as light as a breath of
fresh air. Illustrator Miki Sato’s unique tactile
collage art pops off the page through its
detailed use of hand-stitching and textural
materials.
$19.95 BB Pajama Press
Katie the Kitten
A Push, Pull, and Slide Book
AXEL SCHEFFLER
A first novelty board book for young children
about boisterous kitten Katie, with push, pull,
slide, and turning mechanisms. Little ones can
join in the fun with Katie the Kitten by pulling
out the sliders, pushing up the tabs and making
lots of noise throughout the house. Follow Katie
as she pounces, snoozes, and meows all the
night long!
$13.99 BB Pan MacMillan
Jack’s House
KAREN MAGNUSON BEIL
MIKE WOHNOUTKA
Huge bulldozers, roaring cement mixers, and
a super adorable pup make this the perfect
board book for construction-obsessed toddlers.
Big, bold trucks fill the pages in Jack’s House,
a simplified take on the classic nursery rhyme,
“This Is the House that Jack Built.”
$10.99 BB Holiday House
Thanks A Lot
RAFFI JAIME KIM
Raffi’s beloved song about gratitude is available
for the first time in a board book edition that
readers will treasure.
$10.99 BB Random House Children’s Books
The Very Super Bear
NICK BLAND
When Bear finds a cape in the Jingle Jangle
Jungle, he soon discovers there are lots of
animals in need of his help. Can The Very Super
Bear and his sidekick, Bruce the Goose, save the
jungle from the cranky yellow monster?
$9.99 BB Scholastic
The Wonky Donkey
Sound Book
CRAIG SMITH KATZ COWLEY
The bestselling picture book is now a sound
book! Children can press the button to hear a
hee-haw on every page. Get ready to laugh out
loud as you read along with a spunky, hankypanky,
cranky, stinky, dinky, lanky, honky-tonky,
winky wonky donkey!
$14.99 BB Scholastic
With All My Heart,
I Love You
CAROLINE JAYNE CHURCH
Caroline Jayne Church, mega-bestselling creator
of Ten Tiny Toes and Good Night, I Love You,
brings us an adorable celebration of all things
baby! Baby jumps, baby rolls; baby wiggles and
baby jiggles.... and when we cuddle, just us two,
with all my heart, “I love you!”
$11.99 BB Scholastic
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KIDS NON-FICTION
Govern Like a Girl
KATE GRAHAM
What does it take to govern like a girl? A
fascinating look at the trailblazing women who
rose to the top as first ministers in Canada,
featuring PEI’s own former premier, Catherine
Callbeck!
$22.95 PB Second Story Press
My Art, My World
RITA WINKLER
Rita Winkler, a young woman living with Down
syndrome, shows us the world as she sees it
through her art: a place full of joy and colour. A
joyful celebration of Rita’s daily life, family, and
creativity.
$19.95 HC Illustrations Second Story Press
The Complete
Cookbook for Young
Scientists
AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN
America’s Test Kitchen Kids brings delicious
science to your kitchen! Over 75 kid-tested,
kid-approved recipes and experiments teach
young chefs about the fun and fascinating
science of food. This is the fourth book in the
New York Times bestselling cookbook series
for Young Chefs.
$28.99 HC America’s Test Kitchen
Where on Earth?
Geography as You’ve Never
Seen it Before
DK
Explore our planet through eye-popping maps
showing you volcanoes and earthquakes,
animals and fossils, climate change, railroads
and space rockets, peoples and history.
Where on Earth? introduces colourful 3-D
maps to bring each and every page to life in
unprecedented detail.
$28.99 HC DK
Dinosaurs and Other
Prehistoric Life
ANUSUYA CHINSAMY-TURAN
From the tyrannosaurus rex and sabertoothed
cats, to woolly mammoths and ferns,
this dinosaur book for kids is packed with a
collection of amazing plants, dinosaurs and
prehistoric animals. Every page will captivate
young readers who are interested in fossils and
natural history!
$25.99 HC DK
Chasing Bats and
Tracking Rats
Urban Ecology, Community
Science, and How we Share our
Cities
CYLITA GUY CORNELIA LI
What can city bees tell us about climate change?
How are we changing coyote behavior? And what
the heck is a science bike? Featuring the work
of a diverse group of eleven scientists—herself
included!—Dr. Cylita Guy shows how studying
urban wildlife can help us make cities around the
world healthier for all of their inhabitants.
$14.95 PB Annick Press
All About Diversity
FELICITY BROOKS
With topics ranging from clothes, hair, music and
food to homes, festivals and families, there is
plenty for children to talk about as they find out
about diversity and see how differences relate
to them.
$17.95 HC Usbourne Books
Math Hacks 2
Stress Less + Do Better
VANESSA VAKHARIA HYEIN LEE
Feeling jinxed by geometry? Messed up by
measurement? Antagonized by angles? Don’t
worry — help is here! Written in The Math Guru’s
signature super-friendly style, Math Hacks 2 is
packed with all-new advice on reducing math
anxiety, de-stressing, self-care, test preparation
strategies, and how to make math your new BFF!
$14.99 PB Scholastic
Draw Your Day for
Kids!
How to Sketch and Paint Your
Amazing Life
SAMANTHA DION BAKER
Adapted from the adult book with simplified
text, kid-friendly art and prompts, and a built-in
journal for kids to apply everything they’ve
learned and create their own keepsake, Baker’s
signature illustrations inspire and demonstrate
art techniques. With recommendations for
materials, practice exercises, and ideas for
inspiration, a budding artist could hardly wish for
anything more.
$17.99 PB Random House Children’s Books
Nature’s Treasures
Tales of More than 100
Extraordinary Objects from
Nature
BEN HOARE
The world is filled with curious objects made by
plants, animals, and even by the Earth itself. Dive
into this collection of more than 100 intriguing
items from the natural world and discover the
stories behind them.
$31.99 HC DK
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KIDS PICTURE BOOKS
Song for the Snow
JON-ERIK LAPPANO
ILLUSTRATED BY BYRON
EGGENSCHWILER
Can a long-forgotten song bring the snow
back to Freya’s town? A lyrical fable about
remembering past traditions, our connection
to nature and caring for a world threatened
by climate change through shared effort and
hope.
$19.99 HC Full colour throughout Groundwood Books
I Am a Peaceful
Goldfish
SHOSHANA CHAIM LORI JOY SMITH
This gentle story introduces kids ages 2-6 to
mindfulness and breath awareness. I Am a
Peaceful Goldfish teaches kids and families
about playful breathing techniques that we can
use to overcome our anxiety and feel calm and
grounded.
$22.95 HC full colour illustrations Greystone Books
Can You Catch the
Kraken?
You Choose: Monster
Hunter series
TERRELL BRANDON
Reports are pouring in from around the
world. A fishing crew claims a giant squid
is lurking off the coast of Norway. A huge,
snakelike sea serpent was spotted in the
Mediterranean Sea. Far out in the Pacific
Ocean, there are reports of the biggest shark
ever seen. Are these reports evidence of the
legendary Kraken and other sea monsters of
old? It’s up to YOU to find out!
$8.95 PB Illustrations Capstone Press
Norman Didn’t Do It!
(Yes, He Did)
RYAN HIGGINS
Ryan T. Higgins, the #1 New York Times bestselling
author of the Mother Bruce series, delivers
a contemporary tale of friendship. Norman is a
porcupine. Mildred is a tree. Norman and Mildred
are best friends. Just the two of them. And only
the two of them. But when a surprise pops up, life
will never be the same again.
$22.99 HC Disney-Hyperion
There’s a Ghost in
this House
OLIVER JEFFERS
A captivating new picture book with interactive
transparent pages, from world-renowned artist
Oliver Jeffers.
$27.99 HC Harper Collins
Our Table
PETER H REYNOLDS
Creative visionary of The Word Collector, Happy
Dreamer, and The Dot, #1 New York Times
bestseller Peter H. Reynolds creates a tender,
lyrical story of multigenerational love, tradition,
and family coming together with gratitude and
thanks.
$22.99 HC Scholastic
Bear is a Bear
JONATHAN STUTZMAN DAN SANTAT
This sumptuously illustrated, oversized picture
book is the perfect gift for baby showers,
birthdays, and the holidays. Parents who grew up
on classic stories like The Velveteen Rabbit and
Corduroy will love this new spin on a teddy bear
seemingly come to life.
$23.99 HC Harper Collins
It Fell From the Sky
TERRY FAN ERIC FAN
From the creators of the critically acclaimed The
Night Gardener and Ocean Meets Sky comes a
whimsical and elegantly illustrated picture book
about community, art, the importance of giving
back, and the wonder that fell from the sky.
$21.99 HC Simon & Schuster
A House in the Woods
INGA MOORE
With lush, whimsically detailed illustrations
and a cast of endearing, industrious (and most
accommodating!) characters, Inga Moore
constructs an inviting story of friendship that kids
will be happy to visit awhile.
$11.99 PB Candlewick
I Hear You, Forest
KALLIE GEORGE CARMEN MOK
Kids will look forward to their next nature walk
after reading this playful yet calming book about
wonderful forest sounds. The forest has lots to
say… if you listen.
$22.95 HC Greystone Books
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KIDS CHAPTER BOOKS
Harvey and the
Extraordinary
ELIZA MARTIN
ILLUSTRATED BY ANNA BRON
Imaginative, self-confident, EXTRAORDINARY Mimi
steps into the spotlight in this charming middlegrade
novel about savoring the extraordinary in
even the most difficult moments—perfect for fans
of Beverly Cleary and Kate DiCamillo.
$11.95 PB B&W Spot Illustrations Annick Press
A Mouse Called Miika
MATT HAIG CHRIS MOULD
This is a tale of mice and magic. It is also a
tale of great love (of cheese) and great danger.
And of learning the lesson that what matters
most—when it comes to cheese and life—is not
how strongly you smell but how strong you are
on the inside.
$16.99 HC Harper Collins
A Terrible Tide
SUZANNE MEADE
Based on the true story of an earthquake that shook
Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula in 1929, A Terrible
Tide tells the tale of this forgotten disaster from the
point of view of a young girl whose life is turned
upside down.
$11.95 PB Second Story Press
Pax, Journey Home
SARA PENNYPACKER JON KLASSEN
From award-winning author Sara Pennypacker
comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax. This is a
gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about
chosen families and the healing power of love. A
New York Times bestseller!
$21.99 HC Harper Collins
Daughter of the Deep
RICK RIORDAN
New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan
pays homage to Jules Verne in his exciting modern
take on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
$24.99 HC Disney-Hyperion
Guess What!?
An Unlimited Squirrels Book
MO WILLEMS
From Mo Willems, creator of the revolutionary,
award-winning, best-selling Elephant & Piggie
books, comes this breakout beginning-reader
series, Unlimited Squirrels. In Guess What!?, Zoom
Squirrel is excited to go to the beach. But what will
happen when Zoomy and pals finally get there? Do
you know more about going to the beach than the
Squirrels do? You will by the end of this book!
$16.99 HC Hyperion Books for Children
Pony
RJ PALACIO
The worldwide phenomenon Wonder showed over
13 million readers how to choose kind. Now, the
#1 New York Times bestselling author is back with
an enthralling adventure that will show readers
how to choose courage. A modern classic about
a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a
ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony
as his guide.
$23.99 HC Random House Children’s Books
The Beatryce Prophecy
KATE DICAMILLO SOPHIE BLACKALL
From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo
and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall
comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and
the power of words to spell the world. With its
timeless themes, unforgettable cast, and magical
medieval setting, Kate DiCamillo’s lyrical tale,
paired with resonant black-and-white illustrations
by Sophie Blackall, is a true collaboration between
masters.
$25.99 HC Candlewick
A Tale of Sorcery
A Tale of Magic #3
CHRIS COLFER
As the doors were pushed, flames and magma
spewed out from between the cracks, offering
glimpses into the world of fire and chaos beyond
them. Sorcery, magic, and science collide in this
thrilling third book in the Tale of Magic... series that
will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
$23.99 HC Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Kaleidoscope
BRIAN SELZNICK
A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope,
the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the
story of two people bound to each other through
time and space, memory and dreams. At the
center of their relationship is a mystery about the
nature of grief and love which will look different to
each reader. Kaleidoscope is a feat of storytelling
that illuminates how even the wildest tales can
help us in the hardest times.
$26.99 HC Scholastic
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FICTION
The Troupers
RICHARD SCARSBROOK
To the Fabulous Trouper Quintuplets, their family’s
old theatre is a thorn in the crown of their
adolescent memories. Twenty years later, the
quintuplets reunite for the reading of their father’s
will and his demand for one last performance.
$24.95 PB Cormorant Books
The World of After
STEPHEN HENIGHAN
Three young men from different backgrounds meet
while attending Oxford University, and when they
go their separate ways, they are bound together by
what happened on that one fateful night. Complex
twists, conflicted friendships, and a university prank
with dire consequences.
$24.95 PB Cormorant Books
Atacama
CARMEN RODRÍGUEZ
Set in Latin America, Atacama is the story of two
fictional characters of disparate backgrounds
but connected by a profound understanding of
the other’s emotional predicaments, and by their
unwavering commitment to social justice.
$22.00 PB Roseway Publishing
Out of Mind
DAVID BERGEN
In Out of Mind, David Bergen delves into the
psyche of Lucille Black, mother, grandmother,
lover, psychiatrist, and analyst of self, who first
appeared in Bergen’s bestselling novel The Matter
with Morris. Although adept at probing the lives
of others, Lucille has become untethered, caught
between duty and desire, between the demands
of family and her own longing.
$22.95 PB Goose Lane Editions
Maud and Me
MARIANNE JONES
Open your heart to the possibilities, and let the
ghostly presence of Lucy Maud Montgomery,
creator of Anne of Green Gables, rescue your soul.
A novel that will captivate you from cover to cover.
$22.95 PB Crossfield Publishing
Small Things Like
These
CLAIRE KEEGAN
Destined to be a modern classic, Small Things Like
These is Claire Keegan’s landmark new novel, the
tale of one man’s courage — and a remarkable
portrait of love and family.
$30.95 HC Grove/Atlantic
The Son of the House
CHELUCHI ONYEMELUKWE-ONUOBIA
The lives of two Nigerian women divided by class
and social inequality intersect when they’re
kidnapped, held captive, and forced to await their
fate together.
$21.99 PB Dundurn Press
A Single Rose
MURIEL BARBERY
TRANSLATED BY ALISON ANDERSON
From the bestselling author of The Elegance of
the Hedgehog comes the story of one woman’s
journey to discover the father she never knew, and
a love she never thought possible.
$31.95 HC Europa Editions
Rebellion’s Daughter
JUDI COBURN
In this historical fiction, spirited young Eunice
escapes inequity and, dressing as a boy, joins a
rebellion against the elite-ruled government.
$22.00 PB Roseway Publishing
Ring
ANDRE ALEXIS
Ring completes André Alexis’s Quincunx, five
novels that bend genre – this one is a romance.
But it’s an André Alexis–style romance, complete
with true love, a magic ring, and a story beyond
your wildest imaginings.
$22.95 PB Coach House Books
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The Blue Moth Motel
OLIVIA ROBINSON
A haunting and evocative exploration of the
meaning of family and home. Ingrid and Norah
have an unconventional upbringing—growing up
in a motel, raised by their mother and her female
partner. The Blue Moth Motel deals with family
dynamics, grief, and the concept of home.
$21.95 PB Breakwater Books
Such Miracles and
Mischiefs
TRUDY MORGAN-COLE
Colonists come face to face with Indigenous
Americans, enslaved Africans, and pirates as they
struggle to build a life in North America. Such
Miracles and Mischiefs, the second book in the
Cupids trilogy, adventures across the first three
English colonies in the Americas—Newfoundland,
Virginia, and Bermuda—and highlights women’s
colonial experience.
$22.95 PB Breakwater Books
Lean Fall Stand
JON MCGREGOR
"It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed,
as if she had become part of the story." —Hilary
Mantel. "So moving and delicate and terrifying and
haunting" —Maggie O’Farrell. The highly anticipated
new novel from the Costa-award winning,
three-times Booker-longlisted author
of Reservoir 13.
$23.99 PB Harper Collins
The Cat Who Saved
Books
A Novel
SOSUKE NATSUKAWA LOUISE HEAL KAWAI
An enthralling tale of books, first love, fantasy, and
an unusual friendship with a talking cat, The Cat
Who Saved Books is a story for those for whom
books are so much more than words on paper.
Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai.
$23.99 PB Harper Collins
The Spectacular
A Novel
ZOE WHITTALL
It’s taboo to regret motherhood. But what would
happen if you did? Shifting perspectives and time
periods, The Spectacular is a multi-generational
story exploring sexuality, gender, and the weight
of reproductive freedoms, from the author of
The Best Kind of People.
$24.99 PB Harper Collins
FICTION
Tenderness
ALISON MACLEOD
Through the story of Lawrence’s writing of Lady
Chatterley’s Lover, the historic obscenity trial
that sought to suppress it in the United Kingdom,
and the men and women who fought for its
worldwide publication, Alison MacLeod captures
the epic sweep of the twentieth century from
war and censorship to sensuality and freedom.
Exquisite, evocative, and grounded in history,
Tenderness is a testament to the transformative
power of fiction.
$24.95 PB Penguin Canada
Beautiful World,
Where Are You
SALLY ROONEY
Here is the extraordinary, thrilling new novel
from Sally Rooney, author of the internationally
bestselling Normal People and Conversations
with Friends.
$32.00 HC Knopf Canada
Harlem Shuffle
COLSON WHITEHEAD
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining
novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set
in Harlem in the 1960s. ”Ray Carney was only
slightly bent when it came to being crooked. . . .”
$36.00 HC Doubleday Canada
Undersong
KATHLEEN WINTER
From Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen
Winter (author of the bestseller Annabel). A
stunning novel reimagining the lost years of
misunderstood Romantic Era genius Dorothy
Wordsworth.
$32.00 HC Knopf Canada
The Lincoln Highway
AMOR TOWLES
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in
Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of
absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with
a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s
America.
$40.00 HC Viking
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Inseparable
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR SANDRA SMITH
MARGARET ATWOOD
Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de
Beauvoir’s life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into
the groundbreaking feminist’s own coming-ofage;
her transformative, tragic friendship with her
childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful
relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra
Smith’s vibrant translation of the novel will be long
cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time
readers alike.
$33.50 HC Harper Collins
Operation Angus
A Novel
TERRY FALLIS
From bestselling author Terry Fallis comes the
long-awaited follow-up to The Best Laid Plans and
The High Road—a comic spy story that heralds the
return of Angus McLintock.
$22.00 PB McClelland and Stewart
Fight Night
MIRIAM TOEWS
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking,
All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness
returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a
novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to
perseverance and love in an unusual family.
$29.95 HC Knopf Canada
The Strangers
KATHERENA VERMETTE
A breathtaking companion to her bestselling
debut The Break, Vermette’s The Strangers brings
readers into the dynamic world of the Stranger
family, the strength of their bond, the shared pain
in their past, and the light that beckons from
the horizon. This is a searing exploration of race,
class, inherited trauma, and matrilineal bonds
that—despite everything—refuse to be broken.
$29.95 HC Hamish Hamilton
The Second History
REBECCA SILVER SLAYTER
A novel of haunting beauty and ominous
suspense, The Second History is a postapocalyptic
love story about a young couple
embarking on a journey to understand, for the first
time, what they’ve been hiding from all their lives.
$24.95 PB Doubleday Canada
Crossroads
A Novel
JONATHAN FRANZEN
The highly anticipated new novel from one
of our greatest living writers. By turns comic
and harrowing, a tour de force of interwoven
perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads
is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All
Mythologies, that will span three generations
and trace the inner life of our culture through the
present day.
$37.00 HC Bond Street Books
The Mystery of Right
and Wrong
WAYNE JOHNSTON
The Mystery of Right and Wrong is a masterwork
from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed
and beloved writers that is both compulsively
readable and heartstopping in the vital truth it
unfolds. In a novel that grapples with sexual abuse,
male violence, and madness, Wayne Johnston
reveals haunting family secrets he’s kept for more
than thirty years.
$36.00 HC Knopf Canada
Still Life
SARAH WINMAN
Set between World War II and the 1980s, Still Life is
a beautiful, big-hearted story of strangers brought
together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of
E. M. Forster, from the bestselling, prize-winning
author of Tin Man and When God Was a Rabbit.
$24.95 PB Penguin Canada
The Island of
Missing Trees
A Novel
ELIF SHAFAK
A moving, beautifully written, and delicately
constructed story of love, division, transcendence,
history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of
Missing Trees is Elif Shafak’s best work yet.
$37.00 HC Bloomsbury
Cloud Cuckoo Land
A Novel
ANTHONY DOERR
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the
Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling
and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the
highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land.
$39.99 HC Scribner
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The Field
ROBERT SEETHALER CHARLOTTE COLLINS
From Robert Seethaler, the International Booker
Prize finalist for A Whole Life and bestselling
author of The Tobacconist, comes a tale of life and
death and human connection, told through the
voices of those who have passed on. The Field is a
constellation of human lives — each one different
yet connected to countless others — that shows
how existence, for all its fleetingness, still has
profound meaning.
$22.99 PB House of Anansi
Dante’s Indiana
RANDY BOYAGODA
Middle-aged, married, but living on his own, Prin
has lost his way. Desperate for money and purpose,
he moves to small-town Indiana to work for an
evangelical millionaire who’s building a theme
park inspired by Dante’s Inferno. Dante’s Indiana is
affecting and strange, intimate and big-hearted—an
extraordinary journey through the darkly divine
comedies of our time.
$22.95 PB Biblioasis
Chemical Valley
DAVID HUEBERT
Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised
optimism of Huebert’s stories offer sincere
appreciation of the beauty of our wilted,
wheezing world. From refinery operators
to long term care nurses, dishwashers to
preppers to hockey enforcers, Chemical Valley’s
compassionate and carefully wrought stories
cultivate rich emotional worlds in and through
the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy.
$22.95 PB Biblioasis
The Winter Wives
LINDEN MACINTYRE
A thrilling new psychological drama from
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntrye,
weaving threads of crime, disability and
dementia together into a tale of unrequited love
and delusion.
$34.95 HC Random House Canada
Go Tell the Bees That I
Am Gone
DIANA GABALDON
#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana
Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the
epic Outlander series. The past may seem the
safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous
time to be alive. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall
were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746,
and it took them twenty years to find each other
again. Now the American Revolution threatens to
do the same.
$45.00 HC Doubleday Canada
FICTION
The Magician
COLM TOIBIN
From the internationally bestselling author
of Brooklyn and The Master comes the novel
of a lifetime, Colm Tóibín’s most dazzling and
ambitious book yet. In The Magician, Colm Tóibín
captures the profound personal conflict of a
very public life, and through this life creates an
intimate portrait of the twentieth century.
$36.00 HC McClelland & Stewart
Never
A Novel
KEN FOLLETT
Never is an extraordinary novel, full of
heroines and villains, false prophets and elite
warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic
revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom
for our times, and a delivers a visceral, heartpounding
read that transports readers to the brink
of the unimaginable.
$48.00 HC Viking
Oh William!
A Novel
ELIZABETH STROUT
Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the
mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as
a former couple reckons with where they’ve come
from—and what they’ve left behind. At the heart of
this story is the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton,
who offers a profound, lasting reflection on the
very nature of existence. “This is the way of life,”
Lucy says: “the many things we do not know until
it is too late.”
$36.00 HC Random House
Wish You Were Here
A Novel
JODI PICOULT
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author
of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways
comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience
and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor
Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising)
$35.00 HC Random House Canada
em
KIM THUY SHEILA FISCHMAN
In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle: an
abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young
boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is
Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier.
Louis calls the baby em Hồng, em meaning “little
sister,” or “beloved.” Even though her cradle is
nothing more than a cardboard box, em Hồng’s life
holds every possibility.
$27.95 HC Random House Canada
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The Good Son
CAROLYN HUIZINGA MILLS
Zoe Emmerson has a secret, one she’s kept for
years. Her quiet world is shaken when her past
finally catches up with her: the investigation into
the murder of a six-year-old neighbour is re-opened
thirty years after the fact, threatening to destroy her
and everyone she’s fought so hard to protect. It’s a
real page-turner!
$24.95 PB Cormorant Books
The Keening
A Mystery of Gaelic Ireland
ANNE EMERY
The murdered body of Sorcha the prophetess
is discovered following a lavish banquet at the
Maguire castle in 16th century Ireland. In present
day, a dig commences on the land, and not only is
the body discovered, but a sheaf of prophecies.
$32.95 HC ECW Press
1979
VAL MCDERMID
In 1979, the first book in an atmospheric and
suspenseful new series, Val McDermid returns
to the past with the story of Allie Burns, an
investigative journalist whose stories lead her into
world of corruption, terror, and murder.
$37.99 HC Grove/Atlantic
The Heron’s Cry
Two Rivers #2
ANN CLEEVES
Ann Cleeves, New York Times bestseller and
creator of the Shetland and Vera series, returns
with the eagerly anticipated The Heron’s Cry, the
second book in the Two Rivers series, following
The Long Call.
$25.99 PB Pan Macmillan
Three for Trinity
KEVIN MAJORS
When Sebastian goes undercover in the theatre
to find a killer, things get… dramatic. In Three for
Trinity, the third book in the Sebastian Synard
Mystery series, offbeat humour meets suspense as
a nefarious crime unfolds.
$22.95 PB Breakwater Books
The Dark Hours
MICHAEL CONNELLY
A brazen, methodical killer strikes on New Year’s
Eve and LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry
Bosch must join forces to find justice for the
victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest.
Unfolding with unstoppable drive and nail-biting
intrigue, The Dark Hours shows that “relentless on
their own, Ballard’s and Bosch’s combined skills…
could be combustible” (Los Angeles Times).
$38.00 HC Little Brown and Company
When You Are Mine
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM
Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and
become a promising young officer with the
Metropolitan Police despite being the daughter
of a notorious London gangster. Called to the
scene of a domestic assault, she rescues a
young woman, Tempe Brown, the girlfriend of a
decorated detective. The incident is hushed up,
but Phil has unwittingly made a dangerous enemy
with powerful friends.
$24.99 PB Little Brown Book Group
A Line to Kill
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
The New York Times bestselling author of the
brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The
Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary
whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne
and Horowitz. Both a brilliant satire on the world
of books and writers, and an immensely enjoyable
locked-room mystery, A Line to Kill is a triumph—a
riddle of a story full of brilliant misdirection,
beautifully set-out clues, and diabolically clever
denouements.
$24.99 PB Harper Collins
The Man Who Died
Twice
RICHARD OSMAN
Richard Osman is back with everyone’s favourite
mystery-solving quartet, and the second
installment of The Thursday Murder Club series
is just as clever and warm as the first—an
unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read.
$35.00 HC Viking
The Dark Remains
A Novel
WILLIAM MCILVANNEY IAN RANKIN
William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw books changed the
face of crime fiction. When he died in 2015, he
left half a handwritten manuscript of Laidlaw’s
first case. Now, Ian Rankin is back to finish what
McIlvanney started. In The Dark Remains, these
two iconic authors bring to life the criminal world
of 1970s Glasgow, and Laidlaw’s relentless quest
for truth.
$32.95 HC McClelland & Stewart
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MYSTERY
Madness of Crowds
LOUISE PENNY
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three
Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny’s
latest spellbinding novel. "You’re a coward." Time
and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge
is leveled against Armand Gamache. When a
murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his
second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their
team to investigate the crime.
$36.99 HC Minotaur Books
Over My Dead Body
JEFFREY ARCHER
An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and
betrayal from international number one bestselling
author Jeffrey Archer.
$34.99 HC Harper Collins
The Good Turn
DERVLA MCTIERNAN
Some lines should never be crossed. Police
corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy,
and the mystery of a little girl’s silence—three
unconnected events that will prove to be linked by
one small town. The long awaited third book in the
Detective Cormac Reilly series.
$25.99 PB Blackstone Publishing
The Village of Eight
Graves
SEISHI YOKOMIZO BRYAN KARETNYK
The third title in Japan’s most popular murder
mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and
The Inugami Curse — fiendish classics featuring
investigator Kosuke Kindaichi. Translated into
English for the first time.
$19.95 PB Steerforth Press
Silverview
A Novel
JOHN LE CARRE
Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an
encounter between innocence and experience
and between public duty and private morals. In
this last complete masterwork from the greatest
chronicler of our age, John le Carré asks what
you owe to your country when you no longer
recognize it.
$34.95 HC Viking
The House of Ashes
STUART NEVILLE
For fans of Gillian Flynn and Tana French, a
chilling story of a Northern Irish murder sixty
years buried. Through the counterpoint voices—
one modern Englishwoman, one Northern Irish
farmgirl speaking from half a century earlier—
Stuart Neville offers a chilling and gorgeous
portrait of violence and resilience in this truly
haunting narrative.
$35.95 HC Soho Press
The Jealousy Man and
Other Stories
JO NESBO ROBERT FERGUSON
Jo Nesbo is the consummate mystery writer and
his talent for hair-raising suspense and shocking
twists are on full display in this inventive and
harrowing collection of stories. Contained in
this collection are stories of insatiable avarice,
unscrupulous lovers, and heartrending fate.
With Nesbo’s gift for outstanding atmosphere
and complex characters, this is a veritable crime
lover’s delight.
$36.00 HC Random House Canada
Dolphin Junction
Stories
MICK HERRON
Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels,
is on his way to becoming one of the most
critically acclaimed and culturally important
crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century.
Now, for the first time, Herron’s short fiction has
been collected into one volume, including a
peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top
agent at Slough House.
$29.95 HC Soho Press
State of Terror
A Novel
LOUISE PENNY
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
State of Terror is a unique and utterly compelling
international thriller cowritten by Hillary Rodham
Clinton, the 67th Secretary of State, and Louise
Penny, a multiple award-winning #1 New York
Times bestselling novelist. After a tumultuous
period in American politics, a new administration
has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s
surprise the president chooses a political enemy
for the vital position of Secretary of State.
$24.99 PB Simon & Schuster
Denial
A Novel
BEVERLEY MCLACHLIN
From the former Chief Justice of Canada and #1
bestselling author of Full Disclosure comes a
taut new thriller starring tough-as-nails defense
attorney Jilly Truitt in a murder case that makes
her question her own truths. When everyone is in
denial, how do you find the truth?
$24.99 PB Simon & Schuster
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SPECULATIVE FICTION
The Annual Migration
of Clouds
PREMEE MOHAMED
Set in post–climate disaster Alberta, a woman
infected with a mysterious parasite must choose
whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home
or stay and help rebuild her community. With keen
insight and biting prose, Premee Mohamed delivers
a deeply personal tale in this post-apocalyptic
hopepunk novella that reflects on the meaning of
community and asks what we owe to those who
have lifted us up.
$19.95 PB ECW Press
Leviathan Falls
JAMES S A COREY
The biggest science fiction series of the decade
comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth
and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award
winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original
series. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the
thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of
Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed
the gate builders is awake, and the war against our
universe has begun again.
$38.00 HC Orbit
Termination Shock
NEAL STEPHENSON
Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel
transports readers to a near-future world in which
the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in
a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms,
rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat
waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.
$39.99 HC Harper Collins
The Brides of Maracoor
A Novel
GREGORY MAGUIRE
Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory
Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun
off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba’s
granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.
$35.99 HC Harper Collins
Harrow
A Novel
JOY WILLIAMS
In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer
takes us into an uncertain landscape after an
environmental apocalypse, a world in which only
the man-made has value, but some still wish to
salvage the authentic.
$35.00 HC Knopf
The Last Graduate
A Novel
NAOMI NOVIK
The specter of graduation looms large as
Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking, New York Times
bestselling trilogy continues in the stunning
sequel to A Deadly Education. With keen insight
and mordant humor, Novik reminds us that
sometimes it is not enough to rewrite the
rules—sometimes, you need to toss out the entire
rulebook.
$34.95 HC Del Ray
Child of Light
TERRY BROOKS
The electrifying first novel of an all-new fantasy
series from the legendary author behind the
Shannara saga, about a human girl struggling
to find her place in a magical world she’s never
known. Told with a fresh, energetic voice, this
fantasy puzzle box is perfect for fans of Terry
Brooks and new readers alike, as one young
woman slowly unlocks truths about herself and
her world—and, in doing so, begins to heal both.
$37.00 HC Del Ray
The Apollo Murders
CHRIS HADFIELD
Experience the fierce G-forces of launch, the
frozen loneliness of space and the fear of holding
on to the outside of a spacecraft orbiting the
Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, as told by a former
Commander of the International Space Station
who has done all those things in real life.
$36.00 HC Random House Canada
We
A Novel
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN BELA SHAYEVICH
URSULA K LE GUIN
A radical new translation of the dystopian classic
that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley,
introduced by Margaret Atwood. This new edition
also includes Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “The
Stalin in the Soul” on the enduring influence of
Zamyatin’s masterpiece, and George Orwell’s 1946
review of We.
$24.00 PB McClelland & Stewart
The Book of Form and
Emptiness
RUTH OZEKI
With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting
plot, and vibrant engagement with everything
from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment
to material possessions, The Book of Form and
Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold, wise,
poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.
$34.95 HC Penguin Canada
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I’m Good and Other
Lies
BEV KATZ ROSENBAUM
Is it asking too much to live a typical twelfth grade
existence? Kelsey Kendler just wants to earn some
money for university, hang out with friends, maybe
even snag a boyfriend. But her pill-popping mom
and distant dad scare off anybody she tries to bring
home, making those last two things feel impossible.
$15.95 PB Cormorant Books
The Mirror: Broken
Wish
JULIE DAO
“An enchanting beginning to what promises to be a
gripping family saga. Broken Wish whisks readers
into a beautifully wrought fairy tale that is at once
familiar and new, and introduces readers to Elva,
whose family’s past is riddled with secrets and
curses. It will be hard to put down until the final
page!” - Elizabeth Lim, New York Times bestselling
author of the Twisted Tales books
$12.99 PB Disney-Hyperion
Fifty-Four Things
Wrong with
Gwendolyn Rogers
CAELA CARTER
No one can figure out what Gwendolyn Rogers’s
problem is—not her mom, or her teachers, or any
of the many therapists she’s seen. But Gwendolyn
knows she doesn’t have just one thing wrong with
her: she has fifty-four.
$21.00 HC Harper Collins
Beasts of Prey
AYANA GRAY
In this blockbuster fantasy series, perfect for fans
of Holly Black and Tomi Adeyemi, fate binds two
teenagers together as they journey into a magical
jungle to hunt down the vicious monster who is
threatening their home. But as they begin to uncover
ancient deadly secrets, it quickly becomes unclear
whether they are the hunters… or the hunted.
$24.99 HC GP Putnam
Walking in Two Worlds
WAB KINEW
An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two
worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy
debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab
Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and
the Otherworld series.
$21.99 HC Penguin Random House
YOUNG ADULT
Iron Widow
XIRON JAY ZHAO
Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this
blend of Chinese history and mecha science
fiction for YA readers.
$21.99 HC Penguin Random House
Poison for Breakfast
LEMONY SNICKET
For more than twenty years, Lemony Snicket
has led millions of young readers through a
mysterious world of bewildering questions and
unfortunate events. With this latest book—a
love letter to readers young and old about
the vagaries of real life—longtime fans and
new readers alike will experience Snicket’s
distinctive voice in a new way.
$23.99 HC Penguin Teen
Bluebird
SHARON CAMERON
Critically acclaimed author of The Light in
Hidden Places, Sharon Cameron weaves a
taut and affecting thriller ripe with intrigue
and romance in this alternately chilling and
poignant portrait of the personal betrayals,
terrifying injustices, and deadly secrets that
seethe beneath the surface in the aftermath of
World War II.
$24.99 HC Scholastic
Aristotle and Dante
Dive Into the Waters
of the World
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ
In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of
the Universe, two boys in a border town fell in
love. Now, they must discover what it means to
stay in love and build a relationship in a world
that seems to challenge their very existence.
$24.99 HC Simon and Schuster
Heartstopper
Volume 4: A Graphic Novel
ALICE OSEMAN
Charlie and Nick’s relationship has been going
really well, and Charlie thinks he’s ready to
say those three little words: I love you. Nick
feels the same way, but he’s got a lot on his
mind — especially the thought of coming out to
his dad and the fact that Charlie might have an
eating disorder. As a new school year begins,
Charlie and Nick will have to learn what love
really means.
$19.99 PB Scholastic
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AUTHOR PROFILE
A message from
Annick
MacAskill
Bookmark Halifax’s
2021 Bookstore
Ambassador
Our cultural institutions are the circulatory systems of our cities, pumping
energy and breath and inspiration into our everyday lives. And independent
bookstores, like Bookmark II, are the fierce, robust heart organs at the centre,
providing us with comfort and stimulation, information and distraction,
dreams and the occasional wake-up call.
Defying the laws of physics, a modestly-sized independent bookstore
provides, through the knowledge of its staff and careful curation, more
interesting reading material than any big box chain or corporate warehouse.
Shopping at an independent bookstore is also an opportunity for consumers
to support local jobs and economies, and a more ethical and environmentally
friendly option than ordering from online corporate giants.
Welcoming, knowledgeable, and deeply kind, the staff of Bookmark II have
always made me feel at home. They have sold me many a good book, as well
as some very sturdy pens. They make a point to support local author events
and have done a stellar job adapting to the challenges of COVID-19. How
wonderful to have such a place in the city we call home.
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ANNICK MACASKILL
Annick recommends..........
These are some of Annick’s recent favourite books.
Memorial
ALICE OSWALD
Alice Oswald homes in on the magic of the
Homeric simile in Memorial, a re-working of
the Iliad. Though Oswald is a trained classicist,
Memorial is accessible to those not familiar with
the ancient Greek epic, eschewing narrative and
relying on poetic devices and imagery to render
the pain and horror of war.
Theory
DIONNE BRAND
Based on its opening pages, I never could have
predicted where Theory, Dionne Brand’s most
recent novel, would take me. I love this book for
its masterful command of voice, as well as its
commentary on, yes, (literary) theory(ies), but also
human relationships and the ways we come to
know ourselves.
Three Strong Women
MARIE NDIAYE
I don’t know if I’ve ever encountered an author
as adept at mimicking the feeling of alienation in
her fiction as France’s Marie NDiaye. Three Strong
Women is the English-language translation of
her Goncourt-winning masterpiece, Trois femmes
puissantes.
The Heptameron
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
The most prolific woman writer of the
French Renaissance, Marguerite de
Navarre is best known today for her
Heptameron. The storyteller characters
in this book delight and puzzle the
reader with their licentious tales, many
of which probe at sexual politics and
the hypocrisies of courtly love.
Books by Annick..............
Murmurations
Murmurations is a collection of love poems
that explores how intimacy tests the capacity
of language–how music is also noise and the
prospect for miscommunication abounds.
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.”
$21.95 PB Gaspereau Press
Sodom Road Exit
AMBER DAWN
Though I love all of Amber Dawn’s
books, her latest novel, Sodom Road
Exit, is my favourite. A modern ghost
story set during one hot summer in
southwestern Ontario, the book is
narrated by Stella, one of the most
unforgettable literary characters I’ve
ever met.
No Meeting
Without Body
The poems in Annick MacAskill’s debut
collection No Meeting Without Body
are confident and crisp. Departing from
works of art and literature, historical
figures, myth, and anecdote, her poems
draw the reader into their subjects with
unaffected frankness and intimacy,
answering society’s most reductive
forces with a resistance rooted in the
dignity of human connection.
$19.95 PB Gaspereau Press
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ACORN PRESS
Living Full Circle
Living with Balance and Intention
Inspired by Medicine Wheel Teachings
52-Week Undated Planner
JENENE WOOLDRIDGE
Incorporate the teachings of the medicine wheel to live your life
and achieve success. Written by Mi’kmaq leader speaker, Jenene
Wooldridge, this planner teaches the importance of balance and
living with purpose by using tools like contemplation,
preparation, and goals.
$29.95 HC with a ribbon bookmark
Still More
Stubborn Stars
PAUL N GALLANT
A comic, moving and sometimes thrilling
novel across four decades of Prince
Edward Island life. Taking place in the
era of PEI’s Comprehensive Development
Plan, the renaissance of Acadian culture,
and the campaign to build the fixed link.
$22.95 PB
Established 1994
Prince Edward Island’s Book Publisher
PEI INTEREST WITH GLOBAL APPEAL
ALSO AVAILABLE:
Reset
Breathe Journal
$21.00
Ancient Land, New Land
Skmaqn - Port-la-Joye - Fort Amherst
National Historic Site of Canada
A.J.B. JOHNSTONE JESSE FRANCIS
The book, Ancient Land, New Land: Skmaqn—Port-La-Joye—
Fort Amherst National Historic Site of Canada immerses
the reader in a place that helped shape and define Prince
Edward Island, offering a history of the site and revealing
its importance to three distinct peoples: Mi’kmaq, French –
Acadian and British.
$24.95 PB
Epekwitk Mi’kmaq Poetry
from Prince Edward Island
L’nu Poems and Art
JULIE PELLISIER-LUSH
The highly anticipated debut poetry collection by Prince
Edward Island’s Poet Laureate. At times heart wrenching
and other times a call to action for Mother Earth, each
poignant poem is paired with vivid artwork crafted by Julie.
$24.95 PB
Our Rock and Our Salvation
HUGH MACDONALD
An engaging adventure and satisfying end to
Hugh MacDonald’s young adult trilogy, Our Rock and Our
Salvation explores community, restorative justice, and the
potential for our very planet.
$12.95 PB
My Year as a
Space Cadet
HOPE DALVAY
The follow-up to the
popular Welcome to
Camp Fill-in-the-Blank,
ALSO AVAILABLE:
Welcome to
Camp Fill-inthe-Blank
$12.95 PB
My Year as a Space Cadet explores the importance
of standing up for yourself and for others and shows
how anybody can become an everyday hero.
$13.95 PB
A Tale of Two Fiddlers
The Early Days of Sports and Life
in Charlottetown
FRED “FIDDLER” MACDONALD
The memories and history of one of the best-known
Charlottetown sporting families told through the eyes of
the oldest son, Fred “Fiddler” MacDonald.
$22.95 PB
ALSO AVAILABLE:
Mi’kmaq Campfire Stories
of Prince Edward Island
$13.95 PB
ALSO AVAILABLE:
The Last Wild Boy
$12.95 PB
And All the
Stars Shall Fall
$12.95 PB
Island Girl
From Orphan to Military Wife
JACKIE MUISE
Island Girl tells the story of Mary
Elizabeth Whitty as she makes her way
from orphan to farmer’s daughter, army
wife to family matriarch. Despite living
a life plagued with hardship and illness,
Mary perseveres in a way that is familiar
to many of the women of her generation.
$22.95 PB
Rosary and the Rifle
The Murder of Ann Marie Mackinnon
ERNIE MACAULAY
This book explores the MacAulay/MacKinnon
family history and grapples with the deeply
troubling trial of Joey MacDonald, the impact of
which continues to reverberate through their
descendents alive today.
$19.95 PB
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Best Wishes, Warmest
Regards
The Story of Schitt’s Creek
DANIEL LEVY EUGENE LEVY
This beautifully produced, keepsake coffee-table
book is the ultimate celebration of the series, the
town, the characters, and the state of mind that is
Schitt’s Creek. Capturing the essence and alchemy
of all six seasons of what is now considered to be
one of the most groundbreaking comedy television
series of the last decade, Best Wishes, Warmest
Regards is a gift to fans everywhere who have made
the show their own.
$40.00 HC Running Press
An Embarrassment
of Critch’s
Immature Stories from my
Grown-Up Life
MARK CRITCH
The heartfelt and hilarious story of beloved
Canadian comedian Mark Critch’s journey from
Newfoundland to the national stage—and back
home again. Though Critch has spent years
crisscrossing the country—and the globe—with
the explicit aim of causing trouble everywhere he
goes, like the best journeys, this one takes him
right back home.
$32.95 HC Penguin Canada
Talking to Canadians
A Memoir
RICK MERCER
For the first time, this most private of public figures
has turned the spotlight on himself, in a memoir
that’s as revealing as it is hilarious. It’s a life so
packed with incident (did we mention Bosnia and
Kabul?) and laughter we can only hope that a
future answer to “What is Rick Mercer going to do
now?” is “Write volume two.”
$32.95 HC Doubleday Canada
The Vinyl Café
Celebrates
STUART MCLEAN
From Canada’s much-missed, nationally bestselling
storyteller, a must-have collection featuring ten
never-before-published stories and ten classic
favourites, perfect for old fans and Vinyl Café
newcomers alike. This collection is both timely
and timeless, a rich celebration of Stuart McLean’s
inimitable voice, and of the importance of love,
community, kindness, and the healing power of
laughter.
$34.00 HC Penguin Canada
All Over the Map
Rambles and Ruminations from
the Canadian Road
RON JAMES
Canada’s most verbally virtuosic comic makes his
literary debut—and he’s just as richly, gloriously
funny on the page as on stage. He sounds like a
man born to write a great book—and now at last
he has. But this is a book he has been writing for
most of his life, in his head, in his car, while driving
from gig to gig.
$29.95 HC Doubleday
HUMOUR
Binge
60 Stories to Make Your Brain
Feel Different
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Here the narrators vary from story to story as
Doug catches what he calls “the voice of the
people,” inspired by the way we write about
ourselves and our experiences in online forums.
The characters, of course, are Doug’s own:
crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers.
and perpetrators of carbecues.
$29.95 HC Random House Canada
The Audacity
KATHERINE RYAN
From the star of the hit Netflix series The
Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely
honest, and dangerously astute handbook of
life instruction. “I’ve come to accept that being
audacious is a gift I can’t escape.”
$32.95 HC Doubleday Canada
Your Guide to Not
Getting Murdered
in a Quaint English
Village
MAUREEN JOHNSON JAY COOPER
Considering a trip to a quaint English village?
You’ll think twice after learning about the
countless murderous possibilities lurking
behind the bucolic façades, thanks to this
illustrated guide from #1 bestselling author
Maureen Johnson and illustrator Jay Cooper—
perfect for fans of cozy mysteries.
$22.99 HC Ten Speed Press
Where the Deer and
the Antelope Play
The Pastoral Observations of
One Ignorant American who
Loves to Walk Outside
NICK OFFERMAN
A humorous and rousing set of literal and
figurative sojourns as well as a mission
statement about comprehending, protecting,
and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by
three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist,
and New York Times bestselling author Nick
Offerman.
$37.00 HC Dutton
The Field Guide to
Dumb Birds of the
Whole Stupid World
MATT KRACHT
Let’s face it—all birds are fascinating,
wonderful, idiotic jerks—no matter where in the
world they reside. Following in the footsteps of
the bestselling book The Field Guide to Dumb
Birds of North America, this hilarious sequel
ventures beyond to identify the stupidest birds
around the world
$22.95 PB Chronicle Books
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GRAPHIC NOVELS
George Sprott
TOM SCIOLI
The celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker illustrator
Seth weaves the fictional tale of George Sprott,
the host of a long-running television program. The
events forming the patchwork of George’s life are
pieced together from the tenuous memories of
several informants, who often have contradictory
impressions.
$29.95 PB Illustrations Drawn & Quarterly
Dying for Attention
A Graphic Memoir of
Nursing Home Care
SUSAN MACLEOD
Dying for Attention is the latest memoir in the graphic
medicine field, shelved alongside Roz Chast’s Can’t
We Talk About Something More Pleasant? or Sarah
Leavitt’s Tangles. MacLeod includes helpful tips
for communicating with nursing homes as well as
background research to provide a larger context for
this under-discussed experience.
$20.00 PB Conundrum
Sapiens:
A Graphic History
Volume 2: The Pillars of
Civilization
YUVAL NOAH HARARI
DAVID VANDERMEULEN DANIEL CASANAVE
Volume II of Sapiens: A Graphic History tells the story
of how we took over the world; how an unlikely
marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created
the first empires; and how war, famine, disease, and
inequality became a part of the human condition.
Hilarious as it is necessary.
$29.99 PB McClelland & Stewart
On Tyranny
Graphic Edition
Twenty Lessons from the
Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER NORA KRUG
A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s
bestselling book of lessons for surviving and
resisting America’s arc toward authoritarianism,
featuring the visual storytelling talents of
renowned illustrator Nora Krug.
$22.99 PB Ten Speed Press
Lore Olympus
Volume One
RACHEL SMYTHE
Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden
love—witness what the gods do after dark in this
stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of
the best-known stories in Greek mythology from
creator Rachel Smythe.
$25.99 PB Del Ray
Original Sisters
Portraits of Tenacity and
Courage
ANITA KUNZ ROXANE GAY
From Joan of Arc to Josephine Baker, from
Hippolyta to Greta Thunberg, from Anne Frank to
Misty Copeland: these women made and changed
history. But there are just as many whom you’ve
never heard of, who were never recognized in
their lifetimes, whose achievements need to be
brought to light.
$40.00 HC Knopf Random Vintage Canada
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Gastro Obscura
A Food Adventurer’s Guide
CECILY WONG DYLAN THOMAS
ATLAS OBSCURA
This breathtaking guide transforms our sense
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Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura
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Workman
A Sailor, A Chicken,
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GUIREC SOUDEE
A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles
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$34.95 HC colour photographs Greystone Books
A Thing of Beauty
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PETER FIENNES
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ADAM SHOALTS
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The Women I Think
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MIA KANKIMAKI DOUGLAS ROBINSON
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$23.00 PB Simon and Schuster
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BENOIT LALONDE
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POETRY
Satched
MEGAN GAIL COLES
Named after a local word meaning “soaked through”
or “weighed down,” Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist
Megan Gail Coles’s debut poetry collection, Satched,
is a vivid portrait of intergenerational trauma,
ecological grief, and late-stage capitalism.
$19.99 PB House of Anansi Press
my island’s the house I
sleep in at night
LAURIE BRINKLOW
Drawn from interviews with artists from
Newfoundland and Tasmania, these poems capture
what it means to be an islander.
$18.95 PB Island Studies Press
100 Poets
A Little Anthology
JOHN CAREY
Celebrated author, John Carey, here presents a
uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on
a simple principle: select one hundred of the
greatest poets from across the centuries, and then
choose their finest poems.
$34.95 HC Yale University Press
If, When
BREN SIMMERS
The poems in If, When link the author’s
contemporary experiences while living in
Squamish, British Columbia, with those of her
great-grandparents, who lived in the nearby mining
town of Britannia a century earlier. Simmers offers
a fresh and empathetic take on the inevitable
tensions between land stewardship and economic
development, finding, ultimately, much potential for
connection and community.
$19.95 PB Gaspereau Press
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Tangled and Cleft
MATT ROBINSON
Whether he’s writing about the New Year’s Day
hangover, perfectly mown lawns, the ampersand
on a wedding invitation, beer league hockey, or
the shattering of a deceased parent’s casserole
dish, Robinson susses out the seemingly
innocuous web of relationships that give the
domestic its complexity.
$18.95 PB Gaspereau Press
I hope this
finds you well
poems
KATE BAER
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller
What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of
erasure poems created from notes she received
from followers, supporters, and detractors—an
artform that reclaims the vitriol from online
trolls and inspires readers to transform what is
ugly or painful in their own lives into something
beautiful.
$15.00 PB Harper Collins
The Nick of Time
ROSMARIE WALDROP
Ten years in the making, Waldrop’s
phenomenally beautiful new collection explores
the felt nature of existence as well as gravity
and velocity, the second hemisphere of time,
mortality and aging, language and immigration,
a Chinese primer, the artist Hannah Höch, and
dwarf stars.
$24.50 PB New Directions Publishing
Winter Recipes from
the Collective
LOUISE GLUCK
The dazzling new collection from the winner of
the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Louise Glück’s
work consistently draws on her own experience,
looking for the common threads in it that render
it universal. Her poems are not confessional,
they are mythic. Her poems are so powerful
because her portrayal of experience reminds us
so trenchantly of what we recognize we too have
seen and felt.
$29.95 HC McClelland & Stewart
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A Carnival of Snackery
Diaries (2003-2020)
DAVID SEDARIS
There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s
an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have
mas tered it. At its best, A Carnival of Snackery is
a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some
entries are just what you wanted. Others you
might want to spit discreetly into a napkin.
$40.00 HC Little, Brown and Company
These Precious Days
Essays
ANN PATCHETT
Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth,
the pieces in These Precious Days resonate
deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and
demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the
most celebrated writers of our time.
$23.99 PB Harper Collins
Orwell’s Roses
REBECCA SOLNIT
“In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.” So
begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection
on George Orwell’s passionate gardening
and the way that his involvement with plants,
particularly flowers, and the natural world
illuminates his other commitments as a writer
and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of
nature and power.
$37.00 HC Viking
How to Live. What
to Do.
In Search of Ourselves in Life
and Literature
JOSH COHEN
From the truths and lies we tell about ourselves
to the resonant creations of fiction, stories give
shape and meaning to all our lives. In How to Live.
What to Do., Cohen plots a course through the
various stages of our lives, discovering in each the
surprising and profound insights literature
has to offer.
$35.99 HC Random House Canada UK Distribution
ARTS & LETTERS
On Cats
An Anthology
MARGARET ATWOOD ELLIOT ROSS
For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored
and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift
book contains a selection of essays, stories, and
poems on cats by writers from across the ages.
$25.95 HC New York Review of Books
How I Became a Tree
SUMANA ROY
Drawn to trees’ wisdom, their nonviolent way of
being, and their ability to cope with loneliness and
loss, Roy explores what lessons have been learned
from trees by painters, scientists, spiritual figures,
and writers—from Ovid to Margaret Atwood.
$34.95 HC Yale University Press
The Gifts of Reading
JENNIE ORCHARD
"This story, like so many stories, begins with a
gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book..."
So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that
inspired this collection. Published to coincide with
the 20th anniversary of global literacy non-profit,
Room to Read, The Gifts of Reading forms inspiring,
unforgettable, irresistible proof of the power and
necessity of books and reading.
$32.99 HC Orion
Red Thread
On Mazes and Labyrinths
CHARLOTTE HIGGINS
A thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through
myth, art, literature, history, archaeology, and
memoir. Red Thread is a winding and unpredictable
route through the byways of the author’s
imagination - one that leads the reader on a
strange and intriguing journey, full of unexpected
connections and surprising pleasures.
$21.99 PB Vintage
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BIOGRAPHY
Alexa!
Changing the Face of
Canadian Politics
STEPHEN KIMBER
Alexa McDonough’s impact on Canadian politics
cannot be measured solely by election victories
or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a
mainstream Canadian political party, she helped
transform Nova Scotian and Canadian politics. In
the process, she transcended party affiliation and
gender to become simply “Alexa” to Canadians
across the country.
$32.95 HC Goose Lane Editions
Anything But a Still Life
The Art and Lives of Milly Lamb
and Bruno Bobak
NATHAN M GREENFIELD
Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as
war artists during the Second World War. Marrying
shortly after the end of the war, they moved first to
Vancouver and then, in 1960, to Fredericton, where
they settled permanently.
$35.00 HC Full-colour reproductions of their work, archival
photographs Goose Lane Editions
The Chemistry
of Innovation
Regis Duffy and the
Story of DCL
MO DUFFY COBB LORI MAYNE
How did a farm boy from PEI become a
successful businessman, mentor, and community
philanthropist? As Regis once said, “Innovate or
die; the alternative is not that appealing.”
$34.95 PB Island Studies Press
King of the Blues
The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
DANIEL DE VISE
The first full and authoritative biography of an
American—indeed a world-wide—musical and
cultural legend.
$41.95 HC Grove/Atlantic
Woolgathering
PATTI SMITH
A great book about becoming an artist,
Woolgathering is a treasure box of a childhood
memoir. Updated to include new photographs
and a radiant new afterword, written during the
pandemic and reflecting on current times.
$21.50 PB New Directions
The Storyteller
Tales of Life and Music
DAVE GROHL
From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to
my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming
with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or
dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz
Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul
McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with
Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard,
to flying halfway around the world for one epic
night with my daughters… the list goes on. I look
forward to focusing the lens through which I see
these memories a little sharper for you with much
excitement.
$36.99 HC Harper Collins
The Boys
A Memoir of Hollywood and
Family
RON HOWARD CLINT HOWARD
By turns confessional, nostalgic, heartwarming,
and harrowing, The Boys is a dual narrative that
lifts the lid on the Howard brothers’ closely held
lives. It’s the journey of a tight four-person family
unit that held fast in an unforgiving business
and of two brothers who survived “child-actor
syndrome” to become fulfilled adults.
$35.99 HC Harper Collins
Pluck
A Memoir of a Newfoundland
Childhood and the Raucous,
Terrible, Amazing Journey to
Becoming a Novelist
DONNA MORRISSEY
A deeply personal account of love’s restorative
ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna
Morrissey through mental illness, family death,
and despair to becoming a writer—told with
charm and inimitable humour.
$24.95 PB Penguin Canada
Off The Record
PETER MANSBRIDGE
Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with
him in this entertaining and revealing look into
his life and career, from his early broadcasting
days in the remote northern Manitoba community
of Churchill to the fast-paced news desk of CBC’s
flagship show, The National, where he reported on
stories from around the world.
$39.99 HC Simon & Schuster
The Chancellor
The Remarkable Odyssey of
Angela Merkel
KATI MARTON
This captivating portrait shows a woman who has
survived extraordinary challenges to transform
her own country and return it to the global stage.
Timely and revelatory, this great morality tale
shows the difference an exceptional leader can
make for the greater good of a country and
the world.
$39.99 HC Simon & Schuster
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Losing Me, While
Losing You
Caregivers Share Their
Experiences of Supporting
Friends and Family with
Dementia
JEANETTE A. AUGER, DIANE TEDFORD-LITLE
BRENDA WALLACE-ALLEN
FOREWORD BY JANICE KEEFE
This book provides narrative accounts based on
interviews with caregivers of people with dementia
and Alzheimer’s disease.
$30.00 PB Fernwood Publishing
My Best Mistake
Epic Fails and Silver Linings
TERRY O'REILLY
In his fascinating and meticulously researched
new book, Terry O’Reilly recounts how some of the
biggest breakthroughs and best-loved products
originated with a mistake. My Best Mistake will
change how you think about screwing up and will
encourage you to accept mistakes and embrace the
obstacles that may arise from these errors, leading
you to unexpected breakthroughs and silver linings
of your own.
$32.99 HC Harper Collins
Why Design Matters
Conversations with the World’s
Most Creative People
DEBBIE MILLMAN
Over the course of her popular podcast’s fifteenyear
reign, Debbie Millman has interviewed more
than 400 creative minds. In those conversations,
she has not only explored what it means to
design a creative life, but has, as Millman’s wife,
Roxane Gay, assesses in her foreword, “created a
gloriously interesting and ongoing conversation
about what it means to live well, overcome trauma,
face rejection, learn to love and be loved, and
thrive both personally and professional.”
$75.00 HC Harper Collins
Red Roulette
An Insider’s Story of Wealth,
Power, Corruption, and
Vengeance in Today’s China
DESMOND SHUM
A riveting insider’s story of how the Party and big
money work in China today, by a man who, with
his wife, Whitney Duan, rose to the zenith of power
and wealth—and then fell out of favor. She was
disappeared four years ago. News of this book led to
a phone call from Whitney, proof that she’s alive.
$39.99 HC Scribner
What Really Counts
The Case for a Sustainable and
Equitable Economy
RONALD COLMAN
Chronicling his path from Nova Scotia to New
Zealand to Bhutan, Colman details the challenge
of devising meaningful metrics for new economic
systems. He considers how to shift policy from
narrow GDP agendas toward a future built on
sustainability and equity.
$42.00 HC Columbia University Press
PERSONAL GROWTH
On Consolation
Finding Solace in Dark Times
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
Timely and profound philosophical meditations
on how great figures in history, literature,
music, and art searched for solace while facing
tragedies and crises, from the internationally
renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prizefinalist
Michael Ignatieff.
$32.00 HC Random House Canada
Atlas of the Heart
Mapping Meaningful
Connection and the Language
of Human Experience
BRENE BROWN
In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times
bestselling author Dr. Brené Brown writes,
“If we want to find the way back to ourselves
and one another, we need language and the
grounded confidence to both tell our stories
and to be stewards of the stories that we
hear. This is the framework for meaningful
connection.” $40.00 HC Random House
The Daily Laws
366 Meditations on Power,
Seduction, Mastery, Strategy,
and Human Nature
ROBERT GREENE
From the world’s foremost expert on power and
strategy comes a daily devotional designed
to help you seize your destiny. The Daily Laws
offers a page of refined and concise wisdom
for each day of the year, in an easy-to-digest
lesson that will only take a few minutes to
absorb. $37.00 HC Viking
BUSINESS
Time for Socialism
Dispatches from a World on
Fire, 2016-2021
THOMAS PIKETTY
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken
the world, from the author of Capital in the
Twenty First Century.
$34.95 HC 45 b&w illustrations Yale University Press
The Everyday Hero
Manifesto
Activate Your Positivity,
Maximize Your Productivity,
Serve the World
ROBIN SHARMA
Part memoir of a life richly lived, part
instruction manual for virtuoso-grade
performance, and part handbook for spiritual
freedom in an age of high-velocity change,
The Everyday Hero Manifesto will completely
transform your life. Forever.
$32.99 HC Harper Collins
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COOKBOOKS
Liv B’s Easy Everyday
100 Sheet-Pan, One-Pot, and
5-Ingredient Vegan Recipes
OLIVIA BIERMANN
Fans already know Olivia Biermann, of the Liv B blog
and YouTube fame, for her effortless and inexpensive
plant-based cooking. In this follow-up to her
bestselling Liv B’s Vegan on a Budget, Olivia is back
with a new collection of 100 recipes that are tastier
and easier than ever before.
$29.95 PB 85 full colour photos Firefly Books
Best East Coast Jams,
Pickles, Preserves,
and Breads
ALICE BURDICK
The inspiration for this collection is an 80-year-old
cookbook that gathered Nova Scotia recipes that
dated back as far as the late 1800s. Alice Burdick
has fully revised, updated and tested each recipe
to yield delicious results using contemporary
ingredients and preserving and baking equipment
and techniques.
$29.95 PB Formac Publishing
Together
Memorable Meals Made
Together
JAMIE OLIVER
Being with our loved ones has never felt so
important, and great food is the perfect excuse to
get together. Each chapter features a meal, from
seasonal feasts to curry nights, with a simple,
achievable menu that can be mostly prepped
ahead. Inspirational but practical, Together
is about comfort, celebration, creating new
memories, and, above all, sharing fantastic food.
$42.00 HC Harper Collins
A Cook’s Book
NIGEL SLATER
"This is a book for life . . . This, and it’s high praise,
is Slater’s best book." —Diana Henry, Sunday
Telegraph. With over 200 recipes, A Cook’s Book is
the story of Nigel Slater’s life in the kitchen.
$39.99 HC Harper Collins
Hearth & Home
Cook, Share, and Celebrate
Family-Style
LYNN CRAWFORD LORA KIRK
Chefs Lynn Crawford and Lora Kirk share their
favourite family-style recipes for everyday cooking
and casual celebrations at home. Creating a family
meal: setting the table, sharing dishes passed
around the table in large bowls or platters, and
enjoying it with one another is cooking at its best.
$40.00 HC Penguin Canada
Ottolenghi
Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
Recipes to Unlock the Secrets of
Your Pantry, Fridge, and Freezer
NOOR MURAD YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
From the New York Times bestselling author and his
super team of chefs, this is Ottolenghi, unplugged
— 86 irresistible recipes for relaxed, flexible home
cooking that will bring the love to every shelf in your
pantry, fridge, and freezer.
$35.00 PB Appetite
The Buddhist Chef ’s
Vegan Comfort Cooking
Easy, Feel-Good Recipes
for Every Day
JEAN-PHILIPPE CYR
Jean-Philippe Cyr, aka The Buddhist Chef, is back
with even more delicious vegan recipes. Inspired
by the comfort foods he enjoyed cooking with his
grandmother while growing up, his classical culinary
training, as well as his travels around the world, The
Buddhist Chef’s Vegan Comfort Cooking will become
your go-to vegan cookbook for every day of the
week..
$29.95 PB Appetite
Earth to Table Bakes
Everyday Recipes for Baking
with Good Ingredients
BETTINA SCHORMANN ERIN SCHIESTEL
The recipes in Earth to Table Bakes are designed
for everyday baking at home—for indulgent
moments shared with family and friends and
for celebrations large and small. With quality
pantry essentials, you’ll soon be whipping up an
impressive array of baked goods. Abundant and
approachable, these are recipes to keep on your
shelf for a lifetime.
$35.00 HC Penguin Canada
Acorn: Vegetables
Re-Imagined
Seasonal Recipes from
Root to Stem
SHIRA BLUSTEIN BRIAN LUPTAK
JULIA STILES
Encouraging us all to be adventurous with our
vegetables, Acorn offers a year’s worth of seasonal
recipes, infused with brilliant creativity. Visually
compelling, and masterfully thought through,
Acorn takes vegetarian cooking to the next level,
and is a cookbook to read, admire, and inspire.
$40.00 HC Appetite
Bittman Bread
No-Knead Whole Grain Baking
for Every Day
MARK BITTMAN KERRI CONAN
This is the best bread you’ve ever had—best
tasting, nourishing, and easy to make right in your
own kitchen. Mark Bittman and co-author Kerri
Conan have spent years perfecting their delicious,
naturally leavened, whole-grain bread. Their
discovery? The simplest, least fussy, most flexible
way to make bread really is the best.
$50.00 HC HMH Books
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GARDENING & HOMESTEADING
How to Be a Farmer
An Ancient Guide to Life
on the Land
M. D. USHER
A delightful anthology of classical Greek and
Roman writings celebrating country living—
ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns
to the gods of agriculture
$23.99 HC 33 b&w illustrations Princeton University Press
The Heirloom Gardener
Traditional Plants and Skills for
the Modern World
JOHN FORTI
John Forti celebrates gardening as a craft and
shares the lore and traditional practices that link
us with our environment and with each other.
Charmingly illustrated and brimming with wisdom,
this guide will inspire you to slow down, recharge,
and reconnect
$37.50 HC Timber Press
The Complete Gardener
A Practical, Imaginative Guide
to Every Aspect of Gardening
MONTY DON
Even great gardeners like Monty Don are
always learning and always experimenting. This
extensively revised new edition of his Complete
Gardener, first published in 2003, brings you right
up-to-date on how Monty gardens today - and his
recommendations for you.
$39.00 HC DK
House Planted
Choosing, Growing, and Styling
the Perfect Plants for your Space
LISA MUNOZ
Casual and easy-going, with attainable styles and
simple instructions, this short and sweet book of
inspiration has everything you need, and nothing
you don’t, to start you off on an adventure in better,
and greener, living.
$22.99 HC Ten Speed Press
Take it Outside
A Guide to Designing Beautiful
Spaces Just Beyond Your Door
MEL BRASIER GARRETT MAGEE
JAMES DESANTIS
Dubbed the “plantfluencers” by the New York Times,
Mel Brasier, Garrett Magee, and James DeSantis,
owners of the Manscapers landscaping company,
do more than plant, mulch, and manicure a garden;
they look at the space just as interior designers do
a room, considering the aesthetics and the way
people live in it.
$47.00 HC Clarkson Potter
Seed to Dust
Life, Nature, and a Country
Garden
SUMANA ROY
Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden
in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The
garden is vast and intricate. But it’s not his garden.
It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss
Cashmere. As Hamer writes, “Like a book, a garden
belongs to everyone who sees it.”
$34.95 HC Greystone Books
The Garden Book
Revised and Updated
PHAIDON EDITIORS TOBY MUSGRAVE
TIM RICHARDSON
An exquisite gift and invaluable and authoritative
reference for gardeners and garden lovers alike,
offering lasting appeal to garden designers,
students of garden design, amateur gardeners,
and garden historians.
$79.95 HC Phaidon Press
Grow Containers
Essential Know-How and Expert
Advice for Gardening Success
GEOFF STEBBINGS
This urban gardening guide for beginners will help
you choose and care for more than 80 different
plant varieties, all specially chosen for their ability
to thrive in containers.
$16.99 PB DK
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INDIGENOUS
Mischief Making
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art,
and the Seriousness of Play
NICOLA LEVELL
Expressive and exuberant, comic and imaginative:
Yahgulanaas’s Haida manga art style investigates the
intersections of Indigenous and other world views,
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ecological affairs, revealing a deep understanding of
the seriousness of play.
$29.95 PB 117 colour illus, 11 b&w illus. UBC Press
The Björkan Sagas
HAROLD R JOHNSON
Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots,
Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history
in this epic saga of exploration. The Björkan Sagas is
a bold, innovative fusion of narrative traditions set in
an enchanted world of heroic storytellers, shrieking
Valkyries, and fire-breathing dragons.
$24.99 HC House of Anansi
The 500 Years of
Indigenous Resistance
Comic Book
Revised and Expanded
GORD HILL PAMELA PALMATER
With strong, plain language and evocative
illustrations, this revised and expanded edition of
The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book
reveals the tenacity and perseverance of Indigenous
peoples as they endured 500-plus years of
genocide, massacre, torture, rape, displacement, and
assimilation: a necessary antidote to conventional
histories of the Americas. The book includes a
foreword by Pamela Palmater, a Mi'kmaq lawyer,
professor, and political commentator.
$19.95 PB Arsenal Pulp Press
Richard Wagamese
Selected
What Comes from Spirit
RICHARD WAGAMESE
DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR
This new collection of Wagamese’s non-fiction
works, with an introduction by editor Drew Hayden
Taylor, brings together more of the prolific author’s
short writings, many for the first time in print,
and celebrates his ability to inspire. Drawing
from Wagamese’s essays and columns, along
with preserved social media and blog posts,
this beautifully designed volume is a tribute to
Wagamese’s literary legacy.
$24.95 HC Douglas and MacIntyre
Me Tomorrow
Indigenous Views on the Future
DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR
First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists, activists,
educators and writers, youth and elders come
together to envision Indigenous futures in Canada
and around the world. Discussing everything from
language renewal to sci-fi, this collection is a
powerful and important expression of imagination
rooted in social critique, cultural experience,
traditional knowledge, activism and the multifaceted
experiences of Indigenous people on Turtle Island.
$22.95 PB Douglas and MacIntyre
Borders
THOMAS KING NATASHA DONOVAN
A powerful graphic-novel adaptation of one of
Thomas King’s most celebrated short stories,
Borders explores themes of identity and belonging,
and is a poignant depiction of the significance of
a nation’s physical borders from an Indigenous
perspective. This timeless story is brought to vibrant,
piercing life by the singular vision of artist Natasha
Donovan.
$21.99 PB Harper Collins
Standoff
Why Reconciliation Fails
Indigenous People and
How to Fix It
BRUCE MCIVOR
Faced with a constant stream of news reports
of standoffs and confrontations, Canada’s
“reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the
rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays,
lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why
reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and
what needs to be done to fix it.
$21.95 PB Nightwood Editions
Permanent
Astonishment
Growing Up in the Land of
Snow and Sky
TOMSON HIGHWAY
Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir
from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous
writers and performers. Permanent Astonishment:
Growing Up in the Land of Snow and Sky is
Tomson's extravagant embrace of his younger
brother's final words: "Don't mourn me, be joyful."
His memoir offers insights, both hilarious and
profound, into the Cree experience of culture,
conquest, and survival.
$32.95 HC Doubleday Canada
Unreconciled
Family, Truth, and Indigenous
Resistance
JESSE WENTE
Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is
a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed
concept of reconciliation, and to build a new,
respectful relationship between the nation of
Canada and Indigenous peoples.
$29.95 HC Penguin Canada
Rez Rules
My Indictment of Canada’s and
America’s Systemic Racism
Against Indigenous People
CHIEF CLARENCE LOUIE
Rez Rules describes the fascinating life and
legacy of a remarkable leader. It offers leadership
lessons for on and off the Rez in a common sense
blueprint for what the future of First Nations
should look like. In it, Chief Louie writes, “Damn,
I’m lucky to be an Indian!”
$34.95 HC McClelland & Stewart
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A Love Letter to
Africville
AMANDA CARVERY-TAYLOR
This book is a dazzling compilation of personal
stories and photos from former residents of
Africville, a warm hug from one of Canada’s most
important storied communities.
$24.00 PB Photographs Roseway Publishing
We’ll Meet Again
Prince Edward Island Women of
the Second World War
KATHERINE DEWAR
From fire-watching during bombing raids in
blacked-out London to surviving the sinking of a
transport ship in the Mediterranean, We’ll Meet
Again shares the incredible stories of PEI women
who served in the Second World War.
$29.95 PB Island Studies Press
Twelve Caesars
Images of Power from the
Ancient World to the Modern
MARY BEARD
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of
Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images
of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture,
and the representation of power for more than
2,000 years.
$45.99 HC 242 colour + 15 black and white illustrations
Princeton University Press
Oak Island Illustrated
The 225-Year Search for Truth
and Treasure
JOHN BELL
This book offers a fascinating opportunity to
explore many centuries of world history from the
perspective of one of the greatest mysteries of
all time. The extensive visuals showcase what
treasures could have been hidden, and illustrate
the lives of the adventurers, renegades, pirates,
politicians, and paranormal entities that might be
responsible for this puzzle.
$29.95 PB Formac Publishing
Planting the World
Joseph Banks and his Collectors;
An Adventurous
History of Botany
JORDAN GOODMAN
Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the
eighteenth century. As European ships ventured
across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans,
discovery bloomed. Bounties of new plants were
brought back, and their arrival meant much more
than improved flowerbeds – it offered a new
scientific frontier that would transform Europe’s
industry, medicine, eating and drinking habits, and
even fashion.
$21.99 PB Harper Collins
HISTORY
Operation Jubilee
Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and
the Sacrifice
PATRICK BISHOP
A riveting and updated telling of the tragic
Dieppe raid of 1942. Using first-hand testimony
and highlighting recently declassified source
material from archives across several countries,
bestselling author Patrick Bishop's account of this
doomed endeavour reveals the big picture and
unearths telling details that fully bring Operation
Jubilee to life for the first time.
$36.00 HC McClelland and Stewart
The Dawn of
Everything
A New History of Humanity
DAVID GRAEBER DAVID WENGROW
A trailblazing account of human history,
challenging our most fundamental assumptions
about social evolution—from the development of
agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the
state," political violence, and social inequality—
and revealing new possibilities for human
emancipation.
$39.95 HC McClelland & Stewart
The Celtic Myths that
Shape the Way We
Think
MARK WILLIAMS
Williams’s mythological expertise and
captivating writing style make this volume
essential reading for anyone seeking a greater
appreciation of the myths that have shaped
our artistic and literary canons and continue to
inspire today.
$45.95 HC WW Norton
Praying to the West
How Muslims Shaped the
Americas
OMAR MOUALLEM
An insightful and perspective-shifting new
book, from a celebrated journalist, about
reclaiming identity and revealing the surprising
history of the Muslim diaspora in the west—
from the establishment of Canada’s first
mosque through to the long-lasting effects of
9/11 and the devastating Quebec City mosque
shooting. Discover the book that is sparking
conversation from Brazil to Canada’s icy North.
$34.99 HC Simon & Schuster
The Power of
Geography
Ten Maps that Reveal the
Future of Our World
TIM MARSHALL
From the author of the New York Times
bestseller Prisoners of Geography, the highly
anticipated follow-up that uses ten maps of
crucial regions around the globe to explain the
geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers
and what it means for our future.
$36.00 HC Scribner
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CURRENT EVENTS
Pandemic Spotlight
Canadian Doctors at the Front of
the COVID-19 Fight
IAN HANOMANSING
Eminent CBC journalist Ian Hanomansing profiles the
Canadian doctors who stepped up to guide the nation
through its worst medical crisis in a century.
$22.95 PB Douglas & McIntyre
Return
Why We Go Back to Where
We Come From
KAMAL AL-SOLAYEE
Return is a chronicle of love and loss, of global reach
and personal desires. It sets the narrative of going
home against geopolitical forces that are likely to
shape the rest of this century and beyond. It’s a book
for anyone who has ever wondered what it would be
like to return to their roots.
$32.99 HC Harper Collins
On Freedom
Four Songs of Care and
Constraint
MAGGIE NELSON
For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in
our culture—from recent art world debates to the
turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the
painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair
in the face of the climate crisis—is itself a practice of
freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and
company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential
book for challenging times.
$32.00 HC McClelland & Stewart
The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
MICHAEL LEWIS
For those who could read between the lines, the
censored news out of China was terrifying. But the
president insisted there was nothing to worry about.
Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller
pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of
ignorance that was the official response of the Trump
administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.
$40.00 HC WW Norton
The Class
Trauma and Transformation in an
American Prison
CHRIS HEDGES
A haunting and powerfully moving book that gives
voice to the poorest among us and lays bare the
cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their
lives. In this unforgettable work, Pulitzer Prizewinning
journalist Chris Hedges provides an intimate
and moving look at the lives of the students he
teaches in a maximum-security prison.
$32.00 HC Knopf Canada
The Tyranny of Merit
Can We Find the Common Good?
MICHAEL J SANDEL
The world-renowned philosopher and author of the
bestselling Justice explores the central question of
our time: What has become of the common good?
The Tyranny of Merit points us toward a hopeful
vision of a new politics of the common good.
$24.50 PB Picador
Out of the Sun
On Race and Storytelling: The
CBC Massey Lectures 2021
ESI EDUGYAN
In this groundbreaking, reflective, and erudite
book, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and
internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan
illuminates myriad varieties of Black experience
in global culture and history. Edugyan combines
storytelling with analyses of contemporary events
and her own personal story in this dazzling first
major work of non-fiction.
$32.99 HC House of Anansi
China Unbound
A New World Disorder
JOANNA CHIU
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is
extending its influence across the globe with the
complicity of democratic nations. The new world
disorder documented in China Unbound lays out
the disturbing implications for global stability,
prosperity, and civil rights everywhere.
$24.99 PB House of Anansi
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 Press
Spin Doctors
How Media and Politicians
Misdiagnosed the COVID-19
Pandemic
NORA LORETO
This book meticulously documents the root causes
of the struggles amplified by the pandemic and
media, and challenges media and politicians who
justify the status quo.
$35.00 PB Fernwood Publishing
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World War C
Lessons from the Covid-19
Pandemic and How to Prepare
for the Next One
SANJAY GUPTA KRISTIN LOBERG
CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta,
MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer
to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What
have we learned about this pandemic and how
can we prepare for—or prevent—the next one?
$34.99 HC Simon & Schuster
The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
RICHARD SENNETT
Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be
planned. Fifty years later this book is as essential
as it was when it first came out, and remains an
inspiration to architects, planners, and urban
thinkers everywhere.
$25.95 PB Verso Books
Ten Lives, Ten Demands
Life and Death Stories, and a
Black Activist’s Blueprint for
Racial Justice
SOLOMON JONES
These stories and strategies are a critical resource
for social justice activists looking to further their
anti-racist education. These 10 demands form an
actionable plan that is necessary to repair our racist
past, change the racist present, and bring justice to
the future.
$31.95 HC Beacon Press
Mother of Invention
How Good Ideas Get Ignored in
an Economy Built for Men
KATRINE MARCAL
An illuminating and maddening examination
of how gender bias has skewed innovation,
technology, history, and work. Katrine Marçal’s
Mother of Invention is a fascinating examination
of business, technology, and innovation through a
feminist lens.
$32.95 HC Doubleday Canada
Disorientation
Being Black in the World
IAN WILLIAMS
Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer
Ian Williams brings fresh eyes to today's urgent
conversation on race and racism in startling,
illuminating essays that grow out of his own
experience as a Black man moving
through the world.
$25.00 HC Knopf Random Vintage Canada
CURRENT EVENTS
Renegades
Born in the USA
BARACK OBAMA BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and
fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the
open road and the call back to home. Along the
way, they reveal their passion for telling a bigger,
truer story about America throughout their careers,
and explore how our fractured country might
begin to find its way back toward unity and global
leadership.
$65.00 HC Crown
Hospicing Modernity
Facing Humanity’s Wrongs
and the Implications for Social
Activism
VANESSA MACHADO DE OLIVEIRA
This book contains no quick-fix plan for a better,
brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made
answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step
up, and show up for ourselves, our communities,
and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern
behavior patterns that are killing our planet.
$24.95 PB North Atlantic Books
The Future of
Capitalism
The Munk Debates
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL
YANIC VAROUFAKIS ARTHUR BROOKS
The twenty-fifth semi-annual Munk Debate, pits
editorial director and publisher of the Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel and former finance minister
of Greece Yanis Varoufakis against Harvard
professor Arthur Brooks and New York Times
columnist David Brooks to debate whether the
capitalist system is broken.
$14.99 PB House of Anansi
Ten Lessons for a Post
Pandemic World
FAREED ZAKARIA
Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing
happens and weeks when decades happen." Ten
Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past,
present, and future, and, while timely, is sure to
become an enduring reflection on life in the early
21st century
$22.95 PB WW Norton
WORLD GLOBES
REPLOGLE
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COBBLE HILL PUZZLES
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Christmas with
Maud Lewis
LANCE WOOLAVER BOB BROOKS
20 years after its first publication, the book that
charmed them all is back in print in a hardcover
gift edition. Maud earned her living by painting
Christmas cards and pictures and selling them
from her tiny, gaily painted one-room house
beside the highway near Digby, Nova Scotia.
$24.95 HC Illustrations Goose Lane Editions
Good Earth
The Pots and Passions of
Walter Ostrom
WALTER OSTROM
Walter Ostrom has been described as an "innovative
traditionalist," a disruptive force shaking up ceramic
conventions while simultaneously enriching them.
Hired to teach studio and Asian art history at Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design in 1969, Ostrom was
one of many American artists who moved north to
Canada in the fallout from the Vietnam War.
$50.00 HC Goose Lane Editions
O Canada Crosswords
Book 22
GWEN
Sharpen your pencils—with over 250,000 copies
sold, the O Canada Crosswords series is back and
more popular than ever! Featuring 75 all-new
puzzles and lots of witty wordplay, Book 22
combines Canadiana with other themes. Explore
national pride (“Trivia Pursuit”), music (“The Sounds
of Music”), language (“Buzzwords”) and geography
(“Do You Know the Way”).
$16.95 PB Nightwood Editions
CODENAMES
CZECH GAMES
Two rival spymasters know the
secret identities of 25 agents. Their
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SET GAMES
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GIFTS FOR EVERYONE
The Unwinding
JACKIE MORRIS
Last year, Jackie Morris brought you The Lost
Spells. This year, she's back with The Unwinding—
an enchanting, highly illustrated pillow book for
all ages.
$39.99 HC Unbound
House Dressing
Interiors for Colorful Living
JANIE MOLSTER
In House Dressing, Janie reveals the secrets
behind her unique ability to craft dreamy interiors
and shares down-to-earth advice for creating
your own beautiful and personal spaces. A master
class in working with color, pattern, and texture
to make spaces that are in turn bold, serene,
glamorous, and comfortable, but always personal.
$60.00 HC Monacelli Press
The Book of Ravens
from Norse legends to
Game of Thrones
ANGUS HYLAND CAROLINE ROBERTS
This beautifully designed book showcases the
visual and literary life of the corvid, from Norse
legends to Game of Thrones. It includes beautiful
and darkly seductive photographs and paintings
as well as texts and poems in which they play a
starring role and information about the traits that
make them so intriguing to us.
$24.99 PB Laurence King Publishing
BEST-SELLING GAMES
ANOMIA
ANOMIA PRESS
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SCRABBLE
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WS GAME COMPANY
For more than half a century the
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RELIGION
Means of Grace
A Year of Weekly Devotions
FLEMING RUTLEDGE
LAURA BARDOLPH HUBERS
A weekly devotional culled from the sermons of
beloved pastor and theologian Fleming Rutledge,
organized according to the framework of the liturgical
calendar. Each entry, compiled and edited by
Rutledge’s friend Laura Bardolph Hubers, begins with
a biblical passage and ends with a short prayer.
$33.95 HC Eardmans
Where the Light Fell
A Memoir
PHILIP YANCEY
In piecing together his fragmented personal history
and his search for redemption, Yancey gives
testament to the enduring power of our hunger for
truth and the possibility of faith rooted in grace
instead of fear.
$37.00 HC Convergent
Following the Call
Living the Sermon on the
Mount Together
EBERHARD ARNOLD DIETRICH BONHOFFER
MOTHER TERESA
This follow-up to the acclaimed collection Called to
Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People taps
an even broader array of sources, bringing together
prophetic voices from every era and a range of
traditions to consider the repercussions of these
essential words.
$24.99 PB Plough Publishing House
Where is God?
Christian Faith in the Time of
Great Uncertainty
JULIAN CARRON
Starting from the realization that the world is
experiencing an evolution in which the difficulty
of finding shared values and natural morality
makes sincere dialogue between believers and
non-believers challenging, Carrón reflects on the
possibility of communicating the essence of the
Christian faith in a form that can inspire interest in
modern times.
$19.95 PB McGill-Queen’s University Press
The Deeply Formed Life
Five Transformative Values to Root
Us in the Way of Jesus
RICH VILLODAS PETE SCAZZERO
Most believers live in the state of “being a Christian”
without ever being deeply formed by Christ. Our pace
is too frenetic to be in union with God, and we don’t
know how to quiet our hearts and minds to be present.
The Deeply Formed Life is a roadmap to live in the richly
rooted place we all yearn for: a place of communion
with God, a place where we find our purpose.
$22.00 PB Waterbrook Press
The Monastic Heart
50 Simple Practices for a
Contemplative and Fulfilling Life
JOAN CHITTISTER
At a time when people around the world are bearing
witness to human frailty—and, simultaneously, the
endurance of the human spirit—The Monastic Heart
invites readers of all walks to welcome this end
of certainty and embrace a new beginning of our
faith. Without stepping foot in a monastery, we can
become, like those before us, a deeper, freer self, a
richer soul.
$35.00 HC Convergent
Filled with Fire
and Light
Portraits and Legends from the
Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World
ELIE WIESAL ALAN ROSEN
Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical
prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic
rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer,
Nobel laureate, and one of the world’s most honored
and beloved teachers. Wiesel challenges and
inspires us all to find purpose and transcendence in
our own lives.
$34.95 HC Schocken
Wholehearted Faith
RACHEL HELD EVANS JEFF CHU
This book is for the doubter and the dreamer, the
seeker and the sojourner, those who long for a
sense of spiritual wholeness as well as those who
have been hurt by the Church but can’t seem to let
go of the story of Jesus. An unforgettable, moving,
and intimate book.
$33.50 HC Harper Collins
Morning and Evening
Prayers
CORNELIUS PLANTINGA
In this little book, Cornelius Plantinga offers a
month’s worth of prayers, with two for each day:
one for the morning, looking forward, and one for
the evening, looking back. Each prayer expresses
some essential Christian longing on behalf of self
and others—for faith, hope, love, wisdom, gratitude,
peace—yet also makes space for any state of
heart or mind by rejoicing with all who rejoice and
weeping with all who weep.
$26.95 HC Eardmans
This Hallelujah
Banquet
How the End of What We Were
Reveals Who We Can Be
EUGENE H PETERSON
In this powerful new interpretation of the book of
Revelation, the late, revered author and translator
of The Message Bible offers timely insights into
how we can lean into growth, not in spite of
challenging times, but because of them. This
Hallelujah Banquet is your personal invitation to
grow deep and begin living now in a generous,
abundant, and hopeful reality in Christ.
$24.00 PB Waterbrook
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A Brief Welcome to
the Universe
A Pocket-Sized Tour
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
MICHAEL A. STRAUSS J. RICHARD GOTT
A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times
bestseller. A breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from
planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and
time loops.
$19.95 PB 10 black and white illustrations Princeton
University Press
Science Goes Viral
Captivating Accounts of Science
in Everyday Life
DR JOE SCHWARCZ
Bestselling popular science author Dr. Joe
Schwarcz breaks down the science of essential
oils, placenta creams, intermittent fasting, and of
course the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in
this new collection from the master of demarcating
non-science from science.
$24.95 PB ECW Press
2022 Night Sky
Almanac
A Month-by-Month Guide to
North America’s Skies
NICOLE MORTILLARO
2022 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for
both novice and experienced sky watchers in the
United States and Canada, with all the advice,
information, and data that enthusiasts need to
understand and enjoy the wonders of the
night sky.
$14.95 PB Firefly Books
From Here to There
The Art and Science of Finding
and Losing Our Way
MICHAEL BOND
How is it that some of us can walk unfamiliar streets
without losing our way, while others struggle even
with a GPS? Navigating in uncharted territory is a
remarkable feat if you stop to think about it. In this
beguiling mix of science and storytelling, Michael
Bond explores how we do it: how our brains make
the "cognitive maps" that keep us orientated and
how that anchors our sense of wellbeing.
$25.99 PB Harvard University Press
Memory Speaks
On Losing and Reclaiming
Language and Self
JULIE SEDIVY
From an award-winning writer and linguist,
a scientific and personal meditation on the
phenomenon of language loss and the possibility
of renewal. Sedivy shows more is stake than loss
of language: there is also the loss of identity.
$41.95 HC Harvard University Press
SCIENCE
Rationality
What It is, Why It Seems Scarce,
Why It Matters
STEVEN PINKER
Can reading a book make you more rational?
Can it help us understand why there is so much
irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author
of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’s "new favorite
book of all time”) answers all the questions here.
$42.00 HC Viking
Natural History
INSTITUTION SMITHSONIAN
Written by a worldwide team of natural history
experts, Natural History is the perfect addition
to every family bookshelf, as well as an ideal gift
for any nature lover. From granites to grapevines,
from microbes to mammals, Natural History is
the ultimate celebration of the diversity of the
natural world.
$65.00 HC DK
The World Before Us
How Science is Revealing a
New Story of Our Human
Origins
TOM HIGHAM
50,000 years ago, we were not the only
species of human in the world. There were at
least four others, including the Neanderthals,
Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the
Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's
ground-breaking discovery was Oxford
Professor Tom Higham. This is the story of
us, told for the first time with its full cast of
characters.
$42.95 HC Penguin UK
This is Your Mind on
Plants
MICHAEL POLLAN
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan
dives deep into three plant drugs—opium,
caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the
fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of
our thinking about them into sharp relief.
$37.00 HC Penguin Press
Metazoa
Animal Life and the Birth of
the Mind
PETER GODFREY-SMITH
Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are
soon confronted by forms of life that could not
seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges,
soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted
bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like
appendages are more reminiscent of plant
life or even architecture than anything
recognizably animal. Yet these creatures are
our cousins.
$24.50 PB Picador
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NATURE
Our Oldest
Companions
The Story of the First Dogs
PAT SHIPMAN
How did the dog become man’s best friend?
Shipman unearths the mysterious origins
of the partnership that rewrote the history
of both species. We cannot understand our
history without recognizing the central role
that dogs have played in it.
$36.99 HC 20 Illustrations Harvard University Press
The Complete Birds
of the World
Every Species Illustrated
NORMAN ARLOTT BER VAN PERLO
JORGE R. RODRIGUEZ MATA
GUSTAVO CARRIZO
ALDO A. CHIAPPE LUIS HUBER
The ultimate reference book for birdwatchers
and bird lovers—the first single-volume book to
illustrate all the world’s bird species.
$83.00 HC 25,000 colour illustrations Princeton
University Press
The Nutmeg’s Curse
Parables for a Planet in Crisis
AMITAV GHOSH
A powerful work of history, essay, testimony,
and polemic, Ghosh’s new book traces our
contemporary planetary crisis back to the
discovery of the New World and the sea route to
the Indian Ocean.
$35.95 HC b&w illustrations University of Chicago
Press
We Are All Whalers
The Plight of Whales and Our
Responsibility
MICHAEL J. MOORE
A veterinarian and marine scientist, Moore relates
his experiences caring for endangered whales,
and shows how we can all share in the salvation
of these imperiled animals.
$49.00 HC b&w illustrations University of Chicago Press
The Peggy’s Cove
Barrens
Rock, Life, Sea, and Sky
A Portrait in Photographs
KENT MARTIN
In this collection of 100 evocative photographs,
Kent Martin reflects the seasons and the range of
natural history on display. His pictures include the
expansive, rocky landscape and ever-changing
skies, but also the smaller world of mosses, flowers,
birds, and mammals. Together they reveal a richness
of natural diversity.
$29.95 PB Formac Publishing
Orchard
A Year in England’s Eden
BENEDICT MACDONALD NICHOLAS GATES
England's ancient orchards, collaborations between
people and nature, are sources of hope for the future.
Protecting them promises a far richer England for the
centuries to come, for wildlife and for us. Explore this
unique habitat throughout the course of a year, and
marvel at the beauty and strength of nature.
$19.99 PB Harper Collins
The Sea is Not Made
of Water
Life Between the Tides
ADAM NICHOLSON
In The Sea is Not Made of Water, Adam Nicolson
explores the natural wonders of the intertidal and
our long human relationship with it. The physics of
the seas, the biology of anemone and limpet, the
long history of the earth, and the stories we tell of
those who have lived here: all interconnect in this
zone where the philosopher, scientist and poet
can meet and find meaning.
$23.99 PB Harper Collins
On Animals
SUSAN ORLEAN
Susan Orlean gathers a lifetime of musings,
meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals.
Equal parts delightful and profound, enriched by
Orlean’s stylish prose and precise research, these
stories celebrate the meaningful cross-species
connections that grace our collective existence.
$37.00 HC Simon & Schuster
Treepedia
A Brief Compendium of
Arboreal Lore
JOAN MALOOF MAREN WESTFALL
Most believers live in the state of “being a
Christian” without ever being deeply formed by
Christ. Our pace is too frenetic to be in union with
God, and we don’t know how to quiet our hearts
and minds to be present. The Deeply Formed Life is
a roadmap to live in the richly rooted place we all
yearn for: a place of communion with God, a place
where we find our purpose.
$22.95 PB black and white illustrations Princeton
University Press
WHO WANTS TO BE A
MILLIONAIRE
GINGER FOX
Relive classic moments from the show
and take on the iconic money ladder
using only your wits and digital lifelines
to reach the top. Includes 360 cards,
game board, tokens, playing pieces and rules. Suitable for 3 or
more players aged 14+ $37.99 ea.
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A Year in the Woods
Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
TORBJØRN EKELUND BECKY L CROOK
As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want
to spend more time appreciating it. But how do
we appreciate nature without disruption? In this
sensitively-written book, Torbjørn Ekelund shares a
creative and non-intrusive method for immersing
oneself in nature. And the result is nothing short of
transformative
$32.95 HC Greystone Books
Swamplands
Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs,
and the Improbable World of Peat
EDWARD STRUZIK
An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat
glory, the book is also a demand for awareness
of the myriad threats they face. It urges us to see
the beauty and importance in these least likely of
places. Our planet’s survival might depend on it.
$39.95 HC Island Press
Galloway
Life in a Vanishing Landscape
PATRICK LAURIE NICK OFFERMAN
Galloway, an ancient region in an obscure corner
of Scotland, has a proud and unique heritage
based on hardy cattle and wide moors. Exploring
the delicate balance between farming and
conservation while recounting an extraordinarily
powerful personal story, Galloway delves into the
relationship between people and places under
pressure in the modern world.
$23.00PB Counterpoint
Finding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom
of the Forest
SUZANNE SIMARD
A world-leading expert shares her amazing story of
discovering the communication that exists between
trees and shares her own story of family and grief.
Simard proves the true connectedness of the Mother
Tree to the forest, and how these inseparable bonds
enable all our survival.
$34.95 HC Penguin Canada
MUGS FOR
NATURE LOVERS
GINGER FOX
These quality mugs from the UK are
perfect for the nature lover on your
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NATURE
Islands of Abandonment
Nature Rebounding in the
Post-Human Landscape
CAL FLYN
Cal Flyn visits the eeriest and most desolate places
on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or
economic decay, have been abandoned by humans.
What she finds every time is an "island" of teeming
new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster
and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful
projections of scientists. economic decay, have been
abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is
an "island" of teeming new life: nature has rushed in
to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even
the most hopeful projections of scientists.
$36.00 HC Viking
Rivers Run Through Us
A Natural and Human History of
Great Rivers of North America
ERIC B TAYLOR MARK ANGELO
Eric Taylor takes readers on a grand tour of ten
of North America’s more important river systems,
exploring one fundamental issue for each
that illustrates the critical role each particular
stream has had — and will have — in the human
development of North America.
$38.00 HC Rocky Mountain Books
East Coast Backyard
Nature Guide
JEFFREY C DOMM
This concise pocketguide is a handy reference for
families looking to explore their own backyard.
Fully illustrated, it includes the East Coast’s most
common birds, butterflies, mammals, trees,
wildflowers and mushrooms. Packed with top tips,
this is the essential nature guide to have at home!
$24.95 PB Formac Publishing
Field Study
Meditations on a Year at the
Herbarium
HELEN HUMPHREYS
Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys
returns to her series of nature meditations in this
gorgeously written and illustrated book
that takes a deep look at the forgotten
world of herbariums and the people
who amassed collections of plant
specimens in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
$28.95 HC ECW Press
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AUTHOR PROFILE
A message from
Richard
Lemm
Bookmark Charlottetown’s
2021 Bookstore Ambassador
PHOTO: LEE ELLEN POTTIE
In my great-grandmother’s settler home sheltered by venerable maples, cedars, and firs, there was no
electricity, but there were shelves of old hardbound books and kerosene lamps to read by. I would select
a book for its colour and the magic of a gold-embossed name and title on the spine. Burgundy, Charles
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. Forest green, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans. Blue-violet,
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women. Opening a book, I would inhale its scent: dried mushrooms from the
woods, or breadcrusts for the birds. With Great-grandma in her rocking chair throne, I held the book like an
ancient Egyptian scribe with a scroll, lifting the charmed words from the page with my voice into the lamplit
air, turning each leaf with reverence. Closing the book, I drew night and enchanted sleep around the world
therein, until I next broke its spell and that world resumed. Those shelves with so many worlds waiting for
me, their Merlin.
Many years later, discussing E-readers with Jesse, a friend and former student, he told me that his back-tothe-lander
parents always left books lying around in their rural PEI home. They never urged or nudged him
to read any. One day, age ten, Jesse picked up a book on the coffee table. Moby Dick. He began reading. And
kept on reading. I understood very little, he said, though I liked the whale, but I read the whole book and
loved it. That would not have happened, he said, with an E-reader. He has been reading books ever since.
When I moved permanently to Canada in the late 1960s, with no job, I told my partner I wanted to work in
a bookstore. Fat chance of that, she said. I lucked out. The illustrious Duthie Books was opening its flagship
store in downtown Vancouver and needed extra hands to schlepp and shelve hundreds of cartons of books. I
worked my derriere off and was rewarded with a full-time position. For the next few years, I was surrounded
by thousands of worlds and the joy of helping other Merlins select their waiting realms.
When my wife and I travel, we carry a small suitcase filled with books from The Bookmark in Charlottetown.
At our destinations, people with digital tablets try to convince us we would be much better off with one
lightweight device holding a million volumes. No, we tell them, we would be impoverished and bereft.
We want the eager delight of entering our bookstore, with a list, and to be surprised. We want the deep
pleasure of speaking with book-loving friends we encounter there and with the bibliophilic wizards who
own and manage the store. We want to intone, in our minds, like Hermione, the spells on the spines. Feel the
alchemy of book and hands coming together. The camaraderie with Dan and Marlene and Lori as they hand
us these scrolls,
We need to see our grandchildren, at our bookshelves, their eyes grazing, hands reaching, worlds and minds
about to awaken.
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RICHARD LEMM
Richard recommends.........
These are some of Richard’s recent favourite books.
The Selected Short
Fiction of Lisa Moore
LISA MOORE
Newfoundland now, a half-century after the
brilliant fictional world of Alistair MacLeod.
The Overstory
A Novel
RICHARD POWERS
An epic novel about humans and our relationships
with close-knit communities of species – trees —
that predate us by countless millions of years and
will long outlast us.
Staying Alive
Real Poems for Unreal Times
EDITED BY NEIL ASTLEY
IThe best recent anthology for people who love
poetry… and for people who don’t.
Humane
ANNA MARIE SEWELL
A suspenseful crime novel. Murdered
and disappeared indigenous women.
Shape-shifters. Revenge. Healing. And
lots of wisdom and humour: dark,
visionary, and delightful.
A Manual for
Cleaning Women
LUCIA BERLIN
Amazing stories of everyday lives in
America by a recently rediscovered
author.
Books by Richard.............
In
A
In this collection, Richard traces his own journey from
the west coast of North America to the east coast of
Canada with his first foray into the world of short fiction.
thirty-something man takes a chance on finding love
after he encounters an exotic opera singer on an
airplane. Two brothers face their own ghosts as they
come to terms with the death of their father. A young
man tries to live with his friends' idea of justice after
one of them crosses the line. The stories are decidedly
masculine - sometimes apologetically so - but always
honest. They resonate long after the pages are closed, offering a fresh voice
from one of Atlantic Canada's finest poets.
Acorn Press 19.95
Indian Horse
RICHARD WAGAMESE
A powerful novel about residential
schools, traditional and modern
Ojibway lives… and hockey.
Imagined Truths
Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet
Just released! Richard grew up in cool 1960s Seattle, raised by alcoholic grandparents with a mad, absent
mother and a mythic father who might or might not have died before he was born. To avoid the draft, he left
"the greatest country in the world" and moved to Canada just as the Age of Aquarius was dawning. Now,
having constructed a new and equally imagined identity, he uses his poet's sensibility to examine the familial
myths and cultural privilege that shaped his youth? the unsettled frontier, the golden age of the 1950s, the
noble warrior, the little woman and the inexhaustible natural resources of the Pacific Northwest. This wry,
poignant and insightful memoir looks at growing up in a family and country you didn't choose and coming of
age in the country and with the people you did.
Tidewater Press $21.95
Shape of Things to Come
Jeopardy
Richard takes readers to the
infamous penal colony on the
Tasman Peninsula, then imagines
an alternate history in which
convicts were sent to Prince
Edward Island. He explores
his pre- and post-Revolution
experiences teaching Egyptian
students and encountering
a great civilization wrestling with cross-currents of
modernity and tradition. His poetic gaze then turns
to the struggle of a couple living the ordeal of severe
anorexia and the quest for healing. Other poets have
written of his "passionate engagement with human
nature, including his own," of how he "masterfully
blends his narrative poetic style with lyrical sweeps
across time and space," and of his "wit, his spilling love
of life and his poetic magnetism."
Acorn Press 19.95
Books edited by
Richard Lemm
Snow Softly Falling
Holiday Stories from
Prince Edward Island
Ritpides
New Island Fiction
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NIMBUS PUBLISHING
The History of Rain
STEPHENS GERARD MALONE
Our story begins in 1915. A sprawling story written in stunning, spare
language, this anticipated new novel from the master wordsmith behind
Big Town and I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin is a lyrical, magical, and
starkly realist meditation on the dissonant worlds that emerge from the
conflict, and the lengths we'll go to chase the illusion of love. $21.95 PB
We Rise Again
More Stories of Hope and
Resilience from Nova Scotia
During the COVID-19 Pandemic
LENN WAGG
ANGELA MOMBOURQUETTE
Follow-up to national bestseller Stay the Blazes
Home featuring inspiring photos and stories of Nova
Scotians during the second wave of the COVID-19
pandemic. $19.95 PB
Be a Camouflage Detective
Looking for Critters that are Hidden,
Concealed, or Covered
PEGGY KOCHANOFF
From the anatomy of a sea anemone to the dappled feathers
of snowy owls, Kochanoff takes readers on a fascinating and
entertaining tour of the most common animal disguises and
camouflages in Atlantic Canada and beyond. $14.95 PB
ALSO IN THE SERIES:
$14.95 each
ALSO AVAILABLE:
Big Town
$18.95 PB
The Rural
Entrepreneur
John Bragg- the Force
Behind Oxford Frozen
Foods and Eastlink
DONALD J SAVOIE
As told by award-winning author Donald
J. Savoie, and featuring a dozen photos
from Bragg's personal archive, The Rural
Entrepreneur: John Bragg is the story of a
tremendous business success born and
grown in the Maritimes – one that is sure
to inspire the next generation of Maritime
entrepreneurs
$27.95 HC
I Kid You Not!
Chronicles of an
Ordinary Family
LESLEY CREWE
Bestselling author of The Spoon Stealer
brings more of her sharp Cape Breton wit
to the follow-up non-fiction collection to
Leacock – longlisted Are You Kidding Me?!
$21.95 PB
ALSO AVAILABLE:
Are You Kidding Me?!
$21.95 PB
Pop-Up Halifax
BRAD HARTMAN
A colourful pop-up book featuring 6
full-colour scenes of Halifax and area,
suitable for all ages $27.95 PB
A Canadian Nurse in the
Great War
The Diaries of Ruth Loggie 1915-1916
ROSS HEBB MARIANNE WARD
A fascinating collection of letters from a Maritime nurse
who served overseas during the First World War from the
author of In Their Own Words and Letters Home.
$19.95 PB
Somebeachsomewhere
A Harness Racing Legend from a
One-Horse Stable
MARJORIE SIMMINS
This is the first-ever complete, generously illustrated
account of "the Beach," a horse who captivated the
world with his speed, courage, and near-flawless
gait. It is also a story of improbabilities and magic,
featuring dozens of interviews with top American
and Canadian horsemen and women, the owners
of Empire Stallions in Avenel, Australia, and harness
racing industry professionals. $24.95 PB
Good Burdens
How to Live Joyfully in the
Digital Age
CHRISTINA CROOK
This insightful follow up to the acclaimed
The Joy of Missing Out makes the case
for increasing intentionality in our day to
day lives, unlocking the building blocks
of joy, and offering concrete solutions for
flourishing in the digital age $21.95 PB
Small Structures of
Nova Scotia
Spaces of Solitude,
Necessity, and Simplicity
JESSIE HANNAH
A full-colour, narrative and pictorial
celebration of Nova Scotia's tiny
structures, including homes, cabins, fish
huts, artist's studios, and more $22.95 PB
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A Helluva Life in Hockey
A Memoir
BRIAN MCFARLANE
It’s been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced
a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny
pond. And then he discovered the joy of hockey. He
also survived 25 years of Hockey Night in Canada
— despite confrontations with Punch Imlach, Harold
Ballard, Bobby Hull, and Eddie Shack. Now, in this
revealing autobiography, he remembers it all. For
Brian McFarlane, it has been a helluva life in hockey.
$24.95 PB ECW Press
Crossroads
My Story of Tragedy and
Resilience as a Humbolt Bronco
KALEB DAHLGREN
From a childhood spent learning to live with
type 1 diabetes to his remarkable recovery from
severe brain trauma that astounded medical
professionals, Dahlgren documents a life of
perseverance, gratitude and hope in the wake of
enormous obstacles and life-altering tragedy.
$32.99 HC Harper Collins
Shut Out
The Game That Did Not
Love Me Black
BERNIE SAUNDERS BARRY MEISEL
This is a memoir about professional hockey by
a player who had the potential to become a star
but was blocked at almost every opportunity
because of his race. In spite of this, Shut Out is a
hopeful and uplifting book about facing adversity,
overcoming it and moving ahead..
$33.99 HC Harper Collins
Over the Boards
Lessons From the Ice
HAYLEY WICKENHEISER
There is no one in the world like Hayley
Wickenheiser. 13 World Championship appearances.
6 Olympic Games. Hockey Hall of Famer. All while
raising a child, earning multiple university degrees,
and not benefiting from the financial stability male
professional athletes have. She gave the game
everything she had—now, Hayley shares what the
game gave her.
$29.95 HC Penguin Canada
All In
An Autobiography
BILLIE JEAN KING JOHNETTE HOWARD
MARYANNE VOLLERS
An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the
champion of equality that encompasses her
brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism,
and an ongoing commitment to fairness and
social justice. Hers is the story of a pathbreaking
feminist, a world-class athlete, and an indomitable
spirit whose impact has transcended even her
spectacular achievements in sports.
$40.00 HC Random House Canada
SPORTS
No One Wins Alone
MARK MESSIER JIMMY ROBERTS
The legendary Hall of Fame hockey player and
six-time Stanley Cup champion tells his inspiring
story for the first time, sharing the lessons about
leadership and teamwork that defined his career.
Told with heart and sincerity, No One Wins Alone
is about more than hockey—it’s about the deep
love and gratitude that comes from a life shared
with others.
$39.99 HC Simon & Schuster
Rebound
Sports, Community, and the
Inclusive City
PERRY KING
While the high-energy spectacle of professional
basketball, soccer, or hockey may command
our attention and fill our TV screens night after
night, the world of grassroots, no- or low-stakes
sports hums along in the background, a kind
of connective tissue that brings city-dwellers
together in ways that go well beyond the most
obvious physical benefits.
$21.95 PB Coach House
Complete Guide to
Winter Camping
KEVIN CALLAN
Enjoy winter camping in warmth and comfort!
Complete with color photos and expert advice
from seasoned winter campers and travelers,
this book will appeal to both car-camping
families and adventurous individuals looking
to extend their outdoor activities into another
season.
$24.95 PB Firefly Books
The Baseball 100
JOE POSNANSKI
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball
writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an
audacious, singular, and masterly book that
took a lifetime to write. The entire story of
baseball rings through a countdown of the 100
greatest players in history, with a foreword by
George Will.
$54.00 HC Simon & Schuster
Make Your Next Shot
Your Best Shot
The Secret to Playing
Great Golf
BOB ROTELLA ROGER SCHIFFMAN
PADRAIG HARRINGTON
In Make Your Next Shot Your Best Shot, Rotella’s
message is simple but effective: to reach your
greatest potential in golf, you need to set your
sights high and always think positively. He
wants you to aim for something incredible: free
your mind, concentrate on your process, accept
whatever happens, and commit to making your
next shot your best shot.
$36.00 HC Simon and Schuster
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fill with bottled ink. For those who seek a smart and casual fountain
pen, the Prefounte is ideal for both business and daily use, as well as
for fountain pen beginners. Comes in medium (05), fine (03) or extra
fine (02) nib sizes. Available in 4 colors $14.99 ea.
LAMY
FOUNTAIN PEN
GIFT SETS
LAMY
A Lamy fountain pen
presented in a special gift
box together with a bottle
of ink, ink cartridges, and a
ink converter. All you need
to write on and on. Available for a limited time. Available in
Vista, Safari Red and Charcoal and Studio Black and Imperial
Blue. M, F, EF and B nib sizes available. Starting at $69.00 ea.
PRIVATE RESERVE
INKS
YAFABRANDS
The Private Reserve Ink collection
includes 36 beautiful colors from
the famous Vampire Red to the
Avocado and the Electric DC Blue
to name a few. All Private Reserve
Inks are vibrant, rich and highest
quality. 60 ml bottle 19.00 ea.
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MIDORI
The stationery brand, Midori, is celebrating its 70th
anniversary this year. We are big fans of this Japanese line and carry an
extensive selection of their products. Their paper products high quality
and are very fountain pen friendly. Here are some of our favourites:
MIDORI
MIDORI LETTER WRITING SET
This letter set from Midori comes with a plethora of envelopes and
paper in a variety of floral, geometric, and whimsical designs. Use the
included lined guide sheet underneath your blank paper to ensure
your lines stay straight, and the cardstock sheet for protection against
bumps and crumples. Includes 10 envelopes, 20 sheets of blank letter
paper, a lined guide sheet, and a piece of cardstock. Paper is 8.3 in (21
cm) x 5.8 in (14.8 cm) and envelopes are 4.5 in (11.4 cm) x 6.4 in (16.2
cm). From 10.99 ea. Many other styles available.
MIDORI MARCHE
STICKERS
These incredibly detailed stickers
from Midori are printed on washi
paper giving them a delicate and
"printed on the paper" quality when
applied to paper. They are a higher
quality than regular paper/film
stickers and may or may not have
gold/silver foil details. Recommended
for decorating cards, gifts, packages,
notebooks and journals/planners.
Available in many different styles
including stationery, flowers, cacti,
coffee and more. 5.99 ea.
MIDORI PAINTABLE STAMPS
MIDORI Paintable Stamp
that allows you to press fine
patterns neatly, paint from
above and write records
and messages. Easy to
store them, simply stacked
and stored. The square is
easy to press and can be
pressed about 1,000 times.
If the ink becomes thin, it
can be refilled. Since it is
an oil-based ink, it will not
bleed even if you apply a colour with a water-based marker on
the stamp you have pressed. You can enjoy the decoration by
pressing it on your notebook, diary or sticky notes, painting it to
your liking. Available in 6 different styles. Other styles available
by special order. 18.99 ea.
MIDORI BOOK
BAND PEN CASE
Carry your pens and other writing
utensils on your notebook! Easily
attached to notebooks with an
elastic strap, this handy pouch
has a pocket for your pen and
a zippered bag for anything
else you may need. The elastic
strap allows this pen case to
fit on notebooks from B6 to A5
size. Available in four colours.
24.99 ea.
TRAVELER’S
NOTEBOOK
SYSTEM
This high-quality notebook
features smooth, creamy
paper and is encased in a
luxurious leather cover that
ages beautifully with use and
time. With a variety of refill
options and accessories, you
can personalize and build
your own custom notebook
that fits your lifestyle. It's a
keepsake you'll look back on
for years to come. We carry
the complete line of refills in
both notebook and passport
sizes. From 4.99 to 69.99
MD NOTEBOOKS
Midori's MD Notebook line is designed to be the most minimalist manifestation
of a notebook. Designed without a hard cover and thread stitched with only
cheesecloth reinforcing the spine, the notebook opens flat, making it a pleasure
to write in. The paper is high quality and fountain pen friendly. We carry a range
of sizes and formats and covers. From 4.99 ea.
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CLASSICS
SEASON EDITIONS
Fine exclusive collector’s numbered editions
featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured
book with foil stamping, making it ideal
for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.
Each collectible volume will be the perfect
addition to any well-appointed library. $43.50
HC Thomas Nelson
COLLINS CLASSICS
Perfect for avid readers and cost-conscious
students, this highly collectible series with
striking covers lets you build your own
classics library. Each title includes a Life and
Times section, providing an insight into the
author’s work, their life and the era in which
they lived, plus a useful glossary of words
and phrases, taken from our Collins English
Dictionary, which gives precise definitions
in the context of which they were written.
$9.99 PB Harper Collins
WORDSWORTH EDITIONS
These new compact hardbacks are clothbound,
with matching coloured end papers,
embossed gold and coloured blocking to
enhance their beautiful, bespoke cover
illustrations. These are great gift editions.
$19.99 HC Wordsworth Editions
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE
ABOUT SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES
As a result of on-going supply chain issues, changing
publication dates may mean some titles will not be available
before Christmas. Prices are subject to change at publisher
discretion. We recommend shopping early this year.
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Eating Wild in Atlantic
Canada
A Guide to Foraging the Forests,
Fields, and Shorelines
JAMIE SIMPSON
From fiddleheads to spruce tips, wild food can be
adventurous and fun—with the right guide. In Eating
Wild in Eastern Canada, award-winning author and
conservationist Jamie Simpson (Journeys through
Eastern Old-Growth Forests) shows readers what to
look for in the wilds and how and when to collect it.
$22.95 PB Nimbus Publishing
Mushrooms and Other
Fungi of North America
ROGER PHILLIPS
Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America is
at once the ideal introduction to mycology and an
essential reference for the experienced collector —
the definitive book in its category.
$29.95 PB Firefly Books
National Audubon
Society North
American Mushrooms
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD
GUIDES
Featuring a durable vinyl binding and over 700
full-color identification photographs organized
visually by color and shape, the National
Audubon Society Field Guide to North American
Mushrooms is the perfect companion for any
mushroom hunting expedition.
$33.95 HC Random House Canada
Edible Plants of
Atlantic Canada
Field Guide
PETER SCOTT
In an era before supermarkets became our main
source of food, most people knew which wild
plants were edible and how to prepare them for
delicious meals. The woods, clearings, heaths,
and seashores of Atlantic Canada are home to a
wide variety of edible plants.
$29.95 PB Boulder Books
MUSHROOMS ENAMEL MUG
GIFT REPUBLIC
Mushrooms of all shapes and sizes adorn this classically
illustrated enamel mug. Any foragers best friend. Not
suitable for microwave or
dishwasher use. 17.99 ea.
VINTAGE
MUSHROOM
PRODUCTS
CAVALLINI
Choose products with
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from 100% natural cotton
heavyweight tote bag, 1,000
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(finished puzzle measures
20" x 28") or a package of 3
garden mini notebooks (96
pages each, 4" x 5.5").
From 14.99 to 28.00 ea.
FORAGING
Peterson Field Guide to
Mushrooms of North
America
Second Edition
KARL MCKNIGHT JOSEPH ROHRER KIRSTEN
MCKNIGHT WARD
A new edition of the classic, best-selling field guide to
mushrooms from Peterson Field Guides. Toadstools,
truffles, boletes and morels, witches’ butter, conks,
corals, puffballs and earthstars: mushrooms are both
mysterious and ecologically essential. For more than
85 years, Peterson Field Guides have set the standard
by which other field guides are measured.
$34.99 PB HMH Books
The Beginner’s Guide to
Mushrooms
Everything You Need to Know
from Foraging to Cultivating
RITT BUNYARD TAVIS LYNCH
The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms is your ultimate
guide to mycology. Whether you've never picked
a mushroom before in your life or you've been
cultivating mushrooms at home for ages, the expert
advice in this comprehensive mushroom manual
will transform your practice.
$32.99 PB Quarry Books
Fungarium
Welcome to the Museum
ESTER GAYA KATIE SCOTT
Illustrator Katie Scott returns to the Welcome to the
Museum series with exquisite, detailed images of
some of the most fascinating living organisms on
this planet—fungi. Exploring every sort of fungi, from
the kinds we see on supermarket shelves to those
like penicillium that have shaped human history,
this collection is the definitive introduction to what
fungi are and just how vital they are to the world's
ecosystem
$47.00 HC Candlewick
MUSHROOM CLASSIC LAYFLAT
NOTEBOOKS
DENIK
Water resistant and velvety smooth to the touch, this notebook will hold up over time and always feel like
magic in your hands. 5.25" x 8.25" softcover notebook. 144 pages. Lined, blank, or dot grid inside pages.
Rounded corners. Durable, smyth-sewn library-quality binding. Artwork by Zoe Wodarz. Choose from
Golden Mushroom or Peach Mushroom 12.99 ea.
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that wasn’t there before.
BEST OF 2021
Heartstopper
Volume 3
ALICE OSEMAN
The adventures of a shy, anxious dork and his
loveable rugby playing boyfriend continue as they
find themselves in Paris for a school trip. Whilst
there we’ll get to see them in all their dorky glory
as they explore and have fun with friends, but also
grapple with things like mental health and the fear
of coming out. I’ve returned to the Heartstopper
books countless times, and will undoubtedly
continue to do so.
Black Water Sister
ZEN CHO
Being closeted and suddenly finding yourself in
a long-distance relationship is hard enough, but
Jessamyn soon finds herself hearing her deceased
grandmother. Not only that, but her grandmother
has a score to settle with dangerous people and
is determined to get Jess involved in this perilous
game of spirits, gods, and gangs. This gorgeous
urban fantasy set in Malaysia grapples with some
pretty dark themes, but will keep you hooked until
the very end.
PAST FAVOURITES
NEIL GAIMAN
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Rule of Wolves
LEIGH BARDUGO
If you’ve been a fan of Leigh Bardugo’s grishaverse
novels then you certainly won’t be disappointed
here as she brings back all your favourites in the
action-packed conclusion of the King of Scars
duology. This is one author I have absolute faith in
and the brilliant writing in this book only reinforces
that faith. I frankly cannot wait for whatever she
releases next.
Library of the Dead
T L HUCHU
A fantastically crafted world and a brilliantly
sarcastic, tough, and kind-hearted protagonist in
Ropa make this a difficult book to put down. Ropa is
used to passing messages from ghosts to the living,
but when the dead start warning her about children
going missing? That’s something Ropa can’t just
ignore and it soon plunges her into an even darker
and more dangerous Edinburgh.
Winter’s Orbit
EVERINA MAXWELL
Winter’s Orbit is a fun read about two men
who find themselves suddenly dealing with
conspiracies, murder, a potential interplanetary
war, and a fake marriage to one another. Every
step they take together to solve the murder leads
them into increasingly dangerous spots, but also
has them realizing that keeping this fake marriage
strictly platonic might be a lot harder than they
initially thought.
The False Prince
JENNIFER A NIELSEN
Neverwhere
A Novel
NEIL GAIMAN
Veronica Mars
The Thousand Dollar Tan
Line
ROB THOMAS
JENNIFER GRAHAM
Lamb
The Gospel According
to Biff, Christ’s Childhood
Pal
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
House of
Dragons
JESSICA CLUESS
The Fire Within
CHRIS D’LACEY
Ninth House
LEIGH BARDUGO
The Amulet of
Samarkand
ONATHAN STROUD
Overshare
Love, Laughs, Sexuality and
Secrets
ROSE ELLEN DIX
ROSIE SPAUGHTON
Critical Role Vox
Machina Origins
Volume 1
ROLE CRITICAL
MATTHEW MERCER
MATTHEW COLVILLE
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BEST OF 2021
Everyone in this Room
Will Someday be Dead
A Novel
EMILY AUSTIN
This novel is both funny and heartbreaking, my
favourite combination. We follow Gilda, a woman
in her late twenties who has a lot of anxiety. A
strange coincidence leads Gilda to a job as a
receptionist at a Catholic church where she has to
hide the fact she is an atheist and has a girlfriend.
Filled with deadpan humour and observations
about the complications of modern life, this book
is perfect for that 20-something university student
on your list.
Real Estate
DEBORAH LEVY
The third and final instalment of Deborah Levy’s
Living Autobiography is by far my favourite. Levy’s
writing is lyrical and immersive. Levy writes
about her old writing shed and her new writing
shed, her daughters moving away, a banana tree,
and her fleet of electric bicycles. Somehow, she
connects all these seemingly disparate topics into
a coherent rumination on ageing and home. The
perfect non-fiction title for the person on your list
who has read everything.
PAST FAVOURITES
Olivia’s Picks
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
“
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Travelling Cat
Chronicles
HIRO ARIKAWA
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Peaces: A Novel
HELEN OYEYEMI
An atmospheric novel which defies easy
categorization, Peaces tells the story of Xavier and
Otto as they embark on a train journey together after
declaring their love and commitment to each other.
Along with their pet mongoose, Árpád, they seem
to be the only ones on the train. But as the journey
continues, things get mysterious as past and present
collide. Readers of literary fiction as well as readers
who enjoy sci-fi/fantasy will love this intriguing,
beautifully written novel.
The Animals at
Lockwood Manor
JANE HEALEY
Set at the beginning of World War II, this novel is the
perfect book for the historical fiction reader on your
list. Hetty works at the natural history museum in
London. As the collection of mammals is relocated
to the mysterious Lockwood Manor in order to be
protected from falling bombs, Hetty goes with them.
But Lockwood Manor is not as safe as everyone
hoped. Fans of Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier will
enjoy this mysterious, evocative novel.
Last Night at the
Telegraph Club
MALINDA LO
This young adult novel follows Lily, a Chinese
American teenager in San Francisco in 1954, as she
navigates coming of age during a difficult time. This
novel doesn’t shy away from discussing big issues
such as the Red-Scare and fear of deportation.
Additionally, the novel portrays the beauty and
difficulty of first love as Lily discovers her feelings
for Kath, who introduces Lily to the atmospheric
Telegraph Club. This novel is perfect for a voracious
teenage reader who is looking for something new.
Women Talking
A Novel
MIRIAM TOEWS
The Girl Who Was
Saturday Night
HEATHER O’NEILL
To the Lighthouse
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Lonely
City
Adventures in the
Art of Being Alone
OLIVIA LAING
The Price of Salt
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
Washington Black
ESI EDUGYAN
How to
Pronounce Knife
Stories
SOUVANKHAM
THAMMAVONGSA
M Train
PATTI SMITH
Little Blue
Encyclopedia
(for Vivian)
HAZEL JANE PLANTE
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Marguerite’s Picks
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We read to know we are not alone.
C. S. LEWIS
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BEST OF 2021
Normal People
A Novel
SALLY ROONEY
A modern romance that worships truth,
not only about relationships, but life itself.
The world built inside of this novel holds a
special place in any readers heart. But do
beware, the ending will leave you wanting
more, and more.
If We Were Villains
A Novel
M.L. RIO
This story follows the lives of seven
extremely gifted students, who can’t help but
find themselves into trouble. In this dark, yet
inviting novel, the world of Shakespeare is
molded to our mundane lives.
The Silent Patient
ALEX MICHAELIDES
This mystery novel is as puzzling as it is
captivating. The questions you have, which may
remain unanswered will leave you wanting
more and more until the pages are out. from
start to finish this novel captivates you.
Ugly Love
A Novel
COLLEEN HOOVER
A romance that will puncture your heart. woven
together with a tragic backstory, Colleen
Hoover shone a light on just how hard love is.
This love may be ugly, but it is just as beautiful.
All the Bright Places
JENNIFER NIVEN
Two teenagers who can’t seem to find
themselves, find each other. but as one heals
from their past, the other sees their future and
breaks. A love so pure, it’s hurts.
PAST FAVOURITES
Verity
COLLEEN HOOVER
A Court of Thorns
and Roses
SARAH J MAAS
People We Meet
on Vacation
EMILY HENRY
The
Anthropocene
Reviewed
Essays on a
Human-Centered
Planet
JOHN GREEN
Clockwork
Princess
CASSANDRA CLARE
The Land of Stories
CHRIS COLFER
The Fault in Our Stars
JOHN GREEN
Aristotle and
Dante Discover
the Secret’s of
the Universe
BENJAMIN ALIRE SÁENZ
Conversations
with Friends
A Novel
SALLY ROONEY
Stalking Jack
the Ripper
KERRI MANISCALO
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BOOKSELLER PICKS
I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on
my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and
ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against
fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.
BEST OF 2021
A Ghost in the Throat
DOIREANN NI GHRIOFA
Originally published by a small press in Ireland
to much critical acclaim, so I was absolutely
delighted to see Biblioasis publish it in Canada.
This lyrical book crosses genres to bring us the
story of the author as a young mother and her
obsession with searching for the story of an 18thcentury
poet lamenting the death of her young
husband. The author tells us "this is a female text"
as she gives life to voices ignored throughout
history.
NNEDI OKORAFOR
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the
Sackler Dynasty
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that made me as
angry as this one did! Radden Keefe tells us the
history of the Sackler family, creators of Oxy-Contin
and their greed which still knows no bounds. In
making themselves billions of dollars, they’ve given
the world millions of addicts.
PAST FAVOURITES
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The Midnight Library
A Novel
MATT HAIG
We’ve all had those ‘what if’ moments.
Midnight Library is a story that lets us see that
every life matters and that those poor choices
we make may just be the very best ones.
Hamnet
A Novel
MAGGIE O’FARRELL
Why have I not read O’Farrell before now?
This is one of my favourite books of this year.
We all think we know Shakespeare but this is
the story of those who inspired him; Agnes,
his wife, and Hamnet and Judith, his children.
When She was Good
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM
I’ve loved Robotham’s Joe O’Loughlin and
Vincent Ruiz mysteries so was a little worried
when he started a new series. I shouldn’t
have worried because he doesn’t disappoint!
Forensic psychiatrist Cyrus Haven is
embroiled in an explosive murder trial in this
latest of the series..
Come, Thou
Tortoise
JESSICA GRANT
Cold Granite
STUART MACBRIDE
Little Girl Lost
A Lucy Black Thriller
BRIAN MCGILLOWAY
Latitudes of
Melt
JOAN CLARK
When God Was
a Rabbit
SARAH WINMAN
Waiting for First
Light
My Ongoing Battle with
PTSD
ROMEO DALLAIRE
Essex Serpent
A Novel
SARAH PERRY
The Spinning
Heart
DONAL RYAN
Snowflake
A Novel
LOUISE NEALON
Nickel Boys
COLSON WHITEHEAD
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Erica’s Picks
I love giving presents. I look forward to hours spent in bookstores,
browsing shelves, and considering which novel I’ve read and loved
that a particular friend might enjoy.
BEST OF 2021
Dying for Attention
A Graphic Memoir of
Nursing Home Care
SUSAN MACLEOD
This graphic novel of local author Susan
MacLeod’s strenuous experience of caring
for an aging parent in the nursing-home
system is compelling and heart-breaking.
Nomadland
Surviving America in the
Twenty-First Century
JESSICA BRUDER
If you think the film tells the whole story, you
would be surprised at how much more of an
experience the book offers.
PAST FAVOURITES
KATE YOUNG
“
Chasing Smoke
A Wildfire Memoir
AARON WILLIAMS
Thanks to my co-worker Aaron Williams’s
depiction of his summer fighting wildfires in
B.C. my desire for adventure has been fulfilled.
Crying in H Mart
A Memoir
MICHELLE ZAUNER
This memoir has it all: bulgogi, indie rock,
and losing a parent you never felt you truly
understood.
Ghost Forest
A Novel
PIK-SHUEN FUNG
Touching and hauntingly lonely, Ghost Forest
explores love, grief, and long-distance
familial relationships that transcend
generations and countries.
Fun Home
A Family Tragicomic
ALISON BECHDEL
Sputnik
Sweetheart
HARUKI MURAKAMI
What the Body
Remembers
SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN
The Jade Peony
WAYSON CHOY
The Book of
Negros
A Novel
LAWRENCE HILL
Beloved
TONI MORRISON
The Color Purple
A Novel
ALICE WALKER
Boy, Snow, Bird
HELEN OYEYEMI
The Final Solution
A Story of Detection
MICHAEL CHABON
Factory
Summers
GUY DELISLE
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Kristen’s Picks
BOOKSELLER PICKS
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
BEST OF 2021
Great Glorious
Goddamn of It All
A Novel
JOSH RITTER
Josh Ritter, a talented songwriter and
musician, wrote this lyrical novel with just
the right mix of tall tale and sentimentality.
It is told from the perspective of an aged
man reflecting on his youthful days as a
lumberjack in the wilds of Idaho.
Project Hail Mary
A Novel
ANDY WEIR
Another gem from the author of The Martian,
Project Hail Mary is unputdownable. A man
wakes up on a spaceship with temporary
amnesia. As he slowly realizes who he is and
what is at stake, he has to figure out how to
save the world with basic science.
PAST FAVOURITES
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
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This is Your Mind
on Plants
MICHAEL POLLAN
Using his familiar journalistic style, Pollan
explores how three plants affect our minds.
He traces the origins, effects and social
taboos of opiumpoppy, caffeinecoffee and
mescalinepeyote, as he samples (or abstains
from) each of them.
The Anthropocene
Reviewed
Essays on a Human-Centered
Planet
JOHN GREEN
This is a wildly different direction for Green,
who is known for his YA books. Anthropocene
Reviewed contains essays about topics that
are of our current era, that are then ranked
on a Yelp-style scale of one to five. My
personal favorites are “Canada Geese” and
“Piggly Wiggly.”
Down to Earth
BETTY CULLEY
This is a gentle story of an eleven year old
budding geologist who witnesses a meteorite
fall from the sky onto his family’s land. It would
be an excellent family read aloud for children
ages 7 to 14.
Atlantic
Great Sea Battles, Heroic
Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a
Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
SIMON WINCHESTER
This Is How You Lose
the Time War
AMAL EL-MOHTAR
MAX GLADSTONE
Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our
Worlds, Change Our
Minds & Shape Our
Futures
MERLIN SHELDRAKE
Migrations
A Novel
CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY
The Chrysalids
JOHN WYNDHAM
Dune
FRANK HERBERT
Piranesi
SUSANNA CLARKE
The Fabric of
Civilization
How Textiles Made
the World
VIRGINIA POSTREL
The Hero’s
Guide to Saving
Your Kingdom
CHRISTOPHER HEALY
The Mysterious
Benedict
Society
TRENTON LEE
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Neil’s Picks
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few are to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON
“
BEST OF 2021
21st Century Yokel
TOM COX
Very likely the best book I have read
this year, although one that defies easy
categorization. That said, it is a brilliant
combination of memoir, nature-writing,
humour and folklore. Reading this was like
discovering a new friend.
Twelve Nights
URS FAES
A beautiful, atmospheric novella about a
man’s journey home through the Black Forest
during the twelve nights between Christmas
and Epiphany. A slender book, but one that
features stunning prose, particularly Faes’s
depiction of an unforgiving winter landscape,
and an emotional punch.
PAST FAVOURITES
Orchard
A Year in England’s Eden
BENEDICT MACDONALD
A fascinating tribute to a traditional way of life
and an endangered habitat that beautifully
conveys the changing seasons in an ancient
English orchard.
The Little Library
Christmas
KATE YOUNG
Whether you are preparing a big festive dinner
or simply like to imagine one, this gorgeous
companion to The Little Library Year is perfect
for both bibliophiles and the culinary-minded.
The Hearing Trumpet
A Novel
LEONORA CARRINGTON
Growing old has never been more fun or more
surreal. The Hearing Trumpet takes you on an
unforgettable trip with the incredible 92 yearold
Marian Leatherby while taking a flying leap
to the farthest reaches of your imagination.
The Dark is Rising
SUSAN COOPER
The Shortest Day
SUSAN COOPER
How Winston
Delivered
Christmas
ALEX T SMITH
There’s a Ghost
in this House
OLIVER JEFFERS
Chill Tidings
Dark Tales of
the Christmas
Season
TANYA KIRK
Rock Crystal
ADALBERT STIFLER
Between Worlds
Folktales of Britain and Ireland
KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
Hello Lighthouse
SOPHIE BLACKALL
Metropole
FERENC KARINTHY
Harvest
Home
A Novel
THOMAS TRYON
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only
think what everyone else is thinking.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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BEST OF 2021
The Cousins
KAREN M MCMANUS
Another fantastic YA stand-alone mystery
story from Karen McManus. Teens get caught
up in their family’s lies and scandalous past,
but not all is as it seems. In this intriguing
page-turner, you won’t trust anyone even up to
the last page.
The Life I’m In
SHARON G. FLAKE
In this powerful follow on from The Skin I’m In,
16-year-old Char’s life is drastically changed
when she decides to go her own way without
the help of family or friends. The decision
changes her life and outlook in unimaginable
ways. This story raises questions about trust and
people trafficking in an honest way.
PAST FAVOURITES
The Glass Hotel
A Novel
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL
This engaging story follows a collection of
interconnected characters affected by greed
and power. Set across Vancouver Island and
New York City it shows how an investment
scandal can alter a person’s life.
The Glare
MARGOT HARRISON
A perfect novel for fans of horror. Hedda,
isolated from the world, fears technology
but is left to confront a scary video game
that could kill her. This suspenseful novel
will have you reaching for your phone’s
off button.
The Ones We’re
Meant to Find
JOAN HE
For fans of sci-fi. This story is about two
sisters and their bond across oceans.
This gripping story addresses the climate
crisis in a futuristic dystopian setting full of
mystery and intrigue.
All These Beautiful
Strangers
A Novel
ELIZABETH KLEHFOTH
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed
for Men
CAROLINE CRIADO PÉREZ
Vegetarian Dinner's
in the Oven
RUKMINI IYER
DAVID LOFTUS
Notes to Self
Essays
EMILIE PINE
Half Bad
SALLY GREEN
This Mortal Coil
EMILY SUVADA
White Bird
A Wonder Story
R.J. PALACIO
The Last
A Novel
HANNA JAMESON
Where the
Crawdads Sing
DELIA OWENS
The Rise and
Fall of the
Dinosaurs
A New History of
Their Lost World
STEVE BRUSATTE
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JOHN STEINBECK
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BEST OF 2021
Elena Knows
CLAUDIA PINEIRO
Powerful, heartbreaking, unnerving. Elena
Knows is part of the Charco Press editions. It
is one of many incredible books you can find
by this publisher.
At Night All Blood is
Black
A Novel
DAVID DIOP
Winner of the 2021 International Booker prize,
David Diop’s novel had me in tears by page
10. I read it in one sitting, incredible.
PAST FAVOURITES
Childhood, Youth,
Dependency
The Copenhagen Trilogy
TOVE DITLEVSEN
The Copenhagen Trilogy is like nothing else.
It is funny, interesting, terrifying, and open. It
reads like a wild novel. It is a memoir like no
other memoir.
Funny Weather
Art in an Emergency
OLIVIA LAING
This was my starting point with Olivia Laing.
This is the book that made me fall in love with
her thoughts, essays, ideas. All her books are
amazing. You cannot go wrong with any of
them.
Heaven
A Novel
MIEKO KAWAKAMI
Mieko Kawakami is one of the best
contemporary writers, in my opinion. She
manages to capture the beautiful in the
sadness.
The Lonely City
Adventures in the Art of
Being Alone
OLIVIA LAING
Drive Your Plow
Over the Bones of
the Dead
A Novel
OLGA TOKARCZUK
Revenge
Eleven Dark Tales
YOKO OGAWA
Fish Soup
MARGARITA GARCIA
ROBAYO
2666
A Novel
ROBERTO BOLANO
Thus Bad Begins
JAVIER MARIAS
The Flamethrowers
A Novel
RACHEL KUSHNER
Dark Tales
SHIRLEY JACKSON
The Glass
Menagerie
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Just Kids
PATTI SMITH
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Marlene’s Picks
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one
tires of anything than of a book! — When I have a house of my own,
I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
JANE AUSTEN
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BEST OF 2021
Thursday Murder Club
RICHARD OSMAN
“A rich, textured, twisted, and fabulously funny
tale of murder and mayhem.” This books
deserves all the buzz it is receiving. Mystery
fans will love it.
The Four Winds
A Novel
KRISTEN HANNAH
The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that
stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and
the people who lived through it. The is historical
fiction at it’s best.
PAST FAVOURITES
Miss Austen
A Novel of the Austen Sisters
GILL HORNBY
For fans of Jane Austen, Miss Austen will
immerse you in the world of Jane. Extremely
funny and a brilliant re-imagining of Jane.
The Last Bookshop
in London
A Novel of World War II
MADELINE MARTIN
“An irresistible tale which showcases the
transformative power of literacy.” Captivating
and heartwarming.
By Ash, Oak and Thorn
MELISSA HARRISON
A tale of disappearing wilderness that
couldn't be more relevant in today's
environmental crisis, brought to life for
children by three tiny, funny, eternal beings.
Your children will love this book.
Murder at the
Brightwell
The First Amory Ames Mystery
ASHLEY WEAVER
Essentialism
The Disciplined Pursuit
of Less
GREG MCKEOWN
Home Comforts
The Art and Science of
Keeping House
CHERYL MENDELSON
James Herriot’s
Treasury for Children
Warm and Joyful Tales by the
Author of All Creatures
Great and Small
JAMES HERRIOT RUTH BROWN
PETER BARRETT
At Home in
Mitford
A Novel
JAN KARON
It Starts With Food
Discover the Whole30 and
Change Your Life in
Unexpected Ways
DALLAS & MELISSA HARTWIG
The Sweetness at
the Bottom of
the Pie
ALAN BRADLEY
Honey for a
Child’s Heart
Updated and Expanded:
The Imaginative Use of
Books in Family Life
GLADYS HUNT
Honey for a
Woman’s Heart
Growing Your World
through Reading
Great Books
GLADYS HUNT
Give Your Child
the World
Raising Globally
Minded Kids One
Book at a Time
JAMIE C MARTIN
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Be awesome! Be a book nut!
DR. SEUSS
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BEST OF 2021
The Secret to
Superhuman Strength
ALISON BECHDEL
My introduction to Bechdel, she’s brilliant.
Most books on fitness are written by
world class athletes, refreshing to hear
from a passionate amateur.
Faraway Things
DAVE EGGERS KELLY MURPHY
It’s relieving when the book your
three-year-old is obsessed with is
also enjoyed by the reader, this is a
beautiful book.
PAST FAVOURITES
Binge
60 stories to make your brain
feel better
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Fun, funny, easy to read. The subtitle “60
stories to make your brain feel different” hits
it. Coupland is still one of Canada’s most
irreverent and unusual minds.
Dirty Birds
MORGAN MURRAY
Speaking of irreverent, Murray, an Albertan by
birth, skewers all sorts of Eastern Canadiana
— from Montreal Cool to Maritime Folksy — in a
way that only somebody from the outside can.
Dying For Attention
A Graphic Memoir of Nursing
Home Care
SUSAN MACLEOD
Macleod’s first book is both funny and
maddening and will be a comfort to anyone in
a similar situation.
Barbarian Days
WILLIAM FINNEGAN
Out Of Sheer Rage
In the Shadow of D.H.
Lawrence
GEOFF DYER
Fishing With
John
EDITH IGLAUER
Homage To
Catalonia
GEORGE ORWELL
The Narrow
Road To The
Deep North
RICHARD FLANIGAN
Transit
A Novel
RACHEL CUSK
On Writing
A Memoir of the Craft
STEPHEN KING
The Sellout
A Novel
PAUL BEATTY
When You Are
Engulfed in
Flames
DAVID SEDARIS
Fahrenheit
451
A Novel
RAY BRADBURY
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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BEST OF 2021
Putin’s People
How the KGB Took Back Russia
and Then Took On the West
CATHERINE BELTON
Well researched, ‘a definitive account of Putin
and Putinism’. I’ve read several books on Putin
and Russia and this one reveals new details and
provides new, compelling perspective.
Panenka
RÓNÁN HESSION
Hession’s first novel, Leonard and Hungry Paul,
was a wonderful, feel good story that renews
one’s belief in the goodness of our fellow man so
I was eager to read the new Panenka. The writing
is exquisite, the best in recent memory. Books this
well written increase my desire for the written
word. Highly recommended.
PAST FAVOURITES
When We Cease to
Understand the World
BENJAMIN LABATUT
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker
Prize! It may surprise you that this fictional
examination of the lives of real-life scientists
and thinkers whose discoveries resulted
in moral consequences beyond their
imagining is a real page turner.
Together
LUKE ADAM HAWKER
A best seller in the UK. Stunning illustrations
and poignant words. A nice gift for the artist
on your list.
Our Riches
KAOUTHER ADIMI
My ‘book on books’ read of the year, it’s a
hymn to the book and to the love of books. It’s
the story of Edmond Charlot, who at the age
of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our
True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/
publishing house/lending library and Ryad
(dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop
and repaint it). Ryad’s encounter with books
changes him, no surprise!
Twilight of
Democracy
The Seductive Lure of
Authoritarianism
ANNE APPLEBAUM
Intimations
Six Essays
ZADIE SMITH
Shuggie Bain
A Novel
DOUGLAS STUART
The Cockroach
IAN MCEWAN
How to Lose
a Country
The 7 Steps from
Democracy to
Dictatorship
ECE TEMELKURAN
The Waste Land and
Other Poems
T S ELIOT
The Ministry for
the Future
A Novel
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON
Gilead
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Knots and Crosses
IAN RANKIN
What Matters?
Economics for a
Renewed
Commonwealth
WENDELL BERRY
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