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10% from the sales of all books by or about Indigenous Canadians will be donated to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
A History of the World Through Body Parts
$34.95 CAD
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A grab bag of historic spleens, chins, and more, this is your ultimate literary dissection of body parts throughout history!From famous craniums to prominent breasts,...
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
$27.00 CAD
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“A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy ReichsA brilliant blend of science and crime, A TASTE FOR POISON...
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A Woman of No Importance
$25.99 CAD
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERChosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis...
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An Abolitionist's Handbook
$35.99 CAD
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In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future.Filled with relatable pedagogy on...
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Becoming A Matriarch
$23.00 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhen matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space.Helen...
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Being Caribou
$24.99 CAD
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Since time immemorial, the Porcupine caribou herd has ranged the Arctic in a 2,800-mile annual trek between its winter feeding grounds inland and its summer...
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Birds Art Life
$22.00 CAD
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A seminal work, Birds Art Life recounts Maclear's year-long adventure of discovering inspiration in the intricacies of birds, bird-searching and bird-watching in a big city. The natural...
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
$25.99 CAD
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller!The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele,...
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Breathless
$26.99 CAD
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National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to...
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Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
$22.95 CAD
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WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE • "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."—RBC Taylor Prize Jury...
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Classic Krakauer
$22.00 CAD
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Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism.His pieces take...
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
$24.99 CAD
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From the bestselling author of Breath, a “fascinating, informative, exhilarating” voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches (Wall Street Journal) New York Times Book...
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Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
$27.99 CAD
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The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - told through her unique textile scrapbook.'Irresistable' The Times'The...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
$25.99 CAD
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.In...
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Epic Wanderer
$22.95 CAD
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Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.Epic Wanderer, the first full-length...
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Everything Sad is Untrue
$19.50 CAD
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A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel...
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
$27.00 CAD
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A BOOK OF THE YEAR, ROLLING STONE, NPR, PITCHFORK, THE TIMES (LONDON), TELEGRAPH“An astoundingly intimate book-length conversation on art and grief spanning the duration of the pandemic years . . ....
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Field Notes on Listening
$18.00 CAD
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When Kit Dobson’s daughter looked at the field of stars on the screen at the beginning of a new Star Wars movie in the theatre...
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Flaneuse: Women Walk the City
$21.99 CAD
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*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The...
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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Metis
$24.99 CAD
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#1 National BestsellerFinalist, CBC Canada ReadsA Globe and Mail Book of the YearAn Indigo Book of the YearA CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the YearIn this...
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Gender Outlaws
$23.99 CAD
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In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to...
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
$33.99 CAD
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2020 ALA Alex Award Winner2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor BookIn 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading...
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Glowing Still
$21.99 CAD
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Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life - what is 'important, revealing or funny' -...
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Goodbye to All That
$12.00 CAD
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'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the...
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Half-Bads in White Regalia
$24.95 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice.The Caetanos move into...
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High Cols & Deep Canyons
$34.99 CAD
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A memoir of a life spent in wild country, learning to understand and appreciate the magnificence of nature. This book explores the relationship between family,...
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How to Start Writing (and When to Stop)
$26.95 CAD
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In this witty “how-to” guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: “I myself started out with rotten poetry...
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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
$25.95 CAD
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The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means...
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
$21.00 CAD
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An extraordinary memoir—told entirely in near-death experiences—from one of Britain's bestselling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
$24.99 CAD
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THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO® DOCUMENTARY SERIES#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia...
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In Our Youth
$29.95 CAD
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A fascinating, photo-rich exploration of early aviation in Canada, told through the backstories of pilots who flew, fought, and risked their lives in the First...
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In the Dream House
$24.95 CAD
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A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative...
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Know My Name
$25.99 CAD
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful."--Washington PostUniversally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel...
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Letters of Note: Grief
$14.95 CAD
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An immensely moving collection of letters on the theme of Grief, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume...
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Letters of Note: Sex
$14.95 CAD
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A surprising and varied collection of letters on the subject of sex curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website. The...
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
$24.95 CAD
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FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLISTThe story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why...
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Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude and Happiness
$22.95 CAD
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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEA Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer tells the story of losing her father and finding the love of her life in this profound meditation...
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Love & Rules: Life Lessons Learned with Horses
$25.95 CAD
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From Lee McLean, the much-anticipated follow-up to her multiple best-selling novel, Horse Woman.'Love & Rules' is a collection of essays by master horsewoman Lee McLean...
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
$27.99 CAD
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The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice...
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Memoirs of a Wildcat
$24.99 CAD
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Mary Tidlund was never able to blend in, so she embraced standing out. Labelled “unadoptable” because of the colour of her skin, the odds seemed...
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
$37.99 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we? A passionate, provocative, blisteringly...
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Mud and Stars
$23.00 CAD
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With the writers of the golden age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news,...
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
$27.99 CAD
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Winner of The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022Winner of The Michel Déon Prize 2022Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award...
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My Inventions and Other Writings: Nikola Tesla
$23.00 CAD
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The fascinating autobiography of the legendary inventor behind the radio, wireless energy, robotics, and much more.Famous for his pioneering contributions to the electronic age, his...
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Negroland
$25.99 CAD
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer...
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Never Cry Wolf
$17.95 CAD
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"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be--the mythologized epitome of a...
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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen
$19.95 CAD
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Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local...
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