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“A system is viable only if it combines speed and slowness,” write Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly. “Nature’s cycles tell us that viability requires a combination of these dynamics—fast and slow, in...
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Since 2015, the cross-border movement of migrants and refugees has reached unprecedented levels. War, persecution, destitution, and desertification impelled millions to flee their homes in central ...
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Can Aiden learn to stand his ground on his new home ice? Meet Aiden Mallory. He's trying to find his bearings while coping with the loss of his father — an NHL player who died in a car accident — a...
Achieving the Impossible
The NASA way: lessons on leadership, teamwork, and corporate culture. How does NASA take on seemingly insurmountable challenges, recover from tragedy and continue to attract the best and brightest ...
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Ensure children of all backgrounds can thrive with an intercultural approach to early childhood educationIn a multicultural society such as Canada’s, early childhood educators work with children an...
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How Science Unearths Puzzles from the Past
Poisons, ice men, and graves, oh my! Every archeological find adds to our understanding of the world, but sometimes a discovery is made that is so startling and different that it changes the w...
A fiercely fabulous look at men’s fashion rule-breakers and icons Sashay away, ladies: it’s the boys’ turn for the fashion spotlight. From Louis XIV to Kanye West, Jennifer Croll takes us on a tou...
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The thrilling sequel to award-winning author Arthur Slade's fantasy adventure! Carmen has defeated her twin brother, Corwin, thanks to the pact she made with Brax the dragon. Now it's time for her...
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From the author of Ice Diaries, winner of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize, praised by the New York Times as “stunningly written” and a Guardian Best Book of 2018. An unflinchi...
Dwayne De Rosario is one of MLS’s 25 Greatest Players The autobiography of one of the best male soccer player to ever come out of Canada. Before Beckham, Kaká, Rooney, and Zlatan, DeRo was the godf...
King of middle-grade Gordon Korman's new standalone novel full of mystery, humour, friendship . . . and alligators! Jett Baranov is Silicon Valley's number one spoiled brat. The son of a billionai...
Cosmopolitan Affiliations in Contemporary Spanish American Literature
Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual ...
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A young girl discovers nature’s surprising beauty in this tale from a renowned Inuit storyteller. When Aggataa goes for a cold winter walk with her grandmother, she’s surprised by a su...
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Well-Selected Lyrix from Six Decades of Song
“Fearless and direct, tender and loving — the marriage of these forces is electric. In Joetry, Mendelson Joe fixes his gaze on the beauty in people, nature, work, love, deeds, words, and accountabi...
25 Tales About Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal
After nearly four decades at Bank of Montreal, former President and CEO Tony Comper shares leadership lessons from his experience at the helm of one of the world’s largest financial institutions. ...
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A Crime Novel
From “the heir-apparent to Elmore Leonard” (Crime Syndicate Magazine) comes a caper novel full of twists, hitmen, and loads of stolen cash. Wanting to free herself from her boyfriend, aging gangs...
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Includes author-curated discussion questions!Mark Lisac’s Image Decay returns to the pugnacious world of backroom politics laid out in his award-nominated Where the Bodies Lie. Set again in that “u...
After barely surviving the events of The Killer Trail, Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder once again finds himself at the centre of a high-profile murder case: Marvin Goodwin, a young ...
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Winner of the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award Boat lovers of all ages and people who enjoy the scenery of BC’s coast will delight in this charming gift book, a...
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An Epitome Apartments Mystery
Book one in a new playful and trope-bending mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective. “Candas Jane Dorsey’s terrific mysteries are what would happen if Raymond Chandler and Fra...
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How Canada’s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds
With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada’s involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present day Canada is a small but mighty power...
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Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North — covering Rush’s most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows Includes two full-color photo inser...
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A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World
Memphis gave birth to music that changed the world — Memphis Mayhem is a fascinating history of how music and culture collided to change the state of music forever “David Less has captured the ess...
All 89 Games with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ultimate Leafs Fan
The Ultimate Leafs Fan makes it his mission to figure out what makes fans bleed blue Mike Wilson, the man ESPN called the “Ultimate Leafs Fan,” attended every Leaf contest of the 2018–19 NHL seaso...
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A Novel
A charming, deeply felt novel about human connection and finding music between the notes When opera singer Dawn Woodward has an onstage flameout, all she wants is to be left alone. She’s soon face...
Canada's Greatest Olympic Hockey Team
Three-time Olympic medalist shares behind-the-scenes insight into the beloved Canadian National Women’s Hockey Team Men’s hockey in Canada may hog the limelight, but interest in women’s hockey has...
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A Novel
Winner of the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards’ George Bugnet Award for FictionShortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award for FictionA Casual Optimist Book Cover of Note An exciting debut novel told in conn...
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Stories from 39 Members of the NHL’s One Goal Club
From the national bestselling author of One Night Only come 39 new stories about what a big-league goal can mean to an NHLer Including interviews with Billy Smith, Chris Mason, Damian Rhodes, Chri...
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The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology
How can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when 12 million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in scie...
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A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa. May isn't having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn't...
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Into a world where it often seems nobody is listening comes a poignant story that celebrates the power of silence. “Why are you so quiet?” Her teacher implores it, her classmates shout it, e...
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Inside the Indie Wrestling Revolution
As featured on SiriusXM Busted Open Radio Wrestling industry expert Keith Elliot Greenberg chronicles the growth of indie wrestling from school gyms to a viable alternative to WWE a...
New and Selected Poems 1995–2020
“An invaluable aid in this time of troubled spirits, muddled truths, and convoluted thinking.” — Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the “new and selected.” Bringing together th...
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Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
“This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for.” — Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine On...
Bitter rivals. Festering animosities. Gossip, innuendo and scandal. And don’t forget the gun. A ragtag group of settlers come to Manitoulin Island in the 1870s with dreams of building a better futu...
Long Division is a book of poetic commentary that plots a steady course of disillusion. Working in explicit dialogue with Dada, the surrealist poets, spiritual writing, and drawing on midrash as a ...
A Mystery
The latest mystery from a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award Father Brennan Burke is struggling, and he’s been coping the only way he knows how: self-medicating with drink. He’s barely mana...
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Former pro wrestler "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, now a fully-fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to en...
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The definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North With extensive, first-hand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends, and fellow mu...
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How Alberta’s Craft Beer Industry Bubbled Out of an Economy Gone Flat
"If you love craft beer, you’ll love this book." —The Tomato The story behind Alberta's craft beer boom. An insider’s look that brings together tasting notes, social history, politics, and scienc...
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