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  • The Notebook
    The Notebook

    The notebook

    Roland Allen

    A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How di...

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  • Ducks, Newburyport
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    Ducks, newburyport

    Lucy Ellmann

    A form-breaking torrent of consciousness, narrated by an Ohio mother besieged by MAGA hats and mountain lions.

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  • Question Authority
    Question Authority

    Question authority

    Mark Kingwell

    Philosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism.“Question authority,” the popular 1960s slogan commanded. “Think for yourself.” But what started as a counter-cultural catchphrase, playful in logic but serious in intent, has become a practical para...

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  • Voices of Resistance
    Voices of Resistance

    Voices of resistance

    Batool Abu Akleen, Nahil Mohana, Ala'a Obaid, Sondos Sabra and more

    "An extraordinary book. Voices of Resistance opens a rare window into the reality of young women living under brutal siege: their loss, terror, and grief; their hope, ingenuity, curiosity, and humour as well as despair. These testimonials come straight from hell, and yet—read them, you’ll see—the...

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  • On Book Banning
    On Book Banning

    On book banning

    Ira Wells

    A Finalist for the 2026 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • A Winnipeg Free Press Best Book of 2025The freedom to read is under attack.From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise fro...

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  • Crosses in the Sky
    Crosses in the Sky

    Crosses in the sky

    Mark Bourrie

    Shortlisted for the 2025 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024From the bestselling author of Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre Esprit-RadissonThis is the story of the collision of two worlds. In the early 1600s, the Jesuits—the Catholic Church’s most ferocious warriors for Chr...

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  • Bush Runner
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    Bush runner

    Mark Bourrie

    A biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson - an unknown man who shaped nations.

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  • Transparent City
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    Transparent city

    Ondjaki, Stephen Henighan

    A gripping portrait of contemporary urban Africa—by turns magic realist, deeply emotional, and savagely satirical.

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  • They Call Me George
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    They call me george

    Cecil Foster

    A historical work that chronicles the little-known true stories of black railway porters – the so-called “Pullmen” of the rail lines.

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  • On Decline
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    On decline

    Andrew Potter

    COVID-19 has exposed weaknesses across all aspects of society. What can it tell us about the reality of Western civilization?

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  • Big Men Fear Me
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    Big men fear me

    Mark Bourrie

    Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award • Finalist for the 2023 Ottawa Book Award in English Nonfiction • Longlisted for the 2023 National Business Book AwardThe remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls.When George McCullagh bou...

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  • Zolitude
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    Zolitude

    Paige Cooper

    Fantastical short stories that catalog moments in love and the suffering it brings.

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  • Red, Yellow, Green
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    Red, yellow, green

    Alejandro Saravia, María José Giménez

    In Montreal, a Bolivian refugee and Kurdish freedom-fighter fall in love in this experimental novel of identity, hybridity, and exile.

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  • Madame Victoria
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    Madame victoria

    Catherine Leroux, Lazer Lederhendler

    Remains of a woman are discovered in Montréal: who was this “Victoria” and why can she not be identified?

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  • Reaching Mithymna
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    Reaching mithymna

    Steven Heighton

    A poet’s firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.

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  • On Risk
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    On risk

    Mark Kingwell

    With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it?

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  • Bookshops

    Jorge Carrión, Peter Bush

    Love letter, travel-memoir, manifesto—Bookshops is a diverting cultural history of bookstores as spaces of creative energy and social change.

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  • The Year of No Summer
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    The year of no summer

    Rachel Lebowitz

    From Indonesia's Mount Tambora to the frozen Thames, these contemplative vignettes reflect on humanity's drive for survival and power.

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  • Possess the Air
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    Possess the air

    Taras Grescoe

    An inspiring true story of resistance to the rising tide of populism and xenophobia in Mussolini’s Italy.

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  • The last goldfish

    Anita Lahey

    In this intimate portrait of a friendship between two young women, Lahey reflects on cancer and coming of age.

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  • Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
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    Meeting the tormentors in safeway

    Alexandra Oliver

    "Here are brilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice."—Charles Martin

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  • Black Bread
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    Black bread

    Emili Teixidor, Peter Bush

    The classic Catalonian novel of the Spanish Civil War, and an Academy Award-nominated Foreign Language film.

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  • Arms
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    Arms

    Andrew Somerset

    Tender-yet-sharp, Arms is a hunter's loving epistle to the gun—and a break-up letter to the gun culture he despises.

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  • Canary
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    Canary

    Nancy Jo Cullen

    White trash, red wine, pink triangles, and Jesus. Gay culture meets God culture in these boozy and off-color stories.

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  • For As Far as the Eye Can See
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    For as far as the eye can see

    Robert Melançon, Judith Cowan

    "I shall settle for the paradise of what I see … this rectangle of twelve lines … a window."

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  • Sub Divo
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    Sub divo

    Norm Sibum

    Quasi-satirical invectives, addresses, and apostrophes from a great critic of American empire.

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  • Malarky
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    Malarky

    Anakana Schofield

    What happens when a woman loves her boy so intensely she destroys him? A striking new voice in Irish fiction.

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  • Lucky Bruce
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    Lucky bruce

    Bruce Jay Friedman

    A memoir of the Golden Age of Hollywood and publishing by one of the leading American humorists.

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  • Something About the Animal
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    Something about the animal

    Cathy Stonehouse

    A first collection of short fiction by the well-regarded writer and editor Cathy Stonehouse.

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  • Paradise and Elsewhere
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    Paradise and elsewhere

    Kathy Page

    Inner landscapes, primitive worlds: Angela Carter meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez in this collection of brightly coloured, convention-tangling origin myths.

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  • I Was There the Night He Died
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    I was there the night he died

    Ray Robertson

    A drug-foggy, record-flipping novel about mental illness, mid-life loss, music, suburban loneliness, and weird-ass friendship.

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  • This Great Escape
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    This great escape

    Andrew Steinmetz

    Great escapes meet greater escapism: how the life of a displaced Jewish actor illuminates the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster.

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  • The Traymore Rooms
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    The traymore rooms

    Norm Sibum

    Like Gaddis locked in a Montreal walk-up. Five squalid ex-pats, existentially wounded by Bush-era villainy, find themselves neighbors to Evil.

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  • Attack of the Copula Spiders
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    Attack of the copula spiders

    Douglas Glover

    Vitriolic and incisive, Douglas Glover's newest essays defend literature against the assaults of a post-literate age.

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  • About Love
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    About love

    Anton Chekhov, David Helwig, Seth

    Three of Chekhov's lesser-known stories, now beautifully rendered into English by novelist David Helwig. Sublimely illustrated by Seth.

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  • The Wage Slave's Glossary
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    The wage slave's glossary

    Joshua Glenn, Mark Kingwell, (Pseud) Seth

    A second volume of anti-economic etymological revaluation, playfully continuing the authors' search for a new mode of thinking about work.

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  • The Meagre Tarmac
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    The meagre tarmac

    Clark Blaise

    An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, by a North American master of short fiction.

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  • Pensativities
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    Pensativities

    Mia Couto, David Brookshaw

    The first collection of essays in English by the winner of the 2013 Camões Prize and the 2014 Neustadt Prize.

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  • Measure Yourself Against the Earth
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    Measure yourself against the earth

    Mark Kingwell

    Zizek meets Klein in this riveting collection of philosophic essays on politics, Sex and the City, Plato, Hitchcock and more.

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  • Eucalyptus
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    Eucalyptus

    Mauricio Segura, Donald Winkler

    Murder, intrigue, suspicious cash, public munificence, scandal—and tree farming? A family saga of Sephardic Jews living in Chile.

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  • The Illustrated Edge
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    The illustrated edge

    Marsha Pomerantz

    A first collection of carefully distilled yet passionately exuberant and playful poems by the well-regarded poet and translator Marsha Pomerantz.

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  • Love Poems
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    Love poems

    Jaime Sabines, Colin Carberry

    The love poems—lyrical, erotic, romantic—of the man whom Octavio Paz called “one of the finest contemporary poets of our language.”

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  • Groundwork
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    Groundwork

    Amanda Jernigan

    Groundwork heralds an important new poetic voice, stock to buy early and hold.

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  • Good Morning Comrades
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    Good morning comrades

    Ondjaki, Stephen Henighan

    The story of a group of friends who create a perfect childhood in a revolutionary socialist country fighting a war.

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  • In the Field
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    In the field

    Claire Tacon

    An inspiring first novel, In the Field tackles the social obstacles that overshadow interracial family life in a rural town.

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  • Suitable Precautions
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    Suitable precautions

    Laura Boudreau

    Funny and surreal "horror" stories about how we relate to one another and ourselves.

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  • The Big Dream
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    The big dream

    Rebecca Rosenblum

    Dark, sharp, and pensive, Rebecca Rosenblum’s The Big Dream is to our generation what In Our Time was to Hemingway’s.

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  • Kahn & Engelmann
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    Kahn & engelmann

    Hans Eichner, Jean M. Snook

    The story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary and their immigration to Vienna.

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  • Combat Camera
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    Combat camera

    Andrew Somerset

    A novel about a broken Pulitzer-prize winning combat photographer given a last chance to redeem his life and career.

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