Books from Knopf Canada
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The Perils of Morning Coffee: An Isabel Dalhousie eBook Original Story
By Alexander McCall SmithIn this engaging, intelligently observed story, Alexander McCall Smith's sharp-eyed heroine is reminded once again to avoid jumping to hasty conclusions about the lives of others, and to value friendship wherever it's found.
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Cronenberg on Cronenberg
By David CronenbergIn this stimulating, vivid book--combining memoir, behind-the-scenes movie stories and unsettling and original insights into the traumas of the late 20th century--David Cronenberg reveals the concerns and obsessions which dominate his rich, ...
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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
By Lee SmolinIn this vibrant and accessible book, Smolin takes us on a journey through the basics of quantum physics, introducing the stories of the experiments and figures that have transformed the field, before wrestling with the puzzles and ...
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The Cockroach
By Ian McEwanKafka meets the world of Brexit in this bitingly funny novel centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England.
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Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation
By Mary JaniganThe West Versus the Rest Since Confederation Mary Janigan ... eds., Prairie Perspectives 2: Selected Papers of the Western Canadian Studies Conferences, 1970, 1971 (Toronto and Montreal: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1973), p,.
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The Sister's Tale
By Beth PowningReconnecting with characters of Beth Powning's beloved The Sea Captain's Wife, The Sister's Tale is a story of women finding their way, together, through terrible circumstances they could neither predict nor avoid, but will stop at nothing ...
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This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge
By Mark Leiren-Young, Tzeporah BermanThis unique book--part manifesto from a leader, part humorous activist memoir from a soccer mom--offers a wryly honest, behind the scenes, ultimately uplifting look at the state of the planet.
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The Devil's Trick: How Canada Fought the Vietnam War
By John BoykoForty-five years after the fall of Saigon, John Boyko brings to light the little-known story of Canada's involvement in the American War in Vietnam.
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The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: Author of Suite Francaise
By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick LienhardtIrène Némirovsky remembers Kiev and remembers the war. She remembers her father who died a few months before. She gives her character a Tartar name, Koïré, and conjures up a path for him as a Russian businessman who will sink into ...
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The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food
By Adam GopnikGopnik shows we are not the first food fetishists but we are losing sight of a timeless truth, "the table comes first": what goes on around the table matters as much to life as what we put on the table: families come together (or break ...
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Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home
By Nigella LawsonKitchen tells the story of the life of the kitchen, through the food we eat now and the way we live, in the most important room of the house.
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Men Walking on Water
By Emily SchultzThe looming background to this extraordinary story, as compelling as any character, is the city of Detroit--a place of grand dreams and brutal realities in 1927 as it is today, fuelled by capitalist expansion and by the collapse that ...
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
By Bill GatesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this urgent, singularly authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas...
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Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
By Britt WrayIn Generation Dread, Britt Wray seamlessly merges scientific knowledge with emotional insight to show how these intense feelings are a healthy response to the troubled state of the world.
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Making Love with the Land
By Joshua WhiteheadMuch-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed. In the last few years, following the publication of his debut novel Jonny Appleseed, Joshua...
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Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (10)
By Alexander McCall SmithThe 10th! instalment in this infinitely enjoyable series finds the ever-charming, ever-resourceful Mma Ramostwe helping people, and vans, with problems in their lives.
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Night Boat to Tangier: A novel
By Kevin BarryLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the...
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The Isabel Dalhousie Series--Novels 1, 2 & 3: The Sunday Philosophy Club; Friends, Lovers, Chocolate; The Right Attitude to Rain
By Alexander McCall SmithThe second flagship and bestselling series from the literary sensation Alexander McCall Smith, the Isabel Dalhousie series is enormously engaging, wonderfully witty and complete with local Edinburgh colour and flavour.
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Kill the Mall
By Pasha Malla"Pasha Malla writes like a reincarnated Kafka." —Ian Williams, winner of the Giller Prize for Reproduction Douglas Adams meets David Lynch in this ingenious, witty fable about one of North America's most surreal inventions—the local ...
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Return of the Trickster
By Eden RobinsonNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY CBC BOOKS AND THE GLOBE AND MAIL In the third book of her brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, Eden Robinson delivers an explosive, surprising and satisfying resolution to the ...