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  • The Cartel and Other Cover Stories

    by Wayne Grady ...
    These “cover stories” are bold new takes on classic short stories from the masters, brilliantly bringing together the old and the new.From bestselling novelist Wayne Grady comes the delightful and inventive The Cartel and Other Cover Stories, his first collection of short fiction. Just as cover songs are both tributes to other musicians and original works in themselves, here Grady masterfully ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Pandexicon

    How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality

    by Wayne Grady ...
    Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.—Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality.When the pandemic struck in early ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Lakes

    A Natural History of Earth’s Largest Freshwater Ecosystem

    by Wayne Grady ...
    Series series The Natural History of North America
    Comprehensive, engaging, and timely, The Great Lakes is an exploration and a celebration of one of the most important ecological systems on Earth.For more than 10,000 years, the Great Lakes watershed has sustained human and wildlife populations. The waterways have carried travel and trade, supported the world’s most important inland fishery, provided resting spots for billions of migrating birds, ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • Emancipation Day

    by Wayne Grady ...
    "Grady's novel reads with the velvety tempo of the jazz music of its day. . . . Grady fearlessly explores heated race relations and the masks we all assume." —ChatelaineWith his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Great Lakes

    The Natural History of a Changing Region

    by Wayne Grady ...
    The Great Lakes have been central to the development of eastern North America. In this beautifully designed, comprehensive gem of a guide to the ecosystem at the heart of Canada” (The Tyee), award-winning science and nature writer Wayne Grady makes scientific concepts accessible as he reveals how human impact has changed this life-giving region.The Great Lakes: A Natural History of a Changing ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Father

    by Wayne Grady ...
    From award-winning, bestselling author Wayne Grady comes The Good Father, his first contemporary novel, which comically and tragically reckons with a father and daughter's estrangement, the failures brought on by hubris, the limits of perception and the price we pay for second chances.Every story has two sides, two perspectives. And when it comes to a relationship between a daughter and her father ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Up From Freedom

    by Wayne Grady ...
    For readers of Colson Whitehead, James McBride, Yaa Gyasi and Lawrence Hill, Up From Freedom is a powerful and emotional novel about the dangers that arise when we stay silent in the face of prejudice or are complicit in its development.As a young man, Virgil Moody vowed he would never be like his father, he would never own slaves. When he moves from his father's plantation in Savannah to New ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien

    by Yves Beauchemin ...
    Translated by Wayne Grady ...
    Student Jerome Lupien is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in the corrupt alliances of politicians, political lobbyists, and construction magnates. The school is unconventional, but the education singular.Jerome Lupien — libidinous, unscrupulous, and fresh out of university — is ambitious and at loose ends. Whether on a hunting ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breakfast at the Exit Cafe

    Travels Through America

    by Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds ...
    What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew. For Wayne Grady, the thrill of landscape and history is tempered by memories of racism and his own family roots. Merilyn Simonds, her ear tuned for the offbeat, finds curious echoes of the ex-pat promised land she grew up with. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tree

    A Life Story

    by David Suzuki, Wayne Grady ...
    The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending.In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady tell story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mister Roger and Me

    Translated by Wayne Grady ...
    by Marie-Renee Lavoie ...
    Helen, alias "Joe," would rather be a boy and have all kinds of adventures like Lady Oscar, her favourite cartoon heroine. She daydreams about living in another time and achieving great things, but she must be content delivering newspapers and working at the bingo hall. After all, she is only eight years old, even though she claims to be ten.When Roger, an old man who drinks like a fish, swears ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Columbus and the Fat Lady

    And Other Stories

    by Matt Cohen ...
    Series series A List
    First published in 1972, Columbus and the Fat Lady introduced readers to Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author Matt Cohen’s skewed and hilarious worldview. By turns funny, surreal, wistful, savagely satirical, and brilliantly inventive, the stories in this collection intrigue and surprise the reader with their unexpected language and plots. He conjures up images that are both absurd and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus