The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
10 best books like The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (Minister Faust): Blood Price, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, The Dumbest Idea Ever!, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event, The Moor's Account, Kiss of the Vampire, Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers, Friday Black, 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493562 |
The Blood Books are now available in "Blood Ties" TV tie-in editions. View our TV tie-in feature page here here.Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto’s homicide unit and now a private detective, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks that are now plaguing the city of Toronto. As death follows unspeakable...
This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
| Author | Suketu Mehta |
| ISBN | 1473563496 |
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City.
Drawing on his family’s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering...
What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down?
At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia...
It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers...
Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event
I think Millar did an excellent job of showing both sides of this 'Civil War'. At first, I was sure I would hate Tony, but when I looked at things from his point of view, it was almost impossible not to understand why he thought he was right. That's not to say that I wasn't rooting for Cap the rebels...
| Author | Laila Lalami |
| ISBN | 0307911667 |
In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán...
| Author | Nancy Baker |
| ISBN | 0449149579 |
Dimitri Rozokov has awakened after a sleep of one hundred years. But for a fifteenth-century Russian aristocrat--and vampire--at large in modern-day Toronto, there is no safe haven.
Ardeth Alexander is leading the predictable life of a graduate student when she is grabbed off the street and...
Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
| Author | Charlie Louvin |
| ISBN | 0062069039 |
Get ready for one of America’s great untold stories: the true saga of the Louvin Brothers, a mid-century Southern gothic Cain and Abel and one of the greatest country duos of all time. The Los Angeles Times called them “the most influential harmony team in the history of country music,” but Emmylou...
| Author | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| ISBN | 1328911241 |
In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god.
Adjei-Brenyah's...
| Author | Scott W. Berg |
| ISBN | 0307377245 |
In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution,...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493597 |
It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs. Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they'd be waiting for her to arrive in...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493570 |
For centuries, the werewolves of Toronto have managed to live in peace and tranquility, hidden quietly away on their London, Ontario farm. But now, someone has learned their secret—and is systematically massacring this ancient race.
The only one they can turn to is Henry Fitzroy, Toronto-based...
A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt
| Author | Robert Earl Hardy |
| ISBN | 1574412477 |
Townes Van Zandt is one of the best songwriters of all time. Snowin' On Raton and White Freightliner Blues are two of my favorite songs ever. I always knew Townes was an arsehole but not until I read this book did I know how complete a jerk and jackass he was. Here was a man who let heroin, whisky and vodka destroy...
In the sleepy mountain town of Moon Hollow, Virginia, there is a church with a crooked steeple. No one will say for sure how it got that way, but it’s the reason the whole town gathers every Decoration Day to honor the dead.
But this year, there are two fresh graves up on Cemetery Hill, a stranger’s...
| Author | Denise Mina |
| ISBN | 0316528501 |
A true-crime podcast sets a housewife's present life on a collision course with her secret past.
The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life explodes starts off like all the days before: packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then...
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
| Author | James Donovan |
| ISBN | 0316155780 |
In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly...
Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories
| Author | Claude Lalumière |
| ISBN | 0991836901 |
Thrilling adventures of Canadian superheroes... and villains! 75 years ago Canadian cartoonist Joe Shuster co-created the world's premier superhero: Superman. Over the decades the genre has gone from camp to counter-culture, from pop art to postmodern, from noir to new wave. Today's superheroes...
Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
A provocative book about rethinking hatred and violence in America
Over the centuries American society has been plagued by brutality fueled by disregard for the humanity of others: systemic violence against Native peoples, black people, and immigrants. More recent examples include...
