Neighbours Helping Neighbours

By Ben Minett

The Bookshelf is very happy to support The Home for Good Campaign with a $20,000 donation, supporting a nationally recognized plan to solve homelessness in our community.

Mushrooming: The Joy of the Quiet Hunt - An Illustrated Guide to the Fascinating, the Delicious, the Deadly and the Strange

By Diane Borsato, Kelsey Oseid

Fungi Love!! Join us on Wed. Nov. 30 at 7:00pm with local author, artist and educator Diane Borsato for a talk about her fabulous book Mushrooming: The Joy of the Queit Hunt, a guide illustrated by Kelsey Oseid into this fascinating, delicious, deadly and strange world: "I want to live in Diane Borsato's brain. What a joy it is to experience the fruiting bodies of her deep wide intellect in this book about mushrooms, art, forests, feminism, poison, pasta, and so much more. This is my favourite kind of fence jumping, perspective shifting, deliciously illustrated, eloquently enquiring, radically alive book," Kyo Maclear, author of Birds Art Life. Tickets are $10 and available in the store or half hour before showtime in The Cinema.

Best of Bridge Everyday Celebrations: 125 Recipes for Friends and Family

By Sylvia Kong, Emily Richards

Pure Colour

By Sheila Heti

Congratulations to Sheila Heti for winning this year's Governor General's Award for Fiction!

The Sleeping Car Porter

By Suzette Mayr

Winner of this year's Scotia Bank Giller Prize. Congratulations Suzette Mayr!!

The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment.

The Philosophy of Modern Song

By Bob Dylan

Like a rolling stone, Bob Dylan keeps churning out the ideas!!

Birds of Maine

By Michael DeForge

We are so excited for this! Join us Wed. Dec. 7th at 7:00pm in The Cinema for Toronto author and artist Michael DeForge in conversation with local graphic novelist Seth as a celebartion of the release of Michael's new graphic novel Birds of Maine! Appearing originally as a webcomic, Birds of Maine follows DeForge’s prolific trajectory of astounding graphic novels that re-imagine and question the world as we know it, capturing the optimistic glow of a utopian imagination with a late-capitalism sting of irony. Tickets $10 and available in the store or in the Cinema half hour before showtime.

Finding Your Granite: My Four Cornerstones of Personal Leadership

By Douglas P Pflug

In "Finding your Granite", Executive Leadership Coach and Mentor Douglas Pflug walks you through some of the life experiences, lessons and key take-ways from his years as a dual sport university athlete, 28 years as a police officer, 30 years as an elite strength and conditioning coach, mentor and leader.

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By Daniel Maté, Gabor Maté

Now, Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of commonly held myths about what makes us sick, and connects the dots between personal suffering and the pressures of modern-day living. Filled with stories of people in the grip of illness or in the triumphant wake of recovery, The Myth of Normal is Gabor Maté's most life-affirming and urgent book yet.

The Passenger

By Cormac McCarthy

A beguiling, surpassingly strange novel by the renowned-and decidedly idiosyncratic-author of Blood Meridian (1982) and The Road (2006)… It's all vintage McCarthy, if less bloody than much of his work: Having logged time among scientists as a trustee at the Santa Fe Institute, he's now more interested in darting quarks than exploding heads…

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

By Michelle Obama

Still one of the most admired women in the world, it would be worth our while to spend some time with Michelle Obama.

There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but she believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux.