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Pretty much all of them should be matched, since HarperCollins and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and the rest usually have their books discounted in all the stores, which is nice of them. The only tricky ones are HMH, since they're couponable and Kobo Canada's pre-discounting can lead to unusual (but favourably lower) prices when combined with the VIP membership's auto-10% off.
A few more possibly last-day bargains, if anyone's interested (should be available at all the regular Canada & US retailers):
@ $1.99 from Algonquin Books (couponable):
@ $1.99 from non-discountable publishers (mostly HarperCollins):
- Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose by writer and critic Constance Hale (Wikipedia). This is the updated and revised 2013 edition to her grammar/style guide. I've gotten the previous version out from the library before, and while I don't think I managed to finish before I had to return it, what I recall of the advice seemed pretty solid. From Crown Publishing.
- Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by theoretical physicist Lisa Randall (Wikipedia), meant to be a layperson-accessible introductory text
- Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by author and journalist Simon Winchester (Wikipedia). This is one of his locational history/influence of things. I have a few other books of his which I really ought to get around to finishing, and he seems to be pretty decent.
- The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by cultural historian Tilar J. Mazzeo (Wikipedia), a biography of the 19th century figure Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin (Wikipedia) who made the titular champagne brand a great success after her husband's death
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by former Wall Street Journal journalists Bryan Burrough (Wikipedia) and John Helyar (Wikipedia), an exposé of the titular company, which has its own Wikipedia entry which says it was also adapted into an HBO TV movie.
- Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History by Joseph Telushkin (Wikipedia; himself also a rabbi), about the late 20th century Orthodox Jewish rabbi (Wikipedia)
- How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form by Thomas C. Foster, himself a former literature professor now retired from the University of Michigan-Flint
- The Egg and I by the late Betty MacDonald (Wikipedia), a vintage humorous memoir of life adapting to becoming a chicken farmer, originally written in 1945 and with its own Wikipedia entry. The author is public domain in Life+50 countries.
- Tao Te Ching: A New English Version a new translation of the Chinese philosophy/spirituality classic by Stephen Mitchell (Wikipedia). This is apparently somewhat controversial, according to the criticism section in his entry, but it's cheap in case you were morbidly curious.