Kobo Canada is holding their Victoria Day long weekend sale through May 22nd, with titles priced at $4.99 CAD or less (mostly in the $3-$4 range) from a mix of major and minor publishers. As usual, some books are regular publisher discounts offered at all the usual stores, but others (especially from the smaller presses) are special price-drops exclusively for the duration of the Kobo promo.
Main page, with categories:
Literary Fiction,
Romance,
Fiction,
Historical Fiction (some extra mysteries filed here),
Mystery & Suspense (a lot of things whose blurbs say they were Arthur Ellis or Edgar Award finalists or winners),
Contemporary Fiction,
Cozy Mysteries (mostly Kensington series, from the looks of it),
Science Fiction & Fantasy,
Biography & Memoir,
Kids & Teens,
Food & Drinks,
Non-Fiction (more food & drink & biography is filed under this section as well)
Highlights of the sale: a number of architecture/design books from
Princeton Architectural Press (a division of Chronicle Books, apparently), some interesting-looking Australia/New Zealand interest historical and current events non-fiction titles from assorted antipodean publishers, a
biography of monk Gregor Mendel whose work on inheritance formed the basis of what we know about genetics, a
biography of Jane Austen from HarperCollins, an
anthology of Canadian superhero stories edited by an Aurora Award finalist, IIRC, an
award-winning collection of essays on race and racial identity in the US, retro-historical memoirs by a
former Soviet arms designer and the
wife of politically active Polish pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (
Wikipedia), most of Arthur Ellis & Barry Award-finalist Canadian author Ian Hamilton's (
SYKM) enjoyable Ava Lee investigative (mostly non-murder) mystery adventure series starring a Chinese-Canadian lapsed Catholic lesbian forensic accountant, and also, the assorted works of Cecile Pineda (
Wikipedia) and other Latin American literary authors from
Wings Press.
I especially recommend Pineda's
The Love Queen of the Amazon, which is an enjoyable comedic quasi-historical novel which spoofs magical realism tropes and which Wikipedia says was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. I've had this in an old hardcover I picked up off the remainder sale table a long time ago and really liked it, enough that I did a blind-buy of Pineda's other e-printed works (several also on sale as part of this promotion, but I haven't read them yet) when they dropped during some Kindle sale a few years ago.