1.
Series:
Rebent Sinner
Paperback
Ivan Coyote
9781551527734
$19.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 25, 2019
Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, and longlisted for Canada Reads. In their latest, Ivan takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling a...
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2.
Series:
Age of Union
Igniting The Changemaker
1st edition
Paperback
Dax Dasilva
9781926968346
$24.99
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Apr 29, 2019
Age of Union is an impassioned call for individual acts of culture, spirituality, and environmental guardianship to lead the causes of positive global change and unity in an increasingly fractured world.“The first of its kind, Age of Union brings readers alongan intimate journey that perfectly balances spiritual,entrepreneurial, and environmental guidance, all of which got me wanting to take action now.”—Shira Lazar, on-air personality and founder of What’s Trending @whatstrending Dax Dasilva, one of Canada's leading tech CEOs, arts entrepreneu...
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3.
Series:
A Cure for Hate
A Former White Supremacist's Journey From Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion
Paperback
Tony McAleer
9781551527697
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2019
How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi groups in Canada and the United States? The Cure for Hate paints a very human picture of a young man who craved attention, acceptance, and approval and the dark place he would go to get it. Tony McAleer found an outlet for his teenage rage in the street violence of the skinhead scene. He then grew deeply involved in the White Aryan Resistance (WAR...
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4.
Series: Untold Lives
Possess the Air
Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome
Paperback
Taras Grescoe
9781771963237
$22.95
HISTORY
Oct 15, 2019
A Globe and Mail Fall 2019 Book to Watch Whoever you are, you are sure to be a severe critic of Fascism, and you must feel the servile shame. But even you are responsible for your inaction. Do not seek to justify yourself with the illusion that there is nothing to be done. That is not true. Every person of courage and honour is quietly working for a free Italy. Even if you do not want to join us, there are still TEN THINGS which you can do. You can, and therefore you must. These unsayable words, printed on leaflets that rained down on Mussolin...
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5.
Series: Best Canadian
Best Canadian Essays 2019
Paperback
Emily Donaldson
9781771963329
$22.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Nov 19, 2019
The eleventh installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. Culled from leading Canadian magazines and journals, Best Canadian Essays 2019 contains award-winning and award-nominated nonfiction articles that are topical and engaging and have their finger on the pulse of our contemporary psyches.
6.
Series:
Dirty Birds
Paperback
Morgan Murray
9781550818079
$22.95
FICTION
Jul 31, 2020
***IPPY: INDEPENDENT VOICE AWARD – WINNER*** ***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021*** ***APMA BEST ATLANTIC PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD: WINNER*** ***STEPHEN LEACOCK MEADAL FOR HUMOUR: SHORTLIST*** ***THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST*** ***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: SHORTLIST*** ***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD: SILVER*** ***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** ***2021 RELIT AWARD: LONG SHORTLIST*** In late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably...
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7.
Series:
Shut It Down
Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance
Paperback
Lisa Fithian
9781603588843
$26.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 03, 2019
A veteran activist's guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social changeFor decades, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Fithian has supported countless movements including the Battle of Seattle in 1999, rebuilding and defending communities following Hurricane Katrina, Occupy Wall Street, and the uprisings at Standing Rock a...
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8.
Series:
A Victory Garden for Trying Times
Paperback
Debi Goodwin
9781459745056
$21.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 07, 2019
“A compelling and intimate reflection on love and grief and ordinary things that comfort and sustain us.” — Alison Smith, award-winning journalist Ever since her childhood on a Niagara farm, Debi has dug in the dirt to find resilience. But when her husband, Peter, was diagnosed with cancer in November, it was too late in the season to seek solace in her garden. With idle hands and a fearful mind, she sought something to sustain her through the months ahead. She soon came across Victory Gardens — the vegetable gardens cultivated during the world...
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9.
Series:
Every Boy I Ever Kissed
Paperback
Nellwyn Lampert
9781459745636
$19.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jul 27, 2019
A bold step toward a new cultural narrative around sexSex was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be fun, liberating, and empowering for a girl who’d been brought up thinking the battle for sexual equality had been won. But for Nellwyn Lampert, losing her virginity would turn out to be anything but simple. Whether she was being confronted with porn-induced erectile dysfunction or other crises of masculinity, nothing went according to plan in the bedroom. Instead, Nellwyn had to learn to navigate the realities of sexual liberation, female em...
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10.
Series:
Brewed in the North
A History of Labatt's
Hardcover
Matthew J. Bellamy
9780773559158
$34.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 10, 2019
For decades, the name Labatt was synonymous with beer in Canada, but no longer. Brewed in the North traces the birth, growth, and demise of one of the nation's oldest and most successful breweries. Opening a window into Canada's complicated relationship with beer, Matthew Bellamy examines the strategic decisions taken by a long line of Labatt family members and professional managers from the 1840s, when John Kinder Labatt entered the business of brewing in the Upper Canadian town of London, to the globalization of the industry in the 1990s. Spo...
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11.
Series: Homegrown City Life
DIY Autoflowering Cannabis
An Easy Way to Grow Your Own
Paperback
Jeff Lowenfels
9780865719163
$24.99
GARDENING
Oct 22, 2019
Cannabis prohibition is ending around the world, and there’s a new bud in town — auto-flowering cannabis. As easy to grow as tomatoes, auto-flowering cannabis is the perfect new plant for the home gardener who has limited time and space. Unlike commercially grown cannabis, auto-flowering cannabis plants are small, container-grown, day-neutral, require no special lights or equipment, and grow incredibly fast – from seed to harvest in as little as seven weeks. Written by gardening authority Jeff Lowenfels, DIY Auto-flowering Cannabis is a full-c...
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12.
Series:
The Oracle of Cumae
Paperback
Melissa Hardy
9781772601145
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 08, 2019
Mariuccia Umbellino is a young woman living in the remote mountain village of Montemonaco, Italy, in the early years of the 19th century. Nearby, the secret recesses of the Grotto of the Fates—home to an ancient oracle of Apollo—are about to be invaded and destroyed, on orders from the Pope. But the men sent to do the dirty work don’t know who (or what) they’re dealing with. This oracle and this girl won’t be messed with. In the dark of night, Mariuccia and her mother set out to rescue their revered oracle. In the adventure that ensues, th...
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13.
Series: The Regina Collection
In My Own Moccasins
A Memoir of Resilience
Hardcover
Helen Knott
9780889776449
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 24, 2019
An unflinching memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds of sexual assault from a resilient, emerging Indigenous voice. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawa...
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14.
Series: The Regina Collection
Angry Queer Somali Boy
A Complicated Memoir
Hardcover
Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
9780889776593
$21.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 05, 2019
“A tour de force.” —Omayra Issa, Radio-Canada Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia’s societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin alienating forces of Somali tradition and Western culture, Mohamed must forge his own queer coming of age. What follows in this fierce and unrelenting account is a story of one young man’s nascent sexuality fused with the violence wrought by displacement. “Heartbreaking.” —Quill & Quir...
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15.
Series:
Living with China
A Middle Power Finds Its Way
Hardcover
Wendy Dobson
9781487504823
$37.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 23, 2019
Living with China urges Canadians to adopt a forward-looking China strategy that recognizes the significance of China’s history and values for its development model of authoritarian state capitalism and managed markets. Market reforms will be key drivers of China’s long-term growth, yet Chinese policy is ambivalent about the potential dangers of spontaneous market forces undermining the Party’s central goal of political stability. The tensions between market forces and state intervention and between political and economic goals are identified i...
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16.
Series:
Agnes, Murderess
Paperback
Sarah Leavitt
9781988298474
$29.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 07, 2019
Winner of the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish LiteratureAgnes, Murderess is a graphic novel inspired by the bloody legend of Agnes McVee, a roadhouse owner, madam and serial killer in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in the late nineteenth century. Fascinated by this legend?which originated in a 1970s guide to buried treasure in BC, and has never been verified?Sarah Leavitt has imagined an entirely new story for the mysterious Agnes: her immigration to Canada from an isolated Scottish Island; her complex entanglement with shiny things; and...
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17.
Series:
The Towers of Babylon
Paperback
Michelle Kaeser
9781988298498
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 06, 2019
Embracing the anxieties of contemporary urban life, The Towers of Babylon tracks a group of hapless Millennials trying to find meaning in a world that consistently rejects them. What do you do when you have a graduate degree and are stuck working at a bagel shop? Or you’ve snagged a steady, middle-income job only to find it’s plunging you into a moral abyss? Or you’ve worked your way into the upper echelons of the finance sector, but are still (still!) somehow struggling to pull in enough to support the dependents that just keep popping up arou...
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18.
Series:
Many Lives Mark This Place
Canadian Writers in Portrait, Landscape, and Prose
Hardcover
John Hartman
9781773270944
$40.00
ART
Oct 01, 2019
A unique book bringing together thirty-two of Canada's top authors and one great painter for a series of moving portraits in paint and prose Many Lives Mark this Place is a unique and brilliant project: portraits of 32 of Canada's finest authors, painted into their "home landscape," each accompanied by a short-but-powerful essay about how that place influences their life and work. Hartman travelled from Newfoundland to Tofino and visited tiny hamlets, our densest metropolises, remote beaches, Rocky Mountain peaks, and even a shopping mall, oft...
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19.
Series: Graphic Lives
Basquiat
A Graphic Novel (biography of a great artist; graphic memoir)
Hardcover
Paolo Parisi
9781786274151
$28.99
ART
May 14, 2019
…a beautifully illustrated hardcover book… Inside you'll find the story of Basquiat's life relayed in a quick–to–read, visually dazzling fashion. – Forbes.comCool, talented, and transgressive, Jean–Michel Basquiat's life is just as fascinating as the work he produced. Delve into 1980s New York as this vivid graphic novel takes you on Basquiat's journey from street–art legend SAMO to international art–scene darling, up until his sudden death. Told through cinematic scenes, this is Basquiat as seen through the eyes of those who knew him, includin...
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20.
Series:
Between Heaven and Hell
The Story of My Stroke
Hardcover
David Talbot
9781452183336
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 14, 2020
Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books like the New York Times bestsellers Brothers, The Devil's Chessboard, and nationally recognized Season of the Witch. Now for the first time, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke, a year that turned his life upside down, and ultimately, saved him. • A portrait of how a health crisis ...
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23.
Series:
Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts
Hardcover
Kate Racculia
9780358023937
$37.00
FICTION
Oct 08, 2019
A handsome stranger. A dead billionaire. A citywide treasure hunt. Tuesday Mooney’s life is about to change in ways she—and no reader—could never expect in this "rollicking" (Star Tribune), award-winning novel. ¶ A Kirkus Reviews Best Book · An Indie Next Pick · A Library Reads Selection · A New York Post Best Book of the Week · A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week · A Buzzfeed Best Paperback · and more! ¶ Tuesday Mooney is a loner. She keeps to herself, begrudgingly socializes, and spends much of her time watching old Twin Peaks and X-Files DV...
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24.
Series:
The Grammarians
A Novel
Hardcover
Cathleen Schine
9780374280116
$36.50
FICTION
Sep 03, 2019
An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language.The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bou...
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25.
Series:
A Trick Of Light
Stan Lee's Alliances
Hardcover
Stan Lee
9780358117605
$40.00
FICTION
Sep 17, 2019
From Stan Lee, the pop-culture legend behind Marvel’s Avengers, Black Panther, X-Men, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man, comes a major publishing event. One of the last creative acts of a master storyteller, A Trick of Light was first introduced in the best-selling audiobook Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of Light. The hardcover features exclusive content, including bonus chapters and an afterword by Alliances universe co-creators Luke Lieberman and Ryan Silbert. Nia, a gifted but desperately lonely hacker, is living in isolation with ...
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26.
Series: Alex Stern
Ninth House
Hardcover
Leigh Bardugo
9781250313072
$34.99
FICTION
Oct 08, 2019
A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League eliteGalaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her h...
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27.
Series:
The Girl Who Reads on the Metro
A Novel
Hardcover
Christine Feret-Fleury
9781250315427
$31.50
FICTION
Oct 08, 2019
“With a cast of characters reminiscent of the French film Amélie, Féret-Fleury creates a world that is delightful and enchanting…Light and sweet as a bonbon, this little confection of a book is delicious.” —Kirkus ReviewsFor fans of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter.Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melanch...
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28.
Series:
The Awesome Music Project Canada
Songs of Hope and Happiness
Hardcover
Terry Stuart
9781989025291
$35.00
SELF-HELP
Oct 10, 2019
MUSIC HEALS US. It can provide solace in difficult times, and help us celebrate moments of joy. The transformative power of music is at the heart of this compilation of intimate recollections by Canadians from every province and territory. In these remarkable stories, Canadians from all walks of life-including world-renowned celebrities from Sarah McLachlan and Chris Hadfield to Madeleine Thien and Theo Fleury-share how music changed their lives. The Awesome Music Project Canada: Songs of Hope and Happiness is a beautifully illustrated tribute ...
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29.
Series:
Seeing Gender
An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression
Hardcover
Iris Gottlieb
9781452176611
$39.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 22, 2019
Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal—yet universal—facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book is an essential tool for understanding and contributing to a necessary cultural conversation, bringing clarity and reassurance to the sometimes confusing ...
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30.
Series:
Red Oblivion
Paperback
Leslie Shimotakahara
9781459745216
$21.99
FICTION
Sep 21, 2019
Family secrets surface when two sisters travel to Hong Kong to care for their ill father. When Jill Lau receives an early morning phone call that her elderly father has fallen gravely ill, she and her sister, Celeste, catch the first flight from Toronto to Hong Kong. The man they find languishing in the hospital is a barely recognizable shadow of his old, indomitable self. According to his housekeeper, a couple of mysterious photographs arrived anonymously in the mail in the days before his collapse. These pictures are only the first link in a...
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31.
Series:
Toil & Trouble
A Memoir
Hardcover
Augusten Burroughs
9781250019950
$34.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2019
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky. "Here’s a partial list of things I don’t believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires. Zombies. Reiki. Homeopathy. Rolfing. Reflexology. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are absent from this list. The thing is, I wouldn’t believe in them, and I would privately ridicule any idiot who did, except for one thing: I am a witch." For as long as Augus...
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32.
Series:
Girl
A Novel
Hardcover
Edna O'Brien
9780374162559
$34.99
FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
Girl, Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.I was a girl once, but not anymore.So beginsGirl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child ...
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33.
Series:
Death and the Seaside
Paperback
Alison Moore
9781771962759
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 08, 2019
A Guardian Book of the DayNearing thirty, with an abandoned degree and half-hearted dreams of becoming a writer, Bonnie Falls finally moves out of her parents’ home and into a shabby flat. When her enigmatic landlady takes an interest in her—and one of her unfinished stories—Bonnie’s aspirations are rekindled, and she’s quickly persuaded by the older woman’s suggestion that they go on holiday to a seaside town like the one in the story. A tense exploration of power and vulnerability, obsession and manipulation, Death and the Seaside is ...
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34.
Series:
Philosophers
Their Lives and Works
Hardcover
DK
9781465482037
$45.00
PHILOSOPHY
Sep 10, 2019
From Confucius and Plato to Karl Marx and Noam Chomsky, this book brings together more than 100 illustrated biographies of the world’s great philosophers.Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured philosopher, the biographies trace the ideas, friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired the great thinkers and influenced their work, providing revealing insights into what drove them to question the meaning of life and come up with new ways of understanding the world and the history of ideas.Lavishly illustrated with photographs and p...
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35.
Series:
The Soup Book
200 Recipes, Season by Season
Paperback
DK
9781465486134
$25.99
COOKING
Sep 10, 2019
Make the most of fresh produce all year round with 200 homemade recipes for soup and accompaniments, organized by seasonThe Soup Book is packed with plenty of nourishing recipes for every season. Try winter warmers such as parsnip and apple soup or French onion soup, enjoy a light summer lunch of chilled cucumber soup with dill, and make a hearty borscht or pumpkin soup in the fall. The recipes are organized first by season, and then by ingredient, so you can easily find the ideal soup to suit the fresh ingredients you have on hand.Featuring re...
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36.
Series:
The Marvel Book
Expand Your Knowledge Of A Vast Comics Universe
Hardcover
DK
9781465478993
$36.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 01, 2019
The Marvel Book is an exhilarating journey through the endlessly fascinating, ever-dynamic, and awe-inspiring Marvel Comics universe.One Marvel book to guide them all. If you want to understand the Marvel Comics Universe in all its complex glory, The Marvel Book is the only book you need. It is a unique exploration of the vast, interconnected Marvel Comics Multiverse from its birth to the end of everything and beyond.Meticulously researched and expertly written, The Marvel Book is packed with vivid, carefully sourced artwork, illuminating infog...
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37.
Series:
I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story
Foreword by J.J. Abrams
Hardcover
Anthony Daniels
9781465486103
$31.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 05, 2019
“Gloriously witty, keen and spirited” J.J. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker“The odds of me ever writing a book were approximately…Oh, never mind. My golden companion worries about such things - I don’t. I have indeed now written a book - telling my story, in my voice, not his - recognizing that our voices and our stories are inextricably intertwined.”When Star Wars burst onto the big screen in 1977, an unfailingly polite golden droid called C-3PO captured imaginations around the globe. But C-3PO wasn’t an amazing display of ...
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