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Series: In the Beginning Illustrated Stories from the Old Testament (Religious Book, Easy Bibles, Modern Illustrations for Bible Study) Paperback Serge Bloch 9781452165936 $58.00 BIBLES Oct 24, 2017

Featuring a neon and metallic cover, this spectacular volume is a work of literary art. From Genesis to the Book of Daniel, it recounts 35 stories from the Old Testament in a modern and inviting way, combining spirited illustrations with spare, eloquent prose. Acclaimed illustrator Serge Bloch expertly captures the many scenes in these beloved tales, conveying extraordinary breadth of emotion and action in his seemingly simple drawings. Biblical expert Frédéric Boyer and poet and translator Cole Swensen contribute accessible and enlightening te... + Read More
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Series: Poppies of Iraq Hardcover Helge Dascher 9781770462939 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 14 Sep 05, 2017

A personal account of an Iraqi childhood - appeared on best of the year lists from Kirkus, Guardian, Vulture, Forbes, and more! Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly’s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein’s state control, and her family’s history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Pop... + Read More
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Series: The Good Lands Canada Through the Eyes of its Artists Hardcover Victoria Dickenson 9781773270241 $60.00 ART Apr 25, 2018

Fifty years ago, Canada celebrated its hundredth anniversary of Confederation. At Expo 67, in communities across the country, we celebrated our coming of age as a modern, bilingual, bicultural nation—a place where anyone from any culture could thrive. But beneath the applause and the cheerful music was a darker note. In his public address at the festivities, Chief Dan George lamented what Canada’s centennial did not celebrate: the colonization and marginalization of Indigenous peoples who lived on these “good lands.” Now in the year of Canada... + Read More
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Series: Kopp Sisters Novel Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions Hardcover Amy Stewart 9780544409996 $38.00 FICTION Sep 05, 2017

Constance Kopp stands up to biased “morality” laws of 1916, defending the independent young women in her prison against dubious charges when no one else will. Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The strong-willed, patriotic Edna Heustis, who left home to work in a munitions factory, certainly doesn’t belong behind bars. And sixteen-year-old runaway Minnie Davis, with few prospects and fewer friends, shouldn’t be p... + Read More
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Series: Brighton Mysteries The Blood Card Hardcover Elly Griffiths 9780544750302 $36.00 FICTION Sep 05, 2017

In the third Magic Men mystery, the first partially set in America, a threat of mass violence looms over Elizabeth II’s coronation: Can DI Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto crack the case and save the crown? Elizabeth II’s coronation is looming, but DI Edgar Stephens is busy investigating the death of a local fortuneteller. Meanwhile, his old pal, the magician Max Mephisto, is rehearsing for his television debut, a Coronation Day variety show. But upon hearing that their wartime commander, Colonel Cartwright, has been found dead in his flat, the ... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Separation A Memoir Hardcover Tova Mirvis 9780544520523 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 19, 2017

The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family. But over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and at age forty she could no longer breathe i... + Read More
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Series: It Takes Two Our Story Hardcover Jonathan Scott 9781328771476 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 05, 2017

A New York Times bestseller! Jonathan and Drew Scott, known for their wildly popular HGTV shows including Property Brothers and Brother vs Brother, follow up their New York Times bestseller, Dream Home, with a highly anticipated memoir. It Takes Two: Our Story shares never-before-revealed tales of the brothers’ childhood and rise to fame—from starting their first business at 7 years old, their years modeling and acting, to their first house purchase at the impressive young age of eighteen. They soon found their true passion in life, combining t... + Read More
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Series: All the Dirty Parts Hardcover Daniel Handler 9781632868046 $29.00 FICTION Aug 29, 2017

From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler, a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it’s all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex."Cole fantasizes about whomever he’s looking at. ... + Read More
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Series: The Best of Us A Memoir Hardcover Joyce Maynard 9781635570342 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 05, 2017

The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListIndie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"FromNew York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and o... + Read More
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Series: Going Into Town A Love Letter to New York Hardcover Roz Chast 9781620403211 $37.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 03, 2017

Washington Post "10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year"New York Magazine "The Year’s Most Giftable Coffee Table Books"Newsday "Best Fall Books"The Verge "The Ten Best Comics of the Year"An Indie Next PickWinner of the New York City Book AwardFrom the #1NYTbestselling author ofCan’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast, an "absolutely laugh-out-loud hysterical" (AP) illustrated ode/guide/thank-you to Manhattan.New Yorkercartoonist andNYT bestselling author Roz Chast, native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential... + Read More
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Series: Signs of Hope Messages from Subway Therapy Hardcover Matthew "Levee" Chavez 9781635570809 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 24, 2017

A deeply moving and inspiring collection of notes from the most expressive wall in the world.In the days and weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Matthew Chavez showed up in the subway with stacks of brightly colored sticky notes. "Express yourself," he told passersby. The response was electric. Calling himself "Levee"--one who supports the city's emotional tide--Chavez turned an underground maze into a communal art space known as Subway Therapy. News and social media feeds around the world filled with images of this ever-changing, ever-... + Read More
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Series: Three Daughters of Eve Hardcover Elif Shafak 9781632869951 $36.00 FICTION Dec 05, 2017

The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past--and a love--Peri had tried desperately to forget.Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in ... + Read More
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Series: The Ninth Hour A Novel Hardcover Alice McDermott 9780374280147 $37.00 FICTION Sep 19, 2017

Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNew York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2017The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017The Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Novels of 2017Time Magazine's Top 10 Novels of 2017NPR's Best Books of 2017Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction & Best Historical Fiction of 2017Library Journal's Top 10 Novels of 2017Barnes & Noble's 25 Best Fiction Books of 2017A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a wid... + Read More
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Series: Sourdough A Novel Hardcover Robin Sloan 9780374203108 $37.00 FICTION Sep 05, 2017

*One of Amazon's 20 Best Books of 2017*Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Southern LivingIn his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour BookstoreLois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which sh... + Read More
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Series: Waiting for the Punch Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast Hardcover Marc Maron 9781250088888 $31.99 HUMOR Oct 10, 2017

"Public figures as you rarely if ever hear them: strikingly personal, surprisingly open, and profoundly emotional."— Entertainment Weekly"I’m British, so I’m medically dead inside, but even I can’t help but open up whenever I talk to Marc. He uses his honestly like a scalpel, cutting himself open in front of anyone he’s talking to, and in doing so, invites you to do the same."—John OliverFrom the beloved and wildly popular podcastWTF with Marc Maron comes a book of intimate, hilarious and life changing conversations with some of the funniest, a... + Read More
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Series: The Resurrection of Joan Ashby A Novel Hardcover Cherise Wolas 9781250081438 $38.99 FICTION Aug 29, 2017

Longlisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardLonglisted for 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionKirkus Reviews’s Best Fiction of 2017Kirkus Reviews’s Best Debut Novels of 2017Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels: 2017The New York Times Book Review’s Editors’ ChoiceIndie Next Pick for September 2017Kirkus Reviews’s 13 Fiction Debuts & Breakthroughs That Live Up to the HypeBustle’s 9 Fall Book Debuts By Women You’re Going To Want To Read ImmediatelyNantucket Magazine’s 7 for September 2017Kirkus Reviews’s 9 Excellent Reads for L... + Read More
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Series: Dear Fahrenheit 451 Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life Hardcover Annie Spence 9781250106490 $27.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 26, 2017

A librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life.If you love to read, and presumably you do since you’ve picked up this book (!), you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on the other hand, disappoint you so much you want to throw them against the wall. Either way, it’s clear that a book can be your new soul mate or the bad relationship you need to end. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, librarian An... + Read More
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Series: Happiness: A Memoir The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After Hardcover Heather Harpham 9781250131560 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2017

Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine’s April 2018 book pickA shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant—Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn... + Read More
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Series: Class Mom Class Mom A Novel Hardcover Laurie Gelman 9781250124692 $37.00 FICTION Aug 01, 2017

Laurie Gelman’s clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom—a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics.Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom—or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it’s her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max—this time with a husband and father by her side. Though her best friend and PTA President sees her as the “wisest” candidate for the jo... + Read More
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Series: Riot Days Paperback Maria Alyokhina 9781250164926 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 26, 2017

A Pussy Rioter’s riveting, hallucinatory account of her years in Russia’s criminal system and of finding power in the most powerless of situationsIn February 2012, after smuggling an electric guitar into Moscow’s iconic central cathedral, Maria Alyokhina and other members of the radical collective Pussy Riot performed a provocative “Punk Prayer,” taking on the Orthodox church and its support for Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.For this, they were charged with “organized hooliganism” and were tried while confined in a cage and guarded by R... + Read More
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Series: Robin's Egg Books What I Think Happened An Underresearched History of the Western World Paperback Evany Rosen 9781551526959 $17.95 HUMOR Oct 01, 2017

A wickedly funny book in which the author recasts historical events and personalities from her own feminist perspective. What I Think Happened, the debut book by comedian Evany Rosen, is really two books: a savvy, no-holds-barred romp through the history of the western world, and the personal story of a self-described "failed academic" who recasts historiography from a feminist perspective--albeit an underqualified and overconfident one. In these wide-ranging comic essays, Evany explores numerous historical events and personalities that hav... + Read More
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Series: Body Music Paperback Jul Maroh 9781551526928 $28.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 01, 2017

From the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color: a beautiful, bittersweet graphic novel on the complexities of love. Jul Maroh's first book, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was a graphic novel phenomenon; it was a New York Times bestseller, and the controversial film adaptation by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Maroh's latest book, Body Music, marks her return to the kind of soft, warm palette and impressionistic sensibility that made their debut book so sensational. Set in the languid, Eur... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Bookshops A Reader's History Hardcover Jorge Carrión 9781771961745 $32.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 17, 2017

Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrión meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of chall... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Stories Hardcover John Metcalf 9781771962063 $29.95 FICTION Nov 14, 2017

Now in its 47th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Lynn Coady, Mavis Gallant, Zsuzsi Gartner, Douglas Glover, Steven Heighton, Isabel Huggan, Mark Anthony Jarman, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Russell Smith, Linda Svendsen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its ... + Read More
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Series: Star Wars Made Easy A Beginner's Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away Hardcover Christian Blauvelt 9781465465214 $25.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 01, 2017

Don't know your Wookiees from your Wampas? If the Star Wars™ saga has you stumped, we've got your back. Star Wars Made Easy gives you everything you need to get you around the galaxy. Star Wars is a global phenomenon and the Force has truly reawakened. So where to start if you have never actually gotten around to watching the movies? Or if you find yourself dating an avid Star Wars fan? Or your kids keep asking you tricky questions about the dark side? Don't worry! We have you covered. Star Wars Made Easy is aimed at Star Wars novices who want ... + Read More
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Series: DK Great Remarkable Books The World's Most Historic and Significant Works Hardcover DK 9781465463623 $39.00 HISTORY Sep 05, 2017

A beautifully illustrated guide to more than 75 of the world’s most celebrated, controversial, rare, or seminal books and handwritten manuscripts ever produced, with discussions of their purpose, features, and creators.From ancient masterpieces such as The Art of War, written on the leaves of bamboo, to the stunningly illustrated Birds of America, to Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, Remarkable Books delves into the stories behind the most incredible tomes ever produced, offering an insight into their wider social and cultural context, and is chr... + Read More
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Series: 149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America (So You Can Ignore the Others) Paperback Julian Porter 9781459739352 $45.00 ART Sep 30, 2017

Tour North America’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides.This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world’s greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries. Julian Porter has had a life-long passion for art. He worked for seven years as a student tour guide in Europe and since has conducted countless gallery tours in Europe and North America. His co-author, Stephen Grant, brings a wealth of expertise in twentieth-century artists, and... + Read More
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Series: Literary Titans Revisited The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties Paperback Dr. Anne Urbancic 9781459738713 $26.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Aug 19, 2017

Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian literature, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, and Al Purdy, captured in Toppings’s interviews and readings, give intimate and compelling views of their developing prose and poetry, in their own words.The Earle Toppings tapes provide a distinctive a... + Read More
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Series: Deer Life Paperback Ron Sexsmith 9781459738775 $16.99 FICTION Sep 16, 2017

A wicked fairy tale of witchcraft, bullying, revenge, and a mysterious bowler hat. Includes Ron’s own whimsical illustrations.Deryn Hedlight was not having a very good day and it was about to get much worse. He’d read stories of witches as a boy, but never believed for a second they were true. That is, until an unfortunate hunting accident turns his world upside down. What seemed like an honest mistake leads to an altogether unexpected transformation. But poor Deryn wasn’t the only wronged character tied up in these gloomy circumstances and sin... + Read More
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Series: Skinheads, Fur Traders, and DJs An Adventure Through the 1970s Paperback Kim Clarke Champniss 9781459739239 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 09, 2017

The true story of a legend of Canadian pop culture broadcasting and the way he got his start in the 1970s: working as a fur trader for the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Northwest Territories and then moving on to DJing in disco-era Vancouver. A true story of an adventurous pop-loving teenager who, in the early 1970s, went from London’s discotheques to the Canadian sub-arctic to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company. His job? Buying furs and helping run the trading post in the settlement of Arviat (then known as Eskimo Point), Northwest Territorie... + Read More
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Series: The Unravelling How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one Paperback Clem Martini 9781988298153 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 12, 2017

A memoir, told through illustrations and text, of one family's journey through mental illness, dementia, caregiving, and the health care system. Olivier Martini and his mother, Catherine, have lived together since he was diagnosed with schizophrenia thirty-six years ago. It hasn't always been a perfect living situation, but it's worked ? Catherine has been able to help Olivier through the ups and downs of living with a mental illness, and Olivier has been able to care for his aging mother as her mobility becomes limited, and Olivier's brothers ... + Read More
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Series: Dazzle Patterns Paperback Alison Watt 9781988298184 $21.95 FICTION Oct 03, 2017

Beginning the day of the devastating Halifax Explosion of 1917, Dazzle Patterns is an unforgettable story about loss, the resilience of the human spirit, and the transformative power of art. A finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. While Clare Holmes waits for her fiancé, Leo, to return from the war in France, she works as a flaw checker at the Halifax glassworks. It is there that she meets Fred Baker, a mysterious master glassmaker who was trained in his home country of Germany. After the disastrous explosion on December 6, 1917 ? w... + Read More
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Series: Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen Hardcover Sheila Johnson Kindred 9780773551312 $40.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2017

In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789–1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between Bermuda, Nova Scotia, and England. For just over a year, her home was in the city of Halifax. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel ... + Read More
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Series: Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy Paperback Manjusha Pawagi 9781772600452 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 10, 2017

Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it’s like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you’d live forever. She describes how even the darkest moments of life can be made worse with roommates; details how much determination it takes to ignore the statistics; and answers the age-old question: what does it take to get a banana popsicle around here?
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Series: 150 Fascinating Facts About Canadian Women Paperback Margie Wolfe 9781772600520 $9.95 REFERENCE Aug 15, 2017

Did you know that, in 1875, Grace Annie Lockhart graduated from Mount Allison University as the first woman to receive a degree in any British Empire country? Or that the Women's Labour League was formed in 1920, calling for equal pay, maternity care, and birth control? Or that it wasn't until 1949 that all Black, Japanese, Chinese, and South Asian Canadian women had the right to vote federally? And until 1960, Indigenous women could only vote if they gave up their status? Did you know that in 2008, Shannon Koostachin, a 13-year-old girl from A... + Read More
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Series: Am I Safe Here? LGBTQ Teens and Bullying in Schools Paperback Donn Short 9780774890212 $22.95 EDUCATION Oct 15, 2017

“Am I safe here?” LGBTQ students ask this question every day within the school system. In this book, Donn Short treats students as the experts, asking them to shine a light on the marginalization and bullying faced by LGBTQ youth. They insightfully identify that safety comes from a culture that values equity and social justice, not just security cameras, and they envision a future in which LGBTQ youth are an expected, respected, and celebrated part of school life. Am I Safe Here? offers a path to creating equitable and inclusive schools, drawin... + Read More
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Series: Claiming Anishinaabe Decolonizing the Human Spirit Paperback Lynn Gehl 9780889774919 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 23, 2017

Denied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fighting her entire life to reclaim mino-pimadiziwin--the good life. Exploring Anishinaabeg philosophy and Anishinaabeg conceptions of truth, Gehl shows how she came to locate her spirit and decolonize her identity, thereby becoming, in her words, "fully human." Gehl also provides a harsh critique of Canada and takes on important anti-colonial battles, including sex discrimination in the Indian Act and the destruction of sacred places."Gehl is at the cutting edge with her concepts and ideas... Sh... + Read More
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Series: Being Kurdish in a Hostile World Paperback Ayub Nuri 9780889774940 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 16, 2017

In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, of living in refugee camps, and of years of starvation that followed the UN's sanctions.The story begins with the historic betrayal by the French and British that deprived the Kurds of a country of their own.Nuri recounts living through the 2003 American invasion and the collapse of Hussein's totalitarian rule, and how, for a brief period, he felt op... + Read More
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Series: Journey An Illustrated History of Travel Hardcover DK 9781465464149 $65.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2017

An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery—from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyager missions.Human journeys arise from all manner of impulses, from migration and the search for food, to pilgrimages, trade, scientific curiosity, or simply the quest for adventure. Journey traces each through lively accounts, alongside the biographies of conquerors, explorers, and travelers; stories of technological innovation; literary journals; and works of art. Themed spreads and feature pan... + Read More