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How I Learned to Understand the World

A Memoir

by Hans Rosling ...

Translated by Dr Anna Paterson ...

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling RönnlundThis is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

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The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling RönnlundThis is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Man Who Organized Nature

The Life of Linnaeus

by Professor Gunnar Broberg ...

Translated by Anna Paterson ...

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals. Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognizable abbreviation “L” is used to mark classifications originally made by Linnaeus. ... Read more

$46.19 CAD

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals. Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognizable abbreviation “L” is used to mark classifications originally made by Linnaeus.
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My Brother

A Novel

by Karin Smirnoff ...

Translated by Anna Paterson ...

**“This year’s best novel… Brutal, colourful, carnal... Impossible to put down.” --ExpressenA Swedish publishing phenomenon: a literary noir of extraordinary power follows the discovery of a young woman’s body in the long grass behind the sawmill…**Which part of the story is not for telling?Jana Kippo has returned to Smalånger to see her twin brother, Bror, still living in the small family ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

**“This year’s best novel… Brutal, colourful, carnal... Impossible to put down.” --ExpressenA Swedish publishing phenomenon: a literary noir of extraordinary power follows the discovery of a young woman’s body in the long grass behind the sawmill…**Which part of the story is not for telling?Jana Kippo has returned to Smalånger to see her twin brother, Bror, still living in the small family
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Fire

by Sara B. Elfgren, Mats Strandberg ...

Translated by Anna Paterson ...

Series Book 2 - Engelsfors Trilogy
THE CHOSEN ONES are about to start their second year in senior high school. The whole summer break they have held their breaths waiting for the demons' next move. But the threat shows up from another direction, somewhere they could never have foreseen.It becomes more and more obvious that something is very, very wrong in Engelsfors. The past is woven together with the present. The living meet the ... Read more

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THE CHOSEN ONES are about to start their second year in senior high school. The whole summer break they have held their breaths waiting for the demons' next move. But the threat shows up from another direction, somewhere they could never have foreseen.It becomes more and more obvious that something is very, very wrong in Engelsfors. The past is woven together with the present. The living meet the
... Read more
The Key

by Sara B. Elfgren, Mats Strandberg ...

Translated by Anna Paterson ...

Series Book 3 - Engelsfors Trilogy
The final book in the enthralling Engelsfors trilogyIt’s been over a month since the tragedy in Engelsfors High School. But the Chosen Ones have no time to recover before their world is turned upside down again.In this final instalment that started with The Circle and continued with Fire, questions will be answered; secrets revealed and loyalties tested to the limit.Time is running out for the ... Read more

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The final book in the enthralling Engelsfors trilogyIt’s been over a month since the tragedy in Engelsfors High School. But the Chosen Ones have no time to recover before their world is turned upside down again.In this final instalment that started with The Circle and continued with Fire, questions will be answered; secrets revealed and loyalties tested to the limit.Time is running out for the
... Read more
Beating Eating Disorders Step by Step

A Self-Help Guide for Recovery

by Anna Paterson ...

People living with eating disorders find it hard to take the step of choosing recovery, often because the disorder has developed as a way of `coping' with problems or stresses in the their life. This book outlines new and positive ways of dealing with eating disorders for people living with eating disorders and their families.A practical workbook written by someone who has lived with eating ... Read more

$36.29 CAD

People living with eating disorders find it hard to take the step of choosing recovery, often because the disorder has developed as a way of `coping' with problems or stresses in the their life. This book outlines new and positive ways of dealing with eating disorders for people living with eating disorders and their families.A practical workbook written by someone who has lived with eating
... Read more
Stillness of the Sea

by Nicol Ljubić ...

Translated by Anna Paterson ...

The still surface of a sea is both menacing and calmly beautiful: a perfect metaphor for this reflective novel. The narrator’s unassuming, thoughtful voice dampens but cannot conceal the forces driving his story of love and war and the boundless suffering of innocents. The narrator is a young historian, preoccupied with a case on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

The still surface of a sea is both menacing and calmly beautiful: a perfect metaphor for this reflective novel. The narrator’s unassuming, thoughtful voice dampens but cannot conceal the forces driving his story of love and war and the boundless suffering of innocents. The narrator is a young historian, preoccupied with a case on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
... Read more
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How I Learned to Understand the World

A Memoir

by Hans Rosling ...

Narrated by Christina Delaine, Simon Slater ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling RönnlundThis is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling RönnlundThis is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that
... Read more

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The Circle

by Sara B. Elfgren, Mats Strandberg ...

Translated by Per Carlsson ...

Series Book 1 - Engelsfors Trilogy
One night, when a strange red moon fills the sky, six school girls find themselves in an abandoned theme park, drawn there by a mysterious force. A student has just been found dead. Everyone suspects suicide. Everyone - except them.In that derelict fairground an ancient prophecy is revealed. They are The Chosen Ones, a group of witches, bound together by a power, one which could destroy them all. ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

One night, when a strange red moon fills the sky, six school girls find themselves in an abandoned theme park, drawn there by a mysterious force. A student has just been found dead. Everyone suspects suicide. Everyone - except them.In that derelict fairground an ancient prophecy is revealed. They are The Chosen Ones, a group of witches, bound together by a power, one which could destroy them all.
... Read more
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Encounter

Essays

by Milan Kundera ...

Narrated by Graeme Malcolm ...

Unabridged

4 hours 21 min

“I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.” —John Simon, New York Times Book ReviewMilan Kundera’s brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels, ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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“I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.” —John Simon, New York Times Book ReviewMilan Kundera’s brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels,
... Read more

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The Great Mental Models, Volume 4

Economics and Art

by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Great Mental Models Series
Unabridged

11 hours 2 min

**From the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking and Farnam Street founder, Shane Parrish.The fourth and final installment in the timeless Great Mental Models series.**Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields.Mastering a small ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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**From the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking and Farnam Street founder, Shane Parrish.The fourth and final installment in the timeless Great Mental Models series.**Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields.Mastering a small
... Read more

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Ingrained

The Making of a Craftsman

by Callum Robinson ...

Narrated by Callum Robinson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONA captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONA captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees,
... Read more

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