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  • All at Sea

    Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize‘The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don’t mind at all if you forget this.The important thing is that I don’t.’On a hot still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed for ever.Her four-year-old boy was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    All at Sea

    Narrated by Decca Aitkenhead ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize‘The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don’t mind at all if you forget this.The important thing is that I don’t.’On a hot still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed for ever.Her four-year-old boy was ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    All Happy Families

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    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

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    The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families.On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a wedding at a rambling family mansion on the beach in East Hampton, in the last days of the area’s quietly ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    A Life of My Own

    Narrated by Penelope Wilton ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    Penguin presents A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin, read by Dame Penelope Wilton.As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life.This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Love Is a Mix Tape

    Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

    by Rob Sheffield ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “humorous, heartbreaking, and heroic” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir of one man’s passionate relationship with an unforgettable woman, from their first meeting to her untimely death, told through the songs on fifteen mix tapes“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman“A memoir that manages, no small feat, to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Death with Interruptions

    This novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author asks what happens when the grim reaper decides to stop reaping: "A novel to die for."— The Washington PostOn the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration—flags are hung out on ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heartsounds

    The Story of a Love and Loss

    The national bestseller and undying testament of a wife's love for her husband as he embarks on the fight of his life.On a story assignment in France for the New York Times Magazine, Martha Weinman Lear has just escaped tourist-infested Cannes for a quiet pension in the hills behind the Riviera when she gets the call from New York. Her husband has suffered a massive heart attack and is in the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Wish

    by Betty Rollin ...
    At a time when tempers flare over the Oregon assisted suicide law and Jack Kevorkian's physician-aid-in-dying, Last Wish, Betty Rollin's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, is due for a rereading. Last Wish is an intimate, fiercely honest memoir of a daughter's struggle to come to terms with her terminally ill mother's decision to die. More than a examination of the ethical, spiritual, and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Kirsty

    A Father’S Fight for Justice

    When Kirsty Jayne Pearce was bornfull termon February 22, 1986, she weighed just three pounds, twelve ounces. A fighter, Kirsty survived, but she was destined to experience a lifetime of an array of medical issues until her untimely death when she was seventeen years old.In this memoir, Kirstys father, Charles Pearce, tells her story of courage and stubbornnessof her birth in 1986; her baby, ... Read more

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  • Out of Winter

    by Carol Lee ...
    OUT OF WINTER is a personal account of how a father's sudden illness affects a family fraught by conflict over many years.It charts the process of grief which follows his death in 2008, and that of Carol Lee's mother only eight weeks later. Her mother's death, so swiftly after her father's, tests the limits of her ability to re-configure herself, to find who and what her mother and father are to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH

    A Practical Guide to Talking about End-of-Life Care and Dying

    by Sally Cant ...
    Conversations About Death is the result Sally Cant’s twenty years in the death and dying industry. It contains a wealth of information that will make you feel more relaxed, open and comforted by talking about death and dying. Conversations About Death is a much needed tool: to assist in those conversations about what things a person might consider for themselves and their families regarding their ... Read more

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  • Bad Dog!

    A Memoir of Love, Beauty, and Redemption in Dark Places

    by Lin Jensen ...
    What would happen if, instead of bolting your doors against the intrusion of demons you invited them in?Bad Dog! is a vivid testament to the unforeseen love, beauty, and redemption discovered in the most difficult times and places. It reads like a collection of closely linked short stories (think JD Salinger) but is in fact a work of literary nonfiction (think Robert Fulgham, or Augusten Burroughs ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD