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  • The Adventures of Emily Greco - First African Cycle

    The Adventures of Emily Greco, #1

    by Emily Venis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Adventures of Emily Greco
    "Definitely, my first contact with Africa was with its breath, and to me, our breaths matched."Emily Greco, a modern-day female Ulysses, leads us on a journey to the Great South, inviting readers to explore not just the riches and wonders of this world but also the inner turmoil that comes with questioning one's place in it.Step into a narrative where your thoughts become part of the story. The ... Read more

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  • The Day the World Stops Shopping

    by J.B. Mackinnon ...
    **A FINALIST FOR THE 2021 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NONFICTIONIn a brilliant work of imaginative non-fiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks what would happen--to our economy, our ecology, our products, our selves--if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might actually want to live in?**"We can't stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma. ... Read more

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  • Horizontal Vertigo

    A City Called Mexico

    by Juan Villoro ...
    Translated by Alfred MacAdam ...
    At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

    by Ailton Krenak ...
    Translated by Anthony Doyle ...
    “Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” — Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen FeathersIndigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.From Brazil comes ... Read more

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  • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and ... Read more

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  • Colors of Nature

    Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

    Edited by Alison H. Deming, Lauret E. Savoy ...
    "An anthology of nature writing by people of color, providing deeply personal connections to—or disconnects from—nature." —NPRFrom African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixed-blood," the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and ... Read more

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  • A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

    by Alain de Botton ...
    Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.AS FEATURED ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT**"This book does a wonderful job of making you realise that the thing you’re going through, and the way that you are, isn’t evidence of your inadequacy. It’s actually evidence that you are perfectly human"**Steven Bartlett ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Best American Travel Writing 2020

    by Jason Wilson ...
    Series series Best American
    The year’s best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane.Writing, reading, and dreaming about travel have surged, writes Robert MacFarlane in his introduction to the Best American Travel Writing 2020. From an existential reckoning in avalanche school, to an act of kindness at the Mexican-American border, to a moral dilemma at a Kenyan orphanage, ... Read more

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  • The Vagabond's Way

    366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel

    by Rolf Potts ...
    “Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of VagabondingFor readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel all ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Mozambique Mysteries

    by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran ...
    MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Terán travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama'. After three marriages and various affairs, she also fell in love. She set up a school and, together with her niece, the Terán ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems

    by Dionne Brand ...
    An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career—new and collected poetry from one of Canada’s most honoured and significant poets.Los Angeles Times BookPrize for Poetry, WinnerToronto Book Award, ShortlistSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand’s poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • My Heart of Rice

    A Poetic Filipino American Experience

    by Ashley C. Lanuza ...
    Through vivid and rhythmic poetry, My Heart of Rice moves to empower anyone who may have a difficult or unconventional relationship with their cultural identity. While Lanuza encourages acceptance of our unique details, she emphasizes the unity found in shared experiences and speaks of the inherent need for belonging, the youthful attempts at assimilation, and the deep melting pot of ethnicity and ... Read more

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