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  • If This Were Fiction

    A Love Story in Essays

    by Jill Christman ...
    Series series American Lives
    Winner of the 2023 Book of the Year Award from Chicago Writers AssociationFinalist for the 2023 Heartland Booksellers AwardSilver Winner for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book AwardIf This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • The Heart Folds Early

    A Memoir

    by Jill Christman ...
    Series series American Lives
    This book is about what it means to make a choice. As mothers, how do we carry life and death in our bodies and survive with our hearts intact?The Heart Folds Early is a story of transformation through tragedy, and an examination of the way in which great loss can make us simultaneously fearful and intrepid. Emerging from a childhood that included both devastating sexual abuse and the sustaining ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Borrowed Babies

    Apprenticing for Motherhood

    by Jill Christman ...
    Until the 1960s, infants were plucked from orphanages and maternity wards and used as “practice babies” in college home economics department across the country. Award-winning writer Jill Christman was determined to find out what happened to them. Along the way, five months pregnant herself, with her hormones (and anxiety) raging, she also hoped to discover what it means to be a mother. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Not That Bad

    Dispatches from Rape Culture

    by Roxane Gay ...
    Narrated by Roxane Gay, Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Amy Jo Burns, Lyz Lenz, Claire Schwartz, Aubrey Hirsch, Jill Christman, Lynn Melnick, Brandon Taylor0, Emma Smith-Stevens1, A.J. McKenna2, Lisa Mecham3, Vanessa Martir4, xTx5, Sophia Mayer6, Nora Salem7, V. L. Seek8, Michelle Chen9, Liz Rosema0 ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    New York Times Bestseller“This is a devastating book, heartbreaking in how familiar and relatable each story is—yet there’s power and solidarity in it, too.” — ShondalandEdited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays from writers including Gabrielle Union, Bra... ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    How to Give Up Plastic

    A Conscious Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time

    by Will McCallum ...
    Narrated by Joe Sutherland ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 56 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum, read by Joe Sutherland.'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals.By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight.Plastic pollution is the ... Read more

    $16.60 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Wonder Spot

    by Melissa Bank ...
    Narrated by Melissa Bank ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    Melissa Bank's runaway bestseller, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, charmed readers and critics alike with its wickedly insightful, tender look at a young woman's forays into love, work, and friendship. Now, with The Wonder Spot, Bank is back with her signature combination of devilishly self-deprecating humor, seriousness and wisdom.Nothing comes easily to Sophie Applebaum, the black sheep ... Read more

    $26.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Before We Was We

    Madness by Madness

    by Mike Barson, Mark Bedford, Chris Foreman, Dan Woodgate, Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth1, Lee Thompson3 ...
    Narrated by Mike Barson, Mark Bedford, Chris Foreman, Dan Woodgate, Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth0, Lee Thompson2 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 15 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**Shortlisted for the Best Ensemble Narration Award at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.This audiobook is Madness' story in their own words - with each band member featuring as a narrator.**In their own words they each look back on their shared adventures. Playing music together, riding freight trains, spraying graffiti and stealing records. Walking in one another ... Read more

    $23.98 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Mothers of Sparta

    A Memoir in Pieces

    by Dawn Davies ...
    "Davies' collection of essays soars.... It's a memoir that locates the profound within the ordinary." — Entertainment WeeklyIf you're looking for a typical parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother.This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When You Are Engulfed in Flames

    by David Sedaris ...
    A masterful collection of essays from America's most beloved humorist that will take readers to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever."The preeminent humorist of his generation ... His reluctant charm and talent for observing every inch of the human condition remain intact." ―Entertainment WeeklyIn this hilarious volume, Sedaris proceeds from the bizarre conundrums of daily life—having a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Depression & Other Magic Tricks

    by Sabrina Benaim ...
    2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon with over 50,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Ask Me About My Uterus

    A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

    by Abby Norman ...
    For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issuesIn the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

    50 North American Stories Since 1970

    by Michael Martone ...
    Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD