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  • Greyhound

    A Memoir

    by Joanna Pocock ...
    **Finalist for the NBCC Award for CriticismCombining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposeless**In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Surrender

    The Call of the American West

    by Joanna Pocock ...
    In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in response to the increasingly urgent climate crisis.Blending personal memoir with insightful reportage and vivid nature writing, award-winning author and essayist Joanna Pocock investigates the changing landscape of ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An American Journey

    In the spring of 1965, British novelist Ethel Mannin decided to see America "the hard way"—traveling by bus from New York to California and back. What she records in An American Journey is all too reminiscent of today's America: racial discrimination, economic inequality, environmental exploitation, and treatment of native Americans as second-class citizens. Her outsider's perspective provides an ... Read more

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  • The Bitter Roots

    When fourteen-year-old Pauly Craig takes a swim in the Clark Fork River one summer day, he doesn’t expect to see a boy drown. Surrounded by everyday violence in his Montana town, Pauly is determined to prove himself, navigating the awkward fumbles of boyhood against a backdrop of strikes, gang fights, trainhopping, bootlegging, and the casualties of war.The setting of The Bitter Roots, Missoula, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Greyhound

    by Joanna Pocock ...
    Narrated by Courtney Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers - Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin and Irma Kurtz - who chronicled their own road trips across ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Greyhound

    A Memoir

    by Joanna Pocock ...
    Narrated by Courtney Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposelessIn 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, she undertakes the ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Lea Ypi ...
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    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONThe award-winning author of Free returns with an extraordinary investigation into historical injustice, personal and collective dignity, truth and imagination**When Lea Ypi discovers that a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Italian Alps in 1941 has been posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with deeply unsettling ... Read more

    $36.00 CAD

  • The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks

    by Stuart McLean ...
    Selected from 15 years of radio-show archives and re-edited by the author, this onderfully eclectic essay collection gives a glimpse into the thoughtful mind at work behind The Vinyl Cafe. From meditations on peacekeeping to praise for the toothpick, The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks runs the gamut from considered argument to light-hearted opinion. Whether McLean is visiting a forgotten corner of the ... Read more

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  • Different Seasons

    by Stephen King ...
    A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The 99% Invisible City

    A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    **A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER“[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.”—The New York Times Book Review**“Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare—a hundred things you look at but don’t ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Body

    by Stephen King ...
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's timeless novella The Body, originally published in his 1982 collection Different Seasons and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me, now available as a stand-alone edition.Four rambunctious young boys venture into the Maine woods in search of a boy from a nearby town who has disappeared. Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a ... Read more

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  • Born to Walk

    The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act

    The case for getting back on our feetThe humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind.At a personal and professional crossroads, writer, editor, and obsessive ... Read more

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