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  • Bodies in Formation

    An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education

    by Rachel Prentice ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    Surgeons employ craft, cunning, and technology to open, observe, and repair patient bodies. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Prentice argues that medical students and residents learn through practice, coming to embody unique ways of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Caring for Children

    Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada

    by Rachel Langford, Patrizia Albanese, Susan Prentice ...
    Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers.Couched in the language of choice, government policies on the care of Canadian children over the past decade have favoured professional, nuclear families while doing little to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • When You Just Have to Roar!

    by Rachel Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Priscilla Prentice ...
    It's one of those days in Ms. Mya's classroom, when things just aren't clicking: Jamilla is jumping. Ruth is running. And Reese is roaring like a great big lion for no reason at all. But Ms. Mya knows what to do. She gathers up the children, and together they begin a conversation about expectations. "An expectation is something we can rely on, something we know is going to happen," says Ms. Mya. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Teacher's Promise

    by Rachel Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Priscilla Prentice ...
    In every classroom, there is a person who cares about the way children learn, grow, and feel—the teacher! The affirming verses and fanciful illustrations in A Teacher's Promise express what all teachers wish for the children they teach—that they develop self-confidence, perseverance, curiosity, and an enjoyment of learning. This book can help ease fears children might have about joining a new ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Edward Almost Sleeps Over

    by Rosemary Wells ...
    Series Book 1 - Edward Almost Ready
    Edward isn't ready to spend the night away from his parentsEdward Bear is invited to play at Anthony's house. Edward's parents bring him to Anthony's, and promise to come back soon. But when it begins to snow, Edward's parents call Anthony's house. "We can't drive in the deep snow!" Edward's daddy says. Edward isn't quite ready for an overnight away from home—he can't eat, he can't sleep, and he ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complications

    A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

    by Atul Gawande ...
    2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the MoonIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • Please Don’t Take My Baby and I Miss Mummy 2-in-1 Collection

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass’ heartbreaking memoir I Miss Mummy now combined in a single volume with her inspiring new title Please Don’t Take My Baby, about a pregnant teenager desperate to keep her child.In Please Don’t Take My Baby, Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she’s brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Almost Truth

    by Eileen Cook ...
    From the author of Unraveling Isobel and The Education of Hailey Kendrick, a smart, romantic novel about a teenage con artist who might be in over her head.Sadie can’t wait to get away from her backwards small town, her delusional mom, her jailbird dad, and the tiny trailer where she was raised…even though leaving those things behind also means leaving her best friend Brendan. Sadie wants a better ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Shatter Me

    by Tahereh Mafi ...
    Series Book 1 - Shatter Me: Series One
    The gripping first installment in global bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s epic, romantic Shatter Me series.One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill.No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Wild Girl

    by Patricia Reilly Giff ...
    A contemporary and irresistible story from Patricia Reilly GiffLidie lives in Jales, Brazil, where she’s free to ride, to be a wild girl, and to dream of going to live with her father and older brother, Rafael, in New York City. Finally Lidie is 12—time to leave Brazil for New York.Meanwhile, a filly is born and begins her journey to a new home. As Lidie’s story unfolds, so does the filly’s.Lidie ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Wrecked

    by Anna Davies ...
    A mysterious stranger holds the key to Miranda’s fate in this contemporary retelling of “The Little Mermaid.”Ever since the death of her parents, Miranda has lived on Whym Island, taking comfort in the local folklore, which claims a mysterious sea witch controls the fate of all on the island and in its surrounding waters. Sometimes it’s just easier to believe things are out of your control.But ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Dispatches from Juvenile Hall

    Fixing a Failing System

    by John Aarons, Lisa Smith, Linda Wagner ...
    A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail them. Now a team of experts with decades of collective hands-on experience ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD