A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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The intimacy between Nin and Miller, first disclosed in Henry and June, is documented further in this impassioned exchange of letters between the two controversial...
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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“A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy ReichsA brilliant blend of science and crime, A TASTE FOR POISON...
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A Time of Gifts (Fermor)
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INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months...
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A Woman of No Importance
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERChosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis...
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An Abolitionist's Handbook
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In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future.Filled with relatable pedagogy on...
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Atlas of the Invisible
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An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society—visualized through the world of data. Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous...
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Between the Woods and the Water
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The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's...
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Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
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WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE • "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."—RBC Taylor Prize Jury...
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Conrad Kain: Letters From a Wandering Mountain Guide
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Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek—a life-long...
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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business
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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History is an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching...
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
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A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir,...
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Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany
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National BestsellerForeword by Peter Mansbridge“Barris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.” —The Globe and Mail It was a night that changed...
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and...
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De Profundis
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Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and...
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the...
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Dying to Be Healed
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Dying To Be Healed follows Holly Gerrish's touching and intensely personal journey when her husband, Mark, is diagnosed with cancer at the age of twenty-eight...
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
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An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations...
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Eminent Victorians
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Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General GordonLytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.In...
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Energy: A Human History
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A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming,...
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Epic Wanderer
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Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.Epic Wanderer, the first full-length...
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages
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Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Sir Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe,...
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Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
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The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and...
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
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Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments—hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pages—has been selected by the publication’s book critics as...
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Four Who Dared: Inspiring Stories of Canadian Airmen in the Second World War
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An absorbing testament to the contributions of four brave young Canadian volunteers who flew with British Bomber Command in the Second World War. More than...
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Girlhood
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National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNational BestsellerLambda Literary Award FinalistNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews...
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Goodbye to All That
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'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the...
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Half-Bads in White Regalia
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice.The Caetanos move into...
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History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
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The extraordinary ways the brain can misfire‘Fascinating and compassionate’ Horatio Clare The King of France – thinking he was made of glass – was terrified...
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Horse Woman
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Lee McLean was born to ride ... and to write. In these pages, you will enter the world of a master horsewoman and ride with...
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How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World
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From the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the...
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
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An extraordinary memoir—told entirely in near-death experiences—from one of Britain's bestselling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never...
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I Have Something To Tell You
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“Natalie Appleton’s memoir is both travel account and love story, gritty and graceful. A totally clear, honest and generous story of losing and finding oneself,...
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Immoral, Indecent and Scurrilous
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“At least by reputation, I am a sex radical: gay activist dating back to the Cretaceous, defender of pedophiles, defender of (and participant in) sex...
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In Our Youth
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A fascinating, photo-rich exploration of early aviation in Canada, told through the backstories of pilots who flew, fought, and risked their lives in the First...
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In the Dream House
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A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative...
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
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A classic account of exploration and endurance from the bestselling author of The Wayfinders. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a...
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Johnny John Fauquier DSO and 2 Bars DFC: Canada's Greatest Bomber Pilot
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Air Commodore John Fauquier DSO and 2 Bars DFC was Canada's most decorated airman and its leading bomber pilot during World War II, flying at...
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—our proprietary relationship with the land—through human history, how it has shaped us and...
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Landlines
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON THIS MORNING AND IN THE TELEGRAPHSend them on a journey this Christmas with this powerful account of our country's land, and...
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Letters to Sartre
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Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of...
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
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The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice...
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Maid: Hard work, Low pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, HAILED BY ROLLING STONE AS "A GREAT ONE." "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description...
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Mantel Pieces
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A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
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Memoirs of a Wildcat
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Mary Tidlund was never able to blend in, so she embraced standing out. Labelled “unadoptable” because of the colour of her skin, the odds seemed...
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My Father, Fortune-Tellers and Me
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My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir is a powerful and witty coming-of-age story of fate versus free will. As the daughter of southern Italian immigrants...
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Never Cry Wolf
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"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be--the mythologized epitome of a...
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