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10% from the sales of all books by or about Indigenous Canadians will be donated to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
A Simpler Life
$30.95 CAD
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This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. We live in a complicated, frenzied, and noisy world, filled with...
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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
$23.00 CAD
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A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all...
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Breathless
$26.99 CAD
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National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to...
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Butts: A Backstory
$38.99 CAD
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“Winning, cheeky, and illuminating….What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke’s intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier,...
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Daring Greatly
$19.00 CAD
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Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve...
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Disability Visibility
$24.95 CAD
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“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as...
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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
$19.95 CAD
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Challenges the ableism of fairy tales and offers new ways to celebrate the magic of all bodies."Leduc persuasively illustrates the power of stories to affect...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
$24.99 CAD
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David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his...
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Essays In Love
$22.95 CAD – Sold Out
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The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life revisits his utterly charming debut book, Essays in Love.The narrator is smitten by Chloe on...
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
$42.00 CAD
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“A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center…....
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Everything In Its Place
$22.00 CAD – Sold Out
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From the bestselling author of Musicophilia and On the Move, a final volume of the great physician's essays showcases his broad range of interests--from his passions for ferns,...
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
$24.00 CAD
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An original and scientifically rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind.What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our...
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Faraway Nearby
$24.00 CAD
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From the author of Orwell's Roses, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy—a fitting companion to Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost Finalist for the National Book...
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Flash Count Diary
$23.00 CAD
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"[Darcey Steinke] has written a searingly intelligent, richly imagined, deeply moving memoir and exploration of menopause . . . I love this book. I admire...
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Friends to Keep in Art and in Life
$22.50 CAD
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From the author of the bestselling ballbuster Men to Avoid in Art and Life comes Friends to Keep in Art and Life, a hilarious and relatable celebration of...
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Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
$28.95 CAD – Sold Out
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RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE“There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on...
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Herbal Healing for Women
$22.00 CAD
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Simple, safe, and effective herbal remedies for women of all ages.For centuries women have turned to herbs to cope with a wide variety of health...
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How to Be Sick
$26.95 CAD
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A brand-new edition of the best-selling classic with added and updated practices.In 2001, Toni Bernhard got sick and, to her and her partner’s bewilderment, stayed...
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How to Overcome Your Childhood
$26.50 CAD
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A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns learned in childhood.When trying to deal with our current troubles and anxieties,...
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I Can Hear You Whisper
$23.00 CAD
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“A skilled science translator, Denworth makes decibels, teslas and brain plasticity understandable to all.”—Washington Post Lydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was...
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I Know What's Best For You
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Edited by Shelly Oria—author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus—this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive...
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Letters of Note: Art
$14.95 CAD
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A splendid new volume of missives about art, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections.Vincent Van Gogh curses the stare of the blank canvas....
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Letters of Note: Grief
$14.95 CAD
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An immensely moving collection of letters on the theme of Grief, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The first volume...
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Letters of Note: Sex
$14.95 CAD
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A surprising and varied collection of letters on the subject of sex curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website. The...
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Man's Search For Meaning
$22.00 CAD
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A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was...
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Men to Avoid in Art and Life
$22.50 CAD
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Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomize the spirit of mansplaining.This hilarious book perfectly captures those relatable...
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Men Who Hate Women
$28.99 CAD – Sold Out
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The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Delve into the gripping and eye-opening world of Men Who Hate Women,...
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Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
$23.99 CAD – Sold Out
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How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept...
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
$37.99 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we? A passionate, provocative, blisteringly...
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Musicophilia
$21.00 CAD
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What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over...
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My Friend Fear
$24.00 CAD – Sold Out
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From the bestselling author of Start Where You Are comes a vibrantly inspiring look at making peace with fear--to become our truest selvesOn the heels of her...
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
$23.99 CAD – Sold Out
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The instant #1 international bestseller from the beloved author of How to Stop Time and The HumansThe societies we are part of are increasingly making our minds ill....
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On Being Ill
$20.95 CAD – Sold Out
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"By turns lyrical, self-mocking, and outlandish, Woolf's meditation on the perils and privileges of the sickbed lampoons the loneliness that makes one 'glad of a...
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On Immunity - An Innoculation
$18.50 CAD
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The hugely acclaimed New York Times Best Seller, now available in paperback!*A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist*ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2014:The New York Times...
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On Women
$23.00 CAD – Sold Out
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A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascismSusan Sontag was one of...
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Pleasure Activism
$29.95 CAD
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How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for...
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Scattered Minds
$26.95 CAD
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In this breakthrough guide to understanding, treating, and healing Attention Deficit Disorder, Dr. Gabor Maté, an adult with ADD and the father of three ADD...
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Stolen Focus
$37.00 CAD – Sold Out
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Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how...
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Sum of Her Parts
$26.95 CAD
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The Sum of Her Parts explores how women’s body parts and the roles/parts that women play have been deployed toward political ends. One essay examines Sarah...
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Sweat: A History of Exercise
$24.99 CAD
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A New Yorker Best Book of the yearAn Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make...
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Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears (Chodron)
$22.95 CAD
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The Body Keeps The Score
$25.00 CAD
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#1 New York Times bestseller“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of...
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The Emperor of All Maladies
$27.00 CAD
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly...
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The Island of the Colorblind
$18.95 CAD – Sold Out
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Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands—their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up...
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The Myth of Normal
$39.95 CAD
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental...
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