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Series: Shut the F*ck Up Pie Life at the Intersection of Trauma, Power, and Pain Paperback Erica Crystal Jade 9780865719453 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

The compelling story of one powerful, black, queer heroine's quest to overcome trauma and heal through food, music, and love From growing up in North St. Louis, to landing top-secret government contractor computer jobs, to acting on an Emmy Award-winning television show, to a devastating health diagnosis. Shut the F*ck Up Pie showcases what it's like for a queer woman of color to navigate the modern realities of mental health, chronic pain, and personal trauma. In a no-holds-barred lived critique of race, class, and gender, Erica Crystal Jade h... + Read More
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Series: Every Day Is a Gift A Memoir Unabridged edition CD-Audio Tammy Duckworth 9781549108723 $50.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

Learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth and see what inspired her to follow the path that made her who she is today.In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing—and amazingly true—stories from her incomparable life. In November of 2004, an Iraqi RPG blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs and mangled her right arm, was a turning point in her life. But as Duckworth shows in Every Day Is a Gift, t... + Read More
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Series: Every Day Is a Gift A Memoir Large type / large print edition Hardcover Tammy Duckworth 9781538706046 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

Learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth and see what inspired her to follow the path that made her who she is today.In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing—and amazingly true—stories from her incomparable life. In November of 2004, an Iraqi RPG blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs and mangled her right arm, was a turning point in her life. But as Duckworth shows in Every Day Is a Gift, t... + Read More
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Series: Code Red Fallujah A Doctor's Memoir at War Paperback Donnelly Wilkes, M.D. 9781642938029 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

Airstrikes rain down, Gatling guns pound, and snipers lurk in the distance—welcome to the combat aid station of a young doctor embedded with the heavily weaponized 1st Marines Division as the Battle of Fallujah boils over.On the night of April 4th, 2004, 1st Marine Expeditionary Forces launch a major assault on the city of Fallujah. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Donnelly Wilkes’s battalion leads the assault into Fallujah as he is positioned with Navy Corpsmen and Marines at the tactical highway intersection called “The Cloverleaf.” Rarely have U.S. mili... + Read More
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Series: Fighting Infertility Finding My Inner Warrior Through Trying to Conceive, IVF, and Miscarriage Paperback Samantha Busch 9780757323836 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

Samantha Busch uses her voice to break the silence that surrounds the infertility community in this raw and relatable account of her journey with IVF, loss, and faith.Samantha Busch, wife of NASCAR champion Kyle Busch, knows the thrill of the racing circuit, but she also knows the heartache and despair of infertility. She shares both in this honest and relatable account where faith, family, love, and loss intersect. As Samantha’s and Kyle’s public lives grew more pronounced, their private life was being torn apart. The frustrations and uncerta... + Read More
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Series: The Beauty of Living Twice Hardcover Sharon Stone 9780525656760 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

“Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Elegantly written with her wicked sense of humor on full display, the memoir is catnip for fans who have never managed to crack the exterior of the elusive star.” —Vogue Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose.She was one of the most renowned actresses in the world—until a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon S... + Read More
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Series: Before My Time A Memoir of Love and Fate Paperback Ami McKay 9780345809476 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

WINNER OF THE ROBBIE ROBERTSON DARTMOUTH BOOK AWARD and the EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARDWeaving together touching scenes from her family history and her own life, Ami McKay’s intimate and captivating memoir captures what it means to live fully even when you know your life may be cut short.In 1895, Ami McKay’s great-great aunt, a dressmaker named Pauline Gross, confided to a medical professor that she expected to die young, like many in her family before her. With her help, that doctor launched a family study that eventually led to the id... + Read More
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Series: Stronger Courage, Hope, and Humor in My Life with John McCain Hardcover Cindy McCain 9780593236888 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 27, 2021

The widow of Senator John McCain opens up about her beloved husband, their thirty-eight-year marriage, and the trials and triumphs of a singular American life.My husband, John McCain, never viewed himself as larger than life—but he was. He had more tenacity and resolve than anybody I ever met. Over more than three decades of marriage, I had learned that John would do what he thought was right and important no matter what anyone said. Being with him didn’t hold me back—it gave me flight, a courage I never would have felt on my own. —CINDY McCAIN... + Read More
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Series: I Want You to Know We're Still Here A Post-Holocaust Memoir Paperback Esther Safran Foer 9780525575993 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A woman unearths family secrets and gives voice to things unspoken in this poignant memoir that traces her parents’ escape from the Holocaust.Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, E... + Read More
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Series: Broken Glass Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece Paperback Alex Beam 9780399592737 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture—and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art.“An amazing story, brilliantly told.”—Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic and author of The Art of RivalryIn 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her tim... + Read More
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Series: Radical Acts of Love Twenty Conversations to Inspire Hope at the End of Life Paperback Janie Brown 9780385694759 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A deeply moving and ultimately uplifting exploration of our last great challengeIn this profound and moving book, oncology nurse Janie Brown recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying, including people close to her. Each conversation uncovers a different perspective on, and experience of death, while at the same time exploring its universalities. Offering extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown shows practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful; from fear to... + Read More
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Series: In Love with the World A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying Paperback Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche 9780525512547 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it.At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat, following the ancient practice of holy mendicants. His goal was to throw off his titles and roles, in order to explore... + Read More
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Series: The Prosecutor Paperback Nazir Afzal 9781529105025 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 25, 2021

Meet the true face of British justice.Nazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure the most complex, violent and harrowing crimes made it to court, and that their perpetrators were convicted. From the Rochdale sex ring to the earliest prosecutions for honour killing and modern slavery, Nazir was at the forefront of the British legal system for decades.But his story begins in Birmingham, in the sixties, as a young boy facing racist violence and the tragic death of a young family member – and ... + Read More
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Series: Man with a Van Hardcover Drew Pritchard 9781529106732 $35.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER’When I see something old, that I think is beautiful, special, valuable, it’s not about the money. It’s about being in another time and place.’Star of TV’s Salvage Hunters, Drew Pritchard will go to the greatest lengths for the best deals. He discovered the casts Lord Elgin made of his infamous marbles in a school garage, and broke the bank to buy the tool box Malcolm Campbell used when he set the water speed record in 1934. He made a million. Lost it. And made it again.The face of the compulsively fascinating business of... + Read More
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Series: Churchill & Son Hardcover Josh Ireland 9781524744458 $45.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill’s enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, RandolphWe think we know Winston Churchill: the bulldog grimace, the ever-present cigar, the wit and wisdom that led Great Britain through World War II. Yet away from the House of Commons and the Cabinet War Rooms, Churchill was a loving family man who doted on his children, none more so than Randolph, his only boy and Winston’s anointed heir to the Churchill legacy.Randolph may have been born in his father’s shadow, but his father, who had been negl... + Read More
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Series: Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty Paperback Phoebe Hoban 9781644230527 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

Phoebe Hoban’s definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from women’s suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and second-wave feminism. Throughout her life and work, Neel constantly challenged convention, ultimately gaining an enduring place in the canon.Alice Neel’s stated goal was to “capture the zeitgeist.” Born into a proper Victorian family at the turn of the twentieth century, ... + Read More
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Series: Elizabeth & Margaret The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters Hardcover Andrew Morton 9781538700464 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight.They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called 'Lillibet.' And bow to her wishes.Elizabeth would always look up... + Read More
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Series: My Mother's Daughter A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph Hardcover Perdita Felicien 9780385689960 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together.Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation’s hopes—she carried her mother Catherine’s dreams.In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she’s also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it’s her chance. They ask her to come to Ca... + Read More
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Series: Lookout Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest Hardcover Trina Moyles 9780735279919 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A page-turning memoir about a young woman’s grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers—strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. “I could never do it,” s... + Read More
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Series: The Pianist from Syria A Memoir Paperback Aeham Ahmad 9781501173509 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

This astonishing true story presents an “affecting viewpoint on life in Syria before and in the midst of extreme violence” (Booklist), offering a deeply personal and unique perspective on one of the most devastating refugee crises of this century.Aeham Ahmad was born a second-generation refugee—the son of a blind violinist and carpenter who recognized Aeham’s talent and taught him how to play piano and love music from an early age. When his grandparents and father were forced to flee Israel and seek refuge from the conflict ravaging their home,... + Read More
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Series: Eleanor in the Village Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village Hardcover Jan Jarboe Russell 9781501198151 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A vivid and incisive account of a mostly unknown yet critical chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt—when she moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America’s First Lady.Hundreds of books have been written about FDR and Eleanor, both together and separately, but yet she remains a compelling and elusive figure. And, not much is known about why in 1920, Eleanor suddenly abandoned her duties as a mother of five and moved to Greenwich Village, then the symbo... + Read More
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Series: The Librarian The Library Saved Her. Now She Wants To Save The Library Hardcover Allie Morgan 9781529107425 $35.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. I’m a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, the aged. I know my community well. And they know me. The library is a sanctuary for some, a place for warmth for others and, on many occassions, an internet cafe. It’s not always the books that bring us together. That’s why you might be surprised to hear that I’ve been a witness to an attempted murder, a targ... + Read More
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Series: Stronger Hardcover Gareth Thomas 9781529107753 $42.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

To understand how to empower yourself, first of all you have to recognize and accept your vulnerability. In Stronger, Gareth shares how he has managed to deal with the adversity life has thrown at him over the years, from his school years to his most recent difficult announcement that he is living with HIV.Gareth’s incredible willingness to expose his deepest emotional frailties as a man and come through even stronger as a result have made him a national hero and a role model for us all. Whether he is confronting the physical challenges of an I... + Read More
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Series: Cheer the F**K Up How to Save your Best Friend Paperback Jack Rooke 9781529108248 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

’Cheer the F**K Up is, without a doubt, the most meaningful and funniest book I have ever read on mental health and loss. Jack is a genius (fact) and he weaves together themes of love, grief, sexuality, trauma, growing up, mental health and friendship in a memoir that will stand the test of time. If you are a human living on this planet YOU NEED THIS BOOK! It has never been more important and never been more needed.’ - Scarlett Curtis’Once you’ve had the pleasure of reading a work by Jack Rooke, you’ll have spent time with one of the funniest, ... + Read More
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Series: Stronger Paperback Gareth Thomas 9781529107760 $31.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 27, 2021

To understand how to empower yourself, first of all you have to recognize and accept your vulnerability. In Stronger, Gareth shares how he has managed to deal with the adversity life has thrown at him over the years, from his school years to his most recent difficult announcement that he is living with HIV.Gareth’s incredible willingness to expose his deepest emotional frailties as a man and come through even stronger as a result have made him a national hero and a role model for us all. Whether he is confronting the physical challenges of an I... + Read More
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Series: Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid America's Original Gangster Couple Hardcover Glenn Stout 9780358067771 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

The true Jazz Age tale of America’s first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from Baltimore, reached for the dream of a better life. The couple headed up a gang that in less than a year stole over one million dollars’ worth of diamonds and precious gems—over ten million dollars today. Margaret was a chic flapper, the archetypal gun m... + Read More
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Series: Apology to the Young Addict A Memoir Paperback James Brown 9781640094659 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

Husband, addict, father, skeptic. Now sixty-with years of sobriety under his belt-the celebrated author of The Los Angeles Diaries and This River returns with his most moving work of memoir yet.The last in his recovery triptych that started with The Los Angeles Diaries and continued with This River, with Apology to the Young Addict, James Brown writes about finding a new path in life while raising three sons, making peace with the family whose ghosts have haunted him, and helping the next generation of addicts overcome their disease. Opening wi... + Read More
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Series: The Ocean Is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations Hardcover Jon Bradshaw 9781733540148 $52.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 26, 2021

"Bradshaw was a famously charming man, and his lounge-lizard urbanity fully suffuses his prose. This new anthology is a necessary book for all men and women of letters." —Martin Amis A collection of magazine writer Jon Bradshaw’s essential writings,The Ocean is Closed rediscovers a memorable talent, and offers us a shadow reality to the established literary cannon of the mid-century. With droll wit and keen intelligence, Bradshaw’s cinematic prose brings the ’70s to vibrant life—from the lurid pick-up scenes at hotspots like Maxwell’s Plum in ... + Read More
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Series: Surviving Samsara A Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental Illness Paperback Kagan Goh 9781773860329 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 26, 2021

A frank and touching memoir celebrating the resiliency of the spirit in the face of mental illness, psychotic breakdowns and stigma in society.“Samsara is defined as the ‘round of rebirth’ or ‘perpetual wandering’ … a continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering and dying.” —Buddhist Dictionary by Nyanatiloka MahatheraIn Kagan Goh’s debut memoir, he recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness. From an honest and personal perspective, Surviving Samsara traces Goh’... + Read More
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Series: If You Can't Quit Cryin', You Can't Come Here No More A Family's Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America Paperback Betty Frizzell 9781627311014 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 14, 2021

On May 12, 2013, 48-year-old Vicky Isaac of rural Puxico, Missouri—a woman with a history of learning disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and drug addiction— loaded a .22 caliber handgun and shot her violent addict husband while he slept in the trailer they shared with Vicky’s adult son. Or did she? According to police reports, Vicky called 911 and confessed to the crime. Was this another sad case of murder amongst addicts or something more? Betty Frizzell escaped her family’s legacy of crime, addiction, and abuse to become a respected l... + Read More
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Series: Three Brothers Memories of My Family Paperback Yan Lianke 9780802148629 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 26, 2021

From one of China’s most highly regarded writers, winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker Prize,Three Brothers is a beautiful and heartwrenching memoir of the author’s childhood and family life during the Cultural RevolutionIn this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and ’70s.Three Brothers is a literary testament to the great humanity and small joys that exist even in times... + Read More
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Series: Blueberries Paperback Ellena Savage 9781922268563 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 26, 2021

BlueberriesÂ could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, and an artist. It is both a memoir and an interrogation of memoir. Drawing comparisons to Maggie Nelson, Leslie Jamison, Ada Calhoun and Eula Biss, this is a new horizon in storytelling. In crystalline prose,Savage explores the essential questions of t... + Read More
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Series: Soft Zipper Objects, Food, Rooms Paperback George Bowering 9781554201723 $19.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 25, 2021

This engaging memoir relates stories about George Bowering's small-town BC upbringing and his parents — his father long dead and his mother more recently passed on at the age of 100 — while at the same time honouring the author's other "parents": Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, and Roland Barthes.Borrowing a structure and some precepts about writing from Stein, Bowering remains true to his inimitable self, relating his recollections and observations, his ever-curious mind travelling across the decades as he recounts some of the objects, food, ro... + Read More
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Series: Wembley or Bust Hardcover Jeff Lynne 9781905662647 $67.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Age (years) from 15 - 75 Mar 24, 2021

‘When I wrote and recorded these songs originally, I never would have expected the fantastic audience response all these years later; it's amazing.’ – Jeff LynneThe music of Jeff Lynne is beloved by fans all over the world and has been for three generations. Now, after a hiatus of nearly thirty years, the multi-award winning songwriter, producer and founder of ELO has made a triumphant return to touring. Since 2014, he has played across Europe and North America, the high point for Lynne being his dramatic homecoming for a crowd of 60,000 fans a... + Read More
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Series: Francis Bacon Revelations Hardcover Mark Stevens 9780307271624 $79.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

A decade in the making: the first comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the iconic painters of the twentieth century—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master. Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in both twentieth century art and life—from his public emergence with his legendary Triptych 1944 (its images “so unrelievedly awful” that people fled the gallery), to his death in Madrid in 1992.Bacon was a witty free spirit and unaba... + Read More
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Series: The Truth at the Heart of the Lie How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul Hardcover James Carroll 9780593134702 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

A former priest and National Book Award-winning writer examines his crisis of faith and his journey to renewal in this beautifully written memoir that also traces the roots of the Catholic sex abuse scandal back to the history and power structure of the church itself.James Carroll weaves together the story of his quest to understand his personal beliefs and his relationship to the Catholic church with the history of the church itself. From his first awakening of faith as a boy to his gradual restlessness and disillusionment as a Catholic, Carro... + Read More
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Series: The Marathon Don't Stop The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle Hardcover Rob Kenner 9781982140298 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy—before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up.In the ten years since he first met Nipsey Hussle in the offices of Vibe, journalist Rob Kenner followed Hussle’s career, paying close attention to the music and business movement he was building in Los Angeles. Ten years later, they spoke again. To Kenner, it be... + Read More
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Series: House of Glass The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family Paperback Hadley Freeman 9781501199202 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

Writer Hadley Freeman investigates her family’s secret history in this “exceptional” (The Washington Post) “masterpiece” (The Daily Telegraph) uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations.Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cro... + Read More
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Series: Fierce Poise Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York Hardcover Alexander Nemerov 9780525560180 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century’s most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York“The magic of Alexander Nemerov’s portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen’s paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and yet profound. His book is an ode to a truly great artist who, some seventy years after this story begi... + Read More
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Series: Trout Water A Year on the Au Sable Hardcover Josh Greenberg 9781612199016 $32.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

An elegiac memoir about fly-fishing on America’s greatest trout stream… At the beginning of trout fishing season, Josh Greenberg — proprietor of one of the nation’s most famous fishing outfitters, on America’s most iconic trout-fishing stream, the Au Sable River in Michigan — is struggling to cope with the slow death of a close friend. When he gets the call that his friend has finally passed, Greenberg is standing in the Au Sable River at dusk. The solace he takes from fishing — from reading the movement of the river water, studying the play... + Read More
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Series: Not on My Watch How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon Hardcover Alexandra Morton 9780735279667 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

Alexandra Morton has been called “the Jane Goodall of Canada” because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are sayi... + Read More
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Series: Peyakow Reclaiming Cree Dignity, A Memoir Hardcover Darrel J. McLeod 9781771622318 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 20, 2021

Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeod’s 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation—winning the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of white classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endur... + Read More
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Series: A Revolution in Consciousness An Insider's View of the New Age Paperback Mikhail Horowitz 9781948626415 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 19, 2021

A Revolution in Consciousness documents the story of the New Age movement as seen through the eyes of someone who lived through much of it. It covers the history and the backstory of many of its major events as well as the innovators, writers, and teachers who were responsible for creating it during the past hundred years. There are many firsthand encounters described including Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Rajneesh, Ram Dass, Trungpa Rinpoche and Pir Vilayat. It concludes with an incisive analysis of boththe achievements as well a... + Read More
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Series: Processed Meats Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster Paperback Nicole Walker 9781948814348 $28.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 19, 2021

"Nicole Walker writes with dazzling liquidity."—ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, author ofZoologiesNicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means of coping when she failed to get pregnant. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, she cooked veggie burgers for friends and hamburgers for herself—to enjoy outside, six feet apart. Her Mormon ancestors canned peaches to prepare for the End of Days and congealed beef broth into aspic as a surefire cure for ailment. Throughout the richly layered essays ofProcessed Meats, Walker ponders food choices and life cho... + Read More
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Series: I Had a Miscarriage A Memoir, a Movement Paperback Jessica Zucker 9781558612884 $28.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 19, 2021

Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical. She now had a changed perspective on her life’s work, her patients’ pain, and the crucial need for a zeitgeist shift. Navigating this nascent transition amid her own grief became a catalyst for Jessica to bring voice to this ubiquitous experience. Sheembarked on a mission to upend the strident trifecta of silence, s... + Read More
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Series: Essais Series Begin by Telling Paperback Meg Remy 9781771666633 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 21, 2021

Never forget / to connect the dots / This book is an attempt to connect a couple. In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from early childhood to present day, Remy paints a stark portrait of a spectacle-driven country. As though channel surfing, we catch glimpses of Desert Storm, the Oklahoma City Bombing, random street violence, the petrochemical industry, small town Deadheads, a... + Read More
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Series: Anything but a Still Life The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak Hardcover Nathan Greenfield 9781773100920 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the end of the war, they moved first to Vancouver and then, in 1960, to Fredericton, where they settled permanently. Molly’s paintings were vibrant and colourful, featuring dynamic crowd scenes and wildflowers that seem to wave on the page. In contrast, Bruno painted near-abstract cityscapes, stunning landscapes, and distorted bodies wracked with inner torment, work that is unique in Canadian art.In this book, acclaimed author Nathan... + Read More
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Series: Washington's Engineer Louis Duportail and the Creation of an Army Corps Hardcover Norman Desmarais 9781633886568 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

The French were the archenemies of the British and her American colonies, particularly after the French and Indian War which was begun by George Washington. So, why did America look to the French as their principal ally in the American Revolution and why did General George Washington choose a Frenchman as his chief engineer? This biography of Louis Duportail, founder and first Commandant of the Army Corps of Engineers, begins by exploring those questions. It then explores the life of this man, who is virtually unknown in America and less known... + Read More
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Series: The Luckiest Guy in the World My Journey in Politics Hardcover Robert Abrams 9781510758780 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

The Unbelievable True Story of Robert Abrams, the man who changed the New York Attorney General's Office for Good. At the heart of this political memoir is the story of how the office of state attorney general, an historically sleepy backwater post, has evolved into a front line major protector of the rights of citizens across the country. New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams exercised leadership in organizing attorneys general throughout the nation to take collective action against the Reagan administration’s punishing laissez-faire a... + Read More
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Series: Uprooted Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind Hardcover Grace Olmstead 9780593084021 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

In a poignant memoir, a young journalist wrestles with what we owe the places we’ve left behind.In the tiny farmtown of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who leave and those who stay. Those who leave go in search of greener pastures, better jobs, and college. Those who stay are left to contend with thinning communities, punishing government farm policy, and environmental decay. Grace Olmstead is one who left, and in her debut memoir she examines the heartbreaking consequences of her decision—and those of people like her—for he... + Read More
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Series: Elegy for Mary Turner An Illustrated Account of a Lynching Paperback Rachel Marie-Crane Williams 9781788739047 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artworkIn late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens.Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens bake... + Read More
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Series: Average Expectations Lessons in Lowering the Bar Hardcover Shep Rose 9781982159795 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

This witty and engaging collection of essays from the charismatic star of Southern Charm offers rip-roaring stories and tongue-in-cheek advice on everything from relationships to travel to popular culture and beyond. Perfect for fans of authors as wide-ranging as Andy Cohen to Tucker Max. Shep Rose, star of Southern Charm and owner of Shep Gear, shares this irreverent and relatable collection of lessons and anecdotes about living an untamed, genuine life, raising hell yet having fun along the way. With his signature endearingly snarky voice, he... + Read More