1.
Series:
A Ghost in the Throat
Paperback
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
9781771964111
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 01, 2021
An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Guardian Best Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize • Winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize • A New York Times New & Noteworthy Title • Longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize • A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 • A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 • An NPR Best Book of 2021 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A Wi...
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Series:
Black Snake
Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
Paperback
Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
9781496222664
$33.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 01, 2021
2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Regional Nonfiction 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture 2022 Montaigne Medal Finalist 2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for History The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting American oil from the Bakken oil fields of the northern plains to markets nationwide, essential to both nation...
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Series:
Ours to Explore
Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism
Paperback
Pippa Biddle
9781640124417
$33.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jun 01, 2021
In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism—the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Biddle has devoted herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good, and she tracks that investigation in Ours to Explore. The flaws of voluntourism have included xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a “West knows best” mentality. From exploitative orphanages that keep c...
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4.
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete
Paperback
Eleonore Schönmaier
9780228005810
$17.95
POETRY
Jun 01, 2021
Thyme clings, high / and away from the grazing and scents / the air.Island reality is interconnected with live-retrieved memories in which a nurse follows a violent patient into the northern Canadian bush, a migrant mother faces her new job as the village butcher, an Ojibway man is forced to walk a dangerous route home alone, teenagers loot the local dump to build their mother's wheelchair, and an electrician watches a woman play a grand piano on a ballfield.A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field...
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5.
Series:
Four Faces of the Moon
Paperback
Amanda Strong
9781773214535
$18.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Sep 07, 2021
"Four Faces of the Moon is a visually stunning story of Métis life, love and belonging. A rich, beautiful and immersive reading experience that shouldn't be missed." -Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies "This is magnificent storytelling. This is Spotted Fawn magic." -Richard Van Camp, author of Little You, and We Sang You Home On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land in this essential graphic novel. ...
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6.
Series:
Last Hummingbird West of Chile
Paperback
Nicholas Ruddock
9781550818840
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 15, 2021
***IPPY AWARDS: LITERARY FICTION – BRONZE*** An audacious tale of murder, privilege, and servitude - of both humans and nature. A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird West of Chile spins a tale of adventure that is in turn comedic, violent, poignant and thoughtful. Through the exploits of a young sailor born in questionable circumstance and a pair of murderous servants, as well as an assortment of other 19th century regulars, the vital subjects of today—race, religion, sexuality, environment—are framed in history and huma...
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Series:
Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution
Hardcover
Meredith Ralston
9780228006657
$34.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 16, 2021
The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality.In Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution Meredith Ralston looks at the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threate...
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