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Series:
Damn Shame
A Memoir of Desire, Defiance, and Show Tunes
Paperback
David Pevsner
9781039000506
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 11, 2022
A funny, daring, bawdy and incredibly honest memoir from the anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sex advocate and erotic provocateur.Over the course of his 40-year career in show business, David Pevsner has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and on numerous TV network shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family and Criminal Minds.As he continues his career in entertainment, Pevsner has also dedicated himself to exploring his deepest sexual fantasies. In his late 30s he became a mature male escort and over ...
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Free Love
Paperback
Tessa Hadley
9781039003057
$22.95
FICTION
Feb 01, 2022
A compulsive new novel about one woman’s sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London.1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy.But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the...
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Toufah
The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement
Paperback
Toufah Jallow
9780735282322
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 01, 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLER“This powerful story shouldn’t be missed.” Publishers Weekly (starred)“A fiercely readable, potent memoir of a survivor who refuses to be silenced…. An inspirational page-turner." Kirkus Reviews (starred)An incandescent and inspiring memoir from a courageous young woman who, after she was forced to flee to Canada from her home in The Gambia, became the first woman to publicly call the country’s dictator to account for sexual assault—launching an unprecedented protest movement in West Africa.In 2015, Toufah Jallow was a ninete...
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The Tenth Nerve
A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him
Hardcover
Dr. Chris Honey
9781039001169
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Feb 08, 2022
Riveting and dramatic, The Tenth Nerve offers a rare window into the world of a pre-eminent neurosurgeon and the seven exceptional patients that made him a better person.“The scalpel can only go so deep, and technical skill can only take one so far.” In this absorbing narrative, Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, weaves his personal journey together with case studies that reflect the thrill of scientific discovery and the limitations of medicine. Operating on a terminally ill child amid an Ebola outbrea...
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5.
Series:
Daughters of the Deer
Paperback
Danielle Daniel
9780735282087
$24.00
FICTION
Mar 08, 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family’s ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers.1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their English allies if they are to survive. When her chief be...
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6.
Series:
Best Young Woman Job Book
A Memoir
Hardcover
Emma Healey
9780735275003
$29.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 22, 2022
Wry, inventive, and relentlessly honest, a memoir of trying to make a living without compromising your truth.Emma Healey just wants to be a writer, but that’s more a journey than a job, and the journey isn’t free. As a teenager, she begins her adventures in precarious employment when introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of “standardized patient,” performing illness as a living training dummy for medical students. In university, she joins a creative writing program, cultivating a poet’s interest in language while learning lesson...
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Series:
Stories I Might Regret Telling You
A Memoir
Hardcover
Martha Wainwright
9780345815088
$34.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 29, 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe singer-songwriter’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more.Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly acclaimed, genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with incomparable musical legends—Anna McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Suzzy Roche, Richard and Linda Thompson, Emmylou Harris—and struggled to find her voice...
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Series:
22 Murders
Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia
Paperback
Paul Palango
9781039001275
$26.95
TRUE CRIME
Apr 12, 2022
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of dentu...
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