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Series: Front-Wave Boomers Growing (Very) Old, Staying Connected, and Reimagining Aging Paperback Gillian Ranson 9780774890502 $22.95 HEALTH & FITNESS May 15, 2022

In this timely book, journalist and sociologist Gillian Ranson, a front-wave boomer herself, investigates what the oldest boomers are doing to prepare for old age. Just as the baby boomer generation transformed life for teenagers and youth in the 1960s, they now have a chance to reimagine a better way to grow old. Baby boomers make up more than 25 percent of the Canadian population, and the front wave are now in their seventies. They’re heading into very old age at a time when ageism is overtly accepted, elders have been cruelly affected b... + Read More
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Series: Poguemahone Paperback Patrick McCabe 9781771964739 $27.95 FICTION May 03, 2022

A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call girl. Young Una’s search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she’ll never get over. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories... + Read More
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Series: The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, Revised Edition Paperback Yoram Bauman 9781642832334 $35.95 SCIENCE May 03, 2022

Climate change is no laughing matter-but maybe it should be. The topic is so critical that everyone, from students to policy-makers to voters, needs a quick and easy guide to the basics. The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change entertains as it educates, delivering a unique and enjoyable presentation of mind-blowing facts and critical concepts. "Stand-up economist" Yoram Bauman and award-winning illustrator Grady Klein have created the funniest overview of climate science, predictions, and policy that you’ll ever read. You’ll giggle, but you’... + Read More
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Series: Growing Old, Going Cold Notes on Swimming, Aging, and Finishing Last Paperback Kathleen McDonnell 9781772602555 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2022

What is it about freezing cold water that draws people in? Throughout history, humans have gravitated to cold water swimming and celebrated its healing properties, calling it the secret to good health and serenity. Today, cold water swimmers gather in groups from Galway to Georgian Bay to jump into frigid waters for fun, competition, and even as a form of activism and protest. Kathleen McDonnell started swimming in Lake Ontario, infamous for its chilly depths, because it was close to home. As time went on she began to rely on a daily dip, even ... + Read More
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Series: Bloomsbury Girls A Novel Hardcover Natalie Jenner 9781250276698 $36.99 FICTION May 17, 2022

The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world.Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls i... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes On Class Paperback Deborah Dundas 9781771964814 $15.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 02, 2023

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do. Stories about poor people are rarely written by the poor—and when they are written they tend to fit into a hero narrative. Through hard work, smarts, and temerity, the hero pulls themselves up by their bootstraps in a narrative that simply provides an easy exception: l... + Read More
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Series: Things We Do in the Dark A Novel Hardcover Jennifer Hillier 9781250763167 $36.99 FICTION Jul 19, 2022

*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*"Propulsive and chilling." --People Magazine"An intoxicating thrill ride. Hillier jams her foot on the accelerator and never lets up." --New York Times Book ReviewThings We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future.When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a st... + Read More
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Series: Essential Ideas Philosophy: 50 Essential Ideas Hardcover Michael Moore 9781398802360 $21.95 PHILOSOPHY Jul 30, 2022

This book cuts out the boring details and exhausting philosophical methodology and provides readers a lesson in philosophy that keeps them engaged as they explore the fascinating history of human thought and inquisition.Written in plain English, with concise explanations of branches of philosophy such as metaphysics and ethics, it untangles complicated theories and makes sense of abstract concepts.
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Series: Try Not to Be Strange The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda Paperback Michael Hingston 9781771964159 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 13, 2022

On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming. Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, t... + Read More
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