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Twelve-year-old Raj is happiest flying kites with his best friend, Iqbal. As their kites soar, Raj feels free, like his beloved India soon will be, and he can't wait to celebrate their independence. But when a British lawyer draws a line across a map, splitting India in two, Raj is thrust into a fractured world. With Partition declared, Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim families are torn apart, and Raj's Hindu and Iqbal's Muslim families are among them. Forced...
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Niigaan Sinclair has been called one of this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada. In his debut collection of stories, observations, and thoughts about Winnipeg, the place he calls "ground zero" of Canada's future, read about the complex history and contributions of this place alongside the radical solutions to injustice and violence found here, presenting solutions...
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'More, Please' is an unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorders from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue. Emma Specter provides a context, a history, and a language for what it means to always want more than youll allow yourself to have.
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Canada in Decline volume 1
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Canada is at a crossroad. Neoliberalism has hollowed out and sold off the social services Canadians rely on now more than ever, and has brought into stark relief the dissonance among colonial, Indigenous, and some of Canada's most at-risk groups. 'The Social Safety Net' tracks the 40-year attack on Canadas social safety net. As neoliberalism has matured in Canada, Canadians are seeing the impact of these attacks: unreliable health services, crises...
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From former NYT reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent Tom Wolfe-esque romp through the sacred spaces of woke progressivism. Funny and insightful, 'Struggle Sessions' is an unmissable debut by one of America's sharpest journalists. Nellie Bowles leaves no liberal shibboleth unchallenged, and her unsettling and unforgettable scenes will be read by readers for years to come. Please Note: The following title was included in a previous Bestseller...
9) Nexus
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Information on this new and exciting book from Penguin Random House Canada is coming soon.
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"Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories."--Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars. One of the things small town librarian Amanda...
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How did we become a world where facts - shared truths - have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts? In 'The Death of Truth', journalist Steven Brill documents the forces and people, from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue to Moscow to Washington, that...
12) Want
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From the star of Sex Education and The X-Files comes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the sex lives and desires of real women today A collection of confessions from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of womens sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous? What do you want, when no-one is watching? What do you want,...
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In 'Hip-Hop is History', Questlove, the Grammy and Oscar winner and NYT bestselling multi-hyphenate cultural icon, skillfully traces the convergence of creative and cultural forces that shaped hip-hop since its inception 50 years ago, and how the genre has evolved up to the present moment.
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