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The Way Out
The social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better our lives, relationships, and country.
Read MoreWorld War C
As a favourite frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has had the insider of insider access to the drama’s unfolding, including exclusive conversations with the world’s top public health experts and behind-the-scenes scientists racing to find treatments and cures. Dr. Gupta gives you the unvarnished story behind the pandemic, including insights about the novel…
Read MoreThe Galaxy and the Ground Within
Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos–one often mentioned, but not yet explored–in this absorbing entry in the Wayfarers series, which blends heart-warming characters and imaginative adventure. With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing…
Read MoreThe Unwanteds # Island of Fire
The magical world of Artimâe is gone and the Unwanteds are looking to Alex Stowe for answers, but while his twin brother Aaron continues to build his army in Quill, a very dangerous common enemy is revealed.
Read MoreJumble Trouble
For over sixty-five years, millions of newspaper readers have delighted in solving the daily Jumble®, which appears in hundreds of national papers and in these puzzle books. Each page features a series of mixed-up words coupled with a cartoon clue, and certain letters from each word are used to form the answer to the puzzle.
Read MoreThe Pigeon Tunnel
“Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I’m sitting now.” From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to…
Read MoreTreasure Island
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a map that leads them to a pirate’s treasure
Read MoreNothing But The Truth
‘Nothing But the Truth’ is a memoir by Marie Henein, Canadas top (and most controversial) defense lawyer, who successfully defended Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryan and then Jian Ghomeshi. In this book, Henein weaves her personal story with her strongly held views on societys most pressing issues, legal and otherwise. Henein lives in Toronto, ON.
Read MoreNudge
“First published in the United States of America by Yale University Press, 2008; first published in Penguin Books 2009”–Title page verso.
Read MorePermanent Astonishment
Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family who traversed the tundra by dogsled and lived off the land. In Permanent Astonishment, one…
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