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Love of a Good Woman
With an Introduction by A.S. Byatt Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the O. Henry Award, and A 2004 CBC Canada Reads selection In The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro looks back to the beginning of the sixties and provides nothing less…
Read MoreThe Mermaid Chair
Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.
Read MoreCaste
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. “An instant American classic.”–Dwight Garner, The New York Times “As…
Read MoreHomegoing
“Homegoing is an inspiration.” –Ta-Nehisi Coates An unforgettable New York Times bestseller of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the descendants of two sisters across three hundred years in Ghana and America. A riveting kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing is a novel about race, history, ancestry,…
Read MoreJoyous Health
“Joyous Health, a fresh new approach to eating, will change the way you think about food with its simple and practical path that will create a healthy lifestyle. In just six weeks, holistic nutritionist Joy McCarthy guides you through an easy-to-follow and flexible program and puts you on a permanent path to good health with…
Read MoreAgent Sonya
The international bestselling author of A Spy and the Traitor and A Spy Among Friends reveals one of the last great untold spy stories of the twentieth century–the woman hidden in plain sight who set the stage for the Cold War. If you happened to be in the quiet English village of Great Rollright in…
Read MoreAtomic Habits
James Clear presents strategies to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that help lead to an improved life.
Read MoreA Battle Won
After being tasked with taking HMS Themis into battle against the French for the strategically located island of Corsica, Master and Commander Charles Hayden soon must land his ship on Corsica, where his men join forces with native insurgents. By the author of Under Enemy Colors. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Read More7 Ways
7 Ways to reinvent your favourite ingredients with more than 120 new, exciting and tasty recipes Jamie’s looked at the top ingredients we buy week in, week out. We’re talking about those meal staples we pick up without thinking – chicken breasts, salmon fillets, mince, eggs, potatoes, broccoli, mushrooms, to name but a few. We’re…
Read MoreThe Quiet Americans
From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA’s covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences which still affect the world today At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing–seen as…
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