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  • Adventures in Solitude

    What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Abridged

    From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new chapter to the saga of this storied piece ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Return to Solitude

    More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others

    The long awaited sequel to Grant Lawrence’s bestselling memoir Adventures in Solitude.It's been over a decade since renowned broadcaster and indie rock musician Grant Lawrence launched his writing career with the award-winning Adventures in Solitude, yet some things never change--including the winding Sunshine Coast Highway, close calls at the BC Ferries ticket office and carsick children. But ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bailey the Bat and the Tangled Moose

    Illustrated by Noémie Gionet Landry ...
    Defying Mama Bat’s orders, Bailey sneaks out of their hollow tree to follow a mournful cry coming from somewhere deep in the forest.The sun is up and it's time for bed, but Bailey the Bat just can't sleep! Bailey discovers a young bull moose tangled up in an old fence. On one side of the fence, hunters roam. On the other side, a wolf pack is hunting. Both parties are looking for an easy dinner. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Rewind

    Lessons from Fifty Years of Activism

    by T Williams ...
    An accomplished African American activist’s valuable stories and insights on navigating crises, building networks, and maintaining a commitment to community—from the foment of the 1960s to today“I was there in north Minneapolis when the national protests of the ‘long, hot summer’ swept through my new home town too, mostly along Plymouth Avenue. And I was part of the solution cobbled together to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

    by Ijeoma Oluo ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Teacher Wars

    A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

    In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Politics Is for Power

    How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change

    by Eitan Hersh ...
    A groundbreaking analysis of political hobbyism—treating politics like a spectator sport—and an urgent and timely call to arms for the many well-meaning, well-informed citizens who follow political news, but do not take political action.Do you consider yourself politically engaged? Probably, yes! But are you, really? The uncomfortable truth is that most of us have good intentions. We vote ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Punished for Dreaming

    How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

    NOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWINNER, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICEFINALIST, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education ‘reform’ in this landmark book. I hat... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Privatization of Everything

    How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

    The book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian“An essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons.” —Naomi KleinA sweeping exposé of the ways in which private interests strip public goods of their power and diminish ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Please Stop Helping Us

    How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

    Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Believing

    Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

    by Anita Hill ...
    **“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors… It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together.”—NPRWinner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksFrom the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Radical

    Fighting to Put Students First

    by Michelle Rhee ...
    In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a fearless and pioneering advocate for education reform, draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better American schools.Rhee's goal is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making students—not adults—our top priority, and she outlines concrete steps that will put us on a dramatically different course. Informing her critique are her extraordinary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus