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  • Fallen

    A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music

    by Kara Stanley ...
    Part recovery narrative and part love story, interwoven with the latest research on the brain, Fallen describes the aftermath of a life-threatening brain and spinal cord injury.In 2008, Simon Paradis stepped backward on the scaffolding where he was doing construction work and fell two stories to the hard stone tile below. Landing on his back, head, and spine, he suffered a severe brain and spinal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pain Project

    A Couple's Story of Confronting Chronic Pain

    TARGET AUDIENCE: People suffering from chronic pain and their caregivers; readers of The Body Keeps the Score and The Way Out, as well as readers of literary memoirs about illness and trauma such as The Empathy Exams and What My Bones Know.INSIGHTFUL PORTRAIT OF PAIN: A thoughtful exploration of chronic pain, and how complex of a phenomenon it is.PERSONAL STORY: Combines Kara and Simon’s ... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Nothing Like Love

    A sparkling, witty and confident debut from a rising Canadian star whose Trinidadian roots and riotous storytelling heritage inform her completely delightful novel.It is 1974 in the town of Chance, Trinidad--home to a colourful cast of cane farmers, rum-drinkers, scandal-mongers . . . and a bright 18-year-old schoolgirl named Vimla Narine. After passing her A-levels with extraordinary results and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Coming Ashore

    A Memoir

    Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London’s swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate.After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from the Hough Ghetto ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Invisible Thread

    The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny

    This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small gesture of kindness, this is a “ray of hope for a better future, as well as an assurance that love is a stronger force than injustice and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Kitchen Confidential

    25th Anniversary Edition

    Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential.Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Reason I Jump

    The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

    Translated by KA Yoshida, David Mitchell ...
    “One of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read. It’s truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid.”—Jon Stewart, The Daily ShowNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR • The Wall Street Journal • Bloomberg Business • BookishFINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE FIRST BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYou’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump</... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Descent

    A Novel

    by Tim Johnston ...
    “Read this astonishing novel . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story.” —The Washington PostDon't miss DISTANT SONS, the new literary thriller from Tim Johnston, available now.The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Etta and Otto and Russell and James

    A Novel

    by Emma Hooper ...
    This “poetic, poignant” (US Weekly) debut features last great adventures, unlikely heroes, and a “sweet, disarming story of lasting love” (The New York Times Book Review).Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Reason You Walk

    A Memoir

    by Wab Kinew ...
    A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic aboriginal starWhen his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. The Reason You Walk spans that 2012 year, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • God Help the Child

    A Novel

    by Toni Morrison ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.“Powerful.... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times**At the center: a young woman who calls ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Did You Ever Have a Family

    by Bill Clegg ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, MAN BOOKER PRIZE, PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE, AND ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • AN ALA NOTABLE BOOKHailed as “masterly” by The New York Times Book Review, “a brilliantly constructed debut set in the aftermath of catastrophic loss” (2015 Man Booker Prize Judges).The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg ... Read more

    $12.99 USD