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“robin c whittaker”

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  • No White Picket Fence

    A Verbatim Play about Young Women’s Resilience through Foster Care

    by Robin C. Whittaker, Sue Mckenzie-Mohr ...
    No White Picket Fence tells stories that need to be heard about young women's resilience through foster care. Drawn from in-depth interviews, this powerful verbatim play gives voice to marginalized perspectives from those at the heart of the youth in care system. The play follows the women's unique experiences in their own words, from before being taken into care, through their time in the system, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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    The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

    by Brené Brown ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of ImperfectionDon’t miss the five-part Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart!“True belonging doesn’t ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Disability Visibility

    First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Alice Wong ...
    **A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." • Edited by MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellow Alice Wong ... Read more

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  • Overwhelmed

    Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

    by Brigid Schulte ...
    Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Fun Habit

    How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life

    by Mike Rucker, PhD ...
    Discover the latest scientific evidence for the potent and revitalizing value of fun and how to make having fun a habitual and authentic part of your daily life with “this well-researched and impressive guide” (BookPage).Doesn’t it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes?There is an easy fix: fun is an action you can take here and now, practically anywhere, anytime. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Ghosts of the Canadian National Exhibition

    by Richard Palmisano ...
    When one thinks of Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition, memories of bright lights, cotton candy, the rush of people, and the excitement of rides spring to mind. But when the lights go down and the people head home, the fairground takes on a life of its own. The spirits that dwell there from the exhibition's long history come out to play and work, even to scare the occasional employee.The ... Read more

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  • Falling for Myself

    A Memoir

    by Dorothy Ellen Palmer ...
    In this searing and seriously funny memoir, Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down, a lot, and spends a lifetime learning to appreciate her disability. Born with two very different, very tiny feet, she was adopted as a toddler by an already wounded 1950s family. From childhood surgeries to decades as a feminist teacher, mom, improv coach and unionist, she tried to hide being different. But now, standing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Graeme Gibson Interviews Alice Munro

    From Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson

    by Graeme Gibson, Alice Munro ...
    In honour of Alice Munro's Nobel Prize for Literature, Anansi Digital is re-releasing a candid interview with Munro by Canadian novelist Graeme Gibson.Taken from Eleven Canadian Novelists, which was originally published in 1973 by House of Anansi Press, the interview is a revealing and wide-ranging dialogue between two writers, and a rare view of Munro and her work.With the intuition of an insider ... Read more

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  • Like a Boy but Not a Boy

    Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary

    by andrea bennett ...
    Inquisitive and expansive, *Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett’s experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness, mortality, creative work, class, and bike mechanics (apparently you can ... Read more

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  • Passed and Present

    Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive

    by Allison Gilbert ...
    Passed and Present is a one-of-a-kind guide for discovering creative and meaningful ways to keep the memory of loved ones alive.Inspiring and imaginative, this bona fide "how-to” manual teaches us how to remember those we miss most, no matter how long they’ve been gone. Passed and Present is not about sadness and grieving. It is about happiness and remembering. It is possible to look forward, to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Social Acupuncture

    by Darren O'Donnell ...
    Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could produce. So his latest show, A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, isn’t really a show; it’s an interactive chitchat about memory, depression, and 9/11, a dazzling whirl of talking streetcars, pizza and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • bug

    by Yolanda Bonnell ...
    bug is a solo performance and artistic ceremony that highlights the ongoing effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma experienced by Indigenous women, as well as a testimony to the women's resilience and strength. The Girl traces her life from surviving the foster care system to her struggles with addictions. She fights, hoping to break the cycle in order to give her daughter a different ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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