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  • Solitary

    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONNamed One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2019Named the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookBrowse, and Literary HubWinner of the BookBrowse Award for Best Debut of 2019A.. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

    Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—in the shadow of Chernobyl—seemingly with the odds stacked against her. She came into the world with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep, and no thumbs. Her left leg was six inches shorter than her right, and she was missing both tibias.Relinquished to the orphanage system by birth parents daunted by the staggering ... Read more

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  • Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]

    A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson.When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read ... Read more

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  • Wuhan Diary

    Dispatches from a Quarantined City

    by Fang Fang ...
    From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-nineteen outbreak.On January twenty-five, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, her nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of ... Read more

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  • Children of the Land

    A Memoir

    An NPR Best Book of the YearA 2020 International Latino Book Award FinalistAn Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the YearThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's attempt to build a future ... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MS-13

    The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

    by Steven Dudley ...
    "One of the year's most important books, a gripping meticulously reported account of the rise of one of the world's most notorious street gangs." —Mitch Weiss, Pulitzer Prize winnerWinner of the Lukas PrizeAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe MS-13 was born from war.In the 1980s, Alex and his brother fled El Salvador for the US and formed the Mara Salvatrucha Stoners. Initially bound by a love of heavy ... Read more

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  • The Teacup Poisoner

    Murder and Mayhem, #4

    by Fergus Mason ...
    Series Book 4 - Murder and Mayhem
    ★★★ A page-turning true crime story ★★★Graham Young had an unusual obsession from a young age. Where most youths might be interested in music and sports, Young was fascinated by poisons. By the age of 14, he was using his family (who, of course, didn't know) as experiments. In 1962, still a teen, his stepmother died from one of his poisoning experiments.Young eventually confessed to the murder of ... Read more

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  • Even if Your Heart Would Listen

    Losing My Daughter to Heroin

    In January 2014, Elise Schiller’s youngest child, thirty-three-year-old Giana Natali, died of a heroin overdose while a resident in a treatment program in Boulder County, Colorado. Even if Your Heart Would Listen is about Giana’s life, which was full of accomplishments, and her mental illness, addiction, and death. Using excerpts from the journals, planners, and letters Giana left behind, as well ... Read more

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  • This Will Be My Undoing

    Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

    A New York Times– bestselling collection of provocative essays meditating on what life is like for a black woman in America today.One of The Roots's 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire , Elle , Vogue <s... ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

    A Memoir in Essays

    by Damon Young ...
    "A blazing memoir in essays" ( Entertainment Weekly) that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be black (and a man) in America.An NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the YearA Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist fo... ... Read more

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  • Real American

    A Memoir

    A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a black woman in America“Courageous, achingly honest."—Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorb**lindnessBringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Rabbit

    A Memoir

    Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work"An absolute must-read" – Shondaland“[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York TimesThey called her Rabbit.Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get by on... ... Read more

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