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  • Botany of Madness

    by Leon Engler ...
    Translated by Alexandra Roesch ...
    “Irresistible. A book that is at once grave and light, tender and tough, satirical and earnest.”—Siri Hustvedt, author of The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves and Ghost StoriesA young man is gripped by one fear: that he'll lose his mind. In his family, mental illness has shaped lives for generations, and time in psychiatric wards has become almost a rite of passage. His battle to avoid ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Paradise Garden

    by Elena Fischer ...
    Translated by Alexandra Roesch ...
    Nominated for the German Book Prize 2023 and the Harbour Front Literary Festival's Debut Prize (Hamburg).Fourteen-year-old Billie rarely ventures beyond the concrete boundaries of her high-rise housing estate. Money is always tight—by the end of each month, it barely stretches to pasta with ketchup—but her mother, Marika, fills their small world with warmth, imagination, and fierce love.Everything ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature Is Never Silent

    by Madlen Ziege ...
    Translated by Alexandra Roesch ...
    For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communicate with each other.In forests, fields, and even gardens, there is a constant exchange of information going on. Animals and plants must communicate with one another to survive, but they also tell lies, set traps, talk to themselves, and speak to each ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Boy with a Black Rooster

    Can an eleven-year-old boy succeed where others have failed? Can he recover a kidnapped child, disprove a false accusation of assault or win a sleep-deprivation competition that has driven others mad with tragic consequences?He can, if he is accompanied by a black rooster, his protector and friend. And if he is Martin, orphaned after a massacre, full of wisdom, courage and a pure heart. Too good ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Hormones, Our Health

    how to understand your hormones and transform your life

    A handbook for how we can use the power of our hormones to master any stage of life.Joint pain, weight gain, migraines, acne, sleepless nights, loss of libido — all of these and more can be caused by hormone imbalances. Our health is impacted by our hormones all the way through our lives. So why do we often assume they’re mainly ‘a menopause thing’, and wait until hot flushes arrive before we take ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    Nature Is Never Silent

    How Animals and Plants Communicate with Each Other

    Narrated by Tanya Schneider ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    In forests, fields and even gardens, there is a constant exchange of information going on. Animals and plants must communicate with one another to survive, but they also tell lies, set traps, talk to themselves and speak to each other in a variety of unexpected ways. In Nature is Never Silent, behavioural biologist, Madlen Ziege, reveals the fascinating world of nonhuman communication. In charming ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Lilly and Her Slave

    by Hans Fallada ...
    Translated by Alexandra Roesch ...
    Almost 100 years after Hans Fallada committed himself to prison, previously unpublished and rewritten stories by the bestselling mid-century German author have been discovered.It was the turning point before he became a bestselling author: Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police in September 1925, following repeated cases of embezzlement to finance his alcohol and morphine addiction.At the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Lilly and Her Slave

    by Hans Fallada ...
    Narrated by Christine Rendel ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    It was the turning point before he became a bestselling author: Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police in September 1925, following repeated cases of embezzlement to finance his alcohol and morphine addiction.At the time, a court-appointed doctor was assigned to assess the extent to which Fallada could be made accountable. This expert opinion, thought to have been lost, was only recently ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • An Immense World

    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

    by Ed Yong ...
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  • George's Marvelous Medicine

    by Roald Dahl ...
    Illustrated by Quentin Blake ...
    From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda!George’s grandma is a grouch! She’s always mean to George (and not much nicer to his parents, either). One day, when George is put in charge of giving Grandma her medicine, he wonders if he can come up with his own remedy to try and help Grandma become less of a grump. Using some rather unusual ingredients, George creates ... Read more

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  • Your Inner Fish

    A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

    by Neil Shubin ...
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