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  • Great Is the Truth

    Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School

    "Part memoir, part investigative reporting . . . a richly layered and ultimately balanced account of the decades-long trend of sexual abuse at Horace Mann." —Sarah Saffian, author of IthakaIn June 2012, Amos Kamil's New York Times Magazine cover story, "Prep-School Predators," caused a shock wave that is still rippling. In his piece, Kamil detailed a decades-long pattern of sexual abuse at the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • David and Goliath

    Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

    Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Law Student

    A Short Story Prequel to The French Illusion

    by John Grisham ...
    Series series The French Illusion Series
    In this original prequel to his upcoming thriller, The French Illusion, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham introduces his next unforgettable hero in a moving story of family, ambition, and the pursuit of justice.As a college football player in small-town North Carolina, Stuart Nash has always followed the path others expected him to take. But one life-changing decision—and one ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary, Ordinary People

    A Memoir of Family

    This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Last Negroes At Harvard

    The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

    The untold story of Harvard's class of '63, whose Black students fought to craft their own identities on the cusp between integration & affirmative action.In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen "Negro" boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New York, New York, New York

    Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

    by Thomas Dyja ...
    Series series Must-Read American History
    A New York Times Notable BookA lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future.Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

  • This Is Your Time

    by Ruby Bridges ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • CBC KIDS’ BOOK CHOICE AWARD WINNERCivil rights icon Ruby Bridges—who, at the age of six, was the first black child to integrate into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans—inspires readers and calls for action in this moving letter. Her elegant, memorable gift book is especially uplifting in the wake of Kamala Harris making US history as the first female, first ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Black List

    In The Black List, twenty-five prominent African-Americans of various professions, disciplines, and backgrounds offer their ownstories and insights on the struggles, triumphs, and joys of black life in America and, in the process, redefine "black list" for a new century.As seen in original portraits by renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and in a series of incisive interviews ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Miracle Children

    Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises

    A riveting investigation into a school, a scam, and a notorious college admissions scandal that exposes the inequalities and racial segregation of American education, from two award-winning New York Times journalistsT.M. Landry College Prep, a small private school in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, boasted a 100 percent college acceptance rate, ... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Tinderbox

    The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

    Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime)Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ WritersFinalist • Housatonic Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction (American Library Association)Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf AwarenessAn essential work of American civil rights histo. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Other Side of Prospect

    A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City

    **Finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismFinalist for the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for Media and the ArtsA landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood.**One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Neverisms

    A Quotation Lover's Guide to Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, or Never Forget

    by Mardy Grothe ...
    From Mardy Grothe, the author of Ifferisms,Oxymoronica,and I Never Met a Metaphor IDidn’t Like, comes a new collection of witty and wise quotations about what never to do in life. Remember, “never let the fear of striking out get in your way” (BabeRuth), "never hit anyone if you can help it, but never hit soft"(Theodore Roosevelt); "never be afraid tosit awhile and think" (Lorraine Hansberry); and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD