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  • The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

    My Tale of Madness and Recovery

    In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts Barbara Lipska's deadly brain cancer and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind.Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

    My Tale of Madness and Recovery

    Narrated by Emma Powell ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia—and schizophrenia—like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, just as her doctors figured out what ... Read more

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    The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

    My Tale of Madness and Recovery

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts Barbara Lipska's deadly brain cancer and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind.Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Sefer

    by Ewa Lipska ...
    Translated by Barbara Bogoczek, Tony Howard ...
    Series series Mingling Voices
    Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Sefer delicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwar generation, a generation for whom a devastating history has grown distant, both temporally and emotionally. The novel’s protagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living in Vienna—someone whose professional life puts him in daily contact with the traumas of others but who has found ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Requiem for the Massacre

    A Black History on the Conflict, Hope and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    by R.J. Young ...
    Narrated by R.J. Young ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 30 min

    With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American historyMore than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ignored, covered up, and diminished by those in power ... Read more

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  • Whiskey Tender

    A Memoir

    by Deborah Taffa ...
    Finalist for the National Book AwardLonglisted for a Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceWinner of the Southwest Book AwardWinner of the ASAIL Electa Quinney Award for Published StoriesA Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Esquire, Time, The Atlantic, NPR, and Publishers WeeklyAn Oprah Daily "Best New Book" an... ... Read more

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  • Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are

    How Indigenous Cultural Resistance Can Restore the Earth, Recover Community, and Create Sustainable Futures

    **Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and a four-element framework, this book invites readers to rediscover and re-embody the truth that caring for ourselves and caring for the living Earth are one and the same.Global knowledge, personal stories, and natural science for repairing environmental harm, restoring biodiversity, and rekindling cultural-ecological bonds—for readers of The Serviceberry and Fresh ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • An Amerikan Family

    The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

    A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICKAn NPR Best Book of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence"Magnificent…. A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." – Los Angeles TimesThe long overdue story of the Shakurs, persistent fighters in the U.S. struggle for racial justice, and one of the most prominent, influential and fiercely ... Read more

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  • The Cost of Free Land

    Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

    **Winner of the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General NonfictionWinner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western NonfictionFinalist for The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeShortlisted for The William Saroyan International PrizeA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work."—The Boston GlobeAn award-winning author investigates ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Hell Put to Shame

    The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

    by Earl Swift ...
    A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime) * A Virginia Literary Awards Finalist"A haunted, historical legal thriller." — Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes "a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their ... Read more

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  • This Ordinary Stardust

    A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

    **"[A] remarkable account of a shifting consciousness” - Publisher’s Weekly, starred review“An extraordinary, powerful book” - David Quammen, author of The Heartbeat of the Wild and BreathlessA compassionate exploration of scientific wonder that offers “a fresh perspective on life, death, and the bittersweet consequences of impermanence,” (Jon Krakauer) as illuminated through the tragic dual ... Read more

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  • Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

    A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

    Translated by Joshua L. Freeman ...
    **Winner of the Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingWinner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the yearNamed one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ECONOMIST • TIMEA poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide**One by ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD