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  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Mixed Marriage Project

    A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    **“**Dorothy Roberts has an important story to tell at a time when our nation needs to think more honestly about the legacy of racial inequality.” —Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling authorsA spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage and her own identity—from the author of the “must ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Killing the Black Body

    Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.**"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful ... Read more

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  • Torn Apart

    How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowMany believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Documents in the Case

    by Dorothy Leigh Sayers, Robert Eustace ...
    I am obliged by your letter of yesterday’s date, and hasten to send you, as requested, the complete dossier of documents. When you have read them, I shall be happy to call upon you at any time convenient to yourself, and give you any further information that may be within my power.All the points I specially wished to make are, I think, fully covered by my previous letter. But since that letter has ... Read more

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    The Mixed Marriage Project

    A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    Narrated by Dorothy Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 17 min

    **“**Dorothy Roberts has an important story to tell at a time when our nation needs to think more honestly about the legacy of racial inequality.” —Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling authorsA spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage and her own identity—from the author of the “must ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • The Documents in the Case. Illustrated

    by Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Eustace ...
    The Documents in the Case is a gripping collaboration between Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace, blending masterful detective work with meticulous attention to forensic detail. The story unfolds through letters, telegrams, and official reports, giving readers a unique epistolary perspective on a shocking murder that seems both baffling and sinister. The novel revolves around a wealthy family ... Read more

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  • Murder Most Foul

    A Mystery Writers of America Classic Anthology, #9

    by Robert Bloch, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, Joe Gores, Allan Kim Lang, Patricia McGerr, Ross Macdonald, William P. McGivern, William F. Nolan, Charles Norman, Ellery Queen, Lawrence Treat, Hillary Waugh, Donald A. Wollheim ...
    Series Book 9 - A Mystery Writers of America Classic Anthology
    FIFTEEN STORIES ABOUT THE MOST HEINOUS CRIME OF ALL…Of all the crimes humankind can commit, the act of murder—of cold-bloodedly taking another human life—is often the most shocking, and can tear couples, families, and even entire towns apart.Mystery Writers of America is proud to present this volume in the Classics series, featuring fourteen stories by acclaimed writers, all exploring the terrible ... Read more

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  • 100 Masterpieces of Mystery

    A Panoramic Anthology of Gothic Terror, Classic Detection, Hard-Boiled Crime, and Psychological Suspense

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, Cyril Hare, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Émile Gaboriau, John P. Marquand, Patricia Wentworth, Ethel Lina White, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Erskine Childers, Earl Derr Biggers ...
    100 Masterpieces of Mystery maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic terror, sensation fiction, and locked-room puzzles to espionage, psychological unease, hard-boiled realism, and tales of the uncanny. Its selections place canonical investigations alongside atmospheric narratives of crime, deception, and suspense, revealing how mystery continually borrows from romance, ... Read more

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  • People Styles at Work and Beyond

    Making Bad Relationships Good and Good Relationships Better

    by Robert Bolton, Dorothy Grover Bolton ...
    As cofounders of the leadership coaching and training firm Ridge Associates, authors Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover teach that good interpersonal communication is essential to getting things done.In this comprehensive and practical guide, they offer a proven method for understanding the key behavioral styles of those around you (including your own) and explain how you can leverage the strengths ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Choice of Murders

    Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #7

    by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Stanley Ellin, Robert Turner, Stephen Marlowe, Mignon G. Eberhardt, Ross Macdonald, John Basye Price, Ellery Queen, Ruthven Todd, Margaret Millar, Wenzell Brown, Robert Arthur, Anthony Gilbert, Anthony Boucher, Helen Kasson, Margaret Manners, Stuart Palmer, Lawrence G. Blochman, Andrew Garve, Marc Seymour, Lawrence Treat, James A. Kirch, Ryerson Johnson, Michael Gilbert ...
    Series Book 7 - Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics
    WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER, THERE'S ALWAYS A CHOICE…The only thing more varied than how people are killed is the many, many ways people try to get away with this terrible crime. Now masterful mystery writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings together 23 classic stories of crime and suspense, whodunits and detective stories from some of the finest authors of the 1950s.Ross Macdonald's classic P.I. Lew ... Read more

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