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  • Strangers Drowning

    Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help

    What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas.A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Strangers Drowning

    Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help

    Narrated by Larissa MacFarquhar ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas.A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    The Righteous Mind

    Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

    Narrated by Jonathan Haidt ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all ... Read more

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  • Educated

    by Tara Westover ...
    For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild**, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future**#1 International BestsellerTara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for ... ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    Pulitzer Prize Finalist

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLDThis inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?**“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin, The ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Gentleman in Moscow

    A Novel

    by Amor Towles ...
    **The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Life After Life

    A Novel

    by Kate Atkinson ...
    **"Is there Life After Life, chance after chance to rewrite one's destiny? That is the question posed by Atkinson's tale and brought to life by the miracle of her talent." —**Toronto StarWhat if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.During a snowstorm ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Power of Habit

    Why We Do What We do in Life and Business

    Groundbreaking new research shows that by grabbing hold of the three-step "loop" all habits form in our brains—cue, routine, reward—we can change them, giving us the power to take control over our lives."We are what we repeatedly do," said Aristotle. "Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." On the most basic level, a habit is a simple neurological loop: there is a cue (my mouth feels gross) ... Read more

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  • The Goldfinch

    A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    by Donna Tartt ...
    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

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  • The Girl on the Train

    by Paula Hawkins ...
    Three women, three men, connected through marriage or infidelity. Each is to blame for something. But only one is a killer in this #1 New York Times bestselling psychological thriller about human frailty and obsession.Just what goes on in the houses you pass by every day?Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and evening, rattling over the same junctions, flashing past the same ... Read more

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  • Quiet

    The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

    by Susan Cain ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement and revolutionized how the world sees introverts—and how introverts see themselves—by offering validation, inclusion, and inspiration“Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a fascinating read, Quiet is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to understand the gifts of the introverted half of the ... Read more

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  • Little Fires Everywhere: Reese's Book Club

    A Novel

    by Celeste Ng ...
    The #1 New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a deep psychological ... Read more

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