A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF 2025 * WINNER OF A 2026 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARD FOR TRAVELA captivating travel memoir set in the Middle East about cross-cultural dissonance and a quixotic quest to find home.While travelling to his grandfather's ancestral town in rural eastern Turkey, journalist John Zada is mistakenly hauled off an overnight bus at a military roadblock and pulled into a drag...

This evocative work of nature writing traverses the world’s largest temperate rainforest to uncover the legend of the Sasquatch.Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest is home to trees as tall as skyscrapers and moss as thick as carpet. According to the people who live there, another giant may dwell in these woods. For centuries, locals have reported encounters with the Sasquatch—a species of hairy man-ape that could inhabit this pristine wilderness.Driven by his childhood ...

UPDATED IN 2026. A rare and penetrating account by a former CBC and Al Jazeera newsroom insider of how the news skews our perceptions and disorients society.'Fake news' has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a worldwide obsession. Yet too few of us know that shades of falsehood have always run through the mainstream news media. As news organizations double-down in their efforts to shock and entertain, more people than ever before are tuning-out, disillusioned by n...

On the central and north coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, containing more organic matter than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. The area plays host to a wide range of species, from thousand-year-old western cedars to humpback whales to iconic white Spirit bears. According to local residents, another giant is said to live in these woods. For centuries, people have reported encounters with the Sasquatch...

"A colorful culinary journey . . . This book explores what Armenian cuisine looks like today in a very authentic and beautiful way." — Marcus Samuelsson, award-winning chef and restaurateurThis cookbook not only reveals how to make the ubiquitous and doable flatbread lavash, the UNESCO-recognized bread of Armenia, but also shares more than sixty recipes of what to eat with it, from soups and salads to hearty stews paired with lots...