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  • Dear Dolly

    Collected Wisdom

    From the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more.“One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”—Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women“Nora Ephron for the millennial generation.”—Elizab... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

    by David Grann ...
    **From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager—and one of the most gifted reporters and storytellers of his generation—comes a “horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of gripping true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances."[Grann is] one of the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Trick Mirror

    Reflections on Self-Delusion

    by Jia Tolentino ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—EsquireBook Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.” ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Complete Works

    This ebook contains Virginia Woolf's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On est de son enfance

    C’est que l’enfance qui convoque la merveille charroie aussi le mal-être. Le petit garçon blessé, qui n’a guéri qu’à demi, se faufile encore sous la galerie, le cœur serré. Il se croit bien caché. Il prie qu’on ne le trouve pas. Il sait qu’on va le trouver. Il entend le pas pesant de l’homme de sa vie au-dessus de sa tête. Il tremble. Il attend. Il n’a nulle part où aller afin de cesser d’exister. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Ordinary Wonder Tales

    Shortlisted for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonfictionA journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday.“I’ve always felt that the term fairy tale doesn’t quite capture the essence of these stories,” writes Emily Urquhart. “I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • James Joyce: The Complete Collection

    by James Joyce ...
    This ebook contains James Joyce's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Les enfants martyrs de Riaumont

    Enquête sur un pensionnat intégriste

    Le scandale de l'alliance infâme entre intégrisme catholique, extrême droite et « protection de l'enfance ». De 1960 à 2019, des centaines d’enfants ont été internés dans un foyer, le Village d’enfants de Riaumont, fondé à Liévin par le père Albert Revet. Ce religieux, admirateur de l’Allemagne nazie, a créé une communauté d’inspiration scoute où la DDASS plaçait des garçons, principalement issus ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • No One Talks About This Stuff

    Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood

    Edited by Kat Brown ...
    There is no other book like this: there have been memoirs on individual experiences but nothing that draws together such a spectrum of stories that challenge the silence on (in)fertility, baby loss, childlessness and so on.Kat Brown is a brilliant spokeswoman for the cause, a beloved figure online (15k Twitter followers) and is a regular on podcasts, Radio 4, etc. Her other book, It's Not A Bloody ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Second-hand Time

    Translated by Bela Shayevich ...
    Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the rubble. Fashioning a singular, polyphonic literary form by combining extended ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Notes from the Henhouse

    On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing

    A sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker—acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.Following the publication of her acclaimed, darkly funny novel O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker’s sharp and witty essays appeared regularly in the national press. Notes from the Henhouse, a selection of the most personal of these pieces, welcomes ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Discourses and Selected Writings

    by Epictetus ...
    Translated by Robert Dobbin ...
    Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

    A Story

    Series series A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story
    “Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati EnquirerThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Book of Tea

    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.'In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • I'll Show Myself Out

    Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

    by Jessi Klein ...
    An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay“Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of truly terrible things that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

    Series series Best American
    Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.“What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction. The essays in this year’s Best American Science and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Boys Will Be Boys

    Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity

    'The most important thing you'll read this year' ElleThe incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl.Boys Will Be Boys answers the question Clementine Ford is most often asked: 'How do I raise my son to respect women?’With equal parts passion and humour, Ford reveals how patriarchal society is as ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD $0.99 CAD

  • The Confessions

    Translated by Henry Chadwick ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Modern Love, Revised and Updated

    True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

    The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column—including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John SlatteryA young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man’s promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • When the Facts Change

    Essays, 1995-2010

    by Tony Judt ...
    “In an era of growing anti-intellectualism, [Judt's] essays remind us of what we gain when we stick fast to high ethical and intellectual standards, and what is lost when we let them slip.” *—*Mark Mazower, Financial Times“Scintillating journalism . . . This collection is a reminder of Judt’s clear mind and prose and, as Homans says in her lovely introduction, his fidelity to hard facts and to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD $8.99 CAD

  • Dark Night of the Soul

    Written in the 16th century by a reform-minded Carmelite monk, ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ is a treatise focusing on the metaphor of a dark night to represent a lonely phase in one’s personal spiritual life. Saint John was a Roman Catholic mystic and a Spanish poet, and this work reflects his mystical stages toward union with God. Written on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, his songs ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Las cartas del Boom

    EL BOOM EN PRIMERA PERSONA (DEL PLURAL)Cuatro de los más grandes autores contemporáneos en español a través de su correspondencia compartida.«La obra de García Márquez es incomprensible sin la de Cortázar, y la de Cortázar es incomprensible sin la de Vargas Llosa, y se establece toda una red que corresponde a algo muy real. Porque yo sé que cada uno de nosotros es muy consciente de lo que están ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Girlhood

    by Melissa Febos ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNational BestsellerLambda Literary Award FinalistNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys“Irrevere... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD