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1 9781572842823 This Life A Novel English by Quntos KunQuest, Zachary Lazar 5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in | Feb 19, 2021 Paperback , Trade $26.95 CAD 10 gr 256 pages This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply Agate Bolden inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life spent behind bars, the human bonds Carton qty: 1 formed therein, and the poetry that even those in the most dire places can create. FICTION Distributor: Lil Chris is just nineteen when he arrives at Angola as an AU—an admitting unit, a fresh fish, a new Publishers Group vict. He’s got a life sentence with no chance of parole, but he’s also got a clear mind and sharp Canada awareness—one that picks up quickly on the details of the system, his fellow inmates, and what he can do to claim a place at the top. When he meets Rise, a mature inmate who's already spent years in the system, and whose composure and raised consciousness command the respect ofthe other prisoners, Lil Chris learns to find his way in a system bent on repressing every means he has to express himself. 2 9781942658825 Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn English Jan 15, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $43.50 CAD 5.5 x 8.25 x 0 in | 10 gr “Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.” —New Yorker 288 pages Bellevue Literary J.D. Salinger, mysterious author ofThe Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive Press misanthrope. Jerome Charyn’s Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Carton qty: 1 Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an FICTION interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war—from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the Distributor: Publishers Group first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piledlike cordwood. Canada After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger became enchanted with a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a “spook,” with invisible stripes on his shoulder, the ghosts of the murdered inside his head, and stories to tell. 3 9781946395429 African Crime Reads Series Divine Justice English A Rae Valentine Thriller 5.25 x 8 x 0 in | 10 by Joanne Hichens gr Jan 22, 2021 Paperback , Trade $25.50 CAD 340 pages Ruthless underworld criminal Rocco Robano’s group of right wing fanatics, inspired by crazed Catalyst Press evangelist Heinz Dieter, are responsible for mayhem and murder in the city of Cape Town. As they Carton qty: 1 prepare to leave for their new home, Aurora, a protected community where the White Brothers, the FICTION Core, will live out their days in solidarity, they run amok in the city already cursed by xenophobia. 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From Cape Town to the banks of the Orange River in Namibia, the tension rises as Rae fights for her life and discovers that the missing diamonds are linked to the illicit dealings of the brutal gang without conscience. “[A] South 4 9781916465626 An Orphan World by Giuseppe Caputo, Sophie Hughes English Mar 07, 2021 Paperback , Trade $23.95 CAD 5.1 x 7.8 x 0.72 in | 270 gr In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle 218 pages to keep their heads above water. Rather than being discouraged by their difficulties and hardship, Charco Press their response is to come up with increasingly bizarre and imaginative plans in order to get by. Even Carton qty: 28 when a horrifying, macabre event rocks the neighborhood and the locals start to flee, father and son FICTION decide to stay put. What matters is staying together. Distributor: This is a bold, poignant text that juxtaposes a very tender father-son relationship with the son's Publishers Group Canada sexual liberation and a brutal depiction of homophobic violence. Giuseppe Caputo uses delicate – yet electrifying – lyricism and imagery to weave a tale that balances desire, violence, discrimination, love, eroticism and defiance, while evoking with surreal humor the social marginalization of the protagonists as they struggle to keep afloat in a society where there are no safety nets. Like a brightly-lit theme park with its house of horrors, reminiscent in parts of ’s 5 9781609456450 My Grandmother's Braid by Alina Bronsky, Tim Mohr English Jan 29, 2021 Paperback , Trade $25.50 CAD 5.25 x 8.25 x 0 in | 10 gr From the acclaimed author of THE HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE — “a cruel 176 pages comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience” (The New Europa Editions Yorker). Carton qty: 1 FICTION Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother—a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna—moved them Distributor: from the Motherland it was in search of a better life. But she is not at all pleased with how things are Publishers Group Canada run in Germany: the doctors and teachers are incompetent, the food is toxic, and the Germans are generally untrustworthy. His grandmother has been telling Max that he is an incompetent, clueless weakling since he was a child and she’d spend the day sitting in the back of his classroom to be sure he came to no harm. While he may be a dolt in his grandmother's eyes, Max is bright enough to notice that his stoic and

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6 9781609456498 Tonight is Already Tomorrow by Lia Levi, Clarissa Botsford English Feb 26, 2021 Paperback , Trade $26.95 CAD 5.25 x 8.25 x 0 in | 10 gr Inspired by true events during World War II, Lia Levi’s prize-winning novel of loss, despair, 224 pages and courage tells the tragic history of mid-century Europe through the eyes and lives of Europa Editions ordinary people. Carton qty: 1 FICTION “An intense, moving book that tells the story of stories: what happens when Fascism befalls a country.”—Esquire (Italy) Distributor: Publishers Group 1938. Thirty-two countries convene to decide how to deal with the influx of fleeing Nazi Canada Germany and Austria. Good intentions abound, but no government is willing to accept the refugees. At the same time, Fascist Italy is introducing its infamous racial laws. In this new, stirring novel Lia Levi portrays Italy’s tragic past through the story of a Jewish family, plagued by doubts, passions, weaknesses, impulses, and betrayals. Set in Genoa in the years of the 7 9781609456153 The River Within by Karen Powell English Dec 11, 2020 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $35.95 CAD 5.25 x 8.25 x 0 in | 10 gr A novel about infatuation, class, and obligation,The River Within will take its place as a 272 pages classic in a tradition of English fiction that takes in Thomas Hardy, Graham Swift, and Europa Editions Helen Dunmore. Carton qty: 36 FICTION It is the summer of 1955. The body of Danny Masters is found by three of his friends in the river that runs through Starome, a village on the Richmond estate in North Yorkshire. Distributor: Publishers Group Alexander, one of the three friends that found Danny and the sole heir to Richmond Hall, has always Canada been unpredictable but lately he has grown elusive, his behaviour becoming increasingly erratic. His mother, Lady Venetia Richmond, is newly widowed and too busy trying to keep the sprawling family estate together to worry about Alexander, though she could use his help. A second friend, Lennie Fairweather, “child of nature” and daughter of the late Sir Angus Richmond’s 8 9781609456115 Cathedral by Ben Hopkins English Feb 05, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $41.95 CAD 5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in | 10 gr A thoroughly immersive read and a remarkable feat of imagination,Cathedral tells a 624 pages sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, and earthly desire in gripping prose. It Europa Editions deftly combines historical fiction and a tale of adventure and intrigue. Carton qty: 1 FICTION At the center of this story is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 12th and 13th centuries in the Rhineland town of Hagenburg unites a vast array of unforgettable characters whose fortunes Distributor: are inseparable from the shifting political factions and economic interests vying for supremacy. From Publishers Group Canada the bishop to his treasurer to local merchants and lowly stonecutters, everyone, even the town’s Jewish denizens, is implicated and affected by the slow rise of Hagenburg’s Cathedral, which in no way enforces morality or charity. Around this narrative center, Ben Hopkins has constructed his own monumental edifice, a novel that is rich with the vicissitudes of mercantilism, politics, religion, and human enterprise. 9 9781609456474 A Beast in Paradise by Cecile Coulon, Tina Kover English Feb 12, 2021 Paperback , Trade $25.50 CAD 5.25 x 8.25 x 0 in | 10 gr A haunting novel about a lineage of women possessed by their land. Winner of the Le 208 pages Monde Literary Prize, this French bestseller tells a feverish, whispered story about Europa Editions characters and places haunted by madness, desire, and liberty. Carton qty: 1 FICTION “Cécile Coulon’s new novel gives an enthralling voice to the rural world.”—La Croix Distributor: Emilienne’s life is Paradise, her isolated farm at the end of a winding path. After the sudden death of Publishers Group her daughter and son-in-law, this is where she farms alone, with her courage and her land as her Canada only resources, along with her two little grandchildren: Blanche and Gabriel. As seasons pass, Blanche grows older and develops an even stronger connection to her home and the generations of women who have guarded it, like her mother and grandmother before her. When she meets Alexandre, Blanche falls into a devastatingly deep love from which she can never recover. Alexandre, devoured by his ambition, wishes to move to the city to make a name for himself, while the passion 10 9780802127051 Cloudmaker by Malcolm Brooks English Mar 19, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $40.50 CAD 6 x 9 x 0 in | 10 gr 400 pages From the nationally bestselling author ofPainted Horses, Malcolm Books returns with a Grove Press soaring, spirited novel set during the summer of Amelia Earhart’s final flight—a tale of Carton qty: 1 American ingenuity and optimism set against the backdrop of a deepening Great FICTION Depression. Distributor: The summer of 1937 will be a turning point for fourteen year old “Huck” Finn. When he and Publishers Group a friend find a dead body in a local creek, a rare Lindbergh flight watch on its wrist, it seems like a Canada sign. Huck is building his own airplane, a fact he has concealed from his mother. That summer also marks the arrival of his cousin Annelise, sent to live with the family under mysterious circumstances. As it turns out, she has had flying lessons—another sign. As Huck’s airplane takes shape, so does his burgeoning understanding of the world, including the battle over worldliness vs. godliness that has split Annelise from her family, and, in a quieter way, divides Huck’s family too. And meanwhile, there’s

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11 9780802149176 Stella by Takis Wurger, Liesl Schillinger English Jan 12, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $37.50 CAD 5.5 x 8.25 x 0 in | 10 gr In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic 208 pages Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is hypnotized by the beautiful model, Kristin, who soon becomes his energetic yet enigmatic guide to the bustling and Grove Press cosmopolitan city. Kristin teaches the naiÌ?ve Friedrich how to take care of himself in a city filled with Carton qty: 1 danger, and brings him to an underground jazz club where they drink cognac, dance, and kiss. The FICTION warfeels far away to Friedrich as he falls in love with Kristin, the pair cocooned inside their palatial Distributor: rooms at the Grand Hotel, where even Champagne and fresh fruit can be obtained thanks to the Publishers Group black market. But as the months pass, the mood in the city darkens yet further, with the Nazi Party Canada tightening their hold on everyday life of all Berliners, terrorizing anyone who might be disloyal to the Reich. Kristin’s loyalties are unclear, and she is not everything she seems, as his realizes whenone frightening day she comes back to Friedrich’s hotel suite in tears, battered and bruised. She tells him an astonishing secret: that her real name is Stella, and that she is Jewish, passing for Aryan. Fritz comforts her, but he soon realizes that Stella’s control of the situation is rapidly slipping out of her 12 9780802157065 The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen English Mar 02, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $39.95 CAD 6 x 9 x 0 in | 10 gr 368 pages The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers,The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in as a refugee. There he and his blood Grove Press brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to Carton qty: 1 capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly FICTION tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a Distributor: dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a Publishers Group group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Canada Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise —but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas,The Committed is a blistering portrayal of 13 9780802158178 The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries 30 No Going Back English A Comissario Guido Brunetti Mystery 6 x 9 x 0.01 in | 10 by Donna Leon gr Mar 16, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $39.95 CAD 288 pages In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known Atlantic Monthly intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person Press responsible. Now, in the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon’s masterful series, he faces a heinous crime Carton qty: 1 committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women FICTION have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. Distributor: However, Brunetti’s curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the Publishers Group victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they Canada want to avoid association with it? As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate the incident, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumored to be involved in more sinister nighttime activities in the 14 9780802158154 Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz English Feb 02, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $37.50 CAD 5.5 x 8.25 x 0 in | 10 gr A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary 208 pages landscape,Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that Grove Press contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Carton qty: 1 Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, FICTION women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal Distributor: reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on Publishers Group the nature of family, faith,forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another. Canada A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter—whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family’s church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the 15 9780802157881 Exit by Belinda Bauer English Feb 02, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $38.95 CAD 6 x 9 x 0 in | 10 gr 336 pages Belinda Bauer is “Britain’s most original crime writer” (Crime Scene), one of the few authors in the Atlantic Monthly genre to be longlisted for the Man Booker prize. Now she returns with a heart-pounding, Press heartbreaking, and often hilarious new crime novel in which it’s never too late for life to go fatally Carton qty: 1 wrong. FICTION Felix Pink is retired. Widowed for more than a decade, a painfully literal thinker, he has led a life of Distributor: routine and is, not unhappily, waiting to die a hopefully boring death. He occupies himself Publishers Group Canada volunteering as an Exiteer—someone who sits with terminally ill people as they die by suicide, assisting with logistics and lending moral support, then removing the evidence so that family and friends are not implicated in the death. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he’s thereto perform an act of kindness and charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his final breath.

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16 9781988784588 Night Watch The Vet Suite English by Gillian Wigmore 4.75 x 7 x 0.4 in | 10 gr Feb 12, 2021 Paperback , Trade $19.95 CAD 144 pages Full of humour and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural Invisible Publishing veterinarians. Wigmore’s vets struggle to stay awake during unending calving seasons, reaching for moments of stillness and grace between phone calls and farm calls; they balance their own family’s Carton qty: 1 births and deaths with shepherding animals through caesareans and euthanasia, covering miles of FICTION road in their vast jurisdictions during harsh winters and muddy, ruthless springs. Travelling from Distributor: small towns in northern BC to the south of France and Fiji, sometimes in the span of a night and Publishers Group sometimes over a lifetime, the men and women in Night Watch work with their hands, keep their Canada hearts in check, and strain to define themselves against the backdrop of an unforgiving job that puts them at the mercy of the elements—and each other. "Love, Ramona": Ramona and Louie, friends from childhood and pen pals, meet up three times on 17 9781529050288 Shadows of the Apt 2 Dragonfly Falling (Shadows of the Apt #2) English by Adrian Tchaikovsky 5.12 x 7.76 x 0 in | Apr 13, 2021 Paperback , B-format $21.99 CAD 10 gr The epic fantasy series Shadows of Apt, by Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner Adrian 688 pages Tchaikovsky, continues with Dragonfly Falling. Now with a new cover look. The Wasp Tor Empire's armies are on the move. The city of Tark will be first to feel their might, now preparing for Carton qty: 1 siege. And within its walls, Salma and Totho will take a stand alongside their Ant-kinden brethren. But FICTION they'll face weaponry and numbers such as the Lowlands have never seen. Meanwhile, the Empire's Distributor: secret service has deemed Stenwold Maker too dangerous to live. So Major Thalric is dispatched to Publishers Group eliminate Stenwold and destroy his beloved city of Collegium. For if this centre of learning is lost, it Canada will crush all hope of intelligent resistance. As the Empire's troops continue their relentless advance, their young Emperor pursues another, even darker goal. His success would trigger a reign of blood lasting a thousand years.

About the Contributor(s) 18 9781509806874 The Burning Chambers 2 The City of Tears (The Burning Chambers #2) English by Kate Mosse 6.02 x 9.21 x 0.01 Jan 05, 2021 Hardcover $44.99 CAD in | 770 gr Set across Paris, Amsterdam, and London, Kate Mosse is back for the second novel in The 560 pages Burning Chambers Quartet, as the Joubert family find themselves caught up in the St Mantle Bartholomew's Day massacre. August 1572: Minou Joubert and her family are in Paris for a Royal Carton qty: 1 Wedding, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and the Huguenot King of Navarre intended to FICTION bring peace to France after a decade of religious wars. So too is their oldest enemy, Vidal, still in Distributor: pursuit of a relic that will change the course of history. But within days of the marriage, thousands Publishers Group will lie dead in the streets and Minou's beloved family will be scattered to the four winds. A gripping Canada novel of revenge, persecution and loss, following the Sunday Times number-one bestseller, The Burning Chambers. Kate Mosse's The City of Tears is the second historical epic in the series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown.

About the Contributor(s) 19 9781509898176 Jack and Bet by Sarah Butler English Apr 13, 2021 Paperback , B-format $19.99 CAD 5.12 x 7.76 x 0 in | 10 gr A moving, funny and uplifting novel about an elderly couple, the son who is trying 352 pages desperately to care for them and the young woman who will change their lives forever. Even the longest marriages have their secrets. Jack Chalmers is a man of few words, married to a Picador woman of many. He and Bet have been together for seventy years - almost a lifetime - and happily Carton qty: 1 so, for the most part. All Jack and Bet want is to enjoy the time they have left together, in the flat they FICTION have tried to make their home. Their son Tommy has other ideas: he wants them to live somewhere Distributor: with round-the-clock care, hot meals, activities. But Bet thinks they can manage on their own just Publishers Group fine. When they strike up an unlikely friendship with Marinela, a young Romanian woman, Bet thinks Canada she has found the perfect solution - one that could change Marinela's life as well as theirs. But this means revisiting an old love affair, and confronting a long-buried secret she has kept hidden from everyone, even Jack, for many years. Tender, moving and beautifully told, Sarah Butler's Jack & Bet is an unforgettable novel about love and loss, the joys and regrets of a long marriage, and the struggle to find a place to call home. "Full of beauty, pain and joy, I loved Jack & Bet ." -Laura Barnett, author of 20 9781447265863 The Hidden Girls by Rebecca Whitney English Feb 23, 2021 Hardcover $33.99 CAD 5.31 x 8.5 x 0 in | 10 gr For fans of The Girl on the Train and The Widow, The Hidden Girls is the tense and gripping 320 pages novel from Rebecca Whitney. How does the saying go? Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you..? For Ruth, a new mother recovering from postpartum psychosis, Mantle every day is difficult and, after months spent hearing voices in the walls and trusting no one, she's no Carton qty: 1 longer confident in her own judgement. Neither, it seems, is anyone else. So, when she hears a FICTION scream from the local petrol station one night, she initially decides it must be her mind playing tricks Distributor: again. The police, too, are polite but firm: she must stop calling them every time she thinks she hears Publishers Group something. And her husband is frustrated: he'd hoped Ruth was getting better at last. Ruth can't Canada quite let it go. What if there was a scream? What if it was someone in trouble? Someone who needs Ruth's help? Exploring the dark and isolating side of motherhood, the question at the heart of The Hidden Girls is how much you can help someone else when you can't trust anyone - even yourself.

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21 9781509877171 Sisters by Michelle Frances English Jan 05, 2021 Paperback , B-format $17.99 CAD 5.12 x 7.76 x 0.01 in | 310 gr A dark, domestic suspense that explores the fallout of when sibling rivalry turns into 432 pages adult envy from the author of The Girlfriend and The Temp. Is blood really thicker than water? Abby and Ellie were never close as children. Now in their thirties, they each harbour deep-rooted Pan resentment for the other - Abby for her sister's looks and her status as their mother's favourite. Ellie Carton qty: 1 meanwhile is envious of Abby's perfect family and picturesque home, a villa on the sun-soaked Italian FICTION island of Elba. When Abby invites Ellie to stay, both sisters see it as a chance to spend time together Distributor: and put aside their differences. But with their mother Susanna there too, all the simmering tensions Publishers Group of the past quickly rise to the surface. And Ellie suspects that Abby and their mother are keeping a Canada dangerous secret. But after a shocking act, the sisters have only each other to rely on. Vulnerable and scared, trusting each other will be the biggest risk of all.

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22 9781950354368 The Death of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa, Sam Garrett English Jan 15, 2021 Hardcover $29.95 CAD 5.1 x 7.8 x 0 in | 10 gr Longlisted for the Booker International. 112 pages Scribe US Two women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A Carton qty: 1 bad decision. FICTION They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European Distributor: women would not be available. So, when the spry Saleh presents himself as their guide and savior, Publishers Group they embrace his offer. He extracts them from a tight space, only to lead them inexorably into an Canada even tighter one: and from this far darker space there is no exit. Their tale of confinement and escape is as old as the landscapes and cultures so vividly depicted in this story of where Europe and Africa come closest to meeting, even if they never quite touch.

23 9781849354189 Emergent Strategy Series Holding Change English The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation 5 x 8 x 0 in | 10 gr by adrienne maree Brown 175 pages Apr 16, 2021 Paperback , Trade $22.50 CAD AK Press Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Space is a guide Carton qty: 48 for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our SELF-HELP future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life's inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have Distributor: Publishers Group evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working to create change, individually, interpersonally, Canada and within our organizations. The majority of the book is sourced from brown's twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work, with additional wisdom from a selection of living Black feminist facilitators and mediators.

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24 9781849354226 Emergent Strategy Series We Will Not Cancel Us English Breaking the Cycle of Harm 4.5 x 6.5 x 0.01 in by Adrienne Maree Brown | 10 gr Oct 30, 2020 Paperback $14.50 CAD 80 pages Carton qty: 60 Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. SOCIAL SCIENCE Distributor: “Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The Publishers Group infamous “Harper’s Letter,” signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the Canada matter and only caused greater division. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to take down more powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, cancel culture is seen by some as having gone “too far.” Adrienne maree brown, a respected cultural voice and a professional mediator, reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible ways beyond the impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes from even from its targets. Brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist 25 9781786899934 Stories We Tell Ourselves Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe English Main 5.67 x 8.66 x 0 in | by Richard Holloway 10 gr Feb 05, 2021 Hardcover $38.95 CAD 272 pages The former Bishop of Edinburgh returns with a history of the universe and the ways we try to make Canongate Books meaning of it, and in the process takes a personal journey into his own beliefs.Waiting for the Last Carton qty: 1 BusandLeaving Alexandriawere bothSunday Times bestsellers; the latter won the PEN/Ackerley Prize HISTORY and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize Perfect for readers of Bill Bryson'sA Short History of Nearly Distributor: Everything, Andrew Marr'sA History of the World, and Karen Armstrong'sA Short History of Myth" Publishers Group Canada About the Contributor(s)

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26 9781552454152 Indigenous Toronto Stories that Carry This Place English by Denise Bolduc , Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere 5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in | 10 gr Mar 16, 2021 Paperback , Trade $23.95 CAD 192 pages A collection of perspectives by and about Indigenous Toronto, past, present, and future. Coach House Books Beneath every major city in North America lies a deep and rich Indigenous history that has been Carton qty: 1 colonized, paved over, and ignored. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen LITERARY 12,000 years of different peoples, including the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, the Huron- COLLECTIONS Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit, and a vibrant culture and history that thrives to this Distributor: day. Publishers Group Canada With original contributions by Indigenous elders, scholars, journalists, artists, activists, and historians about art, food, health, and more, this unique anthology explores the poles of erasure and cultural continuity that have come to define a crossroads city-region that was known as a meeting place long 27 9780802158253 Endpapers A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home English by Alexander Wolff 6 x 9 x 0 in | 10 gr Mar 02, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $38.95 CAD 336 pages A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin,Endpapers excavates the Atlantic Monthly extraordinary histories of the author’s grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, Press dubbed “perhaps the twentieth century’s most discriminating publisher” by Book Carton qty: 1 Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to HISTORY America. Distributor: Publishers Group Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family, whose ancestors included Canada converts to Christianity, among them Baron Moritz von Haber, whose desire to demand satisfaction in a duel sparked off bloody antisemitic riots. Always bookish, Kurt became a publisher at twenty- three, setting up his own firm and publishing Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, and many other authors whose books would soon be burned by the Nazis. Fleeing Germany in 1933, a day after the Reichstag fire, Kurt and his second wife, Helen, sought refuge in France, Italy, and ultimately New 28 9780802157096 The Delusions Of Crowds Why People Go Mad in Groups English by William J. Bernstein 6 x 9 x 0 in | 10 gr Feb 02, 2021 Hardcover , Cloth over boards $52.50 CAD 576 pages Atlantic Monthly “We are the apes who tell stories,” writes William Bernstein. “And no matter how misleading the Press narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts.” As Bernstein shows in his Carton qty: 1 eloquent and persuasive new book,The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history compelling HISTORY stories have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through susceptible groups—with Distributor: enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Publishers Group Inspired by Charles Mackay’s 19th-century classicMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Canada the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. 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