Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
By: John Lorinc
3.49
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Is the 'smart city' the utopia we've been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city h…
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1. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
2. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
By: Mohsin Hamid
4.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined ta… read more
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3. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
By: Philip Gourevitch
3.36
Format: None pages,
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone… read more
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4. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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- audiobook
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
5. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
By: Tim Harford
4.12
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- audiobook
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
7. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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- audiobook
"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
8. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
9. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
10. Camp Zero
By: Michelle Min Sterling
3.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intert… read more
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- audiobook
"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero
"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero
11. Deep House (DreadfulWater, #6)
By: Thomas King
4.03
Format: 352 pages, ebook
For the first time since the pandemic, Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace in small-t… read more
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12. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more
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- audiobook
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
13. Every City Is Every Other City (Gordon Stewart Mystery, #1)
By: John McFetridge
3.09
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
WINNER of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Awards Behind the scenes, nothing is what it … read more
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- audiobook
14. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
15. Indians on Vacation
By: Thomas King
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more
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16. Do You Remember Being Born?
By: Sean Michaels
3.83
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more
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- technology
- audiobook
"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
17. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
18. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
19. The Marigold
By: Andrew F. Sullivan
3.32
Format: 360 pages, ebook
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environm… read more
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20. Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
By: John Lorinc
3.49
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Is the 'smart city' the utopia we've been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city h… read more
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- audiobook
- technology
- politics
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- cities
- science
21. Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
By: Josh O'Kane
3.94
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFro… read more
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- technology
- politics
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- cities
- audiobook
22. Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
By: Melissa Bruntlett
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherl… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- cities
23. Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age
By: Sanjay Gupta
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind fr… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"For example, what should you do when the person seems stuck on repeating a word, activity, or sentence over and over again? Repetition is common in the disease's later stages. The person is searching…"-Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age
24. Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
By: Melissa Bruntlett
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legi… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- cities
25. Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
By: Paris Marx
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- cities
- technology
26. Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
By: Leslie Kern
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it What does gentrification l… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- cities
27. Batshit Seven
By: Sheung-King
3.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From Governor General's Award-nominated author Sheung-King comes a novel about a millennial living … read more
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28. Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
By: Tomson Highway
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasu… read more
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- nonfiction
29. How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World
By: Chris Turner
3.77
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING From the National Business Book Award … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- science
30. Above the Fold: A Personal History of the Toronto Star
By: John Honderich
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable memoir and journalistic history of the Toronto Star , the newspaper that has shaped an… read more
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