The Postmedia Effect: How Vulture Capitalism is Wrecking Our News
By: Marc Edge
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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1. That's Why I'm a Journalist: Top Canadian Reporters Tell Their Most Unforgettable Stories
By: Mark Bulgutch
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
News stories are like collective memories, encapsulating the most iconic moments in recent history … read more
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2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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3. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
4. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
5. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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6. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
8. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
By: Kati Marton
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more
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"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
9. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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10. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.54
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more
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"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
11. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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12. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
13. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
By: Bill Browder
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more
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14. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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15. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
16. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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17. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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18. 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
19. The Strangers
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 336 pages, None
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more
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"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers
20. August Into Winter
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of T… read more
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21. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
22. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
3.65
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more
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23. The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
By: Astra Taylor
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The s… read more
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24. The Postmedia Effect: How Vulture Capitalism is Wrecking Our News
By: Marc Edge
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Even as their readers move on–line and their advertisers look elsewhere, daily newspapers continue … read more
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