Edited by master storyteller Dede Crane and award-winning author Lisa Moore, both of whom contribute their own stories, Great Expectations is a must-have collection for parents and parents-to-be. Uniquely honest and transformative,...
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Author:Crane, Dede, Moore, LisaSummary: - Author:Heiss, AnitaSummary:
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors...
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This illustrated nonfiction anthology is a collection of stories, essays, poetry and art by transgender youth.
- Author:Schlink, BernhardSummary:
The six essays that make up this compelling book view the long shadow of past guilt as a German experience as well as a global one. International bestselling author Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches...
- Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:
We live in an "adultitarian" state, where the rules are based on very adult priorities and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and powerless; they understand they're subject to an authoritarian...
- Author:Delory, BarbaraSummary:
This pocket-sized handbook contains 103 essays and 126 photos of historical structures: personal residences, iconic businesses and selected landmarks in downtown Halifax. The architecture, historical past, contemporary usage and...
- Author:Bernier, FrédériqueSummary:
Ce petit livre est une grotte, une caverne littéraire sur les parois de laquelle se projettent les hantises et les rêveries d'une alter ego nommée Frida Burns. Brève autobiographie intellectuelle et lyrique, ce carnet interroge les...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
David Sedaris captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, and expresses the misanthropy and desire for connection that drives us all.
- Author:White, E. B.Summary:
In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author's stroll around Manhattan with the reader...
- Author:Talese, Gay.Summary:
A superb new collection from the illustrious career of Gay Talese, "the most important nonfiction writer of his generation" (David Halberstam). Admired by generations of reporters, Gay Talese has for more than six decades...
- Author:Wilkins, CharlesSummary:
High on the Big Stone Heart is a collection of vibrant and entertaining essays on the people and places of Canada's Boreal North as seen through the eyes of one of the country's most celebrated writers of non-fiction. Accompany Charles...
- Author:Hurston, Zora NealeSummary:
A collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem...
- Author:Temple, Mary BethSummary:
Crochet lovers will embrace Hooked for Life: Adventures of a Crochet Zealot, a book that lovingly and humorously explores the craft of crochet and is written by a true crochet zealot. Mary Beth Temple, a well-known author in the...
- Author:Fuller, MatthewSummary:
Computer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on...
- Author:Turner, ChrisSummary:
The essays and reportage in 'How to Breathe Underwater' offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical change from the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian government's attempt to build its own Silicon...
- Author:Hiemstra, Jessica, Martin-DeMoor, Lisa, Jernigan, KimSummary:
One size fits all does not apply to pregnancy and childbirth. Each one is different, unique, and comes with its share of pleasure and pain. But how does one prepare for an unexpected loss of a pregnancy or hoped-for baby? In How to...
- Author:Chee, AlexanderSummary:
Alexander Chee presents a manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher,...
- Author:Streeck, Wolfgang, Birch, AdelynSummary:
The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical...
- Author:Reeves, Wayne, Palassio, ChristinaSummary:
Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is a city dominated by water. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto’s water and putting it underground has been...
- Author:Ledwell, PatrickSummary:
No man is a Prince Edward Island. That’s a good thing, because the tiny province is eroding a metre per year. In his new collection of side-splitting essays, I am An Islander, Patrick Ledwell explores the hilarity of life viewed from...
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