Canada is a vast country defined by its untamed wilderness, diverse ecologies, and natural beauty. It is a country associated with nature and exploration on the most fundamental level, whose people each have a story to tell of their...
Essays
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Author:Forrie, AllanSummary: - Author:Hustvedt, SiriSummary:
Feminist philosophy and family memoir merge in this new essay collection from award-winning author Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted-...
- Author:Steinem, GloriaSummary:
With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be. In the first of six sections, Steinem imagines how our...
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Municipal Boundary Battles explores the motivations, land use effects, and financial implications of municipal boundary adjustments across Canada, focusing mainly on annexations and amalgamations - the most frequent means to adjust...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "...
- Author:Ratajkowski, EmilySummary:
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political...
- Author:Maracle, LeeSummary:
My Conversations With Canadians is the book that "Canada150" needs.Harkening back to her first book tour at the age of 26 (for the autobiographical novel Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel), and touching down upon a multitude of experiences she's...
- Author:Nye, MichaelSummary:
My Heart Is Not Blind: On Blindness and Perception is a collection of stunning portraits of blind and visually impaired people taken by photographer Michael Nye. Each image is accompanied by an intimate story told by the subject...
- Author:Lippman, LauraSummary:
In this collection of new and previously published essays, author Laura Lippman shares her take on a woman's life across the decades. Covering her childhood and school years, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist...
- Author:Pritchett, GeorgiaSummary:
When comedy writer Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words, she turned to a therapist, who suggested she write down some of her worries. But instead, Georgia wrote this book on living, and thriving, with anxiety.
- Author:Kemper, EllieSummary:
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naIf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously...
- Author:Hodgins, Bruce W., Hobbs, MargaretSummary:
A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, "an utterly compelling collection," said The Globe and Mail, and "a gem -- it absolutely sparkles," according to Canadian Geographic. Declared by the Canadian Historical...
- Author:Mukhopadhyay, SamhitaSummary:
When fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump's America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of...
- Author:Cenkl, PavelSummary:
Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem and whose...
- Author:Farnsworth, John SeibertSummary:
John Seibert Farnsworth he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. Follow him to a series of field stations where he teams up with scientists, citizen scientists, rangers, stewards, and grad students engaged in long-term...
- Author:Klobuchar, AmySummary:
A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy, poet Azure Antoinette, teen activist Gavin Grimm...
- Author:Gondelman, JoshSummary:
Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman's collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results. Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying-and failing. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic-dubbed...
- Author:Tuzi, MarinoSummary:
This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of critical perspectives. These perspectives include ideas about literature, culture, identity, politics, and society in terms of Canada and the modern world....
- Author:Horn, Bernd, Spencer, EmilySummary:
This collection of essays explores how fighting in the rugged, hostile lands of Afghanistan is no easy task. Afghanistan has long been considered the graveyard of empires. Throughout their history, Afghans have endured the ravages of...
- Author:Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has...
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