{"title":"Society and Culture","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-conscious-closet-the-revolutionary-guide-to-looking-good-while-doing-good","title":"The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion’s hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, The Conscious Closet is packed with the vital tools you need. Elizabeth delves into fresh research on fashion’s impacts and shows how we can leverage our everyday fashion choices to change the world through style. Inspired by her own revelatory journey getting off the fast-fashion treadmill, Elizabeth shares exactly how to build a more ethical wardrobe, starting with a mindful closet clean-out and donating, swapping, or selling the clothes you don't love to make way for the closet of your dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth—fashion—into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they’re made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. In The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth shows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes again—without sacrificing the environment, our morals, or our style in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Michelle Goldberg, Newsweek\/The Daily Beast\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elizabeth L. Cline","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172064813253,"sku":"9781524744304","price":10.58,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781524744304.jpg?v=1759965533"},{"product_id":"the-day-the-world-stops-shopping","title":"THE DAY THE WORLD STOPS SHOPPING","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a brilliant work of imaginative non-fiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks what would happen--to our economy, our ecology, our products, our selves--if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might actually want to live in?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe can't stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma.\u003cbr\u003eThe planet says we consume too much: in North America, we burn the earth's resources at a rate five times faster than they can regenerate. And despite our efforts to green our consumption--by recycling, increasing energy efficiency, or using solar power--we have yet to see a decline in global carbon emissions.\u003cbr\u003eThe economy says we must always consume more, because, as we've seen in the pandemic, even the slightest drop in spending leads to widespread unemployment, bankruptcy and home foreclosures.\u003cbr\u003eAddressing this paradox head-on, J.B. MacKinnon asks, What would really happen if we simply stop shopping? Is there a way to reduce our consumption to earth-saving levels without triggering an economic collapse?\u003cbr\u003eAt first, this question took him around the world, seeking answers: from America's big-box stores, to the hunter-gatherer cultures of Namibia, to communities in Ecuador that consume at an exactly sustainable rate. Then his thought experiment came shockingly true, as the coronavirus brought shopping to a halt and MacKinnon's ideas were tested in real time.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on experts ranging from economists to climate scientists to corporate CEOs, MacKinnon investigates how living with less would change our planet, our society and ourselves. Along the way, he reveals just how much we stand to gain.\u003cbr\u003eImaginative and inspiring, The Day the World Stops Shopping will empower you to imagine another way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J.B. Mackinnon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172064846021,"sku":"9780735275539","price":18.45,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780735275539.jpg?v=1759965533"},{"product_id":"body-talk-37-voices-explore-our-radical-anatomy","title":"Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA School Library Journal Best Book of 2020 It s time to bare it all about bodies! We all experience the world in a body, but we don t usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live within one. Just as every person has a unique personality, every person has a unique body, and every body tells its own story. In Body Talk, thirty-seven writers, models, actors, musicians, and artists share essays, lists, comics, and illustrations about everything from size and shape to scoliosis, from eating disorders to cancer, from sexuality and gender identity to the use of makeup as armor. Together, they contribute a broad variety of perspectives on what it s like to live in their particular bodies and how their bodies have helped to inform who they are and how they move through the world. Come on in, turn the pages, and join the celebration of our diverse, miraculous, beautiful bodies!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelly Jensen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172075462853,"sku":"9781616209674","price":12.32,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781616209674.jpg?v=1759965955"},{"product_id":"the-other-f-word-a-celebration-of-the-fat-fierce","title":"The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat \u0026 Fierce","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe definitive collection of art, poetry, and prose, celebrating fat acceptance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChubby. Curvy. Fluffy. Plus-size. Thick. Fat. The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Renée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and more in a relatable and gift-worthy guide about body image and fat acceptance. This dazzling collection of art, poetry, essays, and fashion tips is meant for people of all sizes who desire to be seen and heard in a culture consumed by a narrow definition of beauty. By combining the talents of renowned fat YA and middle-grade authors, as well as fat influencers and creators, The (Other) F Word offers teen readers and activists of all ages a tool for navigating our world with confidence and courage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Angie Manfredi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172075430085,"sku":"9781419737503","price":8.74,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781419737503.jpg?v=1759965954"},{"product_id":"here-we-are","title":"Here We Are","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLET'S GET THE FEMINIST PARTY STARTED!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHave you ever wanted to be a superheroine? Join a fandom? Create the perfect empowering playlist? Understand exactly what it means to be a feminist in the twenty-first century? You’ve come to the right place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForty-four writers, dancers, actors, and artists contribute essays, lists, poems, comics, and illustrations about everything from body positivity to romance to gender identity to intersectionality to the greatest girl friendships in fiction. Together, they share diverse perspectives on and insights into what feminism means and what it looks like. Come on in, turn the pages, and be inspired to find your own path to feminism by the awesome individuals in Here We Are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to one of the most life-changing parties around!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelly Jensen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172075364549,"sku":"9781616205867","price":12.32,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781616205867.jpg?v=1759965955"},{"product_id":"the-storyteller-tales-of-life-and-music","title":"The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety’s Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible’s Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 * 2 Million Copies Sold Worldwide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Remastered Edition…Because There’s Always More to the Story\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDave Grohl’s The Storyteller created a sensation when it was initially published, becoming a global bestseller and thrilling fans and critics alike. Readers came to the book for Dave’s heartfelt voice, his love of family and music, and the energy that pours from every page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDave’s is an extraordinary life made of up ordinary moments, and he tells stories just like he writes songs—from his soul. Whether recounting his time as kid in Toughskins in the Virginia suburbs, as a skinny teenager drumming his heart out for punk band Scream, living through the explosion and implosion of Nirvana, or hustling all the way around the world to escort his daughters to the Father\/Daughter dance (only to be ignored as soon as his girls found their friends) The Storyteller is just like its author, as real as it gets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo show his appreciation for his fans, and to celebrate his love of writing, this deluxe paperback edition offers a wide variety of extra content, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e* An essay on how Dave approaches creativity (Here’s a hint: you don’t have to think outside of the box. Just ignore it.)\u003cbr\u003e* A series of prompts to jump start your creativity\u003cbr\u003e* The story of when Dave first met Paul McCartney (previously an audiobook exclusive)\u003cbr\u003e* A collection of Dave’s curated playlists, giving a glimpse into some of the music he loves\u003cbr\u003e* The “Song Stories” of four Foo Fighters favorites\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Storyteller has challenged what a music memoir can be. With this paperback, the legacy continues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dave Grohl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172080378053,"sku":"9780063076105","price":15.11,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780063076105.jpg?v=1759966438"},{"product_id":"nobody-ever-asked-me-about-the-girls-women-music-and-fame","title":"Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music and Fame","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Indispensable [reading] about the feminine journey through a man's world\"\u003cbr\u003e―USA Today\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intimate look at the lives of our most celebrated female musicians―and their challenges with fame―from a legendary music journalist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver four decades, Lisa Robinson has made a name for herself as a celebrated journalist in a business long known for its boys’ club mentality. But to Robinson, the female performers who sat down with her, most often at the peak of their careers, were the true revelations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on conversations with more than forty female artists, Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the effects of success on some of music’s most famous women. From Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Donna Summer, Bette Midler, Alanis Morissette and Linda Ronstadt to Mary J. Blige, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Adele, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and numerous others, Robinson reveals the private obsessions and public distractions that musicians contend with in their pursuit of stardom. From these interviews emerge candid portraits of how these women―regardless of genre or decade―deal with image, abuse, love, motherhood, family, sex, drugs, business, and age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplete with reflections from Robinson’s own career as a pioneering female music writer, Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls offers an overdue consideration of how hopes, dreams, and the drive for recognition have propelled our most beloved female musicians to take the stage and leave an undeniable, lasting musical mark on the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lisa Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172080509125,"sku":"9781627794909","price":21.27,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781627794909.jpg?v=1759966438"},{"product_id":"why-i-m-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race","title":"Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential.\" --Marlon James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The most important book for me this year.” --Emma Watson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for January\/February 2018\u003cbr\u003eSunday Times Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the British Book Awards Nonfiction Narrative Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Jhalak Prize\u003cbr\u003eFoyles Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eBlackwell's Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed One of the Best Books of 2017 by:\u003cbr\u003eNPR\u003cbr\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003eThe Observer\u003cbr\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003cbr\u003eCultured Vultures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain and around the world. Examining everything from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, from whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge, and counter racism. Including a new afterword by the author, this is a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of color in Britain today, and an essential handbook for anyone looking to understand how structural racism works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reni Eddo-Lodge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172089159877,"sku":"9781635572957","price":12.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781635572957.jpg?v=1759966956"},{"product_id":"drink-the-new-science-of-alcohol-and-your-health","title":"Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ALCOHOL AND YOUR HEALTH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlcohol - a simple molecule that can induce so much pleasure and pain at the same time... As the most harmful drug in the UK, it has a profound and wide-reaching impact on our health and on society at large. Drink? is the first book of its kind, written by a scientist and rooted in 40 years of medical research and hands-on experience treating patients. Professor David Nutt cuts through the noise to explain the long- and short-term effects of alcohol, makes complex science digestible and takes readers through its journey inside the body and brain from the very first sip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrink? holds the key to all the questions you want to know the answers to, covering mental health, sleep, hormones, fertility and addiction. It sheds light on what 'responsible drinking' truly means and equips us with the essential knowledge we all need to make rational, informed decisions about our consumption now and in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Professor David Nutt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172089487557,"sku":"9781529398014","price":9.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781529398014.jpg?v=1759966957"},{"product_id":"the-urge-our-history-of-addiction","title":"The Urge: Our History of Addiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book I’ve read on the history of addiction. A propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of his condition, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that our society’s current quagmire is only part of a centuries-old struggle to treat addictive behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge introduces us to those who have endeavored to address addiction through the ages and examines the treatments that have produced relief for many people, the author included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, Fisher argues, can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician’s urgent call for a more nuanced and compassionate view of one of society’s most intractable challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carl Erik Fisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172089618629,"sku":"9780525561460","price":11.04,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780525561460.jpg?v=1759966959"},{"product_id":"trauma-as-medicine-a-diy-book-for-healing-trauma-and-transforming-your-life","title":"Trauma as Medicine: A DIY Book for Healing Trauma and Transforming Your Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a cold winter's morning in December of 1995 Sarah Salter-Kelly's mother was brutally raped and murdered in a dark parkade by a stranger. After being found guilty of first-degree murder, the perpetrator suicided in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Trauma as Medicine, Sarah shares her inspirational story as a template to guide the reader in their own journey of transformation. She encourages you to consider the life lessons you came here to learn are found in the center of your greatest challenges, and if you lean in, miracles unfold. For Sarah, these miracles became a path of Forgiveness and Compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years after her mother's homicide she was compelled to understand the bad guy. Who was he, who were his people, and what had transpired to lead him into the parkade that day? Her desire for shared humanity led her to the First Nations land of his ancestors where she received a profound education in the history of colonization in Canada. This is a real-life example of metabolizing trauma on a personal and collective level, for deep soul healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book includes the following practices and teachings to guide your way:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournal exercises, meditations \u0026amp; ceremonies\u003cbr\u003eConnecting with your Helping Spirits, Ancestors \u0026amp; Source\u003cbr\u003eGuidelines for creating sacred space focused on relationship with Mother Earth\u003cbr\u003eAltered states, such as Shamanic Journey \u0026amp; Ayahuasca\u003cbr\u003eFacing fear, using triggers as resources\u003cbr\u003eMetabolizing trauma \u0026amp; embodying your medicine\u003cbr\u003eForgiveness\u003cbr\u003eCollective healing \u0026amp; being of service\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Salter-Kelly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172089684165,"sku":"9781525597695","price":11.76,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781525597695.jpg?v=1759966958"},{"product_id":"saving-time-discovering-a-life-beyond-productivity-culture","title":"Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the “attention economy” to spend time in quiet contemplation. But how can we reclaim our time?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn order to answer this seemingly simple question, Odell took a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society and found that the clock we live by was built for profit, not people. This is why our lives, even in leisure, have come to seem like a series of moments to be bought, sold, and processed ever more efficiently. Odell shows us how our painful relationship to time is inextricably connected not only to persisting social inequities but to the climate crisis, existential dread, and a lethal fatalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book offers us different ways to experience time—inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological cues, and geological timescales—that can bring within reach a more humane, responsive way of living. As planet-bound animals, we live inside shortening and lengthening days alongside gardens growing, birds migrating, and cliffs eroding; the stretchy quality of waiting and desire; the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory; the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy; the time it takes to heal from injuries. Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life in which time is not reducible to standardized units and instead forms the very medium of possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaving Time tugs at the seams of reality as we know it—the way we experience time itself—and rearranges it, imagining a world not centered on work, the office clock, or the profit motive. If we can “save” time by imagining a life, identity, and source of meaning outside these things, time might also save us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jenny Odell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172099252421,"sku":"9780593242728","price":12.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780593242728.jpg?v=1759967782"},{"product_id":"outspoken-my-fight-for-freedom-and-human-rights-in-afghanistan","title":"Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most persecuted ethnic group in Afghanistan.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and she had to agree to an arranged marriage if she wanted to go to university. By the time she was in medical school, she had a son, Ali, and had become a revolutionary. After her husband was disappeared by the pro-Russian regime, she escaped. With her son and medical degree, she took off into the rural areas—by horseback, by donkey, even on foot—to treat people who had never had medical help before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSima Samar's wide-ranging experiences both in her home country and on the world stage have given her inside access to the dishonesty, the collusion, the corruption, the self-serving leaders, and the hijacking of religion. And as a former Vice President, she knows all the players in this chess game called Afghanistan. With stories that are at times poignant, at times terrifying, inspiring as well as disheartening, Sima provides an unparalleled view of Afghanistan’s past and its present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite being in grave personal danger for many years, she has worked tirelessly for the dream she is convinced is an achievable one: justice and full human rights for all the citizens of her country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sima Samar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45172099088581,"sku":"9781039007079","price":16.56,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781039007079.jpg?v=1759967781"},{"product_id":"becoming","title":"Becoming","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michelle Obama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45231753855173,"sku":"9781524763138","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781524763138.jpg?v=1761152695"},{"product_id":"extraordinary-canadians-tommy-douglas","title":"Extraordinary Canadians: Tommy Douglas","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce voted the greatest Canadian of all time, Tommy Douglas was a prairie politician who believed in democratic socialism, the crucial role of civil rights, and the great potential of cooperation for the common good. He is best known as the “Father of Medicare.” Born in 1904, Douglas was a championship boxer and a Baptist minister who later exchanged his pulpit for a political platform. A powerful orator and tireless activist, he sat first as a federal MP and then served for 17 years as premier of Saskatchewan, where he introduced the universal health-insurance system that would eventually be adopted across Canada. As leader of the national NDP, he was a staunch advocate of programs such as the Canada Pension Plan and was often the conscience of Parliament on matters of civil liberties. In the process, he made democratic socialism a part of mainstream Canadian political life. Giller Prize–winning author Vincent Lam, an emergency physician who works on the front lines of the health-care system, brings a novelist's eye to the life of one of Canada's greats.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vincent Lam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45303757308101,"sku":"9780670068517","price":14.56,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780670068517.jpg?v=1762557588"},{"product_id":"mirrors-and-mirages","title":"Mirrors and Mirages","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of Amy Tan’s international bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mirrors and Mirages, Monia Mazigh lets us into the lives of six women. They are immigrant mothers — Emma, Samia, and Fauzia — guardians of tradition who want their daughters to enjoy freedom in Western society. They are daughters — Lama, Sally, and Louise, a young woman who converted to Islam for love — university students who are clever and computer savvy. They decide for themselves whether or not to wear a veil, or niqab. Gradually, these women cross paths, and, without losing their authenticity, they become friends and rivals, mirrors and mirages of each other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mona Mazigh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45306313507013,"sku":"9781770893597","price":12.85,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781770893597.jpg?v=1762638658"},{"product_id":"we-have-always-been-here-a-queer-muslim-memoir-good-copy","title":"We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eCANADA READS 2020 WINNER\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION\u003cbr\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003eONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, they faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. From their parents, they internalized the lesson that revealing their identity could put them in grave danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen their family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of challenges: bullies, racism, the threat of poverty, and an arranged marriage. Backed into a corner, their need for a safe space--in which to grow and nurture their creative, feminist spirit--became dire. The men in Samra's life wanted to police them, the women in their life had only shown them the example of pious obedience, and their body was a problem to be solved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins an exploration of faith, art, love, and queer sexuality, a journey that takes them to the far reaches of the globe to uncover a truth that was within them all along. A triumphant memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not, We Have Always Been Here is a rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt out of place and a testament to the power of fearlessly inhabiting one's truest self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samra Habib","offers":[{"title":"Excellent","offer_id":46484678115525,"sku":"9780735235007","price":13.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46484678148293,"sku":"9780735235008","price":11.45,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780735235007.jpg?v=1761159569"},{"product_id":"no-walls-and-the-recurring-dream-a-memoir","title":"No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A memoir as fierce, freewheeling, and passionate as her music.\"\u003cbr\u003e--O, the Oprah magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. Ani's coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence--from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals, to releasing her first album at the age of 18, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label, Righteous Babe Records. In these pages, as in life, she never hesitates to question established rules and expectations, maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has inspired and challenged more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist, standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ani DiFranco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45403719827653,"sku":"9780735225176","price":20.72,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780735225176.jpg?v=1764191400"},{"product_id":"in-good-hands-remarkable-female-politicians-from-around-the-world-who-showed-up-spoke-out-and-made-change","title":"In Good Hands: Remarkable Female Politicians from Around the World Who Showed Up, Spoke Out and Made Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten for young women interested in running for office, this book is unlike any other, with inspiring stories of 19 women role models along with the all the tools and resources needed to get a campaign off the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephanie MacKendrick, a former journalist now dedicated to women’s career advancement, believes the time for women in political leadership is now. Judging by the recent wave of activism that developed into a flood of women seeking elected office, she’s not alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMacKendrick has created a one-of-kind insider’s guide for young women interested in joining this movement and becoming part of the political system. It explores everything from what to expect in a campaign, to how to deal with the inevitable challenges, to why it’s worth it to run. It combines uplifting stories of women who have run for office with practical strategies for doing so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect as both a cover-to-cover read and a reference tool, the text is divided into three parts: first, engaging profiles that include the personal advice and encouragement of 19 women who have run for office across the political spectrum, around the world and at all levels of politics, from Michelle Wu, past president of the Boston City Council, to Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand; second, a detailed twelve-step campaign plan with advice on developing the qualities needed to run; and third, a collection of articles, books and organizations to help eager readers learn more. Also included is a foreword by Anne Moses, founder and president of IGNITE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering equal parts inspiration and information, this unique guidebook is just the thing to help young women transform “I’ll think about it” into “I’ll do it!”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie MacKendrick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45403719925957,"sku":"9781525300356","price":10.63,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781525300356.jpg?v=1764191399"},{"product_id":"country-girl-back-bay-readers-pick","title":"Country Girl (Back Bay Readers' Pick)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.\"-National Public Radio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStarting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edna O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45403780415685,"sku":"9780316122719","price":9.66,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780316122719.jpg?v=1764192247"},{"product_id":"red-star-tattoo-my-life-as-a-girl-revolutionary","title":"Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRed Star Tattoo is Sonja Larsen's unforgettable memoir of a young life spent on the move, from hardscrabble Milwaukee to dreamy Hawaii, from turbulent Montreal to free-spirited California. At the age of 16, Sonja joins a cult-like communist organization in Brooklyn--unaware of the dark nature of what awaits her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small, skinny 8-year-old girl holding a teddy bear stands by the side of a country road with a young man she barely knows. They're hitchhiking from a commune in Quebec to one in California. It is 1973 and somehow the girl's parents think this is a good idea.\u003cbr\u003e    Sonja Larsen's is a childhood in which family members come and go and where freedom is both a gift and a burden. Her mother, thrown out of home as a pregnant teenager by her evangelical preacher father, is drawn to the utopian ideals and radical politics of communism. Her aunt Suzie is gripped by schizophrenia, her behaviour so erratic she eventually loses custody of her daughter. And then there is her cousin Dana, shunted back and forth long-distance between her parents--Dana, whose own need to escape leads to tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e     Looking for a sense of family, searching to belong, to have your life mean something--this is what all these girls and young women share. As a teenager, Larsen moves to Brooklyn, embedding herself with an organization known publicly as the National Labor Federation and privately as the Communist Party USA Provisional Wing. Over her three years at the organization's national headquarters, Larsen works sixteen-hour day, eager to prove herself. Noticed and encouraged by the Old Man, the organization's charismatic leader, he makes her one of his \"special girls,\" as well as the youngest member of the organization's militia and part of its inner circle. But even as she and her comrades count down the days on the calendar until the dawning of their new American revolution, Larsen's doubts about the cause and the Old Man become increasingly difficult to ignore.\u003cbr\u003e     Red Star Tattoo explores the seductions and dangers of extremism, and asks what it takes to survive a childhood scarred by loss, abuse and the sometimes violent struggle for belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonja Larsen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45403815968965,"sku":"9780345815279","price":14.72,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780345815279.jpg?v=1764192829"},{"product_id":"spare","title":"Spare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prince Harry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45469420978373,"sku":"9781039003750","price":16.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781039003750.jpg?v=1765140444"},{"product_id":"we-had-a-little-real-estate-problem-the-unheralded-story-of-native-americans-comedy","title":"We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans \u0026 Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Esquire*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable book.\" —Steve Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An illumating and stereotype-busting history of Native Americans and comedy\" (The Washington Post) from Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: “My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, acclaimed comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy’s most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe account begins in the late 1880s, when Native Americans were forced to tour in wild west shows as an alternative to prison. (One modern comedian said it was as “if a Guantanamo detainee suddenly had to appear on X-Factor.”) This is followed by a detailed look at the life and work of seminal figures such as Cherokee humorist Will Rogers and Hill, who in the 1970s was the first Native American comedian to appear The Tonight Show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso profiled are several contemporary comedians, including Jonny Roberts, a social worker from the Red Lake Nation who drives five hours to the closest comedy club to pursue his stand-up dreams; Kiowa-Apache comic Adrianne Chalepah, who formed the touring group the Native Ladies of Comedy; and the 1491s, a sketch troupe whose satire is smashing stereotypes to critical acclaim. As Ryan Red Corn, the Osage member of the 1491s, says: “The American narrative dictates that Indians are supposed to be sad. It’s not really true and it’s not indicative of the community experience itself…Laughter and joy is very much a part of Native culture.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing dozens of original interviews and the exhaustive research that is Nesteroff’s trademark, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem is a powerful tribute to a neglected legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kliph Nesteroff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45511991197893,"sku":"9781982103057","price":14.55,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781982103057.jpg?v=1766094520"},{"product_id":"indigenous-relations-insights-tips-suggestions-to-make-reconciliation-a-reality","title":"Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips \u0026 Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality","description":"\u003cp\u003eA timely sequel to the bestselling 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act--and an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to work more effectively with Indigenous Peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are all treaty people. But what are the everyday impacts of treaties, and how can we effectively work toward reconciliation if we're worried our words and actions will unintentionally cause harm?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHereditary chief and leading Indigenous relations trainer Bob Joseph is your guide to respecting cultural differences and improving your personal relationships and business interactions with Indigenous Peoples. Practical and inclusive, Indigenous Relations interprets the difference between hereditary and elected leadership, and why it matters; explains the intricacies of Aboriginal Rights and Title, and the treaty process; and demonstrates the lasting impact of the Indian Act, including the barriers that Indigenous communities face and the truth behind common myths and stereotypes perpetuated since Confederation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndigenous Relations equips you with the necessary knowledge to respectfully avoid missteps in your work and daily life, and offers an eight-part process to help business and government work more effectively with Indigenous Peoples--benefitting workplace culture as well as the bottom line. Indigenous Relations is an invaluable tool for anyone who wants to improve their cultural competency and undo the legacy of the Indian Act.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bob and Cindy Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45587563020485,"sku":"9781989025642","price":11.17,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781989025642.jpg?v=1767645200"},{"product_id":"high-tide-in-tucson-essays-from-now-or-never","title":"High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times.\" — Milwaukee Sentinel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend.\" —New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver turns to her favored literary terrain to explore themes of family, community, and the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction. In High Tide in Tucson, Kingsolver is defiant, funny, and courageously honest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Kingsolver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45613701529797,"sku":"0060172916","price":14.26,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780060172916.jpg?v=1768067896"},{"product_id":"seven-fallen-feathers-racism-death-and-hard-truths-in-a-northern-city","title":"Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult\/Adult\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tanya Talaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45754323206341,"sku":"9781487002268","price":8.26,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781487002268.jpg?v=1770239581"},{"product_id":"empty-spaces","title":"Empty Spaces","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed, boundary-breaking author of NISHGA comes a hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy.Reimagining James Fenimore Cooper’s nineteenth-century text The Last of the Mohicans from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga’a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Engaging the land through fiction and metaphor, the successive chapters of Empty Spaces move toward an eerie, looping, and atmospheric rendering of place that evolves despite the violent and reckless histories of North America. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing.Jordan Abel’s extraordinary debut work of fiction grows out of his groundbreaking visual compositions in NISHGA , which integrated descriptions of the landscape from Cooper’s settler classic into his father's traditional Nisga'a artwork. In Empty Spaces , Abel reinscribes those words on the page itself, subjecting them to bold rewritings and inviting us to come to a crucial that the land knows everything that can and will happen, even as our world lurches toward uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jordan Abel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45771563892933,"sku":"9780771002014","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780771002014.jpg?v=1770483551"},{"product_id":"before-the-parade-a-history-of-halifaxs-gay-lesbian-and-bisexual-communities-1972-1984","title":"Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Before the Parade, journalist and activist Rebecca Rose brings her queer femme, feminist perspective to this compelling, and necessary, history of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community in Halifax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are stories of being at the forefront; of founding a group to fight for gay liberation just three years after the Stonewall riots, of initiating the first nationally coordinated gay and lesbian day of action in 1977, and of spearheading a campaign to include sexual orientation in the Human Rights Act. A thoroughly researched, narrative history, this foundational collection includes perspectives and insights from the artists, businesspeople, academics, and organizers who―by way of living their lives, and through their activism―made it possible for so many others to exist, to be out, to be proud, to continue to push for change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith over 40 black and white images and two colour inserts, Before the Parade shines a brilliant light on LGB Halifax's compelling―and never before told―history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rebecca Rose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45771564318917,"sku":"9781771087827","price":9.18,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781771087827.jpg?v=1770483552"},{"product_id":"pageboy-a-memoir","title":"Pageboy: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2023 Libby Book Award for Best Memoir and Autobiography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Can I kiss you?” It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he’d carried for so long. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Juno’s massive success, Elliot became one of the world’s most beloved actors. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels, and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do, until enough was enough. Full of behind the scenes details and intimate interrogations on sex, love, trauma, and Hollywood, Pageboy is the story of a life pushed to the brink. But at its core, this beautifully written, winding journey of what it means to untangle ourselves from the expectations of others is an ode to stepping into who we truly are with defiance, strength, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elliot Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45943962730693,"sku":"9781443477611","price":5.04,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781443477611.jpg?v=1773013720"},{"product_id":"screenage-how-tv-shaped-our-reality-from-tammy-faye-to-rupaul™s-drag-race","title":"ScreenAge: How TV shaped our reality, from Tammy Faye to RuPaul'™s Drag Race","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘l learned everything I know from television, and you can learn everything I know from this book’ - RuPaul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘ScreenAge is a must-read. We FINALLY have a book that recognizes the profound and positive impact television has had on all our lives.’ - Michelle Visage\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA riotous tale of pop culture, backstage drama and showbiz gossip from co-producer of RuPaul's Drag Race and award-winning director Fenton Bailey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorld of Wonder is the iconic Hollywood-based production company behindRuPaul's Drag Race as well as other ballsy originals includingThe Eyes of Tammy Faye, Party Monster, Inside Deep Throat and Monica in Black and White.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe production company, founded in 1991 by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, has been making must-see television for three decades, giving a voice to\u003cbr\u003emarginalized communities and society's oddballs, all while entertaining audiences with its signature anarchic sense of humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by co-founder and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Fenton Bailey, this book tracks World of Wonder's triumphs and struggles, from the pair's humble beginnings as aspiring pop stars in '80s New York to managing 'Supermodel of the World' RuPaul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePacked full of insider gossip featuring a star-studded litany of LGBTQ+ icons such as James St James, Pete Burns, Cher and Britney, this book reveals how Fenton and Randy helped to pioneer the revolutionary genre of reality TV and find success in an ever-changing media landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA must-read for Drag Race die-hards as well as fans of pop culture and reality TV.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenton Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45989316690117,"sku":"9781529148466","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781529148466.jpg?v=1774106000"},{"product_id":"the-beauty-in-breaking-a-memoir","title":"The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (BOTM)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” —Ellen Pompeo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs seen\/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn’t move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken—physically, emotionally, psychically. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper’s journey toward self-healing. Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. How to let go of fear even when the future is murky: How to tell the truth when it’s simpler to overlook it. How to understand that compassion isn’t the same as justice. As she shines a light on the systemic disenfranchisement of the patients she treats as they struggle to maintain their health and dignity, Harper comes to understand the importance of allowing ourselves to make peace with the past as we draw support from the present. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along the precious, necessary lessons that she has learned as a daughter, a woman, and a physician.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004680884421,"sku":"9780525537380","price":14.71,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780525537380.jpg?v=1774613689"},{"product_id":"material-girls-why-reality-matters-for-feminism","title":"Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterial Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir's statement that, 'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' (an assertion she contends has been misinterpreted and repurposed), to Judith Butler's claim that language creates biological reality, rather than describing it. She looks at biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization and data collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterial Girls makes a clear, humane and feminist case for our retaining the ability to discuss reality, and concludes with a positive vision for the future, in which trans rights activists and feminists can collaborate to achieve some of their political aims.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathleen Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46028865831109,"sku":"9780349726625","price":9.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780349726625.jpg?v=1775240170"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-food-court-an-anthology-of-literary-cuisines-beyond-the-senses","title":"Beyond the Food Court: An Anthology of Literary Cuisines (Beyond the Senses)","description":"\u003cp\u003e*The present anthology comprises 14 creative non-fiction essays on the topic of food by professional hyphen-canadian writers. The authors behind this anthology have studied their own hungers, to paraphrase American food writer M.F.K. Fisher. Their vivid re-telling of past culinary experiences bears little resemblance to the—now more than ever—sanitized version of the food court. It becomes a collective exercise of remembering and creating new memories as your eyes settle on the words Masgouf, asado, Injera, or ajiaco. Both food and speech are experienced in the mouth, as Peter Midgley’s piece on his family connection to Afrikaans cuisine and Adriana Oniţă’s testimony of learning to make maternal Romanian dishes attest. What makes these essays relevant is their Canadianness, and I am not referring to an immutable, sterile notion of national identity. Many Canadians speak and write in a second, and sometimes third language, as do some of the contributors. Compiling this anthology satiates our hunger to open up the field of CanLit. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luciana Erregue-Sacchi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46094861107397,"sku":"9781777085902","price":12.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781777085902.jpg?v=1776432757"},{"product_id":"the-rights-of-nature-a-legal-revolution-that-could-save-the-world","title":"The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA growing body of law around the world supports the idea that humans are not the only species with rights; and if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Expertly written case studies in which legalese is accessibly distilled … empowering reminders that the seemingly inevitable slide toward planetary destruction can be halted.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building — in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawyers from California to New York are fighting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending the era of keeping these intelligent animals in captivity. In Hawaii and India, judges have recognized that endangered species — from birds to lions — have the legal right to exist. Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems — rivers, forests, mountains, and more — have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Rights of Nature, noted environmental lawyer David Boyd tells this remarkable story, which is, at its heart, one of humans as a species finally growing up. Read this book and your world view will be altered forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. Boyd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46118403670213,"sku":"9781770412392","price":9.18,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781770412392.jpg?v=1776946211"},{"product_id":"grumpy-cat-a-grumpy-book-for-grumpy-days","title":"Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book for Grumpy Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eDisgruntled tips and activities designed to put a frown on your face\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing the sour expression of internet sensation Grumpy Cat: Internet sensation Grumpy Cat's epic feline frown has inspired legions of devoted fans. Celebrating the grouch in everyone, Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book teaches the fine art of grumpiness and includes enough bad attitude to cast a dark cloud over the whole world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Featuring brand new as well as classic photos, grump-inspiring activities, and games\u003cbr\u003e• Delivers unmatched, hilarious grumpiness that puts any bad mood in perspective\u003cbr\u003e• The original Grumpy Cat was a small cat with a big frown who inspired a hugely popular meme that made even the grumpiest people around the world smile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurn that smile upside down with the help of Grumpy Cat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrating the grouch in all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• A perfect coffee table, bathroom, or bar top conversation-starting book\u003cbr\u003e• Makes a great stocking stuffer, holiday, birthday, or pick-me-up gift\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomin’ Sally’s Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218348331205,"sku":"9781452126579","price":8.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781452126579.jpg?v=1778718595"},{"product_id":"opinions-a-decade-of-arguments-criticism-and-minding-other-people-s-business","title":"Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy—alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s “Work Friend” columnist, she reaches millions of readers with her wise voice and sharp insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpinions is a collection of Roxane Gay’s best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years. Covering a wide range of topics—politics, feminism, the culture wars, civil rights, and much more—with an all-new introduction in which she reflects on the past decade in America, this sharp, thought-provoking anthology will delight Roxane Gay’s devotees and draw new readers to this inimitable talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roxanne Gay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46288318300357,"sku":"9780063341463","price":20.72,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780063341463.jpg?v=1780018646"},{"product_id":"caste-the-origins-of-our-discontents","title":"Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Oprah's Book Club)","description":"\u003cp\u003e#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award • Dayton Literary Prize Finalist • PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist • Kirkus Prize Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Isabel Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Isabel Wilkerson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46340857266373,"sku":"9780593230251","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780593230251.jpg?v=1781008168"},{"product_id":"deeper-thoughts-all-new","title":"Deeper Thoughts","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sequel to Deep Thoughts, this collection of humorous meditations contains \"inspirational\" lunacy from the Saturday Night Live regular.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jack Handey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46398675681477,"sku":"1562828401","price":4.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_3a41fe01-f5da-4694-ae51-492877f1a0bf.jpg?v=1785537343"},{"product_id":"deep-thoughts-inspiration-for-the-uninspired","title":"Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired","description":"\u003cp\u003eA national bestselling collection of comedian Jack Handey’s “Deep Thoughts”—short, funny observations on life that were shown in between sketches on Saturday Night Live. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith quirky, offbeat humor that often veers into the unexpected, Jack Handey’s witty one liners make this book the perfect funny gift for fans of Mitch Hedberg or for anyone who appreciates a good dad joke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes daily “wisdom” such as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jack Handey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46398675714245,"sku":"0425133656","price":4.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780425133651.jpg?v=1781784018"},{"product_id":"the-most-powerful-woman-in-the-world-how-jacinda-ardern-exemplifies-progressive-leadership","title":"The Most Powerful Woman In The World: How Jacinda Ardern Exemplifies Progressive Leadership","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fascinating story of an international icon – one of the world’s most inspiring, progressive leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mosque shooting. Oprah Winfrey invited us to ‘channel our inner Jacindas’ as praise for Ardern flooded headlines and social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world’s youngest female head of government, and only the second elected world leader to give birth while in office, Ardern describes herself as a progressive and a social democrat. In this revealing biography, journalist Madeleine Chapman discovers the woman behind the headlines. Politically engaged from an early age, Ardern has encountered her fair share of sexism, but rather than let that harden her she advocates ‘rising above’ critics. In her first press conference, she announced an election campaign of ‘relentless positivity’. The tactic was a resounding success: donations poured in and Labour rebounded in the polls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut can Ardern live up to her promise? What does her new style of leadership look like in practice? And what can we learn from the world’s reaction to this inspiring leader?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Madeline Chapman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46423513465029,"sku":"9781510760035","price":18.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781510760035.jpg?v=1781920553"},{"product_id":"my-grandmothers-hands-racialized-trauma-and-the-pathway-to-mending-our-hearts-and-bodies","title":"My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eA NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice.\"— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * Offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, is a leading voice in today’s conversation on racialized trauma and the creator of Cultural Somatics, which utilizes the body and its natural resilience as mechanisms for growth. As a therapist and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions, a leadership consulting firm, Resmaa dedicates his expertise to coaching leaders through civil unrest, organizational change, and community building\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Resmaa Menakem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46423513497797,"sku":"9781942094470","price":15.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781942094470.jpg?v=1781920553"},{"product_id":"gather-richard-van-camp-on-the-joy-of-storytelling-writers-on-writing-3","title":"Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling (Writers on Writing, 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaster storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp on how to tell a good story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through the stories we tell, we define our own identities and shape our understanding of the world. Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform both the speaker and the audience in Gather. Describing the elements required to make a story, he offers insights into how to read a room, how to capture the attention of listeners, how to create community through storytelling, and how to banish loneliness. A member of the Tlicho Dene First Nation, Van Camp includes stories from Elders whose wisdom influenced him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Van Camp","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46430377967813,"sku":"9780889777002","price":7.35,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780889777002.jpg?v=1781961823"},{"product_id":"a-good-war-mobilizing-canada-for-the-climate-emergency","title":"A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for.” — Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * One of Canada’s top policy analysts provides the first full-scale blueprint for meeting our climate change commitments\u003cbr\u003e * Contains the results of a national poll on Canadians’ attitudes to the climate crisis\u003cbr\u003e * Shows that radical transformative climate action can be done, while producing jobs and reducing inequality as we retool how we live and work.\u003cbr\u003e * Deeply researched and targeted specifically to Canada and Canadians while providing a model that other countries could follow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a critical “danger line” for the planet and human life as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s 2020, and Canada is not on track to meet our targets. To do so, we’ll need radical systemic change to how we live and work—and fast. How can we ever achieve this?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTop policy analyst and author Seth Klein reveals we can do it now because we’ve done it before. During the Second World War, Canadian citizens and government remade the economy by retooling factories, transforming their workforce, and making the war effort a common cause for all Canadians to contribute to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlein demonstrates how wartime thinking and community efforts can be repurposed today for Canada’s own Green New Deal. He shares how we can create jobs and reduce inequality while tackling our climate obligations for a climate neutral—or even climate zero—future. From enlisting broad public support for new economic models, to job creation through investment in green infrastructure, Klein shows us a bold, practical policy plan for Canada’s sustainable future. More than this: A Good War offers a remarkably hopeful message for how we can meet the defining challenge of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOVID-19 has brought a previously unthinkable pace of change to the world—one which demonstrates our ability to adapt rapidly when we’re at risk. Many recent changes are what Klein proposes in these very pages. The world can, actually, turn on a dime if necessary. This is the blueprint for how to do it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth Klein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46464128647365,"sku":"9781770415454","price":11.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781770415454.jpg?v=1782676123"},{"product_id":"truth-be-told-the-story-of-my-life-and-my-fight-for-equality","title":"Truth Be Told: The Story of My Life and My Fight for Equality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country—for readers of Educated and Becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a very early age, all I knew was that I wanted to do something that was not ordinary. Because, for a girl growing up in a remote prairie town in the 1940s, the ordinary was very ordinary indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeverley McLachlin has led an extraordinary life. One of the few women studying law in the 1960s, she graduated at the top of her class and began her long career—first as a dedicated lawyer and professor, later as a judge serving on the highest court in the country, and finally as the first woman to be named Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe journey wasn’t easy. The options for women growing up in rural Pincher Creek, Alberta, were limited. But McLachlin was willful and spirited, and she wanted an education. She also had an innate sense of justice, which was reinforced by the lessons her parents taught her about equality and the value of hard work. It was this faith in justice that pulled her through dark times, especially when faced with sexism and exclusion at work and personal tragedy at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver time, McLachlin became a champion for Canadians from all walks of life. As a judge on the Supreme Court, she presided over charged debates on topics such as same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. With each judgment, she laid down a legal legacy proving that fairness and justice are not luxuries of the powerful but rather rights owed to each and every one of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith warmth, honesty, and deep wisdom, McLachlin recounts her remarkable life on and off the bench. Truth Be Told is an inspiring reminder that integrity and the rule of law are our best hopes for a progressive and bright future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beverley McLachlin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46465297809605,"sku":"9781982104979","price":13.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781982104979.jpg?v=1782698082"},{"product_id":"fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas-the-captivating-memoir-of-countercultural-journalism-and-social-commentary","title":"Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: The captivating memoir of countercultural journalism and social commentary","description":"\u003cp\u003eStylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson’s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.\u003cbr\u003e‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold… And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas…’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of ‘heinous chemicals’. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hunter S. Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46510469611717,"sku":"9780007204496","price":12.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780007204496.jpg?v=1783557772"},{"product_id":"the-psychopath-test-a-journey-through-the-madness-industry","title":"The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jon Ronson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46668831654085,"sku":"9781594485756","price":6.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781594485756.jpg?v=1786021245"},{"product_id":"there-is-no-ethan-how-three-women-caught-americas-biggest-catfish","title":"There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is part of our Wild Bloom Collection. 50% of the sale price goes directly to our partners at Inclusion NWT.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged countless messages with Ethan, staying up late into the evenings to deepen their connections with this fascinating man. His detailed excuses about broken webcams and complicated international calling plans seemed believable, as did last minute trip cancellations. After all, why would he lie? Ethan wasn't after money — he never convinced his marks to shell out thousands of dollars for some imagined crisis. Rather, he ensnared these women in a web of intense emotional intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the trio independently began to question inconsistencies in their new flame's stories, they managed to find one another and uncover a greater deception than they could've ever imagined. As Anna Akbari and the women untangled their catfish’s web, they found other victims and realized that without a proper crime, there was no legal reason for “Ethan” to ever stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere Is No Ethan catalogues Akbari's experience as both victim and observer. By looking at the bigger picture of where these stories unfold — a world where technology mediates our relationships; where words and images are easily manipulated; and where truth, reality, and identity have become slippery terms — Akbari gives a page-turning and riveting examination of why stories like Ethan's matter for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Akbari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46743222321349,"sku":"9781538742198","price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781538742198.jpg?v=1786898229"},{"product_id":"million-futures","title":"A Million Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1998, hoping to leave a legacy for the new millennium, the federal government created the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, which has since funded and empowered more than a million young Canadians. The Foundation itself has been a remarkable success story, a model of efficiency and political manoeuvring. The essential feature of the program was its innovative partnering with the provinces, recognizing different approaches to the issue - a stellar example of asymmetrical federalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant, funny and highly entertaining storyteller, Silver Donald Cameron tells the inside story of the Foundation’s life, which serves as a case study in astute management practice in the face of serious challenges. Woven into the narrative are the stories of individuals whose lives were affected by the Foundation’s programs. Inspiring, funny, heart-breaking and surprising, these tales form the heart of the book. A Million Futures is the definitive testament to a unique, ground-breaking and transformative institution, abounding with useful lessons for organizations of all kinds, and anyone interested in innovative public policy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silver Donald Cameron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46869584937157,"sku":"9781553655596","price":14.25,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9781553655596.jpg?v=1788646787"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bloominsallysusedbooks.com\/collections\/society-and-culture.oembed?page=3","provider":"Bloomin’ Sally’s Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}