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Four: A Divergent Collection

By Veronica Roth
Katherine Tegen Books | July 8, 2014 | 304 pages
Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories told from Tobias's point of view. Readers first encountered Tobias as "Four" in Divergent. His voice is an... More Info
Kids' Books
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Brownsville

By Neil Kleid,  Jake Allen
Nbm Publishing Company | July 23, 2014 | 205 pages
Set in 1930s Brooklyn, follows the lives of Jewish gangsters organized by Louis Lepke Buchalter as they form the Mafia's infamous "Murder, Inc."  More Info
Graphic Novels
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar

By Judith Rossner
Simon and Schuster | July 8, 2014 | 288 pages
Based on a harrowing true story, the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, is a story of love, power, sex, and death during the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Theresa Dunn spends her days as a schoolteacher whose rigid Catholic upbringing has taught her to find... More Info
Literature - International
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A Farewell to Arms

By Ernest Hemingway
Scribner Book Company | July 8, 2014 | 352 pages
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of... More Info
Literature - International
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Men Explain Things to Me

By Rebecca Solnit
April 8, 2014 | 100 pages
A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word ?mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.  More Info
Feminism
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An Untamed State

By Roxane Gay
Grove Press | July 23, 2014 | 370 pages
Her perfect life is shattered when Mireille is kidnapped by armed men in front of her father's estate in Haiti and she must endure the horrors and torments of her captors while her father inexplicably resists paying for her ransom.  More Info
Literature - International
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My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)

By Peter Brown
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | July 1, 2014 | 40 pages
A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there! Over the course of... More Info
Kids' Books

Indie Next Pick

How do countries come to view themselves as being 'multicultural'? Us, Them, and Otherspresents a...
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Staff Pick

Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a...
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Events

2014 21 Aug
9:00am - 12:00pm

Peoples' Social Forum

August 21-24, 2014
University of Ottawa, 550 Cumberland St,
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5

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2014 17 Sep
7:00pm - 9:00pm

To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World Book Launch with Vincent Mosco

In the wake of revelations about National Security Agency activities—many of which occur “in the cloud”—this book offers both enlightenment and a critical view. Cloud computing and big data are arguably the most significant forces in information technology today.

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2014 18 Sep
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Mirrors and Mirages with Monia Mazigh

In 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.

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