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Real Food Heals
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
320 pages
Healthy cooking reinvented by top chef Seamus Mullen, with over 125 Paleo-inspired recipes designed to revitalize your health every day. In the high-end food world, "healthy cooking" has long been taboo. But as one of the only high-profile chefs today guided by the understanding that the food we... More Info
Akata Warrior
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
496 pages
Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
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We Are Okay
Penguin |
February 14, 2017 |
240 pages
From the award-winning author of Hold Still comes an achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship. ★ "Exquisite." - Kirkus, starred review ★ "LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful." - Booklist,... More Info
Akata Witch
Penguin |
July 11, 2017 |
384 pages
Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but... More Info
Peter Pan
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
234 pages
'All children, except one, grow up.' Peter Pan originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie's sequence of stories, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His later role as flying boy hero of Neverland was brought to the stage by Barrie's play Peter Pan... More Info
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
304 pages
You know the type: the woman who won't shut up, who's too brazen, too opinionated - too much. She's the unruly woman, and she embodies one of the most provocative and powerful forms of womanhood today. In Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, popular BuzzFeed columnist Anne Helen Petersen examines this... More Info
You Can't Touch My Hair
Penguin |
October 4, 2016 |
320 pages
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * "A must-read...Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." -Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad City A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop... More Info
Streetfight
Penguin |
March 7, 2017 |
368 pages
As NYC's Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Her approach was dramatic and effective: she rewrote the rule book and involved... More Info
$20.00
Hope Leslie
Penguin |
October 20, 1998 |
399 pages
Professor:
Prof. Jennifer Henderson
Course Codes:
CDN 5003
Semester:
Fall-2017
In seventeenth-century New England, Hope fights for fairness for the Indians and affirms the independence of women, while Magawisca risks her Pequot father's wrath to reunite Hope with her sister, taken as a child by the Pequots.
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$19.95
Obasan
Penguin Canada |
November 29, 2016 |
240 pages
Professor:
Prof. Jody Mason
Course Codes:
ENGL 5804
Semester:
Fall-2017
Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.
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$14.99
Brown Girl Dreaming
Penguin |
October 11, 2016 |
368 pages
Professor:
Prof. Julia Sinclair-Palm
Course Codes:
CHST 3000
Semester:
Fall-2017
"Contains seven new, original poems by the author"--Page [4] of cover.
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$13.50
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Penguin |
October 20, 1963 |
272 pages
Professor:
Prof. Rob Holton
Course Codes:
ENGL 3702
Semester:
Fall-2017
McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
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$36.00
Devil's Bargain
Penguin |
July 18, 2017 |
288 pages
Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump's penthouse on election night.
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$10.95
Chess
Penguin Classics |
June 1, 2017 |
50 pages
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match.... More Info
$22.99
Incarnations
Penguin Press |
April 27, 2017 |
352 pages
'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after' Daily Telegraph For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a... More Info
The First Rule of Punk
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
336 pages
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor... More Info
American Kingpin
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
352 pages
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom--and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark... More Info
Democracy in Chains
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
368 pages
"Focusing on Nobel Prize-winning economist James McGill Buchanan (1919-2013), whom Charles Koch funded and championed, MacLean elaborates on [what he sees as] the Koch brothers' insidious, dangerous manipulation of American politics. Based on Buchanan's papers as well as published sources, MacLean... More Info
$29.00
What We Lose
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
224 pages
"The debut novel of the year." --Vogue "Stunning. . . . Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, What We Lose reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home." --Buzzfeed "Remember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like What We... More Info
$31.99
Karl Marx
Penguin UK |
May 4, 2017 |
500 pages
'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an... More Info
$21.99
The Art of Flight
Penguin UK |
July 25, 2017 |
192 pages
Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine... More Info
$23.00
Here I Am
Penguin Canada |
July 18, 2017 |
592 pages
Longlisted for the 2017 International Dylan Thomas Prize Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . . By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home. By the family reunion that everyone is dreading. By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled. And by the sexting affair... More Info
$40.00
The Dark Web
Penguin Press HC |
July 11, 2017 |
400 pages
In its earliest days, the Internet seemed to all of us to be an unqualified good: It was a way to share information, increase productivity, and experience new freedoms and diversions. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the idealistic generation that came of age with the Internet. Two decades later,... More Info
$17.00
A Grain of Wheat
Penguin Classics |
May 29, 2012 |
272 pages
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a... More Info
$16.99
Anybody Out There?
Penguin Books |
August 2, 2012 |
640 pages
Winner of the 2007 Popular Fiction Prize, Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes is a novel of love, loss and jealousy that is as sharply funny as it is deeply moving. It is the fourth of Marian Keyes's internationally best-selling Walsh sisters novels which also include Watermelon, Rachel's Holiday,... More Info
$27.99
Empire of Things
Penguin Press |
February 2, 2017 |
880 pages
'Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a rare and beautiful thing' Gerard DeGroot, The Times What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated... More Info
A fair country
Penguin Group Canada |
September 16, 2008 |
340 pages
In this startlingly original vision of Canada, thinker John Ralston Saul unveils 3 founding myths. Saul argues that the famous "peace, order, and good government" that supposedly defines Canada is a distortion of the country's true nature. Every single document before the BNA Act, he points out,... More Info
$48.95
Wild Pork and Watercress
Penguin Books |
February 29, 2016 |
240 pages
When Ricky's beloved Aunt Bella dies and Social Welfare threatens to put him into care, the overweight Maori boy and cantankerous Uncle Hec flee into the remote and rugged Ureweras. The impassable bush serves up perilous adventures, forcing the pair of misfits to use all their skills to survive... More Info
$22.00
Ink
Penguin Books Canada |
May 2, 2017 |
400 pages
A rich and imaginative discovery of how ink has shaped culture and why it is here to stay. Ink is so much a part of daily life that we take it for granted, yet its invention was as significant as the wheel. Ink not only recorded culture, it bought political power, divided peoples, and led to... More Info
$22.00
The Reason You Walk
Penguin Canada |
April 27, 2017 |
288 pages
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. The Reason You Walkspans the year 2012, chronicling painful moments in the past and... More Info
$22.00
Super Mind
Penguin |
May 16, 2017 |
320 pages
The noted research psychiatrist and New York Times-bestselling author explores how Transcendental Meditation permanently alters your daily consciousness, resulting in greater productivity, emotional resilience, and aptitude for success. Most of us believe that we live in only three states of... More Info
Behave
Penguin Press |
April 4, 2017 |
496 pages
Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful... More Info
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
208 pages
A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner "Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How It All Began,... More Info
Lion (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Penguin Canada |
November 1, 2016 |
288 pages
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, this #1 international best-seller tells the miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind. "Amazing stuff." -The New... More Info
$20.00
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It
Penguin |
May 2, 2017 |
224 pages
A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . Daniel Klein’s fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his... More Info
Children of Earth and Sky
Penguin Canada |
May 2, 2017 |
592 pages
The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars evokes a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands--where empires and faiths collide. From the small... More Info
Hallelujah Anyway
Penguin |
October 20, 2017 |
192 pages
From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it. "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway.... More Info
There Is No F*cking Secret
Penguin |
April 25, 2017 |
256 pages
People ask Kelly Osbourne all the time: "What's your secret?" Kelly Osbourne may not always have been a typical role model, but no one can say that her perspective isn't hard won after spending three decades in the spotlight: from growing up completely exposed to the heavy metal scene--replete with... More Info
$16.99
Against the Double Blackmail
Penguin Press |
February 23, 2017 |
128 pages
How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Aixek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity- a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself and its... More Info
$22.00
The Second Life of Nick Mason
Penguin |
April 18, 2017 |
320 pages
An NPR and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Thriller of the Year "A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years."--Harlan Coben From New York Times-bestselling, two-time Edgar-award-winning author Steve Hamilton comes an unforgettable new... More Info
$29.00
Drawdown
Penguin Books |
April 18, 2017 |
256 pages
The 100 most substantive solutions to roll back climate change, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and activists have come together to offer a set... More Info
The Genius of Birds
Penguin Books |
April 11, 2017 |
352 pages
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds.
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Penguin |
March 1, 2016 |
336 pages
"This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter--a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about shaming as a form of social control. It has become such a big part of our lives it has begun to feel weird and empty when there isn't anyone to be furious about. Whole careers are... More Info
The Republic
Penguin UK |
May 31, 2007 |
416 pages
One of the greatest works of philosophy and political theory ever produced, Plato's The Republic has shaped western thought for thousands of years, remaining as relevant today as when it was first written in the Ancient Greece. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Desmond lee with a new... More Info
The Death of Money
Penguin |
April 4, 2017 |
368 pages
The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar. The U.S. dollar has been the global reserve currency since the end of World... More Info
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