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In this collection of adventure rebus stories, Chirp snorkels for treasure, explores a jungle, flies to...
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Quicksand
Penguin Paperbacks |
February 1, 2011 |
720 pages
Original publication and copyright date: 2010.
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Jim Crow's Children
Penguin |
January 1, 2004 |
376 pages
An award-winning legal historian and author of A People's History of the Supreme Court explores the long legacy of segregation in America, showing readers how the famous Brown v. Board of Education decision broke the back of Jim Crow but was quickly replaced by another form of segregation. Reprint.... More Info
That Crumpled Paper was Due Last Week
Penguin |
January 1, 2010 |
287 pages
An educational consultant and tutor provides parents with tips and tools to transform their disorganized and unfocused sons into successful students, including how to identify their child's disorganization style, help to set academic and personal goals and cope with challenges. Original.
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The Conference of the Birds
Penguin Books |
October 29, 2013 |
160 pages
A first adult book by the author of the Caldecott Honor-winning The Wall is an uplifting adaptation of the 12th-century Sufi epic poem about a flight of birds under the leadership of a hoopoe who search for a true king while enduring profound spiritual challenges. 30,000 first printing.
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What You Have Heard Is True
Penguin Press |
March 19, 2019 |
400 pages
Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Penguin Canada |
June 5, 2018 |
352 pages
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon Named a New York Times 2017 "Books to Breeze Through This Summer" Winner of the 2018 Costa First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet... More Info
$23.00
Little Fires Everywhere
Penguin Books |
May 7, 2019 |
368 pages
Soon to be a Hulu limited series, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington! Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads,... More Info
Stony the Road
Penguin Press |
June 25, 2019 |
336 pages
The abolition of slavery after the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked 'a new birth of freedom' in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in... More Info
Paper Shadows
Penguin Canada |
March 6, 2018 |
352 pages
In 1995, during the publicity tour for his much-acclaimed first novel, The Jade Peony, Wayson Choy received a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming to have just seen his mother on a streetcar. He politely informed the caller that she must be mistaken, since his mother had died long ago. "No,... More Info
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Obasan
Penguin Canada |
November 29, 2016 |
240 pages
Professor:
Whiting, Patricia
Course Codes:
ENGL 4115 and 5900
Semester:
Summer-2019
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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Eichmann in Jerusalem
Penguin |
June 25, 1963 |
312 pages
Professor:
Dimitrijevic, Zorana
Course Codes:
LAWS 2105
Semester:
Summer-2019
Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
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The Underdogs
Penguin |
June 25, 2019 |
148 pages
Professor:
Whiting, Patricia
Course Codes:
ENGL 4115 and 5900
Semester:
Summer-2019
'This is not only a novel of the Mexican Revolution, but also of our own contemporary madness, and Sergio Waisman's translation captures its full force and fervor.' - Sandra Cisneros, author of the House on Mango Street With revolution sweeping the Mexican countryside, Demetrio Macias, a poor... More Info
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The Jungle
Penguin Classics |
June 25, 2019 |
388 pages
Professor:
Whiting, Patricia
Course Codes:
ENGL 4115 and 5900
Semester:
Summer-2019
The horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America.
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The Secret Lives of Color
Penguin Books |
October 24, 2017 |
320 pages
The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the... More Info
Advice Not Given
Penguin Books |
January 15, 2019 |
224 pages
"Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is both, and the wisdom he imparts in Advice Not Given is an act of generosity and compassion. The book is a tonic for the ailments of our time."--Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of... More Info
Into the Magic Shop
Penguin |
February 14, 2017 |
288 pages
The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.
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The Dawn Watch
Penguin Books |
November 6, 2018 |
400 pages
"Enlightening, compassionate, superb" --John Le Carré A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting... More Info
The Making of the English Working Class
Penguin Classics |
June 25, 2019 |
958 pages
In this classic account of the formative years of working-class society in England, E. P. Thompson shows how the working-class took part in its own making and recreates the whole life experience of people who created a culture of great vitality.
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Bleak House
Penguin Classics Hardcover |
June 25, 2019 |
1036 pages
In the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance.
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Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined
Penguin Teen |
May 1, 2018 |
368 pages
Then Ingrid traveled all over Europe with her opera star mother, Margot-Sophia. Life was beautiful and bright, and every day soared with music. Now Ingrid is on a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teens: addicts, runaways, and her. She's fighting to survive crushing humiliations,... More Info
The Hanging Girl
Penguin |
December 27, 2016 |
528 pages
In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Morck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, but a few hours later, he... More Info
In the Name of Humanity
Penguin Canada |
October 2, 2018 |
464 pages
Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize The untold true story of the secret negotiations--by the most unlikely figures--to end the Holocaust On November 25, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria and gas chambers--part... More Info
Selling Illusions
Penguin Books Canada |
June 25, 2019 |
252 pages
Since he immigrated to Canada almost three decades ago, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of... More Info
The Little Book of Little Activists
Penguin |
September 25, 2017 |
48 pages
A celebration of political activism by America's youngest citizens--our children. You're never too young to care about your community or to stand up for your beliefs. That's the empowering message of this book, which is all about how real kids exercise their first amendment rights.
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I'm Afraid of Men
Penguin Canada |
August 1, 2018 |
96 pages
"A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from a trans girl--a writer with celebrated indie roots and a knack for dismantling assumptions and challenging the status quo. Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia,... More Info
White Trash
Penguin |
June 25, 2019 |
462 pages
"A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party,"--NoveList.
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The Petting Zoo
Penguin Paperbacks |
June 25, 2019 |
336 pages
Follows the story of enigmatic New York artist Billy, who suffers an emotional breakdown after attending a Velâazquez show and agonizingly searches for divine inspiration for his own work.
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Blockchain Revolution
Penguin Canada |
June 12, 2018 |
432 pages
Finalist for the 2017 National Business Book Award The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and it's not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence. It's called the blockchain. The first generation of the digital revolution... More Info
Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
Penguin Canada |
June 5, 2018 |
320 pages
Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Winner of the 2017 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award How can you stand up to tyranny when your own identity is in turmoil? Vietnam is a haunted country, and Dr. Nguyen Georges-Minh... More Info
Demi-Gods
Penguin Canada |
July 31, 2018 |
320 pages
"The heat ripples into sentences dripping with delicious detail... Its nod to the classics makes Demi-Gods comparable to Donna Tartt's The Secret History. As does the feeling of a new and important author arriving." - Financial Times "In her poetic, essential debut novel, Eliza Robertson aims an... More Info
Lear's Shadow
Penguin Canada |
July 10, 2018 |
336 pages
A captivating novel about aging fathers and their grown daughters, childhood scars, and rewriting the script with a little help from Shakespeare, from the acclaimed author of My October. During a sweltering, stormy Montreal summer, Bea Rose finds herself about to turn forty having lost her lover,... More Info
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
Penguin Books Canada |
June 26, 2018 |
416 pages
From the author of the mega bestseller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Big Magic
Penguin |
September 1, 2016 |
304 pages
The instant #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller "A must read for anyone hoping to live a creative life... I dare you not to be inspired to be brave, to be free, and to be curious." --PopSugar From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you've dreamed... More Info
The Self-love Experiment
Penguin |
June 25, 2019 |
336 pages
Put a stop to self-sabotage and overcome your fears so that you can gain the confidence you need to reach your goals and become your own best friend. Too many people seem to believe that they are not allowed to put themselves first or go after their own dreams out of fear of being selfish or... More Info
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The Way to the Spring
Penguin |
June 25, 2019 |
428 pages
From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest... More Info
Unaccountable
Penguin Books Canada |
September 27, 2016 |
224 pages
A unique insider's account of the Harper government so damning that it cannot be ignored. Kevin Page was appointed by the federal Conservatives to be the country's first parliamentary budget officer in March 2008. The move fulfilled a Tory campaign promise to deliver greater government transparency... More Info
The Te of Piglet
Penguin Group USA |
June 25, 1993 |
257 pages
The author and the characters from the Pooh books engage in dialogue elucidating the Taoist principle of Te, the Way of the Small, a principle embodied in Piglet
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Penguin Canada |
May 1, 2018 |
464 pages
2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist The Ministry of Utmost Happinessis a dazzling new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things. It takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped... More Info
The Shadow World
Penguin UK |
June 25, 2019 |
696 pages
Andrew Feinstein is on a mission: to expose the lies, corruption and death-dealing at the heart of the modern arms trade. Whether it is the scandalous BAE Systems deals involving Britain and Saudi Arabia or the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex, he lays bare shocking stories of bribery,... More Info
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