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Go ask Ali: half-baked advice (and free lemonade)
By Alexandra Wentworth. 2018
At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and far-fetched, this collection offers Ali at her wisest and wittiest as she delivers…
tips, pointers, and quips on a host of life's conundrums and sticky situations, including the funny yet unforgettable situations that have shaped her inimitable world view. Bestseller. 2018.Breaking free: how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs
By Rachel Jeffs. 2017
Astrophysics for people in a hurry
By Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2017
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit…
within us? Few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos, so Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While waiting for your morning coffee to brew, or while waiting for the bus, the train, or the plane to arrive, "Astrophysics for people in a hurry" will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe. Bestseller. 2017.Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
By Scott Kelly. 2017
The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced…
things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both life-threatening and mundane: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth; the catastrophic risks of colliding with space junk; and the still more haunting threat of being unable to help should tragedy strike at home--an agonizing situation Kelly faced when, on a previous mission, his twin brother's wife, American Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was shot while he still had two months in space. Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and determination resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble New Jersey childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career, and as he makes clear his belief that Mars will be the next, ultimately challenging, step in spaceflight. Bestseller. 2017.Armageddon: how Trump can beat Hillary
By Dick Morris, Eileen McGann. 2016
The presidential election of 2016 is a decisive battle; at stake is the vision of America as a free market…
democracy offering opportunity to our citizens and leading the world as a force of freedom, a struggle against socialist uniformity, collective anti-individualism, executive usurpation, and political corruption. In order to win, Republicans must focus on those unlikely, new voters - black, latino, young, and female. This book reveals the issues that will appeal to this new electorate. By using new issues, attracting new voters, and offering new alternatives, Republicans can win the election of 2016 and save America. Bestseller. 2016.Born to run
By Bruce Springsteen. 2016
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to…
these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized. Bestseller. 2016.House of nails: a memoir of life on the edge
By Lenny Dykstra. 2016
Nicknamed "Nails" for his hustle and grit, Dykstra was named to three All-Star teams and played in two of the…
most memorable World Series of the modern era. After retiring he became a business mogul and investment guru. Now he tells all about his tumultuous career, from battling through crippling pain to steroid use and drug addiction, to a life of indulgence and excess, then an epic plunge and the long road back to redemption. Bestseller. 2016.Hunger: a memoir of (my) body
By Roxane Gay. 2017
As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between…
self-comfort and self-care. In this memoir, she explores her own past, including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 LAMBDA Bisexual Non-fiction Award. 2017.Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
By F. B. M. de Waal. 2016
What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self;…
or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, offering a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviourism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long. Bestseller. 2016.From here to eternity: traveling the world to find the good death
By Caitlin Doughty. 2017
Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for…
their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. Introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning--including a glowing Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre--and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals. Bestseller. 2017.Everything all at once: how to unleash your inner nerd, tap into radical curiosity, and solve any problem
By Bill Nye, Corey S Powell. 2017
Bill Nye has been the public face of science for more than 20 years. Here, he urges readers to become…
activists and agents of change. This is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all. Nye believes we'll never be able to tackle our society's biggest, most complex problems if we don't even know how to solve the small ones. Step by step, he shows his readers the key tools behind his everything-all-at-once approach: radical curiosity, a deep desire for a better future, and a willingness to take the actions needed to make it a reality. Problem solving is a skill that anyone can harness to create change, and Bill Nye is here to teach us how. Bestseller. 2017.Canada
By Mike Myers. 2016
The book is part memoir, part history and pure entertainment. It is Mike Myers' funny and thoughtful analysis of what…
makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him. His relationship with his home and native land continues to deepen and grow, he says. In fact, American friends have actually accused him of enjoying being Canadian—and he's happy to plead guilty as charged. Bestseller. 2016.Best. State. Ever: a Florida man defends his homeland
By Dave Barry. 2016
Sure, there was the 2000 election and flying insects the size of LeBron James. But Barry is going to show…
you why Florida is a great state. And whatever else you think about Florida-- you can never say it's boring. Bestseller. 2016.Factfulness: ten reasons we're wrong about the world--and why things are better than you think
By Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund. 2018
Factfulness: the stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about…
global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school--we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Rosling offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. Reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective, from our tendency to divide the world into two camps to the way we consume media to how we perceive progress. Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. Bestseller. 2018.Mitic brings together veterans and active military personnel from across Canada to tell us, in their own words, what it…
means to answer the call of duty. Meet the World War II bomb aimer whose plane engines failed over Hamburg during a raid, the naval signalman who patrolled heavily bombarded waters in Southeast Asia during the Korean War, and the unarmed peacekeeper who found himself standing on a road riddled with mines in Rwanda. From the young recruit who marched over thirty kilometres on a broken leg to prove her mettle, to the three brothers in arms who endured a summer of relentless fighting in Afghanistan, this collection captures the pain and sacrifice, the risks and rewards of standing on guard for Canada. Bestseller. 2017.Bleeding blue: giving my all for the game
By Wendel Clark. 2016
As a young boy in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, Wendel Clark never dreamed of an NHL career, but eventually he was drafted…
by the Toronto Maple Leafs first overall in 1985. As he learned from the players around him, Wendel steadily matured into a respected leader and team captain, and his willingness to lay it all on the line inspired courage in his teammates and fear in his opponents. But just as Wendel’s talents were set to peak, everything unraveled. Years of no-holds-barred, physical play were taking their toll, and soon his greatest competitor was his own body. Determined to succeed no matter what the cost, Wendel set out on a course that would allow him to keep doing what he loved and that would turn him into one of the most beloved hockey players of all time. Bestseller. 2016.Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed : a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings
By Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford. 2014
Knight explains how troubled her life was even before her kidnapping in 2002 at age twenty-one by Cleveland school bus…
driver Ariel Castro. Details the ordeal she endured with two others, their escape in 2013, and their lives since then. Bestseller. 2014.Heroes in my head: a memoir
By Judy Rebick. 2018
In this memoir, Rebick, one of Canada's best-known feminists, lays bare the public and private battles that have shaped her…
life. She documents two major decades in her life: the 1980s, when she became a high-profile spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion; and the 1990s, when she took on her biggest challenge as a public figure by becoming president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. Here, for the first time, she also reveals the very private battles she waged during these important decades. The result is a fascinating, heartbreaking, but ultimately empowering story. Bestseller. 2018.History's people: personalities and the past (CBC Massey lectures)
By Margaret MacMillan. 2015
The acclaimed historian gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past who have changed the course…
of history and even directed the currents of their times -- sometimes with huge consequences, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Then there are those like Samuel de Champlain: the dreamers, explorers, or adventurers who stand out in history for who they were as much as for what they did. Finally, there are the observers, such as Michel de Montaigne, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to life for us. "History's People" is about the important and complex relationship between biography and history, individuals and their times, and the transformative moments that have shaped the world today. Bestseller. 2015.H is for hawk
By Helen Macdonald. 2015
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since…
childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel and turned to the guidance of "The Sword and the Stone" author T. H. White's chronicle "The Goshawk" to begin her journey into Mabel's world. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity. Bestseller. 2015.