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Calypso
By David Sedaris. 2018
David Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. This is beach reading for people who…
detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk, and also Sedaris' darkest and warmest book yet. Bestseller. 2018. Company man -- Now we are five -- Little guy -- Stepping out -- A house divided -- The perfect fit -- Leviathan -- Your English is so good -- Calypso -- A modest proposal -- The silent treatment -- Untamed -- The one(s) who got away -- Sorry -- Boo-hooey -- A number of the reasons I've been depressed lately -- Why aren't you laughing? -- I'm still standing -- The spirit world -- And while you're up there, check on my prostate -- The Comey memo. Uniform title: Essays.I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
By Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb. 2013
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and…
fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. Bestseller. 2013.David and Goliath: underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants
By Malcolm Gladwell. 2013
The author challenges common assumptions about obstacles and advantages. Illustrates the ways having a learning disability such as dyslexia forces…
some students to develop other skills that help them to succeed. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2013.Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
By David Grann. 2017
An examination of the 1920s murders of wealthy Osage Indian Nation members in Oklahoma. When the newly-formed FBI bungled the…
investigation, young Director Hoover turned to ex-Texas Ranger Tom White, who put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the Bureau. Bestseller. Winner of the Spur 2018 best western historical nonfiction award and winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for best fact crime book. 2017.Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania
By Erik Larson. 2015
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Germany had declared the…
seas around Britain to be a war zone, but the captain of the "Lusitania", William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the "Lusitania" made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small--hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. Bestseller. 2015.This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate
By Naomi Klein. 2014
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon -…
it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better. Here Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Winner of the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. c2014.Into the wild
By Jon Krakauer. 1996
This book, which grew from an article the author wrote for Outside magazine, discusses a fatal trek by a young…
man named Chris McCandless. After graduating from college in 1990, McCandless abandoned his car, gave away his money, and cut off contact with his family. Exactly 112 days after he wandered into the Alaskan wild, McCandless was found dead of starvation. The author looks to himself and other adventurers for an explanation. Bestseller. 1996.Tragedy in the Commons: former Members of Parliament speak out about Canada's failing democracy
By Alison Loat, Michael MacMillan. 2014
The authors draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to…
unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada. Our elected officials make critical choices concerning how the country functions, and how it will succeed in the future. But citizens—voters—have become increasingly disenchanted with the political process. How did one of the world’s most functional democracies go so very wrong? In part, it is due to what MPs see as the domineering influence of their political party. From the manipulation of the nomination process to enforced voting in the House and in committees, the unseen hand of the party overshadows every aspect of the MP’s existence. Bestseller. 2014.Talking as fast as I can: from Gilmore girls to Gilmore girls, (and everything in between)
By Lauren Graham. 2016
In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and…
working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. Bestseller. 2016.We were eight years in power: an American tragedy
By Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2017
“We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy…
ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.” But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period--and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation’s old and unreconciled history. Coates examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective--the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president. Bestseller. 2017.The happiness equation: want nothing + do anything = have everything
By Neil Pasricha. 2016
The author illustrates how to want nothing, do anything, and have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction, you simply…
haven't unlocked the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a common ideal, flips it on its head, and casts it in a completely new light. Also provides step-by-step guidelines and hand-drawn scribbles that illustrate exactly how to apply each secret to live a happier life today. Bestseller. 2016.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.The undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds
By Michael Lewis. 2017
Examines the history of behavioural economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about…
the decision-making process, and the influence it has had on evidence-based regulation. Bestseller. 2017.Heart berries: a memoir
By Terese Marie Mailhot. 2018
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in…
the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist--who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot trusts us to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. Bestseller. 2018.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.Not that kind of girl: a young woman tells you what she's "learned"
By Lena Dunham. 2014
A collection of personal essays about the experiences that are part of making one’s way in the world. “Take My…
Virginity (No, Really, Take It)” is the account of Dunham’s first time, and how her expectations of sex didn’t quite live up to the actual event; “Girls & Jerks” explores her former attraction to less-than-nice guys who had perfected the “dynamic of disrespect” she found so intriguing; And in “I Didn’t Fuck Them, but They Yelled at Me,” she imagines the tell-all she will write when she is eighty and past caring, able to reflect honestly on the sexism and condescension she has encountered in Hollywood, where women are “treated like the paper thingies that protect glasses in hotel bathrooms—necessary but infinitely disposable.” Bestseller. 2014.This is happy
By Camilla Gibb. 2015
In this moving memoir, the author reveals the intensity of the grief that besieged her as the happiness of a…
longed for family shattered. Grief that lived in a potent mix with the solace that arose with the creation of another, most unexpected family. A family constituted by a small cast of resilient souls, adults broken in the way many of us are, united in love for a child. Reflecting on tangled moments of past sadness and joy, alienation and belonging, Gibb revisits her stories now in relation to the happy daughter who will inherit them, and she finds there new meaning and beauty. Bestseller. 2015.Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end
By Atul Gawande. 2014
In his previous books, Dr. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines…
its ultimate limitations and failures - in his own practices as well as others’ - as human lives draw to a close. And he discovers how we can do better. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. He finds people who show us how to have the hard conversations and how to ensure we never sacrifice what people really care about. The subject of a PBS documentary. Bestseller. 2014.The optimist: one man's search for the brighter side of life
By Laurence Shorter. 2009
Every time Shorter opened a newspaper or turned on the radio, he found another reason to be pessimistic. He undertook…
a year-long quest to seek out the world's most positive thinkers, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jung Chang, Matthieu Ricard, California's renowned Surfing Rabbi, and Bill Clinton. But optimism doesn't come easy, and Shorter's resolve is tested by a flagging career, a troubled love affair, and his ever-pessimistic dad. Strong language. 2009.The inconvenient Indian: a curious account of native people in North America
By Thomas King. 2012
Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular…
tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. Winner of the 2014 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2012.