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Logical family : a memoir by Armistead MaupinThe best-selling author of the Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, a personal journey that shaped his evolution from a curious youth to a ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer.
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Could it happen here? : Canada in the age of Trump and Brexit by Michael AdamsFrom award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting the rest of the world. Adams examines our economy, institutions, and demographics to answer the question: could it happen here?"
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Seven fallen feathers : racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city by Tanya TalagaUsing a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of missing and murdered students, award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of Thunder Bay, a small northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.
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Bonus Reads: For the love of books
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Dear Fahrenheit 451 : love and heartbreak in the stacks by Annie SpenceA laugh-out-loud, deeply personal collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in the librarian author's life explains the complicated reasons why libraries are keeping or removing books that either are no longer checked out by readers or have poor literary value.
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Book lust to goby Nancy PearlFrom America's most famous librarian comes this book of reading recommendations of both nonfiction and fiction for armchair or "real" travelers. Take a journey through suggested reading for locales all over the world -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
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Why be happy when you could be normal? by Jeanette WintersonThe author of the best-selling Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit traces her life-long search for happiness as the adopted daughter of Pentecostal parents who raised her in a north England industrial town through practices of fierce control and paranoia, an experience that prompted her to turn for solace to the literary world.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar NafisiDescribes growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the group of young women who came together at her home in secret every Thursday to read and discuss great books of Western literature, explaining the influence of Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and other works on their lives and goals.
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