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A therapist creates moving portraits of five of her most memorable patients, men and women she considers psychological heroes.

An astonishing and powerful look at the ongoing opioid crisis North America is in the middle of a health emergency. Life expectancies are declining.

A gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, and the detective determined to find her killer, set against the backdrop of a troubled city.

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An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them. In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a lot like any other player toiling in the minors. He was good.

Just before her fortieth birthday, Gail Francis quit her perfectly good job and set out to hike one of the great trails of the world.

The classic chronicle of life and self-reliance in the great Northern Forest, now available in audio "Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons-a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys t

When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving.

The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers.

"Boy, do I have a lot to learn!" Anyone who's ever picked up a musical instrument of any kind-from the first caveman banging rocks to that little kid at the guitar shop-has though th

Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley.

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth-by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily

It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of

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In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop.