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National bestseller. From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, the BC town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown—when hometown is gone. “It’s dire,” Greta Thunberg retweeted Mayor Jan Polderman. “The whole town is on fire.

A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing—hunting for mushrooms. “Moving . . . Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature.” —The New York Times. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf’s unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years.

#1 New York Times bestseller • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.” —The Wall Street Journal. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. Bono—artist, activist, and lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir that is honest, irreverent, intimate, and profound. Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. Narrated by the author, Surrender offers an immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin to joining a band and playing sold-out stadiums around the world with U2, along with over two decades of activism.

An instant New York Times bestseller. A Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and National Indie bestseller. A best book of the year according to Elle, Real Simple, and Kirkus Reviews. “Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family.” —People Magazine. “Beautifully written and deeply moving—it brought me to tears more than once.” —Ruth Franklin, The New York Times Book Review.

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies. “Golem Girl is luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young—and mature—woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six decades; and a hymn to life, love, family, and spirit.” —David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas. In 1958, Riva Lehrer is born with spina bifida and expected not to survive.

* A New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award * A Financial Times Best Sports Book of 2023. Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes. “Women’s sports have needed a manifesto for a very long time, and with Lauren Fleshman’s Good for a Girl we finally have one.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and David and Goliath.

From the creator of Showtime's "Happyish." A New York Times Notable Book, and a “chaotic, laugh riot” (San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir. Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion, and its traditions, he could not find the path to a life where he didn’t struggle daily with the fear of God’s formidable wrath.

Named a Book to Read This Fall by CBC Books and the Toronto Star • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books and Top 100 Books of 2024 • An Audible Best Book of 2024 • One of Kobo CA’s Best Biography and Memoir Ebooks of the Year • One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024. Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditionally written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling.

Hope triumphs over fear in this poignant and impactful true story of the Holocaust—a delicate introduction to World War Two history for older audiobook listeners. During World War Two, in the concentration camp Terezin, a group of Jewish children and their devoted teacher planted and nurtured a smuggled-in sapling. Over time, fewer and fewer children were left to care for the little tree, but those who remained kept lovingly sharing their water with it. When the war finally ended and the prisoners were freed, the sapling had grown into a strong five-foot-tall maple.