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Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book. Diplomat father. Murdered mother. Emotionally neglected children. An apparent cover-up. Family dinners will never be the same. "I think that my father murdered my mother." That terrible belief spurs author Jeff Blackstock to investigate the circumstances of his mother Carol's death when he was a child. Carol Blackstock died at age 24 in 1959—poisoned by arsenic—but the cause of her death remained shrouded in mystery for decades.

Instant National Bestseller. One of Canada's foremost authors and journalists offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today's Canada. John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major reforms in public health care, law reform, and immigration. On his watch, First Nations on reserve obtained the right to vote and the federal government began to open up the North.

Winner of the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction - Finalist for the National Book Award. A dazzlingly inventive, deeply moving, intellectually bracing exploration of pain and beauty, private memory and public monument, art and complexity in contemporary Black life. "I wanted to write about silences and terror and acts that hover over generations, over centuries. I began by writing about my mother and grandmother." - from "Note 18" in Ordinary Notes.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year. Named one of the best books of the year by: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time. A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale.

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Please note: The audiobook edition is read by Barbra Streisand and features additional anecdotes and music that are exclusive to the My Name Is Barbra audiobook. Barbra Streisand is, by any account, a living legend, a woman who, in a career spanning six decades, has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music.

A New York Times Notable Book - National Bestseller. A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist? "A lively, personal exploration of how one might think about the art of those who do bad things." - Vanity Fair. "[Dederer] breaks new ground, making a complex cultural conversation feel brand new." - Ada Calhoun, author of Also a Poet.

National Book Award Finalist - A New York Times Notable Book. "A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice years after the fact" (The Boston Globe), from "one of Mexico's greatest living writers" (Jonathan Lethem). "Part memoir, part true-crime story, Garza's chronicle is both personal and political." - The Washington Post. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, She Reads, Electric Lit. October 18, 2019.

New York Times Bestseller. Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments in this "brilliant" (Zibby Owens, Good Morning America) memoir. "This extraordinary book helps dispel fear around death and dying—revealing it to be a natural part of our soul's evolution." - Laura Lynne Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Signs and The Light Between Us. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field.

* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize * "A haunting book of rare courage." - Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts. To be a journalist is to tell the truth.

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there's always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, "I'm Still Here." "If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody who is being honest with themselves knows at least a little bit about the subject.