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Loni Love tells the story of how she overcame the trap of self-improvement and instead learned to embrace who she was. This book explores all of the embarrassing mistakes, terrifying challenges, and unexpected breakthroughs that taught her how, by committing ourselves to our own path, we can take control of our destiny.

We are in crisis today. Our modern technological society has left too many of us, no matter our ages, feeling isolated and bereft of purpose. Previous frameworks for building community and finding meaning no longer support us. This book reminds us that what we already do every day matters, and has the potential to become a powerful experience of reflection, sanctuary, and meaning. We might not be religious, but that doesn't mean we are any less spiritual.

Ijeoma Oluo investigates the real costs and the subversive history of white male American identity in order to find a way it can be reimagined, one free from racism, sexism, and oppression.

Broken Faith is the meticulously reported story of a singular female cult leader, a terrifying portrait of life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades. It's the story of an entire community's descent into darkness-and for some, the winding journey back to the light.

In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering, but never arrived. Using the past and the present, Eisenberg shows how this mysterious act of violence has loomed over all those affected for generations, shaping their fears, fates, and the stories they tell about themselves.

Can a woman be smart, empowered, and "happy"? Determined to find out, Ariel Gore began her own study into the feminine history, science, and experience of happiness.

In Homophobia in the Hallways, Tonya D. Callaghan interrogates institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in the publicly-funded Catholic school systems of Ontario and Alberta.

The #1 New York Times bestselling, "must-read" (San Francisco Chronicle), "amazingly timely and stunningly accessible" (Jacqueline Woodson) exploration of race and racism from award-winning, beloved authors Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, now in paperback.
This is not a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.

Cet ouvrage est avant tout un éloge à l'humanité profonde dans la vie, bien sûr, mais aussi dans la mort. Il s'adresse aux familles, proches, amis, soignants, bénévoles qui accompagnent ou qui sont en lien avec une personne mourante, quel que soit leur rôle. Il s'adresse aussi à tout être humain préocupé par la mort, la sienne ou celle des autres. Les personnes en fin de vie pourront y puiser des informations pertinentes pour êtres soutenues dans leur démarche d'appropriation de leur mort.

Lorsqu'elle emménage dans sa nouvelle maison de Saskatoon, Candace Savage découvre avec étonnement que celle-ci a été construite par une famille francophone. Comment les Blondin ont-ils abouti dans un quartier alors considéré comme une véritable place forte de colons britanniques? Poussée par la curiosité, Savage mettra au jour un sombre épisode de l'histoire canadienne. En 1928, alors que les Blondin achèvent la construction de leur nouvelle maison, le Ku Klux Klan prend d'assaut la Saskatchewan avec un slogan simple : Keep Canada British.