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Bookends with Mattea Roach

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Here After: A Memoir

Amy Lin

New York Times Bestseller

The Blue Hour

Paula Hawkins

Peggy: A Novel

Rebecca Godfrey

What I Know About You

Eric Chacour

Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Precious Little Life

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Indigo Exclusive

The Mistletoe Mystery (Indigo Signed Edition): A Maid Novella

Nita Prose

Curiosities: A Novel

Anne Fleming

Final Cut

Charles Burns

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey

Teresa Wong

No Credit River

Zoe Whittall

Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love

Sarah Leavitt

Q&A

Adrian Tomine

Blackheart Man

Nalo Hopkinson

All You Can Kill

Pasha Malla

Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

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Held: A Novel

Anne Michaels

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This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune

Pachinko (national Book Award Finalist)

Min Jin Lee

The Vegetarian

Han Kang

Wandering Stars: A Novel

Tommy Orange

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Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

Ann Powers

Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel

Rebecca Makkai

Her First Palestinian

Saeed Teebi

Banal Nightmare: A Novel

Halle Butler

Ideas with Nahlah Ayed

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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures

Bettany Hughes

Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging

M.G. Vassanji

The Poetics Of Space

GASTON BACHELARD

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment

Charles Taylor

Dinner On Mars: The Technologies That Will Feed The Red Planet And Transform Agriculture On Earth

Lenore Newman

Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing

Jessica Riddell

Left Is Not Woke

Susan Neiman

Otherworld: Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland

Lisa M Bitel

The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

Paulette F. C. Steeves

A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All

Adam Benforado

The Myth Of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals And White Supremacy In The Civil Rights Era

Jesse Curtis

The Way Out: How To Overcome Toxic Polarization

Peter T. Coleman

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

Tiya Miles

The Current with Matt Galloway

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm

DeMar DeRozan

Everything But Money: The Hidden Barriers Between You and Financial Freedom

Jessica Moorhouse

The Certainty Illusion: What You Don't Know and Why It Matters

Timothy Caulfield

Chuck's Home Cooking: Family-Favourite Recipes from My Kitchen to Yours

Chuck Hughes

What She Said: Conversations About Equality

Elizabeth Renzetti

Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn

Jeanne Beker

You Don't Have to Quit: 20 Science-Backed Strategies to Help Your Loved One Drink Less

Maureen Palmer

Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

Greg Epstein

In Form: Life and Legacies in Bronze

Ruth Abernethy

The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing

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Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras

Sarah Chapelle

We Used to Live Here: A Novel

Marcus Kliewer

The Haters

Robyn Harding

The Queen: A Novel

Nick Cutter

The Other Valley

Scott Alexander Howard

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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

A Sweet Sting of Salt: A Novel

Rose Sutherland

The Cure for Drowning

Loghan Paylor

The Pages of the Sea

Anne Hawk

A Way to Be Happy

Caroline Adderson

Batshit Seven

Sheung-King Sheung-King

The Wedding: A Novel

Gurjinder Basran

The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies

Deborah Levy

Guide Me Home

Attica Locke

Almost Brown: A Mixed-Race Family Memoir

Charlotte Gill

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Expanded Edition

Hanif Abdurraqib

Surviving the City

Tasha Spillett

My Favorite Mistake

Marian Keyes

The Selkie Wife

Kelley Jo Burke

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

Darrel J McLeod

The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay

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New York Times Bestseller

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Malcolm Gladwell

Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell

Dreamer: My Life On the Edge

Nazem Kadri

Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill

Catherine Tsalikis

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

Rob Sheffield

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Playground

Richard Powers

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Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

Oliver Burkeman

New York Times Bestseller

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Russ Buettner

The Overstory: A Novel

Richard Powers

Unlike the Rest: A Doctor's Story

Chika Stacy Oriuwa

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Katherine Rundell

New York Times Bestseller

Connie: A Memoir

Connie Chung

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning

Eli Burnstein

Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface

Simon Garfield

Heaping Coals: From Media Firebrand to Anglican Priest

Michael Coren

Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love

Julie Sedivy

Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene

Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Philosophy of Translation

Damion Searls

Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English

Ben Yagoda

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

Rachel Plotnick

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