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CURRENT EVENTS
Pandemic Spotlight
Canadian Doctors at the Front of
the COVID-19 Fight
IAN HANOMANSING
Eminent CBC journalist Ian Hanomansing profiles the
Canadian doctors who stepped up to guide the nation
through its worst medical crisis in a century.
$22.95 PB Douglas & McIntyre
Return
Why We Go Back to Where
We Come From
KAMAL AL-SOLAYEE
Return is a chronicle of love and loss, of global reach
and personal desires. It sets the narrative of going
home against geopolitical forces that are likely to
shape the rest of this century and beyond. It’s a book
for anyone who has ever wondered what it would be
like to return to their roots.
$32.99 HC Harper Collins
On Freedom
Four Songs of Care and
Constraint
MAGGIE NELSON
For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in
our culture—from recent art world debates to the
turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the
painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair
in the face of the climate crisis—is itself a practice of
freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and
company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential
book for challenging times.
$32.00 HC McClelland & Stewart
The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
MICHAEL LEWIS
For those who could read between the lines, the
censored news out of China was terrifying. But the
president insisted there was nothing to worry about.
Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller
pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of
ignorance that was the official response of the Trump
administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.
$40.00 HC WW Norton
The Class
Trauma and Transformation in an
American Prison
CHRIS HEDGES
A haunting and powerfully moving book that gives
voice to the poorest among us and lays bare the
cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their
lives. In this unforgettable work, Pulitzer Prizewinning
journalist Chris Hedges provides an intimate
and moving look at the lives of the students he
teaches in a maximum-security prison.
$32.00 HC Knopf Canada
The Tyranny of Merit
Can We Find the Common Good?
MICHAEL J SANDEL
The world-renowned philosopher and author of the
bestselling Justice explores the central question of
our time: What has become of the common good?
The Tyranny of Merit points us toward a hopeful
vision of a new politics of the common good.
$24.50 PB Picador
Out of the Sun
On Race and Storytelling: The
CBC Massey Lectures 2021
ESI EDUGYAN
In this groundbreaking, reflective, and erudite
book, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and
internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan
illuminates myriad varieties of Black experience
in global culture and history. Edugyan combines
storytelling with analyses of contemporary events
and her own personal story in this dazzling first
major work of non-fiction.
$32.99 HC House of Anansi
China Unbound
A New World Disorder
JOANNA CHIU
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is
extending its influence across the globe with the
complicity of democratic nations. The new world
disorder documented in China Unbound lays out
the disturbing implications for global stability,
prosperity, and civil rights everywhere.
$24.99 PB House of Anansi
A Good War
Mobilizing Canada for the
Climate Emergency
SETH KLEIN
Klein demonstrates how wartime thinking and
community efforts can be repurposed today for
Canada’s own Green New Deal. He shares how
we can create jobs and reduce inequality while
tackling our climate obligations for a climate
neutral—or even climate zero—future.
$24.95 PB ECW Press
Spin Doctors
How Media and Politicians
Misdiagnosed the COVID-19
Pandemic
NORA LORETO
This book meticulously documents the root causes
of the struggles amplified by the pandemic and
media, and challenges media and politicians who
justify the status quo.
$35.00 PB Fernwood Publishing
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