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• Everything Is Tuberculosis

  the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

  Green, John, 1977-

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  John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

  El Akkad, Omar

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  From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands

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  Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wînipêk

  Visions of Canada From An Indigenous Centre

  Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James

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  Based on years' worth of columns, Niigaan Sinclair delivers a defining essay collection on the resilience of Indigenous peoples. Here, we meet the creators, leaders, and everyday people preserving the beauty of their heritage one day at a time. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trash!

  a Garbageman's Story

  Paré-Poupart, Simon

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  Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started working as a garbageman to pay for school, and after earning graduate degrees and working in more “respectable” fields, he is still on a truck — out of love for the physical rush, for his rough-and-tumble…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hyperpolitics

  Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

  Jäger, Anton

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  What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how pub­lic life has become infused with protest,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Theory of Water

  Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead

  Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971-

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  For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiing through all kinds of weather, on all kinds of snow, and across all kinds of terrain, often following the trail beside a beloved creek near her home. As she skied against the backdrop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Edgelands

  a Life on Society's Margins

  Ali, Mohamed Abdulkarim, 1985-

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  Somali, Muslim, gay, and three times an immigrant, Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali has always existed in a fraught state of transience. He has been forced across several borders, both geographical and personal, from being kidnapped by his father at the age…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost in Curiosity

  Field Notes From Scientists' Adventures Into the Unknown

  Kwok, Roberta

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  In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic pursuit of truth. Chronicling researchers' struggles and hopes in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Dark Night

  Emily Brontë, a Life

  Lutz, Deborah

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  Emily Jane Brontë was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she was dead. Out of step with her own time and remembered as the strangest of the Brontë sisters, there's much that we don't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Wild Familiars

  How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World

  Werb, Dan

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  Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the reason we hear birdsong in the morning and skittering throughout the day, and why we take such pains to fix lids to our garbage cans. But they are so much…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

  How to Think About Artificial Intelligence--before It's Too Late

  Doctorow, Cory

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  In modern tech parlance, a centaur is a person who is able to use technology to be a better, more productive version of themself. A reverse centaur is a person who is forced by technology to work at an inhuman pace—a driver made to deliver all day…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Encampment

  Resistance, Grace, and An Unhoused Community

  Helwig, Maggie, 1961-

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  Encampment tells the story of Helwig’s life-long activism as preparation for her fight to keep her churchyard open to people needing a home. More importantly, it introduces us to the Artist, to Jeff, and to Robin: their lives, their challenges,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Marilyn and Her Books

  the Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe

  Crowther, Gail

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  Marilyn And Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe charts the intellectual life of a screen legend, revealing how Monroe, who left high school before graduation, embarked on an impressive and progressive program of self-education, hungry for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Relegated

  One American's Pints-and-pies Journey From the Top to the Bottom of English Football

  Smith, Todd, 1972-,

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  For fans of Ted Lasso and Welcome to Wrexham, this rollicking travel memoir by a middle-aged Midwesterner is a hilarious and heartfelt journey through the United Kingdom, its football clubs, and the rich traditions of English football culture.

• This Is Also a Love Story

  a Reporter's Search for Goodness in a Cruel World

  Hayden, Sally (Journalist)

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  We live in an era defined by crisis—whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit from violence and exploitation. Celebrated foreign correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation