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| Title | Bird of Paradise | Author | Cepeda, Raquel | Sub-Imprint | Atria Books | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781451635874 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 336 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| In 2009, Raquel Cepeda embarked on an exploration of her genealogy using ancestral DNA testing to uncover the truth about her family and the tapestry of races and ethnicities that came together in an ambiguous mix in her features, resulting in “a beautiful story of reconciliation and redemption” (Huffington Post) with her identity and what it means to be Latina. |
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| Title | Just Like Us | Author | Thorpe, Helen | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Hardcover | Category 1 | Social Science | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781416538936 | US Price | $30 | CDN Price | $39.99 | Pages | 400 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| In this eye-opening and poignant true story about the experiences of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver—two who have legal documentation, two who don’t—Helen Thorpe “puts a human face on a frequently obtuse conversation” (O, The Oprah Magazine), exploring themes of identity and friendship and exposing the reality of life for many undocumented immigrants seeking the American dream. |
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| Title | Random Family | Author | LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780743254434 | US Price | $20 | CDN Price | $27 | Pages | 432 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted |
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| Title | The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace | Author | Hobbs, Jeff | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781476731919 | US Price | $17.99 | CDN Price | $24.99 | Pages | 432 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| *Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, “nuanced and shattering” (People) and “mesmeric” (The New York Times Book Review). |
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| Title | Soldier Girls | Author | Thorpe, Helen | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781451668117 | US Price | $19.99 | CDN Price | $26.99 | Pages | 432 | Title Status | BO | | | | |
| “A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families—named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly. |
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| Title | Tattoos on the Heart | Author | Boyle, Gregory | Sub-Imprint | Free Press | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781439153154 | US Price | $19 | CDN Price | $26 | Pages | 240 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| “Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality” (Los Angeles Times)—Tattoos on the Heart is a series of parables about kinship and redemption from pastor, activist, and renowned speaker, Father Gregory Boyle. |
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| Title | The Emperor of All Maladies | Author | Mukherjee, Siddhartha | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Medical | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781439170915 | US Price | $22 | CDN Price | $30 | Pages | 608 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer. Now updated with three chapters illuminating the new preventions, treatments, and understanding of cancer in the years since the book’s first publication. |
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| Title | The Gene | Author | Mukherjee, Siddhartha | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Hardcover | Category 1 | Medical | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781476733500 | US Price | $35 | CDN Price | $47 | Pages | 608 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle). "Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself." –Ken Burns |
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| Title | The American Way of Eating | Author | McMillan, Tracie | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Political Science | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781439171967 | US Price | $19 | CDN Price | $26 | Pages | 352 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| The New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism in the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed that fully investigates our food system to explain what keeps Americans from eating well—and what we can do about it. |
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| Title | The Dirty Life | Author | Kimball, Kristin | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781416551614 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 304 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| From a “graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm. |
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