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TitleThe Story of Stuff
AuthorLeonard, Annie
Sub-ImprintFree Press
FormatPaperback
Category 1Nature
ISBN-139781451610291
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages368
Title StatusAS
A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet.
TitleThe American Way of Eating
AuthorMcMillan, Tracie
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Political Science
ISBN-139781439171967
US Price$19
CDN Price$26
Pages352
Title StatusAS
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.
TitleThis Changes Everything
AuthorKlein, Naomi
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Business & Economics
ISBN-139781451697391
US Price$19.99
CDN Price
Pages576
Title StatusAS
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
TitleOnly Plane in the Sky
AuthorGraff, Garrett M
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader press
FormatPaperback
Category 1History
ISBN-139781501182211
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages528
Title StatusAS
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham

“Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.” —Katie Couric

The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001—a panoramic narrative woven from voices on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma.
TitleOnce I Was You
AuthorHinojosa, Maria
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781982128661
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages368
Title StatusAS
NPR’s Best Books of 2020
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Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020

“Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story.” —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road

The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR’s Latino USA tells the story of immigration in America through her family’s experiences and decades of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis in this memoir that is “quite simply beautiful, written in Maria Hinojosa’s honest, passionate voice” (BookPage).