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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 | $17 | | CDN Price | $23 | | 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 | $27.99 | | CDN Price | $36 | | Pages | 400 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
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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 | $18 | | CDN Price | $25 | | Pages | 432 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour. |
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| | Title | An Invisible Thread | | Author | Schroff, Laura | | Sub-Imprint | Howard Books | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781451648973 | | US Price | $15.99 | | CDN Price | $20.99 | | Pages | 272 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | This inspirational New York Times bestseller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness. “A straightforward tale of kindness and paying it forward in 1980s New York….an uplifting reminder that small gestures matter” (Kirkus Reviews). |
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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 | | CDN Price | $23 | | Pages | 432 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | An instant New York Times bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, and Entertainment Weekly, among others, this celebrated 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 | $17 | | CDN Price | $22 | | Pages | 432 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | “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 | $16 | | CDN Price | $22 | | 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 | $20 | | CDN Price | $27 | | Pages | 608 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. |
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| | Title | The Gene | | Author | Mukherjee, Siddhartha | | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | | Format | Hardcover | | Category 1 | Medical | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781476733500 | | US Price | $32 | | CDN Price | $39.99 | | Pages | 608 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year
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). |
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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 | $18 | | CDN Price | $25 | | 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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