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TitleBird of Paradise
AuthorCepeda, Raquel
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781451635874
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages336
Title StatusAS
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.
TitleJust Like Us
AuthorThorpe, Helen
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category 1Social Science
ISBN-139781416538936
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages400
Title StatusAS
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.
TitleRandom Family
AuthorLeBlanc, Adrian Nicole
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139780743254434
US Price$20
CDN Price$27
Pages432
Title StatusAS
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.
TitleThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
AuthorHobbs, Jeff
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781476731919
US Price$17
CDN Price$23
Pages432
Title StatusAS
*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).
TitleSoldier Girls
AuthorThorpe, Helen
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781451668117
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages432
Title StatusBO
“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 familiesnamed a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly.
TitleTattoos on the Heart
AuthorBoyle, Gregory
Sub-ImprintFree Press
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781439153154
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages240
Title StatusAS
“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.
TitleThe Emperor of All Maladies
AuthorMukherjee, Siddhartha
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Medical
ISBN-139781439170915
US Price$22
CDN Price$30
Pages608
Title StatusAS
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and 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—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.
TitleThe Gene
AuthorMukherjee, Siddhartha
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category 1Medical
ISBN-139781476733500
US Price$35
CDN Price$47
Pages608
Title StatusAS
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
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.
TitleThe Dirty Life
AuthorKimball, Kristin
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781416551614
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages304
Title StatusAS
From a “graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm.