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How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other
By Naomi Klein, Rebecca Stefoff
In the storeA long-awaited guide to climate action and justice for young readers by bestselling, award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer and climate activist Naomi Klein.
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The Committed
By Viet Thanh Nguyen
In the storeThe long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers,The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee.
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology
By Kevin Young
In the storeEach poem a step in the struggle.
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
By Mark Bittman
In the storeFrom hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and points the way to a better future.
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Eden Mills Writers' Festival Online
ArticleBy Barb Minett
A chance to connect with our many inspiring writers!
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By Keisha N. Blain, Ibram X. Kendi
In the storeThe newest book from the best selling author How To Be an Anti-racist. He describes it as on volume community history of African Americans.
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
By Bill Gates
In the storeIn this urgent, singularly authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid an irreversible
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By Elizabeth Kolbert
In the storeThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
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Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War
By Jennifer Robson
In the storeTo survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer's wife in this unforgettable novel - a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.
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Organized Crime 2019 Pinot Gris Wine
By Organized Crime
In the storeThis Pinot Gris is all about cantaloupe, white peach and honeysuckle, and finishes clean with a refreshing streak acidity. Ontario alcohol regulation requires that we identify the recipient is of legal age when we deliver. This requirement limits wine orders to Guelph shipping addresses only.
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Kill the Mall
By Pasha Malla
In the storeDouglas Adams meets David Lynch (Twin Peaks-era) in this witty yet horror-tinged tour de force about one of North America's scariest inventions--your local mall.
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The Four Winds: A Novel
By Kristin Hannah
In the storePraise for The Four Winds:
"Hannah brings Dust Bowl migration to life in this riveting story of love, courage, and sacrifice...combines gritty realism with emotionally rich characters and lyrical prose that rings brightly and true from the first line. -
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy
In the storeFrom the revered British illustrator, a modern fable for all ages that explores life's universal lessons, featuring 100 color and black-and-white drawings."What do you want to be when you grow up?" asked the mole."Kind," said the boy."
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The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel
By Richard Osman
In the storeA little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom...SUCH FUN!"
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Gutter Child: A Novel
By Jael Richardson
In the storeA fierce and astounding debut novel from a crucial voice. Jael Richardson has skillfully crafted a dystopian realm that draws from the brutal realities of colonial history and the sinister injustices of the present.
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The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom
By Allan Bartley
In the storeThe history of the racist terrorist KKK organization in Canada, from street violence, to media intimidation, to influencing elections and everything in-between.
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
By Sir David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes
In the storeThe eminent traveler and naturalist delivers a combination of memoir and manifesto, the first leisurely, the second earnest
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Tree Vision: 30 Cards to Cure Your Tree Blindness
By Holly Exley, Tony Kirkham
In the storeTree Vision is the ultimate card set to help you learn all about trees, their leaves, seeds, flowers and so much more - for one and all!
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Greenlights
By Matthew McConaughey
In the storeUnflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey's book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did-and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.
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Bridgerton [TV Tie-in]: The Duke and I
By Julia Quinn
In the storeIn case watching the series wasn't enough for you!
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Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age
By Sanjay Gupta
In the storeKeep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta.
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REVIEW: BREATH
ArticleBy Barb Minett
In Breath, James Nestor delivers fascinating and vital stories about the thing that gives us life.
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Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
By Daniel Lieberman
In the storeIn this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise-to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health.
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Concrete Rose
By Angie Thomas
In the storeInternational phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By George Saunders
In the storeFor the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years.
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By Katherine May
In the storeBack in stock and a much sought after book - for obvious reasons!
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Langhe Nebbiolo 2018
By Marco Porwllo
In the storeRuby red, medium bodied with a nose of berries.
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The Push
By Ashley Audrain
In the storeA tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, told through the eyes of a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Audrian previously worked as the publicity director of Penguin Books Canada!
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By Jenny Odell
In the storeOne of last year's bestsellers now in paperback. Sounds like a book for the lockdown!
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Better Boys, Better Men: The New Masculinity That Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency
By Andrew Reiner
In the storeA thought-provoking and much-needed look at how modern masculinity is harming and holding back men-and all of society-and what we can do to promote a new masculinity that allows men of all ages to thrive.
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Indians on Vacation: A Novel
By Thomas King
In the storeWE HAVE AUTOGRAPHED COPIES!!! Nominated for the Rogers Trust Fiction Prize, you're sure to enjoy Tom's latest book, inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by Uncle Leroy nearly a hundred years ago. Any book by Tom is always a reason to celebrate!!!
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The Overstory: A Novel
By Richard Powers
In the storeMonumenta - The Overstory accomplishes what few living writers from either camp, art or science, could attempt. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!
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The 99% Invisible City: a Field Guide to the Hidden World of
By Roman Mars
In the storeA field guide, a boon, a bible for the urban curious!
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How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By Souvankham Thammavongsa
In the storeCongratulations to Souvankham Thammavongsa for winning this year's Scotia Giller Prize!! These poignant and deceptively quiet stories are powerhouses of feeling and depth; How to Pronounce Knife is an artful blend of simplicity and sophistication.
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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By Ruth Ben-Ghiat
In the storeWhat modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped).Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin-enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America.
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
In the storeThe focus that day is to reflect on "Education: the roles and responsibilities of Institutions within the journey of reconciliation and how Institutions build relationships that are respectful and reciprocal with indigenous people."
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