LIVING THE GOOD LIFE
It’s not what you might think
FICTION
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Stones in my Passway Jim Jackson. An Alberta author’s take on how do you get out of a deal with the devil?
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Rising Abruptly Gisele Villeneuve. A perfect companion book for travellers or simply glories in the allure of the mountains.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Phillip K. Dick. When four androids escape their off-world indentured slavery, Rick Deckard, a human bounty hunter, must hunt them down with lethal force.
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Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles. A man is ordered not to leave his luxury hotel. He won’t want to.
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In Case I Go Angie Abdou. A new kind of ghost story about the many ways we’re haunted by misdeeds of ancestors.
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The Rooster Bar John Grisham. Three friends in law school fight the scam they find themselves in. The latest from the bestselling author.
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The Shoe on the Roof Will Ferguson. New novel from the Leacock and Giller winning Calgary author.
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Son of a Trickster Eden Robinson. The first in a trilogy, humour blended with heartbreak makes a compelling coming-of-age novel.
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Transit Rachel Cusk. A woman coping with family collapse moves to London with her two sons, realizing the longing to both inhabit and flee her life.
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Amaryllis and Other Stories Carrie Vaughan. A collection of Vaughn’s work, including her Hugo-nominated, WSFA Small Press Award-winning story Amaryllis, about a post-catastrophe future.
NON- FICTION
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The Gutsy Girl Caroline Paul. Once a scaredy-cat herself, Caroline Paul decides to fly planes, raft big rivers, climb tall mountains, and fight fires.
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In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey Payam Akhavan. A timely, essential and passionate work of memoir and history — a tour de force by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer.
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Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-five Paintings to Change the Way You Live
Christophe Andre. An examination of mindfulness through art.
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Dead Reckoning Carys Cragg. Twenty years after her father is killed, Cragg decides to contact his murderer in prison and begins a correspondence that lasts two years.
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Red Notice Bill Browder. The story of an accidental activist in the former U.S.S.R.
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How Deep is the Lake? A Century at Chilliwack Lake Shelley O’Callaghan. A prudent examination of privilege and belonging in Chilliwack Lake by a retired environmental lawyer and grandmother.
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The Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka Bernadette McDonald. A profound biography of one of the climbing world’s most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers.
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The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben. The life of the plants around us.
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Wolf Spirit: A Story of Healing, Wolves and Wonder Gudrun Pfluger. Diagnosed with a brain tumour with 18 months to live, the author takes the wolf as her model to immerse herself in the wilderness of Western Canada, focusing on an inspirational path toward self- healing.
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari. Exploring the problems that will shape the 21st century — from overcoming death to creating artificial life; postulating the next stages of human evolution.