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Title: MILLENNIAL MOSAIC: HOW PLURALISM AND CHOICE ARE SHAPING CANADIAN YOUTH AND THE FUTURE OF CANADA (Paperback Book)

Social Science / Demography

Author: BIBBY, REGINALD

Publisher: UNIV OF TORONTO PRESS

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The bottom line: Millennials are looking good

 

MIND THE SCIENCE

Title: MIND THE SCIENCE (Hardcover Book)

Author: STEA, JONATHAN N.

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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A clinical psychologist who regularly deals with some of society's most vulnerable exposes and debunks the predatory pseudoscience and grift of the multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry and points us towards a better way to take care of our mental health.

Can the unbroken gaze of a lone man on a stage in front of hundreds of people truly alleviate their mental distress? Can Berlin Wall pills or a coffee enema cure depression? Can we improve our mental health with past-life regression therapy, cold-water shock therapy, rebirthing therapy...try none of the above. Wellness grifters and alternative-health snake oil salesmen are everywhere these days, and when our medical systems are under stress (and we are, too!) these costly purveyors of false hope are worse than a waste of money, they can lead us to delay badly needed care from real professionals, exacerbate our conditions and, in the most tragic of cases, even kill us.
Today, people looking to care for their mental health face a market with at least 600 "brands" of psychotherapy - and counting. Most are invalid, and many could be harmful. There exist countless unregulated providers of mental-health services in the $5.6 trillion USD wellness industry and alternative medicine community who market themselves as "life coaches," "wellness consultants," and - depending on particular countries and jurisdictions - other various non-legally-protected titles, such as "therapists," "psychotherapists," "counselors," and "practitioners." Looking to exploit people's financial and emotional vulnerabilities, anyone can call themselves a "therapist" without a license. The world of mental healthcare is very much caveat emptor: buyer beware.
Having seen so many of his patients hurt by the pseudoscience circulating in the industry, Dr. Jonathan N. Stea is on a mission to expose its harm and protect the public from pseudoscientific mental-health misinformation. In a landscape of rampant burnout and at a time when mental health concerns are at a fever pitch, Mind the Science provides hope and real information to those who have been touched by mental illness, have been misled by false marketing, or are simply curious about the relationship between science and mental health.

 

MISS MAJOR SPEAKS ; CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK TRANS REVOLUTIONARY

Title: MISS MAJOR SPEAKS ; CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK TRANS REVOLUTIONARY (Paperback Book)

Biography & Autobiography / Gay & Lesbian

Author: MERONEK, TOSHIO

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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2024 Stonewall Honor Award for Nonfiction

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist


Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America's first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van.

Miss Major Speaks is both document of her brilliant life-told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today.

Her incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of â~representation,' the politics of 'self-care,' and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle.

Miss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.

 

MISSING FROM THE VILLAGE

Title: MISSING FROM THE VILLAGE (Paperback Book)

Author: LING, JUSTIN

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book
Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards
An Indigo Best Book of 2020
Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book (Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence)


The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.

In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay village were, perhaps, linked. When the leads ran dry, the search was shut down, on paper classified as "open but suspended." By 2015, investigative journalist Justin Ling had begun to retrace investigators' steps, convinced there was evidence of a serial killer. Meanwhile, more men would go missing, and police would continue to deny that there was a threat to the community. In early 2019, landscaper Bruce McArthur was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of eight men. There is so much more to the story than that.

Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting, Missing from the Village recounts how a serial killer was allowed to stalk the city, how the community responded, and offers a window into the lives of these eight men and the friends and family left behind. Telling a story that goes well beyond Toronto, and back decades, Justin Ling draws on extensive interviews with those who experienced the investigation first-hand, including the detectives who eventually caught McArthur, and reveals how systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, and the structures of policing fail queer communities.

 

MOTHER TONGUE : THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF WOMEN'S WORDS

Title: MOTHER TONGUE : THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF WOMEN'S WORDS (Hardcover Book)

Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative

Author: NUTTALL, JENNI

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution of words that we have used to describe female bodies, menstruation, women's sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, women's paid and unpaid work, and gender.

 

MURDERED MIDAS : A MILLIONAIRE, HIS GOLD MINE AND A STRANGE DEATH ON AN ISLAND PARADISE

Title: MURDERED MIDAS : A MILLIONAIRE, HIS GOLD MINE AND A STRANGE DEATH ON AN ISLAND PARADISE (Paperback Book)

True Crime / General

Author: GRAY, CHARLOTTE

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS CANADA LTD


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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year

In this "engrossing must-read" by "Canada's most accomplished popular historian" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is "superior true-crime writing" (The Globe and Mail).

On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century.

The layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes's son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes's missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades.

Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal - from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.

 

MUSHROOM IDENTIFICATION FLASHCARDS

Title: MUSHROOM IDENTIFICATION FLASHCARDS (Other Non-book)

Games / Trivia

Author: NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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A compact, colorful, and informative deck of 103 flashcards for newly minted mushroom lovers, featuring illustrations from the renowned archives of the New York Botanical Garden and text from the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms

Can you tell a Morel from an Inky Cap, or a Puffball from a Lion's Mane? If you, like millions of others, are mushroom-curious, these flashcards will be your perfect knowledge builder and outdoor companion. On each card you'll find:

  • a detailed illustration of a common North American mushroom
  • key identifiers, such as the mushroom's gills, spore, bulb, and cap
  • the mushroom's popular and Latin name
  • information on size, color, spore print, season, habitat, and range drawn from The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms and National Audubon Society Mushrooms of North America.

Whether you're a new explorer or a seasoned mushroom hunter, New York Botanical Garden Mushroom Identification Flashcards will make it easy to identify your fungi findings—and the laminated cards easily wipe clean after a trip through the woods. An additional card also offers authoritative online and print resources for any aspiring forager. This deck is not a resource for identifying mushrooms to eat.

Take these cards on a country walk or camping trip as you spot mushrooms in the wild—or enjoy learning with the colorful images from the New York Botanical Garden archives from the comfort of home.

 

MUSHROOM MAGIC: AN ILLUSTRATED INTRODUCTION TO FASCINATING FUNGI

Title: MUSHROOM MAGIC: AN ILLUSTRATED INTRODUCTION TO FASCINATING FUNGI (Hardcover Book)

Nature / Plants / Mushrooms

Author: MCMULLAN-FISHER, SAPPHIRE

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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From the forageable to the bizarre, this book is an introduction to 50 of the fungi kingdom's most interesting mushrooms.

Mushrooms have existed for millennia, which can make it overwhelming to dip into mycology. Used throughout human history for food, medicine, and expanding our consciousness, fungi have shaped the planet and the past, appearing everywhere from fairy tales and health-food stores to The X-Files.

There's an entire universe of fungi, much of which is yet to be discovered. To teach you about the basics, Mushroom Magic features 50 types.

Flip through beautifully illustrated mushrooms and learn about their habitat, uses, and history to become a budding expert in mycology.

 

MY MOMENT : 106 WOMEN ON FIGHTING FOR THEMSELVES

Title: MY MOMENT : 106 WOMEN ON FIGHTING FOR THEMSELVES (Hardcover Book)

Biography & Autobiography / Women

Author: CHENOWETH, KRISTIN ET AL

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER CANADA


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A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves - including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie Feldstein, Cynthia Erivo, and Billie Jean King, among others.

This powerful essay collection is a natural extension of the #MeToo movement, revealing the interior experience of women after they've inevitably been underestimated or hurt - the epiphany that the world is different than they thought it to be - and how they've used this knowledge to make change.

In My Moment, Gloria Steinem tells the story of how a meeting with writer Terry Southern drew blood. Carol Burnett shares how CBS discouraged her from pursuing The Carol Burnett Show, because comedy variety shows were "a man's game." Joanna Gaines reveals how coming to New York City as a young woman helped her embrace her Korean heritage after enduring racist bullying as a child. Author Maggie Smith details a career crossroads when her boss declined her request to work from home after the birth of her daughter, leading her to quit and never look back.

Over and over again, when told "no" these women said "yes" to themselves. This hugely inspiring, beautiful book will move people of all ages and make them feel less alone. More than the sum of its parts, My Moment is also a handbook for young women (or any woman) making their way through the world.

 

MY NAME IS BARBRA

Title: MY NAME IS BARBRA (Hardcover Book)

Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

Author: STREISAND, BARBRA

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl on stage and winning the Oscar for that performance on film. Then came a long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she's found in her marriage to James Brolin.

No entertainer's memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand's, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcomed by her millions of fans.

 


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