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Title: DISMISSED : TACKLING THE BIASES THAT UNDERMINE OUR HEALTH CARE (Paperback Book)

Health & Fitness / Women's Health

Author: MARSHALL, ANGELA

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

24.95

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Here's the uncomfortable truth: Race, gender, sexual orientation, age, body size, income, and other cultural factors have a significant bearing on whether you will be diagnosed and treated correctly. The good news is regardless of whether you are a patient, healthcare provider, or administrator, there are steps you can take today to combat medical bias.

The only book on this subject written by a primary care doctor who is a woman of color, DISMISSED examines all forms of bias - those related to race and ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation, age, disabilities, obesity, and the increasing bias against science - instructing patients, doctors, and administrators alike on how we can all identify bias - and how we can all do better.


Have you ever felt you were treated differently by a medical professional due to your skin color, age, ethnicity, gender, or for any other reason? If so, you are far from alone.

For the first time, an author with the unique perspective of being one of America's top doctors, a woman, and Black, candidly addresses the issue of bias in health-care, sharing personal and patient stories and pragmatic solutions. Dr. Angela Marshall, repeatedly named a "Top Doctor" by Washingtonian magazine, draws on extensive research, poignant stories from some of the thousands of patients she has treated, and her own compelling personal experience, to examine the bias from both patients' and healthâ‘care providers' points of view. She offers a bold blueprint for change, filled with fresh solutions that can help everyone in our health-care system.

Dismissed not only explains what so many people feel profoundly - that the system is not working for them. It also reveals what health-care practitioners, patients, and society in general can do to make it right.

 

DO YOU STILL TALK TO GRANDMA?

Title: DO YOU STILL TALK TO GRANDMA? (Hardcover Book)

Family & Relationships / Conflict Resolution

Author: BARRON, BRIT

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

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Renowned motivational speaker, teacher, and diversity trainer Brit Barron offers a path to holding onto our deepest convictions without losing relationships with the people we love.

Brit Barron knows that the people who hurt us with bigotry and ignorance are often the very people we love: friends, parents, grandparents, religious leaders. And we want to see them grow, not unpersoned by an online mob. But how do we strive for justice without giving up on these relationships or causing new harm? According to Barron, the only way forward is to create a gracious and difficult space for people to grow: forming relationships where we can practice difficult truth-telling, boundary setting, forgiveness, and sharing stories of own failings. This way forward begins by examining ourselves.

In Do You Still Talk to Grandma?, Barron draws readers into this tension between relationship and painful accountability, sharing experiences from her own life, like her parents' divorce and a church community that sided with the forces that dehumanize BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks. Barron illuminates the challenges and hope for these relationships, showing that the best research points towards humility, self-awareness, and an openness to learning and to remembering that others can learn too.

Barron envisions a redemptive way of being that allows progressives to love people who say or believe problematic things without sacrificing themselves, their values, or their beliefs. Provocative, charming, and vulnerable, Do You Still Talk to Grandma? is an essential read for anyone struggling to live compassionately without giving up on conviction.

 

DOCILE : MEMOIRS OF A NOT SO PERFECT ASIAN GIRL

Title: DOCILE : MEMOIRS OF A NOT SO PERFECT ASIAN GIRL (Hardcover Book)

Author: SONG , HYESEUNG

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER CANADA

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For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a searing coming-of-age memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.

A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than for love. When the family's fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Song moves to a new elementary school. On her first day, a girl asks the teacher: "Can she speak English?"

Neither rich nor white, Song does what is necessary to be visible: she internalizes the model minority myth as well as her beloved mother's dreams to see her on a secure path. Song meets these expectations by attending the best Ivy League universities in the country. But when she wavers, in search of an artistic life on her own terms, her mother warns, "Happiness is what unexceptional people tell themselves when they don't have the talent and drive to go after real success." Years of self-erasure take a toll and Song experiences recurring episodes of depression and mania. A thought repeats: I want to die. I want to die. Song enters a psychiatric hospital where she meets patients with similar struggles. So begins her sweeping journey to heal herself by losing everything.

Unflinching and lyrical, Docile is one woman's story of subverting the model minority myth, contending with mental illness, and finding her self-worth by looking within.

 

DOG FLOWERS : A MEMOIR , AN ARCHIVE

Title: DOG FLOWERS : A MEMOIR , AN ARCHIVE (Paperback Book)

Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

Author: GELLER, DANIELLE

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother's life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family's troubled history.

"A candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Geller's] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance." - Ms.

SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes " ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads

When Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother's life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash.

Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother's life to try and understand her mother's relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation.

Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.

 

DON 'T WAIT TILL YOU'RE DEAD

Title: DON 'T WAIT TILL YOU'RE DEAD (Hardcover Book)

Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous

Author: FRASER, MATT

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER CANADA

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New York Times bestselling author and America's top psychic, Matt Fraser presents an immersive guide to intentional living and discovering what life is really all about before reaching the pearly gates.

New York Times bestselling author Matt Fraser knows a lot about life⦠from the dead. We've all heard there is a mystical moment that occurs just before you die - or right after you get to Heaven - in which your life flashes before your eyes in vivid detail. The chronicle of your achievements, your failures, your loves, your losses, your daily rituals, your lifelong friendships invites a new perspective through which to view your life. But what if you did not need to wait until your death bed or the pearly gates to experience this phenomenon? What if you could examine your life right now, while there is time to make changes, heal relationships, manifest your goals and the life you truly want to live?

In Don't Wait Till Your Dead Matt distills the lessons, stories, and heavenly truths he's learned from his gift of connecting with souls on the other side. Readers will be able to learn lifetimes of secrets to happiness, fulfillment, and gratitude from loved ones that are no longer with us. Practical, inspirational, and downright heavenly, Don't Wait Till Your Dead will wake readers up to the joys of life, and assure us that those we love never truly leave us.

 

DOPPELGANGER

Title: DOPPELGANGER (Hardcover Book)

Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists

Author: KLEIN, NAOMI

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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#1 NATIONAL BESTELLER
Shortlisted for the 2024 Writers' Prize

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 " Vulture's #1 Best Book of the Year " The Globe and Mail " Esquire " The Guardian " CBC " TIME " The Boston Globe " Harpers' Bazaar " Slate " Electric Lit


What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self - a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighing against?


Not long ago, Naomi Klein had just such an experience - she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were similar enough to her own that many people confused her for the other. For a vertiginous moment, she lost her bearings. And then she got interested, in a reality that seems to be warping and doubling like a digital hall of mirrors. It's happening in our politics as New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers find common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting "the children"). It's happening in our culture as AI gobbles up music, paintings, fiction and everything in between and spits out imitations that threaten to overtake the originals. And it's happening to many of us as individuals as we create digital doubles of ourselves, filtered and curated just so for all the other duplicates to see.
An award-winning journalist, bestselling author, public intellectual and activist, Naomi Klein writes books that orient us in our time. She has offered essential accounts of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Now, as liberal democracies teeter on the edge, Klein takes aim at absurdist authoritarianism, using a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the doubles that haunt us. Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Doppelganger invites readers on a wild ride, smashing through the mirror world, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity.

 

DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS

Title: DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS (Hardcover Book)

Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary

Author: BEATON, KATE

Publisher: LOGIN CANADA


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A New York Times Notable book! One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022! Winner of Canada Reads 2023!

“An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival.“—Carmen Maria Machado

Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush—part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed.

Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, northern lights, and boreal forest. Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.

 

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE (CORE RULEBOOK, D&D ROLEPLAYING GAME)

Title: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE (CORE RULEBOOK, D&D ROLEPLAYING GAME)

Games / Role Playing & Fantasy

Author: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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The third of three core rulebooks for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game
The leader in providing contemporary fantasy entertainment, Dungeons & Dragons is the wellspring for the entire modern game industry, digital as well as analog. In the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game, players create characters to explore fantastical worlds, defeat monsters, overcome challenges, and find treasure. This newest edition draws from every prior edition to create a universally compelling play experience, and exemplifies the true spirit of a game that holds captive the hearts and minds of millions of players worldwide.

 

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS MONSTER MANUAL (CORE RULEBOOK, D&D ROLEPLAYING GAME)

Title: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS MONSTER MANUAL (CORE RULEBOOK, D&D ROLEPLAYING GAME) (Hardcover Book)

Games / Role Playing & Fantasy

Author: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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The second of three core rulebooks for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game
The leader in providing contemporary fantasy entertainment, Dungeons & Dragons is the wellspring for the entire modern game industry, digital as well as analog. In the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game, players create characters to explore fantastical worlds, defeat monsters, overcome challenges, and find treasure. This newest edition draws from every prior edition to create a universally compelling play experience, and exemplifies the true spirit of a game that holds captive the hearts and minds of millions of players worldwide.

 

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS PLAYER'S HANDBOOK (CORE RULEBOOK, D&D ROLEPLAYING GAME)

Title: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS PLAYER'S HANDBOOK (CORE RULEBOOK, D&D ROLEPLAYING GAME) (Hardcover Book)

Games / Role Playing & Fantasy

Author: D&D

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA


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The first of three core rulebooks for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game
The Player's Handbook is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and skills, exploration and combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Use this book to create characters from among the most iconic D&D races and classes.

 


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