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Skid Dogs
When My Ghost Sings
A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation
My Name Is Not Harry
A Memoir
Ukrainian Portraits
Diaries from the Border
Here With You
A Memoir of Love, Family, and Addiction
Where the World Was
The Definition of Beautiful
A Memoir
One Sunny Afternoon
A Memoir of Trauma and Healing
The COVID Journals
Health Care Workers Write the Pandemic
These Days Are Numbered
Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown
Pandexicon
How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality
Shadows and Light
A Physician's Lens on COVID
COVID-19
A History
Women of the Pandemic
Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19
Conscripted to Care
Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response
Pandemic Spotlight
Canadian Doctors at the Front of the COVID-19 Fight
Asking for a Friend
Who We Are Now
A Novel
Last Goldfish, The
A True Tale of Friendship
A Secret Sisterhood
The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
Melt
Happy Hour
Memoir of Friendship
The Letters Between Carol Shields And Blanche Howard
Glass Beads
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
A Novel
Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy
Pure Colour
Kiki Man Ray
Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
The Girl in the Middle
Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
The Myth of Normal
Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
The Light of Days
The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
Kingdom of Night
Witnesses to the Holocaust