2021 Spring Non-Fiction

Title Author

If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging

Arden, Jann

A History of My Brief Body Belcourt, Billy-Ray

The Devil's Trick: How Canada Fought the Vietnam War

Boyko, John

Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s

Burke, Andrew

How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

Couture, Christa

The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene

Greene, Richard

Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear

Holland, Eva

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

Holmes, Rachel

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Isaacson, Walter

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality

Joseph, Bob

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019

Kendi, Ibram X.

Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface

Kingwell, Mark

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

Konnikova, Maria

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

Mangan, Lucy

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Miller, Lulu

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir Moore, Wayetu

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle Nagoski, Emily & Amelia Nagoski

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Nimura, Janice P.

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs

Park, Ina

Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic

Picard, Andre

The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail

Poplak, Lorna

Lost Pianos of Siberia Roberts, Sophy

The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business

Schwartz, Nelson D.

The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

Seager, Sara

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

Vince, Gaia

From My Mother's Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada

Wane, Njoki

Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

West, Lindy

Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918–1920: A Remembrance of the Dead and an Archive for the Living

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper Woodward, Caroline