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A deluxe edition of Kerouac's 1958 classicPublished just one year after On The Road, this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.F... Read More about The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The novel that changed the course of American historyPublished in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love ca... Read More about Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly

Ann Douglas, author of the bestselling Mother of All Books series, is back with a fierce and unapologetic book for and about midlife women. Roughly 68 million North American women currently grapple with the challenges of midlife, faced with a culture that tells them their "best-before date" has long... Read More about Navigating the Messy Middle: A Fiercely Honest and Wildly Encouraging Guide for Midlife Women

1925. Attractive and strong-willed twenty-three-year-old Isla Scott takes up a vacancy at Dr Lorne's fashionable spa, where she is reunited with her handsome brother, Boyd, but the siblings soon find that romance threatens to cloud their future . . .... Read More about Nothing Ventured

The ultimate guide to conception, birth, and everything in between Unlike those other bossy, tell-you-what-to-do pregnancy books, this funny, entertaining guide presents expectant parents with all the facts they need to know about conception, birth, and everything in between. Celebrating the 10th an... Read More about The Mother of All Pregnancy Books

As the Depression bites, a young woman dreams of 'Getting Away', but will find drama and heartache on her own doorstep. 1935, Edinburgh. Beautiful Lindsay 'Lindy' Gillian is determined to look on the bright side in spite of the Depression: she has a job working for her stepmother at Murchie's Prov... Read More about Tenement Girl