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Top 5 Indie Bestsellers

  • January 14, 2010
    Sophia Books is a Vancouver-based multilingual bookstore.
    1.
    L'Elégance du hérisson
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    Muriel Barbery
    2.
    El Simbolo Perdido
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    Dan Brown
    3.
    Juxtapoz Dark Arts
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    Juxtapoz magazine
    4.
    The Art of Avatar
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    Lisa Fitzpatrick
    5.
    Big in Japan
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    Thomas Gammarino

Recently reviewed

  • January 28, 2010
    | by
    Jane Williams
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    Dave Zirin's People's History of Sports explores the politics of sport and tells the stories of activist athletes. He came to Vancouver at the invitation of the Olympic Resistance Network.
  • January 21, 2010
    | by
    Frank Preyde
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    Theodore Roszak's latest book revisits a generation he defined 40 years ago reminding readers of the strengths of the baby boomer generation and challenges boomers to again take up the good fight.
  • January 14, 2010
    | by
    Samantha Sternberg
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    Young writers, the urban landscape and subversive art are just a few of the interests that guided Toronto's Steel Bananas art collective in producing GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose.
  • January 7, 2010
    | by
    Donald Gutstein
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    In this excerpt from his latest book, Donald Gutstein exposes the Fraser Institute's school programs that work "toward changing the climate of opinion in Canada."
  • December 18, 2009
    | by
    Samantha Power
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    We take a look back at the progressive books rabble reviewed this year.
  • December 17, 2009
    | by
    Donna Barker
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    Weaving concrete advice from her own life with ideas from many of her frugal friends Thrifty offers encouraging, entertaining and eclectic ways to live a frugal life with style.
  • December 16, 2009
    | by
    June Chua
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    In her new book Sheema Khan proposes a smarter examination of how to deal with the misunderstandings inherent in the discourse about Muslims in the modern world.
  • December 11, 2009
    | by
    Samantha Power
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    As the world debates the climate crisis and it's solutions in Copenhagen, Albertans are being asked to take command of their own contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions.
  • December 3, 2009
    | by
    Samantha Power
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    On the 10th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle rabble.ca spoke with organizer David Solnit about his new book compiling stories and evaluations of the success of the protest in Seattle.
  • November 27, 2009
    | by
    Malalai Joya and Derrick O'Keefe
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    In this excerpt from her biography, Malalai Joya describes her life in Afghanistan, the origins of her name and the reluctance she first felt about writing a book.