These gorgeous, Austrian-made teardrop crystals are bezel set in gold or silver settings, featuring clean lines to let the crystals take centre stage! The earwires are dainty and lightweight, and the earrings are a great way to class up a dressy outfit or to jazz up jeans and a tee! Pair with Crystal Teardrop Necklace to complete the look!

Details:

10x14mm Austrian-made Crystal Passions teardrop Crystal

Gold-plated or silver-plated brass French clasp earwire, nickel free, approximately 34mm or 1.5" in total length.

Care tips:

Do not submerge in water or wear when swimming or exercising. Clean with a gentle cloth.

Penguin Random House Canada

Original Sisters

$40.00 $32.00

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From the internationally acclaimed artist, a stunning collection of portraits of ground-breaking women—Joan of Arc, Josephine Baker, Greta Thunberg, Misty Copeland, and many more history-making women whose names have been forgotten and are finally being brought to light. With a Foreword by Roxane Gay.“

This book, as a whole, offers the reader possibility and promise … You will be introduced to many of these women for the first time, because history is rarely kind to women until it is forced to be. You will learn about artists and activists, rulers and rebels.” —Roxane Gay, from the Foreword

Original Sisters was born from the COVID-19 quarantine. In early March 2020, locked down in her home-studio in Toronto and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz started researching women on the Internet. She wasn’t sure what she was looking for, but she soon found an array of astonishing people who had done amazing things—some of whom she had heard of, but most of whom she had not. And then she began to paint their pictures and write down their stories. The result is a jaw-dropping feat of historic and artistic research. The wide variety of lives, occupations, time periods, and achievements is absolutely mind-bending.

From Joan of Arc to Josephine Baker, from Hippolyta to Greta Thunberg, from Anne Frank to Misty Copeland: these women made and changed history. But there are just as many whom you’ve never heard of, who were never recognized in their lifetimes, whose achievements need to be brought to light. They include the anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, who was executed at age twenty-one by the Third Reich, and Alice Ball, a young African American scientist who discovered a treatment for leprosy but died tragically before she could receive credit for it.

This is not only a breathtaking art book. Original Sisters also recounts a secret history that must be told so that it is a secret no more.

Havyn

Eat Your Veggies Tea Towel

$23.00 $18.00

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This fun, eco-friendly screen printed organic flour sack tea towel is a must-have gift for yourself or others. The veggie-inspired design sits comfortably in the middle of this tea towel and is the perfect reminder to eat your veggies!

Makes the perfect gift!
- 100% certified GOTS organic cotton flour sack
- fast drying/easy clean.
- Measures 27 inches squared
- Silk screened in a soft-feel water-based, eco friendly ink
- tea towels are a waste-free, re-useable alternative to disposable paper towels

The organic cotton flour sack material absorbs AMAZINGLY - so not only do you get a gorgeous designed tea towel to show off in your kitchen, but a towel that actually DRIES your hands and dishes!

*Please note: The silk screening process is very hand made and imperfections on natural fabrics are expected to give authenticity to the print.

Care Instructions: Machine wash cool, mild detergent with similar whites. Hang dry is recommended, or low tumble for 10-15 minutes.

Biblioasis

Against Amazon and Other Essays

$22.95 $17.00

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A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK

A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter—and, most urgently, a manifesto.

Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer challenges … A pleasing labyrinth where you can’t get lost: that comes later, at home, when you immerse yourself in the books you have bought; lose yourself in new questions, knowing you will find answers.

Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader’s History left off, Against Amazon and Other Essays explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. In essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, Jorge Carrión travels from London to Geneva, from Miami’s Little Havana to Argentina, from his own well-loved childhood library to the rosewood shelves of Jules Verne’s Nautilus and the innovative spaces that characterize South Korea’s bookshop renaissance. Including interviews with writers and librarians—including Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara, and Han Kang, among others—Against Amazon is equal parts a celebration of books and bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter—and, most urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive influence of late capitalism.

Praise for Jorge Carrión’s Against Amazon and Other Essays

“This is just the sort of book that bibliophiles—to say nothing of bibliomaniacs—will enjoy … A subtle pleasure for lovers of the printed word, even if they order books from the leviathan.” —Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Jorge Carrión’s Bookshops: A Reader’s History

“The perfect merging of love of travel and literature.”—Buzzfeed

“[Carrión’s] purpose is to celebrate bookstores. And he does so by wandering the globe in search of those that play—or have played—a special role in the intellectual and social lives of their communities. They become Carrión’s personal mappa mundi.”—New York Times

“‘Every bookshop is a condensed version of the world,’ begins Mr. Carrión’s literary and unabashedly sentimental exploration of bookstores around the globe . . . [Carrion] wanders through volume-laden aisles in Athens, Paris, Bratislava, Budapest, Tangier and Sydney, and invokes many other shops, both open and closed, telling stories about writers, readers and literary circles . . . By the end, you may feel poorly read—but well armed with titles and bookshops to visit on your own.”—Wall Street Journal

“Carrión explores the fine lines between pilgrimage destination, touristy gimmick, and decent bookshop. This is the perfect book for those who feel compelled to visit every bookstore they see.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred review)

“Excellent . . . entertaining . . . this quietly intelligent little book speaks volumes.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post

“Sublimely entrancing . . . brilliant . . . [Carrión’s] Borgesian book—it can be opened at any point and read forward, or backwards for that matter—is not at all sad. To read is to travel in time and space, and to travel from bookshop to bookshop is an ecstatic experience for Carrión, a joy he conveys page after page.”—Maclean’s

The Silk Labs

Silk Beauty Sleep Eye Mask

$48.00 $30.00

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Good quality sleep is so valuable to feel and look your best self. Not only do our silk eye masks offer beauty benefits, but also will help improve your sleep quality. By properly blocking out sunlight while helping you feel the soothing and cooling benefits of our eye masks. Our Silk Eye Masks are made with 100% pure silk with a soft cushion resting on your delicate eyes and a stretchy scrunchie-like elastic band around your head also wrapped in silk. We could go on for days about all the benefits, but lets just highlight on a few.

Silk helps keep your skin's natural moisture, in comparison to cotton and polyester which soaks the moisture out. Proving that silk is the best textile to lay on your delicate skin all night long after applying your expensive nightly skin routine. Using our silk you’ll notice your skin looking plumped and hydrated to start your day on the right foot. Jenna, the owner of The Silk Labs has noticed she is using less concealer after nights with our silk eye masks because her under eyes look so hydrated and plump when she wakes up.

The skin around your eyes is arguably the most delicate skin you have. This skin is the first to show signs of aging, we know its scary, but don’t worry we are here to help. Using our silk eye masks will help slow down crows feet and sagging eyelids, along with serious skin irritations such as eczema around the eyes.

We are so excited for you to get to bed with us and we can’t wait to hear how much you LOVE this product.

We recommend hand washing our Silk Eye masks along with steaming or ironing after for that perfect silky look.

The better your treat your silk, the better it will treat you back.

Hachette

Lone Jack Trail

$35.00 $24.50

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Autographed copy.

A veteran Marine and an ex-convict find themselves on opposite sides of the law in this propulsive new thriller from award-nominated suspense master and "powerhouse writer" Owen Laukkanen (Kirkus Reviews).

Could your closest friend be a killer?

When a body washes up outside Deception Cove, Washington, Jess Winslow-once a US Marine, now a trainee sheriff's deputy-is assigned to investigate. But when she realizes it's "Bad" Brock Boyd, a hometown celebrity lately fallen from grace, things become complicated. The last person seen with Boyd was her own boyfriend, Mason Burke.

An ex-convict and newcomer in town, Mason is one of the only people who can understand Jess's haunting memories of her time in Afghanistan-and her love for Lucy, her devoted service dog. Finding one another in Deception Cove has been the best thing to happen to either of them in years. So Jess knows Mason could never be guilty of murder-doesn't she?

As the facts of the case point ever more squarely at Mason, Jess must face that everything she thinks she knows about him might be wrong. A thrilling sequel to Deception Cove, and a heart-pounding adventure all its own, Lone Jack Trail pushes Jess and Mason to a shocking confrontation and will test everything they've come to love and trust in Deception Cove.