Last fall, we offered a money-back guarantee on hardcover copies of Erin Morgenstern‘s stunning debut novel The Night Circus. We had never done that before with a book, but then, there’s never been a book like The Night Circus.

Everyone who read it here loved it. And more, we believed in it. Enough to make an unprecedented offer: “buy it, and try it. If you don’t like it, we’ll give you your money back, no questions asked.”

Of the hundreds of copies of The Night Circus that we sold in hardcover, we didn’t have a single person ask us for a refund.

It really is that good a book.

Now, just in time for summer reading, The Night Circus is out in paperback. The money-back guarantee offer no longer applies, but we have every confidence in promising that you WILL love it.

Last September, I wrote of The Night Circus in the Globe and Mail: “Occasionally, though, and all too rarely, you’ll encounter a book that stops you in your tracks, a book the experience of which tears you open and leaves you gasping, a book that affects your head and your heart in equal measure. A book that makes the hair on your arms stand on end, and that has you picking up the phone or sending a text to tell everyone you know, “You have to read this.”

The Night Circus is one of those books. One of those rare, wonderful, transcendent books that, upon finishing, you want to immediately start again.”

I think I’m going to spend my weekend with the new paperback of The Night Circus; you should too.

It is within my personal opinion, that the world is an inherently good place. Be it by the simple gestures of holding a door, or letting someone ahead of you with fewer items in a grocery checkout… people will always try and do the best thing. However, and I’m sure a few other people may feel like this, as of late I’ve been getting the bad news blues every time I turn on the radio (yes, I still listen to the radio) or read a newspaper. There just never seems to be any good news… that’s where this book comes in.

Worldchanging 2.0 is probably without a doubt my favorite book we have ever carried in the store.

With that mammoth sentence aside, let me explain why. Where as most people I know are beginning to become bogged down by disaster X or annoying government issueY, this book not only shines a light onto said problems but offers a simple, blunt, humorous and most of all optimistic list of what you can do to help. Let me be clear, these are not ways you can think of helping, or struggle with how you could manage to help… but a book dedicated to reasonable projects that anyone can easily start today should they wish.

This incredibly thick soft-cover is not also gorgeous to look at cover-wise, but features many innovative and simple designs created to make life more sustainable, enjoyable, and most importantly meaningful. It also has some great interviews with the people who design these brilliant contraptions, a chapter sized bibliography for further reading on issues close to your heart, and thousands of working links to groups and documentation that will help you go forth and change the world. You can find Worldchanging 2.0 by Alex Steffen and other fascinating reads in our Ecology-Lifestyle section.