The Birth House
By: Ami McKay
4.03
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Sco…
Want to Read $ 2.99"No matter what you do, someone always knew you would."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Each day brings another handful of opportunities. It's up to you to make the best of what you're given."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
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1. Slammerkin
By: Emma Donoghue
3.75
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Mary Saunders, a lower-class London schoolgirl, was born into rough cloth but hungered for lace and… read more
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- canada
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- adult
"The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises."-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
"Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth."-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
"I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour."-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
"Nie możesz pozwolić by fakt, że ktoś chce twojej śmierci, uniemożliwił ci wypicie twojej herbaty."-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
2. Fall on Your Knees
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.97
Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback
They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach… read more
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- adult fiction
- canada
- historical
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- historical fiction
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- book club
"She is why purgatory was invented."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
3. Clara Callan
By: Richard B. Wright
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound f… read more
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- canada
- historical
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- historical fiction
- novels
4. The Cure for Death by Lightning
By: Gail Anderson-Dargatz
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
"The cure for death by lightning was handwritten in thick, messy blue ink in my mother's scrapbook,… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
5. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
By: Vincent Lam
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes the critical in … read more
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- fiction
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6. Secret Daughter
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be -- she's newly married and has started her care… read more
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7. Late Nights on Air
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.… read more
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8. A Complicated Kindness
By: Miriam Toews
3.68
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voic… read more
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- adult fiction
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"But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?"-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
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10. The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more
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11. The Book of Negroes
By: Lawrence Hill
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freed… read more
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12. The Midwife of Venice
By: Roberta Rich
3.88
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads… read more
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13. His Forefathers and Mick
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more
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- novels
"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
14. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
By: K. Ritz
4.33
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
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- book club
"At what point does faith become insanity?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
15. Isabella Warrior Queen
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward III and t… read more
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"Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of a…"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
16. Victor's Blessing
By: Barbara Sontheimer
4.34
Format: 582 pages, Paperback
Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more
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- historical fiction
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"Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
17. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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18. The Birth House
By: Ami McKay
4.03
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Sco… read more
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- canada
- feminism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- womens
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- adult
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"No matter what you do, someone always knew you would."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Each day brings another handful of opportunities. It's up to you to make the best of what you're given."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too…"-Ami McKay, The Birth House
19. Looking for Jane
By: Heather Marshall
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more
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20. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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- canada
21. Are You Kidding Me?! Chronicles of an Ordinary Life
By: Lesley Crewe
4.06
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe’s finest newspaper c… read more
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