Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants
By: Ann Hui
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there …
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1. Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict
By: Kent Zimmerman , Keith Zimmerman , Alice Cooper
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Hardcover
The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his th… read more
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2. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
By: Jennifer 8. Lee
4.21
Format: 288 pages,
"If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that the… read more
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3. The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
By: David Suzuki , Amanda McConnell
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
The economy and global competitiveness are the bottom line for society and governments, or so says … read more
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4. The Heaviness of Things That Float
By: Jennifer Manuel
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last fo… read more
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5. Islands of Decolonial Love
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more
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6. Home to Woefield (Woefield, #1)
By: Susan Juby
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Prudence Burns, a well-intentioned New Yorker full of back-to-the-land ideals, just inherited Woefi… read more
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7. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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8. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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9. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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10. Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss
By: Jann Arden
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding … read more
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"Words are big. They define who you are. They are permanent. I don’t think most people realize that. What you say is who you are. So try to be gentle on social media. Lift others up when you can, even…"-Jann Arden, Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss
11. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more
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12. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
13. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
By: Jonathan Meiburg
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey … read more
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14. I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain
By: Emily Farris
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD… read more
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15. Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
By: Cheuk Kwan
3.57
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brough… read more
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16. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
17. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
By: Fuchsia Dunlop
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more
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"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
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18. Indian-Ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family
By: Priya Krishna
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A witty and irresistible celebration of one very cool and boundary-breaking mom’s “Indian-ish” cook… read more
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19. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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20. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
21. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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22. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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23. Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants
By: Ann Hui
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there … read more
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24. Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes
By: Max Miller
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Begin your very own food journey through the centuries and around the … read more
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25. In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
By: Jonna Méndez
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling co-author of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of bein… read more
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26. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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27. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
By: Hannah Carlson
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more
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28. Hollow Bamboo: A Novel
By: William Seto Ping
4.12
Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition
AMAZON FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLIST THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD SHORTLIST BMO WINTERSET … read more
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29. What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings
By: John Lorinc
3.75
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
If the world's cuisines share one common food, it might be the dumpling, a dish that can be found o… read more
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30. Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
By: Antonio Michael Downing
4.04
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
An enthralling, deeply personal examination of the search for a home and the long-lasting effects o… read more
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"The powwow was a Crown-free space. It breathed life. It celebrated what things were before and what they would be for eternity."-Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
"It's not the substance that hooks you, it's the emotions," he explained. "There is a crack somewhere in our spirits, and we have to heal that before anything."-Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
31. Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
By: Mary Siisip Geniusz
4.67
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anish… read more
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