Permanent Astonishment
By: Tomson Highway
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac…
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3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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3. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
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4. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
5. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
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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
6. Indians on Vacation
By: Thomas King
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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7. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
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8. Snow Road Station
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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9. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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10. The Theory of Crows
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3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
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11. The Bittlemores
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3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Sleeping Car Porter
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3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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13. All the Colour in the World
By: C.S. Richardson
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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14. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
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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
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15. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
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4.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
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4.05
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18. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
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4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
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19. Permanent Astonishment
By: Tomson Highway
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more
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20. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
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4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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21. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
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4.54
Format: 384 pages, ebook
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