Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
By: Maria Reva
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single crumbling apartment bui…
Want to Read $ 11.99"For the rest of the day, Daniil pretended to work while the combine pretended to pay him."-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
"For the rest of the day, Daniil pretended to work while the combine pretended to pay him."-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
"The internat had taught her well: as soon as you want something, you lack it; and if you do get it, it can easily be taken away. But this lesson came at a cost—a dry unfeeling clump had formed in her chest, had grown with age. She wonders now: If she slit her skin open, would nothing but sawdust spill out?"-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
"The internat had taught her well: as soon as you want something, you lack it; and if you do get it, it can easily be taken away. But this lesson came at a cost—a dry unfeeling clump had formed in her chest, had grown with age. She wonders now: If she slit her skin open, would nothing but sawdust spill out?"-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
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1. Chicago
By: Brian Doyle
3.91
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a sm… read more
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"Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage."-Brian Doyle, Chicago
"I was even then beginning to sense that stories were the true seeds of relationships, and that romance and friendship were as much a matter of shared stories as pheromones, or overlapping interests."-Brian Doyle, Chicago
"Schaumburg was a town north and west of Chicago, and Mr Mahoney liked to say that he had been there once, to carry away the few hereditary possessions of his beloved in a rickety old truck, along wit…"-Brian Doyle, Chicago
"The coolest most amazing people I have met in my life, I said, are the ones who are not very interested in power or money, but who are very interested in laughter and courage and grace under duress a…"-Brian Doyle, Chicago
2. Under Western Eyes
By: Joseph Conrad
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed as one of Conrad's finest literary achievements, this gripping novel deftly depicts the p… read more
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- russia
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3. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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4. Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (Les Rougon-Macquart, #6)
By: Émile Zola
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
En 1856, Eugene Rougon, un ancien avocat de province qui a contribue a faire l'Empire et que l'Empi… read more
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5. One Native Life
By: Richard Wagamese
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
One Native Lifeis a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled -- from childhood abuse t… read more
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6. 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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7. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
8. Astra
By: Cedar Bowers
4.21
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
If you could see yourself as others saw you, would you be any closer to the truth of who you really… read more
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9. Indians on Vacation
By: Thomas King
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more
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10. I Meant It Once: Stories
By: Kate Doyle
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This “gorgeous, electric” collection of short stories is about the inner lives of young women durin… read more
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11. Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
By: Aviaq Johnston
3.74
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“Taaqtumi” is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark”—and these spine-tingling horror stories by… read more
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12. Normal Women
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled… read more
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13. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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14. War Diary
By: Yevgenia Belorusets
4.35
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A monumental, deeply penetrating document of life in Kyiv during the first forty-one days of the Ru… read more
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"The wounds keep getting bigger. But sometimes a little voice comes to whisper in my ear, constantly repeating: ‘They keep fighting, we keep fighting.’ Then the wounds heal faster."-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
"This ability of the residents of Berdyansk to go on fighting, to approach the soldiers unarmed and shout the truth in their faces, even when the city has almost fallen into Putin’s hands - this promi…"-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
"There exists in this war a strange calculation, which obeys no clear logic, that devalues everyday life to the point of negation. In the eyes of those who order an attack on a peaceful city, life in …"-Yevgenia Belorusets, War Diary
15. 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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16. 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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17. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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18. Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
By: Maria Reva
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single crumbling apartment bui… read more
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- audiobook
"For the rest of the day, Daniil pretended to work while the combine pretended to pay him."-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
"The internat had taught her well: as soon as you want something, you lack it; and if you do get it, it can easily be taken away. But this lesson came at a cost—a dry unfeeling clump had formed in her…"-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
"Candies Available for Civilian Consumption: Masha and Bear / Bear in the North / Little Bear / Clumsy Bear / Stratosphere / Strike! / Brighter! / Little Squirrel / Thumbelina / Moscow in Evening / Ki…"-Maria Reva, Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
19. That Time I Loved You
By: Carrianne Leung
3.92
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Life is never as perfect as it seems. Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new… read more
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20. Days in the Caucasus
By: Banine
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Baku, 1905. Nascere in una famiglia scandalosamente ricca - il capostipite, Assadullah, nato contad… read more
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"Il est bon de croire ceux qui croient en vous."-Banine, Days in the Caucasus
"S'il fallait croire les malveillants, on ne donnerait jamais la main à personne sauf à soi-même."-Banine, Days in the Caucasus
"... comme la plupart des enfants, j'étais animiste et prêtais généreusement des âmes aux choses et aux plantes. Pour moi, des objets, inanimés pour d'autres, se peuplaient de sentiments et je courais…"-Banine, Days in the Caucasus
"Мне вновь придется вернуться назад, прошлое про-должает удивлять меня, воспитанную одновременно в восточных, немецких и русских традициях. Мечтательная, нелюдимая, с дурным характером – все это я. По…"-Banine, Days in the Caucasus
21. That Reminds Me
By: Derek Owusu
3.83
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of K. K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. He grows up in fields… read more
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"I wanted to live again. As they gathered, I felt the pressure of each tear awake to its own trickling sand weighing down the dirt on my grave."-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"As I walk home, doubting each step before I make it, I am agnostic. Before I close my eyes to sleep, I am a Christian. When I wake, pulled from the pool still reflecting the penumbra, I am spiritual,…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"After a late-night library trip I’d call her and say, ‘Look at the moon.’ Black boys rarely speak on the poet’s muse so these twilight tropes seemed original – the moon is glowing new when seen throu…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"Anansi, your four gifts raised to Nyame grant you no power over the stories I tell, stories that build like dew, alerting you but creating no music when they drop onto the drums of our sky. Take my ‘…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
22. Peaces
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark … read more
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"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose …"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
23. The Waiter
By: Matias Faldbakken
3.15
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the un… read more
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24. The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
By: Jean Edward Smith
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of… read more
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25. A Lover's Discourse
By: Xiaolu Guo
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A story of desire, love and language - and the meaning of home - told through conversations between… read more
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26. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair
By: Lucy Knisley
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Library Binding
WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more
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27. The Lost Coast
By: Amy Rose Capetta
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding tale of six queer witches forging their own paths, shrouded in the mist, magic, an… read more
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28. A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance
By: Stella Dadzie
4.34
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies Aside from Mary Prince,… read more
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29. Miracle on Cherry Hill
By: Sun-mi Hwang
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Celebrated bestselling author Sun-mi Hwang is back with a heartwarming new novel about renewal and … read more
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30. Exile Music
By: Jennifer Steil
4.15
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, Exile Music is the captivating story of a you… read more
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31. The Beguiling
By: Zsuzsi Gartner
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut from the Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Better Living Through Plastic Exp… read more
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