The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
By: Lindsay Wong
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian fa…
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1. By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
By: Max Eisen
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir b… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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2. They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
By: Bev Sellars
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- biography
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- canada
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. 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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- canada
"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
4. The Boat People
By: Sharon Bala
4.50
Format: 282 pages,
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody … read more
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5. 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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- biography
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- canada
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
6. 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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- adult
- canada
- audiobook
"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
7. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
8. The Middle Daughter
By: Chika Unigwe
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for … read more
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- audiobook
9. God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories
By: Arinze Ifeakandu
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broke… read more
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10. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
11. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
12. 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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- audiobook
13. Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel
By: Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio
4.39
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Inspired by the work of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Catherine Hernandez and Wayson Choy, this unforget… read more
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- adult
- canada
14. Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Combining an immersive exploration of nature with captivatingly beautiful prose, Jessica J. Lee emb… read more
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"A taxi driver asked me why my Mandarin was so good for a foreigner. “My mother is from Taiwan,"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"And where I couldn’t find words, I fell to other languages: to plants, to history, to landscape."-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"This is not a place I could simply learn, and it is not mine anyway. I belong in a forest in a much bigger, colder country. I am not built for heat any more than my mother was built for winter. I spe…"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"His was a slow leaving. He had resisted it. In his letter were parts I had never seen of the smiling, quiet man who had made spaghetti or folded dumplings, who had danced giddy with me in stacked sho…"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
15. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
16. 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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- audiobook
17. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman
4.54
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
- audiobook
18. The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
By: Lindsay Wong
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian fa… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- canada
- humor
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
19. Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
By: Teresa Wong
4.32
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her str… read more
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- adult
20. Homes: A Refugee Story
By: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
4.28
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs,… read more
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"We can make a home anywhere we go together."-Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Homes: A Refugee Story
21. And Then He Sang a Lullaby
By: Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a searingly honest and res… read more
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