Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir
By: Jenny Heijun Wills
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born…
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1. IRL
By: Tommy Pico
4.26
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
IRL is a sweaty, summertime poem composed like a long text message, rooted in the epic tradition of… read more
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2. The Lives of Animals
By: J.M. Coetzee , Peter Singer , Wendy Doniger , Marjorie Garber , Amy Gutmann , None
3.70
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years tha… read more
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"To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy."-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
"There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who…"-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
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"Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterpris…"-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
3. Testament
By: Vickie Gendreau
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Je suis au Kingdom, coin Saint-Laurent Sainte-Cath. Mindy et Trevor analysent mon corps avec leurs … read more
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4. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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5. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
By: Mary Prince
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more
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6. A Map to the Door of No Return
By: Dionne Brand
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Map to the Door of No Returnis a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity a… read more
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7. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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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
8. 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
9. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
10. The Paragon Hotel
By: Lyndsay Faye
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The new and exciting historial thriller by Lyndsay Faye, author of Edgar-nominated Jane Steele and … read more
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11. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
By: Tsering Yangzom Lama
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more
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12. 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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13. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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14. 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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15. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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16. It Won't Always Be Like This
By: Malaka Gharib
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family,… read more
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17. Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir
By: Jenny Heijun Wills
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- asian literature
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18. My Name Is Iris
By: Brando Skyhorse
3.37
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more
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19. The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau
By: Stephen Maher
3.85
Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition
“…this is a compelling examination of Justin’s time in office.” -Hello! Canada "The Prince is a … read more
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20. Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
By: Xiaowei Wang
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corner… read more
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"In Xi Jinping's China, it's uncomfortable for two strangers to go too deep into the subject of politics. There are no clear cut consequences for discussing politics. After all, this is preceisely how…"-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
"Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is a belief that the universe is already perfect as it is, and that our duty as hum…"-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
21. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
By: Kyo Maclear
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more
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"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
