Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
By: Charlie Angus
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the prolifer…
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1. The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
By: Fernanda Santos
4.14
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013,… read more
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2. The Jaguar's Children
By: John Vaillant
4.00
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Tigerand The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping surv… read more
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3. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
4. 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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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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6. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more
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7. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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8. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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9. 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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10. 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
11. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more
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"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
12. Adrift
By: Lisa Brideau
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me comes a page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the… read more
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13. 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
14. All the Colour in the World
By: C.S. Richardson
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more
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15. Her First Palestinian
By: Saeed Teebi
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more
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16. 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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17. This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
By: Stefanie Green
4.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted d… read more
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18. 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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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. A Trucker's Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
By: Ed Miller
3.72
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road. They say that only truck dri… read more
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21. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
4.32
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more
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22. 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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23. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
24. Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
By: Charlie Angus
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the prolifer… read more
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25. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.98
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more
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26. Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement
By: Toufah Jallow
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Toufah is the story of Toufah Jallow, a brilliant and inspiring young woman who, after she was forc… read more
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"But a country is not just its weather, it's buildings, it's people. A country is also its government, it's power structure, it's leaders, and it's way of life." (pg. 8)"-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement
"No person should be subjected to this.' If a woman's value, a woman's autonomy, her right to be free from assault, is dependent on her relationships as a mother, wife, a sister or daughter to the men…"-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement
"The absence of war doesn't necessarily equal peace,' I said." I loved this because it's such a poignant reminder that just because the extreme is not the case, doesn't mean that the opposite extreme …"-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement
"Social and religious circumstances pushed them down. Their strength and will pushed them forward- and perhaps in these ways they were more similar to the mothers and grandmothers of Western feminists…"-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement
27. Far Cry
By: Alissa York
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most dist… read more
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28. Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
By: Gregor Craigie
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadia… read more
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29. A Convergence of Solitudes
By: Anita Anand
3.98
Format: None pages, ebook
A story of identity, connection and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two… read more
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30. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
By: Byron Tau
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertis… read more
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"Dating back to 2019, Premise had a network of more than 1,000 gig workers in the country (Ukraine) that were being asked to do tasks that they believed were innocuous market research or corporate dat…"-Byron Tau, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
31. Mad Honey
By: Katie Welch
3.74
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
When Beck Wise vanished, his girlfriend Melissa Makepeace poured herself into caring for the family… read more
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