And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
By: Helen Humphreys
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
And a Dog Called Fig is the story of one writer’s life with dogs (including a frisky new puppy), ho…
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1. My Dog Tulip
By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas , J.R. Ackerley
3.31
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
J.R. Ackerley's German shepherd Tulip was skittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- animals
- dogs
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Was she happy? I suppose she was happy. She had, after all, fulfilled a dog's most urgent need, she had managed to bestow her heart, and upon steady people whose dull, uneventful lives required the c…"-Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, My Dog Tulip
2. Consider the Oyster
By: M.F.K. Fisher
3.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
M.F.K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that m… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Walking with Spring
By: Earl V. Shaffer
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In April 1948, the 11-year-old Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia was pretty much a wreck: Vol… read more
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4. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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5. Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077
By: Craig Davidson
4.09
Format: 372 pages, ebook
Surprising and revelatory non-fiction from a talented young writer whose last book, Cataract City, … read more
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6. Ablutions
By: Patrick deWitt
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of hi… read more
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7. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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- canada
8. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- canada
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
9. 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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- canada
"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
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. 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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- canada
"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
12. This Is How We Love
By: Lisa Moore
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What m… read more
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- canada
13. Snow Road Station
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more
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- canada
14. 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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- canada
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
15. On the Ravine
By: Vincent Lam
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exqui… read more
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16. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
17. 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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- canada
18. 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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- nonfiction
- canada
19. August Into Winter
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of T… read more
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- canada
20. 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
21. 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
22. The Cure for Drowning
By: Loghan Paylor
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more
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23. 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
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
24. Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
By: Donna Morrissey
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS’ EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWAR… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- writing
"Pride goes before common sense."-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
"Our tales do more than dismantle social standings and generate camaraderie and entertainment. They create a space for one's past, touching its flesh through memory and shedding a light that illuminat…"-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
"...friends can be the caregivers of our hearts. They fill the empty chambers and warm them with cheer. They revive the spirit through hope and transform pain into learning and learning into laughter.…"-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
"She laughed. 'Ahh, Donna, luv, I've missed you.' She leaned forward. 'And you've no need to race anywhere; you've already won the biggest of all races--' 'What race? Aside from that screenplay compet…"-Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
25. Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
By: Jon Katz
4.12
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tel… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- animals
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
26. Skid Dogs
By: Emelia Symington-Fedy
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." Ani Difranco "I fell hard … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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27. And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life
By: Helen Humphreys
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
And a Dog Called Fig is the story of one writer’s life with dogs (including a frisky new puppy), ho… read more
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- memoir
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- animals
- dogs
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- writing
- books about books
28. Turning
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter, Lee traces her journey swimming through … read more
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- memoir
- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
By: Jessica J. Lee
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more
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- memoir
- canada
30. Wild Hope: A Novel
By: Joan Thomas
3.50
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Governor General’s Award–winning author of Five Wives, a thrilling contemporary novel abo… read more
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31. The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
By: Katie Engelhart
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As much of the world's population grows older, the quest for a "good death," has become a significa… read more
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"As any reporter knows, the story changes as soon as she appears with her notebook & recorder, no matter how unassuming she is or how delicately she navigates the scene."-Katie Engelhart, The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
