Polar Vortex
By: Shani Mootoo
3.53
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
Some secrets never die… Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countrysid…
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1. The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
By: Padma Viswanathan
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work se… read more
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- novels
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2. The Back of the Turtle
By: Thomas King
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winn… read more
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3. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
4. We, Jane
By: Aimee Wall
3.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikel… read more
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- adult fiction
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5. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
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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
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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- literary fiction
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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
7. 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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- adult fiction
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8. 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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9. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
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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- fiction
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"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. 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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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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- adult fiction
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14. The Innocents
By: Michael Crummey
3.78
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more
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"A body must bear what can't be helped."-Michael Crummey, The Innocents
15. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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- lesbian
- adult fiction
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- queer
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
16. Polar Vortex
By: Shani Mootoo
3.53
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
Some secrets never die… Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countrysid… read more
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17. The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
By: Kim Fu
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, wher… read more
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- adult fiction
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"Siobhan wanted to be more like the heroines of the books she liked, about girl detectives and girl adventurers: tomboyish, scrappy, and resourceful, able to outsmart adults and survive without them, …"-Kim Fu, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
"The adults looked transfixed by Andee. When Andee finally swam a little closer, Siobhan could see why: the determined set of her mouth, the ferocity in her eyes. How much she wanted to finish. She wo…"-Kim Fu, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
"Even on that first, clear afternoon, the dark earth between the gravel paths and the deep green of towering pine, fir, and spruce trees contained the memory of recent snow and rain. The ocean at the …"-Kim Fu, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
18. The Pump
By: Sydney Hegele
4.20
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
A Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue, for … read more
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19. Songs for the End of the World
By: Saleema Nawaz
3.83
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a lovi… read more
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20. A Funny Kind of Paradise
By: Jo Owens
4.10
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she w… read more
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21. Here the Dark: A Novella and Stories
By: David Bergen
3.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fish… read more
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"Marcie talked about her life, and she talked about the courses she was taking. She told Lily that she was a feminist and she said that women had to take back the space that men had stolen from them. …"-David Bergen, Here the Dark: A Novella and Stories
