Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees
By: Harley Rustad
4.16
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely …
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1. Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown
By: Adam Shoalts
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Canada's real-life Indiana Jones reminds us that the age of exploration is not over When Adam Sh… read more
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2. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
By: John Vaillant
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far… read more
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3. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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- nature
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- environment
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4. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- environment
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
5. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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6. Eating Dirt
By: Charlotte Gill
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction, and short-listed for both the Charles Taylor Prize… read more
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7. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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8. 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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9. 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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- nonfiction
- canada
10. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
11. 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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- climate change
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12. Talking to Canadians
By: Rick Mercer
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more
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13. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
14. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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15. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
16. 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
17. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
18. 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
19. 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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"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
20. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By: Ben Rawlence
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
21. 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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22. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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- environment
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"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
23. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
By: Jesse Wente
4.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more
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24. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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- nature
25. The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday
By: Sharon Blackie
4.04
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales,… read more
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26. The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
By: Adam Shoalts
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traver… read more
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27. 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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28. The Inheritance
By: Joanna Goodman
3.53
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more
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29. Ridgerunner
By: Gil Adamson
4.13
Format: 443 pages, Hardcover
Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner is the follow-up to Gil Adamson’s aw… read more
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30. Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life - A Memoir
By: Maria Coffey
4.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A compelling memoir about opting for adventure instead of motherhood, and the lifelong outcomes of … read more
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31. Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees
By: Harley Rustad
4.16
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely … read more
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- science nature
- climate change
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