undercurrent
By: Rita Wong
3.65
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The water belongs to itself. undercurrent reflects on the power and sacredness of water--largely un…
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1. Simple Recipes
By: Madeleine Thien
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award, and a Regional Fina… read more
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- canada
2. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
3. Steveston
By: Daphne Marlatt , Robert Minden
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
A new edition of this beloved favourite, by two of Canada's finest poets and photographers, with a … read more
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4. The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
By: Tomson Highway
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award T… read more
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- canada
5. Harvest
By: Manjula Padmanabhan
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Om, a young man, is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make h… read more
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6. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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7. Future Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
3.60
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more
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"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
8. Half-Breed
By: Maria Campbell
2.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Metis woman's struggle to come to… read more
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9. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more
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10. Ruined
By: Lynn Nottage
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more
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11. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
By: Kai Cheng Thom
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more
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12. The Outer Harbour
By: Wayde Compton
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Wayde Compton's debut story collection is imbued with the color of speculative fiction; one strand … read more
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13. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
14. 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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15. River Woman
By: Katherena Vermette
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second coll… read more
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"Truth is a seed planted deep If you want to get it you have to dig."-Katherena Vermette, River Woman
16. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
17. Paying the Land
By: Joe Sacco
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To … read more
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- canada
18. How Beautiful We Were
By: Imbolo Mbue
3.95
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, … read more
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"But my father used to say we can’t do only what we’re at ease with, we must do what we ought to do."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"much of the suffering in the world was because of those who had forgotten that they too were once children."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"Only with him did I come to realize how much noise there is in the world, and how marvelous it is not to be a part of it."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"... if everyone only did what they ought to do, who would do the things no one thought they had to do? What did enjoyment have to do with duty?"-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
19. 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
20. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)
By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
4.50
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more
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21. This Wound Is a World
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.49
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more
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". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
22. Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.27
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
A tender, eclectic reflection from an Indigenous author on his life, work, and queer identity. E… read more
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- canada
23. Landscapes
By: Christine Lai
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more
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24. undercurrent
By: Rita Wong
3.65
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The water belongs to itself. undercurrent reflects on the power and sacredness of water--largely un… read more
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25. The Pairing
By: Casey McQuiston
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more
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"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
26. The Oil Lamp: Poems
By: Ogaga Ifowodo
4.38
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
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27. Dream of No One but Myself
By: D.M. Bradford
3.88
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry * 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist * 2022 Governor… read more
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28. Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more
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"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
29. Exhibitionist
By: Molly Cross-Blanchard
4.44
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
One minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she’s asking the sky t… read more
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30. Legends of the Capilano (First Voices, First Texts, 6)
By: E. Pauline Johnson
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Bringing the Legends home Legends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends… read more
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31. Famine (Modern Plays)
By: Tom Murphy
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight. "The macabre… read more
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