The Missing Millionaire: The True Story of Ambrose Small and the City Obsessed With Finding Him
By: Katie Daubs
3.51
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In December 1919, Ambrose Small, the mercurial owner of the Grand Opera House in Toronto, closed a …
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1. The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation
By: Charlotte Gray
3.44
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
A scandalous crime, a sensational trial, a surprise verdict—the true story of Carrie Davies, the ma… read more
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2. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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3. The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
By: Natalie Livingstone
3.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times bestseller, The Mistresses of Cliveden is the extraordinary story of how five women … read more
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4. Toronto: Biography of a City
By: Allan Levine
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
With the same eye for character, anecdote and circumstance that made Peter Ackroyd's Londonand Coli… read more
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5. The Toronto Book of the Dead
By: Adam Bunch
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Exploring Toronto's history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If thes… read more
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6. Peyton Place
By: Ardis Cameron , Grace Metalious
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
First published in 1956, PEYTON PLACE uncovers the passions, lies and cruelties that simmer beneath… read more
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7. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
By: John Kelly
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more
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8. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
By: Cea Sunrise Person
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more
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9. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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10. 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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11. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
12. 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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"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
13. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
14. A Haunting in the Arctic
By: C.J. Cooke
3.78
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
1901-ben járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more
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15. 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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16. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
By: Rosemary Sullivan
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more
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"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
17. The Bittlemores
By: Jann Arden
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more
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18. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
19. The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
By: Kevin Donovan
3.49
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime. Billionai… read more
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20. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child
By: Kim Cross
4.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more
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21. 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
22. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
23. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
By: Shawn Levy
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more
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24. 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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25. 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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26. Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Combining an immersive exploration of nature with captivatingly beautiful prose, Jessica J. Lee emb… read more
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"A taxi driver asked me why my Mandarin was so good for a foreigner. “My mother is from Taiwan,"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"And where I couldn’t find words, I fell to other languages: to plants, to history, to landscape."-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"This is not a place I could simply learn, and it is not mine anyway. I belong in a forest in a much bigger, colder country. I am not built for heat any more than my mother was built for winter. I spe…"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"His was a slow leaving. He had resisted it. In his letter were parts I had never seen of the smiling, quiet man who had made spaghetti or folded dumplings, who had danced giddy with me in stacked sho…"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
27. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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28. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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29. The Missing Millionaire: The True Story of Ambrose Small and the City Obsessed With Finding Him
By: Katie Daubs
3.51
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In December 1919, Ambrose Small, the mercurial owner of the Grand Opera House in Toronto, closed a … read more
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30. MURDER IN THE FAMILY: HOW THE SEARCH FOR MY MOTHER'S KILLER LED
By: Jeff Blackstock
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Diplomat father. Murdered mother. Emotionally neglected children. An elaborate cover-up. Family din… read more
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31. What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
By: Dennis Baron
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Addressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the … read more
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