Holden, After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose
By: Tara McGuire
4.40
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
is a moving meditation on a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire’s excavation and documentation …
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1. 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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2. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
3. Sisters of Belfast
By: Melanie Maure
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An enthralling and deeply moving story that begins during World War II, about orphaned twin sisters… read more
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4. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
5. 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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6. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more
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7. 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
8. 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
9. 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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"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
10. Adrift
By: Lisa Brideau
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me comes a page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the… read more
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11. The Silence in Her Eyes
By: Armando Lucas Correa
3.18
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
This fresh take on classic psychological suspense centers on a young woman with a rare neurological… read more
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"My sleep improves. I’m getting nine hours a night …"-Armando Lucas Correa, The Silence in Her Eyes
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12. 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
13. Brother
By: David Chariandy
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions o… read more
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"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."-David Chariandy, Brother
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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"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. Feelings: A Story in Seasons
By: Manjit Thapp
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous visual journey through one young woman's year of emotions--from the saturated highs of e… read more
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17. What Wild Women Do
By: Karma Brown
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Two women's lives unexpectedly intertwine in this intriguing dual timeline novel from the #1 intern… read more
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18. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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19. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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20. 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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21. All the Quiet Places
By: Brian Thomas Isaac
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more
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22. Much Ado about Nada
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On… read more
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"Life really was bizarre on occasion."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"A world doesn't exist where I don't choose you, Nada beta, over everyone else. I will always choose you."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"My parents want to leave a legacy. We want to create our own. We're all just making it up as we go along."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
23. Junie
By: Chelene Knight
3.78
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more
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24. 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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25. Never Been Better
By: Leanne Toshiko Simpson
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman’s messy search for love at a seasid… read more
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26. Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir
By: Martha Wainwright
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A singer-songwriter's heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experi… read more
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"If you're an artist, your kids are bound to end up artists, too. To put it another way, once you're in the circus, it's hard to get out."-Martha Wainwright, Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir
27. Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
By: Harrison Mooney
4.35
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard--that of the child at the centre of a transracial a… read more
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28. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Angela Sterritt
4.51
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more
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29. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
By: Kyo Maclear
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more
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"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
30. Holden, After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose
By: Tara McGuire
4.40
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
is a moving meditation on a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire’s excavation and documentation … read more
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31. We Rip the World Apart
By: Charlene Carr
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhoo… read more
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