15 best-selling nonfiction books like Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake by Lianne Leddy

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Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake

By: Lianne Leddy

4.35

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Serpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persi…

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1. Medicine Walk

By: Richard Wagamese

4.30

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the mos… read more

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"There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

"She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

"There was a feeling in him like a bruise, a purple ache that set between his ribs. He tasted a cry building at the back of his throat. It was too familiar and made him fearful."

-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

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2. FantasticLand

By: Mike Bockoven

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurric… read more

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"One more thing. I...I kind of hate people. Seriously, I've thought about how to phrase this and the best thing I can say isn't, "I'm not a people person," or something like that. It's that I hate peo…"

-Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

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3. Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945

By: Lisa Rose Mar

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as in… read more

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4. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

5. Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)

By: Pat Barker

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

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6. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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7. The Light Between Oceans

By: M.L. Stedman

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - th… read more

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8. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

By: None

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more

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9. Comfort Me with Apples

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more

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"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples

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10. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

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"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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11. The Lost Book of Bonn

By: Brianna Labuskes

3.95

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from… read more

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12. Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily R. Austin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more

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"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

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13. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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14. 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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  • nonfiction
  • environment
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15. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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16. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

By: Hadley Vlahos

4.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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  • nonfiction
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

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19. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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20. All's Well

By: Mona Awad

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more

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"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

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21. Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City

By: Mary Jane Logan McCallum

4.25

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In September 2008, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged non-Status Anishinaabe resident of Manitoba’s capi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)

By: R. Cole Harris

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in… read more

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23. Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake

By: Lianne Leddy

4.35

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Serpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
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24. Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

By: Sarah Carter

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Pra… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21)

By: Brittany Luby

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

" The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
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26. Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 (Studies in Gender and History)

By: Valerie Korinek

4.21

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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28. Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History)

By: Franca Iacovetta

4.39

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Stranger… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948 by Irving Abella

29. None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948

By: Irving Abella

4.35

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

One of the most significant studies of Canadian history ever written, None Is Too Many conclusively… read more

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30. Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers (Volume 8) (Rethinking Canada in the World)

By: Funké Aladejebi

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In post–World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By: Jonathan Franklin

4.14

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

This text examines the myriad ways in which Canadians remembered and celebrated their participation… read more

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  • nonfiction

16 best-selling history books like Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21) by Brittany Luby

Transform Your Habits

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

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