The Wagers
By: Sean Michaels
3.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Scotiabank Giller-winner Sean Michaels is back with his widely anticipated second novel, The Wagers…
Want to Read $ 9.99"What is one to do with old letters? Old gold, he thought. It is difficult to throw away anything that once seemed precious."-Sean Michaels, The Wagers
"What is one to do with old letters? Old gold, he thought. It is difficult to throw away anything that once seemed precious."-Sean Michaels, The Wagers
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1. Get in Trouble
By: Kelly Link
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a …"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, sa…"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
2. Bone & Bread
By: Saleema Nawaz
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- canada
3. Ru
By: Kim Thúy
4.20
Format: None pages, Broche
Une femme voyage a travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or a Saigon, l'arri… read more
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- fiction
- canada
4. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
5. L'orangeraie
By: Larry Tremblay
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Quand Amed pleure, Aziz pleure aussi. Quand Aziz rit, Amed rit aussi. Ces freres jumeaux auraient p… read more
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6. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
8. Hummingbird Salamander
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.25
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered sp… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"But the trick of the world was to contain all things."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"The Christmas decorations at the entrance were garish, incomprehensible, partisan. What kind of a country did we live in?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
9. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
10. The House on Via Gemito
By: Domenico Starnone
3.65
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more
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- literature
- fiction
11. La Blague du siècle
By: Jean-Christophe Réhel
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Louis habite à Pointe-aux-Trembles avec son frère schizophrène et son père atteint d’un cancer en p… read more
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- fiction
12. 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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- canada
- audiobook
"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
13. La méduse
By: Boum
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Odette a une méduse dans l’œil, qu’elle seule peut voir. Une méduse qui se multiplie. Avec un p… read more
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- fiction
14. The Prophets
By: Robert Jones Jr.
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593085684 A novel about the forbidden union between two ensl… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Good, he thought. Let it be ugly so it could be truth."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Every travesty that had ever been committed had been committed by plain people."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Our responsibility is to tell you the truth. But since you were never told the truth, you will believe it a lie. Lies are more affectionate than truth and embrace with both arms."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Isaiah smiled at Samuel's unwillingness, his grunts and sighs and head shaking, even though he understood the danger in it. Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
15. The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour
By: Dawn Dumont
3.84
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
'The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour' is loosely based - like, hospital-gown loose - on the true story o… read more
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- fiction
- canada
16. Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
By: Megan Phelps-Roper
4.16
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many… read more
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- audiobook
"You know I love you. You know I do. It's not just the idea of you. I know you. You also know I'm not coming to Topeka."-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
"It is disconcerting - shamefully, unimaginably so - to look back and accept that my fellow church members and I were collectively engaging in the most egregious display of logical blindness that I ha…"-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
17. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
18. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
19. Wendy, Master of Art
By: Walter Scott
4.09
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
"[In Wendy, Master of Art,] Scott manages a rare thing: the sharpness of his satire doesn’t preclud… read more
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- fiction
- canada
20. The Wagers
By: Sean Michaels
3.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Scotiabank Giller-winner Sean Michaels is back with his widely anticipated second novel, The Wagers… read more
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- adult fiction
- magical realism
- canada
- literature
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"What is one to do with old letters? Old gold, he thought. It is difficult to throw away anything that once seemed precious."-Sean Michaels, The Wagers
21. 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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- audiobook
