Dead Mom Walking: A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters
By: Rachel Matlow
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize "A comedy for catastrophi…
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1. A Killer in King's Cove (Lane Winslow #1)
By: Iona Whishaw
3.95
Format: None pages,
A smart and enchanting postwar mystery written for fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Wi… read more
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2. Indian Horse
By: Richard Wagamese
4.42
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more
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"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
3. Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness
By: Suzy Favor Hamilton , Sarah Tomlinson
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about h… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- audiobook
4. Ragged Company
By: Richard Wagamese
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Four chronically homeless people-Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger-seek refuge in a wa… read more
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5. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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6. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- memoir
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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
7. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
9. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .
By: Rick Mercer
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more
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- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
11. 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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- audiobook
"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
12. Astra
By: Cedar Bowers
4.21
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
If you could see yourself as others saw you, would you be any closer to the truth of who you really… read more
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- canada
- mental health
13. When We Lost Our Heads
By: Heather O'Neill
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more
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- lgbt
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"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
14. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Samra Habib
4.16
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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- biography
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
15. 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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16. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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17. 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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- lgbt
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
18. Empire of Wild
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.74
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more
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- audiobook
19. The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
By: Desmond Cole
4.45
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and unco… read more
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"The false promise of objectivity in journalism reinforces white supremacy."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
"it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy—white settlers deny Black communities the necessities of life, then blame us for the social dysfunction that follows."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
"This idea that Canada's racial injustices are not as bad as they could be, this notion of Slavery Lite, of Racism Lite, of what my friend calls the "toy version of racism" is a very Canadian way of s…"-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
20. All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)
By: Tanya Talaga
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the ala… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
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"In Ojibwe and Cree culture, leadership didn't mean power; it meant caring."-Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)
21. Daughters of the Deer
By: Danielle Daniel
4.40
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more
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- lgbt
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- queer
22. 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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23. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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24. 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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25. The Opportunist
By: Elyse Friedman
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more
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- audiobook
26. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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27. American Daughter
By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale
4.20
Format: 288 pages, ebook
For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more
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- memoir
- mental health
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
By: Jann Arden
4.04
Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition
Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny… read more
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"Since the big things find you no matter where you are, it's okay to unhook from your portable news source so you're not in the middle of what's happening every minute of the day. It doesn't mean you …"-Jann Arden, If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
29. Albatross
By: Terry Fallis
3.70
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis comes a funny and smart new… read more
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30. Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
By: Kelly S. Thompson
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship … read more
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"Sisters come back to one another, I think. When they're ready."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
"I have always thought that sisters have a way of communicating, no matter what keeps them apart."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
"We were all just trying to save someone. It was a state of loving, despite instead of loving because."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
31. Dead Mom Walking: A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters
By: Rachel Matlow
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize "A comedy for catastrophi… read more
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