My Stories, My Times
By: Jean Chrétien
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the most popular Canadian prime ministers in recent history, elected to government for three…
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1. Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt'… read more
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"And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear." "Gently with the butter, Tuppence."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?" "Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"As the visitor left the office, Tuppence grabbed the violin and putting it in the cupboard turned the key in the lock. "If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syri…"-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
2. Long Walk to Freedom
By: Nelson Mandela
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more
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- history
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3. The Trial of Henry Kissinger
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
With the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobod… read more
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- politics
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4. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
By: Barack Obama
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more
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5. Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
By: Eden Robinson
3.82
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classi… read more
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"He wasn't going to be alone after she died, but the world was going to be a lonelier place without her."-Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
6. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
By: None
4.12
Format: 288 pages,
From the bestselling author of "The Know-It-All" comes a fascinating and timely exploration of reli… read more
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7. The Dharma Bums
By: Jack Kerouac
4.71
Format: None pages,
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more
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8. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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9. The Game
By: Ken Dryden
3.75
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by "Sports Illustrated" as one … read more
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10. Common Ground
By: Justin Trudeau
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Justin Trudeau's memoir describes the experiences that have shaped him over the course of his life,… read more
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11. Profiles in Courage
By: Caroline Kennedy , Robert F. Kennedy , John F. Kennedy
3.92
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline K… read more
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- history
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"To be courageous, these stories make clear, requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place and circumstance."-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
"You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know E…"-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
"If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housi…"-Caroline Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
12. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
13. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By: Erik Larson
4.30
Format: 546 pages, ebook
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more
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14. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
By: Kati Marton
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more
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- politics
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"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
15. A Promised Land
By: Barack Obama
4.33
Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to… read more
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"Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity - one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America."-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"I thought the country I'd just described to them - a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that i…"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"Then again, a president wasn’t a lawyer or an accountant or a pilot, hired to carry out some narrow, specialized task. Mobilizing public opinion, shaping working coalitions - that was the job. Whethe…"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"But there comes a point in the speech where I find my cadence. The crowd quiets rather than roars. It's the kind of moment I'd come to recognize in subsequent years, on certain magic nights. There's …"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
16. 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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17. Talking to Canadians
By: Rick Mercer
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more
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18. The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin
By: Maurice Leblanc
3.80
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
The Hollow Needle is one of Maurice Leblanc’s best-known novels. In it the famous gentleman-burglar… read more
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19. Kukum
By: Michel Jean
4.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
«C'est un de ces soirs où je trayais les vaches dans la lumière du soleil couchant que je l'ai vu p… read more
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"Péribonka, c'est un chemin creusé par des géants à même le roc. Cette nature indomptée et somptueuse m'a libérée de l'horizon."-Michel Jean, Kukum
"Ce soir d'été, quand je suis arrivée au pâturage, il m'attendait, assis sur la clôture, avec la patience de celui qui se moque du temps qui passe."-Michel Jean, Kukum
20. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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21. 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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"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
22. En route vers nowhere (En route vers nowhere, #1)
By: Sophie Laurin
3.74
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Été 1996. Sara et Sébastien, dix ans, se rencontrent à la cantine du camping où ils passent leurs v… read more
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23. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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24. Radicalized
By: Cory Doctorow
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and… read more
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25. Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
By: Josh O'Kane
3.94
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFro… read more
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26. Homes: A Refugee Story
By: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
4.28
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs,… read more
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"We can make a home anywhere we go together."-Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Homes: A Refugee Story
27. Governing Canada: A Guide to the Tradecraft of Politics
By: Michael Wernick
3.66
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
How does Canadian government work in practice? In this first ever handbook of its kind, Michael Wer… read more
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28. Off the Record
By: Peter Mansbridge
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into … read more
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29. Je ferai le tour du monde
By: Alexandra Szacka
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
À l’aube de l’adolescence, Alexandra Szacka est chassée de son pays natal et forcée à renoncer à sa… read more
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30. Mind Over Matter: Hard-Won Battles on the Road to Hope
By: Jordin Tootoo
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the bestselling success of the inspiring All the Way , pioneering Inuit NHLer Jordin Toot… read more
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31. My Stories, My Times
By: Jean Chrétien
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the most popular Canadian prime ministers in recent history, elected to government for three… read more
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