Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada
By: Roy MacGregor
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Can…
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1. The Best Laid Plans
By: Terry Fallis
3.91
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
A burnt-out political aide quits just before an election — but is forced to run a hopeless campaign… read more
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"Some people contend that the English language is a living, breathing organism wherein the definitions of words and rules should change to reflect their mass misuse. I contend that English is already …"-Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans
"We wonder why we're unable to attract to public life the calibre of people we'd like to see. Well, we pry into their private lives, put their every move under a microscope, and subject them and their…"-Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans
2. A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land
By: Adam Shoalts
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called "Canada" like it's never bee… read more
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3. 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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4. Riding the Iron Rooster
By: Paul Theroux
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paul Theroux invites you to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romanttic tradition… read more
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5. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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6. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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7. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
8. The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
By: Chris Hadfield
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional debut thriller and “exciting journey” into the dark heart of the Cold War and the sp… read more
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9. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
10. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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11. I Will Ruin You
By: Linwood Barclay
3.98
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher’s act of hero… read more
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12. The Amur River: Between Russia And China
By: Colin Thubron
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. The Amur River is almost unk… read more
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13. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
By: Stephen R. Bown
4.14
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay C… read more
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14. Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada
By: Stephen R. Bown
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the enginee… read more
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15. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
4.32
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more
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16. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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17. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
18. An Ocean of Minutes
By: Thea Lim
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simp… read more
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"Just as the invention of air travel had made it easy to go, but no easier to leave, the invention of time travel made time easy to pass, but no easier to endure."-Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes
19. The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone
By: Colin O'Brady
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Colin O’Brady’s awe-inspiring memoir spans his recovery from a tragic accident to his 932-mile solo… read more
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20. Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada
By: Roy MacGregor
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Can… read more
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21. Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
By: Sima Samar
4.49
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima medical doctor, public official, f… read more
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"Mothers as brave as lionesses, poor Belcourt children, little Kabyles starving to death in 1939 – those people also earned the applause."-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
"They are staring at the photographer in perplexity. A few even wear naive smiles, as if forgetting the extreme poverty of the arid plains."-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
"If hope and optimism could be measured in facial expressions, the smiles and sparkling eyes in the room that day would have guaranteed our success"-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
"In the intoxication of being twenty and swept up by my reading, I hoped to live in the light of day, in joy, refusing submission, shackles and conformity."-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
