A Funny Kind of Paradise
By: Jo Owens
4.10
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she w…
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1. I Am a Truck
By: None
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A tender but lively debut novel about a man, a woman, and their Chevrolet dealer. Agathe and Rejean… read more
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2. Rage the Night
By: Donna Morrissey
3.97
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more
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"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
3. The Son of the House
By: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
SHORTLISTED for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021 • FINALIST for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 20… read more
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4. We, Jane
By: Aimee Wall
3.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikel… read more
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5. 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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6. Into the Jungle
By: Erica Ferencik
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this “ hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from t… read more
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7. The Theory of Crows
By: David Alexander Robertson
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When … read more
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8. All the Colour in the World
By: C.S. Richardson
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more
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9. Rabbit Foot Bill
By: Helen Humphreys
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking mur… read more
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10. Frying Plantain
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more
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11. Starlight
By: Richard Wagamese
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medic… read more
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12. Love
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.63
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their dis… read more
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"He looks at her as he listens, smiling when she's finished. She feels like touching the stubble of his beard with the tips of her fingers, smoothing her hands over his face the way she does with the …"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
"The sound of the car. When he's waiting he can never quite recall it. I've forgotten, he tells himself. But then it comes back to him, often in pauses between the waiting, after he's stopped thinking…"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
13. Polar Vortex
By: Shani Mootoo
3.53
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
Some secrets never die… Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countrysid… read more
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14. Tides
By: Sara Freeman
3.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside tow… read more
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15. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
By: Anne Sebba
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mo… read more
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16. Prairie Edge
By: Conor Kerr
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more
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17. This Little Light
By: Lori Lansens
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future where a smart young woman who questions t… read more
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18. A Funny Kind of Paradise
By: Jo Owens
4.10
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she w… read more
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19. Known to the Victim
By: K.L. Armstrong
4.05
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
From nationally bestselling author K.L. Armstrong comes a new heartstopping, propulsive, race-again… read more
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20. real ones
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more
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21. In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel
By: Jane Urquhart
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable … read more
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