Book of Wings
By: Tawhida Tanya Evanson
3.01
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya …
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1. The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
By: Joseph Auguste Merasty , David Carpenter
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retir… read more
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2. 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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3. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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4. Washington Black
By: Esi Edugyan
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more
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"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
5. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
6. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
7. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
8. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
9. 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
10. 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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"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
11. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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12. Probably Ruby
By: Lisa Bird-Wilson
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable d… read more
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13. The Spoon Stealer
By: Lesley Crewe
4.40
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fi… read more
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"So much of our lives depend on just one move, one way or the other. If I'd turned left instead of right that day..."-Lesley Crewe, The Spoon Stealer
14. All the Quiet Places
By: Brian Thomas Isaac
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more
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15. Je vous demande de fermer les yeux et d'imaginer un endroit calme
By: Michelle Lapierre-Dallaire
4.12
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Je vous demande de fermer les yeux et d’imaginer un endroit calme est une déclaration d’amour à tou… read more
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16. Here Goes Nothing: A Novel
By: Eamon McGrath
2.44
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Named a Fall 2020 Best Indie Read by the Globe and Mail From Eamon McGrath, award-winning musician … read more
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17. 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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18. Junie
By: Chelene Knight
3.78
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more
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19. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
3.65
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more
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20. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By: Winfred Rembert
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movem… read more
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21. The Gay Best Friend
By: Nicolas DiDomizio
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
an alternate cover edition can be found here He's always been the token gay best friend. Now, st… read more
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"Worryin only gives the small things big shadows"-Nicolas DiDomizio, The Gay Best Friend
22. Satellite Love
By: Genki Ferguson
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel ab… read more
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"I realized, then, that love could be a threat. That the basic foundation for romance is knowing that the other could destory you at any moment, yet trusting that they won't. Mutually Assured Destruct…"-Genki Ferguson, Satellite Love
23. I'm Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better, and a Hell of a Lot Louder
By: Wendi Aarons
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An honest and hilarious memoir about second acts, self-acceptance, and celebrating what happens whe… read more
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24. Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers (Untold Lives)
By: Marcello Di Cintio
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books B… read more
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25. What We Both Know
By: Fawn Parker
3.17
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
For readers of My Dark Vanessa, a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about o… read more
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26. Book of Wings
By: Tawhida Tanya Evanson
3.01
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya … read more
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27. We Two Alone: Stories
By: Jack Wang
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Praised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh … read more
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28. Kemosha of the Caribbean
By: Alex Wheatle
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port … read more
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29. Becoming Nigerian: A Guide
By: Elnathan John
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical gu… read more
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30. Dominoes at the Crossroads
By: Kaie Kellough
3.48
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation—one populated by Caribbean Can… read more
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31. From My Mother's Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada
By: Njoki Nathani Wane
3.40
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In From My Mother’s A Journey from Kenya to Canada , Njoki Wane introduces us to her mother, a wom… read more
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