Speak, Silence
By: Kim Echlin
4.09
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF THE 2021 TORONTO BOOK AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 EVERGREEN AWARDFrom the internationall…
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1. The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
By: C.W. Gortner
3.90
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, a gripping novel that follows the extraordinary life … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Do not make the mistake of thinking you're unique, When we are young, we believe we can wrap life around our little finger, but life has a way of teaching us who is stronger. In The end, you are but …"-C.W. Gortner, The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
2. 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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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
3. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely… read more
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- womens
- audiobook
"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
4. The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)
By: Chris Hadfield
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot Chris Hadfield comes a rivetin… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
5. 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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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"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
6. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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- audiobook
7. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
"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
8. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
9. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
10. Adrift
By: Lisa Brideau
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me comes a page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
11. 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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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
12. The Berlin Letters
By: Katherine Reay
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childho… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
13. 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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- fiction
- adult
- canada
- audiobook
14. She Wouldn't Change a Thing
By: Sarah Adlakha
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sliding Doors meets Life After Life in Sarah Adlakha's story about a wife and mother who is given t… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"What would she do if she never woke up?"-Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing
"Don’t you see now? It’s important to always do the right thing, even if you have to suffer the consequences."-Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing
"The battle in her mind was exhausting like she was fighting a duel between two sides that were perfectly matched rivals."-Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing
"But hope was a thief, and Maria knew how it preyed on its victims with visions of what could be, before ripping it all away."-Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn't Change a Thing
15. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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- fiction
- adult
- canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
16. Looking for Jane
By: Heather Marshall
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more
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- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
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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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
18. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- fiction
- adult
- canada
- audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
19. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
By: Tsering Yangzom Lama
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
20. The Strangers
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 336 pages, None
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers
21. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
22. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
23. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
24. We Meant Well
By: Erum Shazia Hasan
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- war
- fiction
- audiobook
25. 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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- historical
- canada
- audiobook
26. No One Tells You This
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.91
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol… read more
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- womens
- audiobook
"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"We're the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"This is why people have babies...because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
27. Swimming Back to Trout River
By: Linda Rui Feng
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE How many times in life can we start over with… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
28. The Captive
By: Fiona King Foster
3.36
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A rural noir about a woman on a pulse-pounding expedition to deliver a fugitive—and forced to confr… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
29. Speak, Silence
By: Kim Echlin
4.09
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF THE 2021 TORONTO BOOK AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 EVERGREEN AWARDFrom the internationall… read more
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- canada
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- womens
- adult
- audiobook
" A woman's war is not redeemed for the ages by art. "-Kim Echlin, Speak, Silence
30. The Centaur's Wife
By: Amanda Leduc
3.32
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with bot… read more
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- fiction
- adult
- canada
- audiobook
31. Where They Last Saw Her
By: Marcie R. Rendon
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, a harrowing novel of a Native American … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
