6 Best indigenous books like Kitotam by John McDonald

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Kitotam

By: John McDonald

4.22

Format: 87 pages, Softcover

Poems

If you liked the indigenous plot in Kitotam by John McDonald , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel

By: Patti Laboucane-Benson , Kelly Mellings

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gan… read more

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  • indigenous
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2. 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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3. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

By: Sylvain Neuvel

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls th… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. The Grownup

By: Gillian Flynn

3.56

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless frau… read more

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  • audiobook
"She is an incredibly intelligent idiot"

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"People want passion. People want a sense of purpose."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

"But I felt, for once, decent. Not telling-myself-I-am decent, but just decent."

-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

5. 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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6. Fledgling

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young… read more

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7. Taproot

By: Keezy Young

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Paperback

Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, H… read more

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8. Wenjack

By: Joseph Boyden , Kent Monkman

3.80

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2017OLSN Northern Lit Award An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian… read more

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9. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

By: Thomas King

4.65

Format: None pages, ebook

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more

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10. Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.80

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Acr… read more

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  • audiobook
"We have always held the land above the one who rules it."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"I can be beautiful and limited at the same time...There's nothing wrong with being limited, as long as you have people around to make sure those limitations don't get you hurt"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

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11. The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.50

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Join Greta and Minette once more for the heartwarming conclusion of the award-winning Tea Dragon se… read more

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"Everything that happens is part of your wholeness."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"When someone is grieving, the best thing you can do is let them heal on their own, and show them that you'll be there for them."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"You feel like you've lost your path. It's natural to be sad. It's alright to let those feelings wash over you, and give them time to soak into the earth. That's when things start to grow again."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"Well I am, now. But I wasn't always so ready to call it my home--when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow. Once I was ready, it felt like I was part of a new song tha…"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

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12. Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • indigenous
"Pain expanded my heart."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"You are such a home to me."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

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13. Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

3.73

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more

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  • audiobook
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

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14. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • indigenous
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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15. We Spread

By: Iain Reid

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more

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  • audiobook
"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

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16. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • audiobook
"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

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18. 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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  • audiobook
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19. Before the Ever After

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Jacqueline Woodson's novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have … read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
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20. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • audiobook
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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21. The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. 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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  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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23. The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully

By: Morrie Schwartz

3.49

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

*May Book Club Pick by Longevity Book Club "Beautiful…Those lucky enough to read this book will be … read more

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  • audiobook
"Discovering the truth is not a simple matter. There are many sides and layers of truth. There are many complexities, mixtures, and contradictions. There may be only partial truths, not exclusive or u…"

-Morrie Schwartz, The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully

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24. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

 When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

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25. 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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  • audiobook
Cover of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

26. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By: Amanda Leduc

4.09

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more

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  • audiobook
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

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27. Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories

By: Norma Dunning

4.03

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Winner of Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Drawing on both lived experience … read more

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  • audiobook
  • indigenous
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28. The Art of Quiet Influence: Timeless Wisdom for Leading without Authority

By: Jocelyn Davis

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Anyone can be a quiet influencer. But not everyone knows how."A tremendous and relevant read!" -Ste… read more

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  • audiobook
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29. I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique

By: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Will artificial intelligence improve the way we work and live, or will it alienate us? The choice i… read more

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30. Kitotam

By: John McDonald

4.22

Format: 87 pages, Softcover

Poems read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • indigenous
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31. Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

By: Andrea Warner

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Folk hero. Rock icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things, and Greystone is pr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • indigenous
"The pecking order comes from the barnyard"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

"Angry is a way for power holders To dismiss and deligitmize activism and protest"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

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5.00

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3.56

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Seanan McGuire

3.80

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Terese Marie Mailhot

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3.68

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