The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
By: Anais Granofsky
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this poignant and timely memoir--written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a…
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1. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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2. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
3. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
4. 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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- canada
"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
5. 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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- nonfiction
"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
"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
"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
6. 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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7. 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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8. The People’s Princess
By: Flora Harding
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Buckingham Palace, 1981 Her engagement to Prince Charles is a dream come true for Lady Diana Spe… read more
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9. 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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- canada
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
10. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
By: Jesse Wente
4.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more
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11. 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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- canada
12. 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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13. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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14. Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
By: Rowan Jette Knox
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father,… read more
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15. Dandelion
By: Jamie Chai Yun Liew
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen… read more
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16. The Mother of All Degrassi: A Memoir
By: Linda Schuyler
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
When a young schoolteacher decides to teach her Grade 8 class about filmmaking and creates a docume… read more
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17. Funny You Should Say That
By: Gerry Dee
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
One of Canada’s top comedians shares the funniest stories from his life and career in this collecti… read more
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18. Black Water
By: David Alexander Robertson
4.17
Format: 288 pages, ebook
“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to … read more
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19. The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
By: Anais Granofsky
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this poignant and timely memoir--written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
20. Hold My Girl
By: Charlene Carr
3.96
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake. Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her enti… read more
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21. Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism
By: Maude Barlow
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Canada's best-known voice of dissent." -- CBC "It's time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the w… read more
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