True Confessions from the Ninth Concession
By: Dan Needles
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A funny and affectionate chronicle of rural Canadian life written by a winner of the Stephen Leacoc…
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1. The Paris Wife
By: Paula McLain
3.82
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love … read more
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"They love me like a pack of wolves. Ernest"-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"We stood there, locked and lovely as statues in a garden."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
2. State of Wonder
By: Ann Patchett
3.90
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual tra… read more
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"One must not be shy where language is concerned."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
3. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more
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4. Rules of Civility
By: Amor Towles
2.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village… read more
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5. Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
By: Zarqa Nawaz
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which spar… read more
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6. Crow Lake
By: Mary Lawson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you kn… read more
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"Feeling must have rendered her numb."-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on thei…"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book …"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
7. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
8. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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9. 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
10. The Invisible Hour
By: Alice Hoffman
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magi… read more
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"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
11. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.07
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more
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"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
12. The Bookshop of Yesterdays
By: Amy Meyerson
3.65
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant… read more
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"Every day has a past. Every day has a tomorrow."-Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays
"You don’t have to like your family, you only have to love them."-Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays
"It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be."-Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays
"The law’s a profession of the written word. Do you know what most lawyers want to be? Writers."-Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays
13. 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
14. 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
15. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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16. The London Bookshop Affair
By: Louise Fein
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A new historical drama from Daughter of the Reich bestselling author Louise Fein, about a London bo… read more
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17. 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
18. Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood
By: Wayne Johnston
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCConsummate storyteller and bestselling n… read more
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19. The Witches of Moonshyne Manor
By: Bianca Marais
3.62
Format: 388 pages, Paperback
A coven of modern-day witches. A magical heist-gone-wrong. A looming threat. Five octogenarian w… read more
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"Age's sole purpose is to gift us more years in which to experience the minefield that is living. Along with that, it grants us the perspective to know that by the end of it all, it doesn't matter a d…"-Bianca Marais, The Witches of Moonshyne Manor
20. 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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21. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
22. On the Ravine
By: Vincent Lam
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exqui… read more
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23. 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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"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
24. Coronation Year
By: Jennifer Robson
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent hi… read more
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25. Flat Broke with Two Goats
By: Jennifer McGaha
3.26
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and na… read more
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"When I was growing up, my parents had created for my brother and me the perfect upper middle-class lifestyle. We had everything we needed, and most things we wanted. We took piano lessons. We went to…"-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats
"I realized that if someone told me right then that I could go back 10 years, have my old life back exactly as it was, a life where I never saw my husband, where our lives were always about becoming i…"-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats
26. The Next Ship Home
By: Heather Webb
4.17
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ellis Island, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: "Give me your tired, yo… read more
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"They laughed heartily and shouted over one another, the Sicilian dialect she hadn't heard in a while enveloping her. To the untrained eye, the group might have been arguing, but Francesca knew better…"-Heather Webb, The Next Ship Home
27. Everything Is Just Beginning
By: Erin Bartels
4.12
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
An Immersive Story of Music, Struggle, and Starting Over from an Award-Winning AuthorMichael Sulliv… read more
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"That’s what does it. That’s what breaks your heart a little. And if it doesn’t break your heart a little, why bother?"-Erin Bartels, Everything Is Just Beginning
28. Gutter Child
By: Jael Richardson
3.86
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award Cityline Book Club Pick … read more
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"What if greatness only happens when we're together, when we don't let them pull us apart?"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"It takes a particular kind of strength to exist in a world where you are not wanted that doesn't feel like strength at all."-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"When I drew pictures of Mother and me, I used Peach for her and Chestnut for myself. "Why is your skin named after something soft and sweet and mine is something hard and bitter?" "Because you are so…"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"A girl learns who she is from the woman she sees loving her," Ida says. "She learns what's good and what's lovely about herself, and the further apart she is from that woman, and the more different t…"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
29. True Confessions from the Ninth Concession
By: Dan Needles
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A funny and affectionate chronicle of rural Canadian life written by a winner of the Stephen Leacoc… read more
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30. Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis
By: Dr. Sammy Winemaker
4.63
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The essential guide for every patient and family The doctor’s office called. It’s not good news. W… read more
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