By: Cecil Foster
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award…
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By: Helen MacInnes
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
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By: Angela Y. Davis
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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By: Katherena Vermette
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more
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By: Thomas King
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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By: Waubgeshig Rice
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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By: Erik Larson
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Kate Beaton
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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By: Waubgeshig Rice
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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"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)
By: James Patterson
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: Miriam Toews
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more
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"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
By: John McFetridge
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
WINNER of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Awards Behind the scenes, nothing is what it … read more
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By: Amy Stuart
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a pa… read more
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By: Heather O'Neill
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more
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"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
By: Serena Burdick
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the fa… read more
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By: Samra Habib
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Jen Gunter
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Just as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s m… read more
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By: Heather Marshall
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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By: Joshua Whitehead
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
By: Joy Fielding
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents—only to watch as she takes over their liv… read more
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By: Suzette Mayr
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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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Cherie Dimaline
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more
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"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
By: Tsering Yangzom Lama
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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By: Lesley Crewe
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
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more
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"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
By: Elyse Friedman
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more
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By: Marion Todd
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Can DI Clare Mackay unravel a dead man’s secrets? Harry Richards, local Solicitor. Found in his … read more
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By: John Ibbitson
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between … read more
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By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her c… read more
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By: Nate Hendley
Format: 216 pages, ebook
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR NON-FICTION 2022 The sensational t… read more
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By: Cecil Foster
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award… read more
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By: Yuval Noah Harari
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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