Vancouver for Beginners
By: Alex Leslie
4.15
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards, The Lohn Foundation Prize for Poetry In Vanco…
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1. Spinning
By: Tillie Walden
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Poignant and captivating, Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir, Spinning, ca… read more
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"I never ignored the fact that I was attracted to them. I had known I was gay since I was 5. Now I was almost 12. A teacher's aide had shown me how to hold your sleeve when you put your jacket on. I s…"-Tillie Walden, Spinning
2. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
3. Tumour
By: Evelyn Lau
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In her seventh book of poetry, Evelyn Laudigs up her deepest fears to unearth the universal hope we… read more
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4. A Room with a View
By: E.M. Forster
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more
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5. i love this part
By: Tillie Walden
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at s… read more
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6. This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
By: None
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This Accident of Being Lostis the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winnin… read more
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7. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
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"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
8. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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9. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
10. Are You Listening?
By: Tillie Walden
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more
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"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
11. 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
12. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
13. Women Talking
By: Miriam Toews
3.62
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
14. On a Sunbeam
By: Tillie Walden
4.30
Format: 533 pages, Paperback
Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more
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"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
15. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
16. Work-Life Balance
By: Aisha Franz
3.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A cutting portrayal of the pursuit of work-life balance from the cartoonist of Shit is Real To a… read more
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17. The Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more
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18. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
19. The Book That No One Wanted to Read
By: Richard Ayoade
3.74
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From actor-author-broadcaster-comedian-filmmaker Richard Ayoade comes a book narrated by . . . a bo… read more
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20. 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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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
21. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
22. Do You Mind If I Cancel?: Things That Still Annoy Me
By: Gary Janetti
3.50
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time,… read more
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23. Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories
By: Lindsay Wong
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, Canada Reads-shortlisted author of The Woo-Woo comes a wild, darkly hilarious… read more
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24. Ghost Forest
By: Pik-Shuen Fung
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve, if your family doesn't talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed … read more
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"I learned that it is important to be true to yourself. Many people do whatever society tells them to do. They’ve lost themselves. I grew up with Confucian values, and they are limiting. I focused onl…"-Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest
25. A City Inside
By: Tillie Walden
3.91
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman s life from childho… read more
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26. You're Gonna Love This
By: Dina Del Bucchia
4.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
You’re Gonna Love This tells the story of three entwined those between the narrator of the poem an… read more
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27. Vancouver for Beginners
By: Alex Leslie
4.15
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards, The Lohn Foundation Prize for Poetry In Vanco… read more
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28. As She Appears
By: Shelley Wong
4.14
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** ***WINNER OF THE 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD*** … read more
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29. Last Woman: Stories
By: Carleigh Baker
3.94
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of the country’s most celebrated new writers, a blistering collection of short fiction tha… read more
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- canada
30. Body Count
By: Kyla Jamieson
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this vital début, Kyla Jamieson sifts through the raw material of her life before and after a di… read more
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31. Jump Scare
By: Daniel Zomparelli
5.00
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
At once raw and skillful, painful and funny, personal and pervasive, the poems in Jump Scare dig de… read more
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