The Blind Mechanic
By: Marilyn Davidson Elliott
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Eric Davidson lost both eyes in the Halifax Explosion when he was two years old. Against all odds, …
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1. Fall on Your Knees
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.97
Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback
They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach… read more
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"She is why purgatory was invented."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
2. Himself
By: Jess Kidd
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Blending strange kindnesses, casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a dark… read more
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"It is the smell of a million mould-blossomed pages, of a thousand decaying bindings, of a universe of dead words."-Jess Kidd, Himself
"It’s the hottest April in living and dead memory. So hot that the crows are flying with their tongues hanging out of their heads."-Jess Kidd, Himself
"She's put him out like a cat a million times, but like a cat he has a habit of slinking back and curling up into the warm corners of her mind."-Jess Kidd, Himself
"And the trees still hold strong. Their canopies drinking every soft grey sky and their roots spreading down deep in the dark, nuzzling clutches of old bones and fingering lost coins. They throw their…"-Jess Kidd, Himself
3. Ten Big Ones (Stephanie Plum, #10)
By: Janet Evanovich
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"I'm Stephanie Plum. My mother says that I'm famous and have to set a good example. She's right, bu… read more
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4. The Wonder
By: Emma Donoghue
3.64
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The Irish Midlands, 1859. An English nurse, Lib Wright, is summoned to a tiny village to observe wh… read more
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"Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta."-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?"-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"But was Anna nearer to starved or nearer to well? How to quantify the quality of being alive?"-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live."-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
5. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
6. The Tale of Despereaux
By: Kate DiCamillo , Timothy Basil Ering
3.49
Format: 465 pages,
A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Ka… read more
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7. Mercy Among the Children
By: David Adams Richards
3.56
Format: 256 pages,
When twelve-year-old Sidney Henderson pushes his friend Connie off the roof of a local church in a … read more
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8. The Amityville Horror
By: Jay Anson
3.83
Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback
28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more
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9. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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10. The Deception of Livvy Higgs
By: Donna Morrissey
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost … read more
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11. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
By: Gregory Maguire , Douglas Smith
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard o… read more
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12. To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, #9)
By: Janet Evanovich
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of… read more
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13. The Paris Agent
By: Kelly Rimmer
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
1970—In the aftermath of his war-ravaged past, Noah Ainsworth is still haunted by memories of his t… read more
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"To truly love someone, we must accept the real version of them, scars and all."-Kelly Rimmer, The Paris Agent
"And whatever we do with the freedom we have been gifted, whether our achievements and our struggles are big or small, we will do it in honor of those who gave so much so that we could live in a bette…"-Kelly Rimmer, The Paris Agent
14. 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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15. Under My Skin
By: Lisa Unger
3.62
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the nightmares are actually memories? It's been a year since Poppy's husband, Jack, was … read more
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"Is there anyone dearer than the children of people you love, especially when you don’t have your own?"-Lisa Unger, Under My Skin
16. 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
17. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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18. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
19. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
20. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
21. After Anne
By: Logan Steiner
3.68
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A stunning and unexpected portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, creator of one of literature’s most pri… read more
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22. Hench (Hench, #1)
By: Natalie Zina Walschots
4.02
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a… read more
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"I wondered what it must be like to be so mediocre and so confident that the same time."-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"But even if the label on your own feelings doesn't matter, wouldn't you want to know how you felt about you? He pulled me off an operating table and rebuilt my brain. He killed people to get to me. W…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"No one wants to be a real hero; it’s too hard. My husband didn’t give a damn whether the work I was doing was noble as long as it appeared to be. When I killed someone then - something I did a lot mo…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
23. 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
24. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
By: Lisa Genova
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do … read more
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"You don't need memory to love or feel loved."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"Forgetting happens. If you stress about it, it'll happen even more."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"Our brains don’t remember everything, but maybe what they remember is enough."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"We frequently invent new information, often inaccurate, to fill in gaps in our memories so that the narrative feels more complete or pleasing."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
25. Fire and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #23)
By: Kathy Reichs
4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It’s never easy working fire scenes. Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysteri… read more
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26. Canadian Boyfriend
By: Jenny Holiday
3.60
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A charming and heartfelt romance about a woman who comes face to face with the fake Canadian boyfri… read more
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27. Crow
By: Amy Spurway
4.05
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable — and inoperable — brain tumours, … read more
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"I come from a long line of lunatics and criminals. Crazies on the one side of the family tree, crooks on the other, although the odd crazy has a touch of crook, and vice versa"-Amy Spurway, Crow
28. Indian School Road
By: Chris Benjamin
4.44
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"...a welcome and essential addition to the Canadian historical canon." --Joel W. Vaughan, Broken… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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29. The Blind Mechanic
By: Marilyn Davidson Elliott
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Eric Davidson lost both eyes in the Halifax Explosion when he was two years old. Against all odds, … read more
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30. Frequently Asked White Questions
By: Ajay Parasram
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awk… read more
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31. The Trouble With Everything
By: Lesley Choyce
3.00
Format: None pages, Audiobook
This audiobook offers 27 studio readings of poems accompanied by original music.\nPandemics prompt … read more
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