Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 (Studies in Gender and History)
By: Valerie Korinek
4.21
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experi…
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1. Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915
By: Sarah Carter
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Sarah Carter provides a detailed description of marriage as a diverse social institution in ninetee… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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2. Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945
By: Lisa Rose Mar
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as in… read more
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- history
3. Skim
By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki
3.77
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensit… read more
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- queer
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"Being sixteen is officially the worst thing I've ever been."-Jillian Tamaki, Skim
"I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still."-Jillian Tamaki, Skim
"This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with …"-Jillian Tamaki, Skim
4. The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)
By: Genevieve Cogman
4.20
Format: None pages,
Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes miss… read more
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5. Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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6. The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
4.36
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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7. The Book of Negroes
By: Lawrence Hill
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freed… read more
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8. Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World
By: Adele Perry
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one ext… read more
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9. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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10. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)
By: Emma R. Alban
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
11. 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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- nonfiction
- canada
12. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By: Michael Pollan
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Memory is the enemy of wonder"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"For great many species today, “fitness"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
13. Washington Black
By: Esi Edugyan
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more
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- canada
"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
14. 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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- nonfiction
- canada
"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
15. 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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- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"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
16. 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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- politics
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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
17. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
18. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- canada
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
19. 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
20. The Strangers
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 336 pages, None
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more
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- canada
"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers
21. 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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22. Letters to Half Moon Street (Meddle & Mend, #1)
By: Sarah Wallace
4.19
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
I must have been drunker than I realized because all I remember is how well he tied his cravat and … read more
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23. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
By: Kent Monkman
4.31
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformati… read more
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- history
- canada
- lgbt
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24. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
By: Chelsea Vowel
4.13
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more
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- lgbt
25. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)
By: R. Cole Harris
4.07
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in… read more
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26. Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake
By: Lianne Leddy
4.35
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Serpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persi… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21)
By: Brittany Luby
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
" The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- canada
28. The Great Bear (The Misewa Saga, #2)
By: David Alexander Robertson
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time. Back at home after their fi… read more
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29. The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy
By: Paul Myers
4.08
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall ― who will … read more
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- history
- canada
30. Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 (Studies in Gender and History)
By: Valerie Korinek
4.21
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experi… read more
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- canada
- lgbt
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31. Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History)
By: Franca Iacovetta
4.39
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Stranger… read more
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- nonfiction
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