Pebble Swing
By: Isabella Wang
4.23
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada’s most promising emerging poets Pebble Sw…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
3. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
4. Jazz
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more
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5. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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6. Paradise
By: Toni Morrison
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary… read more
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7. In the Skin of a Lion
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.42
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between hist… read more
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8. Found
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In 1978, my parents lived in building #48. Nongkai, Thailand, a Lao refugee camp. My father kept a… read more
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9. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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10. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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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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12. 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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13. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel
By: Archie Bongiovanni
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more
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14. Landbridge: life in fragments
By: Y-Dang Troeung
4.56
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Can… read more
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15. 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
16. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
17. People Change
By: Vivek Shraya
3.96
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*FINALIST FOR THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE* “A deeply generous and honest gift to … read more
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"Some friendships need to die. Sometimes we’re so trapped in old patterns or comforts that we don’t offer anything meaningful to each other except history."-Vivek Shraya, People Change
"Reinvention requires both a kind of death and a desire to keep living. And so at its core, reinvention is inextricably linked to hope: the hope that we can find another way, take another shape."-Vivek Shraya, People Change
18. Der Klang der Familie
By: Felix Denk
4.24
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Am 13. März 1991 begannen die 90er Jahre. Nur wenige Meter vom ehemaligen Todesstreifen entfernt er… read more
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19. Pebble Swing
By: Isabella Wang
4.23
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada’s most promising emerging poets Pebble Sw… read more
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20. The Good Arabs
By: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a … read more
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21. Fine: Poems
By: Matt Rader
5.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Charting the porous borderlands of the self and the social through a year of cataclysm, Matt Rader … read more
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