Chasing Smoke
By: Aaron Williams
3.39
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"At first I'm calm as the trees fall. But suddenly a rat's nest of wood, bent horizontal and cribbe…
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1. A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land
By: Adam Shoalts
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called "Canada" like it's never bee… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- canada
2. Mercy
By: Jodi Picoult
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life … read more
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3. Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy #1)
By: Jason Matthews
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
In today's Russia, dominated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state intelligence officer Dominika … read more
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4. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
5. The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien
4.10
Format: None pages,
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each… read more
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6. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
By: David Sedaris
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more
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7. Twelve Years a Slave
By: Solomon Northup
3.58
Format: None pages, ebook
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starrin… read more
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8. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Cheryl Strayed
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, h… read more
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9. The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
By: Maja Lunde
3.81
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut fol… read more
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- nature
"We are nothing without passion."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"You do know he loves to write. He always has."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"Without knowledge we are nothing.without knowledge we are animals."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"لم تستطع أن تبقي أصابعها بعيدة عنه؛ بعد أن تراكمت أشهرٌ من الحنين -إليه- في يديها."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
10. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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11. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
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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- canada
12. 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
13. To Be Taught, If Fortunate
By: Becky Chambers
4.20
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more
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"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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- nonfiction
16. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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17. 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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- canada
"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
18. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
19. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
20. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- nature
21. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- canada
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
22. Alone on the Wall
By: Alex Honnold
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan i… read more
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"Doubt is the biggest danger in soloing. As soon as you hesitate, you’re screwed."-Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall
"I think it’s important that you do your own research, take personal responsibility for your decisions, experiment, and find what works best for you."-Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall
"The climbing and travel in this book wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my entire extended family. I’m grateful that everyone has always encouraged my adventures and not questioned my…"-Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall
"From my adventures in the subculture of addiction recovery, I’d learned that the trajectory of one’s life often boils down to a few identifiable moments—decisions that change everything. I knew all t…"-Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall
23. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- canada
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
24. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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- canada
25. The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
By: Adam Shoalts
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traver… read more
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- nonfiction
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26. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet , a groundbreaking a… read more
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- canada
27. Mrs Van Gogh
By: Caroline Cauchi
3.83
Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition
She’s been painted out of history…until now Who tells her story? In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh di… read more
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28. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
By: Trina Moyles
4.29
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote … read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
29. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
By: Catrina Davies
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
30. Chasing Smoke
By: Aaron Williams
3.39
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"At first I'm calm as the trees fall. But suddenly a rat's nest of wood, bent horizontal and cribbe… read more
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31. The Enforcer: Johnny "Pops" Papalia: A Life and Death in the Mafia
By: Adrian Humphreys
3.70
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The story of Johnny "Pops" Papalia is the story of the Mafia in Canada. It is a story that begins a… read more
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