Floating City
By: Kerri Sakamoto
3.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Citizen Kane reimagined, a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong, from the autho…
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1. Lullabies for Little Criminals
By: Heather O'Neill
4.03
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable … read more
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- fiction
- canadian literature
- canada
"Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
2. After the Quake
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.77
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Are you prepared to die?"-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"This life is nothing but a short, painful dream."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
3. Magpie Murders
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason … read more
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- fiction
Similar categories in Joy Kogawa's Obasan book and Kerri Sakamoto's Floating City
- historical
- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
5. The Witches of New York
By: Ami McKay
3.91
Format: 20 pages,
The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth Houseand The Virgin Cureis back with her most beguilin… read more
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- historical
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Neverending Story
By: Michael Ende , Roswitha Quadflieg , Ralph Manheim
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
7. American Born Chinese
By: Gene Luen Yang
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
8. 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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- fiction
- fantasy
- canada
"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
9. Requiem
By: Frances Itani
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bin Okuma, a celebrated visual artist, has recently and quite suddenly lost his wife, Lena. He and … read more
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10. The Strange Library
By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more
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11. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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12. Fates and Furies
By: Lauren Groff
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, th… read more
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13. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
By: Donnie Eichar
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriousl… read more
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14. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
By: Sujata Massey
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India’s only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murder… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. The Night House
By: Jo Nesbø
3.28
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror n… read more
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- fiction
17. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #2)
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.98
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
"You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late…" These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded word… read more
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- fiction
19. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
20. Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
4.04
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more
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- fiction
- canada
"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"-Miriam Toews, Fight Night
21. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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- fiction
- canada
"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
22. 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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- fiction
- canada
"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
23. Thistlefoot
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.96
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"what is a memory if not a ghost?"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
24. 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
- historical
- canadian literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
25. The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry, #2)
By: Sujata Massey
3.98
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill.India… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Happy Hour
By: Marlowe Granados
3.50
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more
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- fiction
"Being unattached is exhausting."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"being a muse is not for the weak"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"Money was limited, but my taste was not."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
27. Manikanetish
By: Naomi Fontaine
4.21
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Une enseignante de français en poste sur une réserve indienne de la Côte-Nord raconte son univers, … read more
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- fiction
- canada
"Revenir est la fatalité. Dans ce tout petit village, cette nature épineuse, sablonneuse, imaginée de toutes pièces depuis mon enfance, immuables souvenirs."-Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish
"Une larme a coulé de mes yeux et je l’ai écrasée avec ma main. D’être là, devant eux, vulnérable, m’a fait souffrir autant que cela m’a permis de poursuivre dans ma lancée."-Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish
"Pleure ma fille. Les choix qu’on fait sont souvent difficiles à expliquer. Et lorsque les gens ne comprennent pas nos choix, ils s’éloignent, parce qu’ils ont peur, tu vois, que ce soit nous qui nous…"-Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish
28. Lemon
By: Kwon Yeo-Sun
3.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more
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- fiction
29. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
By: Katharine Hayhoe
4.31
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe… read more
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30. The Listeners
By: Jordan Tannahill
3.42
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound th… read more
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- fiction
- canada
31. Floating City
By: Kerri Sakamoto
3.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Citizen Kane reimagined, a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong, from the autho… read more
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- canada
- historical
- canadian literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
