Catching the Light
By: Susan Sinnott
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She …
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1. The Town That Drowned
By: Riel Nason
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through … read more
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- young adult
- canada
2. The Last Child
By: John Hart
4.82
Format: None pages,
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sist… read more
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3. Mary, Mary
By: Lesley Crewe
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as… read more
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4. The Boston Girl
By: Anita Diamant
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgetta… read more
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5. Midnight Jewel (The Glittering Court, #2)
By: Richelle Mead
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
In MIDNIGHT JEWEL, Richelle Mead goes beyond the glitz and glamour of the Glittering Court, delving… read more
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6. Rage the Night
By: Donna Morrissey
3.97
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more
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- canada
"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
7. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
8. 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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- canada
- contemporary
"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
9. 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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10. 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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- canada
11. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .
By: Rick Mercer
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more
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12. 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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- canada
- contemporary
"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
13. 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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- book club
- canada
- contemporary
"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
14. The Good Women of Safe Harbour
By: Bobbi French
4.39
Format: 304 pages, ebook
An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more
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- canada
- contemporary
15. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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- canada
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
16. Snow Road Station
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more
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- contemporary
17. Recipe for a Good Life
By: Lesley Crewe
4.34
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel follows a mystery author with writer's block from… read more
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"Become an editor,' they said. 'You love books.' they said. I do love books; I just hate the people who write them."-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life
"I met the Homeville Women's Institute, a whole gaggle of rural women who have monthly meetings to make their community better. They realized that by joining together they had a stronger voice, and th…"-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life
"Life is like a recipe. What do you want in your life cake? What ingredients do you need to make it rise and taste wonderful? Sometimes the simplest recipe is the best, because the more you add to the…"-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life
18. The Secret Keeper
By: Genevieve Graham
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more
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- canada
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. All the Colour in the World
By: C.S. Richardson
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more
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21. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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- canada
- contemporary
22. Peace by Chocolate
By: Jon Tattrie
4.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life. Before the w… read more
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23. Beholden
By: Lesley Crewe
4.25
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The story begins with Nell, the “spinster on the hill” near St. Peter’s, Cape Breton. Scarred by he… read more
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24. Look in the Mirror
By: Catherine Steadman
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more
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"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror
25. DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1)
By: Hartley GoodWeather
3.81
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The award-winning, bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian masters… read more
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- contemporary
26. Are You Kidding Me?! Chronicles of an Ordinary Life
By: Lesley Crewe
4.06
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe’s finest newspaper c… 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. Under Falling Skies (The Travels of Scout Shannon, #1)
By: Kate MacLeod
3.87
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
Scout Shannon's whole family died the day the Space Farers dropped an asteroid on their domed city.… read more
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29. Fishnets & Fantasies: A Novel
By: Jane Doucet
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Wendy Hebb has been a fisherman’s wife for forty years. She has also been a mother, a yoga instruct… read more
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30. Catching the Light
By: Susan Sinnott
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She … read more
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31. Jude and Diana
By: Sharon Robart-Johnson
4.11
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
The only mention of Jude in Nova Scotia’s official history is of her death. In 1801 a slave-owning… read more
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