Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde
By: Julie S. Lalonde
4.37
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A memoir of terror. An indictment of a misogynistic system that silences survivors. For over a d…
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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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"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. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
By: Scaachi Koul
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, "a land of ice… read more
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3. Three Day Road
By: Joseph Boyden
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of … read more
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4. 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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5. The Back of the Turtle
By: Thomas King
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winn… read more
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6. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
8. 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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"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
9. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
10. Indians on Vacation
By: Thomas King
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more
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11. Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine
By: Joanna Jolly
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, and the detective determined to… read more
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12. The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
By: Desmond Cole
4.45
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and unco… read more
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"The false promise of objectivity in journalism reinforces white supremacy."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
"it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy—white settlers deny Black communities the necessities of life, then blame us for the social dysfunction that follows."-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
"This idea that Canada's racial injustices are not as bad as they could be, this notion of Slavery Lite, of Racism Lite, of what my friend calls the "toy version of racism" is a very Canadian way of s…"-Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
13. 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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14. This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
By: Stefanie Green
4.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted d… read more
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15. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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16. The Spectacular
By: Zoe Whittall
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring s… read more
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17. Funeral Girl
By: Emma K. Ohland
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run--especiall… read more
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18. Feminist City: A Field Guide
By: Leslie Kern
3.92
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more
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"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
19. Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging
By: Matthew R. Morris
4.31
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“ Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . … read more
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20. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
By: Rose Hackman
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more
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21. Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde
By: Julie S. Lalonde
4.37
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A memoir of terror. An indictment of a misogynistic system that silences survivors. For over a d… read more
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