Falling for Myself: A Memoir
By: Dorothy Ellen Palmer
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this searing and seriously funny memoir, Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down. A Lot. Born with conge…
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1. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
By: Mo Willems
4.33
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his pl… read more
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"I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-"-Mo Willems, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
2. A Fine Balance
By: Rohinton Mistry
4.37
Format: 603 pages, Paperback
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magn… read more
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"Time had changed the magical to mundane"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"Marriage is like death, only happens once."-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
3. Last Chance to See
By: Douglas Adams , Mark Carwardine
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlive… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Think No Evil: Inside the Story of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting...and Beyond
By: Shawn Smucker , Jonas Beiler
3.37
Format: 120 pages,
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- nonfiction
5. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
By: Tanya Talaga
4.52
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
6. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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7. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
8. El Deafo
By: Cece Bell , None
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At… read more
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9. Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish
By: Misty Griffin
3.93
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish, it was the beginning o… read more
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10. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
By: Kate Murphy
4.08
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Who listens to you? New York Times contributor Kate Murphy asked people on five continents this … read more
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- nonfiction
"You’re not listening!"-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"Silence is like white space in design, it surrounds what's important!"-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening."-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"[E]verybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it's on you."-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
11. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
13. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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
14. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
15. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- nonfiction
16. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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- nonfiction
"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
17. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- disability
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
18. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
19. Brother
By: David Chariandy
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions o… read more
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"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."-David Chariandy, Brother
20. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- canada
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
21. Ayesha at Last
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love. Ayesha Shamsi has a lot g… read more
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"No, she is not with child,"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"[Khalid] took a deep, calming breath, and smiled at her, channeling his inner shark. Or at least, dolphin."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"Your defect is a tendency to judge everyone,' Ayesha said. 'And yours,' he said with a smile, 'is to willfully misunderstand them."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"Your presence in a relationship is not indicative of commitment but rather inertia. Standing before your friends and family and pledging your love and loyalty is an essential ingredient of a long-las…"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
22. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
23. Concerning My Daughter
By: Hye-Jin Kim
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more
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"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
24. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
25. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
By: Kelly Sundberg
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Gl… read more
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I was only ever leaving. I was leaving when he hit me. Leaving when he screamed “You are a fucking cunt!"-Kelly Sundberg, Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
26. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
27. Eat the Rich
By: Sarah Gailey
3.71
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When the rich and powerful are literal cannibals, how can regular people avoid being on the menu?WE… read more
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28. Make the World New
By: Lillian Allen
3.57
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been fou… read more
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29. My Conversations with Canadians
By: Lee Maracle
4.30
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one sh… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- canada
30. Falling for Myself: A Memoir
By: Dorothy Ellen Palmer
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this searing and seriously funny memoir, Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down. A Lot. Born with conge… read more
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- canada
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
31. My Best Friend is White
By: Klyde Broox
4.50
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2005 City of Hamilton Arts Award for Literature. read more
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