My Mother's Daughter
By: Perdita Felicien
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Perdita Felic…
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1. The Way the Crow Flies
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Paperback
The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of … read more
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2. 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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3. The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more
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4. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
By: Cea Sunrise Person
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more
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5. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
By: Bianca Marais
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apart… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. 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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8. Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss
By: Jann Arden
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding … read more
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"Words are big. They define who you are. They are permanent. I don’t think most people realize that. What you say is who you are. So try to be gentle on social media. Lift others up when you can, even…"-Jann Arden, Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss
9. 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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"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
10. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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11. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more
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"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
12. The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir
By: Caster Semenya
4.27
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and car… read more
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13. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
14. "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
4.14
Format: 304 pages, ebook
THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling … read more
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15. 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
16. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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17. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)
By: Kate Hilton
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more
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18. 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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19. The Strangers
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 336 pages, None
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more
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"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers
20. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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21. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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22. The Spoon Stealer
By: Lesley Crewe
4.40
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fi… read more
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"So much of our lives depend on just one move, one way or the other. If I'd turned left instead of right that day..."-Lesley Crewe, The Spoon Stealer
23. In the Upper Country
By: Kai Thomas
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more
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24. Hunting by Stars
By: Cherie Dimaline
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A new story about hope and survival. Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions … read more
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25. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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26. If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
By: Jann Arden
4.04
Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition
Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny… read more
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"Since the big things find you no matter where you are, it's okay to unhook from your portable news source so you're not in the middle of what's happening every minute of the day. It doesn't mean you …"-Jann Arden, If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
27. Playing the Long Game: A Memoir
By: Christine Sinclair
3.94
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Chri… read more
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28. The Offing
By: Roz Nay
3.86
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Two young women are trapped in a deadly chase through the beautiful, dangerous waters around Austra… read more
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29. The Heart of a Superfan: A memoir of grit, love, family and basketball
By: Nav Bhatia
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Raptors' story is an underdog story—and the same is true for their greatest superfan. This memo… read more
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30. My Mother's Daughter
By: Perdita Felicien
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Perdita Felic… read more
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31. The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley
By: Shelley Wood
3.97
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An inspired, sweeping, historical epic tracing the remarkable life story of a baby girl born on lea… read more
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