Senior Management: Parenting My Parents
By: Martha Vowles
4.48
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
At age fifty-five, the author became a first-time parent. Her new charges were reckless, accident-p…
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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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2. Driftwood
By: Valerie Sherrard
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Adam is not looking forward to his family's plans for the summer. He and his parents will be spendi… read more
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3. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… 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. A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)
By: Louise Penny
4.34
Format: 592 pages,
Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparin… read more
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6. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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7. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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8. 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
9. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
10. The Bone Hacker (Temperance Brennan, #22)
By: Kathy Reichs
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thrill… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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"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
13. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
14. The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)
By: Alka Joshi
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Paris, 1974. Radha is now thirty-two and living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two da… read more
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"I've given my best, but I've been used. Delphine said I have to move past it. Lakshmi moved past her betrayals. So did Victorine. Isn't that the look she's giving us in Manet's paining? There will al…"-Alka Joshi, The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)
15. The Reading List
By: Sara Nisha Adams
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books h… read more
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"The library isn’t just about books."-Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List
"...books, they had the power to heal."-Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List
"People don’t always understand lonely people."-Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List
"I guess books say different things to different people."-Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List
16. 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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17. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
18. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more
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19. "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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20. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
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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22. Ridgerunner
By: Gil Adamson
4.13
Format: 443 pages, Hardcover
Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Ridgerunner is the follow-up to Gil Adamson’s aw… read more
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23. 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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24. The Sister's Tale
By: Beth Powning
3.70
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold us together when th… read more
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25. Dirty Birds
By: Morgan Murray
3.71
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
In late 2008, as the world's economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the rema… read more
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26. Undeniable Relations: A page-turning mystery set in 1950s Nova Scotia, Canada (Families' Storytelling)
By: Bruce W. Bishop
4.53
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
In the postwar renaissance of the 1950s, the idealistic daughter of a fishing industry magnate grap… read more
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27. Brit Happens
By: James Mullinger
4.14
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
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28. Senior Management: Parenting My Parents
By: Martha Vowles
4.48
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
At age fifty-five, the author became a first-time parent. Her new charges were reckless, accident-p… read more
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29. Somewhere There's Music
By: Sean Bedell
4.40
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In this stark and unsparing coming-of-age story, the shy and intelligent Joel watches helplessly as… read more
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30. The Arrows of Mercy
By: Jill MacLean
4.54
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
The year is 1348. Haunted by the blood on his hands, an archer named Edmund returns home from the F… read more
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31. Memories on the Bounty: A Story of Friendship, Love, and Adventure
By: Janet Coulter Sanford
4.06
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For fans of Tuesdays with Morrie, a memoir of friendship in the face of memory loss, and of preserv… read more
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