Dancing In a Jar
By: Adele Poynter
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Based on a true story, Dancing in a Jar elaborates on the real-life love affair of a young couple w…
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1. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search
By: Martin Sixsmith
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoma… read more
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2. Secret Daughter
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be -- she's newly married and has started her care… read more
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3. I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim, #1)
By: Terry Hayes
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run… read more
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4. Bel Canto
By: Ann Patchett
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor o… read more
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5. Homecoming
By: Kate Morton
4.07
Format: 547 pages, Hardcover
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the groun… read more
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- historical fiction
"Stress can make even the most loving mother lose control."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"What is the truth anyway?" Jess had once been asked by a curious friend. "It's what happened." "According to whom?"-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"There's other ways to travel." She was right. He had books, and there was no barrier to the places he could visit in his own mind."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"Bad things happen to the best of people, and we cannot let them overwhelm us. Life doesn’t always work out the way we plan, but it does work out in the end."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
6. 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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- historical fiction
"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
7. Bewilderment
By: Richard Powers
3.92
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more
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"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
8. 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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9. Looking for Jane
By: Heather Marshall
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more
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- historical fiction
10. The White Hare
By: Jane Johnson
3.94
Format: 388 pages, Paperback
For fans of Alice Hoffman and Kate Morton, The White Hare is a spellbinding novel about mothers and… read more
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- historical fiction
11. 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
12. White Picket Monsters: A Story of Strength and Survival
By: Bev Moore Davis
4.05
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
White Picket Monsters tells the story of a young girl growing up in a house of horrors – a house br… read more
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13. 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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14. This Is How It Always Is
By: Laurie Frankel
4.28
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FG This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secr… read more
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"Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated."-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true."-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones"-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice."-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
15. Alone on the Trail
By: Emily Hepditch
3.94
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
From the #1 bestselling author of The Woman in the Attic Four best friends. One wrong turn. One … read more
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16. If I Cry I'll Fill the Ocean: The Catherine Linehan Story
By: Ida Linehan Young
4.57
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Set in North Harbour, Newfoundland, this is one woman’s true story of fortitude and love. In a l… read more
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17. Some People's Children
By: Bridget Canning
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother spo… read more
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18. Five for Forteau (The Sebastian Synard Mystery Series)
By: Kevin Major
3.56
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Award recognition for Two for the ***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 202… read more
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19. She Said
By: Mitchell D. King
3.93
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Mia Kennedy is a student at Holy Spirit High School with a loving family and a large group of frien… read more
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20. Four for Fogo Island (Sebastian Synard, #4)
By: Kevin Major
3.34
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Murder in a quilt shop on scenic Fogo Island leads sardonic private eye Sebastian Synard from his q… read more
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21. Screech! Ghost Stories from Old Newfoundland
By: Charis Cotter
3.99
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The whole world seemed to tilt at that moment, like a painting on a wall that gets knocked a little… read more
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22. Dancing In a Jar
By: Adele Poynter
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Based on a true story, Dancing in a Jar elaborates on the real-life love affair of a young couple w… read more
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23. This Is the House That Luke Built
By: Violet Browne
4.02
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
Muscle sinew bone. Luke Tremblett is one of five fishermen lost at sea off the coast of Newfoundla… read more
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