Peau d'ours
By: Carol Daniels
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Peau d’ours raconte l’histoire de Sandy, une jeune femme d’origine crie, victime de la rafle des an…
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1. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
2. Pym
By: Mat Johnson
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventu… read more
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- fiction
3. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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- fiction
- canada
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
4. Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
By: Geoff Dyer
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This isn't a self-help book; it's a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In morda… read more
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5. The Night Wanderer
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her fath… read more
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6. 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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7. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
By: Kai Cheng Thom
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more
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8. Crow Lake
By: Mary Lawson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you kn… read more
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- fiction
- canada
"Feeling must have rendered her numb."-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on thei…"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book …"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
9. Trust Exercise
By: Susan Choi
3.14
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high sch… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Neither can drive."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Possibly first love, despite all the fuss, is only mating with ideas attached."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Heartbreak doesn't flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"[..] said Sarah's broken and cynical mother, who for all her superior experience of life knew nothing about how to live."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
10. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- fiction
- canada
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
11. Just by Looking at Him
By: Ryan O'Connell
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more
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- fiction
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him
12. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
13. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
14. Warrior Girl Unearthed
By: Angeline Boulley
4.34
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more
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- fiction
- indigenous
"Some friendships can endure anything."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
15. Les falaises
By: Virginie DeChamplain
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
V. vient d’apprendre que l’on a retrouvé le corps sans vie de sa mère, rejeté par le Saint-Laurent … read more
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- fiction
- canada
16. 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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- fiction
- canada
"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."-David Chariandy, Brother
17. 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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- fiction
- canada
- indigenous
"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
18. All the Colour in the World
By: C.S. Richardson
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
19. Daughters of the Deer
By: Danielle Daniel
4.40
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- canada
- indigenous
20. Je vous demande de fermer les yeux et d'imaginer un endroit calme
By: Michelle Lapierre-Dallaire
4.12
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Je vous demande de fermer les yeux et d’imaginer un endroit calme est une déclaration d’amour à tou… read more
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21. Peau d'ours
By: Carol Daniels
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Peau d’ours raconte l’histoire de Sandy, une jeune femme d’origine crie, victime de la rafle des an… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- canada
- indigenous
