How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World
By: Chris Turner
3.77
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING From the National Business Book Award …
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1. Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
By: Roméo Dallaire , Jessica Dee Humphreys
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize: In this piercing memoir, Romeo Dallaire, retired general and f… read more
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2. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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3. 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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- nonfiction
4. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
5. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- nature
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- nonfiction
- climate change
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- science
6. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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7. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- climate change
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8. 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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- nonfiction
"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
9. "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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- nonfiction
10. 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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11. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
By: Jesse Wente
4.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more
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12. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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13. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
14. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
15. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
16. Justin Trudeau on the Ropes: Governing in Troubled Times (Sutherland Quarterly Book 6)
By: Paul Wells
4.19
Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition
The worst decade in the history of the Liberal Party of Canada came to an end on October 19, 2015. … read more
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- nonfiction
17. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Angela Sterritt
4.51
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life
By: Andrew Lawton
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When Pierre Poilievre was elected leader of Canada's Conservative party in 2022, he vowed to put Ca… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Fast Lane
By: Sharon M. Peterson
4.28
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
A totally hilarious friends-to-lovers, brother’s best friend romantic comedy He’s the only perso… read more
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20. Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
By: Britt Wray
3.96
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption. Climate and… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
21. Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
By: Gregor Craigie
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadia… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Old Girls Behaving Badly
By: Kate Galley
4.21
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
A delightfully heartwarming and funny story that proves it's never too late to change the habits of… read more
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23. True North Rising: My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North
By: Whit Fraser
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty year… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
By: Tomson Highway
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasu… read more
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25. Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
By: Niigaan Sinclair
4.65
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
From ground zero of this country's most important reconciliationNiigaan Sinclair has been called p… read more
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26. How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World
By: Chris Turner
3.77
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING From the National Business Book Award … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
27. The Judgment of Yoyo Gold
By: Isaac Blum
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A smart and powerful story set in the Orthodox Jewish community about what it means to fit in, brea… read more
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28. Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada
By: Jane Philpott
4.35
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
An Instant #1 National Bestseller • From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health pro… read more
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- nonfiction
29. real ones
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more
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30. Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more
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"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
31. A Borrowed Path
By: Imogen Clark
4.28
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
Home is where the heartache is. Eve has always had a tricky relationship with her mother, Agatha, … read more
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