1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike
By: David Lester
3.74
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
After suffering the hardships and horrors of the First World War, workers and soldiers faced the ag…
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1. 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
By: Gord Hill
4.09
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually benef… read more
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2. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more
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3. Palestine
By: None , Joe Sacco
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more
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4. Bone, Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race (Bone, #2)
By: Jeff Smith , Steve Hamaker
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The cornerstone of GRAPHIX, our new graphic novel imprint, BONE is the incredible comic book saga o… read more
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5. Out from Boneville (Bone, #1)
By: Jeff Smith , Steve Hamaker
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, … read more
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6. Eyes of the Storm (Bone, #3)
By: Jeff Smith , Steve Hamaker
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
In "Eyes of the Storm," book three in the epic BONE series, Gran'ma Ben reveals long-kept secrets a… read more
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7. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
8. 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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9. 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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"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
10. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
11. 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
12. Tread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.48
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more
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"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels
13. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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14. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Samra Habib
4.16
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
15. Sweet Tooth Compendium
By: Jeff Lemire
4.41
Format: 920 pages, Paperback
An inexplicable plague has women giving birth to human-animal hybrid children all over the world. T… read more
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16. The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
By: Gord Hill
3.89
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 … read more
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"Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechani…"-Gord Hill, The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
"Although the Nazis portrayed themselves as a workers' party, they were predominantly middle-class citizens. The party was also strongest in rural protestant regions. Farmers, small businessmen, artis…"-Gord Hill, The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
17. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
By: M.E. O'Brien
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more
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18. Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care
By: Susan MacLeod
3.93
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
When Susan MacLeod accompanied her 90-year-old mother through a labyrinthine long-term care system,… read more
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19. Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada
By: Graphic History Collective
3.88
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poe… read more
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20. 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike
By: David Lester
3.74
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
After suffering the hardships and horrors of the First World War, workers and soldiers faced the ag… read more
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21. Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism
By: Maude Barlow
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Canada's best-known voice of dissent." -- CBC "It's time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the w… read more
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