Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy
By: James Raffan
3.82
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Lily and the Octopus
By: Steven Rowley
3.73
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
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"What’s wrong with Tuesdays?"-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
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"I always thought Peter Pan was death. An angel of death who came to collect children."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
2. So Long, See You Tomorrow
By: William Maxwell
3.91
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship … read more
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"His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
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3. Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe, #8; Terry McCaleb #1)
By: Michael Connelly
4.02
Format: 240 pages,
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achie… read more
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4. The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
By: Michael Connelly
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective… read more
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5. Three Day Road
By: Joseph Boyden
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of … read more
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6. Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
By: Ruth Reichl
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or t… read more
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7. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
By: Alison Arngrim
4.21
Format: 539 pages,
For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on o… 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
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9. 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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"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
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10. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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11. The Librarian Spy
By: Madeline Martin
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A moving novel inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II.Ava thought … read more
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"I don't think I take compliments very well, Ava admitted sheepishly. "Most women don't. We always think we're not good enough." She lifted her shoulder, and the resignation behind it told Ava that ev…"-Madeline Martin, The Librarian Spy
12. Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest
By: M. William Phelps
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A tragic missing person case spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. Intrigue, deception, and s… read more
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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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"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. Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case
By: Charles Bosworth Jr.
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions--the murder of B… read more
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15. The Theory of Crows
By: David Alexander Robertson
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
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16. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
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17. VenCo
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more
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"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
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18. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
19. 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
20. The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved (True Crime)
By: Shuler
3.78
Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition
For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at th… read more
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21. Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy
By: James Raffan
3.82
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
There are few writers who can take the facts of an actual event and transform them into a compellin… read more
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