Running Down a Dream: A Memoir
By: Candy Palmater
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, often funny, always inspiring memoir from a beloved comedian, professional orator, acto…
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1. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life
By: Clare Carlisle
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who ex… read more
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2. A Grandmother Begins the Story
By: Michelle Porter
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more
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"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
3. 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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- autobiography
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- audiobook
"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
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
4. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .
By: Rick Mercer
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more
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- canada
- autobiography
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- audiobook
5. Talking to Canadians
By: Rick Mercer
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more
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- audiobook
6. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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- audiobook
7. 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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- canada
- audiobook
"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
8. The Fake
By: Zoe Whittall
3.44
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more
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- audiobook
"There are worse things than telling a lie."-Zoe Whittall, The Fake
9. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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- audiobook
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
10. Recipe for a Good Life
By: Lesley Crewe
4.34
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel follows a mystery author with writer's block from… read more
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"Become an editor,' they said. 'You love books.' they said. I do love books; I just hate the people who write them."-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life
"I met the Homeville Women's Institute, a whole gaggle of rural women who have monthly meetings to make their community better. They realized that by joining together they had a stronger voice, and th…"-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life
"Life is like a recipe. What do you want in your life cake? What ingredients do you need to make it rise and taste wonderful? Sometimes the simplest recipe is the best, because the more you add to the…"-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life
11. The Theory of Crows
By: David Alexander Robertson
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When … read more
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12. The Bittlemores
By: Jann Arden
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more
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- audiobook
13. Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
By: Rebecca Giblin
4.26
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech a… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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- audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
15. 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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- 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
16. 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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- audiobook
17. All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)
By: Tanya Talaga
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the ala… read more
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- nonfiction
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- indigenous
"In Ojibwe and Cree culture, leadership didn't mean power; it meant caring."-Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)
18. 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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- audiobook
19. The Menopause Brain: New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence
By: Lisa Mosconi
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The XX Brain shows women how to navigate menopause success… read more
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- audiobook
20. 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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- indigenous
- autobiography
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- audiobook
21. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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22. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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23. 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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24. The Daughter's Tale
By: Armando Lucas Correa
3.73
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are… read more
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25. Huge
By: Brent Butt
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In comedy, killing is a good thing. From the award-winning screenwriter and International Emmy nomi… read more
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26. The Spectacular
By: Zoe Whittall
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring s… read more
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27. Namwayut―We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation
By: Robert Joseph
4.47
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Re… read more
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28. Scars and Stars: Poems
By: Jesse Thistle
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of th… read more
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29. My Indian
By: Saqamaw Mi'Sel Joe
4.24
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET… read more
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- indigenous
30. Into the Goblin Market
By: Vikki VanSickle
4.30
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
A picture book ode to Christina Rossetti’s classic poem and a clever homage to familiar fairy-tale … read more
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31. Running Down a Dream: A Memoir
By: Candy Palmater
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, often funny, always inspiring memoir from a beloved comedian, professional orator, acto… read more
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