Alfabet/Alphabet
By: Sadiqa de Meijer
4.22
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer's transition from speaking Dutch to English. E…
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1. Crossing The River
By: Caryl Phillips
3.72
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving… read more
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2. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 6: Civil War II
By: Takeshi Miyazawa , G. Willow Wilson , None
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
While CIVIL WAR II brews, the next generation of Avengers has bigger things to worry about - like a… read more
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3. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
By: Madeleine Thien
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, wh… read more
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4. Signs Preceding the End of the World
By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as the… read more
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5. Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet And Why Its Still Broken
By: None , Michael Silverman, Craig;Calce
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In early 2000, the websites of CNN, Yahoo, E*Trade, Dell, Amazon, and eBay ground to a halt for sev… read more
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6. Chemistry
By: Weike Wang
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of thi… read more
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7. The Best We Could Do
By: Thi Bui
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more
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8. The Lonely Londoners
By: Sam Selvon
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more
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9. City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
4.09
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutali… read more
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"Death is for the weak."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
"There is no crueler hells then committee work...."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
"Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
"I am lost among the seas of fate and time But at least I have love."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
10. The Iron Season
By: Helene Wecker
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
The novel is set during the World War I era and continues the story of Chava (the golem) and Ahmad … read more
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11. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more
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- nonfiction
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
12. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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13. 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
14. 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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- memoir
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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
"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
15. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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- memoir
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
16. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
17. 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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18. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
19. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11)
By: Helen Knott
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, a… read more
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20. 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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"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
21. Noor
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.82
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thou… read more
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22. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- poetry
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23. Ayesha at Last
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love. Ayesha Shamsi has a lot g… read more
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"No, she is not with child,"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"[Khalid] took a deep, calming breath, and smiled at her, channeling his inner shark. Or at least, dolphin."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"Your defect is a tendency to judge everyone,' Ayesha said. 'And yours,' he said with a smile, 'is to willfully misunderstand them."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"Your presence in a relationship is not indicative of commitment but rather inertia. Standing before your friends and family and pledging your love and loyalty is an essential ingredient of a long-las…"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
24. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
By: Felicia Rose Chavez
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innov… read more
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"Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self."-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in tears, because I couldn't yet differentiate …"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in teachers because I couldn't yet differentiat…"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
"Membership necessitates mutual participation. How can we possibly achieve membership when our presence-the feat of occupying space in brown skin-is deemed illegitimate? We're non-people, exploited fo…"-Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
25. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)
By: Kate Hilton
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more
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26. Phoenix Extravagant
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. … read more
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"I’ll go up first,"-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant
"Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war."-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant
"But so many people aren't ready for this, Jebi. Artists. Charm-sellers. Grocers. Tailors. People who just want to get by, and who won't be given a choice when the guns begin to speak again."-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant
27. Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
By: Ali Smith
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred yea… read more
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"We move from one invisibility to another."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
28. 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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29. Alfabet/Alphabet
By: Sadiqa de Meijer
4.22
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer's transition from speaking Dutch to English. E… 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. Vanishing Monuments
By: John Elizabeth Stintzi
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
★SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD★ A brilliant novel whose lead characte… read more
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