Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi'kmaq Poet (American Indian Lives)
By: Rita Joe
4.08
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Here is the enlightening story of an esteemed and eloquent Mi’kmaq woman whose message of “gentle p…
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1. The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man (Ruddy McCann #1)
By: W. Bruce Cameron
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man introduces my favorite kind of flawed cynical protagonist in Ru… read more
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2. The Town That Drowned
By: Riel Nason
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through … read more
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3. In Search of April Raintree - Critical Edition
By: Beatrice Culleton , Beatrice Culleton Mosionier , Cheryl Suzack
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless to change their fortunes, they ar… read more
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4. Surprised by Oxford
By: Carolyn Weber
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more
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5. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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6. Fledgling
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young… read more
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7. 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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8. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
9. 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)
10. 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
"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
11. Rehearsals for Living
By: Robyn Maynard
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more
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12. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
13. 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
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
14. 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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15. 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
16. Nosy Parker
By: Lesley Crewe
4.26
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe’s new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal & features a nos… read more
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"Math is not my strong suit. Neither is French. I am absolutely hopeless at French. It's like a foreign language."-Lesley Crewe, Nosy Parker
"I spent what seemed like hours listening to the mind-numbing details of life in Tudor England. The only fact that stays with me is King Henry VIII was definitely a serial killer. Several headless que…"-Lesley Crewe, Nosy Parker
17. Tastes Like War
By: Grace M. Cho
3.92
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess… read more
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18. 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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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
19. 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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20. The Spoon Stealer
By: Lesley Crewe
4.40
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fi… read more
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"So much of our lives depend on just one move, one way or the other. If I'd turned left instead of right that day..."-Lesley Crewe, The Spoon Stealer
21. In the Upper Country
By: Kai Thomas
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more
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22. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet , a groundbreaking a… read more
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23. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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24. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman
4.54
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more
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25. Dandelion
By: Jamie Chai Yun Liew
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen… read more
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26. Peace by Chocolate
By: Jon Tattrie
4.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life. Before the w… read more
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27. Crow Winter
By: Karen McBride
3.90
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless roo… read more
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28. 22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia
By: Paul Palango
3.58
Format: 587 pages, Paperback
A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically fai… read more
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29. I Place You into the Fire
By: Rebecca Thomas
4.53
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
We remember tomorrow and a thousand years ago. From eel weirs to the buffalo. We remember petro… read more
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30. Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi'kmaq Poet (American Indian Lives)
By: Rita Joe
4.08
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Here is the enlightening story of an esteemed and eloquent Mi’kmaq woman whose message of “gentle p… read more
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31. The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery
By: Jon Tattrie
4.02
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
As Black Lives Matter protests swept the world, one of Canada’s greatest anti-racism fighters retur… read more
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