The Red Files
By: Lisa Bird-Wilson
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school…
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1. Summer of My Amazing Luck
By: Miriam Toews
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alic… read more
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- canada
2. Fatty Legs
By: Christy Jordan-Fenton , Margaret Pokiak-Fenton , None
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact. Ei… read more
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3. Dear Canada: These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens
By: None
4.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Violet Pesheen is struggling to adjust to her new life at Residential School. She misses her Grandm… read more
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4. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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5. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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6. The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)
By: Kay O'Neill
4.41
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real drag… read more
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"We won't stay away so long this time. I forgot how good home tastes."-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)
"Aedhan: My name is Aedhan, of the Shining Wing Clan. Erik: I'm Erik, of the mountain vegetable picker clan!"-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)
7. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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- adult
8. The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
By: Kay O'Neill
4.50
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
Join Greta and Minette once more for the heartwarming conclusion of the award-winning Tea Dragon se… read more
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"Everything that happens is part of your wholeness."-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
"When someone is grieving, the best thing you can do is let them heal on their own, and show them that you'll be there for them."-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
"You feel like you've lost your path. It's natural to be sad. It's alright to let those feelings wash over you, and give them time to soak into the earth. That's when things start to grow again."-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
"Well I am, now. But I wasn't always so ready to call it my home--when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow. Once I was ready, it felt like I was part of a new song tha…"-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)
9. 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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- adult
- canada
10. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
11. Leech
By: Hiron Ennes
3.60
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more
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- adult
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."-Hiron Ennes, Leech
12. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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- adult
"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
13. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- adult
- canada
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
14. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- adult
15. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
16. 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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- adult
- canada
- indigenous
17. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
18. How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
By: Sy Montgomery
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals-… read more
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"Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways."-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
"I am still learning how to be a good creature. Though I try earnestly, I often fail. But I am having a great life trying..."-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
"I often wish I could go back in time and tell my young, anxious self that my dreams weren't in vain and my sorrows weren't permanent. I can't do that, but I can do something better. I can tell you th…"-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
"Even in the wake of tragedy, we could not have felt more amazed had we been visited by an angel that Christmas morning. When the angel met the shepherds in Bethlehem, the shepherds "were sore afraid.…"-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
19. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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- womens
- history
20. School Trip (New Kid, #3)
By: Jerry Craft
4.20
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, L… read more
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21. 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
- canada
22. 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
23. 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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- adult
- 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
24. 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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- adult
- canada
25. When Among Crows
By: Veronica Roth
3.73
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more
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- adult
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
26. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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- canada
27. Crushed Wild Mint
By: Jess Housty
4.50
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted … read more
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28. Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense
By: Marcello Di Cintio
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio h… read more
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- history
- canada
"When I had those small children, I didn't have to go out and meet people. I can create my own mood at home with my children," she said. "It creates balance for me somehow."-Marcello Di Cintio, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense
"Regardless of the horrors one endures, a true writer always values humanity over revenge and peace over war. "If a writer says that he wants to kill others, the he is not a writer," Asmaa said."-Marcello Di Cintio, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense
29. 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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- canada
- indigenous
"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
30. The Red Files
By: Lisa Bird-Wilson
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school… read more
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- poetry
- history
- canada
- indigenous
- womens
- adult
31. Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada
By: Rodney Diverlus
4.29
Format: 368 pages, ebook
The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired Black Lives Matter, a dynamic n… read more
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- canada
