But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves.
By: Conyer Clayton
4.76
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves, Conyer Clayton's follow-up to her award-wi…
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1. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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2. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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3. Eat a Peach
By: David Chang
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 2004, David Chang opened a noodle restaurant named Momofuku in Manhattan's East Village, not exp… read more
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"NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, SO DO WHAT YOU WANT."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
"Just know that this is as honest and true a story as I can offer."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
"In other words, we may not be able to reject our fortune or fate, but we can reject how we approach it."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
"I was going to either fail or thrive, and I was going to do it in full view of everyone I respected and resented."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
4. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
5. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
6. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
7. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich
By: Deya Muniz
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A funny, heartfelt YA romance about finding love—and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches—in the place… read more
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8. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
9. 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
10. Empire of Wild
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.74
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more
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11. 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
"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
12. 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
13. Linghun
By: Ai Jiang
3.96
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more
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"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."-Ai Jiang, Linghun
"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"-Ai Jiang, Linghun
14. 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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15. Love and Other Poems
By: Alex Dimitrov
4.10
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more
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16. The Observer: A Novel
By: Marina Endicott
3.81
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shad… read more
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17. Ordinary Wonder Tales: Essays
By: Emily Urquhart
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine-and reveals th… read more
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18. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
19. That Night in the Library
By: Eva Jurczyk
2.70
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One night locked in the library. What could go wrong? On the night before graduation, seven stud… read more
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20. Let the World Have You
By: Mikko Harvey
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Mikko Harvey’s new collection invites readers into a world that is and is not the world we know. In… read more
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21. Quiet Night Think: Poems & Essays
By: Gillian Sze
4.18
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
"One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to h… read more
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22. MONUMENT
By: Manahil Bandukwala
4.39
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
MONUMENT is a conversation with Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal, which moves her legacy beyond the Taj … read more
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23. Shadow Blight
By: Annick MacAskill
4.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry (2022) Shortlisted for the Pat … read more
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24. All Day I Dream About Sirens
By: Domenica Martinello
4.44
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions af… read more
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25. Anecdotes
By: Kathryn Mockler
4.16
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
With dreamlike stories and dark humor, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the… read more
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26. Survivors of the Hive
By: Jason Heroux
4.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Loss. Grief. Centipedes. Silence. The word "no." The word "yes." A high school poetry contest that … read more
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27. An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)
By: Cherie Dimaline
4.36
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tal… read more
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"Lee Maracle used to always talk about this. She explained that celebrating yourself, holding your hard work and successes up, meant that your community then had the opportunity to celebrate and hope …"-Cherie Dimaline, An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)
"Lee Maracle used to always talk about this. She explained that celebrating yourself, holding your hard work and successes up, meant that your community than hand the opportunity to celebrate and hold…"-Cherie Dimaline, An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)
"The best thing I can give myself as a person who suffers with acute anxiety is unconditional love. And that seems easy to say, but it has been almost impossible to practice. Unconditional —without co…"-Cherie Dimaline, An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)
28. But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves.
By: Conyer Clayton
4.76
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves, Conyer Clayton's follow-up to her award-wi… read more
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29. Big: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies
By: Christina Myers
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all … read more
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30. The Capital of Dreams
By: Heather O'Neill
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistf… read more
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31. Vixen
By: Sandra Ridley
4.04
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty b… read more
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