Machine Without Horses
By: Helen Humphreys
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What is an ordinary life worth? A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is…
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1. The Cellist of Sarajevo
By: Steven Galloway
4.00
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the st… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
"A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"The choices she's made have left her without choice."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
2. The Family Fang
By: Kevin Wilson
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief. Performance artists Caleb and C… read more
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3. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
4. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
6. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- fiction
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
7. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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- historical fiction
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
8. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
9. 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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- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
"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
10. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
11. Wild and Distant Seas
By: Tara Karr Roberts
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
12. 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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- canada
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
13. Crow Talk
By: Eileen Garvin
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
14. On the Ravine
By: Vincent Lam
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exqui… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- canada
15. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
16. A Dreadful Splendor
By: B.R. Myers
3.87
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
In this spectacularly imaginative and ghoulishly fun Gothic murder mystery brimming with romance, b… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Кожен дім має свої таємниці."-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor
"Те, що люди не бачать очима, вони відчувають серцем. Серце бачить все."-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor
"Можна багато чого дізнатися про мертвих, спостерігаючи за проявами скорботи їхніх рідних."-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor
"Привиди не можуть завдати вам шкоди. Слід боятися живих людей, тих, що стоять по цей бік скла."-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor
17. Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
By: Rowan Jette Knox
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father,… read more
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- canada
- lgbt
18. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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- canada
19. 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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- canada
- historical fiction
"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
20. A Good Wife
By: Samra Zafar
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Unknown Binding
She faced years of abuse after arriving in Canada as a teenage bride in a hastily arranged marriage… read more
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- canada
21. Machine Without Horses
By: Helen Humphreys
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What is an ordinary life worth? A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is… read more
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- canada
- lgbt
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
