Home of the Floating Lily
By: Silmy Abdullah
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Caught between cultures, immigrant women from a Bangladeshi neighbourhood in Scarborough struggle t…
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1. Wenjack
By: Joseph Boyden , Kent Monkman
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2017OLSN Northern Lit Award An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian… read more
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2. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
3. 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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- canada
"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
4. Disoriental
By: Négar Djavadi
4.21
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a young girl and her family, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history. Kimi… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"That's the tragedy of exile. Things, as well as people, still exist, but you have to pretend to think of them as dead."-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
"We had all hoped that a day would come when the five of us could live together again, free and without fear. But freedom is an illusion. The only thing that changes is the size of your prison."-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
"I was confronted by a world that I could see and touch but didn't know how to talk about. There were so many words and names that I just didn't have. Flowers, trees, birds, reptiles, organs. The word…"-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
5. The Foghorn Echoes
By: Danny Ramadan
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes
6. The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4)
By: Katherine Applegate
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For more than a decade, readers have been enchanted by the modern classic The One and Only Ivan , a… read more
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- fiction
7. The Son of the House
By: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
SHORTLISTED for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021 • FINALIST for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 20… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
8. I Will Greet the Sun Again
By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
9. 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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- adult fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"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
10. 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
- contemporary
"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
11. Aftershocks
By: Nadia Owusu
3.91
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nad… read more
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"Without other humans there is no such thing as shame."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"The problem with organized religion is the assertion that all questions have already been answered."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"But the box, I suppose, formalized their absence, gave it a name. Knowing and accepting the inevitable are two different things."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"Code-switching is dancing between vocal styles and rhythms. This dance is part celebration--of the richness, intricacies, and blurry borders of our cultures."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
12. 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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- fiction
- canada
"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
13. Everybody: A Book About Freedom
By: Olivia Laing
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more
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14. 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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- canada
15. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- fiction
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
16. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
17. Brother
By: David Chariandy
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions o… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."-David Chariandy, Brother
18. Die Liebe im Ernstfall
By: Daniela Krien
3.70
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sie heißen Paula, Judith, Brida, Malika und Jorinde. Sie kennen sich, weil das Schicksal ihre Leben… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
20. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
By: Tsering Yangzom Lama
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more
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- fiction
- canada
21. 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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- canada
22. Daughters of the Deer
By: Danielle Daniel
4.40
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- canada
23. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- canada
- contemporary
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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- canada
25. The Town of Babylon
By: Alejandro Varela
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
26. The Upstairs House
By: Julia Fine
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A provocative meditation on new motherhood—Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening—in which a postpartu… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song."-Julia Fine, The Upstairs House
27. The Nesting Dolls
By: Alina Adams
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
"Life has never given me what I wanted. But it has, once in a while, given me what I needed."-Alina Adams, The Nesting Dolls
28. Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
By: Danny Ramadan
4.62
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” … read more
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- canada
29. 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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- canada
- contemporary
30. Home of the Floating Lily
By: Silmy Abdullah
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Caught between cultures, immigrant women from a Bangladeshi neighbourhood in Scarborough struggle t… read more
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- adult fiction
- canada
- school
- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- bangladesh
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
31. The Baddest Girl on the Planet
By: Heather Frese
3.42
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER of the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and b… read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
