The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak (21) (First Poets Series)
By: Grace Lau
4.39
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
The poems in The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak explore the many identities, both visible a…
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1. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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- poetry
"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
2. Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
By: Barry M. Prizant , Tom Fields-Meyer
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Essential reading for any parent, teacher, therapist, or caregiver of a person with autism: a groun… read more
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3. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
4. Piercing
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the… read more
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5. A Place Called No Homeland
By: Kai Cheng Thom
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monst… read more
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6. Almost American Girl
By: Robin Ha
4.22
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
A teen graphic novel memoir about a Korean-born, non-English-speaking girl who is abruptly transpla… read more
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"But now that I am finally leaving, I see everything through rose-colored glasses"-Robin Ha, Almost American Girl
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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- adult
- canada
8. Wash Day Diaries
By: Jamila Rowser
4.35
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to t… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
9. 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
10. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- poetry
- adult
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
11. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
12. 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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- canada
"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
13. 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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- adult
- canada
"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
14. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
By: Sonora Reyes
4.27
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
15. Second Chances in New Port Stephen
By: T.J. Alexander
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A trans man returns to his Florida hometown for Christmas after his career goes up in flames, only … read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Eli closed his eyes with a sigh. "Look, early aughts Elijah Wood was trans masc culture. When Lord of the rings -colon- The Fellowship of the Ring came out, it was the first time a short dude with gr…"-T.J. Alexander, Second Chances in New Port Stephen
16. The Membranes
By: Chi Ta-wei
3.98
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
17. Manhunt
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.54
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
18. The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
By: Lindsay Wong
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian fa… read more
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- adult
- canada
19. DMZ Colony
By: Don Mee Choi
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more
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- poetry
- adult
"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony
20. Deceit and Other Possibilities
By: Vanessa Hua
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this powerful debut collection, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new A… read more
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21. A Nail the Evening Hangs On
By: Monica Sok
4.37
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge … read more
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- poetry
22. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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- adult
23. A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
By: Nicole Chung
4.02
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as … read more
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"A map is only one story. It is not the most important story. The most important story is the one a people tell about themselves."-Nicole Chung, A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
24. The Galleons: Poems
By: Rick Barot
4.32
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poem… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
25. Letters from Johnny (184) (Essential Prose Series)
By: Wayne Ng
4.53
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Winner of BEST CRIME NOVELLA at The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 2022 A charming… read more
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- canada
26. Land for Fatimah
By: Veena Gokhale
4.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Four strong women: Anjali, an Indo-Canadian single mother who eagerly accepts an African posting wi… read more
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27. Tales from the Bottom of My Sole (182) (Essential Prose Series)
By: David Kingston Yeh
4.46
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
"Cosmopolitan and sexy ... its own beautiful creation. A bighearted novel of yearning and human dec… read more
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- lgbt
28. Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl? (35) (GWE Creative Non-Fiction)
By: Anvi Hoàng
4.68
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Making coal patties. Selling liquid soap. Shopping at a glittering shoe mecca. She’s done them all … read more
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29. The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak (21) (First Poets Series)
By: Grace Lau
4.39
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
The poems in The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak explore the many identities, both visible a… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- canada
- lgbt
- feminism
- adult
- queer
30. Fuse: Memoir
By: Hollay Ghadery
4.71
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Painfully and at times, reluctantly, Fuse probes and explores the documented prevalence of mental h… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- canada
31. A Map of Rain Days (276) (Essential Poets series)
By: Jennifer Hosein
4.60
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
The poems in A Map of Rain Days address the beauty and shadows of life while navigating the realiti… read more
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- poetry
