Salt Baby
By: Falen Johnson
3.97
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
Growing up on the Six Nations native reserve, Salt Baby never quite fit in, as a "white" looking "I…
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1. An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
By: Georges Perec , Marc Lowenthal
3.69
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the hu… read more
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2. Medicine Walk
By: Richard Wagamese
4.30
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the mos… read more
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"There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
"She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
"There was a feeling in him like a bruise, a purple ache that set between his ribs. He tasted a cry building at the back of his throat. It was too familiar and made him fearful."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
3. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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5. Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
By: Louise Erdrich
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply … read more
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6. Blood Relations and Other Plays
By: Sharon Pollock , Diane Bessai , Anne Nothof
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
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7. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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8. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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9. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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12. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
13. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
14. Once There Were Wolves
By: Charlotte McConaghy
4.10
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in th… read more
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"Can’t track wolves, not really."-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
"Wolves don't need forests, they grow them."-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
"Then take from me. I have more than enough."-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
"I think it's civilization [that] makes us violent."-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
15. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
16. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
17. Closer by Sea
By: Perry Chafe
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more
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18. Migrations
By: Charlotte McConaghy
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behi… read more
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"What makes a young thing like you so tired of life?"-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
"All these humans have left no space for anything else."-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
"There is nothing so disturbing as a creature born to flight being bound to dull lifelessness."-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
"I think there is meaning, and it lives in nurturing, in making life sweeter for ourselves, and for those around us."-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
19. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
By: Lisa See
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seve… read more
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"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman."-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
20. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
21. Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more
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"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
22. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
23. Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story
By: Kim Senklip Harvey
4.01
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
TIME: All. SPACE: The Multiverse. Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the … read more
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24. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
25. Salt Baby
By: Falen Johnson
3.97
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
Growing up on the Six Nations native reserve, Salt Baby never quite fit in, as a "white" looking "I… read more
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