Uncertain Kin
By: Janice Lynn Mather
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Frying Plantain and Scarborough, a luminous, mesmerizing collection of linked storie…
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1. The Pearl Thief
By: Noor Al Noaimi
3.10
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
This is a lovely little short story about Hassan, a poor Bahraini islander, who finds himself in de… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
2. Annie John
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
3. Beka Lamb
By: Zee Edgell
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The poli… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"When the rains finally came that drought year, Beka's Dad tried to persuade Lilla to concentrate on bougainvillea, crotons, and hibiscus. Plants like these grew easily and luxuriantly in the yard, bu…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib pe…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance.…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"Peace and happiness!' Miss Ivy was laughing an ugly laugh that hurt Beka's ear. She jumped off the platform and went to stand a the kitchen door. There was a hurt look on Lilla's face, and seeing it,…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
4. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
By: None , Bela Shayevich
4.29
Format: 192 pages,
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more
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5. Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music
By: Angelique Kidjo
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
Grammy Award-winning singer Angelique Kidjo is known for her electrifying voice and fearless advoca… read more
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6. The Orphan Sky
By: Ella Leya
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
The Los Angeles Review of Books describes The Orphan Sky "as authentic, disturbing and brilliant as… read more
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- fiction
7. Revenge
By: Taslima Nasrin , Honor Moore
3.95
Format: 620 pages, Paperback
"Nasrin's voice is the voice of humanism everywhere."--Wole Soyinka "Taslima Nasrin has spoken out … read more
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8. 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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- fiction
- adult
- canada
9. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
By: Cherie Jones
3.69
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
10. 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
11. Three Apples Fell from the Sky
By: Narine Abgaryan
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
An unforgettable story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village In an isolated… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Prasmė neturėtų keistis nuo to, kas tuos žodžius taria."-Narine Abgaryan, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
"...най - голямата болка е да не можеш да прегърнеш онези, които не са успели да те дочакат"-Narine Abgaryan, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
"Nėra rojaus, ir pragaro nėra, <....>. Laimė - tai ir yra rojus, sielvartas - tai ir yra pragaras."-Narine Abgaryan, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
"През май, свечери ли се, небето е ниско и лепкаво, с мастилен оттенък. Прокараш пръст по него и то се отдръпва уплашено, плисва се на вълни и оголва мекото си като кадифе живо лоно."-Narine Abgaryan, Three Apples Fell from the Sky
12. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
13. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
14. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- adult
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
15. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
"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
16. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- anthologies
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
17. A Sweet Sting of Salt
By: Rose Sutherland
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more
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- adult
- fiction
18. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- adult
- canada
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
19. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
20. 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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- fiction
- adult
- canada
"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
21. The God of Endings
By: Jacqueline Holland
3.80
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more
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- adult
- fiction
22. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
23. Dandelion
By: Jamie Chai Yun Liew
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
24. Call and Response
By: Gothataone Moeng
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate… read more
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- adult fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
25. Much Ado about Nada
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On… read more
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- fiction
- adult
- canada
- contemporary
"Life really was bizarre on occasion."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"A world doesn't exist where I don't choose you, Nada beta, over everyone else. I will always choose you."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"My parents want to leave a legacy. We want to create our own. We're all just making it up as we go along."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
26. What You Leave Behind
By: Wanda M. Morris
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Folktales of Bhutan
By: Kunzang Choden
3.60
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
The first attempt of a Bhutanese to record in English the oral traditions of their kingdom has resu… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
28. My Favorite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog
By: Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
3.16
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Memorials
By: Richard Chizmar
4.51
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
30. Hold My Girl
By: Charlene Carr
3.96
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake. Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her enti… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
31. Uncertain Kin
By: Janice Lynn Mather
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Frying Plantain and Scarborough, a luminous, mesmerizing collection of linked storie… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
