Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging
By: M.G. Vassanji
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a t…
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1. Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more
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2. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
3. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more
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4. Breathe: A Life in Flow
By: Rickson Gracie
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
*An instant New York Times bestseller, USA Today bestseller, and Wall Street Journal bestseller… read more
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"Shattering disappointments require you to be radically honest with yourself, a process that can be painful but is absolutely necessary."-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
"If I'm fighting for money, I'll stop hitting you when you or the referee asks me to. If we are fighting for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it."-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
"Today, 98 percent of MMA fans have never stepped into the cage, or even onto the mat, much less felt their noses break or tendons pop. Their relationship with violence is virtual. MMA is just somethi…"-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
"Today, it is possible to get a Jiu Jitsu black belt without knowing self-defense or even getting into a real fight. This was impossible during the 1970s and 1980s. Because my father and uncle loudly …"-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
5. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
6. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
7. Her First Palestinian
By: Saeed Teebi
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more
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8. 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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9. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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10. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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11. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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12. Hard Copy
By: Fien Veldman
3.34
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This is a story of girl meets printer. A customer service assistant spends her long workdays pri… read more
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13. Goddess of the River
By: Vaishnavi Patel
3.86
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more
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14. Big Mall
By: Kate Black
3.84
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A phenomenology of the If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poison… read more
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15. The Offing
By: Roz Nay
3.86
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Two young women are trapped in a deadly chase through the beautiful, dangerous waters around Austra… read more
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16. A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever
By: Jeff Rubin
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin looks ahead and warns that the inflation that took the … read more
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17. What’s Not Mine
By: Nora Decter
3.61
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
For fans of Miriam Toews, an absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival The s… read more
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18. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories
By: Shashi Bhat
4.22
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more
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19. Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing
By: Jennifer Grenz
4.26
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A personal journey of bringing together Western science and Indigenous ecology to transform our und… read more
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20. High Society
By: Daniel Kalla
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a twisty psychological thriller about a … read more
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21. The Seventh Veil of Salome
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more
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22. Becoming Nigerian: A Guide
By: Elnathan John
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical gu… read more
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23. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
24. 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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25. Firekeeper: A Novel
By: Katłıà
4.30
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nyla has an affinity to fire. A neglected teen in a small northern town—trying to escape a mother b… read more
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26. In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life
By: Sadiya Ansari
4.30
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three co… read more
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27. Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging
By: M.G. Vassanji
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a t… read more
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28. Widow Fantasies
By: Hollay Ghadery
4.68
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Fantasies are places we briefly visit; we can’t live there. The stories in Widow Fantasies deftly e… read more
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29. Everything and Nothing at All: Essays
By: Jenny Heijun Wills
4.35
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
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30. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By: Omar El Akkad
4.66
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it me… read more
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"Whose non existence is necessary to the self conception of this place?"-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
"Whose non-existence is necessary to the self-conception of this place?"-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
"There is a numb overriding grief that colors life in the audience to a slaughter."-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
"The truth and reconciliation committees are coming. The land acknowledgements are coming. The very sorry descendants are coming."-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
31. I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself
By: Adelle Purdham
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A raw and intimate portrait of family, love, life, relationships, and disability parenting through … read more
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"Waiting for Elyse to reach a developmental milestone is like seven years of waiting for the sun to emerge. When the moment comes, the effect is a ray of sunshine in an otherwise grey world. The golde…"-Adelle Purdham, I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself
