Summer of My Amazing Luck
By: Miriam Toews
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alic…
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1. Good To A Fault
By: Marina Endicott
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
In a novel reminiscent of the work of Penelope Lively, Anne Tyler, and Alice Munro, acclaimed autho… read more
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"Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise."-Marina Endicott, Good To A Fault
2. That Old Ace in the Hole
By: Annie Proulx
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job… read more
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3. The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
By: Jerry Dennis
4.23
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Award-winning nature author Jerry Dennis reveals the splendor and beauty of North America’s Great L… read more
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4. Adult Onset
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about… read more
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"Non sa bene quanti “altri"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset
"She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself—literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self—shiny black phantom, faceless, as though cla…"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset
5. Summer of My Amazing Luck
By: Miriam Toews
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alic… read more
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6. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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7. The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more
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8. Fifteen Dogs
By: André Alexis
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." " I'll wager a… read more
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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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"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. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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11. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
12. Chrysalis
By: Anuja Varghese
3.96
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more
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13. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .
By: Rick Mercer
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … 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. Snow Road Station
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more
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16. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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17. The Bittlemores
By: Jann Arden
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more
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18. The Secret Keeper
By: Genevieve Graham
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more
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19. Hey, Good Luck Out There
By: Georgia Toews
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Subversive, captivating and vividly attuned to both the extraordinary and the mundane, Georgia Toew… read more
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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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"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. 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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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. The Jazz Club Spy
By: Roberta Rich
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the author of the “riveting” ( Chicago Tribune ) The Midwife of Venice , a fresh and sweeping … read more
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24. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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25. 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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26. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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27. The Damages
By: Genevieve Scott
3.61
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more
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28. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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29. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
By: Kent Monkman
4.31
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformati… read more
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30. The Secret History of Audrey James
By: Heather Marshall
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more
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31. DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1)
By: Hartley GoodWeather
3.81
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The award-winning, bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian masters… read more
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