Half Blood Blues
By: Esi Edugyan
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was…
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1. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
By: Heather O'Neill
3.82
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Heather O’Neill charmed readers in the hundreds of thousands with her sleeper hit, Lullabies for Li… read more
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- fiction
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"You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child."-Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
"Ridiculous. You guys are going to have the most boring documentary on earth," I said and stormed inside. "Could you walk in the building again, but slower and don't slam the door," Hugo called after …"-Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
"Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn’t just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone’s cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoo…"-Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
"You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn't get it. And they all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent the …"-Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
2. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.14
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed t… read more
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- historical
- war
3. Snowdrops
By: A.D. Miller
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A.D. Miller's Snowdrops is a riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Mosco… read more
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- fiction
4. Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
By: Joseph Boyden
4.12
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day RoadWill Bird is a legen… read more
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"Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you."-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
"When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their sho…"-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
"Your grandfather was a hero in a war, girls. He wasn't a bad man or a weak man. Maybe he was too old to have a second family, a second wife and your mother and me, so many years after he lost his fir…"-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
"I passed the friendship centre and nodded to an old couple on the porch. Kookum smiled back and nodded, a cotton kerchief on her head. Moshum's eyes squinted, too, but never looked straight at me, ju…"-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
5. Half Blood Blues
By: Esi Edugyan
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was… read more
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- music
- canada
- historical
- germany
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Late Nights on Air
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.… read more
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7. 419
By: Will Ferguson
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startlingly original tale of heartbreak and suspense A car tumbles down a snowy ravine. Accident … read more
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8. Sputnik's Children: A Novel
By: Terri Favro
4.09
Format: None pages,
A literary genre-bending novel full of heart. Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has be… read more
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9. A Complicated Kindness
By: Miriam Toews
3.68
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voic… read more
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- canada
"But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?"-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
10. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
By: M.G. Vassanji
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Vikram Lall comes of age in 1950s Kenya, at the same time that the colony is struggling towards ind… read more
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11. Three Day Road
By: Joseph Boyden
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of … read more
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12. Strategy
By: B.H. Liddell Hart
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The classic book on strategy by one of the foremost military thinkers of the twentieth century, Str… read more
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13. Any Known Blood
By: Lawrence Hill
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spanning five generations, sweeping across a century and a half of almost unknown history, this acc… read more
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14. 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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15. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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16. February
By: Lisa Moore
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of Canada Reads 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Rang… read more
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17. Daydreams of Angels
By: Heather O'Neill
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Hardcover
Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling author The fantastic has always be… read more
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18. Birdie
By: Tracey Lindberg
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Monkey Beachmeets Green Grass, Running Watermeets The Beachcombersin this wise and funny novel by a… read more
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19. The Diviners
By: Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie,… read more
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20. The Three Witches and The Master
By: Max Nowaz
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more
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"Where’s my uncle?"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
21. Taming Flame
By: Therisa Peimer
4.30
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more
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- fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
22. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
23. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 470 pages, ebook
Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more
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- war
"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
24. The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
By: Susan Rowland
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma ma… read more
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"The fire on the mountain."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,"-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
25. 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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- canada
26. Magenta
By: John Payton Foden
4.27
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan, please, get to work. Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness. A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes. I do. Yo…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed. They silently passed…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
27. 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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- canada
"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
28. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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- canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
29. 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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- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
30. 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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- canada
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31. 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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