River Woman
By: Katherena Vermette
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second coll…
Want to Read $ 14.26"Truth is a seed planted deep If you want to get it you have to dig."-Katherena Vermette, River Woman
"Truth is a seed planted deep If you want to get it you have to dig."-Katherena Vermette, River Woman
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1. Green Grass, Running Water
By: Thomas King
4.03
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Nativ… read more
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- canadian literature
- canada
- indigenous
"Look,"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
"The Lone Ranger, Ishmael, Robinson Crusoe, and Hawkeye stood in the parking lot of the Blossom Lodge. Beyond the concrete and the asphalt and the cars, beneath the deep curve of the sky, the prairies…"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
"Every July, when Eli was growing up, his mother would close the cabin and move the family to the Sun Dance. Eli would help the other men set up the tepee, and then he and Norma and Camelot would run …"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
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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- canadian literature
- canada
- indigenous
"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. Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
By: Richard Wagamese
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- canada
4. Nature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more
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- poetry
5. The Reason You Walk
By: Wab Kinew
4.30
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic Aboriginal star. When his father … read more
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6. Islands of Decolonial Love
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more
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7. This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
By: None
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This Accident of Being Lostis the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winnin… read more
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8. 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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9. 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
10. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- indigenous
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
11. River Woman
By: Katherena Vermette
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second coll… read more
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- poetry
- canada
- politics
- canadian literature
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- womens
"Truth is a seed planted deep If you want to get it you have to dig."-Katherena Vermette, River Woman
12. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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- canada
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
13. 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
14. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- canadian literature
- canada
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
15. Quand je ne dis rien je pense encore
By: Camille Readman Prud'homme
4.46
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
Quand je ne dis rien je pense encore explore en poésie ces moments où la conversation s'interrompt … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- canada
16. 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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- nonfiction
- canada
- indigenous
"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
17. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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- canada
- indigenous
"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
18. 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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- canada
- indigenous
"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
19. La trajectoire des confettis
By: Marie-Ève Thuot
3.95
Format: 624 pages, None
2015 – Un barman montréalais ayant fait vœu de chasteté s’intéresse malgré lui à une cliente qui s’… read more
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20. 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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- canadian literature
- canada
21. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- canada
- indigenous
22. All the Quiet Places
By: Brian Thomas Isaac
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more
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- canada
- indigenous
23. Sufferance
By: Thomas King
3.92
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. the Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that… read more
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- canada
- indigenous
24. 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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- canada
- indigenous
25. Four Faces of the Moon
By: Amanda Strong
3.94
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim … read more
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- canada
- indigenous
26. Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.27
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
A tender, eclectic reflection from an Indigenous author on his life, work, and queer identity. E… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- canada
- indigenous
27. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- canada
- indigenous
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
28. Shadow Life
By: Hiromi Goto
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
2022 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Winner for Adult Fiction 2022 L.A Times Book Prize Fi… read more
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- canada
"It's the living who struggle to accept death."-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life
"There's a special place kept for the person who first breaks your heart."-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life
"It's a relief to leave unnecessary things. But do the necessary things have to be so heavy?"-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life
29. Nombreux seront nos ennemis
By: Geneviève Desrosiers
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
« Il y a des livres qu’on ne referme jamais. De ces livres qui restent ouverts parce qu’ils nous fo… read more
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- poetry
30. 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin
By: Thomas King
4.32
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptional Seventy-seven poems intended as a… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- canada
- indigenous
31. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World , Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning colle… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- canada
- indigenous
"A country is how men hunt in the dark"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
