Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in Canada.
Canada
Recommended books found: 71
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Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
by Julie Sedivy
Hardcover: Oct 2024
A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.
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Those Pink Mountain Nights
by Jen Ferguson
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a ...
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Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love
by Sarah Leavitt
Paperback: Sep 2024
A poignant graphic memoir about the power of art to transform and heal after the death of a loved one.
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Like Home
by Louisa Onome
Hardcover: Feb 2021
Paperback: Jul 2024
Fans of Netflix's On My Block and readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Angie Thomas will love this debut novel about a girl whose life is turned upside down after one local act of vandalism throws both her relationships and neighborhood into turmoil.
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Age 16
by Rosena Fung
Hardcover: Jul 2024
A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about how mothers and daughters pass down—and rebel against—standards of size, gender, race, beauty, and worth.
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Mood Swings: A Novel
by Frankie Barnet
Hardcover: May 2024
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means.
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel
by Katherine Arden
Hardcover: Feb 2024
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling ...
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Bad Cree: A Novel
by Jessica Johns
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Dec 2023
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
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The Most Precious Substance on Earth
by Shashi Bhat
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Paperback: Jun 2023
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat's sharp, darkly comic, and poignant story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.
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Fight Night
by Miriam Toews
Hardcover: Oct 2021
Paperback: Jan 2023
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.
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Tides
by Sara Freeman
Hardcover: Jan 2022
Paperback: Jan 2023
An intoxicating, compact debut novel by the winner of Columbia's Henfield Prize, Tides is an astoundingly powerful portrait of a deeply unpredictable woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.
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Probably Ruby: A Novel
by Lisa Bird-Wilson
Hardcover: Apr 2022
Paperback: Jan 2023
An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable debut novel about family, race, and history.
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