A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. "A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories...
Canada Reads 2025
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Author:Chacaby, Ma-Nee, Plummer, Mary LouisaSummary: - Author:Wong, TeresaSummary:
From the author of Dear Scarlet comes a graphic memoir about the obstacles one daughter faces as she attempts to connect with her immigrant parents. Beginning with her mother's stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey...
- Author:Knott, HelenSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott's debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and...
- Author:SethSummary:
Legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth's magnum opus Clyde Fans, two decades in the making, appeared on twenty best of 2019 lists, including those from The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post, and was nominated for an...
- Author:Liew, Jamie Chai YunSummary:
Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs. When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family,...
- Author:Hooper, EmmaSummary:
Eighty-two-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from Saskatchewan to Halifax. Her husband Otto wakes to a note left...
- Author:Snyder, CarrieSummary:
Aganetha Smart, a former Olympic athlete was famous in the 1920s, but now, at age 104, lives in a nursing home, alone and forgotten by history. When her quiet life is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of two young strangers, Aganetha...
- Author:Pal, Rajinderpal S.Summary:
Longlist, Canada Reads 2025. A sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of a Sikh wedding. On the morning of his nephew's wedding, Devinder Gill is certain the delicate balance of his life will not be upset. Dev is married to...
- Author:Johnston, WayneSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland...
- Author:Howard, Scott AlexanderSummary:
For fans of Emily St. John Mandel, David Mitchell, and Kazuo Ishiguro, an exquisite literary speculative novel set in an unnamed valley, where bereaved residents can petition to cross a forbidden border to see their lost loved ones...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder...
- Author:Audrain, AshleySummary:
Instant #1 National Bestseller. "Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered... The Whispers delivers a sucker-punch ending you’ll have to read twice to believe."—The New York Times Book Review. "[An] electrifying... razor-sharp page-...
- Author:Bailey, Samantha M.Summary:
A tense psychological thriller about a mother who must keep watch at all times if she wants to keep her family safe—from USA Today and #1 national bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey. Wherever you go... she'll be watching. Sarah...
- Author:Chacour, ÉricSummary:
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his...
- Author:Gabriel, Katsi'tsakwas EllenSummary:
There have been many things written about Canada's violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990, but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance is the first book from the perspective of Katsi'tsakwas...
