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Behind You : A Novel
Hernandez, Catherine.
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a lifetime. Catherine Hernandez's most gripping and affecting novel yet, Behind You is inspired by a horrifying chapter in Canadian history and follows fictional characters terrorized by a...
Berani
Kadarusman, Michelle
Now in Paperback! An honest and stirring novel about the choices made by young environmental activists that Booklist calls "a compelling call to action and a crucial reminder that, while doing what is right is not always easy, it is always worthwhile"   Malia has had a privileged...
The comeback
Chu, Lily
For fans of The People We Meet on Vacation and everything K-Pop comes a hilarious and thoughtful story of fame, family, and love. "Hilarious and relatable." -Talia Hibbert, USA Today bestselling author for The Stand-In Ariadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything...
The doll
Tran-Davies, Nhung N.
A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group...
The double happiness cookbook : 88 feel-good recipes and food stories
Lui, Trevor
Toronto is a renowned food mecca, born out of a cultural identity defined by the unified culinary tradition of a vibrant multicultural community. It is a city that has shaped and defined one passionate chef who abandoned his corporate job to throw on an apron and to get into the kitchen, behind the...
A dupatta is...
Abbas, Marzieh
A Dupatta Is..., written by Marzieh Abbas and vividly brought to life by the artwork of Anu Chouhan, is a loving and lyrical ode to the dupatta. A dupatta is so much more than a beautiful piece of fabric. A dupatta is sound--swooshing and swashing like a...
The Great Henna Party
Malik, Humera/ Zohra, Sonali (ILT)
If you were to name the person you loved the most, who would you choose?Noor's cousin is getting married tomorrow, and tonight, Noor's family will hold a henna party in her honor. They'll sing traditional songs, eat delicious treats, and have their hands painted in swirling designs using a dye...
A History of Burning : A Novel
Oza, Janika.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Finalist for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The...
Land of No Regrets: A Novel
Muktadir, Sadi
A heart-wrenching story of four students who find hope and kinship amidst the challenges of growing up at a harrowing madrasa in rural Ontario. Nabil, freshly plucked from middle school in Scarborough, is struggling to find his place at Al Haque Islamic Academy. Between the intense...
Mindy Kim and the fairy-tale wedding
Lee, Lyla
Fresh Off the Boat meets Junie B. Jones in this adorable chapter book series following Mindy Kim, a young Asian American girl--in this seventh novel, Mindy's dad and Julie get married! It's time for a big celebration in Mindy Kim's family: Dad and Julie are getting married...
My name is Saajin Singh
Brar, Kuljinder Kaur
A debut picture book that explores the importance of pronouncing names properly and celebrates cultural identity. Saajin loves his name--he loves it so much that he sees it spelled out in the world around him in his snacks, in the sky and sometimes he even sings it aloud. On his...
New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction
Fačy, Bernard
The citizens of Karachi wake up and discover the sea missing from their shores, the last Parsi on Earth must escape to other worlds when debt collectors come knocking, and a family visiting a Partition-themed park gets more entertainment than they bargained for. These...
On the Ravine: A Novel
Lam, Vincent
From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction. In his downtown Toronto condo, Dr. Chen awakens...
Skim
Tamaki, Mariko.
A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay,...
Stories for South Asian supergirls
Khaira, Raj Kaur
Through the inspirational stories of 50 famous and under-celebrated women from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, South Asian girls will have a chance to dream about lives for themselves that radically differ from the limited narratives and stereotypes written for them by...
The Story of Us: A Novel
Hernandez, Catherine
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlist - Toronto Book Awards Nominee - Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Selection - Amnesty International Book Club From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bond of family and the magic that...
Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir
Lee, Jen Sookfong
For most of Jen Sookfong Lee's life, pop culture was an escape from family tragedy and a means of fitting in with the larger culture around her. Anne of Green Gables assured her that, despite losing her father at the age of twelve, one day she might still have the loving family of her dreams, and...
The Takedown
Chu, Lily.
DEE KWAN'S FIVE EASY STEPS TO WIN THE DAY AND GET THE GUY: STEP ONE: Meet Mr. Perfect. Flirt. Daydream. Hope. STEP TWO: Discover he's secretly the son of your uber-problematic new fashion industry boss. STEP THREE: Realize your uber-problematic new boss is seriously, actually a problem....
They called us enemy
Takei, George
New York Times Bestseller! A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale...

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