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Watch out for her : a novel
Bailey, Samantha M.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for CANADA READS · Instant #1 National Bestseller · A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year 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...
Two-Spirit Journey : The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
Chacaby, Ma-Nee.
Paper Book
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 of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the...
Ducks : two years in the oil sands
Beaton, Kate
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable book! One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022! Winner of Canada Reads 2023! "An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival."--Carmen Maria Machado Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times...
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Hooper, Emma
Paper Book
Winner of the 2017 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors A beautiful novel that reminds us that it's never too late to see the things you've longed to see, or to say the things you've longed to say   Eighty-two-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So, early one...
Scarborough : a novel
Hernandez, Catherine
Paper Book
CANADA READS RUNNER-UP, 2022 NOW A MOTION PICTURE directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson; screenplay by Catherine Hernandez Trillium Book Award and City of Toronto Book Award finalist; Edmund White Debut Fiction Award finalist; A Globe 100, National Post and...
Jennie's boy : a Newfoundland childhood
Johnston, Wayne.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC WINNER OF THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025 Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at...
Dandelion
Liew Jamie Chai Yun.
Paper Book
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now, as a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town...
Moon of the turning leaves : a novel
Rice, Waubgeshig
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Twelve years after the lights go out . . . An epic journey to a forgotten homeland The hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. In the years since a mysterious cataclysm...
The future
Leroux, Catherine
Paper Book
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Meet me at the lake a novel
Fortune, Carley.
Paper Book
Fire weather : the making of a beast
Vaillant, John.
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing * Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction * Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize * Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize * Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award *...
The grey wolf : a novel
Penny, Louise.
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any...
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Watch a recorded author talk with the highly-acclaimed Kate Beaton, the New York Times bestselling author of Hark! A Vagrant! And Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.

Heated rivalry
Reid, Rachel
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW  The epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from Rachel Reid, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. "The book that got me into hockey romance." --NPR's ...
Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging
Phan, Rachel
Paper Book
A CANADIAN BESTSELLER! A warm and poignant narrative about finding one's self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter's attempts to connect with parents who have always been just out of reach. When she was three years old,...
A minor chorus
Belcourt, Billy-Ray
Paper Book
*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE* NATIONAL BESTSELLER An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada's most daring literary talents. ...
Every thing is fine here : a novel
Tushabe, Iryn
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THREE SASKATCHEWAN BOOK AWARDS Longlist, Canada Reads 2026 A CBC Best Book of 2025 A beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people. Eighteen-year-old...
It's Different This Time : A Novel
Richard, Joss.
Paper Book
*SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2026* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this second-chance romance by a debut Canadian author, a twist of fate forces two former roommates to move back into their beloved New York City brownstone where they must confront the events that led to...
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Toews, Miriam
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY * TIME's 10 Best Books of 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail * CBC * The New Yorker * The Guardian...
Nobody Asked for This: A Novel
Toews, Georgia
Paper Book
A razor-sharp dramedy following a twenty-something comic as she navigates family grief, dysfunctional friendship, and a date gone very wrong. Virginia is twenty-three and a stand-up comedian. In between working the rounds of Toronto's small comedy club circuit and auditioning for...
The haunting of Paynes Hollow
Armstrong, Kelley
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a nail-biting supernatural horror about a haunted lakeside property and twisted family secrets. When Samantha Payne's grandfather dies, she figures she won't even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn...
The berry pickers
Peters, Amanda
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER 2023 BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE WINNER of the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL for EXCELLENCE in FICTION WINNER Best First Novel, Crime Writers of Canada Award WINNER Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction FINALIST Amazon First Novel Award ...
Soft as bones : a memoir
Sage, Chyana Marie
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A CBC Best Book of 2025 Finalist, Foreword INDIES 2025 Book of the Year A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing In candid...
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir
Vellekoop, Maurice
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD "An utter treat among graphic novels. This beautiful, honest coming-of-age tale is a standout in its quality.... One of the best books so far this year." --Toronto Star For fans of Fun...
Water for elephants
Gruen, Sara
Paper Book
Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train--and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less-than...
Getting Away with Murder : A Novel
Lapena, Shari.
The tenth thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door. "Shari Lapena is far and away one of the best psychological thriller writers in the world . . . She is intensely bingeable." --Lisa Jewell Jill and Ted adore their...
The black wolf
Penny, Louise.
Paper Book
The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a...
The downloaded
Sawyer, Robert J.
Paper Book
The new novel by Canada's top Science Fiction writer In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth's first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted...
The adversary : a novel
Crummey, Michael
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD * Shortlisted for the 2023 BMO Winterset Award * Longlisted for the 2024 Killick Capital Fiction Award, part of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * The Globe and...
On book banning : or, how the new censorship consensus trivializes art and undermines democracy
Wells, Ira
Paper Book
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All the little monsters : how I learned to live with anxiety
Robertson, David
Paper Book
With humour, warmth and heartbreaking honesty, award-winning author David A. Robertson explores the struggles and small victories of living with chronic anxiety and depression, and shares his hard-earned wisdom in the hope of making other people's mental health journeys a little less lonely ...
Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
Maclear, Kyo
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION For readers of Crying in H Mart and Wintering, an unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love.
Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada's Sweetest Obsession
Kuitenbrouwer, Peter
Paper Book
The captivating story behind Canada's beloved sweet treat From the quiet beauty of sugar maple forests to the high-tech, high-stakes world of syrup production, this book takes you on a remarkable journey into one of Canada's most cherished traditions. Led by Peter Kuitenbrouwer,...
Encampment : resistance, grace, and an unhoused community
Helwig, Maggie
Paper Book
ONE OF THE GLOBE AND MAIL'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 WINNER OF THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD "Striking, elegant." - Publishers Weekly, ★ STARRED Review An activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyard The...
Crackdown
Mullins, Garth
Paper Book
Garth Mullins was born partially blind and with Albinism into a world too bright for him to fully see and too unforgiving to fully accept him. Growing up, he was often bullied, by both students and teachers, who mocked his appearance and trivialized his disability. But Garth found strength and...
Elbows up! : Canadian voices of resilience and resistance
Abdelmahmoud, Elamin
Paper Book
A blazing collection of responses to the U.S.'s shocking annexation threats and the swell of Canadian national unity that followed, from a remarkable array of Canada's sharpest and most influential minds. 2025. Donald Trump is president. And he is insisting that Canada is for...
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