"A thrilling tale of time travel and alternate timelines with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity's future."-Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of The Martian "Elan Mastai has conjured up a witty and freewheeling time-...
Canada Reads 2019
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Author:Mastai, ElanSummary: - Author:Chariandy, DavidSummary:
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and...
- Author:Eisen, MaxSummary:
This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a...
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Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:Eighty years have passed since flash floods, droughts, and tornadoes have ravaged the North American landscape and mass migrations to the north have led to decade-long wars. In the thriving city of La Ronge, George Taylor and Lenore...
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Author:Mailhot, Terese MarieSummary:Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing...
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Author:al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr, Yeung, WinnieSummary:Homes tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video...
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Author:Maskalyk, JamesSummary:A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be alive. In this deeply personal book, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk, author of the highly acclaimed Six Months in Sudan,...
- Author:Barbeau-Lavalette, Anaïs, Mullins, RhondaSummary:
Eighty-five years of art and history through the eyes of a woman who fled her family – as re-imagined by her granddaughter. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother’s mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a...
- Author:Leung, CarrianneSummary:
Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up, in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Award-shortlisted WONDROUS WOO. The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth - new houses,...
- Author:Kurdi, TimaSummary:
"An intimate and poignant memoir about the family of Alan Kurdithe young Syrian boy who became the global emblem for the desperate plight of millions of Syrian refugeesand of the many extraordinary journeys the Kurdis have taken,...
- Author:Westoll, AndrewSummary:
A heart-warming story of thirteen rehabilitated chimps and the woman who saved them. In 1997, Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for apes retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. Here her charges can recover and begin...
- Author:Malarchuk, ClintSummary:
"No job in the world of sports is as intimidating, exhilarating and as stress-ridden as that of a hockey goaltender. Standing in the crease facing one-hundred-mile-an-hour slapshots, the entire game riding on your glove hand, standing...
- Author:Wong, LindsaySummary:
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up...
- Author:Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSummary:
2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist. This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary...
