1.
Series:
Ru
Paperback
Kim Thuy
9780307359711
$18.95
FICTION
Sep 06, 2012
Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow--of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels...
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2.
Series:
Intolerable
Paperback
Kamal Al-Solaylee
9781554688876
$17.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 14, 2013
WINNER of the Toronto Book AwardFINALIST for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography, and the OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen AwardA Globe and Mail and Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year and a Canadian Booksellers' Top Pick for LGBT Books of the YearIn the 1960s, Kamal Al-Solaylee’s father was one of the wealthiest property owners in Aden, in the south of Yemen, but when the country shrugged off its colonial roots, his properties were confiscated, and the family was forced to leave....
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3.
Series:
The Inconvenient Indian
A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Paperback
Thomas King
9780385664226
$22.00
HISTORY
Aug 13, 2013
NATIONAL BESTSELLERRich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and a...
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4.
Series:
When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Paperback
Raziel Reid
9781551525747
$15.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 30, 2014
An edgy and extravagant YA novel about a glamorous boy named Jude. School is like a film set. There’s The Crew who make things happen, The Extras who fill empty spaces in rows of desks, and The Movie Stars, who everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But flamboyant high school student Jude Rothesay, who lives for Louboutins and celebrity magazines, doesn’t fit into any category: he isn’t a part of The Crew because he isn’t about to do anything unless it’s court-appointed; he’s not an Extra because nothing about him is anonymous; and h...
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Series:
And the Birds Rained Down
Paperback
Jocelyne Saucier
9781552452684
$18.95
FICTION
Oct 15, 2012
A CBC Canada Reads 2015 SelectionFinalist for the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for French-to-English Translation Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they can’t eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. One is a young photographer documenting a a series of catastrophic forest fires that swept Northern Ontario early in the century; she’s o...
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