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• The Capital of Dreams

  O'Neill, Heather,

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  From the hugely acclaimed author beloved by literary lights, including Emily St. John Mandel, Kelly Link, and Mona Awad, a dark dystopian fairytale about an idyllic country ravaged by war-and a girl torn between safety and loyalty. Sofia Bottom…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catfish Rolling

  Kumagai, Clara,

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  There's a catfish under Japan, and when it rolls the land rises and falls. At least that's what Sora was told after she lost her mother to an earthquake so powerful that it cracked time itself. Sora and her father are some of the few who still live…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Curious Tides

  Lacelle, Pascale,

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  Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best--until a treacherous night in the Dovermere sea caves leaves a group of her classmates dead and her as the only…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Life

  Stories

  Munro, Alice, 1931-2024

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  With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped, the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Drowning Woman

  Harding, Robyn,

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  Lee Gulliver never thought she'd find herself living on the streets-no one ever does-but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands

  Beaton, Kate, 1983-

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  Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exit, Pursued by a Bear

  Johnston, E. K.,

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  At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Fine Balance

  Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-

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  A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

  [What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything]

  Hadfield, Chris, 1959-

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  Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. Through stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks and the measured, calm responses mandated by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heart Goes Last

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The High Mountains of Portugal

  Martel, Yann,

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  In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Highway of Tears

  a True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

  McDiarmid, Jessica,

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  For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The corridor is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Horse

  Wagamese, Richard,

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  Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Bright Open

  a Secret Garden Remix

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  Mary Lennox didn't think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Learned by Heart

  Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

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  A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love, Pamela

  Anderson, Pamela, 1967-

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  Pamela Anderson's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was immediately rocket launched into fame, becoming Playboy's favorite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nomenclature

  New and Collected Poems

  Brand, Dionne, 1953-

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  Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand's ongoing labors of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Revenge of the Tipping Point

  Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

  Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-

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  Revisits the world of social epidemics first explored in Gladwell's 2000 book "The tipping point," this time taking a closer look at the dark side of social engineering. Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Run Towards the Danger

  Confrontations With a Body of Memory

  Polley, Sarah,

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  Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present. These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Someone Knows My Name

  Hill, Lawrence, 1957-

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  Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have served the King and…Read moreRead more of this annotation