2021 - I Read Canadian Day - Adult

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Charles is a fifty-five year old journalist, unemployed and has been swindled out of his life savings. While contemplating his dismal future he meets Ramona Danforth, whom he asks to drive him to his childhood home in Stewart Harbor. Once there his past begins catching up with him.

3) A family affair

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Bismuth, Nadine

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A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships, A Family Affair confirms award-winning author Nadine Bismuth's place as a remarkable chronicler of contemporary middle-class mores in the manner of Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, and Lorrie Moore.

Award-winning novelist and screenwriter for film and television Nadine Bismuth has returned with an unsparing portrait of twenty-first century life. In A Family

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4) Five little Indians

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Good, Michelle

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WINNER: Canada Reads 2022

WINNER: Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction

WINNER: Amazon First Novel Award

WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize

Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize

Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize

Finalist: BC & Yukon Book Prize

Shortlist: Indigenous Voices Awards

National Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year; An Apple

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5) A history of my brief body

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Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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A memoir of Canadian poet Billy-Ray Belcourt from the Driftpile Cree Nation.

6) The library of legends: a novel

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Chang, Janie

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When Japanese bombs start to fall over 1937 China, Nanking and her classmates are told to flee. They are entrusted with a 500-year-old collection of folklore and myth that is referred to as the Library of Legends. When one of Nanking's classmates is murdered and another is arrested, she realizes her family secret is putting her life in danger.

7) Mexican gothic

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Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

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8) Nerve: a personal journey through the science of fear

When a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for help Noemi Taboada heads to a distant house in the Mexican countryside. Her cousin's husband is both menacing and alluring, and the ancient patriarch seems to be fascinated by Noemi. The house begins to invade Noemi's dreams with visions of blood and doom. Her only ally is the family's youngest son. He seems to want to help Noemi, but could be hiding dark secrets of his family's past. As...

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Holland, Eva

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The author explores the concepts of fear and phobias and shares her own experiences of confronting her own fears including skydiving.

9) The pull of the stars

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Donoghue, Emma

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"Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders...

10) Ridgerunner

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Adamson, Gil

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In November, 1917, William Moreland is in mid-flight. After twenty years, the infamous thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the drifter, impoverished and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son's future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton was born in the woods to two outlaws, but now finds himself semi-orphaned...

11) Seven

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Doctor, Farzana

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12) The skin we're in: a year of Black resistance and power

A rich, soulfully written novel about inheritance and resistance that tests the balance between modern and traditional customs. When Sharifa accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India, she thinks that she's going to research her great-great-grandfather, a wealthy business leader and philanthropist. What captures her imagination is not his rags-to-riches story, but the mystery of his four wives, missing from the family lore. She ends...

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Cole, Desmond

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13) They said this would be fun: race, campus life, and growing up

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2020 TORONTO BOOK AWARD
A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists.
In his 2015 cover story for Toronto Life magazine, Desmond Cole exposed the racist actions of the Toronto police force, detailing...

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Martis, Eternity

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The author recounts her experiences as a Black woman on a mostly white university campus.

14) Through the garden: a love story (with cats)

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Crozier, Lorna

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