Historical Fiction
The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy) (Noah Gordon)
Book of Negros (Lawrence Hill)
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The Good Earth (Pearl S Buck)
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The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
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The Alice Network (Kate Quinn)
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All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
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Sarah's Key (Tatiana deRosnay)
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The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
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The Forgotten Home Child (Genevieve Graham)
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The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
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Paris (Edward Rutherfurd)
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Michelle Moran books
- Nefertiti
- The Heretic Queen
- Cleopatra's Daughter
- Madame Tussaud
- The Second Empress
- Nefertiti
- The Heretic Queen
- Cleopatra's Daughter
- Madame Tussaud
- The Second Empress
History
Bastards and Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders Past and Present (Will Ferguson)
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock (David Margolick)
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Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now (Jan Wong)
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jeffersons' Lost Pacific Empire (Peter Stark)
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis (Kai Bird)
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White Trash: The 400 Year Old Untold History of Class in America (Nancy Isenberg)
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Sarah Vowell books
- Unfamiliar Fishes
- The Wordy Shipmates
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
- Assassination Vacation
- Unfamiliar Fishes
- The Wordy Shipmates
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
- Assassination Vacation
Society/Culture (non-fiction)
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality (Bob Joseph)
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A Knock on the Door: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Leslie T Chang)
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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream (Adam Shepard)
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Michael Lewis)
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (Steven Johnson)
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The Address Book - fascinating look at the power of an address (Deirdre Mask)
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bill Bryson)
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Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs (Greg Mortenson)
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World (Hans Rosling)
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Packing for Mars - understanding life in space (Mary Roach)
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs (Caitlin Doughty)
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Biography/Memoir
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Trevor Noah)
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Becoming (Michelle Obama)
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism (Naoki Higashida)
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Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (Lawrence Hill)
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Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
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Laughing All the Way to the Mosque (Zarqa Nawaz)
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From the Ashes (Jesse Thistle)
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The Year of Finding Memory (Judy Fong Bates)
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Society/Culture (fiction)
The Sweetness of Tears (Nafisa Haji)
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American Dirt (Jeanine Cummins)
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Out of My Mind (Sharon Draper)
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Room (Emma Donoghue)
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The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
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Little Fires Everywhere (Celeste Ng)
Lisa Genova books
- Still Alive
- Left Neglected
- Still Alive
- Left Neglected
Humor
Why I Hate Canadians (Will Ferguson)
How to Be A Canadian (Will Ferguson)
How to Be A Canadian (Will Ferguson)
Fiction
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Catherynne Valente)
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The Golem and the Jinni (Helene Wecker)
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Enchantment (Orson Scott Card)
Mindful/Philosophy
A New Earth (Eckhart Tolle)
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A Return to Love (Marianne Williamson)
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