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10 best books like Ojingogo (Matthew Forsythe): Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, The Night Gardener, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Meaty, Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants, Motherhood, Too Much and Not the Mood, Split Tooth, The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!, The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation (Environmental Science for Kids, The Environment and You for Kids, Conservation for Kids)
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
| Author | Terry Fan |
| ISBN | 1481439782 |
The Night Gardener is about the impression and long lasting effects magic and art can make on a soul and a community. Long after the “ooohs” and “aaahh”s fade away—the hope and energy of a creation or magical moment remain. Magic is out there for all to see, feel, find, and change us!
A...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
| Author | Samantha Irby |
| ISBN | 0988480425 |
Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of...
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants
| Author | Ann Hui |
| ISBN | 1771622229 |
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there a Chinese restaurant in every small town? And who are the families who run them? It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included — her parents...
| Author | Sheila Heti |
| ISBN | 1627790772 |
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children.
In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman...
Too Much and Not the Mood
| Author | Durga Chew-Bose |
| ISBN | 0374535957 |
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice
On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer’s Diary with the words “too much and not the mood.” She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the “cramming...
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.
Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous....
The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
| Author | Clint McElroy |
| ISBN | 1250153719 |
In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a...
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 1452133506 |
All it takes is one:
One coral gamete to start a colony
One person to make a difference
One idea to change the world
The ongoing efforts to save and rebuild the world's coral reefs--with hammer and glue, and grafts of newly grown coral--are the living legacy of Ken Nedimyer.
Kate...
This book reads like poetry; hungry, turbulent, erotic, disturbing and brilliant, in a style reminiscent of the New Narrative writers Kevin Killian, Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Dodie Bellamy and Robert Gluck. The story is two-fold: an intense love affair between Bjorn and his riding instructor...
| Author | Joy Williams |
| ISBN | 0385081545 |
Forty years later, The Changeling is no less haunting and no less visionary than the day it was published, but it has only become clearer that Joy Williams is a virtuosic stylist and a singular thinker—a genius in every sense of the word.
When we first meet Pearl—young...
| Author | Chris Gooch |
| ISBN | 1603094202 |
A haunting portrait of millennial alienation, tinged with body horror and Greek tragedy, glamour and terror.
Jane is sick of her dead-end life in the suburbs, and desperate for a change. Her old friend Natalie made it out, living in Japan as a fashion model. Now, as Natalie comes back to town on business,...
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility which they prune with a zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty.
But...
I know many of my GR friends like recs for queer content, and this graphic novel is not that, but DANG I was impressed with this! When I saw it was about the aftermath of "a historic heist — 52 simultaneous robberies at the same time, in the same city" I was in, but I guess I didn't read the rest of the blurb because...
| Author | Michael DeForge |
| ISBN | 1927668603 |
My favorite Michael DeForge comic yet, and the longest long form work he has done yet, the story of the famous/infamous juvenile delinquent Ms. D who has gained social media fame and gained fame for her hometown for her pranks (performances, she says!). Young people adore her, but even a cop whose car...
| Author | Kirsten Hall |
| ISBN | 1592702147 |
A gold leaf appears in the forest. As soon as the animals notice it, each wants it more than anything else in the world. But in their struggle for it, the leaf is destroyed. Heartbroken, the animals wonder: Will we ever again see such a leaf?
After getting an MA in early childhood education, Kirsten...
My Conversations with Canadians
| Author | Lee Maracle |
| ISBN | 1771663588 |
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large...
| Author | Sheila Heti |
| ISBN | 0399166564 |
Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.
...
| Author | Julie McIsaac |
| ISBN | 1554830680 |
Entry Level is a graceful and thought-provoking sequence of stories with a flair for the comedy of the workplace. Each story is intense in its own way; McIsaac explores the costs of being female, often in the workforce. A group of women telemarketers deal with the escalating absurdity of management's...
| Author | D.J. Bryant |
| ISBN | 1606998803 |
Unreal City contains five highly charged stories about relationships: “Echoes into Eternity,” “Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt,” “Emordana,” “The Yellowknife Retrospective,” and “Objet d’Art.” The stories address gender, narcissism, marriage, subjectivity, objectification,...
A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn
| Author | Clara Parkes |
| ISBN | 1419727044 |
From New York Times bestselling knitting writer Clara Parkes, comes a new collection of essays and stories drawn from the yarn-loving, stash-collecting, close-knit community of knitters.
This addictive-to-read anthology celebrates yarn—specifically, the knitter’s reputation...
Hilda and the Mountain King
| Author | Luke Pearson |
| ISBN | 1911171178 |
See what perils await our beloved blue-haired adventurer in the sixth book of Luke Pearson’s widely praised series.
We rejoin our heroine for her latest adventure just as she awakes to find herself...in the body of a troll! Her mother is worried sick, and is perplexed by the strange creature that...
From the editor of the acclaimed comics anthology NON comes this beautiful, emotive "Picto-Novella." Largely wordless and cunningly rendered, this little book is sure to touch most folks. In The Last Lonely Saturday, an older man sits at his kitchen table, filled with melancholy. Dishes are...
The Extended Dream of Mr. D.
Celebrated Spanish cartoonist Max helped Drawn & Quarterly win the 1998 Harvey Award for Best Foreign Material with his story "Orpheus" and his breathtaking covers in a recent issue of the magazine. Now, D&Q is publishing Max's newest work, a compelling, beautifully-illustrated book that...
The Magicians: Alice's Story
| Author | Lilah Sturges |
| ISBN | 1684150213 |
THE MAGICIANS: ALICE’S STORY is an all new chapter set in the world of The Magicians trilogy of novels by New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman that retells the events of the first novel through fan-favorite character Alice Quinn.
Alice Quinn is manifestly brilliant, and she’s...
Benny lavora come guardiano in uno zoo. Un giorno, tra i visitatori nota una donna che gli ricorda qualcuno. La osserva dalla finestra del rettilario: è candida come neve e ha con sé un taccuino da disegno che tiene stretto fino a quando, un attimo prima di andare via, lo dimentica davanti alla vasca...
| Author | Jo Day |
| ISBN | 3745059832 |
After a traumatic event in Melbourne, Laurie escapes to Berlin, only to have to come back six months later to bury her estranged mother.
She tries to reconnect with her best friend, Jones, who’s ignoring her.
But she’s doing fine.
More or less.
Set in a boozy and drug-fuelled summer...
Pocahontas: Princess of the New World
| Author | Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky |
| ISBN | 1681772175 |
Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, has been promised to her betrothed, Kokum, according to custom. At that very moment, three British ships arrive on the coast of America.
It is 1607, and the life of Pocahontas—like the fate of the entire American continent—is about to change...
| Author | Joe Todd-Stanton |
| ISBN | 1912497069 |
I started reading A Mouse Called Julian for my baby still in my womb (nearly 8 months) as a story time on 5/31/2019 and finished it that same day. My baby has been active and kicked me a lot and I like to read books out loud to her everyday. My son is now 7 and able to read this book on his own. We both liked this story...
