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10 best books like The Heaviness of Things That Float (Jennifer Manuel): Washington Black, An Ocean of Minutes, Women Talking, Indian Horse, Brother, Son of a Trickster, Tomboy Survival Guide, Split Tooth, The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience, Inside Transracial Adoption

Washington Black
AuthorEsi Edugyan
ISBN0525521429
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.

When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch,"...
An Ocean of Minutes
AuthorThea Lim
ISBN1501192566
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.

In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank...
Women Talking
AuthorMiriam Toews
ISBN1635572584
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned...
Indian Horse
AuthorRichard Wagamese
ISBN1553654021
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his...
Brother
AuthorDavid Chariandy
ISBN1635572045
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.

With shimmering...
Son of a Trickster
AuthorEden Robinson
ISBN0345810783
With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers Trust Engel/Findley Award, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy...
Tomboy Survival Guide
AuthorIvan E. Coyote
ISBN1551526565
Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing...
Split Tooth
AuthorTanya Tagaq
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 Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
AuthorJennifer Pharr Davis
ISBN0735221898
National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Jennifer Pharr Davis unlocks the secret to maximizing perseverance--on and off the trail

Jennifer Pharr Davis, a record holder of the FKT (fastest known time) on the Appalachian Trail, reveals the secrets and habits behind endurance as she chronicles...
Inside Transracial Adoption
AuthorGail Steinberg
ISBN0944934242
A resource guide for families considering transracial adoption. This book is the result of two families' experiences adoption multicultural children. Somewhat limited in scope and attitude. The section on Black hair care is well done. Authors: Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall. Ages: Adult. Hardcover....
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
AuthorVirginia Eubanks
ISBN1250074312
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets...
Moon of the Crusted Snow
AuthorWaubgeshig Rice
ISBN1770414002
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members...
Trickster Drift
AuthorEden Robinson
Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the second book in Eden Robinson's captivating Trickster trilogy.

In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being...
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
AuthorMeghan Cox Gurdon
ISBN0062562835
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.

A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir
AuthorElizabeth Hay
ISBN0771039735
Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver.

As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mother and...
The Innocents
AuthorMichael Crummey
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline....
Forgiveness
AuthorMark Sakamoto
ISBN1443417971
The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War-and a moving tribute to the nature of forgiveness

When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalene Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas....
Eat. Nourish. Glow.: 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger & feeling healthier
AuthorAmelia Freer
Nutritional therapist and healthy eating expert Amelia Freer has helped her many celebrity clients, including Sam Smith and James Corden, to dispatch fad diets to the distant past whilst guiding them to a rejuvenated future. Now she can do the same for you.Amelia Freer brings a fresh and unique voice...
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
AuthorMax Eisen
ISBN1443449288
In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir by Canadian survivor

More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau,...
Out of the Shadows: A Memoir
AuthorTimea E. Nagy
An unforgettable story of an ordinary woman in astonishing circumstances who defies the odds.

Timea Nagy was twenty years old when she answered a newspaper ad in Budapest, Hungary, calling for young women to work as babysitters and housekeepers in Canada. Hired by what seemed like a legitimate...
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
AuthorKate Harris
ISBN0345816781
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE
WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION

"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."

As a teenager,...
Starlight
AuthorRichard Wagamese
ISBN0771070845
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive...
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