CALGARY BEST SELLERS

FICTION

1A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin. The best stories from the acclaimed short story writer.

2The Power

Naomi Alderman. Speculative fiction at its most provocative, taking us to an alternate reality and exposing our world in surprising ways.

3Black Apple

Joan Crate. A coming-of-age novel about a young Blackfoot girl who grows up in the residential school system on the Canadian Prairies.

4The Original Face

Guillaume Morissette. Two people navigate through their insecurities and ambitions amid a culture obsessed with selfies and identity.

5I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition

Dodie Smith. British novel of growing up in not-so-genteel poverty.

6The Boat People

Sharon Bala. A father and son fleeing Sri Lanka for Canada. Shortlisted for Canada Reads.

7The Call

Peadar O’Guilin. Paranormal thriller inspired by Irish folklore.

8Jesus on the Dashboard

Lisa Murphy-Lamb. A teen living in a house full of God-fearing teenagers once again sees a mother who abandoned her.

9Saga Volume 8

Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples. After the war for Phang, survivors embark on an adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe.

10The City of Brass

S. A. Chakraborty. A magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant con artist with miraculous healing gifts.

NON-FICTION

1The Little Book of Stress Relief David Posen. A chapter for each week of the year to help de-stress.

2On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder. No wiser than Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism; is our one advantage that we might learn from their experience?

3Following the River: Traces of Red River Women Lorri Neilsen Glenn. Author searches out the history of her great-grandmother’s tragic death and works to unravel the issues of racism, sexism and colonial nation building that still haunt us.

4Authenticity: A Guide to Living in Harmony With Your True Self David Posen. A book about listening to your body.

5Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress Steven Pinker. Life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness on the rise worldwide.

6Cat’s Tips to Get the Job of Your Dreams Catherine Brownlee. Learn how to create and execute a plan to attract the job of your dreams, in any industry, anywhere in the world.

7Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. Arlie Russell Hochschild. A journey to understand what it feels like to live in “red” America.

8Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840-1970. Bjorn Berge. The stories of 50 countries that once existed but have now have been erased from the map.

9Social Media and Technology: How to Use It Without Being Consumed by It Deepika Mittra. A guide to new media from an Alberta social worker.

10The Inner Life of Animals Peter Wohlleben. Animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do — and their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us.