CALGARY BEST SELLERS
FICTION 1
No Good Asking
Fram Kimmel. A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another.
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The Emissary
Yoko Tawada. A story of Japan, which has cut itself off from the world. It is about a weak boy who is cared for by his great-grandfather who is getting stronger as he ages.
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Crafty Llama
Mike Kerr (illustrated by Renata Liwska). A story about crafting, friendship and the very best gifts.
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Motherhood
Sheila Heti. A story of a woman who is in a dilemma, to decide if she should have a child or remain childless.
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The Wonky Donkey Craig Smith. A rhyming picture book of a donkey.
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Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami. This tackles many themes: the elusive things just out of our grasp, the weight of history and the mystery of romantic love.
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The Redemption of Anais Virginia Nemetz. A reimagining of the famous diarist.
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Trickster Drift
Eden Robinson. A teen who has quit drinking is trying to escape his mother’s magic.
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Washington Black
Esi Edugyan. A dazzling tale of slavery and freedom.
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Saturday Night Ghost Club
Craig Davidson. A group of teens and one adult form a Ghost club to explore haunted places in Niagara Falls.
NON-FICTION 1
Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 years of Al Purdy
Edited by Howard White, Emma Skagen and Steven Heighton. Looking back over Al Purdy’s life as a poet.
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Fear: Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward. A portrait of the U.S. president.
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Homes: A Refugee Story Abu Bakr al Rabeeah. A boy’s story of living in Syria and immigrating to Canada.
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The Boy on The Beach Tima Kurdi. A memoir about the family of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy who signified the plight of Syrian refugees.
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The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight.
John Logsdon (Editor) & Bill Nye (forward). A story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, published on the 60th anniversary of NASA.
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All the Money in the World
John Pearson. The story of the Getty kidnapping.
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I’m Afraid of Men
Vivek Shraya. The author endured cruelty for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl.
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Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, A Band of Astronomers and the Quest to See the Unseeable
Seth Fletcher. Scientists on their mission to take the first picture of a black hole.
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The Flame
Leonard Cohen. A collection of Cohen’s last poems.
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Fascism: A Warning Madeleine Albright. A personal and urgent examination of fascism in the 20th century.