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Title of Book: Wild Dark Shore
Author: Charlotte McConaghy
Number of pages: ?
Date book was published: spring 2025
Short Description: A small isolated family living on island deals with rising sea levels, facing major climate upheavals, has to decide what’s most important to save in order to survive. Cue nature that has some answers. A novel that has good reviews.
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Nominator’s Name: Brenda

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Title of Book: Raising Hare
Author: Chloe Dalton
Number of pages: 279
Date book was published: 2024
Short Description: A true story of how finding a leveret (baby hare) changes a foreign policy workaholic’s life.
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Nominator’s Name: Joy Illington

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Title of Book: All The Quiet Places
Author: Brian Thomas Isaac
Number of pages: 277
Date book was published: 2021
Short Description: The coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young narrator’s wide-eyed observations of the world around him. Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction; Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize; Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards
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Nominator’s Name: Joyce Hobday

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Title of Book: Hospicing Modernity
Author: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Number of pages: 304
Date book was published: September, 2021
Short Description: Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. We take more than we give; we inoculate ourselves in positive self-regard while continuing to make harmful choices; we wreak irreparable havoc on the ecosystems, habitats, and beings with whom we share our planet. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability?
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Nominator’s Name: Doug

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Title of Book: How To Say Babylon
Author: Safiya Sinclair
Number of pages: 352
Date book was published: 2024
Short Description: These comments from Munro’s: This is one of the most moving and beautifully written memoirs I’ve ever read! Safiya shares her experiences of growing up with a Rastafarian family in Jamaica. Oppressed by her father’s strict and patriarchal views, her only hope of escaping is by pursuing her passion for writing poetry, which is strongly supported by her mother. A triumphant story of love and rebellion. You can also find her prize-winning book of poetry, “Cannibal”, in our poetry section! – Taliah
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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Title of Book: Knife
Author: Salman Rushdie
Number of pages: 224
Date book was published: 2025
Short Description: From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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Title of Book: Songbirds
Author: Christy Lefteri
Number of pages: 336
Date book was published: 2022
Short Description: From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo comes Songbirds, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan domestic worker and how the most vulnerable people find their voices.
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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Title of Book: Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
Number of pages: dozens of editions — depends which one
Date book was published: 1939
Short Description: A literary classic of the English language. Still abundantly relevant, with themes of capitalist greed, forced displacement and family.
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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Title of Book: Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World
Author: Alex Neve
Number of pages: 312
Date book was published: 2025
Short Description: Alex Neve was the head of Amnesty International Canada for many years. In this book, he writes about the history and promise (and failed promises) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “Weaving together law, history, and stories from decades on the front lines of the struggle for human rights … and what we can do to fulfil the promise that human rights are inherent, inalienable, and applicable to all people.”
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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Title of Book: Doppelganger A Trip into the Mirror World
Author: Naomi Klein
Number of pages: 350
Date book was published: 2023
Short Description: Part memoir and part reprtage and analysis . I found her to be an original thinker as she reflects on the recent times we have all lived through
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Nominator’s Name: Carole Costello

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Title of Book: Death is Hard Work
Author: Khaled Khalifa
Number of pages: 180
Date book was published: 2016 (original)/2019 (translation)
Short Description: National Book Award Finalist: “The poetic and horrific combine in this tale of love and death set in a Syria torn apart by civil war”. A tale about three estranged siblings trying to bring their father’s body back to his home village for burial, in the midst of the civil war.
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Nominator’s Name: Aimée Charbonneau

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Title of Book: Encampment
Author: Maggie Helwig
Number of pages: 197
Date book was published: 2025
Short Description: “Encampment is an urgent call for compassion, part memoir, part homily. In eloquent prose, it takes us on Helwig’s journey as an Anglican priest & activist into complex engagemnet with city staff, lawyers, politicians & the unhoused community she works tirelessly to learn from & assist.”
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Nominator’s Name: Jessica

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Title of Book: Empire of Pain
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
Number of pages: 535
Date book was published: 2021
Short Description: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Nominator’s Name: Anne Hansen

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Title of Book: Endling
Author: Maria Reva
Number of pages: 352
Date book was published: June 3, 2025
Short Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE. About a biologist in Ukraine battling to save the country’s snail species from the brink of extinction on the eve of the Russian invasion.
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Nominator’s Name: Brenda Bysouth

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These are our next reads.

This is our current list of nominated books.

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns | 259 pages

Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood | 512 pages

Butter by Asako Yuzuki | 464 pages

No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit | 184 pages

Not Too Late: Changing The Climate Story from Despair to Possibility edited by Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua | 200 pages

On Book Banning by Ira Wells | 184 pages

Tainna: The Unseen Ones by Norma Dunning | 160 pages

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride | 308 pages

The Soul of A Woman by Isabel Allende | 240 pages

Unsettling Spirit: A Journey to Decolonization by Denise Nadeau | 360 pages

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