Title of Book: The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
Author: Glenn Dixon
Number of pages: 253
Date book was published: 2026
Short Description: Sentient home appliances run The House in which Mr and Mrs Winters have lived into their old age. They watch over the humans and ensure their lives run smoothly. All appliances are connected to The Grid, which knows and observes all aspects of the Humans. The protagonist, a Roomba named Scout is a new arrival to The House and tries to understand human emotions. When Mrs Winters dies, everything changes. The appliances are up against The Grid to look after the widower, Mr Winters and see that he is not evicted from a home that has been deemed too large for him.
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Nominator’s Name: Jane Cawthorne

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Title of Book: When the world sleeps: Stories, words and wounds of Palestine
Author: Francesca Albanese
Number of pages: 256
Date book was published: 2025
Short Description: The first woman to serve as United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territory conveys the spirit of a people through 10 unforgettable stories of resilience and humanity.
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Nominator’s Name: Cindy

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Title of Book: The Theory of Water
Author: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Number of pages: 209
Date book was published: 2025
Short Description: Copy & paste this link: https://www.munrobooks.com/item/wkyfEt5V1pXwy042kwAmwA
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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Title of Book: Finding Flora
Author: Elinor Florence
Number of pages: 373 pages
Date book was published: 2025, now in paperback
Short Description: copy and paste this: https://www.munrobooks.com/item/gQpiPqSJBXh3obkAK7vkZA
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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Title of Book: James
Author: Percival Everett
Number of pages: 320
Date book was published: Apr 2026 paperback version
Short Description: https://www.munrobooks.com/item/zb7C99cVE0wvHD2JOdsJZg
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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Title of Book: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Author: Omar El Akkad
Number of pages: 240
Date book was published: 2024
Short Description: From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn’t consider you fully human. On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet was viewed more than ten million times.
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Nominator’s Name: Cindy

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Title of Book: Against the Loveless World
Author: Susan Abulhawa
Number of pages: 400
Date book was published: April, 2019
Short Description: Maybe it’s a bit old but not a dated story The author won the 2020 Palestine Book Award. Written with Susan Abulhawa’s distinctive “richly detailed, beautiful, and resonant” (Publishers Weekly) prose, this powerful novel presents a searing, darkly funny, and wholly unique portrait of a Palestinian woman who refuses to be a victim.
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Nominator’s Name: Cindy

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Title of Book: Address Unknown
Author: (Katherine) Kressman Taylor
Number of pages: (?) described as a short book in reviews
Date book was published: 1938
Short Description: exchanges of letters between two friends and former business partners, one in the USA and one in Germany. Writing while the rise of Nazism is occurring. And the resulting change in friendship in the face of Fascism and Antisemitism
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Nominator’s Name: Brenda

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Title of Book: A Mask The Color of the Sky
Author: Bassem Khandaqji
Number of pages: 224
Date book was published: Mar 27, 2026
Short Description: https://www.munrobooks.com/item/kt67Th-Wb7e2NQ3o73PA0Q
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Nominator’s Name: Anne

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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: 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: 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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