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All of OPL’s staff recommendations in one page. You can browse the different lists based on topics, format or genres, or you can read some of the more detailed blog posts about specific items. If you can’t find what you are looking for, you can always #AskALibrarian online or in a branch!

 

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Countdown to the American election with....

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Vanguard : How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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Hatemonger : Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda
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The Twittering Machine
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Trust : America's Best Chance
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American Rule : How A Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People
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Unprepared : America in the Time of Coronavirus

LGBTQ+ Worlds

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Rust Belt Femme
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Queerstory : An Infographic History Of The Fight For LGBTQ+ Rights
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How to They/them : A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity
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Pass With Care : Memoirs
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Like a boy but not a boy : navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary
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Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid : A Baopu Collection

New Fiction for Teens

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Heart Sister
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The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life
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The Greats
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Each Of Us A Desert

How to live: present, past, and future

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God-level Knowledge Darts : Life Lessons From the Bronx
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Having and Being Had
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Don't Tell Me To Relax : Emotional Resilience In The Age Of Rage, Feels, And Freak-Outs.
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Otherwise Worlds : Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness
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How We Live Now : Scenes From the Pandemic
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Lost in Thought : The Hidden Pleasures of An Intellectual Life

Orange Shirt Day

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The orange shirt story
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Five little indians
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Picking up the Pieces : Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket
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Reflections from them days : a residential school memoir from Nunatsiavut
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From Bear Rock Mountain : the life and times of a Dene residential school survivor
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The Sleeping Giant Awakens : Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation.

Canadian authors, International flavours

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Murder in the Family : How the Search for My Mother's Killer Led to My Father.
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Commanding hope : the power we have to renew a world in peril
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Forever Terry : a legacy in letters
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Eating Out Loud : Bold Middle Eastern Flavors for All Day, Every Day
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Indians on Vacation : A Novel.

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Fathoms : The World in the Whale
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Here for it : or, how to save your soul in America : essays.
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The Pink Line : Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
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His Truth is Marching On : John Lewis and the Power of Hope.
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A History of My Brief Body.
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Once Upon A Time I Lived on Mars : Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth
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American Dreams : Portraits & Stories of A Country
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Impossible™ : The Cookbook : How to Save Our Planet, One Delicious Meal at A Time

Black Lives Matter

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The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Making All Black Lives Matter : Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-first Century
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The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea
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Until we are free : reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada

New Non-fiction coming through!

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Intimations : Six Essays
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The Journeys of Trees : A Story About Forests, People, and the Future
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Wandering in Strange Lands : A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
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Confessions of A Bookseller
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Why Fish Don't Exist : A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

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