New to SHS 21/22 - Non Fiction
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The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
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Doug Bock Clark
4.01 avg rating — 858 ratings 5. 
Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
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Amy Reed
4.14 avg rating — 1,111 ratings 6. 
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Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons on Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty
by:
Iris Krasnow
3.44 avg rating — 218 ratings 
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The Camping Life: Inspiration and Ideas for Endless Adventures
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Brendan Leonard
3.85 avg rating — 103 ratings 
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Viola Desmond’s Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land
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Graham Reynolds
3.93 avg rating — 85 ratings 13. 
Open: A Toolkit for How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be
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Gemma Cairney
4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings 
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Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Goalies: Profiles, Memorabilia, Essays and Stats
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Steve Cameron
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings 16. 
You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves
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Diana Whitney
3.69 avg rating — 826 ratings 17. 
We Can Do Anything: From sports to innovation, art to politics, meet over 200 women who got there first
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Caitlin Doyle
4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings 18. 
The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens
by:
Sean Covey
4.03 avg rating — 2,053 ratings 19. 
Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices
by:
Lisa Charleyboy
4.17 avg rating — 534 ratings 20. 
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Mark Kurlansky
3.92 avg rating — 24,361 ratings 21. 
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by:
Steve Sheinkin
4.04 avg rating — 6,581 ratings 
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The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
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John Hendrix
4.43 avg rating — 4,509 ratings 
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Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
by:
Leslie Odom Jr.
4.11 avg rating — 3,914 ratings 
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Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution
by:
Amber Tamblyn
3.90 avg rating — 1,600 ratings 
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Straight Up: Honest, Unfiltered, As-Real-As-I-Can-Put-It Advice for Life’s Biggest Challenges
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Trent Shelton
4.37 avg rating — 295 ratings 34. 
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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Michael Finkel
3.90 avg rating — 82,170 ratings 
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Mindful Crafting: The Maker's Creative Journey (Mindfulness series)
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Sarah Samuel
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings 38. 
The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words (Mindfulness series)
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Ella Berthoud
3.52 avg rating — 578 ratings 
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Song of Springhill - a love story & Spirit of Springhill - inspiring true life stories: Commemorative Two Book Set
by:
Cheryl McKay
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 41. 
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Serena: A Graphic Biography of the Greatest Tennis Champion
by:
Mark Hodgkinson
4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings 43. 
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Radio wizard: Edward Samuel Rogers and the revolution of communication
by:
Ian Anthony
2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century
by:
Sarah Miller
3.66 avg rating — 3,613 ratings 63. 
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
by:
Gary Paulsen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,166 ratings 
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Missing!: Mysterious Cases of People Gone Missing Through the Centuries 3.44 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The "Down Goes Brown" History of the NHL: The World's Most Beautiful Sport, the World's Most Ridiculous League
by:
Sean McIndoe
4.31 avg rating — 1,355 ratings 
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Speed Read Car Design: The History, Principles and Concepts Behind Modern Car Design (Volume 2) (Speed Read, 2)
by:
Tony Lewin
3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings 69. 
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.65 avg rating — 803 ratings 
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The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone
by:
Colin O'Brady
4.21 avg rating — 4,487 ratings 72. 
Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb 3.66 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels
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Jerry Langton
3.53 avg rating — 135 ratings 74. 
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 4.20 avg rating — 11,072 ratings
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To the Greatest Heights: Facing Danger, Finding Humility, and Climbing a Mountain of Truth
by:
Vanessa O'Brien
4.14 avg rating — 327 ratings 77. 
No Barriers (The Young Adult Adaptation): A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
by:
Erik Weihenmayer
4.10 avg rating — 851 ratings 
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Unknown and Unforgettable: A Guide to Canada's Prime Ministers
by:
Gary Schlee
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 80. 
Mythology Mega Collection: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes from the Norse, Egyptian, Japanese and Greek Mythology it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Jim Crow Also Lived Here: Structural Racism And Generational Poverty - Growing Up Black in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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At the Ocean's Edge: A History of Nova Scotia to Confederation
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Margaret Conrad
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 83. 
I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
by:
Arthur J. Ray
3.67 avg rating — 60 ratings 
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In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race
by:
Amy Cherrix
3.97 avg rating — 167 ratings 
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The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
by:
Randall Sullivan
3.87 avg rating — 1,880 ratings 
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Too Young to Die: Canada's Boy Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in the Second World War
by:
John Boileau
3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Where the Ghosts Are: A Guide to Nova Scotia's Spookiest Places
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Steve Vernon
3.69 avg rating — 45 ratings 98. 
Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player
by:
Willie O'Ree
4.24 avg rating — 531 ratings 