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{"id":6814270619707,"title":"Minds of Winter","handle":"minds-of-winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, \u003ci\u003eMinds of Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing novel about the chance meeting of two present-day travellers who expose one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search of answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, and Fay for her vanished grandfather. Driving Fay into town from the airport on a freezing January night, Nelson reveals a folder left behind by his brother. An image catches Fay’s eye: a clock she has seen before. Soon Fay and Nelson realize that their relatives have an extraordinary and historic connection — a secret share in one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of polar expedition. This is the riddle of the “Arnold 294” chronometer, which reappeared in Britain more than a hundred years after it was lost in the Arctic with the ships and men of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. 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Soon Fay and Nelson realize that their relatives have an extraordinary and historic connection — a secret share in one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of polar expedition. This is the riddle of the “Arnold 294” chronometer, which reappeared in Britain more than a hundred years after it was lost in the Arctic with the ships and men of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. 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Past and present merge to convey the polar landscape’s immense mysteries, and the lives of those voyagers compelled to seek answers in its icy expanses. Ed O’Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Ron Rash, author of Serena and Above the Waterfall","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Few novelists have the temerity to offer up mystery, suspense, adventure, and a famous historical puzzle in a single novel. Ed O’Loughlin does so in Minds of Winter, and takes the reader to the ends of the earth in the process.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Robert Hough, author of The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan and Dr. Brinkley’s Tower","OtherText_Review_0":"A tour de force.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"[A] complex tale of historical intrigue about 19th-century polar explorers.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"Minds of Winter is a profound ode to land, legend and love… . beautifully drawn and expertly told, Minds of Winter is gripping from the start.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Bright moments from the distant past spring up beside dark moments from the present, things hidden – a death, a gift, a lost clock – come briefly into view and then disappear forever. In Minds of Winter, Ed O’Loughlin’s brilliant story of polar exploration, time itself is an Arctic: a mysterious dimension of sun craze and apparitions, chance encounters and destiny. The mechanism of this novel is fascinating to observe, its implications are deeply human. In O’Loughlin’s work, our desire for knowledge, our obsession with the past, our grappling with life itself … all of it is generously, wittily on display.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"Hugely ambitious…[O’Loughlin] displays a prodigious imagination.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"Readers who delight in history and mystery mixed together will appreciate O’Loughlin’s shifting drifts of reality and imagination.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"[A] masterly, richly researched, vastly ranging tale.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_7":"Minds of Winter proves to be an exhilarating romp through the age of polar exploration … like the search for Franklin himself, Minds of Winter is a story of death and glory, loss and triumph and, ultimately, the mighty power of the imagination in the face of unrelenting struggle.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_8":"In both concept and execution the novel is a serious piece of work at once vastly entertaining and ambitious on a scale that leaves much of contemporary Irish fiction looking woefully insubstantial … there will be few better historical novels published this year.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_9":"[A] marvel of a novel.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Irish Independent","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-02-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Minds of Winter
The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.
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{"id":6815267094587,"title":"The Waking Comes Late","handle":"the-waking-comes-late","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2016 Governor General's Literary Award Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2017 Raymond Souster Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernor General’s Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton returns with a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. This is fierce music performed in a minor key.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:57-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:48:57-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2016-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209203462203,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000936","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Waking Comes Late - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000936","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d9172809-3128-437e-96d6-e80663f38148.jpg?v=1655698696"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d9172809-3128-437e-96d6-e80663f38148.jpg?v=1655698696","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22245176574011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d9172809-3128-437e-96d6-e80663f38148.jpg?v=1655698696"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d9172809-3128-437e-96d6-e80663f38148.jpg?v=1655698696","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2016 Governor General's Literary Award Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2017 Raymond Souster Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernor General’s Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton returns with a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. This is fierce music performed in a minor key.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887847950","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487003463","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770898714","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e’s most recent books are the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. 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He is also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel has also been optioned for film by Pall Grimsson and is currently in pre-production. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. 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The Waking Comes Late
A poetry collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us.
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Resilient as the star world from which they arise these women reconcile with their lives without giving in to the horrors they have faced. Vermette captures the reader from beginning to end. She creates unforgettable characters with honor, respect and a deft hand. In so doing she holds the reader’s tender love in her capable hands and weaves us right into the story. The Break is unforgettable.","OtherText_Review_10":"A visionary debut novel.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"CBC Books","OtherText_Review_11":"Stunning . . . [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_12":"One of the great Indigenous novels.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"First Nations Voice","OtherText_Review_13":"Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, The Break, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. In The Break, the characters may be Métis, but the motivations and emotions are surely universal. This is an accomplished writer who will go far.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Margaret Atwood","OtherText_Review_14":"A debut novel brimming with grace and wisdom, that puts the spotlight on the systemic violence being committed in our country, [The Break] is both a wake-up call and a call-to-arms. Vital.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_15":"It’s a timely novel that will keep you turning the pages and make you think well after you’ve turned the final one.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Niagara This Week","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song","OtherText_Review_2":"The lives of the girls and women in The Break are not easy, but their voices — complex, urgent, and unsparing — lay bare what it means to survive, not only once, but multiple times, against the forces of private and national histories. Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing","OtherText_Review_3":"Fiction is capable of helping us to comprehend difference and otherness, and The Break offers clear insight ino people struggling to secure a place in the world.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_4":"Katherena Vermette’s poignant novel, set in Winnipeg’s North End, opens with a violent crime that becomes the backdrop for a story of great depth and compassion. This masterfully written narrative shifts among the intergenerational voices of the women of one extended Indigenous family. The Break is a powerful, persuasive novel about the strength and love that bind these women to each other and to the men in their lives. The traditions and wisdom of a community are honoured, as is the exquisite individual humanity of each character. Although this is a novel of social importance, it transcends politics, taking the reader on a journey to the heart of what it means for one person to care about another, survive trauma, and endure.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Lauren B. Davis, Trevor Ferguson, and Pasha Malla","OtherText_Review_5":"The Break manages to be political even when it isn’t. It’s a book that explores social issues without ever preaching, or even seeming to be about them at all. It examines the only element of those issues that matter: their human impact. It’s astonishing in its empathy... She doesn’t pull her punches or dress up her truths. The Break leaves it all bare, and it demands to be read.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Uniter","OtherText_Review_6":"Vermette is skilled at writing with a language that is conversational and comfortable and with a poetic ease that makes the hard things easier to swallow. The result is a book that is at times emotionally demanding, funny, suspenseful, and always engaging.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_7":"Vermette offers us a dazzling portrayal of the patchwork quilt of\r\npain and trauma that women inherit, of the \"big and small half-stories\r\nthat make up a life.\" These are the stories our mothers, sisters and\r\nfriends have told us - the stories we absorb into our bloodstream\r\nuntil they might as well be our own.\r\n\r\n..a stunning debut - a novel whose 10 voices, Greek chorus-like, span\r\nthe full range of human possibility, from its lowest depths to its\r\nmost brilliant triumphs, as they attempt to make sense of this tragic\r\ncrime and of their own lives. \"The Break\" is an astonishing act of\r\nempathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking. A thriller gives us easy\r\nanswers - a victim and a perpetrator, good guys and bad guys. \"The\r\nBreak\" gives us the actual mess of life.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best.\r\n \r\nThough Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer – she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection North End Love Songs – for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about “[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.” The Break is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_9":"In Vermette’s poetic prose, The Break offers a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country — and the strength that helps them survive.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"The Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_6":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"01","PrizeCode_6":"04","PrizeName_0":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_1":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction","PrizeName_3":"Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award","PrizeName_4":"McNally Robinson Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Amazon.ca First Novel Award","PrizeName_6":"Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2016","PrizeYear_2":"2017","PrizeYear_3":"2017","PrizeYear_4":"2017","PrizeYear_5":"2017","PrizeYear_6":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001117\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
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And then they were gone …\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that “weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen’s waist.” Their demise came about in part because of their anatomy. They could swim swiftly underwater, but their small wings meant they couldn’t fly and their feet were so far back on their bodies, they couldn’t walk very well. Still the birds managed to escape their predators much of the time … until humans became seafarers.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eGreat Auks were pursued first by Vikings, then by Inuit, Beothuk and finally European hunters. Their numbers rapidly dwindled. They became collectors’ items — their skins were stuffed for museums, to be displayed along with their beautiful eggs. (There are some amazing stories about these stuffed auks — one was stolen from a German museum during WWII by Russian soldiers; another was flown to Iceland and given a red-carpet welcome at the airport.)\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough undeniably tragic, the final demise of the Great Auk led to the birth of the conservation movement. Laws were eventually passed to prevent the killing of birds during the nesting season, and similar laws were later extended to other wildlife species.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3\t\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eExplain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4\t\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781554988655","Height":"11","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","KeyTextFeatures":"author's note;historical context","MetaKeywords":"birds; nature and the natural world; extinction; endangered species; history; wildlife; conservation; respect for environment; questioning; summarizing; Common Core aligned; CC Literature Key Ideas and Details; grade 4; Kirkus starred review; Booklist starred review; School Library Journal starred review; White Raven Award; Governor General's Literary Award; short list; nonfiction; picture book; glossary; map; labels; scientific nomenclature; references; further reading","NumberOfPages":"44","OtherText_Review_0":"A sobering, beautifully presented extinction story.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"Accompanied by exquisitely rendered drawings … the text will enthrall and sadden readers, perhaps reminding them that when a species is gone, it has disappeared forever.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"International Literacy Association","OtherText_Review_2":"Young environmentalists will certainly be interested in this nonfiction title describing the demise of a species, the Great Auk, the last of which was seen before the start of the Civil War. Thousands of these birds, adept fishers and swimmers, once inhabited the North Atlantic region. The author describes how nature and humans spelled disaster for these creatures that were awkward on land and unable to fly due to their very small wings. Because the Great Auks were so easy to hunt, they provided food for explorers arriving in the area and were often burned for fuel. Eventually, with a reduced habitat and smaller numbers, they became prized for private collections because of their rarity. The author tells the Great Auk’s story in an engaging fashion, identifying turning points from which things could have resulted differently for this species. At the book’s conclusion, Thornhill performs an interesting switch by explaining how the demise of this oddly appealing bird eventually led to the thriving puffin population on Funk Island. Accompanied by exquisitely rendered drawings, created on a computer with Corel Painter, the text will enthrall and sadden readers, perhaps reminding them that when a species is gone, it has disappeared forever.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Literacy Daily","OtherText_Review_3":"This vivid, fascinating story emphasizes not only the importance of conservation but also how deeply intertwined the human and animal worlds can be. Eye-opening and tragic, to be sure, but surprisingly hopeful all the same.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_4":"The images have an etched and naturalistic quality that adds beauty and an emotional connection to the story of a long-extinct animal. Prose and science come together to highlight the loss of a species and then connect this extinction with modern conservation efforts.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_5":"Thornhill's detailed artwork will attract many readers, as will the engrossing and tragic tale.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Resource Links","OtherText_Review_6":"Thornhill’s approach to this historical event is so advanced it’s simple: she tells the tale … And what a tale it is.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_7":"Thornhill gracefully melds history and science, offering both detail and wit, as well as stirring illustrations that convey both the vast scale of oceans and the delicate patterns of an auk egg.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The New York Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"For hundreds of thousands of years, Great Auks thrived. 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The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
For hundreds of thousands of years, Great Auks thrived. And then they were gone …
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{"id":6815466389563,"title":"Three Times a Day","handle":"three-times-a-day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree Times a Day\u003c\/em\u003e was born of out of shared passions: Marilou’s for cooking and the art of entertaining and Alexandre Champagne’s for photography. Quebec pop sensation Marilou always loved food and cooking, but suffered from anorexia for six years in her late teens and early twenties. Now twenty-four, Marilou created a blog (Trois fois par jour) as a form of healing so she could start testing recipes, table settings, and food styling; Alexandre — her then boyfriend — took all the pictures. Their aim was to transform the relationship people have with food for the better — and to encourage them to take a fun and unpretentious approach to how and what we eat. The blog took off and was soon turned into a bestselling book that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThree Times a Day\u003c\/em\u003e, Marilou and Alexandre offer more than 100 new recipes that are delicious and easy to make and fit any budget, skill level, or dietary restrictions. Recipes include Cream of Beet \u0026amp; Almond Butter Soup; Chorizo, Crab \u0026amp; Shrimp Paella; Lemon \u0026amp; Olive Chicken with Feta Couscous; Gnocchi Pan-Fried in Butter with Pancetta \u0026amp; Peas; and Banana \u0026amp; Caramel Pudding. Beautifully photographed, Three Times a Day allows us to delve into an intimate universe full of flavours, colours, and beauty, and reminds us of the positive and healing nature of food in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:45:24-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:32:28-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Bestseller","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Marilou","Cookbooks","House of Anansi Press","Photographs by Champagne Alexandre","pub date: 2015-10-02"],"price":2495,"price_min":2495,"price_max":3495,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209981276219,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000356","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Three Times a Day - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":3495,"weight":1588,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000356","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209981833275,"title":"EPUB, fixed","option1":"EPUB, fixed","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000363","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Three Times a Day - EPUB, fixed","public_title":"EPUB, fixed","options":["EPUB, fixed"],"price":2495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000363","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209982062651,"title":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","option1":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000370","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Three Times a Day - Kindle, Fixed Layout","public_title":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","options":["Kindle, Fixed Layout"],"price":2495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000370","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1a70fd71-0e97-41f6-a04a-829dedc3fbb8.jpg?v=1678603070"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1a70fd71-0e97-41f6-a04a-829dedc3fbb8.jpg?v=1678603070","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324574089275,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.742,"height":944,"width":700,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1a70fd71-0e97-41f6-a04a-829dedc3fbb8.jpg?v=1678603070"},"aspect_ratio":0.742,"height":944,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1a70fd71-0e97-41f6-a04a-829dedc3fbb8.jpg?v=1678603070","width":700}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree Times a Day\u003c\/em\u003e was born of out of shared passions: Marilou’s for cooking and the art of entertaining and Alexandre Champagne’s for photography. Quebec pop sensation Marilou always loved food and cooking, but suffered from anorexia for six years in her late teens and early twenties. Now twenty-four, Marilou created a blog (Trois fois par jour) as a form of healing so she could start testing recipes, table settings, and food styling; Alexandre — her then boyfriend — took all the pictures. Their aim was to transform the relationship people have with food for the better — and to encourage them to take a fun and unpretentious approach to how and what we eat. The blog took off and was soon turned into a bestselling book that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThree Times a Day\u003c\/em\u003e, Marilou and Alexandre offer more than 100 new recipes that are delicious and easy to make and fit any budget, skill level, or dietary restrictions. 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Three Times a Day
Three Times a Day delves into an intimate universe full of flavors, colours, and beauty and offers more than 100 easy to make recipes.
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Fans of the author are in for another treat.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_1":"MacMillan deftly and engagingly shows that history is a process of capturing the minutiae of life as much as time’s epic strokes.","OtherText_Review_10":"History’s People is a refreshing perspective on history as a discipline and on people both well-known and obscure. This, coupled with MacMillan’s magnificent ability to take the most complex issue and render it clearly, is what makes the book such an engaging read. MacMillan has proven that her love of gossip only adds to her credentials as an historian, and one can only hope that she continues to find further subjects to write about for a long time to come.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Qull and Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_11":"[History’s People] very enjoyably explores how individuals not only make history, but also record it.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_12":"MacMillan’s passion for the subject is clear and will certainly be passed on to anyone who reads this book.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Parry Sound North Star","OtherText_Review_13":"History comes alive when Margaret MacMillan writes it, and here she gives readers her own selection of people of the past, ranging from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Samuel de Champlain.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_14":"It’s a rare history book that makes it to the top of the charts, and this collection of profiles is definitely in its own class… MacMillan is a friendly but intelligent writer. Her profiles are interesting and they keep you reading, but they’re also chock full of details and historical information that place these personalities in history.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"She is one of those rare scholars who can write for a larger audience without becoming bogged down in academic jargon. In her latest book, MacMillan shows this talent again in five absorbing lectures about a wide range of historical actors—from Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to Samuel Champlain and Elizabeth Simcoe—offering insight into their personal motivations and historical significance… With the federal election campaign underway, the party leaders could help themselves by heeding MacMillan’s words of wisdom.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Allan Levine","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"MacMillan draws on an astonishing well of scholarship…The house of history is vast, and as the Massey Lectures come to a close, two voices sound a very different, and more urgent, note: the observers Harry Kessler, born in 1868, the wealthy son of a German banker, and Viktor Klemperer, born in 1881, a German-Jewish professor in Dresden. Through their diaries, Kessler and Klemperer attempt to keep hold of their particular way of observing and thinking, which is to say, their souls. MacMillan powerfully recreates the era; she brings to life not simply their personalities, but their personhood.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Through this series of lectures, MacMillan demonstrates in rich and provocative detail, how history is an important tool for understanding our own world - as well as the world of others.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The History Eduation Network","OtherText_Review_5":"this book is an inspiring one, and the lives of the people included have lessons for all of us.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Dave Obee","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Victoria Times Colonist","OtherText_Review_6":"Margaret MacMillan rightly is a darling of Canadian letters, an acclaimed historian of international stature, a superb writer and author of several award-winning bestsellers. Her talents and intellect are so formidable she can do no professional wrong -- if she writes something it is worth reading, no question. This has been true of everything she has turned her mind to, and it is true of her latest work, History's People…the stories -- in the end is what is so richly rewarding about reading History's People. If the personal stories command MacMillan's interest, it goes without saying that they will command the attention of her readers, too.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Gerald Flood","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"wonderful… History’s People urges us to see the past in another way. MacMillan has provided us with a brilliantly guided tour through a dramatic and emotionally penetrating account of the human beings who by accident or design (and often through the luck of good timing) created the world we live in. She encourages us to see the human qualities, the frailties and passions of men and women who make history… Many readers of MacMillan’s book will want to give a copy to young people whose brains have been deadened by textbooks.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Robert Fulford","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_8":"Margaret MacMillan doesn’t just document the past; she brings it to life","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Readers' Digest","OtherText_Review_9":"Avoiding arid timelines, MacMillan, an Oxford professor , instead provides intimate human encounters. She seems to love sifting through the revealing details. “I want to gossip,” she confesses — and so do we.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2015-09-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.","Subtitle":"Personalities and the Past","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
History's People
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.
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The Breadwinner
"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times
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I cannot think of anyone else who could pull off so beautifully this controlled explosion of drollery, mischief , sly fun, and tenderness.","OtherText_Review_20":"Page by page, the book is often a hoot, brimming with winningly quirky characters operating by their own twisted fairy-tale logic.","OtherText_Review_20_Auth":"Michael Bourne","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_21":"By turns whimsical and macabre, fanciful and sinister…it is a journey of self-knowledge and self-realization, complete with sinister twists and menacing turns. It is a mythic journey from darkness to light, during which the hero accepts his fate and becomes the man he was destined to be. Moreover, it is a darn good read.","OtherText_Review_21_Auth":"Rob Reid","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Waterloo Region Record","OtherText_Review_22":"Undermajordomo Minor is an audacious fairy tale in the form of a novel. Or an outlandish novel as a fairy tale. Doesn’t matter. 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Undermajordomo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.
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Let the Elephants Run
A national bestseller, Let the Elephants Run is the essential guidebook for anyone looking to reignite their creativity.
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ages 13
and up
/ grades 8
and up
This One Summer
A unique story of friendship from the creators of the award-winning graphic novel Skim.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
I Know Here
A simple yet deeply felt and vibrantly illustrated story about a little girl who knows and loves the place she lives but has to move away.
