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{"id":6811313995835,"title":"Junebat","handle":"junebat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning author John Elizabeth Stintzi, \u003ci\u003eJunebat\u003c\/i\u003e is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Elizabeth Stintzi’s unforgettable debut collection, \u003ci\u003eJunebat\u003c\/i\u003e, grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming. Set during the year Stintzi lived in deep isolation in Jersey City, NJ, these poems map the depression the poet struggled with as they questioned and came to grips with their gender identity. Through the invention of the Junebat \u003ci\u003e— \u003c\/i\u003ea contradictory, evolving, ever-perplexing creature \u003ci\u003e— \u003c\/i\u003eStintzi is able to create a self-defined space within the poems where they can reside comfortably, beyond the firm boundaries of the gender binary or the plethora of identities gathered under the queer umbrella.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the speaker of the poems begins to emerge from their depression, the second wing of the book tracks their falling in love with a young woman surfacing from the end of her marriage. 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This butterfly image is repeated a second time, below the first, but upside down. The main colour is purple with bits of green and yellow. Text: Junebat. Poems. John Elizabeth Stintzi. 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Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.
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{"id":6811313111099,"title":"Ridgerunner","handle":"ridgerunner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWriters’ Trust Fiction Prize Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScotiabank Giller Prize Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner \u003cem\u003eRidgerunner \u003c\/em\u003eis now available as a paperback.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNovember 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family’s cabin, deep in the woods. 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It hearkens back to when novels were generous and ambitious, big-shouldered and big-hearted. Gil Adamson writes worlds utterly unto their own.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Robert Olmstead, award-winning author of Coal Black Horse and Savage Country","OtherText_Accolades_2":"In Gil Adamson’s Ridgerunner we meet thirteen-year-old Jack Boulton, whose quest — perhaps foolish, certainly dangerous — is to be reunited with his only living family member, his father. A beautiful and moving novel about the durability of family ties, Ridgerunner is a brilliant literary achievement, and in Jack Boulton, Adamson has created one of the most vividly rendered children you will ever encounter in fiction. I loved every page of it.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Michael Redhill, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of Bellevue Square","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Gil Adamson understands the pain and the necessary beauty of our connection with other people better than anyone. Ferocious, entirely authentic, funny, and tragic, Ridgerunner is a wild adventure spun in exalted prose: the book I’ve been wanting to read for years.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Marina Endicott, award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Difference","OtherText_Accolades_4":"In Ridgerunner, Gil Adamson manages a balancing act of beauty and violence, humour and heartbreak. She can write about anything: a nun’s madness, a twelve-year-old boy’s cooking talents, the way a horse moves through a cold forest. How it feels to be held on your mother’s lap, how it feels to jump off a moving train, how it feels to keep the people you’ve lost alive in your mind. The novel is vivid, beautiful, and fully alive.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Jamie Harrison, award-winning author of The Widow Nash and The Center of Everything","OtherText_Accolades_5":"[The characters] are so real, the time and place so convincing, and most importantly, the story captivating to the core.","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Jon Mayes","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eUpon release in hardcover \u003cem\u003eRidgerunner \u003c\/em\u003equickly became a Canadian bestseller.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eRidgerunner\u003c\/em\u003e is part literary Western and part historical mystery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is the follow up to Adamson’s previous award winning and critically acclaimed novel \u003cem\u003eThe Outlander\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Moreland kept moving south. If the moon was bright he walked all night, wading through dry prairie grass. He was alone and carried his meagre belongings on his back. It was November and snow clung to the hollows and shadows, but that snow was old, dry, delicate as meringue. He had come down the leeward side of the Rockies and had descended into the rolling grassland that runs from Alberta all the way into Montana. Having left the only real home he had ever known, he was looking for the border.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eCold as the days were, the sun was intense. Every noon he boiled in his coat and every night he lay shivering on the frigid ground and whined like a dog. After four days and nights, his feet were very bad. He suspected they were bloody by now but he couldn’t bring himself to pull off the boots and look.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThis was open country. To the east, long grass and low trees all the way to the horizon, and to the west, the land bled into the cloud-like silhouette of the mountains. Days ago he had lost sight of the ranges he called home, and now he paced alongside peaks he remembered dimly from long ago, when he was a younger man, a line of only half-familiar shapes, the faces of acquaintances. He’d stolen everything he could from a ranger’s station outside Banff, including a knapsack, a hatchet, matches, and a blanketcoat with ROCKY MTNS PARK stencilled across the shoulder blades and STN 153 on the chest. He’d found nothing useful for hunting. No gun, not even a knife.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe jerky he’d been eating began to fume right through the canvas of his knapsack and sicken him as he walked. Holding the bag to his belly he clawed through it, dropping behind him the last strips of meat. Then the reeking square of oilcloth in which they had been wrapped fluttered down to settle on a tuft of grass like a tiny umbrella. He took out the hatchet and considered dropping it as well, to get rid of the weight, but couldn’t open his hand. The hatchet had great utility, so he slid it back into his bag. He was god-almighty thirsty and dreamed as he walked, dreamed of a river, of drinking gallons of water from that cold river.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eOne afternoon he came upon a gully packed with young trees which turned out to be mostly dry, but he dug down and sipped at a muddy pool. Then he rolled onto his side under the cover of shrubs and slept hard. When he rose a few hours later it was getting on to dark and he was stiff and trembling.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThat night he found himself on the road he had been looking for. He followed it until he was standing, as planned, outside the little guard hut at the Sweetgrass border crossing between Alberta and Montana. He stood by the lightless window and swayed on numb legs. A bright coin of a moon overhead and no wind at all. The world was utterly still, so quiet he could hear his own ears humming. William Moreland stood like an idiot before the hut and waited for the guard. He stared about with hollow eyes and slowly came to the conclusion that he should probably do something.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eBeyond the hut was a small gabled house and an unoccupied corral. There was a motorcar up on blocks by the kitchen door, but no lights to be seen anywhere. Moreland tried to call out with his dry throat but all that came out was a thin hiss; his first attempt to speak in more than a week. The applicant to cross over simply waited there, as he should, trying to either speak to authority, or call for service, but could make no sound at all, while the guard slumbered somewhere out of sight.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eA barn owl melted out of the dark and alighted on a gable of the house. They gazed unblinking at each other until the owl tilted off and moved without sound to the west. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe absurdity of the situation was not lost on Moreland: this was after all the border between two countries. But all around him was a sea of grass and rolling land and wind and animals and dust and seeds that flowed this way and that across the imagined line. A decade and a half earlier he would not have stopped, nor intended to stop, nor have approached the crossing station at all. He would not have given it the slightest thought, but gone his own, quiet, solitary way, neither wild nor domesticated, just alone. But now he had been so long among people he’d forgotten that part of himself. So it came to him very slowly that the natural world, having long ago defined its own precincts and notions of order, was simply waiting for him to become unstuck. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHe cupped his face and pressed it to the thin glass. In the darkness of the hut he saw a wooden counter and a high stool. He wandered round to the rear and pulled open the door. Inside he found a shelf under the counter on which stood a few romance books, a clean plate and a fork, long-dead bees and bits of bee, and below that, bolted to the floor, a small metal box. On top lay a heavy padlock, twisted open, and the key was stuck in it. He gathered the padlock into his fist, lifted the lid of the box, and let it all sag to the floor. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eMoreland stood for a long time looking down at the revolver. An army model, Colt single action. There were a few spare rounds in the box, some of which didn’t match the gun but seemed to have been put there for tidy housekeeping. He considered taking the pistol, but in the end he shut the lid of the box, put the padlock back on top, shut the door to the hut, and left everything as it had been. He looked across the road at the blank windows of the little house and went back out into the night, moving south, always south, wading through a vast nothingness of grass. An ocean of grass.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Adamson’s Ridgerunner is the kind of book that forges the possible from the impossible, despite age and borders. It’s a hearty, brave novel that challenges us to live life on our own terms.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Chicago Review of Books","OtherText_Review_1":"Part literary Western, part historical mystery, it’s a vivid story that grabs you by the eyeballs on page one.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Engrossing … Adamson immerses readers in life as it was a century ago with attention to details about horses, wolves, bears, the weather, and all of nature, including the light and dark of human nature. Her sly plotting never quits, luring the reader into shocking surprises.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_3":"I have just finished reading Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson, a novel that left me deeply satisfied and savouring the experience of reading a really good book … A great story and a wonderfully written novel.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Metro North Bay-Nippissing","OtherText_Review_4":"Adamson writes with a sly wit and a deep insight into her characters and the natural world but, more significantly, into how the characters and the natural world interact, shaping and being shaped by one another . . . Everything packs a significant punch and draws the reader into the novel’s world with a startling immediacy.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_5":"Striking … Once again, Adamson’s powers as a poet weave her characters deeply into the natural world.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_6":"Rich and exciting … delightful, sinewy language that takes time with the details of the moment, of humour and whimsy … Adamson’s writing soars.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Hamilton Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003ePart literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner \u003cem\u003eRidgerunner \u003c\/em\u003eis now available as a paperback.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_1":"Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_1":"2020","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2020-05-12","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003ePart literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner \u003cem\u003eRidgerunner \u003c\/em\u003eis now available as a paperback.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Ridgerunner
Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback.
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Satched
Named after a local word meaning “soaked through” or “weighed down,” Satched is Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Megan Gail Coles’s debut poetry collection.
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The Hunter and the Old Woman
The intertwined story of a cougar and a man that portrays the strength, vulnerability, and consciousness of two top predators. Not since Life of Pi have we encountered such transcendence or walked so fully in the footsteps of a big cat.
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Heartache and hardship are no match for the disarming whimsy, the layered storytelling shot through with love. The power of land, the pull of family, the turbulence of poverty are threads woven together with explorations of reality, tackling truth with a trickster slant.” — Eden Robinson, author of \u003cem \u003eSon of a Trickster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem \u003eClifford\u003c\/em\u003e is a story only Harold Johnson could tell. By turns soft and harsh, intellectual and emotional, Johnson weaves truth, fiction, science, and science fiction into a tapestry that is rich with meaning and maybes. A natural storyteller, Johnson seeks imagined pasts and futurity with equal parts longing and care. This work allows readers and writers the possibility of new and ancient modes of storytelling.” — Tracey Lindberg, author of \u003cem \u003eBirdie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“The story’s meditations on loss, family, and fateful actions prove absorbing from the opening page.” — \u003cem \u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Harold R. Johnson is a wonderful writer, and \u003cem \u003eClifford\u003c\/em\u003e is his best work yet. For fans of Jack Finney and Richard Matheson, this terrific book is a wonderfully human tale of memory both bitter and sweet, as well as a poignant exploration of time’s hold over all of us.” — Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award–winning author of \u003cem \u003eQuantum Night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem \u003eClifford\u003c\/em\u003e is unlike anything I’ve read — it is at once a story of science and magic, love and loss, and a case for the infinite potential of humanity. 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I know many white alcoholics but it’s always ‘the drunk Indian.’ Why? \u003cem \u003eFirewater\u003c\/em\u003e is a great book; it burns in the hand.” — \u003cem \u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR HAROLD JOHNSON AND \u003cem \u003eCORVUS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, 2016 Saskatchewan Book Awards Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“An impassioned, formally innovative twist on the dystopian genre.” — \u003cem \u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Johnson’s done some solid thinking about a world killing itself with its intellect while it denies its heart and soul in favour of more luxury goods” — \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eSaskatoon Star Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Corvus pushes back … playing with the space between the real and the imagined, the organic and the alive, the human and the animal.” — \u003cem \u003eBull Calf Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Johnson fortifies the place of Indigenous peoples in his frightening dystopia, offering up Cree ways of knowing as key to the hyper-technological aspirations of continental North America. 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The Björkan Sagas
Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history in this epic saga of exploration and adventure.
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No Pain Like This Body
The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community.
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Ablutions
From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.
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How Emily Saved the Bridge
The amazing story of Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who stepped in to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was completed in 1883.
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West Coast Wild at Low Tide
In this third book in the West Coast Wild series, explore the intertidal zone — where only the most adaptable creatures thrive in the changing tides.
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When Spider Met Shrew
When Spider meets Shrew, they are both down on their luck — can these quirky new friends help each other out?
