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Second Words
Reissued in a handsome A List edition, the largest collection of critical prose to date from world renowned author and poet Margaret Atwood.
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Africville presents a piece of this history through the eyes of a child who has grown up hearing stories about the community. The poetic text and beautiful art show what a child would have loved about living there.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn author’s note provides further information about the community and how it was demolished — a tragic episode of injustice and racial discrimination. To learn more now, here is an excellent National Film Board of Canada documentary on Africville: https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/remember_africville\/.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections include social studies \/ Canadian history, heritage and identity, community, prejudice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\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":"This story celebrates the beauty and joy of the community seen through a child’s eyes. . . . There is both pride and longing expressed in the lyrical text, and the vibrant colors and friendly compositions of the oil and pastel illustrations immerse readers in this community.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"Shauntay Grant’s writing is graceful ... She reaches out to young readers and invites them in ... Visually, Africville is gorgeous. Eva Campbell’s illustrations are arresting; the colours are warm and inviting, and her painterly style enhances the dreamlike quality of the story.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"Through the poem, readers visit this sparkling seaside community . . .. Grant's evocative descriptions are perfectly matched in tone and timbre with Campbell's vibrant oil-and-pastel renderings of the town and its residents.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_3":"The writing is spare but emotional, and the art brings the community to life. A loving tribute to a history that should not be forgotten.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_4":"[Shauntay] Grant’s perfectly paced free verse poetry has a gentle, hypnotic quality that flows through the narrative and invites the reader to savour each word and the myriad images the words evoke. Eva Campbell’s illustrations are bold, bright and filled with energy and motion. . . . [A] vivid portrait of what Africville once was.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_Review_5":"The simplicity of [Shauntay Grant’s] story engages readers of all ages and backgrounds, and it brings to light a dark period in history in a completely accessible and very beautiful way. There is a melody to Grant’s poetry that entrances, and, when paired with Eva Campbell’s vivid illustrations, the former thriving community comes to life. . . . Africville is destined to become a picture book classic . . .","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_Review_6":"The reader travels on a special journey in both text and visual memories in Africville. . . . Africville is a delightful book for classrooms and public libraries looking for a gentle storybook as well a tribute to the history of a place that should not be forgotten.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Resource Links","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e[A] gorgeous and radiant ode.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vancouver Writers Fest","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A powerful reimagination of what it was like to live in Africville in the 1960s through the eyes of a young girl.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeName_0":"Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award","PrizeName_1":"Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration","PrizeName_2":"Governor General's Literary Award, Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books","PrizeName_3":"Elizabeth-Mrazik Cleaver Award","PrizeName_4":"Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award","PrizeName_5":"Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award","PrizeName_6":"CBC Books Best Canadian YA and Children's Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2019","PrizeYear_5":"2019","PrizeYear_6":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2018-09-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A powerful reimagination of what it was like to live in Africville in the 1960s through the eyes of a young girl.","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781773060439\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","teachersguide_1":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781773060439\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=1","Width":"8.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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A powerful reimagination of what it was like to live in Africville in the 1960s through the eyes of a young girl.
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A complex and at times alarming tale, but also, in the end, a deeply hopeful one.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Robert Moor, author of On Trails","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Having spent time, personally, with Big Lonely Doug, and wandering through the last of our ancient forests in British Columbia, it's never been more clear to me how imperative it is for us as humans to recognize the magnificence of these ancient trees and forests and do everything that we can to preserve them. With less than 1 percent of the original old-growth Douglas-fir stands left on B.C.’s coast, it’s time for Canadians to embrace Big Lonely Doug and his fellow survivors, and keep them standing tall. Harley Rustad’s story brings both the majesty and adversity of Big Lonely Doug a little closer to home.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Edward Burtynsky","OtherText_Accolades_3":"You can see the forest for the trees, at least when the trees in question are singular giants like Big Lonely Doug, and the writer deftly directing your gaze is Harley Rustad. This sweeping yet meticulous narrative reveals the complex human longings tangled up in B.C.’s vanishing old-growth forests — cathedrals or commodities, depending on who you ask, and the future hinges on our answer.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Kate Harris, author of Lands of Lost Borders","OtherText_Accolades_4":"An affecting story of one magnificent survivor tree set against a much larger narrative — the old conflict between logging and the environmental movement, global economics, and the fight to preserve the planet’s most endangered ecosystems. If you love trees and forests, this book is for you.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Charlotte Gill, author of Eating Dirt","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHarley Rustad is an editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, a major Canadian magazine, who has contributed to numerous long-form articles, including “Big Lonely Doug,” which won a National Magazine Award. He has also received an Honourable Mention from the National Magazine Awards for a feature on digital mapping in Belcher Islands, Nunavut, as well as a Collective Nomination for an investigation into a failed immigration program in Prince Edward County. He is poised to be a breakout debut author.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThere is a perennial interest in books on the natural world and in particular on trees, such as the surprise international bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Life of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e by Peter Wohleben and the award-winning, bestselling, \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Spruce\u003c\/em\u003e by John Vaillant.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe morning of that day in the winter of 2011 began like any other. Known as cutblock number 7190 by his employer, Teal Jones, the twelve hectares fringing the east bank of the Gordon River a half-hour’s drive north of Port Renfrew was a prime example of kind of old-growth forest that once spanned Vancouver Island from tip to tip and coast to coast. This small patch of trees held black bears and Roosevelt elk, with the possibility of wolves and cougars passing through. It held red-capped woodpeckers knocking on standing deadwood, squirrels and chipmunks nibbling on cones to extract the seeds, and fungi the size of a dinner plate protruding from the trunks of some of the largest trees in the world. New green seedlings sprouted from old fallen stumps. Cronin brushed through the undergrowth, his jeans damp with persistent dew. Mounds of lime-green moss covering a thick bed of decaying tree needles were moist and soft underfoot—absorbing sound like a sponge. For now, the forest was still.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutblock 7190 also held great value for his timber company. At roughly twice the size of twelve soccer fields, the flat plateau near the base of Edinburg Mountain in the scope of the valley was a tiny sliver of forest. But it held some towering and valuable trees. The price of timber fluctuates every year, depending on species and market, but that year old growth was fetching between $80 and $100 per cubic metre of wood. (One cubic metre is roughly the size of a telephone pole.) West Coast old-growth forests produce between 800 to 1,200 cubic metres of wood per hectare, roughly twice as much timber as second growth. The gross value of the cut wood in this one cutblock in the Gordon River Valley could yield approximately a million dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking in tandem with Walter Van Hell, Cronin began the survey at the low side of cutblock 7190, where he could hear the Gordon River thundering on the other side of a steep gorge. Come spring, salmon fry would be wriggling free of the pebbled river bottom and make their first swim downstream to open water; come fall, grown fish would hurl themselves upstream to spawn in the clear waters. He walked the contour of the cutblock. At regular intervals of a couple dozen metres or so, he reached into his vest pocket for a roll of neon-orange plastic ribbon and tore off a strip. The colour had to be bright to catch the eye of the fallers who would follow in the months to come. He tied the inch-wide sashes around small trees or low-hanging branches to mark the edges of the cutblock. “Falling Boundary” was repeated in block letters along each ribbon. The forest practice code stipulated that the company had to leave a buffer of intact forest 50 metres up from a river, especially one that was known to be a spawning ground for salmon. Some engineers keep tight to those regulations to try to extract as much timber as possible from a given area. They fall under the category of what’s known as a “timber pig,” someone who cuts and hauls trees by a singular mantra: log it, burn it, pave it. The sentiment is two-fold: ecology comes secondary to economics and these forests exist to be harvested. But Cronin was often generous with these buffer zones, leaving 60 or 75 metres up from a river—as much as he could without drawing the ire of coworkers or bosses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce the twelve hectares was enclosed in orange ribbon, Cronin crisscrossed through the cutblock surveying the pitches and gradients of the land. It was a slow task, clambering over fallen nurse logs and through thickets of bush. His goal was to determine where a road could be ploughed through the forest. It takes a specific skill to see through dense trees and haphazard undergrowth and plot a sure course that could allow for the safest and easiest extraction of logs. Maneuvering over undulating land layered with deadfall and vegetation, he marked a direct line through the forest with strips off another roll of ribbon, this one hot pink and marked with the words “Road Location.” He traversed any creek he came across and flagged it in red ribbon. When he was done, the green-and-brown grove was lit up with flashes of colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile working, Cronin was followed by a Steller’s jay—the provincial bird of British Columbia—which took particular interest in his work. “He would follow me around like a dog,” Cronin said. “I would be traversing creeks, taking my measurements and bearings, and he’s hopping behind me picking up the bugs as I stirred them up.” But once Cronin traversed a creek that separated cutblock 7190 with another patch of old growth slated for clearcut to the southeast, the jay stopped. “He would never cross that creek. We would pick him up again when we crossed back,” he says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sun broke through the canopy in long beams that spot-lit sword ferns and huckleberry bushes growing from the forest floor. But as Cronin waded through the thigh-high undergrowth, something caught his eye: a Douglas fir, larger than the rest, with a trunk so wide that it could have hidden his truck behind. He scrambled up the mound of sloughed bark and dead needles that had accumulated over centuries around the base of the giant tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis Cronin looked up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree dominated the forest; a monarch of its species. A crown of dark-green, glossy needles flitted in the breeze well above the canopy of the rest of the forest, made up of a handful of exceptionally large cedars and firs but mostly younger and thinner hemlock. The tree’s trunk was limbless until a great height, like many of the oldest Douglas firs he had come across in his career. The species often loses its lower branches that grow in the shadow of the forest’s canopy, directing its attention to those that enjoy the maximum of the sun’s energy. Many of these large and old Douglas firs have trunks that grow twisted and gnarled, with clear marks of disease. This tree’s trunk sported few knots and a grain that appeared straight: it was a wonderful specimen of timber, Cronin thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He had spent the majority of his life walking through old-growth forests, under the canopies of some of the largest trees in the country. He had seen hundreds of giants, but this one tree stood above the rest. Douglas firs and Western red cedar are the two species in this area that are the most wind resistant, so are often stable enough to outlast storms and continue to grow through several iterations of a forest over a millennium. Still, many of the larger, centuries-old examples of these two species break off at their more fragile tops and their centres, over time, fill with water and rot. They become unstable and prone to blowdown. The timber inside begins to lose its value. The majority of the trees Cronin had flagged over his career, marking them for protection, were ones that he considered to be non-merchantable wood: the trunks were too twisted or too flawed. He could tell by looking at knots along a trunk if there was rot inside. For these trees, Cronin thought, why cut them down? Instead of a timber company deriving little value from these diseased or hollow trees, they can be left standing to serve the remainder of their lives as wildlife habitats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Dennis Cronin laid eyes on the large Douglas fir in cutblock 7190, he could see immense timber value. “I’m a logger and I’ve taken out millions of trees,” Cronin said. “But I was impressed.” The limbless trunk held only a minor twist, and the bark looked healthy. He couldn’t know with one hundred percent certainty, however. “You don’t know until you put a saw into it and by that point it’s too late,” Cronin said. But the tree exhibited few of the exterior telltale signs of rot or disease.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs well as an encyclopedic knowledge of these forests, Cronin could also see through the bark of a tree to its very core and see dollars. “I can look at a tree and tell if it’s got value or not. If it’s not twisted, if the bark is healthy, if the limbs are healthy,” Cronin said. “That one had value.” Encased within the deeply crevassed and corky bark of this single tree lay enough wood to fill four logging trucks to capacity with some to spare. If milled into dimensional lumber—two-by-fours, two-by-sixes, and the like—it could be used to frame five 2,000-square-foot houses. At first glance, he assessed the single tree in unprocessed log value as around twenty thousand dollars. But since it was a Douglas fir, with its coveted warm colour and pronounced grain, the tree could be turned into higher-priced beams and posts for houses in Victoria and Vancouver, or shipped across the Pacific Ocean to Japan. The single tree that the logger stood under could fetch more than fifty thousand dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing his hand-held hypsometre, a device to measure a standing tree’s height using triangulation of measurements, Cronin took readings from the base and the top of the tree and estimated its height at approximately seventy metres—one of the largest he had ever come across in his career—around the height of a twenty-story apartment building. Using a tape, he measured the tree’s breast height girth. It appeared just shy of the Red Creek Fir, the largest Douglas fir in the world, located a couple valleys away. Cronin didn’t know it then, but he had found one of the largest trees in the country. “When I walked up to it, I passed some big firs and some really big cedars—twelve footers, maybe,” Cronin said, referring to the diameter of the trees. But this one fir dominated the rest. “He towered above the forest. He stuck out like a sore thumb.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eCronin could have moved on, continuing through the undergrowth to finish the job of mapping and flagging the cutblock for the fallers. The tree, with the rest of the forest around it, would have stood patiently awaiting its inevitable fate. The fallers would have arrived months later and the tree would have been brought down in a thunderclap heard kilometres away, hauled from the valley, loaded onto logging trucks, and taken to a mill to be broken into its most useful and most valuable parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eBut Dennis Cronin lingered under the big tree. He walked around a circumference so great it would take more than six people holding hands in a circle to wrap around its base. Cronin had spent four decades working on logging crews and as a forest engineer, countless days working in the forests of Vancouver Island, and had encountered thousands of enormous trees over his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eInstead of moving on, Cronin reached into his vest pocket for a ribbon he rarely used, tore off a strip, and wrapped it around the broad base of the great Douglas fir’s trunk. The tape wasn’t pink or orange or red but green, and along its length were the words “Leave Tree.”\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[Rustad’s] microscale descriptions of the landscape and how commercial forestry has changed it bring you into the depths of Vancouver Island.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Outside Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"Rustad, a Salt Spring Island native, digs into the B.C. psyche with his discussions of old growth forests, big trees, the logging industry, ecotourism, and First Nations rights and issues.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"[Harley Rustad] is a gifted researcher and writer and a valuable enabler whose book is a must-read for anyone interested in ecology.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"[A] very timely narrative.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of \u003cem\u003eBig Lonely Doug\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds in marvellous detail, with liberal doses of humour, pathos, and conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_5":"[Harley Rustad] weaves the ecology of the rainforests of Vancouver Island, the legends around them, the business of logging pitted against the environmentalist movements, the contentious issue of ecotourism, and the rights of First Nations into a compelling, fascinating read.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Desi News","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The story one of the largest trees in Canada whose unlikely survival and discovery sheds light on environmentalism, climate change and ecotourism.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The story one of the largest trees in Canada whose unlikely survival and discovery sheds light on environmentalism, climate change and ecotourism.","Subtitle":"The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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With a plot that moves from lobbyists to politicians to construction magnates, the novel gives a lively panoramic view of the state of the province today in a universal story of an ambitious young man getting ahead by any means possible.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD-WINNING TRANSLATOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe novel is being translated by Wayne Grady, who has won many awards for his previous French-to-English translations. 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He planned to top off his sabbatical year with a long hitchhiking trip through South America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, towards midsummer, his uncle Raoul, who had become a partial invalid, gave Jerome his hunting equipment. As an adolescent, Jerome had gone on dozens of hunting trips with his uncle, so he was fairly familiar with guns — which, to his father, were an abomination. Jerome’s memories of those trips were filled with marvels that passing time had embellished. So, one afternoon, handling the rifles and carbines his uncle had sent him and seeing how assiduously oiled and polished they were, he was so moved that tears came to his eyes. A hunger for the hunt took hold of him and held on unrelentingly; come the night, he dreamed of going on safaris in shadowy forests in which he came face to face with herds of deer, moose, or caribou, which he would slaughter in a terrifying burst of gunfire, half blinded by the clouds of acrid smoke that made him cough and laugh at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe dedicated a weekend to courses — “Arms Management” and “An Introduction to Hunting” — in order to get his permit, which he received a month later. Yet, even with it, he felt he needed to have someone experienced with him on his first adult foray into the woods. And so, in early October, he’d surfed the Internet to look for a hunting guide, came up with Donat Pimparé, and the business was settled in no time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was Pimparé who suggested they get themselves to Maniwaki.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I know it’s a bit far,” Pimparé had said, “and sure, there’ll be some expenses, but in the past five or six years I’ve found no better place for big game. I’ve never led a hunting party up there that hasn’t come back with an animal. If you don’t wanna come home empty-handed, pal, then Maniwaki’s the place to go.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty-eight-year-old Pimparé lived in Sorel and had accumulated a lot of experience as a guide. And since Jerome, two months earlier, had totalled his beloved Mazda in an accident from which he, fortunately, had escaped unharmed — other than three demerit points off his driver’s licence — Pimparé offered to drive them both up to Maniwaki in his minivan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If we get a moose that’s too big for the van,” he joked, “you can come back by bus.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich was what he would have to do, apparently. But without the moose.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Beauchemin’s considerable skills as a narrator of improbable events deployed along a plot line ingeniously constructed remain on full display here. As does his sharp eye for broad but sharp description of buffoons spouting farrago and bravado, and his ear for telling declamations that immediately undercut their alleged intentions —everything we have learned to expect from the master.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"Beauchemin’s prose is amiable and fluid.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"A moral story of initiation, vengeance, and redemption (and just a little bit of love) . . . reminiscent of Balzac’s Lost Illusions, Flaubert’s Sentimental Education, or Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2018-09-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien
Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.
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Illustrator Ken Daley has drawn on his knowledge of the Caribbean to create vibrant paintings that convey the flavor of life in Haiti.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHISTORICAL CONTEXT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe book provides a brief introduction to the history of Haiti, including a few of its heroes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA DIFFERENT IMMIGRATION STORY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMany stories on emigration and immigration focus on arrival in a new place, while this story shows what it’s like for the next generation to return to their parents’ homeland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA GIRL AND HER AUNT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe story features a close relationship between a young girl and the aunt she seldom sees.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCURRICULUM CONNECTIONS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections include Social studies \/ heritage and identity \/ family; Language arts \/ reading; Visual arts \/ painting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\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\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorn Book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Daley’s . . . paintings convey some of the complexities of time and place through the images themselves. … Young readers will enjoy how Latour and Daley celebrate Haitian history and culture through this lovely, artistic story.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"[N]atural metaphors and poetic ideas will make this a good choice for sharing aloud in the classroom and creating emotional connection to a subject of study. Furthermore, the illustrator’s Afro-Caribbean roots amplify the love song the Haitian American author has composed to Haiti. . . . An excellent selection for exploring deep connections to Haiti through love, family, history, and art.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_2":"The narrative is lush and lyrical, capturing the romance of nostalgia as well as the concrete thoughts of the child. Daley’s acrylic illustrations burst off the page in deeply saturated, vibrant colors that echo but do not imitate Luce Turnier’s own art.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_3":"Daley brings intimacy to the spreads, filling them with splashy tones and arresting framed portraits. An illuminating author’s note speaks about the Haitian revolution and the importance of remembering forgotten figures.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_4":"This vividly illustrated picture book is a feast for the eyes.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Resource Links","OtherText_Review_5":"A quiet celebration of bicultural, bi-geographic identity . . .","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A Haitian American girl finds connection to generations of family lore in this story of identity, heart and home.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Américas Award","PrizeName_1":"Kirkus Best Picture Books","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2018-10-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A Haitian American girl finds connection to generations of family lore in this story of identity, heart and home.","Width":"10","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 5
to 8
/ grades K
to 3
Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings
A Haitian American girl finds connection to generations of family lore in this story of identity, heart and home.
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Below the attic windows, a lead-lined gutter edged by a stone parapet was packed with decaying leaves, and the sticks and feathers of ancient pigeon nests. Far below, Cara was standing on the fountain in front of the house. The mass of her hair was the first thing I noticed — almost solid with its dark, tight curls and centre parting, hiding all but a strip of her milk-white face. She was shouting in Italian. I didn’t know the words; the closest I have come to understanding Italian is the Latin names of plants, and even these have faded now. A test: Cedrus … Cedrus … Cedrus Libani, Cedar of Lebanon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree storeys below, Cara stood on the fountain, her bare feet balancing on the plump thighs of a putto. One hand gripped the robes of a stone woman as though she were trying to wrest them from her and the other held a pair of flat ballet pumps. I winced at the damage she might be doing to the already chipped and broken marble. I half-hoped that the fountain might be a Canova or one of his pupils. Cara was wearing a long crocheted dress, and I was certain even from my distance, no brassiere. The sun had nearly set on the other side of the house and her body was in shadow, but her head, where she tilted it back to look up, was vivid. I knew her already: hot-blooded and prickly, bewitching; a flowering cactus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI thought she was shouting at me, up in my attic. I have never liked loud sounds, harsh words; I’ve always preferred the quiet of a library, and back then I couldn’t remember anyone raising their voice to me, not even my mother, although of course, things are different now. 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From my window I saw him burst out of the front door onto the carriage turn just as Cara was pushing a bicycle at a trot through what was left of the gravel and simultaneously putting on her shoes. When she reached the avenue, she pulled up her and jumped on the bicycle like a circus acrobat jumping onto a moving horse, something I could never have managed then and certainly not now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Cara!” Peter called. “Please don’t go.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe watched her, Peter and I, swerve around the potholes along the avenue of limes. Peddling away from us, she let go of the bicycle with one hand and stuck up two fingers in reply. 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Without knowing why, since I had every reason to be there, I slid back into the room and ducked below the sill. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"The atmosphere [Fuller] conjures creates its own choking sense of dread.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Claire Fuller’s Bitter Orange, a carefully contained mystery, thriller, and horror novel, is a haunting contemporary echo of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_2":"The story builds to a shocking finale, resulting in a thoroughly enjoyable book with a well-paced plot and plenty of twists and turns.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Elle Canada","OtherText_Review_3":"Page by page, Fuller enchants us with prose as thick as clotted cream, only for us to realize too late that she’s been ensnaring us at every turn.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Paris Review","OtherText_Review_4":"A novel you don’t want to end.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"International Dublin Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-10-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Bitter Orange
A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.
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The Biggest Puddle in the World
Sarah and Charlie hunt down the biggest puddle in the world with their grandfather in this fun introduction to the water cycle, perfect for young readers.
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An Owl at Sea
The extraordinary, true story of an owl stranded on the deck of an oil rig one hundred miles from shore, and the Good Samaritans who shepherded it home.
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She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Vo, Nancy (CA)","Contributor_1":"Vo, Nancy (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this second book in Nancy Vo’s Crow Stories trilogy, a ranger and a fox form a special and unexpected friendship while navigating an indifferent and dangerous wilderness. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this memorable and beautifully illustrated story, a ranger comes across a fox caught in a trap. The ranger frees the fox and promises only to tend to its wounds. The fox recovers and remains curiously close to the ranger, and when unexpected twists occur, the fox ends up being the helper. The ranger asks the fox, “Does this make us even?” and almost immediately feels regret—keeping score has no place in friendship. 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Then she adds subtle details with newspapers and textile materials from the time period researched — the 1860s to 1870s for \u003cem\u003eThe Ranger\u003c\/em\u003e. The body typeface is Caslon, which was also used for the original printings of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy’s stories address themes such as friendship (\u003cem\u003eThe Ranger\u003c\/em\u003e) and redemption (\u003cem\u003eThe Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e) simply, yet with depth and elegance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections include language arts \/ reading; social skills \/ friendship; health \/ human development.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ranger\u003c\/em\u003e is the second book in a trilogy, which was preceded by \u003cem\u003eThe Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e and will be followed by \u003cem\u003eThe Priest\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy uses pen and watercolor to create her unique style of illustration. Then she adds subtle details with newspapers and textile materials from the time period researched — the 1860s to 1870s for \u003cem\u003eThe Ranger\u003c\/em\u003e. The body typeface is Caslon, which was also used for the original printings of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNancy’s stories address themes such as friendship (\u003cem\u003eThe Ranger\u003c\/em\u003e) and redemption (\u003cem\u003eThe Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e) simply, yet with depth and elegance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections include language arts \/ reading; social skills \/ friendship; health \/ human development.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\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":"A restrained text fuses with visually arresting and enigmatic interactions to open a welcoming space for contemplation.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"The Ranger is a memorable and beautifully illustrated picture book story … an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to family, daycare center, preschool, elementary school, and community library picture book collections …","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Midwest Book Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the sequel to The Outlaw, a ranger and a fox form a special and unexpected friendship while navigating an indifferent and dangerous wilderness.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"07","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Chocolate Lily Book Award — Picture Book","PrizeName_1":"Kirkus Best Picture Books","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2019-08-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","Series":"The Crow Stories trilogy","ShortDescription":"In the sequel to The Outlaw, a ranger and a fox form a special and unexpected friendship while navigating an indifferent and dangerous wilderness.","Width":"8.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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The Ranger
In the sequel to The Outlaw, a ranger and a fox form a special and unexpected friendship while navigating an indifferent and dangerous wilderness.
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Watermark
From Christy Ann Conlin comes a breathtaking and unforgettable collection about how the briefest moment can shape us forever.
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Fern and Horn
Fern and Horn look like two peas in a pod, but they have very different ways of seeing the world in this joyful picture book about creativity.
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In his fifty-year career he worked as a journalist, a professor, and a cultural attaché in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Introduction by","Contributor_0":"Clarke, Austin","Contributor_1":"Walcott, Rinaldo (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow available after over four decades, the first collection of short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian luminary Austin Clarke — winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Trillium Book Award for his novel \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Polished Hoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e — is a vital, lyrical, and provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally issued in 1971, Austin Clarke’s first published collection of eleven remarkable stories showcases his groundbreaking approach to chronicling the Caribbean diaspora experience in Canada. Characters move through the mire of working life, of establishing a home for themselves, of reconciling with what and who they left behind — all the while contending with a place in which their bone-chilling reception is both social and atmospheric. In lyrical, often racy, and wholly unforgettable prose, Clarke portrays a set of provocative, scintillating portraits of the psychological realities faced by people of colour in a society so often lauded for its geniality and openness.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487008420","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487008420\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"A List","MetaKeywords":"bipoc; black culture; barbados; immigration; racism; award winning author; black lives matter; identity; white society; colonialism; james baldwin; malcolm x; harlem; canada's angriest black man; canlit; short fiction; black author; immigrant community; introduction; giller prize; martin luther king jr. achievement award; no pain like this body harold sonny ladoo; heads of the coloured people; columbus and the fat lady matt cohen; collectors edition","NumberOfPages":"176","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVITAL WORK AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY, THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA, AND RACE AND CLASS IN POST-COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the age of Black Lives Matter; the rise of white supremacist movements; and the push for representation, inclusivity, and stories from traditionally marginalized communities, Clarke’s work is more relevant now than ever. He boasted a career that spanned fifty years and saw his writing — nearly a dozen novels, several story collections, as well as memoirs and poems — break the mould of North American literature by exposing the realities faced by immigrants, predominantly from the Caribbean, in white society. His fiction chronicles the outer challenges of colonialism, racism, and economic hardship, as well as the psychological challenges of colonial mentality and racial shame — all the while showcasing the diaspora community’s wit and resilience through a vibrant and signature use of Bajan vernacular.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA PROVOCATIVE LEGACY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn 1963, the CBC sent Clarke to interview the writer James Baldwin, and while that interview never panned out, Clarke did land an extended interview with civil rights leader Malcolm X, which was incorporated into a two-hour CBC documentary called \u003cem\u003eAustin Clarke’s Harlem\u003c\/em\u003e. His involvement in the civil rights movement south of the border and his criticism of Canada’s purported openness and tolerance earned him the title of “Canada’s angriest black man” — the implications of which rankled him for the majority of his working life.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCELEBRATED WORKS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eClarke’s most famous book, \u003cem\u003eThe Polished Hoe\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Trillium Book Award. His novel \u003cem\u003eMore\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) was longlisted for the Giller and won the Toronto Book Award. In 2012, at the Toronto International Festival of Authors, Clarke was awarded the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize “on the merits of his published work and efforts in fostering literary talent in new and aspiring writers.” His body of work has also been honoured with the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award for Excellence in Writing and the W. O. 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Situations may be cruel, reactions vulgar, but the vitality of the characters is mirrored by the style which shapes and moulds and becomes, from time to time, the theme itself.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"London Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"Funny, sad, boisterous, virile, vigorous.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Queen’s Quarterly","OtherText_Review_3":"Gives a convincing and compassionate picture of the life of these immigrants in Toronto set against the varied backgrounds of their West Indian life.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Windsor Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The first collection of short fiction from bestselling author Austin Clarke is a provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-10-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The first collection of short fiction from bestselling author Austin Clarke is a provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks
The first collection of short fiction from bestselling author Austin Clarke is a provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada.
