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{"id":6854266847291,"title":"Laughing with the Trickster","handle":"laughing-with-the-trickster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTrickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have one blast of a time and to laugh ourselves to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death. A comparative analysis of Christian, classical, and Cree mythologies reveals their contributions to Western thought, life, and culture—and how North American Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems. 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More than a mere book, it’s a brave act of shamanism that touches and transforms the reader’s heart, healing and encouraging at a time when the world feels most desperately in need of restoration.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE FOLLOW-UP TO AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/em\u003e has been a massive success and has sold over 36,000 copies in North America. It is an international bestseller, was a finalist for the Wainwright Prize and winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, and has inspired grassroots re-wilding movements and crowd-funded giveaways of the book. \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/em\u003e, the earlier book’s kindred spirit, will no doubt have a similar impact and reach new audiences.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN UNPARALLELED GIFT BOOK IN A NEWLY DESIGNED FORMAT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/em\u003e is a gorgeously designed, fully illustrated, one-of-a-kind book that would make the perfect gift book for the holidays. Jackie Morris’ artwork brings to life the poems’ nature themes and would stand out even without the accompanying evocative poems. \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/em\u003e is more freely designed than its predecessor, so the poems and illustrations flow across multiple pages. It is also smaller in trim size, but longer. This is a book designed to be carried around by readers and read outdoors in nature.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA MAJOR U.K. AND INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRobert Macfarlane is a major literary and cultural figure in the U.K. His writings on environmental topics are frequently featured in the Guardian and Granta. He is a regular presence on television and hosted an adaptation of his book The Wild Places on BBC’s The Natural World. His travel book The Old Ways was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and Philip Pullman named it one of his best books of 2012. His most recent book, Underland, won the Wainwright Prize and was named one of the best books of the twenty-first century by the Guardian.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART OF THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRobert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s exploration of nature ties into the current growing awareness of the environment, which climaxed in 2019 with the massive Global Climate Strike. \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to those worried about the vanishing natural world, a larger-than-ever group thanks to new studies and articles on biodiversity loss. Both Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have been involved in the Extinction Rebellion environmental movement in the U.K.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGREAT FOR ALL AGES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis book is perfect for adults interested in the “re-enchantment movement” or those who just want to rediscover nature, and children newly interested in plants and animals will be captivated by the beautiful hand-painted illustrations and poems.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Elegant … There is enough magic here to summon wild things even for those who are snug indoors.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"This unusually beautiful book brings to readers the magic and wonder of nature … Breathtakingly magical.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEWS","OtherText_Review_2":"Macfarlane’s lyrics … ring with consonance (“Thrift thrives where most life fails, falls,\/ is cast adrift”) and wordplay (“Woodpecker, tree-wrecker”) … Morris’s fluid artwork renders the elegant tilt of a fox’s snout, birds’ calligraphic flight patterns, and the eyelike whorls of silver birch bark … One to treasure.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_3":"Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness … These painted verses sing and shimmer with a magical exuberance that renders the wild world not parallel, not foreign, but proximate, beckoning, native to our own souls … A charm against the curse of civilization, of exploitation, of apathy.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Maria Popova, Brain Pickings","OtherText_Review_4":"Through deeply humane poems paired with warm illustrations, MacFarlane and Morris invited readers into the space where the enchanting natural world meets the expansive imagination . . . Crafted with the same tenderness as its sibling.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2020-10-27","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.","Width":"4.76","WidthCode":"in"}
The Lost Spells
The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.
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{"id":6813784965179,"title":"The Lost Words","handle":"the-lost-words","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom bestselling \u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2007, when a new edition of the \u003ci\u003eOxford Junior Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e — widely used in schools around the world — was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. 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They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman who represents their conscience; Sabe, the giant who represents their marrow; Adik, the caribou who represents their nervous system; Asin, the human who represents their eyes and ears; and Lucy, the human who represents their brain. Each attempts to commune with the unnatural urban-settler world, a world of SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, Fjällräven Kånken backpacks, and coffee mugs emblazoned with institutional logos. And each searches out the natural world, only to discover those pockets that still exist are owned, contained, counted, and consumed. 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Enter and be changed.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487007645","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487007645\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"368","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare parcel of beauty and power, at once a creator and destroyer of forms. All of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s myriad literary gifts shine here — her scalpel-sharp humour, her eye for the smallest human details, the prodigious scope of her imaginative and poetic generosity. The result is a book at once fierce, uproarious, heartbreaking, and, throughout and above all else, rooted in love.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Omar El Akkad, bestselling author of American War","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that is as philosophically generative as it is stylistically original. It begins with someone who is frozen in a lake, waiting, and from whom we learn that: ‘being frozen in the lake is another kind of life.’ Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s expansive work explores the indivisibility of beings — old woman, old man, tree, caribou, stone, ice, spirit, geese, the brain, and more, all watching, grieving, thinking, acting, and listening amidst the ongoing and quotidian urgencies of capital. They are sleepless, ceaseless, trying to alter and to recode the world of consumerism, and their survival means that they must daily and collectively reconstruct existence in the city and its coterminous forests. Noopiming is far ahead of us in so many registers of story, language, and worldview; its cumulative effect is a new cosmography.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Dionne Brand, award-winning author of Theory","OtherText_Accolades_2":"This imaginative book is what would happen if we gave pen and paper to the deepest, most secretive parts of ourselves. Down to the fibres, down to each breath, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson dares to not only explore the humanity of a character, but the humanity of the parts that make us whole, in a world running on empty.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Catherine Hernandez, bestselling author of Scarborough","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming once again confirms her position as a brilliant, daring experimentalist and a beautiful, radical portraitist of contemporary NDN life. The prose hums with a lovingness that moved me to tears and with a humour that felt plucked right out of my rez adolescence. The chorus of thinkers, dreamers, revolutionaries, poets, and misfits that Simpson conjures here feels like a miracle. My heart ached and swelled for all of them. What I adored most about this book is that it has so little to do with the white gaze. Simpson writes for us, for NDNs, those made to make other kinds of beauty, to build other kinds of beautiful lives, where no one is looking. Noopiming is a book from the future! Simpson is our much-needed historian of the future!","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of This Wound is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms","OtherText_Accolades_4":"How is it that Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s fiction can feel both familiar and warm like old teachings and absolutely fresh and brand new? Is it even fiction? Noopiming seems to exist somewhere in the in-between, with all the best parts of poetry and story. As always, I am in awe of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, prolific in every way.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Katherena Vermette, bestselling author of The Break","OtherText_Accolades_5":"I’m pretty sure we don’t deserve Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. But miracles happen, and this is one. This book is poem, novel, prophecy, handbook, and side-eyed critique all at once. This book doesn’t only present characters you will love and never want to leave (but yes, it does), it doesn’t only transform the function of character and plot into a visibly collective dynamic energy field (and hallelujah), but it also cultivates character in the reader, that we might remember what we first knew. Which is that what seems separate was never separate. What feels impossible is already happening. And it depends on our most loving words. It requires our most loving actions towards each other. The ceremony has been found.","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Dub: Finding Ceremony","OtherText_Review_0":"This brilliant novel is a carefully curated mix of prose and poetry, though the narrative and poetic form never leaves either; at all times, there is a deliberate attention to rhythm, movement, and sound. The layered storytelling is rich with wry and undeniable humour and introduces readers to an incredible cast of characters, giving us the perspective of Elders, Indigenous youth, raccoons, geese, and trees, braiding together past, present, and future and intentionally centring Nishnaabe life and practices … This is the beauty and masterful work of this novel: it holds something for every Indigenous person. It’s a gift that feels specifically for us.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"[Noopiming] presses readers — Indigenous and settler alike — to consider the novel form as a wider venue for storytelling than it is traditionally conceived … Language is thrilling in all of Simpson’s work, and nowhere more so than in this newest offering … Simpson’s writing is at once political and loud, honest and whisper-quiet … This novel will be reread for its many truths and teachings and for its undeniable power. The complicated questions Noopiming poses are worth revisiting, and the novel’s wisdom will continue to grow as the reader does.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"Taking traditional Anishinaabe teachings and weaving them through contemporary forms of understanding, Simpson brings the reader into not a new world, but a world already existing, one that breaks through the colonial bars that try to cage it.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem \u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e, nothing is ever simply a metaphor. 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Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003609","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487003814","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487008949","BASICMainSubject":"POE000000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eMIKKO HARVEY\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem \u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e (House of Anansi, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His poems appear in such places as \u003cem \u003eIowa Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem \u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem \u003eMaisonneuve\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem \u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019\u003c\/em\u003e. A graduate of Vassar College and Ohio State University, he has received the 2017 RBC\/PEN Canada New Voices Award and the 2019 Salt Hill Philip Booth Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. 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So, don't read this book if you don’t want to think like a child (and don’t read it if you don't think childthought is absolutely magnified). Don’t read this book if you don’t want to lose your I. Don’t read this book if you don’t want to cry.” ― Darcie Dennigan, author of \u003cem\u003eMadame X\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePalace of Subatomic Bliss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“In \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e, as it should be the case, natural elements act like neighbours and old friends, people act like animals, animals act like people, names determine fate, rice and goats and bowls determine how we interpret the world, our palms control our thinking, our imaginations are celebrated and called upon to take responsibility for what they call into existence, our imaginations transform us as necessary, everything is a sign, everything is heroic and epic and fragile, everything matters, the wind can undo our shoelaces.” — Dara Wier, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eReverse Rapture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPRAISE FOR MIKKO HARVEY\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“[Harvey] is able to transform ordinary experiences into revelations about the world and our place within it. These poems blend humor and observation, often in close proximity, and make excellent use of voice, whether spoken or filtered through narration. A thoroughly commendable series of poems, and I am thankful for having the opportunity to read them.” — Mary Biddinger, author of \u003cem\u003eA Sunny Place with Adequate Water\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSmall Enterprise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“The author of these poems has an energy that promises a life in poetry and also delights this reader. The poems are witty, smart, fun, and written with authority … they are memorable. I kept coming back to them and enjoying them all over again … maybe the best test of all for the best poetry.” — Kelly Cherry, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman Who\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Retreats of Thought\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMikko’s first collection, \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e, was highly acclaimed and well reviewed upon its original release.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAccessible! 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To me, his casual, melancholic, funny poems are like sugar water for the hummingbird.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Henri Cole, author of Blizzard","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGerald Lampert Memorial Award finalist Mikko Harvey’s second collection takes readers into a kaleidoscopic world that is and is not the world we know.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2022-04-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Gerald Lampert Memorial Award finalist Mikko Harvey’s second collection takes readers into a kaleidoscopic world that is and is not the world we know.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Let the World Have You
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award finalist Mikko Harvey’s second collection takes readers into a kaleidoscopic world that is and is not the world we know.
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ages 9
to 11
/ grades 4
to 6
The Goat
A mountain goat living on the roof of a downtown apartment building? It’s too strange, even for Manhattan…
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Park Cruising
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex.
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They Say Blue
The highly anticipated children's book from award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Jillian Tamaki.
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Her First Palestinian
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.
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The Speed of Mercy
A riveting and lyrical novel about a childhood friendship and the dark secrets uncovered in a small Nova Scotia town over the course of one summer.
