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ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Amos's Sweater
A curmudgeonly old sheep reluctantly gives up his wool and then plots to get it back, even though it has been knit into a brightly colored sweater.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 2
A Salmon for Simon
Simon discovers that catching a salmon is more difficult than it looks in this touching story with evocative watercolor illustrations.
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Maggie’s Treasure
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The Politics of the Family
In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own.
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However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the second volume of recovered lectures, a follow-on to \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Massey Lectures\u003c\/em\u003e, and features: Nobel Peace Prize recipient Willy Brandt on the dangerous inequities between developing and industrialized nations in Dangers and Options: The Matter of World Survival; George Grant on the worsening predicament of the West through an examination of the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche in Time as History; Claude Levi-Strauss on the nature and role of myth in human history in Myth and Meaning; Frank Underhill on the deficiencies of the Canadian constitution in The Image of Confederation; and Barbara Ward, in the very first Massey Lecture, on the origin and predicament of underdeveloped countries in The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMore Lost Massey Lectures\u003c\/em\u003e includes an introduction by Bernie Lucht, who has been the executive producer of CBC Radio's Ideas and the Massey Lectures since 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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This second anthology of early CBC Massey Lectures features the work of George Grant, Claude Levi-Strauss, Frank Underhill, and Barbara Ward.
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{"id":6818368323643,"title":"February","handle":"february","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of Canada Reads 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns on the rig. It begins in the present-day, more than twenty-five years later, but spirals back again and again to the \"February\" that persists in Helen's mind and heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWriting at the peak of her form, her steadfast refusal to sentimentalize coupled with an almost shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore gives us her strongest work yet. 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She makes us feel what they feel, which is the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"...here is writing that examines the richness of the everyday with an incredibly keen eye and renders it without sentimentality but with profound empathy...Like standing in the February winter wind, reading this novel is harrowing, almost painful, but once you step out of it, you appreciate the warmth in your world that much more.","OtherText_Review_10":"It has been a joy indeed to discover Lisa Moore. Despite her great success with a previous novel and two collections of short fiction, February is the first book I have read by this talented Canadian writer. I shall soon be reading the rest.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Gabriel Weston","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Daily Telegraph","OtherText_Review_11":"Lisa Moore is an astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells, and an unswerving instinct for what's important in life.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Richard Ford","OtherText_Review_12":"Lisa Moore's work is passionate, gritty, lucid and, beautiful. She has a great gift.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Anne Enright","OtherText_Review_13":"Loneliness is hard to write about without become maudlin or cliched. But Moore never errs on the side of sentimentality...There's an economy in Moore's style that shows us how a once vibrant life can be whittled down by pain and loneliness. But, by grounding her writing in the physical world, Moore shows how life's everyday tasks and encounters create a comforting continuity that allows forward movement.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_14":"Luminous.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"More","OtherText_Review_15":"Moore deftly weaves together the present...and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_16":"Moore never errs on the side of sentimentality...Loneliness is hard to write about without becoming maudlin or cliched. But Moore seems to understand this very human facility, describing the unconscious ways we sometimes try to avoid feeling overwhelmed by it...Moore shows how life's everyday tasks and encounters create a comforting continuity that eventually wears down emotional pain to allow forward movement...You'll be surprised at this novel's ability to uplift.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_17":"Moore pens another triumph...emotional tension, coupled with an acute eye for regional setting and dialect, has long been a hallmark of Moore's work...the hauntingly beautiful February, is likely to turn some heads and hearts as well.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Chronicle Herald","OtherText_Review_18":"Moore's writing resembles poetry...She expertly captures her characters' physical surroundings in sharp-edged fragments of colour and sensation...Helen comes across as a perfectly ordinary woman...But that's what [February] is about: a perfectly ordinary woman whose life is profoundly changed by an extraordinary event. This is a marvellous book.","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_19":"Soaring.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"matrix","OtherText_Review_2":"...here is writing that examines the richness of the everyday with an incredibly keen eye and renders it without sentimentality but with profound empathy.","OtherText_Review_20":"There is no one else in the country who can touch Lisa Moore's elegant rendering of language...She's distinctive, and what she does with language is nothing less than dazzling, and then there is her uncanny ability to inhabit every pore and sinew of her endearingly human characters...What she does with language is pure art.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Salty Ink","OtherText_Review_21":"This mesmerising book is full of tears, and is a graceful meditation on how to survive life's losses.","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Marie Claire","OtherText_Review_22":"...a stark tale of cauterizing grief, one that left me spellbound in admiration...a well-conceived work of the imagination...","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Sun Times (Owen Sound)","OtherText_Review_23":"[February] is what great prose should be...a work of art...a moving narrative of risk, love, loss, and surviving...","OtherText_Review_23_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"matrix","OtherText_Review_3":"...Moore has established with her second novel a distinctive voice in Canadian literature. Language in Moore's capable hands is often deceptively spare, revealing for the careful reader layers of acute insight. Her writing in February is characterized by a raw, stream-of-consciousness intensity...","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_4":"...Moore, whose previous novel, Alligator (2006), won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, renders sensations with the precision of a Vermeer.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_5":"A solid, unflinching, unsentimental study of grief...Moore's descriptive powers, her enviable ability to highlight defining elements of character (either individual or societal) by making perceptive observations, are, as always, in evidence.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Daily Telegram","OtherText_Review_6":"Although Moore does a good job of depicting remembered incidents the novel is best in its intimate rendering of thought and feeling.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Express","OtherText_Review_7":"An intense and absorbing read.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Coventry Telegraph","OtherText_Review_8":"Canadian writer Lisa Moore's second novel solidifies her reputation as a gifted writer whose prose exhibits an urgency, precision, and sensitivity worthy of the legacy of Virginia Woolf.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The World","OtherText_Review_9":"Complex yet clear, compelling and profound, the style is a joy to read and Lisa Moore's story-spinning gift is great. 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February
Lisa Moore's unforgettable second novel examines the aftermath of 1982's Ocean Ranger disaster within the community of St. John's.
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A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québécoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec.
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Sara Peters' debut collection is about obsessions — about desire, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed.
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George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his own failure with the success of his boyhood friend, the famous American historian William Prescott.
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The Water Rat of Wanchai + The Dragon Head of Hong Kong
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The Honeyman Festival
A night in the life of a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between her family and the need for a life in which impulse can once again find play.
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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.
