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The Stone Thrower
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Super-Duper Monster Viewer
When a child tries to use a monster viewer that is cleverly disguised as an ordinary book, monster mayhem ensues.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Walk with Me
A simple, imaginative story depicting the complex emotional reality of a girl whose father no longer lives at home.
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The 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Are Men Obsolete?
The 12th semi-annual Munk Debate takes on one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time — the decline of the power and status of men.
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It has been a long time since I’ve become tearful at the end of a novel but I must confess to doing so reading the final pages. The fate that befalls the young lovers at the centre of Carry Me is heartbreaking — and mesmerizing.”— Toronto Star\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Vividly imagined … This ambitious novel provides a panoramic view of a continent and a microscopic view of two individuals hovering precariously between the two World Wars … Moving seamlessly back and forth between times and countries, Behrens paints a stunningly intimate portrait in wide, universal strokes.” — Booklist\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “There’s no doubt about Behrens’ talent.” — Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is so fine at both sweeping and granular evocations of history, so good at vividly and economically painting his minor players … [his] prose thrills to the indelible and irrevocable.” — Washington Post\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A gripping story about a harrowing time in European history… Behrens is a gifted storyteller and Carry Me is no exception. It is not only a deeply researched historical novel, but it’s also a well-crafted and true tale of people, families and love affairs.” —Vancouver Sun\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A powerful tale … the tension and the expertly drawn portrait of Europe at war make this novel a winner.” — Now Magazine\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Eventful … impressive use of the past as a mirror to the world we live in now.” — Quill \u0026 Quire\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “[Carry Me] is both poetry and cartography… . Behrens has mined truths so skillfully that in reading they can slip by unnoticed; they’re never glaring or contrived. They leave the reader with a feeling Billy describes as he’s driving across Germany… . Great writing keeps readers on this threshold, in liminal space, wanting to know and understand more than literature or life will allow, anxious for the next big lesson. Carry Me is full of this kind of searching, characters looking for a way to map their lives against war and love and change.” — Portland Press Herald\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is a beautiful, lyric writer. His understanding of the age and command of it, moment to moment, is impressive … everything is beautiful in the details, in the smallness of personal moments even as we know that no matter how calm, how peaceful the moment, it will not last.” — Jason Sheehan, NPR\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Carry Me’s perspective on war’s tragedies is beautifully composed, and heartbreakingly credible.” — Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is a master, at home in the broad sweep of history and the intimate detail of a character’s experience. 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Behrens’s writing is always tight, and some of his descriptions are flat-out jaw-dropping.” — Globe and Mail\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A distinctly twentieth-century — and decidedly Canadian — family epic … pitch-perfect.” — National Post\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “The O’Briens is a major accomplishment” — New York Times\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Brimming with complex and nuanced characters, Behrens’s second novel lives up to the expectations set by his award-winning debut.” — Winnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens’s characters are painfully real … the battle of the O’Brien family is as legendary and epic as any war.” — Telegraph-Journal\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A truly wonderful writer who will no doubt be dominating the literary award nomination lists this fall.” — Montreal Gazette\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens’ fine writing moves readers from one decade to the next, and we become more attached to each of the characters with each passing year … a sweeping Canadian saga that will carry readers along.” —Vancouver Sun\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR PETER BEHRENS AND THE LAW OF DREAMS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Winner, Governor General’s Literary Award\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean): Best Book\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Amazon.ca\/Books in Canada First Novel Award\u003cbr\/\u003eLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\/\u003e An Amazon.ca Best Books of the Decade, 2000–2010 National Bestseller\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“[A]bsorbing, unsparing, and beautifully written […] a masterly novel.” — New York Times\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Behrens has fashioned a beautiful idiom for his book, studded with slippery archaisms and mournful, musical refrains […] the language and the things it describes seem to be spun out of a single material. 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A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. ‘Life burns hot,’ Fergus thinks, and so do these pages.” — Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Behrens’ use of crisp dialogue clearly conveys the fear, the longing and the unbridled hope of a young man teetering on the brink between starvation and salvation. But it is in his economical narrative that Behrens truly shines. ‘Life honed to the very edge. Sharpened on a whetstone. Chopping through the days. Working time like it was a sweep of hay.’” — Winnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America, there are scenes that will remain imprinted upon the reader’s mind. Peter Behrens is a tremendously talented writer.” — Alistair MacLeod\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“An emotional epic bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own.” — Jonathan Lethem\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “The Law of Dreams is the best literary adventure novel I’ve read since Lonesome Dove, a brilliant heart-felt celebration of the capacity of the human spirit.” — Howard Frank Mosher\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Behrens captures his narrator’s naïveté and the casual anti-Semitism of the times with great skill and intelligence … as true an observation about human nature as there is.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Dennis Bock","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_Review_1":"Behrens is a powerful stylist.","OtherText_Review_10":"A powerful tale … the tension and the expertly drawn portrait of Europe at war make this novel a winner.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Now Magazine","OtherText_Review_11":"Eventful … impressive use of the past as a mirror to the world we live in now.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_12":"Carry Me’s perspective on war’s tragedies is beautifully composed, and heartbreakingly credible.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"With stunning imagery and fully realized characters, Peter Behrens’ third novel is a worthy followup to The O’Briens and his critically acclaimed first novel, Law of Dreams … Timely in its depiction of North America as the mythical land of hope for so many, and timeless in its exploration of the effects of bigotry and the power of love, Carry Me is a brilliant and entertaining read.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"Carry Me is another meditation on history and destiny … that make[s] the past feel stunningly close at hand.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_4":"Carry Me is a moving meditation on identity and belonging, and a love story to get happily lost in.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_5":"[A] staggeringly epic new novel about love and loss, identity and salvation in a society in the midst of a nervous collapse. 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The fate that befalls the young lovers at the centre of Carry Me is heartbreaking — and mesmerizing.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"Vividly imagined … This ambitious novel provides a panoramic view of a continent and a microscopic view of two individuals hovering precariously between the two World Wars … Moving seamlessly back and forth between times and countries, Behrens paints a stunningly intimate portrait in wide, universal strokes.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_7":"There’s no doubt about Behrens’ talent.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_8":"Behrens is so fine at both sweeping and granular evocations of history, so good at vividly and economically painting his minor players … [his] prose thrills to the indelible and irrevocable.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_9":"A gripping story about a harrowing time in European history… Behrens is a gifted storyteller and Carry Me is no exception. It is not only a deeply researched historical novel, but it’s also a well-crafted and true tale of people, families and love affairs.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Set during the decades encompassing the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about love and family.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"National Jewish Book Awards","PrizeName_1":"The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2016-02-20","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Set during the decades encompassing the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about love and family."}
Carry Me
Set during the decades encompassing the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about love and family.
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The Disciple of Las Vegas
Ava Lee goes deep inside the shady world of online gambling in the second installment of the pulse-pounding series.
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The collection also includes moving tales grounded in painful and touching reality: a young deaf girl visits Niagara Falls before she goes blind; an elephant named Topsy is killed on Coney Island by Thomas Edison in 1903; and a woman learns the truth about her son’s disappearance while searching with her husband in the Canadian Rockies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enchanting and, at times, heartbreaking debut collection of stories hails the arrival of an exceptional new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770898783","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770898783\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Imprint":"Astoria","MetaKeywords":"short stories; thomas edison; alternating current; magical realism; fantastical; dying; ronald reagan; duality; urban; literary fiction; emotional; imagination; imaginative; doppelganger; Niagara Falls; duality; contemporary fiction; contemporary; reincarnation","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Laura Trunkey and \u003cem\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"…a confident debut collection…\" — \u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Beautifully bizarre … wickedly creative …these stories are strange and beautiful, imaginative and unafraid of emotion.\" — \u003cem\u003eW Dish Network\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"…accomplished excursions into the weird and offbeat.\" — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Elegant, deft, light of touch, and sometimes spicily comic …[This] debut story collection is a marvel of style and substance.\" — \u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"…clever and jaunty…\" — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"…a suite of unexpected stories…Trunkey achieves a coherent marriage of elements in these tales: History, realism, and the mystical combine to strong and startling effect.\" — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Trunkey’s remarkable debut collection of stories, Double Dutch, circles life’s mysteries from unexpected vantage points in these plausibly fantastic stories. 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Double Dutch
Stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny.
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Easy to Like
A bitingly hilarious satire of the making of wine, television, and taste from one of Canada’s most accomplished comic writers.
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She was a key figure in Toronto’s response to SARS, consulted with the WHO on polio vaccinations in Pakistan and an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, and coordinated the North American response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza. She is one of the most respected and sought-after voices on public health in both the medical community and the general population.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIMPORTANT INFORMATION ON OTHER DISEASES:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoap and Water \u0026 Common Sense\u003c\/em\u003e isn’t just a necessary guide to fighting viruses, it’s also full of important information about food-borne, travel-related, sexually transmitted, and animal-spread illnesses. Dr. Henry teaches readers how to prepare food to destroy bacteria, how to avoid catching bugs while travelling, and how to protect themselves from STIs.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"Dr. Henry can deliver alarming news in a calm tone of voice, without relying on technical jargon; we pay attention, we absorb the news, but we don’t freak out. Treated like adults, we respond like adults . . . Those same communication skills are evident throughout [Soap and Water \u0026 Common Sense] . . . Henry writes clearly and concisely . . . Her narrative is full of surprising facts and bits of history.","OtherText_Review_0":"Dr. Henry can deliver alarming news in a calm tone of voice, without relying on technical jargon; we pay attention, we absorb the news, but we don’t freak out. Treated like adults, we respond like adults . . . Those same communication skills are evident throughout [Soap and Water \u0026 Common Sense] . . . Henry writes clearly and concisely . . . Her narrative is full of surprising facts and bits of history.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Tyee","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases with a new introduction on protecting yourself from COVID-19.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2020-03-31","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases with a new introduction on protecting yourself from COVID-19.","Subtitle":"The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease"}
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Technology and Empire
Brilliant analysis of the implications of technology-driven globalization on everyday life from one of Canada's most influential philosophers.
