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to 14
/ grades 5
to 9
The Breadwinner Trilogy
Bestselling novels The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey and Mud City have been a phenomenal success, touching the hearts of readers the world over.
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But this time, the tone is different: Blais' writing has acquired a new, buoyant, electrifying rhythm -- a rhythm some critics have described as the heartbeat of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs we follow a central character named Rebecca, the voice in the novel becomes the voice of the world inventing itself, and the future playing itself out. As the GG jury wrote, this breathtaking paroxysm of a novel turns any commonly held vision of the world upside down. Blais' transcendent prose illuminates her characters with an extraordinary light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNigel Spencer is Marie-Claire Blais' long-time translator and a Governor General's Award winner for his work on this series of books. He gives us Blais' singular vision in supple English prose that is as transcendent and nuanced as the original French.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom
The fourth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. The tone of the portrait of contemporary North America is different in this novel and Blais' prose has now acquired a buoyant, electrifying rhythm.
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Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately, and Salt-Water Moon
This special one-volume edition contains the three major Mercer plays by David French: Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately and Salt-Water Moon.
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The Irrationalist
In her remarkable second collection, poet Suzanne Buffam sketches an ideal world as yet unrealized.
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No Safe Place
A timely and gripping novel about four young migrants who seek safe haven in England and end up adrift in the English Channel.
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Look Around, Baby!
In Look Around, Baby! the young baby gazes at the world, sits up and begins to play and to interact with his older brother.
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Jump at Home: Grade 8
Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 8.
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Heaven is Small
With sly humour and brilliant insight, Schultz explores what it's like to be truly alive only after you're dead.
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{"id":6818230763579,"title":"Dirty Feet","handle":"dirty-feet","description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation and the ReLit Awards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a small child, Askia was forced, along with his family, to wander the African desert as if under a curse. First driven from their home by drought and hunger, they were then kept from the villages they passed through by the fear and suspicion of others, who did not want to see their \"dirty feet\" stay for too long.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYears later, it seems Askia is destined to relive his family’s curse night after night as he roams the streets of Paris in his taxi. One evening, he picks up Olia, a young woman who claims to recognize his face, telling him that his features are similar to those of a man she photographed years ago. Had it been his father, the enigmatic Sidi Ben Sylla Mohammed? 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Dirty Feet is rich in wisdom and allusion ...” — \u003cstrong\u003eDonna Bailey Nurse, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Donna Bailey Nurse","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“The writing is beautiful [and] leaves room for the imagination.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAshliegh Gehl, \u003cem\u003eHerald de Paris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Ashliegh Gehl","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Herald de Paris","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A compelling novel that tells the story of one man's journey to retrace the steps of the mysterious, nomadic father who abandoned him years earlier.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award: Translation","PrizeName_1":"ReLit Awards","PrizeName_2":"IMPAC Dublin Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2011","PrizeYear_1":"2012","PrizeYear_2":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2011-08-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A compelling novel that tells the story of one man's journey to retrace the steps of the mysterious, nomadic father who abandoned him years earlier.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Dirty Feet
A compelling novel that tells the story of one man's journey to retrace the steps of the mysterious, nomadic father who abandoned him years earlier.
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Zagreb Cowboy
Set in 1991 Yugoslavia, Zagreb Cowboy is the spectacular debut featuring one of the most compelling characters in crime fiction: Marko della Torre.
