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The 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry from the shortlist of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Will Aitken is a singular voice in our literary landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Jordan Tannahill, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist The Listeners","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eCareful not to spill that flute of Veuve Clicquot on your Jimmy Choos as you’re swept away on the waves of this riotous high-seas satire where the 1 percent become the 99. The delectable queer lovechild of \u003cem\u003eCondé Nast Traveller\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e, Karl Marx, and P. G. Wodehouse, \u003cem\u003eThe Swells \u003c\/em\u003easks if revolution is like rearranging diamonds and deckchairs on the Titanic, if utopia is the worst form of society except for all the others. 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The Swells
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
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Jillian has a swooping, gorgeous pen line-expressive, vibrant and precise all at once...evocative and wondrous...It complements Mariko's fine ear for dialogue and the incidentals and events of adolescent life. Skim is an unusually strong graphic novel-rich in visuals and observations, and rewarding of repeated readings.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_13":"[Skim uses] high school as a fertile setting for pungent commentary on racial, cultural, and sexual issues...The narrative, mainly in diary form, feels accurate and realistic, drenched in a sense of confusion and nihilism, and the art, influenced by Craig Thompson's Blankets (2003), reflects the spare, gloomy emotional landscape in which Skim exists. This story will appeal to many female comics fans...","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_14":"[Skim] is bringing kudos to Canadian children's book publisher Groundwood Books for its poignant and funny portrayal of a teenage girl...[Jillian Tamaki's] monochromatic ink drawings with their fluid lines add powerful cinematic storytelling to [Mariko Tamaki's] minimalist text...Jillian's ability to catch the gestures and body language of the private school girls in their plaid skirts and knee socks equals Mariko's well-attuned ear for dialogue. The combination of words and images makes Skim a fully rounded and memorable character struggling with a welter of confused feelings...we feel for her...[Jillian Tamaki] has won several awards. It seems a sure bet that Skim will garner her a few more.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Calgary Herald","OtherText_Review_15":"A gorgeous, poetic pen line and sharp dialogue bring this angsty story of a disaffected teenage girl to life.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_16":"Jillian Tamaki's illustrations perfectly match the rough edges and continuous movement of Skim's teenage characters and reveal humour in the agonizing minutiae of high school life...Mariko Tamaki's text blends teen-speak with eloquence and wry one-liners...blending colloquialisms and sharp observations into something profound...","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_17":"No medium can capture the sense of being plunged into another person's mind like comics can, and Skim is the perfect example, its words and pictures and storytelling so unified in conjuring Kim's world that it comes as a surprise to see it has two creators rather than one...The careful layering of perception, desire, and reality is handled so deftly that the effect is almost subliminal...The Tamakis have done the hardest and most rewarding thing an artist can do: they have captured the texture of real life and made it into something beautiful.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_18":"The Tamaki cousins in their first graphic novel take a huge fistful of high school story trappings and distill a beautiful and funny time capsule of real feeling... Skim is a refreshing reminder of the inevitability of change and the importance of looking beneath the surface.","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)","OtherText_Review_19":"The tricky part with graphic novels is getting the story to be as good as the drawings, and [the Tamakis] have figured out a winning combination for sure. The story is riveting and will bring you right back to 11th grade angst within the first few pages. Jillian Tamaki has an especially expressive, loose style that lends itself beautifully to this slightly morose tale.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Bust","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_2":"...avoids all the cliches of a coming-of-age story...Original in every which way.","OtherText_Review_20":"This stunning coming-of-age novel will draw in not only GN buffs, who will appreciate the creative design and dramatic use of both illustration and narration, but also realistic-fiction fans who may not normally gravitate to the format but will find this a sympathetic standout.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","OtherText_Review_21":"Writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Jillian Tamaki stunningly entwine their acute dialogues and visual riches in brush, soft pencil and grey tones, illuminating this adolescent romance in all its conflicted depths. [Skim is the] most sophisticated and sensitive North American graphic novel debut of the year.","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Paul Gravett","OtherText_Review_22":"A quietly moving graphic novel...sharply witty and incisive...Long, languid lines portray Skim's turmoil and angst with pitch-perfect resonance...Recommend this to fans of Daniel Clowes's Ghost World, who have been waiting for another graphic novel of teen angst and suburban ennui.","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Valerie D'Orazio","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Friends of Lulu","OtherText_Review_3":"...intelligent choice...a sensitive and caring portrayal of youth...universal...a complete success...[Jillian's] storytelling is solid...[and] her art is very atmospheric...","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Gay Comics List","OtherText_Review_4":"...traverse[s] the turbulent landscape of high school with tenderness and a keen eye for the yearning of adolescent girls...From the particularities of slang to the bigger concepts like fear and isolation, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki capture the subtle details that comprise this understated part of life...a world [in] which anyone who has ever been a teenager would be able to relate to at some level...Jillian Tamaki's use of line and shadow is effective in rendering the psychology of characters and the moody spaces they find themselves in...Formally, Skim is interesting for its varied approach to panel-use. Some pages flaunt over 10 similarly sized and shaped panels while others reveal only one (often silent) borderless image. The overall effect reveals impressive artwork and many powerful scenes...Skim is a unique piece, one not to be missed. Highly Recommended. [Skim uses] high school as a fertile setting for pungent commentary on racial, cultural, and sexual issues...The narrative, mainly in diary form, feels accurate and realistic, drenched in a sense of confusion and nihilism, and the art, influenced by Craig Thompson's Blankets (2003), reflects the spare, gloomy emotional landscape in which Skim exists. This story will appeal to many female comics fans...","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":"...[Skim is a] stunningly emotional graphic novel...an artful jumble that is as true-to-life as it is diffuse...unfussy and immediate...The delicately lined art alternately expands and contradicts the prose to achieve layers of meaning, tone and irony...With honesty and compassion, this innovative narrative communicates a life just beginning, open and full of possibility.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"...[Skim] manages to avoid the usual cliches...The b\/w cirt is fluid and curvy and looks like it came straight out of a sketchbook. The little details are wonderful...Highly recommended for high school graphic novel colelctions, especially those catering to girls.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kliatt","OtherText_Review_7":"...rendered delicately...Mariko's writing is assured...Skim's self-searching entries are wrenched off or lit up by the next image...Skim comes into its own, building a teenage girl mood that's struggling observant and shyly heartfelt by turns.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vue Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"[Skim] is a convincing chronicle of a teenage outsider who has enough sense to want to stay outside...All in all, Skim offers a startlingly clear and painful view into adolescence for those of us who possess it only as a distant memory. It's a story that deepens with successive rereadings. But what will teenagers think? Maybe that they've found a bracingly honest story by a writer who seems to remember exactly what it was like to be 16 and in love for the first time.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_9":"Skim comes out on top...connects in every way...This graphic novel is a winner...a unique creation...Scenes are often hilarious and black-humoured as well as serious...Mariko Tamaki's prose captures an authentic adolescent voice that's dramatic, self-obsessed, funny, earnest, and sometimes glib...Skim is an unforgettable character in the tradition of Holden Caulfield-a clear social commentator on adult and adolescent behaviour whose ironic observations on social hypocrisy ring sharp and true...Illustrator Jillian Tamaki's fine draughtsmanship gives Skim a classic elegance that's missing in many other graphic novels...a powerful sense of mystical eeriness that deepens and enhances the story. 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Others attempted to find a land route. Many hundreds of men perished in the attempt, until finally, in 1906, Roald Amundsen completed the voyage by ship. Today global warming has brought interest in the passage back to a fever pitch as nations contend with each other over its control and future uses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe historic search inspired Canadian folk musician Stan Rogers to write \"Northwest Passage\", a song that has become a widely known favorite since its 1981 release. It describes Stan's own journey overland as he contemplates the arduous journeys of some of the explorers, including Kelsey, Mackenzie, Thompson and especially Franklin. The song is moving and haunting, a paean to the adventurous spirit of the explorers and to the beauty of the vast land and icy seas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lyrics are accompanied by the striking paintings of multiple award-winning artist Matt James. Matt brings a unique vision to the song and the history behind it, providing commentary on the Franklin expedition and its failure to heed the wisdom of Inuit living in the North. The book also contains the music for the song (as well as a final verse that was never recorded), maps, a timeline of Arctic exploration, mini-biographies and portraits of the principal explorers, and suggestions for further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing on the success of \u003cem\u003eCanadian Railroad Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, this is another beautiful book in which a memorable song illuminates a fascinating history that has taken on new resonance today.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Matt’s art for Northwest Passage won the Governor General’s Award. He also wrote and illustrated \u003cem\u003eTadpoles\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNice Try, Charlie!\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Funeral\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Rogers, Stan (CA)","Contributor_1":"James, Matt (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAward-winning artist Matt James takes the iconic song \"Northwest Passage\" by legendary Canadian songwriter and singer Stan Rogers and tells the dramatic story of the search for the elusive route through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific, which for hundreds of years and once again today, nations, explorers and commercial interests have dreamt of conquering, often with tragic consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor hundreds of years explorers attempted to find the Northwest Passage - a route through Canada's northern waters to the Pacific Ocean and Asia. Others attempted to find a land route. Many hundreds of men perished in the attempt, until finally, in 1906, Roald Amundsen completed the voyage by ship. Today global warming has brought interest in the passage back to a fever pitch as nations contend with each other over its control and future uses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe historic search inspired Canadian folk musician Stan Rogers to write \"Northwest Passage\", a song that has become a widely known favorite since its 1981 release. It describes Stan's own journey overland as he contemplates the arduous journeys of some of the explorers, including Kelsey, Mackenzie, Thompson and especially Franklin. The song is moving and haunting, a paean to the adventurous spirit of the explorers and to the beauty of the vast land and icy seas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lyrics are accompanied by the striking paintings of multiple award-winning artist Matt James. Matt brings a unique vision to the song and the history behind it, providing commentary on the Franklin expedition and its failure to heed the wisdom of Inuit living in the North. The book also contains the music for the song (as well as a final verse that was never recorded), maps, a timeline of Arctic exploration, mini-biographies and portraits of the principal explorers, and suggestions for further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing on the success of \u003cem\u003eCanadian Railroad Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, this is another beautiful book in which a memorable song illuminates a fascinating history that has taken on new resonance today.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781554981533","Height":"12.25","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","MetaKeywords":"Music; Popular; People \u0026amp; Places; Polar Regions; History; Exploration \u0026amp; Discovery; Arctic Ocean; Canada; 19th century; Early 20th centuryStan Rogers; Roald Amundsen; John Franklin; Exploration; History; Canadiana; First Nations; Navigation; Song; Lyrics; Music; Folk Music; Geography; Social Studies; Ships; Boats; Global Warming; Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration; award winner","NumberOfPages":"56","OtherText_Review_0":"This stunning portrayal of early efforts to explore Canada’s Northwest Passage presents Rogers’ 1981 song in combination with glorious illustrations...Both realistic and allusive, these images are as haunting as the song. For U.S. readers, an illumination of a little-known history; for all Americans, a treasure.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"[T]he sweep of James’s paintings is spectacular; the invitation to 'make a Northwest Passage to the sea,' irresistible.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Horn Book","OtherText_Review_2":"For a unique and exquisite view of the story of explorers’ search for a safe passage through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific, look no further than this beautifully crafted title inspired by a well-known Canadian folk song.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_3":"This is a dynamic and original introduction to the age of exploration.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Library Media Connections","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A stunning pictorial representation of the search for the Northwest Passage as seen by painter Matt James, inspired by Stan Rogers’ iconic song.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Awards for Children's Illustration","PrizeName_1":"An Amazon.ca Best Book","PrizeName_2":"A Kirkus Best Book","PrizeName_3":"Amelia Frances Howard‐Gibbon Award","PrizeYear_0":"2013","PrizeYear_1":"2013","PrizeYear_2":"2013","PrizeYear_3":"2014","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2013-08-26","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A stunning pictorial representation of the search for the Northwest Passage as seen by painter Matt James, inspired by Stan Rogers’ iconic song.","Width":"9.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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A stunning pictorial representation of the search for the Northwest Passage as seen by painter Matt James, inspired by Stan Rogers’ iconic song.
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For his popular Toronto Star column, \"Fed,\" he has presided over 115 dinner parties, every week opening his home to strangers and friends alike in an effort to perfect the craft of hosting. And in \u003cem\u003eHow to Host a Dinner Party\u003c\/em\u003e, he shares everything he’s learned in a hilarious handbook that will appeal to everyone — from those throwing their first dinner party to seasoned entertainers looking to enhance their skills. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book guides readers through everything they need to know about hosting, starting with the golden rule — that the goal of a dinner party is to have fun with our friends, not to show off our cooking skills. It will explain why we like to gather for dinner, when we should host, who we should invite, what we should cook, and how we should cook it. 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And in \u003cem\u003eHow to Host a Dinner Party\u003c\/em\u003e, he shares everything he’s learned in a hilarious handbook that will appeal to everyone — from those throwing their first dinner party to seasoned entertainers looking to enhance their skills. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book guides readers through everything they need to know about hosting, starting with the golden rule — that the goal of a dinner party is to have fun with our friends, not to show off our cooking skills. It will explain why we like to gather for dinner, when we should host, who we should invite, what we should cook, and how we should cook it. Featuring recipes, anecdotes, expert analysis, and an endless bounty of how-to tips, it is the essential guide to perfecting the art of welcoming people into your home.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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But after hosting politicians, artists, academics, monkeys, librarians, chefs, sommeliers, cops, lawyers, psychologists, a spy, a forager, a rabbi, a gambler, a drug addict, and a mayor, he’s become a pro.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"REFERENCE \/ Personal \u0026amp; Practical Guides","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"COOKING \/ Entertaining","BISACSubject_0":"REF015000","BISACSubject_1":"CKB029000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOREY MINTZ\u003c\/strong\u003e hosts dinner parties in his home every week for his popular \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e column, \"Fed.\" Before that he was a restaurant critic. And before that he worked for a living, as a cook. In the past two years, he has hosted 115 dinner parties. He began without napkins or stemware, serving wine out of Nutella jars. But after hosting politicians, artists, academics, monkeys, librarians, chefs, sommeliers, cops, lawyers, psychologists, a spy, a forager, a rabbi, a gambler, a drug addict, and a mayor, he’s become a pro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorBio_1":"Steve Murray is a columnist, cartoonist, and illustrator for the National Post. He lives in Toronto.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","ContributorRole_2":"Introduction by","Contributor_0":"Mintz, Corey (CA)","Contributor_1":"Murray, Steve (CA)","Contributor_2":"Polley, Sarah","Description":"\u003cp\u003eA fun, informative guide to hosting the perfect party every time. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Every dinner party experience I’ve had in the last ten years at Corey’s has been incredible. 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One day, as we were driving on a busy Toronto street, I heard a car horn honk and yelped, \"What did I do?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"That honk wasn't for you,\" he said softly. \"You are at a point where you worry too much about what other drivers think about you. You may reach a point where you don't worry enough. Try to find a balance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor me, the only thing that has replicated the experience of learning so much about life from studying a specific skill is the reading of this book. It teaches you how to create a beautiful experience for the people you care about in the context of a dinner party. But since reading it I find myself applying many of the lessons in this book to my relationships and life in general. Be prepared. Be thoughtful. Listen. Watch for clues on how people are feeling and do what you can to make them feel comfortable, taken care of, and well fed!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI first knew Corey Mintz as a teenager, when his idea of cooking came from the back page of our copy of the New Basics Cookbook. The spine of the book was unbroken. On the very last page, in coloured marker, was written \"Call Garlic Pepper on Yonge Street. Get them to bring food.\" It was our only recipe and we used it every night that we didn't eat Alphagetti. Corey and I lived with each other as delinquent teenagers. When I was fifteen I had major spinal surgery and Corey found himself caring for a child while he was still a child himself. He took care of me. Better care than a nurse or relative could have. He learned to cook. I remember lying in bed and hearing the clattering of utensils as he struggled his way through recipes, and the beautiful smells coming from the kitchen as he proudly completed a meal. Corey was and is an eccentric, sometimes brittle person who is capable of great tenderness. Through learning to cook, he developed an eloquent, uncomplicated way of showing love without irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Corey now hosts dinner parties for a living. For years he has had a weekly column called FED in the Toronto Star, centered around a dinner party he hosts for an interesting, eclectic group of people. I usually read with envy at his lucky guests who sometimes walk in without knowing what a treat they are in for. I've heard at least two FED guests say later that it was the best night of their year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecently Corey invited me over for dinner because it had been awhile and, as he said, \"I've learned a lot about hosting since the last time you were here.\" He wasn't lying. Every dinner party experience I've had in the last ten years at Corey's has been incredible. But practice really does make perfect and I can now honestly say there is nowhere I'd rather be in the world than at his table. The food is always stunning, but that's not what I remember or what is important. What stays with me is the atmosphere he creates, the table and the people around it, and the feeling of being seamlessly taken care and thought of without ever feeling it happen. Somehow joy always arrives at his table, without him seeming to do anything specific to invite it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's possible to leave these gatherings intimidated. There is such a frightening organization and charm to the host that it makes you wonder if you should ever bother to attempt to replicate it at your own home. Even though the night is seemingly perfect, Corey himself always seems to be having a good time. He always seems relaxed, engaged and the night appears effortless for him. I can't begin to express the relief I felt in reading this book and realizing there was a method to his success. What I love most about this book is the way it illustrates that your experience and your guests' experiences are intertwined. This is a guide to creating the maximum joy for your guests with minimum stress to yourself. Since you set the tone for the evening, it is paramount that you feel good about it. After reading the book I found it was possible to go back over the dinner parties I'd attended or hosted in my mind to figure out what went wrong, what could have been done differently, and how to avoid those pitfalls in the future. Moreover, it made me feel excited to host more dinner parties of my own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorey, it turns out, is a skilled alchemist and he is generous enough to share his formulas. This book is a detailed anthropological study of what makes a great social experience over food, combined with a practical how-to manual to create what could be some of the most rewarding nights of your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen you leave a place with Corey, whether it be a party, a movie theater, or a shopping trip, it's always somewhat frightening how he breaks down, analyzes and picks apart what an experience was for him and why. (It was especially unpleasant after he read my last script and left no detail of his utter disdain unarticulated.) He has a ruthless, unblinking eye — which is incredibly helpful in book form. Like the man himself, this book is fun, engaging, hilarious, brutally honest, chock full of truths you don't want to hear but should probably listen to, infuriating, and always entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou may feel you don't need this advice on how to host a dinner party. Maybe you don't. But I guarantee your guests will have a better time if you listen to it. Corey has the key to something ephemeral. He has broken it down and made something mysterious readable. Where we mortals see a mess of food and conversation, Corey sees a glowing map, a series of manageable steps -a recipe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hope you host more dinner parties. I hope this book makes you more excited, confident, and less afraid to do so. I know I myself feel much more assured in my ability to throw a great one after reading it. If more people gathered in environments where they were in great company, well fed, and well cared for, the world would be a much happier place.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"After 150 dinner parties, Mintz is well equipped to dish out advice...with good humour...with a thoughtful introduction by Sarah Polley (a friend of Mintz’s), lively illustrations by Steve Murray and several dinner party-appropriate recipes, the book is beautifully laid out in 10 chapters.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This book guides readers through everything they need to know about hosting, featuring recipes, anecdotes, expert analysis, and a bounty of tips.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover","PublicationDate":"2013-05-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This book guides readers through everything they need to know about hosting, featuring recipes, anecdotes, expert analysis, and a bounty of tips.","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
How to Host a Dinner Party
This book guides readers through everything they need to know about hosting, featuring recipes, anecdotes, expert analysis, and a bounty of tips.
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An essential analysis of the major human rights struggles of our times by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and former UN prosecutor.
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In this otherworldly landscape Alice thinks she has found solace, until she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning two decades, set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm, and a celestial crater in the central desert, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\u003c\/i\u003e follows Alice’s unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487005221","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487005221\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Sigourney weaver; sue monk kidd; secret life of bees; weyward; emilia hart; the lost kitchen; erin French; remarkably bright creatures; nine perfect strangers; big little lies; white lotus; hello beautiful; ann napolitano; geraldine brooks; Elizabeth strout; lucy barton; erin benzakein; growing floret; the garden chronicles; trauma narrative; family drama; botany; mother daughter relationship; Alycia Debnam-Carey; bohemian","NumberOfPages":"400","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that glows — in the fire and heart of it; in the wonder and hope of it. Holly Ringland is a gifted, natural storyteller and her novel — about finding magic in the dark; about the power of freedom and the freedom of story — istruly a light-giving, tender thing. A vivid, compelling, utterly moving debut.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Brooke Davis, author of international bestseller Lost \u0026 Found, winner of 2015 ABIA Fiction Book of the Year","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eNot everyone who visits the central Australian desert understands the landscape of it. Holly Ringland does and shares her heart instincts in this epic telling. Each page arrives to us like the first flight of the butterfly from its cocoon. \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary gift.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ali Cobby Eckermann, Yankunytjatjara poet, 2017 Windham-Campbell winner.","OtherText_Accolades_2":"This novel shines with courage, with heart, and with love. 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It is also reminiscent of the novels Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cdiv \u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlannel flower\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\n Meaning: \u003cstrong\u003eWhat is lost is found\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\n \u003cem\u003eActinotus helianthi\u003c\/em\u003e | New South Wales\n\u003cbr\/\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe stem, branches and leaves of the plant are a pale grey in colour, covered in downy hair, and flannel-like in texture. Pretty, daisy-shaped flowers bloom in spring, though flowering may be profuse after bushfires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n *\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe first story Alice ever learned began on the edge of darkness, where her newborn screams restarted her mother’s heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe night she was born, a subtropical storm had blown in from the east and caused king tides to flood the river banks, cutting off the lane between the Harts’ property and town. Stranded in the laneway with her water broken and a band of fire seemingly cutting her in half, Agnes Hart pushed life and a daughter out of her body on the back seat of her husband’s truck. Clem Hart, consumed by panic as the storm boomed over the cane fields, was at first too frantic swaddling his newborn to notice his wife’s pallor. When he saw her face turn white as sand, her lips the shade of a pipi shell, Clem fell upon her in a frenzy, forgetting their baby. He shook Agnes, to no avail. It wasn’t until her daughter screamed that Agnes was jolted to consciousness. On either side of the laneway, rain-soaked bushes burst into a flurry of white flowers. Alice’s first breaths were filled with lightning and the scent of storm lilies in bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eYou were the true love I needed to wake me from a curse, Bun,\u003c\/em\u003e her mother would say to finish the story. \u003cem\u003eYou’re my fairytale.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhen Alice was two years old, Agnes introduced her to books; as she read, she pointed to each word on the page. Down at the beach, she repeated: one cuttlefish, two feathers, three pieces of driftwood, four shells, and five shards of sea glass. Around their house, Agnes’s hand-lettered signs: BOOK. CHAIR. WINDOW. DOOR. TABLE. CUP. BATH. BED. By the time Alice started homeschooling when she was five, she was reading by herself. Though her love of books was swift and absolute, Alice always loved her mother’s storytelling more. When they were alone, Agnes spun stories around the two of them. But never in earshot of Alice’s father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eTheir ritual was to walk to the sea and lay on the sand staring up at the sky. With her mother’s gentle voice telling the way, they took winter train trips across Europe, through landscapes with mountains so tall you couldn’t see their tops, and ridges so smothered in snow you couldn’t see the line separating the white sky from white earth. They wore velvet coats in the cobblestoned city of a tattooed king, where the harbour buildings were as colourful as a box of paints, and a mermaid sat, cast in bronze, forever awaiting love. Alice often closed her eyes, imagining that every thread in her mother’s stories might spin them into the centre of a chrysalis, from which they could emerge and fly away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhen Alice was six years old, her mother tucked her into her bed one evening, leant forward and whispered in her ear. \u003cem\u003eIt’s time, Bun.\u003c\/em\u003e She sat back smiling as she pulled up the covers. \u003cem\u003eYou’re old enough now to help me in my garden.\u003c\/em\u003e Alice squirmed with excitement; her mother usually left her with a book while she gardened alone. \u003cem\u003eWe’ll start tomorrow,\u003c\/em\u003e Agnes said before she turned out the light. Repeatedly through the night, Alice woke to peer through the dark windows. At last she saw the first thread of light in the sky and threw her sheets back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAlice’s mother was in the kitchen making Vegemite and cottage cheese on toast and a pot of honeyed tea, which she carried on a tray outside to her garden alongside the house. The air was cool, the early sun was warm. Her mother rested the tray on a mossy tree stump and poured sweet tea into two teacups. They sat chewing and drinking in silence. Alice’s pulse beat loudly in her temples. After Agnes ate the last of her toast and finished her tea, she crouched between her ferns and flowers, murmuring as if she was rousing sleeping children. Alice wasn’t sure what to do. Was this gardening? She mimicked her mother and sat with the plants, watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSlowly, the lines of worry in her mother’s face vanished. Her furrowed brow relaxed. She didn’t wring her hands, or fidget. Her eyes were full and clear. She became someone Alice didn’t recognise. Her mother was peaceful. She was calm. The sight filled Alice with the kind of green hope she found at the bottom of rock pools at low tide but never managed to cup in her hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe more time she spent with her mother in the garden, the more deeply Alice understood — from the tilt of Agnes’s wrist when she inspected a new bud, to the light that reached her eyes when she lifted her chin, and the thin rings of dirt that encircled her fingers as she coaxed new fern fronds from the soil — the truest parts of her mother bloomed among her plants. Especially when she talked to the flowers. Her eyes glazed over and she mumbled in a secret language, a word here, a phrase there as she snapped flowers off their stems and tucked them into her pockets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorrowful remembrance,\u003c\/em\u003e she’d say as she plucked a bindweed flower from its vine. \u003cem\u003eLove, returned.\u003c\/em\u003e The citrusy scent of lemon myrtle would fill the air as she tore it from a branch. \u003cem\u003ePleasures of memory.\u003c\/em\u003e Her mother pocketed a scarlet palm of kangaroo paw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eQuestions scratched at the back of Alice’s throat. Why did her mother’s words only flow when she was telling stories about other places and other worlds? What about their world, right in front of them? Where did she go when her eyes were far away? Why couldn’t Alice go with her?\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eBy her seventh birthday, Alice’s body was heavy from the burden of unanswered questions. They filled her chest. Why did her mother talk to the native flowers in such cryptic ways? How could her father be two different people? What curse did Alice’s first tears save her mother from? Although they weighed on her mind, Alice’s questions remained stuck, lodged in her windpipe as painfully as if she’d swallowed a seedpod. Moments of opportunity came on good days in the garden, when the light fell just so, yet Alice said nothing. In silence, she followed her mother as her pockets filled with flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eIf Agnes ever noticed Alice’s silence, she never said anything to break it. It was understood time spent in the garden was quiet time. \u003cem\u003eLike a library,\u003c\/em\u003e her mother once mused as she glided through her maidenhair ferns. Though Alice hadn’t ever been to a library — to see more books in one place than she could imagine, or hear the whispers of collective pages turning — she felt she almost had, through her mother’s stories. From Agnes’s description, Alice imagined a library must be a quiet garden of books, where stories grew like flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAlice hadn’t been anywhere else beyond their property either. Her life was confined to its boundaries: from her mother’s garden to the where the cane fields started, to the bay where the sea curled close by. She was forbidden to venture further than those lines, and especially the one that separated their driveway from the lane that led into town. \u003cem\u003eIt’s no place for a girl,\u003c\/em\u003e her father would say, slamming his fist on the dinner table, making the plates and cutlery jump, whenever Alice’s mother suggested sending her to school. \u003cem\u003eShe’s safer here,\u003c\/em\u003e he’d growl, putting an end to the conversation. That’s what her father was most able to do, put an end to everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhether they spent their day in the garden or at the sea, the point always came when a storm bird would call, or a cloud would cross the sun, and Alice’s mother would shake herself awake, as if she’d been sleepwalking through a dream. She became animated, turning on her heel to sprint towards the house, calling over her shoulder at Alice, \u003cem\u003efirst one to the kitchen gets fresh cream on her scones.\u003c\/em\u003e Afternoon tea was a bittersweet time; her father would be home soon. Ten minutes before he was due, her mother would position herself by the front door, her face pulled too tight in a smile, her voice pitched too high, her fingers in knots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSome days Alice’s mother disappeared from her body altogether. There were no stories or walks to the sea. There was no talking with flowers. Her mother would stay in bed with the curtains drawn against the blanching light, vanished, as if her soul had gone somewhere else entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eWhen that happened, Alice tried to distract herself from the way the air in the house pressed on her body; the awful silence as if no one were home; the sight of her mother crumpled in bed. Those were things that made it difficult to breathe. Alice picked up books she’d read a dozen times already and revisited school worksheets she’d already completed. She fled to the sea to caw with the gulls and chase waves along shore. She ran alongside the walls of sugar cane, throwing her hair back and swaying like the green stalks in the hot wind. But no matter how she tried, nothing felt good. Alice wished on feathers and dandelions to be a bird and fly far away into the golden seam of the horizon, where the sea was sewn to the sky. Day after shadowy day passed without her mother. Alice paced the edges of her world. It was only a matter of time before she learned she could disappear too.\u003c\/p\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 about family, love, and reinvention is defiant in its sweetness and is stirring to its end.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eWhat can I say about \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\u003c\/em\u003e that would live up to the beauty of the words in this book? … A gorgeous book inside and out.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"A Couple Reads","OtherText_Review_2":"An impressive coming-of-age debut.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Baking Bookworm","OtherText_Review_3":"An engrossing novel imbued with passion and reverence for the Australian natural world, with a cast of characters that inspire affection in the reader even as they make mistakes.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Books and Publishing","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eA dark, floral fairytale ... There is a reason Ringland’s novel, her first, and already a bestseller, has been bought by publishers around the world, and it’s not the native flowers ... The first half of\u003cem\u003e The Lost Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e is delicate and dark as a fairytale, with violent details that stick to you like burrs. But it is in the second half, with Alice out in the real world, where Ringland really gets into gear, and her talent is undeniable ... Ringland’s storytelling is driven by an undimmed sense of wonder at the darkness and light, the damage and love in people. It makes for a determined investigation of abuse and survival accomplished with profound sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Sydney Morning Herald","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eDomestic violence and the lies that surround it—rarely is the topic explored in such a beautifully written, hopeful, and enthralling tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Herald Sun","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003eLush, powerful ... This is an engrossing novel imbued with passion and reverence for the Australian natural world, with a cast of characters that inspire affection in the reader even as they make mistakes. Those who couldn’t put down \u003cem\u003eThe Natural Way of Things\u003c\/em\u003e will find a gentler but no less compelling journey of female survival in this novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Books+Publishing","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003eThere’s an aching heart beating through Holly Ringland’s narrative that although at times seems almost broken, is stitched back together with shards of optimism that offer constant hope. These are characters we love, care about, and want to nurture ... A vivid and brave tale of love, loss, and inner power.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Australian Women’s Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003eAt its heart, this book is about finding a way to care for yourself, in a world that sometimes likes to step on its flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Courier‑Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-08-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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He has consistently been one of the best-known campaigners in the movement set in motion by the Indigenous Awakening in the 1970s and was a key figure in the formation of the Union of Indigenous Nations (UIN), which brought together 180 different Indigenous groups across the country in a unified front to push for rights. In his capacity as a journalist, producing videos and making television appearances, he has pursued an educational and environmental agenda. His struggles in the 1970s and 1980s were instrumental in the inclusion of Chapter VIII of the Brazilian Constitution (1988), which guaranteed Indigenous rights to their ancestral homelands and traditional cultures — on paper at least. He was co-author of the UNESCO proposal that led to the creation of the Serra do Espinhaço Biosphere Reserve in 2005, and remains a member of its managing committee. 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Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Brazil comes Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist and leader, who demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity” — that human beings are superior to other forms of nature and are justified in exploiting it as we please.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTo stop environmental disaster, Krenak argues that we must reject the homogenizing effect of this perspective and embrace a new form of “dreaming” that allows us to regain our place within nature. 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Read this book.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers","OtherText_Accolades_2":"We need this Right Now! Ideas to Postpone the End of the World.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"@MargaretAtwood","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Perhaps you’re thinking we should come out of the Covid crisis in a new way, not just trying to recreate the old normal. If so, Ailton Krenak has some ideas that might send you down a new and useful path — useful to you, useful to the world.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?","OtherText_Accolades_4":"Ailton Krenak’s words, expressed with the visceral intensity of one of those peoples who ‘still consider the need to stay attached to this land,’ … fill me with hope. Amid the successive catastrophes we experience today, he surprises us once again by teaching that the fight for a better world, a world that can be called home, involves not only explicit activism, but dance, music, the stories we tell at night.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Aparecida Vilaça, anthropologist and author of Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia and Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSince its publication in July 2019, \u003cem\u003eIdeas to Postpone the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e has sold more than 40,000 copies in Brazil and has more than 270 five-star reviews on Amazon.com.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe author is a renowned Indigenous and socio-environmental activist. His career dates back to the 1980s. After his speech in the 1987 Constituent Assembly, a chapter on the protection of Indigenous rights was included in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. Since then, he has become one of the most influential Indigenous thinkers and activists in Brazil.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis book speaks to the growing chorus of experts and media, drawing attention to the fact that the COVID-19 global pandemic has a direct link to our encroachment on the natural world.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eWith the election of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, there has been increasing attention in world media on his campaign promise to lift restrictions on environmental protections, particularly the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous rights. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe past few years have seen greater interest in understanding the global climate catastrophes through perspectives rooted in Indigenous worldviews and in finding possible solutions in non-settler understandings. Events like the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in the U.S. and the Coastal GasLink in Canada brought more attention to Indigenous-led responses to environmental devastation. Ailton Krenak applies this perspective to a range of concerns to bring environmentalism out of a settler-oriented ideology.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\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_ShortDescription_0":"Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist, demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity”.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-10-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist, demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity”.","Width":"4.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist, demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity”.
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Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
Let’s go! Experience the magic of skating on wild ice in this story-poem by Jean E. Pendziwol, with breathtaking illustrations by Todd Stewart.
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Crying Dress
Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological.
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They Say Blue
The highly anticipated children's book from award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Jillian Tamaki.
