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ages 9
to 12
/ grades P
to 2
The Missing Dog Is Spotted
In this prequel to The Spotted Dog Last Seen, Trevor and Loyola form an unlikely friendship while investigating the case of a missing spotted dog.
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Isol lives in Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eELISA AMADO\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Guatemalan-born author and translator. She has written \u003cem\u003eMy Friend\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eMi amiga\u003c\/em\u003e), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano; \u003cem\u003eUn Barrilete para el Día de los Muertos\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eBarrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCousins\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003ePrimas\u003c\/em\u003e), illustrated by Luis Garay; and \u003cem\u003eTricycle\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eEl triciclo\u003c\/em\u003e), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano, which is on the Américas Award Commended List and is a USBBY Outstanding International Book. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","ContributorRole_2":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Isol","Contributor_1":"Isol","Contributor_2":"Amado, Elisa (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eA book for babies and their parents about the whole new world that they both encounter when the baby arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the new baby arrives, both the baby and the parents are in for a steep learning curve. In this book, born out of personal experience, internationally renowned author\/illustrator Isol brings us a dual narrative and guide. For babies, there’s a rich range of images of babies and all their functions to look at. 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The shocking perfection of our bodies and our mode of growing these bodies is celebrated.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_3":"The book ends on a particularly affirmative note, recognizing our common baby origins and common human trajectories.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Horn Book Magazine, review","OtherText_Review_4":"The poetic, the philosophical, and the practical converge into a love letter to the unfolding of new life.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Brain Pickings","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A book for babies and their parents about the whole new world that they both encounter when the baby arrives.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"New York Times' Notable Children's Books of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2015-09-24","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A book for babies and their parents about the whole new world that they both encounter when the baby arrives.","Subtitle":"A Story Based on Real Events","Width":"8.5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 0
to 3
/ grades P
to 3
The Menino
A book for babies and their parents about the whole new world that they both encounter when the baby arrives.
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The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan
The Sisters Brothers meets Master and Commander in Robert Hough’s rollicking and raucous historical novel.
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The Lake
A mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.
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The King of Shanghai
The seventh novel in the Ava Lee series finds Ava getting caught up in the election for the chairmanship of the Triad Societies.
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The Heart of Hell
The third installment in Alen Mattich's highly addictive Marko della Torre series.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487002930","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781770890091","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770899421","BASICMainSubject":"FIC043000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Coming of Age","BiographicalNote":"Nina Berkhout is the author of five poetry collections, most recently \u003cem\u003eElseworlds\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2013 Archibald Lampman Award, and \u003cem\u003eArrivals and Departures\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the 2011 Archibald Lampman Award. \u003cem\u003eThe Gallery of Lost Species\u003c\/em\u003e is her debut novel.","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Coming of Age","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Family Life \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubject_0":"FIC043000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC045000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC044000","ContributorBio_0":"Nina Berkhout is the author of five poetry collections, most recently \u003cem\u003eElseworlds\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2013 Archibald Lampman Award, and \u003cem\u003eArrivals and Departures\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the 2011 Archibald Lampman Award. \u003cem\u003eThe Gallery of Lost Species\u003c\/em\u003e is her debut novel.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Berkhout, Nina (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eJust as thirteen year-old Edith Walker is about to leave childhood behind, she thinks she spots a unicorn high on a slope while hiking. Her daydreamer father Henry convinces her that what she’s seen is real. Edith’s sighting of the fabled creature – and her unfailing belief that the imaginary creature will eventually be found – sets in motion a series of events that impact the next decade of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdith grows up in her big sister Vivienne’s shadow. While the beautiful Viv is forced by the girls’ overbearing mother Constance to compete in child beauty pageants, plain-looking Edith follows in her father’s footsteps, collecting oddities, studying coins and reading from moldy books that only serve to exacerbate her asthma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually, a family trip to the Rocky Mountains and a chance encounter with a handsome geology student named Liam changes the course of the sisters’ relationship forever. As Viv rebels against her mother and pageantry to become a painter, she embarks on a downward spiral into addiction. Edith then finds herself torn between a desire to save her sister and pursuing her own love for Liam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFulfilling her father’s wish for her to work in a museum, Edith takes a job cataloguing artwork at the National Gallery of Canada, where she meets an elderly cryptozoologist named Theo. Theo is searching for “Gauguin’s mystery bird” and has devoted his entire life to tracking down extinct animals. 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Despite the undertone of life's fragility and disappointments, Edith’s sense of humour and ability to see things with detached irony makes her a powerful and endearing protagonist.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Suzanne Desrochers, author of Bride of New France","OtherText_Review_1":"This artful, multi-layered novel describes a love between two sisters that idealizes and mythologizes in an attempt to stave off loss. 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The Gallery of Lost Species
The debut novel by award-winning poet Nina Berkhout is the compelling story of a fractured family looking for beauty in all the wrong places.
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{"id":6815466291259,"title":"The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps","handle":"the-first-little-bastard-to-call-me-gramps","description":"\u003cp\u003eBill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, \u003cem\u003eThe First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:35-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:32:20-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Humor","Adult Poetry","By (author) Richardson Bill","House of Anansi Press","Illustrated by Bikadoroff Roxanna","pub date: 2015-10-10"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209980981307,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000547","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":1995,"weight":299,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000547","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22517051850811,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":563,"width":361,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399"},"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":563,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399","width":361}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, \u003cem\u003eThe First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps
A “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.
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{"id":6815471108155,"title":"The Exiles' Gallery","handle":"the-exiles-gallery-1","description":"\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. Dispossessed but defiant, these are songs of preservation and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:56-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:38:57-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Partridge Elise","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209998381115,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899797","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Exiles' Gallery - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":222,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770899797","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_048952e7-d7a9-4722-9a16-9982317474d4.jpg?v=1678600176"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_048952e7-d7a9-4722-9a16-9982317474d4.jpg?v=1678600176","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324550987835,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"width":413,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_048952e7-d7a9-4722-9a16-9982317474d4.jpg?v=1678600176"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_048952e7-d7a9-4722-9a16-9982317474d4.jpg?v=1678600176","width":413}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. Dispossessed but defiant, these are songs of preservation and love.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Exiles' Gallery
The Exiles’ Gallery is a book of celebration, filled with restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension.
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The Exiles' Gallery
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection The Exiles' Gallery is limited to 50 copies.
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The Amazing Discoveries of Ibn Sina
The life story of Ibn Sina (980-1037), one of the greatest philosophers, scientists and physicians of the Islamic world.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Swimming, Swimming
In this celebration of summer in the city, Gary Clement illustrates “Swimming, swimming, in a swimming pool…”
