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A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid
A group of kids share the silly questions they always hear, as well as the questions they would rather be asked about themselves.
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Once Upon a Northern Night
An exquisite lullaby describes the beauty of a northern winter night.
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If Venice Dies
This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore considers a new debate about Venice.
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Glorious Frazzled Beings
In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home.
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Stella, Princess of the Sky
Another adventure begins in this book in the Stella and Sam series as they explore the wonders of the natural world at night.
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MacMillan has proven that her love of gossip only adds to her credentials as an historian, and one can only hope that she continues to find further subjects to write about for a long time to come.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Qull and Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_11":"[History’s People] very enjoyably explores how individuals not only make history, but also record it.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_12":"MacMillan’s passion for the subject is clear and will certainly be passed on to anyone who reads this book.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Parry Sound North Star","OtherText_Review_13":"History comes alive when Margaret MacMillan writes it, and here she gives readers her own selection of people of the past, ranging from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Samuel de Champlain.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_14":"It’s a rare history book that makes it to the top of the charts, and this collection of profiles is definitely in its own class… MacMillan is a friendly but intelligent writer. 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In her latest book, MacMillan shows this talent again in five absorbing lectures about a wide range of historical actors—from Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to Samuel Champlain and Elizabeth Simcoe—offering insight into their personal motivations and historical significance… With the federal election campaign underway, the party leaders could help themselves by heeding MacMillan’s words of wisdom.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Allan Levine","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"MacMillan draws on an astonishing well of scholarship…The house of history is vast, and as the Massey Lectures come to a close, two voices sound a very different, and more urgent, note: the observers Harry Kessler, born in 1868, the wealthy son of a German banker, and Viktor Klemperer, born in 1881, a German-Jewish professor in Dresden. Through their diaries, Kessler and Klemperer attempt to keep hold of their particular way of observing and thinking, which is to say, their souls. MacMillan powerfully recreates the era; she brings to life not simply their personalities, but their personhood.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Through this series of lectures, MacMillan demonstrates in rich and provocative detail, how history is an important tool for understanding our own world - as well as the world of others.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The History Eduation Network","OtherText_Review_5":"this book is an inspiring one, and the lives of the people included have lessons for all of us.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Dave Obee","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Victoria Times Colonist","OtherText_Review_6":"Margaret MacMillan rightly is a darling of Canadian letters, an acclaimed historian of international stature, a superb writer and author of several award-winning bestsellers. Her talents and intellect are so formidable she can do no professional wrong -- if she writes something it is worth reading, no question. This has been true of everything she has turned her mind to, and it is true of her latest work, History's People…the stories -- in the end is what is so richly rewarding about reading History's People. If the personal stories command MacMillan's interest, it goes without saying that they will command the attention of her readers, too.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Gerald Flood","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"wonderful… History’s People urges us to see the past in another way. MacMillan has provided us with a brilliantly guided tour through a dramatic and emotionally penetrating account of the human beings who by accident or design (and often through the luck of good timing) created the world we live in. She encourages us to see the human qualities, the frailties and passions of men and women who make history… Many readers of MacMillan’s book will want to give a copy to young people whose brains have been deadened by textbooks.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Robert Fulford","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_8":"Margaret MacMillan doesn’t just document the past; she brings it to life","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Readers' Digest","OtherText_Review_9":"Avoiding arid timelines, MacMillan, an Oxford professor , instead provides intimate human encounters. She seems to love sifting through the revealing details. “I want to gossip,” she confesses — and so do we.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2015-09-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.","Subtitle":"Personalities and the Past","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
History's People
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.
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ages 10
to 14
/ grades 5
to 9
Operatic
A story of friendship, first crushes, opera and the high drama of middle school told by award-winning Kyo Maclear in her debut graphic novel.
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Her widow, Mary Boulton, and Bonny, her Reverend, are the ideal stuff and stuffings of legends.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"January Magazine","OtherText_Review_11":"As novels go, The Outlander should qualify for Great Canadian status … Described by author Gil Adamson herself as ‘literary gothic western,’ The Outlander is perhaps the only book of this genre, but it seems at home among such Canadian classics as Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush [and] Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Fast Forward Weekly","OtherText_Review_12":"Mary Boulton is one of the most memorable characters in Canadian literature in years.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Nuvo Magazine","OtherText_Review_13":"Gil Adamson has chiselled her characters, polished every word, and turned The Outlander into something magical … Adamson’s characters are fully formed, described with nuances and details that make us feel that we really know them. And her writing is beautiful — poetic, descriptive, lyrical … This is a book that lingers in the mind long after the final page has been read.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Guelph Mercury","OtherText_Review_14":"In the tradition of Guy Vanderhaeghe, this is a dark novel with a long finish. 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A powerful and wonderful imagination blossoms here.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Throughout the novel, Adamson’s keen eye for detail and mastery of language are much in evidence in her descriptions of the natural surroundings.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_5":"The prose style of The Outlander is rich with natural details and metaphors. These descriptive ingredients are like cornstarch, serving to thicken the narrative and impart a glaze-like surface to the main dish. Because of its strong narrative line … and Adamson’s true poet’s eye for metaphors and details that work, The Outlander is a superior example of the [Gothic] genre.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"Adamson’s writing is superb.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Maclean’s","OtherText_Review_7":"Impeccably shaped, wonderfully written … pure aesthetic beauty … A picaresque tour de force.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Calgary Herald","OtherText_Review_8":"The Outlander is a riveting tale of a woman’s thirst for freedom.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Entertainment Weekly","OtherText_Review_9":"One of those books so gorgeous in the writing that you simultaneously can’t wait to read what happens next and want to savour the beauty of the writing.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Herald Tribune","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Gil Adamson spins a gripping and memorably romantic tale of one grief-struck young woman's flight into the wild.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback 4th ed.","PublicationDate":"2007-05-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Gil Adamson spins a gripping and memorably romantic tale of one grief-struck young woman's flight into the wild.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Outlander
Gil Adamson spins a gripping and memorably romantic tale of one grief-struck young woman's flight into the wild.
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Asian Vegetables
A one-of-a-kind book at the crossroads of gardening, cooking, and personal history.
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This One Summer
A unique story of friendship from the creators of the award-winning graphic novel Skim.
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Mermaids and Ikons
Beloved poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen’s first work of nonfiction in a handsome A List edition.
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No Stars in the Sky
A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.